The Cultural Apocalypse Podcast
Latest Episodes
Episode Thirty Four: Farewell to the Hoff
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
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?
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
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!
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
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
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
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?
This week we discuss magic, THE CABIN IN THE WOODS and the state of popular music.
Episode Twenty Five: The Year that was... 1995
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?