PopaHALLics
Dad and daughter dish on popular culture while enjoying a drink! Steve covered TV professionally; Kate is an opinionated consumer of pop culture. They often don't agree. Join the conversation: popahallicspodcast@gmail.com
Episodes
141 episodes
PopaHALLics #141 "Sing Me a Song"
PopaHALLics #141 "Sing Me a Song"A folk duo's pricey gig for one rich prerson. A utopian paradise hiding a dark secret. A serial killer tale: Is it real true-crime or made-up horror? And who IS Kate's favorite Mr. Darcy in "Pride &am...
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Season 6
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Episode 141
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28:47
PopaHALLics 140 "Pop Go the Clues"
PopaHALLics 140 "Pop Go the Clues"It's no mystery why we love TV's "The Residence" and the book "The Last"—they're both murder mysteries, albeit very different ones (a comedy and a dystopian thriller). And does Seth Rogen have a c...
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Season 6
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Episode 140
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29:58
PopaHALLics #139 "Deception"
PopaHALLics #139 "Deception"The truth is, er, fluid in the pop culture discussed in this episode, from a married spy trying to determine if his spouse is doing wrong, to an Australian pretending to have a fatal disease for profit and...
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Season 6
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Episode 139
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28:27
PopaHALLics #138 "I'm Still Standing"
PopaHALLics #138 "I'm Still Standing"As the Who said: "People try to put us d-down" ... whether the "us" is Elton John, British gangsters, or a smartypants movie critic. But guess what: We're still standing, yeah, yeah, yeah!<...
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Season 6
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Episode 138
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32:04
PopaHALLics #137 "Ch-ch-ch-changes"
"PopaHALLics #137 "Ch-ch-ch-changes"Bridget Jones is dating again ... A new Captain America faces off against Red Hulk ... The sixth wife of Henry VIII tries to say alive ... and a cat faces off against a massive flood. Oh, and di...
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Season 6
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Episode 137
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27:00
PopaHALLics #136 "Like a Rolling Stone"
PopaHALLics #136 "Like a Rolling Stone"How does it feel, to be on your own, a complete unknown, or a Dracula clone? We discuss the new Bob Dylan biopic "A Complete Unknown" as well as the gothic horror film "Nosferatu." Spy Keira Kni...
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Season 6
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Episode 136
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28:19
PopaHALLics #135 "We're Cold on These Xmas Songs"
PopaHALLics #135 "We're Cold on These Xmas Songs"Hey kids! Let's gather around the Christmas tree and play "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer"! What? Matricide doesn't make you merry? Well, OK, how about the Pussycat Dolls' "Santa B...
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Season 6
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Episode 135
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36:17
PopaHALLics #134 "Wicked Good"
PopaHALLics #134 "Wicked Good"For our Thanksgiving weekend episode, we talk about the pop culture offerings we're grateful for: the new movie version of "Wicked"; movies about a mother and son's love in "The Blitz" and the quest for ...
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Season 6
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Episode 134
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31:42
PopaHALLics #133 "Martha My Dear—NOT!"
PopaHALLics #133 "Martha My Dear—NOT!"A new documentary fails to make Martha Stewart sympathetic, in Kate's view. We also discuss season 2 of "The Diplomat" and "Colin from Accounts," a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, and books about t...
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Season 6
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Episode 133
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31:56
PopaHALLics #132 "Into the Great Unknown"
PopaHALLics #132 "Into the Great Unknown"Can a rabbi and an agnostic shiksa find true love? Can humans meddle in the affairs of gods? If you could survive the zombie apocalypse, would you want to? Our pop cult...
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Season 6
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Episode 132
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30:27
PopaHALLics #131 "Won't You Take Me to, Spooky Town!"
PopaHALLics #131 "Won't You Take Me to, Spooky Town!"We return from fall break with some super supernatural offerings featuring that demonic scamp Beetlejuice, a new twist on the Legend of Sleepy Hollow, macabre goings-on in the fash...
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Season 6
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Episode 131
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26:33
PopaHALLics #130 "The Witch, The Killer ... & Emily in Paris"
PopaHALLics #130 "The Witch, The Killer ... & Emily in Paris"Kate muses on the appeal—and fashion—of the Netflix hit "Emily in Paris," recently named by The New York Times as one to "hatewatch." (You dislike the show so much that...
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Season 5
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Episode 130
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26:56
PopaHALLics #129 "Girls, Girls, Girls"
PopaHALLics #129 "Girls, Girls, Girls"Girls and women dominate our pop culture choices this week, from a British teen trying to solve a murder to a black woman struggling with racial tensions in 1960s America. Sometimes they're good ...
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Season 5
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Episode 129
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21:52
PopaHALLics #128 "Four on the Floor"
PopaHALLics #128 "Four on the Floor"Our podcast is four years old! We celebrate with a funny, more-or-less-true movie about profanity-laced letters, an animated noir Batman, an Alice Hoffman novel about the power of reading, and an i...
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Season 5
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Episode 128
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28:12
PopaHALLics #127 "Let's Do the Twist-er"
PopaHALLics #127 "Let's Do the Twist-er"Despite her tornado fears, Kate gets sucked into the new disaster movie "Twisters." Steve goes samurai with "Shogun." Also: Murders! Mysteries! Monkeys! (Haven't you always wanted a mon-KEY?)
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Season 5
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Episode 127
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29:50
PopaHALLics #126 "Hit Man & Hitmakers"
PopaHALLics #126 "Hit Man & Hitmakers"Wouldn't it be nice to learn more about the Beach Boys and Neil Young? We enjoy a documentary and a biography giving new insights into these influential musicians and their place in pop cultu...
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Season 5
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Episode 126
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30:41
PopaHALLics #125 "Who Are You, Who Who, Who Who?"
PopaHALLics #125 "Who Are You, Who Who, Who Who?"We review the new "Dr. Who" ... but the Halls are hearing a lot of other Whos, too. Who's zooming who in the comedy "Argylle" and the thriller novel "The Poison Bed"? Who am I, asks th...
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Season 5
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Episode 125
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29:43
PopaHALLics #124 "(What's So Funny 'Bout) Pop, Love, & Understanding?"
PopaHALLics #124 "(What's So Funny 'Bout) Pop, Love, & Understanding?Multiverse mayhem, bodice-ripping romance, and female comedians! Dueling Joel Edgertons! Music by a rising young singer/songwriter and a crafty popsmit...
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Season 5
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Episode 124
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27:51
PopaHALLics #123 "Pop Tarts & Pop Sweets"
PopaHALLics #123 "Pop Tarts & Pop Sweets"What can we say about Jerry Seinfeld's new movie about Pop Tarts? How about: You'd be better off taking a bite of the Spanish Inquisition ("The Familiar"), teenage murder ("Under the Bridg...
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Season 5
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Episode 123
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30:16
PopaHALLics #122 "Pop for the People"
PopaHALLics #122 "Pop for the People"Aliens headed for Earth! An amnesiac pursued by killers! Julia Roberts suffers the apocalypse! And did we mention Shakespeare's young son and John Wilkes Booth? We discuss pop culture offerings th...
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Season 5
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Episode 122
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27:07
PopaHALLics #121 "This Ain't Texas"
PopaHALLics #121 "This Ain't Texas"Kate and Steve wrestle with existential questions: Is Beyonce country enough? Is Steve Martin a sad and lonely guy instead of a wild and crazy one? And why does James Taylor's biography start in Sco...
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Season 5
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Episode 121
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25:30
PopaHALLics #120 "Let the Bite One In"
PopaHALLics #120 "Let the Bite One In" Dracula's sister is undead with evil intent in "Dracula: The Count's Kin," an indie film shot in the Indianapolis area. We talk to writer/director Eric Pascarelli and actors Daisy Hickey an...
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Season 5
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Episode 120
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35:14
PopaHALLics #119 "Highly Recommended"
PopaHALLics #119 "Highly Recommended"Instead of dissing pop culture offerings, dad and daughter rave about them on this episode. Steve's a fan of "American Fiction," "The Last Repair Shop" and "Colin from Accounts." Kate really likes...
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Season 5
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Episode 119
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29:19
PopaHALLics #118 "Feuding Friends"
PopaHALLics #118 "It Takes Two to Tango"Relationships can be a tricky dance, whether you're mismatched cops working a murder case ("Deadloch"), a movie star & a "civilian" falling in love ("Starstruck"), or socialites mistakenly ...
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Season 5
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Episode 118
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32:04
PopaHALLics #117 "Unpleasant People"
PopaHALLics #117 "Unpleasant People"They're self-centered ... pushy ... arrogant ... and sometimes murderous. But difficult people—an orchestra conductor, a marathon swimmer, two battling cops, even a serial killer—can make for great...
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Season 5
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Episode 117
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31:19
