Wow... somehow we've managed to do 400 of these! On today's very special anniversary episode of VoxPopcast we have the entire regular team of hosts to reminisce about the history of the show and the current state of popular culture and our predictions for where we think pop culture is going to go in the future. It's a packed episode, so join Mav, Wayne, Katya, Hannah and Monica as we celebrate 400 episodes of VoxPopcast and let us know your thoughts in the comments. Citations and Links: Thank you to Maximilian’s thoughtForm Music for our theme Follow Hannah on BlueSky: @hannahleerogers Follow Mav on BlueSky: @chrismaverick Follow Katya on Instagram: @justthatnerdkid Follow Monica on Instagram: @monicamarvelous Follow Wayne on Instagram: @tetroc2017 Follow us on BlueSky: @voxpopcast Follow us on Facebook: http://facebook.com/voxpopcast Subscribe to our...
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CFC: in which Katya learns a new word, or what is Overlanding & am I tacticool though?
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e184. Bram Stoker’s Dracula & the Draculi that Followed
It’s Halloween season and time to do some spooky theme shows! Of course, we’ve tackled monsters several times on the show before, but we’ve never devoted the whole show to just one monster. Until now! Dracula, is one of the most adapted novels of all time and with movies, TV shows, comics, video games and……
Excalibur #33: “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof”
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e183. How to Read All of the Marvels
If you’re a comic book fan, one of the things people often ask you is “I want to get into comics. Where do I start? What should I read?” This is especially true if you’re someone who reads comics for a living. It’s even more true this last decade or so of box office dominance…
Call for Comments: Something Wicked This Way Comes…
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Excalibur #32: “Someone Will Die for This!”
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Call for Comments: All the Draculas, er, All the Draculi
From Hannah: Dracula (1897, Bram Stoker) is a novel about reproduction. (And not just the reproduction of the heteronormative family/biological reproduction or the reproduction of the nation-state or even those disruptions through the infiltration of and reproduction of the vampire. Although, yes that, and so much more. But I’ll save that for the actual episode.)…
Excalibur #31: “No Man is an Island”
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CFC: A Funny Thing Happened When I Talked About Mixtapes
October 20, 2021
https://twitter.com/chrismaverick/status/1447466435828228097?s=21 From Mav: So funny story. Last week, I was having trouble sleeping, and I was listening to a podcast and someone said “we should make a playlist for this episode” and because neurons are weird and it was 3am, the mention of the word “playlist” made me think of “mixtapes” and I had a…