It is June, which means it’s summer. Which means it’s time for summer movies. In what could be the zaniest episode yet, Jacki and Heather share their favorite summer movies, including Charlie’s Angels, The Warriors, Escape From New York, New & Then and Independence Day. Heather declares her love of “awesomely bad” flicks, Jacki connects a certain movie with peaches, and they dissect the cool color palette of spy movies (and the power of suggestion!).
In this episode of This Is Pop, we talk about the cultural juggernaut HBO’s Game of Thrones. Favorite characters, dragons, ice zombies, and our respective GoT houses all make an appearance. Heather sympathizes with Sansa; Jacki laments Bran’s, well, his entire storyline. Get a Cersei-sized wine glass and take a listen!
I didn’t grow up reading comics.
I loved chapter books, the longer the better. My mom introduced me to classics like To Kill a Mockingbird, The Hobbit and A Wrinkle in Time. Comics always seemed….less than. Comics were the things that my male cousins read and then play-acted, and it was always the same rotation of characters: Batman, Spiderman, Superman, Robin, Joker, Wolverine, Magneto. The one time I did play with them, there was an elongated moment when they had to figure out which “girl character” I could be and ended up with X-Men’s Rogue, which meant I couldn’t touch anybody — an attribute, having not read the comics, I didn’t understand and found excruciatingly boring.
As I passed from childhood into adolescence and young adulthood, I actively avoided comics. From what I saw in bookshops and heard in conversations, my conclusion was that comic books held nothing more than overused tropes, oversized boobs, and underwhelming narratives. Read More
We dig back into our childhood for our favorite and most memorable pop culture items. The two of us definitely start to show our age as we fondly remember the early days of the World Wide Web, CD-ROMs, and Game Boys. Jacki shares her fear of Ursula and Fantasia, and Heather admits to a childhood obsession with dinosaurs and Lucky Charms. Other notable appearances include Teddy Ruxpin, Angels in the Outfield, PBS, Disney and The Shadow (yep, the radio program).