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Pop Take Hot Culture

14 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 3 ratings

We’re the podcast known as Pop Take Hot Culture. We get drunk every week and talk trash about the movies & TV shows watched, books read, and music played.

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Episodes

Episode 15 - 2019 Movie Catch Up

March 28, 2020 18:11 - 3 hours - 86 MB

We catch up on so, so many movies. Too many to name, so buckle up for this over three hour recap.

Episode 14 - El Camino: A Breaking Bad Story and Gemini Man

January 10, 2020 01:56 - 1 hour - 35.6 MB

This (still, still, still, still late) week, we discuss the Netflix Original Breaking Bad follow up El Camino and also discuss the mixed, but still entertaining Will Smith led Ang Lee directed high frame rate 3D action movie Gemini Man.

Episode 13 - Joker, 2019 in Horror (Us, Ma, Chucky, and more) Danny Brown, Billy Woods, and More

January 10, 2020 01:56 - 2 hours - 64.9 MB

This (still, still, still late) week Jack tries to keep a very tired Syd awake while we discuss Joker, the biggest horror movies of 2019 so far; Chucky, Us, Brightburn, Ma, and Pet Semetary and this weeks newest albums; Danny Brown’s uknowhatimsayin?, L’Orange and Jeremiah Jae’s Complicate Your Life With Violence, and Billy Wood’s Terror Management.

Episode 12 - Ad Astra, Peanut Butter Falcon, Brittany Howard, Kemba, and Tove Lo

January 10, 2020 01:56 - 1 hour - 45.6 MB

This (still, still late) week we discuss the Brad Pitt led Ad Astra, the Shia LaBeouf led Peanut Butter Falcon, Brittany Howard of Alabama Shakes fame’s solo debut Jamie, Kemba’s follow up to 2016’s Negus, Gilda, and the latest album from Tove Lo, Sunshine Kitty.

Episode 11 - Hustlers, Earthgang, Charli XCX, JPEGMAFIA and more

January 10, 2020 01:56 - 1 hour - 32.9 MB

This (also late) week we discuss Hustlers and if Julia Stiles and Erika Christensen are in fact different people or the same person, Charli XCX’s newest album Charli, IDK’s followup to IWASVERYBAD, ISHEREAL, Sampa The Great’s The Return, Ghostface Killah’s latest, Glorious Son’s War on Everything, JPEGMAFIA’s All My Heroes Are Cornballs, and Earthgang’s highly anticipated debut album Mirrorland.

Episode 10 — ITstravaganza (IT Chapters One and Two and Tim Curry's IT)

January 10, 2020 01:56 - 1 hour - 35.5 MB

This (very, very, very, very late) week, we discuss the (then) newly released IT Chapter Two, a retrospective on IT Chapter One, and compare it to the 1990 two part ABC series IT starring Tim Curry.

Episode 9 - Lana Del Rey's Norman Fucking Rockwell, Don't Let Go, Steven Universe The Movie, Common's Let Love, and Tool's Fear Inoculum

September 04, 2019 03:39 - 1 hour - 54.2 MB

This week we discuss the first good Lana Del Rey album in over five years, the trippy time travel film Don’t Let Go, Common’s album Let Love where he drops more names than a secretary dropping a rolladex, Tool maintaining their status as one of the most overrated metal bands of all time 13 years later, and the Breaking Bad of kids TV, Steven Universe. Jack’s Recommends - Beloved by Toni Morrison Syd’s Recommends - Steven Universe

Episode 8 - Ready Or Not, Taylor Swift's Lover, BROCKHAMPTON's GINGER, Missy Elliot's ICONOLOGY, and more!

August 29, 2019 02:59 - 1 hour - 53.4 MB

This week we dive deep into the new horror comedy Ready or Not, Jack discusses his undying love for Taylor Swift and all of his adoration for her wonderful music, Missy Elliot’s newest and long awaited EP, ICONOLOGY, and BROCKHAMPTON’s album comes into disucssion. We also discuss Jidenna’s album 85 to Africa, Rapsody’s Eve, and Little Brother’s May The Lord Watch. Finally, Syd discusses reading They Can’t Kill Us Till They Kill by Hanif Abdurraqib and Jack discusses the book White Trash: The ...

Episode 7 - Good Boys, Mindhunter Season 2, Normani's Motivation, A$AP Ferg's Floor Seats, and Black Leopard Red Wolf by Marlon James

August 25, 2019 23:22 - 1 hour - 46.7 MB

This week we discuss Good Boys and if we swore that much as children as well, the so-so second season Mindhunter, the amazing single from Normani, A$AP Ferg’s atrocious EP Floor Seats, and Marlon James’s novel Black Leopard Red Wolf. Jack’s Pick - clipping.’s single Nothing Is Safe and Calibre 50’s album Simplemente Gracias Syd’d Pick - Normani’s Motivation

Episode 6 - #BoycottMichaelB, Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark, Bon Iver's I,I, Slipknot's We Are Not Your Kind, and More

August 25, 2019 23:17 - 1 hour - 53.2 MB

This week we discuss the mixed bag of a movie Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark, our very mixed opinions on Bon Iver’s eye comma eye, Jack jumps into his childhood fave Slipknot’s newest album We Are Not Your Kind, Syd asks for ways to get her time back from having read Mario Puzo’s novel The Godfather, Bas’s new EP Spilled Milk, and we discuss the indie album Now, Not Yet by half-alive. Jack’s Pick — Moses Sumney’s album Aromanticism, Slipknot’s new album, and clipping.’s album CLPPNG Syd’...

Episode 5 - Dear White People Vol. 3, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Valley of the Dolls (book and movie), and Euphoria

August 07, 2019 02:53 - 1 hour - 37.1 MB

We dive deep into volume three of the show that's become a near incoherent and nonsensical known as Dear White People to spare you the trouble of wasting your time on it. We then discuss the novel and then movie adaptation of Valley of the Dolls while Jack laments the cost of the Criterion Collection. We then wrap up discussing Euphoria, unsure if the show is good or just well made trauma porn. Jack's recommendation - If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin (and the film made by Barry J...

Episode 4 - Once Upon A Time... In Hollywood and Chance, The Rapper's The Big Day

August 02, 2019 01:22 - 1 hour - 46.4 MB

This week we dabble in ASMR while discussing Quentin Tarantino’s ninth and newest film, Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood starring Brad Pitt, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Margot Robbie. We also dive into the history of Hollywood and the Manson cult in the time period this film is set in. Finally we discuss Chance, The Rapper’s debut “album,” The Big Day. Chano please don’t blacklist us from MTV, too. Syd’s Pick - Margot Robbie’s Twitter, Instagram, The Wolf of Wall Street, and anything else she’s in....

Episode 3 - Lion King (2019), Beyonce's Lion King The Gift, Maxo Kream's Brandon Banks, and The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead, and More

July 24, 2019 03:30 - 1 hour - 34.1 MB

We discuss the new live action/CGI but whatever Lion King, we beg the Bey Hive for forgiveness while discussing her soundtrack album, Jack talks about several albums including Maxo Kream's, Iggy Azaelea's, Ed Balloon's, Inspectah Deck's, and Murs and 9th Wonder's collaboration. Syd talks about Colson Whitehead's new book The Nickel Boys. Jack's recommendation - Brittany Howard's single Stay High Sydnee's recommendation - The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead

Episode 1 - Spider-Man Far From Home, Stranger Things Episodes 1-4, Midsommar, Big Little Lies Season 3, and More

July 23, 2019 02:25 - 1 hour - 136 MB

This week we discuss Spider-Man: Far From Home, Stranger Things episodes 1-4 from season 3, Ari Aster's Midsommar, Big Little Lies episodes 1-4 from season 3, and Netflix flat earth documentary Behind The Curve. Syd recommends There There by Tommy Orange www.goodreads.com/book/show/36692478-there-there Jack recommends Iguana by The Polish Club www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7evMICRHu4

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