Pop Zach’s Culture

Why do we fall Master Bruce? So we can learn to pick ourselves back up. Happy Batversary! Batman Begins turns 20 years old this year and Zach watched the 2005’s Christopher Nolan masterpiece, Batman Begins for the first time. This movie is launched careers for Christian Bale, Christopher Nolan, and Cillian Murphy. Starred greats like Micheal Caine, Gary Oldman, Morgan Freeman, Liam Neeson, Rutger...

It’s cartoon and children’s programming time! We talk about Zach’s or cartoon knowledge and lack of know of children’s programming. Will Zach know Sesame Street, The Flintstones, or Ms. Piggy? Can he tell us about South Park or The Simpsons or even Charlie Brown? Maybe he will know about Popeye or the Smurfs? Surely he will know what Porky Pig says. We try to see what cartoons he remotely knows ab...

It’s homecoming season! What were the songs played at your homecoming? Do you remember the songs at homecoming? Are the artists still around? We discuss all this today. High school is in full swing and so is high school football and homecoming events! Zach and I trade playlists from our 4 years in high school respectively, that could have played at a homecoming dance. #homecoming #footballsback #h...

The NFL, college football, and high school football are back this week. How much does Zach know about football movies? How many of these movies has he even seen? Would most NFL players be disappointed with him for not knowing them? We test Zach knowledge of football movies and if he has seen any!

We talk about the 1994 Farrelly brothers directed, Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniel’s masterpiece Dumb and Dumber. Is Dumb and Dumber Jim Carrey's Mona Lisa? Could you ever remake Dumb and Dumber? Is the toilet scene one of the funniest of all time? We talk about why we like it a lot and why sea bass should not kick our you know what’s.

What are the greatest songs of all time? Queen? Led Zeppelin? The Beatles? Michael Jackson? Imagine Dragons? What? We make our top ten lists of what we think are the greatest songs of all time! Zach and I debate our top ten greatest songs of all time.

How much do you know about Taylor Swift? How much do you know about Friends? How about the movie Frozen? What about Will Smith and the Academy Awards? Zach will be sleeping in tent after this! We test how much Zach has learned after 11 episodes.

Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly, Adam Scott, and Adam McKay what could go right! The 2008 comedy classic Step Brothers! Why are you sweating? Did you touch my drum set? Don't lose your dinosaur! Zach finally watched 2008 classic, Step Brothers!

I'm bringing SexyBack! Yea! Lovestoned, My Love, and What Goes Around Comes around. Fast Car, Where the Wild things are, and Love You Anyway. Zach and Ben swap favorite albums, Future/Sex Love Sounds and Gettin Old and each listened and reviewed.

What about the NFL? What about College Football? What about high school football? NFL football is the most popular sport in America, but Ben doesn't watch anything but the Super Bowl. Zach tries his best to convince me I should watch the NFL, but does he succeed?

The Adam Sandler breakout hit! This movie had you arguing with your shampoo, asking if you want some of this milk sideburns and saying O'Doyle Rules! We discuss the greatness that is the 1995 classic, Billy Madison.

Kevin James and Will Ferrell in separate bad movies, great! At least Mike Ditka is in one of them. We finally talk about Kicking and Screaming and Paul Blart Mall Cop.

We play word association and Zach does what Zach does. This episode dives into SNL on accident and Zach realizes its cultural impact

We talk fishing and Canada! Just stop it!

We talk about books and their cultural relevance in Zach’s life. We touch on a butter cow, lots of bows and arrows, and talking trees.

Trying to question my pop culture knowledge Zach quizzes me on things that mostly have nothing to do with pop culture. Except one Taylor Swift question.

Michael Jordan, Bugs Bunny, and Bill Murray sign me up! The 1994 animated classic Space Jam. Cartoons, The Goat, and Larry bird come and enjoy. Zach watched Space Jam for the first time! We discuss the movie and why it’s great.

First episode where we discuss sport movies. Rocky, Field of Dreams, Blue Chips, Rudy, The Sandlot, Friday Night Lights, Hoop Dreams, Tin Cup, Miracle, Mighty Ducks. Zach’s list is painfully incomplete but still has some merit. Enjoy!

We talk about superhero movies, and how Zach may not know what a superhero really is.