#54 - Cradle the Balls, Work the Shaft: The Sylvester Stallone Story
The Important Cinema Club
Justin Decloux and Will Sloan
4.7 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2017
⏱️ 58 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, my name is Justin the Klu, and I'm here today with Will Sloan. |
| 0:07.4 | And you're listening to The Important Cinema Club. |
| 0:09.6 | And today, we're talking about Sylvester Stallone. |
| 0:13.1 | Do you have a Sylvester Stallone impersonation, Will? |
| 0:15.3 | Tango and Cash, Cash and Tango. |
| 0:17.3 | Sorry, that's Jack Palance. |
| 0:19.4 | Do I have a... I guess I do. I mean, doesn't everyone have a Sylvester Sloan? |
| 0:22.6 | I don't know. |
| 0:23.6 | Hey, oh, Adrian. Wait, let me close my eyes. Hey, hey, uh, cradle the balls work the shaft. Which, if people don't know what that is, is that, Stallone supposedly on a set in Vancouver |
| 0:37.1 | While there was a break during filming |
| 0:39.0 | He went to his trailer and brought a that Stallone supposedly on a set in Vancouver, while there was a break during filming, |
| 0:43.6 | he went to his trailer and brought a young female intern with him. |
| 0:43.9 | Okay. |
| 0:47.1 | And he left the microphone on in private. |
| 0:51.8 | And he was heard saying, cradle the ball, stroke the shaft. |
| 0:54.2 | I have to correct you, it was work the shaft. |
| 0:57.3 | Because, you know, he has a strong work ethic. |
| 1:03.7 | And this line was broadcast to the entire set through some kind of PA system. |
| 1:06.8 | It's one of those tales that's very apocryphal. |
| 1:09.5 | It's like Richard Gere and the gerbil, except this one's probably true. |
| 1:14.1 | So, right off the bat, I got to say, I love Sylvester Stallone. Oh, me too. |
| 1:14.6 | I love him. |
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