Slop Culture
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.
Episodes
31 episodes
Point Break (1991) - They Crucify The Gorilla
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 roman...
Bloodsport - Crucifix Spurs Is A Vibe
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 the...
The Meg - This T-Rex Is Just Too Comfortable With His Body
Today, Will and Sam enjoy a monster movie for a new era. Jason Statham turns in a mostly-hairless performance as a deep sea rescue specialist hired by a multinational team of scientists to dive to the bottom of the ocean and punch the hell out ...
Sahara - All Is White And Empty
This week, Will introduces Sam to his favorite movie that has been or ever will be--Sahara, starring Matthew McConaughey as Dirk Pitt, which is a name that sounds like a dude who has been involved in numerous last stands and is linked to at lea...
The Magnificent Seven (2016) - Gaze Into Infinity, Brother
The boys talk about Antoine Fuqua's take on a classic western action flick starring Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt and more in a sprawling study of what it means to be a man who can't move beyond his past and the best he can do with the curse o...
Escape From New York - We Should Absolutely Be Wearing Spats
The boys take a moment to pour a glass of classic Kurt Russell and savor the heady aroma of a classic commando story about what happens when politics are decided via guys with eyepatches and New York is finally allowed to live its authentic sel...
Krull - It's Like Something Bad That Happens To You, Physically
In a very special episode of Slop Culture, Will and Sam pay attention and homage to one of the earliest and most ambitious attempts at fantasy cinema: Krull. The boys discuss what it means to be a creative flop that laid the groundwork for clas...
True Lies - Stay Off The Lovecraftian Section of Grindr
Will and Sam do more glazing than a donut factory over James Cameron's action movie touchstone in which Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis show off the fun, quirky and romantic side of brazen misappropriation of government resources and...
Dredd - Illegal Go-Gurt
This week, the boys journey to pay their respects at the shrine of New Zealand's patron saint, Karl Urban, in his gritty dystopian action flick, Dredd. Included inside: slasher bars, crucial updates on how Sam's curry turned out, and so much gl...
2 Fast 2 Furious - You Wanna See Some Flamingos?
In honor of our 22nd episode, Slop Culture is proud to present its thorough critical analysis of one of the most profound entries into the most sacred wings of cinema's hallowed halls: 2 Fast 2 Furious. Enclosed within: how to run a zoo as a ma...
The Expendables 2 - Ah, Le Goonage
This 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 ...
The Brothers Grimm - I'm Just A Guy Who Misunderstands Pack Dynamics
Today, 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-fan...
District B13 - I'm Gonna Call It ScareBnB
In 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 als...
Hackers - I Cast Delete Mom
Join 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 Cul...
American Ninja - Seinfeld Gaiden: Thousand Year Death Tournament
Will 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 herita...
The Equalizer 3 - I'd Still End Up In the Flesh Sack, Probably.
The 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 psychop...
Valentine's Day Special - Dueling Eroticas
To 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 a...
Equilibrium - I Show A Garfield Strip To The Accused
This 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 gla...
Robin Hood 2018 - Dragging Chains Up Hills To Get Buff
Will 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?"
Rumble In The Bronx - A Haunted House Getting Squeezed By The Mafia
The 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 ...
Bulletproof Monk - Get This Sexy Robot Out Of My Face
Seann William Scott earns the second N in his name while Chow Yun Fat violates no less than seven out of ten tenets of the Bro Code while finding the time to engage in bouts of fighting surprisingly whimsical Nazis.
The Rock - I Love Trains and I Love Trains and I Love Trains
The boys party hard in 2026 by flopping face-down in a big ol' pile of Michael Bay and snorting a line of Nic Cage. Why is Alcatraz a Zelda dungeon? What's Sean Connery's fursona? Is Dale Earnhardt the only one who can stop the Devil? All this ...
In The Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale - I Would Have Preferred Backshots
This week, the boys fill their goblets and drink deeply from the well of German auteur, Uwe Boll, and find that the taste reminds them fondly of foreign tax incentives, rubber orc suits and Ray Liotta's ghostly wizard juice.
Batman Returns - That's A Signal, I'm Not Saying What Kind
In a new holiday tradition, the boys try to find a Christmas action movie that isn't Die Hard and settle on Tim Burton's relic from the pre-MCU era of superhero movies, Batman Returns--the only movie with the guts to call out the role of pengui...
300 - Live Forever At The Pleasure Dome
Will and Sam follow the tradition of the Ancient Greeks and engage in some philosophy--is man's virtue an ephemeral and forever-shifting thing, as ceaseless as the Aegean, or is it simply that whoever has less body hair wins? Welcome to Zach Sn...