Slop Culture

Do you believe that Fast & Furious is a film franchise...or a film genre? Could anything be Fast & Furious if it featured people in tank tops moving at incredible speeds? Could a food truck? Could a toboggan? Could a robot plane with a sassy sense of humor be Fast? Could it be Furious? Could it be more?Will and Sam think so. Join the boys for a look into a film that would become an oddly prescient glimpse into the terrifyingly sterile and impersonal future of drone warfare but, like, in a cool way.Support the show

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 classics of action comedy, a film by Stephen Chow that homages a genre so hard it ends up defining an entirely new one.Support the show

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, Jennifer Garner thinks she's in an action comedy titled Karate Kooks, Colin Farrell thinks he's in a character piece titled Beefboys of Belfast and Michael Clarke Duncan thinks he's in a superhero movie titled Daredevil.Join us!Support the show

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 sword fight. Join these greasy, wheezing boys for a foray into one of the most so-straight-to-video-it-hurts movies of all time.Support the show

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 some reason.Take a deep breath and inhale the scent of Slop Culture's 50th episode. Smell that? That's the scent of artistic achievement.Support the show

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 by law to think Michael C. Hall is cool and so is his inexplicable southern accent.Join Will and Sam as they indulge in a movie that has aged like a fine wine with swear words written on the label.Support the show

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 boys to rumble with the Turnbull ACs? Let's find out together as we watch 1979's The Warriors.Support the show

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 kind and everything they say should be taken as the rantings of madmen walled up in a cellar. Support the show

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 and Sam are here to tell you about that movie.Also there's a bit in there about gnome crime dramas and it's just great.Support the show