All Episodes

PMP#228: Spielberg’s Alien Fetish

PMP#227: The Odyssey: Epic Film

PMP#226: Toy Story Played Out

PMP#225: Survivor the Constant (with Wes!)

PMP#224: Fantasy Novels Galore

PMP#223: What Is Star Wars Now?

PMP#222: Lordlings of the Flies

PMP#221: Streep Does Prada

PMP#220: Peaky Blinders: Gangs of Birmingham

PMP#219: Weir-ed Sci Fi: Hail Mary and The Martian

PMP#218: All the “Scream”-ing

PMP#217: Mel Brooks’ Old Comedy

PMP#216: Oscars So Black?

PMP#215: Hamnet Dramatizes Shakespeare

PMP#214: South Park Resurgence

PMP#213: Stranger Things Grown Familiar

PMP#212: Holiday Romance Films

PMP#211: Slow Horses and Predecessors

PMP#210: One Paul Thomas Anderson Film After Another

PMP#209: Alien Franchised

PMP#208: An Ed Gein Halloween

PMP#207: Spinal Tap and Other Fake Bands

PMP#206: Abbott Elementary Did Not Win an Emmy This Year, But…

PMP#205: Fantastical Foursome

PMP#204: Naked Gun Rapid Firing

PMP#203: What Superman?

PMP#202: 50-Year-Old Jaws Busts Our Block

PMP#201: John Wick Minus Wick

PMP#200: Hollywood Studio Antics (feat. The Studio and Erica Spyres)

PMP#199: Missioning Impossibly

PMP#198: Andor: Grown-Up Star Wars

PMP#197: Medically Dramatic

PMP#196: Our “Sinners” Shindig

PMP#195: Mike White’s Lotus

PMP#194: Adolescence Wrecks Us

PMP#193: Severance: Mystery Box in Progress

PMP#192: Exhibitionist Reality TV

PMP#191: Saturday Night Liver

PMP#190: The Substance: Act Your Age!

PMP#189: Bob Dylan As We Know Him

PMP#188: Vampire Appreciation

PMP#187: Taking Down Santa Claus

PMP#186: From Oz Books to Wicked Film

PMP#185: Steve Martin: X-Tuple Threat

PMP#184: !BREAKING! Comedy News

PMP#183: Classic Universal Monster Movies

PMP#182: Tim Burton: Shtick Macabre

PMP#181: M. Night Shyamalan’s Films Are a Trap

PMP#180: Season Four Wrap Party: Nostalgia

PMP#179: Deadpool Gets Meta

PMP#178: The Bear’s Incomplete Dish

PMP#177: Inside Out – Animated Psyche

PMP#176: Furiosa: Are We Mad Maxed Out?

PMP#175: Podcast of the Planet of the Apes

PMP#174: Fallout Plays Post-Apocalyptic

PMP#173: Cowboy Beyoncé? (Cross-Genre Music)

PMP#172: Curb Larry David’s Shtick

PMP-NEM Crossover: Head vs. Gut Songwriting w/ Roger Joseph Manning Jr., David Christian, Rachel Taylor Brown

PMP#171: The Traitors – A Multi-National Reality Game Show Phenom

PMP#170: Poor Things and Other Yorgos

PMP#169: Doctor Who? (When?)

PMP#168: Writing Women’s Fiction w/ Kathryn Leigh Scott

PMP#167: “May December” and Other Docudramas

PMP#166: Miyazaki’s Anime Dreamscapes

PMP#165: Jewish Comedy w/ Daniel Lobell

PMP#164: Muppets, esp. Their Xmas Carol

PMP#163: Marvel Fatigue?

PMP#162: Poe Flavoring Upon the House of Usher

PMP#161: Revisiting “The Exorcist”

PMP#160: Mvto to “Reservation Dogs”

PMP#159: Watching “How To with John Wilson”

PMP#158: “Oppenheimer” and Other Christopher Nolan Films

PMP#157: The Function of a Pop Culture Podcast

PMP#156: Black Mirror’s Tech Horrors

PMP#155: Existentialist Barbie

PMP#154: Indiana Jones and the Various MacGuffins

PMP#153: Kids’ Films, Adult Messages

PMP#152: BELIEVE in Ted Lasso

PMP#151: Everybody’s Talkin’ ‘Bout “Succession”

PMP#150: Dark Shadows w/ Kathryn Leigh Scott

PMP#149: Rocky and Creed

PMP#148: Resource Management Video Games

PMP#147: Nostalgic Mysteries (Knives Out, Poker Face) from Rian Johnson

PMP#146: Black Panther Films and Comics

PMP#145: Growing Up Sitcommed

PMP#144: Androids and Us

PMP#143: Pinocchio the Unfilmable (Yet Frequently Filmed)

PMP#142: Lyric Literality w/ Dave Philpott

PMP#141: Christmas Songs

PMP#140: First Nations Culture w/ John Beaubien

PMP#139: The Sandman Cometh

PMP#138: What Are “Creatives”?

PMP#137: Slashing the “Halloween” Film Franchise

PMP#136: Nathan Fielder’s “The Rehearsal”

PMP#135: The Breaking Bad-O-Verse

PMP#134: Unpopular Music Genre Fandom

PMP#133: Predator (Films) and Prey

PMP#132: “Too Soon” in Comedy?

PMP#131: Hope for Jordan Peele’s “Nope”

PMP#130: CODA and Deaf Culture

PMP#129: Wherefore the Cover Song?

PMP#128: Jurassic Shlock

PMP#127: You Down with Downton Abbey?

PMP#126: Political Sci-Fi in “The Expanse”

PMP#125: The Dramatics of “This Is Us”

PMP#124: What Is Batman?

PMP#123: We Are All Jackass

PMP#122: Maus Shows the Tragic Via Comics

PMP#121: Protesting Protest Songs

PMP#120: Dexter the Loveable Serial Killer

PMP#119: Disgraced Artists Like Cosby

PMP#118: Adapting Agatha Christie

PMP#117: Roguelikes Like Hades

PMP#116: Good Grief! Peanuts Persists

PMP#115: So-Called Greatest Albums

PMP#114: The “West Side Story” Story

PMP#113: The Matrix Regurgitated

PMP#112: Class Critiques in Squid Game, Succession, etc.

PMP#111: Our Beatles Love-Fest

PMP#110: The Dune Franchise Tries Again

PMP#109: Dueling in Film

PMP#108: Board Game Ideology

PMP#107: Cult Bands and Cultish Fans

PMP#106: Stand-Up Comedy in the Internet Age

PMP#105: The Death of Soap Operas (Is Greatly Exaggerated)

PMP#104: King Arthur Reigns O’er Pop Culture

PMP#103: Queering Video Games w/ Naomi Clark

Introducing Philosophy vs. Improv

PMP#102: What the Pop!? Season 1 Wrap-Up

PMP#101: The “Conjuring” Retroverse

PMP#100: Directing Comedies w/ Heather Fink

PMP#99: The Music of Your Youth w/ Jon Lamoreaux (The Hustle podcast)

PMP#98: The Spirit of Captain America w/ Anthony LeBlanc

PMP#97: The Girl in the Wooder: Our Mare of Easttown Show!

PMP#96: Modernizing D&D w/ Amanda McLoughlin (Join the Party)

PMP#95: “The Nevers” With a Side of Whedon

PMP#94: Psychology of Video Game Engagement w/ Jamie Madigan

PMP#93: Made for Love (and other Silicon Villainy)

Bonus: PMP#92 Aftertalk with Hello from the Magic Tavern’s Matt Young

PMP#92: Collectibles and Collecting w/ Matt Young

PMP#91: Pet Culture w/ Trainer Hannah Branigan

PMP-Partially Examined Life Crossover: Neil Postman’s “Amusing Ourselves to Death”

PMP#90: Godzilla vs. Kong vs. All the Kaiju!

PMP#89: The Chicago 7 (and the Aaron Sorkinverse)

PMP#88: Indie Animation w/ Benjamin Goldman

PMP#87: Female Buddy Comedies w/ Erica’s Female Buddy Micah Greene

PMP#86: What Irish Means w/ Black 47’s Larry Kirwan

Bonus-PMP#85 Aftertalk w/ Rolando (And More TV You Are Missing)

PMP#85: What the WandaVision!? w/ Rolando Nieves

PMP#84: Musician Memoirs w/ Laura Davis-Chanin

PMP#83: Disabled and Other-Abled Representation w/ Kayla Dryesse

PMP#82: Cobra Kai and the Karate Kids

PMP#81: Radio vs. Podcasting w/ Jason Bentley

PMP#80: Reliving Groundhog Day (and Palm Springs, Russian Doll, etc.)

PMP#79: The Fargo Formula w/ Tamler Sommers (Very Bad Wizards Crossover)

PMP#78: Chess Is Having a Moment w/ J.J. Lang

PMP#77: The Big Screen Experience

PMP#76: Wonder Women (84 and Others) w/ Vi Burlew

PMP#75: Our Great British Baking Show w/ Stephen Carlile

Mark Lint’s PEL Network Holiday Party 2020: Merry Chatting and Songs

PMP#74: Micro Comedy w/ Tiffany Topol

PMP#73: Beloved Bad Films w/ Manos’ Jackey Neyman Jones

PMP#72: Comic Book Supremacy w/ Fred Van Lente

PMP#71: Rap Battles w/ Sacrifice (Tyler Hislop)

PMP#70: RISKy Confessional Comedy w/ Kevin Allison

PMP#69: Story Songs w/ Rod Picott

PMP#68: Raised by Wolves: Biblical Sci-Fi

PMP#67: Borat Pod Show! Very Nice! With Aaron David Gleason

PMP#66: Scary Movies w/ Nathan Shelton

PMP#65: Cosmic Satire w/ “Bill & Ted” Writer Chris Matheson

PMP#64: The Last of Us: The Best Movies We Ever Played

PMP#63: Superhero Ethics (and The Boys) w/ Travis Smith

PMP#62: Mulan Re-Disneyfield w/ Michael Tow

PMP#61: Philosophy of Photography w/ Amir Zaki

PMP#60: Manga 101 w/ Deborah Shamoon

PMP#59: David Lynch’s Popular Surrealism

PMP Aftertalk Clip Show 2020

PMP#58: “TAYLOR SWIFT RULES!” (Conversation with a Swiftie)

PMP#57: Back to the Damn Arena – The Hunger Games Prequel

PMP#56: Black + Nerd = BLERD w/ Anthony LeBlanc

PMP#55: Food as Pop w/ Thi Nguyen

PMP#54: The Genius(?) of Rick and Morty

PMP#53: The Hamilton Phenomenon w/ Sam Simahk

PMP#52: The Twilight Zone from Serling to Peele

PMP#51: Pictures Telling Stories w/ Joseph Watson

PMP#50: MJ’s Last Dance w/ Seth Paskin

PMP#49: Conspiracy Theories as Pop w/ Al Baker

PMP#48: The Arts in Reality TV w/ Skin Wars’ Robin Slonina

PMP#47: Sitcom Premises: Genius, Bonkers and Otherwise

PMP#46: “Casual” Games with Diner Dash’s Nick Fortugno

PMP#45: Film Riffing with MST3K’s Mary Jo Pehl

PMP#44: Local News w/ Deion Broxton

PMP#43: The Korean Wave w/ Suzie Oh

PMP#42: Star Trek Lives Long and Prospers (Intermittently)

PMP#41: Made-for-TV Musicals w/ Craig Wedren

PMP#40: #MeToo Depictions in TV and Film

PMP#39: TV and Other Plans in Subjunctive Stasis

PMP#38: Costuming w/ Whitney Anne Adams

PMP#37: Everything is LEGO

PMP#36: Criticism w/ Noah Berlatsky

PMP#35: Video Game Storytelling w/ Donald Marshall

Bonus-PMP#34 Part 2 w/ Adal Rifai: Escape Rooms & Podcasting

PMP#34: Escape Rooms and Other Puzzlers w/ Adal Rifai

PMP#33: The Heroine’s Journey w/ Vi Burlew

PMP#32: Judging “The Good Place”

PMP#31: Robin Williams’ Celebrity Struggles w/ Dave Itzkoff

PMP#30: Why Every Film Will Win the Oscar! (A Debate)

PMP#29: Martin Scorsese the Auteur w/ Colin Marshall

PMP#28: The Alpha Female Trope w/ Margaret Colin

PMP#27: For the Love of Star Wars

PMP#26: We Watch “Watchmen” w/ David Pizarro

PMP#25: Sports as Pop w/ Sportscaster Dave Revsine

PMP#24: Christmas Viewing: What’s Canon?

PMP#23: The Singer Not the Song w/ Ken Stringfellow

PMP#22: Untangling Time Travel

PMP#21: Role-Playing Video Games

NOT PMP#21: Mark’s Thanksgiving Fireside Chat

PMP#20: Improv Comedy w/ Tim Sniffen

PMP#19: Race and the Target Audience w/ Rodney Ramsey

PMP#18: Stephen King’s Media Empire

PMP#17: Comedy as Philosophy w/ Daniel Lobell

PMP#16: 25 Years After FRIENDS

PMP#15: Opera As Pop

PMP#14: UFOs on TV with Investigative Journalist Paul Beban

PMP#13: TV Revivals Revived!

PMP#12: Once Upon a Tarantino Film

PMP#11: The Live Music Experience

PMP#10: The Handmaid’s Tale

PMP#9: Cartoons with Dee Bradley Baker (from Clone Wars, American Dad)

PMP#8: Spider-Man: Far From Home (and Elsewhere)

PMP#7: Native Representation w/ Jonathan Joss (King of the Hill, Parks & Rec)

PMP#6: Adults Playing Video Games

PMP#5: True Crime with Lucy Lawless

PMP#4: “Chernobyl” and the Art of Suffering

PMP#3: CONFORM w/ Yakov Smirnoff

PMP#2: Binge Watching

PMP#1: Pop Culture vs. High Culture