About this podcast
A show about what divides us! Every week, Rocky (she/her) is joined by a new guest to talk about something polarizing in pop culture.
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Episodes
The newest 20 of 105 episodes
- PF #105: The 2024 Pulpy Music Awards (feat. Claire) · 2 h 18 minYou’ve waited. You’ve begged. You’ve cried. And now your prayers have finally been answered. This year, Rochel and Claire reflect on 2024’s music in over 20 categories, from…
- PF #104: Eclipse (feat. Rose) · 1 h 38 min · Episode 104As 2024 draws to a close, Rocky and Rose return to the Twilight saga once again to reflect on the peak of Team Edward vs. Team Jacob: Eclipse. Chris Weitz is out! David Slade is…
- PF #103: Suicide Squad (feat. Blurry) · 1 h 56 min2016 seems so long ago, and yet, it increasingly feels like we didn’t learn as many lessons from it as we once thought. What are we, some kind of Thunderbolts*—er, Suicide Squad?…
- PF #102: Saw (feat. Ruth) · 1 h 28 minFor this year’s Pulp Friction Halloween Spec-Dracular, a massive Sawhead takes Rocky on the ride of a lifetime, starting where it all began: Saw (2004). This tightly-wound…
- PF #101: Megalopolis (feat. Sam W) · 1 h 56 minWhen you’re having a dialogue about what kind of movie you want to see, that is Megalopolis. Sam and Rocky are here to break down the most polarizing and endlessly fascinating…
- PF #100: The Marvel Cinematic Universe (feat. Violet, Jaime, Alison) · 2 h 21 minYes, that’s “hundred” with an “H”. Thanks to listeners like you, we’ve hit a huge milestone, and we’re celebrating the only way we know how: by being unfettered haters. Annas…
- PF #99: Interview with the Vampire (feat. Myles) · 1 h 13 minOn-set feuds. Studios collapsing. Tragic celebrity deaths. Real-life vampirism. The story of how AMC’s Anne Rice’s Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire came to be is…
- PF #98: The Lego Batman Movie (feat. Lily) · 1 h 54 minLet’s look back on a time when superhero comedies could be, y’know, funny. First-time guest Lily joins Rocky to talk about a modern animated classic that may or may not stand in…
- PF #97: The Death of Slim Shady (feat. Ruth) · 1 h 44 minThis week on Pulp Friction, Rocky and Ruth are cancelling themselves before Gen Z gets a chance as they look at the latest record from hip-hop’s incorrigible clown prince…
- PF #96: The Beatles VIII (Beatles for Sale) · 1 h 26 minWe asked for your riddles, and you failed to deliver. Now, our intrepid heroes (Rocky, Sam, and Leon) find themselves at their lowest point, playing skiffle for scraps on the…
- PF #95: Pixar pt. 2 (feat. Alex) · 1 h 16 minRocky and Alex come together once again to discuss Pixar in the A.D. (After Death) (of Steve Jobs) era. In some ways, it’s the depressing and slow death of a once-cherished…
- PF #94: Pixar pt. 1 (feat. Alex) · 1 h 30 minTurns out, it takes way more than 90 minutes to talk about all the epic highs and lows of Pixar. That’s why it’s getting 2. This time, Rocky and Alex cover the legacy of Pixar in…
- PF #93: The 2024 Met Gala (feat. Simone) · 1 h 32 minHey, did you guys know there was a Met Gala last week? We did, and we’re giving you a primer on some of the night’s best and worst fits, from lettuce to chips and princesses to…
- PF #92: The Tortured Poets Department (feat. Brig) · 1 h 39 minA few years ago, Taylor Swift said everybody was a sexy baby. Today, she says everyone smells like either weed or little babies. What is the truth, TayTay? This week, Rocky is…
- PF #91: Civil War (feat. Ruth) · 1 h 31 minNoted Brit Alex Garland makes a film about American politics. What could go wrong? This week, Rocky (she/her) and Ruth (he/him) are fresh out of the theater to address the…
- PF #90: ContraPoints (feat. Cody) · 1 h 49 minNiche internet celebrity Natalie Wynn is back in the niche internet news, and Rocky is joined by Cody, our resident expert on the online left (and right), to tell Contra’s side…
- PF #89: Imagine Dragons (feat. Blurry) · 1 h 58 minThis is the big one, folks. Rocky and Blurry are talking about Zoomer Nickelback themselves, the band everyone loves to hate, Imagine Dragons. Were they always this bad? Were…
- PF #88: Screenlife movies (Unfriended, Searching, Missing) (feat. Violet) · 1 h 20 minWhat if you could watch a whole movie… on a screen? The screenlife films of Timur Bekmambetov imagine this twisted world, and Rocky is joined by Violet this week to look at the…
- PF #87: Riddles Pledge Drive (feat. Sam H and Leon) · 41 minEach year, dozens of teens all over the world are driven mad with beguilement by the Beatles’ riddle. Rocky, Sam, and Leon are within a country mile of cracking it, and we need…
- PF #86: 2023 Pulpy Movie Awards! (feat. Ruth) · 2 h 25 min[CORRECTION: The song featured in Anatomy of a Fall is 50 Cent’s “P.I.M.P.,” not Jay-Z’s “Big Pimpin’”.] The movies are back in a big way this year, and Rocky (she/her) and Ruth…
