The Pop Cult Experience
A tale as old as time itself. The classic story of boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy and girl start a pop culture podcast together 20 some odd years later.
Welcome to the Pop Cult Ex-perience brought to you by Karen Giffin and Tyler Smith. Two former flames, once inseparable, now find themselves separated by 6000 miles and a couple of decades. Still friends, with a similar love for all things pop culture and a similar want to share our love of these things with y'all. We talk movies, TV, gaming, comics, books, music and any other manner of things that we fancy. Join us for our weekly podcasts to hear about news, musings, commentary, reviews and upcoming fun things in the world of entertainment. We will also be doing bonus episodes with themed content and the occasional live stream for extra fun. Follow us on Twitter (@PopCultExP) and Instagram (@popcultexp) We want to hear your thoughts and ideas too. Feel free to comment on posts or DM us any time.
Episodes
135 episodes
Open Till Midnight
In honour of Rex Manning, Tyler and Sara discuss and explore iconic workplace movies and TV shows, sharing personal favourites, insider insights and knowledge, and what makes these stories resonate. From Empire Records to The Office, we chat ab...
Good Luck, Have Fun, Firefly
In this episode, we discuss the cancellation of the Buffy reboot, the potential of an animated Firefly series, and review recent music and movies, including new albums from New Found Glory, Mumford and Sons, Charlotte Sands the film 'Good Luck ...
Top 50 Greatest Love Songs (According to Billboard)
In our annual Valentine's Day episode of The Pop Cult Experience Podcast, we go through Billboard's list of The Top 50 Greatest Love Songs Of All Time, and debate whether the song is actually a love based on the criteria of, would we put the so...
2026 Pop Cult Preview
In this episode of the Pop Cult Experience Podcast, we discuss the exciting changes in the podcast, including a soft reboot and new co-hosts. We dive into the anticipated TV shows, movies, albums, concerts, comics and gaming releases for 2026.&...
Sinfully Wicked
In this episode of The Pop Cult Experience, we are "Defying Gravity" and "Dancing Through Life" as we talk about the super "Popular" Wicked and Wicked: For Good. After getting a little Wicked, we turn our attention to some sinning, ...
Predator: Best Friends
In this episode, I am joined once again by my best friend, Sara to discuss a variety of topics including, the potential decline of Funko Pops, upcoming movie releases like Kill Bill, Gremlins, Zelda, Miss Piggy and The Mummy. Netflix bringing u...
Johnny Toronto
In this episode we celebrate the life and legacy of Canadian legend, John Candy.
Wrestling With Pop Culture
In this episode of the Pop Cult Experience, we cross the streams as Dana, from The Mixed Tag Podcast joins us to explore the intersection of wrestling and pop culture. We discuss the transition from wrestling into acting, including the careers ...
The Terrific Three Talk The Fantastic Four
In this all new episode of The Pop Cult Experience, Karen and myself are joined once again by the lovely Sara and we discuss some bits of news, we review the new Fantastic Four flick, we discuss some of our comfort films and shows that we go ba...
Simon Says, Superman and Sara
In this episode of the Pop Cult Experience, I welcome my new best friend Sara to the podcast to discuss various pop culture topics. We start by getting to know Sara before diving into the latest entertainment news. We played a game ...
"Where The F?"
SummaryIn this weeks episode of the podcast we share our recent experiences, including a captivating concert by Cyndi Lauper and a theatre performance of Much Ado About Nothing in London. We discuss the potential Buffy the Vampire Slaye...
The Break-Up
In our return for a new season, we chat about and recommend some breakup movies in honor of Valentine's Day (and also the 25th anniversary of our own breakup). We discuss a variety of films, from classics like 'Chasing Amy' and 'High Fidelity' ...
A Short Chat About Longlegs
In today's episode, we explore the harmonica's important role in 90's alternative rock and the need for more of it in modern music. We discuss the impact of horror in literature and film, our appreciation of the genre, and the challenges ...
We Are But Strange Darlings
We start this weeks episode by diving into the live music scene as one of took in some live music over the weekend. We then confess our music crushes over the years, reflect on reality TV and music competitions, and share their ideal casting ch...
The Draft - 1994
In this all new episode of the Pop Cult Experience podcast, we, and a special guest fill out our respective movie line-ups in the Movie Draft. We had to select films from various genres including thrillers, romance, crime, fantasy, and musicals...
Ask the Ex-perts
In this week's all new episode, we have friend of the pod Erin on the cast as she has some questions she wanted to ask our opinion on. We talk about life imitating art, censorship, streaming vs theatrical releases and more. We revie...
Happy Canada Day, Eh!
In this week's episode we celebrate Canada's Day by offering up some suggestions of some all Canadian things to watch, things to read, things to listen to, things to play and things to eat. Enjoy and Happy Canada Day!!
Bad Boys and Bat Men
This episode we discuss some new news, recast a classic 80's movie, review a few things, and rank all the men who've donned the cape and cowl. Enjoy.
Public Service Address
With just a month to go before they hit the stage here in Ottawa, the lovely lads from Cevilain jump on the podcastr for a lengthy chat about everything going on with the themselves and the band. We laugh, we cry, we laugh again. Jo...
Who's On First
With a new series of Doctor Who out there in the universe, and with a new Doctor at the helm of said series, our resident Doctor Who expert, Karen, takes a look back at all the Doctors who have come before and ranks them all. Who ...
Answering The Kat Signal
A new episode, a new guest host. A new friend and guest host joins me on this episode, as me and said friend took in a few events in the last little bit and decided we should have ourselves a conversation about it,. So after ...
From Inside the Womb
In this week’s episode one half of us comes to you live from inside The Womb, a new and unique music and community venue here in Ottawa. We sit down with Sarah and talk about why and how The Womb came to be and all the ideas she has to expand i...
The Bloodbash Interviews
With The Bloodbash only a few days, we jumped online with the five bands who will be entertaining the masses over two nights. Here are all the things that were said, The Bloodbash is a two night music fest put together by ou...