Culture Popped with Hunter Bishop

It is with great sadness that we announce the untimely passing of Hunter Morpheus Bishop who died in an unfortunate smelting accident. 140 episodes in, he never was able to make it to his own podcast and now he'll never get the chance. Regrettably, he never told us the password to the podcast distribution account so this will be the last episode of Culture Popped. This week we pitch video games based on movies. RIP Hunter. We will continue to make content in honor of Hunter and will keep the Culture Popped brand alive through Youtube videos to honor Hunter's memory. Subscribe to our Youtube now so you'll be notified as soon as we start actually uploading: https://www.youtube.com/@RongoPro/featured

Jonah knows pretty much nothing about JRPGs so this week he's gonna have to guess whether or not a poorly described plot synopsis is for a JRPG or a movie!

This week Sony had a State of Play showing off some games for PSVR2 as well as highly anticipated games like Street Fighter 6, Resident Evil 4 & Suicide Squad Kill the Justice League. We go over every game shown off except there's one detail for each that is completely made up. Hot Takes This Week: Activision hack, Zelda leak, Microsoft and Nintendo make a deal, new Lord of the Rings movies & more!

This past week Nintendo held a Direct but instead of simply going over it like any old boring podcast, we've thrown in one fake detail about each of the games that were shown. Can you spot the fake fact? Hot Takes This Week: Ubisoft+ may come to GamePass, AMC charging based on seat location, Patrick Stewart returning as Professor X, Disney+ loses subscribers, & more!

In honor of The Last of Us on HBO we're making a tier list of video game adaptations. Is there a curse? Maybe. Hot Takes This Week: Far Cry 7, New Mario Baseball, Keanu Reeves stalker, Kim Possible reboot, Sylvester Stallone reality show, Tom Brady retires & more! Our Website: https://rongopro.ca

The Oscar nominations have been announced so we're predicting who will win in each of the 23 categories. Will it be a Morbius Sweep? Potentially. Hot Takes This Week: Tomb Raider series at Amazon, Ubisoft workers strike, Ticketmaster in trouble, Justin Roiland fired from Rick & Morty, & more!

For the first real episode of the year, we're giving our BOLD predictions for 2023. What anticipated games will finally get release dates, what big events in the movie industry will happen, and what impossible dream game may finally be made? These may seem crazy but we're hopeful that at least one might come true. Hot Takes This Week: Nintendogs may be coming back, Layoffs at Microsoft, Marvel's Avengers is no more, Netflix cracking down on account sharing & more

It's time for the Bishop Awards!!! Join us as we honor the very best in film, gaming, television, etc. of the past year! What will win Game of the Year? Who will take home Best Director? Which celebrities sent in letters to read in the event they win? The only way to find out is to hit play.

Happy Hanukkah from Taylor Swift and all of us here at Culture Popped! We have a special Hanukkah Hootenanny for you as we play a special Hanukkah movie edition of the Letterboxd game as well as a Hanukkah version of Real or Fake Hallmark movie. Light your menorah, spin your dreidel, destroy your Kayne West merchandise and enjoy our Hanukkah Hootenanny! Hot Takes This Week: Henry Cavill is no longer Superman

It's that time of the year where we read funny Letterboxd reviews and try to guess which movie they're for. Since it's the holiday the season, we're guessing Christmas movies. Fun times! Hot Takes This Week: Batman Beyond movie canceled, Taylor Swift will be directing Avatar 3

The Game Awards are coming up and in honor of Geoff Keighley's big show, we're going over all the categories, all the nominees and predicting the winner. 31 awards, 31 predictions. Dare we say that we think we're 100% correct.

This week we are determining how video game characters could defeat Superman. Not IF they can but HOW they can. How is Kirby going to defeat the Man of Steel? What about Master Chief, Sonic the Hedgehog, or Leisure Suit Larry? That's right we are the only podcast where you'll learn how Leisure Suit Larry could logically defeat Superman. Hot Takes This Week: Swifties take down Ticketmaster

In honor of his biopic releasing last week, this week's episode we honor the legacy of the late, great Weird Al Yankovic by going over the best Weird Al parodies. He had a tremendous amount of brilliant original songs and great artists like Michael Jackson, Eminem, Green Day and more all wrote parodies of his songs. Today we're going to go over some of the best songs that were parodies of Weird Al's. Hot Takes This Week: Netflix is making a Gears of War movie and Elon Musk destroys Twitter.

It's the final episode of our Halloween trilogy and there's nothing spookier than extremely poor descriptions of movies mwhahahaha. We're describing scary movies to each as poorly as possible and trying to guess what they are, loser owes the winner one million favors that they can never decline. Very spooky.

After last week's episode went off the rails we're returning to an old classic. Reading funny Letterboxd reviews and trying to guess the movie it's for. This edition is Halloween themed so it's all scary movies, from Nightmare on Elm Street to The Shining to Space Jam A New Legacy. Hot Takes This Week: Henry Cavill back as Superman, Lord of the Rings NFTs & more

In the first of our Halloween trilogy, we thought it would be fun to discuss which slasher movie villains would make the best lovers. We quickly discovered that would in fact not be fun and we sincerely apologize. Hot Takes This Week: Marvel halts Blade, Harrison Ford joins the MCU

In honor of the Super Mario Bros Movie trailer debuting, this week we're going over some movies based on video games that almost got made but were rejected before being completed. Unsurprisingly many of them starred Chris Pratt.

We don't have a new episode for you this week so please enjoy this rerun of that time we had a totally real interview with PlayStation CEO Jim Ryan. 

It's officially autumn which means it's time to put on your turtleneck sweaters, get some hot chocolate and watch some feel good Hallmark movies! In honor of that, we are turning normal movies & reciting their plots as if they were Hallmark movies. What would films like Scarface, Jaws, Spider-Man No Way Home and more be about if they were Hallmark movies? We try our best to give you the answer.

This week there was a Nintendo Direct and a Sony State of Play both on the same day and both with one thing in common. Farms. That's right, both companies held showcases to show off the exciting new games coming out and both were very farm heavy. We're going over all the farming games shown and what we think of the farming genre taking over the gaming industry. Is farming the next battle royale? Maybe.