Pop My Culture Podcast

Judy Greer ("Arrested Development," "13 Going on 30") charms Cole and Vanessa and chats about Jeff Who Lives At Home, The Descendants, the extended Taco Bell menu, Bayou Billionaire, American Judy, New Orleans vs. Hawaii, the Duplass Brothers, pickled bologna, Madonna parties, re-enacting, Alexander Payne, double dutch, and the incredibly insane zombie Whitney Houston video.

Leave your answer to the firsts question (the first 80s-era band or singer you really got into) on our website for a chance to win an Arrested Development Season 1 DVD signed by Judy!

Direct download: PMC72_Judy_Greer.mp3
Category:Podcast -- posted at: 12:24am PDT

Fred Stoller ("Everybody Loves Raymond," "Seinfeld") goofs around with Cole and Vanessa and chats about The Oscar telecast, thrill seekers, Cirque du Soleil, Billy Crystal, Dog Day Afternoon, Dr. Demento, arm belly buttons, Hunchbacks going to college, Murphy Brown, pitching to Larry David, The Shawshank Redemption, Norm McDonald, The Wizards of Waverly Place, desert-island comics, and a bloody-finger-texting Selena Gomez.

Leave your answer to the firsts question (the first comedy or novelty song you were really into) on our website for a chance to win a pic of Fred in Dumb and Dumber and a notepad from the writer's room of Seinfeld signed by Fred!

Direct download: PMC71_Fred_Stoller.mp3
Category:Podcast -- posted at: 12:20am PDT

Timothy Omundson ("Psych," "Judging Amy") hangs with Cole and Vanessa to talk about Zac Efron's condom drop, swingin' Stephen Hawking, Xena: Warrior Princess, iPhone thief Chris Brown, JK Rowling, the beautiful expletives of Deadwood, Psychos, Kenny Powers vs. Lucy Lawless, dramatic overbites, The Luck of the Irish, three-hole punches and pineapples, the Berenstain Bears, clown college, and Tim and Vanessa's epic Alan Rickman-off.

Leave your answer to the firsts question (the first big lie you can remember telling) on our website for a chance to win a Psych Season 4 DVD signed by Timothy!

Direct download: PMC70_Timothy_Omundson.mp3
Category:Podcast -- posted at: 12:20am PDT

Myq Kaplan ("Last Comic Standing") and Samm Levine ("Freaks & Geeks") join Cole and Vanessa for an hour of straight-up Academy Awards talk! The four get Extremely Loud & Incredibly close as they make their predictions of who will and should win those gold statuettes, try to make sense of Tree of Life, argue about Hugo, mention Drive a lot, giggle at Albert Nobbs, break the silence of The Artist, and "Descendants" into madness as they give out some special awards of their own. 
Let us know your special Oscar award (any sort of recognition you'd like to give to something from film this year that wasn't nominated) on our website for a chance to win the Entertainment Weekly Oscar issue signed by Myq, Samm, Cole and Vanessa!
Direct download: PMC69_Levine_Kaplan2.mp3
Category:Podcast -- posted at: 12:00am PDT

Myq Kaplan ("Last Comic Standing") and Samm Levine ("Freaks & Geeks") join Cole and Vanessa for an hour of straight-up Academy Awards talk! The four get Extremely Loud & Incredibly close as they make their predictions of who will and should win those gold statuettes, try to make sense of Tree of Life, argue about Hugo, mention Drive a lot, giggle at Albert Nobbs, break the silence of The Artist, and "Descendants" into madness as they give out some special awards of their own. 
Let us know your special Oscar award (any sort of recognition you'd like to give to something from film this year that wasn't nominated) on our website for a chance to win the Entertainment Weekly Oscar issue signed by Myq, Samm, Cole and Vanessa!
Direct download: PMC69_Levine_Kaplan.mp3
Category:Podcast -- posted at: 11:37pm PDT

Dave Holmes (MTV VJ, host of "Say What? Karaoke" and "A Drink With Dave" Video Podcast) joins Cole and Vanessa to talk The Super Bowl, Clint Eastwood, Madonna's half-time spectacular, the guy from Lone Star, David Lee Roth, MTV Survivor, cell phones with pens, Go Daddy, Rachel Crow, world peace, Downton Abbey, being LMFAO'd out, Karen Duffy, TRL and the spectacular crazy shitstorm that is Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark.

Leave your answers to the firsts question (the first music video you can remember being in love with) on our website for a chance to win a Pop My Culture T-Shirt!

Direct download: PMC68_Dave_Holmes.mp3
Category:Podcast -- posted at: 11:02pm PDT

Drew Carey ("The Price Is Right" and "The Drew Carey Show") joins Cole and Vanessa for this special live episode at SF Sketchfest, the San Francisco Comedy Festival. They chat about Blue Ivy's godmother, crappy showcase prizes, funny contestants, turkey trots, Presidential Fitness competitions, getting booed by WWE fans, bringing in a ringer, Regis vs. Carson, Whose Line is It Anyway?, skintags, teeth-pulling, Brian Wilson, and Drew's low, low opinion of the Oscars.

Leave the answer to the Firsts question (The first race or athletic competition you can remember doing) on our website for a chance to win a copy of Sam Shepherd's Buried Child (used during the podcast, listen to see how), signed by Drew!

Direct download: PMC67_Drew_Carey.mp3
Category:Podcast -- posted at: 1:02pm PDT

John Lehr ("10 Items or Less" and an original Geico Caveman) chats with Cole and Vanessa about Blue Ivy Carter, Evel Knievel, fake choking, Beezow Doo-Doo Zoppitybop-Bop-Bop, baseball vs. football films, Heidi Klum, kid wars, bloody noses, falling in grocery stores viral videos, Noah Baumbach, Angelina Jolie's wondrous lips, The Andy Griffith Show, junkyard dramas, uncomfortable makeup applications, Portland's beards, and hanging with the guys from Friends at a secret Bevery Hills club. Leave your answer to the firsts question (the first truly dangerous or ill-advised stunt or thing you tried to do as a kid) on our website for a chance to win a super comfy Pop My Culture T-Shirt!

Direct download: PMC65_John_Lehr.mp3
Category:Podcast -- posted at: 11:21pm PDT

Part two finds returning guests Tony Hale ("Arrested Development"), Rob Paulsen ("Animaniacs"), Meredith Salenger ("The Journey of Natty Gann"), Paul F. Tompkins (The Pod F. Tompkast) and James Urbaniak ("The Venture Brothers") locked with Cole and Vanessa in conversation about all the horrible things 2011 threw at us-with each of them sharing their personal Worst [...]

Direct download: PMC64_PopMyCork2011_Part2.mp3
Category:Podcast -- posted at: 7:08pm PDT

Returning guests Tony Hale ("Arrested Development"), Rob Paulsen ("Animaniacs"), Meredith Salenger ("The Journey of Natty Gann"), Paul F. Tompkins (The Pod F. Tompkast) and James Urbaniak ("The Venture Brothers") join Cole and Vanessa for part one of this special look back at the year that was 2011. Wine and conversation flow freely as each guest [...]
Direct download: PMC64_PopMyCork2011_Part1.mp3
Category:Podcast -- posted at: 6:58pm PDT