Episode 108 - Nov 22, 2023

The Warriors

Episode 108: The Warriors (1979)

Theme: War Month
Hosts: Oz & Curtis

This week, Oz and Curtis head to Coney Island by way of 1970s crime-ridden New York with The Warriors — the movie that dares to ask:
What if Gangs of New York got mashed with 300 and hosted by Carmen Sandiego in a radio booth somewhere in the Bronx?

Your two favorite subway-surviving, vest-wearing street toughs break down:

  • The Movie Marriage: Gangs of New York × 300 × Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? (but with more face paint and fewer consequences).

  • Cyrus’ Midnight TED Talk: 100,000 gang members, one visionary speech, three bottles on Luther’s fingers, and one very poorly timed assassination.

  • The Warriors’ Odyssey: From Cony Island to the Bronx and back again, with nine dudes who look 28 playing “teen gang members” like it’s a union job.

  • The Orphans: New York’s saddest gang, armed with matching dirty T-shirts, crippling insecurity, and zero directory listing on the Gang Yelp page.

  • Mercy: Agent of chaos, agent of thirst, and the only character who knows how to weaponize boredom.

  • The Baseball Furies: The most terrifying mash-up of KISS + MLB you’ll ever see.

  • The Lizzies: Part flirtation, part honey trap, all Stormtrooper aim.

  • The Punks: Grown men in overalls on roller skates, ready to fight in a bathroom like it’s the world’s worst Stanley Cup brawl.

  • Fox vs. the Subway: A brief fight, a quick shove, and suddenly he’s paste. Rest in pieces.

  • Luther: The Joker before The Joker — whiny, chaotic, and very committed to the line “Waaaaarriors… come out to plaaaay…”

Final Verdict:

Oz — 9 Lizzies
Curtis — 60,000 Street Gang Members

Next week: Oz & Curtis wrap up War Month with WarGames — AI, nuclear launch codes, Matthew Broderick, and the only movie that taught a generation that sometimes the only winning move is… not to play.

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