Ep. 173: The Rogue Robots of Westworld...and Beyond

Pop Rocket

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4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2018

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

This week, Guy Branum, Karen Tongson and Margaret Wappler are joined by Andrew Ti, host of the “Yo, Is This Racist?” podcast. They take a look at HBO’s West World. Season Two just got started and the team is fairly certain it will be just as complicated as the first.

Karen is all about Alexis Bledel in Handmaid’s Tale Season 2, even though it puts a character she cares about though even more difficulties. Margaret and Guy are all about Michelle Wolf’s routine at The White House Correspondent’s Dinner and are very confused about the outrage that’s surrounded it. Andrew is all about Avengers: Infinity War even though he didn’t quite understand the storytelling subtleties of the plot.

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 Karen Tongson, Guy Branum, Margaret Wappler and Andrew Ti.

That’s My Jam:

Karen Tongson - Maroon 5, SZA - What Lovers Do

Andrew Ti - The Higher Brother - Made in China

Margaret Wappler - The Pointer Sisters - Automatic.

Guy Branum - Kacey Musgraves - High Horse.

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0:00.0	Oh, hey there I'm Guy Branham and welcome to Pop Rocket, a weekly show picking over all the pop culture we love to love.
0:13.4	We've media talk TV, film, music, and anything else understanding.
0:16.3	Our journalist and novelist Margaret Wopler.
0:18.8	Well, hey there, guy.
0:20.0	Hello Margaret, how's it going?
0:21.3	Good, I'm really loving the floral.
0:24.0	Thank you.
0:24.6	Yeah.
0:25.6	I had to wear a light shirt because this week I learned
0:27.5	that if you get lemon juice on yourself
0:29.5	and then sit in the sun, you can get a horrible chemical burn. Oh oh I thought that's just how girls in high
0:35.0	school did their highlights yes well if I do that to my stomach like there there
0:40.3	are three horrible welts that are clearly in the shape of me wiping lemon juice on my stomach.
0:46.0	It's terrible.
0:48.0	We've also got Academic and Dyke about town, Karen Tonson.
0:52.0	Hi Guy, Hi rocketeers.
0:54.4	Karen, you just came back from your big fete of the year.
0:59.0	Big music nerd fat up at the Museum of Pop Culture called the PopCon or Pop Conference and it was great.
1:05.8	I had a round table with some really amazing writers about quiet storm and soft rock.
1:14.0	Nice.
1:15.0	So much from the 80s has come back, but I feel like that
1:19.4	Holinotsy magic has not been returning to us.
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