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Indie Animation in a Corporate World: A Conversation with Animator Benjamin Goldman on Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #88
https://podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/partiallyexaminedlife/PMP_88_3-20-21.mp3 In the perennial conflict between art and our corporate entertainment machine, animation seems designed to...
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Why Is the Debut Disney+ Marvel TV Show a Tribute to Classic Sitcoms? Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #85 on WandaVision
The newest, now concluded superhero series features characters no one asked to hear more about, one...
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Why the Flood of Musician Memoirs? An Exploration by Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #84
There’s been an explosion of rock and roll autobiographies in recent years, with pretty much every...
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Increasing Disabled/Other-Abled Representation in Media — Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #83
At least 20% of us have some sort of disability, yet such conditions are reflected by...
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Why Does The Karate Kid Persist as the New Cobra Kai? A Critical Consideration by Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast (#82)
Did anyone suspect that the beloved 1984 film The Karate Kid (and its decreasingly beloved sequels)...
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Radio vs. Podcasting: A Discussion with Jason Bentley (KCRW, The Backstory) on Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #81
Jason was music director at KRCW, the LA NPR station, is also a DJ with a...
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Do We Need Yet More Films About Time Loops? A Pretty Much Pop Discussion (#80) of Groundhog Day and its Descendents
Tine looping, where a character is doomed to repeat the same day (or hour, or longer...
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The Formula for The Coen Brothers/Noah Hawley’s Fargo – Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #79
Your hosts Mark Linsemayer, Erica Spyres, and Brian Hirt are joined by Tamler from the Very...
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The Renewed Popularity of Chess and The Queen’s Gambit: Pretty Much Pop Culture Podcast Discussion #78 with Chess Expert J.J. Lang
The high level of interest in Netflix’s adaptation of the 1984 Walter Tevis novel, The Queen’s...
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Should You Race Back to Theaters When It’s Safe? Pretty Much Pop: Culture Podcast (#77) on the Big Screen Experience
The pandemic has kept us out of the movie theaters, forcing new streaming practices so that...
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Wonder Woman 1984 in Context – Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #76
The holiday film release season has now passed, having issued only one real blockbuster, which is...
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Why Has The Great British Baking Show Conquered America? Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #75 w/ Stephen Carlile (from Broadway’s The Lion King)
What explains the immense quarantine-time popularity in America of this quaint British reality cooking show? What...
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What Has the Internet Done to Comedy? A Pretty Much Pop Culture Podcast Discussion (#74)
Does removing gatekeepers mean a more distributed comic landscape, or does it inevitably end with a...
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Comic Book Writer Fred Van Lente Touts “Comic Supremacy” on Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #72
Fred Van Lente has written for more than 15 years for his own Evil Twin Comics,...
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An Introduction to Rap Battles: Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #71
Pretty Much Pop hosts Mark Linsenmayer, Erica Spyres, and Brian Hirt are rejoined by our audio...
