e407. Oscar Sneak Preview: Breaking Down the Nominations From Snubs to Surprises

For a show about pop culture, it’s actually somewhat rare for us to address topics of pop culture while they are actually happening. But sometimes we do. So this week, we want to talk about The Oscars! Ok, it’s too early to really give our Oscar predictions, but this week the Academy of Motion Picture…

e405. Fantasy Box Office Draft 2026

It’s that time again! Every year we have one very special show where all of the hosts get together to reveal the results of last years Fantasy Box Office Game AND to draft for the upcoming year. Last years game was a barn burner that basically came down to the very end where it could…

e403. Things You Missed 2025

Well here we are at the end of the year 2025; a year that somehow seemingly lasted 147 months. And yet somehow it was really only 12 months and that means we had only 52 weeks to analyze everything that happened in popular culture. Obviously we didn’t get to it all; we never do. And…

e402. Cheesy Christmas Movies 2025

It’s everyone’s favorite time of year… the time where we celebrate that birth of… Cheesy Christmas movies! I mean, I’m sure there’s probably some other significance to this time of year too, but round these parts, we know that the December Holiday Season is all about the seasonal Christmas movie rom coms. And so, it’s…

e401. F-M-K!

It’s finals week. Well, ok, finals are over, so that means it’s finals GRADING week, the worst week of the academic semester for anyone who teaches for a living. It can really burn you out. So, for this week we decided to do something of a pallet cleanser episode. Longtime listeners might know that VoxPopcast…

e398. Of Course We’re Talking About Wicked For Good

There’s no sense burying the lead here. If you listen to our show at all, you know that Hannah is a Wicked fanatic. We talked about it last year (exactly 52 shows ago) when the first Wicked film came out and of course since the sequel, Wicked For Good premiered this weekend… well, it was…

e397. All the Frankensteins! (like all the Draculas… but with Frankenstein)

One of pop cultures most enduring properties is Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Not only is it often hailed as the first ever science fiction property, it is one of the all-time most adapted characters in film, TV and other media. In fact, Netflix just produced a new version last week. That seemed like a good excuse…

e395. Stealing the Fives (with permission of course)

Every once in a while we like to step away from our usual serious… well… serious-ish, pseudo-academic intellectual pursuits and just do something a little fun. This is one of those weeks. Last week our friends at the Protagonist Podcast debuted a new game that they called “the Fives” and this week… well, we are…

e393. Eerie Elders: The Horror of Growing Old

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…

e388. 2025 Summer Catch Up! Was that it?

Well, it’s been a summer… that’s certainly true. And if you live in America, you know there’s been a bunch of… let’s say “news” that happened this week. Obviously we have opinions on it. But honestly, you’re likely getting enough of that. So this week, Mav and Hannah decided to do a light show where…