Tag: podcast
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New “Serious Fun” Illuminates the Dark Side of Pop Culture Villains
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Baddies! Miscreants! Ne’er-do-wells! Whatever you call them, where would pop culture be without villains? In this final installment of three live episodes recorded at Brown County Library Pop Con, Bryan Carr sits down with Drs. Jaye Case, Clif Ganyard, and Justin Kavlie to discuss all things villainy. What makes a good villain? What do villains…
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New “Serious Fun” Gets in the Ring with HWE Wrestlers
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It’s another high-flying episode of Serious Fun, live from the 2025 Brown County Library Pop Con! In the first-ever “Wrestler Wroundtable”, Dr. Bryan Carr (COMM, ITADS, WGSS) is joined by four pro wrestlers from local promotion Hybrid Wrestling Entertainment – Josie “Ice Box” Valentine, “Marvelous” Ethen Matthews, Sam Eli and Kujo “The Mad Dog Of…
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New “Serious Fun” Talks Life and Cartoons with Lucy Knisley
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In the first of three live Serious Fun broadcasts from the 2025 Brown County Library Pop Con, bestselling cartoonist and author behind books like Woe: A Housecat’s Story of Despair, Relish: My Life in the Kitchen, and the latest in her Peapod Farms series Sugar Shack Lucy Knisley sits down with Dr. Bryan Carr (COMM/ITADS/WGSS)…
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New “Serious Fun” Covers The History of Video Game Football
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It’s NFL Draft week and that means football is on the collective mind here in Green Bay – so what better time to talk about the history of video game football and the role it’s played in the popular presentation and consciousness of the sport? As part of the Brown County Library’s Football Fan-O-Rama, Dr.…
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New “Serious Fun” Talks Indie Wrestling With HWE General Manager TJ Bowles
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Independent pro wrestling is an experience that is part sports spectacle, part collaborative community theater, and wholly unique. This week on Serious Fun, Dr. Bryan Carr (COMM/ITADS) sits down with TJ Bowles, long-time pro wrestling referee and General Manager of the Green Bay-based independent promotion Hybrid Wrestling Entertainment, to talk about what goes into a…
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New Serious Fun talks Steve Ditko with Dr. Zack Kruse
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The first episode of a brand new era for Serious Fun, now under the banner of Good CAHSS Productions, is available for your consideration! Steve Ditko is one of the most important comics creators of all time, having co-created enduring characters like Spider-Man, Doctor Strange, and The Question, but he is also one of the…
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Professor Rebecca Meacham discusses literary theft and its consequences on “Missing Pages” podcast
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Dr. Rebecca Meacham, Professor of English and Writing and Applied Arts, was a guest on Missing Pages, an investigative podcast about controversies in the publishing industry. In the episode, “The Bad Art Friend Saga,” Meacham discusses the ethics of incorporating other people’s life experiences into fictional stories. Meacham previously discussed confronting the real-life subjects who inspired her writing…