Culture Dumps
Episodes
Episode 57: Tila Tequila
19 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Tila Tequila was one of the first internet celebrities and could very well be credited with being the first “influencer.” She is also one of the ...
Episode 56: Star Wars Episode 1
11 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We are back in our favorite year, 1999! The boys breakdown Star Wars Episode One: The Phantom Menace and try to make sense out of all of the hate. Wa...
Episode 55: The XFL
03 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Parks takes the reigns with his special guest and friend Max. We dive deep into the XFL, a professional football league with huge ambition and a colo...
Episode 54: Living with Michael Jackson
28 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The 2003 television special “Living With Michael Jackson” promised to deliver an inside look at the life of the world’s most famous person. Not...
Episode 53: Kobayashi
19 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Competitive eating is one of the most bizarre and challenging sports in the world. The sheer amount of food consumed professional competitive eaters ...
Episode 52: Smash Mouth- All Star
12 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
All Star by Smash Mouth was always too easy of a dump, too low hanging of a dump, but with the news of Smash Mouth lead singer Steven Harwell’s ret...
Episode 51: Dumps of Love Part 2: Rock of Love
06 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We have arrived at the scandalous and shocking conclusion of our Dumps of Love series. In part 2, we tackle the Rock of Love branch of this reality t...
Episode 50: Dumps of Love Part 1- Flavor of Love
26 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We have reached 50 episodes! For our one year anniversary special we are bringing you a juicy two part dump. The “Of Love” series of reality show...
Episode 49: Pogs
15 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Pogs were an absolute sensation in the early 1990’s, but why? The Culture Dumps team examines the cardboard discs and their popularity and discover...
Episode 48: Jethro Tull vs. Metallica
09 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Grammy Awards have often dealt with a reputation of being out of touch. To some, they represent a huge institution that is always years behind th...
Episode 47: Interview with “Dude You’re Getting a Dell” Guy
30 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
From 2000 to 2003 it was impossible to avoid seeing a commercial for Dell Computers. The tech market was booming and Dell had a killer spokesperson, ...
Episode 46: Big Dogs vs Big Johnson
20 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week we have a double dump! Ryan is joined by Eric D of Methsyndicate to discuss the rise of two of the most groan worthy apparel brands of all ...
Episode 45: Girls Gone Wild Part 2
11 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We pick up from last week on the salacious sensation from the early 2000’s. This episode focuses mainly on the numerous lawsuits involving Joe ...
Episode 44: Girls Gone Wild Part 1
02 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Culture Dumps examines one of the most controversial success stories of all time. Girls Gone Wild rose to fame in the late 90s, with their infamous a...
Episode 43: IZ
24 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Israel Kamakawiwoʻole is one of most successful Hawai’ian singers of all time. His ukulele cover of “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” s...
Episode 42: Celebrity Boxing
13 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Celebrity boxing is a catch all of bad taste and primal desires. You got violence, seeing successful people fall from grace, endless jokes at the exp...
Episode 41: Cabbage Patch Kids
09 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Cabbage Patch Kids was like the Beanie Babies of the 80s, a children’s toy craze that led to a series of infamous in-store riots in the winter ...
Episode 40: Martha Wash vs C + C Music Factory
31 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This is a true Culture Dump right here folks! Martha Wash is a music legend, in 1990 anyone would have been lucky to work with her, but some producer...
Episode 39: Kevin Federline
23 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As the world becomes consumed with Britneymania once again the Culture Dumps team shines a light on the all but forgotten ex-husband of one of the bi...
Episode 38: Jumping the Shark
17 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The phrase “Jumping the Shark” refers to a moment in a television show, film, book, or any other form of entertainment where the established rule...
Episode 37: Celebrity Sex Tapes
09 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Celebrity sex tapes are a phenomenon. Whether they were stolen and leaked to the public or purposefully released for financial gain, the public canno...
Episode 36: TATU
02 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week we go behind the iron curtain to discuss the Russian pseudo-lesbian powerpop group TATU. TATU took the world by storm with their school gir...
Episode 35: Mac Tonight
26 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the late 1980s, McDonalds introduced a mascot into their family, Mac Tonight. The campaign was aimed at attracting more people to eat McDonalds fo...
Special Guest: Annie from Depths of Wikipedia
22 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It is no secret that the internet harbors some weird stuff. Wikipedia may be the world’s number one source for quick information about just about a...
Episode 34: Pick Up Artists
18 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
M’lady. The gentlemen at Culture Dumps dive into the secretive world of Pick Up Artists (PUA). An underground phenomenon during the 80s and 90...
Episode 33: Soap Shoes
10 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the mid 1990’s extreme sports were peaking in popularity. Whether it was inline skating, skateboarding, or BMX, kids around the world were m...
Episode 32: 2003 California Gubernatorial Recall
04 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This is our first political Dump, though one can aruge all politics is a crock of shit! To honor the upcoming Gub-Recall of 2021, the Culture Dumps t...
Special Interview: David Yontef
29 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week we have a bonus episode! Ryan sits down with David Yontef, the host of Behind the Velvet Rope Podcast and all around pop culture guru . The...
Episode 31: What What in the Butt (Featuring co-creator Mike Stasny)
27 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Samwell’s music video “What What (In the Butt)” was one of Youtube’s first viral video sensations. The original 2007 post cur...
Episode 30: Chris Gaines
21 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week on Culture Dumps we examine the most bizarre passion project in the history of music. In 1999 Garth Brooks could not have been more famous....
Episode 29: 2 Live Crew
14 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
2 Live Crew is one of the notorious rap groups in Hip Hop history. They added a new level of hypersexual lyrics that was as offensive as it was popu...
Episode 28: Beanie Babies part 3
07 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We have reached the end of the plush road. We conclude our Beanie Baby coverage with tales of bankruptcy, break ups, arrests, and the bursting of the...
Episode 27: Beanie Babies Part 2
30 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We are officially deep in the depths of this Beanie Baby Dump. We document the huge surge in popularity of Beanie Babies. The “retirement̶...
Episode 26: Beanie Babies Part 1
24 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Here it is folks, the first installment of our coverage of one of the biggest Culture Dumps in history. Ty Beanie Babies. What became the biggest toy...
Episode 25: Spring Break
16 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Spring Break is one of the most iconic rites of passage for the bright, young scholars of the USA. Filled with underage drinking, bad decisions and m...
Episode 24: Four Loko
09 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Alcohol has been around for thousands of years, it is rare to to see a new variation of the devil’s juice. In 2010 a new monster was rele...
Episode 23: The New Monkees
02 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Monkees are a pop culture anomaly, a multi-platinum selling band created by television producers. While The Monkees hold a special place in Ameri...
Episode 22: 10 Cent Beer Night
26 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We go back to the ballpark this week with Ten Cent Beer Night! One of the wildest nights in baseball and sports history in general. What could go wro...
Episode 21: The Swing Revival
19 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The swing revival movement of the 1990’s was one of the biggest alternative movements in pop culture history. Big bands, gin, dancing, fedoras,...
Episode 20: Go Ask Alice
12 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Culture Dumps crew tackles our first book, Go Ask Alice. “Alice” is the supposedly real diary of a teenage girl lost in a downward sp...
Episode 19: Culinary Dumps – KFC Double Down
05 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ryan and Andy dissect one of the most notorious menu items in fast food history. The mad scientists of KFC pushed the limits of fast food excess, la...
Episode 18: Y2K
26 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As the year 2000 approached, the world was in a panic. It was believed that the computer systems that were heavily relied upon for almost all basic f...
Episode 17: Osiris D3
19 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
If you lived in the suburbs in 2001 chances are you owned or wanted a pair of Osiris D3’s. The most infamous skate shoe of all time was not so ...
Episode 16: Nipplegate
13 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Janet Jackson was one of the biggest stars on the planet in 2004. She was also booked to perform at the biggest annual televised event America has to...
Episode 15: Scatman John
06 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The success story of Scatman John is truly an anomaly. A struggling jazz singer records a novelty dance song centered around an incredibly polarizing...
Episode 14: Some Kind of Monster
22 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The world’s biggest metal band is hardly a Culture Dump, but their 2002 documentary “Some Kind of Monster” and the album that follo...
Episode 13: The Mystery of Al Capone’s Vaults
15 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Live television is risky, especially when gangsters are involved. In 1986 Geraldo Rivera entered the basement of a run down Chicago hotel in hopes of...
Episode 12: Jared the Subway Guy
09 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In our most upsetting episode yet we dive into the rise and fall of Jared Fogle aka Jared, the Subway Guy. At one time he was the most recognizable s...
Episode 11: Pure Moods
02 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week Ryan is joined by Eric D, the mind behind Meth Syndicate. They discuss one of the staples of 1990’s television advertising: “Pu...
Episode 10: Balloon Fest 1986
26 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
You guys like balloons? You like disasters? Well this episode is for you! We dive into the biggest balloon related mishap of all time, Balloon Fest 1...
Episode 9: Heinz EZ Squirt Ketchup
17 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Our friend Andy Paz joins Ryan for the third installment of Culinary Dumps. We try and make sense of Heinz’s notorious EZ Squirt line. In the ...
Episode 8: Disco Demolition
10 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Disco Demolition has gone down as one of the most negative reactions to a seemingly innocent cultural movement. Filled with racial and societal i...
Episode 7: Barney and Friends
03 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We go all the way back to a simpler time, when recess was king, when we still felt special, when love came in the form of a purple dinosaur named Bar...
Episode 6: Lilith Fair
27 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Culture Dumps team (along with guest Audra Isadora) gears up for the most celebrated women’s music festival of all time, Lilith Fair! What ...
Episode 5: McSalad Shaker
19 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
For our second installment of our food series, “Culinary Dumps,” Ryan and Adam breakdown what might be the most entertaining salad dish o...
Episode 4: Milli Vanilli part 2
12 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We finish up our mini series on tragic pop stars Milli Vanilli. Their lip sync game catches up to them in the worst way. But was the blame fairly pl...
Episode 3: Milli Vanilli part 1
05 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We dive into what was perhaps the biggest scandal in pop music history. Milli Vanilli was the sacrificial lamb of lip synching, a practice commonly u...
Episode 2: Halloween Special
29 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It’s time for our Halloween special! For the debut of our food-focused side series, “Culinary Dumps,” we discuss the infamous black bun clad Ha...
Episode 1: Hands Across America
21 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Culture Dumps! Throughout this series we will be diving into the bleakest corners of pop culture. Whether it’s music, tv, celebrities, f...