Pop! Pop! A Pop Culture Podcast

Pop! Pop! The Pop Culture Podcast! is back this year after surviving the end of 2015!  The LA Nerd and Taylor dish out a Marvel-heavy Nerd News this week including talking about the new images of Benedict Cumberbatch as Doctor Strange; how much Thanos we'll really see in Guardians 2; there's not a dry pair of pants in the studio after talking about the Deadpool trailer; Black Panther gets an "official" genre; and finally the guys talk about their favorite movies of 2015 and what movies they wish they had seen in theaters! All of this and more on this week's episode of Pop! Pop! The Pop Culture Podcast! 

Pop! Pop! the Pop Culture Podcast! loves Star Wars as much as you do (probably more, let's be honest) and guess what little movie came out last week? Star Wars The Force Awakens!  The LA Nerd & Taylor dedicate almost an entire episode to their review of the newest addition to the Star Wars universe.  But first, of course there's a little Nerd News comin' your way!  Patrick Geraghty and Missy Dowling chime in on the following: Tom Holland being spotted with a certain magical Benedict Cumberbatch character (Spider-Man AND Doctor Strange!? Daaaaamn!); Harry Potter is kind of back with a trailer for Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them and Missy just so happens to be an expert on all things wizardry; and finally Justin Lin ditches fast cars for fast spaceships with the first trailer for Star Trek: Beyond! We know it's a little clashing of fandoms, but it's good, we promise!  Then, get ready for Star Wars because the guys leave no stone unturned in their Star Wars The Force Awakens review!  (Non-spoiler r

Pop! Pop! The Pop Culture Podcast! is back after an unforeseen month-long break!  The LA Nerd and Taylor talk about Mr. Ryan Coogler (of Fruitvale Station & Creed fame) being up for the Black Panther directing spot.  He's good, his movies are good, we like it!  Also, Disney is seeking three female directors and two female writers for the Star Wars franchise and we break down who they could scoop up.  For the main event, the guys break down the two most recent blockbuster trailers: Captain America: Civil War & Batman five Superman; you know their love (and love to hate) for both, so tune in and hear what they have to say about the latest sneak peeks!

The episode we promised and you might've been waiting for is finally here! Pop! Pop! the Pop Culture Podcast! goes to New York Comic-Con!  The LA Nerd and Patrick are joined by Age of the Nerd owner Sean McAloon on location from the east coast to dish about what went down at NYCC.  Kevin Smith, Bruce Campbell & Ash vs. Evil Dead, the cast of Mr. Robot, the cast of From Dusk Till Dawn, Jackson Publick and Doc Hammer of The Venture Bros... The guys talked to all of these lovely people and more!  Tune in and find out who they geeked out over the most!  There's a little bit of Nerd News too, have no fear!  The title for Ant-Man 2 and the fact that J.J. Abrams gets final cut on Episode VII both dropped while the guys were in New York and they're excited as hell! You should be too!  Well what are you waiting for!?  Hit the play button on Pop! Pop! the Pop Culture Podcast! 

On this week's episode of Pop! Pop! the Pop Culture Podcast! The LA Nerd and Taylor welcome their good friend Dayeanne Hutton (Emma Approved) into the studio and the show turns into Pun! Pun! the Pun-Culture Podcast! Puns run rampant as the gang talks about Alvin & the Chipmunks taking on Star Wars; how much money Huge-Jacked-Man and Pan lost in theaters; why Fox is not giving the Fantastic 4 rights back to Marvel; Vin Diesel slaying dragons in a possible D&D movie; and how Wes Anderson must love dogs because his next film is about dogs!  They also talk about Dayeanne's various adventures (like a dude getting one of her characters tattooed on his arm!) and projects including Hammer of the Witches, playing at Loft Ensemble now through November 1st. Information & tickets can be found at Loftensemble.org. All of this and so much more on this week's Pop! Pop! the Pop Culture Podcast!     

On episode 12 of Pop! Pop! the Pop Culture Podcast! The LA Nerd and Taylor welcome their very own roommate Patrick Geraghty to the studio to dish out some Nerd News!  The guys share solace over the fact that Pacific Rim 2 has been pulled from its release date; talk trash on Zack Snyder, his infamous slow motion sex scenes and his terrible music choices; and dream about a world where the X-Men are apart of the Marvel universe.  They also drool over Emmanuel Lubezki's cinematography in The Revenant; cry for Leo Dicaprio's nonexistent Oscar; speculate which new cast member of The Force Awakens is a Jedi; and last but not least they weigh the pros and cons of a Watchmen TV series on HBO (there's also more Zack Snyder trash talking there too).     

This week on Pop! Pop! the Pop Culture Podcast!  The LA Nerd and Taylor welcome back their friend David Bornstein to talk about a hefty weeks worth of Nerd News.   They riff about Eli Roth's new gory flick Green Inferno, reminisce about their childhood with Jimmy Fallon and his 20th Anniversary Good Burger sketch, cry over the fact that InBev has bought out LA's local Golden Road Brewery and debate whether or not Tom Hardy could be the new Wolverine - Huge Jacked-Man (Hugh Jackman) seems to think so! Find out what we think and MORE  on this week's episode of Pop! Pop! the Pop Culture Podcast!  

Holy crap! It's the 10th episode of Pop! Pop! the Pop Culture Podcast!  Are we doing something special, you ask?  No, not really, just reporting the nerdy news as always!  Rebecca Ferguson from Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation (aka: Ghost Protes II) is being eyed for Captain Marvel and we salute the hell out of this idea!  The first teaser for Jessica Jones was released and while it's not very intriguing, it's still a Marvel show that's following Daredevil so you have to be excited for it!  Matt Damon is back for Bourne 5, AMC is finally making Preacher and it's been reported that there's more B than S in Batman Five Superman!  For the main event this week, the guys stray from the comic book world and discuss a little real-life Sci-Fi; Elon Musk was recently on Stephen Colbert's new late night show talking about the colonization of Mars.  Is dropping thermonuclear bombs on the poles of Mars a good idea? Probably not!  But is that the fastest way to make the living conditions survivable?  Find out on this week

Nine episodes in and the LA Nerd and Taylor are still talking about nerdy shit on Pop! Pop! the Pop Culture Podcast!  Were you hoping that Mark Ruffalo would be in Captain America: Civil War? Well too bad, because he's not in it!  We'll tell you why, though!  Benicio Del Toro is officially the bad guy for Star Wars Episode XIII; Joaquin Phoenix was actually the one that backed out of the Doctor Strange deal, not Marvel; and Kevin Feige almost quit Marvel over Civil War!  Find out why and much more on this week's episode of Pop! Pop! the Pop Culture Podcast! 

This week on Pop! Pop! the Pop Culture Podcast! The LA Nerd and Taylor talk about what summer movies wrapped their filming this week, Joel complains about Vin Diesel making a third xXx movie but swoons over John Boyega finally wielding a lightsaber in a new Star Wars clip and the guys discuss Mads Mikkelsen throwing destructo disks at Doctor Strange!   After Nerd News the guys share the studio with their friends David Bornstein and Ari Grabb who are on the show to promote their short film, A King's Betrayal.  Not only that but there's witty banter galore and they discover that Ari is the creator of PIZZA BALLS!! This has to be one of the funniest episodes to date, so enjoy it yah nerds! 

Disney's annual D23 Expo was last Saturday and on this episode of Pop! Pop! the Pop Culture Podcast the LA Nerd and Taylor break it down!  Spoilers:  there's a shit ton of Star Wars news!  Were you hoping that Michael Shannon would be in Batman Five Superman even though Zod died?  Were you also hoping that he'd be part dolphin?  Well you're in luck! Tune in to find out what the hell that means...  Other high points are us trash talking Ronda Rousey's acting skills (please don't kill us), trash talking Colin Trevorrow's directing skills (not afraid of you, Colin!), getting wasted at Disneyland's future Star Wars theme park and how the #1 poster artist of all time says that The Force Awakens is the best Star Wars movie ever made!

The LA Nerd Joel Reaves and Taylor Salan are back in the studio with Pop! Pop! the Pop Culture Podcast! Episode 6!  Joining them this week is Lauren Sperling, a great thespian friend of the duo, who is promoting her newest stage endeavor, Relationships Suck.  More about the play and tickets to the show can be found at Loftensemble.org/ Welp! It's a week full of Star Wars news as D23 Expo is oficially underway! since we can't actually be there, the group discusses 17 things we've learned about The Force Awakens, as well as who's playing the Joker for the Lego Batman movie, Gene Wilder's possible return from retirement, a petition that publicly shames Fox Studios, and exactly how many Spidey suits will Tom Holland be wearing in Captain America: Civil War?  All of this AND MORE on this week'sPop! Pop! the Pop Culture Podcast! 

In a very special mid-week episode of Pop! Pop! the Pop Culture Podcast! the LA Nerd and Taylor tear Fantastic 4 a new one... Like, they rip on it hard; they smear this movie's reputation harder than a high school cheerleader with a slam book. The opinions/reviews on this movie were so low it warranted a whole episode dedicated to dissecting its crappiness before next week's episode.   But that's not all! What makes this episode even more special is that Pop! Pop! now has a theme song! Many thanks to Mister Mitchell for his musical talents and his time put into helping out.  Check out his website for all things music & audio related: Mister-Mitchell.com.

This week on Episode IV: a new Pop! (The 4th episode of Pop! Pop! the Pop Culture Podcast)  The LA Nerd and Taylor welcome their very first guest! Woo!  Nicolette Gonzalez joins us for NATIONAL IPA DAY! and things get a little tipsy.  Apparently Lexus has made a real life hover board (unlike that hack Tony Hawk) and it's not very impressive!  Wah-wah.  Joel geeks out all by his lonesome about the return of Prison Break for a 10-episode return to Fox, everyone gets excited about the idea of a Marvel produced X-Men television show that would be in the same vein as Daredevil, and we talk about the HD release of the Deadpool trailer!  We have to apologize though, there wasn't any Batman five Superman news this week, maybe next time you guys!

Welcome to episode 3 of Pop! Pop! the Pop Culture Podcast! On today's episode the LA Nerd Joel Reaves and Taylor Salan discover the've been cursed by Batman five Superman, but have no fear, they've come up with a solution to save their souls!  An apparent leak of a word document at Sony might unveil new villains and castings for the next standalone Spider-Man film and the guys have mixed feelings about it.  Were you excited for Channing Tatum as Gambit? Yeah, neither were we!  Find out what other actors might play the role evenbetter! (Hint, we make a ball-sack joke about Stellan Skarsgård...) All this and more on the newly revived Pop! Pop! the Pop Culture Podcast! 

Welcome back true believers! The newly revived Pop! Pop! the Pop Culture Podcast makes it to episode numero dos and unlike the movie we talk about, Ant-Man, there's nothing small about this episode!  Joel brings back the old segment Nerd-News and Taylor joins him in talking about the last week's big stories in popular culture!  Jurassic World sequel? Yup!  Fantastic 4 / X-Men crossover? Unfortunately, maybe!  ANOTHER EARTH LIKE PLANET WAS DISCOVERED!? OH EM GEE! ALIENS!  All of this and so much more (we have to be somewhat mysterious, don't we?) on episode 2 of Pop! Pop! the Pop Culture Podcast! 

Pop! Pop! is BACK!  The one and only LA Nerd, Joel Reaves, returns with Age of the Nerd and the usual band of misfits to bring you even more nerdiness!   On the first episode of the revived podcast, LA Nerd & Co. talk about what they saw at Comic-Con 2015! It's a trailer-extravaganza!  Fantastic 4, the final trailer was released and damn are there some harsh words to be said; Batman five Superman, does this exclusive Comic-Con trailer change Joel's mind about his disinterest for the Man of Steel sequel? The Suicide Squad trailer showcases our first look at Jared Leto and like everyone - we have opinions! Deadpool also had an exclusive Comic-Con trailer debut and yes, we loved it.  We talk about all of this and so much more on the first comeback episode ofPop! Pop! the Pop Culture Podcast!"