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Badass Fest V – Enter the Dragon (1973) 

CHAMPION. CHARISMA. CHARACTER. These are the qualities that make a badass.
Bruce Lee is the unconventional, influential, Kung fu champ on Mt. Crushmore. As Enter the Dragon approaches its 50th anniversary, Jim and A.Ron discuss the influence this movie has on Hollywood today. We lost the star of Bruce Lee too soon, but his artistry echoes on. Enjoy this episode on the snake-slapping, crotch-crunching mayhem that is Enter the Dragon.

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Badass Fest V: Ranking New Badasses

CHAMPION. CHARISMA. CHARACTER. These are the qualities that make a badass.
Who are the new challengers to Mt. Crushmore? Find out who makes the cut, and who isn’t cut enough. Tune into this livestream where Jim and A.Ron duke it out over the criteria of what makes a badass.

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Badass Fest V: Armageddon (1998)

CHAMPION. CHARISMA. CHARACTER. These are the qualities that make a badass.
What’s better than an astronaut? A third generation driller. Bruce Willis, the CHARISMA KING, is gonna save the world from a giant asteroid. There’s a cast full of recognizable actors in their younger days. A.Ron claims that Armageddon has done more good for the world than any other movie. And this might be one of Michael Bay’s most chaotic projects, therefore you NEED to go watch it on Max right now. Pork rinds!

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Badass Fest V: Total Recall (1990)

CHAMPION. CHARISMA. CHARACTER. These are the qualities that make a badass.
It’s that time of year again where Jim and A.Ron bring you coverage of the best action movies of yesteryears. It was a time where stars took steroids, the one-liners became iconic, and leading men were dripping in oil. This kickoff pod comes to you live from Mariemont Theater in Cincinnati! Tune in, and hulk out to Jim and A.Ron’s take on Total Recall!

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Badasses 2022 – Rankings and Inductions

CHAMPION. CHARISMA. CHARACTER.

This is the last Badass Stream of 2022. Jim and A.Ron revisit their rules, rankings, and results. Are there cracks forming in the faces of Mt. Buffmore? Listen to the Hall of Fame museum layout plans that will be built in Los Angeles 2049 (I hope). Thanks for joining us in our Badass rankings and we’ll see you next year!

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Masters of the Universe (1987)

Wow, this is a bad movie. There’s almost nothing redeeming about it. It’s not even one of those “so bad it’s good” movies. It’s not badass, it’s just ass. Join us for an hour-long discussion of why this movie doesn’t work and whether Dolph Lundgren has what it takes to crack the upper echelons of our badass rankings.

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Badasses 2022 – The New Crop of Badasses

Shake those protein drinks because we’re considering new badasses tonight. There are select iconic and soon-to-be-iconic characters in tonight’s potential inductees from Laura Croft to Evelyn Wang. Badasses of days past and movies released in recent memory are ranked by Jim and A.Ron’s special, super serious badass ranking algorithm. Find out who makes the cut in this stream.

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Die Hard With a Vengeance (1995)

CHAMPION. CHARISMA. CHARACTER.
Today we’re focusing on “Charisma” with John McClane in the third movie of the Die Hard franchise. It’s not the perfect Die Hard movie, but it has Samuel L. Jackson who is perfect. It delivers on fun action set pieces, but does feature one of the most ridiculous “blown to safety” moments in cinema history rivaling only Indiana Jones. Find out some of the fun facts behind the casting of this movie and the other movies that got axed to make this one happen.
If you’re a member, check out more of our episodes on the Die Hard movies.

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Badasses 2022 – New Rules and Re-ranking the List

It’s pretty badass to admit the mistakes of your past and do what you can to make amends, which is exactly what we do in this episode of the summer badass celebration. Join us as we remove bogus rules and re-evaluate our list with the new criteria in mind.

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Over the Top (1987)

The summer badass celebration hauls on this week with Over the Top, the ludicrous 80s-soaked Sylvester Stallone movie that is one third competitive arm wrestling tournament and two thirds custody battle.

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