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The Middle of Culture

 Peter and Eden Jones

The Middle of Culture is what happens when two siblings with too many opinions and not enough chill dive headfirst into movies, music, video games, and whatever else is rotting our brains this week. It’s part pop culture podcast, part sibling rivalry, and fully unfiltered. Expect passionate arguments, niche references, unsolicited rankings, and the occasional moment of unexpected insight. If you’ve ever wanted to eavesdrop on the kind of argument you’d hear at the family dinner table—only with better audio—this is your show.

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Update frequency
every 13 days
Average duration
63 minutes
Episodes
94
Years Active
2022 - 2025
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MoC #32 - Close Encounters of the Third Kind

MoC #32 - Close Encounters of the Third Kind

What is a close encounter? And how many kinds are there? Well, there must be at least three, because this week we discuss our experiences watching the 1977 Steven Spielberg classic movie Close Encoun…

01:12:40  |   Sun 02 Apr 2023
The Middle of CulturE #31 - Influential Albums

The Middle of CulturE #31 - Influential Albums

We're no strangers to talking about music here on The Middle of Culture. And while, years ago, Eden and Peter shared many similar musical tastes, those tastes have diverged and matured. This week, we…
01:04:13  |   Sun 19 Mar 2023
The Middle of Culture #30 - The Witch from Mercury

The Middle of Culture #30 - The Witch from Mercury

This week Eden decided to challenge Peter with some anime. Anyone who has listened has heard Peter lament about his inability to really get into anime, but there has to be a first time for everything…

00:51:53  |   Sun 05 Mar 2023
The Middle of Culture #29 - X-Men: Dark Phoenix

The Middle of Culture #29 - X-Men: Dark Phoenix

Our winter of X-content is over. This journey has lasted many months, and culminates in X-Men: Dark Phoenix. Look folks, this movie has the lowest Rotten Tomatoes score of any X-Men movie, by a signi…

00:52:28  |   Sun 19 Feb 2023
The Middle of Culture #28 - The Spirit of the Beehive

The Middle of Culture #28 - The Spirit of the Beehive

This week we take a journey. After a brief discussion of the announced DCEU projects (can you say completely underwhelming?) we travel to 1940 by way of the 1973 Spanish film (that's Film with a capi…

00:58:06  |   Sun 05 Feb 2023
The Middle of Culture #27 - Logan

The Middle of Culture #27 - Logan

Our winter of X-content is coming quickly to a close with the penultimate movie, 2017s Logan. Both Eden and I were a bit nervous to watch this one again. We have fond memories of it being very good, …

00:58:32  |   Sun 22 Jan 2023
The Middle of Culture #26 - Tabletop Role Playing Games

The Middle of Culture #26 - Tabletop Role Playing Games

This week both Eden and I felt a bit low energy, so we went with a topic that didn't require too much energy or effort to prepare for. And, perhaps a little surprisingly, at least to me, it turned in…
01:14:52  |   Mon 09 Jan 2023
The Middle of Culture #25 - X-Men: Apocalypse

The Middle of Culture #25 - X-Men: Apocalypse

Folks, this has been a real roller coaster. There have been highs, and there have been lows, but this week, I am pretty sure we have hit the very lowest low so far. Join Eden and I as we discuss X-Me…
01:12:22  |   Tue 27 Dec 2022
The Middle of Culture #24 - Year End Wrap Up

The Middle of Culture #24 - Year End Wrap Up

It should have been another entry in our Winter of Excontent. But alas, life just kicked me hard. In the balls. So, we are just sort of free wheeling it this week, with an extemporaneous discussion o…
01:06:17  |   Sun 11 Dec 2022
The Middle of Culture #23 - NaNoWriMo 2022

The Middle of Culture #23 - NaNoWriMo 2022

This episode was a little different. Generally, we talk about the media and entertainment we have been consuming. However, today we wanted to talk about our efforts at creating media of our own. Nove…
01:10:05  |   Sun 27 Nov 2022
The Middle of Culture #22 - X-Men Days of Future Past

The Middle of Culture #22 - X-Men Days of Future Past

The Summer of X has become the Fall of X, or even the Winter, depending on where you live. This week we talk a bit about games, music and then dive into the latest X movie, Days of Future Past. We di…
01:14:10  |   Mon 14 Nov 2022
The Middle of Culture #21 - Mechathon

The Middle of Culture #21 - Mechathon

As children of the 80s, the entertainment of that time has always been highly influential for both myself and Eden. One of those influences is that of giant robots. Yes, that's right folks, this week…
01:15:16  |   Sun 30 Oct 2022
The Middle of Culture #20 - The Wolverine

The Middle of Culture #20 - The Wolverine

The Summer of X is now the Fall of X officially as temperatures cool off and we follow The Wolverine to Japan. Eden and I discuss what we are in to these days, and then dive into James Mangold's firs…
01:02:59  |   Sun 16 Oct 2022
The Middle of Culture #19 - Elf Quest and the Art of Reading Comics

The Middle of Culture #19 - Elf Quest and the Art of Reading Comics

Over the course of our lives, we all have opportunities to develop certain skills. Eden and I have both spent many years honing some of those skills. Yet they have, in some cases, been in very differ…
01:04:25  |   Sun 02 Oct 2022
The Middle of Culture #18 - X-Men First Class

The Middle of Culture #18 - X-Men First Class

Everyone is a fan of something. Or often many things. But do we define ourselves and our personalities by our fandoms? If so, perhaps we should find meaning in something more real. Because that seems…
01:12:14  |   Sun 18 Sep 2022
The Middle of Culture #17 - Simulator Games

The Middle of Culture #17 - Simulator Games

These days, you can find a video game for almost anything. A longstanding, but increasingly broad category of games are those that fall under the "simulation" genre. There are classics, like SimCity …
01:02:48  |   Sun 04 Sep 2022
The Middle of Culture #16 - X-Men Origins: Wolverine

The Middle of Culture #16 - X-Men Origins: Wolverine

This week the Summer of X returns with X-Men Origins: Wolverine. We remembered it wasn't a great movie. Critically it did worse than the previous installments in the series. So, we knew what we were …
01:09:46  |   Sun 21 Aug 2022
The Middle of Culture #15 - Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

The Middle of Culture #15 - Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

War. War never changes. And neither does the world after an apocalypse! Or at least that is how it appears in much of post-apocalyptic fiction. That's on the docket this week, after a (what was going…

01:14:11  |   Sun 07 Aug 2022
The Middle of Culture - Summer Update

The Middle of Culture - Summer Update

Life sometimes gets in the way. And that happened to us this week. Between travel and being away from home we weren't able to put together and episode that would meet the quality we expect from ourse…
00:00:44  |   Mon 25 Jul 2022
The Middle of Culture #14 - X-Men: the Last Stand

The Middle of Culture #14 - X-Men: the Last Stand

A wet fart. I'm not mad, I'm just disappointed. Those two comments pretty much sum up our thoughts about X-Men: The Last Stand. Bad, but not bad enough to be fun, this was a movie that just fell flat…
01:03:46  |   Mon 11 Jul 2022
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