Pop Culture Roulette

Congratulations, You're in a Horror Movie

Congratulations, You're in a Horror MovieSo, you've found yourself in a horror movie. Congratulations! Unfortunately, your chances of making it to the end credits might not be great.This time around, we're putting ourselves in the middle of the action...

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Quiz of the Living Dead

It's alive! It's alive! And this time, the whole crew is in the same room! 🧟For this special Halloween-season episode of Pop Culture Roulette, Justin takes the reins as host, mastermind, and keeper of the questions in an original Jeopardy-style game...

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Nightmare Fuel: Franchise Edition

Thirty-two sci-fi and horror franchises enter. Dinosaurs, aliens, giant monsters, undead nightmares, questionable experiments, and things that probably should have stayed buried all have a shot at the crown. But which franchise can survive when the...

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Dracula: The Ultimate Bracket

Fangs, capes, castles, creepy accents, and an absolutely unreasonable number of ways to say “I vant to suck your blood.”This time on Pop Culture Roulette, the crew puts the most famous vampire in history head-to-head in a bracket featuring Draculas...

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Please Don't Look This Up

Please Don't Look This Up The Streisand EffectWant to make something more popular? Tell everyone they’re not allowed to see it.In this episode of Pop Culture Roulette, the crew dives into the Streisand Effect — that wonderfully backwards phenomenon...

The Movie That Wouldn’t Come Out

The Movie That Wouldn’t Come OutIt started with Coyote vs. Acme.A finished movie gets shelved. Everyone assumes it may never see the light of day. And then, somehow, it escapes the vault and finally makes it to audiences. That got the crew wondering:...

More Than a Memory

Every now and then, pop culture loses someone who feels like they’ve always been part of the landscape. This week, Pop Culture Roulette takes a look at three of those people: Dolly Parton, Tim Curry, and Peter Cullen.We talk about the careers,...

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License to Bracket: The Spy Who Lied to Us

License to Bracket: The Spy Who Lied to UsJustin pulled a fast one on the other two! After insisting he was never going to watch the James Bond movies, he secretly went on a mission to watch all of them—and then showed up with a bracket ranking the...

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What Was Our Name?

Somehow, we’ve accidentally created a trilogy.First, we asked “What’s My Name?” Then we moved on to movies and their former titles. And now, because apparently we have learned absolutely nothing, we’re doing it again with bands in “What Was Our...

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Lights, Camera, Hype!

Jeremy may be away this week, but the hype train doesn't stop. Justin and Nicholas take over the microphones to break down some of the biggest reveals to come out of San Diego Comic-Con and the latest wave of movie and TV trailers that have the pop...

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What's My Name?

Some names become legendary. The ones they were born with? Not always.This week on Pop Culture Roulette, we're back with another round of our trivia game—this time putting celebrity identities to the test. We reveal the real birth names behind some of...

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What's My Title?

Behind every iconic movie title is a trail of ideas that never made it to the marquee. This week on Pop Culture Roulette, we're dusting off Hollywood's discarded names in What's My Title? Nicholas puts Justin and Jeremy to the test with a game built...

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The Hurt Business: Wisconsin's Biggest Trades

The Giannis trade hurts. There's no way around it.Rather than spending an hour dwelling on what happened, we decided to do what Wisconsin sports fans have always done: look back at history and remind ourselves that we've survived heartbreaking trades...

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Quest Log: Games on the Horizon

This week, Justin and Jeremy take the lead as Pop Culture Roulette opens up the quest log and looks ahead to the video games that have captured our attention. From major franchise releases and long-awaited sequels to promising new titles and...

Rules of the Franchise

Before we can argue about the best franchises in pop culture, we first have to answer a much more difficult question: what actually qualifies as a franchise in the first place?But before we get there, the conversation takes a detour into the changing...

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Quest for Second Place: The Jessica Bracket

Quest for Second Place: The Jessica BracketSome competitions start with a wide-open field. This one started with a champion already crowned.With Jessica firmly holding the undisputed number-one spot in our personal rankings, this week on Pop Culture...

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The NFL Cinematic Universe

The NFL schedule release videos have officially become their own form of entertainment… so naturally we had to break them down like they were blockbuster movie trailers. With Jeremy out this week, Justin and Nicholas took a deep dive into the...

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The Great Pop Culture Bake-Off

This episode of Pop Culture Roulette goes a little old school in the best way possible, with Jeremy out this time, the discussion shifts into a looser, more nostalgic hangout vibe—less structure, more hot takes, and a lot of love for the world of food...

Sequel Wars: Better Than the Original?

Are sequels actually better… or are we all just lying to ourselves?This week on Pop Culture Roulette, we spin straight into one of the most heated debates in entertainment: when does a sequel outshine the original? Armed with cold, hard numbers from...

Bunnies, Brackets & Candy-Fueled Chaos

Spring has officially arrived, and Pop Culture Roulette is celebrating the only way we know how—with a chaotic mix of debates, nostalgia, and an absolutely stacked candy bracket. This week, Jeremy takes control of the wheel and throws Justin and...