638: Pop Culture No-Contact List Preview
The Popcast With Knox and Jamie
Knox McCoy and Jamie Golden
4.8 • 6.9K Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2025
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we’re opening the group chat to listener submissions about what deserves a firm (and perhaps permanent) no-contact heading into 2026. Consider this your permission slip to protect your peace and maybe block a few things while you’re at it. Plus, Knox and Jamie have a rare mutual green light.
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- Our full show notes are at knoxandjamie.com/638
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- See the art and read the IG Comments | No-Contact explainer | Oprah’s podcast episode
- Jamie, Knox and Erin’s No-Contact Mentions: Mel Robbins op Ed (via NYT) | John Cena | IT: Welcome to Derry | Michigan Football Controversy
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Is it the craft of mining? Or is that a place? Is the place called Minecraft? Are there miners in this place? I'm sitting here. I'm like, am I in a lucid dream? Am I having a stroke? I don't know what we're talking about. What's your understanding of Minecraft? Like, what's the point of Minecraft and Roblox? You're trying to get to the bottom? Just trying to get started from the top. but we're needing to get the bottom. |
| 0:24.6 | I don't know. Like, what's the point of Minecraft and Roblox? You're trying to get to the bottom? |
| 0:21.5 | Just trying to get started from the top, but we're needing to get the bottom. |
| 0:24.5 | I don't know. Like, they're mining. They're at a mine. It has to be. They're at a mine. It's the whole point of the game. Why are they blocks? Like, why are they square? Great existential question, honestly. I mean, you need more curves for mining. |
| 0:37.3 | Yeah, no. |
| 0:38.5 | I have no notes on what you're saying, Jamie. |
| 0:40.3 | I love it. |
| 0:40.9 | It's great. |
| 0:41.2 | Okay, thank you. I mean, you need more curves for mining. Yeah, no. |
| 0:38.5 | I have no notes on what you're saying, Jamie. |
| 0:40.3 | I love it. |
| 0:40.9 | It's great. |
| 0:41.2 | Okay, thank you. |
| 0:46.0 | Hello, welcome to us to number 638 of the popcast. |
| 0:52.9 | I'm on your host, Knox McCoy. |
| 0:53.9 | I'm your other host, Jamie Golden. |
| 0:55.6 | The Popcast is a show dedicated to delightful idiocy, and we're committed to educating you on things entertained, but do not matter. To find out more about these no contact pursuits, check us out at Knoxmanjamy.com. You can also find us on Instagram, Facebook, and Blue Sky at the podcast. Thanks for joining us this week as we are going |
| 1:11.7 | to be talking things we're going no contact with. But before we do that, you guys, it's Knox's |
| 1:16.7 | birthday week and you get the gift. So you can snack 60% off one month of any of our three |
| 1:24.3 | Patreon tiers with code HBD Knox. |
| 1:28.2 | If you are a free member, a canceled member, or I never even tried that Patreon S word, |
| 1:32.8 | then we have the discount for you. |
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