GLoP Culture

The GLoP crew celebrates America’s 250th birthday the only way they know how: by trying to name five movies that explain the country and somehow ending up in a ditch full of Fire Birds , Paper Moon , The Best Years of Our Lives , the mayor from Jaws , Mel Brooks at 100, Gila monsters, late-stage capitalism, early-stage diarrhea, and the eternal question of whether this is still technically a pop-c...

John Podhoretz, Jonah Goldberg, and Rob Long er, "ricochet" from Trump potentially skipping his son’s wedding to the collapse of late-night television, the strange death of black-tie culture, the rise of “Technogerd” pharmaceutical ads, and whether the future belongs to GLP-1 drugs, Episcopalians, or Chinese vertical dramas. Along the way: Jane Fonda at the Chinese Theatre, yacht-rock pedophilia l...

If you came for structure, coherence, or basic human decency—wrong podcast. In this unhinged episode of GLoP Culture , Rob Long, Jonah Goldberg , and John Podhoretz wander from a cornhole champion murder story to Helen Keller trutherism, pausing only to take gratuitous swings at Gandhi, Princess Diana, and basically anyone history has been too polite to re-examine. Along the way: deeply suspect jo...

It’s February, the weather is trying to kill us, the garbage hasn’t been picked up, and somehow this leads—inevitably—to Frank Sinatra insulting his fans, Catherine O’Hara being a comic genius for half a century, the Washington Post lighting itself on fire, and the uncomfortable possibility that puzzles and recipes are the last functioning pillar of American journalism. Also Jeffrey Epstein and a...

What starts as a polite podcast immediately face-plants into profanity, pop-culture archaeology, and three grown men asking the most important question of our time: What would TJ Hooker do? From ventriloquists on the radio to Emmy-night humiliation rituals, from ICE raids and clerical angst to Scooby-Doo’s latent homicidal potential. Along the way, our hosts lovingly argue about bad uniforms, wors...

Welcome to another episode of  GLoP , America’s only podcast where three grown men debate television, theology, demon scratch marks, and the cultural meaning of Mr. Ed — all while Rob Long eats shrimp noodles into a muted microphone.  On this outing, demonology, alien hive minds, and whether  Pluribus  is actually a right-wing parable about American exceptionalism disguised as a friendly invasion...

After a brief hiatus, GLoP is back and, well, not much has changed: John can’t remember the month, Rob’s in Los Angeles for reasons unknown, and Jonah is courageously trying to keep the conversation somewhere near coherence. The trio tackle vital topics like bad bosses (biblical and otherwise), forgotten ’70s variety shows, why The Blues Brothers  is accidentally beautiful, and how nostalgia has o...

Yep, it's another episode of  GLoP , where three middle-aged men wander from topic to topic like your drunk uncles at Thanksgiving—except with more references to 1970s TV pilots and less pie. This week’s meandering odyssey covers the full spectrum: wiping Faye Dunaway’s… dignity, debating whether puppies can survive her PR aura, discovering that Superman might be unpopular overseas because America...

This podcast has never been above (or below) using a title to click-bait you into listening and this episode maintains that high standard. But rest assured, that’s not all that is discussed: the guys delve into  F1,  that New York Times Top 100 movies of the 21st Century list ,   the miracle that is  Andor,  what the  Anchorman  pitch meeting must have been like, Rob has a moral dilemma in Egypt,...

Why is this GLoP different from all other GLoPs? Because on this GLoP, the principals discuss the future of the show and how to evolve it given their divergent interests. But don't worry: there's also plenty of laughs involving Gavin MacLeod, his TV wife Joyce Bulifant (look her up), an actual joke about the holocaust, and another one about the N-word. And even some actual pop culture with some th...

This month on GLoP: Rob has an important announcement to make, some unfortunate serial killer names,  The Last of Us, Andor, Wolf Hall , and various other cultural non-sequiturs. Head to http://lumen.me/GLOP for 15% off your purchase.

Among other things, Jonah really wants you to know he's not Jeff. After clearing that up, he and the rest of the GLoP crew delve into writing with AI, pitch a King  Game of Thrones  spinoff but in the Burger King extended universe, another look at  The Taking of Pelham 123,  inflection points and  Suits, Wings,  and various other pop culture cul-de-sacs.

Jonah's got a new pair of specs, the WaPo has a new editorial policy,  White Lotus, Severance,  Rob studies and watches Tik-Tok,  Reacher,  and lots of Yiddish. Yep, it's a new GLoP.

It's the first GLoP of 2025, so we super-sized it. We've got everything from Oscar nominations, to AI everywhere, to David Lynch to Bob Newhart to  Nosfertau,  some Broadway, a manhood measurer, and even a bit of Bob Dylan. Enjoy!

We're back after an unavoidable month-long hiatus to comment on all things pop and regular culture. This week, we cover The Odd Couple, Moscow Edition,  hot murderers, another episode of  GLoP Jokes,  and Jonah's journey to a distant land.

Yep, it's time for another romp through pop culture and (trigger warning) politics as the men of GLoP riff on college campus antics (one of the panelists is in college at the moment), possible election unrest, Game of Thrones v. Monty Python and The Holy Grail,  the problem with liking Hitler's generals, the greatest Faye Dunaway story you have ever heard, ABC's  Dr. Odyssey,  who would win a Harr...

Welcome to the new GLoP -- the one where Rob is back in school. Yes, we talk a lot about that, took some questions from GLoP fans on X, ruminated on  The Munsters, Hamilton,  bad dreams, appropriate uses for the National Cathedral,  Taxi Driver,  Robert Downey Jr.'s career, the most overrated novel, and other assorted topics having nothing to do with each other. In other words, a typical GLoP.

We’ve got DNC Rank Punditry®, we've got star encounters, we've got bad boss stories, we've got Minnesota accents, we've got Rob's Burisma collection, we've got  House of The Dragon, Silicon Valley,  and for Pete's sake -- mind your own damn business.

An all-over-the-place GLoP for mid-summer: we've got some Rank Punditry® about changes past and possibly future at the top of ticket, some discourse about -yes-- cupholders in cars, a little Columbo,  some thoughts about  The Outsiders  and it's various incarnations in different media, that time Jeff Goldblum played a NYC mugger,  The Warriors,  and of course, Rob remembers the late, great Bob New...

Beat the summer heat with a healthy dollop of GLoP! This week: some discourse on Stripes  (always start with a 40 year old movie),  Inside Out II,  the peculiar problem with Jeffrey Jones, why  Star Trek: Discovery  sucks, anecdotes about David Soul  and  Chuck Mangione, and some inside info on Jonah Goldberg v. Niall Ferguson.

This month, a rare event: a Pod-less pod, with Rob and Jonah taking sole command of the GLoP bridge. But there's still plenty to talk about, including a big announcement for Rob, some thoughts about  The Fall Guy,  the boys have dinner in NYC, a little archeological rank punditry (yes, there is such a thing), get slightly scatological (again), and too off their heads rambling to list here.

We've got a wide ranging GLoP for you this month: everything from who John spent 9/11 with to movie bad guys and losers who end up winning,  Alan Bloom , college campus unrest and the best movies about college,  Norman Podhoretz watched a dirty movie once and wrote about it . morning routines of the rich and famous, and Jonah's beefs with  Fallout  and  Shogun .

It's late in the month and that means it's time for another run through the zeitgeist with America's most crotchety culture critics. On this outing, they praise (well, mostly) Netflix's  3 Body Problem,  DC apartments vs. NYC apartments, marvel at that time when Al Pacino worked at  Commentary  (and his unique appearance at this year's Oscars) ,  the films of Christopher Nolan, the fall of Sam Ban...

We’ve got A.I.! (Is Jonah really worse than Pol Pot? — The answer may surprise you!) We’ve got Oscars! We’ve got best movie performances ever! And yes, we’ve got…coffee tables! Well, we have one particularly infamous coffee table. You’ll have to listen to find out what that’s all about.

This month GLoP is literally all over the place and time: the guys discuss a time traveling Podhoretz, Back To School, the curious courtship of Alan Bloom and Susan Sontag, the Oscars -- including Poor Things (they're not fans) and Killers of The Flower Moon (ditto), some little known productions of the Odd Couple and more.