For some reason Netflix, in their infinite wisdom, decided that the proper way for everyone in the world to spend their winter Holidays of American Thanksgiving through Christmas and New Years was to focus on concluding the — wow... ten year — Stranger Things saga. And somehow, even with all of our various holiday things going on, we did manage to catch it. Maybe we're devoted... or maybe we're just lame, who's to say. So on today's episode, join Mav, Hannah, Wayne and returning guest Josh Stroud to break down the final season of Stranger Things, how it related to the rest of series and overall cultural power of the show and what it says about a dying vestige of both 1980s and 2020's popular culture., Citations and Links: Our...
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- Wednesday, January 7, 2026
e403. Things You Missed 2025
By Christopher "Mav" Maverick
/ December 29, 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 so, we like to use the last week of every year to look back on the previous year and go through some of our favorite things that we might not have talked about. Were they the best media in 2025? Not necessarily! But they're things we didn't get to and things that you might not have even heard of. So join Mav, Monica, Wayne and Hannah as we breeze through a ton of content that...
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e402. Cheesy Christmas Movies 2025
By Christopher "Mav" Maverick, Hannah Lee Rogers, Sandy Eckard and Jacqueline Johnson
/ December 22, 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 time for our annual Christmas movie special. This year, Hannah and Mav are joined by retuning guest Jackie Johnson and Sandy Eckard to talk all about this years — actually somewhat limited — crop of new streaming Christmas movie options. Or at least, there seem like there were fewer on the major services than there have in the past. BUT, what's the quality like? Join us on this week's episode to see what we thought...
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e401. F-M-K!
By Christopher "Mav" Maverick, Monica Geraffo and Blake Collins
/ December 15, 2025
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 was originally patterned after being something of an academic happy hour... so we decided that it might be fun to play a common drinking game but with a pop culture twist. So on today's episode, Mav and Monica are joined by returning guest Blake Collins to play Pop Culture Fuck-Marry-Kill! It's a quite simple game... the rules are pretty much right there in the name and if you don't get it... well, we expect you'll...
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e400. 400 Episodes?!?! Holy $#!†!
By Christopher "Mav" Maverick, Hannah Lee Rogers, Monica Geraffo, Wayne Wise and Katya Gorecki
/ December 8, 2025
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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Call For Comments: Superhero Origins (and ours!)
March 26, 2018
From Mav: One of my most favorite things to do as an academic is presenting at conferences. Part of this is just because being an academic means presenting your research. That’s a big part of the job. But for me, conferences are the most fun because it means linking up with other people with similar…