Pop Capsule Podcast

What is better on your birthday - balloons, freebies, or the money that comes in the card you have to pretend to read? We answer this question, discuss America's Got Talent, Britain's Got Freedom (Brexit), and Superman's Got Stepdad Energy (Superman Returns). Join us for all of this plus the definitive portmanteau rankings this week on the pod!

This week we spent a lot of time around cars! We've got Cars the movie, and Fast & Furious: Tokyo Drift. We also talked Hips Don't Lie, Tim McGraw, and the disappointment of Finding Dory. All that, plus who Humpy is, on this week's episode! 

Time for a re-upload. We're talking alternate timelines with this week's topics. What if Haramabe didn't die on that fateful day in 2016? What if Al Gore were president instead of teaching us about climate change in An Inconvenient Truth? What if Evan didn't stick a baby toy to his forehead to get a massive bruise? These are the questions that will keep us up at night and entertain you this week o...

We're talking alternate timelines with this week's topics. What if Haramabe didn't die on that fateful day in 2016? What if Al Gore were president instead of teaching us about climate change in An Inconvenient Truth? What if Evan didn't stick a baby toy to his forehead to get a massive bruise? These are the questions that will keep us up at night and entertain you this week on the podcast!

We're talking about puzzles, monoculture, flipping tables, and Bluey. What else could you ask for?! We're covering the finales of WIll & Grace, West Wing, and That 70's Show, diving into Paul Bettany's flogging in The Da Vinci Code movie, and re-evaluating Drake's One Dance. Join us for another great time!

This week we head to the movies! We talk RV, Stick It, Captain America: Civil War, and Mission Impossible 3. Plus we delve into Cars lore (the Cars Pope assassination) and the legend that is Rusty Joncas. Join us for another wild episode!

You never had wings from a gas station before? This week we're reminiscing on high school while also talking Scary Movie 4, Suri Cruise, the death of Prince, and Beyonce's Lemonade album.

This week we've got movies, music, and money laundering! We talk about Temperature by Sean Paul, Daniel Powter's Bad Day, how good Meryl Streep is in The Devil Wears Prada, and the Panama Papers. Join us for another wild episode!

Evan is back so we are back to your regularly scheduled programming! This week we talk about so many movies (She's The Man, Inside Man, V for Vendetta, and Batman vs Superman), plus heavy hitting topics like weird Quebecois rock duos, Hannah Montana almost sharing a name with a pornstar, and owl movies. Join us for another great episode!

This week, best friend of the pod and third co-host Shaleena steps in for Evan! She and Mallory talk about James Blunt getting hypothermia, fitting in in high school, where we stand on Drake, Aquamarine, and so much more. Get your mermaid tail on and join us for another fun deep dive!

This episode has everything: a Beyonce single we forgot, a Forest Whitaker Idi Amin impression, Oscar buzz, a story about how anything can be salad, and award shows. What else would you want? Join us for another wild episode!

Do YOU have the Olympic fever? We sure do. We talk about all the happenings of the 2026 Winter Olympics so far, then dive into our nostalgia topics: the 2006 Grammys, Arrested Development, and Deadpool 1. Do we all still like Ryan Reynolds? Should men stop talking at the Olympics? Was there really money in the banana stand? We answer some of these questions in a great episode, so join in!

We're back again, and this time we've got lots of CanCon and basketball! We talk High School Musical, Kobe Bryant dropping 81 points on the Raptors, the 2006 Canadian Election, and Justin Bieber's Sorry. Plus, we hear about Evan paying for a drink in nickels. All the good stuff!

We're kicking off our reviews of 2006 & 2016 in, honestly, some sad places. We're talking the deaths of Alan Rickman and David Bowie, the jump to Sirius XM of Howard Stern, and the 2016 Golden Globes. All this plus Parent Corner in our first episode of the year, so join in!

OOOOOH BABY! We're back after a hiatus where Evan's wife had a baby and we have so much to cover. We spend some time catching up on the world (Zohran Mamdani, celebrity deaths, what are we watching) and then we dive into our Top 10 Moments list of 2005 & 2015. We laugh, we cry, we scream like Howard Dean. Join us for an almost two-hour special episode and have the best holidays!

This week's episode is late because Evan's wife had their baby. What are you going to do, get mad at a guy who is 3 days old? On the episode, Evan & Mallory chat about the Twilight book dropping, Selena Gomez revealing her lupus diagnosis and her Revival album, and The Weeknd hitting the number one spot with The Hills. Join us for a big ep!

It is a lot of Canadian content and some SPACE content this week! We've got Nickleback's All The Wrong Reasons album (and a conversation about if they're the defining rock band of the 2000s) and we talk about Canada's Worst Driver. Then we talk about The Martian and how Matt Damon keeps getting stranded places! Join us for a great episode.

This week we see many crimes in our topics. We've got the start of Criminal Minds, the finale of CSI, and we play a game of "Is This A Panic At The Disco Song or Some Stuff Evan Made Up?" All this to say - we're in top form. Buckle up for another wild episode!

This week has everything! We talk awards (the 2005 Emmys to be exact), we talk How I Met Your Mother (best running gags and how pathetic Ted is), and we conclude with one of our favourite pieces of media - Life With Derek. What made that show so great? Why did those step siblings have so much sexual chemistry? Join us as we deep dive into all of these topics and more in a wild and wide-ranging wee...

We're back this week and we're all about TV! Three different shows debuted this week in 2005 or 2015 - Supernatural, Bones, and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Do you fit in the venn diagram of liking all three? Maybe you just want to learn more and hear our ramblings? Join us for another awesome episode.

This week we're talking about the biggest news in the land this week - Taylor Swift & Travis Kelce getting engaged! Of course we have 2005 & 2015 topics as well, including Hurricane Katrina hitting New Orleans and the rest of the gulf, Prison Break starting it's run, and the 2015 MTV VMAs. Join us for another great episode!

This week 2005 carries the weight of the episode yet again! We talk about the end of The Proud Family's original run and Six Feet Under, as well as the release of The 40-Year-Old Virgin. Plus we talk about Pickleball and Wild Crime!

We're back! And we've got a double episode with topics from the last two weeks of 2005 & 2015. That means we're covering It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Video on Trial, Straight Outta Compton, and Photograph by Nickelback. Plus, Evan rants about prestige TV, and Mal breaks down the Culchs from Las Culturistas. Join us for a big episode!

Get your toques on and your poutines hot, this week is almost all Canadian Content. After talking about 2005's cult classic Sky High, we go heavy on the Canadiana as we talk about the end of Degrassi: The Next Generation and the untimely passing of Chris Hyndman. Join us as we wax poetic and patriotic!

This week we had one topic for Mallory, one for Evan, and one for someone else (we think). We talked about the debut of So You Think You Can Dance, the firing of Hulk Hogan from the WWE, and 2005's Hustle and Flow. Join us for another great episode!