My First Time - Pop Culture Podcast

Arnold Schwarzenegger is having a hard time on Christmas Eve, and most the the panel are having a hard time watching him - except Eden.

Oh hi Mark - it's the worst movie of all time! Opinions are strongly divided as to the merit of the Tommy Wiseau master/disaster piece.

We flashback to 1982 and check out the gnarliest Vietnam Vet there ever was - John Rambo

We get physical - physical! - with a gruelling sweaty session of Hot Pilates! We sweat, we struggle, we swear it's much hard than it sounds.

We take a break from pop culture catch up, and explore some of the pressing issues in film, TV and music

*sound issue fixed* We get down, dirty and slightly incest-y with teen 90s drama Cruel Intentions.

Is Blade Runner a sci-fi masterpiece or a dull, dragging movie where Harrison Ford is actually the villain?

Comedian James McCann joins the panel as we go on an epic run with Forrest. We tackle the hard hitting Gump issues - did Jenny give Forrest HIV? Is Forrest Gump a sneakily conservative piece of political propaganda? And why did the author of Forrest Gump want John Goodman instead of Tom Hanks? Also James sells the panel on NZ band Ha the Unclear.

Creep down the hallways of Stanley Kubrick's horror / thriller masterpiece The Shining. In this episode: what the Shining has to do with moon landing conspiracies, the horror of the patriarchy, what guest panellist Kerry Hawke's husband likes to do with his finger, kids in horror and more!

Irish music superstar Enya is sailing away with actor Sam Griffin's will to live, as Sam and the MFT panel dive into Enya's hugely successful sophomore album, Watermark. In this episode: What links Jean-Claude Van Damme and Enya? How many cats does a lady need to be a crazy cat lady? How does Bono/U2 dodge the Irish taxman and why is Eden so obsessed with Loreena McKennitt?