The Pop Cult Experience
A tale as old as time itself. The classic story of boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy and girl start a pop culture podcast together 20 some odd years later. Welcome to the Pop Cult Ex-perience brought to you by Karen Giffin and Tyler Smith. Two former flames, once inseparable, now find themselves separated by 6000 miles and a couple of decades. Still friends, with a similar love for all things pop culture and a similar want to share our love of these things with y'all. We talk movies, TV, gaming, comics, books, music and any other manner of things that we fancy. Join us for our weekly podcasts to hear about news, musings, commentary, reviews and upcoming fun things in the world of entertainment. We will also be doing bonus episodes with themed content and the occasional live stream for extra fun. Follow us on Twitter (@PopCultExP) and Instagram (@popcultexp) We want to hear your thoughts and ideas too. Feel free to comment on posts or DM us any time.
Episodes
In this episode of The Pop Cult Experience, we are "Defying Gravity" and "Dancing Through Life" as we talk about the super "Popular" Wicked and Wicked: For Good.
After getting a little Wicked, we turn our attention to some sinning, as the boys from Cevilian join on the podcast to discuss their new album, upcoming shows and what's on the horizon.
Stick around at the end of the episode...
In this episode, I am joined once again by my best friend, Sara to discuss a variety of topics including, the potential decline of Funko Pops, upcoming movie releases like Kill Bill, Gremlins, Zelda, Miss Piggy and The Mummy. Netflix bringing us a Clue and Overcooked competition series. We also talk about the live action Tangled, the fatigue surrounding Disney's live action adaptations, and everything Settlers o...
In this episode we celebrate the life and legacy of Canadian legend, John Candy.
In this episode of the Pop Cult Experience, we cross the streams as Dana, from The Mixed Tag Podcast joins us to explore the intersection of wrestling and pop culture. We discuss the transition from wrestling into acting, including the careers of The Rock, John Cena, and Dave Bautista, and the current lack opportunities for female wrestlers in Hollywood. We delve into our favourite wrestling movies, wrestlers turned a...
In this all new episode of The Pop Cult Experience, Karen and myself are joined once again by the lovely Sara and we discuss some bits of news, we review the new Fantastic Four flick, we discuss some of our comfort films and shows that we go back to whenever we need something to easy our brains and we talk about being part of the Gen-X crowd and how we are getting up there in age and that we should expect to start los...
In this episode of the Pop Cult Experience, I welcome my new best friend Sara to the podcast to discuss various pop culture topics. We start by getting to know Sara before diving into the latest entertainment news.
We played a game of Simon Says, with Sara forcing me to watch the romantic comedy 'What's Your Number?' and me making her watch the podcasts favourite flick, 'True Romance.'
We then...
Summary
In this weeks episode of the podcast we share our recent experiences, including a captivating concert by Cyndi Lauper and a theatre performance of Much Ado About Nothing in London. We discuss the potential Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot, as well as the return of Scrubs and Ted Lasso. We shift the conversation to our recent reading habits, before introducing a new segment where we explore where F-bomb...
In our return for a new season, we chat about and recommend some breakup movies in honor of Valentine's Day (and also the 25th anniversary of our own breakup). We discuss a variety of films, from classics like 'Chasing Amy' and 'High Fidelity' to modern takes like '500 Days of Summer' and 'Birds of Prey.' The conversation explores the emotional depth of these films, the com...
In today's episode, we explore the harmonica's important role in 90's alternative rock and the need for more of it in modern music. We discuss the impact of horror in literature and film, our appreciation of the genre, and the challenges of adapting the works of Stephen King into film. We then give a mostly positive review of the film 'Long Legs,' analyzing its atmosphere, character developme...
We start this weeks episode by diving into the live music scene as one of took in some live music over the weekend. We then confess our music crushes over the years, reflect on reality TV and music competitions, and share their ideal casting choices for films. The conversation culminates in a spoiler-filled review of the movie 'Strange Darling', where we discuss its themes, storytelling techniques, and chara...
In this all new episode of the Pop Cult Experience podcast, we, and a special guest fill out our respective movie line-ups in the Movie Draft. We had to select films from various genres including thrillers, romance, crime, fantasy, and musicals from the year 1994. We each presents our picks, discusses our choices, and debates the merits of each film. The episode concludes with a call to action for you, our lovely list...
In this week's all new episode, we have friend of the pod Erin on the cast as she has some questions she wanted to ask our opinion on. We talk about life imitating art, censorship, streaming vs theatrical releases and more. We review Beetlejuice Beetlejuice and we finish things off by picking the year and genres of the film draft.
Enjoy.
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!!
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.
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.
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!!
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.
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.
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, Ult...
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 se...
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