Some Assembly Required
This week on Pop Culture Garbage Barge, Darwin and Cat take a trip back to one of the strangest traditions of growing up: the school assembly.What starts as a welcome break from class quickly turns in...
13 Apr 28min
How Are We Still Alive?
This week on Pop Culture Garbage Barge, Darwin and Cat salute the risk-takers who moved humanity forward. They also examine a very different kind of risk: the incredibly questionable decisions they ma...
30 Mar 30min
Meet Me at the Food Court
On this episode, Darwin and Cat revisit the golden age of the American mall, when it wasn’t just a place you went, it was where everything happened.From unsupervised teenage adventures to bizarre “the...
23 Mar 28min
Be Kind, Rewind!
Join Darwin and Cat as they rewind to the glorious, chaotic era of the neighborhood video store, when Friday night meant wandering fluorescent aisles of plastic cases and hoping the movie you wanted w...
16 Mar 23min
Columbia House of Horrors
Join Darwin and Cat as they revisit the strange and wonderful world of Columbia House mail-order music. For one penny, millions of kids suddenly had access to stacks of CDs, tapes, and vinyl albums de...
9 Mar 21min
You Must Be This Traumatized to Ride
In this episode, Darwin and Cat travel back to a time when summer meant piling into the family car, or boarding a flight for the ultimate destination: the amusement park. But was it all fun and magica...
2 Mar 29min
This Is the Big One, Elizabeth!
This week, Darwin and Cat rewind to the golden age of sitcoms — when television stopped being fluff and started reflecting real life. From the groundbreaking independence of The Mary Tyler Moore Show ...
23 Feb 36min
