UI-Con's 1985 Action Movie Triple-Threat Match: The New Challengers with Andrew Tiede

UI-Con's 1985 Action Movie Triple-Threat Match: The New Challengers with Andrew Tiede

From I Dig Crazy Flicks with CatBusRuss by Cat Bus Russ

April 22, 2026 · 1h 7m · Season 6 · Episode 266

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The episode discusses a hypothetical battle among iconic action heroes from 1985 cinema.

1985 action cinema may have provided the most powerful heroes in fiction. Who would be the last man standing if they were to all enter a melee? It would be a better battle than anything involving Super Saiyans, Nameks, and weird earthlings. " I Dig Crazy Flicks Presents: The 1985 Action Movie Triple-Threat Match " . Could Goku defeat Chuck Norris ? If Vegeta could get up to a power level of 9000, what the hell was Sylvester Stallone 's level when he beat the Vietcong and Ivan Drago in the same year? Androids with numbers in the teens cannot take out Arnold "T-800" Schwarzenegger . CatBusRuss ⁠ and ⁠ "Couchman Bakes" Andrew Tiede ⁠ may have been the only two presenters at ⁠ UI-Con 2026 ⁠ who were not focused on anime. The two have their favorites Japanese animated series ("Evangelion" & "Dragon Ball" respectively), but when they were kids in the 1980s, those series were not exactly abundant in the United States. The heroes for these two Midwesterners with Gen X attitudes were from cartoons based on toys. Toy lines that may have been the offspring of the most violent cinema. All boys owned at least one " ⁠ Rambo ⁠ &quot…

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