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Welcome to the Good Pop Culture Club. Join our hosts Marvin, Jess, and Hanh as they discuss the good pop that gets us through our days, including TV, movies, books, digital media, and more!

Good Pop | Culture Club Potluck Podcast Collective

    • TV & Film
    • 3.6 • 11 Ratings

Welcome to the Good Pop Culture Club. Join our hosts Marvin, Jess, and Hanh as they discuss the good pop that gets us through our days, including TV, movies, books, digital media, and more!

    The Sympathizer

    The Sympathizer

    On this episode, we check out the new HBO series THE SYMPATHIZER, the prestige TV adaptation of Viet Thanh Nguyen's Pulitzer Prize winning novel about a North Vietnamese spy embedded in the South Vietnamese secret police, who is tasked with keeping tabs on his colleagues as they settle in America as refugees after the fall of Saigon. Along the way, he has to deal with microaggressions from all sides as he tries to reconcile his own identity as a spy, friend, and sometimes Hollywood consultant.
    What's Popping? - The Contestant, Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, News Tower, Top Chef

    Follow our hosts:
    Marvin Yueh - @marvinyuehJess Ju - @jessjutweetsHanh Nguyen - @hanhonymous
    Follow the show and engage with us at @goodpopclub
    Part of the Potluck Podcast Collective
    Produced by HappyEcstatic Media

    • 1 hr 23 min
    Do We Want This - April 2024

    Do We Want This - April 2024

    On our April edition of Good Pop's monthly Asian American entertainment news roundup, "Do We Want This?" we discuss the new Crazy Rich Asians musical, the latest adaptation news, and Keanu Reeve's role in the next Sonic film!
    What's Popping? - Challengers, Bad Reindeer, VC Film Fest 2024, Top Chef
    Follow our hosts:
    Marvin Yueh - @marvinyuehJess Ju - @jessjutweetsHanh Nguyen - @hanhonymous
    Follow the show and engage with us at @goodpopclub
    Part of the Potluck Podcast Collective
    Produced by HappyEcstatic Media

    • 1 hr 5 min
    Monkey Man

    Monkey Man

    On this episode, we check out Dev Patel's directorial debut Monkey Man, an action revenge thriller about a man seeking vengeance on corrupt authorities for the death of his mother. But does Dev's new film make the cut as good pop, and more importantly, is this the start of Dev's action star era?
    What's Popping? - A Little to the Left, Bluey, Fallout, Top Chef

    Follow our hosts:
    Marvin Yueh - @marvinyuehJess Ju - @jessjutweetsHanh Nguyen - @hanhonymous
    Follow the show and engage with us at @goodpopclub
    Part of the Potluck Podcast Collective
    Produced by HappyEcstatic Media

    • 1 hr 7 min
    Potluck Feed Drop - Golden Hour w/ Charlene Kaye - Golden Hour with Charlene Kaye Ashrita Kumar of Pinkshift, a Fully Formed Punk Rock Icon

    Potluck Feed Drop - Golden Hour w/ Charlene Kaye - Golden Hour with Charlene Kaye Ashrita Kumar of Pinkshift, a Fully Formed Punk Rock Icon

    Good Pop is taking a break this week as our hosts catch up with some personal and professional matters, so to keep you company, we're dropping in the latest episode from fellow Potluck Pod Golden Hour, a podcast featuring Asian American music artists.
    If you like what you hear, make sure to follow and check out their other episodes at podcastpotluck.com/goldenhour
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    Today on the pod: Charlene and Dave share their first concert experiences. Then, they talk with Ashrita Kumar, the captivating frontperson of the punk band Pinkshift. Ashrita shares stories from their med school experience, the band’s pandemic-era origins and ascent, and how writing music brought them out of the darkest of days. 
    Find Pinkshift’s newest EP Suraksha on Spotify. Find them on Instagram @pinkshiftmd.
    Follow Golden Hour on Instagram @goldenhourpod. 

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    Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/goldenhourwithkaye/message
    Part of the Potluck Podcast Collective

    • 1 hr
    Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire

    Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire

    On this episode, the good pop crew (minus Hanh) checks out the new Monterverse team-up movie Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire, a film about kaijus fighting, buildings crashing, and the people around them that explain whats going on. We're here for the giant monster battle royale, but will it be enough to elevate this film to the level of good pop?
    What's Popping? - Bruce Springsteen, Shin Godzilla, Top Chef

    Follow our hosts:
    Marvin Yueh - @marvinyuehJess Ju - @jessjutweetsHanh Nguyen - @hanhonymous
    Follow the show and engage with us at @goodpopclub
    Part of the Potluck Podcast Collective
    Produced by HappyEcstatic Media

    • 56 min
    3 Body Problem

    3 Body Problem

    On this episode of Good Pop we check out the new Netflix series 3 Body Problem, a hard science fiction epic about how humanity might with an impending invasion from a technologically superior civilization. So how does this western adaptation of Liu Cixin's seminal Chinese sci-fi novel turn out? Find out if it makes the grade as good pop!
    What's Popping? - Cowboy Carter, Who Killed the Video Star? The Story of MTV podcast, Relative Strangers by A.H. Kim, Top Chef

    Follow our hosts:
    Marvin Yueh - @marvinyuehJess Ju - @jessjutweetsHanh Nguyen - @hanhonymous
    Follow the show and engage with us at @goodpopclub
    Part of the Potluck Podcast Collective
    Produced by HappyEcstatic Media

    • 1 hr 13 min

Customer Reviews

3.6 out of 5
11 Ratings

11 Ratings

mariel1112 ,

Good topics but not exactly SMEs

I really enjoy the topics you discuss but the hosts seem oddly unfamiliar with the material they refer to. Eg, wushu is not the same as wing Chun as mentioned during the martial arts episode.

Cixi3000 ,

one of my favorite podcasts

love the dynamic between the hosts. they are hilarious, always a fun listen

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