The RZA is BACK! He breaks down the 10 movies that inspired him while making his latest flick, One Spoon of Chocolate — in theaters this Friday! As a bonus, he and host Josh Olson cook up the perfect double feature pairing for each movie.

Show Notes:

Movies Referenced In This Episode

One Spoon of Chocolate (2026)

Pulp Fiction (1994)

In the Heat of the Night (1967)

Waterloo (1970)

Yentil (1983)

The Cowboys (1970)

Walking Tall (1973)

Walking Tall Part 2 (1975)

A Real American Hero (1978)

Walking Tall (2003)

Billy Jack (1971)

Kansas City Confidential (1952)

Exit the Dragon, Enter the Tiger (1978)

The Clones of Bruce Lee (1980)

The Creeping Flesh (1973)

Black Samurai (1976)

The Man with the Iron Fists (2012)

The Spook Who Sat By The Door (1973)

Our Man Flint (1966)

Nothing But A Man (1964)

For A Few Dollars More (1966)

High Plains Drifter (1973)

The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)

Duck, You Sucker! (1971)

Take A Hard Ride (1975)

The Legend of N— Charlie (1972)

Boss (1974)

Bridges of Madison County (1995)

Every Which Way But Loose (1978)

Any Which Way You Can (1980)

Dirty Harry (1971) 

The Enforcer (1976)

Heartbreak Ridge (1986)

Where Eagles Dare (1976)

Moonraker (1971)

The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)

Kelly’s Heroes (1970)

Christine (1983)

Killdozer (1974)

The Car (1977)

Enter the Dragon (1973)

The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (1978)

Game of Death (1978) 

Fury of the Dragon (1976)

Dr. Butcher Medical Deviant (1980)

Motel Hell (1980)

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)

Halloween (1978)

Friday the 13th (1980)

The Evil Dead (1981/83)

The Thing (1982)

A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: The Dream Warriors (1987)

Mother’s Day (1980)

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)

Hellraiser (1987)

Hellraiser II (1988)

Night of the Living Dead (1968)

Dawn of the Dead (1978)

Dawn of the Dead (1985)

Jeepers Creepers (2001)

Longlegs (2024)

Mandy (2018)

Abby (1974)

The Exorcist (1973)

First Blood (1982)

Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985)

Life Gamble (1979)

Ten Tigers from Kwangtung (1980)

The Five Deadly Venoms (1978)

Crippled Avengers a.k.a. Mortal Combat (1977)

The Soul of N— Charley (1973)

White Lightning (1973)

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)

Normal (2026)

Convoy (1978)

Eden (2025)

Hillbilly Elegy (2020)

The Lost Boys (1987)

Near Dark (1987)

Other Notable Items

Our Patreon! 

The Hollywood Food Coalition

Quentin Tarantino

“Rapture” song by Blondie (1981)

Some Girls album by The Rolling Stones (1978)

Mick Jagger

Keith Richards

“Miss You” song by The Rolling Stones (1978)

“Honky Tonk Women” song by The Rolling Stones (1969)

Billy Squier

“King Tim III” song by Fatback Band (1979)

“Rapper’s Delight” song by the Sugarhill Gang (1979)

Our Walton Goggins podcast episode

Rod Steiger

Martin Luther King Jr.

Josh’s Bronzeville podcast (2017-21)

Laurence Fishburne

Larenz Tate

Christopher Plummer

Orange is the New Black TV series (2013-19)

Michael Harney

The Wu-Tang Clan

Bruce Dern

The Smokehouse in Burbank

Roscoe Lee Browne

Shameik Moore

Harry Goodwins

James Lee Thomas

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson

Phil Karlson

Walking Tall TV series (1981)

Buford Pusser 

Tom Laughlin

Bruce Lee

Bruce Li 

Our David Gregory podcast episode

Peter Cushing

Jim Kelly

Ivan Dixon 

Hogan’s Heroes TV series (1965-71)

Bob Crane

Law and Order TV series (1990-2020, 2022- )

The Mary Tyler Moore Show TV series (1970-77)

Mary Tyler Moore

Dick Van Dyke

Lou Grant TV series (1977-82)

I Spy TV series (1965-68)

The Man From U.N.C.L.E. TV series (1964-68)

The Dick Van Dyke Show TV series (1961-66)

That’s My Mama TV series (1974-75)

Clifford Davis

Good Times TV series (1974-79)

Hill Street Blues TV series (1981-87)

Dennis Franz

Clint Eastwood

Spaghetti westerns

Sergio Leone

Sly Stone

Jim Brown 

Lee Van Cleef

Fred Williamson

The Milgram Theatre in Philadelphia

Richard Burton

Marlon Brando

Don Rickles

Donald Sutherland

Stephen King

James Brolin

Clint Walker

John Saxon

Lalo Schifrin

Angela Mao 

Bolo Yeung 

Jackie Chan

Sammo Hung

RZA/Wu-Tang’s Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) album (1993)

Rudolph Valentino 

Charlie Chaplin

Tekken video game franchise (1994- )

Street Fighter video game franchise (1987- )

Fist of the North Star franchise (1983- )

The Green Hornet TV series (1966-67)

Sonny Chiba

Vidiots

Venom Mob 

Shaw Brothers Studio

Alexander Fu Sheng

Philip Kwok

Burt Reynolds

Joseph Sargent

Bob Odenkirk

Walter Matthau

Beyond Fest

Howard Hawks

Ron Howard

Cary Grant

Tom Hanks

Bill Paxton

Lance Henriksen

Kathryn Bigelow

Check out RZA's first The Movies That Made Me appearance ⁠here⁠.

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