Welcome to Pop Culture, the podcast that puts soft drinks at the top of the menu. Helen O'Hara and Kat Brown are arts journalists who don’t drink: Helen's a life-long teetotaller, and Kat is four years sober. Join us as we explore the culture lifting soft drinks out of the dark ages, hear from guests about their favourite non-booze options, and meet the people making things delicious. If you’re fed up of being given elderflower cordial at weddings, this is the pod for you. Send us your non-booze drinks obsessions (and good/bad/tedious soft drink menus) to popculturedrinkspodcast@gmail.com and see what we've been drinking lately on Instagram @popculturedrinkspodcast.<hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
Pop Culture: The Soft Drinks Podcast
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Welcome to Pop Culture, the podcast that puts soft drinks at the top of the menu. Helen O'Hara and Kat Brown are arts journalists who don’t drink: Helen's a life-long teetotaller, and Kat is four years sober. Join us as we explore the culture lifting soft drinks out of the dark ages, hear from guests about their favourite non-booze options, and meet the people making things delicious. If you’re fed up of being given elderflower cordial at weddings, this is the pod for you. Send us your non-booze drinks obsessions (and good/bad/tedious soft drink menus) to popculturedrinkspodcast@gmail.com and see what we've been drinking lately on Instagram @popculturedrinkspodcast.<hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
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January 5, 2025
Dry January: the BEST soft & non-alc drinks recommendations from a sober person and a teetotaller
<p>Hello, welcome back, and Happy New Year! Whether you've just had your first sober Christmas, you're trying Dry January or you just want something in your fridge beyond Diet Coke, we've got recommendations for you – and some live taste testing, too.</p><br><p>Find our own new books (and some of our favourite non-alc ones about great drinks) on our <a href="https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/pop-culture-soft-drinks-podcast" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Bookshop.org shop</a>.</p><br><p>If you’ve got a favourite drink, or a menu that you’d like to celebrate or shame – or if you're a soft drinks fan going "OH THANK GOD!" and would like to come and chat about your faves – then email us at <a href="mailto:popculturedrinkspodcast@gmail.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">popculturedrinkspodcast@gmail.com</a> or on Instagram <a href="http://www.instagram.com/popculturedrinkspodcast" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@popculturedrinkspodcast</a>. We’ll see you soon, soda speak.</p><br><p>Helen's on BlueSky <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/helenlohara.bsky.social" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@HelenLOHara</a> and Instagram <a href="https://www.instagram.com/heleno84/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@heleno84</a></p><p>Kat's on BlueSky <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/katbrown.bsky.social" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@katbrown</a> and Instagram <a href="https://www.instagram.com/katbrownwrites/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@katbrownwrites</a></p><br><p>Artwork: <a href="https://www.canva.com/p/ilutaka/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Ilutaka</a></p><p>Music: <a href="https://freemusicarchive.org/music/holiznacc0/discography" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">HoliznaCC0</a></p><p><br></p><br /><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
June 24, 2024
Board Dublin: Non-alc drinks, loads of board games
<p>Pop Culture is officially international! A little while ago, Helen visited <a href="https://boarddublin.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Board Dublin</a>, another fantastic alcohol-free bar with a massive selection of non-alc drinks. By day, you can enjoy food, coffee and interesting drinks upstairs in the bright and airy cafe, as well as delving in to the massive selection of board games on offer (bagsie the Jurassic Park chess). By night, the traditional-style pub opens up downstairs, with non-alc beers on tap, Irish-related wines and much much more, as you can see on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/boarddublin/?hl=en-gb" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">their Instagram here</a>. </p><br><p>As luck would have it, the pub's Chris Raymond was there on the same day, trying to get some work done in a corner when Helen buttonholed him and requested an interview when he had a minute. We finally managed to get online and have a chat a little later, so here's what goes in to opening a non-alc bar in the Irish capital, and just how much hate you're going to get for it. The key, it seems, is to absolutely avoid research. Have a listen to learn more.</p><br><p>If you’ve got cool knowledge about soft drinks that you'd like to share with us, or any other non-booze-related gossip, then email us at <a href="mailto:popculturedrinkspodcast@gmail.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">popculturedrinkspodcast@gmail.com</a>. You can see what and where we've been drinking lately on Instagram <a href="http://www.instagram.com/popculturedrinkspodcast" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@popculturedrinkspodcast</a>, and join our mailbag! DM us a voice note, a question, or your thoughts on all things drinks so we can share it on a future show.</p><br><p>Pop Culture is on <a href="https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/pop-culture-soft-drinks-podcast" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Bookshop.org</a>! Read books by us, our guests, and others we like, while helping to support the show. Thank you for listening and, until Helen comes up with another catchphrase, keeeeeep drinking!</p><br /><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
June 3, 2024
Club Soda, or what an Aladdin's cave for non-drinkers might look like
<p>Kat and Helen are off on another adventure this episode, visiting <a href="https://joinclubsoda.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Club Soda</a> in London. Club Soda is a fantastic resource for those wanting to drink less or not at all: founded almost a decade ago by <a href="https://www.instagram.com/laurawilloughby?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=ZDNlZDc0MzIxNw==" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Laura Willoughby</a> as a sort of non-drinking equivalent to Weight Watchers, a community for non-drinkers, former drinkers or those trying to cut down or cut out temporarily. As well as campaigning for better non-alcoholic options in all walks of life, Laura has established a business selling interesting non-alc drinks online and now set up a <a href="https://joinclubsoda.com/tasting-room/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">tasting room</a> on Drury Lane in Covent Garden. It's a cool little bar full of no-alcohol and some low-alcohol options for anyone who wants to drink less or not at all. You name it and they probably have it; it's a bit of a dream come true for people like us. So we went along to talk to Laura about how things are changing, what she hopes for the future and whether you'll ever get a similar selection down at your own local pub or favourite restaurant.</p><br><p>If you’ve got cool knowledge about soft drinks that you'd like to share with us, or any other non-booze-related gossip, then email us at <a href="mailto:popculturedrinkspodcast@gmail.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">popculturedrinkspodcast@gmail.com</a>. You can see what and where we've been drinking lately on Instagram <a href="http://www.instagram.com/popculturedrinkspodcast" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@popculturedrinkspodcast</a>, and join our mailbag! DM us a voice note, a question, or your thoughts on all things drinks so we can share it on a future show.</p><br><p>Pop Culture is on <a href="https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/pop-culture-soft-drinks-podcast" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Bookshop.org</a>! Read books by us, our guests, and others we like, while helping to support the show. Thank you for listening and, until Helen comes up with another catchphrase, keeeeeep drinking!</p><br /><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
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