Prayer of the Rollerboys (1990)

Brian and Cargill battle roller-Nazis in the not-too-distant future.

So, ya know, it's a normal weekday.

Episode Transcript

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(01:22):
as per usual, by my friend and co host. He
is a novelist. He is a screenwriter, a lieutenantive Mega Force,
the man we call Ramrod, mister c Robert Cargill. Hi,
mister c Ramrod Cargil. Yes, I'm gonna make Ramrod happen
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gonna ram it in there. Uh don't clip that? That?

Speaker 2 (01:43):
Yeah, that the unique consent bro.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
You accepted the zoom invite, so that that counts. Cargo,
How is it going, my friend?

Speaker 2 (01:53):
It's going, it is. It is trucking along and the
world is a very, very, very weird place right now.

Speaker 1 (01:59):
Kind of feels like and not to get to doomsday
up top here, but it kind of feels like we're
slowly moving towards the future experienced in today's film crap,
this film is.

Speaker 2 (02:11):
It was very weird getting into the first ten minutes
of this movie and going this film feels like a
maga fever dream in a way that I did not
remember it. And boy is it a lot different than
I remember. And boy is it a weird fucking movie,
And boy is this the right time to be talking
about it.

Speaker 1 (02:31):
I love that, a it's such a weird, buried forgotten
movie and we're really focusing on those this year. I
love that even within that category, we're still getting to
talk about one of our absolutely favorite subgenres of film,
like essential to our core values. And I love that

(02:51):
this came out of a completely random, one off comment
on a previous episode about solar babies, because oh yeah,
we're going right back to fucking roller skating post apocalyptic
cinema today on Junk Food Cinema. I love that that's
a category we get to delve into because today we're
talking about Prayer of the roller Boys.

Speaker 4 (03:11):
On the Streets of the future, a new breed of
warrior is rising, A deadly paramilitary gang has taken control,
and only one young hero has the courage to stop them.

Speaker 3 (03:22):
Roller Boys aren't just another gang filmed buildings, factories, foreign investments.
I need someone on the inside.

Speaker 5 (03:29):
It's not easy.

Speaker 4 (03:30):
You don't know how.

Speaker 1 (03:31):
Easy it is.

Speaker 4 (03:32):
I say your prayers because Prayer of the Rollerstons is
coming to video cassette exclusively from Academy Entertainment.

Speaker 1 (03:43):
Cargio. We love post apocalyptic cinema, but we don't always
get extreme with that love. And this week's film is
like the Mountain Dew code red of our pop poc affinity.

Speaker 2 (03:54):
It's extreme, you know, it's really interesting. We talk about
today'sisode is going to, you know, kind of be a
Venn diagram of several things we've discussed in the past,
but this one talk about movies that really bridge the
gap between eighties movies and nineties movies.

Speaker 1 (04:13):
They skate the gap, they leap over that gap at
the X Games.

Speaker 2 (04:17):
This movie feels like it was conceived in the eighties,
but is absolutely beyond a shadow of a doubt, a
fucking nineties movie. Y and one of the earliest of
the nineties movies, and boy does it feel nineties. And yeah,
pre Mountain Dew you know Xbox Extreme, you know, before
the X Games ever happened? Here is that extreme fucking movie? Uh,

(04:43):
for almost no reason. I mean it's it's one of
those things where you could remove the skating from this
movie and it would change absolutely nothing about the movie.

Speaker 1 (04:59):
It would be called Prayer of the Guys who Run Fast.

Speaker 2 (05:02):
Like if you take the you know, the skating out
of the previous film we discussed, Solar Babies, the movie changes,
Like without the roller skating, there isn't the sport, There
isn't a bunch of the set pieces here. Okay, you
miss some slow motion shots of dudes skating in perfect

(05:26):
time with their their trench coats flowing and adds.

Speaker 1 (05:29):
About it, Cargo, Can I say something controversial.

Speaker 2 (05:32):
Controversial around here?

Speaker 1 (05:34):
I know, right, I feel like if you took the
skating out of Solar Babies, the movie actually would make
more sense.

Speaker 2 (05:40):
You know, and you're not wrong, but it would change
the movie.

Speaker 1 (05:43):
It would change. It would suck, Don't get me wrong.
It would be a terrible movie, but it would make
more logical sense this movie. Maybe you could argue the
same thing, but I would also further that argument that
if you took the blading out of Prayer of the
roller Boys, it's not as good a movie.

Speaker 5 (06:00):
It's like Cat's Life, dude, and get a skate shock
of shock of front skating.

Speaker 1 (06:08):
So let us bow our heads now and say a
prayer for the roller Boys. A movie long on my
watch list, but then spend a very short stint on
our podcast short list after I saw it. And I
gotta tell you right now, the movie Alligator is pissed
to get leap frogged.

Speaker 2 (06:25):
Wait, wait, have we mever covered Alligator?

Speaker 1 (06:27):
We've not covered Alligator? We literally Okay. So the story
of Prayer of the roller Boys is that when I
was growing up, I had an aunt that was about
seven years older than me, who was basically like a
big sister to me, and we watched movies. I spent
the summer at my grandmother's house, and she and my
brother and I would just watch movies in my grandmother's
enormous VHS cabinet. Like my grandmother would go to Garage
Hills and just buy any and all VHS they had,

(06:49):
so she had this incredible collection of VHS. And my
aunt was in love with this movie called Prayer of
the roller Boys, and as many movies as my aunt
had shown us for some reason, this is one that
we just never got around to watching. She talked about
it all the time. I literally did not see this
movie until I was prepping for our Solar Babies episode
and wanted to delve back into. What I thought I

(07:10):
was gonna do was go back and visit the ouvra
of Donald G. Jackson, and uvra is definitely not a
word you want to apply to the uvre of Donald G. Jackson,
but that's another discussion for another day. But I decided
instead to finally get around watching Prayer of the roller Boys.
And I was so angry at myself that I hadn't
watched it many many years ago, because this is so

(07:32):
entirely my shit on wheels. Literally, Oh yeah, I love
this movie. This is this movie feels like the grittiest,
most violent, most politically savvy after school special that I
never got a chance to watch in school.

Speaker 2 (07:51):
Yeah, see, this is one of those that I saw
way back in the day, you know, so much so
that it was a hazy memory. Let's let's let's get
into it. Because to start off, first things first, this
is a Corey.

Speaker 1 (08:06):
Haym movie, Corey Hame and.

Speaker 2 (08:08):
This is one of the Corey hay movies without Corey Feldman.
Now it's very easy to not real like he's one
of those every every period of time, every epoch, if
you will, has their huge stars that are huge for
like a few years, and they are ubiquitous to the

(08:31):
you know, to the fabric of pop culture, and then
for some reason they immediately fall off and are mostly
disregarded after the fact, you know, like your tab hunters.
Corey ham is kind of like your tab hunter of
the eighties and early nineties, and he's got a really
super tragic fucking story for those of you that don't know.

(08:53):
According to Corey Feldman, his best friend of a long
time and you know buddy in a series of films.
The Corey's movies were insanely popular, especially with my sister
and growing up because I grew up with boomer parents,
you know, I was off seeing movies by myself when

(09:14):
I was five my mother. As I've told the story
in the past, my mother would drop me off when
I was five years old on the Air Force Base
movie theater because there's always a security you know, a
security police officer stationed there, so she always felt safe
with me there, so I was always okay to go
to the movies. My sister could not go to the
movies alone, so I would have to often take her

(09:35):
to the movies, and that meant as a teenager, having
to see a lot of the Cory's.

Speaker 1 (09:41):
Yeah. A few people know this, but the sister of
Massa wormed is named Tiger Beat.

Speaker 2 (09:48):
She bought Tiger Beat every fucking month, put up all
of the posters all over her fucking room. Of course,
I could not go a day without seeing Corey came
staring at me from what from my sister's room with
the door open like post She had a whole wall
of Corey. She loved Corey and apparently so did some

(10:13):
very awful pedophiles in Hollywood who apparently used and abused
him both the Corey's.

Speaker 6 (10:22):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (10:22):
But, as Corey Feldman has told it in interviews and
in documentaries, Haym got it much worse, and it led
to substance abuse, lots of drugs, lots of alcohol that
you know, pretty much fried him out. When you see
him in his last few years doing reality television and

(10:43):
kind of pretty much debasing himself just to remain famous,
you can tell that, you know, he's not the same
guy he was when he was a teenager. Like he
really kind of fried himself out. And and it's a
really tragic story. He was very careless, manic, He was
very talented. You know, left a body of work of

(11:04):
some very interesting films. This is one of them. And
this is one of those films where you see it
and you go, I see why this kid was a
movie star. Yeah, you know a lot of the movies
you see the corries and you see their chemistry together
because they were best friends, you know, and you get
why teenagers dug that. When you watch him in this movie,

(11:24):
you really do see this kid was destined to be
a movie star. And the system with a lack of protections,
especially in the eighties, I mean, Jesus Christ, if you
want to have a bad time, sift through the story
of Drew Barrymore and what happened to her when she
was literally going to you know, Club fifty four when

(11:46):
she was thirteen years old, you know, already addicted to
drugs and alcohol at that age. The industry at this
time was very, very abusive to children, and that led
to you know, us losing Corey Feldman at or Corey
Ham at a very early age. And of course Corey
Feldman has struggled with those demons his whole life and

(12:12):
is still around. So yeah, but we had to lead
off with that because you know, this is probably among
Ham's better performances.

Speaker 1 (12:23):
I think you'd agree, Yeah, I would agree entirely. And
Corey Ham was an actor who was in fact bursting
with charisma, but obviously had demons, both things that were
out of his control and you know, substance abuse problems
at all as well. I mean a lot of those
are completely interwoven, and it really does make you wonder
what kind of heights he could have hit had those

(12:44):
things not been holding him down. And specifically with Prayer
of the roller Boys, which as I mentioned, was released
in nineteen ninety in some countries. I don't think he
was released in the States until ninety one, but in
the fall of eighty nine, Corey Ham gets out of
rehab and the first thing he does, of course, of course,
is make Corey Ham, Me myself and I.

Speaker 5 (13:09):
All right, I'm Corey Ham. You're seventeen years old and
I'm from Toronto, Canada. I've been in the movie business
ever since I've been ten years old.

Speaker 1 (13:18):
If you have not seen Corey Ham, Me Myself and I,
it was sort of this strange documentary slash video journal
slash some producer saw as a gold mine to put
out on VHS. And it is a heavily scripted documentary,
but in it, Corey Ham nevertheless sounds very rambling and incoherent,

(13:39):
and later he admitted he was on drugs while making it.
It is a watch. It is some of his responses,
not because of the drugs, but just because of him
being Corey Ham and being the most tiger beat ever.
It really does make it a watch.

Speaker 5 (13:54):
I think maybe ten years from now, I'm hopefully going
to be in a Tahaiti or something, kicking back like
in my shoe mansion. If everything goes right, it's all
to me just watching the dolphins and the porpoises and
the sharks and little sea horses and all that fun stuff.
Go buy in a whole different country.

Speaker 1 (14:13):
But what I find interesting about this time period is
you take all of that information and then you watch
Prayer of the roller Boys, which is this movie he
makes about the dangers of doing drugs on rollerblades, and
it is just it is a wild film. It is
completely understandable to me how it has been lost to
the sands of time, because this is nineteen ninety as fuck.

(14:37):
And this is one of the rare exceptions Cargill. So
that thing we talk about all the time, about all
these movies that were released in nineteen ninety that feel
like the eighties waiting room so much, the last gasp
of the eighties, whereas this one is in that same
waiting room, but it's already like pulling on the door handle,
ready to go to the fucking He doesn't care about
the eighties anymore. It is ready to dive headfirst into

(14:59):
the nineties. And the thing about the nineties is that
the nineties we're talking about the height of rollerblading as
we remember it. I mean, rollerblading really didn't come into
its own until nineteen eighty, which is you know, we
have a group of hockey players in Minnesota. We're trying
to practice during the summer. Their names are Scott and
Brendan Olsen, and they formed the company roller Blade to

(15:21):
sell skates with the polyurethane wheels arranged in a straight
line so that they could then glide across the concrete. Right,
And that name of the company becomes sort of just
the ubiquitous term applied to all inline skates. It's sort
of the band aid situation where it's like, no, that's
technically just an adhesive strip, but we just know it.
We know all of it as being a band aid. Right.

(15:43):
And then in eighty nine Rollerblade, that company makes the
macro erow Blade models, which were the ones that were
the first ones that were fastened with the three buckles
instead of the long laces like a roller skate would be.

Speaker 2 (15:54):
Right, Oh oh sure, sure, sure I remember this.

Speaker 1 (15:56):
Yes, I'm just saying, like the roller blades as we
know them. People my age know a roller blade. This
is what a rollerblade. We weren't fucking tying up your rollerblades.
If you were my age, you were like bk ratshtech
chunk chuck chunk, and those things are on, right.

Speaker 2 (16:10):
I love how defensive you've got. The minute I played
out that you knew exactly what you were talking about.
But it's rollerblade.

Speaker 1 (16:16):
Don't you fucking come on me my rollerblade knowledge, Cargil,
don't you fucking do it? I will skate right past
your criticisms. Nineteen ninety, the year this movie comes out,
Rollerblade Incorporated switches to a glass reinforced thermoplastic resin for
their skates, which replaces the polyurethan compounds used previously, which
means their skates go down and wait by fifty percent.

(16:38):
So if you are skating in this era on your
rollerblades and you don't remember that picking up one rollerblade
felt like picking up a twenty pound weight, you are
talking about everything post nineteen ninety when this movie was released.
And then in ninety three a little movie comes out
called Airborne, and then in nineteen ninety five we get
the inception of the X Games. So we are talking

(16:59):
about literally the very pinnacle of roller blade culture, because
shortly thereafter, once we get let me just say this,
rollerblading was a hobby that was not y two k compliance,
because once we get to the early two thousands, there
is a drastic decline in people who are blading. This
movie is one of those like we are capturing something

(17:19):
in the zeitgeist, very much like a like a roller
boogie Wood for roller skating, or like a Saturday night
Fever would for disco. We're literally trying to capture something
that is right here, right now. And what I love about.

Speaker 2 (17:31):
Here, right now, right here, right now.

Speaker 1 (17:35):
I'm talking about the strangest of days, Cargil. Don't you
worry about.

Speaker 2 (17:37):
It, h right now, there is no other place side rather.

Speaker 1 (17:43):
Be Jesus Jones Cargill. Anyway. Uh So, this movie is
literally capturing something that is just at the moment so
ala mode. And what I love about this movie is
it's like, let's do that, but also Donnie Brosco, Fuck yeah,
let's go. Let's fucking go of the Roller Boys. I
am here for it.

Speaker 2 (18:02):
After these messages, we'll be right back in California.

Speaker 7 (18:05):
You'll find fun, romance and vampires.

Speaker 6 (18:10):
I'm thank you yourself, Callly t Shoot buddy.

Speaker 2 (18:15):
People. The Lost Boys.

Speaker 7 (18:21):
The New York Times calls it timely, relentlessly funny, and
a hip, comic twist on the classic vampire movie. You
can bring Home The Lost Boys on video cassette from
Warner Home Video.

Speaker 1 (18:35):
For those of you who haven't seen this movie. It
takes place in a dystopian near future in America, particularly
in Los Angeles, where gangs are roaming the streets. Now,
you may be telling yourself, well, hold on, there's so
many movies about dystopian future Los Angeles where gangs run everything.
There's movies about non dystopian Los Angeles where gangs run everything. Yes, yes,
I understand. Imagine that the toughest, biggest swinging dick gang

(18:57):
in Los Angeles is on all our blades.

Speaker 2 (19:01):
I mean, so we got to get here as well.
In order to fully wrap your head around this movie,
we have to go back to something we've discussed in
the past. Again. This movie was made in nineteen ninety
It was released here in the States in ninety one.
It wouldn't be until nineteen ninety two that a rapid
and long term increase in crime and violence, which was

(19:25):
very much happening in this country. We were if you
look at the totals, the number of people killed in
gun violence was rising year after year after year until
suddenly beginning to drop off and fade in nineteen ninety two.
There's a lot of great theories as to why the
two leading theories is one, nineteen ninety two is twenty

(19:47):
years after abortion was legalized here in America, and thus
unwanted children, the children that tended to end up in
homes they weren't wanted, ended up in the foster system,
ended up, you know, by the time they're eighteen to twenty,
being violent, you know, violent young men.

Speaker 1 (20:05):
We call those roller boys roller boys.

Speaker 2 (20:07):
They you know, they had you know, dropped off. The
other is that in the late eighties, we did away
with leaded gasoline, which immediately started, you know, decreasing the
amount of lead that was in the oxygen we were breathing.
And it turns out that people had so much lead
in their systems that it was leading to unchecked aggression

(20:32):
and lots of you know, just essentially people were collecting
lead on their brain and it was doing brain damage
and causing them to be much more violent. That's one
of the prevailing theories. And so we are when this
movie is made at the peak of crime is increasing,

(20:52):
crime is increasing. Nothing we're doing is working. What do
we do? Mixed with the you know, long the long
term fear of what is often you know, put in
with Japanic of this fear that we are going to
be economically crushed by Japan or other countries in Europe

(21:12):
that we've been paying to defend that now have built
these huge economies and our economy is struggling. So this
movie is based on the idea that we have collapsed
as an economic power, and this collapsed as a nation,
and now this dystopia of all this increased crime has

(21:35):
led to one of the most violent crime groups in
Los Angeles being a bunch of rollerblading white supremacists Prayer
the roller Boys.

Speaker 1 (21:46):
Prayer the roller Boys. We're introduced not really to Corey
Hayms's character. First. First we are introduced to the villain
of this movie, the leader in fact of the roller Boys,
who is a character by the name of Gary Lee Garret.
I just want to I just want to repeat this,
because that's that's some kind of villain name, Gary Lee.
It kind of to me sounds less like a violent

(22:06):
gang leader and more like, I'm on down to Gary Lee,
Toyota roller boy. What a deal? Like, what the fucking
what I mean?

Speaker 2 (22:13):
There's that? Or you could look at it the other way,
in which it's you know, it's about as southern as
a California boy gets.

Speaker 1 (22:21):
That's true, that is very true.

Speaker 2 (22:23):
Let's go down to Gary Lee's trailer. He's he got
himself a twelve pack and a new BMX bike that
he's gonna run off the roof.

Speaker 1 (22:30):
Oh wait, you know what, I'm reading this wrong. His name,
his first name is Gear, It's Gary Lee. Now. Oh
he's very southern. You know what, Now this is starting
to make sense.

Speaker 2 (22:39):
Giddy Lee as player, ever.

Speaker 1 (22:42):
He is a mean, mean guy. Look, he opens the
movie cutting this promo opening here. I don't know, I
have no idea. He opens the movie cutting this promo,
looking like a cross between General Patton and Max Hedroom,
basically telling us like, you know your parents caused all this,
and you know they were consumed with greed and they

(23:03):
borrowed more than they could repay, and now the countries
and shambles. So join the roller boys, or if you
don't want to join the roller boys, just buy our
fucking drugs, because that's what we're doing here. We're making
drugs and we're selling them, and we're fighting off the
other gangs. And I will say this, Cargil, I tend
to give rollerblading a lot of shit, even though I

(23:24):
did it myself for a few years as a kid.
I will talk shit about blading because it is a
silly thing that existed for a short period of time
I live.

Speaker 2 (23:32):
You call it blading blading.

Speaker 1 (23:34):
It may be silly, but the Roller Boys garb is
sick as hell, Like the trench code and suspenders look
hell yeah.

Speaker 2 (23:43):
I mean, dude, Nazis always know how to dress, except
now now they're like wearing khakis and polo shirts like
they work at an off brand best Buy.

Speaker 1 (23:53):
But where I mean?

Speaker 2 (23:55):
It's like, I have some pride in your history of
being a Nazi. At least have some badass Hugo boss suits.
Don't look like a fucking showed. Like you're already a
showed for being a Nazi. You're supposed to make it
look cool to be a Nazi, and you just make
it look like no one wants to touch your penis.
It's unbelievable. But here in Prayer of the Roller Boys, boy,

(24:17):
how do you do they know how to dress?

Speaker 1 (24:19):
Yeah? I want to make it very clear this is
an anti Nazi podcast, but I will say that the
decision to put the Nazi roller skating gang make basically
make them look like the mail cast of guys and
dolls on Rollerblades Choice Decision sidebar.

Speaker 2 (24:39):
Have you seen Freaky Tails yet?

Speaker 1 (24:41):
I have not seen Freaky Tails yet. I'm wondering how
this connects.

Speaker 2 (24:44):
But go Everybody listening to this podcast needs to see
Freaky Tails immediately. It's one of my favorite things I've
seen this year. Lots of Nazi.

Speaker 1 (24:52):
Killing, all right, and I'm on board.

Speaker 2 (24:55):
I'm on lots lots of If you're the type of
person who's like, you know what I need from a
movie Dead Nazis, this movie as your dead Nazis.

Speaker 1 (25:04):
I'm gonna go one step further if you're the kind
of person who doesn't think there should be dead Nazis
and movies. Unsubscribed from this podcast, Yep, Stargrove. All I'm
saying is is heinous and awful as the roller Boys
as people are the fact that they look like the
Nickelodeon magazine version of a clockwork orange is working for me.

(25:24):
That's all I'm saying. That's I read Nickelodeon Magazine as
a kid, and those outfits are superb. That's all I'm
going to say. But yeah, then after we've met we've
met Gary sort of digitally, Gary is played by an
actor named Christopher cole Ay, and that effectively makes Prayer
of the roller Boys a Firstborn reunion. Have you seen

(25:47):
Firstborn Cargo? No, this is a movie from nineteen eighty four.
It was actually Corey Hame's first film. He literally has
an introducing Corey Haym credit at the top of the movie.
And in the movie, Christopher Coley and Hamer brothers and
their mom is divorced and she takes up this new
guy moves in, played by Peter Weller, and it turns

(26:09):
out that he is the only the one and only
instance in a movie outside of Terry O'Quinn, where the
movie's hatred for a stepdad is completely warranted, like finally,
like there's a stepdad you deserve to hate, right, And
so it's just about the two of them trying to
convince their mother played by Terry Garr, that this dude
is bad news. Right. But what I find I watched

(26:29):
it today because I realized that they were both in
that movie, and that effectively makes this a reunion a
potential headcanon sequel. I don't know, but it is interesting
that in that movie, Christopher Cooleay is the older brother,
and now Hame is the protective older brother in Prayer
of the roller Boys, facing down the violent drug dealers

(26:50):
who are interloping into his family unit.

Speaker 5 (26:53):
The direction in my life right now that I'm trying
to guess proceed with in the business is gradually from
being the little boy from the from the younger, you know, brother,
trying to get to be the older brother or the
only brother.

Speaker 1 (27:08):
It's really interesting to see that flip, especially knowing that
that's where Corey Ham got started and how these two
became friends. And actually Kole Ay ended up being a
pallbearer at Corey Ham's funeral, like they remained close throughout
their lives. But he's he's great in this as this
weird He's got like a like if Justin Timberlake had
a mullet. I don't know what the hell is. It's

(27:29):
a very recognizable hairstyle from this era, but I still
don't quite understand how it works. But I really like
him as this slimy but somehow still a little bit seductive,
like you need a guy who can who can pull
you in, and this guy, Kolay really does a great
job with this. And yeah, absolutely so, Corey hame Is

(27:51):
is just a guy who's really good at blading, but
he's delivering pizzas. And he had a friendship way back
in the day with Gary Lee, leader of the roller Boys.
But he's trying to say live next door, trying to
stay on the straight and narrow because you know, their
parents are gone. He's trying to take care of his
little brother and his best their best friend in the world.
Is a character by the name of Speedbagger. That's his name.

(28:14):
I guess he was a boxer at one point. I
get it, but it's still a terrible name for this character.

Speaker 2 (28:18):
H The legend of Speedbagger Vance.

Speaker 1 (28:21):
The legend of Speedbagger Vance is that he's played by
Julius Harris. And if you were a Bond fanatic like
I am, you know Julius Harris as Tea. He from
Living Fucking Let Die. Hell, Yes, I love seeing him
in this movie. By the way, that the fight scene
that he has with Roger Moore on the train car
at the end of the of the End of A

(28:42):
Living Let Die, there was no stunt double. There was
no stunt double. He just did that fight with Roger Moore,
or at least with Roger Moore stunt double and he's
the one that picked the hook for Tea. He as
the signature weapon. This dude is awesome.

Speaker 2 (28:55):
Stargrove stargro.

Speaker 1 (28:58):
This This movie kind of kicks off with Corey Haym
just trying to be rad at blading and not get
involved with the roller Boys. He's delivering pizzas for Pinky's
Pizza and one day he comes across a house that's
on fire and there's a man trapped inside and one
of the roller boys is trapped inside. Cory Haym makes
the decision that he's going to save this roller boy,
whose name is Bullwinkle yep. And so that sort of

(29:23):
ingratiates him with the roller boys and also gets the
attention of the police force that is trying to take
down the roller Boys, led by the undercover lover, the
Honey of the Honeypot. In this movie, Patricia Arcuat, Yes,
how good is she in this movie? Goddamn?

Speaker 2 (29:42):
I mean, I mean she's great in this movie. Usually
it's very interesting because Patricia Arquette is somebody who, especially
at this period of time, Hollywood used as the blonde bombshell,
but usually cast her as an airhead you know, even
in one of her best movies, True Romance, you know,
she's definitely atne ute Ebrey, but here she gets to

(30:10):
play clever and smart and good at her fucking job,
and she's fucking great. You know, seeing her in this
role in that era was just this is not how
you usually saw her.

Speaker 1 (30:21):
Oh not too bright? Okay, got it. I used Google Translate.
I figured it out.

Speaker 2 (30:29):
Well, when you knew I was speaking Latin, you didn't
know I was speaking pig Latin.

Speaker 1 (30:33):
That's true in Vino Veritas. Look, I yeah, I think
she's great in this movie. I love that she is
the one who's trying to like convince him because she
has had her own experience with the roller Boys and
how it led to the death of her brother because
of the drugs that they sell, and she's trying to
convince him, Hey, you've got an end with this guy.
You know, there's a there's a police captain or a

(30:55):
head of the detective unit in this movie who is
also like heyn and like, we've we've got to get
you on board. JC Quinn I believe is his name,
and he's like, we gotta get you on board here,
we got to get you we got to get you
under cover, like, and then they start kind of really
putting the screws to him by telling him like, hey, man,
if if you don't do something about these roller Boys,

(31:16):
eventually they'll probably snare your brother into their gang. And
you know that's going to ruin his life. So that's
that's finally the thing that pushes him over the edge,
and he decides to go undercover with the roller Boys
and bring them down from the inside, and that is
that's the movie. Like everything else in this movie is
just a bunch of awesome set pieces and dated but
in the perfect kind of way. Aesthetics. Like, literally, this

(31:40):
movie feels like it only ever existed on VH.

Speaker 2 (31:42):
It's rollerblading deep cover.

Speaker 1 (31:44):
Yeah, that's exactly what it is, and I am here
for that.

Speaker 5 (31:51):
As far as being into the musical part of things,
you know, I'll slap the headphones on once in a
while and gibble that we're at the keyboards, you know,
make some drum effects things like that.

Speaker 1 (32:12):
The way that they invent things, because again, it is
post apocalyptic, it is dystopian, and I love all the
little touches throughout the movie to remind us that we
are this movie is set in a post apocalyptic future,
like the fact that they're transporting American universities overseas because
America has fallen apart so much that the institutions of
higher learning are taking these huge buyouts from hey, Japan

(32:36):
to move like one of our top Ivy League universities
over to Japan, just to spare it from falling into
complete ruin, because that's where we are as a country,
and the drug that we're using, because we've got to
invent a drug hold.

Speaker 2 (32:48):
On before that. It literally gets to a point where
we see that Germany buys poland.

Speaker 1 (32:54):
Buys it this time. Yes, at least there was a
contract and a deal that was made this time for
the role of boys involved in that too. I don't know.

Speaker 2 (33:02):
The movie movie has definite things to say about Nazis.
Let's just put us that way.

Speaker 1 (33:07):
Yes, it has definite things to say about Nazis. It
has definite things to say about drug use. Again, because
it is taking this alt this altruistic view that is
also very much like morally upstanding, is what makes it
feel so much like an after school special. It's like, yes,
of course we don't like Nazis. Yes, of course, peer
pressure is bad. Yes, of course, drugs are awful, Like
it literally feels like the has has all of the

(33:30):
moral complexity of of an after school special. But yeah,
but it's still fu.

Speaker 2 (33:37):
I mean yes and no, because we're about to get
into the drug. And the drug is where this movie
gets buck fucking wilds like this is just the this
is where it's like, oh oh, because now we have
to talk about day of the Rope.

Speaker 1 (33:54):
Yeah. Uh So there's this drug in the movie, because
when you have a post apocalyptic dystopian film, you have
to your own drug. I mean, in Dread it was
called slow mo and it was something you took off
of what it looked like an asthma and haler like,
There's been a countless movies set in dystopian futures that
have their own drug. In this movie, it's called mist,
which is this weird neon drug smoke through what appears

(34:14):
to be a crazy straw. Because again nineteen ninety as
fuck and Missed. You think, is just this awful, terrible
drug that everyone's addicted to that the roller Boys all missed.
Heavens is it called Heaven's Missed?

Speaker 2 (34:27):
It's called Heaven's miss.

Speaker 1 (34:28):
Oh I thought it was just called miss misst is
the the.

Speaker 2 (34:30):
Shorthand for it. But it's called Heaven's missed.

Speaker 1 (34:33):
So it's not just them playing that role playing game
on their computers all the time. That's not what they're
addicted to, that is correct, Got it all right? Just
making sure I understand. Uh. So then we keep hearing
because the roller Boys have their own rituals, uh And
they have their own indoctrination ceremonies, all these things, and
they keep talking about Day of the Rope. We're gonna

(34:54):
get to their big initiation sequence here later, but they
keep talking about the day of the rope, the day
of the Rope, to day of the Rope. And since
we've already introduced to you the fact that the roller
Boys are the stand in in this film for the Nazis,
when we find out that the Day of the Rope
refers to their interest in eugenics, yeah, we're not fucking

(35:15):
around with this Nazi parallel, but at all.

Speaker 2 (35:18):
No, no, no, they they have the what are the
symbols on their sweet ass coats is an old school
white supremacist symbol. But yeah, they they have created a
drug to kill people who aren't white.

Speaker 1 (35:32):
They've invented a drug plan. Yeah, that and also anyone
who uses their drug, So it's not it's in addition
to being racist, it's literally anyone we deem his inferior,
like I I can't I yeah. And what's really alarming
about this is the movie kind of feels like the

(35:52):
ugliest possible outcome of the Nickelodeon kid power movement of
the nineties, because it goes from like you don't need
your parents at bedtimes? There shit, and start your own
camp and then lock your parents in the basement until
they sort out their problems, Like we're jumping to kidnapping
very quickly, Like is this the endgame? And I just
didn't know it. This gets to a place where I'm like,

(36:14):
these ostensibly sixteen year olds are mengola. They are mangola light.
Like there is pepsi clear and there is mengola light.
What is happening nineteen ninety.

Speaker 2 (36:25):
Yeah it is? It is bananas. After these messages, We'll
be right back.

Speaker 6 (36:31):
You have to change what if I don't like where
it's going.

Speaker 4 (36:35):
Hey, Jakes is the first one to sense something was wrong,
just says your mother hurt your mother. Now he's the
only one who can save her.

Speaker 1 (36:47):
Get out of the house.

Speaker 2 (36:49):
Just do it. First Born.

Speaker 4 (36:53):
Grated thirteen.

Speaker 1 (36:54):
I'm joining at the Samoy three nineteen oh wait Chestnut
surrounding First Round theaters.

Speaker 2 (36:59):
I'm been able to find out why this movie isn't
widely available? Uh why the only I don't think it's
has it ever been put on DVD?

Speaker 1 (37:08):
It like very limited boutique releases that are already out
of print. And I don't even think in America has
this movie ever been on a format above VHS.

Speaker 2 (37:16):
Because I only got to see the sd VHS version
of this, and I've been wondering, what I mean, is
it one of those things that because it I mean,
it feel really like when we say it feels very
maga e it, We're not exaggerating like it, except that
the movie seems to be both very conservative and anti Nazi,

(37:38):
which is very conservative in nineteen ninety.

Speaker 1 (37:40):
That is the way your grandparents were. God damn it.

Speaker 2 (37:44):
I mean, you know there was a time where conservative
you know, while there were things, you know, terrible things
attached to it, they still hated the fucking Nazis.

Speaker 1 (37:54):
Yeah. It was kind of the universal symbol for evil
for a lot of people, for a very long time.
It's weird that we have to lend to that context
of this.

Speaker 2 (38:03):
Yeah, yeah, and it sucks that we really hate it,
but but yeah, but this movie does feel very there's
a lot of you know, the the the roller Boys
are using a lot of very what would be co
opted is maga coded uh iconography, lots of you know,

(38:26):
hanging out with in front of the flag, talking about
making America great, you know, bringing back to the good
old days, things like that. You've got a lot of
that going on. But also at the same time it
you know, the the economy has collapsed and we have
not bought into the proper principles that that should have

(38:47):
protected the country. And it's a very weird commentary. Like
one of the things we haven't mentioned is that, you know,
things are so bad for Corey Hym's character that he
and his brother live in a tent. You know, he's
employed and that allows him to rent a space to
have a tent. And the big, the big thing is

(39:08):
once he's got into the roller Boys and is doing well,
he's got himself an RV. He's got a recreational vehicle
to live in. Now that's the that's the living well.

Speaker 1 (39:19):
Oh the Groofy has himself an RV.

Speaker 2 (39:25):
Yeah, and it's uh yeah, And there's times where the
message is a little muddled and you're like, wait, what
exactly is this movie saying At this point, I'm not
quite entirely sure which side of the fence they're on,
except the movie comes down hard on drugs bad and

(39:48):
Nazi's worse.

Speaker 1 (39:49):
Yeah, I mean, I think that's the thing that saves
it is that it's not wishy washy about how it
feels about the roller Boys, Like they may have cool ouvids,
but they're established from the beginning to be you know, evil,
conniving shit bags. And then also like some of their
second tier guys are just complete uh you know, psychopaths,
and they you know, betray each other all the time

(40:11):
and they're always out for them. Like there is no
there is no favorable lens through which the movie is
looking at the roller Boys except their jackets. That's about it, right.
So again, it's like all the people like Hugo Boss
Maan's some pretty cool uniforms. It's like, that's about as
far as this movie is willing to come down easy
on Nazis. It's it's really but.

Speaker 2 (40:29):
It do look pretty rad in slow motion.

Speaker 1 (40:32):
They do, and they're very choreographed. It's it's Star White Express.

Speaker 2 (40:39):
Did you say they were Did you just say they
were corey At.

Speaker 1 (40:46):
They were choreographs. I love it so much. But on
the other side, Chorea Grift. And that's the other thing
that really saves this movie is that while it's got
these these sort of wearing its morals on its sleeve
and come down hard on Nazis and coming down hard
on drugs and being very Hulk Hogan, like you know,
take your vitamin, say your prayers for the roller Boys,

(41:08):
it's also a pretty low key, gritty crime epic. Like
this movie like is not afraid to shoot people. It's
not afraid to show up at the rival gang headquarters
and start blasting away. It's not afraid to do scary
initiations where if you don't, you know, get back here
in time, we kill you. Like in a lot of ways,
this movie is basically blood In, blood Out. It's it's

(41:30):
roll in, roll out, Blade by Honor, Bound by Honor.
That's what's happening here.

Speaker 2 (41:37):
And it gets pretty violent. It's you know that was
actually the criticism at the time was that the movie
was too violent, something that you won't hear now.

Speaker 1 (41:49):
No, No, not at all, not at all. And I
think that's what makes this movie, you know, feel a
little bit more mature than something like, you know, in
another Corey vehicle like Licensed to Drive or even honestly
even Firstborn, you know which again he's very young in
that movie, but that movie, for all of its grittiness, Like,
there's just something that goes the extra mile in this

(42:10):
movie that a establishes the stakes of this really dystopian
future and be the stakes of this character individually. And
you know what's going on for him because at one point,
and I have to imagine this was difficult for Corey
Ham to really delve into, but his little brother in
the movie gets addicted to the drug and that becomes

(42:32):
a real turning point for him where if there was
any sort of maybe familial loyalty or friendship with Gary Lee,
or if there was any kind of seduction of a
better life because of the roller Boys. As soon as
his little brother starts using this drug, like he really
is like, okay, no, we've absolutely got to take these
guys down. So this movie does a really good job

(42:53):
of establishing not only the stakes of this world, but
the stakes for our hero and make a side with him,
and I'll go once to further. Like the relationship that
Corey Hayme has with Julius Harris in this movie, Like
this sort of fictive father relationship because he and his
little brother don't have parents, Like I buy it. I
buy it a thousand percent. Like you know he's got

(43:16):
that line. Julius Harris was like the roller Boys ain't
nothing new. It's a new chorus from the old chorus.

Speaker 3 (43:21):
And I'm not a next verse and it ain't synthesize
or transistorize what sanctified. But it's coming, So say a
prayer boy because it's coming soon.

Speaker 1 (43:33):
I love this character. This character is there to basically
tell him when he's fucking up. It's a character that
really does care about Griffy and wants him to stay
on the straight and narrow. It's and they when one
of the other jealous roller Boys discovers this and puts
up this loyalty test where it's like, you know, the
guys are starting to talk, maybe you're not enthusiastic. We

(43:54):
have this test where basically we just grab somebody and
beat them up together and then the sack comes up
off the head and you realize, holy shit, the person
that everyone's been beating on, including Griffy, was Speedbagger. So again,
this is a scene that lets us know, if you
didn't already figure it out, the roller Boys probably have
some white hoods to go with those white jackets.

Speaker 2 (44:15):
Oh yes, but yeah, I.

Speaker 1 (44:17):
Buy that relationship entirely. I think there's so much there's
so much good character stuff here that you don't necessarily
get out of a lot of post apocalyptic movies, especially
sort of the B side post apocalyptic movies. I love
that it's here. I love the, like I said, the
actual initiation test where there's like three prospective roller Boys

(44:38):
and they have to go into this heavily guarded government
facility and facility and steal an ID badge, and it's
basically like we're only taking the guy who gets back
here first. And so it becomes sort of this this
elevated version of like auditioning for the Foot Clan, which
would have been around the same time, where it's like,
we just get this scene of Corey Haym, who did

(45:00):
a lot of his own stunts in this movie. Although
I will say this, you can tell when he's not
doing his own stunts because his stunt double is a
foot and a half taller than he is. But just
that scene, it's just a scene of them roller skating
around what what it appears to be a dock or
a factory parking lot, and it's intense and exciting. Like
they do a really good job of making the actual

(45:20):
rollerblading compelling to watch.

Speaker 2 (45:23):
Yeah, no, it's a that's a wild sequence as well.
Uh yeah, the the the roller blading is pretty neat
for how it's done and how it's used, and it's
also used sparingly, like it's it's very weird for you know,
the rollerblading movie doesn't have as much rollerblading as you'd imagine.

(45:44):
It really has more cop stuff than anything else.

Speaker 1 (45:47):
Yeah, we really get two compelling rollerblade chases in this movie.
So for what it's worth, I think Prayer of the
roller Boys is the French connection of inline skating movies.

Speaker 2 (45:57):
Like it's a that's a bold statement.

Speaker 1 (46:00):
I'm just saying, how many other movies do you know
have as compelling rollerblade chases? I will save you the trouble,
the no.

Speaker 8 (46:08):
No no no, no no no no no, not like this,
not like this, uh, but yeah, Like at one point,
Corey Haym is skating and does a solid walk away
from an I guess more of a skate away from
a nearby explosion, and you could tell that explosion wasn't
supposed to be that big.

Speaker 1 (46:24):
Like I always love that movie where it's like somebody
on the Pyro team fucked up, but nobody got hurt
and we got the shots and we're gonna leave it
in cut and print. Fucking love that, man.

Speaker 2 (46:36):
Yeah, it is a fucking weird ass movie, though.

Speaker 1 (46:41):
It's so weird Cargill, How weird is it that in
the movie Prayer of the roller Boys we hear the
song head like a Hole by nine inch Nails, which
I have to believe is making its film soundtrack debut.

Speaker 2 (46:55):
Oh yeah, yeah, No, that was one of those things.
Was you know, we were watching it last night and
justice like, wait, is that many inch Nails? And I said, oh, yeah,
this movie's so early in nine inch Nail's career that
they're only getting booked in movies like Prayer of the
roller Boys.

Speaker 1 (47:16):
You can just see your turt Resider telling the rest
of the band, don't worry, guys, the future is ours. Someday, someday,
we'll be running this fucking soundtrack.

Speaker 2 (47:25):
But it's a great needle drop.

Speaker 1 (47:26):
It is a wonderful needle drop. And it's at that
party Cargill speaking of the foot Clan. I'm gonna let
you finish. But nobody throws a party like the roller Boys.
There's champagne, there's a working carousel, there's mud wrestling like.

Speaker 2 (47:40):
A rollerboy because a roller board.

Speaker 1 (47:43):
No pray, No notes, hey, Cargill, no notes, not at all.

Speaker 2 (47:49):
None.

Speaker 1 (47:52):
And then throughout the movie, we also have this this
romantic relationship that's burgeoning between Corey Haim and Patricia Arquette.
And at first there's animosity because he kind of sees
her as just a mall for this this group, like
she's just you know, like a party favor. He doesn't
really have a lot of respect for her. And then
you know, you start to understand how deep into this

(48:12):
undercover assignment she is. And then Cargill, we're gonna have
to add this to our ever growing tome, our ever
growing handbook for junk food cinema Checkof's wildly transparent, Dirty Cops.

Speaker 2 (48:29):
Wildly transparent.

Speaker 1 (48:31):
First of all, it's the future, and yet all the
detective detectives in this movie are in a hard core
no wir, Like they all dress like Mickey Spalane for
some fucking reason. I'm fine with that. The trench coats
are apparently very big in the future in Los Angeles.
That's fine. But literally the movie, despite showing us multiple
times that these two are rotten to the core, it's

(48:53):
still supposed to be a surprise when they turn on
our hero at the end, and I'm like, no, no, no, no, no,
no no, we were ahead on that one. Actually, you
could not be more obvious, and so you got that.
There's so many Like that's what I'm saying. There's so
many elements here going on. There's Corey Ham's got this
relationship with Patris Sharqatt. He's got this relationship with Julius Harris.

(49:15):
He's got the relationship with his little brother. He's got
this love hate relationship with Gary Lee. He's got this
additional antagonist from these dirty cops. Like, there is so
much happening in this movie, and it manages to juggle
all of this well while rollerblading that is very hard
to do.

Speaker 4 (49:32):
In line skates of taking over the.

Speaker 1 (49:33):
Country also shout out to Gary's right hand man. In
this movie a character named Bango yep, that's his name,
played by Mark Pellegrino, whom many of you probably know
is Lucifer from Supernatural but was also in Big Lebowski,
Melholland Drive Capoti like a number of big, prestigious movies.
He's really good in this as you know, just another
peroxide blonde Nazi henchman, but very good in this movie

(49:58):
and also Cargo. Something I learned about this film that
was mind boggling to me. I noticed that one of
the producers was tetsu Fujimura. So I was like, that
sounds familiar. So I went back and looked this guy up.
This is a guy who got to start working on
trauma films. He was the production manager on Toxic Avenger
two and then went on to executive produced Sergean Kabuki

(50:19):
Man and Class of neukomb High Part two, but is
now the producer of both the Netflix One Piece adaptation
and the Netflix Cowboy Bebop adaptation.

Speaker 2 (50:30):
The trauma school of that era put out a lot
of people that you know would go on to do
great stuff. You know, friend of the Show Joe Lynch
was part of that machine. James Gunn was part of
that machine. I met number of people in the industry
who came out of trauma because Lloyd would if you
were interested, and you'd show up and you would do

(50:52):
it for free. You could work for trauma and working
for cheap or free. Joe and played Toxic Avenger at events.

Speaker 1 (51:03):
For a while, you might still be doing it for free.

Speaker 2 (51:06):
We don't know, Well, yeah, I do know.

Speaker 1 (51:11):
Oh wait, you know what. We've mentioned him, and he's
gonna get very sad if we don't mention that Joe
Lynch's podcast is called Yeah, we had to do it.
We just had to do it. It had to happen. But yeah,
we have all of this like really low down, gritty
shit going on. At one point, Gary Lee actually says,
I believe in America, like we are just name drop

(51:32):
not name dropping Godfather, but we are inviting those comps
a thousand percent. And I gotta say there are some
sequences where the roller Boys like just roll into the
opposing gang's hideout and just start rowing people down. That
every bit feels like the ending of a Godfather movie,
like they really fucking go for it. Yeah, got to

(51:53):
admire the big swings.

Speaker 2 (51:55):
It's this whole movie's a big fucking swing.

Speaker 1 (51:57):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (51:58):
It shot very well. It looks a bit pricey, It
doesn't look cheap like you'd think a movie like this would.
It really is an oddity.

Speaker 1 (52:08):
Oh yeah, it's just.

Speaker 2 (52:10):
Such a strange, weird moment, like because the thing is is,
three years later, this movie wouldn't make any sense.

Speaker 1 (52:18):
That's exactly right, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (52:20):
It really is. It threads the needle where you know,
by the time you get into the mid nineties, this
isn't the type of movie we were making anymore. And
it's a movie that just wouldn't make sense politically, and
this was a you know, this was something that just
was touching on everything that was going on in that

(52:40):
moment between the eighties and the nineties. And this movie
is maybe the most nineteen nineties shit I've ever seen.

Speaker 1 (52:53):
Which is a bold statement because we have seen some
nineteen ninety shit for sure. But I feel like I
tend to overuse the expression time capsule when talking about movies,
like this is a time capsule. No, this is not
a time capsule. What this is is a fucking avocado.
Because this is a movie that was only fresh for
about a week and a half and then immediately felt dated,

(53:13):
do you know what I mean? Like, it's not necessarily
a time capsule. It's something that had a very short
shelf life, but it happens to be a shelf life
that took place within a period of time where I
was toying around with rollerblading and was like, it was
not very good at it, and you know, ditched it
pretty quickly. But I remember so vividly this era of time,

(53:34):
and so for me it feels like recalling a repressed
memory a little bit, Like there's a little bit of
a Prustian element to this, for sure, But it's also
just such an effective crime film, Like when we get
to the ending and it's it's this race against the
clock of like I gotta make sure that the cops
get here on my shift, making the drugs in a streamline,

(53:55):
like Vince Gilligan saw this movie. Is all I'm gonna say.
He's making these drugs in a stream like to make
sure the cops can get in before they pull the
handle to basically nuke everything so there's no evidence. And
if I don't do it in the right sequence, the
person in that shift with me is going to kill me.
And now the cops are coming in and they're dirty.
Like there's a lot of really effective tension in this
movie that you might not think would exist the first

(54:17):
time you see the roller Boys in their you know,
district five ducks flying v formation Like no, it like,
don't be fooled by that. This is actually a really
gritty crime film with some legitimate tension.

Speaker 2 (54:29):
Yeah, yeah, no, It's something that we like, you know,
I filed it for decades, as I mentioned in the
previous episode, along with Solar Babies as being that same
kind of movie and revisiting it, they could not be
further from one another, you know, as much as the

(54:50):
rollerblading and the you know, dystopian nature of it is
what they have in common. One is a big epic
or attempting grasping an epic family fantasy adventure film, and
this is a gritty, rated R crime drama on rollerblades.

(55:14):
Like I really, like, as many of you are hearing,
I'm just kind of baffled by this whole thing. Like
there's just I'm so conflicted on so many elements of
this movie, and it's just it's it's so its own thing,
you know, It's just it's very.

Speaker 1 (55:35):
It.

Speaker 2 (55:37):
There's nothing else you can really like. That's the only thing.
You can group it into the extreme sports movies of
that era. But it's not exactly the same, you know
it almost It's closer to Gleaming the Cube than it
is Solar Babies.

Speaker 1 (55:57):
So my question now is when are we covering Gleaming
the Cube? And also when are we covering thrashing? These
are just questions that I have, Cargo. These are just
questions I'm gonna throw out there.

Speaker 2 (56:05):
I mean, when are we covering rad?

Speaker 1 (56:09):
What stop the podcast? What do you mean we haven't
covered rad? What do you mean we haven't covered rad?

Speaker 2 (56:22):
Yeah, we haven't covered Rad.

Speaker 1 (56:24):
I am so angry right now, like I was in
such a good move talking about Prayer of the roller Boys,
and now I am furious at us, Like you know, no,
I'm mad at us. I'm met at both of us.
This was a group effort fucking this up, Cargil, I
mean mostly me, yes, whatever, but this is a group effort.
God damn it.

Speaker 2 (56:41):
We have got to write the covered six best movie.
And I love how everybody out there is now doing
the math on their hands, like Flunky Okay, he's probably
putting mega force in there and whatever. Fuck off.

Speaker 1 (57:00):
They're also doing the math that we have covered the
five ahead of it, like they're like, wait, no, they
really Oh they did Hooper? Dude? Fuck all right, okay cool, yeah,
like yeah, we have covered that many hell Needa movies,
but somehow not rat. And we are fixing this. We
are fixed. And if you don't, if you don't think
we're going to fix it, send me an angel right now,
and that angel will deliver.

Speaker 2 (57:17):
Me in ange Jill.

Speaker 1 (57:19):
Deliver unto you a rat.

Speaker 2 (57:21):
So now after these messages, we'll be right back.

Speaker 1 (57:31):
I thought that we had a date to night.

Speaker 6 (57:35):
What could possibly can't bad for a kid without his license.

Speaker 1 (57:48):
On my sins to drive Lady starts Wednesday, July six.
That theater is everywhere. Look, guys, I am super excited
that we got to talk about Prayer of the roller Boys.
I am super excited that there might actually be a
sequel to this movie, or a pseudo sequel that exists.
There was apparently a nineteen ninety eight TV movie called

(58:09):
Blade Squad by the same writer of this film. I
think it may have been a backdoor pilot for a
failed TV show. But this is literally the plot card
I'm just gonna reach you. The plot synopsis. The Blade
Squad is an experimental police chaser unit that consists of
mainly cops who have screwed up and are practically off
the force, who patrol the city on roller blades and

(58:30):
have jetpacks that give them speed. What is the one
thing missing from Prayer of the roller Boys Fucking jetbacks.
I've got to track down this Blade Squad movie and
give it a watch, because if you're doing Prayer the
roller Boys with the writer of Prayer of the roller Boys,
which are giving the roller Boys jetbacks, I am fucking there.

(58:52):
Let's go. I'm into Let's go. Yes.

Speaker 2 (58:56):
I'm also I'm also having a moment ware of pure
shock where I've just discovered that Rad is actually hell
Needam's second highest rated film on IMDb, somehow, as rated
higher than Cannonball Run, Uh Hooper and The Villain.

Speaker 1 (59:17):
Look, all I'm trying to tell you as you're listening
to this is that before many of you were born,
our parents caused the Great Crash, and the Great Crash
is how Needam's at Rad being the second best rated
hal need A movie on IMDb. Your parents were consumed
with stupidity they ignored repeated warnings, and they gave way
more thumbs up to Cannonball Run two than they ever
could repay.

Speaker 2 (59:38):
Also true that brings us.

Speaker 1 (59:41):
To the junk food pairing. And for this one cargo,
because this movie feels nineties as shit, I went with
a particular beverage that feels ninety as shit, and that
is the Mondo Cooler. Now, many of you may not
remember Mondo Coolers because you were a squeeze At household
or you were a kool Aid juice household. Mondo was

(01:00:03):
very much like the kool Aid bursts or the squeeze its.
But if you just look at the logo for this
fucking company and it's it's fruit drinks in the little
plastic bottles with the turnkeys, Yeah, that logo is nineties
as fuck. That logo absolutely remembers, uh, the end of
the Bush Senior administration. Like it's entirely a nineteen nineties thing. This,

(01:00:27):
this fucking logo for Mondo Coolers watched Nick News every
morning on its way to school, Like that's how fucking
nineties it is. And not only that, but I feel
like these, uh, these different fruit beverages and these plastic
bottles seem really easy to house while you're blading, So
I'm gonna go with Mondo Coolers as the junk food
pairing for the very nineteen ninety prayer of the roller Boys.

Speaker 2 (01:00:49):
That works.

Speaker 1 (01:00:50):
Uh, if you want something a little more alcoholic, maybe
get yourself a bottles and James.

Speaker 2 (01:00:54):
I would offer up that. Maybe if you want something
more junk foodie, perhaps you have him.

Speaker 1 (01:01:00):
DLT Jesus fucking Christ cargo.

Speaker 2 (01:01:03):
Something that keeps the cool side cool in the hot
side hot?

Speaker 1 (01:01:05):
How does it know? How does it know to keep
the cool side cool in the hot side hot? Jason
Alexander explain this to me? Why are you not explaining
this to me? Jason Alexander.

Speaker 2 (01:01:14):
For those of you who don't know that McDLT was
a failed McDonald's sandwich that had that offered lettuce and tomato, Yeah,
it was revolutionary.

Speaker 1 (01:01:28):
We're going to separate the cold toppings from the hot beef,
put it in two styrofoam compartments, so it's doubly wasteful
for the environment, and then we're gonna trot it out
with an ad campaign featuring Jason Alexander Hare because the
motherfucker wasn't bald, yet like trying to get people on board,
like it was like like we worked for NASA and
this was the greatest thing the future. Let me tell

(01:01:49):
you this right now, McDonald's it was never a good
time for the great taste of the McDLT.

Speaker 2 (01:01:55):
Uh you know, I'm let me just throw something out here.
Earlier in the podcast, offered up a theory as to
why violence dropped off in the early nineteen nineties. The
McDLT was only served from nineteen eighty five through the
early nineties, matging perfectly now. Correlation does not equal causation,

(01:02:16):
but I am saying there is a possibility the McDLT
may have led to the weird dystopia of the late
eighties early nineties, and it was only discontinuing it that
McDonald saved America.

Speaker 1 (01:02:30):
People were eating mcdlts at the farewell tour for criss
Cross Okay, not Christopher Cross, Criss Cross, the rap duo.
That's how fucking nineties that shit is.

Speaker 2 (01:02:40):
That McDLT made you jump jump. Paddie Magill make you
jump jump.

Speaker 1 (01:02:47):
The mcdealt only knows the Funky Bunch and nothing of
New Kids on the Block. That's how fucking nineties. The
mcdelt was that is that is accurate?

Speaker 2 (01:02:58):
What is he going to get sued for that one?
We're gonna get a letter.

Speaker 1 (01:03:03):
Hey, hey guys, I heard you talking. I don't understand.
Why are you gonna make fun of me? What? What's about? Say?

Speaker 2 (01:03:08):
How do you Wallburger for me?

Speaker 1 (01:03:10):
So he did Jason Alexander for me? Also, why was
I never on sein film?

Speaker 5 (01:03:13):
Like?

Speaker 1 (01:03:13):
Shut up, dude, shut up? I don't get it. Oh,
this has been fun. This has been a lot of fun.
I'm glad we finally got this up. Finally a movie
that existed on our what on our on our short
list for about a week and a half and we
finally got to it.

Speaker 2 (01:03:26):
It's been on my list for years. Like I, I
knew we would at some point get around to Solar
Babies and Prayer for Prayer of the roller Boys. Like
I knew we were gonna get there eventually. It was
something on there, but I hadn't visited it because it's
not really around. It's a hard to find movie. Uh
it's uh. It was one of those that uh I

(01:03:49):
I was you know, never was a big uh needed
to do it. But once you watch it and you
were so excited. I'm like, oh, fuck yeah, let's get.

Speaker 1 (01:03:57):
You know, we got roller we We joked last week
that the movie should have been called roller Babies. We
got roller Babies, roller Boys, and then we just need
roller men and we're good to go at the trilogy
down pat Oh, if you would like more of whatever
the fuck we just did for an hour, you can
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Speaker 2 (01:04:41):
You can find me at c Robert Kargil dot blue
Sky dot social and you can find my new movie
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from Subterranean Press, All the Ash We Leave.

Speaker 1 (01:04:56):
Behind Subterranean Press. I love that name because it sounds
like one of them movies that the producer of this
film worked on when he was with Trauma. By the way,
I'm on social media a Bradh guys hous Very at
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Speaker 2 (01:05:13):
Hey, Brian, what we're at?

Speaker 9 (01:05:16):
Okay, bye, So tune in next time, same place, same

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home channel, right here. Thank you.