Take a deep dive with us! Explore some of your favorite Movie, TV, and Video Game properties from perspectives less traveled. Joe and Mark tackle the 80's, 90's, and 00's to bring focus back to the properties that made us before they're forgotten too soon.
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POLYBIUS (Pop Culture Legends)
Welcome to our first ever "Pop Culture Legends" episode! Every other week this season we're going to bring you stories that fit between the proverbial cracks of pop culture topics. They may be a touch creepy, with a dash of true crime, and just a pinch of bizarre; but they will relate to the movies, comic books, video games, and TV shows we know and love...
Ruth Marie Terry: The Lady of the Dunes (Pop Culture Legends)
UPDATE: 11/1/22, Ruth Marie Terry has been discovered to be the Lady of the Dunes after 48 years. Through genealogy, the FBI was able to identify Terry, and utilized DNA analysis, family trees, and historical data. Hopefully, this leads to additional information to identify her killer.
ORIGINAL: In the summer of 1974 a film was being made that would make a country afraid to go into the water, and shortly after a gruesome murder would shake a scenic coastal city for decades...
The Max Headroom Incident (Pop Culture Legends)
Welcome to Pop Culture Legends, a miniseries by Digital Dissection: A Nerd Podcast! In 1987 Chicago residents were baffled and disturbed when their evening broadcast on two different TV stations was interrupted by a pirated broadcast.
A man imitating a popular TV character performed a series of bizarre antics and to this day...we still don't know who was behind it...
The Final Fantasy VII House Cult (Pop Culture Legends)
As a groundbreaking JRPG sweeps across the planet, its pandemonium makes a twisted pitstop in a Pennsylvanian college town.
In their next Pop Culture Legend, Mark and Joe share a story of exploitation, manipulation, and abuse; the lesser known story about a young woman named Jen who took her fandom of Final Fantasy VII too far. Listen to today's episode for more about this dark tale that turned a seemingly innocent club for like minded youth, to a full on cult.....
Fallout 3's Numbers Station (Pop Culture Legends)
Some video games set an industry standard, while others are ahead of their time...but how many can say that they've predicted the future?
Welcome to Pop Culture Legends, a Digital Dissection miniseries! Today we tell the story of player choices in Fallout 3, lead to a transmission of coded messages via a numbers station, that some pretty bold, and in some cases, eerily accurate predictions.....
The Curb Your Enthusiasm Exoneration (Pop Culture Legends)
The number of wrongful convictions uncovered each year can be frightening to look at. In the modern age, DNA evidence has been the savior to many that have found themselves wrongfully imprisoned, and even on death row. In today's story, it wouldn't be DNA that came to a man's rescue after being wrongfully convicted of a crime he didn't commit -- it would be HBO.
Welcome to Pop Culture Legends, a mini-series by Digital Dissection: A Nerd Podcast...
The Life and Times of George Reeves (Pop Culture Legends)
When people portray the larger than life characters that we admire and adore, we can often forget that they are... people and are just as vulnerable and human as anyone else.
Today on Pop Culture Legends: A Digital Dissection Miniseries, Mark and Joe discuss the life of famed and beloved actor George Reeves who brought Superman on to television sets across the U.S...
The Unsolved Murder of Elizabeth Barraza (Pop Culture Legends)
On the evening of January 26th, 2019, a black truck circled a small neighborhood in Tomball Texas.
No one could predict the dark plan on the mind of its driver that would be carried out early the following morning.
On today's episode of Pop Culture Legends: A Digital Dissection Mini-series, we tell the tragic story of Elizabeth "Liz" Barraza, a caring and talented woman who belonged to the famous 501st Legion costuming group...
The Tunguska Event of 1908 (Pop Culture Legends)
Pop Culture has been shaped by many events, but what about a real asteroid exploding over Russia in 1908?
Welcome to Pop Culture Legends, a mini-series by Digital Dissection: A Nerd Podcast. Today we explore the real world events that shook a remote area of Russia's Siberia in the early 1900s...
GTA V's Mount Chiliad Mystery (Pop Culture Legends)
Easter Eggs in video games and movies are like little gems for the players and viewers to find. Some are in plain sight, while others may require a little more exploring or a closer look to discover. Most will be references to events or characters within the game's franchise that bring a smile to the face of the people that found it...and then there's Grand Theft Auto V: a game that has been keeping its players guessing over one specific Easter egg since it came out in 2013...