Luke receives a couple messages on the Thirty Pop Answering Machine in response to the latest episode. Randy calls to complain. Aaron calls to regale. Stream this week's Thirty Pop Mixtape Playlist: Apple Music | Spotify MERCH Check out our store on TeePublic.com for more retro pop culture goodness! EPISODE CREDITS: Produced, edited and mixed by Luke Brawner Artwork designed by Heather Hale Music licensed through podcastmusic.com LINKS Be sure to follow and tag Thirty Pop on Instagram ! And hear...
Aug 29, 2019•3 min
In this episode of Thirty Pop Luke looks back at The (Horrific) Adventures of Milo and Otis, Fred Savage's Little Monsters, and then sits down with Aaron Hale and Nate Williams to celebrate 30 years of Saved By The Bell by sharing each of their most Zack Morris moments at this point in 1989. Stream this week's Thirty Pop Mixtape Playlist: Apple Music | Spotify MERCH Check out our store on TeePublic.com for more retro pop culture goodness! EPISODE CREDITS: Produced, edited and mixed by Luke Brawn...
Aug 26, 2019•18 min•Season 1Ep. 27
In this episode Luke is joined once again by his friend and cousin-in-law Caleb Sanderson to reminisce on the most revolutionary game system to hit the market in 1989, the Sega Genesis. Stream this week's Thirty Pop Mixtape Playlist: Apple Music | Spotify MERCH Check out our store on TeePublic.com for more retro pop culture goodness! EPISODE CREDITS: Produced, edited and mixed by Luke Brawner Artwork designed by Heather Hale Music licensed through podcastmusic.com LINKS Be sure to follow and tag...
Aug 19, 2019•19 min•Season 1Ep. 26
Episode 25 guest Caleb Sanderson calls back in to leave a message on the Thirty Pop Answering Machine to set the record straight about Freddy Kreuger. Stream this week's Thirty Pop Mixtape Playlist: Apple Music | Spotify MERCH Check out our store on TeePublic.com for more retro pop culture goodness! EPISODE CREDITS: Produced, edited and mixed by Luke Brawner Artwork designed by Heather Hale Music licensed through podcastmusic.com LINKS Be sure to follow and tag Thirty Pop on Instagram ! And hear...
Aug 17, 2019•43 sec
In this episode Luke is joined by his friend and cousin-in-law Caleb Sanderson to talk about the ridiculous fifth installment of the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise, The Dream Child, in the latest segment of Truly Horrible Things. He also talks romance and secret crushes and missed opportunities with regular guest hosts Aaron Hale and Nate Williams . Check out the first 7 Nightmare On Elm Street trailers here! Stream this week's Thirty Pop Mixtape Playlist: Apple Music | Spotify MERCH Check ou...
Aug 12, 2019•22 min•Season 1Ep. 25
In this episode Luke talks to 80s and 90s nostalgia collector and Instagram influencer Rick Hutchinson about the 30th anniversary of the North American debut of Nintendo's Gameboy and the tremendous impact it has had on popular culture over the last three decades. Be sure to follow Retro Rick on Facebook , Twitter , Instagram , and YouTube ! You can also subscribe to his podcast, The 90's Win, here ! Stream this week's Thirty Pop Mixtape Playlist: Apple Music | Spotify MERCH Check out our store ...
Aug 05, 2019•17 min•Season 1Ep. 24
In this episode Luke visits with the biggest of all Beastie Boys fans, Demi Welling, and her husband Shawn about the release of their sophomore album Paul's Boutique 30 years ago this week! Stream this week's Thirty Pop Mixtape Playlist: Apple Music | Spotify MERCH Check out our store on TeePublic.com for more retro pop culture goodness! EPISODE CREDITS: Produced, edited and mixed by Luke Brawner Artwork designed by Heather Hale Music licensed through podcastmusic.com LINKS Be sure to follow and...
Jul 29, 2019•20 min•Season 1Ep. 23
Recent guest Hailie Durrett and past guest Steph K. leave very long messages on the Thirty Pop answering machine and get a few things right and a few things wrong. Merry Christmas to all! Stream this week's Thirty Pop Mixtape Playlist: Apple Music | Spotify MERCH Check out our store on TeePublic.com for more retro pop culture goodness! EPISODE CREDITS: Produced, edited and mixed by Luke Brawner Artwork designed by Heather Hale Music licensed through podcastmusic.com LINKS Be sure to follow and t...
Jul 26, 2019•6 min
In this episode Luke is joined by his friend Hailie Durrett to talk about the rom-com of the century, When Harry Met Sally. He also talks Hey Dude with past guest Latifah Alattas in this week's segment of Truly Horrible Things! Stream this week's Thirty Pop Mixtape Playlist: Apple Music | Spotify MERCH Check out our store on TeePublic.com for more retro pop culture goodness! EPISODE CREDITS: Produced, edited and mixed by Luke Brawner Artwork designed by Heather Hale Music licensed through podcas...
Jul 22, 2019•34 min•Season 1Ep. 22
In this episode, Luke finally talks through the reigning Billboard champ, The Raw and the Cooked by Fine Young Cannibals with his good friend Mason, then celebrates the debut of the Emmy Award-winning sitcom Seinfeld by looking back on the series with his friends Vanee, Laura, Charlie & Nate! Click here to check out Richard Marx's ridiculous music video for his #1 hit single, Satisfied. Stream this week's Thirty Pop Mixtape Playlist: Apple Music | Spotify MERCH Check out our store on TeePubl...
Jul 08, 2019•30 min•Season 1Ep. 21
In this episode, despite being super sick, Luke finally gets to sit with his lifelong best friend Nathan Schartz to reminisce on the things they loved most back in 1989, including the NBA, cartoon girls, setting fires, and stealing candy. Click here to check out Richard Marx's ridiculous music video for his #1 hit single, Satisfied. Stream this week's Thirty Pop Mixtape Playlist: Apple Music | Spotify MERCH Check out our store on TeePublic.com for more retro pop culture goodness! EPISODE CREDITS...
Jul 01, 2019•17 min•Season 1Ep. 20
In this episode Luke and his dear Batman-loving friend David Walker revisit perhaps the greatest take on the Dark Knight to date, Tim Burton's Batman, starring Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson. Click here to check out Richard Marx's ridiculous music video for his #1 hit single, Satisfied. Stream this week's Thirty Pop Mixtape Playlist: Apple Music | Spotify MERCH Check out our store on TeePublic.com for more retro pop culture goodness! EPISODE CREDITS: Produced, edited and mixed by Luke Brawner...
Jun 24, 2019•24 min•Season 1Ep. 19
Contest winners and past guests Hailie & Shari Durrett leave a message on the Thirty Pop answering machine on their way home from spending an evening with John Cusack. Stream this week's Thirty Pop Mixtape Playlist: Apple Music | Spotify MERCH Check out our store on TeePublic.com for more retro pop culture goodness! EPISODE CREDITS: Produced, edited and mixed by Luke Brawner Artwork designed by Heather Hale Music licensed through podcastmusic.com LINKS Be sure to follow and tag Thirty Pop on...
Jun 21, 2019•46 sec
In this episode Luke looks back at all the sports, music and movie news from this week in 1989, and discusses the (terrible) self-titled debut Gospel rap album from now defunct genre-hopping evangelical trio DC Talk with his friend Jolie Britt. Stream this week's Thirty Pop Mixtape Playlist: Apple Music | Spotify MERCH Check out our store on TeePublic.com for more retro pop culture goodness! EPISODE CREDITS: Produced, edited and mixed by Luke Brawner Artwork designed by Heather Hale Music licens...
Jun 17, 2019•25 min•Season 1Ep. 18
In this episode Luke looks ahead at the coming attractions in the month of June, and welcomes Aaron Hale once again to badmouth millennial vocabulary in the segment we like to call Get Off My Lawn. Stream this week's Thirty Pop Mixtape Playlist: Apple Music | Spotify MERCH Check out our store on TeePublic.com for more retro pop culture goodness! EPISODE CREDITS: Produced, edited and mixed by Luke Brawner Artwork designed by Heather Hale Music licensed through podcastmusic.com LINKS Be sure to fo...
Jun 10, 2019•18 min•Season 1Ep. 17
In this episode Luke reflects back on one of the greatest movies of all time (Dead Poets Society), one of the worst movies of all time (No Holds Barred) and one of his favorites for the last three decades, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Guests include Shayne Hawthorne and Scott Alonzo from Scales Podcast , and the biggest Indy fan there is, artist Scott Erickson . Click here to check out Truly Horrible Things! Stream this week's Thirty Pop Mixtape Playlist: Apple Music | Spotify MERCH Check...
Jun 03, 2019•19 min•Season 1Ep. 16
In this episode Luke and Aaron Hale look back at the release of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade live from Houston's Comicpalooza 2019 . Luke also hops on a call with Last Crusade actor Richard Young to talk about his experience on the set of the film with Steven Spielberg, Harrison Ford, Sean Connery and River Phoenix. Stream this week's Thirty Pop Mixtape Playlist: Apple Music | Spotify MERCH Check out our store on TeePublic.com for more retro pop culture goodness! EPISODE CREDITS: Produced,...
May 27, 2019•31 min•Season 1Ep. 15
Aaron leaves a message on the Thirty Pop answering machine settling the debate once and for all about whether or not Road House holds up after 30 years. Stream this week's Thirty Pop Mixtape Playlist: Apple Music | Spotify MERCH Check out our store on TeePublic.com for more retro pop culture goodness! EPISODE CREDITS: Produced, edited and mixed by Luke Brawner Artwork designed by Heather Hale Music licensed through podcastmusic.com LINKS Be sure to follow and tag Thirty Pop on Instagram ! And he...
May 24, 2019•58 sec
In this episode Luke looks back on some major TV losses, what sounds like world's worst bike race, and some notable births and deaths from this week in 1989, and discusses the macho classic Road House with his older brother Josh. Stream this week's Thirty Pop Mixtape Playlist: Apple Music | Spotify MERCH Check out our store on TeePublic.com for more retro pop culture goodness! EPISODE CREDITS: Produced, edited and mixed by Luke Brawner Artwork designed by Heather Hale Music licensed through podc...
May 20, 2019•22 min•Season 1Ep. 14
Steph K. leaves yet more messages on the Thirty Pop answering machine, this time to express her deep admiration for one of her two childhood heroes*, Dolly Parton, and the many ways in which she tried to be like her. (*the other was Miss Piggy...no kidding.) Stream this week's Thirty Pop Mixtape Playlist: Apple Music | Spotify MERCH Check out our store on TeePublic.com for more retro pop culture goodness! EPISODE CREDITS: Produced, edited and mixed by Luke Brawner Artwork designed by Heather Hal...
May 17, 2019•3 min
In this episode Luke is joined by his friends Hailie & Shari Durrett to talk about Dolly Parton's May 1989 release White Limozeen, and then by his ex-brother-in-law-in-law, Greg Jackson, to talk about the Richard Pryor & Gene Wilder film classic See No Evil, Hear No Evil! Stream this week's Thirty Pop Mixtape Playlist: Apple Music | Spotify MERCH Check out our store on TeePublic.com for more retro pop culture goodness! EPISODE CREDITS: Produced, edited and mixed by Luke Brawner Artwork d...
May 13, 2019•31 min•Season 1Ep. 13
In this episode the perpetually dissatisfied Stephanie K. returns to make her opinions known and say all the things she WISHED she could have said on past episodes. Luke is also joined by fellow Christmas and Disney Park loving podcaster and comedien Tim Babb to celebrate the opening of Disney's MGM Studios 30 years ago this week! Click here to subscribe to Tim's podcast! Stream this week's Thirty Pop Mixtape Playlist: Apple Music | Spotify MERCH Check out our store on TeePublic.com for more ret...
May 06, 2019•35 min•Season 1Ep. 12
Steph K. leaves Luke a salty message on the Thirty Pop answering machine to express her frustration over not having a podcast of her own where she can reminisce on the things SHE cared about in 1989...like Tom Petty. Stream this week's Thirty Pop Mixtape Playlist: Apple Music | Spotify MERCH Check out our store on TeePublic.com for more retro pop culture goodness! EPISODE CREDITS: Produced, edited and mixed by Luke Brawner Artwork designed by Heather Hale Music licensed through podcastmusic.com ...
May 02, 2019•1 min
In this monster episode Luke celebrates the 30th anniversary of the All New Mickey Mouse Club, which debuted on 4/24/1989. He's joined by Mouseketeers Damon Pampolina , Mylin Brooks Stoddard , and Chasen Hampton , as well as MMC acting coach Gary Spatz for a trip down memory lane! Stream this week's Thirty Pop Mixtape Playlist: Apple Music | Spotify MERCH Check out our store on TeePublic.com for more retro pop culture goodness! EPISODE CREDITS: Produced, edited and mixed by Luke Brawner Artwork ...
Apr 29, 2019•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 11
In this special bonus episode Luke talks once again about the 1989 baseball fantasy classic, Field of Dreams. This time, with the film's Oscar-nominated writer & director, Phil Alden Robinson! Stream this week's Thirty Pop Mixtape Playlist: Apple Music | Spotify MERCH Check out our store on TeePublic.com for more retro pop culture goodness! EPISODE CREDITS: Produced, edited and mixed by Luke Brawner Artwork designed by Heather Hale Music licensed through podcastmusic.com LINKS Be sure to fol...
Apr 26, 2019•15 min
Vanee H. calls and leaves Luke a message on the Thirty Pop answering machine to express her love for the show, for skating, and for '80s & '90s R&B music. Stream this week's Thirty Pop Mixtape Playlist: Apple Music | Spotify MERCH Check out our store on TeePublic.com for more retro pop culture goodness! EPISODE CREDITS: Produced, edited and mixed by Luke Brawner Artwork designed by Heather Hale Music licensed through podcastmusic.com LINKS Be sure to follow and tag Thirty Pop on Instagra...
Apr 25, 2019•3 min
In this episode Luke is joined once again by his good friend Nathan Williams to discuss the 30th anniversary of one of the greatest sports films of all time, Field of Dreams! He also shares a previously unreleased clip of Thirty Pop in its raw, unedited form. Check out Jean Claude Van Damme's dancing skills here! Stream this week's Thirty Pop Mixtape Playlist: Apple Music | Spotify MERCH Check out our store on TeePublic.com for more retro pop culture goodness! EPISODE CREDITS: Produced, edited a...
Apr 22, 2019•22 min•Season 1Ep. 10
On this episode Luke is joined by actors John Cusack , Ione Skye and singer/songwriter Latifah Alattas to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Cameron Crowe's directoral debut, Say Anything! Watch the music video for Fine Young Cannibals' "She Drives Me Crazy" here! Check out Ione Skye's paintings here! Stream this week's Thirty Pop Mixtape Playlist: Apple Music | Spotify MERCH Check out our store on TeePublic.com for more retro pop culture goodness! EPISODE CREDITS: Produced, edited and mixed by L...
Apr 15, 2019•27 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Steph K. leaves Luke a message once again on the Thirty Pop answering machine to express her sincere jealousy over his recent conversation with actor John Cusack about his role in 1989's Say Anything, which will be featured on the next episode of Thirty Pop. Go Rockets! Stream this week's Thirty Pop Mixtape Playlist: Apple Music | Spotify MERCH Check out our store on TeePublic.com for more retro pop culture goodness! EPISODE CREDITS: Produced, edited and mixed by Luke Brawner Artwork designed by...
Apr 13, 2019•2 min
On this episode of Thirty Pop, Luke welcomes Nate Williams back to talk about the 30th anniversary of the baseball classic, Major League, and introduce a brand new segment called Get Off My Lawn. He also talks once again to actor and filmmaker Aaron Hale about comedy legend Mike Myers debut on Saturday Night Live, and Roxette's #1 Billboard single, The Look. Check out the music video for Roxette's "The Look" here! Check out @aaronhalesnaps on Instagram here! Stream this week's Thirty Pop Mixtape...
Apr 08, 2019•35 min•Season 1Ep. 8
