Place to Be Nation POP Experience
Place to Be Nation’s Pop Culture podcast feed featuring shows on movies, TV, books, comics, music, sports, nostalgia and much more!
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Saturday May 20, 2023
Saturday May 20, 2023
On a special pod blast episode of Pop Goes The Classics, Andy Atherton rides solo to do a live watch of the Pixar Short, “Party Central” from 2013.
To watch along on Stream Lounge, click this link:
https://www.streamlounge.io/watch/f0af7b1f-e05c-43e0-9371-d5f7556d064b
Friday May 19, 2023
Friday May 19, 2023
Welcome to PTBN Pop’s Video Jukebox Song of The Day! Every weekday will be featuring a live watch of a great and memorable music video. On today’s episode, Andy Atherton is watching “I Love L.A.” by Randy Newman from 1983.
The YouTube link for the video is below so you can watch along!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcADqxnQA_4
Thursday May 18, 2023
Thursday May 18, 2023
On the fourth episode of Cartoons Of Our Youth, Andy Atherton welcomes James Gruenberg to talk about one of his favorite cartoons growing up, Recess. The guys talk about the archetype characters typically found in animated shows like this one; the rules of the schoolyard in grammar school; teacher’s pets; “Off The Wall”; food dares; Robert Goulet’s singing voice; the teacher’s lounge; changes to friendships over the years and Senor Fusion before moving on to live watch the two episodes that James selected for them. The ones picked are S1 E10 “Teacher’s Lounge / Randall’s Reform” & S3 E15 “Old Folks Home / Some Friend”.
So grab a bowl of your favorite cereal, park yourself in front of the TV and join us for some great cartoons!
Thursday May 18, 2023
Thursday May 18, 2023
Welcome to PTBN Pop’s Video Jukebox Song of The Day! Every weekday will be featuring a live watch of a great and memorable music video. On today’s episode, Steve Riddle is watching “Breaking The Habit” by Linkin Park from 2004.
The YouTube link for the video is below so you can watch along!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2H4l9RpkwM
Wednesday May 17, 2023
Wednesday May 17, 2023
This week on It Was a Thing on TV we celebrate a 40th Anniversary of a special episode on late-night television while we continue on with Pilot Month 2023 with two pilots featuring well-known TV stars.
First, May 9th, marks 40 years since David Letterman dedicated an entire day to an assistant sound engineer on his show. We go back and relive that day with a beer, a BLT, and another beer.
Next, in 1977, Andy Kaufman was an up and coming comic. ABC cast him as a robot servant in the year 2055 with a distinct voice, one which would become associated with Kaufman on another ABC show a year later, Taxi. Why didn't this work? We blame the mood synthesizers, AKA the "ass toasters."
Finally, as we have mentioned previously, ESP was popular in the 60s and 70s. What happens when a racecar driver starts having psychic visions? Lots of stuff in England, enough to make the casual viewer feel Baffled!
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Timestamps
0:36 - Bob Rooney Day on Late Night With David Letterman
54:10 - Stick Around (1977 ABC pilot)
1:23:47 - Baffled! (1973 NBC backdoor pilot)
Leonard Nimoy totally tripping balls in Baffled! y’all!
Wednesday May 17, 2023
Wednesday May 17, 2023
Welcome to PTBN Pop’s Video Jukebox Song of The Day! Every weekday will be featuring a live watch of a great and memorable music video. On today’s episode, Keith Langston is watching “Bittersweet Symphony” by The Verve from 1997.
The YouTube link for the video is below so you can watch along!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lyu1KKwC74
Tuesday May 16, 2023
Tuesday May 16, 2023
We are finally at the NBA’s own Final Four for 2023, and it’s a lot of familiar names but have the tables been turned along with home court? Adam Murray and Andrew Riche, Place To Be Nation’s NBA-Team, are here to get everyone up to speed as we hit the exit ramp to the NBA Finals. Out West, the healthy and hungry L.A. Lakers conquered the defending champions, but will LeBron James and Anthony Davis be able to recapture the 2020 bubble magic against their bubble opponent, the top-seeded, Nikola Jokic-led Denver Nuggets? Speaking of bubble trouble, we get another 2020 rematch in the Eastern Conference Finals, the Boston Celtics play the Miami Heat once again, but can Boston be the one that can hold home court this time and make it two in a row in what will be an epic showdown between Jimmy Butler and Jayson Tatum? All this, draft lottery talk, and more! So suit up and take it out with the NBA-Team!
Tuesday May 16, 2023
Tuesday May 16, 2023
Welcome to PTBN Pop’s Video Jukebox Song of The Day! Every weekday will be featuring a live watch of a great and memorable music video. On today’s episode, Steve Riddle is watching “Call Me When You’re Sober” by Evanescence from 2006.
The YouTube link for the video is below so you can watch along!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RrA-R5VHQs
Monday May 15, 2023
Monday May 15, 2023
Welcome to PTBN Pop’s Video Jukebox Song of The Day! Every weekday will be featuring a live watch of a great and memorable music video. On today’s episode, Andy Atherton is watching “Alive” by Pearl Jam from 1991.
The YouTube link for the video is below so you can watch along!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qM0zINtulhM
Saturday May 13, 2023
Saturday May 13, 2023
On a special pod blast episode of Pop Goes The Classics, Andy Atherton rides solo to do a live watch of the Pixar Short, “Monster Truck Mater” from 2010.
To watch along on Stream Lounge, click this link:
https://www.streamlounge.io/watch/79d761a6-bd37-4a4d-b0e6-a82e45730a66
Friday May 12, 2023
Friday May 12, 2023
On episode 16 of Popcorn Chicken Salad join Ben Locke, Logan Crosland and Calum McDougall as they live watch The Wedding Singer.
Topics discussed include a quality, vegas weddings, seating plan etiquette, Calum gets very excited about a man called Bruce, the role Lovitz was born to play, loss making records, all Tom Cruise films are the same and repatriating James Corden.
Come for the concept but stay for lots of terrible singing its Popcorn Chicken Salad.
Friday May 12, 2023
Friday May 12, 2023
Welcome to PTBN Pop’s Video Jukebox Song of The Day! Every weekday will be featuring a live watch of a great and memorable music video. This week we are all about collaborations between artists, so each song we’re covering will be duets. On today’s episode, Andy Atherton is watching “I Knew You Were Waiting” by George Michael & Aretha Franklin from 1986.
The YouTube link for the video is below so you can watch along!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDxzQJaA228
Thursday May 11, 2023
Thursday May 11, 2023
Welcome to PTBN Pop’s Video Jukebox Song of The Day! Every weekday will be featuring a live watch of a great and memorable music video. This week we are all about collaborations between artists, so each song we’re covering will be duets. On today’s episode, Keith Langston is watching “The Girl Is Mine” by Michael Jackson & Paul McCartney from 1982.
The YouTube link for the video is below so you can watch along!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txedWZLKT0Q
Wednesday May 10, 2023
Wednesday May 10, 2023
This week on It Was a Thing on TV we continue Pilot Month 2023 by looking at two ill-fated US adaptations of popular shows and then go overseas to watch something that should not been seen by human eyes.
First, in the last year, one of the most sought after pieces of lost media was discovered. FOX passed on a US version of Sailor Moon in 1994, and all that existed was a brief video from 1995.
Next, here's another case of a show working overseas but failing domestically. The Brit show Red Dwarf has been on the air for a combined quarter century. Could it have worked here? Who knows, thanks NBC smegheads.
Finally, a pre-Doctor Who/Guardians of the Galaxy Karen Gillan appeared in this British pilot, which apparently was the best thing at a certain network's disposal. This was so wrong on so many levels, so much so that we're asking for listener discretion. It did give us 4000-pound breasts.
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Timestamps
0:36 - Sailor Moon (1994 US Pilot)
42:22 - Red Dward (1992 NBC Pilot)
1:21:24 - Stacked (2008 UK Pilot)
Wednesday May 10, 2023
Wednesday May 10, 2023
Welcome to PTBN Pop’s Video Jukebox Song of The Day! Every weekday will be featuring a live watch of a great and memorable music video. This week we are all about collaborations between artists, so each song we’re covering will be duets. On today’s episode, Steve Riddle is watching “One Sweet Day” by Mariah Carey & Boyz II Men from 1995.
The YouTube link for the video is below so you can watch along!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXxRyNvTPr8