If you’ve been listening to the show for the past few weeks then you know that this month has been our special series of PCA episodes, and this might very well be the episode that you’ve been waiting for. We all went the Popular Culture Association International Conference in New Orleans, but how did the…
Category: Sex and Gender
e367. Live from PCA 2025: Unpacking Mainstream Sexuality
It took 367 episodes, but it finally has happened! In this special live episode of the VoxPopcast, host Christopher “Mav” Maverick is joined for the first time (in person) by his full panel of co-hosts: Wayne Wise, Hannah Lee Rogers, Monica Geraffo, and Katya Gorecki. The full team broadcasts from the 2025 PCA/ACA conference in…
e366. What Ever Happened to the Teen Sex Farce?
Did you grow up watching movies like Porky’s? American Pie? Eurotrip? What about the Breakfast Club or Easy A? They sure don’t make them like they used to. Only not just in an old man kind of way. They really don’t make movies like that much anymore, do they? On this episode, Mav welcomes returning…
e365. Works in Progress: PCA2025
This is the 365th show. This means you can now listen to VoxPopcast every day for a year and not have any repeats. That should be exciting in and of itself. But how are we celebrating? Well, if you’ve been paying attention to the show lately, you know we are coming up on PCA. Our…
Call For Comments: What Happened to the Teen Sex Farce?
From Mav: So a few weeks ago, after Michelle Trachtenberg suddenly died, I started thinking about whether or not we wanted to do an episode of our “is this a bad movie?” series to talking about Eurotrip. Partly because I thought it would be interesting to talk about the changing sensibilities within American youth culture,…
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…
e360. Selling Woke: Navigating Complexities of Capitalism and Media Bias
You know how there’s all of those weirdos who are always claiming that “you get woke and go broke” while at the same time complaining that it’s unfair that all of media is now woke and suddenly they don’t have any non-woke alternatives. This seems incongruous and like it would be pretty hard for both…
Call For Comments: Get Nominally Woke Have Poorly Defined Return on Financial Investment
From Mav: We’ve talked before about the ways in which people complaining that media is “too woke now” are often just not aware that the media they’ve always loved always has been. A few years back I remember when there was an uproar amongst comic fans when Nick Spencer, then writer of Captain America comics…
e358. Monster Crushes: Infatuation with the Unknown
Happy Valentines Day! Yes, we know we’re a few days late, but the show comes out on Mondays, and this was the closest chance we got, so what do you want from us. Anyway, this Valentines Day we want to return to one of our most frequent weird topics, Monster Sex! Well… or perhaps more…
X2Z Movies e3. Unpacking Wicked: A Generational Review
On this week’s epsiode, Mav and Marie team up to review a current movie that’s in theaters now. It’s Wicked! Obviously, the film is already a success. But how does it play across generations? Mav and Marie sit down to discuss why and how the film works for them from both a Gen X and…