PopaHALLics

Dad and daughter dish on pop culture over a drink. Steve and Kate celebrate their 10th show with a wide-ranging trivia contest with questions about movies, music, TV, and more. Think you know pop culture? Play along!

Our beers this episode:
Elysium Space Dust IPA 
Breckinridge Brewery's Avalanche Amber Ale

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Dad and daughter dish about pop culture over a drink. In this episode (named for a Spinal Tap line), Steve, Kate and guests talk about their favorite live concerts ever. We also explore why a British magazine called Shawn Mendes the "Generation Z Springsteen." Wait - isn't Bruce Springsteen Bruce Springsteen?! 

Our guests are Tricia O'Connor, Katie Skeehan, Mary Skeehan, and Olivia Makk.

Dad and daughter dish on pop culture while enjoying a drink. In this episode, Steve and Kate discuss:

TV

• "Space Force"
• "The Office"
• "Outlander"
• "Enola Holmes"
• "#Alive"
• "Normal People"

BOOKS

• "You Were Born for This: Astrology for Radical Self Acceptance"
• "The Expanse" sci-fi series, beginning with "Leviathan Wakes"

MUSIC

• Roots performer Pokey LaFarge
• Puddles the Clown
• MisterWives
• The Diddy Bops

The Spotify mixtape of songs related to this episode:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/34YzXqdGzgjQioTbdGZADc?si=E6aha-XTTdGaae4sNHUznQ

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Dad and daughter dish on pop culture over a drink! In this episode: Fashion. Steve and Kate discuss:

• The pandemic-affected Fashion Week
• Diversity in fashion
• Anna Wintour
• Zendaya's spread in the September InStyle
• The cyclical nature of fashion, as seen in pop culture
• Trendsetters Beyonce and Madonna
• Beyonce's "Homecoming" special
• Madonna's sex appeal

Our beers this episode come from New Belgium: Fat Tire Belgian White and Voodoo Ranger American Haze IPA 

Our theme and bumper music is by Mike Bode

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Steve talks to novelist Peter Ferry about inspiration and his books "Old Heart" (2015 Chicago Novel of the Year) and "Travel Writing: A Novel." They have a candid conversation about what it's like to be a novelist when you're not a mega-seller like Stephen King.

Pete has great stories about:

• his former teacher, Walter Tevis ("The Hustler")
• his former student, novelist Dave Eggers
• Kurt Vonnegut's advice for aspiring writers
• Annie Lamott's "Bird by Bird"
• Novelist John Fowles ("The French Lieutenant's Woman")
• The inspiration for both his novels
• What it takes to get a novel published
• His brush with Hollywood 

Our theme music is by Mike Bode

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Dad and daughter dish on pop culture while enjoying a drink. In this episode:

• The TV series "Warrior Nun"
• The TV series "The OA"
• Instant Gratification
• The alligator movie "Crawl"
• The Norwegian disaster movie "The Wave"
• YouTube's "Mystery & Makeup" by Bailey Sarian
• The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain
• The nonfiction book "The Wolves at the Door: The True Story of America's Greatest Female Spy," by Judith Pearson
• The pandemic novel "The End of October," by Lawrence Wright 
• The YA novel "Scythe," by Neal Shusterman
• Our beer, Falls City Pilsner

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Dad and daughter dish on pop culture while enjoying a drink. Ka-POW! In this episode we discuss superheroes:

• The latest X-Men entry The New Mutants
• Disney's live-action Mulan remake
• Christopher Nolan's epic spy movie Tenet
• Netflix's Project Power - superpowers for five minutes! 
• Joker with Joaquin Phoenix
• Tom Holland as Spiderman (Homecoming and Far from Home)
• The animated Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse
• The Old Guard

We also interview some funny people about what superpower they'd want: 

• Bill O'Connor
• John Gordon
• Katie Skeehan
• Olivia Mock
• Davis Mock
• Steve Skeehan 

Our beers this episode: Bells' Lager of the Lakes and Big Lake's Camper

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A dad and daughter dish on pop culture while enjoying a drink. In part 2 of our discussion of pop we're enjoying during the pandemic, we talk about

Music: Dua LIpa's "Future Nostalgia," Mac Miller's "Circles," Bob Seger's "Katmandu," and shows from home by Erin Coburn, Martin Sexton and Richard Thompson

Books: "Liar Temptress Soldier Spy," "Blossom and Bones," "The Glass Hotel," "Blue Highways"

Video: The Holderness Family pandemic parodies.

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A dad and daughter dish on pop culture while enjoying a drink. In this episode: how we're entertaining ourselves during the pandemic.

We discuss Killing Eve, Into the Night, the Korean zombie drama Kingdom, Versailles, Hollywood, Counterpart, Money Heist, and The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.

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In the debut episode, a dad and daughter dish on pop culture while enjoying a drink. 

We discuss Taylor Swift's Folklore, Alanis Morissette's Such Pretty Forks in the Road, Beyonce's Black is KIng, season two of The Umbrella Academy, Hamilton, the movie Palm Springs, and Justified.

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