PsicoPopCast

Academia Psicosocial

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Pop culture with a nervous system.

The gist

PsicoPopCast treats pop culture as a trapdoor into psychology, politics, childhood, and social habits. A live-radio panel moves from jokes and songs to surprisingly serious questions about why people keep objects, trust horoscopes, chase perfection, or wait for rescue.

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About PsicoPopCast

PsicoPopCast is a Spanish-language live-radio conversation where pop culture becomes a way to think about everyday psychic life. The premise is simple. Each episode asks why people do some ordinary, slightly embarrassing, deeply human thing. Why does growing up feel so strange? Why keep tickets, cables, broken cars, and other tiliches? Why expect the world to fix itself? Why does a horoscope feel personally accurate even when it is built from broad statements? The show answers by refusing to stay in one lane. Disney's Fantasia can open a discussion about objects and memory. Avatar can become a way into rescue fantasies, mutual aid, and political inaction. Black Mirror helps frame perfection as a social demand rather than a private quirk. Monty Python leads toward dark humor, ego, trauma, and the strange relief of laughing at trouble. Football turns into a study of crowds, stadium architecture, male feeling, local identity, and spectacle. The panel talks quickly, interrupts warmly, and lets the conversation wobble before it lands. That looseness is part of the design. Songs, callbacks, children’s answers, Instagram responses, and the Irreal Diccionario Antiacadémico de las Comunes y Corrientes keep the episodes feeling handmade and alive. The show can be silly. It can also get grave without smoothing over the shift. Wars, genocide, contaminated water, public transport, accumulation, trauma, and family pressure all appear beside memes, chilaquiles, cartoons, astrology, and stadium snacks. PsicoPopCast works best for listeners who enjoy ideas in motion, not lectures with polished edges. It is less a clinic than a crowded table where jokes, theory, memory, and politics keep borrowing each other’s chairs.

Made for: For Spanish-speaking listeners who like psychology, social criticism, radio banter, and pop references tangled together. Best for people who enjoy messy group thinking more than polished expert monologues.

What sets it apart: PsicoPopCast turns small shared habits into social and emotional case studies without losing its live-room warmth. Its fake-dictionary segments, audience voices, music breaks, and panel chemistry make theory feel local, comic, and collective.

In their own words

El PsicoPopcast es un pensadero sonoro. Un catálogo vivo de ideas y emociones que nacen del placer por conversar sobre las situaciones, ideas, películas, series, canciones y autorxs que más nos mueven. Con la conducción de ChacSol, Frijolito, Psiconauta y Malicia.

Why you'd press play

Monty Python, horoscopos y tiliches: aqui tus preguntas cotidianas acaban pensando en grande.

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  • reirte de una desgracia y luego preguntarte si acabas de sanar, proteger tu ego o ejercer poder
  • entender por que un horoscopo te reconoce tan bien sin renunciar al gusto por el juego
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pop culture as everyday lifechildhood and growing upobjects, memory, and tilicheshoroscopes and beliefperfection and self-imagefootball crowds and masculinitymutual aid and collective hopelaughter during misfortune

Episodes

  1. 1

    ¿Por qué nos cuesta tanto crecer?

    Hidden gem

    Psicopopcast episodio 12, en vivo por Radio ITESO 95.1 FM, abre con un fragmento de Niño Estrella de Claire Nibola y pregunta por qué nos cuesta tanto crecer.

    Apr 30, 2026·46m·3 clips
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    ¿Por qué nos gusta tanto guardar tiliches?

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    PsicoPopCast 11 usa Fantasía de Disney (1940) y El Aprendiz de Brujo para preguntar por qué guardamos tiliches y cuándo un objeto empieza a usarnos.

    Apr 23, 2026·47m·4 clips
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    ¿Por qué creemos que las cosas se van a arreglar solas?

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    Psicopopcast episode 9, "¿Por qué pensamos que las cosas se van a arreglar por sí solas?", opens with Avatar, la leyenda de Aang and an EZLN comment about resistance under fire.

    Apr 15, 2026·46m·3 clips
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    ¿Por qué sentimos que nuestro horóscopo nunca se equivoca?

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    PsicoPopCast dedica el episodio "¿Por qué siento que mi horóscopo nunca se equivoca?" a una lectura de abril con Garbanzo Jaudini en plena temporada de Aries, transmitida el martes 7 de abril por Radio Iteso 95.fm.

    Apr 8, 2026·47m·3 clips
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    ¿Por qué nos reímos de nuestras desgracias?

    Hidden gem

    PsicoPopCast episodio 8, ¿Por qué nos reímos de nuestras desgracias?, abre con Monty Python y el sketch El Chico, donde un chiste mata de risa a quien lo lee.

    Mar 25, 2026·48m·4 clips
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    ¿Por qué Cristiano Ronaldo es más importante que mi ciudad?

    Hidden gem

    Episode 7 of PsicoPopCast opens with Pablo Fernández Christlieb's essay on the 1989 Hillsborough disaster (96 dead) and the stadium as a "pirámide al revés" that funnels crowds.

    Mar 19, 2026·47m·2 clips
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    ¿Por qué aspiramos a la perfección?

    Hidden gem

    The hosts open with the Black Mirror episode "Nosedive," in which people rate each other from 1 to 5 stars, to ask whether perfection is a social obligation rather than a personal goal.

    Mar 12, 2026·47m·2 clips
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    ¿Por qué "la normalidad" no se siente tan normal?

    Mar 4, 2026·45m
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    Trabajos sin sentido

    Feb 19, 2026·1h 12m
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    ¿Qué es el pensamiento?

    Feb 19, 2026·1h 2m
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    ¿Por qué siento que ChatGPT es mi amigx?

    Feb 18, 2026·44m
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    ¿A qué deberíamos poner atención?

    Feb 11, 2026·46m
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    ¿Por qué siento tanta cercanía con mis famosxs favoritxs?

    Feb 11, 2026·48m
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    ¿Por qué a nadie le duele que mueran los villanos?

    Feb 11, 2026·46m