Month: October 2025

Culture Podcasts

e394. Spirits and Spectacles: The World of Haunted Houses

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October 27, 2025
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Happy Halloween! As we move towards the end of Spooky Season this year, we realized that there is an interesting cultural phenomenon that we’ve never even considered on the show before but that is something of a classic pop culture phenomena — The Haunted House. Hannah recently visiting a haunted house for the first time…

Movies and Film Podcasts

e393. Eerie Elders: The Horror of Growing Old

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October 20, 2025
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It’s SPOOOOKY SEASON!!! Actually, it has been for a couple weeks and yet we really haven’t gotten into it. But now it’s time to fix that. A year ago we did an episode about “creepy kids” in media and why they are both so unsettling and so fascinating. Well, this year we thought we’d look…

Podcasts Video Games

e392. Games4SocialImpact 2025

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October 13, 2025
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Has it been a year already since Mav last did a special GameJam episode? I guess so. For those who are new to VoxPopcast, every year Mav serves as a judge and mentor for an annual event held at his place of employment, the University of Pittsburgh, where students compete to create playable games with…

Comics Culture Podcasts Sex and Gender

e391. Manga-101: Why is Manga?

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October 6, 2025
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It’s always weird and oddly exciting when we discover that we have a hole in the things we’ve covered one the show. And in fact, It’s actually quite surprising that we’ve been doing this show for 391 episodes and haven’t devoted an episode to manga before now. Sure it’s come up in discussions about comics…