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The VoxPopcast is a society podcast hosted by Vox Populorum. It has 429 episodes, with the latest published April 2026.

We’ve all had a discussion or an argument about popular culture. Sometimes it happens on Facebook, Tumblr or Twitter. Maybe it was in a literature, history, philosophy or psychology class in college. Perhaps it was at the local comic book shop. Or maybe it was at a bar and you ended up stabbing someone with a bottle or bludgeoning them with a pool cue. All of these discussions are exactly the same. The tenured professor at an academic conference deconstructing Batman through a Derrida lens is really doing the same thing as a bunch of teenagers passing a joint around in their mother’s basement. One just uses bigger words and the other swears more. Honestly, though, we’re not sure which. So why not bring them all together? Vox Populorum is a blog and podcast devoted to pop culture criticism. We believe that the best way to understand culture is to discuss it. Please join our weekly round table of media critics, academics and fans for engaging discussion about movies, novels, comic bo

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e417. Doomscrolling and Redemption: The Evolution of Faces of Death

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e416. All the Cinderellas: an Exploration of Trope and Transformation

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e415. Beyond the Final Frontier: Star Trek’s Influence on Culture & Fandom

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e414. Strings Attached: Puppetry, from Marionettes to AI

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e413. Teen Beach Movie Revisited: a Conversation with the Screenwriter

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e412. The 2026 Oscars Prediction Special

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e411. Is The Cannonball Run a Bad Movie? (Ok, we know it is… but does it have to be?)

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e410. Teen Beach Movie: Metaphor, Methodology, Memories, and Millennials vs. GenZ

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e409. Tommy Westphall’s Snowglobe: Exploring Fiction’s Largest Shared Universe

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e408. Wonder Woman: Boundaries, Bondage, and Breakthroughs

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GroundPod Day 2026! Happy Groundhog Day!

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e407. Oscar Sneak Preview: Breaking Down the Nominations From Snubs to Surprises

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e406. So, We Live in the Pitt and Here is What We Think of It…

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e405. Fantasy Box Office Draft 2026

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e404. Stranger Endings: Breaking Down the End of Stranger Things

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e403. Things You Missed 2025

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e402. Cheesy Christmas Movies 2025

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e401. F-M-K!

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e400. 400 Episodes?!?! Holy $#!†!

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e399. The Show Must Go On! Navigating Main Character Exits and Recasts

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e398. Of Course We’re Talking About Wicked For Good

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e397. All the Frankensteins! (like all the Draculas… but with Frankenstein)

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e396. Games, Education, & Collaboration: The Role of Play in Learning and Connection

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e395. Stealing the Fives – Repost to fix error

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e395. Stealing the Fives (with permission of course)

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e394. Spirits and Spectacles: The World of Haunted Houses

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e393. Eerie Elders: The Horror of Growing Old

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e392. Games4SocialImpact 2025

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e391. Manga-101: Why is Manga?

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e390. La Mort de le Mèmer? How memes make meaning

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e389. Boycotts and their Cultural Impact

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e388. 2025 Summer Catch Up! Was that it?

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e387. TV is Our Religion: The Theological Lens of Peak Television

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e386. Unpacking Long-Running TV: From Sitcoms to Soap Operas

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e385. Is Flash Gordon a Bad Movie?

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e384. From Vanderbilt Glam to Oscar’s Shades: The Gilded Age Deep Dive

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e383. Revisiting Milkshake Ducks

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e382. How Catch ’em? Exploring the Inverted Mystery

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e381. It’s Clobberin’ Time! Fantastic Four’s Impact on the Summer of Superheroes

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e380. Monica in Paris: The Tropes of Study Abroad

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e379. and now… Superman

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e378. For Mature Audiences Only: When Nostalgia Grows Up

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e377. The Art of the Sequel: Continuity vs. Creativity vs. Capitalism

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e376. Deconstructing RomComs: Genre, Trope and Capitalism

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e375. Floppy Disks and Fast Cars: Technological Nostalgia in Media

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e374. The Accuracy Dilemma: Balancing Fact and Fiction in Pop Culture

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e373. Collecting Value. Understanding Valuation in Popular Culture

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e372. MCU 2025: Exploring the Current Marvel Cinematic Landscape

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e371. Retro Revivals and Cinematic Sequels: Summer 2025 Preview

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e370. Free Comic Book Day and Geek Third Spaces

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