Poptimist

This week is all about INK MASTER, the tattoo competition show. Billy and Dagny are joined by Dillon Horner and inevitably talk about all reality competition shows, like Survivor, Skin Wars, Blown Away, Glow Up, and of course, RuPaul's Drag Race.Also this episode we talk The Godfather, Peaky Blinders, Triangle of Sadness, Bodies Bodies Bodies, and Ant-Man and the Wasp: quANTuMANia.Host: Billy and Dagny McCartneyGuest: Dillon HornerArt: Nina HowardMusic: Someone Your Own Size by RW Smith

Billy and Dagny discuss the 95th annual Academy Awards, what they were glad to see win, what they think should have gone differently, and how horrible the beige, sorry, I mean, how horrible the CHAMPAGNE carpet was.Bring Back the Red Carpet 2k24.Hosts: Billy McCartney and Dagny McCartneyArt: Nina HowardMusic: Someone Your Own Size by RW Smith

Scott Joel Gizicki joins host Billy and Dagny to talk all things Daytime Television, specifically GENERAL HOSPITAL.Also on this episode Paramount Plus series EVIL, and HBO MAX's Mare of Easttown.Hosts: Billy McCartney and Dagny McCartneyGuest: Scott Joel GizickiArt: Nina HowardMusic: Someone Your Own Size by RW Smith.

This week Billy and Dagny are re-joined by the hilarious Jasmine Stith to talk about the Netflix sleeper hit Ginny & Georgia. Also this week, Gilmore Girls, The Last of Us, His Dark Materials, and the Real Housewives of Atlanta.Hosts: Billy McCartney and Dagny McCartneyGuest: Jasmine StithArt: Nina HowardMusic: Someone Your Own Size by RW Smith

That's right, the first POPTIMIST of 2023 is all DRAGON BALL Z, BABY! Yes, we know that DBZ is straight culture and Pokemon is gay culture, but trust us, the dichotomy is exquisite.Also in this episode: THE LAST OF US, RuPaul's Drag Race, and various anime rants.Hosts: Billy McCartney and Dagny McCartneyGuest: Andreas TsioronisArt: Nina HowardMusic: Someone Our Own Size by RW Smith

POPTIMIST is back for a 2022 year in review! Join Billy and Dagny as they talk about their top 3 movies, shows, and pop-culture moments of the year.We're back with regular episodes next week!In this episode: Severance, Interview with the Vampire, Better Call Saul, The White Lotus, Everything Everywhere All At Once, NOPE, Glass Onion, The Banshees of Inisheren, Top Gun: Maverick, Black Panther Wakanda Forever.Hosts: Billy and Dagny McCartneyArt: Nina HowardMusic: Someone Your Own Size by RW Smith

It's the Thanksgiving episode! We're re-releasing our hilarious conversation on the MACY'S THANKSGIVING DAY PARADE with Joe Rumrill.Follow Joe on all the social medias, he's a fantastic comic and a hilarious writer.And have a safe and happy Thanksgiving!Hosts: Billy and Dagny McCartneyGuest: Joe RumrillArt: Nina HowardMusic: Someone Your Own Size by RW Smith

This week Billy and Dagny talk about Love is Blind, Wakanda Forever, Interview with the Vampire, and more before being joined by Nick Brown to talk about, in his opinion, the greatest game show of all time.That's right, its DEAL OR NO DEAL. Hosts: Billy McCartney and Dagny McCartneyGuest: Nick BrownArt: Nina HowardMusic: Someone Your Own Size with RW Smith

It's ooky spooky season, and what's spookier than Interview with the Vampire? What about Heteronormativity at the box office? SCARY! We're talking BROS and box office expectations with the hilarious Drew Kraft. Also, The Incomparable Nicole Kidman AMC Ad. Hosts: Billy and Dagny McCartney Guest: Drew Kraft Art: Nina Howard Music: RW Smith

We're back and we're visited again by this hilarious Alex Villarreal to talk Kiss of the Spider Woman, the book, the play, the movie, and the musical. Also this week, The Rings of Power, The Matrix, Cloud Atlas, and so much more. Hosts: Billy and Dagny McCartney Guest: Alex Villarreal Art: Nina Howard Music: Someone Your Size by RW Smith

After a month off Billy and Dagny are BACK! Talking Barbarian, Amsterdam, Hustle, Don't Worry Darling, The Rings of Power, live theatre, Oklahoma!, and so much more. Poptimist returns to a regular schedule. We're so glad to be back! Hosts: Billy and Dagny McCartney Art: Nina Howard Music: Someone Your Own Size by RW Smith

We're back and we're talking all about Korean Naught Novel, UNDER THE OAK TREE, and everything that entails with the hysterical Jane Kharkover. We're also talking Semantic Error, Better Call Saul, and Sandman. Hosts: Billy and Dagny McCartney Guest: Jane Kharkover Art: Nina Howard Music: Someone Your Own Size by RW Smith

WE ARE NOT DYING TODAY! Billy and Dagny are joined by Ali Rosenstein to discuss the iconic, universally panned killer shark flick DEEP BLUE SEA. We're talking Bigger Sharks, Smarter Sharks, Faster Sharks, Meaner Sharks, and LL Cool J. And we get into a heavy SPOILER FILLED discussion of Jordan Peele's NOPE. Also on this episode we talk about Billy going viral on Tik Tok, The finaled of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars 7, The Rehearsal, Grease 2, The Umbrella Academy, and YOU. Is that you, Eric Selving? Hosts: Billy and Dagny McCartney Guest: Ali Rosenstein Art: Nina Howard Music: Someone Your Own Size by RW Smith

We've got not one but TWO guests this week. We're joined by Bri Bohland and Sam Bruns to talk about CAMP. So many topics this week. We're talking Malignant, American Horror Story (and America Horror Stories), The Girl in the House on the Other Side of the Street from the Woman in the Window, Mortal Kombat, Death Becomes Her, Drag Race, Mad Men, NOPE, and so much more. Hosts: Billy and Dagny McCartney Guests: Bri Bohland and Sam Brun Special Appearance: Jon Grannan Art: Nina Howard Music: Someone Your Own Size by RW Smith

Poptimist is back with a phenomenal episode with Mike Culbertson. We're talking SHARK TALE, the hilarious Gay allegory from 2004. Don't miss this hilarious episode. We're also talking RRR, Thor: Love and Thunder, and a ton of early 2000s comedies and animated films. Hosts: Billy and Dagny McCartney Guest: Mike Culvertson Art: Nina Howard Music: Someone Your Own Size by RW Smith

After a little summer break Billy and Dagny are back for a mini episode to round up all of the things they've been watching and playing. We're talking Shining Girls, Stranger Things. Ms. Marvel, The Boys, The Umbrella Academy, and many many more. We're back with full episodes next week! At the Car Wash! Hosts: Billy and Dagny McCartney Art: Nina Howard Music: Someone Your Own Size by RW Smith

It's all about TRILOGIES on this week's Poptimist. Which ones work, which ones don't? Why is the third movie in a trilogy so often the weakest one? That's what we're discussing this week with Hunter Canedy. We're talking The Matrix, Star Wars, Toy Story, Jurassic Park and Jurassic Work, Mission Impossible 4, 5, and 6, Blade Trinity, The LORD OF THE RINGS, Back to the Future, and so so so many more. Hosts: Billy and Dagny McCartney Guest: Hunter Canedy Art: Nina Howard Music: Someone Your Own Size by RW Smith

Sara's back on the show and this time she's bringing in the big green guy. We're talking Shrek 3! Is it the best Shrek? No! Should you watch it? Listen and find out! Also on this week.... Billy has finally seen TWILIGHT. On a Big, Giant Screen. And he has too many thoughts. Hosts: Billy and Dagny McCartney Guest: Sara Prygocki Logo: Nina Howard Music: Someone Your Own Size by RW Smith

It's the SECOND STAR WARS EPISODE! This week John Grannan is back to talk STAR WARS PREQUELS! Join us for Qui-Gon, Obi-Wan, Anakin, Mace Windu, Count Dooko, General Grievus, and Jar-Jar Binks himself. Also we're talking the new A-24 Film MEN, and the video game by Arkane, DEATHLOOP Hosts: Billy and Dagny McCartney Guest: John Grannan Art: Nina Howard Music: Someone Your Own Size by RW Smith

This week is Tick...Tick... BOOM! with Kaylee Johnson. Join Billy and Dagny for an episode filled with Andrew Garfield because we're also talking Under the Banner of Heaven. And Billy goes on a bit of a rant about The Matrix: Resurrections and Diana: The Musical. Hosts: Billy and Dagny McCartney Guest: Kaylee Johnson Art: Nina Howard Music: Someone Your Own Size by RW Smith

This week we GOTTA GO FAST as we talk to Trevor Scott about the game that killed the Dreamcast, Sonic Adventure's 2. Also on this episode, The Northman, a trip to Vegas, Orville Peck, and a lot of Sonic The Hedgehog. email us at poptimistpod@gmail.com Hosts: Billy and Dagny McCartney Guest: Trevor Scott Art and Logo: Nina Howard Music: Someone Your Own Size by RW Smith

Billy and Dagny are back! This week we've got a pop-culture round up for all of you, as our hosts play catch up and discuss everything they've watched, read, and listened to while they were off for Dagny's move. We've got Severance, Bridgerton, Everything Everywhere All At Once, Orville Peck, The Dropout, and How Did This Get Made? Hosts: Billy and Dagny McCartney Art: Nina Howard Music: Someone Your Own Size by RW Smith

It's Halloween in March this week on Poptimist as Samantha Hale returns to the show to discuss all things Horror. We're talking Michael Myers, we're talking Alien, we're talking The Exorcist, and we're talking about Samantha's horror themed comedy show, HORROR NERD. Come see Horror Nerd on April 9th! Also this episode we talk about Everything Everywhere All At Once and the new season of Serial, Trojan Horse. Hosts: Billy and Dagny McCartney Guest: Samantha Hale Art: Nina Howard Music: Someone Your Own Size by RW Smith

This week Billy and Dagny are talking Domino Masters and Orville Peck before being joined by Kait Sofai and having an extremely NSFW discussion about FANFICTION! So of course Twilight, Harry Potter, and the MCU all come up. And on WHAT A PITCH: New York's newest night club is [BLANK], a Superhero themed gay bar. Hosts: Billy and Dagny McCartney Guest: Kait Sofai Art: Nina Howard Music: Someone Your Own Size by RW Smith

This week Dillian the Celebrity is here talking about his love of Dua Lipa and the downfall of Dababy. We're also talking at length about THE BATMAN, as well as Legendary, Beyonce, and what it was like working the Superbowl! Don't miss it! Hosts: Billy and Dagny Guest: King Dillian Art: Nina Howard Music: Someone Your Own Size by RW Smith

This week Taylor Swain is back on Poptimist to ignore Bear Lile and talk about anime sensation ATTACK ON TITAN. Also this week Billy and Dagny talk about Kimi, The Harder They Fall, Love is Blind, and whether or not the blue and black (white and gold) dress from 2015 should host the Oscars. Hosts: Billy and Dagny McCartney Guest: Taylor Swain Art: Nina Howard Music: Someone Your Own Size by RW Smith.

It's an episode all about Red Flags! We're talking the Tinder Swindler, Netflix new documentary about a predatory man. Also on the episode is the podcast Something Was Wrong, Starz doc Love Fraud, reality shows Love is Blind, The Power of the Dog, and a little Real Housewives of Salt Lake City update. Our guest this week is the hilarious Justin Hidalgo. And apologies for Billy's audio, he was trying a new mic and that was a MISTAKE. Hosts: Billy and Dagny McCartney Guest: Justin Hidalgo Art: Nina Howard Music: Someone Your Own Size by RW Smith

This week Billy and Dagny cover the Oscar nominations, The Expanse, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, The Great, Hacks, The Righteous Gemstones, and RuPaul's Drag Race episode Dynasty Wind. Hosts: Billy and Dagny McCartney Art: Nina Howard Music: Someone Your Own Size by RW Smith

This week our Poptimists are talking to Victoria Narayan about British sit-com Miranda! But that's not all, we're also covering When Harry Met Sally, Superbowl stuff, crazy childhood stories, The Oscars, Grease, Hugh Laurie, Cha-Cha DiGregorio the best dancer at St. Bernadette's with the Worst Reputation, Pamella Anderson's short-lived superhero cartoon STRIPPERELLA, and horrible eye ball injuries. hosts: Billy and Dagny McCartney guest: Victoria Narayan art: Nina Howard music: Someone Your Own Size by RW Smith

Carlyn Lindstrom is back on Poptimist talking true crime, The Glee Project, more true crime, and general anxiety. Come for the dismemberment, stay for the conversations about Windy City Heat, Murderville, and Pokemon Legends: Arceus. Host: Billy and Dagny McCartney Guest: Carlyn Lindstrom Art: Nina Howard Music: Someone Your Own Size by RW Smith

This week Bear Lile celebrates his birthday by returning to Poptimist! And he's here to talk about 2001 Gameboy Advanced RPJ GOLDEN SUN. It's an early 2000's Japanese Role Playing Game extravaganza! Also in this episode are discussions of Everybody's Talking About Jamie, Encanto, some hot takes on The Last of Us. a life NFL playoff update, Mario Tennis, Mario Golf, Mario Party, Digimon, and a WHAT A PITCH about Star Wars Episode IX: Rise of Skywalker. Hosts: Billy and Dagny McCartney Guest: Bear Lile Art: Nina Howard Music: Someone Your Own Size by RW Smith

AND JUST LIKE THAT, We're Back! Welcome to the Poptimist 50th Episode Extravaganza with Rachel Pegram! This week Billy and Dagny are talking The Righteous Gemstones, The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City, Hawkeye, Sex and The City and it's reboot, And Just Like That, and which streaming service has the best User Interface, compelling stuff! Hosts: Billy McCartney and Dagny McCartney Guest: Rachel Pegram Art: Nina Howard Music: Someone Your Own Size by RW Smith

Billy and Dagny are back and they are unloading all of their pop culture insights into your earballs. This episode is a wrap up of everything the watched during the break, so brace yourselves, they're talking: THE GREAT Search Party The Witcher The Wheel of Time The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue Spider-Man: No Way Home (Tons of spoilers, btw). The Tragedie of MacBeth Succession Doctor Who PEN15 The Way Down Encanto RuPaul's Drag Race Yes, I list all of these out in the notes to help with searches. I know no one reads them. Hosts: Billy and Dagny McCartney Art: Nina Howard Music: Someone Your Own Size by RW Smith

For the final episode of the year Billy and Dagny are joined by the INCREDIBLE Percy Rustomji (The Kids' Tonight Show) to talk about his love / obsession with Jennifer Holliday and the 1981 original cast of DREAMGIRLS. Also on this episode we're talking Favorite Christmas movies, The Grinch, Scandal, Die Hard, Drag Queens, Annie Live, Pinot Noir, and Selling Sunset. It's a Poptimist Holiday Celebration, tell your friends! Hosted by Billy and Dagny McCartney Guest: Percy Rustomji Art: Nina Howard Music: Someone Your Own Size by RW Smith

It's an action packed episode this week! Billy and Dagny are joined by Spencer Beghtol who's here to talk about the 90's animated Spider-Man series! As well as a series of hot takes about Ghostbusters (2016), In Time, and The Legend of Korra. Also this week we cover Kristen Stewart's future Oscar nom for her performance in Spencer, the musical Head over Heels, as well as Doctor Who, Avatar The Last Airbender, The Grinder, Loki, Ocean's 8, and much much more. Thanks for listening! Hosts: Billy and Dagny McCartney Guest: Spencer Beghtol Logo and Art: Nina Howard Music: Someone Your Own Size by RW Smith

Billy and Dagny are back with a minisode this week to launch the holiday season. We hope you all had a fantastic Thanksgiving! We've got a minisode this week to recover from the Holiday and we'll be back to finish the year strong with two full episodes before the Christmas break. This week we're talking Animal Crossing DLC, Foundation, The Wheel of Time, and Issa Rae's Insecure. It's a fun pop culture roundup, don't miss it! Hosts: Billy and Dagny McCartney Art: Nina Howard Music: Someone Your Own Size by RW SMith.

Happy Thanksgiving! And Happy ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY to POPTIMIST PODCAST! This week Billy and Dagny are joined by Colin Conrad who talks about Lil Nas X and Ryan Reynolds as marketing geniuses, movies that haven't aged well, Aviation Gin, Limp Bizkit, and a whole bunch of other barely connected topics. Like the youtube video The Failure of Victorious, Tick...Tick...Boom, The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City, Rick Moranis, and Gambit. And so, so so much more. Hosts: Billy and Dagny McCartney Guest: Colin Conrad Art: Nina Howard Music: Someone Your Own Size by RW Smith

Billy and Dagny are popping in this week with a small pop-culture update, with special guest: Tune in for Eternals (with spoilers, how fun!), stay for the long explanation of The Thing board game, Poptimist (Taylor's Version), Spider-Man, Doctor-Who, and so so many excuses. Come back next week for a brand new Poptimist. Host: Billy McCartney and Dagny McCartney Art: Nina Howard Music: Someone Your Own Size by RW Smith

Billy has seen Dune, Dagny is playing the new Animal Crossing update, and voice actor Irving Green is here to talk about why Ben Affleck is his favorite live action Batman. He'll fight ya! Get out of here Clooney, back off Keaton, nice turtleneck Kilmer! Also on this episode is gay Overwatch, voice acting nonsense, and stories from the Warner Brothers and Paramount Pictures studio tour. Check it out! Hosts: Billy and Dagny McCartney Guest: Irving Green Art: Nina Howard Logo: Someone Your Own Size by RW Smith

This week Billy and Dagny are talking about when movie soundtracks are better than the actual film with Claire Liz Phillips! Tune in as we talk about film scores, original songs, and Hollywood Ghostwriters. We're talking John Williams, we're talking Hans Zimmer, we're talking Andres Desplat! Also on this episode is Lego Masters Australia, Midnight Mass, What We Do In The Shadows, DUNE, Over the Garden Wall, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Spider-Man, Danny Elfman, The Crown, Game of Thrones, Harry Potter, and James Bond. And so much more. Also Billy is Engaged! WOW. Hosts: Billy and Dagny McCartney Guest: Claire Liz Phillips Art: Nina Howards Music: Someone Your Own Size by RW Smith

It's Spooky season and this week Dagny and Billy are joined by the hilarious Jazzy Byner to discuss everyone's favorite cult film, The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Come for the hilarious stories of being cast in the show at 16 and being featured in a documentary about live Rocky Horror productions, stay for the discussions of YOU and The Little Shop of Horrors. Thank you for tuning in to our first every Halloween Special! Hosts: Billy and Dagny McCartney Guest: Jazzy Byner Art: Nina Howard Music: Someone Your Own Size by RW Smith

Billy and Dagny are GUESTLESS this week and have lost all sense of cohesion and show structure. It's a good time, we're talking SQUID GAME, we're talking MIDNIGHT MASS, we're talking Bo Burnham and Marvel Movies and Rental Cars and Halloween Kills and The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. Hosts: Billy and Dagny McCartney Art: Nina Howard Music: Someone Your Own Size by RW Smith

This week Billy and Dagny are joined by Frannie Williams to talk about a single season reality show that neither of our hosts had ever heard of. That is the E! series, Pretty Wild. We're talking Police raids, The Bling Ring, and tearful phone calls to Vanity Fair. It's incredible. Also this week: New 007 film No Time To Die, Apple+ series Foundation, the Twilight Films, The Counselor, Are You The One? And the potential of an IATSE strike. Hosts: Billy and Dagny McCartney Guest: Frannie Williams Art: Nina Howard Music: Someone Your Own Size by RW SMith

It's James Spader week here on Poptimist! We're so excited to be joined by Ryan Smith to talk about why people find James Spader so grating. Also! We're talking about Midnight Mass, Lego Masters UK, Sex-Education, and how bad our Texas Sex Ed. was. We're talking Boston Legal, The Office, The Practice, Pretty in Pink, The Blacklist, True Colors, Jack's Back, Speaking of Sex, and more! Host: Billy and Dagny McCartney Guest: Ryan Smith Art: Nina Howard Music: Someone Your Own Size by RW Smith

The second LIVE episode of Poptimist is here! Dagny and Billy are joined by author and comedian Aidan Park as he tries desperately not to get cancelled for bringing in... The Apprentice. Tune in to this hilarious episode about Business, UK Versions, being a young widow, and bubbles. Also included, Everybody's Talking About Jaime, Hamilton, Come From Awaya, and Aidan's book, THE ART OF BEING YAY. Hosts: Billy and Dagny McCartney Guest: Aidan Park Logo: Nina Howard Music: Someone Your Own Size by RW Smith

This week Silvie Monroe joins POPTIMIST to talk about an underutilized genre, the Sci-Fi Rom-Com. We're talking primarily about 14-year-old soulmates and grocery store bag boys in Timer, but don't miss out on the everything else! We're talking The one, Passengers, Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy, About Time, In Time, Eternal Sunshine, and Palm Springs. Also Billy talks about Jame Wan's MALIGNANT and Dagny leads us on an incredible journey through LuLaRich. Hosts: Billy and Dagny Mccartney Guest: Silvie Monroe Art: Nina Howard Music: Someone Your Own Size by RW Smith

Taylor Roepke joins the Pod to talk about Bioware's 2018 flop ANTHEM. We're talking video games, we're talking bugs, we're talking good game mechanics and horrible stories. Check it out! Also this week, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Only Murders in the Building, Dragon Age, Mass Effect, Borderlands, Death Stranding, and Cyberpunk 2077. And of course, a Real Housewives of Salt Lake City update. Hosts: Billy and Dagny McCartney Guest: Taylor Roepke Art: Nina Howard Music: Someone Your Own Size by RW Smith

This Week Billy and Dagny are joined by the hilarious Megan Noel to talk about every single badly dubbed police procedural in existence. We're talking horrible murder and hilariously bad voice acting. We've got Black Spot, Ragnarok, Invisible City, Equinox, Spanish Sex and the City knockoff Valeria, and MORE. So many topics covered this episode including The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City, the card game Chameleon, Broadchurch, Murder on the Orient Express, Death on the nile, anime with insane voice acting GHOST STORIES, MxC, Ninja Warrior, Wipeout, the Real Housewives of Melbourne, Drag Race Espania, Inuyasha, Luther, Wallander, and probably SO MUCH MORE. Hosts: Billy and Dagny McCartney Guest: Megan Noel Art: Nina Howard Music: Someone Your Own Size by RW Smith

There's more to The Office than just seven seasons! There's two whole more other different newer ones! On this episode of POPTIMIST Billy and Dagny are joined by Tik Tok sensation Josh Wallenstein to talk about why the episodes of The Office AFTER Michael Scott leaves are worth your time. But that's not all! We're also talking Ted Lasso, Nine Perfect Strangers, Scream and Scream 2, Tori Spelling and her reality show, Tori and Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood, and The Comeback. Don't let HR catch you listening at work! And check out Josh on Tik Tok at thatjoshuakid93. Hosts: Billy and Dagny McCartney Guest: Josh Wallenstein Art: Nina Howard Music: Someone Your Own Size by RW Smith

Our guest this week is Charlie Baker and we're talking about too many things! We've got German Rock Opera adaptation HAMLET IN ROCK, queer-coded Disney Channel movies Motocross'd and Cadet Kelly, and iconic gay comedy But I'm A Cheerleader. Also on this episode is HBO series White Lotus, video game Red Dead Redemption 2, Cats (2019), Twilight, Sight and Sound Theatre, and far too many hot takes. Hosts: Billy and Dagny McCartney Guest: Charlie Baker Logo: Nina Howard Music: Someone Your Own Size by RW Smith

It's the first ever Poptimist about an album! This week hosts Billy and Dagny McCartney are joined by Nelly Dennis and the album AMO by Bring Me The Horizon. The band used to be death metal, but what are they now? And how upset are all the metalheads? Tune in to find out! Also in this episode is a discussion about The Suicide Squad, the novel Leviathan Wakes (shhhh, don't tell Dagny, but it's The Expanse), Queen of the Damned, and music by Lady Gaga, David Bowie, Frank Ocean, Miley Cyrus, Orville Peck, Lake Street Dive, and Vulfpeck. Hosts: Billy and Dagny McCartney Guest: Nelly Dennis Art: Nina Howard Music: Someone Your Own Size by RW Smith