430: Wealth in Pop Culture
The Popcast With Knox and Jamie
Knox McCoy and Jamie Golden
4.8 • 6.9K Ratings
🗓️ 24 November 2021
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, you can bet your bottom dollar that we bring up Scrooge McDuck in our discussion about wealth in pop culture. Join us as we talk about the things we thought as a kid were a sign that someone was rich and the genres of rich people in tv and movies. Plus, we share some relatable listener comments that are right on the money.
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- Source: Non-Rich People Are Sharing Subtly Obvious Signs Of Wealth, And Honestly, It's Pretty Eye-Opening (via Yahoo)
- Most comments on our Instagram ever: What is something you thought as a kid was a sign someone was rich?
- The height of wealth: Swatch, Keds, the loft apartment in Big, Brewster’s Millions, Holbrooke Grant’s three iMacs in Date Night, Zack Morris’ cell phone, MTV Cribs, Chris Sacca on Twitter, Ooni pizza oven.
- Wealth on tv and in movies: Breaking Bad, Parasite, The Pursuit of Happyness, Wall Street, Succession, The Wire, Yellowstone
- Scrooge McDicks: Scrooge McDuck, Mr. Potter from It’s A Wonderful Life, Jabba The Hutt
- Teen Titans: Clueless, My Super Sweet 16, Gossip Girl
- Tech Turds: Tony Stark, Bruce Wayne
- Rich But Don’t Mention It: Modern Family, Sex and the City, Cosby Show, The Good Doctor
- Quiz: rich nipples vs. poor nipples
- Rabbit trail: History of Canopy Beds (via Thought Catalog)
- Stay humble: Foldover sandwich bags
- Redlight mentions: Kim and Pete are pretending to date, Knox may have to become a Florida fan
- Special thanks to our comment contributors: @actuallyjuliastyles, @kabraun14, @brittlewallen8, @micheleleighdavis, @juniper.leigh, @dannis.du.jour, @theletteringjenny
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| 0:00.0 | This is why I don't tell real-sage and you run on negotiables. I'll say that's private and that's for me |
| 0:04.2 | Wait, you're not gonna make your job easier. It's private. They're your real estate. No, because they're gonna sell me out because of the day |
| 0:10.0 | They don't care about me. They care about making that sale. Okay, so I'm gonna keep that close my best |
| 0:14.0 | Realtors, real-tors, please. Uh, nox McQueen noxatginoxadayby.com. Yeah, it's okay. They're gonna bury me in the house. I'm in I'm never selling again |
| 0:20.7 | So it's all good |
| 0:22.7 | And I might be soon to be honest with you in my- Hello and welcome to episode 430 of the popcasts on where your host |
| 0:37.1 | Boxboy and I'm your other host Jamie Golden. The popcasts is a show dedicated to the life of it is the more committed |
| 0:42.5 | Educating you on things entertain it but do not matter. To find out more about these affluent |
| 0:46.9 | Proceeds check us out at noxonjami.com. You can also find us on Instagram and Facebook at the popcast and we're on Twitter at |
| 0:53.4 | Podcast Pod. Thanks for joining us this week as we are going to be talking wealth and riches in pop culture. But before we do that |
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| 1:47.7 | Hi Jamie, so we're gonna talk wealth and riches and pop culture in today's episode we're doing this |
| 1:53.3 | Because we are wealthy and rich and we're experts at it. No, we know all about this lifestyle is of the rich and famous |
| 1:59.0 | Etc. So I guess was last week's somewhere, you know episode. Yes, yeah, one of the news items we were kicking around was this Yahoo article |
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