Summary: "Jessica, only child, Illinois Chicago." This week producer Andrea Gin steps in behind the microphone to help Lisa try and process all our thoughts about the Oscar-winning film Parasite. Also discussed: bomb shelters, Spinning Out, and the history of Super Bowl halftime shows.     Show notes:   Shakira & J. Lo's FULL Pepsi Super Bowl LIV Halftime Show (YouTube)   Prince Performs “Purple Rain” During Downpour | Super Bowl XLI Halftime Show | NFL (YouTube)   Bong Joon Ho on Why He Wanted Parasite to End With a ‘Surefire Kill’ (Vulture)   Bong Joon-ho’s Dystopia Is Already Here (Vulture)  

Recommendations: Andrea G.: Spinning Out (Netflix) Lisa: Truth and Lies: Jeffrey Epstein (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

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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 and recorded at the Vancouver Public Library's wonderful Inspiration Lab.

 

Summary: "Congratulations to those men." This week resident film critic Dorothy Woodend joins us for our annual Oscars preview to give us her picks and pans for the big night. Also discussed: The Mighty Boosh, Duke Ellington, and Lisa's philosophy on life.     Show notes:   "Tasty Soup Song" by The Mighty Boosh   Did Ozzy Osbourne on FIRE get his assistant sacked?! | Would I Lie To You - BBC (YouTube)   Dorothy Woodend at the Tyee   Dorothy Woodend on Twitter   Oscar Nominations 2020: The Complete List (Variety)    

Recommendations: Lisa:  the music of Duke Ellington Dorothy:  Sex Education (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 and recorded at the Vancouver Public Library's wonderful Inspiration Lab.

 

Summary:

“Grab hold of the one life we are given.” This week Pop This! producer Andrea Gin gets in front of the mic with Andrea and Lisa to talk about the 1994 coming-of-age dramedy Double Happiness. Also discussed: Cheer, Chinese astrology, and Brad and Jen.

  Show notes: Brad & Jen: the award season gossip orgasm (Lainey Gossip)   Who? Weekly Podcast   Twitter Is Losing Its Mind Over These Pictures Of Brad Pitt Looking Like His Girlfriends (Huffington Post)   List of Jennifer Aniston performances (Wikipedia)   Before Brangelina and Jen, Debbie Reynolds Was in the World’s Most Famous Love Triangle (Vogue)   Watch Double Happiness   Chinese horoscope 2020  

Recommendations: Andrea W.: Pain and Glory (movie) 

Lisa: Ten Percent Happier with Dan Harris (podcast)  Andrea G.: Cheer (Netflix) Music credits:

"Back to the '90s" by Douglas Mulvey AKA D-Rex 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 and recorded at the Vancouver Public Library's wonderful Inspiration Lab.

 

Summary: "Rey, never be afraid of who you are." This week, Andrea helps mega Star Wars fan Lisa talk through her many feelings about the latest installment of the franchise, the Rise of Skywalker. Also discussed: Nailed It!, Kids in the Hall and Harvey Weinstein.      Show notes:   Who Would Defend Harvey Weinstein? (Vanity Fair)   Sam Nock on Weinstein (Twitter) I confronted Harvey Weinstein last week. It wasn't the first time (the Guardian)   Why It's Problematic That Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Retcons the Plot of The Last Jedi (Time)   Parasite trailer   ‘Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker’ – We Need to Talk About This Rose Tico Situation (the Wrap)   The “Star Wars” Misinformation Hell Is The New Future Of Everything (BuzzFeed)   100 Burning Questions We Have After STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER (Nerdist)    

Recommendations: Andrea W.: Nailed It! Holiday! (Netflix) Lisa:  Severance by Ling Ma (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 and recorded at the Vancouver Public Library's wonderful Inspiration Lab.

 

Summary:   "Have you gone mad, my husband?" We talk about the term 'gaslighting' a lot on our podcast and this week we finally watch the film from which the term originated, the 1944 thriller Gaslight. Also discussed: Schitt's Creek, desert island brow maintenance and the lotion revolution in Kleenex.     Show notes:   Gaslight (1944) trailer   Revisiting ‘Gaslight,’ the Movie (The Ringer)   Here's where 'gaslighting' got its name (PRI)  

Recommendations: Andrea W.:  Schitt's Creek (Netflix) Lisa:  You, Season 2 (Netflix)   Music credits:

"Ghost" 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 and recorded at the Vancouver Public Library's wonderful Inspiration Lab.

 

Summary: "I don't mind being alone. I just don't want to be insignificant." This week we have writer and performer Morgan Brayton on the podcast to discuss the early feminist fantasy show The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. Also discussed: New Year's resolutions, The Allusionist and The Lady Show.     Show notes:   Morgan Brayton   Morgan Brayton on Twitter   The Lady Show   Pioneering comic Jean Carroll (YouTube)   Lenny Bruce: All Alone (YouTube)   Shtick, stereotypes, and self-parody: How ‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ gets Jewish culture wrong (LA Times)    

Recommendations: Andrea W.:  The Allusionist: Live on the Road (podcast) Lisa: Catch and Kill with Ronan Farrow (podcast) 

Morgan:  I Saw Three Ships by Bill Richardson (book)   Music credits:

"Nouvelle Noel" by Kevin MacLeod Music from https://filmmusic.io CC BY 4.0

"Ghost" 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 and recorded at the Vancouver Public Library's wonderful Inspiration Lab.

 

Summary:    "You're supposed to be the leading lady of your own life, for god's sake!" This week, comedian, writer and actual twin Kerri Donaldson brings a fresh voice to year 5 of Andrea and Lisa arguing about The Holiday and incredibly, we have a bit of a breakthrough. Also discussed: the Promising Young Woman trailer, Lost Notes podcast, and Kumail Nanjiani getting ripped. Show notes:   Kerri Donaldson on Instagram   Kerri's comedy duo Brunch Comedy   Kerri's podcast Nasty Women Comedy   Pop This! Love Actually vs. The Holiday 1 Pop This! Love Actually vs. The Holiday 2   Pop This! Love Actually vs. The Holiday 3   Pop This! Love Actually vs. The Holiday 4   Pop This! Love Actually Live at the Rio Theatre!   Jack Black forgot he was in a holiday movie for a second there (Variety)  

Recommendations: Andrea W.:  You're Wrong About - The OJ Simpson Trial (podcast)

Lisa: Lost Notes with Jessica Hopper (KCRW podcast) Kerri: Norman F***ing Rockwell by Lana Del Ray,  I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson (Netflix)   Music credits:

"Nouvelle Noel" by Kevin MacLeod Music from https://filmmusic.io CC BY 4.0

"Ghost" 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 and recorded at the Vancouver Public Library's wonderful Inspiration Lab.

 

Summary:    This week, we bring you a very special holiday edition of Pop This! - our annual argument about whether Love Actually is the best or worst Christmas movie of all time! We recorded this show live from the legendary Rio Theatre in Vancouver and it features very special guests Alicia Tobin and Rachel Fox.      Show notes:   Episode 5: Love Actually vs. The Holiday 1   Episode 59: Love Actually vs. the Holiday, Round 2 Episode 109: Love Actually vs. the Holiday, Round 3 Episode 163: Love Actually vs. The Holiday 4

 

Music credits:

"Nouvelle Noel" by Kevin MacLeod Music from https://filmmusic.io CC BY 4.0

Theme song "Pyro Flow" by Kevin Macleod From Incompetch CC BY 3.0  

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 and recorded at the Vancouver Public Library's wonderful Inspiration Lab.

 

Summary:    "Based on a song of the same name." This week, in spite of our many misgivings, we embrace the spirit of the holidays and dive headfirst into the incredibly literal Yuletide romance Last Christmas.  Show notes:   Wham! - "Last Christmas"   Last Christmas trailer   Was That Last Christmas Ghost Theory Right? (Refinery29)   Is ‘Last Christmas’ a terrible rom-com or a terrible Christmas movie? Spoiler alert: It’s both. (Washington Post)  

Recommendations: Andrea W.:  How To Write and Autobiographical Novel by Alexander Chee (book) Lisa:  Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Season 4 (TV)   Music credits:

"Nouvelle Noel" by Kevin MacLeod Music from https://filmmusic.io CC BY 4.0

"Ghost" 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 and recorded at the Vancouver Public Library's wonderful Inspiration Lab.

 

Summary:    "I only see myself." Film programmer, writer and musician Selina Crammond joins us to talk about French New Wave visionary Agnes Varda and her brilliant film Cléo from 5 to 7. Also discussed: Cindy Sherman, Alanis Obomsawin and Jagged Little Pill on Broadway.     Show notes:   Viva Varda! The Films of Agnès Varda at the Cinemathque in Vancouver starting Dec. 12   Selina Crammond on Twitter   Cléo from 5 to 7 / Cléo de 5 à 7 trailer   How Cleo from 5 to 7 portrays a city under the female gaze (Little White Lies)   Where to begin with Agnès Varda (BFI)     Love Actually x Pop This! Podcast live at the Rio! Come see us do a live taping where we debate whether Love Actually is the best or worst Christmas movie of all time with special guests Alicia Tobin and Rachel Fox! Sunday, December 15 Doors 6:00 pm Pop This! Live Podcast Taping 6:30 pm Love Actually 7:45 pm BUY TICKETS HERE

Recommendations: Andrea W.: Jagged Little Pill on Broadway Lisa:  Cindy Sherman at the Vancouver Art Gallery Selina: Bush Lady by Alanis Obomsawin (music)

Music credits:

"Deviate" by Podington Bear

"Ghost" 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 and recorded at the Vancouver Public Library's wonderful Inspiration Lab.