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Don’t Tell Me a Celebrity Was ‘Cut Off’ When She Wasn’t Cut Off Dakota Johnson in one of her movies

Don’t Tell Me a Celebrity Was ‘Cut Off’ When She Wasn’t Cut Off

The Ten Most Frequent ‘Pop In’ Guest Stars on The Rookie A few different Rookie guest stars

The Ten Most Frequent ‘Pop In’ Guest Stars on The Rookie

Walton Goggins Adds Fuel to the Fire of the Aimee Lou Wood Feud By Not Adding Any Fuel to the Fire, You Losers Walton Goggins in his SNL monologue

Walton Goggins Adds Fuel to the Fire of the Aimee Lou Wood Feud By Not Adding Any Fuel to the Fire, You Losers

IDLER is an Embarrassing Word for Wordle to Use

IDLER is an Embarrassing Word for Wordle to Use

‘Just Saying’ Memes Are Cowardly Pieces of Trash April O'Neil compared to herself

‘Just Saying’ Memes Are Cowardly Pieces of Trash

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Who Was the Garage Band Singing ‘Daddy Cop’ in the Latest Episode of The Rookie? 1

Who Was the Garage Band Singing ‘Daddy Cop’ in the Latest Episode of The Rookie?

Does Neal McDonough Really Refuse to Ever Kiss His Female Co-Stars? 2

Does Neal McDonough Really Refuse to Ever Kiss His Female Co-Stars?

Do Christina Applegate and Ed O’Neill Have a Good Relationship? 3

Do Christina Applegate and Ed O’Neill Have a Good Relationship?

How Did The Big Bang Theory Film Howard in Outer Space? 4

How Did The Big Bang Theory Film Howard in Outer Space?

Why Wasn’t Madonna Included In ‘We Are the World’? 5

Why Wasn’t Madonna Included In ‘We Are the World’?

All Ten of the Only Murders In The Building Opening Title Easter Eggs 6

All Ten of the Only Murders In The Building Opening Title Easter Eggs

Taylor Swift’s New Song is Breaking People With ‘I Wouldn’t Marry Me Either’ Taylor Swift on a talk show 7

Taylor Swift’s New Song is Breaking People With ‘I Wouldn’t Marry Me Either’

Don’t Tell Me a Celebrity Was ‘Cut Off’ When She Wasn’t Cut Off Dakota Johnson in one of her movies

Don’t Tell Me a Celebrity Was ‘Cut Off’ When She Wasn’t Cut Off

Brian complains about how a series of articles online are pushing an inaccurate story about Dakota Johnson being cut off financially by her family
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The Ten Most Frequent ‘Pop In’ Guest Stars on The Rookie A few different Rookie guest stars

The Ten Most Frequent ‘Pop In’ Guest Stars on The Rookie

The Rookie routinely brings back guest stars over the seasons. Here are the "pop in" guest stars who have appeared the most
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Walton Goggins Adds Fuel to the Fire of the Aimee Lou Wood Feud By Not Adding Any Fuel to the Fire, You Losers Walton Goggins in his SNL monologue

Walton Goggins Adds Fuel to the Fire of the Aimee Lou Wood Feud By Not Adding Any Fuel to the Fire, You Losers

Brian explains how the alleged feud between Walton Goggins and Aimee Lou Wood was not addressed on SNL...or was it? It wasn't. At all. Or was it? No, it wasn't
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IDLER is an Embarrassing Word for Wordle to Use

IDLER is an Embarrassing Word for Wordle to Use

Brian explains why IDLER was such a poor word choice by Wordle
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‘Just Saying’ Memes Are Cowardly Pieces of Trash April O'Neil compared to herself

‘Just Saying’ Memes Are Cowardly Pieces of Trash

Today, I explain why "just saying" memes are cowardly pieces of trash.
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Royal Match Is Emulating Candy Crush Saga in an Annoying Fashion A detail from Royal Match

Royal Match Is Emulating Candy Crush Saga in an Annoying Fashion

Royal Match is mostly a much better mobile game experience than Candy Crush Saga, but it has recently begun emulating Candy Crush Saga in an annoying fashion
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What’s the Best Acting Performance You’ve Seen in a Music Video? Andrew Scott plays a man mourning his mother

What’s the Best Acting Performance You’ve Seen in a Music Video?

In the newest Pop Culture Theme Time, I want to know what's the greatest acting performance that you've seen in a music video?
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Did Nico Harrison Really Call Steph Curry By the Wrong Name in a Nike Meeting? Nico Harrison, the GM of the mavericks

Did Nico Harrison Really Call Steph Curry By the Wrong Name in a Nike Meeting?

In a new Basketball Legends Revealed, learn whether Nico Harrison really called Steph Curry by the wrong name in a Nike meeting
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Which Three Bob Dylan Songs Did Timothee Chalamet Perform on Saturday Night Live? Timothee Chalamet singing Bob Dylan songs

Which Three Bob Dylan Songs Did Timothee Chalamet Perform on Saturday Night Live?

Today, we look at which three songs from deep in Bob Dylan’s catalog that Timothee Chalamet decided to perform on Saturday Night Live. In Pop Culture Questions Answered, I answer whatever questions you folks...
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The First All-Black Game in NBA History The Knicks in 1979-80

The First All-Black Game in NBA History

On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, we take a look at the first game in NBA history to involve only Black players on both teams
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