370. Kings of King: The Running Man

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Comedy

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2021

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Ah yes, the personification of the Stephen King everyman: Arnold Schwarzenegger. As we’ve learned, King’s protagonists are often nerds, dweebs, heck, even goofballs. So when the producers of the film approached Schwarzenegger with the adaptation of The Running Man, penned by King’s nom de plume, you know King was ecstatic about it. Michael and Abe discuss the outrageous and basic parody that permeates dystopian films as well as fondly remember that time a man named Buzzsaw got chainsawed in the balls. Features: Michael Swaim: https://twitter.com/SWAIM_CORP Abe Epperson: https://twitter.com/AbeTheMighty Support Small Beans and access Additional Content: https://www.patreon.com/SmallBeans Check our store to buy Small Beans merch! https://www.teepublic.com/stores/the-small-beans-store?ref_id=22691

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0:00.0	Steve and Kevin, Steve and Kevin, Steve and Kevin, Steve and Kevin.
0:27.0	Running man better. Run so quick. All right. Now the stalkers are going. Well, my
0:38.8	false, my Neil Young like falsetto is causing my dog to bark. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah,
0:45.2	this is already off the rails. But hey, man, I was thinking that was a perfect
0:50.1	sonic pairing. Come on, Southern man, running man, they both ended man. It
0:56.0	was just thinking about your dog. Look, I want to thank you for going above and beyond
1:01.0	and thinking of songs to sing. I don't like them, but our audience does. So I don't know.
1:07.0	No one. By the way, people often comments about things they do like no one's ever mentioned
1:14.0	that they like that Kings of Kings starts with song parodies. So I don't think anyone
1:18.2	does. All right. I think we can prove that you can't prove that. And now it's too late
1:23.6	because by saying this, I'm fishing for it. You're going to you're fishing for now. It's
1:27.8	pointless. So we'll officially never know if this was a good idea. Running man, gonna sing
1:35.8	opera. Oh, that's just the effect of Neil Young on the brain. This is Kings of King. I'm
1:46.7	Michael Slam, one of your Kings. Yes. Yes, self acclaimed Kings. I'm the other King, A
1:54.2	Beperson. Hi, everybody. Yes, King. You're crowned my age. And this is a show where we talk
2:02.3	about the adapted works of Mr. Stephen King. The, I mean, I already had a podcast where we
2:07.8	always started it by saying because he's the best writer in the world. And that was about
2:10.9	Carvana Git. So I feel like that slot is taken. But let's say the most successful writer in
2:16.7	the history of human language. So that I would say most adapted also most adapted. Does
2:24.2	he beat Tom Clancy? He's got him. I don't have that knowledge on my disposal. I mean,
2:31.8	give me some Google time. But it's super not important to me. Yeah, we're not about
2:37.6	Google time. We're about analysis time. So let's let's get into it. You probably guess,
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