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Episode Notes Will Holds down the fort for another show as Lorraine is currently en route to Tokyo from Kyoto. Or maybe the other way around. There aren't many places where you can from one city to another where both cities are anagrams of each other. Stepping into the breech this week is their old pal, Dave Curran. Dave is a friend and colleague from Coláiste Dhúlaigh like Nicky from the last sho...

Episode Notes This week, Lorraine is off helping the Japanese authorities with some podcasting issues they're having, so Will has turned to his old Podcast pal, Nicky Coghlan. Will and Nicky started making a podcast 15 years ago. Everyone has a podcast now but not 15 years ago they didn't! Will and Nicky talk about twisty-turny anthology series, Inside No. 9, which is currently heading for it's la...

Episode Notes After three (kind of)themed shows 'Fallout' and 'The Fall Guy', Pop Filthers week of rudeness with Challengers and Ashley Madison, and then the Anne Hathaway bonanza, this weeks theme is....the letter B. Our pals, Lorraine and Will, talk about Irish Twin Peaks wannabe show, Bodkin, and Billie Eilish's new album, Hit Me Hard & Soft. As podcasters themselves, can Lorraine and Will...

Episode Notes Are you a Hathahater or a Fan Hathaway? Either way, our trusted heroes have a show for you. Anne Hathaway is back with a pair of films of varying quality (within each film as well as when compared to each other). First up it's Hitchcockian grief-drama, Mother's Instinct. Can Lorraine or Will deduce just who is losing their mind between Jessica Chastain and Anne Hathaway? They've got...

Episode Notes This week Pop Filter HQ is now Pop FILTHER as our heroes look at the erotic tennis world of mixed thruples with new sports drama, Challengers. Love-All? It's more like Lust-All! After that it's the latest in a relatively short string of documentaries on the hacking of marriage stress-test site, Ashley Madison, where it seems like 35 million men were telling 4 women that their wives d...

Episode Notes It's Fall Preview time at Pop Filter HQ as our heroes deliver not one, but two, items for review that have the word 'Fall' in their titles. That's where the concept ends. Don't go looking for hidden meanings. This idea is a mile wide and a millimetre deep. Can Lorraine successfully make Amazon Prime's 'Fallout' one of her famous "Dinner Shows" or will it be too gruesome for...

Episode Notes This week our heroes test themselves by reviewing a thing that they don't like as much as they'd like to. Not much of a challenge, to be fair, but what if they told you they were reviewing Jennifer Lopez's new documentary, The Greatest Love Story NEVER Told? How would you feel about that? Well, Lorraine and Will want you to know that if they've made even one person feel that podcasti...

Episode Notes This week our heroes go over to the dark side. First off, they wrestle alongside Amy Winehouse with her demons in the new biopic, Back to Black. Then it's on to much more traditional demons in the form of late-night talk show horror film, Late Night With The Devil, where the main guest is actually....well the title kind of spoils it a bit. Don't forget, you can contact your new favou...

Episode Notes Our heroes return for a triumphant second episode on Near FM (90.3FM/ nearfm.ie ) secure in the knowledge that last weeks episode was a huge hit or nobody with the power to cancel the show was listening. Either way, episode two is 'GO!' This week, the team tackle Netflix psychodrama, Baby Reindeer, which proves to be an uncomfortable topic given the fact that Will sends dozens of tex...

Episode Notes We have a message for you.... from yer farder!!! It'll make sense once you've heard the episode. Exciting times in Pop Filter HQ. Our heroes have struck a deal with Near FM ( www.nearfm.ie ) to host the show. From now on, you can hear the episode between 7 and 8 by listening live on the website or by tuning in to 90.3FM. Either way, the show should appear in your podcast feed as soon...

Episode Notes So good they recorded it twice! Our heroes return with a vengeance after the debacle of one of them losing the SD card containing their first recording of this episode. Will insists there is no need for anyone to know who lost the card. This time, our favourite podcasting duo tackle two films which drove them to tears, The Iron Claw and All Of Us Strangers. They also tackle the serie...

Episode Notes This week's show is like an old issue of Heat magazine come back from beyond the grave. Lorraine and Will tackle some 90's icons in the form of Robbie Williams and his Netflix documentary series, Britney Spears long awaited autobiography and footballers wives camp docuseries, Wagatha Christie. Are these going to be the same old artist produced and carefully edited self promotional pi...

This week, our heroes are involved in a classic relegation battle to keep the podcast in the Premiership. With star-player, Lorraine, already eyeing a lucrative move to Freedom FM UTD and Will looking to play out his twilight playing years with a spell in Saudi Arabia, this is a make or break game for Pop Filter FC. With this in mind, who better to cast their eyes over new Netflix documentary seri...

Episode Notes This week, Lorraine and Will get their wetsuits on and head into the Abyss with deep-sea documentary, The Deepest Breath. They get into spoiler territory but it's clearly announced in the episode and the time stamps are below. After that, they give their thoughts on smooth, electro-poppers Destroyers album, Kaputt. This comes from their long-term listener pal, Shane. Time stamps. Spo...

Episode Notes This latest episode shows our heroes in full compliance with Podcast Law and delivering an episode where they discuss the phenomenon of Barbenheimer. This law states that every pop culture podcast must review both Barbie and Oppenheimer and Lorraine and Will, being law-abiding citizens, are happy to do their part.  After an episode where they disliked both things they reviewed, can t...

Episode Notes Today our heroes, Lorraine and Will celebrate Episode 40 of the show and in that spirit they celebrate with two pieces of pop culture that they struggle to say much good about! This week, thanks to Pop Filter superfan, Reese Martin Will and Lorraine are including timestamps in case you want to avoid or jump to certain sections of the podcast to avoid spoilers, although those are gene...

Episode Notes Ramblings Episode 4, wherein our heroes wrestle with being grown-ups and discuss the various ways they have had to disguise the fact that they don't always know what they're doing and whether they truly deserve the label 'adult'. Find out more at https://pop-filter.pinecast.co This podcast is powered by Pinecast .

With head-spinning speed, Lorraine and Will return with a new episode. This one isn't, on the surface, their usual high-brow fare. This episode is all about Aussie reality-show nightmare fever-dream, Married At First Sight. Listen to Will and Lorraine talk about how much they hate Harrison and how much they wish Cam would just be nicer to Lyndall. In amongst this, they try to make some wider obser...

Episode Notes This week, Lorraine emerges victorious when she offloads two pre-recorded intros onto Will. In a desperate act of self-sabotage, Will submits two of his shoddiest efforts to date with a triumphant 'That'll learn her!' This weeks show features Chris Rock's return to stand-up now that the swelling has gone down, Selective Outrage. Next up is Channel 4 series, Outed, which covers the ti...

Episode Notes This week, our heroes tackle the world of classical music-based cancel culture and because they are a couple of fungiis (fun guys) they also take on mushroom-based zombie show, The Last Of Us. Will is a musician without training who Lorraine rightly suspects is suspicious of conductors. Lorraine is someone who doesn't play games and doesn't like zombies. The scene is set for neither...

Episode Notes This week, the unimaginable happens to Will: U2 have taken some of his money. And he's ok with that. Lorraine and Will tackle Bono's epic, rambling autobiographical audiobook 'Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story' and gain a new appreciation of their countries most famous son. Then it's on to 'Real-Estate horror' film, Barbarian. Lorraine is wary of gory horror movies and this one has the...

Episode Notes In today's episode, Lorraine and Will return to their occasional feature; Ramblings. This is where they step away from pop culture and muse on things more sociological. Maybe. They don't really know. Today, they are tackling the topic of the lies we tell to children. Will chewing gum REALLY tie up your intestines? Did your dog REALLY go to live on a farm that time? Lorraine and Will...

Episode Notes In this episode our heroes take on, and defeat, The Most Hated Man On The Internet. Netflix's new 3 episode documentary on the loathsome Hunter Moore and his revenge porn website incites new levels of rage in Will and Lorraine towards all purveyors of toxic masculinity. The pair of SJW, virtue-signallers that they are! They also review Nathan Fielders new documentary/reality show/moc...

Episode Notes This week, Will and Lorraine are joined in conversation by our friend, Con Colbert, to have a friendly conversation about Conversations With Friends. That's not confusing at all. Unlike the protagonists of C's with F's, they are not a trio of bumbling, mumbling losers! They're a great bunch of lads altogether. Con also recommended O Emperor's album 'Jason' for our heroes to review. F...

Episode Notes In a new feature called The Culture Gap, Lorraine and Will help each other out by recommending significant pop culture texts that the other has missed or avoided. Unbelievably, Lorraine had never seen Star Wars before this episode and perhaps even more unbelievably, Will had never seen Romy & Michelle's High School Reunion. Rest assured both of those issues are fixed! Find out mo...