First off, you're welcome Game of Thrones fans. This is a super-sized Pop Rocket loaded with theories, speculation, and yes, even love. While Wynter and Karen were away, Margaret and Guy tapped two die-hard fans for a full-on discussion of the series and their thoughts now that the first two of the last six episodes have aired. Assembled in the studio this week:
Guy "I've read all the George R.R. Martin books in the series" Branum
Sarah "I'm in a viewing group with a gaggle of lesbians and their gaybies" Kessler
Laura "I prepared delicious direwolf-shaped crackers" Krafft
Margaret "I host GoT viewing parties at my house" Wappler
This episode will reveal which Game of Thrones character Guy has dressed up for--TWICE!--for Halloween. Sarah finds one GoT character extremely annoying, and it's not Bran. Laura pines for a Winterfell man she fears will die in the next episode, and Margaret is pretty sure she knows who will take the throne.
This was a raucous, expansive conversation that will both delight and frustrate Game of Thrones fans.
All Abouts
Margaret: The podcast Going Through It hosted by Ann Friedman
Guy: Chasten Buttigieg’s Twitter account
Sarah:
Dr. Pimple Popper, now on Hulu
Laura: The FX show What We Do in the Shadows
That's My Jam
Guy: Lizzo - Better in Color
Margaret: FKA Twigs - Cellophane
Sarah: Rusted Root - Send Me on My Way
Laura: Stone Roses - Fool’s Gold
With Guy Branum, Margaret Wappler, Sarah Kessler, Laura Krafft
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This week Wynter and Karen chat with Ellington Wells, a comedian and writer on Comedy Central’s brand new sketch show The New Negroes with Open Mike Eagle and Baron Vaughn. The panel takes a look at how black sketch comedy has involved and Wells tell us what Robert Townsend TV special inspired Vaughn to create a show with a similar sensibility.
All Abouts
Wynter: No Good Nick
Karen: Season 4 of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
Ellington: Britney's Gram podcast special episode
That's My Jam
Ellington: Ava Max - Sweet But Psycho
Guy: BTS (방탄소년단) IDOL (Feat. Nicki Minaj)
Wynter: Nat King Cole - Harlem Blues
Karen: An Luu - Pourquoi tu me fous plus des coups?
With Karen Tongson, Ellington Wells, Wynter Mitchell-Rohrbaugh
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**ANNOUNCEMENT: The nomination process is now open for the next Pop Rocket Seal of Approval. This quarter we’re looking for veterans with a large body of work who have been underappreciated and haven’t received the acclaim that their body of work and stellar character deserve. If you want to submit a name, you must call and leave a message on Guy’s mom’s voicemail to tell us who you’d like to nominate and why. That number is: 530-237-4108**
This week we’re joined by food writer Tien Nguyen whose love of food is only rivaled by her admiration of Sandra Oh, an Asian woman with amazing hair. We talk about Oh, her hair and why Killing Eve is killing it for the panel. Why is this show unlike any other in the spy genre? The panel has a lot of insight on this. Also, Wynter admits she was wrong for not embracing the show sooner.
All Abouts
Karen: Survivor Season 38: Edge of Extinction
Wynter: Wynter is all about Joe Bob Brigg’s show The Last Drive-In on Shudder
Tien: Kim-Joy’s new cookbook Baking with Kim-Joy
That's My Jam
Karen: Weyes Blood’s “A Lot’s Gonna Change”
Wynter: Moon Boots - Keep the Faith
Tien: Aretha Franklin - Jumpin’ Jack Flash
With Karen Tongson, , Wynter Mitchell-Rohrbaugh, Tien Nguyen
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Take a trip down memory lane with Wynter, Karen and Margaret as they revisit 1991 in music. If you’ve ever been curious what song was playing when Karen experienced her first same sex kiss, tune in. If you grew up in the nineties, this episode will bring you back to that moment in time. If you spent your formative years in the aughts, and want to experience the 90s vicariously through Pop Rocket, the panel goes into great detail about what makes 1991 such a pivotal epoch, giving us grunge, new jack swing, schmaltzy ballads and music fans that could embrace Nirvana, Boys II Men, C+C Music Factory and REM at once.
As an added bonus, we created a Pop Rocket 1991 Mixtape that you can listen to on Spotify.
All Abouts
Margaret is on thatPen15 tip, and reliving those awkward middle school years via Maya and Anna
Karen is all about the season three episode of This Is Us, entitled R & B
Wynter has fallen hard for
Celine Dion after attending an event with the Québécoise chanteuse to promote her new album and tour
That's My Jam
Karen: Cathy Dennis - Too Many Walls
Wynter: Tame Impala - Patience
Margaret: Billie Eilish - Bad Guy
Karen Tongson, Margaret Wappler, Wynter Mitchell-Rohrbaugh
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