[00:00:18] Speaker A: Welcome to Friendly Competition, a podcast. Discover the best of all time. I'm Nick Carey alongside my coast and best friend, Cody Lena. Discuss various pop culture topics and narrow it down to truly the best of all time.
[00:00:29] Speaker B: Or as we like to call it, the boat. Before it step foots on the boat. We put them into a sweet 16 style bracket. We argue each round till we decide a winner. Nick, what criteria do we use when we decide to steps foot on the boat?
[00:00:38] Speaker A: What are the hell we want? Cody, you want to tell them what we're talking about this season?
[00:00:41] Speaker B: We don't know who you are listening, and I don't care, but we have a particular set of skills on this podcast, a very particular set of skills honed over years of figuring out what is the best of all time. And we're going to figure out what is the best action hero of all time.
[00:00:56] Speaker A: That is correct. And I'm terrified. Yeah, you should.
It works. Great one. Hey, as far as speeches go, pretty solid stuff. Here we are, folks in group D, talking about the greatest actioners of all time, focusing here mostly on the mortal ones, who is just a regular, I'm trying to live my life, and then you go and steal my daughters. Yes.
Well, thank God the government.
[00:01:24] Speaker B: Brian Mills from. We gotta start there now, while I'm thinking about it. Okay. I would love to see what the taken man had done in before time, but that should be a movie. There should be a taken man movie before he becomes the taken guy.
[00:01:36] Speaker A: Pretaken, pretaken.
[00:01:37] Speaker B: How does he have this particular set of skills? How do I get the femme fatale job? Well, he's a boy fatale. I don't know what they call that one. But there's no way all these assassins, all these movies are assassins. After the retired St. Lucian's, the same.
[00:01:53] Speaker A: Would say, I would just go to your local army navy recruiting and just say, I want to be black ops. Because that seems to be who all these people are. They all have some kind of black ops off the book. So just ask about it next time you go into your recruiting stage. Like, hey, can I do, like, the off the book stuff, though?
[00:02:12] Speaker B: First of all, you got to be super athletic. You have to be very capable. But I think you also have to ask, be like, hey, can I get some of that black op shit? Because that's the kind of the hoot spa that they're looking for.
[00:02:25] Speaker A: Yeah, they want someone who wants to also get down and dirty and do the mission. How many times you got to hear someone say, and if you die on this mission. No one's going to know. This is off the books, guys.
We're here to solve this crisis. We're about to overthrow this dictator. But if you can't make it back.
[00:02:44] Speaker B: Never tell your family what happened on this mission. You went rogue, and you were betraying your country.
[00:02:49] Speaker A: And that's what we'll have to say.
[00:02:50] Speaker B: And if you succeed, no one will ever know about it. This is all you on the streets.
[00:02:54] Speaker A: It's like, do you want to be a hero or not? Could someone know? Are we writing this down anywhere? Because I feel like I want to. At some point, I get to tell someone, right? Like, what's the statute?
[00:03:05] Speaker B: Can we tell JJ? JJ Abrams? Can we get him on? Like, just get him in the watch. I'll watch the movie and pretend it's not me. But we didn't know it's right.
[00:03:13] Speaker A: Like, I mean, I did some, like, we're not going to make a movie out of the stuff I did, dog. I basically John wicked a whole room.
[00:03:18] Speaker B: Once it was lit also. I don't think anyone can do that. I don't think anyone's been trained. This person doesn't exist.
[00:03:27] Speaker A: I mean, they trained you to do the stunt choreography, so someone's training someone, right? At some point, you just got to think, like, I just got to think of this as a John Wick situation.
[00:03:38] Speaker B: I try to approach my life, like, as a John Wick situation.
[00:03:40] Speaker A: So we did just jump into this first matchup here. Brian Mills from taken going up against Snake Plissken from the escape from series. And then the other matchup, we have the three seed Dutch from predator going up against the 14 seed John McClain. But let's stay here with Brian Mills and Snake.
[00:03:57] Speaker B: We don't talk about this enough, and we haven't had to because everyone's been pretty fucking radical. But Brian, what if you get killed by Brian? Like, you're a drug overlord and you got taken down by Brian Mills, by.
[00:04:07] Speaker A: Pop, you got taken down by. How strong was your organization? Is that maybe something we need to look at is, like, this russian mafia versus John Wick's russian mafia and the level of difficulty to take them.
[00:04:22] Speaker B: Like, I want to get into that, but I also want to just say for the record that if you sign up for black ops and your name is Brian Mills, you're like, oh, yeah, I qualified for black ops. I'm going to be there as soon as you get there, like us. What's your name? Are you on the list? So, yeah, Brian Mills. Not anymore. A cool name like Snake Plissken? Yeah, you have to have a cool name. Well, I mean, not getting taken down by a Brian. I don't give a fuck who you are. I don't care how much weapons, how much training. There's no Brian walking the streets right now that's going to take me down. And they should feel the same about me. My name is Cody. I'm not a threat to.
[00:04:52] Speaker A: Yeah, no, there's been no major like. No, it's just not going to. No one's going to give you the respect on that name. I mean, I have to assume he had like a code name in when he was on the ground. But when we meet him, he is just trying to be Brian Mill.
That's all he wants. He's over the life. He did his time, he did his work as a security. I think it was mostly in security is what I thought it was. He mostly just kind of handled security for people. But he doesn't want to be big Cobra anymore.
[00:05:25] Speaker B: He was CIA.
[00:05:27] Speaker A: CIA, classic.
[00:05:29] Speaker B: Everyone's CIA.
[00:05:30] Speaker A: Yeah, everyone's CIA. So, you know, I think he's just ready to. He wanted a quiet life. I think there's something to be said once again about the fact that your organization got taken down by someone on retirement.
[00:05:39] Speaker B: That's sad.
[00:05:40] Speaker A: Dude.
[00:05:41] Speaker B: What kind of bullshit thing are you running?
[00:05:44] Speaker A: Bush league? Dude. This is if 150 year old man who wants to get his daughter back, which. That's great motivation. I'm not trying to take away the motivation. But you are an outfit in the russian mob and you couldn't flip the script on a retiree. This dude was before this golfing. He wasn't practicing. You guys are in the gym getting ready. You guys are working on active crimes. This dude was trying to figure out, like, do I want to do tea today or coffee? Because coffee gets in kind of jittery.
[00:06:17] Speaker B: Yeah, but tea doesn't. Sometimes I need that energy that coffee provides. Here's the thing. This movie is wild. An old man in retirement can take down a whole fucking bob. Besides, have you seen escape from New York?
[00:06:29] Speaker A: No, I have not.
[00:06:30] Speaker B: Okay, I'm going to give you the plot, the very beginning set up. And if you accept this is true, and don't dig too much into this part that I'm about to say, okay? This is one of the most realistic action movies ever. If you can accept what I'm about.
[00:06:44] Speaker A: To say is sure.
[00:06:45] Speaker B: Crime has gotten so bad that we just said, fuck it. And we just walled off, cut all the bridges off and gave Manhattan to the criminals. So now when you're in crime, bad crime, man, we just send you to Manhattan, and that's where you live now. It's a crime town. That's it. So when they need to go get the president out of there, because they flew the president's plane over it for some reason. They're like, we'll send Snake Plissken. Snake gets in there. He gets caught all the. Not. He. Larry kills some people, but he's not like Rambo at all, right? It's a very realistic portrayal of a guy who's like, this is fucking hard, dog.
[00:07:22] Speaker A: It's me trying to play halo on Legendary. And it's just constantly fails after fails. But it's like, well, you can tell he's learning with his gun.
[00:07:30] Speaker B: And there's like, 100 people looking at him with guns. You know what he does? Puts down his gun. He's like, fuck that.
[00:07:40] Speaker A: So wait, I'm with you. I'm with you so far. I'll follow along. And I don't want to poke too many holes, like you said, but it doesn't sound like Snake Plissken.
Is he also in retirement and you're just trying to call someone back who's maybe a little rusty and shaking it off, or.
This doesn't sound like the best dude for the gig. If he's not, hey, he got the job done.
[00:08:04] Speaker B: Sometimes it's not the best dude for the gig. Sometimes it's the only.
[00:08:07] Speaker A: That's. And that's what snake brings to it. That's Snake Plissken.
[00:08:12] Speaker B: I love the fact that every time anyone sees snake Pliskin, we're not, like, given a lot of a backstory about him, but anyone's like, oh, it's Snake pliskin. Everyone's like, oh, shit, snake Plissken. Even when he gets dropped in Crimeland, one of the criminals is like, oh, shit. Snake Plissken. I thought you were dead. He's like, no, I'm fine.
[00:08:26] Speaker A: No, I'm not good. Kicking it. So, wait, was he snake? Was snake, like, an ex criminal? Then who's coming? Like, who left?
[00:08:33] Speaker B: He's a criminal. He's being sent into Crimetown.
The timing just worked out great. Yes, I think, okay. This movie's snake Plissken is the action hero that you could. When I watch it, I'm like, I could do hard your name, but I.
[00:08:48] Speaker A: Can do it right? Because that's what I'm assuming it is then, right? If he's a criminal, they're like, hey, if you go in and do this.
[00:08:53] Speaker B: We'Ll let you out of crime island. Yeah, basically.
[00:08:55] Speaker A: Yeah. And he's like, I've been trying to get out of crime island because I can't imagine crime island.
[00:09:00] Speaker B: How long do you vacation there ever?
[00:09:03] Speaker A: Just to kind of live on the wild side? Just a little.
[00:09:05] Speaker B: No one goes. It's bad there, dude. It's very bad there. There's no.
[00:09:13] Speaker A: How. Okay, you're right. I'm not going to pick this apart. I might just need to see it. So it's that. So you got cool dude who's just got to risk it, right?
[00:09:20] Speaker B: Or eye patch, too. Eye Patch is fucking cool.
[00:09:23] Speaker A: I think what's tough about eye Patch is so isn't. Yeah. For anyone to feel like you're trying to remember, it's Kurt Russell. Fucking hot as hell in his hot boy era with an eye patch. That's how tough he is. Here's my problem with taken, is like, I just ain't that dad keeper.
Yikes.
[00:09:47] Speaker B: Is that what you're saying?
[00:09:48] Speaker A: Yeah, I'm just like, that is a bum baby. Although that is the coldest moment in a movie as far as being an action hero, who knows that? You're like, oh, I ain't even sweating these people is when he tells his daughter. He's like, oh, she's like, dad, people just broke it in the room. They're looking for us. And he's like, all right, well, can you see cool? So they're going to take you now. That's what happens next. And daddy going to come by later. Don't worry.
[00:10:15] Speaker B: He was 66.
[00:10:16] Speaker A: The character is 66 in his veins, though. Hearing that his daughter's being captive and just being like, well, some buying a one way ticket. I do respect that. There's something to be said.
[00:10:28] Speaker B: I think I'm locking in Snake Plissken. I just find a 66 year old man doing all this is just too much.
[00:10:33] Speaker A: It's embarrassing. It's embarrassing to the French. Yeah, whichever mob it was.
[00:10:39] Speaker B: Whichever they were French.
[00:10:42] Speaker A: Whatever, baby mob group this was, I feel it says more about how bad you are at doing crime than how good he is. Yeah, that's what I'm kind of getting from this. So I'm with you here. We'll move Snake on where he'll go up against either Dutch from Predator. That is Arnold Schwarzenegger's character. Just so everyone is clear, going up against John McClain, Bruce Willis from Die Hard Cody.
[00:11:09] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:11:09] Speaker A: I think everyone wants to know, and this is part of the reason why we're doing around this time. So let's just get it out of the way. Are you a diehard as a Christmas movie person? Tis the season.
[00:11:18] Speaker B: I don't care. I think if it happens on Christmas, so fine, I don't care. I don't think it's a Christmas movie. But I think Christmas movie has to have some Christmas spirit. Like, if you want to put this on on Christmas Eve and drink eggnog and shit, that's fine. But you're weird.
[00:11:33] Speaker A: Sure. Santa doesn't day at all. There's not that final scene where Santa flies over Nakamori Tower. Nakatomi Plaza.
[00:11:40] Speaker B: Yeah. And waves.
[00:11:42] Speaker A: And John looks up and sees them and he's like, thanks, big guy.
[00:11:46] Speaker B: Hey. John's on the roof of Nakatomi Plaza and he's getting. Everything's fucked. He's like, there's nothing I can do. Snape's down there doing his fucking potions and shit. He's like, there's nothing I can do. And you hear in the distance and the fucking AK 47 just lands in John McCain's hands. That is what I want.
[00:12:01] Speaker A: That's when you made it a Christmas.
[00:12:03] Speaker B: Yeah, exactly. He's like, thanks, big man.
[00:12:06] Speaker A: I'm going. Yeah. And now I'm back in the game, coach.
[00:12:09] Speaker B: I'm back in the game, coach.
And you'll never know. Was it really Santa or was it just who did that? Don't worry about it.
[00:12:16] Speaker A: We'll never know. That's the magic of Christmas.
[00:12:19] Speaker B: I think for it to be a Christmas movie, it has to have the magic of Christmas in it. It has to have a little bit of spark, of something that can't be just a little something. Something that can't be just explained.
[00:12:32] Speaker A: You don't think average level cop just takes out Russian? I believe. I believe they're Russian.
[00:12:38] Speaker B: A few Russians, yeah. Just terrorists in general.
[00:12:40] Speaker A: Yeah, russian terrorists.
You're not going to give that one up as a little bit of a magic, a little bit of a miracle. He didn't have shoes on, Cody.
[00:12:49] Speaker B: He didn't even have. First of all, it helps you relax after plane ride. And second of all, he did it the right way, though. So when you're watching the movie, you're like, yeah, he's picking them off one by one. He's doing it, sneaking around. He's not dumb. I like those kind of action heroes, right? Make me feel like I could be out there. I could be one of them. You know what I couldn't do? Take on the Predator.
[00:13:09] Speaker A: How terrifying is the predator? Like, let's say you're Dutch and all you've been doing, you went out with your biggest, beefiest boys.
[00:13:16] Speaker B: They're so big, dude.
[00:13:17] Speaker A: Everyone is big.
[00:13:18] Speaker B: Every one of these guys is big.
[00:13:19] Speaker A: So big.
Oh, my gosh. The biggest, beefiest dudes. And this thing, whatever it is, got all of them.
[00:13:27] Speaker B: We don't even talk about the fact that in the predator, the first part of the Predator is they take down, like, a whole. They also take down a whole mob that was selling drugs. They destroy a whole built in garrison. They take out a whole small army, like, five big, beefy boys. And you're like, damn, look how strong and capable these boys are. Not that capable. Predators here.
[00:13:46] Speaker A: Predators here.
[00:13:46] Speaker B: Predator is kind of a bitch, though.
[00:13:48] Speaker A: I feel like they've kind of undercut predator with every additional.
Like, it's one thing to set up that predator in the first movie is just slightly under what Arnold Schwarzenegger can provide as far as taking him.
So, sure, you got knives that shoot out from your hands and missiles that can shoot from your watch thing and.
[00:14:10] Speaker B: Laser beams and shit.
[00:14:12] Speaker A: Yeah. And a mouth that could tear someone's face.
[00:14:15] Speaker B: Also, I think invisibility is pretty important.
[00:14:18] Speaker A: Pretty big. But this is 1980s Arnold Schwarzenegger. So, I mean, we're talking about a God. So you're pretty close, alien. Not close enough. But now, like, every single movie aliens in, he does just get his ass whooped all the time. The Predator.
[00:14:32] Speaker B: Aliens getting fucking stomped out here.
[00:14:35] Speaker A: Predators get beat every time he goes back to early indigenous, like, early circa, like, right when the boats got here from Europe, and he gets his ass whooped by those people.
[00:14:47] Speaker B: This is what the predator. Nick, you're missing the predator. This is what the predator is. The predator is not the ultimate apex Predator. They are trophy hunters from their planet. So it'd be like if we sent a billionaire to Africa and he got got by a have all. You have all the tools and the technology, but you're still a bitch.
[00:15:06] Speaker A: Sure.
[00:15:07] Speaker B: The lion got you. The Predator. I've never viewed the Predator as, like, the fucking greatest hunter ever. I think if we went and got Predator special forces from their planet. Yeah, they would get it, dog.
[00:15:18] Speaker A: That's the movie. Then that's what I want. I want to know then who. Right? I like this world where basically, Predator is Elon Musk.
[00:15:25] Speaker B: Yeah. It's just some fucking billionaires. Like, I can go hunt the dangerous game.
[00:15:29] Speaker A: Yeah. Give me all the best equipment, and I'll go. And then it's, like, still got got by Arnold. Okay, that makes way more sense now. I do appreciate that. Thank you very much. But, yeah, that does make me want to know, who are your beefy boys? I want to see these beefy boys.
[00:15:41] Speaker B: I want to see the Predator beefy boys. So wait, can you imagine if. No, if we took. Okay, we take the alien from alien. What's it called? The xenomorph. We give it the predator's technology. Can you imagine an invisible xenomorph with lasers on its shoulders?
[00:15:56] Speaker A: Is this what happens in the movie alien versus.
[00:15:58] Speaker B: I've never seen it.
[00:15:59] Speaker A: Never seen it. Feels like it should be. Feels like that should be. The conclusion is they're like, hey, we're going to take all your dope tech and start blowing shit. So, okay, so you have, obviously, Arnold Schwarzenegger just doing what he can. Watch all of his best boys, all his best beefy boys die. And he's like, I'm going to solve this and he's going to take care of it. Manoe mano. Right. Or you have John McClain, kind of an average dude. Right.
Okay. Cop is, I think, what we're led to believe. We're not told that he's, like, the greatest cop. That's for sure.
[00:16:28] Speaker B: He's a good cop with a bad edge.
[00:16:30] Speaker A: Yeah. Obviously not the best husband. No, we know that.
[00:16:35] Speaker B: How can you be when you're trying to be out there on the streets?
[00:16:37] Speaker A: And now, though, do we love diehard? Because it feels like the closest to us as humans, the most likely. You're like, okay, if I was put in this situation, if I was to.
[00:16:50] Speaker B: Succeed in this situation, this is how it would look, I think, is what diehard does. And that's why people like it. It's believable in that sense. But at the end of the day, Dutch saves us from an alien that is hunting humans for sport. Right? John McClain saves bearer bonds. Who gives a fuck?
[00:17:08] Speaker A: Just saving a bank, isn't he?
[00:17:09] Speaker B: He's saving a bank. Banks don't need to be saved, as we've seen. We'll just bail them out anyway. Rob Banks is the point I'm trying to make.
[00:17:16] Speaker A: Do you think he does?
Obviously, I've seen diehard one. I actually haven't seen the sequels, so I don't know. Eventually I have to assume, because I know in diehard four, like, die harder or whatever the fuck it's called.
[00:17:29] Speaker B: Oh. I haven't watched anything past the first.
[00:17:31] Speaker A: One, so I don't get. I feel like it becomes a little Dom toretto, where the world just starts to rapidly expand. Because I know at some point he does throw a car into a helicopter. So not throw physically, but launches like, okay. So at some point, we did get a little bit over our skis on what he's doing.
[00:17:52] Speaker B: I also think Dutch would whooplain's ass.
[00:17:55] Speaker A: Okay, we've done this a little bit, but don't you think Dutch. If Dutch is put in the same situation, I'm not saying that he isn't as successful, but he's got going to handle it. He's going to start kicking down way different.
[00:18:07] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:18:07] Speaker A: And I don't know if that's going to be as helpful in this moment. I feel like you need the stealth of the every.
[00:18:12] Speaker B: I don't know. I think if you have. Okay. The character from diehard with a long, beautiful, flowing blonde hair. If that head gets ripped off and just beans Severus snape right in the dome, that situation is going to change also.
[00:18:28] Speaker A: They're like, whoa, we didn't realize that you were taking.
I don't think we need these bonds.
[00:18:33] Speaker B: I don't even really know what a.
[00:18:34] Speaker A: Bond does, if I'm being honest with you. You just said it was important, so I thought it was cool, but I'm kind of out.
I do feel like, yeah, if you're a goon, from the goon's perspective, the last person I want to see coming through that room is like, absolutely. I'm not ready to fight Dutch. I'm ready if I have a gun on my person. I'm ready to take shoeless John McClain on.
Now, if he gets me, then I'm like, maybe I wasn't as good, but I'm not ready.
[00:19:02] Speaker B: I would have took Carl Weather's character over John McClain. Are you kidding me? I would almost take any member of the elite squadron of the predator over.
[00:19:15] Speaker A: I'm just. I gotta be honest. There's something about that. He's the everyman that I really like that about. I'm going to go, John McClain. I think I know what you want to do. So I think I'm just ready to get to that coin then and just see.
[00:19:28] Speaker B: Go to Dutch. We don't have then. The american voting coin of 2004 is brought to you by random.org. We got John Kerry facing up. That means Bush is on the bottom. Low C gets a call. It. That's you. John McClain, dude. He's always been the underdog, though.
[00:19:38] Speaker A: I know, but he's got real.
I gotta. I gotta go. George Bush here, so we'll flip. Yeah, it's John Carrey. All right.
[00:19:49] Speaker B: All right. There we go. Dutch moving on into the. Okay, these two men couldn't be further apart in strategy and technique, right?
[00:19:56] Speaker A: One is going to. I mean, I guess he does have to be somewhat stealthy. He learns the mud thing, I guess.
[00:20:02] Speaker B: Well, that's because he has no choice. He's trying not to be stealthy. But then predator just keeps beating his ass. Snake is outnumbered, outgunned, and he's in just hell, literally. Crime island.
[00:20:13] Speaker A: Yeah, but he gets the job done.
[00:20:15] Speaker B: He gets the job done and he finds love, kind of.
[00:20:19] Speaker A: That's always a bonus, I guess.
Wouldn't that be? I do miss when movies were just, like, out of nowhere. There's like a love interest. Like if at the end of Predator, he just flies home with the predator's head and then he just gets to meet his girlfriend. Wait, what was she doing here? Well, the girls got to have something to watch. The girls got to have a reason to watch it.
[00:20:39] Speaker B: Part of me, I don't like when they have weird love interests in action movies, especially when they're, like, taking place in one day. Like, you have one day to end the bomb and all of a sudden it's like you're taking a 45 minutes fuck. It's like, hey, I get it. Sexual tension is there and I understand, but we are on a pretty tight deadline. Can I tell you something?
[00:20:59] Speaker A: That's classic ADHD, dog.
That is classic ADHD if I've ever heard it. That's someone being like, I mean, I got a little bit of time, right? I ain't going to be that long. And then my thing though is anytime I've ever done something like that where I've 100% been like, I have more than enough time. I can get both activities done. You will get the second activity done as late as whatever the first activity was. So I hope you bust quick, dog.
[00:21:25] Speaker B: Yeah, well, the adrenaline is probably pumping. I get it. Endorphins are running wild. You just took innumerable number of lives. You ended a whole jungle village. I'm talking about Dutch on this one. Snake is the same way. He gets into crime out. He's just blasting. I think he only kills like two people in the whole movie, though. He's definitely lurking in the shadows, but it feels like there's always this danger.
[00:21:46] Speaker A: Sure. I guess with Dutch you get to be the big beefy over. You're trained, right? I mean, we assume he's some kind of like, seal or something. That's how him and his squad get together.
[00:21:57] Speaker B: Exactly.
[00:21:58] Speaker A: They're all seals or whatever. So you're trained. You're ready for this to happen.
Now you're facing an alien, though. Everything against your training. I feel like if I got got by an alien, I'm cool with it. But with snake, I like a. I like a hero of a store. I like a hero who has to become a hero. He's a bad guy, but he's got a heart of gold.
[00:22:20] Speaker B: He's a legend. Everybody knows who snake is, and I want to know why.
[00:22:24] Speaker A: What happened over here?
I love when your reputation precedes itself. I'm a big fan of guy. I mean, I like Kurt Russell, if I'm just being honest. I think I just, like.
[00:22:36] Speaker B: Very handsome. Yeah, he's very handsome. Very good.
[00:22:38] Speaker A: And that's. I feel like what I'd have going for me.
Handsome and good hair, and try to use that meta.
[00:22:43] Speaker B: But I really like John Carpenter, and they're John Carpenter movies. Like, I'm just on the meta tip. I want to pick Snake because he also, without snake Plissken, we don't have Metal Gear solid.
[00:22:52] Speaker A: I mean, that's a big part of it, right? They literally just call him Snake in Metal Gear Solidar.
[00:22:57] Speaker B: It's the same fucking the.
[00:22:59] Speaker A: Yeah, it's the same, dude, no one.
[00:23:01] Speaker B: Made a fucking predator game. That's good. They should, though. That'd be lit. I would love to be Dutch. Are you kidding me?
[00:23:07] Speaker A: Just be so big and beefy.
[00:23:10] Speaker B: Beefy? Dude, just pure sobs. Sirloin sons of bitches. That's what me and you got to be.
[00:23:15] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:23:15] Speaker B: If we live together, we'd have to hit the gym and just get big.
[00:23:19] Speaker A: Yeah, I think.
[00:23:21] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:23:21] Speaker A: From an action standpoint, because the action is really, for Dutch, is just survival. Little bit of punches, but we're not doing too many. So as far as an action hero, he. He kills an alien, which is pretty big. I'm not going to.
[00:23:35] Speaker B: He also kills a whole, like, Vietnam. Damn poor Vietnam. Catching strays in this thing. But he basically destroys an eastern asian village right at the beginning.
[00:23:44] Speaker A: Right, true. So he gets his action in. I mean, it's not that he can't, but that's what I expect him to do. If you're a seal with Snake, I feel like I'm getting a whole new set of action that he's not even prepared for. I get to watch him grow.
[00:23:56] Speaker B: I want to lock in Snake Plissken because I think Dutch is, in the traditional sense, a very big action star. But Snake saves the president. Snake's out here doing the Lord's work. If we don't have a president, then who's going to tell us what to do? Or who's going to rig elections?
[00:24:10] Speaker A: Certainly not the vice president and certainly not the House of Representatives. Speaker of the House. Certainly not the Senate majority leader.
I think that's as deep as I go. That's the farthest I know that it goes. Secretary of transportation next. Just out of.
[00:24:25] Speaker B: We've got to be on that list. Low, but we have to be.
[00:24:29] Speaker A: Oh, I'd imagine.
[00:24:30] Speaker B: What if you get through the secretary.
[00:24:32] Speaker A: Of urban development, interior affairs?
[00:24:34] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. And then right after that, it's like Cody and Nick. It's us, Cody and Vic from Friendly competition podcast.
[00:24:40] Speaker A: Yeah, the president loves their mean. He put him down there, but he's like. He wanted to make sure they were at least but two presidents.
[00:24:47] Speaker B: Yeah, well, fuck.
[00:24:48] Speaker A: Well. They can't do it apart. There's no way that that's not going to be good for their friendship. They got to do it together, these boys.
[00:24:55] Speaker B: They're scared.
[00:24:56] Speaker A: Yeah, exactly. Just us hyping each other. Like, we can do this, dude. We can do this.
[00:25:00] Speaker B: We can fucking do it.
[00:25:01] Speaker A: They had to know. They had to have a reason for putting us in this position, dog. We got this. We got this.
[00:25:06] Speaker B: All right. It's just me crying and saying, this economy over and over.
[00:25:11] Speaker A: Hey, but I think the people would vote for you again because it clearly shows you care about the economy. It's clearly always on your mind. It's the only thing you talk about.
[00:25:18] Speaker B: It's the only thing I can talk about because I'm scared.
[00:25:20] Speaker A: All right, we'll move snake on into the final four, and that is it, folks. Thanks so much for listening to this episode of friendly competition. If you don't know about your boys, a few things that you can do. As always, share with a friend, tell a friend, wherever you're listening to us, make sure you hit that. Like that. Follow that. Subscribe and give us those five stars, please.
[00:25:39] Speaker B: Yes. Once you're done giving us five stars, hit us up on all our social media. Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, interact with Nick. Just look up at friendlycomp pod if you have an idea for a whole 16 team tournament you'd like to see. Well, goddamn. You can email that to Nick at
[email protected]. You could also email me your favorite recipe for cinnamon rolls.
[00:25:58] Speaker A: There we go. I'd love to have that shout out to. Actually, I remember this was Tom's pick, so. Way to go, Tom, on getting yours in the final four. Shout out to charizard for that intro music. If you want to hear more of their stuff. And over to bandcamp, type in charizard and replace the vowels with sixes. That is going to be it for us, folks. We got the final four Friday coming up. But until then, I've been Nick, Carrie, and I'm Cody.
[00:26:20] Speaker B: Lena. See you on the boat.
