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POP CULTURE MONDAYS...ON THURSDAYS
A weekly round-up of all the Pop Culture News you’re too embarrassed to admit you don’t know.
Or too embarrassed to admit you DO!
Episodes
- POP CULTURE MONDAYS...ON THURSDAYS
Season 2, Episode 39: GO WATCH SINNERS
Happy Thursday, you pop culture junkies! This week, Brooke can't stop thinking about "Sinners", the movie you have to RUN, do not walk, to see. Brooke dives…
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Season 2, Episode 38: JD Vance killed the Pope
Happy Thursday, you pop culture junkies! So much to discuss. This week, Brooke looks back at the life of the late Pope, what his death means for the future of…
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Season 2, Episode 37: Privilege is not an accomplishment
Happy Thursday, you pop culture junkies. While this week's newsletter focuses heavily on Coachella, Brooke decides to take a more serious tone and talk about…
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Season 2, Episode 36: THERE SHE BLOWS
Happy Thursday, you pop culture junkies… This week, Brooke tries to find humor while the economy and democracy come crashing down. What’s one to do when the…
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Season 2, Episode 35: Fired Up
Happy Thursday, you pop culture junkies! This week, Brooke is on a tear. This was recorded right as Cory Booker was finishing his record-breaking filibuster…
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Season 2, Episode 34: What’s your Signal chat called?
Happy Thursday, you pop culture junkies! What a week it’s been and it’s not even Friday! This week, Brooke can’t help but get into the weeds of the Signal chat…
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Season 2, Episode 33: GOGGINS MANIA
Happy Thursday, you pop culture junkies! This week, Brooke dedicates the pod to her friend and work colleague Rebecca who has moved to London from LA this…
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Season 2, Episode 32: It’s All Mayhem
Happy Thursday, you pop culture junkies! This week, Brooke gives a little rundown of her experience in Austin for SXSW — a must-listen. Monday’s newsletter was…
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Season 2, Episode 31: Vice President Baby Face
Happy Thursday, you pop culture junkies! This week, Brooke dips her toes into the world of politics to discuss the ever-growing JD Vance Baby Face memes…
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Season 2, Episode 30: From the archives: Gary Whitta
This week, Brooke is out of the country, so we’re bringing back one of her favorites from the archives: a conversation with her dear friend, screenwriter, and…
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Season 2, Episode 29: Weekend Entertainment Bonanza
This week, Brooke kicks off the pod with a wholly warranted rant because a children’s book by Julianne Moore about a little girl with freckles who feels…
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Season 2, Episode 28: The Jeans!
Happy Thursday, you pop culture junkies! This week, Brooke talks about Kendrick Lamar’s earth-shattering performance at the Super Bowl. If you’ve seen any…
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Season 2, Episode 27: The Naked Truth
Happy Thursday, you pop culture junkies! This week, Brooke dives into some of her favorite moments from the Grammys… And the one that grossed everyone out! But…
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Season 2, Episode 26: Leatherface
Happy Thursday pop culture junkies! This week, Brooke starts off on an RFK Jr rant due to his confirmation hearing and the jaw-dropping letter from Caroline…
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Season 2, Episode 25: Coming to you from Jamaica
This week, Brooke, who has escaped to Jamaica for a break, does a play-by-play of the TIKTOK-pocalypse — the lead-up to the shutdown, the actual shutdown, and…
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Season 2, Episode 24: LA on Fire
This week, Brooke takes more of a serious tone discussing the LA fires. She brings in a little bit of her own experience and also explains some of the things…
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Season 2, Episode 23: Happy All The Hols!
On this last week before everything shuts down, Brooke talks drones drones drones. Since every household has it on their minds. WHAT IS HAPPENING? And speaking…
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Season 2, Episode 22: What’s Wrong With Us?
This week, Brooke unleashes (always fun!) on the online community celebrating an assassin. We’ve all been tracking the assassination of Brian Thompson, the CEO…
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Season 2, Episode 21: Gen Z Fashion Trends
This week, Brooke breaks down some of the fashion trends you’re sure to see, whether on your kids, at work, or walking down the street. From blue jeans and…
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Season 2, Episode 20: From the archives: Emma Freud
This week, we’re diving into the archives. It’s an oldie but goodie! Happy Thanksgiving!! Brooke talks with the Mother of Dragons, Emma Freud. Emma wears a…
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Season 2, Episode 19: Haka-thon
Happy Thursday, pop culture junkies! This week, Brooke dives into the viral video of the moment from New Zealand’s Parliament! Never thought these words would…
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Season 2, Episode 18: Tips for Feeling Better
This week, Brooke reflects on some of the things she’s found that are making her feel better post-election. First and foremost, deleting Twitter. At least from…
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Season 2, Episode 17: Deep Breaths
This week, Brooke veers a little away from pop culture to discuss the election and the feelings many are having. Including here. And what we can do to move…
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Season 2, Episode 16: Bon Voyage
Before Brooke heads out on a quick vacation, she gives us an explainer for all things Chicken Shop Date and its host, Amelia Dimoldenberg, and why she and…
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Season 2, Episode 15: Calgon, Take Me Away
SNL isn’t always at the center of pop culture these days, but this past weekend was a doozie with Stevie Nicks as the musical act and Ariana Grande as the…
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Season 2, Episode 14: The Eye of the Storm
This week, Brooke spends a lot of time talking about the horrifying hurricane that is impacting Florida and promising to be one of the most destructive. She…
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Season 2, Episode 13: Everybody Needs This
This week, Brooke talks about the world needing some joy with all the bad news surrounding us and election anxiety. From our newest obsession, Netflix’s…
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Season 2, Episode 12: Brat Summer. Now It’s Moo Deng Fall.
Brooke starts off this week by explaining her personal reasons for being more publicly vocal against Trump. Then, while the Diddy news has been much discussed…
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Season 2, Episode 11: 2024 is a hell of a drug!
This week, Brooke talks about the exciting launch of popculturemondays.com and the new newsletter format. Thank you to the amazing team at WordPress! She also…
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Season 2, Episode 10: Content & Candy
This week, Brooke is back after the Labor Day long weekend and is coming to you from the tail end of a brutal Los Angeles heatwave. There’s a lot to catch up…
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Season 2, Episode 9: Wonderwall??
This week, Brooke starts off with a little recap of all the most meme-able moments from the DNC. While there’s lots of other pop culture things happening…
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Season 2, Episode 8: VERY VERY DEMURE & MINDFUL
This week, Brooke looks at the “Very Demure, Very Mindful” trend that has ripped through every part of culture. You really would be living under a rock if you…
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Season 2, Episode 7: Short & Sweet
This week, Brooke tries to say more in less time! No one needs an hour-long podcast, so she’s working at keeping it tighter... for now! Brooke talks about the…
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Season 2, Episode 6: Pop Culture Politics
The Olympics are still going strong and this week, Brooke kicks off with a quick summary of some of the latest memes coming out of the Paris games. Then…
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Season 2, Episode 5: Going For Gold
While there's still some politics to go over, Brooke quickly gets into the only thing that seems to be unifying the nation — or is it?? — the Olympics. While…
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Season 2, Episode 4: Vibe Shift
This week, Brooke speaks almost exclusively about the vibe shift the US is seeing thanks to the Presidential campaign shake-up and how much of a pop culture…
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Season 2, Episode 3: Catch Up Pod
Brooke took a pod break so this week she catches us up on some trends including: -Brat Summer -Teen boys and smellmaxxing and chiseled jaws But inevitably she…
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Season 2, Episode 2: This is Going to Ruin the Tour
For a week where we thought the biggest news was Justin Timberlake’s arrest, little did we know that this was just the beginning. From the DUI that launched a…
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Season 2, Episode 1: He’s Not So Innocent
This week, Brooke weighs in on the pop culture topic everyone is talking about… Justin Timberlake’s DUI arrest in Sag Harbor. What was he thinking? Why didn’t…
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Episode 100: 100!
This week is our 100th episode! Brooke gives us a little of the backstory and process behind PCMoT and some insights into what’s to come. In pop culture news…
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Episode 99: The Power of Photos (real or not)
This week, Brooke breaks her no Trump rule, but for good reason, as the former President’s conviction led to a hilarious explosion of memes. Focusing on one in…
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Episode 98: BottleRock Rocks
This week, Brooke discloses she works with Live Nation and gives a brief summary of why they are in the news. But most of the episode is devoted to her…
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Episode 97: SkyGate is Here!
This week, Brooke digs into the story of the moment straddling tech (her real job) and pop culture: Scarlett Johansson’s accusation that OpenAI, whose CEO Sam…
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Episode 96: A Wild Roundup
Brooke is back and bringing you up to speed on the pop culture news you may have missed while she was away. She begins with a summary of her wild travels, from…
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Episode 95: From the archives: Jason Hirschhorn
This week, Brooke is on the road at a big tech conference in Germany, so we’re bringing back a fan favorite from the archives: her conversation with Jason…
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Episode 94: Birthday Edition
Brooke is coming to you this week from her happy place, the magical GoldenEye, Jamaica, where she’s hosting her 50th birthday extravaganza! She kicks off with…
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Episode 93: Everyone is a Poet
This week, Brooke explains the hoopla around the new Taylor Swift album, The Tortured Poets Department. The surprise double album. The genre. The criticism…
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Episode 92: Game, Set, Match
This week, Brooke shares her experiences at both the premiere of Zendaya’s masterful new movie, “Challengers,” as well as Kara Swisher's interview…
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Episode 91: The Rapture
This week, Brooke dives into the natural phenomena "double feature” we got in the U.S.: the solar eclipse and the New York earthquake. On Monday, it seemed…
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Episode 90: Starting April With a Bang
This week, Brooke decided to go deep on a topic she skipped in the newsletter. Baltimore. And specifically, the reaction online to Baltimore’s mayor…
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Episode 89: Shame on Us
This week, Brooke obviously still has Kate Middleton on her mind. She talks about how some celebs have apologized for joking about the Kate drama now that she…
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Episode 88: Naked on the West Front
Brooke is back this week and explains her absence with some “Pup” culture news about her beloved dog Potato. She talks about her exposed dinner with a star…
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Episode 87: From the archives: Kara Swisher
This week, Brooke wasn't able to host the show, so we decided to bring back one of her favorite episodes from the archives: her conversation with iconic tech…