e363. Is The Mummy a Bad Movie?

We’re a pop culture analysis podcast. As such you’d think we’d analyze a lot more movies than we do. Maybe we should do more. That’s a question for another day. But every once in a while we realize that one of the hosts of the show absolutely adores a move that maybe isn’t as beloved…

e359. 2025 Oscar Preview

It’s one week before the Academy Awards and so that means it’s time to do our annual Oscar Preview episode. And because this is VoxPopcast, of course we’re going to make a competition out of it. This year, Mav and Hannah are joined by returning guest Stephanie Siler to go through the entire Oscar ballot…

e357. The Museum Dilemma: Ownership, Ethics, and Colonialism

You know that part of the Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade where young Indy insists over and over again that a relic belongs in a museum? Or the part where old Indy insists that an artifact belongs in a museum? Or the way people, including museums, have basically claimed this over and over in…

e355. The Great Social Media Sunset: Where Do We Go From Here?

So if you live on planet Earth, even if you’re not an American, you likely know that Donald Trump returned to the US presidency last week. And along with him, there was also this weird thing where TikTok was blocked in America but then returned 12 hours later with a strange message thanking Trump, even…

e352. The 2025 Box Office Fantasy Draft

Happy New Year. And with the new year comes one of our longest running traditions. It’s time for the annual box office draft! Every year, we play a game where all of the hosts compete to draft the best slate of films from the upcoming year. First things first, we have to catch up on…

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…

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…

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…