The Cultural Apocalypse Podcast

The Cultural Apocalypse Podcast


Latest Episodes

Episode Thirty Four: Farewell to the Hoff
February 06, 2014

We talk about the Superbowl, Bruno Mars and the creative bankruptcy of American commercials this week, but we also say goodbye to Philip Seymour Hoffman and talk about other great talents that left us too soon.

Episode Thirty Three: Talkin' TV
January 30, 2014

This week we kick back and relax with no real topic in mind, but end up talking about television quite a bit. Everything from what we’ve been watching to consumer reports (John ends up shilling for Amazon, unintentionally; guys, if you want to sponsor u

Episode Thirty Two: You Wanna Get Nuts?
January 25, 2014

We record the long awaited first installment in our Michael Keaton Series this week, during which we actually talk about our love of America’s Finest Actor for a while after discussing a near-embarrassing soc

Episode Thirty One: Nemesis
January 16, 2014

Game of Thrones books we can’t remember the name of, a good Judge Dredd film we decide not to talk about, Robocop 2 (which we do talk about), and assorted complaints about recent Die Hard movies. All of that before we even get to our topic of the week!

The Cultural Apocalypse Episode Thirty: Best of 2014!
January 12, 2014

We’re back, finally! Happy New Year all, and what a year we have in store. We get together and talk about some of the cultural goliaths trundling our way this year. There is of course plenty of talk about Mar

Episode Twenty Nine: Merry Christmas
December 12, 2013

We talk about Christmas movies, what makes a Christmas movie, and why we love Christmas movies

Episode Twenty Eight: The Best of Everything (we watched) in 2013
December 05, 2013

We get together to talk about our favourite films and television of the year with some video games, random Rocky references and a brief discussion on the 2006 Rose Bowl game thrown in. John likes giant robots (

Episode Twenty Seven: Strong Female Characters and Dystopian Settings
November 28, 2013

Three uninformed adult men discuss young adult fiction this week! The Hunger Games, Twilight, Starship Troopers, it’s all there. This is the kind of podcast that discusses Robert Heinlein in the context of young adult fiction, because we’re cool like

Episode Twenty Six: Homogeneous Electronica?
November 21, 2013

This week we discuss magic, THE CABIN IN THE WOODS and the state of popular music.

Episode Twenty Five: The Year that was... 1995
November 14, 2013

Gus is Robocop and Bob has been busy roaming the Caribbean in Assassin's Creed IV. John... is still reading The Belgariad. This week we talk about 1995... was it the end of creativity as we know it, or just the end of the 1990s as a culturally valid era?