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31/12/2023

Streaming, content and sailing the high seas - 2023 in review with Nerds Talking The Podcast

In this special summer edition Year in Review episode, we are joined by our friends Lafayette and Carlos from Nerds Talking The Podcast. We take a take a look back at the critical issues of 2023: streaming services, the rise of ‘content’, and the potential return of sailing the high seas for Australians.

This episode we take a deep dive into what worked and didn’t work for us this year. From poor adaptations of IP, to pumped up series that fell flat, to new games that we loved. We take on studio amalgamations, the loss of mid budget films, discuss the rise of ‘content’, let our American friends know about the Australian Office of Film and Literature Classification and how they censor and ban games and films, and fill them in on the friendly Australian and New Zealand rivalry.

Then we turn our gaze to take a bit of a look at what is ahead in 2024, and what we are looking forward to in gaming, tv, and film and (in one notable case) in literature.

You can listen to this episode on our website, or you can subscribe on on Apple Podcast, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Episode 22: Streaming, content, and sailing the high seas An Aussie podcast about genre fiction - Pod Culture [Oz]

31/10/2023

This year’s Halloween special sees us joined by Australian horror author Kyla Lee Ward as we talk all about the women in white: gothic fiction – what is is, and is it still relevant after nearly 300 years.

Episode 21: Women in white – Gothic Halloween special October 2023 - Pod Culture [Oz] - An Aussie podcast about genre fiction

30/07/2023

In this episode we are joined by podcaster Andrea Martucci from Shelf Love while we talk all about adaptations: the good, the bad and the terrible, and look at why some texts are lost in translation.

This time, we each nominate a text or texts that have been adapted from one media into another. Some have worked, some have failed dismally – some are radically different from their source material but stand up in their own right.

You can listen to this episode on our website, or you can subscribe on on Apple Podcast, Spotify, Google Podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts.

https://podcultureoz.com/episode-20-adaptations-good-bad-and-terrible/

23/05/2023

Our new episode of Pod Culture Oz is all about Endings - good, bad and terrible.

Episode 19: Endings – good, bad and terrible https://podcultureoz.com/ep19-what-makes-good-endings/ Pod Culture [Oz] An Aussie podcast about genre fiction

18/04/2023

Had a great time as a guest on the Podcast Bay Productions Podcast. Check it out!

Philippa Borland is part of the triumvirate of captains of the good ship, PodCultureOz. In each episode, she, Dave Byrne and Nick Irving chat about the important things in life - you know, books, movies, TV shows and all kinds of gaming. But they make sure to look at these things from a mindful pers...

23/02/2023

The summer edition of Pod Culture Oz is now available.

In this special Summer Edition episode, we contemplate the past year & what we liked and didn’t like.

We look at our current pop culture pet peeves, have a rant or two, and discuss what we are looking forward to in future episodes.

In this special Summer Edition episode, we contemplate the past year & what we liked and didn't like. We look at our current pop culture pet peeves, have a rant or two, and discuss what we are looking forward to in future episodes. You can listen to this episode on our website, or you can

27/11/2022

Our new horror themed episode is now live!

In this year’s Halloween episode, we are joined again by our friend Fred as we look look at the perennial horror trope, the vampire. Flip throws out the claim that modern vampires are no longer scary, leading to them being ‘de-fanged’.

We discuss the history of fanged fiction, from Polidory’s novel The Vampypre, through to Bram Stoker’s Dracula, and into cinema depictions including Max Shrek and Bela Lugosi. In the late 20th century, there was a vampire resurgence, and vampires moved from antagonists to protagonists, removing the horror in the process. We discuss how this change in perspective impacted vampire stories, look at current stories beyond paranormal romances, and speculate on what the future of vampire stories might be.

Do you agree, have vampires been de-fanged?

You can listen to this episode on our website, or you can subscribe on on Anchor.FM, Apple Podcast, Spotify, Google Podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts.

https://podcultureoz.com/episode-17-de-fanged-scary-vampires-are-so-last-century/

In this year’s Halloween episode, we are joined again by our friend Fred as we look look at the perennial horror trope, the vampire. Flip throws out the claim that modern vampires are no long…

06/06/2022

In this episode, we finally dive into the massive fantasy genre. We explore the ideas in Gail Carriger’s book The Heroine’s Journey as an alternative story structure to the more well known hero’s journey, and how that works in different fiction formats.

We also look at Farah Mendelson’s four different types of fantasy – portal quests, immersion, intrusion and liminal – and we also speculate on what the future of fantasy will be in the current dark times. Plus Nick declares that The Epic Is Dead, and 'The Nicholas Cage' makes a reappearance.

You can listen to this episode on our website, or you can subscribe on on Anchor.FM, Apple Podcast, Spotify, Google Podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts.

In this episode, we finally dive into the massive fantasy genre. We explore the ideas in Gail Carriger’s book The Heroine’s Journey as an alternative story structure to the more well kn…

05/04/2022

In this space-inspired episode of Pod Culture [Oz], we joined by special guest Marta Troicka as we discuss Nick’s claim that all modern space movies suck.

We look at three different types of space movies, spacecraft as a form of public transport, and space stories as frontierism.

You can listen to this episode on our website, or you can subscribe on on Anchor, Apple Podcast, Spotify, Google Podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts.

podcultureoz.com/ep-13-rockets-billionaires-space-cowboys/

20/03/2022

Nukes, Supernovas, Meteors & Pandemics – Welcome to the Pre-Apocalypse! - Our latest episode is now live.

Natural disasters, man-made disasters, external threats - this episode we examine the moments before an impending apocalypse.

We look at different types of impending doom – natural disasters that can’t be averted, external agents such as aliens and robot overlords (you know we want to talk about Cylons and Reapers again!), and of course, looming man-made disasters that may or may not be averted. Nick is back with more Neon Genesis Evangelion (of course!), plus Flip has a WHOLE NEW WAY to examine Westworld!

You can listen to this episode on our website, or you can subscribe on on Anchor, Apple Podcast, Spotify, Google Podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts.

podcultureoz.com/ep15-pre-apocalypse/

In this episode, we examine the often-overlooked moments before an impending apocalypse, which have a special drama of their own. And we are here for that drama… do people come together in th…