#170: The Cult Episode
Pop Rocket
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4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 11 April 2018
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
This week, Guy Branum, Karen Tongson, Margaret Wappler and Wynter Mitchell are joined by LA-based artist Akina Cox to discuss the Netflix documentary series Wild Wild Country and cults in pop culture.
Karen Tongson is all about Killing Eve on BBC America, which features the return to TV of the beloved Sandra Oh. Wynter is all about The Zen Diaries of Gary Shandling on HBO, Judd Apatow’s love letter to one of the best and most complex comics in history. Akina is all about Ron Chernow’s biography of Ulysses Grant, which is guaranteed to NOT have not be adapted into a musical. Margaret is all about Junot Diaz’s New Yorker article about the trauma he experienced as a child. Guy is all about John Sherman’s Buzzfeed article about Love Simon’s shortcomings as a movie featuring queer characters.
The panel will their why cults have become such a fascinating subject in entertainment, including Far Cry 5, Wild, Wild Country and more. Plus, Akin will share her experience of growing up in an actual cult and her thoughts on some of the modern famous charismatic religious figures.
With Karen Tongson, Guy Branum, Margaret Wappler, Wynter Mitchell and Akina Cox.
That’s My Jam:
Akina Cox - SASAMI - Callous
Karen Tongson - Jens Lekman -To Know Your Mission
Margaret Wappler - Nat King Cole - Nature Boy
Guy Branum Rex Orange County - Loving is Easy
Each week we’ll add everyone’s jams to our Spotify playlists.
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Produced by Laura Swisher for MaximumFun.org.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, hey there I'm God Branham, and welcome to Pop Rock at a weekly show peeking over all the pop culture we love to love. |
| 0:13.6 | We need to talk TV, film, music, and anything else entertaining. |
| 0:16.8 | Our digital strategist Winter Mitchell. |
| 0:18.6 | Hello, hello, Winter. |
| 0:20.4 | How's it going? |
| 0:21.4 | Really good. |
| 0:22.4 | We've also got journalist and novelist, Margaret Wopler. |
| 0:25.0 | Hey there, Guy. |
| 0:26.0 | Hey Margaret, how's your week? |
| 0:28.0 | I'm, it's good, you know. |
| 0:29.0 | Fair to middling. |
| 0:30.0 | How is Silas? |
| 0:31.0 | He's adorable. |
| 0:32.0 | Wow, I'm going to need to see pictures or it didn't happen. |
| 0:35.0 | And it's pop culture scholar and Dyke about town Karen Tonsons. |
| 0:40.0 | Hey Guy, hi rocketeers. |
| 0:42.0 | Hello Karen. Hey Guy, hi rocket tears. |
| 0:45.0 | Hello Karen. You're wearing a lot of black for springtime. |
| 0:48.0 | Well, I had to figure out a way to mitigate the 90 plus degree weather and still be within the sphere of the kind of, I don't know, post winter romance. |
| 0:59.5 | I want to see, I want to see summertime colonial florals on you as quickly as possible. |
| 1:04.4 | I will look like a Trader Joe's employee very soon. |
| 1:09.2 | And you guys, we have a very special guest. |
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