Pop Culture Pastor

Pop Culture Pastor is a podcast built around a tight-knit community of fans of pop, geek and comic con culture. Join hosts Dave and Cody (and sometimes various members of the Geeks of the Round Table) for lively discussions in each episode, ranging from specific pop culture topics and news on the main pod (Friday), to episode by episode break downs of a currently airing TV or streaming show on Watch-alongs. With their blend of spiritual insights and pop culture expertise, they offer a fresh and thought-provoking perspective that sets the podcast apart.

Pop Culture Pastor is a tv podcast hosted by David Remboldt, with 410 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

David Remboldt hosts Pop Culture Pastor, a tv show with 410 episodes published.

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  Watch-alongs: She's a Hoot (Ted Lasso S4 E2)

  Aug 17, 202641 min

  Dave and Cody are back on the pitch, and this week the conversation gets stuck on one uncomfortable question: what do you do when the person telling you the hard truth about yourself is a jerk about it? Alice Chilton has an attitude and a point, and the guys dig into why it's so much easier to focus on the delivery than the message. Also under discussion — whether Beard's avoidance of Ted is loyalty or self-protection, Cody's pitch for how Rebecca should have handled the hire, what Ted actually understands about people that nobody else at Richmond does, and the ongoing mystery of what's in that gift box. Plus Beard's Jam of the Week, Diamond Dogs, and Who Grew.

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  Ep 242: Be Kind Rewind (Real Genius)

  Aug 14, 20261h 9m

  This week on Be Kind Rewind, Dave, Cody, & Geek Jackson revisit Real Genius (1985): the smartest teen comedy of the 80's(?) and the movie that proves Val Kilmer was one of the great comedic actors we barely got to see. We dig into what holds up (Kilmer at his most magnetic, a movie where being smart is the whole appeal instead of a handicap to overcome, and an anti-military-industrial-complex streak that hits harder in 2026 than it did in '85), what doesn't (Mitch is fifteen, the Kent pranks get genuinely mean, and somebody destroyed a man's house with a satellite laser and nobody went to jail), and the behind-the-scenes stuff — Val got the part by being rude to the producer, the popcorn house took three months and 190,000 pounds of kernels, and the drawings on the dorm wall were made by Val's late brother Wesley. Plus a Pastor's Corner on Chris Knight telling a crying fifteen-year-old that his brain isn't a machine, a fight about whether Kent or Gabriel Jarret is the real story here, and a game guessing Val's five highest-grossing films. Cody sends us out with a Val Kilmer poem.

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  Watch-alongs: Barbecue Sauce (Ted Lasso S4 E1)

  Aug 10, 202641 min

  New show, new watch-alongs. Dave & Cody kick off Ted Lasso Season 4 with the premiere, "Home," and they've got some thoughts. Three years after Ted got on that plane, he's the assistant manager at a Kansas City grocery store, teaching life lessons with a bag of Pup-Peroni. Rebecca, Keeley, and Higgins fly in with an offer to coach Richmond's new women's team. Dottie Lasso drops a line about fathers that Cody is NOT letting slide. And Ted finally opens the door he's been avoiding all episode. As two guys who actually live in Kansas, Dave and Cody dig into how the show handled Ted's hometown plus a Song of the Episode with a genuinely wild backstory, and an honest conversation about whether a show that ended perfectly should have come back at all.

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  Ep 241: Pop Culture Lately (8/26)

  Aug 7, 20261h 25m

  Pop Culture Lately: The Grab Bag Is Open Twice a year or so we empty out the entire bag...everything we've been watching, reading, and playing that never fit anywhere else. Dave, Cody, & Geek Paul dig through it all: a widow who talks to an octopus, eight artists who secretly lived inside a shopping mall for four years, and a Mr. Rogers movie where Mr. Rogers is the antagonist. Along the way: Spider-Man is printing money on a Tuesday, the horror genre keeps saving cinema, Woodstock '99 was worse than you remember, and George Clooney made a movie that may or may not be about George Clooney. Plus a wrestling complaint, a Star Trek episode with dinosaurs, and a movie game that goes badly off the rails somewhere around Joanna Cassidy. Then it's out to The Lobby, where you asked what franchise needs to die and whether any of us actually read books. Think of it as rummaging through a flea market of pop culture: unexpected finds, strange treasures, and a few conversations we didn't plan on having. What have you been into lately? Tell us in the comments on the social post.

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  Ep 240: Spider-Man Brand New Day

  Aug 3, 20261h 29m

  SPOILERS Dave & Cody welcome back Geek Jason to review Spider-Man: Brand New Day. The movie just posted one of the biggest openings in history, and the table digs into why: - Destin Daniel Cretton was given room to tell a smaller, more intimate story - The Bernthal and Holland chemistry - The Hulk and the Punisher as perfect storytelling guest stars Also: Jason brings a perspective on Peter's isolation that only someone who works with kids in care could. The Pastor's Corner lands on Aunt May's tombstone against Yelena's "small potatoes" Plus Emily Wilson's scorching review of The Odyssey, a round of the Movie Game, and a bonus breakdown of that end credits scene. Movie reviewed: Spider-Man: Brand New Day (2026) — Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton. Starring Tom Holland, Zendaya, Jacob Batalon, Sadie Sink, Jon Bernthal, and Mark Ruffalo. In theaters now.

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