It's that time of year again! That festive time at the end of the year when everyone gets together with friends and family and celebrates the true reason for the season... cheesy Christmas movies! And as is our tradition, we here at VoxPopcast watched a bunch of them so that you know when ones to pick and which ones you actually should watch and why. On this years show, Hannah, Monica, and Mav are joined by returning guests Gwen Tarbox, Sandy Eckard and Jessica Fitzpatrick to discuss a year with varied offerings including Hanukkah, Sabrina Carpenter, Batman, Pentatonix, Taylor Swift, The Rock, and... way more male stripping than you could possibly be expecting for this theme. Join us as we talk about everything from Carry On to Dear Santa to...
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X2Z Movies e1: Discovering ‘The Book of Life’ with Mav and Marie
Now for something a little different. Welcome to X2Z Movies. This is Mav’s new mini-podcast where he is going to review movies (new and old) with his co-host (and niece) Marie. The idea is very simple. We have one member of Gen X and one member of Gen Z and we’re going to take turns…
e349. Things You Missed 2024
As we close in on the end of the year, we reach that time when all pop culture podcasts do the tried and true tradition of reviewing the best content from the last twelve months. Well, here at VoxPopcast we do it a little differently. We’ve spent the last year talking about much of the…
e348. The True Meaning of Gifting: Connection over Consumerism
It’s the holiday season and that means that it’s time to begin the tried and true and for some people massively neurotic holiday tradition: Present Shopping! In this episode, Mav and Hannah Rogers engage in a lively discussion about the anxiety and joy associated with buying gifts, the consumerist nature of the holidays. How do…
CFC: How Do You Holiday Shop?
From Mav: As we reach the Christmas (Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, etc) season and devolve into our annual socially mandated display of affection through conspicuous consumption, we started having this little conversation amongst the cohosts about gift giving. Not for each other… just in general. How do you shop? Are you trying to be as capitalist as…
e347. Jack vs. Jack: The Jack Off
Yes, we know the world is on fire, but that’s just going to be our status quo for the next several months. And it’s Thanksgiving week and we wanted to do something fun. So we decided this week we’d play a fun little game that we borrowed from our friends over at the Protagonist Podcast.…
e346: Over the Rainbow: Examining Wicked, Oz, and their Cultural Impact
Did you know there was a movie adaptation of the film Wicked released this week? If not then we assume you must not see any commercials or advertisements in your life ever, because the marketing is PERSISTENT. And by all accounts it’s doing fairly well at the box office. That’s to be expected; the play…
Call for Comments: Wicked and the Wonderful (?) World of OZ
From Hannah: In our next show, we’re tackling populism, propaganda, and resistance — through Wicked (the film, the musical, the book series) and its source material the Oz series by L. Frank Baum. The world of Oz has always been political (especially in terms of American politics) since The Wonderful Wizard of Oz first appeared…
e345. Superpowers, Sex, and Science with Diana McCallum
For a show that was originally created in a comic book shop, we do surprisingly few episodes about comic books. Today is an opportunity to fix that. A few weeks ago, Mav was contacted by a publishing agent and asked if we could interview the author of a book that was all about comic book…
e344. Creepy Kids & Horror: Exploring Unsettling Youth in Film
Well, the US presidential election happened. And you’ve probably heard a ton about it. But we’re living in denial here at VoxPopcast so we’ve decided to pretend it’s still Halloween! Actually, before the election occurred, we recorded an episode dealing with the concept of creepy kids in horror. You might recall we talked about creepy…