The Pop Cult EX-perience
A tale as old as time itself. The classic story of boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy and girl start a pop culture podcast together 20 some odd years later.
Welcome to the Pop Cult Ex-perience brought to you by Karen Giffin and Tyler Smith. Two former flames, once inseparable, now find themselves separated by 6000 miles and a couple of decades. Still friends, with a similar love for all things pop culture and a similar want to share our love of these things with y'all. We talk movies, TV, gaming, comics, books, music and any other manner of things that we fancy. Join us for our weekly podcasts to hear about news, musings, commentary, reviews and upcoming fun things in the world of entertainment. We will also be doing bonus episodes with themed content and the occasional live stream for extra fun. Follow us on Twitter (@PopCultExP) and Instagram (@popcultexp) We want to hear your thoughts and ideas too. Feel free to comment on posts or DM us any time.
Episodes
125 episodes
"Where The F?"
SummaryIn this weeks episode of the podcast we share our recent experiences, including a captivating concert by Cyndi Lauper and a theatre performance of Much Ado About Nothing in London. We discuss the potential Buffy the Vampire Slaye...
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Season 6
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Episode 2
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1:39:39
The Break-Up
In our return for a new season, we chat about and recommend some breakup movies in honor of Valentine's Day (and also the 25th anniversary of our own breakup). We discuss a variety of films, from classics like 'Chasing Amy' and 'High Fidelity' ...
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Season 6
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Episode 1
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59:39
A Short Chat About Longlegs
In today's episode, we explore the harmonica's important role in 90's alternative rock and the need for more of it in modern music. We discuss the impact of horror in literature and film, our appreciation of the genre, and the challenges ...
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Season 5
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Episode 12
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57:03
We Are But Strange Darlings
We start this weeks episode by diving into the live music scene as one of took in some live music over the weekend. We then confess our music crushes over the years, reflect on reality TV and music competitions, and share their ideal casting ch...
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Season 5
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Episode 11
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53:03
The Draft - 1994
In this all new episode of the Pop Cult Experience podcast, we, and a special guest fill out our respective movie line-ups in the Movie Draft. We had to select films from various genres including thrillers, romance, crime, fantasy, and musicals...
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Season 5
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Episode 10
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23:49
Ask the Ex-perts
In this week's all new episode, we have friend of the pod Erin on the cast as she has some questions she wanted to ask our opinion on. We talk about life imitating art, censorship, streaming vs theatrical releases and more. We revie...
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Season 5
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Episode 9
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1:17:38
Happy Canada Day, Eh!
In this week's episode we celebrate Canada's Day by offering up some suggestions of some all Canadian things to watch, things to read, things to listen to, things to play and things to eat. Enjoy and Happy Canada Day!!
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Season 5
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Episode 8
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1:16:03
Bad Boys and Bat Men
This episode we discuss some new news, recast a classic 80's movie, review a few things, and rank all the men who've donned the cape and cowl. Enjoy.
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Season 5
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Episode 7
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1:20:44
Public Service Address
With just a month to go before they hit the stage here in Ottawa, the lovely lads from Cevilain jump on the podcastr for a lengthy chat about everything going on with the themselves and the band. We laugh, we cry, we laugh again. Jo...
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Season 5
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Episode 6
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1:35:41
Who's On First
With a new series of Doctor Who out there in the universe, and with a new Doctor at the helm of said series, our resident Doctor Who expert, Karen, takes a look back at all the Doctors who have come before and ranks them all. Who ...
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Season 5
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Episode 5
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30:18
Answering The Kat Signal
A new episode, a new guest host. A new friend and guest host joins me on this episode, as me and said friend took in a few events in the last little bit and decided we should have ourselves a conversation about it,. So after ...
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Season 5
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Episode 4
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57:45
From Inside the Womb
In this week’s episode one half of us comes to you live from inside The Womb, a new and unique music and community venue here in Ottawa. We sit down with Sarah and talk about why and how The Womb came to be and all the ideas she has to expand i...
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Season 5
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Episode 3
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47:33
The Bloodbash Interviews
With The Bloodbash only a few days, we jumped online with the five bands who will be entertaining the masses over two nights. Here are all the things that were said, The Bloodbash is a two night music fest put together by ou...
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Season 5
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Episode 2
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1:32:42
Party Like It's 1999
It's the start of a new season. And season 5 of the podcast is a bit of a special one as it is also the 25th anniversary of when we met and subsequently dated and pretty much the reason this podcast exists. So we start things pff...
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Season 5
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Episode 1
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1:16:30
Our Chat With Charlie
In this extra special episode of the podcast, we got the chance to interview the charismatic and charming Charlie Kerr, lead singer of Hotel Mira, who are currently in the last legs of a cross-Canada tour in support of their new album, “I Am...
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Season 5
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Episode 0
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53:50
A Little Bit of News and a New York Ninja
It's a news heavy episode as we start things off catching up on all the things we've missed the last few weeks. We finish things off talking about the interesting story behind the 1984 martial arts flick, New York Ninja,
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Season 4
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Episode 14
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1:31:05
A Large Double Double Experience
Grab yourself a coffee, sit back, relax and enjoy the experience as we talk to one half of Double Experience, They are a band, they are Twitch streamers, they are self-professed nerds. Brock sits down with us to talk about the ba...
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Season 4
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Episode 13
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54:42
Friday The 13th
When a Friday the 13th just happens to fall in October, there is only one thing to do. Dedicate an entire episode to talking about Friday the 13th franchise. 12 movies. 29 years. 198 kills. The creation of nu...
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Season 4
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Episode 12
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1:15:41
From Far and Wide and The Space Between.
It’s an all Canadian episode this week on the podcast as we get ready to celebrate Canada Day. Not only are we shining a spotlight on the day, but also on the month as we talk about some Canadian films focused on Queer and Trans st...
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Season 4
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Episode 11
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1:16:10
#NIPD2023
On this week's episode we celebrate National Indigenous Peoples Day by talking about some indigenous artists, musicians, movies and events that you can enjoy from all across Canada, and right here in our home town of Ottawa.
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Season 4
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Episode 10
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46:14
Welcome to Jurassic Park
In this all new episode, we show off our fondness for Jurassic Park and give it some much deserved banter as it celebrates it's 30th anniversary, We then go head to head and pick the flicks we will be putting up against each other in ...
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Season 4
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Episode 9
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1:04:52
The Lasso-verse
We have a new episode for you!It's a simple but fun episode. We talk about our love for Ted Lasso before making our way Across The Spider-Verse. We then give mention to Art by Veya and Alanna Sterling, two artists/creators t...
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Season 4
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Episode 8
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1:11:09
Threesomes and Villainy
With the release of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 capping off one of the greatest of all trilogies of all time we decided to have a talk about the best of the best in the world of movie threesomes. Also coming out the Guardians of the...
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Season 4
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Episode 7
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1:34:56
Guardians of the False Peak
On this week's episode we take a look at some of the headlines from around the interwebs. Writers are on strike, sequels are in the works, folk are following Gunn from Marvel to DC, Pedro continues to be everywhere, and Carrie Fisher goes from ...
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Season 4
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Episode 6
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1:28:19