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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Thursday Dec 29, 2022
Thursday Dec 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 “Karma Chameleon” by Culture Club from 1983.
The YouTube link for the video is below so you can watch along!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmcA9LIIXWw
Wednesday Dec 28, 2022
Wednesday Dec 28, 2022
This week on It Was a Thing on TV, 3’s a crowd as we’re recovering from a high flying adventure bringing kids in 1982 some Atari 2600 games.
First, when a character in a series is popular, networks want to ride that character's popularity as long as possible. When ABC canceled Three's Company, the network retained Jack Tripper, but placed him in a new series with a new love...and her father. Hilarity tried to ensue.
Next, We have brought you shows on Hulk Hogan commercials, Ric Flair commercials, and three separate installments of Hometown Commercials. Our early Christmas present to you is a look at ads for something everybody wanted under the tree from 1979 to 1982--the Atari 2600 VCS, and games for the system.
Finally, What started in 1985 as a popular Christmas toy tradition at a midwest department store, Santabear became so popular that two years later, CBS gave him his own primetime special on Christmas Eve 1987.
Santabear must help the residents of the South Pole discover the magic of Christmas while facing off with Santa's former helper Bullybear. With the help of a lady bear named Missy, Santabear goes on a high flying adventure to save Christmas for everyone before Bullybear can destroy all the presents.
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Seriously, who hires a bear who calls himself Bullybear?
Timestamps
0:30 - Three’s A Crowd (1984)
1:05:41 - Atari 2600 Commercials
2:24:17 - Santabear’s High Flying Adventure
Wednesday Dec 28, 2022
Wednesday Dec 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, Keith Langston is watching “All 4 Love” by Color Me Badd from 1991.
The YouTube link for the video is below so you can watch along!
https://youtu.be/PccRs1HR7VI
Tuesday Dec 27, 2022
Tuesday Dec 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 “Mr. Jones” by Counting Crows from 1993.
The YouTube link for the video is below so you can watch along!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oqAU5VxFWs
Monday Dec 26, 2022
Monday Dec 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 “More Than A Feeling” by Boston from 1976.
The YouTube link for the video is below so you can watch along!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4QK8RxCAwo
Saturday Dec 24, 2022
Saturday Dec 24, 2022
It’s NOT the series finale of the show. Heck, it’s not even the SEASON finale of the show. But it IS the final episode of 2022 for Adam Murray and Andrew Riche, Place To Be Nation’s NBA-Team, and they are ready to take on the tough questions. How did the Orlando Magic become the hottest team in the league not named the Memphis Grizzlies? Which Eastern Conference team is in trouble between Washington, Chicago, and Toronto? Will all the California teams make the postseason and if not, is it possible the Steph-less defending champion Warriors will be on the outside looking in? Riche and Adam also discuss the horrible award names, rubbing it in during big wins, the holiday tradition that is the Anthony Davis injury, and much more! So suit up and take it out in episode 261 with the NBA-Team!
Saturday Dec 24, 2022
Saturday Dec 24, 2022
On a special pod blast episode of Pop Goes The Classics, Andy Atherton rides solo to do a live watch of the Pixar Short, “Jack Jack Attack” from 2005.
To watch along on Stream Lounge, click this link:
https://www.streamlounge.io/watch/5581cce8-c0d5-42b3-ab84-aacddf95e22f
Friday Dec 23, 2022
Friday Dec 23, 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 Christmas with a super-sized theme week of great Christmas songs. On today’s episode, Andy Atherton is watching “Christmas (Baby, Please Come Home)” by U2 from 1987.
The YouTube link for the video is below so you can watch along!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmZBC92pgrE
Friday Dec 23, 2022
Friday Dec 23, 2022
On a special episode of The Most Sensational, Inspirational, Celebrational, Muppetational Podcast, Mirandia Berthold & Andy Atherton do a live watch of the 2008 special, A Muppet Christmas: Letters To Santa.
To watch along on Stream Lounge, click this link:
https://www.streamlounge.io/watch/b598af3a-69e4-42f4-b81e-6727985760c3
Friday Dec 23, 2022
Friday Dec 23, 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 Christmas with a super-sized theme week of great Christmas songs. On today’s episode, Steve Riddle is watching “Christmas Eve / Saravejo 12/24” by Trans-Siberian Orchestra from 1996.
The YouTube link for the video is below so you can watch along!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHioIlbnS_A
Thursday Dec 22, 2022
Thursday Dec 22, 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 Christmas with a super-sized theme week of great Christmas songs. On today’s episode, Andy Atherton is watching “Last Christmas” by Wham! from 1986.
The YouTube link for the video is below so you can watch along!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8gmARGvPlI
Thursday Dec 22, 2022
Thursday Dec 22, 2022
On the forty-fifth episode of Laugh-In Theater, Andy Atherton is joined by Shawn Kidd & Logan Crosland do a live watch of the 1983 comedy, A Christmas Story. The guys discuss the relatability of the story; the movie Kidco; their favorite Christmas movies; bratty kids; snow suits; triple dog dares; bailing on your friends; the sham by Little Orphan Annie; winning major awards; foods that you hated growing up; electrical fire hazards; dealing with bullies; saying the “f” word; selling out your friends; family controversies; no selling The Wicked Witch; present wrapping etiquette; boozy MILFs on Christmas morning & going to Chinese restaurants on holidays. So remember: you’ll shoot your eye out kid.
Thursday Dec 22, 2022
Thursday Dec 22, 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 Christmas with a super-sized theme week of great Christmas songs. On today’s episode, Keith Langston is watching “Happy Christmas (War Is Over)” by John Lennon from 1971.
The YouTube link for the video is below so you can watch along!
https://youtu.be/Xbdyg51MVbg
Wednesday Dec 21, 2022
Wednesday Dec 21, 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 Christmas with a super-sized theme week of great Christmas songs. On today’s episode, Andy Atherton is watching “You Make It Feel Like Christmas” by Gwen Stefani feat. Blake Shelton from 2017.
The YouTube link for the video is below so you can watch along!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZT9_H4-hbM
Wednesday Dec 21, 2022
Wednesday Dec 21, 2022
This week on It Was a Thing on TV we take the good and we take the bad from what we got at the slot machine.
First, The Facts of Life is one of NBC's big hits from the 1980s and a true sitcom classic. But there was a time where not only was it unbelievably different, it was in danger of being canceled after the first four episodes! Join the guys as they talk about the first season and how & why half of the cast were forced out of Eastland Academy.
Then, traditional daytime TV shows were on the decline in the early 1990s, in an era ushered by Maury Povich, Jerry Springer, and Jenny Jones. The Joker's Wild in 1990 tried to rejuvenate a show which showed its age in the mid-80s, in an era where it was handily beaten by Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy! The core of the game drastically changed but kind of reverted to its original format, but it was too late.
Finally, we present the second of our two live shows that we did back in October as Greg and Chico look at the MCU special presentation of Werewolf by Night on Disney+.
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Timestamps
0:30 - The Facts of Life, Season 1
1:01:07 - The Joker’s Wild (1990)
1:45:05 - Werewolf by Night