Messy pop-culture talk with useful rants.
Comes Naturally runs on relaxed, messy enthusiasm for movies, TV, games, books, and whatever daily annoyance showed up first. A trailer, cookbook, game mechanic, or cable-management problem can all become the main event if it gives the speakers something to pick apart.
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Comes Naturally is a long-running pop-culture hangout with the bolts visible. It does not race toward a take. It lets the speakers warm up through audio checks, half-finished updates, cookbook discoveries, stray errands, and whatever link one of them sent earlier, then follows the conversation wherever the annoyance or curiosity is strongest. That can mean Ryan Coogler being tied to nostalgic reboots, Animorphs ghostwriters, X-Files revival talk, or a horror movie cutting down an especially graphic scene to avoid a harsher rating. It can also mean pancakes. The show is comfortable letting a Betty Crocker recipe sit beside a Jack Ryan trailer, a Spider-Man reaction, Pokemon house-building mechanics, High on Life 2, and a Snake Plissken legacy sequel idea. Short verdicts arrive after long routes. The speakers care about mechanics, not just opinions: how a game asks Ditto to use Pokemon-like abilities, why a habitat makes a creature sad when the rain puts out its fires, how a trailer compresses a season's worth of car chases and explosions into action shorthand. That practical nerdiness gives the show its texture. It is casual, blunt, and digressive, with a lot of room for mid-thought corrections and tiny fact checks. The humor often comes from taking a ridiculous premise seriously for one extra minute. A made-up Animorphs ghostwriter name gets treated like a usable publishing strategy. A Snake Plissken successor needs a code name that is generic enough to work. A protein-bar collaboration becomes worth pausing over because it is simply weird. Comes Naturally suits listeners who like their movie and game talk conversational rather than packaged, especially when the fun is in the meander more than the conclusion. The show can be rough-edged and ad-interrupted in the available excerpts, and the banter is often more barstool argument than review desk. That looseness is the identity. It feels less like a pop-culture briefing and more like overhearing friends who have spent years building the same shared reference shelf, then watching them pull down the strangest item first.
Made for: Best for listeners who enjoy relaxed geek-culture conversations about movies, TV, games, books, and everyday annoyances. It especially fits people who like tangents, specific complaints, and informal back-and-forth more than tidy review segments.
What sets it apart: Comes Naturally stands out by letting ordinary details and pop-culture news share the same weight. A trailer, recipe, game mechanic, or cable problem can all become worth a full, funny autopsy.
A Pulp Culture podcast created by 3 friends that love Movies, TV Shows, Comics, Books and Video Games. Plus a special guest or two join the conversation.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Joe and Cody turn informal pop-culture conversation into specific questions about adaptations, franchise choices, game mechanics, and fictional world-building.
Comes Naturally treats fiction as something to argue over after the credits roll or the controller goes down. Joe and Cody move freely among books, television, film, anime, and games, testing adaptations and franchise decisions through familiar conversation rather than formal…
NASA's moon tracker winds up beside fluffy eggs, and your tangent tolerance finally feels like a gift.
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A loose Animorphs discussion turns shaky franchise news into a funny look at who actually makes familiar stories.
Comes Naturally takes a doubtful report about a possible new Animorphs television series and turns it into a wider look at nostalgia, adaptation, and the people who shape familiar stories from behind the scenes.
Cowboy Bebop praise, Pokemon housing rules, and a cable problem that keeps hanging on.
The episode settles into a loose, lived-in groove as Comes Naturally moves from a quick rundown of four 1990s anime that still hold up into Cowboy Bebop, Pokemon habitat rules, and a cable problem that only appears once everything is already installed.
A sequel riff that turns studio talk into a sharp naming problem.
The episode opens with Skydance/Paramount and the question of why the deal mattered so much, then shifts into what a new Escape from something project would have to do to earn its place.
A shaggy game chat that keeps landing on the odd little mechanics.
Comes Naturally spends most of its time on how a Nintendo game handles online islands, especially the shareable space where other players can visit, help, and customize without carrying their own progress over.
A preorder, a sale, and a very big book turn into a loose, bookish gamble.
The episode follows a very big book that turned a preorder into a small gamble, then moves through Audible, the in-store copy, and the relief of finding out it is very fun after all.
A loose, memory-driven conversation about pop-culture saturation and cautious hope for a Mike Flanagan adaptation.
This Comes Naturally episode starts with a question about whether a pop-culture phenomenon can really happen again, then uses that question to test what cultural reach feels like in ordinary life.
A loose cookbook to Artemis conversation that keeps turning tangents into the point.
The episode shifts from cookbook talk to NASA's Artemis tracker to a house-number tangent, and Joe and Cody keep it all moving with the same easy back-and-forth.
Serialized pulp radio drama: Red Panda battles android-army supervillain Captain Clockwork in 1930s Toronto.
Mike Muncer and a different guest dissect two horror films per episode, by subgenre.
Joe Lipsett and Trace Thurman find queer subtext in everything from Anaconda to The Mummy.
Morning starts sideways.
It starts with pancakes.
This episode discusses NBA playoffs betting on Calshi, promotes SertaPro Painters, and briefly mentions Al Pacino movies and streaming issues.
The host shares a personal story about mistakenly thinking they updated to iOS 26, only to realize they needed to manually trigger the update in settings.
The hosts react to Microsoft's restructuring, which moves development of the next Halo to an Activision team, and worry it could follow Call of Duty's shift toward multiplayer.
The hosts question the $300 Breville IQ toaster, which uses an optical sensor to judge toast doneness.
The Ocarina of Time remake adds a jump button and free swimming, changes the hosts connect to traversal and underwater rupees.
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The hosts have a casual conversation about reading a Betty Crocker cookbook, discussing pancake and scrambled egg recipes, including tips like using water or milk for fluffy eggs.
The hosts discuss the trailer for the Jack Ryan movie 'Ghost War', analyzing how the character has evolved from a desk-bound analyst in the novels to a full-blown action hero in modern adaptations.
The hosts discuss audio recording issues and mention a Spider-Man trailer and Queen Bee Coffee.
The hosts discuss a horror movie called Obsession and its director Curry Baker cutting gory head smash scenes to avoid an NC-17 rating.
Joe and Cody kick around four 1990s anime that still hold up.
The conversation opens on Skydance/Paramount.
The conversation starts loose and stays that way.
The host opens on a big book.
This episode features advertisements for AlmaSed weight loss shakes and Direct Federal Credit Union savings accounts, followed by a casual conversation about morning routines and sleeping in.
This episode discusses the concept of 'millennial paws' in social media video editing while promoting Ben & Jerry's new Cookie Dough Ice Cream Sandwich.
The hosts discuss technical issues with accessing Apple News articles due to outdated macOS and explore solutions like creating a virtual machine on an AMD system.