The Pop Culture Hill I’ll Die On
Pop Culture Happy Hour
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4.5 • 11.6K Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2026
⏱️ 27 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This message comes from Vanity Fair. |
| 0:02.7 | Award season is officially here, and Vanity Fair's Little Gold Men dives into everything |
| 0:07.5 | you need to know to win your Oscars bracket. |
| 0:10.1 | Listen and follow to Little Gold Men, wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:18.7 | Maybe you think you shouldn't read a book before seeing the movie adaptation, or you're convinced |
| 0:23.5 | season two is the best season of The Wire. |
| 0:26.6 | Well, that's just like your opinion, ma'am. |
| 0:30.0 | And when it comes to culture, we've all got at least one of those. |
| 0:33.5 | The argument we're always making, that non-negotiable stance, that immutable truth we're |
| 0:38.6 | sticking to no matter what. Nobody's going to convince you otherwise, but arguing about it sure |
| 0:43.8 | is fun. So that's why we're revisiting this conversation from 2024 about the pop culture |
| 0:49.3 | hills will die on. I'm Stephen Thompson. I'm Aisha Harris, and you're listening to Pop Culture Happy Hour |
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| 1:20.2 | podcast that celebrates bad movies. Join Paul Shear, June Diane Rayfield, and Jason Manzoukis as they |
| 1:27.1 | break down the worst films of all time. |
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| 1:35.6 | Culture moves fast. |
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