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4 days ago
Going on 30: 6th Annual Golden Poppers
4 days ago
4 days ago
It's a holiday tradition like no other when Betsy and Greg welcome special guest Emily Carmody onto the show to crown the best movies from 30 years ago. Hear us chat about the films of 1994 while handing out fake trophies on behalf of our audience votes. What was your favorite movie from 30 years ago? Let us know at [email protected] or send us your top 10 list on socials
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Monday Dec 08, 2025
Under the Stole: The Carpenter's Son/Rebuilding
Monday Dec 08, 2025
Monday Dec 08, 2025
It's another two for one deal on Under the Stole this month. We've got two interviews with some up and coming young directors. First, we talk to Lotfy Nathan about his apocryphal horror story THE CARPENTER'S SON starring Nicholas Cage and Noah Jupe. We follow that up with a completely different type of film, Max Walker-Silverman's REBUILDING, a beautiful reflection on life and loss starring Josh O'Connor. What movies are you checking out at the end of the year? Let us know at [email protected] or send us your favorite 2025 movie recommendations on socials
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Monday Dec 01, 2025
Best of 2025
Monday Dec 01, 2025
Monday Dec 01, 2025
We have made it through another year and your favorite Popping Collars Podcast hosts are reminiscing on the year that was. See what we've chosen as our best pop culture items of 2025. What was your favorite piece of pop this year? Tell us at [email protected] or drop us a line on socials.
Check out the good folks at Cocktail Theology
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Monday Nov 24, 2025
PC Pilgrimage Project: Camino Semester Program
Monday Nov 24, 2025
Monday Nov 24, 2025
We've got a very special interview for this month's PC Pilgrimage Project. Greg and Ryan welcome Doug and Laurie Challenger, the organizers of the Franklin Pierce University Camino Semester Program. Every other year, Doug and Laurie take a group of college students on the Camino Frances for a Fall semester like no other. Students learn the values of pilgrimage life and the impact that it can have on the world around them. What was the most life-changing experience you had in college? Let us know at [email protected] or send it to us on socials.
Check out Doug and Laurie's documentary PERPETUAL JOURNEY
You can see if you can find a copy of The Walk of the Conscious Ants
You can definitely find a copy of Pilgrim Stories by Nancy Frey
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Monday Nov 17, 2025
Going on 30: The Shawshank Redemption
Monday Nov 17, 2025
Monday Nov 17, 2025
Salvation lies within...this podcast, as Betsy and Greg discuss the TNT channel classic, THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION. What is your favorite prison escape movie? Let us know at [email protected] or drop us a line on socials
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Monday Nov 10, 2025
Under the Stole: Last Days/Mr. Scorsese
Monday Nov 10, 2025
Monday Nov 10, 2025
We've got a buy one get one free deal on interviews this month! First, Greg sits down with Justin Lin, the director of the film LAST DAYS, the story of Christian missionary John Chau and his doomed journey to North Sentinel Island. Greg then follows that up with an interview with Rebecca Miller who has a new documentary on Apple TV called MR. SCORSESE. Hear her thoughts on the man behind some of the greatest films of all time. Who should we talk to next? Let us know at [email protected] or send us a note on socials
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Monday Nov 03, 2025
Take 2: Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
Monday Nov 03, 2025
Monday Nov 03, 2025
Where have you gone, Fred Rogers? Our nation turns its lonely eyes to you. On this look back into the Popping Collars archives, Greg welcomes special guests Tony Jones, Richard Lindsay, and Ryan Parker to discuss the legacy of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood and its impact on a generation of children. Do you think the age of American civility is over? Send us your feedback at [email protected] or wade through the muck of social media and dare to post a *gasp* positive comment.
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Monday Oct 27, 2025
PC Pilgrimage Project: To God or Not to God
Monday Oct 27, 2025
Monday Oct 27, 2025
Greg and Ryan have been talking around this topic for almost a year now and it's time to take it head on. Does the Camino de Santiago have to be a spiritual journey or can it be a perfectly fine non-religious experience? Find out where we fall on this question and let us know what you think at [email protected] or by posting on our socials.
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Monday Oct 20, 2025
Going on 30: Reality Bites
Monday Oct 20, 2025
Monday Oct 20, 2025
This month, Betsy and Greg decide to break out some flannel, part their hair down the center and fire up some MTV on the tube while they chat about REALITY BITES, the darling of the Generation X defining movies. Does it still hold up thirty years later or have your favorite disaffected hosts become [gasp] sellouts? Find out on this month's episode. Also, let us know what kind of slacker you were back in the day by emailing us at [email protected] or hit us up on socials
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Monday Oct 13, 2025
Under the Stole: Fear Not!
Monday Oct 13, 2025
Monday Oct 13, 2025
It's spooky season and Greg is celebrating by welcoming film critic, Josh Larsen, on the show to discuss his book Fear Not!: A Christian Appreciation of Horror Movies. Josh dives into various subgenres of horror films in order to discover what we're actually afraid of when we scream at the zombies, monsters, and ghosts on the screen and where we can learn to find the breadcrumbs of hope hidden in the terror. What's your favorite movie to watch in the Halloween season? Let us know at [email protected] or send us a title on socials
Listen to Josh on his FABULOUS podcast, Filmspotting
Find Josh's reviews and more at Larsen On Film
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