Ep. 120: Looking at Pop Culture Through the Political Prism WIth Chuck Klosterman

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The Ringer

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4.5 • 5.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2017

⏱️ 65 minutes

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The Ringer’s Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald discuss Who Won the Week (3:00) and Taboo (5:43) before they are joined by author and essayist Chuck Klosterman to talk about the state of pop culture and how assigning political meaning to it feels inescapable in the current climate (11:28). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey Game of Thrones fans, the enhanced editions of George R.R. Martin's Game of Thrones books
0:06.2	are available exclusively on iBooks, including the just released A Feast of Crows in a Hand
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0:16.6	a sigil guide, shout out to the Lannisters, and much more all of these extras bring the
0:20.9	thrilling adventure to life and help you stay on top of the epic storylines.
0:25.0	A Feast of Crows enhanced edition exclusively on iBooks at Apple.co slash Game of Thrones,
0:31.3	not available in all countries.
0:55.0	Well, that was our show for today.
1:02.8	Do you know that that was my contribution to the show?
1:05.8	I first of all yelled a lot.
1:07.8	I'm going to be Chris in this room.
1:09.6	I'm just going to be the fire starter.
1:10.6	I don't even know why I just yelled at.
1:13.2	Two.
1:14.2	I was like, no, no, this idea is cool, but what if he did stuff with his mind?
1:18.6	And they were all like, what?
1:19.6	No, it was cool beat it.
1:20.6	No, it was like, no, no.
1:21.6	I was like, no, there's this idea of mutancy.
1:24.9	He was like, tell me more.
1:26.4	Andy, it's the re-up.
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