The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (1978)

The second movie has a message that can very easily be accepted by mainland China; it starts with a unionization/labor struggle

This was made in Hong Kong, not mainland. At that time HK was still under United Kingdom’s control and freedom of speech, political freedom was a huge privilege that HK enjoyed until recently. Definitely this kind of film with the same message would not be made in HK today.

I know I'm late but I don't care, listening to you guys dump on Tim Ferriss and his dumb fucking grass fed steak story made me actually laugh out loud

Great ep! Just want to say on the halloween skeleton debate, I think Ben is out of line. This is Stanger-gorgon talk and he needs to stay in his lane.

On the topic of driving while acting: 1978 The Driver has to have the absolute best and scariest looking actor driving this side of the chase scene in French Connection. I know they had to have stunt drivers in that movie but there are some scenes where you can see the main actors doing some absolutely crazy shit.

Acting is hard?

Cynthia erivo starting to look like Louis gossett jr

Kevin Spacey Says He Has "No Home" And He'd Be Reaccepted by Hollywood if Martin Scorsese or Quentin Tarantino "Call Tomorrow" Can you bring him on the show Boyz? He's innocent!!! 😇

The Shaw Bros Blu Ray collections are gorgeously curated and super fun to watch and after listening to the English dubs I can confirm the Boyz impressions are truly spot on. I related so hard to the early conversation about all the movies becoming hard to pinpoint by title specifically at a certain point but they all have place in my heart and forever will.

rodgers: https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/bat-bombs-wwiis-project-x-ray/

I just saw an ad for “Holiday Touchdown: A Bills Love Story” that will be airing on the Hallmark Channel. I think for Rogers sake, you guys have to make this a Shadow Wolves episode.

As a long ago Philosophy major who has taken a gut-punch or two from life over the years, the “I should have learned Kung-fu instead of ethics” line hit particularly close to home.

The Berzerker! He almost stabbed the Undertaker with his sword, dude.

Thanks for the Ferrara book recommends. It reads like a Hubert Selby Jr story. Amazing!

I wish they finished the show, Ghosted 😩

I just listened to the episode and was reminded to ask: where can I access the Pierce Brosnan show?

Anyone else get those weird AI Tai Chi ads on YouTube? Who’s that for?

Gabrus mentioned watching elephants stomp pumpkins. I used to work at an outdoor museum called Greenfield Village and we had a horse named Abe who loved to do that. We would line the streets with jack o lanterns for Halloween and he would veer off during tours just to stomp a few sidewalk pumpkins. This also extended to feeding. I noticed that there were always dead pigeons near where we fed him. I assumed what was happening was birds were getting underfoot as the horses were eating, but one time I really watched him. I put the food down and he stood back like 20 ft away and waited for all the pigeons to fly down and gather around his food and then he came trotting in, lifting his legs really high and stomping them down. Dang horse just loved popping things under his hooves.

Fights at end of film were r i v e t i n g. Always love when the boys bring up Small Soldiers. Archer is my dog

Wu-Tang Clan ahead of the curve on so many trends.

It's so cool the masters are all proud of him and happy when he beats them, positive masculinity 💪

Definitely don’t discount the sequels to this, Gordon Lou is in all of them and is always awesome, though he only pretends to be San Te in the 2nd one (weirdly the real San Te is in the movie played by a different actor). It is a full on comedy but Gordon is an incredible comedic performer and it I actually think I like it better than 36th Chamber. The third one he’s back to being San Te and kinda delivers on the promise of the end of this movie with him leading an army of students against the Manchus

Daniel Romano’s Outfit did a cover album of “Infidels” in the style of that Jokerman performance and it’s a lot of fun. https://youtu.be/uqeerOQLT1c?si=R0GhDYMllyH1X9tb

Shout out to whoever picks the thumbnails. Him with the lanterns looks so cool

Ben smoking a joint? Holy cow 🐮!

Isn't the Canadian Fister that move where you both flip?

Goddamn this Jokerman performance rules

I just want to thank you guys for putting Stallone and Ghostbusters together.

Scheer mentioned Bronson Tonight on Conan Needs a Friend. Didn’t mention the ABZ by name, but referenced the live show.

Hell yeah

That Dylan performance on Letterman is awesome, good shout out by Rodgers

I enjoyed this so much! Happy to fill in that blind spot, and I'll probably watch it again soon!

If you want Gordon Liu recs and your only other references are this and Kill Bill, then Clan of the White Lotus (or Fists of the White Lotus depending on the release) is an obvious choice. It's Liu and Lo Lieh (the general in this one) again. The latter plays Pai Mei's brother? I think the previous two movies in the series have Pai Mei himself killing a bunch of shaolin monks. Anyway, Gordon Liu learns that if you want to crush an all-powerful villain's balls, you have to incorporate your feminine side into your kung fu.

It's days like this I curse the Chinese for inventing gunpowder

don't the Bey Logan commentaries get into the triads' activities around the hong kong film industry? i enjoyed hearing about Steven Segall and the mob, so i hope the Actionboys did their research for this asian film similarly to their research on caucasian films (you know who cut Sammo Hung's face, right?).

Training montages are a character in this movie

Did teaching English as a foreign language in China, and I took some time off to go see the Shaolin monks. I remember most of them had Playboy centrefolds and posters from Western action films on the walls of their dormitory, which did somewhat ruin the mythology a bit. But what did I expect, really. They did do this really cool martial arts demonstration for everyone.

I saw this years ago at Lincoln Center in the course of a kung fu movie festival, in a theater full of unaccompanied weird nerds. Not a woman to be seen. Good times, good times.

People might find this fascinating, a real Shaolin monk and Kung Fu master is some youtuber and he watches a bunch of Shaolin related content. In this video, he watches a fucked up documentary on the child kung fu masters who are tortured and come from poor families. Takes a bit of the X-Men school of the gifted fantasy to a grimmer reality. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RNw8VAAzcM

I finally beat Gabrus to a joke in my head. When Ben said that he is sure AB has listeners who visit China for business, in my head I had Gabrus adding “Yes, but for some reason, a lot more of our listeners are traveling to Thailand on business …”

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