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Pulp Friction Ep. 14: Sonic the Hedgehog (feat. Flan)
Rocky (she/her) and Flan (she/her) devote two and a half delirious hours to perhaps the most extensive subject ever covered on the pod: the lore of Sonic the Hedgehog. From his first game to his first movie, we make sense of the many attempts to explain h
Pulp Friction Ep. 13: Met Gala 2021 (feat. Simone)
This week on Pulp Friction, Rocky (she/her) and Simone (she/they) team up once again for a super-charged review of 2021’s Met Gala fashion. Listen to them offer their takes on over 100 of the best and worst looks from the biggest night in fashion, and bec
Pulp Friction Ep. 12: Certified Lover Boy
Shana tova! To kick off the new year, Rocky (she/her) presents her first solo episode of Pulp Friction! We’re talking Certified Lover Boy, the new album by Canadian rap icon Drake. It’s an extensive and far-reaching conversation that fans and haters alike
Pulp Friction Ep. 11: Donda (feat. Brig)
Two days late? Two hours long? Audio issues? Outtakes? Nerdy jocks? It must be time to talk Donda, the tenth studio album by multihyphenate megalomaniac Kanye West. Rocky (she/her) and Brig (he/she) take a deep dive into every track on the album, but if t
Pulp Friction Ep. 10: The Emo Trinity (feat. Emily)
This week on Pulp Friction, Rocky (she/her) and Emily (she/he) do a deep dive into the albums of the sixish-part trinity of pop punk kings and queens. We’re talking My Chemical Romance, Fall Out Boy, Panic! at the Disco, Paramore, Gym Class Heroes, Twenty
Pulp Friction Ep. 9: The Beatles, Pt. 1 (feat. Sam H. & Leon)
This week on a very special and moderately drunken Pulp Friction, Rocky (she/her, birthday boy) is joined by Sam (he/him) and Leon (they/he) to take the first step of their thousand-mile journey, piecing together the clues to solve the Beatles’ arcane rid
Pulp Friction Ep. 8: In the Heights (feat. Simone)
This week on Pulp Friction, Rocky (she/her) and Simone (she/they) join forces to talk about the cinema event of the summer (that bombed even by pandemic standards), Jon M. Chu’s In the Heights. Other discussion topics include Clifford, bathing, Brooklyn N
Pulp Friction Ep. 7: Limp Bizkit (feat. Mitch Mitchell)
Do you wanna mess with Limp Bizkit? Well, you can’t mess with Limp Bizkit, on account of they get it on. This week on Pulp Friction, Rocky (she/her) and Mitch (he/him) confer a meeting of the minds to discuss a band whose reputation as the butt of the jok
Pulp Friction Ep. 6: Love, Simon (feat. Alex)
It’s love, Simon style on this week’s Pulp Friction as Rocky (she/her) and Alex (they/them) talk about the first gay (teen major studio romance) movie and the first entry in the shockingly-expansive Simonverse, Disney’s Fox’s Love, Simon. Is it worthy of
Pulp Friction Ep. 5: The Silence of the Lambs (feat. Clarissa)
(Content warning: discussion of serial killers, cannibalism, dismembering, potentially triggering language about trans and mentally ill people.)Welcome back to Pulp Friction, a show about what divides us! This week, Rocky was joined by Clarissa (she/he/th