{"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 226: The Running Man (2025)","slug":"ep-226-the-running-man-2025","published_at":"2026-06-15T17:39:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-movie-defenders-1124025/ep-226-the-running-man-2025","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-movie-defenders-1124025","url":"https://moviedefenders.libsyn.com/ep-226-the-running-man-2025","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/moviedefenders/RunningMan2025_Show_-_FINAL.mp3?dest-id=556233","summary":"It's time to take a run at the second bite at the apple for The Running Man! This time Edgar Wright takes his shot with a *very* book-accurate version of Stephen King's vision. Definitely different than the Arnold 1987 flick, but how does it work for us? Find out! Also we break down our top 5 reboots based on books, that got it better then 2nd time around. So grab your grenades, don't forget your fluffy kid socks, and drop your tapes in by midnight... it's time for The Running Man 2025 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 00:36:20 Top 5 Remakes Based on Books 01:02:45 Running Man Discussion Starts 01:24:49 Movie Begins 01:43:33 Killian Makes an Offer 01:53:58 The Show Begins 02:12:25 Ben Finds a Safe House 02:28:07 Ben Meets Elton 02:51:50 Ben a Hunter? 03:03:41 Ben Threatens to Crash 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 take a run at the second bite at the apple for The Running Man! This time Edgar Wright takes his shot with a *very* book-accurate version of…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":12554,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-movie-defenders-1124025/episodes/ep-226-the-running-man-2025/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-226-the-running-man-2025.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}