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hEaD PoP #67: First Steps or Faceplants? Fantastic Four, Sydney Sweeney & Tier List Carnage!

Author
Rareeddie1
Published
Sat 26 Jul 2025
Episode Link
https://rss.com/podcasts/atthegatesofpopculturewithrareeddie1/2138542

Welcome back to hEaD Pop — where common sense is dead, and we’re throwing the open-bar funeral party!

Buckle up as we cannonball into the molten lava of modern pop culture, reporting live from the frontlines of the Great Pop Culture War™. On one side: billion-dollar studios armed with glitter, AI-generated diversity statements, and the world’s thirstiest PR teams. On the other? Us: the ragtag crew still clinging to the hope that storytelling might be allowed to be… you know, fun.

First, it’s a Superman extravaganza: can the Man of Steel still save the world (or at least save the box office)? Or are we about to watch Hollywood turn Earth’s greatest hero into the galaxy’s most boring HR rep?

Then, meet the new Bond girl — because what’s a shaken-not-stirred martini without a dash of controversy and internet meltdown?

We’ll also creep through the latest Stranger Things leaks (spoiler: still stranger than your uncle’s Facebook posts) and take a hyperspace jump into Star Wars to talk about fan-favorite characters that Disney hasn’t “reimagined” into oblivion… yet.

Finally, it’s TIER LIST CARNAGE: we torch Tucker’s infamous tear list like the Death Star vaporizing Alderaan, then bravely rebuild civilization with a new list that actually makes sense (you’re welcome).

No lectures, no corporate checkboxes, no bland algorithm-approved nonsense — just raw, unfiltered takes and jokes that would get us kicked off a Disney press junket.

So grab your popcorn, tighten your emotional seatbelts, and question your life choices: Head Pop is back to kick down the gates of mediocrity and set the pop culture playground gloriously on fire.

Welcome to the chaos. We missed you. Probably.

Tonight on Head Pop, we bravely dive face-first into the swirling soup of pop culture insanity — so you don’t have to.

First up: the Fantastic Four — Hollywood’s eternal “first step” franchise. Is this reboot finally the mighty leap toward Marvel greatness… or just another half-hearted stumble into cinematic quicksand? Spoiler: we’re not optimistic, but hey, we love a good train wreck.

Then: James Gunn, the man with the plan… and apparently zero clue why Superman isn’t printing money overseas. “They just don’t know who Superman is internationally,” he says. Genius. Next week: water isn’t wet, and cats aren’t cute.

After that, we squeeze into Sydney Sweeney’s now-infamous denim ad, where controversy clings tighter than the jeans themselves. Do the jeans slap? Absolutely. Should everyone calm down? Also yes.

Finally, it’s the battle of the bad opinions: Tucker’s tragic tier list. We’ll watch it burn, then rise heroically from the ashes to craft the correct tier list — because somebody had to.

All this, plus enough sarcasm to power a small city, questionable jokes, and the occasional hot take that’ll get us demonetized.

Pop your heads in — it’s Head Pop. Where the takes are hotter, the laughs are cheaper, and the tears… delicious.

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