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Editor-in-Chief 💎 Pop Heist Bylines ✍️ Decider, CBR, MTV News, Marvel Drag 👠 Barb Hardly I guess I'm moving to Minneapolis? https://popheist.com/ brett at popheist dot com

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Brett White @brettwhite.bsky.social · Dec 2

Welcome to @popheist.com, a new kind of pop culture website that hopefully feels like the classic, beloved kind of pop culture website. We're trying to make things better, more fun, more weird, more challenging, more more more. Join us!

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Hi. We're Pop Heist. - Pop Heist

Pop culture media is a hellscape. Sites are overrun with intrusive ads, or they’re SEO farms, or they pay writers at near-criminal rates. Some of them pollute the internet with AI-generated garbage, u...

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Pop Heist @popheist.com · 1d

Can one figure salvage the reputation of a wrongly maligned movie, nearly 40 years after its release? Do not doubt Pythona's prowess. The 172nd #GIJOE Classified figure feels, tonally and thematically, like the first figure in a bold new era for the series.

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🎃 Matthew Jack-o'-lantern 🎃 @awalrusdarkly.bsky.social · 1d

Next Week on #Hannibal on @popheist.com:

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Brett White @brettwhite.bsky.social · 1d

My squad goes harder than yours

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Brett White @brettwhite.bsky.social · 1d

My REVIEW of the new GI JOE CLASSIFIED PYTHONA figure is live right now!

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Brett White @brettwhite.bsky.social · 1d

My REVIEW of the new GI JOE CLASSIFIED PYTHONA figure is live right now!

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Brett White @brettwhite.bsky.social · 2d

cc: @lanpitts.bsky.social

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SLICE DICE 92 GI JOE COBRA by brettwhite

Kitchen ain't complete without 'em.

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EK-Ultra @ethankaye.bsky.social · 2d

I wrote this to help you, but I really wanted to just go ape shit on some Halloween opinions. Also, I wrote the word “fuck” on a children’s book, which might be a career high or low, depending.

Pop Heist @popheist.com · 2d

Are YOU living up to your responsibilities as a Halloween candy giver? Here's the guide so you can become the neighborhood's favorite house!

Heist Guide: Halloween Candy - Pop Heist

Are YOU living up to your responsibilities as a Halloween candy giver? Here's the guide so you can become the neighborhood's favorite house!

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🎃 Matthew Jack-o'-lantern 🎃 @awalrusdarkly.bsky.social · 2d

ICYMI yesterday, I'm recapping @bryanfuller.bsky.social's HANNIBAL for @popheist.com, and my piece on the series premiere is now available for subscribers!

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'Hannibal' Series Premiere Recap: A Knack for the Monsters - Pop Heist

Pour a glass of wine and have a seat, because Pop Heist's members-only recap series of the legendary 'Hannibal' is on the menu.

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Brett White @brettwhite.bsky.social · 3d

the most dangerous information for me to learn via this auction as someone who is perusing this auction while nearly destitute is that bob newhart and i are essentially the same size clothing wise lol oh what just a bunch of bob's suits and jackets oh god

Brett White @brettwhite.bsky.social · 3d

it'sthe watch bob wore on bob newhart show and in the 70s the watch that i have sought out cheap imitations of and it's just there here it is that's the watch in photos and everthing

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Lot - Bob Newhart: Piaget 18 Karat Gold and Tiger’s Eye Watch

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Brett White @brettwhite.bsky.social · 3d

PYTHONA! Worth the wait. Just a killer figure, from the top of her topknot to the tip of her cape. Every accessory a keeper. Damn close to perfect. Review on @popheist.com tomorrow, ahead of her big NYCC debut.

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Brett White @brettwhite.bsky.social · 3d

The fact that I, a devotee of kitschy Halloween bullshit, did not discover this album until I was 41 is a warm reminder that life is still full of surprises.

Brett White @brettwhite.bsky.social · 3d

Pray for @sebsational.bsky.social, for I have discovered that Bobby "Boris" Pickett recorded an entire album of spooky, "Monster Mash" cash-in songs ... and we're about to embark upon an 18+ hour road trip.

🙏 🕯️ 🧛‍♂️

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Brett White @brettwhite.bsky.social · 3d

GI Joe recaps will return — after, uh, we move to Minneapolis and I get my life sorted out. But now, in time for HALLOWEEN, we have HANNIBAL recaps by @awalrusdarkly.bsky.social !

Pop Heist @popheist.com · 3d

Behold, the new weekly member exclusive retro recap lineup!

Mon. 🏛️ I, CLAUDIUS
Tues. 🍷 HANNIBAL
Wed. 🔦 MURDER, SHE WROTE
Thur. ☢️ DARK
Fri. 📓 FREAKS & GEEKS

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Brett White @brettwhite.bsky.social · 3d

I now have a neon, '90s, ninja Scarlett t-shirt, that I designed after restoring the card back art. You can wear one too, or wear any of the other ridiculous '90s GI Joe shirts that I would've loved as a kid.

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Brett White @brettwhite.bsky.social · 3d

Itt’s time.

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Brett White @brettwhite.bsky.social · 3d

Yes. Anything and everything. pitches @ popheist dot com!

Brett White @brettwhite.bsky.social · 3d

EXCITING NEWS

A new retro rewind recap has been added to @popheist.com's weekly lineup. STOP — Hannibal time! With your head chef, @awalrusdarkly.bsky.social

Pop Heist @popheist.com · 3d

🍷 ALERT 🍷
A new HANNIBAL recap from @awalrusdarkly.bsky.social is live! 🍴
Pour a glass of wine and have a seat, because the legendary horror series is on the menu. 🥩
New recaps drop Tuesdays at 12 AM ET for subscribers 🔓 $7/mo, $70/year ✉️

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Brett White @brettwhite.bsky.social · 4d

Six of my shirt designs just arrived. Wild. I will be taking merch photos. I only get $2 a shirt sold but I’m proud enough of these to market them on a larger company’s behalf. How is this legal? It’s 2025, baby. Nothing matters!

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Brett White @brettwhite.bsky.social · 4d

Y'all @needlessthings.bsky.social's interview with @sewage666.bsky.social about metal, toy collecting, and Cold Slither is such a blast. Can't wait to see them in concert on Saturday.

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The Creators Series: Ross Sewage aka Torch from Cold Slither

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Brett White @brettwhite.bsky.social · 4d

Love is blind now a dating show explicitly for white Christian nationalists it seems

Brett White @brettwhite.bsky.social · 4d

[every time i have to listen to podcast hosts talk about astrology]

"This isn't real."

Brett White @brettwhite.bsky.social · 4d

Won’t somebody who can do something do literally anything to stop everything?

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Heather Anne Campbell @heathercampbell.bsky.social · 26d

America’s relationship with trans people was a totally different thing until the media industrial complex discovered it could make money by vilifying it. There was a Love Boat episode about a trans woman that was just like, 👍🏼. The Top 40 treated trans people with dignity.

God it sucks now.

Mike Ryan @mikeryan.bsky.social · 27d

I was listening to an old Casey Kasem American Top 40 (I find this soothing these days) from 1985 where he told the story of Wendy Carlos, who scored The Shining and Tron, and her journey to becoming trans. Casey got all the pronouns right and it was presented as a slice of life, feel good story

Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 27d

Cool tip: it actually takes MORE effort to deliberately misgender someone AND it marks you as a total asshole! Pretty cool!

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Brett White @brettwhite.bsky.social · 6d

Regarding my GI Joe t-shirt designs, I've stumbled upon a vibe.

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