Welcome to Adoption Pop! where a podcast journalist, a filmmaker, and a cultural critic burst pop culture's favorite adoption tropes. Each episode, we'll dive into movies, TV, and reality shows, from prestige dramas to the classics, to ask what these stories are really saying, and not saying, about adoption. And we'll get real about representation: how the world sees us, and how we see ourselves.
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Signup to Generate a PitchWelcome to Adoption Pop! where a podcast journalist, a filmmaker, and a cultural critic burst pop culture's favorite adoption tropes. Each episode, we'll dive into movies, TV, and reality shows, from prestige dramas to the classics, to ask what these stories are really saying, and not saying, about adoption.
Recent episodes include "Angels in the Outfield (1994), Adoption at the Movies" (21 October 2026, 36 minutes), "Immediate Family (1989), Adoption at the Movies" (14 October 2026, 50 minutes), and "Because She's Adopted (2023), Adoption at the Movies" (7 October 2026, 38 minutes).
Adoption Pop! publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 43 minutes across 47 episodes.
Booking probability for Adoption Pop! is 32%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Adoption Pop! requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Adoption Pop!'s contact route on record: verified email.
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Episode #43
E046 | Angels in the Outfield (1994) – Adoption at the Movies Whether you have root root rooted for the same team your whole life or, like Kristal and Sullivan, you consider yourself a more generalized "fan," there's...
Episode #45
E045 | Immediate Family (1989) – Adoption at the Movies If you happened to see this one before, it might be because you rented it at the video store. On the cover — two couples, one teenaged and one middle aged, staring...
Episode #41
E044 | Because She's Adopted (2023) – Adoption at the Movies This is a very special episode of Adoption Pop!, as we cover the film Because She's Adopted, which follows a Cree adoptee from Kelowna, BC who embarks upon a...
Episode #43
E043 | The Sopranos "The Fleshy Part of the Thigh" (2006) – Adoption on Television A big "thank you" to Pop! Star Hannah for giving us the chance to revisit what some critics have called "the greatest, and most...
Episode #42
E042 | Sex and the City "Just Say Yes" (2001) – Adoption on Television It may have been one of the biggest shows of the era, but its adoption story line has aged about as well as a Mandarin chicken skewer left out on...
Episode #40
E040 | Frontline: Baby Brokers (2026) – Adoption on Television As Haley works on her investigative series podcast On Adoption , other docs are also telling real stories about the adoption industry, including PBS's...
Episode #39
E039 | The Blind Side (2009) – Adoption at the Movies When the summer heat burns itself out, kids head back to school, and a hint of fall breeze rustles the trees, one thing becomes clear: football season is upon us...
Episode #38
E038 | Two and a Half Men "The Ol' Mexican Spinach" (2025) – Adoption on Television The CBS sitcom Two and a Half Men aired for 12 seasons from 2003 to 2015, and originally starred 1980s film icon Charlie Sheen as...
Episode #37
E037 | Silicon Valley "Maximizing Alphaness" (2019) – Adoption on the Small Screen Workplaces outside of the home have long been fodder for television entertainment. The first workplace comedy, Our Miss Brooks...
Episode #36
E036 | Black Cake (2023) – Adoption on the Small Screen Certain foods can be a strong connection to the geographies and cultures that we come from, even after physical separation from those geographies and cultures. It...
Episode #34
E034 | The Jerk (1979) – Adoption on the Big Screen With one of the most famous opening lines in comedic cinema history, 1979's The Jerk follows Navin Johnson (played by Steve Martin in his first starring role), the...
Episode #33
E033 | Meet the Robinsons (2007) – Adoption on the Small Screen We love getting recommendations from our Pop! Stars and, while we slot every one into our queue at some point, having an "in" can help bump a...
Episode #32
E032 | Finding Your Roots – Kristin Chenoweth (2026) – Adoption on the Small Screen To be an adoptee in the 21st century is to know a little something about spitting into test tubes. Podcast journalist Haley Radke...
Episode #31
E031 | Shrinking Season 3 (2026) – Adoption on the Small Screen The Apple TV comedy, Shrinking, follows a group of therapists, their friends and loved ones, all of whom seem to have unhealthy attachment issues...
Episode #30
E030 | Shrinking Season 2 (2024) – Adoption on the Small Screen As adopted people, we know a little something about therapy. In fact, fellow adoptee, Dr. Chaitra Wirta-Leiker maintains a directory of licensed mental...
Episode #29
E029 | Big Daddy (1999) – Adoption on the Big Screen Limp Bizkit in the discman, punchlines built on misogyny and homophobia, and Adam Sandler on the big screen… it must by the 90s on Adoption Pop! Join podcast...
Episode #28
E028 | Little Bird Episodes 4-6 (2023) – Adoption on the Small Screen In part two of this two-part episode, we cover the last three episodes of Little Bird, the Canadian dramatic series following a First Nations woman...
Episode #27
<p >E027 | Little Bird Episodes 1-3 (2023) – Adoption on the Small Screen</p> <p> </p> <p >In part one of a two-part episode, we cover the first three episodes of Little Bird, the Canadian dramatic series following a...
Episode #26
<p >E026 | Annie (1982) – Adoption on the Big Screen</p> <p> </p> <p >We think you're gonna like it here on this episode of Adoption Pop! We're just thinkin' about 10-year-old Aileen Quinn in the role that would make...
Episode #25
<p >E025 | Jersey Shore Family Vacation Season 8 (2025) – Adoption on the Small Screen</p> <p> </p> <p >Before Bravo had a summer house in the Hamptons, MTV had a place on the Jersey Shore, where for six seasons Pauly...
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