PopStream is your community hub for friendly and meaningful conversations about your favorite pop culture media. Whether you're a comic enthusiast, gamer, binge-watcher, aspiring creator, or all-around certified nerd, the PopStream cast along with expert guests from the community are here to provide their insight, opinions, and plenty of laughs. Your community. Your media. Your PopStream. Catch the video version of each episode at http://bit.ly/popstream-subscribe . PopStream is a production of Pop Culture Classroom. Learn more at popcultureclassroom.org
Award-winning writer and educator Tony Weaver, Jr. and the PopStream Learning Lounge Cast offer practical ways to use anime and manga for education.
Tony Weaver, Jr. works to create diverse stories that make young people feel seen and valued.
After seeing the impact that media stereotypes had on students in his community, Tony embarked on a journey to create new media narratives that would challenge the status quo. He is the CEO of Weird Enough Productions, where he developed The UnCommons, an award winning webcomic with over 800,000 readers.
In 2018, Tony made history as the first comic writer to ever be selected for the Forbes “30 Under 30.” He was named a History Shaker by Coca Cola, a Global Barrier Breaker by Marriott International, and a Champion for Change by CNN.
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Join megastar comics writer Kelly Sue DeConnick (Pretty Deadly, Captain Marvel, Aquaman, and more) as we tackle the topic of rewinding, recreating, and remixing existing stories for comics, movies, and other pop culture.
Join special guest Zack Hartzman of Hey Listen Games and Team PopStream as we discuss how to use video games to promote learning.
Hey Listen Games creates curriculum for teaching with popular video games like Fortnite, Portal 2, Pokémon Go, and more. Zack is also a frequent speaker at video game and comic conventions where he shares how to utilize geek culture as a method of making learning more fun and improving school culture.
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Shawna Potter (author, Making Spaces Safer) joins the PopStream cast to talk about the making fandoms more welcoming, respectful, and fun for everyone!
It’s the first episode of The PopStream Learning Lounge! 2020 National Teacher of the Year Tabatha Rosproy joins Matt, Tajshen, and Pop Culture Classroom super instructor Faith to talk pop culture and social emotional learning. Plus, tabletop gaming for teachers!
Matt talks about Jack "King" Kirby and pop culture history with writers Fred Van Lente and Crystal Skillman. Plus, live drawing with PCC instructors Dion and Terra.
PopStream hosts Matt and Tajshen spoke with Crystal Skillman and Fred Van Lente about their new audio play, King Kirby, in this pre-recorded interview.
King Kirby tells the story of Jack “King Kirby,” the legendary comics artist who helped create Thor, the Fantastic Four, Darkseid and the New Gods, and some of the most popular characters in superhero comics. Kirby also co-created Captain America, who first appeared in Captain America Comics #1 80 years ago this March.
PopStream is returning for Season 2 in April!
The PopStream team creates the OFFICIAL Top 5 Rankings of the best TV, films, and video games of 2020 with the help of the live audience. What will be deemed the very best of this trashfire year? Is Sonic the Hedgehog the best film of 2020? Listen to the cast duke it out, and let us know what we got right or wrong!
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Let’s get cooking! Join Aimee Wood, author of The Unofficial Legend of Zelda Cookbook, her sous chef Walter Silveira, and the PopStream team for a pre-Thanksgiving cooking demo with recipes inspired by the legendary game series.
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From superpowered to super-dysfunctional, comic families are... complicated. Join the PopStream: Comics! cast as we talk families with special guest, local professor, comic creator, and podcaster, R. Alan Brooks.
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Please enjoy this special taste of PopStream's horror-themed event, PopSCREAM! Find more PopSCREAM content at youtube.com/popstream.
Horror meets education in this scary-smart session to kick off PopSCREAM. Featuring academics and educators from across the country, join this panel to learn about what scares us... and why.
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Please enjoy this special taste of PopStream's horror-themed event, PopSCREAM! Find more PopSCREAM content at youtube.com/popstream.
We're taking you back -- way back -- to Halloween week 1990 in this panel with stand-up comedian and podcaster, Ken Reid. We'll talk with Ken about his unique podcast, TV Guidance Counselor, and dive into a terrifying issue of TV Guide from October 27, 1990.
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Matt is joined by Jon Young of Denver's own Level 7 Games to revisit DPCC 2019's panel celebrating the 130th birthday of Nintendo! Test your knowledge of the House of Mario's history and strap in as presenters from Denver Public Library take us down the warp pipe of Nintendo's rich history.
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The PopStream: A/V Club Cast chats about The Walking Dead, It, and other horror adaptations in film, TV, and video games, with special guest Mikayla Daniels (@PaleAlaskan).
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Light up your cosplay with props that glow. Designer and costumesmith Magnus Rose and the PopStream team show you how on this month’s episode of the PopStream Workshop.
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The PopStream: Comics! cast is back for Episode 2! We're embracing the Halloween season and talking about some of our favorite horror comics: Sandman, and Locke & Key. The cast is joined by Wayne Winsett, owner of Time Warp Comics and Games in Boulder, CO.
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Join the PopStream Team for our first episode of Denver Pop Culture Con Flashback - The Science of Wakanda! Black Panther has shattered box office records and spurred discussion about the power of representation in popular culture. Although vibranium may be fictional, there are real physical science, social sciences, and humanities twists behind the world of Wakanda as depicted in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Join Dr. Ella Maria Ray, professor of Africana Studies at Metropolitan State University of Denver, and Dr. Ka Chun Yu, curator of space science at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science for a panel discussion about the physical and social sciences behind the most culturally significant blockbuster film of 2018. Wakanda forever!
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Join the PopStream: A/V Club Cast + special guest Dr. Christina Angel, DPCC Director and English Professor at MSU Denver, as we discuss the Amazon series The Boys, and the comic series by Garth Ennis + Darrick Roberts that’s the basis for the show. Amazon’s adaptation may not be everyone, but it raises important questions about how we view heroes in our culture.
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PopStream's second rotating show, The PopStream Workshop, kicks things off with featured guest Dustin Resch as he walks us through the inception of his own unconventional superhero, Spellcaster. Then, we create something brand-new using suggestions from our live viewers!
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Meet the cast of PopStream's once-monthly show all about comics, and join us as we dissect The Umbrella Academy comic series by Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá.