The Mixed Tag Podcast

Send us Fan Mail Weeee’re baaaack...and we are bringin’ the love!  We started our  little podcast right around a year ago with a V-Day episode about unconventionally romantic movies, mostly because the conventional doesn’t much resonate with either of us, and we decided to do something similar this year, though this year we decided to expand on the theme. So enjoy as we banter and babble about fic...

Send us Fan Mail While it is the season to be jolly, not all of us find ourselves immersed in the festive spirit.  In this week's episode we share some of our own experiences dealing with the stresses and pressures that the holidays can put on people, while offering suggestions on possible ways to deal with the holiday turmoil. We also discuss the ways in which pop culture media can reinforce nega...

Send us Fan Mail 'Tis the season to argue the finer points of what makes a holiday movie a holiday movie.  To do that we recruited two of our friends to come on and argue with us.  Is Die Hard a Christmas movie?  We have our opinions, on that and many other holiday classics and favourites.  Stick around at the end of the episode as we continue to play songs from local and/or independent artists/mu...

Send us Fan Mail This week is one of those weeks where we invite you to our table, so to speak, while we have a conversation. There are always things about the entertainment industry that really grind our and the public’s gears. The lack of originality in Hollywood is definitely one of them. What happened to both production companies and A-listers taking risks? Where are the dark comedies that hel...

Send us Fan Mail Annnnnd here’s a new episode just for you! We share some news announcements including upcoming tech, an album release, livestream show, casting, and a virtual film festival that’s opening with a film about a lovely group of dancing dudes from the Maritimes called The Bhangra Boys. One tidbit that surfaced has K SUPER stoked. There are a fair amount of streaming suggestions too, fr...

Send us Fan Mail The week is still newish and we have a shiny new episode for ya! We chat about some changes in the works for streaming services in Canada, share some entertainment news, diss The Mandalorian, and T chats about the new Xbox and Playstation consoles that are coming to all those fore-thinking pre-orderers out there. The pending series finale of Supernatural got us thinking about best...

Send us Fan Mail After a few weeks of one or both of us being away for various reasons, we are back at full strength and bring with us a bunch of exciting news, previews and things to banter about. We offer up our reactions to some newly released trailers, casting news, and discuss some new and some old shows that will be coming to the small screens in the nearish future. We give our thoughts on T...

Send us Fan Mail We invoked the power of three for this episode when K chatted with Jennifer Mulligan and Kait Kenel: 1 screenwriter, 1 archaeologist, & 1 archaeogenetics student studying abroad. It was a chat about Halloween and spooky fiction in general: costumes, local traditions, movies, stories. We talked about what Halloween is for us culturally and personally, about bringing kids up to...

Send us Fan Mail 'Tis the haunting season, and in honour of the month of scary movies we decided to take it upon ourselves to watch & review 31 scary movies in 31 days. We've watched the first few and we have a slightly spoiler-y chat about them, as well as discussing some news in the world of pop culture, including new casting announcements, some streaming options, and more. We also bring you...

Send us Fan Mail It's a bit of a weird episode this week, as due to a possible alien abduction and/or narcotic induced forgetfulness we couldn't do what we had originally planned. With nothing else planned for the episode we could have taken the week off.  But no, instead we adapted, we improvised and we overcame, all so we could bring our dozens and dozens of listeners the sweet soothing serenadi...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the new week everyone! In News & Previews this week we chat about changes in DC Universe, the ongoing conflict between Ray Fisher and Warner Bros, and share a fun Marvel cast announcement. We express some hopes for TIFF and the Emmys and share a couple of new streaming suggestions too. Also tied into TIFF was our Retro Rewind review of Almost Famous, as it premiered...

Send us Fan Mail A new episode has arrived and in it we bring you lots of news and previews pulled from this week’s headlines. Controversies abound, old school animation is returning and we share info on some upcoming and returning series. We ponder whether or not you can hear engines roar in space? We continue to chat about TIFF which continues through this week, with a mention of Good Joe Bell a...

Send us Fan Mail A new week means a new episode of The Pop Cult Ex-perience Podcast. This week brings us some news, some previews and some controversy.  This week also brings us back to the theatres as we both got to check out Tenet, and give not only our review of the film but our impressions of the new theatre going experience.   As well as our review of Tenet, we also share our feelings on Bill...

Send us Fan Mail It’s podcast release day! This week’s episode has so many things! We have news of the week: some of it fun, some not so much. We give a big rundown of DC Fandome with how we felt about the con overall and what we thought of all those trailers that dropped with it. There is gaming chat too where T talks about Gamescom and shares some of the games he’s excited about. As per usual, t...

Send us Fan Mail We wish you a horrific week, and by that we mean filled with horror movies! Today’s episode has us talking about the Fantasia Film Festival happening online from now through to Sept. 2. This amazing event brings us independent cinema from around the world and we chat about some of the films that have piqued our interest.  Even better than that though is that we got to talk to prod...

Send us Fan Mail Time for the new episode! You know those moments from film, game or page that just make the whole thing for you? We shared a few of ours from Pirates of the Caribbean, Supernatural, The Long Dark and House of Leaves. Got a few of your own to share? We would love to hear them! We did a dip into the past on our Retro Rewind talking about a favourite production of both of ours, Dr. H...

Send us Fan Mail It’s a brand new week and we have a brand new episode for all you awesome people! We took a look at a whole bunch of stuff over the last few weeks and here’s where we get to share what we thought about them with you, We listened to 2 new albums, 1 from an Ottawa alternative rock band we enjoy, Cevilain, and the other from the ever-evolving Ottawa-born pop music star Alanis Morrise...

Send us Fan Mail Want to know what a virtual Comic Con was like? We share our experiences and impressions and a bit of the news we encountered along the way. We talk TIFF picks, we mention space a lot, and of course bring you show and streaming news for August. There are some really great movies coming and more than a few shows you can learn about and catch up on if you haven’t checked them out al...

Send us Fan Mail The new episode is here, in Part 1 of what will be a multipart discussion, we let you in on a few of the things we believe are wrong with Hollywood and the film industry today.  Also in the episode we have our new friends, Kornicky and Mel, from the Rebel 101.7 morning show back on to conclude our new Simon Says segment, and talk about the things, good and bad, that we forced each...

Send us Fan Mail It's review time here on the podcast, and today we take a few movies to task, yes we are looking at you The Old Guard, Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga, and Palm Springs.  We have a few guests come aboard to help us review Hamilton on Disney+.  We give our impression on the groundbreaking graphic novel anthology, This Place, which explores the past 150 years in Cana...

Send us Fan Mail It's our first episode of July, which means it is time for our News and Previews episode, where we let you fine folk in on all the happenings in the world of pop culture for the month of July and general near future.  On this episode we run the gamut from theatre re-openings, new movie release dates, changes to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, lost films, and found...

Send us Fan Mail Happy Canada Day Everyone! We hope you're chillin' and enjoying yourselves. If you're looking for some Canadian entertainment for the day, give us a listen! We build you a fantastic driving playlist if you feel like taking a tour down one of our highways. We have some awesome Canadian movie recommendations if you feel like hiding out in the air conditioning and share some Canuck T...

Send us Fan Mail We have a new cast for you!  We brought on some fantastic guests to talk about pop culture that’s special to them, and there was a whole lotta LGBTQIA+ pride going on, as there should always be! They shared some terrific movies, TV, book series, and music, and we all got to rejoice in how pop culture can bring us forward in accepting others and ourselves. It is full of awesomeness...

Send us Fan Mail We have a new Rant, Rave and Review episode for you to enjoy! We dish on our impressions of the TV series Upload (Prime) and Space Force (Netflix). T talks Minecraft Dungeons (Xbox Game Pass). The Raconteurs new live EP and documentary, Live at Electric Lady (Spotify) got us into a good groove. Our last two reviews for the episode are for the movies The Vast of Night (Prime), a te...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we share some of these moments in our Pop Culture History spot (for more information, see the links below). With all the heavy out there, we call back to a whimsical, quirky movie that we talked about in our very first episode, Wristcutters: A Love Story. We bring you news of a streaming concert by some of Ottawa's own on Jun 27th for Rock the Quarantine. We also h...