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The highest privilege a human can experience is the chance to touch history. Surviving the Black Plague. Seeing the Berlin Wall come down. Watching a screwball action comedy about a guy who makes pinball noises when he gets beaten up by a gang of dapper dancing gangsters wielding hatchets. All these things are exactly the same in terms of importance. Join Will and Sam as they experience one of the...

No, not the one that everyone liked. Due to the Treaty of Ruffalo's Pass after the Battle of Three Christophers, it is forbidden for any podcast to talk about MCU movies without invoking the Pact of Seventeen Eyes.  But you CAN still talk about the Sony Marvels. Including this one! Where Ben Affleck thinks he's in a moody television drama titled Just A Man Living On Whistlepig Lane, Jenn...

The very first LIVE episode of Slop Culture, in-person and face-to-face, is here and it's full of snot and coughing because Will and Sam recorded this inside a shipping container, sick as dogs that work blue collar jobs. But stronger than the flu is their devotion to horrifying action movies and, brother, they don't come more horrifying than a movie about how to beat Lou Ferrigno in a sw...

Today, Will and Sam take a look at one of cinema's most renowned pillars, a franchise that singlehandedly holds up the artistic tradition of guys in tank tops racing cars and doing crimes--INTERNATIONALLY. That's right, we're taking a deep dive into the legendary Tokyo Drift to better understand the struggle of a 36-year-old Alabama man trying to get by in a Japanese high school for...

Today, the boys set out on a quest to cleanse their palates with a foolhardy and forgettable movie about someone who plays video games (a gamer, if you will) and instead discover a horrific vision into a future where people rent out their bodies to be commandeered by the wealthy and decadent, where the only use of human flesh is in service to cold and unfeeling technology, where you are required b...

Join Will and Sam for an evening at the macho action movie equivalent of opera as we settle in for a long and fraught discussion about the nature of pageantry, atmosphere, dramatic theme and the role of colorful costumery in male friendships. Could the solution to this isolated, atomized existence we languish under be to dress in themed matching costumes, paint your faces and roll out with your bo...

Will and Sam build bridges between nations after watching the tragic majesty of a movie in which a French dude pretending to be a Scottish dude whacks people with swords because a Scottish dude pretending to be an Egyptian dude pretending to be a Spanish dude told him it would solve all his problems--and, just like in real life, it does. Get Quickening'd, fool. Support the show

Will and Sam spend the greater part of an hour trying to pick themselves up after getting struck by the hardest-hitting action comedy to ever bust out a pair of nunchuks in Michael Jai White's send-up to 1970s exploitation movies. Please note that, contrary to what is said in the episode, neither Will nor Sam are seriously contending that Monsanto sponsors gamers, zones or gamerzones of any k...

Once every few years, all elements of an action movie begin to move as celestial bodies adrift in space--plot, writing, actors, chemistry, physical comedy, fight scenes, set design, charisma, budget and Christopher Walken in all his sweaty glory. And, with a vision of beauty that could only be crafted in the heavens itself, these factors align to create The Perfect Action Movie. My friends. Will a...

The society of 2004 did not call out for a 1930s retro adventure. It did not demand a story about planes fighting robots; it did not clamor for an aggressively gormless romance between two people reciting lines while quietly wondering if it's a social faux pas to eat turkey for dinner three nights in a row. But Hollywood gave it to them, anyway. Join Will and Sam for a look at one of cinema&a...

In days long past, in the forgotten era of 2002, mankind walked this earth with all manner of primitive, early CGI. It was an age of darkness. It was an age where Christian Bale and Matthew McConaughey couldn't turn down work. It was an age where you could basically just throw ideas like dragons and helicopters together and some Hollywood looney tune would look up from his pile of flesh and s...

The year is 1995. Cinemas thrive. The success of Jurassic Park has awakened in America a panicked and perverse need for stories about playing God and then being horribly consumed by primal life forms beyond our control. And like a jazz drummer with a kilo of Horse, Michael Crichton is there to supply a terrified population with its fix in the form of a movie where Tim Curry gets eaten by gorillas....

Today on Slop Culture, Will and Sam take a journey back to the primitive days of 2006 to explore a vampire action sci-fi romp that flew so far under the radar it had to be located with one of those rats they train to discover unexploded ordinances. Join us for a conversation on sticky dictators, Milla Jovovich and exactly how bad a movie can be before it becomes blasphemous. Support the show

The boys take a swig of Tsingtao and power through their second John Carpenter-directed, Kurt Russell-starring cult classic movie. Except instead of being about colorful goons in the decaying ruins of a dystopian New York, it's a movie about colorful wizards in the decaying ruins of 1980's San Francisco. Today's topics include a shoutout to ninjas, a frank discussion of wizard-based...

Will and Sam put on their leisure suits for their look at Smokin' Aces, the only movie that can give you the same kind of rush as seeing a pyramid of carefully-arranged wine glasses come crashing down right before the last one goes on. Join the boys for an off-beat and eccentric dark action comedy (it's dark because someone says a swear). Support the show

This week, the boys treat themselves to an American classic which asks the question that every young American has ever asked themselves: "what if school got canceled because World War III broke out and Patrick Swayze was also there?" Also featured: Sam saw the Odyssey, Satanic nachos and do you think a demon in hell would call you fat or would that be too much? Support the show

It is Slop Culture's utmost pleasure to introduce an iconic film about hairy skinny dudes rowing boats and slapping skeletons--Jason & The Argonauts. Join Will and Sam in a discussion on topics such as Ray Harryhausen's vision, cinema's earliest special effects, how much it must rule to be an old dude just letting it all hang out on a boat with your bros, and more. Support the s...

In a very special episode of Slop Culture, the podcast talks about its very first film featuring America's favorite morally-dubious, spiritually-lugubrious, gun-toting, chain-smoking, grizzled gizzard son of an onion, Clint Eastwood, in The Gauntlet, a film that is brave enough to tell you that you can solve at least some of your problems with a bus.

The boys revisit the joys of Hong Kong cinema with the spectacularly gory, spectacularly ridiculous, spectacularly beefy opus that is Riki-Oh, the story of one man's passionate desire to bring about prison reforms by punching through walls and making peoples' skulls explode. Put your face in this bad English dubbing and breathe deep, brother.

Today on Slop Culture, Will and Sam journey to the moment where the Terminator franchise stopped and the Terminator Cinematic Universe began. Join us for a thoughtful discussion on what makes a character, what makes a plot, what makes a human--also, like, six or seven jokes about Florida. Maybe eight.

This week, the boys investigate a piece of Argentinian Cinematic History in the form of the extremely violent, extremely low-budget, extremely body-hairless legendary film, Deathstalker. Join us for a discussion of pop culture history, Will's beef with whales and whether or not Pedro Pascal is to blame for Vesuvius erupting.

On the inaugural session of Sloppy Seconds, the boys talk about horror film sensation, THE BACKROOMS, one of Sam's very favorite settings and, now, one of his very favorite movies. Also included in this episode: bad endings to good shows, the twitching carcass of Star Wars and how badly you'd have to offend Pedro Pascal before he finally came after you.

Today, the boys take a look at Charlize Theron's spectacular Cold War thriller, Atomic Blonde--the ONLY movie where you can get a stunning 1980s soundtrack, John Goodman in a suit and a verifiable chorus of Eastern European dudes getting whacked in their Lyndon B Johnsons with firehoses. What part of the body is "Lyndon B Johnson" a metaphor for? You'll have to listen to find o...

The boys take a course in Early Keanu History with his action-filled role as FBI agent Johnny Utah, playing opposite the chillest sociopath you'll ever meet in Patrick Swayze. Thoughtful deep dives into the relationship between action and romance, lingering studies of high-stakes tension, discussions on the nature of sadism--all this and more are ruined by Sam bouncing his knee and making the...

The boys talk about one of the most foundational films to the martial arts genre, defining many of its most treasured tropes--secretive high-stakes tournaments, fists soaked in gore, the burning warrior spirit and dudes threateningly making their pecs bounce like a couple of evil hams.