Pop Chaos: Ep 1 Pop Chaos

Episode Notes
[“We Don’t Talk About Bruno,” from Encanto]
Trent: Hello everyone, and welcome to Episode One of Pop Chaos, your one-stop shop for pop culture. If you did your homework, you just listened to episode zero. We’re not introducing ourselves again. But I’m Trent.
Bailey: I’m Bailey and you just said we’re not going to introduce ourselves, yet here we are.
Trent: This week we’re talking about Spider-Man, right? No Way Home.
Bailey: We are going to talk about a lot of things. Spider-Man…
Trent: Encanto.
Bailey: Encanto for sure.
Trent: What was the other thing?
Bailey: There were some other things we were going to talk about.
Trent (overlapping): Such as?
Bailey: For one, Elmo, I wanted to bring up.
Trent: Oh yeah, you need to explain to me what is going on with Elmo.
Bailey: Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then maybe just like some, some other shows that are big and coming up right now. I was thinking about mentioning, you know, Succession. Euphoria season two is coming out.
Trent: Oh yeah, have not seen Succession.
Bailey: Well, I don’t know. The big two we’re gonna talk about are Encanto and Spider-Man-slash-Andrew Garfield. The resurgence. He’s big right now. Very big.
Trent: That’s true. Should we – we should just get right into Spider-Man. He is huge, actually, on Twitter and like TikTok. There – I saw a tweet that was like, “The K-Pop-ification of Andrew Garfield.” I think people were like, “Stream The Amazing Spider-Man,” to get him that recognition.
Bailey: Well, so I’m curious. I just want to double-check real quick how old he is.
Trent (overlapping): We’ll embed that.
Bailey: I want to check how old he is.
Trent (overlapping): He’s like in his late 30s, I want to say.
Bailey: Ooh! So I looked him up on Google.
Trent (in the background): 45.
Bailey: And unfortunately, he’s shorter than both of us. That's … yeah…
Trent (gasping): With his hair, it’s fine.
Bailey: He’s 5’10”. That's true. His hair like defies gravity, so.
Trent: Wait, no but how old is he?
Bailey: He is 38 years old.
Trent: What’d I tell you? Late 30s.
Bailey: Yeah, he looks great for his age. Did you watch – sorry, we were gonna talk about Spider-Man. But did you watch tick, tick… BOOM!, because it’s on topic?
Trent: No, so I saw like the trailer.
Bailey (in the background): Okay.
Trent: I did not – okay. Not to bring up Andrew Garfield’s hair again. I cannot get past his hair in the trailer. It looks, I think personally –
Bailey: It looks like Jonathan Larson’s hair though, who he’s portraying.
Trent (overlapping): I know. But that doesn’t mean I like it.
Bailey: Okay. So you’re just not gonna watch the entire movie because of his hair? It was too bouncy?
Trent: Correct.
Bailey: It did … it did look…
Trent: It looks like he’s like a mad scientist and it blew up.
Bailey: Yeah, it looks like he touched one of those little balls that makes you – WOOOOO!
Trent: Those electric balls –
Bailey (joking): But like not in a gay way. Yeah, and it also –
Trent (laughing): …Bailey…

Bailey: I dunno, it also looks like … I don’t know, I think it looked kind of bouncy, kind of good, like kind of shampoo commercial sort of… Yeah.
Trent (overlapping): Anyway, Spider-Man: No Way Home.
Bailey (in the background): Yeah, enough about Andrew Garfield’s hair.
Trent: Andrew Garfield’s done. What did you think of No Way Home?
Bailey (overlapping): Well okay, first off, spoiler alert. Like if you have not seen it. 
Trent: Oh, yeah, obviously. If you haven’t seen Spider-Man or Encanto, we’re talking about both of those.
Bailey: Yeah, let me not shame you though because if you don’t want to go to the movie theater right now, that is a-okay. But also, what are you doing? You got to see this g-dang movie. I don’t know. I… I did like, I binge-watched all the other Spider-Man movies.
Trent (overlapping): Like all – like, all seven of them?
Bailey: Yeah, pretty much