Pop Culture Boner

We reached the tenth episode of Pop Culture Boner ! Exciting! We celebrated by procrastinating our way into a YouTube rabbit hole, obviously. This week’s episode takes a look at the true crime genre - specifically what true crime looks like in slick Netflix documentaries, versus what true crime looks like on the internet. Does our global obsession with the grisly details of murder look different d...

In 2016, Ghostbusters kicked off a trend that’s seen a spate of female-lead remakes of classic Hollywood franchises.  But nothing gets a man on the internet all hot under the collar like threatening to remake his favourite movie franchise with women in it. Even in the face of internet uproar, Ocean’s 8 and High Fidelity have gotten the same makeover. On this week’s Pop Culture Boner , we’re lookin...

Lana Del Rey is not the pop star America wants, but she is the pop star America deserves. This week on Pop Culture Boner we look into the grim nostalgia that props up Lana Del Rey’s work and the consequences staring too hard into the shadows of Americana. Spoilers: it’s sexy, sexy death sex. As a fun little bonus, listen out for me mispronouncing the word ‘posthumously’ as I do every single time I...

Magic Mike is a serious film with a serious, Academy Award-winning director. So why does it suck? Or, more specifically, why is it so vastly outstripped by its sequel, Magic Mike XXL , a film with a montage about bedazzling your own stage thong? This week on Pop Culture Boner , we’re thinking about male strippers, female audiences and why Magic Mike XXL is perhaps the greatest film ever made. Visi...

Everyone has some sort of guilty pleasure - something in their browser history they won’t share. What if your guilty pleasure was an angry British chef with forehead wrinkles as deep as the River Thames? On the first of our Pop Culture Boner guest episodes, we chat to artist and friend of the pod, Jamie Preisz about cooking, reailty TV and why he loves Gordon Ramsay so much.  You can find Jamie on...

This week’s Pop Culture Boner reviews the complicated world of the Purge franchise. Why did it get so big? What does it mean? Would we be lingerie-wearing murder bunnies with chainsaws, or would we be hiding in the house? Probably hiding in the house - let’s be honest. We’re not good with confrontation. Visit the website for episode notes and a full transcript: www.popcultureboner.com Visit the we...

Here at Pop Culture Boner , we so desperately want to believe. We haven’t decided what we’re going to believe in yet, but aliens are looking like a pretty safe bet, thanks to the power of pop punk. Join us, as we dip our toes in the magical realms of conspiracy theories and the celebrities who believe them. Visit the website for episode notes and a full transcript: www.popcultureboner.com Visit th...

Is Harry Styles the first boy band member ever to have successfully grown his hair out and worn nail polish? Or is Robbie Williams actually the blueprint for fully fledged post-Brit-boyband stardom? In the third episode of Pop Culture Boner , we’re drawing some tenuous links between the two. Because we can. Visit the website for episode notes and a full transcript: www.popcultureboner.com Visit th...

Have you ever thought about kissing Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson directly on his mouth? Thought about slipping The Rock the tongue? No? Not even after he saved a small American city from a large gorilla? Me either. On the second episode of Pop Culture Boner, we’re thinking about why. Visit the website for episode notes and a full transcript: www.popcultureboner.com Visit the website for episode notes...

For this maiden voyage, we’re thinking about what it means to be Post Malone in the world. Does music have to have a message? Is it ok to just be a man who likes swords and pingers? Is capitalism slowly killing us all?  (Maybe. Hard to say. Yes, definitely.) Visit the website for episode notes and a full transcript: www.popcultureboner.com Visit the website for episode notes and a full transcript:...

Pop Culture Boner was originally started as a blog back in 2012 after several days spent awake watching the X-Files and forming unnecessarily strong opinions on episode structure. It was designed to cover pop cultural phenomena, movies, music and a heavy dose of celebrity trash. Since no one has read a blog since like 2012, we thought we'd relaunch in podcast format. Same weird rants about th...