Culture on My Mind is a regular series that highlights elements of pop culture that I just can’t stop thinking about. It was inspired by the weekly Can’t Let It Go segment on the NPR Politics Podcast where each host brings one thing to the table, political or not, that they’ve been fixated on.
2024
- January 19 – Narrative Diversions (Autumn and Post-Strike 2023 Edition)
- March 8 – The 2023 LEGO Avengers Advent Calendar
- March 11 – The Quest for Sunshine Preservation (Spring 2024 Edition)
- March 15 – The 2023 LEGO Star Wars Advent Calendar
- March 22 – Dragon Con Report 2024 #1: Top 12 Things We Would Never Change
- March 29 – Dragon Con Report 2024 #2: Host Hotel Hunger Games
- April 5 – Narrative Diversions (Winter 2024 Edition)
- April 12 – Dragon Con Report 2024 #3: Photo Shoots
- April 19 – Theater & Nerddom: Is Theater Part of Pop Culture?
- April 26 – Dragon Con Report 2024 #4: Volunteers
2023
- January 6 – The 2021 LEGO Star Wars Advent Calendar
- January 9 – Where the Drama is Local [DC Theater]
- January 13 – The 2021 LEGO Marvel Advent Calendar
- January 20 – The 2022 LEGO Star Wars Advent Calendar
- January 27 – The 2022 LEGO Guardians of the Galaxy Advent Calendar
- January 30 – Where the Drama is Local, Act II [DC Theater]
- February 3 – A Weird Al World [AmSFC]
- February 10 – Quickly Canceled [AmSFC]
- February 13 – Willow
- February 17 – Jukebox Musicals [DC Theater]
- February 20 – Compassion Means More Than Magic
- March 3 – A Career in a Coffee Mug
- March 6 – The Art of Plays [DC Theater]
- March 10 – Darren Nowell
- March 31 – Battle of the Fictional Bands 2023 [AmSFC]
- April 3 – More Than Musicals [DC Theater]
- April 7 – The Italian Plumber from Brooklyn
- April 14 – Narrative Diversions (Winter 2023 Edition)
- April 21 – A Great Ape at 90 [AmSFC]
- May 1 – Phantom of the Opera: A Salute to the Music of the Night [DC Theater]
- May 10 – Twenty
- May 26 – The Impact of Theatre Education [DC Theater]
- June 9 – Narrative Diversions (Spring 2023 Edition)
- July 17 – The Queer Revolution: Breaking the Broadway Mold [DC Theater]
- July 24 – SUBSAFE
- August 11 – Not Just Musicals: Stand Up and Magic [DC Theater]
- September 1 – Dragon Tales
- September 8 – Narrative Diversions (Summer 2023 Edition)
- November 6 – The Quest for Sunshine Preservation (Autumn 2023 Edition)
2022
- January 10 – Slay Bells [AmSFC]
- January 17 – Fly You Fools! [AmSFC]
- January 21 – Fly You Fools! (The Second Breakfast) [AmSFC]
- January 24 – Bel-Air
- January 31 – Yer a Twenty-Year-Old Wizard! [AmSFC]
- February 7 – Toynk Toys Minecraft Box
- February 14 – Leeloo Dallas Multipass! [AmSFC]
- February 21 – The Book of Boba Fett
- February 28 – Sci-Fi Sports [AmSFC]
- March 7 – The Overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawai’i
- March 14 – Battle of the Fictional Bands 2022 [AmSFC]
- March 21 – Spread Love
- March 28 – Bram Stoker’s Dracula at 30 [AmSFC]
- March 29 – The Earth Station One Podcast: The MCU, What’s Next?
- April 4 – Eat the Hot Dog! [AmSFC]
- April 11 – Sacheen Littlefeather
- April 25 – The Classic Two-Fer [AmSFC]
- May 2 – Speed of Light
- May 9 – The Fourteenth Doctor
- May 16 – Star Trek: Picard
- May 22 – The Classic Stephen J. Cannell [AmSFC]
- June 2 – Execute Chapter 66 [AmSFC]
- June 20 – TV Vampires and Saturday Cartoons [AmSFC]
- June 27 – To the Blue Grotto Batcave [AmSFC]
- July 4 – Independence Day 2022
- July 11 – Remote Control [AmSFC]
- July 18 – Gilligan Meets Gomez [AmSFC]
- July 25 – Marge Piercy’s “Right to Life”
- August 15 – So Much Yummier [AmSFC]
- August 22 – Werewolves, Zombies, and Spiders (Oh, My!) [AmSFC]
- August 29 – Totally True* Tails of Dragon Con [AmSFC]
- November 4 – Lycan Subscribe [AmSFC]
- November 21 – Theater Nerds [DC Theater]
- December 16 – Stick the Landing 2022 with Tee Morris and No Kid Hungry
- December 23 – Classic Christmas in Pac-Land [AmSFC]
- December 30 – Lord, Laird, Lady?
2021
- January 9 – Post-Christmas Classics [AmSFC]
- January 15 – The Life Cycle of a Cup of Coffee
- February 19 – Early Year Classics [AmSFC]
- February 26 – The Color of Our Food
- March 23 – February’s Classical End [AmSFC]
- March 26 – Battle of the Bands [AmSFC]
- April 16 – Brawn, Bands, and Bunnies… Oh, My! [AmSFC]
- April 23 – Super Follies and Nuclear Power
- April 30 – Sci-Fi Metal of Death and Rock [AmSFC]
- May 7 – Death Mountain
- May 14 – The IDIC Podcast Festival
- May 21 – Spooky Golden Radical Marvels [AmSFC]
- May 28 – Gingertail’s Mandalorian
- June 4 – Good Puppers and Dreams Given Form [AmSFC]
- June 11 – Pershing’s Own and Queen
- June 18 – Juneteenth
- June 25 – Classic Traumas, Robot Mockery, and a Birthday Potluck [AmSFC]
- July 2 – Independence Day
- July 9 – Dads and Princes [AmSFC]
- July 23 – The New Colossus
- July 30 – Legally Mars, Syndicated Toons, and a Fresh Prince [AmSFC]
- August 6 – Smarter Every Day Dives Deep into Nuclear Submarines
- August 13 – The Secret of the Ooze and Alan Rickman [AmSFC]
- September 2 – Dragon Con Shenanigans 2021 [AmSFC]
- October 1 – The Physics of Bowling Balls
- October 8 – Behind the Scenes of Nautilus
- October 15 – They’re Baaaack! [AmSFC]
- October 22 – Hobbes in Bloom County
- November 5 – The Spoopy Pages [AmSFC]
- November 12 – Amok! Amok! Amok!
- November 15 – Disney+ Day 2021
- November 19 – Your DNA is Everywhere
- November 21 – Rogue Squadron Grounded
- November 27 – The 2015 LEGO Star Wars Advent Calendar
- November 28 – The 2016 LEGO Star Wars Advent Calendar
- November 29 – The 2017 LEGO Star Wars Advent Calendar
- November 30 – The 2018 LEGO Star Wars Advent Calendar
- December 10 – Ask Gary and Best Franchises [AmSFC]
- December 27 – Rankin-Bass Thunderdome! [AmSFC]
2020
- January 3 – The Call of the Wild
- January 10 – Hans Zimmer Has No Time to Die
- January 17 – My Two Cents
- January 24 – New Voyagers
- January 31 – Star Wars: The Clone Wars
- February 7 – Film Music Podcasts
- February 14 – Every Storm Runs Out Of Rain
- February 21 – The Tiger Returns
- February 28 – Staying Curious
- March 6 – Degrees of Separation
- March 13 – The Chaos
- March 20 – Moving Pictures in Isolation
- April 3 – Slipped Discs and Squid Ink
- April 10 – Ten Films of Vivid Memory
- April 25 – Quarantine Con [AmSFC]
- May 1 – Quarantine Con, Episode II [AmSFC]
- May 4 – May the Conference Be With You
- May 8 – Quarantine Con, Episode III [AmSFC]
- May 15 – Quarantine Con, Episode IV [AmSFC]
- May 18 – WHOlanta’s Virtual TARDIS
- May 22 – Quarantine Con, Episode V [AmSFC]
- May 29 – The Cautionary Tale of Eaglemoss Publications Pre-Orders
- June 1 – Quarantine Con, Episode VI [AmSFC]
- June 5 – The Floor is Lava?
- June 8 – Quarantine Con, Episode VII [AmSFC]
- June 12 – Quarantine Con, Episode VIII [AmSFC]
- June 19 – Lessons from Short Circuit
- June 26 – Quarantine Con, Episodes IX and X [AmSFC]
- July 24 – Quarantine Con, Episodes XI-XIV [AmSFC]
- July 31 – Quarantine Con Special Edition [AmSFC]
- August 7 – Clone Stories After the Republic?
- August 24 – Quarantine Con, Episodes XVI-XIX [AmSFC]
- August 28 – DC FanDome and Justice League
- October 23 – Quarantine Con, Episodes XX-XXI [AmSFC]
- December 14 – Disney Investor’s Call 2020
- December 21 – Dragon Con American Sci-Fi Classics Continues [AmSFC]
- December 21 – Disney Investor’s Call 2020: Addendum
- December 25 – The 2020 LEGO Star Wars Advent Calendar
2019
Culture on My Mind is inspired by the weekly Can’t Let It Go segment on the NPR Politics Podcast where each host brings one thing to the table that they just can’t stop thinking about.
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