Episodes

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!

Monday Jun 01, 2020
Commentator Paul “ReDeYe” Chaloner Talks Esports and Why They Matter
Monday Jun 01, 2020
Monday Jun 01, 2020
Joining our own noob Nathan Evans on this fragalicious episode of the Popzara Podcast is legendary Esports commentator and occasional Unreal Tournament trash-talker Paul Chaloner, better known to gaming enthusiasts around the world as ReDeYe, author (with journalist Benjamin Sillis) of the new book This Is ESPORTS (And How To Spell It): An Insider’s Guide to the World of Pro Gaming, now available for your buying pleasure.

Thursday May 21, 2020
Thursday May 21, 2020
It’s a highly melodic episode of The State of Gaming Podcast for May 2020 – which can only mean one thing: game music! Our jam this month is all about the return of acclaimed gaming musician Yuzo Koshiro to the genre he does best and the game wrapped around it. Assisting in this booty-thumping boogy are none other than hosts Cory Galliher and Nathan Evans, greased up and ready to take things back to the streets. The streets of gaming, that is.

Wednesday May 06, 2020
Filmmaker Shawn Cauthen Talks Netflix vs. The World
Wednesday May 06, 2020
Wednesday May 06, 2020
Our guest on this buffering episode of the Popzara Podcast is filmmaker Shawn Cauthen, joining our own content binger Nathan Evans, here to talk about his new documentary Netflix vs. The World. Based on Gina Keating’s 2012 book “Netflixed: The Epic Battle for America’s Eyeballs”, the film chronicles the streaming giant’s transformation from its founding in 1997 as a scrappy online DVD disc purveyor to the world-conquering mega media corporation that its since become.

Wednesday Apr 22, 2020
Wednesday Apr 22, 2020
It’s another episode of The State of Gaming, our ever-expanding new series dedicated to what’s shaking up the gaming industry on a monthly basis. And that month for today’s episode happens to be April 2020, and our socially-distanced hosts Cory Galliher and Nate Evans are ready and willing to tackle everything a partially shut-down industry has to offer.

Friday Mar 27, 2020
Friday Mar 27, 2020
That’s right: it’s the second episode of The State of Gaming, the new episodic podcast from your friendly neighborhood Popzara Pals. Editors Cory Galliher and Nate Evans are back to keep you updated about everything that’s fresh and happening inside the gaming industry from an inside and colorful perspective as only they can.

Friday Mar 20, 2020
The Best Games + Movies for Surviving The Quarantine Blues
Friday Mar 20, 2020
Friday Mar 20, 2020
Stuck at home with no place else to go? You’re not alone. On this restrained episode of the Popzara Podcast join Nathan Evans, Cory Galliher and Ethan Brehm dig deep into their collective backlogs and favorites to compile a comprehensive list of the best games and movies worth playing and watching to help battle the quarantine blues. Also, get ready for a bit of much-needed silliness and frivolity as the guys completely lose control and go with the flow.