Latest Podcast: Scott Weiland, Mary-Kate Olsen’s “Bowls of Cigarettes,” John Lennon

Podcast, pop, pop culture, R.I.P.

Wherein I construct the Mount Rushmore of grunge rock.

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Latest Podcast: Hitler, Mussolini, Zac Hanson, the Kardashians

Books, Dictators, Kardashians, one direction, Podcast, pop culture, Zac Hanson

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Jay Nordlinger, senior editor of National Review, virtually stops by to discuss his new book, Children of Monsters: An Inquiry into the Sons and Daughters of Dictators (Encounter Books)—and I promise, you will not be wondering why I’m not discussing One Direction.

Because, you know, in between talking Hitler, Pol Pot and Mussolini, I’ll be name-checking One Direction, as well as the Kardashians, Zac Hanson and Batman’s Bob Kane.

Trust me, it all works.

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Latest Podcast: Can Miss America Save a Perfectly Good Baby Name…

Betty, Miss America, Podcast, pop culture

betty…That nobody happens to use anymore?

Discussing the pop-culture impact of Betty Cantrell‘s Miss America win on Betty, the namesake of Betty White, Betty Crocker and my Aunt Betty, and the No. 2 most-popular baby name for American girls.

In the 1930s.

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And when you’re done catching that episode, you are then allowed to go back, and listen to the previous week’s episode that I forgot to plug here. It’s about Justin Bieber, One Direction and Chad Everett‘s Medical Center. You know, same old, same old.

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Latest Podcast: Watching Batman, Robin and Batgirl

Batgirl, Comics, pop culture, R.I.P., Superheroes, Yvonne Craig

craigAnd wondering if anything’s really changed for women and women superheroes in the nearly 50 years since the late Yvonne Craig‘s high-kicking, box-throwing debut.

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