Pop This!

Summary "I have adventured it and found nothing but sugar and violence." We continue working our way through the list of Oscar nominated films and watch Poor Things. Also discussed: For All Mankind, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, and the music of Allison Russell. Show notes: Is Poor Things the Best We Can Do for Female Sexuality Onscreen? (Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture)

Recommendations:

Lisa: Convienence Store Women by Sayaka Murata (book)

Andrea G.: True Detective, Season 4 (TV)

Andrea W.: Allison Russell (music)

Music credits

"Electrodoodle" by Kevin MacLeod From: incompetech.com Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License Theme song "Pyro Flow" by Kevin Macleod From: incompetech.com Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License "Good Times" by Podington Bear From: Free Music Archive Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License 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 Intro voiced by Morgan Brayton

Pop This! is a podcast featuring three 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. Andrea Gin is a producer and an avid figure skating fan.

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

Pop This! podcast is produced by Andrea Gin.

Summary "I can't trust someone if I can't put an animal's head on them." This week we are discussing the intriguing, haunting Anatomy of a Fall, and pondering its Oscar chances. Also discussed: low-brow chocolate, American Symphony, and Gracie's Gold's new memoir Outofshapeworthlessloser. Show notes:

Meet Messi: The Canine Breakout of 'Anatomy of a Fall' Who Trained for 2 Months for His Star-Making Scene (Indiewire)

Recommendations:

Lisa: American Symphony (documentary)

Andrea G.: Outofshapeoworthlessloser by Gracie Gold (book)

Andrea W.: Wingspan (boardgame)

Music credits

"Electrodoodle" by Kevin MacLeod From: incompetech.com Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License Theme song "Pyro Flow" by Kevin Macleod From: incompetech.com Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License "Good Times" by Podington Bear From: Free Music Archive Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License 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 Intro voiced by Morgan Brayton

Pop This! is a podcast featuring three 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. Andrea Gin is a producer and an avid figure skating fan.

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

Pop This! podcast is produced by Andrea Gin.

Summary "Everyone should feel like the star of their own life." This week we take a deep breath and dive into Nyad, a biographical sports drama film about swimmer Diana Nyad's multiple attempts to swim from Cuba to Florida. Also discussed: The Greatest Night in Pop, Tracy Chapman at the Grammys, and Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé. Show notes:

Tracy Chapman - Talkin' About A Revolution (Official Music Video) (YouTube)

Tracy Chapman doesn't want to be bothered . . . (W. Kamau Bell's Who's With Me? newsletter)

Recommendations:

Lisa: "The Woman Who Spent Five Hundred Days in a Cave" (New Yorker)

Andrea G.: The Greatest Night in Pop (documentary)

Andrea W.: Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé

Music credits

"Electrodoodle" by Kevin MacLeod From: incompetech.com Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License Theme song "Pyro Flow" by Kevin Macleod From: incompetech.com Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License "Good Times" by Podington Bear From: Free Music Archive Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License 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 Intro voiced by Morgan Brayton

Pop This! is a podcast featuring three 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. Andrea Gin is a producer and an avid figure skating fan.

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

Pop This! podcast is produced by Andrea Gin.

Summary "I'm interested in people's messes." After nine years of talking about movies, we've finally seen the perfect rom-com, and it's called Rye Lane. Watch it now! Also discussed: Taylor Swift and Super Bowl LVIII, Reservation Dogs, and Little Women. Show notes:

Japan wants everyone to know: Taylor Swift will make it in time for the Super Bowl (AP News)

Recommendations:

Lisa: New Yorker (magazine)

Andrea G.: Reservation Dogs (TV)

Andrea W.: Little Women (audiobook)

Music credits

"Electrodoodle" by Kevin MacLeod From: incompetech.com Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License Theme song "Pyro Flow" by Kevin Macleod From: incompetech.com Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License "Good Times" by Podington Bear From: Free Music Archive Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License 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 Intro voiced by Morgan Brayton

Pop This! is a podcast featuring three 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. Andrea Gin is a producer and an avid figure skating fan.

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

Pop This! podcast is produced by Andrea Gin.

Summary "Bruce, go to bed." This week we're talking about Michelle Yeoh and her new Netflix show The Brothers Sun. Also discussed: Nyad, Anne of Green Gables, and eating cheesecake for dinner. Show notes:

The hair theory is real (lipsandlattes on TikTok)

Recommendations:

Lisa & Andrea G.: Nyad (sports biopic on Netflix)

Andrea W.: Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maude Montgomery (audiobook version)

Music credits

"Electrodoodle" by Kevin MacLeod From: incompetech.com Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License Theme song "Pyro Flow" by Kevin Macleod From: incompetech.com Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License "Good Times" by Podington Bear From: Free Music Archive Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License 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 Intro voiced by Morgan Brayton

Pop This! is a podcast featuring three 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. Andrea Gin is a producer and an avid figure skating fan.

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

Pop This! podcast is produced by Andrea Gin.

Summary "She'd do anything for attention." This week we're pretty divided over our feelings about the "vibes forward" movie Saltburn. Also discussed: Jane Austin, The Brothers Sun, and Marie Kondo'ing your underwear collection. Show notes:

Is Saltburn the Most Divisive Film of the Year? (The Guardian)

Recommendations:

Lisa: True Detective (TV)

Andrea G.: The Brothers Sun (TV)

Andrea W.: The Jane Austin Collection (Audible)

Music credits

"Electrodoodle" by Kevin MacLeod From: incompetech.com Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License Theme song "Pyro Flow" by Kevin Macleod From: incompetech.com Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License "Good Times" by Podington Bear From: Free Music Archive Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License 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 Intro voiced by Morgan Brayton

Pop This! is a podcast featuring three 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. Andrea Gin is a producer and an avid figure skating fan.

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

Pop This! podcast is produced by Andrea Gin.

Summary "Merry Skrillmas." This week we are joined by audiomaker, musician, writer, perfromer, quantum physicist, egg enthusiast, and aspiring boba influencer Martin Zaltz Austwick to talk about Gwyneth Paltrow's 1998 rom-com/sci-fi drama Sliding Doors. Also discussed: the idea of extending Christmas by creating another festive holiday in January.* *Please note that we did not realize Jan. 15 is also Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday before we named it Skrillmas. Show notes:

More about Martin Austwick

Follow Martin's egg hobby and boba obsession on Instagram

Recommendations:

Lisa: Poor Things (film)

Andrea G.: The Gilded Age (TV)

Martin: Imaginary Advice (podcast)

Music credits

"Electrodoodle" by Kevin MacLeod From: incompetech.com Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License Theme song "Pyro Flow" by Kevin Macleod From: incompetech.com Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License "Good Times" by Podington Bear From: Free Music Archive Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License 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 Intro voiced by Morgan Brayton

Pop This! is a podcast featuring three 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. Andrea Gin is a producer and an avid figure skating fan.

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

Pop This! podcast is produced by Andrea Gin.

Summary We are thrilled to welcome Helen Zaltzman of The Allusionist as our guest this week to talk about the not-so-thrilling movie Duets. Also discussed: happy post-apocalypse stories, science fiction rom-coms, and Phantom of the Paradise. Show notes:

The Allusionist

Phantom of the Paradise (movie trailer)

Gratituitous Karaoke Moment - feat. Scott Michael Foster & Esther Povitsky - "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend" (YouTube)

Recommendations:

Lisa: Saltburn (film)

Andrea G.: Our Roots Run Deep by Dominique Fils-Aimé (music)

Helen: Somebody Somewhere (Season 2) (TV)

Music credits

"Electrodoodle" by Kevin MacLeod From: incompetech.com Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License Theme song "Pyro Flow" by Kevin Macleod From: incompetech.com Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License "Good Times" by Podington Bear From: Free Music Archive Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License 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 Intro voiced by Morgan Brayton

Pop This! is a podcast featuring three 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. Andrea Gin is a producer and an avid figure skating fan.

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

Pop This! podcast is produced by Andrea Gin.

Summary "We're basically the same." This week we get the ball rolling on Oscar season with Todd Haynes's extraordinary new film May December. Also discussed: Mary Kay Letourneau, '90s tabloid culture, and the 1971 movie The Go-Between. Show notes:

The Go Between soundtrack (YouTube)

May December director Todd Haynes breaking down Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore's pivotal mirror scenes (Netflix)

Recommendations:

Lisa: Dash & Lily (Netflix)

Andrea G.: Revolution by Shawnee Kish (music)

Cynara: Black Friend by Ziwe (book)

Music credits

"Electrodoodle" by Kevin MacLeod From: incompetech.com Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License Theme song "Pyro Flow" by Kevin Macleod From: incompetech.com Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License "Glockenspeil Beat" by Podington Bear From: Free Music Archive Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License 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 Intro voiced by Morgan Brayton

Pop This! is a podcast featuring three 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. Andrea Gin is a producer and an avid figure skating fan.

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

Pop This! podcast is produced by Andrea Gin.

Summary We're talking about our favourite and not-so-favourite pop culture of 2023, including a lengthy discussion about overdogs, and Ryan Reynolds. Show notes:

Pop This's favourite things from 2023:

Past Lives (film) The Bear (Season 2) (TV) Bottoms (film) Fleishman Is In Trouble (TV) Curb Your Enthusiasm (Season 11) (TV) Somebody Somewhere (TV) Deadloch (TV) I Have Nothing (TV) Swarm (TV) Blue Eye Samurai (TV) Real Housewives of New York (TV) M3gan (film) Dicks: The Musical (film) Only Murders in the Building (Season 3) (TV) The Last of Us Succession (Season 4) The Marvels (film)

Pop This's least favourite things from 2023:

Daisy Jones and the Six And Just Like That (Season 2) Best. Christmas. Ever! (film)

Recommendations:

Angela Davis: An Autobriography (book)

Freedom Is A Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Y. Davis (book)

Music credits

"Electrodoodle" by Kevin MacLeod From: incompetech.com Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License Theme song "Pyro Flow" by Kevin Macleod From: incompetech.com Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License "Glockenspeil Beat" by Podington Bear From: Free Music Archive Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License 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 Intro voiced by Morgan Brayton

Pop This! is a podcast featuring three 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. Andrea Gin is a producer and an avid figure skating fan.

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

Pop This! podcast is produced by Andrea Gin.