Back To School

Pop Rocket

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4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2017

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

This week on Pop Rocket Karen hosts and the gang goes back to school. It's that time of year again and the crew looks back on the quintessential school movies that taught them about life. Wynter shares her desire to have a Sixteen Candles high school experience, and Alonso discusses his relation to Tom Cruise in the film Risky Business. The gang also dives into adult education, discussing the films and TV where adults go back to school. Karen shares with us the lessons learned from Will Smith's character in the film Six Degrees of Separation. Plus, the crew explores the current lack of value placed upon education and how that may be the death knell for future classic movies about the school experience.

This week Karen reveals some *SPOILERS* for the show Insecure and is also all about it. While Alonso is all about Netflix's The Defenders. Plus, Wynter gets her popcorn ready as she is all about Taylor Swift's social media scrubbing and her ongoing feud with Katy Perry.

With Wynter Mitchell, Alonso Duralde, and Karen Tongson.

Jams:

Alonso - Axolotl - The Veils
Wynter - Mediate - INXS
Karen - Haim - Little of Your Love

Each week we’ll add everyone’s jams to this handy August Spotify playlist.

You can let us know what you think of Pop Rocket and suggest topics in our Facebook group or via @PopRocket on Twitter.

Produced by Christian Dueñas and Casey O'Brien for MaximumFun.org.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Oh, hey Rocketeers! I'm Karen Tonson filling in for Guy Branham and welcome to Pop Rocket, a weekly show picking over all the pop culture
0:15.4	we love to love.
0:17.2	With me to talk TV, film, music, and anything else entertaining, our digital strategist Winter
0:22.2	Winter. Hello, Winter. entertaining our digital strategist Winter
0:25.0	and film critic Alonso Dural Day.
0:27.0	Oh and don't forget he's also the Charo pop rocket.
0:31.0	Hence the Ola.
0:32.0	Maybe you could be the Bonnie Tyler singing Totally Clips on the cruise ship of Pop Rockin.
0:37.0	Can I just tell you?
0:39.2	Let her get that paper.
0:40.4	I know.
0:41.4	She needs to get paid.
0:42.4	She needs to get paid. Oh, yeah paid she's got about maybe two more opportunities to do this yeah
0:48.3	A friend of mine is on that cruise actually
0:50.7	Oh my god. He was very excited about it. I've not heard from him since but I'm sure it was a life-changing experience.
0:56.0	I would watch that movie by the way.
0:58.0	So yes, we're taping on the night of the eclipse. I hope you all had the opportunity to stare at the eclipse without doing the
1:05.8	drump thing and burning your eyes out. We actually before we get started have a
1:11.9	very special announcement to make.
1:14.4	Pop Rocket's first Bambino.
1:17.6	Do-Doo-Doo, the Golden Child.
1:20.5	Margaret Waupler brought a beautiful baby boy named Silas into the world this week.
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