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1 month ago | 
voxpopcast.com | Christopher Maverick |Wayne Wise |Joe Darowski |Andrew Darowski
You know how sometimes people say someone belongs on “the Mount Rushmore of music” or “the Mount Rushmore of comics” or “the Mount Rushmore of sports” or whatever?
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1 month ago | 
voxpopcast.com | Christopher Maverick |Wayne Wise |Matthew Brake
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 of these things to be true at the same time. This of course is mostly because they’re not. Does that mean that all media really is “woke” well, that’s not really true either.
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2 months ago | 
voxpopcast.com | Christopher Maverick |Wayne Wise |Stephanie Siler
A few weeks ago back on our Things you Missed episode, Mav recommended the movie My Old Ass with Maisy Stella and Aubrey Plaza. Since that time both Wayne and Mav’s wife Stephanie have watched it. In talking to them Mav noted a curious thing about the film. It’s technically a science fiction movie, sort of. At the very least the basic setup of the film involves time travel.
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Jan 20, 2025 | 
voxpopcast.com | Christopher Maverick |Wayne Wise |Katya Gorecki
It’s a dark day here at VoxPopcast and … well, for some of us, all across America. If you’re listening to this episode on the day that it drops then it is inauguration day for the United States presidency. And this means, after four years Donald Trump is going to return to power. If you have listened to the show you can probably guess we aren’t too happy about it. But we didn’t want to do a Trump episode because… well, we’re going to be talking about him plenty over the next four years.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
voxpopcast.com | Christopher Maverick |Wayne Wise |Monica Geraffo |Anna F. Peppard
For a show that was originally created in a comic book shop, we do surprisingly few episodes about comic books. Today is an opportunity to fix that. A few weeks ago, Mav was contacted by a publishing agent and asked if we could interview the author of a book that was all about comic book superheroes and the sex lives they might have. The agent was clearly ready to do the hard sell to convince us that this wasn’t at all weird, but nope… we were pretty much in immediately.
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Oct 14, 2024 | 
voxpopcast.com | Christopher Maverick |Wayne Wise |Hannah Rogers |Matt Wagner
It’s October and we’re well into spooky season and like every year we like to spend that time diving into some of the more horror based pop culture we can find. A few years ago, we did an episode all about the varying film adaptations of Dracula and noted that Dracula himself was perhaps one of the most adapted characters in the history of fiction. But what is it like to create such an adaptation.
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Aug 12, 2024 | 
voxpopcast.com | Christopher Maverick |Hannah Rogers |Wayne Wise
We’re quickly running out of summer and as we do the new school year is even more quickly approaching. That means, for those of us who teach classes… or who take classes, we’re starting to get busy with preparations, hoping to get them all done before the last minute. If you’re a professor, like Mav, that means one of those things you need to do is prepare a syllabus. But what exactly is a syllabus anyway? Other than that document that professors complain that students never read?
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Apr 15, 2024 | 
voxpopcast.com | Christopher Maverick |Wayne Wise |Hannah Rogers |Katya Gorecki
On this week’s show, all five co-hosts are online to celebrate six years of producing a weekly pseudo academic roundtable of pop culture analysis with drinking and swearing. It isn’t too often that we can get the entire gang together these days, so this week we thought we’d do so with no strict agenda other than to catch up on things going on in our lives and our personal obsseverations of culture.
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Mar 25, 2024 | 
voxpopcast.com | Christopher Maverick |Wayne Wise |Stephanie Siler
Have you ever done that thing where you hear a song that’s a cover of another song you like, only to find out later that you have it backwards and the song you thought was the cover was the original and vice versa? That was actually one of the first arguments that Mav and his wife Stephanie ever had. This was recently an issue when modern country artist Luke Combs released a cover of Tracy Chapman’s 35 year old, “Fast Car”.
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Mar 7, 2024 | 
voxpopcast.com | Wayne Wise
From Wayne: We recently did an episode about Kaiju, those huge unstoppable monsters who leave death and destruction in their wake. Around the time of our recording I saw the new Jason Statham movie, The Beekeeper. Spoilers: It’s essentially John Wick. But it sent my brain down the path of making the comparison and thinking of these John Wick-like characters as human kaiju.
