Pop Culture with Beards
Andy, Mike and Phil are here for your movies, music, television, toys, cartoons and macaroons. We ingest, invest, consume and exhume the best things we can find in world popular culture. From the Retro to the Right Now, we are talking it up from Down Under - Perth, Western Australia to be exact. You'll like the cut of our jib. And you'll love the cut of our beards. Join us every two weeks.
Episodes
15 episodes
15. Christmas Collection Part 2 (Movies)
Andy, Mike and Phil are back with the second part of their Christmas Collection. This episode (#15) focusses on the movies that the PCWBeards consider Yuletide classics. They provide details on:Rudolf the Red-Nosed ...
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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24:39
14. Christmas Collection Part 1 (Music)
Andy, Mike and Phil launch into Yuletide 2022 with their 2-part Christmas Collection. This episode (#14) focusses on the music that the PCWBeards listen to in December. They provide details on:Elvis' Christmas Albu...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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25:21
13. Graham Kennedy - The King of Australian Television
Graham Kennedy was an Australian entertainer, comedian and star of radio, theatre, television and film. Audiences loved him in IN MELBOURNE TONIGHT, BLANKETY BLANKS and COAST TO COAST. He was five-times winner of the television industry’...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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35:11
12. VHS Bandits
The video rental store was the place we went to find the movies we could enjoy at home on our video home systems. This was a revolution that took hold in the 1980s and dominated our viewing habits for three decades. We would rent highly anticip...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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19:54
11. The Goodies (Goody, Goody,Yum,Yum)
THE GOODIES was a UK comedy series that ran (mostly) on the BBC between 1970 and 1980. The Goodies of the title were three men, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Bill Oddie and Graeme Garden, who advertised themselves as being prepared to "Do Anything, Anywhe...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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19:39
10. 1970s Cinema
The 1970s was a transformative era in the evolution of world cinema. It was a time when film took on heavier subjects more openly and so matured as an art-form. Andy, Mike and Phil will be talking about this spiky, controversial era generally a...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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30:39
09. Rage (Australian Music Video Show)
Since 1987, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation has run the all-night music video show RAGE. It has had many forms, but over thirty-five years viewers have become used to the idea that music videos new and old will be shown on Friday and Sa...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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23:02
08. Freaks and Geeks
FREAKS AND GEEKS is a US television comedy-drama made in 1999-2000 and set in 1980-81. It ran for 18 episodes originally on the NBC network. It was aimed at a teen audience and usually this kind of material from 20 years ago w...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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16:03
07. Sampling
Andy, Mike and Phil talk about the the emergence and disturbance of sampling in music in the 1980s and 1990s. Mentioned are iconic sampling albums such as De La Soul's 3 Feet High and Rising, DJ Shadow's Endtroducing
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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28:02
06. Mr T - His Life and Times
Laurence Tureaud in was born in Chicago in 1952. But the world didn't get to know him until he became Mr T and played the role of Clubber Lang in the movie ROCKY III in 1982. He followed this by playing B.A. Baracus in the 1980s TV ...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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24:43
05. First Screen Memories
In Episode 5, Andy, Mike and Phil fondly recall the first things they saw on screen. They remember the sounds and images that hooked them on Pop Culture at a time when a beard was a distant ambition. Check out the following (w...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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17:06
04. The Movies of John Hughes
The late John Hughes was the American writer, producer and director whose work included the following films: National Lampoon's Vacation, Mr. Mom, Sixteen Candles, Weird Science, The Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Pretty in...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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25:24
03. Audio Cassettes
Andy, Mike and Phil are talking up the audio cassette. Invented in the 1960s, it replaced reel-to-reel and 8-track cartridges as the home enthusiast's audio recording and playback medium of choice. From the 1970s into the first deca...
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24:21
