e395. Stealing the Fives (with permission of course)

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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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e395. Stealing the Fives (with permission of course)

The VoxPopcast

3 weeks ago

e395. Stealing the Fives (with permission of course)

Every once in a while we like to step away from our usual serious… well… serious-ish, pseudo-academic intellectual pursuits and just do something a little fun. This is one of those weeks. Last week our friends at the Protagonist Podcast debuted a new game that they called “the Fives” and this week… well, we are shamelessly stealing it. Why? Because Mav listened to the episode and thought it was so fun that he just wanted to play. And so he grabbed Monica and Wayne and here we are. How does it work? Simple, each of the hosts picks a topic for a list and then they do a a round robin draft of the top five matching items for the list each. So I guess, maybe it’s sort of the fifteens? Whatever. The twist is you have to pick in the moment with no forethought leading up to it. It all makes sense in the end. And it was really fun and silly, so listen and let us know your thoughts in the comments.

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