KA-POW! The Pop Cultured Podcast

Ka-Pow the Pop Cultured Podcast is back once again!  This time out, we turn to the timely matter of the Black Lives Matter protests currently happening throughout our country, and how the long battle for civil rights can be viewed through the lens of popular culture.  Then, we challenge ourselves to decide the One Job of the highest grossing actor in the history of Hollywood. Length - 00:46:43 Lan...

Welcome back to the latest installment of Ka-Pow the Pop Cultured Podcast.  We spend most of this episode wading through the streams, adding movies to our HBO Max queues, seeking out the poor-liest produced documentaries on Prime, checking back in on some series we were initially lukewarm on and learning historical figures' middle names.  Then we wrap things up by playing a guessing game where we...

The next entry in "The Crossroads," where we explore interesting and unexpected crossovers in comic books, television and movies is the dimension-bending Turtles Forever, where the 2003 animated versions of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles meet their 1987 counterparts.  Ka-Pow the Pop Cultured Podcast quickly realize we aren't really experts in any era of the Heroes in a Half Shell, but are game t...

With our quarantines slowly beginning to lift and Ka-Pow the Pop Cultured Podcast starting to get back to workin', we wrap up our discussions on several series that have been occupying our recent downtime.  So listen in as we say farewell to John Krasinski's cheery web shorts, welcome a new generation of heroes in "Stargirl," scratch our heads over the reality of #TheSnyderCut and remember decade'...

The longer we spend cooped up in our houses, it seems, the stronger our urge to talk about Star Wars gets.  So that's what Ka-Pow the Pop Cultured Podcast does in this all-Star Wars episode!  Dave Filoni drops some science on the new technology building the future of special effects in "Disney Gallery," frustrations with the sequel trilogy are revealed by a "Rise of Skywalker" making-of documentar...

We bid adieu to the 'Dale for this abbreviated fourth season, ending the gang's senior year like so many others from the class of 2020, without proms and graduations.  But who needs a yearbook when you have Ka-Pow the Pop Cultured Podcast keeping record of Riverdale Chapter 75 "Lynchian" and Chapter 76 "Killing Mr. Honey?"  Can Jinx Malloy's maple moonshine put Veronica and Cheryl out of business?...

We approach the end of our quarantine by welcoming a new Patron, mourning canceled summer travel plans, admiring some original art and pondering what the next year's worth of pop culture could conceivably look like, then push our bandwidths to the limit by streaming as many movies, shows and documentaries as our screens will hold.  If you are as stir crazy as us, let Ka-Pow the Pop Cultured Podcas...

We're talking comic books this time around.  After catching up on our quarantine reading and congratulating our pal James Patrick on his upcoming book "The Kaiju Score," Jordan takes the time to outline the unprecedented events of the past few months that have shaken up the comic industry, the dysfunctional ways everyone has scrambled to hold it together and the spark of optimism for some changes...

It appears to be the waning days of our current "stay at home" order, but before we get back to the daily grind, there is still plenty of worthwhile content to explore.  First, play along and pick your preferred KPP "quarantine house," then listen along as Ka-Pow the Pop Cultured Podcast scrapes up a modicum of Hollywood news, professes our love for what might be the best sitcom of the season and...

Ka-Pow the Pop Cultured Podcast used this recent lull in new content to dig through our childhood closets and pull out our Top 10 Toy Lines of All Time!  Joined by returning guest Russ Casseday , we each throw out nominations until arriving at a group consensus of what constitutes the best of the best, considering everything from playability, longevity, ingenuity, cultural impact and plain old fun...

Love them or hate them (or like us, a bit of both), it's time for the annual Riverdale musical episode.  This time out, the gang tackles the too-provocative-for-Principal-Honey tunes of Hedwig and the Angry Inch with Chapter 74 "Wicked Little Town," and Ka-Pow the Pop Cultured Podcast is here to try and make some sort of sense of it all. Length - 00:49:07 Language - PG-13. (Contains mild adult lan...

Welcome to the first installment of Ka-Pow the Pop Cultured Podcast's new segment "The Crossroads," where we spotlight our favorite crossovers in the history of comic books, television and movies.  We begin with 1970s icons "The Six Million Dollar Man" and its spinoff, "The Bionic Woman."   The fun includes FIVE classic episodes featuring the series' most memorable villain, Bigfoot and before we'r...

Coming at you from a safe distance via Zoom once again, Ka-Pow the Pop Cultured Podcast returns to talk over all the television and movies that have occupied our time during the recent weeks of isolation.  We say goodbye to two beloved comedies, check out some promising new streaming series, dip our toes into the third season of "Westworld," recap recent episodes of "The Walking Dead," give a spoi...

Like the rest of the world, Ka-Pow the Pop Cultured Podcast is practicing social distancing and working from home.  Since Seth still has a job, Jordan and Cliff decided to take Zoom for a test-drive and catch up with our old friend, the Illustrious One, Michael K. Easton, in a casual conversation about the latest output from So Pro Comics , how the world of pop culture has changed so very quickly...

Saying goodbye to Stonewall Prep, Riverdale reveals answers to some of its season-long secrets with Chapter 72 "To Die For" and Chapter 73 "The Locked Room."  Everybody's in on it, and Ka-Pow the Pop Cultured Podcast does our best to sort through the tie pins and bloody rocks to keep track of the many muddled mysteries, even if our yarn-wall makes less and less sense the more threads we decide to...

Your friends at Ka-Pow the Pop Cultured Podcast have gathered together with nothing but a box of ping pong balls and a dream.  The dream is to devise an entirely new segment where we cover our favorite crossovers!  Wherever two or more characters from different properties meet, be they comic book stories, TV episodes or movie franchises, we plan to pick the best and boldest of the bunch to relive...

If you are self-quarantining like us, Ka-Pow the Pop Cultured Podcast has a whole list of recent new television shows we checked out to let you know what's worth your time.  But first, we have anecdotes about an unexpected fender bender, a trip to this year's Classic Plastics Toy Expo and the one Yeah You Know Me question you thought we'd never answer! Length - 01:11:42 Language - PG-13.  (Contain...

Ka-Pow the Pop Cultured Podcast has never had to Justify My Love of Riverdale, so we won't bother to Take A Bow for presenting another set of deep-dive reviews featuring Chapter 69, "Men of Honor," Chapter 70, "The Ides of March" and Chapter 71, "How To Get Away With Murder."  So if you Cherish all the Hanky Panky on this wonderful show, thank your Lucky Star you have a True Blue podcast like us t...

There is currently more worthwhile television airing than any human being could possibly keep up with.  Luckily, Ka-Pow the Pop Cultured Podcast is THREE human beings, so after a fun thought experiment about the perfect sitcom in which to live, we chow down on all the relationship dramas, zombie dramas, crime dramas, historical documentaries, historical comedies, contemporary comedies, musical com...

The comic book world has had a few bombshell announcements over the last few weeks, so we dive in to discuss what it all means in both the short term and in the long view.  Then we recommend some recent new titles worth your time, explore the speculator side of the hobby and welcome our first Gold Level Patron in this sure-to-skyrocket-in-value edition of Ka-Pow the Pop Cultured Podcast! Length -...

In this episode that was definitely not recorded weeks ago during a late night mad dash marathon session to catch up on Riverdale, we break down Chapter 67, "Varsity Blues" and Chapter 68, "Quiz Show."  So whether you tune into this show for the private school pep rally cocktail parties, the cutthroat high school trivia competitions or the competitive tickling, Ka-Pow the Pop Cultured Podcast alwa...

Aloha!  Ka-Pow the Pop Cultured Podcast is back on the beat, bringing you recommendations and reviews from several exciting new releases.  We bookend the show with SPOILER-FREE discussions of the big screen "Birds of Prey" and the bingeable "Locke & Key," but there is plenty in between to enjoy as well, including Oscar surprises, a spinoff of The 'Dale, a McDonald's mystery and much more! Length -...

It's been a while since these fists delivered proper street justice.  It's also been a while since these episodes of Riverdale aired.  But Ka-Pow the Pop Cultured Podcast is ready to kick off our next hundred shows reliving the preposterous proceedings of Chapter 64, "The Ice Storm," Chapter 65, "In Treatment" and Chapter 66, "Tangerine," including deep fried turkeys, cannibal meat pies, poisonous...

Ka-Pow the Pop Cultured Podcast has arrived at another milestone with this, our two hundredth episode!  We enjoyed the "greatest hits" format of #100 so much, we decided to double down and do it again.  So take a trip down memory lane with us, as we relive our favorite moments, musical masterpieces, guest stars and ridiculous voices, while learning the origins of some of our longest-running bits a...

After a longer-than-expected hiatus from The 'Dale, Ka-Pow the Pop Cultured Podcast returns to start catching up on our favorite show.  Season four of Riverdale rolls on with Chapter 61, "Halloween," Chapter 62 "Witness for the Prosecution" and Chapter 63 "Hereditary," featuring Junior FBI agents, prep school bullies, hooded vigilantes, rum kingpins, possessed dolls, eye patches and Frosty Pajamas...