Oh, hey there I'm Guy Branham and welcome to Pop Rocket, a weekly show picking over all the the Pop Culture We Love to Love.

With Me to Talk TV, Film, Music, and Anything Else

Anything Our rather dramatically reduced panel.

Uh, who's here?

It's just me, Margaret Wopler, the journalist one.

Margaret, this is our whitest show ever.

This is the first time we have been an officially white show recording...

It's Martin Luther King Day.

And all the people of color have disappeared from our show.

Yes, it's some sort of rapture situation has gone on.

Yeah, something like the leftovers perhaps.

But Margaret and I remain.

And I should do all the voices.

I'll be like, hey guy, like Oliver, and then hello, hello.

That would be wonderful. We should do more of Pop Rocket with puppets. Every week we start the show by taking a question for more listeners about our own pop culture

tastes. This week, Margaret, I want you to tell me, what's your favorite song performed by a duet?

Well the first thing that came to mind, and I think the 80s was a fine time for duets. Don't you feel like you just saw so many duets in the 80s that are burned into your childhood brain? I thought of Linda Ronstan and Paul Simon on Under African skies from Graceland because it's just a beautiful

song and her voice just sounds like this ethereal goddess creation just cutting through the music. I love it.

The Eandies were a really powerful time. I will dip back a little further to the 70s.

Elton John and Kiki D doing Don't Go go breaking my heart, is it's a karaoke go to for me because I always get a rub and have them do Elton John and then I am Kiki D.

And they are a little bit tentative and I am not and it's hilarious.

But it was just so fun and so full of energy at a point in time when Elton John could do

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