Episodes

Dave opens with a story about growing up watching his mom compete, and why a single mom showing up to tryouts with her kid on her hip hit differently than expected. From there, he and Cody get into the barriers to women's sports that never show up in a spreadsheet, whether a report can account for the people it's measuring, and Roy's two very different attempts at being helpful. Also on the table: why Rebecca's boyfriend storyline keeps getting played for laughs when it clearly isn't a joke, w...

School's back in session, so Dave, Cody, &Jackson are drafting the best fictional teachers in pop culture. One rule — they've got to actually be on the school's payroll. No swamp mentors, no karate handymen. Plus bonus rounds for best fictional school and best non-teaching school employee, real-life favorite teacher shout-outs, and a look at the highest-grossing movies ever set in a classroom. Also: Jerry Bruckheimer says Pirates of the Caribbean 6 is happening, and we have questions.

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 ...

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 ge...

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. A...

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 wor...

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 ...

You're killing me, Smalls. This week on a Be Kind Rewind, Dave, Cody, & Paul Walcher head back to the summer of 1962 for The Sandlot (1993), a movie that flopped with critics and became a multigenerational classic anyway. We get into what holds up (the Ray Charles fireworks scene, Ham roasting an entire lineup of batters, the ensemble of kid actors who genuinely became friends), what doesn't (the pool scene, and yes we talk about it honestly), and the behind-the-scenes stuff you might not know....

Dave & Cody are joined by film professor Paul to review Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey, which just posted the biggest live-action opening of 2026 and the best reviews of Nolan's career. The table digs into Ludwig Göransson's score, the IMAX cinematography, the 60-foot Cyclops puppet, Robert Pattinson's genuinely repulsive heel turn, and John Leguizamo's surprise best-in-career performance. Dave makes the case that softening Odysseus's hubris costs the third act its humility, and lays out a Pas...

We're in a tight spot. This week on Be Kind Rewind, Dave & Cody dig into the Coen Brothers' O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), the Depression-era chain gang comedy that's (not so) secretly Homer's Odyssey and accidentally revived an entire genre of American music. We break down what holds up (this is George Clooney's coming out party), the murderer's row of character actors, Roger Deakins making Mississippi look like a sepia dream, and a soundtrack that won Album of the Year at the Grammys as a...

What makes a great Fourth of July movie? We take Cosmopolitan’s Top 15, load up the full ListBusters arsenal, and proceed to absolutely wreck it. Movies get nuked, sniped, recast, rocketed, and switched as War Horse falls fast, movies you've never heard of somehow reach #1, National Treasure becomes collateral damage, and Rocky IV fights its way into the final rankings. Plus, bonus chaos: more Toxic Moms drama and another round of The Movie Game. https://linktr.ee/PopCulturePastorPod

Dave is back from Maine (a.k.a. real-life Fromville) just in time for the Season 4 finale. Dave and Cody break down "If a Tree Falls in the Forest…" AKA the biggest bloodbath the show has served up in ages. Jade confesses he lied about the bones. The bottle tree comes down and the sky goes dark. Smiley walks into the clinic and takes Marielle. Fatima reveals her secret. Can Henry pull the trigger on Victor? Will Elgin make a deal with The Sophia In Yellow? Plus a Fromspiracy on the Book of Job...

SPOILERS!!!! Dave's just back from vacation in Maine, so he and Cody recorded this one as an unedited, free-flowing conversation. They review Supergirl, the second film in James Gunn's rebooted DCU. They dig into Milly Alcock carrying the movie almost single-handedly, the grief and trauma (and Krypto violence) at the story's core, the choices with the ending, the literally-too-dark visuals, and Lobo as a wasted character. Plus a callback to Cody's earlier hot take on the pre-release backlash,...

Dave's on vacation, so Cody takes the wheel with a very special guest co-host: his wife Leah. Together they break down "The Calm," the penultimate episode of From Season 4. Sophia recruits Clara with a blood pact and a promise of going home. We learn the escape isn't just about getting the bones, it's about the ritual and doing it exactly right. Henry's coma-dream tightens its grip as Victor begs him to cut the anchor. Victor gets handcuffed for trying to save everyone. Fatima drinks Clara's ta...

Hulk Hogan spent so long being Hulk Hogan that the man underneath, Terry Bollea, may have disappeared entirely. We watched the Netflix documentary "Hulk Hogan: Real American," his final interview before his death, and Dave, Cody, & DJ Dangerfield dig into all of it. What do we sacrifice to be famous? Was anything ever bigger than Hulkamania at its peak? Why did he lie about the steroids when the truth would have set him free? We talk kayfabe in wrestling, in the church, and in our politics, an...

Dave & Cody break down "Heavy Is the Head," the eighth episode of From Season 4... Boyd's tremors and hallucinations are spiraling and he finally confesses the truth to Kristi. Henry sinks deeper into his coma-dream, complete with a doctor telling him to "remove the anchor." Jade realizes the bottle tree grows right on top of the bone chamber and pitches a two-team extraction plan. And in a closing scene for the ages, the Man in Yellow lures Tabitha to the RV, decorates it with Ethan's stolen d...

Dave & Cody bring back Kiefer, a college debate coach and cinephile, to review Disclosure Day, the new original Spielberg alien movie. The vintage Spielberg machine is back together: John Williams on score, Janusz Kamiński shooting, David Koepp writing, Michael Kahn editing. Dave makes the case that the whole movie is tuned to a frequency Gen X kids hear and millennials might not. The table digs into Emily Blunt's career-best performance, a possibly divisive ending, the government-competence lo...

The truth is finally out, and it goes about as well as you'd expect. Dave and Cody break down "Best Laid Plans," the seventh episode of From Season 4. Boyd and Tabitha tell the town about the reincarnations. Henry, full of Sophia's blood, rejects all of it. Boyd's plan to test the totem spear on the creatures goes catastrophically sideways. And Elgin — sweet, one-eyed, busted-handed Elgin — grabs a totem spear and saves Colony House. Plus a Fromspiracy connecting Abby's "it's all a dream" line...

Dave & Cody bring back 80's kid, Lance Burnett, to review Masters of the Universe, the new live-action He-Man movie 39 years in the making. The three of them split hard on this one. Dave had fun with it, Cody calls it a misfire, and Lance lands somewhere in between. They dig into the camp, the nostalgia, the sword swerve, Jared Leto's hard-to-understand Skeletor, and the thin handling of Prince Adam's missing years on Earth. Dave breaks down the full Mattel Cinematic Universe slate, all 16 proj...

The Memorial Day break is over and the band is getting back together. Dave and Cody dig into "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter" — the sixth episode of From Season 4. Jade and Boyd argue their way through the entire first act. Donna has a heart attack at the most suspicious possible moment. Sophia cuts open her own hand and slips her blood into Henry's drink. Ethan and Victor draw their monsters side by side. The team finally starts sharing information with each other (only took three and a half sea...

By the power of Grayskull, we made a huge mistake. This week on Be Kind Rewind, Dave, Cody, & Paul Walcher revisit 1987's Masters of the Universe — the flop that took down an entire movie studio. We dig into what holds up (Frank Langella performing Shakespeare under a skull mask, Dolph Lundgren as a walking action figure, James Tolkan from Back to the Future as a hardboiled detective who somehow ends up an honorary Master of the Universe), what doesn't (no Battle Cat, no Orko, no Prince Adam, n...

Dave & Cody bring in Star Wars superfan (and middle school choir teacher) Lance Burnett to review The Mandalorian & Grogu Is it a real movie or just a really long episode of the show? Dave makes the case that it's the franchise's "Temple of Doom moment," Cody goes after the critics, and Lance drops deep-cut lore that'll make you want to watch it again. Plus: the music, that Scorsese cameo, a Hutt voice that needed fixing, a Pastor's Corner on "The Way" and what a creed actually produces. Stick...

Strap in, because Jade is finally going on a trip. Dave & Cody break down "What a Long Strange Trip It's Been," the fifth episode of From Season 4 and the one that finally starts handing over answers. Jade's vision quest takes him through his own past lives and into the tunnels under Fromville, and he comes back convinced he knows how to save the children. Tabitha taps into her ancestral memory to fight off a horde of nightmare Raggedy Ann dolls. Henry hits rock bottom at the Colony House organ...

"No, I am your father." This week on the pod, its a Be Kind Rewind! Dave & Cody revisit The Empire Strikes Back (1980) — the movie that turns 46 this year and might still be the greatest sequel ever made. We dig into what holds up (everything — the tone, Yoda, the carbonite scene, Harrison Ford ad-libbing the most iconic line in film history), what doesn't (Leia kissing Luke is a problem, and we need to talk about it), and the sincerity in this movie that almost nothing made today can replicate...