527: Ghosts in Pop Culture
The Popcast With Knox and Jamie
Knox McCoy and Jamie Golden
4.8 • 7.1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 October 2023
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we discuss the things in pop culture that haunt us, our most formative ghosts, and the ghosts we’d exorcise from the entertainment realm. Plus we have a brand new Popcast Pop Quiz: Which Pop Culture Ghost Are You? Listen to the episode at knoxandjamie.com/527 and take the quiz and knoxandjamie.com/ghostquiz. Links are in the show notes and in our bio.
MENTIONS
- ALERT! It’s the last week to order our new, limited edition merch. KnoxandJamie.com/shop
- Mentions: Star Wars plot holes | Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip | Amanda Peet IMDb | Sarah Paulson Instagram | The Problem with Smurfette via The Atlantic | Suzi and her Pesto | GoT S8 | Rolling Stone’s The 100 Greatest TV Shows of All Time | George R.R. Martin says be patient | lyrics: Give It Away by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Boom Boom Pow by Black Eyed Peas, Bang Bang by Jessie J and Ariana Grade and Nicki Minaj (fact check: Is Bang Bang sauce the same as Yum Yum?), Stars are Blind by Paris Hilton | Idris Elba won’t be playing James Bond | What’s up with the Broccoli family? | The ghosts in A Christmas Carol | What does the Grim Reaper do? | The Pac-Mac ghosts have different personalities?! | book: Scary Stories to Tell in The Dark by Alvin Schwartz | movie: Arachnophobia | Flying Dutchman (not: this one, So… which countries are Dutch?) | Barbossa | Smoke monster explained (see 438: Pilot Program- Lost) | film: Ghost | yikes: Moaning Myrtle | The Legend of Sleepy Hallow is different than The Headless Horseman?! | Boo Berry cereals
- NEW! POPCAST POP QUIZ: knoxandjamie.com/ghostquiz
- Red light mentions: free time flex, Dollaritas, John Stamos memoir
BONUS SEGMENT
Our Patreon supporters can get full access to this week’s The More You Know news segment. Become a partner. This week we discussed Joshua Jackson and Lupita Nyong'o.
GREEN LIGHTS
- Jamie: movie - Killers of the Flower Moon (see also: the book was a 2017 green light, Lily Gladstone interview)
- Knox: book- MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios by Joanna Robinson
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It was like Casper's thing, pretty chill, you know what I mean? |
| 0:02.7 | Like, there seems to be some ghost though. |
| 0:04.6 | He didn't know, he didn't know the horrors yet. |
| 0:06.6 | He had not broken his innocence. |
| 0:07.8 | That's true, that's true. |
| 0:08.8 | Who just, who just raw dog opened the can? |
| 0:10.5 | Was that you, Aaron? |
| 0:11.3 | Was that you? |
| 0:12.1 | No, no, that would be. |
| 0:13.1 | Jason. |
| 0:14.1 | Jason, my man. |
| 0:15.1 | All right, thought I was muted. |
| 0:16.9 | I was muted and then I had to come back. |
| 0:18.2 | I like that he went off, he thought that if he turned off |
| 0:20.7 | his camera, he couldn't hear it. |
| 0:22.7 | Yeah, I like that. |
| 0:23.8 | It's like object, permanent something here. |
| 0:25.4 | Hello, and welcome to episode 5, 27 of The Popcats. |
| 0:36.0 | I'm William. |
| 0:37.0 | Nice to meet you. |
| 0:38.0 | And I'm your other host, Jamie Golden. |
| 0:39.0 | The Popcats, is a show dedicated to the LFO ADC, and we're |
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