Podcast
Slop Culture
Hosted by Sam Sykes and Will Palmer · EN
Slop Culture is a happy hour podcast that strives to see the beauty in stupidity. Movies, books, video games, media--anything that falls under the theater of the macho and the campy, we can't get enough of. Join us for a drink, a few laughs and then send us your angry letters when we have opinions you don't like.
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The Expendables 2 - Ah, Le Goonage
Mar 2501:13:57Tap to summarizeThis week, Will and Sam take a look at Sylvester Stallone's Expendables 2, a thoughtful and nuanced study of the relationship between masculinity, intimacy and conflict. Also, Jason Statham dresses up like a priest and stabs a dude and says "I now pronounce you man and KNIFE" and it's totally sick, you've got to watch it, bro.Support the show
Transcribe →The Brothers Grimm - I'm Just A Guy Who Misunderstands Pack Dynamics
Mar 1801:39:32Tap to summarizeToday, Will and Sam take a look at one of Heath Ledger's last performances as a fairy tale-obsessed conman who gets asked to help Matt Damon beat up a horse that spits spiders in the action-fantasy-buddy-comedy-horror-action-comedy-thriller-fantasy-horror-action-action-buddy-buddy-comedy-fantasy movie, the Brothers Grimm.Support the show
Transcribe →District B13 - I'm Gonna Call It ScareBnB
Mar 1101:30:12Tap to summarizeIn the name of international relations, the boys have a look at District B13, the only movie that dares to ask what if the Fast and the Furious franchise was about parkour instead of cars and was about saving the Eiffel Tower from nukes and also Vin Diesel is French and so is everyone else. Support the show
Transcribe →Hackers - I Cast Delete Mom
Mar 401:23:38Tap to summarizeJoin the boys as they journey back in time to the primitive 1990's, where computers were magical and the only thing cooler than ninjas were the people who knew how to use them (the computers, not the ninjas). The People of Japan v. Macaulay Culkin, the masculine urge to be socially awkward, jetski escort services and more on today's episode about Hackers.Support the show
Transcribe →American Ninja - Seinfeld Gaiden: Thousand Year Death Tournament
Feb 2501:19:05Tap to summarizeWill and Sam go digging for 80's gold in this action-heavy, logic-light that dares to dream of a world where ninjutsu-practicing individuals can lead long, full lives with meaningful contributions to international government and artistic heritage. Come for the shuriken, stay for the ninja Seinfeld pitch.Support the show
Transcribe →The Equalizer 3 - I'd Still End Up In the Flesh Sack, Probably.
Feb 1801:21:26Tap to summarizeThe boys celebrate the legendary career of Denzel Washington by watching a film in which he enjoys a soul-healing vacation to scenic Naples, Italy and connects deeply with the local culture in between scenes of overwhelmingly horrifying psychopathic violence. Plus--pitching Conan O'Brien as an action comedy star, harmful depictions of supernatural assassins and what's the proper amount of effort to put into saving someone from extraterrestrials. Support the show
Transcribe →Valentine's Day Special - Dueling Eroticas
Feb 1100:52:22Tap to summarizeTo celebrate America's fourth-favorite corporate holiday, the lads decide to flex their creative writing muscles by writing opposing erotic video game fanfiction to see whose chops for crafting stories of pixelated pounding is superior. There are only two rules: only the strong survive and if you laugh, you drink.Support the show
Transcribe →Equilibrium - I Show A Garfield Strip To The Accused
Feb 401:30:50Tap to summarizeThis week, the boys get into the works of Christian "Chrissy" Bale with a look at a movie that features the only martial art designed by geometry students and the only social dystopia designed by Reddit moderators. Also featured: Taye Diggs glazing, gamer Richard Gere and the only protein supplement that makes you red.Support the show
Transcribe →Robin Hood 2018 - Dragging Chains Up Hills To Get Buff
Jan 2801:18:03Tap to summarizeWill and Sam take a look at cinematic universes that never were in this Taran Egerton-led heist flick that dares to ask the question "what if someone did the Nolan Batman trilogy but it was not as good and also Batman had a gatling bow?" Support the show
Transcribe →Rumble In The Bronx - A Haunted House Getting Squeezed By The Mafia
Jan 2101:32:40Tap to summarizeThe boys watch a mid-90's martial arts masterpiece and appreciate a glimpse into Jackie Chan's vision of America--a beautiful and rabid frenzy of a country in which colorful gangs of dirtbike riders battle mullet-sporting, uzi-toting white men for supremacy over New York and hovercrafts are law.Support the show
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