Declarations of Independence

Pop Rocket

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4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2017

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

The gang's all here (in a special early episode) to celebrate artists who have declared their independence from the man! We're talking Lemonade, Thelma and Louise, Sofia Coppola, Salman Rushdie, and more! Plus, Guy has a special surprise Jam for you Rocketeers, Wynter can't get enough of Claws, Karen's Dying Up Here, and Margaret talks Kerry Washington in Confirmation

With Guy Branum, Wynter Mitchell, Karen Tongson and Margaret Wappler.

That’s My Jam:

Margaret Wappler - Cat Powers - Lived in Bars
Karen Tongson - The Killers - The Man
Wynter Mitchell - Ice Cube - My Summer Vacation
Guy Branum - Katy Perry - Firework

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

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Produced by Christian Dueñas and Kara Hart for MaximumFun.org.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Oh, hey, hey there I'm Guy Branham.
0:04.0	Welcome to a special Independence Day edition of Pop Rocket.
0:17.0	A weekly show peeking over all the pop culture we love to love.
0:19.0	We are posting this episode early, so you can blast it from the speakers at whatever July 4th pool
0:24.2	party or barbecue you are at.
0:27.0	With me to talk TV, film, music, and anything else entertaining are Digital Strategist Winter
0:30.9	Mitchell.
0:31.9	Hello Hello. Digital Strategist Winter, what are you declaring independence from this year?
0:37.0	Bad news!
0:38.0	All right, fair.
0:40.0	Journalists and novelist, Margaret, Margaret, what are you declaring independence from this year
0:46.0	bad food. Oh that's fair that's fair we've got pop culture scholar in
0:52.1	Dyke about town Karen Karen Toxon.
0:53.6	Karen what are you declaring independence from?
0:56.2	Email. Oh, really? Yeah, I'm just like you know I have an away message.
1:01.6	One of our first weeks here, a real uppity Margaret Wopler,
1:06.6	talked about three days she had spent without.
1:09.6	They crucified me, Karen.
1:11.4	When I said this, it was just like, they they were all like who do you think you are?
1:15.0	It was Rocky in the beginning.
1:17.0	We had just met Margaret and we were like, oh, how much are hot stones a part of this woman's life. Little did we know.
1:26.0	Oh, and me, Guy Branham, I'm going to be declaring independence from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
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