Because time is a flat circle, every now and then our episodes become relevant again.Recently, Netflix released a documentary, Best of Robbie Williams, to mixed but mostly positive reviews. Anyway, a...

Hello friends! Another busy fortnight here at HQ. Once again we’ve decided to take a dive into the archives to bring you some classic Pop Culture Boner content. Anyway, it's November so that means your Spotify Wrapped is already in the oven - n...

This week on Pop Culture we’re taking a closer look at the Sphere at the Venetian. As Las Vegas’ newest and most expensive concert venue, the Sphere is promising concert-goers that it will be the “future of entertainment”. But now that they’re ...

Here at Pop Culture Boner we sometimes like to consult the experts. Or at least, someone who is expert adjacent. This week we’re talking to Isobel, an actual lawyer, about Sophie Turner and Joe Jonas’ divorce and custody proceedings. While Isob...

Hello friends! A lot’s been happening here at Pop Culture Boner Headquarters. Ask Alex about it next time you see her at the pub. Under the circumstances, we haven’t been able to put together a fresh episode for you this week. Instead, we’ve de...

In the wake of the arrest of Utah-based ‘mommy blogger’ Ruby Franke and her offsider Jodi Hildebrandt on 6 counts of felony child abuse, we take a look at child stars of the YouTube age. How have social channels like YouTube pushed the format o...

This week on Pop Culture Boner, we’re finding joy in talking about horror. Specifically, Talk to Me, the directorial debut of Australian YouTube duo, RackaRacka AKA Michael and Danny Philippou. We take a look at grief, genre and the ne...

This week on Pop Culture Boner, we’re looking at the movie event of the year. Barbie. Oppenheimer. Boppenheimer. Barbenheimer. Margot Robbie. Cillian Murphy. Ryan Gosling. Fun, frivolity, atomic bombs. We’re looking at the limits of re...

This week on Pop Culture Boner we look at the history of book banning and the recent rise in right-wing hate groups using libraries and public schools as battle grounds for anti-LGBTQ+ legislation. We also chat to Ngozi Ukazu, whose bo...

This week’s episode of Pop Culture Boner looks at the OceanGate submersible tragedy through the lens of the online discourse that sprung up around it. Between the wreck of the Titanic, missing billionaires, lax safety regulations, inte...

This week on Pop Culture Boner we’re looking at what exactly Mark Wahlberg means when he tells us to “stay prayed up”. We look at Catholic app Hallow, its social media strategy and follow the money trail to find out how they got Marky Mark mone...

The alternative title for this episode of Pop Culture Boner was “Pay your writers or Jesse Plemons will kill again”, after the 2007-2008 Writers Guild of America (WGA) strike turned the beloved Friday Night Lights star into a ...

This week on Pop Culture Boner we’re revisiting perrenial topic of the podcast, Matthew McConaughey. We finally read his 2020 autobiography, Greenlights. Did we learn something? Did we talk ourselves in circles? Are we catchin...

This week on Pop Culture Boner we look at Bones and All and Fresh, two cannibal horror films that were released months apart and used romance as an angle for their protagonists. If horror reflects what we’re afraid of, what do...

This week on Pop Culture Boner, we’re looking into Gwyneth Paltrow’s weird couple of weeks on the internet. From bone broth and early 2000s diet culture, straight into ski-field accidents at luxury resorts - we deep dive on why Gwyneth...

A very hearty “whoop whoop” to all the Juggalos out there. This week on Pop Culture Boner, we’re looking at the Insane Clown Posse and the long arm of the law. How do FBI gang classifications work, why have Juggalos been targeted and why does e...

Why do some wellness practitioners end up as vaccine hesitant and others end up as Neo-Nazi extremists? This week on Pop Culture Boner we’re looking at the conspirituality and the wellness to white supremacy pipeline.

It’s our first episode back after our little wellness break and we thought we’d share our hot tips for being your most mindful self this week… Just kidding! But this week’s Pop Culture Boner is looking at the wellness industry and soci...

This week on Pop Culture Boner, we’ve accidentally ended up doing another Kardashian based episode following her controversial wearing of Marilyn Monroe’s iconic Happy Birthday, Mr President dress. We did get a little weird wi...

This week on Pop Culture Boner, we’re thinking about the recent release of queer Jane Austen adaptation, Fire Island, the Bechdel Test, and why people insist on using a pretty simple litmus test as the basis of all their genuinely terr...

We’re back after a little break, and this week on Pop Culture Boner we’re taking a look at Netflix’s hot new queer romance, Heartstopper. The show has been almost universally praised for its joyful wholesomeness, while apparen...

This week on Pop Culture Boner we’re diving into a bit of a niche topic - the single-season Dawson’s Creek spin off, Young Americans. This show has everything - weird secret sibling relationships, Shakespearean-level ...

This week on Pop Culture Boner we’re looking into the life and times of one Brad Pitt. Well, specifically we’re looking into his career and how hard it must be to be taken seriously when you have the face of an angel and the washboar...

This week on Pop Culture Boner we’re looking at Jackass… again. Look, we weren’t lying when we said that we are almost always thinking about Jackass. Luckily, they’ve released a new film - we’re looking ageing, pain a...

Welcome back! We missed you! This week's Pop Culture Boner is diving right back in with a look at the narrative surrounding Kim Kardashian, Kanye West and their on-going divorce proceedings. We’re tackling all the big questions: At what point d...