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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Friday Aug 05, 2022
Friday Aug 05, 2022
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 celebrating the 41st Anniversary of MTV’s launch on August 1, 1981. On today’s episode, Andy Atherton is watching a video that MTV aired that day, “Da Ya Think I’m Sexy?” by Rod Stewart from 1978.
The YouTube link for the video is below so you can watch along!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hphwfq1wLJs
Thursday Aug 04, 2022
Thursday Aug 04, 2022
On a special episode of Pop Goes The Classics, Andy Atherton rides solo to do a live watch of 1998’s A Bug’s Life. Originally broadcasted live on Stream Lounge, he gives his thoughts on the great ensemble voice cast; the animated take on The Magnificent Seven; The Twig of ’93; Flik’s Doc Brown-esque inventions; the lifespan of ants; how terrifying Hopper is; rabid grasshoppers; Flik’s fool’s errand; PT Flea the carnie; Bug City; Thud, the “Mongo” of the movie; comedy of misunderstandings; movie parallels; The War Magician; Heimlich’s obsession with becoming a butterfly; bug celebrations; the nefarious plot of the grasshoppers; bug pep talks; Russian gibberish; metal in the microwave; PT Flea ruining the troupe’s plans & the first set of Pixar outtakes.
To watch along on Stream Lounge, click this link:
https://www.streamlounge.io/watch/27a22566-3138-4b0b-8c61-ce31aa0e4f0f
Thursday Aug 04, 2022
Thursday Aug 04, 2022
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 celebrating the 41st Anniversary of MTV’s launch on August 1, 1981. On today’s episode, Steve Riddle is watching a video that MTV aired that day, “In The Air Tonight” by Phil Collins from 1981.
The YouTube link for the video is below so you can watch along!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkADj0TPrJA
Wednesday Aug 03, 2022
Wednesday Aug 03, 2022
We're giving you two shows for the price of one this episode. These shows premiered on the same day, the shows aired consecutively on NBC, and both looked technologically amazing for late 1976. Alas, technology couldn't save the pair, as their final shows aired on the last day of the year.
Wednesday Aug 03, 2022
Wednesday Aug 03, 2022
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 celebrating the 41st Anniversary of MTV’s launch on August 1, 1981. On today’s episode, Andy Atherton is watching a video that MTV aired that day, “Brass In Pocket” by The Pretenders from 1979.
The YouTube link for the video is below so you can watch along!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0H6re3PCP3E
Tuesday Aug 02, 2022
Tuesday Aug 02, 2022
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 celebrating the 41st Anniversary of MTV’s launch on August 1, 1981. On today’s episode, Steve Riddle is watching the second video that MTV aired, “You Better Run” by Pat Benatar from 1980.
The YouTube link for the video is below so you can watch along!
Pat Benatar - You Better Run - YouTube
Monday Aug 01, 2022
Monday Aug 01, 2022
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 celebrating the 41st Anniversary of MTV’s launch on August 1, 1981. On today’s episode, Scott Criscuolo is watching the very first video that MTV aired, “Video Killed The Radio Star” by The Buggles from 1979.
The YouTube link for the video is below so you can watch along!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8r-tXRLazs
Friday Jul 29, 2022
Friday Jul 29, 2022
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 “Nothin’ But A Good Time” by Poison from 1988.
The YouTube link for the video is below so you can watch along!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_88L-CU7PD4
Thursday Jul 28, 2022
Thursday Jul 28, 2022
On the fifteenth episode of Blockbuster Rewatch, Andy Atherton welcomes Tim Capel to do a live watch of the 2016’s Captain America: Civil War continuing his MCU rewatch. Originally broadcasted live on Stream Lounge, the duo discusses extreme paintball enthusiasts; Scarlett Johansson’s stunt double; stopping mid-explosion; Vision’s charming sweater; Sam Elliott vs. Sam Neill; ways to cook paprikash; Sebastian Stan’s filmography; the start of the Wanda & Vision; MCU romances; characters with the last name Ross; Peter Parker’s intro into the MCU; twin beds; Underoos; Steve’s moral conflicts and where the MCU will go from this point.
To watch the Stream Lounge Broadcast, click on the link below:
https://www.streamlounge.io/watch/fea1d223-556b-4293-bd79-0c2186d81848
Thursday Jul 28, 2022
Thursday Jul 28, 2022
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 “One Thing Leads To Another” by The Fixx from 1983.
The YouTube link for the video is below so you can watch along!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHYIGy1dyd8
Wednesday Jul 27, 2022
Wednesday Jul 27, 2022
This week on It Was a Thing on TV we conclude our MLB All-Star Special from last week while doing some wizardly stuff.
First, we talked last week about the 1990 MLB All-Star Game, with its long rain delay. Now, we're talking about what happened during that delay. CBS fired up an episode of its freshman hit Rescue 911. It was a bit of an odd selection, maybe more so because this episode had a gruesome event, during a jovial event (The All-Star Game.)
Then, What if Merlin the Magician lived in the 20th Century instead of during Arthurian times? In 1981, CBS gave us an answer to that question when Merlin lived in San Francisco and owned an auto repair shop. It appears CBS had faith in the series, but it went up against difficult competition from the start.
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Timestamps
0:56 - The episode of Rescue 911 that aired during the 1990 MLB All-Star Game rain delay
43:36 - The Jenny Position Commercial
46:59 - Mr. Merlin
Wednesday Jul 27, 2022
Wednesday Jul 27, 2022
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 “Don’t Lose My Number” by Phil Collins from 1985.
The YouTube link for the video is below so you can watch along!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7Z-eUmR2bM
Tuesday Jul 26, 2022
Tuesday Jul 26, 2022
The games might be over in the NBA (unless you count summer league), so Adam Murray and Andrew Riche, Place To Be Nation’s NBA-Team, are going to entertain the basketball podcast masses and play a game of their own. In this episode, they will discuss mega trades of years past and try to determine once and for all who won and who wound up holding the bag. Why did Chris Paul’s team both win AND lose in the trade that brought him to Houston? How badly did Sam Presti drop the ball when he sent James Harden out of Oklahoma City? And why does the Rudy Gobert trade remind Riche so much of a previous super deal: The Carmelo Anthony/Knicks deal? So suit up and take it out in episode 245 with the NBA-Team!
Tuesday Jul 26, 2022
Tuesday Jul 26, 2022
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 “Black Hole Sun” by Soundgarden from 1994.
The YouTube link for the video is below so you can watch along!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mbBbFH9fAg
Monday Jul 25, 2022
Monday Jul 25, 2022
Bianca and Mirandia are back with a new episode, number two to be exact. As always they are sharing their love of reading and this month both read separate books to review and explain to the other one.
Bianca gives us a wonderful and intriguing look at The Wife Upstairs a mystery/thriller by Rachel Hawkins. Mirandia then brings the chills with her breakdown of Horror Hotel by Victoria Fulton and Faith MaClaren.
They then both bring you a new segment called “adaptation minute” where they tell you shows or movies they have recently watched that are an adaptation of a book.
Of course as promised here is a full list of books mentioned, discuss, or reviewed on this episode, in order of mention:
Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon
Book Lovers by Emily Henry
Vampire Knitting Club Series by Nancy Warren
The Wife Upstairs by Rachel Hawkins
Horror Hotel by Victoria Fulton and Faith McClaren
Ellie Is Cool Now (not yet available) by Victoria Fulton and Faith MaClaren
The Push by Ashley Audrain
The Lies I Tell by Julie Clark
I let You Go by Claire MacIntosh
A Night to Die For by Lisa Schroeder
The Summer I Turned Pretty Series by Jenny Hanh
Love and Gelato by by Jenna Evans Welch
The Vampire Diaries series by LJ Smith
Orange is the New Black by Piper Kerman
Curious Incident of the Dog in Nighttime by Mark Haddon
One of Us is Lying by Karen McManus
I Kissed Shara Wheeler by Casey McQuiston
Orchid Club Paris Trilogy by Lila Dubois
Reckless Girls by Rachel Hawkins
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
The Icabog by J.K. Rowling