The VoxPopcast

If you’ve been watching the news lately you might have noticed that things have been… kind of gloomy. Trump is running for president again. Twitter is imploding. The pandemic is… The post e242. A Specifically Very Positive Thanksgiving Ep appeared first on The VoxPopcast .

Wakanda Forever, the sequel to Black Panther, is finally here. Obviously we have to talk about it. Due to the unfortunate passing of Chadwick Boseman, this movie sort of had… The post e241. Wakanda Forever & MCU Diversity appeared first on The VoxPopcast .

Running a pop culture podcast isn’t easy. One of the biggest problems is that popular culture is a moving target. There’s just… always stuff happening! We can’t really get to… The post e240. Reality Twitter? (and Politics) appeared first on The VoxPopcast .

This is another one of those shows where we wonder how have we done this many episodes of a pop culture podcast without devoting one to this fandom. Doctor Who… The post e239. Why Doctor Who? appeared first on The VoxPopcast .

There’s been a lot of Fantasy TV on the air lately. House of the Dragon and Rings of Power have both been airing as prequels to their respective fantasy genres… The post e238. Dragons and Rings and Other Fantasy TV appeared first on The VoxPopcast .

Three weeks ago, Kanye West decided to premiere a line of White Lives Matter t-shirts at Paris Fashion Week… and somehow with that at the starting point pretty much every… The post e237. So, We Need to Talk About Kanye… appeared first on The VoxPopcast .

If you’ve been following the show the last several weeks then you know we’ve started a series where we have been looking at some of our favorite controversial movies and… The post e236. Is The Rocky Horror Picture Show a Bad Movie? appeared first on The VoxPopcast .

A couple of weeks ago we looked over the film Under the Cherry Moon to prove that it was a good movie. Mav got Monica to watch the film and… The post e235. Is Jennifer’s Body a bad movie? appeared first on The VoxPopcast .

On this week’s show we’re doing something a little different. As part of Mav’s new job he was asked if he was asked to volunteer as a faculty advisor and… The post e234. Games4SocialImpact appeared first on The VoxPopcast .

Have you ever had a favorite movie, that you’ve loved since childhood and then all of a sudden as an adult you discover that other people don’t like that movie?… The post e233. Is Under the Cherry Moon a bad movie? appeared first on The VoxPopcast .

A couple weeks ago, a story broke about a young woman named Paige Niemann turning 18 years old and starting an OnlyFans account. By all rights this shouldn’t be notable… The post e232. Paige v. Ariana: The Right to be Sexy on the Internet appeared first on The VoxPopcast .

Way too often, when we talk about “pop culture” in 2022, we focus on superheroes, space cowboys with laser swords, and maybe a couple fantasy epics. And in fact, if… The post e231. So, You Should Be Watching A League of Their Own appeared first on The VoxPopcast .

If you’re a fan of American television, you’ve no doubt heard of “Nielsen ratings” or just “the Ratings” as they’re often called. They’re the lifeblood by which TV shows live… The post e230. Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Ratings But Were Afraid to Ask appeared first on The VoxPopcast .

It is pretty much impossible at this point to not have some MCU content in the current release. Between the films and the TV shows, they are a ubiquitous part… The post e229. She-Hulk: Sensational & Savage appeared first on The VoxPopcast .

We’ve all heard complaints that the current pop-culture fad du jour is getting repetitive. For instance, right now, it’s superhero movies. People are constantly complaining about “the MCU formula” where… The post e228. Investigating the Style Cycle appeared first on The VoxPopcast .

After “endless” years in development, the impossible has happened. The Sandman TV show is now streaming on Netflix. Of course we watched it! Remarkably, it appears to be a hit.… The post e227. the Endless Culture of the Sandman appeared first on The VoxPopcast .

When we started our little psuedo-academic pop-culture analysis podcast with drinking and swearing, we had a few requirements. One of those was that the show would be smart and would… The post e226. So… uh… what is a Dissertation? (and why would you do one?) appeared first on The VoxPopcast .

If you line in the United States and follow political news you might have noticed something crazy last week. The Democrats kind of… did something! In fact, they did something… The post e225. Can We Talk About Climate Change? appeared first on The VoxPopcast .

One of the most important things about academia is being in conversation with other academics. That is to say that the way knowledge happens is one scholar says something and… The post e224. A Filler Episode on Filler Episodes appeared first on The VoxPopcast .

This Wednesday saw the season finale of Ms. Marvel on Disney+, a show that we have been thoroughly enjoying. However, there’s been a weird bit of reaction to Ms. Marvel… The post e223. The Cultural Impact of Ms. Marvel on Disney+ appeared first on The VoxPopcast .

It’s been a while since we spent the show just talking about the state of the world. Mostly because… well, the state of the world kinda sucks right now… and… The post e222. So, The World’s On Fire… Everything is Fine… appeared first on The VoxPopcast .

It’s always odd when we hit on one of those episode ideas where we feel like “obviously we’ve done like half a dozen shows on this topic over the years”… The post e221. Exploring the World of Stranger Things appeared first on The VoxPopcast .

This week saw the end of the Disney+ Star Wars series Obi-Wan Kenobi, a show devoted to… actually it’s really hard to talk about. Arguably, one of the biggest problems… The post e220. Obi-Wan Kenobi & the Star Wars Legacy appeared first on The VoxPopcast .

Somehow, in 2022, there’s a Jurassic Park movie at the top of the box office. Some twenty-nine years after the first film and 32 years after the release of the… The post e219. Why We Still Love the Jurassic Park Franchise appeared first on The VoxPopcast .

A funny thing happened last week. The internet got into a minor scuffle about whether Fire Island, a film about gay men, was sexist because it failed the Bechdel Test,… The post e218. Does the Bechdel Test Fail the Bechdel Test? appeared first on The VoxPopcast .