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Pop Culture Pastor is a podcast built around a tight-knit community of fans of pop, geek and comic con culture.
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Watch-alongs: Other Side Of Fear (Ted Lasso S4 E8) (opens the original)
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Ted finds Alice crying and doesn't say a word. He just sits down and breathes with her. We gave that one to Cody, and he explains why "I'm sorry" is the first thing out of our mouths when we finally break...and what Ted's actually doing by saying nothing. Also: Cody's theory on who's buying up Richmond shares, and it is not who Rebecca thinks. Dave makes the case for an entire episode of nothing but Higgins doing detective work. And the two of them split hard on whether the Roy and Keeley payoff
Ep 247: Pop Culture Draft (Best Needle Drops) (opens the original)
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The song kicks in and the scene becomes permanent. Dave, Cody, & Geek Paul draft the greatest needle drops in movies and TV — with one strict rule: no songs written for the movie. That knocks out more of your favorites than you'd think, and yes, we read the list of casualties on air. Along the way we learn that "needle drop" started life as an accounting term, find out what diegetic means, and debate the song that's been permanently ruined by one scene. Plus: Greta Gerwig casts Meryl Streep as t
Watch-alongs: Believe It Or Not (Ted Lasso S4 E7) (opens the original)
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Cody cracks the code on this one. He noticed the entire episode is built on three word phrases, and once you see it, you can't unsee it. Dave floats a theory about Alice's hair that may or may not be a very bad sign. The Diamond Dogs investigate whether Zelda is the scorpion in her own story, and Cody has a guess about what job she's really after. Also: why "Believe" hits different in a locker room full of women who were already running on it, a stat about reading to kids that'll make you feel s
Watch-alongs: Auld Lang Syne (Ted Lasso S4 E6) (opens the original)
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Dave and Cody agree this one's the funniest episode of the season — and then spend a chunk of it being mad at two scenes. Cody's therapist take on whether anything Roy says on that much pain medication counts as true. A real argument about whether Alice torching her own good night is bad writing or a character doing what she always does. Dave puts Keeley's hospital behavior on the record as a little devious. Plus Cody's practical case against the Beard age-gap romance, why the Roy and Keeley sto
Ep 246: The Lobby (Settle It!) (opens the original)
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This week the Lobby had a theme: settle it. You sent in the arguments you can't win at home, and we ruled on them — including one where the defendant was sitting at the mic. Cody's own wife turned him in over NSYNC, so we held a trial. He was recused, compelled to testify, cross-examined, and sentenced. He also finally admitted what he actually thought of the new Masters of the Universe, which is not what he said on the review episode, and the words "I was about to get a He-Man tattoo" were spok
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