Pulp Friction

This week on the pod, Rocky (she/her) and Allie (he/she/they) write their “Dear Evan Hansen letter” to the feel-bad movie of the September slump. Ben Platt IS Dear Evan Hansen, and we will not be spending the entire two hours talking about how weird he looks. Between bad songs, bad direction, and particularly egregious storytelling, we ask ourselves the question, can this movie be fixed?

You can find Rocky and Allie at their respective Twitters. Subscribe to support the show and receive access to exclusive bonus content, and reach out to Rocky if you’re interested in being a future guest.

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Rocky (she/her) and Xander (they/them) were supposed to do a summer movie and music retrospective. But as it turns out, we had much more to say about the just-announced cast of the untitled Mario movie. Wanna hear the hour we did spend talking about the songs and movies of the summer? It’ll be released as an exclusive for paid subscribers!

You can find Rocky or Xander on their respective Twitters. Subscribe to support the show and reach out to Rocky to inquire about being a future guest.

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Rocky (she/her) and Flan (she/her) devote two and a half delirious hours to perhaps the most extensive subject ever covered on the pod: the lore of Sonic the Hedgehog. From his first game to his first movie, we make sense of the many attempts to explain how a hedgehog got so fast and so blue, and consider what the next step for the franchise might be.

You can find Rocky and Flan on their respective Twitters, where Rocky does bits and Flan makes art! A little something for the furries and gamers in the crowd. Contact Rocky to inquire about being a future guest.

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This week on Pulp Friction, Rocky (she/her) and Simone (she/they) team up once again for a super-charged review of 2021’s Met Gala fashion. Listen to them offer their takes on over 100 of the best and worst looks from the biggest night in fashion, and become a paid subscriber to gain access to over an hour of extra content! If I didn’t know better, I’d say we spent too much time talking about the Met Gala!

You can find Rocky and Simone on their respective Twitters. Subscribe to support the show and contact Rocky to inquire about being a future guest.

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Shana tova! To kick off the new year, Rocky (she/her) presents her first solo episode of Pulp Friction! We’re talking Certified Lover Boy, the new album by Canadian rap icon Drake. It’s an extensive and far-reaching conversation that fans and haters alike can enjoy, with plenty of hot takes along the way.

Subscribe to support the show and see exclusive bonus content! You can find Rocky on her Twitter and support her directly through her Ko-Fi. Look forward to more great episodes in the new year, including returning guests and a unique panel discussion ;•)

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Two days late? Two hours long? Audio issues? Outtakes? Nerdy jocks? It must be time to talk Donda, the tenth studio album by multihyphenate megalomaniac Kanye West. Rocky (she/her) and Brig (he/she) take a deep dive into every track on the album, but if that’s not enough for you hogs, there’s over an hour of bonus content that’ll be made available for paid subscribers.

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This week on Pulp Friction, Rocky (she/her) and Emily (she/he) do a deep dive into the albums of the sixish-part trinity of pop punk kings and queens. We’re talking My Chemical Romance, Fall Out Boy, Panic! at the Disco, Paramore, Gym Class Heroes, Twenty One Pilots, Cobra Starship, and even I Don’t Know How But They Found Me, and also the fan communities and cults of personality around these, for the most part, good bands!

Emily’s auditory shitposts can be found on his Tumblr, while Rocky’s can be found on her Twitter. Subscribe to support the show and gain access to exclusive content, including over an hour of conversation deleted from this very episode. Contact Rocky to inquire about being a future guest.

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This week on a very special and moderately drunken Pulp Friction, Rocky (she/her, birthday boy) is joined by Sam (he/him) and Leon (they/he) to take the first step of their thousand-mile journey, piecing together the clues to solve the Beatles’ arcane riddle (for teens). Our first clue: “Quarrymen, old before our birth, straining each muscle and sinew.”

You can find Rocky pumping out high-quality content at all hours on her Twitter. Subscribe to support the show and help pick subjects for future episodes, and contact Rocky if you’re interested in being a future guest.

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This week on Pulp Friction, Rocky (she/her) and Simone (she/they) join forces to talk about the cinema event of the summer (that bombed even by pandemic standards), Jon M. Chu’s In the Heights. Other discussion topics include Clifford, bathing, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Ansel Elgort, an Office Depot in Cincinatti, parenting blogs, and why Lin-Manuel Miranda is the new J.Lo.

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Do you wanna mess with Limp Bizkit? Well, you can’t mess with Limp Bizkit, on account of they get it on. This week on Pulp Friction, Rocky (she/her) and Mitch (he/him) confer a meeting of the minds to discuss a band whose reputation as the butt of the joke (and tremendous commercial success) has catapulted them heads and shoulders above their nu¨-metal peers. Are they “Pollution” or a rap-rock “Phenomenon”? Get “N 2 Gether Now” and “Take a Look Around” as we learn “The Unquestionable Truth (Part 1)”.

Check out Mitch on Twitter or find his Variety Hour on YouTube. You can find Rocky on Twitter eight days a week. Subscribe to support the show and reach out to Rocky to inquire about being a guest.

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