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Low Culture Boil

May 31, 2022

What made these little plastic ponies so popular with girls and this cartoon for girls so popular with men? Amber and Rax dive into it with the magic of friendship in this episode! They talk about the true creator of My Little Ponies (Bonnie Zacherle, obvi), BronyCon, and Pester Power. Which reminds us, please bother...


May 24, 2022

Hustler magazine: close-up images of pussy, or First Amendment champion content? Larry Flynt: disgusting misogynist, or hero of journalistic integrity? In part one of our two parter on the magazine's legacy, we talk history, lawsuits, and what happened when Rax brought her copy of Hustler to the public library to...


May 17, 2022

Have you ever craved a dusty train ride to a sandy beach full of mosquitos and biting flies? If so, early Atlantic City might have been for you! In this episode Amber and Rax talk about the Lenape people convinced to leave for some finished goods, the first family to live there year round and Pitney, the doctor who...


May 10, 2022

Amber talks with friend and comedian Chanel Ali about MTV's reality show/cautionary tale, Teen Mom. Make yourself a nice meal and take some solace in the fact that you aren't a teen mother right now, unless you are, in which case watch for lessons. Huge shoutout to Tyler, of Catelyn and Tyler, who just got a vasectomy....


May 3, 2022

Rax and Amber are joined by film critic Jourdain Searles of Bad Romance Pod to show some love to the official Genre For Girls. When's the last time they even showed a romcom at a movie theater? What's your favorite romcom? Have they always been this maligned? All this plus the Gripe Zone today!