The Popular Show

In Alfie's farewell episode, columnist of the subcultures Roisin Kiberd, author of The Disconnect (2021) joins to talk about Facebook and the culture of the normie, birds taking over the world, Monster Energy and falling in love online. Enjoy the vapourwave.  Help us continue! SUPPORT US and get loads of great free stuff: www.patreon.com/thepopularpod. Find us everywhere: https://linktr.ee/ThePopularShow

David and James party with the queens behind the Low Culture Boil podcast - chatting over why no one watched the Oscars, the aesthetics of COVID masks, and whether the Internet is camp, kitsch, or cringe. If you’re having fun with The Popular Show, don’t forget to throw in some beer money at Patreon.com/ThePopularPod Find us everywhere: https://linktr.ee/ThePopularShow

The Popular Show/Red Scare Bootleg series is available only to subscribers of https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod. Between the start of lockdown and early 2021, we interviewed the hosts of Red Scare - the greatest podcast in history - four times. We present now to our patrons, four new episode edits of those conversations, comprising the Red Scare Bootleg Series. Bootleg 1 is Dasha on Jeffrey Epstein, Bootleg 2 is Anna on Michel Houellebecq, Bootleg 3 is both ladies in conversation with The Nation's JoAnn Wypijewski on election night 2020 (as the surprisingly strong results for Donald Trump began to come in), and Bootleg 4 is Dasha on Lana Del Rey. These are never getting unlocked, so you know what to do.  Find us everywhere: https://linktr.ee/ThePopularShow

We marked the release of the #SnyderCut of the Justice League movie by teaming up with the hilarious Brandon Sutton for a deep dive into the aesthetics and politics of superheroes. A second episode with Brandon ('The Coolio Cut') is available exclusively to our patrons at https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod.

Author of 'Trans: A Memoir' and Suite 212 host Juliet Jacques takes us on a long march through Britain's reactionary institutions: the police, the media, and corporate comedy... plus the team reminisce about early 2000s Blairite Manchester. This is PART 1 of a two part interview, but you need to sign up on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod) to get PART 2, where Juliet spills the tea on interviewing Jeremy Corbyn and lays out her design for a post-COVID hedonistic left! 

When right-wing parties adopt left-wing aesthetics. The economist and author Grace Blakeley joins us to debate the UK Tories' alleged Corbynista turn, and to spill the tea on coming up on the left in the Corbyn era, and after. If you enjoy The Popular Show, consider supporting us on Patreon, and get access to our weekly political education and arts interviews and more: https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod

We caught up with veteran YouTuber, Peter Coffin, to analyse Stonewall's advocacy of 'Aromantic Awareness Week', and the company offering artisan meats cloned from the tissue of celebrities.  If you enjoy The Popular Show, consider supporting us on Patreon, and get access to our weekly political education and arts interviews and more: https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod

Celebrating Irish American excellence with populism's greatest stand up comedian, Sean P. McCarthy. We play a new gameshow segment, 'Who's Been Cancelled Now?', covering the targeting of Gina Carano, Ken Loach, and Nathan Robinson, before getting Sean's views on stand up comedy's role in the culture war and the new Adam Curtis.  If you enjoy The Popular Show, consider supporting us on Patreon, and get access to our weekly political education and arts interviews and more: https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod

Chardine Taylor-Stone, Annie Olaloku-Teriba, Andray Domise, and T from 'Champagne Sharks' join us for a trans-Atlantic interrogation of current directions within the Black left, the class division INSIDE Black Lives Matter, the aesthetics of US and UK security services, and how we are to mourn COVID. If you enjoy The Popular Show, consider supporting us on Patreon, and get access to our weekly political education and arts interviews and more: https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod

We caught up with the author of Monopsony Capitalism: Power and Production in the Twilight of the Sweatshop Age to discuss the farmers' protests in India and to contrast India's social movements with those in the West. Before that we picked up the traumification of AOC and the Democratic Party, David offered an insider's guide to the structure of the Capitol Building, and Ashok gave the DEFINITIVE account of why bringing trauma into politics is always reactionary. If you enjoy The Popular Show, consider supporting us on Patreon, and get access to our weekly political education and arts interviews and more: https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod