512: Redundancies in Pop Culture
The Popcast With Knox and Jamie
Knox McCoy and Jamie Golden
4.8 • 7.1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 July 2023
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we talk redundancies in pop culture. From completely interchangeable celebrity couples to nerdy, male actors, we discuss who we don’t really need and who is the apex of their trope. Plus we settle who has the best fast food and we talk redundancies in pop culture.
MENTIONS
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- Situation: AI images we didn’t use for last week’s episode
- Define: Stolen lunch money- there is a need for this type of thing / role / service / actor etc but who/what we traditionally associate with it has shifted.
- Pop culture redundancies- there was a need for this type of thing / role / service / actor etc but now it is no longer needed at all.
- Not needed: Scamanda | Frosted Tips
- Trope: Black best friend
- 4/3: Toy Story 4 | Pirates 4 | MIB 4 | Indiana Jones 4 | Penny Dreadful (see also: Goofus and Gallant)
- Mentions: Dr. Hartman | Readers Digest
- Choose: Ryan Reynolds & Blake Lively | Orlando Bloom & Katy Perry | Ashton Kutcher & Mila Kunis | Justin Timberlake & Jessica Biel | Joaquin Phoenix & Rooney Mara | Dax Shepard & Kristen Bell | Blake Shelton & Gwen Stefani
- Lineup: Christian Bale | Mahershala Ali | Pedro Pascal | Colin Ferrell | Cillian Murphy | Donald Glover | Tom Hardy | Jake Johnson | Oscar Isaac | Chris Pine | Brian Tyree Henry | Ryan Gosling | Joseph Gordon-Levitt | Steven Yeun | Andrew Garfield | Chiwetel Ejiofor | Adam Driver | Dev Patel
- Choose: Chris O'Dowd | Michael Cera | Justin Long | Mr. Bean | Brain | David Tennant | David Schwimmer | Jim Parsons | McLovin | Johnny Galecki | Jesse Eisenberg | Andrew Garfield (see also: red carpet, Batkid) | Daniel Radcliffe | Simon Pegg | Alfonso Riberio
- See also: Tessemae’s | Garlic Expressions | Dorothy Lynch | Raising Cane’s
- Red light mentions: The Bear S2 | Letterboxd
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the pop |
| 0:02.0 | I saw like a bee in the corner and I was like |
| 0:06.8 | Is on the outside of my window that's what that |
| 0:08.6 | We're the name of our show. So that gives us kind of what it also is |
| 0:13.1 | Honestly, full transparency |
| 0:15.6 | Lurgic to bees right no it was like I was like I was like I've already like probably |
| 0:20.1 | A horn in your in your multi-floor |
| 0:24.1 | Off the outside on the outside. Oh, it's not even the room. No, it was just in the corner |
| 0:28.9 | So part of it was like um, you know hornet close |
| 0:32.5 | But then like 51% of it was like they're gonna make fun of me now because I got like a hornet |
| 0:36.8 | They got nats. That's what it really was. That was just pure vanity right there. That was pure vanity. Okay. Well sorry |
| 0:42.4 | Let's try this again. Okay. All right three two one |
| 0:52.8 | Hello, oh, I got destined number five twelve of the pop cast. Um when you host knocks me boy |
| 0:56.8 | And I'm your other host Jamie Golden the pop cast is a show dedicated to the life of a DC or committed educating you on things entertain |
| 1:03.3 | Do not matter to find out more about these redundant proceeds check us out at noxonjademe.com |
| 1:08.3 | You can also find us on instagram and facebook at the podcast and we're on twitter at popcast.pod |
| 1:13.2 | But but only for 600 so only only limited. It's cast so make sure you get there |
| 1:19.2 | Uh, thanks for joining us this week as we are going to be talking pop culture redundancies |
| 1:22.9 | But before you do that you guys July is a magical month. It's nox is wedding anniversary |
| 1:28.0 | It's the birthdays of our staffers Emily and Madison as well as america |
| 1:32.4 | Even though she's she's a situation right now |
| 1:34.6 | It's also Lisa kudrow's birthday and Lisa kudrow's in play tv on friends turned 60 this month |
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