Welcome to the Pop Culture Brain PODCAST with Alex and Lara! In today's show: Josh Radnor just got very honest about his How I Met Your Mother co-stars, I know exactly what Tom Holland and Zendaya should do next, and the box office disappointments from 2025 that became streaming hits.

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00:00 Intro & Paranormal Activity on Broadway

03:09 Josh Radnor on the HIMYM cast

08:49 David Krumholtz is taking a break

15:18 What Tom and Zendaya should do next

18:15 Box office disappointments top streaming

23:53 Top 10 Looney Tunes characters

28:14 Lara’s hot take

30:45 Alex’s hot take

34:28 What we watched

Welcome to the Pop Culture Brain Podcast with Alex and Lara. In today’s show: A surprising Disney ride might become a TV show, why nudity disappeared from movies, and BMW drivers are mad at Spider-Man.

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00:00 Intro

03:03 Disney ride TV show

08:22 Spice World streaming

12:17 Nudity in movies

17:31 Noah Wyle’s missed roles

21:26 BMW drivers are mad at Spider-Man

25:02 Anne Hathaway’s highest grossing movie

30:41 Alex hot take

33:07 Lara hot take

36:19 What we’re watching

Welcome to the Pop Culture Brain Podcast with Alex and Lara. In today’s show, a New Girl reunion or a major troll, Warner Brothers and Paramount are competing to reboot a horror classic, and The Odyssey fever is getting all too real.

Welcome to the Pop Culture Brain podcast, hosted by Alex and Lara! IN TODAY’S SHOW: Tom Holland makes a surprising admission, Spider-Man Brad New Day’s opening weekend is going to be insane, Tyra Banks sues Netflix, and a 4-way Barbenheimer is coming in October.

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0:00 Intro & Hadestown

04:52 Tom Holland’s brutal honesty

10:07 Tyra Banks suing Netflix

17:59 4 movies on Oct. 23

23:11 Where are women over 60 in movies?

27:52 Top 10 box office openings of all time

36:40 Alex hot take

39:19 Lara hot take

40:36 What we’re watching

Welcome to the Pop Culture Brain podcast with Alex and Lara! In today's show: Disney isn’t abandoning live action remakes, Sydney Sweeney plots sexy horror classic, and Bradley Cooper might star in ANOTHER franchise movie.

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0:00 Intro + The Odyssey talk

7:30 Disney next live action remake

13:06 Jonah Hill back in comedy

21:23 Sydney Sweeney Sleepy Hollow

25:50 Bradley Cooper GI Joe rumors

30:24 The Odyssey’s 10 richest actors

36:30 Alex hot take

38:58 Lara hot take

42:33 What we’re watching

Welcome to the Pop Culture Brain podcast with Alex and Lara! In this episode, Christopher Nolan responds to The Odyssey backlash, Ashley Tisdale cashes in on the toxic moms controversy, and Neon got an unbelievable deal on that canceled Andrew Garfield movie.

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00:00 Intro & Emmys discussion

09:15 Nolan responds to Odyssey backlash

14:38 Ashley Tisdale cashes in on Toxic Moms

20:33 Neon’s great deal on Artificial

24:18 Elle Woods actor fires back

30:16 Top grossing movies of 2026 so far

35:27 Hot takes

45:41 What we watched

Welcome to the Pop Culture Brain podcast with Alex and Lara! In this episode, the most expensive movie of all time, Eminem is suing Meta for $100 million dollars, and there’s going to be a Survivor movie.

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00:00 Intro

02:52 Jurassic World Dominion

7:43 Alec Baldwin speaks out

14:35 Eminem sues Meta

18:47 The Pitt actress

25:30 Survivor movie

30:11 Sadie Sink back to TV

34:21 Hot takes

40:12 What we watched