Podcasts by The VoxPopcast
We’ve all had a discussion or an argument about popular culture. Sometimes it happens on Facebook, Tumblr or Twitter. Maybe it was in a literature, history, philosophy or psychology class in college. Perhaps it was at the local comic book shop. Or maybe it was at a bar and you ended up stabbing someone with a bottle or bludgeoning them with a pool cue. All of these discussions are exactly the same. The tenured professor at an academic conference deconstructing Batman through a Derrida lens is really doing the same thing as a bunch of teenagers passing a joint around in their mother’s basement. One just uses bigger words and the other swears more. Honestly, though, we’re not sure which. So why not bring them all together? Vox Populorum is a blog and podcast devoted to pop culture criticism. We believe that the best way to understand culture is to discuss it. Please join our weekly round table of media critics, academics and fans for engaging discussion about movies, novels, comic bo
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e201. The Romance Show: (Hannah wouldn’t let us call) Love In The Time Of COVID from 2022-02-14T10:43:25
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e200. Secret Origins Starring VoxPopcast: Special Anniversary Edition from 2022-02-07T09:34:53
e199. Nancy Drew & the Hidden Staircase to Pop Culture Immortality from 2022-01-31T08:53:17
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e198. STEM vs Humanities: the Clatter in the Classroom from 2022-01-24T08:12:17
e196. The 2022 Box Office Draft! from 2022-01-10T06:04:07
e194. Dr. Golden Spies From V.O.X.P.O.P with Love from 2021-12-27T07:38:20
e193. Cheesy Christmas Movies 3 from 2021-12-20T08:16:52
e192. How to Win Christmas & Influence People from 2021-12-13T06:07:52
e191. Pop Culture Casserole from 2021-12-06T08:55:30
e190. Pour Some Sexy On It! from 2021-11-29T09:41:27
e189. Dune: How to Control the Spice & Influence People from 2021-11-22T06:56:05
e188. The Eternals and the MCU This Year (so far…) from 2021-11-15T06:56:28
Somehow, we went the entire year of 2020 just… without a Marvel movie. Phase three ended and there was a real life global pandemic and t...
e187. 4x4ward: Overlanding and the Great Outdoors from 2021-11-08T06:34:11
e186. Wayne, Hannah, Mav & Jehnie’s Infinite Mixtape from 2021-11-01T08:14:37
e185. The Wicked, the Witches and the Witch-ish from 2021-10-25T08:15:12
e184. Bram Stoker’s Dracula & the Draculi that Followed from 2021-10-18T07:59:06
e183. How to Read All of the Marvels from 2021-10-11T06:48:21
e181. Entertainment and Other Unions — IATSE Solidarity from 2021-09-27T06:48:51
e178. Pop History vs. Public History from 2021-09-06T06:03:21
e173. War of the Readings from 2021-08-02T07:24:01
e172. (More Drinking Than Swearing…) The Culture Of Alcohol from 2021-07-26T06:04:06
e171. Summertime! Time to Kick Back and Unwind from 2021-07-19T07:08:17
e170. What is Serialization? Tune in next week! from 2021-07-12T07:39:06
e169. The Subtle & Sophisticated Highbrow Culture of The Fast & The Furious from 2021-07-05T08:31:01
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e168. Time to Stop Wearing Underwear on the Outside from 2021-06-28T06:34:39
e163. The Secret World of American Girl from 2021-05-24T06:55:55
e162. Multimedia & Literary Crossovers from 2021-05-18T05:05:01
e161. Describing 20 Games We Haven’t Played from 2021-05-10T09:30:56
e159. Obviously, it’s the Falcon and the Winter Soldier Show from 2021-04-26T09:35:45
e157. Standup Comedy Sitting on the Couch from 2021-04-12T05:12:19
e155. Introduction to Ergodic Texts and Reading from 2021-03-29T04:00
e154. Can We Cancel Cancel Culture? (or can’t we?) from 2021-03-22T07:59
e154. Can We Cancel Cancel Culture Culture? (or can’t we?) from 2021-03-22T06:59
e153. Seeking a Game for the End of the World from 2021-03-15T11:00:29
e152. Obviously it’s the WandaVision Show from 2021-03-08T15:57:21
e150. Sexy Cartoons: You Know… for the Kids! from 2021-02-22T12:51:51
e149. Let’s Talk About SuperSex from 2021-02-15T09:14:45
e148. Sex, Love, & Bridgerton from 2021-02-08T12:12
e147. Big Fun with Charts, Data, and Analytics! from 2021-02-01T06:10:27
e146. TV in the time of COVID-19 from 2021-01-25T11:50:36
e145. 2021 Fantasy Box Office Draft from 2021-01-18T05:01
e144. So, It’s Been a Week! (1/3/21 – 1/9/21) from 2021-01-11T06:31:04
e142. Deconstructing the Queen’s Gambit from 2020-12-28T07:24:35
e141. Ghosts, Spirits, Scrooge and a Merry Marxist Christmas from 2020-12-21T07:48:05
Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol is likely the most famous Christmas story ever written. First published 177 years ago, it has been pr...
e140. Why Do We Suddenly Love Musicals? from 2020-12-14T11:11:18
e138. Holiday Tradition and Ritual in the Time of COVID from 2020-11-30T07:18:30
e137. Think Virtually, Live Locally! Our New Virtual Reality from 2020-11-23T10:58:35
e135. Election 2020: So Now What? from 2020-11-09T15:47:39
e131. Cuties: Eroticizing the Innocent and Infantilizing Sexuality from 2020-10-12T07:14:31
e130. Freshman Year in Quarantine from 2020-10-05T08:56:35
e129. Corsets: Enhancement, Imprisonment, Empowerment, & Empresses from 2020-09-28T07:16:32
e128. 9 Popular Culture Pet Peeves We Hate and Why from 2020-09-21T07:44:56
e127. Dungeons & Diversity from 2020-09-14T08:14:23
e125. It’s the End of the World as we show it… from 2020-08-31T10:21:36
e124. Marveling Over Marble League! from 2020-08-24T05:46:30
If you’ve been following the show for the last several months, you know that in our COVID pandemic quarantine imposed death of media, we...
e123. Culture, Context, Protest, and Memefication from 2020-08-17T07:21:29
e121. The Improv Story Game from 2020-08-03T04:30:43
e120. Quarantine Comfort TV from 2020-07-27T05:27:45
e119. Copaganda II: Going Rogue from 2020-07-20T05:56:18
e117. Post-Release Censorship and the Disney Vault from 2020-07-06T07:29:24
e116. Copaganda, Cartoons, and You from 2020-06-29T06:00:35
e115. Why Do We Love Minor Characters? from 2020-06-22T04:52:01
e114. Your Black Friend is Tired from 2020-06-15T08:30:37
e113. Cartoons vs. Avatars from 2020-06-08T04:24:51
e112. Social Media and Free Speech from 2020-06-01T09:08:19
e109. Scores & Soundtracks from 2020-05-11T05:47:54
e107. Senior Year in Quarantine from 2020-04-27T04:10:45
e106. COVID-19 & the Death of the Comic Shop from 2020-04-20T06:46:37
e105. Animal Crossing & Cozy Games in Worldwide Pandemics from 2020-04-13T08:22:08
e104. 5 Victorian Parlour Games for Worldwide Pandemics from 2020-04-06T08:01:18
e103. Birds of Prey and the Fantaboulous Deconstruction of one VoxPopcast from 2020-03-30T04:45:48
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e101. Not the Next Big Thing from 2020-03-16T08:09:01
e99. Pseudo-Academic Content: Listener Discretion is Advised from 2020-03-02T07:23:09
e97. Fictional & Celebrity Crushes from 2020-02-17T06:08:45
e95. The Good Place and Philosophy from 2020-02-03T05:43:21
e92: 2010s Decade in Review from 2020-01-13T10:24:06
e91. 2020 Box Office Draft from 2020-01-06T10:25:37
e90. 30 Good Things You Missed!!! 2019 Year in Review from 2019-12-30T11:01:12
e89. Star Wars: Epic Retrospective from 2019-12-23T10:15:31
e88. Yes, Internet, There is a Santa Claus from 2019-12-16T10:52:56
e87. Sentimentalism: Punching Them in the Feels from 2019-12-10T20:51:52
e86. Good Things We Hate from 2019-12-02T07:09
e85. Digital Acting (and Deep Fakery) from 2019-11-25T07:56
e84. Comics, Sci-Fi, Fantasy: What is Geek Culture? from 2019-11-18T08:18:04
Live from MAC Charity Con 2019. Comic book conventions stopped being about comic books a long time ago. In fact, the comic book subculture sto...
e83. ?Watching Watchmen? from 2019-11-11T11:42:01
e82. Love, Politics and Jane Austen from 2019-11-04T07:39:06
e81. Stephen King and Horror from 2019-10-28T04:02:02
It’s Halloween. And in classic podcast fashion that means it’s time to do a theme episode. Halloween is about many things, but one...
e80. Irredeemable Characters from 2019-10-21T06:12:32
e79. Crowdfunding Creative Culture from 2019-10-14T05:48:44
e77. Pop Culture Etiquette from 2019-09-30T08:16:24
We live in a society and there are rules of polite behavior. But what are those rules? Well, that’s not exactly clear. For the most part...
e76. Music Back in MY Day… from 2019-09-23T11:37:07
e75. Judging a Show by its Pilot? from 2019-09-16T11:29:01
e73. Reading Practices from 2019-09-02T06:19:18
How do you read? Do you do it on a computer or a tablet or do you prefer good old fashioned paper texts? Do you listen to books on tape or use...
e72. The Power of Cuteness from 2019-08-26T04:49:43
e68. Parallel Media from 2019-07-29T06:19:52
You ever notice that thing that happens when a movie studio releases a movie and then another studio releases a movie with pretty much the exa...
e67. Social Justice Knitting from 2019-07-22T05:09:13
e64. Mythologizing the Founders from 2019-07-01T08:02:34
e62. Comics! You know… for the Kids! from 2019-06-17T04:38:36
e58. Gaming an Empire from 2019-05-20T09:17:06
History does not look upon tyranny with favor. The Persian Empir...
e54. The Unbearable Whiteness of being Batman from 2019-04-22T06:37:12
e52. PCA/ACA 2019 Preview: Game Studies from 2019-04-08T08:24:21
e51. So What Is Subculture Anyway? from 2019-04-01T05:24:17
e50. Are You What You Wear? from 2019-03-25T04:50:49
e49. Cinema vs. Streaming from 2019-03-18T13:55:34
e48. Political TV and Nostalgia from 2019-03-11T09:00
e47. Milkshake Ducks & Problematic Artists from 2019-03-04T09:28:57
e46. Black Superheroes and Representation from 2019-02-25T10:59:04
(Note: This episode initially contained a corrupted audio file. It has been cleaned up and reuploaded. The current uploaded version should hav...
e44. Young Monsters In Love from 2019-02-11T11:26:54
e43. Sexy Ships & Head Canon from 2019-02-04T10:05:42
e38. 2019 Box Office Draft from 2018-12-31T05:00:53
Do you think we can review every movie coming out next year̷...
e37. Problematic Christmas Songs from 2018-12-24T05:08:13
e35. SPOILERS! (and Mystery Boxes) from 2018-12-10T05:54:57
Ever since the rise of the Internet we have al...
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e34. FarmSims: Digital Transcendentalism from 2018-12-03T05:53:08
When we recorded the following podcast, ...
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e33. Thanksgiving Politics from 2018-11-26T14:51:33
If you live in the United States, it was Thanksgiving ...
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e32. Reboots, Remakes, Revivals from 2018-11-19T12:47:02
Albert Einstein once said, “the definition ...
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e31. Heroes, Villains & Antiheroes from 2018-11-12T16:13:29
The antihero… just like the hero… ...
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e30. Monster Mash 2: Breaking Twilight from 2018-11-05T19:18:59
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Episode 29: Sexy Halloween from 2018-10-29T22:43:42
“In the regular world, Halloween is when child...
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Episode 28: Slashers and Final Girls from 2018-10-22T19:07:30
What’s your favorite scary movie, list...
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Episode 27: La Mort de l’Auteur from 2018-10-15T22:09:24
In 1967, literary critic and semiotician Roland B...
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Episode 26: The Secret Lives of Puppets from 2018-10-01T21:32:26
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Episode 25: Sex and the Disney Princess from 2018-09-25T17:02:54
Just about any parent in American who has ...
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Episode 24: Genre in General from 2018-09-18T18:24:54
At best, “genre fiction” often seems to b...
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Episode 23: Comic Studies-301: Course Syllabus from 2018-09-10T20:57:34
When everyone knows that you are a ...
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Episode 22: Monuments and Memories from 2018-09-03T17:08:25
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Episode 21: Sports, Patriotism, and Social Justice from 2018-08-28T05:45:44
If you live in the United State...
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Episode 19: Cosplayers of Color from 2018-08-14T20:06:04
It’s pretty well accepted in contemporary ge...
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Episode 18: She-Ra and the Male Gaze from 2018-08-07T15:36:02
If you happened to see a mid-tier 1980s carto...
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Episode 17: Music, the Soundtrack of our Lives from 2018-07-31T19:22:30
Wayne loves music. Do you love musi...
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Episode 16: Sex in Video Games from 2018-07-24T16:44:01
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Episode 15: Cinematic Violence & the Impossible Body from 2018-07-17T19:04:06
Remember that one fight in th...
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Episode 14: Captain America – Patriotism & Nationalism from 2018-07-10T18:45:21
This week, the United State...
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Episode 13: Mythic Reboots from 2018-07-02T15:42:03
Some stories are timeless: Homer’s Odyssey, the l...
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Episode 12: The Coming & Going of the Coming of Age from 2018-06-25T17:30:33
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Episode 11: Toxic Offenders & the Dark Side of Fandom from 2018-06-19T06:57:22
As great as internet is for ...
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Episode 10: Sex, Gender & FanFic from 2018-06-12T02:33:45
To some the world of fan fiction is the ridiculou...
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Episode 9: Chutz-Pow! Superheroes of the Holocaust from 2018-06-04T19:39:02
Today we change focus and discu...
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Episode 8: Academia & Viral Social Justice from 2018-05-29T02:19:19
Earlier this month Duke University appe...
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Episode 7: Comic Con Culture from 2018-05-21T15:30:40
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Episode 6: Sex & Drugs & Riverdale from 2018-05-14T22:25:37
When we started this podcast, one of our first ...
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Episode 5: Infinity Franchises & Cinematic Universes from 2018-05-07T16:37:24
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Episode 4: Losing My Religiosity? from 2018-05-01T10:54:01
Never argue about politics or religion on the int...
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Episode 3: Violence in Video Games from 2018-04-23T10:02:06
Do video games make you violent? Probably not, b...
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Episode 2: Do You Remember Nostalgia? from 2018-04-16T17:58:56
Today we talk about nostalgia porn. No…...
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Episode 1: Origin Stories from 2018-04-10T03:18:21
At long last, it is finally here. Welcome to the first ep...
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