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Welcome to Pop Cult: The Fame Files We have two very special guests to join us for the re-telling of this very disturbing scenario at one of TV’s most watched shows. We can only imagine the collective number of jaws that hit the floor on the morning of November 29, 2017. Matt Lauer’s fall from grace was truly unprecedented but also loooooong overdue. If we leave you with nothing else let it be thi...

Our show line up had us utterly stunned this week. We’re living in a world where Below Deck only got a $16,000 tip after cleaning up literal sh*t. Britani is screeching at the spa. Kim refuses to have a convo with Natalie on camera even though it’s literally her JOB! The Selling Sunset girlies are this close to putting out a hit on one another. And the Mormon Wives have legit the worst taste in me...

Welcome to Pop Cult: The Fame Files Perhaps the most strange celebrity death we’re aware of, Brittany Murphy’s case is one that left us perplexed. She was gone far too soon and deserved SO much better from all of the people in her life - we’re looking at you, Sharon.   The Fame Files is part of Pop Cult, where we unpack pop culture’s biggest stories, scandals, and icons. Join us on Tuesday for our...

We’re having withdrawals on not only one but two fronts this week. We’ve eaten up every crumb that Taylor has given us and trust we WILL be rewatching. The Kardashians has ended after 10 short episodes and Avery is devastated because her TV bestie, Khloe, will no longer be handing out the best advice to have ever been heard. Julia is Kim K’s biggest supporter on her law school endeavors and would...

Welcome to Pop Cult: The Fame Files As some of you may know, icon and absolute legend, Taylor Swift, bought her masters back earlier this year after a years-long battle with many underhanded men in the industry who sold them behind her back. Now that she officially owns her body of work and is wildly more successful than any of those little sh*ts, we are unpacking the details of one of the music i...

Taylor had us glued to our screens once again, to the point that Julia only took one note the entire two episodes. Kylie has us in a debate about ghosts and potential….squatters?? Demi is wreaking havoc upon everyone in her life, but most notably, her own. The girls have decided it’s time to throw Joe and Kizzi overboard due to their transgressions. There’s a new girl at SUR and Avery identifies w...

Welcome to Pop Cult: The Fame Files This catastrophic event will forever be known to us as the festival that went to shit…….like, literally. Julia and Avery both agree that this sounds like our own personal hell and if you don’t agree - we’re clinically concerned. We dive into perhaps the most unsafe and unsanitary weekend in the history of music and we’re frankly thrilled that we as a society lef...

It’s officially been 4 days since Miss Swift herself graced us with the docuseries of a lifetime. We couldn’t be more enthralled if we tried. ROUND OF APPLAUSE SHE’S DONE IT AGAIN. We agree that VPR season 12 is giving what it needs to give so far even though the men are diabolically evil. Whitney has returned to MomTok with a not so warm welcome, similar to Kourtney at Kim’s graduation party. The...

Welcome to Pop Cult: The Fame Files I think we can all agree that The Ellen Degeneres Show feels nostalgic for many reasons - the giveaway, the games, Ellen dancing down the stairs at 3pm everyday. But there was a much darker energy lurking around behind closed doors. We dive into the details behind the toxic workplace allegations and whether or not Ellen is really to blame… The Fame Files is part...

War is over. Vanderpump Rules is back - and there are some sneaky parallels that we begin to dissect. One question for the casting department: why did we think it was a good idea to cast a man who has already been on two other reality shows????? Anyway, Kim is back in Paris wearing diamonds to court and we’re grateful we didn’t have to see Kourtney in this episode. If there’s one thing the Mormon...

Welcome to Pop Cult: The Fame Files This scandal is definitely Avery’s Roman Empire and we think you’ll understand why after listening. Hell hath no fury like a scorned woman. But what about…two scorned women. What started as an illicit affair ended in 3 lawsuits and the end of a 9 year relationship. Moral of the story: trust NO ONE. On a lighter note, we no longer have to see Tom Sandoval on our...

We’re already feeling Dancing with the Stars withdrawals and are BEGGING to bring back 2 seasons a year. How else will we maintain our dance critique skills?? But don’t fret because Mormon Wife Whitney has some big news that’s got us locked in. The rest of the Mormon Wives continue to piss us off, along with the one and only, Kourtney Kardashian, who is getting WAY too much screen time this season...

Welcome to Pop Cult: The Fame Files If there’s one thing we know about celebrities it’s that they love a white collar crime, and this one may have been the most shocking and infamous of all time. We all know the rich and famous are partial to making some bad decisions - but this time, they’re bringing their kids down with them. We dive into all the details with no college application left unturned...

Julia is officially a Special Forces convert as we wrap up the season. Fox better watch their back if we have to see Dylan Efron on next season - like, seriously we’re over him if you couldn’t already tell. Kourtney K is also still on our shit list. And Avery is still feeling utter devastation over being denied a Mark Ballas freestyle on the DWTS finale. Drama in the Mormon Wives sphere moves too...

Welcome to Pop Cult: The Fame Files If there were ever a time for the phrase “the court of public opinion” it would be for this infamous defamation case. This case was already a wild card in and of itself with the details that unfolded but cameras in the courtroom took this pop culture phenomenon to a whole new level. Often referred to as “a trial by TikTok” the social media sleuths really found t...

The girls are feeling GRATEFUL this week for 2 major reasons - ONE: We have been RELEASED from the Golden Bachelor and its offensively awful season. TRUST we will NEVER watch the Golden franchise again and will give the Bachelor franchise ONE LAST CHANCE with our girl Taylor. Which leads us to TWO: The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives returns for season 3 and we could not be more excited. The women ar...

Welcome to Pop Cult: The Fame Files If Kim K broke the internet, the Mormon Wives of Utah broke TikTok on that one fateful day in May 2022. For those of us who are chronically online, our jaws were all collectively on the floor watching the details of this swinging scandal unfold. And if there’s one thing the Church of Latter Day Saints and the Mormon Wives have in common, it’s that they can’t ste...

We have officially been freed from the shackles of Love Is Blind season 9. Like seriously we’re never going to Denver. Luckily for us, we’ve been blessed with the return of Selling Sunset and also perhaps with the exit of Nicole??? A girl can dream *sigh* We can’t even express how excited we are to be almost done with Golden Bachelor. We’re NEVER covering that show AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!! VIPs of this...

Welcome to Pop Cult: The Fame Files If there’s one thing celebrities know well…it’s a love triangle. In this episode of The Fame Files , we’re throwing it back to the late 2000s to deep dive into the elusive relationship, marriage and divorce between Scarlett Johansson and Ryan Reynolds. Did anyone else have zero idea that they were married? I only know a world with Ryan and Blake, so shoutout Jul...

Welcome back to another episode of Reality Digest ! We are thoroughly enjoying yapping about all of our shows but are SO happy to say that Love Is Blind season 9 is officially behind us - what a train wreck. But fear not because we have a new train back on the track with Selling Sunset season 9 premiering this week. And this one is going to be a DOOZEY. The outfits and the drama are of course next...

Welcome to Pop Cult: The Fame Files We’re throwing it back to the 80s this week to tell the story of the recording of the song “We Are The World”. We dive into the dynamics of having 40 of the biggest artists of the time coming together for a cause to record a song where no one person is truly the star of the show (cough, cough Prince). Perhaps our most pressing question: how did people get in tou...

We’ve got another lengthy Reality Digest coming your way this week. We’re both still perplexed by the shocking news of the Louvre heist but I think we conjured up some pretty compelling theories in our humble opinion. We also talk about the return of our favorite gaggle of girls - The Kardashians has made its return and Khloè had us cracking up the entire episode. And of course, we dissect the lat...

Welcome to Pop Cult: The Fame Files Her death shocked Hollywood and beyond fueled decades of conspiracy theories. Was it an overdose or something more? Did a certain pair of politically powerful brothers have anything to do with it? Did she have ties to the Communist Party? In this episode of The Fame Files , we unpack the mystery of Marilyn Monroe’s death, her final hours, and the alleged truths...

We know this episode is long….but who can blame us??? The celebs, reality stars and influencers are giving us SO much content recently!! We get into the Eras Tour Docuseries, Taylor Franke Paul’s Instagram rampage, some OG beauty Youtuber drama - and that’s just scratching the surface. And we OF COURSE do a deep dive into our current show line up - RHOSLC, Below Deck Med, Special Forces, Golden Ba...

From “The only thing I'm guilty of is being Shah-mazing” to prison inmate. When RHOSLC star Jen Shah was arrested for wire fraud and money laundering, NO ONE saw it coming - except whoever sent the feds to Beauty Lab that fateful day ( allegedly ). In this episode, we do a deep dive into how her scheme worked, who it hurt, and how her story became one of the most shocking moments in Real House...