{"podcast":{"title":"The Movie Defenders","slug":"the-movie-defenders-1124025","podcast_index_feed_id":1124025,"rss_url":"https://moviedefenders.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"http://www.moviedefenders.libsyn.com","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/a/1/c/2/a1c29401b747451dd959afa2a1bf1c87/MDLogo1-Square.png","author":"Scott Alden","episode_count":269,"summary":"The Movie Defenders is a podcast which discusses the positive aspects of popular movies. Most movie review podcasts spend the entire time tearing down the movies you love instead of celebrating them. We take popular movies that have been ridiculed by critics and defend them. Come listen to a fun discussion of the movies you love, or perhaps re-consider a movie again that you didn't like as much as you wish you did. If you like movies, you found the only podcast with movie reviews that loves them as much as you do!","last_synced_at":"2026-07-27T08:19:22.459143+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-movie-defenders-1124025"},"episode":{"title":"Ep 221: The Running Man (1987)","slug":"ep-221-the-running-man-1987","published_at":"2026-04-12T20:46:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-movie-defenders-1124025/ep-221-the-running-man-1987","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-movie-defenders-1124025","url":"https://moviedefenders.libsyn.com/ep-221-the-running-man-1987","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/moviedefenders/RunningMan87_Show_-_FINAL.mp3?dest-id=556233","summary":"It's time to begin our two-part episode examination of The Running Man from 1987's version to last year's with Edgar Wright. We head all the way back into Arnold Schwarzenegger's peak stardom and unpack this classic 1980s action-fest. Does it hold up? Is it super cheesy? Both? We'll find out! Also each host makes up his own Stalker if we were on the show! So keep an eye out for those satellites, remember your one-liners, and don't touch that dial... it's time for The Running Man 1987 on The Movie Defenders podcast! Click here to listen and connect anywhere: https://linktr.ee/moviedefenders 00:00:00 Intro and What We've Been Watching 00:27:23 The Hosts Make Their Stalkers 00:57:32 The Running Man Discussion Starts 01:28:55 The Real Story 01:40:01 Meet the Resistance 01:56:20 An Offer Ben Can't Refuse 02:13:11 Figuring Out the Satelites 02:24:00 Killian Offers a Deal 02:27:38 The Resistance Rescues Ben and Amber 02:35:01 Ben Gets Revenge Special thanks to our amazing Patreon supporters! Alex Kirkby Alexis Helman Barrett Young Bart German Brett Bowen Daryl Ewry Doug Robertson Ena Haynes Eric Blattberg Jason Chastain Josh Evans Joshua Loy Katherine Boulware Kevin Athey Mark Nattress Mark Martin Megan Bush Michal Kaczmarek Michael Puckett Nick Nagher Randal Silver Sean Masters Stephanie Ewry Tim TJ Walker Attack of the Killer Podcast","meta_description":"It's time to begin our two-part episode examination of The Running Man from 1987's version to last year's with Edgar Wright. We head all the way back into…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":10296,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-movie-defenders-1124025/episodes/ep-221-the-running-man-1987/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-movie-defenders-1124025/ep-221-the-running-man-1987.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}