Pop Culture Man Children

About Pop Culture Man Children

Every week the PCMC crew gets into deep, fun, and funny discussions about movies, TV, books, fandom, animation, and more. This podcast covers everything from current pop culture to the retro stuff you love. So if you're interested hearing grown-ass, non-toxic nerds go on needlessly intricate deep-dives and give overly passionate rants, this is the show for you.

Publisher

Pop Culture Man Children

Category

arts · comedy · tv & film

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

30 Oct 2017

Latest episode

14 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

22 of 477 episodes have a transcript.

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   14 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   469: Halloween 2026 - “The Tell-Tale Heart,” “The Black Cat,” and “The Raven”

   Host Mike and guest Anthony Bongiorno, a literary analyst, explore the dark themes and enduring power of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart," "The Black Cat," and "The Raven."

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   7 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   468: Halloween 2026 - Spirits of the Dead (1968)

   Host [Host Name] explores the chilling "Spirits of the Dead" (1968) to kick off the Halloween season.

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   30 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   467: The Youngest We've Ever Been

   Host Mike Bongiorno and Janine Gagliardi interview each other about trailers for upcoming films and their current pop culture obsessions.

Inside a recent episode

469: Halloween 2026 - “The Tell-Tale Heart,” “The Black Cat,” and “The Raven”

Published 14 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] Let me see. Actually, that's a great question. Contemporaries of Poe. So – oh, OK. Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Ralph Waldo Emerson. Yeah, like all these guys that were just like living among them. You don't think of him as among them. Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, Washington Irving. Yeah. He wrote Sleepy Hollow, so he's kind of – Yeah. Well, this says he paved the way for Poe's generation, so he came a little bit before. And then international contemporaries, Charles Dickens, Charles Baudelaire. Okay. Yeah. Charles Baudelaire, the French poet, felt a profound kinship with Poe, translating his works into French and introducing him to European high culture. […]

Who has been a guest on Pop Culture Man Children

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Anthony Bongiorno
• Janine Gagliardi
• Peter Marsh
• Nadia Kader
• Jennifer Grace Litrell

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

768

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.8 / 5

24 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

2 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 74 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

88

Social presence

0

YouTube

66

Engagement

85

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