Place to Be Nation POP Experience

It's the most wonderful time of the year! Right? Ehh.... Jenny and Tim are decking the halls and getting into the Christmas spirits, as they do. Jenny wonders how to handle the Santa situation and Tim recalls bouncing from one side of the family to the other as a child. They both share some funny memories from past Christmases and contemplate how people from "normal" families handle the holidays. Then they share stories gifted to them by members of the Nation! Jenny and Tim wrap things up with a few pointers on how to make things a little easier on yourself during this hectic season. Happy holidays from Talk'n Pop!  
 
 

Pull into the Freak Out Drive-In, a live watch horror podcast with host Jennifer Smith. In this snowy sixth episode, Jenny dives deep into Gremlins with Nick Duke.
 
In a dusty old shop in Chinatown, a shitty inventor and salesman finds a mysterious creature and decides it would make an excellent Christmas gift for his grown ass son. As long as he can follow the simple rules, everything should be fine....right? Jenny and Nick speculate on just how Billy's father really makes his living, what are the fine points of Mogwai care anyway, and why is Gizmo so damn cute? Impressive animatronics, meta humor, and utter silly chaos makes this film a must see, especially around the holidays. So avoid bright lights, water, and eating after midnight at the Freak Out Drive-In! 

Welcome to The Sunday Groove, where David Sunday discusses a musical topic each month with the help of a guest.
This episode features my friend Sam Neely (from the new movie podcast “90s to Nothing” with Russell Sellers). We discuss “Comfort Albums” and talk about our musical history as long-time friends.  Please contact me @SundayGroovePTB on twitter, or David Sunday on Facebook and let me know your thoughts and suggestions for future episodes.

Mild-mannered reporters by day, Greg Phillips and Nick Duke share an intense love of comic books that has made them the Hard-Traveling Fanboys. Over the course of their travels through comicdom, they have encountered numerous stories via the wonder of trade paperbacks and graphic novels. Once a month, Nick and Greg will review one of those collections in The Longbook Hunters. Aquaman Month (AQUAMONTH!) continues with another longbook hunt as the boys review the first collected volume of Peter David’s long-running tenure on the Aquaman solo series. Picking up on the heels of last week’s Time and Tide, this book follows Arthur as he loses a hand, gains a son and searches for answers.

In the newest episode of Looking Forward, Looking Back, host Andy Atherton is joined by Geek and Sassy, Talk'n Pop and Freak Out Drive In's Jennifer Smith, as well as the Hard Traveling Fanboys, Greg Phillips and Nick Duke. With 2019 just days away, the gang looks ahead what they’re most looking forward to in the coming year like what’s next for Marvel and Star Wars, True Detective and the Arrowverse, the expansion of the college football playoffs and the next baseball HOF class, the Disney/Fox merger and Marvel Comics’ War of the Realms, and the Eltites next move. And then, they look back at some of the standouts of 2018 such as A Star Is Born and Avengers: Infinity War, the collapse of Marvel on Netflix and The Walking Dead, Evolution and the next breed of NFL QBs, the Royal Wedding and Geoff Johns departure from DC editorial, and IHOD and the big neck guy!

Welcome to another edition of This Week in the NFL. In this hard hitting episode your cohosts the Cowboy and the pugnacious JA D'Amato take a look back at a crazy Week 15 and preview Week 16. They look at the playoff races in both the AFC and NFC and look into the crystal ball to see how things will shake out. Enjoy!

Gather 'round the Yule log for a super special Christmas edition of Songs With Friends!  Drinks are poured and good times are had as Kelly and Steve break down Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town and Baby, It's Cold Outside.  Learn all about teenage moms, Kelly's mom lowkey training the family to be a singing group, using Santa to bribe your kids, respecting The Biebs, radio stations overreacting, Frank Sinatra's problematic playbook, and the sordid email history of the show's Gmail account. Plus we give our picks for next time and hint at other Christmas content that we never got around to recording!

It's 90 To Nothing, the most excellent and only all-90's movies podcast on Place to be Nation POP! It's episode 1, just in time for the holidays! Russell and Sam picked an all-time classic to kick things off: 1990's Home Alone! Does it hold up? What weird things went on behind the scenes? Was there a conspiracy at the heart of this family vacation to France? How quickly would Kevin's traps have actually killed Harry and Marv? All this and more in 90 to Nothing! 

Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse has arrived, but to what results? Does it live up to the hype? Were the expectations of long-time comic fans and friends Russell Sellers and Greg Phillips met? Is Nicholas Cage the best Spider-Man voice actor in history? These questions and many others are answered in this special podblast review of the film being hailed as one of the best comic book movies of all-time. 

Mild-mannered reporters by day, Greg Phillips and Nick Duke share an intense love of comic books that has made them the Hard-Traveling Fanboys. Over the course of their travels through comicdom, they have encountered numerous stories via the wonder of trade paperbacks and graphic novels. Once a month, Nick and Greg will review one of those collections in The Longbook Hunters. Aquaman Month continues as Greg and Nick discuss the 1993/4 miniseries Aquaman: Time and Tide, by Peter David and Kirk Jarvinen. This is the boys’ first real exposure to Peter David’s classic Aquaman tenure. How does this work as a crash course into Arthur Curry’s history?

Welcome to the Marvel Age! Each month PTBN Comics’ very own Sarcastic Four (Nick Duke, Tim Capel, Russell Sellers and Todd Weber) take an in-depth,year-by-year look at Marvel Comics’ publishing history, focusing on 10 significant stories from that year. The team looks at important character debuts, discusses significant comic creators, and places social and historical context of the era onto the books-all culminating in a holistic look at the Marvel Age of Comics.
This eclectic ELEVENTH episode takes a concentrated look at roughly half of the best of Marvel’s output throughout 1968. The Sarcastic Four talk in depth about Marvel Comics’ Nick Fury: Agent of SHIELD, The Incredible Hulk, Silver Surfer, the Amazing Spider-Man and Captain Marvel; the boys discuss the contributions of creators Stan Lee, Jim Steranko, Gary Friedrich, Marie Severin, Joe Sinnott, John Buscema, Vince Colletta and Roy Thomas; and the S4 go in-depth into return appearances from Galactus, the Red Skull and the Warriors Three as well as important debuts from the previously mentioned Captain Marvel, future Captain Marvel Carol Danvers, and the embodiment of evil, Mephisto.

In this special Popblast, Andy Atherton, Jennifer Smith and Tim Capel get together to discuss and breakdown the two early Christmas gifts fans received from Marvel Studios this week: Captain Marvel trailer #2 & the Avengers: Endgame teaser trailer. Spoiler warning as the gang discusses the rest of the films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe that led up to this point as well as speculate about what could be happening in these two movies when they hit theaters in the next few months. 

Hard-Traveling Fanboys Podcast #138: Off the Page — Justice League: Throne of Atlantis Mild-mannered reporters by day, Greg Phillips and Nick Duke share an intense love of comic books that has made them the Hard-Traveling Fanboys. In Off the Page, the boys take a look at comic book media outside the books themselves -- games, TV shows, movies and so forth. Aquaman Month begins as the boys take a look at the 2015 animated adaptation of one of the classic modern Aquaman stories, Geoff Johns’ Throne of Atlantis! Does the Warner Bros. Animation team capture the spirit of the comic book, or did this film miss the mark?

Welcome to the latest edition of This Week in the NFL! Your co-hosts the Cowboy and the affable John D'Amato take a look back at Week 13 including an in depth review of the Cowboys big win over the Saints and the Chargers huge comeback in Pittsburgh. They also preview upcoming contests such as Ravens vs Chiefs, Eagles vs Cowboys, and Rams vs Bears. As per usual, nothing is off limits!  Enjoy.

We got a taste of him on our Beverly Hills 90210 retrospective, and now he's in the hot seat as Talk'n Pop Gets Personal. That's right, Jenny and Tim have scored the one guest we never thought we could in the form of PTB heavy hitter and all-around excellent person Greg Phillips! Pull up a seat for our conversation weaving throughout Greg's upbringing, pop culture milestones, and college life... including the Hard Traveling Fanboys origin story! PLUS, in a TnP exclusive, Greg candidly and non-specifically unburdens himself on matters of the heart. All this, with a brief history of wrestling E-Feds (to Jenny's delight)!
 
Despite having the privilege of Greg's friendship for years, we learned a great deal from this interview and were all the better for it... and we know YOU will be too. Greg Phillips is one-half of the weekly Hard Traveling Fanboys podcast on Place To Be Nation POP and can be found on Twitter AT gphillips8652.