Considering Rocky/Creed, Our Most Successful Sports Film Franchise — Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #149

https://podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/partiallyexaminedlife/PMP_149_3-31-23.mp3 Your Pretty Much Pop hosts Mark Linsenmayer, Lawrence Ware, Sarahlyn Bruck, and Al Baker talk…

What Happens When a Chess Player Mistakes a Grandmaster for a Beginner: It’s Pretty Delightful

Vacationing in New York City last summer, Anna Cramling, an International Chess Federation master swung by Washington…

Do Movie Androids Want to Love Us or Kill Us? Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #144

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Adapting the Unfilmable Story of Pinnochio — Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #143

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Making Sense of Nathan Fielder’s The Rehearsal with Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #136

https://podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/partiallyexaminedlife/PMP_136_9-23-22.mp3 Mark Linsenmayer, Lawrence Ware, Sarahlyn Bruck, and Al Baker convene an emergency podcast recording to…

The Breaking Bad-O-Verse — Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #135 Considers “Better Call Saul”

https://podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/partiallyexaminedlife/PMP_135_9-16-22.mp3 Given the end of Better Call Saul, your Pretty Much Pop host Mark Linsenmayer, plus…

Unpopular Music Fandom — Musicians and Philosophers Discuss on Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #134

https://podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/partiallyexaminedlife/PMP_134_8-27-22.mp3 With the dissolution of popular music culture by the Internet, what is it now to…

Why Predator — A Discussion of the Film Franchise on Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #133

https://podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/partiallyexaminedlife/PMP_133_8-23-22.mp3 Thanks to the new film Prey by Dan Trachtenberg and Patrick Aison, we now have…

When Is a Joke “Too Soon”? — Comedians Discuss on Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #132

https://podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/partiallyexaminedlife/PMP_132_7-20-22.mp3 To honor the death of Gilbert Gottfried, Pretty Much Pop addresses jokes like the 9-11…