e351. Cinematic Trolley Problems: Exploring Moral Grey Areas Through Film

It’s the last episode of the year. Except we did our year end recap like two weeks ago. So what are we to do this week? Well, how about a regular topic? Who says we can’t innovate on this show 351 episodes in? So, on this NOT end-of-year episode, Mav, Katya, Monica, and Wayne delve…

X2Z Movies e2. Is Die Hard a Christmas Movie? A Generational Debate

It’s only the second episode of X2Z Movies, but that doesn’t mean that there isn’t time for a special! Besides, it’s Christmas, so of course maybe we should talk about the greatest Christmas movie of all time, Die Hard! Well, maybe. It turns out that Marie had never seen it and now that she has,…

e350. Cheesy Christmas Movies 2024 Extra Thirsty Edition

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…

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.…