KA-POW! The Pop Cultured Podcast
A lively discussion about comics, television, film and everything else making waves this week inside fan culture.
Episodes
Learn what to expect during Free Comic Book Day on May 4th with Ka-Pow the Pop Cultured Podcast's annual preview, plus a few snippets of news from around the comic industry and some discussion of early 20th century French literature. What? We're cultured. It's right in our name.
Length - 00:39:29
Language - PG-13. (Contains mild adult language.)
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0:05:55 - COMIC BOOK NEWS
After recovering from a massive flood in our hometown and a trip to the Great Ohio Toy Show, Ka-Pow the Pop Cultured Podcast is back and ready to catch up on everything we've missed. This week, that includes an excellent Oscars telecast, some controversial casting news, two superb superhero cartoons, an earthshaking documentary and more!
Length - 01:20:18
Language - PG-13. (Contains mild adult language.)
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This week we dig around in our freezer, pull out a Riverdale episode, defrost that baby and dig in! So join Ka-Pow the Pop Cultured Podcast for Chapter 110 "Things That Go Bump in the Night," where Betty sees some threatening auras, Cheryl starts a library, some ghosts move furniture and Archie immediately agrees to it all.
Length - 00:44:45
Language - R. (Contains adult language.)
With the arrival of Spring, we at Ka-Pow the Pop Cultured Podcast are antsy to start planning all our convention trips for the year. We started off our season with two great ones, a return to our local Classic Plastics Toy Expo and our very first time checking out the Lexington Comic & Toy Convention. And enjoy a quick TikTok trip report HERE!
Length - 00:37:33
Language - PG-13. (Contains mild adult language.)
Ka-Pow the Pop Cultured Podcast is deciding on our Top Ten Films of All Time! That may be a tough enough task on its own, but we've added the catch that they must be a consensus pick that all three of us agree that we love. And as you may expect, the debate is spirited, the surprises are plentiful and the decisions are final!
Length - 02:26:07
Language - PG-13. (Contains mild adult language.)
This week, Ka-Pow the Pop Cultured Podcast takes a virtual trip to the Sundance Film Festival, discusses a few compelling documentaries and cracks open some brand new comic books. What more could you want?
Length - 01:04:37
Language - PG-13. (Contains mild adult language.)
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0:00:38 - MOVIE NEWS
Sampling some entries from this year's Sundance Film Festival online, "The Greatest Night in Pop" provid...
After those last few epic episodes, Ka-Pow the Pop Cultured Podcast slows things down and catches up on our television viewing. Our tastes run from animated fantasy to Marvel superheroes to spy thrillers to dating shows to game shows and everything in between, so there's sure to be something you'll enjoy right along with us!
Length - 00:57:14
Language - PG-13. (Contains mild adult language.)
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Awards season is in full swing, with every prestigious body out there heaping honors on the most momentous motion pictures of the previous year. But Ka-Pow the Pop Cultured Podcast recognizes EVERY movie we saw in 2023, counting down and ranking a year's worth of films and bestowing specific accolades for 13 standout moments and individual performances. It's time to celebrate cinema with the Seventh Annual Poobah Awards!
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Join us as we celebrate four hundred episodes of Ka-Pow the Pop Cultured Podcast with a look back at our favorite moments from the past. We've hand-selected some of our flat-out funniest bits and fabulous first appearances of inside jokes and running gags. So whether you're re-living them with us or just discovering KPP for the first time, thanks for listening!
Length - 01:25:52
Language - PG-13. (Contains mild adult language.)
Welcome once again to our annual look forward at all of the major movie releases on their way for 2024! Ka-Pow the Pop Cultured Podcast is joined by special guest Jared Lowe as we schedule out our theater trips for the entire year and compile a Top Ten list of our most anticipated films.
Length - 01:58:19
Language - PG-13. (Contains mild adult language.)
For the final episode of 2023, we are joined by Jesse Starcher of The Source Material Comics Podcast to recap our recent outing to the state capital for GalaxyCon Columbus and play a holiday-themed game of "Either / Or." From all of us at Ka-Pow the Pop Cultured Podcast, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Length - 01:47:28
Language - R. (Contains adult language.)
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Ho ho ho, the holidays are almost here and Ka-Pow the Pop Cultured Podcast kicks off December by revealing some of our most - and least - liked Christmas content, then settles in for our usual batch of reviews and recommendations. Our Spotify Wrapped may not have much rizz, but we think we're still pretty swell.
Length - 01:21:03
Language - R. (Contains adult language.)
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0:04:20 - YEAH YOU KNOW ME
...Marvel's latest movie may not have made much money, but we had more fun than a herd of Flerkens at the theater. Joined again by The OJ, Jesse Starcher of The Source Material Comics Podcast, we review "The Marvels," ace an MCU pop quiz, wrap up the second season of "Loki" and more!
Length - 01:42:19
Language - R. (Contains adult language.)
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0:11:50 - TV RECAPS & REVIEWS
"Loki" concludes in cosm...
Some months ago, when Ka-Pow the Pop Cultured Podcast revealed the results of our first annual summer box office predictions, we promised the winner we'd all watch a movie of his choosing and review it. Well, that winner was Jesse Starcher of The Source Material Comics Podcast and that movie was "Grand Tour: Disaster in Time" (aka "Timescape") and that time is now! So listen in as we thoroughly dissect this wild made-for-TV fever ...
It's time for some more Riverdale revelry courtesy of your friends at Ka-Pow the Pop Cultured Podcast with Chapter 109 "Venomous." It's an average week in the 'Dale, as Jughead digs through his shortboxes of comics - and Betty's subconscious - Veronica drips poison and Archie microdoses palladium soup and gets forged.
Length - 00:46:29
Language - PG-13. (Contains mild adult language.)
We're talking movies on this week's episode of Ka-Pow the Pop Cultured Podcast. We kick things off by diving into Willem Dafoe's vast filmography in order to agree on his "one job," then review some of the recent flicks we've seen, including the sure-to-be Oscar favorite "Killers of the Flower Moon."
Length - 00:59:53
Language - PG-13. (Contains mild adult language.)
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0:05:15 - ONE JOB
Deciding on...
Any listener of Ka-Pow the Pop Cultured Podcast should be used to hearing what is on our minds. But this week we go even deeper, revealing what type of worries and angst have been busy haunting our every waking thought. Plus some TV.
Length - 00:36:00
Language - PG-13. (Contains mild adult language.)
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0:01:39 - YEAH YOU KNOW ME
We reveal what anxieties are currently living rent-free in our heads.
...There are only a handful of shows left before we hit #400, so Ka-Pow the Pop Cultured Podcast has begun prepping for that extra-special episode. We've also been road-tripping around in a mad dash to soak in all the late-summer fun we can handle. So here are all our trip reports for the amazing places we've gotten to go lately, including Baltimore Comic Con, Cincinnati Comic Expo, The Great Ohio Toy Show and the Mothman Fe...
It was a wild summer at the box office, led by the unprecedented success of "Barbie," but the dust has settled, the season is over and Ka-Pow the Pop Cultured Podcast has the receipts. Back in May, we were joined by Jesse Starcher of The Source Material Comics Podcast and made some bold predictions on what would end up as the Top Ten films between Memorial Day and Labor Day. Here are the results!
Length - 00:58:38
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Ka-Pow the Pop Cultured Podcast continues our long trek through the 'Dale with a rollicking recap of Chapter 108 "Ex Libris." This entire episode is about overdue library books. For real. But it's how we get our kicks, us and our good-time buddies.
Length - 00:40:18
Language - PG-13. (Contains mild adult language.)
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