Episode 174: ChatGTP and Deepfake—Tech and Trust, plus Got Questions? YouTube Channel
March 23, 2023
Episode 173: And the Oscar Goes To ... plus Southern Gospel
March 16, 2023
Episode 172: The 2023 Plugged In Movie Awards
March 9, 2023
Episode 171: The Thorn plus Creed III
March 2, 2023
Episode 170: A Look at Jesus Revolution
February 23, 2023
Episode 169: The Music Episode & Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
February 16, 2023
Episode 168: Screens, Teens & Consumerism plus Miley Cyrus’s Flowers
February 9, 2023
Episode 167: Plugged In Movie Award Misses & Granger Smith
February 2, 2023
Episode 166: Plugged In Movie Award Nominations & Left Behind: Rise of the Antichrist
January 26, 2023
Episode 165: What James Cameron Knows About the Human Heart & What’s Coming in 2023
January 19, 2023
Episode 164: What Is Kidulting? Good or Bad? Plus, Star Wars: The Bad Batch, Season 2
January 12, 2023
Episode 163: The State of Social Media 2023 Plus Women Talking
January 5, 2023
Episode 162: Holiday Fun Roundup & Netflix’s Wednesday
December 29, 2022
Episode 161: What Makes a Christmas Movie ‘Classic’?
December 22, 2022
Episode 160: Lurching Toward Transcendence & Avatar: The Way Water
December 15, 2022
Episode 159: Tech and Teen Motivation & Enola Holmes 2
December 8, 2022
Episode 158: The Wingfeather Saga and Disney+'s Willow
December 1, 2022
Episode 157: Plugged In Thanksgiving Special and A Look at Minno
November 24, 2022
Episode 156: Entertainment Conversation Starters and A Chat with Gloria Gaynor
November 17, 2022
Episode 155: Black Panther: Wakanda Forever & Taylor Swift
November 10, 2022
Episode 154: Adventures in Odyssey and Family-Friendly Video Games
November 3, 2022
Episode 153: Should We Just Forget About Screen Time Limits? plus Black Adam
October 27, 2022
Episode 152: Monster Movies for Kids? and A Conversation with David A.R. White
October 20, 2022
Episode 151: What Is a Worldview & Sam Smith’s “Unholy”
October 13, 2022
Episode 149: Blonde, Heartbreak High and Andor
October 6, 2022
Episode 149: Blonde, Heartbreak High and Andor
September 29, 2022
Episode 148: Pinocchio Reloaded & Sandman
September 22, 2022
Episode 147: Scripture & Entertainment, Plus: Eminem’s Conversion?
September 15, 2022
Episode 146: Amazon's Lord of the Rings and HBO's House of Dragon, plus Disney+'s Hamster & Gretel
September 8, 2022
Episode 145: The Kendrick Brothers, Kirk Cameron and Lifemark, plus She-Hulk
September 1, 2022
Episode 144: When Super Heroes Take a Break From Social Media & Secret Headquarters
August 25, 2022
Episode 143: Your Kid & YouTube Plus Out of My Heart
August 18, 2022
Episode 142: A Conversation With Parents Television and Media Council’s Melissa Henson, and Strong F
August 11, 2022
Episode 141: Our Complicated Relationship With Christian Celebrities, and Fanfiction
August 4, 2022
Episode 140: I Kissed Instagram Goodbye & Top Pro-Life Movies
July 28, 2022
Episode 139: Christian Values in Secular Movies and Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
July 21, 2022
Episode 138: The Summer I Turned Pretty: Jenny Han’s YA Empire, Plus Where the Crawdads Sing
July 14, 2022
Episode 137: The Fun and Fumble of Fantasy Sports and The Rise of Gru and Thor: Love and Thunder
July 7, 2022
Episode 136: The Never-Ending Scroll & Elvis
June 30, 2022
Episode 135: Virtual Babies and Lightyear
June 23, 2022
Episode 134: Interview with an Influencer & Jurassic World: Dominion
June 16, 2022
Episode 133: Navigate or Avoid? How Do We Decide? Plus: Ms. Marvel
June 9, 2022
Episode 132: A Look at Obi-Wan Kenobi and Stranger Things 4
June 2, 2022
Episode 131: I Kissed Disney+ Goodbye: Alternatives to Mainstream Streaming Services. Plus: LEGO Star Wars
May 26, 2022
Episode 130: Adult Animated Shows & Your Family, Plus: Top Gun: Maverick
May 19, 2022
Episode 129: Hobby, Habit or Addiction: Bingeing Under the Microscope
May 12, 2022
Episode 128: Dr. Strange and the Multiverse of Madness: Why Is One Storytelling Universe Not Enough
May 5, 2022
Episode 127: Digging Into Disney’s New Worldview...and Father Stu
April 28, 2022
Episode 126: Exploring the New Common Sense Media Census
April 21, 2022
Episode 125: Morbius, Moon Knight and Murky Superhero Spirituality. Plus, Just What are Dumbledore’s
April 14, 2022
Episode 124: The Slap Heard ‘Round the World … Plus: Best-Picture Winner Coda
April 7, 2022
Episode 123: Social Media State of the Union … Plus: When Calls the Heart
March 31, 2022
Episode 122: And the Pluggie Goes to ... ?
March 24, 2022
Episode 121: We Don't Talk About Uno: Board Games and Other Things
March 17, 2022
Episode 120: Swearing, Drinking & Plugged In
March 10, 2022
Episode 119: Just When You Think It's Safe to Go Back to the Batcave
March 3, 2022
Episode 118: Plugged In Talks to Focus on the Family's Jim Daly
February 24, 2022
Episode 117: Online Sports Betting Ads and Death on the Nile.
February 17, 2022
Episode 116: Thinking About Violence and Profanity in Movies, and The Legend of Vox Machina
February 10, 2022
Episode 115: Plugged In Talks Movie Review Content and the Movie Belle
February 3, 2022
Episode 114: Redeeming Love & the Question of How Edgy Is Too Edgy for Christian Movies
January 27, 2022
Episode 113: The Sacred/Secular Music Conversation … and ‘The Book of Boba Fett’
January 20, 2022
Episode 112: The Sacred vs. Secular Music Conversation and John Cooper/Dominion discussion
January 13, 2022
Episode 111: The Biggest Entertainment and Tech Stories of 2021
January 6, 2022
Episode 110: 'American Underdog: The Kurt Warner Story' and the Enduring Appeal of the football movie
December 30, 2021
Episode 109: Spider-Man: No Way Home; Contributor or Consumer (with Danny Huerta)
December 23, 2021
Episode 108: The Sequels Strike Back ... Again
December 16, 2021
Episode 107: What’s with All the A.I. Stories? & The Wheel of Time
December 9, 2021
Episode 106: Christmas with "The Chosen: The Messengers" and a Conversation with Jesus and Mary
December 2, 2021
Episode 105: Encanto & Marvel's Latest Video Game
November 25, 2021
Episode 104: Today's Top Female Singers & Finch
November 18, 2021
Episode 103: Paranormal TV & Clifford the Big Red Dog
November 11, 2021
Episode 102: Dune, The Eternals & Sci-Fi Spirituality
November 4, 2021
Episode 101: Why We Review the Way We Do & Christmas Tech Trends
October 28, 2021
Episode 100: The Addams Family, Monster Movies & Superman's Coming Out
October 21, 2021
Episode 99: Fall TV & What Instagram Knows About Its Influence
October 14, 2021
Episode 98: "Dear Evan Hansen" and the Reprise of the Movie Musical
October 7, 2021
Episode 97: A Look at the "God's Not Dead" Franchise and a Conversation With Francesca Battistelli
September 30, 2021
Episode 96: Is Rock Dead? No One Told Skillet ... or Switchfoot ... or Imagine Dragons
September 23, 2021
Episode 95: Anime & Manga 101: Everything You Need to Know
September 16, 2021
Episode 94: A Conversation With Alex Kendrick and Unveiling Amazon's "Cinderella"
September 9, 2021
Episode 93: A Look at Shang-Chi and Exploring the Metaverse
September 2, 2021
Episode 92: This is Your Brain on Screens
August 26, 2021
Episode 91: Ted Lasso and The Kissing Booth
August 19, 2021
Episode 90: Vivo, "Parenting Generation Screen," and a Culture Countdown
August 12, 2021
Episode 89: When Books for Teens Turn Into R-Rated Entertainment
August 5, 2021
Episode 88: Plugged In Goes to the Olympics
July 29, 2021
Episode 87: A Look at "Space Jam" and a Conversation With an American Idol
July 22, 2021
Episode 86: Fathers, Orphans and Entertainment
July 15, 2021
Episode 85: Black Widow & The State of the Superhero Union
July 8, 2021
Episode 84: Fat Monica and The Rest of Us
July 1, 2021
Episode 83: When Antiheroes Become Our Heroes
June 24, 2021
Episode 82: What's the Draw With Dystopian Fantasy?
June 17, 2021
Episode 81: Emotional Intelligence Goes to Hollywood
June 10, 2021
Episode 80: Our Formative Pop Culture Influences
June 3, 2021
Episode 79: Cruella & Disney’s Darker Turn
May 27, 2021
Episode 78: Instagram for Kids? Experts Say, 'No Way!'
May 20, 2021
Episode 77 - Billie Eilish - The Worldview of Self-Expression
May 13, 2021
Episode 76 - What Hollywood Says About Family and Parenting
May 6, 2021
Episode 75 - A Journey into Nomadland
April 29, 2021
Episode 174: ChatGTP and Deepfake—Tech and Trust, plus Got Questions? YouTube Channel
March 23, 2023
The new AI-driven search and content program ChatGPT can do things that were literally only science fiction a few years ago. It can do amazing things—from answering questions to writing podcast introductions! The Plugged In team discusses the positives and the negatives of this popular website as well as the potential dangers of deepfake content. Paul Asay then talks with Kennedy Unthank about the faith-based YouTube channel Got Questions?
Episode 174: ChatGTP and Deepfake—Tech and Trust, plus Got Questions? YouTube Channel
March 23, 2023
Episode 173: And the Oscar Goes To ... plus Southern Gospel
March 16, 2023
Episode 172: The 2023 Plugged In Movie Awards
March 9, 2023
Episode 171: The Thorn plus Creed III
March 2, 2023
Episode 170: A Look at Jesus Revolution
February 23, 2023
Episode 169: The Music Episode & Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
February 16, 2023
Episode 168: Screens, Teens & Consumerism plus Miley Cyrus’s Flowers
February 9, 2023
Episode 167: Plugged In Movie Award Misses & Granger Smith
February 2, 2023
Episode 166: Plugged In Movie Award Nominations & Left Behind: Rise of the Antichrist
January 26, 2023
Episode 165: What James Cameron Knows About the Human Heart & What’s Coming in 2023
January 19, 2023
Episode 164: What Is Kidulting? Good or Bad? Plus, Star Wars: The Bad Batch, Season 2
January 12, 2023
Episode 163: The State of Social Media 2023 Plus Women Talking
January 5, 2023
Episode 162: Holiday Fun Roundup & Netflix’s Wednesday
December 29, 2022
Episode 161: What Makes a Christmas Movie ‘Classic’?
December 22, 2022
Episode 160: Lurching Toward Transcendence & Avatar: The Way Water
December 15, 2022
Episode 159: Tech and Teen Motivation & Enola Holmes 2
December 8, 2022
Episode 158: The Wingfeather Saga and Disney+'s Willow
December 1, 2022
Episode 157: Plugged In Thanksgiving Special and A Look at Minno
November 24, 2022
Episode 156: Entertainment Conversation Starters and A Chat with Gloria Gaynor
November 17, 2022
Episode 155: Black Panther: Wakanda Forever & Taylor Swift
November 10, 2022
Episode 154: Adventures in Odyssey and Family-Friendly Video Games
November 3, 2022
Episode 153: Should We Just Forget About Screen Time Limits? plus Black Adam
October 27, 2022
Episode 152: Monster Movies for Kids? and A Conversation with David A.R. White
October 20, 2022
Episode 151: What Is a Worldview & Sam Smith’s “Unholy”
October 13, 2022
Episode 149: Blonde, Heartbreak High and Andor
October 6, 2022
Episode 149: Blonde, Heartbreak High and Andor
September 29, 2022
Episode 148: Pinocchio Reloaded & Sandman
September 22, 2022
Episode 147: Scripture & Entertainment, Plus: Eminem’s Conversion?
September 15, 2022
Episode 146: Amazon's Lord of the Rings and HBO's House of Dragon, plus Disney+'s Hamster & Gretel
September 8, 2022
Episode 145: The Kendrick Brothers, Kirk Cameron and Lifemark, plus She-Hulk
September 1, 2022
Episode 144: When Super Heroes Take a Break From Social Media & Secret Headquarters
August 25, 2022
Episode 143: Your Kid & YouTube Plus Out of My Heart
August 18, 2022
Episode 142: A Conversation With Parents Television and Media Council’s Melissa Henson, and Strong F
August 11, 2022
Episode 141: Our Complicated Relationship With Christian Celebrities, and Fanfiction
August 4, 2022
Episode 140: I Kissed Instagram Goodbye & Top Pro-Life Movies
July 28, 2022
Episode 139: Christian Values in Secular Movies and Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
July 21, 2022
Episode 138: The Summer I Turned Pretty: Jenny Han’s YA Empire, Plus Where the Crawdads Sing
July 14, 2022
Episode 137: The Fun and Fumble of Fantasy Sports and The Rise of Gru and Thor: Love and Thunder
July 7, 2022
Episode 136: The Never-Ending Scroll & Elvis
June 30, 2022
Episode 135: Virtual Babies and Lightyear
June 23, 2022
Episode 134: Interview with an Influencer & Jurassic World: Dominion
June 16, 2022
Episode 133: Navigate or Avoid? How Do We Decide? Plus: Ms. Marvel
June 9, 2022
Episode 132: A Look at Obi-Wan Kenobi and Stranger Things 4
June 2, 2022
Episode 131: I Kissed Disney+ Goodbye: Alternatives to Mainstream Streaming Services. Plus: LEGO Star Wars
May 26, 2022
Episode 130: Adult Animated Shows & Your Family, Plus: Top Gun: Maverick
May 19, 2022
Episode 129: Hobby, Habit or Addiction: Bingeing Under the Microscope
May 12, 2022
Episode 128: Dr. Strange and the Multiverse of Madness: Why Is One Storytelling Universe Not Enough
May 5, 2022
Episode 127: Digging Into Disney’s New Worldview...and Father Stu
April 28, 2022
Episode 126: Exploring the New Common Sense Media Census
April 21, 2022
Episode 125: Morbius, Moon Knight and Murky Superhero Spirituality. Plus, Just What are Dumbledore’s
April 14, 2022
Episode 124: The Slap Heard ‘Round the World … Plus: Best-Picture Winner Coda
April 7, 2022
Episode 123: Social Media State of the Union … Plus: When Calls the Heart
March 31, 2022
Episode 122: And the Pluggie Goes to ... ?
March 24, 2022
Episode 121: We Don't Talk About Uno: Board Games and Other Things
March 17, 2022
Episode 120: Swearing, Drinking & Plugged In
March 10, 2022
Episode 119: Just When You Think It's Safe to Go Back to the Batcave
March 3, 2022
Episode 118: Plugged In Talks to Focus on the Family's Jim Daly
February 24, 2022
Episode 117: Online Sports Betting Ads and Death on the Nile.
February 17, 2022
Episode 116: Thinking About Violence and Profanity in Movies, and The Legend of Vox Machina
February 10, 2022
Episode 115: Plugged In Talks Movie Review Content and the Movie Belle
February 3, 2022
Episode 114: Redeeming Love & the Question of How Edgy Is Too Edgy for Christian Movies
January 27, 2022
Episode 113: The Sacred/Secular Music Conversation … and ‘The Book of Boba Fett’
January 20, 2022
Episode 112: The Sacred vs. Secular Music Conversation and John Cooper/Dominion discussion
January 13, 2022
Episode 111: The Biggest Entertainment and Tech Stories of 2021
January 6, 2022
Episode 110: 'American Underdog: The Kurt Warner Story' and the Enduring Appeal of the football movie
December 30, 2021
Episode 109: Spider-Man: No Way Home; Contributor or Consumer (with Danny Huerta)
December 23, 2021
Episode 108: The Sequels Strike Back ... Again
December 16, 2021
Episode 107: What’s with All the A.I. Stories? & The Wheel of Time
December 9, 2021
Episode 106: Christmas with "The Chosen: The Messengers" and a Conversation with Jesus and Mary
December 2, 2021
Episode 105: Encanto & Marvel's Latest Video Game
November 25, 2021
Episode 104: Today's Top Female Singers & Finch
November 18, 2021
Episode 103: Paranormal TV & Clifford the Big Red Dog
November 11, 2021
Episode 102: Dune, The Eternals & Sci-Fi Spirituality
November 4, 2021
Episode 101: Why We Review the Way We Do & Christmas Tech Trends
October 28, 2021
Episode 100: The Addams Family, Monster Movies & Superman's Coming Out
October 21, 2021
Episode 99: Fall TV & What Instagram Knows About Its Influence
October 14, 2021
Episode 98: "Dear Evan Hansen" and the Reprise of the Movie Musical
October 7, 2021
Episode 97: A Look at the "God's Not Dead" Franchise and a Conversation With Francesca Battistelli
September 30, 2021
Episode 96: Is Rock Dead? No One Told Skillet ... or Switchfoot ... or Imagine Dragons
September 23, 2021
Episode 95: Anime & Manga 101: Everything You Need to Know
September 16, 2021
Episode 94: A Conversation With Alex Kendrick and Unveiling Amazon's "Cinderella"
September 9, 2021
Episode 93: A Look at Shang-Chi and Exploring the Metaverse
September 2, 2021
Episode 92: This is Your Brain on Screens
August 26, 2021
Episode 91: Ted Lasso and The Kissing Booth
August 19, 2021
Episode 90: Vivo, "Parenting Generation Screen," and a Culture Countdown
August 12, 2021
Episode 89: When Books for Teens Turn Into R-Rated Entertainment
August 5, 2021
Episode 88: Plugged In Goes to the Olympics
July 29, 2021
Episode 87: A Look at "Space Jam" and a Conversation With an American Idol
July 22, 2021
Episode 86: Fathers, Orphans and Entertainment
July 15, 2021
Episode 85: Black Widow & The State of the Superhero Union
July 8, 2021
Episode 84: Fat Monica and The Rest of Us
July 1, 2021
Episode 83: When Antiheroes Become Our Heroes
June 24, 2021
Episode 82: What's the Draw With Dystopian Fantasy?
June 17, 2021
Episode 81: Emotional Intelligence Goes to Hollywood
June 10, 2021
Episode 80: Our Formative Pop Culture Influences
June 3, 2021
Episode 79: Cruella & Disney’s Darker Turn
May 27, 2021
Episode 78: Instagram for Kids? Experts Say, 'No Way!'
May 20, 2021
Episode 77 - Billie Eilish - The Worldview of Self-Expression
May 13, 2021
Episode 76 - What Hollywood Says About Family and Parenting
May 6, 2021
Episode 75 - A Journey into Nomadland
April 29, 2021
Episode 174: ChatGTP and Deepfake—Tech and Trust, plus Got Questions? YouTube Channel
March 23, 2023
The new AI-driven search and content program ChatGPT can do things that were literally only science fiction a few years ago. It can do amazing things—from answering questions to writing podcast introductions! The Plugged In team discusses the positives and the negatives of this popular website as well as the potential dangers of deepfake content. Paul Asay then talks with Kennedy Unthank about the faith-based YouTube channel Got Questions?
Episode 174: ChatGTP and Deepfake—Tech and Trust, plus Got Questions? YouTube Channel
March 23, 2023
Episode 173: And the Oscar Goes To ... plus Southern Gospel
March 16, 2023
Episode 172: The 2023 Plugged In Movie Awards
March 9, 2023
Episode 171: The Thorn plus Creed III
March 2, 2023
Episode 170: A Look at Jesus Revolution
February 23, 2023
Episode 169: The Music Episode & Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
February 16, 2023
Episode 168: Screens, Teens & Consumerism plus Miley Cyrus’s Flowers
February 9, 2023
Episode 167: Plugged In Movie Award Misses & Granger Smith
February 2, 2023
Episode 166: Plugged In Movie Award Nominations & Left Behind: Rise of the Antichrist
January 26, 2023
Episode 165: What James Cameron Knows About the Human Heart & What’s Coming in 2023
January 19, 2023
Episode 164: What Is Kidulting? Good or Bad? Plus, Star Wars: The Bad Batch, Season 2
January 12, 2023
Episode 163: The State of Social Media 2023 Plus Women Talking
January 5, 2023
Episode 162: Holiday Fun Roundup & Netflix’s Wednesday
December 29, 2022
Episode 161: What Makes a Christmas Movie ‘Classic’?
December 22, 2022
Episode 160: Lurching Toward Transcendence & Avatar: The Way Water
December 15, 2022
Episode 159: Tech and Teen Motivation & Enola Holmes 2
December 8, 2022
Episode 158: The Wingfeather Saga and Disney+'s Willow
December 1, 2022
Episode 157: Plugged In Thanksgiving Special and A Look at Minno
November 24, 2022
Episode 156: Entertainment Conversation Starters and A Chat with Gloria Gaynor
November 17, 2022
Episode 155: Black Panther: Wakanda Forever & Taylor Swift
November 10, 2022
Episode 154: Adventures in Odyssey and Family-Friendly Video Games
November 3, 2022
Episode 153: Should We Just Forget About Screen Time Limits? plus Black Adam
October 27, 2022
Episode 152: Monster Movies for Kids? and A Conversation with David A.R. White
October 20, 2022
Episode 151: What Is a Worldview & Sam Smith’s “Unholy”
October 13, 2022
Episode 149: Blonde, Heartbreak High and Andor
October 6, 2022
Episode 149: Blonde, Heartbreak High and Andor
September 29, 2022
Episode 148: Pinocchio Reloaded & Sandman
September 22, 2022
Episode 147: Scripture & Entertainment, Plus: Eminem’s Conversion?
September 15, 2022
Episode 146: Amazon's Lord of the Rings and HBO's House of Dragon, plus Disney+'s Hamster & Gretel
September 8, 2022
Episode 145: The Kendrick Brothers, Kirk Cameron and Lifemark, plus She-Hulk
September 1, 2022
Episode 144: When Super Heroes Take a Break From Social Media & Secret Headquarters
August 25, 2022
Episode 143: Your Kid & YouTube Plus Out of My Heart
August 18, 2022
Episode 142: A Conversation With Parents Television and Media Council’s Melissa Henson, and Strong F
August 11, 2022
Episode 141: Our Complicated Relationship With Christian Celebrities, and Fanfiction
August 4, 2022
Episode 140: I Kissed Instagram Goodbye & Top Pro-Life Movies
July 28, 2022
Episode 139: Christian Values in Secular Movies and Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
July 21, 2022
Episode 138: The Summer I Turned Pretty: Jenny Han’s YA Empire, Plus Where the Crawdads Sing
July 14, 2022
Episode 137: The Fun and Fumble of Fantasy Sports and The Rise of Gru and Thor: Love and Thunder
July 7, 2022
Episode 136: The Never-Ending Scroll & Elvis
June 30, 2022
Episode 135: Virtual Babies and Lightyear
June 23, 2022
Episode 134: Interview with an Influencer & Jurassic World: Dominion
June 16, 2022
Episode 133: Navigate or Avoid? How Do We Decide? Plus: Ms. Marvel
June 9, 2022
Episode 132: A Look at Obi-Wan Kenobi and Stranger Things 4
June 2, 2022
Episode 131: I Kissed Disney+ Goodbye: Alternatives to Mainstream Streaming Services. Plus: LEGO Star Wars
May 26, 2022
Episode 130: Adult Animated Shows & Your Family, Plus: Top Gun: Maverick
May 19, 2022
Episode 129: Hobby, Habit or Addiction: Bingeing Under the Microscope
May 12, 2022
Episode 128: Dr. Strange and the Multiverse of Madness: Why Is One Storytelling Universe Not Enough
May 5, 2022
Episode 127: Digging Into Disney’s New Worldview...and Father Stu
April 28, 2022
Episode 126: Exploring the New Common Sense Media Census
April 21, 2022
Episode 125: Morbius, Moon Knight and Murky Superhero Spirituality. Plus, Just What are Dumbledore’s
April 14, 2022
Episode 124: The Slap Heard ‘Round the World … Plus: Best-Picture Winner Coda
April 7, 2022
Episode 123: Social Media State of the Union … Plus: When Calls the Heart
March 31, 2022
Episode 122: And the Pluggie Goes to ... ?
March 24, 2022
Episode 121: We Don't Talk About Uno: Board Games and Other Things
March 17, 2022
Episode 120: Swearing, Drinking & Plugged In
March 10, 2022
Episode 119: Just When You Think It's Safe to Go Back to the Batcave
March 3, 2022
Episode 118: Plugged In Talks to Focus on the Family's Jim Daly
February 24, 2022
Episode 117: Online Sports Betting Ads and Death on the Nile.
February 17, 2022
Episode 116: Thinking About Violence and Profanity in Movies, and The Legend of Vox Machina
February 10, 2022
Episode 115: Plugged In Talks Movie Review Content and the Movie Belle
February 3, 2022
Episode 114: Redeeming Love & the Question of How Edgy Is Too Edgy for Christian Movies
January 27, 2022
Episode 113: The Sacred/Secular Music Conversation … and ‘The Book of Boba Fett’
January 20, 2022
Episode 112: The Sacred vs. Secular Music Conversation and John Cooper/Dominion discussion
January 13, 2022
Episode 111: The Biggest Entertainment and Tech Stories of 2021
January 6, 2022
Episode 110: 'American Underdog: The Kurt Warner Story' and the Enduring Appeal of the football movie
December 30, 2021
Episode 109: Spider-Man: No Way Home; Contributor or Consumer (with Danny Huerta)
December 23, 2021
Episode 108: The Sequels Strike Back ... Again
December 16, 2021
Episode 107: What’s with All the A.I. Stories? & The Wheel of Time
December 9, 2021
Episode 106: Christmas with "The Chosen: The Messengers" and a Conversation with Jesus and Mary
December 2, 2021
Episode 105: Encanto & Marvel's Latest Video Game
November 25, 2021
Episode 104: Today's Top Female Singers & Finch
November 18, 2021
Episode 103: Paranormal TV & Clifford the Big Red Dog
November 11, 2021
Episode 102: Dune, The Eternals & Sci-Fi Spirituality
November 4, 2021
Episode 101: Why We Review the Way We Do & Christmas Tech Trends
October 28, 2021
Episode 100: The Addams Family, Monster Movies & Superman's Coming Out
October 21, 2021
Episode 99: Fall TV & What Instagram Knows About Its Influence
October 14, 2021
Episode 98: "Dear Evan Hansen" and the Reprise of the Movie Musical
October 7, 2021
Episode 97: A Look at the "God's Not Dead" Franchise and a Conversation With Francesca Battistelli
September 30, 2021
Episode 96: Is Rock Dead? No One Told Skillet ... or Switchfoot ... or Imagine Dragons
September 23, 2021
Episode 95: Anime & Manga 101: Everything You Need to Know
September 16, 2021
Episode 94: A Conversation With Alex Kendrick and Unveiling Amazon's "Cinderella"
September 9, 2021
Episode 93: A Look at Shang-Chi and Exploring the Metaverse
September 2, 2021
Episode 92: This is Your Brain on Screens
August 26, 2021
Episode 91: Ted Lasso and The Kissing Booth
August 19, 2021
Episode 90: Vivo, "Parenting Generation Screen," and a Culture Countdown
August 12, 2021
Episode 89: When Books for Teens Turn Into R-Rated Entertainment
August 5, 2021
Episode 88: Plugged In Goes to the Olympics
July 29, 2021
Episode 87: A Look at "Space Jam" and a Conversation With an American Idol
July 22, 2021
Episode 86: Fathers, Orphans and Entertainment
July 15, 2021
Episode 85: Black Widow & The State of the Superhero Union
July 8, 2021
Episode 84: Fat Monica and The Rest of Us
July 1, 2021
Episode 83: When Antiheroes Become Our Heroes
June 24, 2021
Episode 82: What's the Draw With Dystopian Fantasy?
June 17, 2021
Episode 81: Emotional Intelligence Goes to Hollywood
June 10, 2021
Episode 80: Our Formative Pop Culture Influences
June 3, 2021
Episode 79: Cruella & Disney’s Darker Turn
May 27, 2021
Episode 78: Instagram for Kids? Experts Say, 'No Way!'
May 20, 2021
Episode 77 - Billie Eilish - The Worldview of Self-Expression
May 13, 2021
Episode 76 - What Hollywood Says About Family and Parenting
May 6, 2021
Episode 75 - A Journey into Nomadland
April 29, 2021
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About The Plugged In Show
The Plugged In team, led by Focus on the Family’s Director of Media and Culture, Adam Holz, comes together with humor and heart to deliver weekly insight on current media choices and culture-related topics. These media experts will shine a light on the world of popular entertainment and technology trends while giving you and your family the essential tools you need to understand, navigate, and impact the culture in which we live. You’ll be encouraged to engage with your children and dialogue about the media they are consuming, sparking intellectual thought and spiritual growth.
About Adam Holz
The Plugged In Show team is Adam Holz, Emily Clark, Paul Asay, Bob Hoose, Kristin Smith and Jonathan McKee
Contact The Plugged In Show with Adam Holz
Mailing Address
8605 Explorer Drive
Colorado Springs, CO 80920
Phone Number
1-800-A-FAMILY (232-6459)
