Ep. 176: Baby Got Books w/ Mallory O'Meara

Pop Rocket

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4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2018

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

This week, Guy Branum, Margaret Wappler and Karen Tongson are joined by novelist Mallory O’Meara, host of the Max Fun Podcast Reading Glasses. The gang will discuss books and reading habits.

Mallory is all about is all about the book Text Me When You Get Home, which looks into the myth that women aren’t meant to be friends with other women. Margaret is all about the podcast The Habitat, which tracks people as they live out a simulated mission on Mars to learn that no matter which planet you’re on, living with strangers will always annoy you. Guy is all about the film The Dressmaker, which he fell in love with the only way he knew how: by reading the Wikipedia article. Karen is all about the surprisingly affecting Netflix documentary The Rachel Divide.

In honor of Summer reading season being on the horizon, the panel will discuss what books, magazines and articles have caught their eye lately. Plus they’ll talk about where and how often they love to read, and Mallory will share one book that she absolutely can’t stand.

With Guy Branum, Margaret Wappler, Karen Tongson and Mallory O’Meara .

That’s My Jam:

Mallory O’Meara - A Perfect Circle - Hourglass.

Karen Tongson- Tears for Fears - Ideas As Opiates

Margaret Wappler - Madonna - Borderline.

Each week we’ll add everyone’s jams to our Spotify playlists.

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Produced by Laura Swisher for MaximumFun.org. Edited by Julian Burrell.

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0:00.0	Oh, hey there I'm Guy Branham and welcome to Pop Rocket. A weekly show peaking over all the pop culture we love to love.
0:13.0	We've media, talk, TV, film, music, and anything else entertaining.
0:16.0	Our journalist and novelist Margaret Wopler.
0:18.0	Hi there, Guy.
0:19.0	Oh, Margaret, how should we go?
0:21.0	Oh, it's going pretty good.
0:22.0	I took a lot of naps yesterday.
0:24.0	I liked that.
0:25.0	That's important.
0:26.0	That's important.
0:27.0	And we've got pop culture scholar in Dyke about town, Karen Tonkin.
0:31.0	Hey guy, hi rocketeers. Ooh, I croaked with that one.
0:35.7	Karen, you're practice. You're back to us from Asia.
0:38.6	I am back to you from Asia. I'm still, my body is still 15 hours ahead of everyone else is here, so right now I'm still my body is still 15 hours ahead of everyone else is here so right now I'm
0:44.9	fairly lucid but who knows what will happen as the show progresses.
0:47.8	You're actually just a hologram right now in here.
0:49.8	Pretty much. Are you going to bring us pop culture from the future? I will. Okay. And winter is on assignment.
0:57.0	So this week we've got with us author, filmmaker, and one half of the Max Fund podcast reading glasses, Mallory Omera.
1:03.6	Mallory, what should the Rock Tears know about you?
1:06.1	Well, I'm a book devour.
1:08.0	I was sent back from the future, much like our friend here, to only consume books,
1:11.9	and I'm doing a pretty good job of it so
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