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
131 episodes
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
PopaHALLics #116 "Moviemaking with Mike"
PopaHALLics #116 "Moviemaking with Mike"Last time we talked about "Extraction USA," it was a trailer for a movie that didn't exist yet. Writer/director Mike Yonts updates us on its progress toward the big screen— an interesting conve...
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Season 5
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Episode 116
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29:42
PopaHALLics #115 "Poppanew!"
PopaHALLics #115 "Poppanew!"Happy New Year! We kick off 2024 with a chat about Paul Giamatti's Oscar-buzz performance in "The Holdovers," the discomfort of "Saltburn," Stephen King's return to a favorite character—and more!
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Season 5
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Episode 115
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25:32
PopaHALLics #114 "Avoid These Shows!"
PopaHALLics #114 "Avoid These Shows!"You want some turkey? We take out the knives to carve up "Obliterated," "The Buccaneers," and "Monarch: A Legacy of Monsters." But we also make two recommendations for holiday viewing—including on...
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Season 5
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Episode 114
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28:18
PopaHALLics #113 "Cry Murder!"
PopaHALLics #113 "Cry Murder!"Is that red on the holiday decorations blood? In an unplanned twist, dad and daughter both come to the show with murderous streaming and reading recommendations. A killer episode, ...
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Season 5
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Episode 113
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28:37
PopaHALLics #112 "More Boos for You"
PopaHALLics #112 "More Boos for You"Someone forgot to tell us Halloween was over! We discuss streamers about alien invaders, witches, a co-dependent Dracula, a horror-plagued family, and a novel about a witchhunt. Plus the comedy mov...
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Season 5
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Episode 112
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29:16
PopaHALLics #111 HALL-oween
PopaHALLics #111 HALL-oweenTime for vampires, spooky spirits, and movies with plot holes so big the wind moans through them like a ghost. Oh, and David Beckham and the brain, too. Streaming:
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Season 5
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Episode 111
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28:40
PopaHALLics #110 "Popalicious!"
PopaHALLics #110 "Popalicious!"From a chemist doing a cooking show in a serious drama to a time-traveling teen in a horror comedy, we offer the ideal recipes for pop culture enjoyment! We even sprinkle aliens, monsters, and gos...
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Season 5
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Episode 110
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25:53
PopaHALLics #109 "Start Making Sense"
PopaHALLics #109 "Start Making Sense"Steve experienced the re-release of the restored "greatest concert film of all time," "Stop Making Sense." Just in time for "spooky season," Kate talks about two indigenous horror novels. And don'...
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Season 5
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Episode 109
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30:01
PopaHALLics #108 Who Are You?
PopaHALLics #108 Who Are You?Dad and daughter disagree on the merits of Netflix's "Who is Erin Carter?"—who do you think is right? We also look at two series: the "Justified" reboot and "Painkiller," about the origins of the opioid c...
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30:01
PopaHALLics #107 "Murderous & Foreboding"
PopaHALLics #107 "Murderous & Foreboding"Characters are killing it—literally—in the streaming options and novels we discuss. A wife killing her "perfect" husband. A Broadway star taking an elevator shaft down without the elevator...
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Season 5
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Episode 107
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28:54
