Summer is upon us, and so is the semiannual Popcast mailbag, in which the most burning questions of viewers and listeners are answered, definitively. This round, the inquiries were sizzling, and covered a wide range of topics. Is the band Geese the Joe Biden of rock? Was Maroon 5 a pop-rap gateway drug? What band had the most transformative decade-long run of albums? Do people think Adele is lazy? And can a Swiftie and a Twizzy ever truly understand each other?
Credits
Popcast is hosted by Jon Caramanica and Joe Coscarelli and produced by Sophie Erickson and Kate LoPresti. This episode was filmed by Luke Piotrowski and Pat Gunther and edited by Mark Zemel. Our theme music is by Elisheba Ittoop. Nick Pitman is our audio engineer and Amanda Webster is our photo editor. Brooke Minters is our executive producer.
Special thanks to Sarah Bonn, Rebecca Blandon, Dahlia Haddad, Mike Cordero, Nicole Huber, Aaron Byrd, Carl Mazurek, Zach Caldwell, Maddy Masiello, Brad Kimbrough, Andrew Wilcox, Sia Michel, Nina Lassam and Sam Dolnick.
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