In this special summer edition 2023 Year in Review, we are joined by our friends Lafayette and Carlos from the Nerds Talking Podcast. We take a take a look back at the critical issues of 2023: streaming services, the rise of ‘content’, and other ‘critical’ issues for Australians.

This year’s Halloween special sees us joined by Australian horror author Kyla Ward as we talk all about the women in white: gothic fiction – what it is, and is it still relevant after nearly 300 years.

In this episode we are joined by Andrea Martucci from Shelf Love Podcast while we talk all about adaptations – from good to terrible.

This episode is all about endings and finishing moves. What makes a good ending – or not! We contemplate what makes good endings, and why are so many ending so very bad.

In this special Summer Edition episode, we contemplate the year 2022, and what we liked and didn’t like in popular fiction.

In this year’s Halloween episode, we are joined again by our friend Fred as we look look at the perennial horror trope, the vampire. Flip throws out the claim that modern vampires are no longer scary, leading to them being ‘de-fanged’.

This episode, we finally dive into the massive fantasy genre. We explore the ideas in Gail Carriger’s book The Heroine’s Journey as an alternative story structure to the more well known hero’s journey, and how that works in different fiction formats.

In this episode, we examine the often-overlooked moments before an impending apocalypse, which have a special drama of their own. And we are here for that drama… do people come together in the face of impending doom, or do they crumble under the weight of inevitable disaster?

Or: The Long Year Reviewed. In this episode, we contemplate what we are calling the ‘long year’ of the pandemic, and assess if we have reached the goals that we set way back in our first episode.

In this space-inspired episode of Pod Culture [Oz], we joined by special guest Marta Troicka as we discuss Nick’s claim that all modern space movies suck.

In this year’s Halloween episode, Dave throws out the theory that “Ghosts are NOT horror”, and challenges Nick and Flip to prove or disprove it.

In this fairy tale inspired episode of Pod Culture [Oz], we joined by romance novelist Renee Dahlia as we discuss how fairy tale tropes can be translated across into fiction.

“Have you ever questioned the nature of your reality?” It is finally here! In part 2 of our Westworld inspired episode, we discuss how artificial intelligence tropes are used in fiction.

“Bring yourself back online…” It is finally here! In our long-promised episode inspired by Westworld, we discuss how artificial intelligence tropes are used in fiction.

In this episode author and game designer Christian D. Read from Crowland Publishing joins us in the second of two episodes as we discuss the politics of superheroes (part 2).

In this episode author and game designer Christian D. Read from Crowland Publishing joins us in the first of two episodes as we discuss the politics of superheroes (part 1).

This is the third part of our official collab, with Tom (aka Robots) from the Fallout Lorecast, as we discuss how gaming is depicted in popular media.

This is the second part of our official collab, where are joined by Tom (aka Robots) from the Fallout Lorecast to we discuss how gaming is depicted in popular media.

In our first official collab, in this episode of Pod Culture Oz we are joined by Tom (aka Robots) from the Fallout Lorecast as we discuss how gaming is depicted in popular media.

This episode we explore zombie apocalypses - where do they occur, who are impacted, and why?