#172: In Praise of the Pope of Washington

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🗓️ 25 April 2018

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

This week, Guy Branum, Karen Tongson, Margaret Wappler discuss the finale of the Shonda Rhimes led show, Scandal. The ABC series wrapped up last week and it stirred up all sorts of thoughts from the team on the female anti-heroes on television.

Karen is all about the upcoming Pixar short Bao, which she says is an important addition to Asian representation in popular media (which, let’s face it, is limited). Margaret is all about a recent article about parents raising their children as “Theybies”. Guy is all about the new film I Feel Pretty, a comedy that, while not without a slightly problematic message, shines through with plenty of laughs from Amy Schumer.

The panel will their discuss what they think of Scandal; everything from the finale, how closely they’ve watched the show since it started and where Olivia Pope fits in with the pantheon of women anti-heroes on TV.

With Guy Branum, Karen Tongson and Margaret Wappler.

That’s My Jam:

Karen Tongson - Joe Jackson - Steppin’ Out.

Margaret Wappler - Sampha - (No One Knows Me) Like the Piano.

Guy Branum - Kacey Musgraves - High Horse.

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 Guy Brandham and welcome to Pop Rocket, a weekly show picking you for all the pop culture we love to love.
0:14.0	With me to talk TV, film, music, and anything else entertaining, our journalist and novelist Margaret
0:18.6	Wopler.
0:19.6	Hey there, Guy.
0:20.6	Hello Margaret, how are you doing?
0:23.0	I'm pretty good. You got a fun capri.
0:26.0	You got like a shirt that is somewhere in between like a fun mod and a little bit like young mom shirts.
0:35.0	Young mom shirt I beg your pardon.
0:38.0	I will say though that Silas really likes the glowy stickers on us.
0:41.0	I just imagine it would like captivate him. And pop culture
0:44.8	scholar and Dyke about town, Karen Toxin. Hey guy, hi rocketeers. Karen, how you doing?
0:51.7	I'm doing great.
0:53.2	A little worse for the wear, but that always happens.
0:55.4	You had yourself a weekend?
0:56.6	Had a weekend.
0:58.0	I was at the LA Times Book Fair, doing important conversational things about me too and then I played a lesbian
1:05.3	magician and my friends play. Yeah you did so much this weekend Karen
1:10.0	it was a lot it was a big weekend I mean you wore like a beard and a hat and a bow tie for a while?
1:15.2	It was not quite a beard.
1:16.8	Just you know lesbian facial hair.
1:18.4	Margaret, did you festival of books?
1:20.3	I didn't.
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