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Episode 511
The Half-Year Popcasties
In this episode, the votes are in, so prepare for the glitz, glamour, and absurdity of The Half-Year Popcasties! Join us as we roll out the red carpet and debate the winners and losers of the year. Plus we share listener comments about which tv shows had the most attractive cast, which books were so bad they were good, what soundtrack was good for making babies, and who is our unexpected hall pass.
In this episode, the votes are in, so prepare for the glitz, glamour, and absurdity of The Half-Year Popcasties! Join us as we roll out the red carpet and debate the winners and losers of the year. Plus we share listener comments about which tv shows had the most attractive cast, which books were so bad they were good, what soundtrack was good for making babies, and who is our unexpected hall pass.
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- HALF YEAR MENTIONS // Boats in Pop Culture, Dundies, Pedro Pascal (The Last of Us, meme, The Mandalorian, sama sama, Met Gala, trailer), Kieran Culkin and Claire Danes on Actors on Actors, Damar Hamlin, Jeremy Renner (The Hurt Locker, The Town), Survivor S44, Tom from Succession, OUA, Jalen Hurts, nepo babies, Elon Musk vs. Mark Zuckerberg, Swifties, Kendall Roy, Brian Cox and Emily Blunt on Actors on Actors, Edward Norton (Glass Onion, Asteroid City, Finding Your Roots), Christopher Walken Finding Your Roots, Camilia Bowles, Chinese spy balloon (Plain English episode)
- BAD MOVIE YOU LOVED MENTIONS // Ghosted, Your Place or Mine, Ant-man and The Wasp: Quantumania, Cocaine Bear, Book Club 2, 80 For Brady, Red Notice, Eras TikTok live stream, Beyonce & the horse, Bebe Rexha phone incident, Bama Rush
- TV SHOW WITH THE HOTTEST CAST MENTIONS // Upcoming Old People Bachelor (wait, who was Tinker Bekah?), The Last Of Us, King Charles’ coronation, Ted Lasso (Hannah Waddingham, Juno Temple), Jury Duty, Bridgerton, Outlander, actual soccer coaches, live footage of 1-95, The Muppets Mayhem, Mama’s Family
- ALBUM THAT YOU MADE A BABY TO MENTIONS // Are You There God It’s Me Margaret Soundtrack, Brown Noise App vs. Pink Noise App vs Green Noise App vs. White Noise App, old Popcast Nos Episodes, Stephen Fry’s Greek Myths, floor fan, Jim Cantore, Sophie Hudson
- BOOK THAT YOU’RE EMBARRASSED YOU READ MENTIONS // Spare, The Trump Indictment, The Office BFFs, 50 Shades, ACOTAR, Open Book by Jessica Simpson, Colleen Hoover, Sean Lowe’s book, Chicken Soup for The Cat Lover’s Soul, Finding Purpose Through Pet Loss, Inferno by Max Hastings
- CELEBRITY THAT YOU’RE SURPRISED IS YOUR HALL PASS MENTIONS // ChadGPT, Jason Segal, Stanley Tucci, Trent Crimm, that houseboat on Ted Lasso, yacht flipping orcas, Dominos Pizza cheesy bread, Harrison Ford with an earring, Jason Alexander, Owen Wilson’s nose, Axl Rose
- RED LIGHT MENTIONS // Greg Abbott’s thermostat, writers’ strike picket signs, Dermot Mulroney on The View, screenwriters’ worst notes from studio execs
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