375: How movies & TV affect everything! Pulitzer prize winning author & data journalist Walt Hickey 'You Are What You Watch'

375: How movies & TV affect everything! Pulitzer prize winning author & data journalist Walt Hickey 'You Are What You Watch'

Popular culture, movies, TV shows & books affect us in profound and surprising ways. Pulitzer prize winning author & data journalist Walt Hickey joins us to talk about his fascinating new book 'YOU ARE WHAT YOU WATCH. Entertainment affects our biology, geopolitics and everything in between. Did you know that girls participation in archery doubled after 'The Hunger Games' came out or that watching a scary movie affects our bodies? Walt Hickey talks about the Pentagon's involvement in films like Top Gun, how Manga helped lift the Japanese economy and much more. ‘You Are What You Watch’ is out on October 24th, 2023. Follow on X: @WaltHickey Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Episode 10: Goodfellas to Forrest Gump - Legendary Casting by Ellen Lewis

Episode 10: Goodfellas to Forrest Gump - Legendary Casting by Ellen Lewis

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11 Sep 201533min

Episode 9: Show Me A Hero

Episode 9: Show Me A Hero

Guest: Lisa Belkin Race, community and politics – topics just as relevant today as they were in 1988 when Mayor Wasicsko fought an aggressive battle to set in motion a housing desegregation plan for t...

11 Sep 201526min

Episode 8: The Geopolitics of Funny - Aasif Mandvi, The Daily Show to The Brink

Episode 8: The Geopolitics of Funny - Aasif Mandvi, The Daily Show to The Brink

As correspondent on The Daily Show or on HBOs hit series The Brink, Aasif Mandvi is tackling bigotry and Islamophobia one show at a time. In this portrait of his life and career he shares the immigran...

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Episode 7: Summer TV wrap up special and early Oscar gold!

Episode 7: Summer TV wrap up special and early Oscar gold!

It’s the TV season mid-year mark and we round up Spring’s biggest hits and misses! From the unbelievable finale of The Jinx, to the electricity of Empire - and looking forward - will True Detective se...

5 Aug 201539min

Episode 6: Kevin McEnroe & Our Town

Episode 6: Kevin McEnroe & Our Town

Our Town, the critically acclaimed debut novel by author Kevin McEnroe, begins in the Golden Age of Hollywood and is a fictionalized account of his grandmother actress Joanna Moore - her life, passion...

11 Jun 201529min

Episode 5: Groundbreakers & Side Splitters

Episode 5: Groundbreakers & Side Splitters

Episode 5: Groundbreakers & Side Splitters by Pop Culture Confidential Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

28 Mai 201535min

Episode 4: The Letterman Late Night Legacy

Episode 4: The Letterman Late Night Legacy

Guests: Mary McNamara & Joe Toplyn After 6,028 episodes and nearly 20,000 guests, on May 20th, 2015 David Letterman will host his last night of "Late Show with David Letterman" on CBS. We believed tha...

15 Mai 201534min

Episode 3: The Art of Game of Thrones and the Swede who conquered television.

Episode 3: The Art of Game of Thrones and the Swede who conquered television.

Guests: Rob Feng & Henrik Bastin Whether it’s from Westeros or Stockholm, all roads can lead to Hollywood. In this episode we discuss Game of Thrones, The Comedians, Bosch and much more. Learn more a...

15 Mai 201531min

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