Come with us as we take a walk down memory lane and visit the music and pop culture from an era that makes us supremely nostalgic. We're talking about 2000's and 2010's music and culture, how pop culture is cyclical, and all of the weird things that were part of pop culture back then: random product placement, vitamin water, frozen yogurt, and cigarettes.

It's been awhile since we recorded, but we finally found time to sit down together, and it's just in time for our 2026 mid year round up. Listen in to hear about all of the pop culture and media we've loved this year. From albums, live shows, movies, and tv shows, we're covering it all.

Is making music go viral good or bad? How about when you optimize the algorithm and add bots into the equation? Listen in to hear our takes on the recent news about Chaotic Good and their viral music marketing campaigns, who's used them, and how we've seen this marketing strategy over the years in differnet formats.

It's festival line up season, so listen in to see how correct Stephanie was about her Lolla predictions. We're joined by a guest to discuss smutty novels and their titles and what festivals we want to attend this year.

We got the opportunity to sit down with Jess Merritt (@beerbabejess) to talk about her experiences as a beer content creator. Listen in to hear about how she got started in craft beer, her thoughts on craft beer scenes city to city, and about the book she helped put together "Rethink Everything You Know About Craft Beer". "Rethink Everything You Know About Craft Beer" is out now, so pick up your copy today. Your favorite drinking problem masquerading as a pop culture podcast has a chapter on page 151

We're a little late in celebrating the anniversary of one of our favorite movies ever, O Brother Where Art Thou?. Better late than never though. Listen in to hear our favorite moments from the movie, some fun facts (like who in the film never read The Odyssey), our parallels to the Epic Poem by Homer, chats about other Coen Brothers movies, and why we think this movie will be better than the upcoming adaptation by Christopher Nolan.

It's a blast from the past this episode with our first revisit of the Stranger Things series. We first covered this in 2019 and are rejoined by our resident Stranger Things expert, Justin. Listen in to hear our takes on the show now that the finale has aired. We're talking about the final season, product placement, the 80's nostalgia, character growth (or lack thereof), how Eleven jumped over the ocean, conformity gate, and a number of other Stranger Things topics. P.S. We may have talked about an incredible pitch for a spin off the relates to the title of this episode.

Join us for a more in depth beer episode as we do a tasting of Revolutions 2026 Deep Wood Series. We sit down to try the 4 canned beers that make up the series: - Dethurana - Sur Lie (collab with Surly Brewing) - Mineshaft Gap - Barleywinery D.B.X.O.J La Cerise Listen in for our tasting notes!

Join us for our 2025 pop culture review. Lindsey reviews the 100 books she read this year and reads some of her favorite reviews of them, we chat through our Spotify wrapped and top albums of the year, and finish off with some artists you should watch out for in 2026

Rough Trade dropped their top 100 albums of the year, so we're sitting down to run through the list and give our opinions. Listen in to hear our thoughts on what made the list and what didn't make it.