Aug 24, 2026 · 1 hr 9 min · 12 segments
Grab your suntan lotion and a high-powered rifle — Chopping It Up is going underground this week with a double dose of "something's eating people from below the ground." First: 1980's forgotten cult…
Michael SledHost
Jeannie SimoneHostBroke into the wrong goddamn restroom, didn't you, you bastard? We killed it! You got that? We killed that motherhopper! Come back!
Welcome back to the straw that stirs the drink among horror movie podcasts across the land.
That's right.
Chopping It Up is back once again with a scorcher pair of monster movies as we battle the heat.
during these dog days of August.
The crew is here, sans Joel, more on that later, and we are chopping at the bit to chop this one up.
This week we have a forgotten 1980 film called Blood Beach, starring John Saxon and Burt Young.
Saxon investigates some Santa Monica beach murders where victims were sucked under the sand itself, very much like the movie we're comparing it with, the vehicle that lifted a young Kevin Bacon to stardom, everyone's favorite Saturday afternoon cable TV movie, Tremors, from 1990.
Unfortunately, we do not have a full crew tonight as CIU's long-lost father and financier, Jazjid, is once again leaving us home alone as he goes out to carouse and party.
And Joel, whose children comprise at least half the population of Perfection, Nevada, is out hunting graboids and ass blasters to kill and eat and feed his family but enough about the poor unfortunate mr joel and on to the rich and prosperous chopping it up posse he's seen the ass end of more cattle than any man on the planet the intrepid field reporter and veteran co-host michael sled is with us tonight much to the delight of his sled heads out there She doesn't quite have legs that go all the way up, nor does she have blonde hair, but she did place second in Ocean City, Maryland's world-class breast championship competition in 1996.
Tonight, we are graced with the presence of an executive producer and co-host, Miss Jeannie Simone.
So load up on suntan lotion, get your swim trunks, grab your high-powered rifle of your choosing, because we're going underground worm hunting.
Now let's get to it.
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Broke into the wrong goddamn restroom, didn't you, you bastard? We killed it! You got that? We killed that motherhopper! Come back!
Welcome back to the straw that stirs the drink among horror movie podcasts across the land.
That's right.
Chopping It Up is back once again with a scorcher pair of monster movies as we battle the heat.
during these dog days of August.
The crew is here, sans Joel, more on that later, and we are chopping at the bit to chop this one up.
This week we have a forgotten 1980 film called Blood Beach, starring John Saxon and Burt Young.
Saxon investigates some Santa Monica beach murders where victims were sucked under the sand itself, very much like the movie we're comparing it with, the vehicle that lifted a young Kevin Bacon to stardom, everyone's favorite Saturday afternoon cable TV movie, Tremors, from 1990.
Unfortunately, we do not have a full crew tonight as CIU's long-lost father and financier, Jazjid, is once again leaving us home alone as he goes out to carouse and party.
And Joel, whose children comprise at least half the population of Perfection, Nevada, is out hunting graboids and ass blasters to kill and eat and feed his family but enough about the poor unfortunate mr joel and on to the rich and prosperous chopping it up posse he's seen the ass end of more cattle than any man on the planet the intrepid field reporter and veteran co-host michael sled is with us tonight much to the delight of his sled heads out there She doesn't quite have legs that go all the way up, nor does she have blonde hair, but she did place second in Ocean City, Maryland's world-class breast championship competition in 1996.
Tonight, we are graced with the presence of an executive producer and co-host, Miss Jeannie Simone.
So load up on suntan lotion, get your swim trunks, grab your high-powered rifle of your choosing, because we're going underground worm hunting.
Now let's get to it.
