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Pop Soup

Whitney LeMond, Hayly LeMond, Lisa Friedrich

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Welcome to Pop Soup - Your piping hot serving of pop culture trivia. Hosted by Whitney LeMond, Lisa Friedrich, and Hayly LeMond
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Whitney LeMond, Lisa Friedrich, and Carina Magyar get together, get tipsy, and tell each other the craziest stories they can find. Artwork by Grace Svoboda. Theme music by Arielle LaGuette.
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Whitney, Hayly, and Lisa take a look back at the predictions they made in January 2024 for what might happen in the pop culture world. Updates on Gypsy Rose, Glen Powell, Britney Spears, Taylor Swift, Florence Pugh, Rosalia, Jeremy Allen White, Ariana Grande, Ben Affleck, Lindsey Lohan, Pedro Pascal, Kat Williams, Pete Davidson, Sophie Turner, Dick…
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Whitney - DUN DUN: Famous people who were on Law & Order 👩‍⚖️🎬 Lisa - Name that celebrity winery 🍷🍇 Hayly - Blind item bingo 👩‍🦯🏆 Lisa's Game CELEBS Brad Pitt/ Angelina Jolie Yao Ming Dwayne Wade Jon Bon Jovi Sam Neill Kurt Russell Dan Aykroyd Sting Antonio Banderas Fergie Dave Matthews Maynard James Keenan Cameron Diaz Cara Delevigne Madonna Post …
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Lisa - A very Eggcellent Quiz with Sylvester Stallone, Stan Lee, Nixon, and many more old men! 🥚🍳👴🏼 Hayly - Match the pet name to their celebrity owner. Here's the list if you're playing along- HUMANS: Katy Perry, Paris Hilton, Ke$ha, Adam Sandler, Emmy Rossum, Selma Blair, Chelsea Handler - ANIMALS: Pepper, Kitty Purry, Nacho, Chunk, Mr Fluffy Pan…
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It's a crossover episode from our new podcast, Pop Soup, your piping hot serving of pop culture trivia! Subscribe and save y'all: Apple, Spotify, and everywhere else 🎧 Hayly gives us the royal(s) and we guess the scandal that could have been their downfall. Lisa quizzes us on what crimes various celebs have been arrested for abroad. Whitney - guess…
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Hayly gives us the royal(s) and we guess the scandal that could have been their downfall. Lisa quizzes us on what crimes various celebs have been arrested for abroad. Whitney - guess the highest-grossing box office films from the 90s by the actors involved.By Whitney LeMond, Hayly LeMond, Lisa Friedrich
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Whitney gives the birth name of the celebrity with clues to help figure out who they are now. Hayly plays clips from songs of actors who moonlight as musicians, and you get to guess who the culprit is. Lisa's guess the "secret ingredient" quiz ties together Jared Leto, Julia Roberts, Lupita Nyong'o, Kevin Spacey and more.…
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Lisa's guess the "secret ingredient" quiz ties together Dakota Fanning, Liv Tyler, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, and more. Hayly quizzes the group on things Justin Timberlake needs to apologize for. Whitney asks to name the dumb celebrity tweet-er.By Whitney LeMond, Hayly LeMond, Lisa Friedrich
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This episode is brought to you by Pop Soup, our brand-new pop culture trivia podcast, so go listen to it right now! Lisa recounts one of Texas' almost forgotten tragedies, the New London School Explosion of 1937. Whitney hops back to the Gilded Age to visit the weird Wendel family - one of NYC's original rich families that decided to fully commit t…
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Whitney, Hayly, and Lisa take turns predicting what might happen in celebrity and pop culture in the coming year with Gypsy Rose, Glen Powell, Britney Spears, Taylor Swift, Florence Pugh, Rosalia, Jeremy Allen White, Ariana Grande, Ben Affleck, Lindsey Lohan, Pedro Pascal, Kat Williams, Pete Davidson, Sophie Turner, Dick Van Dyke, real housewives, …
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This episode is brought to you by red currants. Whitney dances to the strange Italian beats and gibberish lyrics of Adriano Celentano's "Prisencolinensinainciusol." Lisa revisits the Trinity Test Site in Los Alamos and uncovers the atrocious conditions the native population endured before, during, and after the Manhattan Project. Hayly joins Austra…
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This episode is brought to you the pitter-patter of tiny dog feet. Lisa invites us to attend the first drag balls with their inventor and queer pioneer William Dorsey Swann. Hayly journeys across France with the cross-dressing, bisexual, swordswoman, opera singer, Julie d'Aubigny. Whitney boards Aloha Airlines Flight 243 - the terrifying flight and…
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This episode is brought to you by rabies. Lisa shows us the importance of functioning egresses at the infamous 1942 Cocoanut Grove nightclub fire. Whitney loses her voice trying to perfect her own version of every film buff's favorite inside joke, the Wilhelm Scream. Hayly joins a house of ill-repute with a surprisingly reputable madam, Pearl de Ve…
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This episode is brought to you by Hard Front Wigs. Whitney packs up her stuff and moves to a new apartment every year in NYC on everyone's favorite holiday, Moving Day! Lisa races down America's rivers in a steamboat only to end in the worst maritime disaster in the USA, the wreck of the Sultana. Hayly is put on trial with Isobel Gowdie for being t…
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This episode is brought to you by cargo shirts. Hayly lives the 1930s socialite dream with Lester Gaba and his enigmatic creation, Cynthia the Gaba girl. Lisa goes down under to explore the storied life of Black Douglass the Bushranger. Whitney has a close encounter of the third kind at the Ariel School UFO incident.…
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This episode is brought to you by FootFoot. Whitney joins the fan club for The Shaggs, the band that released the worst album ever recorded. Lisa tells us just why Dairy Queen is what we like about Texas. Hayly lives a hundred lives with the immortal party vampire, Jacques St. Germain.By Weird Brunch
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This episode is brought to you by snake meat. Lisa jumps down the throat of the world's most voracious and disgustingly hungry man, Tarrare. Hayly heads to Ohio to read all about their dangerous gossip girl, the Circleville Letter Writer. Whitney gets conned by the newest addition to the "Anna Delvey Female Fraudster Club," Vietnam's Tina Duong.…
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This episode brought to you by Silver Status Bonvoy Members Whitney finds the most appropriate holiday tradition in Spain's Caga Tió. Lisa details the disappearance of British estate agent Suzy Lamplugh. Hayly joins the team behind one of the most "successful" bank heists of all time at Brazil's Banco Central Fortaleza.…
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This episode brought to you by Jackie O's Chewin' Metal. Lisa joins the Silicon Valley incubator fraternity Launch House and is quickly expelled. Whitney gets revenge on the human race with a few cliquey Orcas, an angry elephant, and a few more vengeful animals. Hayly exposes one of the longest-running mail scams of all time with "psychic" Maria Du…
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This episode brought to you by the Hot Tips Hotline. Whitney visits the little micronation that could, Molossia. Hayly joins Johann Georg Schröpfer's Masonic temple and learns how to raise the dead while making money off people. Lisa details the gruesome murders of Australia's number one piece of shit rapist, Christopher Wilder.…
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This episode brought to you by MorningStar sausage patties. Hayly gets brainwashed into Chuck Dederich's Synanon cult, but is rescued by the snakebitten lawyer Paul Morantz. Whitney empathizes with Cleopatra and her troubles with her little sister, Arsinoe. Lisa travels to ancient England to find out if King Arthur was a real person.…
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This episode brought to you by poopcicles. Hayly survives the tundra with adventurer Peter Freuchen. Lisa explores a budding cult created by the currently incarcerated Rashad Jamal. Whitney slips back into the teenage dirtbag days of 1984 and the deadly friendship of Ricky Kasso and Gary Lauwers.By Weird Brunch
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This episode brought to you by Evelyn's Creek Water. Whitney's up a creek with a couple Californians searching for sunken treasure along the Texas Gulf Coast. Lisa raises the dead with the corpse coronation of Ines de Castro. Hayly discovers the new record for the world's biggest piece of shit, Richard Schmidt, who attempted to murder his ex-girlfr…
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This episode brought to you by Hot Diet Coke ~ The Official Drink of Weird Brunch Whitney gets a glimpse of the elusive Los Angeles billboard icon, Angelyne. Hayly uncovers the Mormon roots of Go Ask Alice, the 1970s "true diary" account of a good girl succumbing to hippie drug culture. Lisa prowls the globe for the origins of Catwoman and her less…
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This episode brought to you by brown teeth. Hayly befriends the original 1800s rich-people-swindler, Cassie Chadwick. Whitney defines job catfishing: what Ali Ayad did when he founded the 2020 fake digital design agency MadBird, and robbed hundreds of people of their services for 6 months. Lisa gives us the science behind bad vibes, and the now-pro…
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This episode brought to you by russet potatoes. Whitney launches into Starfish Prime and the race to nuclear bombs in space. Lisa tracks the infamous Kandahar Giant that was purportedly taken down by U.S. special forces in Afghanistan in 2002. Hayly encounters Gregor MacGregor, a Scottish conman who defrauded hundreds while creating 1822's own Fyre…
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This episode brought to you by probiotic thoughts. Lisa skips confession and opts for the age-old tradition of sin-eating. Whitney details the mysterious disappearance and unexpected reappearance of Steven Kubacki. Hayly joins a gang of buffoons who plot to steal the body of President Abraham Lincoln and hold it for ransom.…
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This episode brought to you by sweet old ladies. Rebecca Cohen uncovers the real life horror inspiration for A Nightmare on Elm Street, Asian Death Syndrome. Lisa encounters Dorthea Puente, a sweet elderly woman in appearance, but a killer and swindler by nature. Whitney discusses the origins of Santa Claus, and hops down the chimney with the origi…
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This episode brought to you by the future of plastics. Whitney runs down the list of the world's most dangerous toys, including your own at home radioactive energy lab. Hayly details the mediocrity of Amy Bishop, a female mass murderer and delusional intellectual. Lisa recounts the heroic journey of Joe Medicine Crow, a Native American writer, hist…
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This episode brought to you by flirtatious bible verses. Lisa sashays into the American National Ballet that was founded and mismanaged by two skilled liars, Ashely & Doug Benefield, with political ties that go all the way to the top of the GOP. Whitney goes nuclear with America's most deadly energy drink, Radithor. Hayly accidentally researched a …
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This episode brought to you by the Crypt Keeper. Rebecca Cohen finds the deadly and lonely tale of Joyce Carol Vincent. Lisa recounts a 5 limbed monster in Enfield, the haunted Hotel del Salto in Colombia, and the story behind the term "saved by the bell." Whitney scales the walls of Fort Monroe, Virginia. A base so haunted that the U.S. Army ackno…
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