Episodes

Sunday Jan 17, 2021
Sunday Jan 17, 2021
It’s the world’s biggest technology showcase...online! That’s right, the yearly event abbreviated simply to CES (Consumer Electronics Show) has gone virtual, and our own Herman Exum and Nate Evans are joined by frequent (and favorite!) guest Ben Crossman from Computer America to talk, discuss, and ponder the long-running tradeshow’s first (and hopefully only) foray into a virtual-only space and what tech hungry fans can expect from the future of gizmos, gadgets and doodads.

Thursday Jan 14, 2021
Movie Time! American Wasteland: Nomadland (2020) and Ghostbox Cowboy (2018)
Thursday Jan 14, 2021
Thursday Jan 14, 2021
It’s Popzara’s Movie Time! Podcast!, where our own movie nerds Nathan Evans and Ethan Brehm take you on an unscripted journey yakking and chatting about some of their favorite movie moments and cinematic scenes, from past and present, presented without snark and snobbery for your listening pleasure. Let’s begin!

Wednesday Jan 13, 2021
The State of Gaming: The Best, Worst (and Everything Else) Games of 2020
Wednesday Jan 13, 2021
Wednesday Jan 13, 2021
It’s The State of Gaming Podcast…for the year of 2020! And what a year it was, especially when it comes to gaming. On this special year-end recap episode our usual hosts Cory Galliher and Nate Evans are joined by special guest Antal Bokor (from 3rd Coast Review) to talk and discuss the best, worst, and everything else that helped make gaming in 2020 the distraction we all desperately needed. Let’s get to it!

Monday Dec 28, 2020
Monday Dec 28, 2020
It’s Popzara’s Movie Time! Podcast!, where our own movie nerds Nathan Evans and Ethan Brehm take you on an unscripted journey yakking and chatting about some of their favorite movie moments and cinematic scenes, from past and present. All presented without snark and snobbery for your listening pleasure. Let’s begin!

Monday Dec 21, 2020
Monday Dec 21, 2020
It’s The State of Gaming Podcast for November 2020, Popzara’s in-depth look at what’s shaking up the gaming landscape delivered on a monthly basis. Our hosts Cory Galliher and Nate Evans guide you through the best, worst, and everything else making headlines and headway in the fine world of interactive entertainment.

Monday Dec 14, 2020
Monday Dec 14, 2020
It’s the inaugural episode of Popzara’s Movie Time! Podcast! That’s a lot of exclamation points, but we’ve got lots to talk about as movie nerds Nathan Evans and Ethan Brehm take you on a cinematic journey about some of their favorite movie moments without the snark.

Tuesday Nov 17, 2020
Tuesday Nov 17, 2020
It’s The State of Gaming Podcast for November 2020, Popzara’s in-depth look at what’s shaking up the gaming landscape delivered on a monthly basis. Our hosts Cory Galliher and Nate Evans guide you through the best, worst, and everything else making headlines and headway in the world of interactive entertainment.

Saturday Oct 24, 2020
Professor Gad Saad Talks The Parasitic Mind and the Virality of Stupid Ideas
Saturday Oct 24, 2020
Saturday Oct 24, 2020
Our guest today on this highly infectious episode of the Popzara Podcast is Professor Gad Saad, evolutionary psychologist, public intellectual, host of the popular YouTube Channel “The Saad Truth”, blogger, and author of many books, including The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense, his continuing exploration of another kind of parasitic virus consuming our culture, one more dangerous than the coronavirus and with more disastrous repercussions for our civilization.

Tuesday Oct 20, 2020
Tuesday Oct 20, 2020
It’s The State of Gaming Podcast for August 2020, Popzara’s in-depth look at what’s shaking up the gaming landscape delivered on a monthly basis. Our hosts Cory Galliher and Nate Evans guide you through the best, worst, and everything else that’s making headlines and headway in the fine world of interactive entertainment. October 2020 may be something of a slow month, but the tide is always lowest before the inevitable tsunami hits, and our hosts do their best not to get swept up in the gaming goodness. Let’s get to it!

Saturday Sep 19, 2020
Saturday Sep 19, 2020
It’s The State of Gaming Podcast for August 2020, Popzara’s in-depth look at what’s shaking up the gaming landscape delivered on a monthly basis. Our hosts Cory Galliher and Nate Evans guide you through the best, worst, and everything else that's making headlines and headway in the fine world of interactive entertainment. Change is in the air, especially as summer turns to fall, and with two giant hardware releases on the horizon fans can expect one heck of a transition. Let's get to it!

Monday Aug 24, 2020
Monday Aug 24, 2020
It’s The State of Gaming Podcast for August 2020, the final episode of Popzara’s in-depth look at what’s shaking up the gaming landscape delivered on a monthly basis. Listen as our hosts Cory Galliher and Nate Evans guide you through the best, worst, and everything else making headlines and headway in the fine world of interactive entertainment. There’s nothing else quite like it anywhere else - so let’s get to it!

Wednesday Aug 12, 2020
Cartoonist R. Sikoryak Talks Comic Parodies and Constitution Illustrated
Wednesday Aug 12, 2020
Wednesday Aug 12, 2020
Our guest on this illustrative episode of the Popzara Podcast is cartoonist R. Sikoryak, whose work has appeared everywhere from The New Yorker, GQ, MAD Magazine, and The Daily Show, creator of best-sellers Masterpiece Comics and iTunes Terms and Conditions: The Graphic Novel, here to talk about his latest creation: Constitution Illustrated, now available from Drawn & Quarterly. Joining him is our own comics fan Nathan Evans, whose yet to publish any best-selling anything, but has been known to read a few from time to time.

Thursday Jul 23, 2020
Composer Ilan Eshkeri Talks Ghost of Tsushima and Creating Great Music
Thursday Jul 23, 2020
Thursday Jul 23, 2020
On this dulcet episode of the Popzara Podcast our own lowly Nathan Evans talks with Ilan Eshkeri, an award-winning composer whose music has filled concert halls, cinemas, television and, increasingly, gaming headsets, thanks in particular to his work helping compose the soundtrack (with Shigeru Umebayashi) to Ghost of Tsushima, the new historical action-RPG game from Sucker Punch Studios.

Monday Jul 20, 2020
Monday Jul 20, 2020
It’s The State of Gaming Podcast for July 2020, our in-depth monthly look – and listen – to what’s moving hearts and minds in the land of gaming in audio form. So let the soothing sounds of hosts Cory Galliher and Nate Evans take you to that happy little place where the games speak for themselves – and the hosts speak for the games. It’s a vicious cycle, but we do our best. Let’s get to it!

Saturday Jun 20, 2020
Saturday Jun 20, 2020
It’s summertime and the living is easy… well, maybe not that easy, but thanks to the State of Gaming Podcast for June 2020, it’s a little bit easier. And because we’re entering the hot and sweaty summer of an industry without its usual bevvy of distracting tradeshows and broken promises that means sequels, super (new) consoles, and plenty of discounted gaming goodies worth taking a second look at while the gettin’ is good.
In short: it’s gaming back to what it used to mean – gaming – and our intrepid hosts Cory Galliher and Nate Evans are here to help sort through it all. Let’s get to it!