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e395. Stealing the Fives – Repost to fix error
November 03, 2025

(Note: an earlier version of this episode failed to post correctly to our feed. Our apologies.) Every once in a while we like to step away from our usual serious

e394. Spirits and Spectacles: The World of Haunted Houses
October 27, 2025

Happy Halloween! As we move towards the end of Spooky Season this year, we realized that there is an interesting cultural phenomenon that weve never even considered on the show

e393. Eerie Elders: The Horror of Growing Old
October 20, 2025

Its SPOOOOKY SEASON!!! Actually, it has been for a couple weeks and yet we really havent gotten into it. But now its time to fix that. A year ago we

e392. Games4SocialImpact 2025
October 13, 2025

Has it been a year already since Mav last did a special GameJam episode? I guess so. For those who are new to VoxPopcast, every year Mav serves as a

e391. Manga-101: Why is Manga?
October 06, 2025

Its always weird and oddly exciting when we discover that we have a hole in the things weve covered one the show. And in fact, Its actually quite surprising that

e390. La Mort de le Mèmer? How memes make meaning
September 29, 2025

Weve talked a lot on the show in the past about Roland Barthes influential literary essay La mort de lauteur or the Death of the Author and what it means

e389. Boycotts and their Cultural Impact
September 22, 2025

So America is in a weird place right now. Frankly, we could say that just about every week these days. But this last couple of weeks its been even more

e388. 2025 Summer Catch Up! Was that it?
September 15, 2025

Well, its been a summer thats certainly true. And if you live in America, you know theres been a bunch of lets say news that happened this week. Obviously we

e387. TV is Our Religion: The Theological Lens of Peak Television
September 08, 2025

Theres a lot of TV content out there. In fact, sometimes it feels like theres maybe too much TV to watch. However, theres a certain set of shows that it

e386. Unpacking Long-Running TV: From Sitcoms to Soap Operas
September 01, 2025

They dont make TV like they used to. They quite literally just dont!. Theres lots of business reasons for this and culture changes and just an over abundance of content