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Send us a Text Message.In this week's episode we celebrate Canada's Day by offering up some suggestions of some all Canadian things to watch, things to read, things to listen to, things to play and things to eat. Enjoy and Happy Canada Day!!

Send us a Text Message.This episode we discuss some new news, recast a classic 80's movie, review a few things, and rank all the men who've donned the cape and cowl. Enjoy.

Send us a Text Message.With just a month to go before they hit the stage here in Ottawa, the lovely lads from Cevilain jump on the podcastr for a lengthy chat about everything going on with the themselves and the band.  We laugh, we cry, we laugh again.  Joining me and the boys on this rollercoaster ride is the always wonderful Kat, making her second appearance in the poscast in as many episodes. Enjoy, and pledge yourself.

Send us a Text Message.With a new series of Doctor Who out there in the universe, and with a new Doctor at the helm of said series, our resident Doctor Who expert, Karen, takes a look back at all the Doctors who have come before and ranks them all.  Who is Karen's favourite Doctor?  Listen to find out, Agree or don't agree with Karen's rankings?  Let us know.Enjoy!!

Send us a Text Message.A new episode, a new guest host.  A new friend and guest host joins me on this episode, as me and said friend took in a few events in the last little bit and decided we should have ourselves a conversation about it,. So after we play a few games to let all of you get to know Kat, we settle in and reminisce about our nights at The SAW Gallery, where we had the pleasure of taking in a plethora of live music.We  also travelled to a galaxy far, far away for a night of sexy Star Wars parody, as we sat front and center at the Kailash Mital Theatre for The Empire Strips Back, a Star Wars themed burlesque show.   Did we enjoy the show?  Listen to find out, Enjoy.

Send us a Text Message.In this week’s episode one half of us comes to you live from inside The Womb, a new and unique music and community venue here in Ottawa. We sit down with Sarah and talk about why and how The Womb came to be and all the ideas she has to expand it and what the future holds for her and The Womb. We have a great talk, she feeds me banana bread and a small child makes a few appearances. Enjoy.

Send us a Text Message.With The Bloodbash only a few days, we jumped online with the five bands who will be entertaining the masses over two nights.  Here are all the things that were said,  The Bloodbash is a two night music fest put together by ourselves and Resist The Throne in support of and raising money for The Canadian Blood Services.  The boys from Resist the Throne will be joined on stage by Complicit, The Scarecrowz, Ultimus, and Wyntr.  This is us talking to each of those amazing bands. Enjoy

Send us a Text Message.It's the start of a new season.  And season 5 of the podcast is a bit of a special one as it is also the 25th anniversary of when we met and subsequently dated and pretty much the reason this podcast exists. So we start things pff this year letting you know what to expect from this season and how the 1999 will be integral and a big part of this season. We then continue with our trend of starting each season off with out anti-Valentines Day narrative and we go back to 1999 to talk about and review the first movie we ever to see togther, Cruel Intentions.  Does it stand up 25 years later?  Give a listen to find out. We finish things off by finding out how well we know each other after 25 years.  We'll give you  a hint, not well. Well back to 1999.

Send us a Text Message.In this extra special episode of the podcast, we got the chance to interview the charismatic and charming Charlie Kerr, lead singer of Hotel Mira, who are currently in the last legs of a cross-Canada tour in support of their new album, “I Am Not Myself”.  A tour that finishes up right here in Ottawa at The SAW Gallery on Feb 18th. We talk to Charlie about some highlights and awesome moments from the tour, the new album, with its wonderful blend of catchy beats and introspective lyrics, and the connection people make through music and other mediums.  We even take some time to delve into some pop culture shenanigans with Charlie talking about unapologetic love of cinema and other arts, the nonsense of toxic fandom, and he takes us behind the scenes on a few of the tv sets he’s had the pleasure of working on.

Send us a Text Message.It's a news heavy episode as we start things off catching up on all the things we've missed the last few weeks.  We finish things off talking about the interesting story behind the 1984 martial arts flick, New York Ninja,

Send us a Text Message.Grab yourself a coffee, sit back, relax and enjoy the experience as we talk to one half of Double Experience,  They are a band, they are Twitch streamers, they are self-professed nerds. Brock sits down with us to talk about the band, their streaming channel, the writing and recording process and some u[coming live events that you'll want to add to your calendar,  We also find out what "Nerd Rock" is  Stick around at the end of the episode to hear their hit song, Bill Murray, Enjoy,

Send us a Text Message.When a Friday the 13th just happens to fall in October, there is only one thing to do. Dedicate an entire episode to talking about Friday the 13th franchise. 12 movies.  29 years.  198 kills.  The creation of numerous horror movie rules and tropes.  2 horror movie fans bantering on about it for around an hour,

Send us a Text Message.It’s an all Canadian episode this week on the podcast as we get ready to celebrate Canada Day. Not only are we shining a spotlight on the day, but also on the month as we talk about some Canadian films focused on Queer and Trans stories that were recommended by Can Film Day. C.R.A.Z.Y. Can be streamed on Apple TVBreakfast with Scot can be streamed on CBC GemsDawn, Her Dad and the Tractor can be streamed on Crave. If sitting out in the sunshine and flipping through the pages of a good book is more your speed, we talk about ‘Pageboy’, the memoir from @elliotpage, and ‘The 38 Impossible Loves of Naoko Nishizawa’ by @monnamcdiarmidwrites , two fantastic books by Canadian authors. Check out Monna McDiarmid here —> https://monnamcdiarmid.comAnd what are outdoor festivities with out music?  This week we take a listen to and talk about @tamingsariband’s amazing sophomore album, ‘My Heart, My Love’. Give it a listen wherever you gets your music. We then play a Canadian version of stuck on a deserted island, picking one movie, one tv series, one album and one book that we would take with us to keep us entertained if we were stranded and alone. We end the episode with a wonderful chat with @thespacebetweenofficial, a stellar hard rock three piece from Ottawa, coming in fresh off the release of the first EP, that EP’s release party and a nomination for best Newcomers of the Year at this years Capital Music Awards. Stick around at the end of the episode to hear their song 'Time', off their new album. Enjoy!!

Send us a Text Message.On this week's episode we celebrate National Indigenous Peoples Day by talking about some indigenous artists, musicians, movies and events that you can enjoy from all across Canada, and right here in our home town of Ottawa.   Enjoy!!

Send us a Text Message.In this all new episode, we show off our fondness for Jurassic Park and give it some much deserved banter as it celebrates it's 30th anniversary,  We then go head to head and pick the flicks we will be putting up against each other in our Pop Cult Pick 'em Draft.  The year, 2010, the genres, action, adventure, animated, drama and documentary.  Go on our socials and vote on which movie watchlist you prefer, We end the episode putting the spotlight on some creative forces in the LGTBQ2S+ community.  Enjoy!!

Send us a Text Message.We have a new episode for you!It's a simple but fun episode.  We talk about our love for Ted Lasso before making our way Across The Spider-Verse.  We then give mention to Art by Veya and Alanna Sterling, two artists/creators that we have a fondness for and felt like sharing with our listeners and followers.We finish things off with the introduction of a fun new game, a game we have borrowed from The Big Picture podcast (check them out), where we take a specific year and five genres of film and we both create our own binge-worthy movie watchlist that you then get to vote on. Enjoy!!

Send us a Text Message.With the release of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 capping off one of the greatest of all trilogies of all time we decided to have a talk about the best of the best in the world of movie threesomes.  Also coming out the Guardians of the Galaxy Vol3 was The High Evolutionary, one of the better villains to grace a Marvel movie, so we turn or attention and the conversation to some of the better villains of the MCU.  We end our episode talking with one of our favourite folk, Alexandre from Sunday Riot Club.  We talk about all the what's happening with the band.Enjoy.

Send us a Text Message.On this week's episode we take a look at some of the headlines from around the interwebs. Writers are on strike, sequels are in the works, folk are following Gunn from Marvel to DC, Pedro continues to be everywhere, and Carrie Fisher goes from being among the stars to having one of her own on the walk of fame. Following that we review Dredge, a horror inspired, narrative driven, resource gathering fishing game.  Sisu, a stylish Finnish action romp, and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3, possibly the best Marvel movie to date. We end this week's episode having a nice little chat with The False Peak, an alt rock three-piece out of the UK,  Enjoy.

Send us a Text Message.As we've gone for a couple of weeks, it's a news heavy episode of the podcast.  We discuss all the bits and bobs of news we've come across on the interwebs.  We then review the 3rd season of The Mandalorian and Guy Ritchie's Operation Fortune. We end things off with a lovey little talk with Mike and Jasmine from Canadian alt rock band Polarity. Our interview with Polarity starts around 1:02 mark. Check out Polarity at https://polaritymusic.com/Find them on IG at @PolarityMusicFolow us on our FB, IG and Twitter at @popcultexp

Send us a Text Message.We celebrated our 100th episode by taking a look back at the ups and downs, highs and lows, bestest and worstest moments from the previous 99 episodes.  We talk about how doing the podcast has changed us, the way it has changed the who, what, where, why and how we consume our pop culture, the way it is has made us break from our norm, pushing us outside our comfort zones in a way, and challenged us.  We wax poetically about being able to use our tiny, tiny bit of celebrity (haha) to fundraise, get involved with and raise some money for some charities that are near and dear to us. And we reminisce about one of the best parts of it all, the new friends we've met along way.  From the fine, fine folk we've had come on the cast to talk with us, to our listeners who we have had the pleasure of interacting with. So, as it would only be fitting to do on our 100th episode, we add another friend to that list as we welcome guitarist, musician, singer, songwriter, twitch streamer, independent music maker Luke Paluch of L.J.P music to the podcast.  It's a small world as you'll soon find out. You can find on IG at @l.j.p_music On Twitch at https://twitch.tv/ljpmusicOn Spotify at https://spotify.link/J4uyZF3r4ybOn YouTube at https://youtube.com/@L.J.P