The Pop Cult EX-perience
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 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, Ultimus, and Wynt...
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 ...
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 wo...
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,
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
S...
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,
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 TV
Breakfast with Scot can be streamed on CBC Gems
Dawn, Her Dad and the Tractor can be streamed on ...
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!!
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 en...
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 Pic...
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 ou...
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 s...
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. ...
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 be...
We are back after a short hiatus, and that means we had a bunch of things to talk about. We discuss all the new news we came across on the interwebs, recap how we did on our Oscar prediction, and give you our thoughts on season 1 of The Last of Us.
We get back to business as usual, talking about all the interesting tidbits we have found on the interwebs. Teenage Mutant Street Fighters, Bruce, Bacon and Biker Mice. More live action remakes are headed our way, someone still knows what we did last summer and Spidey goes dark in the 1930s.
We end things by reviewing the first half season of The Last Of Us and Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania.
WE ARE BACK!!
And we are starting off the new season, that same wawat we start off each and every season. Bringing you the unconventionally romantic movies, shows and games you can watch and play with the special someone.
Enjoy!
For those good folk who couldn't make it to our 2022 Year in Review, here is the replay of it for your listening pleasure.
Tis the holiday season, tis also the 65th anniversary of the original telling of Dr. Seuss' How The Grinch Stole Christmas. To celebrate both those thing we will be talking all things grinchy.. Exploring, analyzing and discussing the book, as well as the three movie adaptations. We talk about and compare the 1966 animated tv movie, the 2000 live action adaptation and the 2018 computer animated version.
Which is y...
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