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Popculture Parallels Vol. 2 w/ Cody Tucker

May 5, 2025

1:42:24

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In this episode, I’m joined by Instagram superstar Cody Tucker. Cody is the host of the Cody Tucker Show, which you can find on YouTube and Spotify, and he has a very famous Instagram account called thecodytucker that has some of the coolest reels about little known history and pop culture. He also has an awesome book out called And Now You Know: Mind-Blowing Stories From History and Pop Culture. We had a great conversation about what nickelodeons are, his agoraphobia, being great at Applebee's trivia, using the dictionary as inspiration for his famous reels, finding patterns in everything, what his dream interview is, selling the Cody Tucker Show to network TV, movies that almost weren’t made such as Ghostbusters and Dirty Dancing, They Live, favorite 80s movies like The Never Ending Story, The Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, Fright Night, Nightmare on Elm Street, Pretty in Pink, we settle the debate on who was ACTUALLY in the Brat Pack, Teen Comedies such as Porky’s, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, the Frat Pack, the Freaks & Geeks group and other Judd Apatow’s movies, modern day Brat Pack with Marvel Movies, Howard the Duck and the Guardians of the Galaxy connection, Kevin Smith and the View Askew movies like Mallrats, Dogma, and Clerks, big Hollywood budgets, dollar movies, 70’s and 80s blockbuster movies such as Jaws and Indiana Jones, the origin of the word Blockbuster, the decline of movies, baseball marketing tactics, concessions marketing tricks, ticketing fees, working day jobs, tricking call centers, voiceover work, not taking orders, working at the movie theater, we give our top 3 favorite Val Kilmer movies, biopic movies like Ray and Bohemian Rhapsody and Walk the Line, the movie Tombstone and the role of Doc Holliday, the movie Wonderland and the Wonderland murders, the Val Kilmer Top Gun conspiracy Mandela Effect, deepfakes and likeness rights, resurrecting movies or franchises, Willow and Real Genius, direct energy weapons, Revenge of the Nerds, Gadget from Chip N’ Dale Rescue Rangers, John Gries and Tom Gries, Monster Squad, Parenthood, My Own Idaho, River Phoenix and Stand By Me, Patrick Swayze, To An Athlete Dying Young, Snoop Dogg, Tommy Lee Jones, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, Chris Cornell, Kurt Kobain, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, 90s Grunge bands, Backstreet Boys and N’Sync in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?, Elvis and Karaoke singers, country music songwriters, craving authenticity, formulaic music, fake sports statistics, winning mentalities, torpedo bats, and more.