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🗓️ 14 January 2026
⏱️ 72 minutes
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In this episode, we recap this week in pop culture news. Join us as we discuss the implications of the new Emmy Legacy Award, spiral through the wild alternate-ending theories for Stranger Things, and unpack the loss of anonymity that came with Hudson Williams’ meteoric rise to fame. Plus, Erin crowns this week’s Say Less Champion (question mark?), and Jamie kicks off the year with a Golden Globes–themed Rapid Red Lights.
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| 0:00.0 | I described him as having a Jehovah's Witness face and the moral imperative of a Daniel Tiger episode. |
| 0:06.9 | I think it's great. |
| 0:08.6 | As of dad, I'm like, this kid has it. |
| 0:11.6 | Also, he's going to get drafted by the Las Vegas Raiders. |
| 0:15.0 | And so he's going to be in Las Vegas where the egg freezing is very cheap, according to Aaron. |
| 0:21.3 | Good for him. Maybe he'll need it. guess where the egg freezing is very cheap, according to Aaron. But all. |
| 0:23.8 | Good for him. |
| 0:25.1 | Maybe he'll need it. |
| 0:36.3 | Hello, welcome episode number 6, 42 of the podcast. |
| 0:37.2 | I'm your host, Knox McCoy. |
| 0:38.7 | I'm your other host, Jamie Coulvin. The popcast is a show dedicated to delightful idiocy, and we're committed to educating you on the things entertaining you on the things entertained, but do not matter. To find out more about these overspoken proceeds, check us out at Knoxinjamy.com. You can also find us on Instagram, Facebook, and Blue Sky at The Popcast. Thanks for joining us this week as we are going to be talking pop culture current events. |
| 0:57.6 | But before you do that, you guys, I've ever wondered, when I'm out on a podcast, I want to be reading. And are you like, who are the best folks to follow on sub-sac? Well, there are two that were on everyone's best of 2025 list. Seriously, they were on every single list. |
| 1:11.7 | It was shocking. |
| 1:12.6 | Knox McCoy's binge thinking and Aaron Moons the swipe up. |
| 1:15.7 | Listen, Knox will cover things like the pop culture pyramid, which is my new favorite recurring segment, by the way, because it is an ode to his newfound love of dance moms, which is fantastic. |
| 1:26.0 | And then Aaron, listen, now Aaron's going to do some fun things, but she's also going to unpack Christian nationalism and deconstruction. But she will also have Zach Ephron memes. So it's also a great hang. So both the links to their substacks will be in the show notes. And you want to go, you want to, this is your 2026. Again, it's the year of treats. So treat yourself to both of them in your inbox. |
| 1:47.4 | All right, Jamie, we are going to do pop culture current events. We're going to do the more you know. |
| 1:51.3 | The more you know. But before we do that, you know, I just wanted to check in on you. |
| 1:58.5 | You know, we have a how do we feel segment where we just kind of lets us like talk about |
| 2:02.2 | whatever we want. |
| 2:18.6 | I do want to check in like, how do you feel? Because we didn't. I don't want to spoil anything. We didn't win a Golden Globe for podcasting. Listen, we did not win a Golden Globe. Now, am I pumped that Amy Poehler beat her ex-husband? if any year before this year they had had a golden globe, he would have won it. |
| 2:20.6 | Yeah. |
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