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Summary: "My tranquility needs to be refurbished." This week we re-live Lisa's chess days and talk about enthralling drama The Queen's Gambit. Also discussed: the music of Molly Annelle, Emily in Paris, and our love of Northern Exposure. Show notes: "Emily in Paris" and the Rise of Ambient TV (New Yorker) The Man Who Brought 'The Queen's Gambit' to Life (The Ringer)

Recommendations: Andrea W.: Molly Annelle (music)Andrea G.: Brooklyn Musuem's virtual exhibit of costumes from The Queen's Gambit and The Crown (website)

Lisa: The South Westerlies (TV)

Music credits:

"Ghost" by Podington Bear Sound of Picture "Good Times" by Podington Bear From Free Music Archive CC BY 3.0 Theme song "Pyro Flow" by Kevin Macleod From Incompetch CC BY 3.0 Intro bed:"OLPC" by Marco Raaphorst Courtesy of Free Music Archive CC BY-SA 3.0 NL

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Pop This! is two women talking about pop culture.

Lisa Christiansen is a broadcaster, journalist and longtime metal head. Andrea Warner is a music critic, author and former horoscopes columnist.

Press play and come hang out with your two new best friends.

Pop This! podcast is produced by Andrea Gin.

This episode was generously supported by TELUS STORYHIVE's inaugural Podcast Edition. They're looking for original, non-fiction podcast concept pitches from BC and Alberta residents. Apply before December 2nd at STORYHIVE.com and you could get $10,000 to get your podcast off the ground!

Summary: "Mr. Noir-vember." This week our guest is Noir-vember's Very Own: Don English. He joins us to talk about Lured, the 1947 film noir starring Lucille Ball. Also discussed: fashion shows for pets, fetish foot modelling, and Lisa's grandmother's life as a dancer in 1930's London. Show notes: Pop This! EP 206: Leave Her to Heaven with Don English Lisa's grandmother modeling in England (Instagram) Watch Lured on YouTube

Recommendations: Andrea W.: Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice (book) Andrea G.: Let's Eat (Netflix)

Lisa: The Snowball by Alice Schroeder (book) Don: No Room at the Morgue by Jean-Patrick Manchette (book)

Music credits:

"Ghost" by Podington Bear Sound of Picture "Good Times" by Podington Bear From Free Music Archive CC BY 3.0 Theme song "Pyro Flow" by Kevin Macleod From Incompetch CC BY 3.0 Intro bed:"OLPC" by Marco Raaphorst Courtesy of Free Music Archive CC BY-SA 3.0 NL

Pop This! Links: Pop This! on TumblrPop This! on iTunes (please consider reviewing and rating us!) Pop This! on Stitcher (please consider reviewing and rating us!) Pop This! on Google PlayPop This! on TuneIn radioPop This! on TwitterPop This! on Instagram

Logo design by Samantha Smith

Pop This! is two women talking about pop culture.

Lisa Christiansen is a broadcaster, journalist and longtime metal head. Andrea Warner is a music critic, author and former horoscopes columnist.

Press play and come hang out with your two new best friends.

Pop This! podcast is produced by Andrea Gin.

This episode was generously supported by TELUS STORYHIVE's inaugural Podcast Edition. They're looking for original, non-fiction podcast concept pitches from BC and Alberta residents. Apply before December 2nd at STORYHIVE.com and you could get $10,000 to get your podcast off the ground!

Summary: "It is a restless moment." This week we invite CBC Front Burner producer Elaine Chau on the podast to talk about one of her all-time favourite films, In the Mood For Love. Also discussed: train romances, the Queens's Gambit and Lisa's feelings about cake. Show notes: Cupcakes Were Never Over, Apparently (Food and Wine) Elaine Chau on Twitter Falling in Love trailer (Meryl Streep & Robert DeNiro fall in love on a train)

Recommendations: Andrea W.: My Blueberry Nights (movie)

Elaine & Andrea G.: Chunking Express (movie)

Lisa: Queen's Gambit (Netflix)

Music credits:

"Ghost" by Podington Bear Sound of Picture "Good Times" by Podington Bear From Free Music Archive CC BY 3.0 Theme song "Pyro Flow" by Kevin Macleod From Incompetch CC BY 3.0 Intro bed:"OLPC" by Marco Raaphorst Courtesy of Free Music Archive CC BY-SA 3.0 NL

Pop This! Links: Pop This! on TumblrPop This! on iTunes (please consider reviewing and rating us!) Pop This! on Stitcher (please consider reviewing and rating us!) Pop This! on Google PlayPop This! on TuneIn radioPop This! on TwitterPop This! on Instagram

Logo design by Samantha Smith

Pop This! is two women talking about pop culture.

Lisa Christiansen is a broadcaster, journalist and longtime metal head. Andrea Warner is a music critic, author and former horoscopes columnist.

Press play and come hang out with your two new best friends.

Pop This! podcast is produced by Andrea Gin.

This episode was generously supported by TELUS STORYHIVE's inaugural Podcast Edition. They're looking for original, non-fiction podcast concept pitches from BC and Alberta residents. Apply before December 2nd at STORYHIVE.com and you could get $10,000 to get your podcast off the ground!

Summary: "No, Rory. This great man was not brought down by my vagina." We are celebrating our 5th anniversary this week by going back to where it all began: re-watching Gilmore Girls. Also discussed: the Teaches of Peaches, the Home Cooking podcast and the impact the pandemic has on our sense of style. Show notes: Gilmore Girls Fandom Wiki Gilmore Girls' final words change everything we believe about Rory and Stars Hollow (Vox)

Recommendations: Andrea W.: The Teaches of Peaches by Peaches (music); interview with Peaches (CBC Music)

Andrea G.: Home Cooking (podcast)

Lisa: My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman (Netflix)

Music credits:

"Ghost" by Podington Bear Sound of Picture "Good Times" by Podington Bear From Free Music Archive CC BY 3.0 Theme song "Pyro Flow" by Kevin Macleod From Incompetch CC BY 3.0 Intro bed:"OLPC" by Marco Raaphorst Courtesy of Free Music Archive CC BY-SA 3.0 NL

Pop This! Links: Pop This! on TumblrPop This! on iTunes (please consider reviewing and rating us!) Pop This! on Stitcher (please consider reviewing and rating us!) Pop This! on Google PlayPop This! on TuneIn radioPop This! on TwitterPop This! on Instagram

Logo design by Samantha Smith

Pop This! is two women talking about pop culture.

Lisa Christiansen is a broadcaster, journalist and longtime metal head. Andrea Warner is a music critic, author and former horoscopes columnist.

Press play and come hang out with your two new best friends.

Pop This! podcast is produced by Andrea Gin.

This episode was generously supported by TELUS STORYHIVE's inaugural Podcast Edition. They're looking for original, non-fiction podcast concept pitches from BC and Alberta residents. Apply before December 2nd at STORYHIVE.com and you could get $10,000 to get your podcast off the ground.

Summary: "I find out he's just a man." For the last film of our Gothic Horror Month, we move away from horror and embrace a film classified as southern gothic supernatural: Eve's Bayou. Also discussed: MTV Cribs, the Who? Weekly podcast and Dolly Parton's new Netflix show. Show notes: Best of: MTV Cribs ft. Lil Wayne, 50 Cent & More! (YouTube) Who? Weekly (podcast) Step Inside Dakota Johnson's Midcentury-Modern Home (Architectural Digest) Deborah Cox - Nobody's Supposed To Be Here (Video Version) (YouTube)

Recommendations: Andrea W.: Ted Lasso (Apple+)

Andrea G.: Polaris Music Prize short list album tribute films (CBC Music)

Lisa: Dolly Parton, Here I Am (Netflix)

Music credits:

"Good Times" by Podington Bear From Free Music Archive CC BY 3.0 Theme song "Pyro Flow" by Kevin Macleod From Incompetch CC BY 3.0 Intro bed:"OLPC" by Marco Raaphorst Courtesy of Free Music Archive CC BY-SA 3.0 NL

Pop This! Links: Pop This! on TumblrPop This! on iTunes (please consider reviewing and rating us!) Pop This! on Stitcher (please consider reviewing and rating us!) Pop This! on Google PlayPop This! on TuneIn radioPop This! on TwitterPop This! on Instagram

Logo design by Samantha Smith

Pop This! is two women talking about pop culture.

Lisa Christiansen is a broadcaster, journalist and longtime metal head. Andrea Warner is a music critic, author and former horoscopes columnist.

Press play and come hang out with your two new best friends.

Pop This! podcast is produced by Andrea Gin.

Summary: This week we are thrilled to have the ever so funny Katie-Ellen Humphries as our guest to discuss her new comedy album Lady Finger as well as the incredibly terrible movie Interview with the Vampire. Also discussed: the torment of boils, Lisa's broken foot, and the various ways in which Brad Pitt eats food in movies. Show notes: Let the Right One In trailer (YouTube) Why Brad Pitt Is Always Eating In Movies (ScreenRant) Sunflower Hour trailer (YouTube)

Recommendations: Lady Finger, a new album from Katie-Ellen Humphries

Horny Off Main, a podcast hosted by Katie-Ellen Humphries and Amitai Marmorstein Music credits:

"Good Times" by Podington Bear From Free Music Archive CC BY 3.0 Theme song "Pyro Flow" by Kevin Macleod From Incompetch CC BY 3.0 Intro bed:"OLPC" by Marco Raaphorst Courtesy of Free Music Archive CC BY-SA 3.0 NL

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Logo design by Samantha Smith

Pop This! is two women talking about pop culture.

Lisa Christiansen is a broadcaster, journalist and longtime metal head. Andrea Warner is a music critic, author and former horoscopes columnist.

Press play and come hang out with your two new best friends.

Pop This! podcast is produced by Andrea Gin.

Summary: We're on to week two of Gothic Horror Month and realize that we are very done with brooding bad boy love interests. Not coindidentally, this week's movie is the 2011 adaptation of Jane Eyre, directed by Cary Fukunaga and starring Mia Wasikowska and Michael Fassbender. Show notes: An introduction to Wide Sargasso Sea (British Library) Why are there so many movie adaptations of Jane Eyre, and which one is best? (Slate)

Recommendations: Lisa: Call My Agent (Netflix) Andrea W.: Good Music To Avert the Collapse of American Democracy (Bandcamp)

Andrea G: Hindsight: Lawrence of Arabia: A liberator, spy or traitor? (podcast)

Music credits:

"Good Times" by Podington Bear From Free Music Archive CC BY 3.0 Theme song "Pyro Flow" by Kevin Macleod From Incompetch CC BY 3.0 Intro bed:"OLPC" by Marco Raaphorst Courtesy of Free Music Archive CC BY-SA 3.0 NL

Pop This! Links: Pop This! on TumblrPop This! on iTunes (please consider reviewing and rating us!) Pop This! on Stitcher (please consider reviewing and rating us!) Pop This! on Google PlayPop This! on TuneIn radioPop This! on TwitterPop This! on Instagram

Logo design by Samantha Smith

Pop This! is two women talking about pop culture.

Lisa Christiansen is a broadcaster, journalist and longtime metal head. Andrea Warner is a music critic, author and former horoscopes columnist.

Press play and come hang out with your two new best friends.

Pop This! podcast is produced by Andrea Gin.

Summary: This week we declare October Gothic Horror Month and kick it off by watching the 1940 adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's classic novel Rebecca. Also dicussed: Mrs. Danvers' pre-Manderley life, Kathie Lee Gifford's new rom-rom and OKAN's latest album Espiral. Show notes: Watch Rebecca (1940) on YouTube Smartless podcast featuring Jennifer Aniston Then Came You trailer Rebecca (2020) trailer

Recommendations: Lisa: Circe by Madeline Miller (book) Andrea W.: OKAN, Espiral (music)

Andrea G: The Body Remembers When The World Broke Open (film)

Music credits:

"Good Times" by Podington Bear From Free Music Archive CC BY 3.0 Theme song "Pyro Flow" by Kevin Macleod From Incompetch CC BY 3.0 Intro bed:"OLPC" by Marco Raaphorst Courtesy of Free Music Archive CC BY-SA 3.0 NL

Pop This! Links: Pop This! on TumblrPop This! on iTunes (please consider reviewing and rating us!) Pop This! on Stitcher (please consider reviewing and rating us!) Pop This! on Google PlayPop This! on TuneIn radioPop This! on TwitterPop This! on Instagram

Logo design by Samantha Smith

Pop This! is two women talking about pop culture.

Lisa Christiansen is a broadcaster, journalist and longtime metal head. Andrea Warner is a music critic, author and former horoscopes columnist.

Press play and come hang out with your two new best friends.

Pop This! podcast is produced by Andrea Gin.

Summary: "Sweatshirt season." This week we are forced to once again take stock of our feelings around rom-coms as we revisit the 2003 classic How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days. Also discussed: our favourite comfort clothes, the filmography of Matthew McConaughey and the music of Jeen. Show notes: Kate Hudson Thinks Andie in How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days Would Be "Married" and "Miserable" (Harper's Bazaar)

Recommendations: Lisa: Smartless (podcast) Andrea W.: Jeen (music)

Andrea G: Pachinko by Min Jin Lee (book)

Music credits:

"Good Times" by Podington Bear From Free Music Archive CC BY 3.0 Theme song "Pyro Flow" by Kevin Macleod From Incompetch CC BY 3.0 Intro bed:"OLPC" by Marco Raaphorst Courtesy of Free Music Archive CC BY-SA 3.0 NL

Pop This! Links: Pop This! on TumblrPop This! on iTunes (please consider reviewing and rating us!) Pop This! on Stitcher (please consider reviewing and rating us!) Pop This! on Google PlayPop This! on TuneIn radioPop This! on TwitterPop This! on Instagram

Logo design by Samantha Smith

Pop This! is two women talking about pop culture.

Lisa Christiansen is a broadcaster, journalist and longtime metal head. Andrea Warner is a music critic, author and former horoscopes columnist.

Press play and come hang out with your two new best friends.

Pop This! podcast is produced by Andrea Gin.

Summary: This week Pop This! revisits Miss Congeniality on its 20th anniversary. Also discussed: Golden Girls, the lyrics to "She's A Lady," and our feelings about beauty pageants. Show notes: Julia Roberts on Getty Images "She's A Lady" by Tom Jones lyrics Toddlers & Tiaras with Tom Hanks (Jimmy Kimmel Live/YouTube)

Recommendations: Lisa: Get Organized with The Home Edit (Netflix) Andrea W.: Golden Girls

Andrea G: Cobra Kai (Netflix)

Music credits:

"Good Times" by Podington Bear From Free Music Archive CC BY 3.0 Theme song "Pyro Flow" by Kevin Macleod From Incompetch CC BY 3.0 Intro bed:"OLPC" by Marco Raaphorst Courtesy of Free Music Archive CC BY-SA 3.0 NL

Pop This! Links: Pop This! on TumblrPop This! on iTunes (please consider reviewing and rating us!) Pop This! on Stitcher (please consider reviewing and rating us!) Pop This! on Google PlayPop This! on TuneIn radioPop This! on TwitterPop This! on Instagram

Logo design by Samantha Smith

Pop This! is two women talking about pop culture.

Lisa Christiansen is a broadcaster, journalist and longtime metal head. Andrea Warner is a music critic, author and former horoscopes columnist.

Press play and come hang out with your two new best friends.

Pop This! podcast is produced by Andrea Gin.

This episode was generously supported by TELUS STORYHIVE. Are you a resident of B.C. or Alberta who has a documentary idea and a dream? Find out more about how you can get your project funded through their Local Heroes Documentary Edition here.