Ep. 217 - Pop Rocket Goes to USC to Teach the Kids Why Pop Culture Matters

Pop Rocket

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4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2019

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

It’s the first live episode of Pop Rocket. Professor Karen Tongson invited the panel to give a lesson on why pop culture matters, with a focus on the past decade. You’ll learn what pop culture of the 2010s will last, and what culture won’t be remembered. Plus we’ll hear from some of Karen’s students, including a special jam brought to the show by Clayton. You won’t want to miss this must-listen episode!

All Abouts

Margaret: Out for Blood

Karen: Shrill

Wynter: The Fox-Disney merger

That's My Jam

Margaret: Lizzo - Cuz I Luv You

Clayton: 4 Non Blondes - What’s Up

Wynter: Beyonce feat. Frank Ocean - Superpower

Karen: Guy Branum, Karen Tongson, Margaret Wappler, Wynter Mitchell-Rohrbaugh

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0:00.0	Well, God not forever!
0:05.0	Winter is coming.
0:08.0	A Maxis now is not the time for Patty Fargi? Gee. Advertising is based on one thing.
0:15.0	Happiness.
0:19.0	Happiness.
0:20.0	We were cousins.
0:23.0	We were never married.
0:24.0	We had an arrangement and it worked.
0:27.0	Jesus and Santa were cousins. Everybody knows this. Now you're in the sunken place.
0:50.0	Oh hey there, I'm Guy Branwynman. Welcome to our first live pop rocket.
0:58.6	We are here at Camillary Hall at USC,
1:02.3	and you children better know how to applaud in an audience.
1:05.5	You're the ones who decided to go to school in Los Angeles.
1:10.7	We are going to be picking over all the pop culture we love to love and with media talk TV film music and anything else entertaining
1:17.8	Our digital strategist Winter Mitchell
1:20.3	Hello Hello. You're so low energy and I need you to bring it up a notch.
1:26.8	You guys live in Los Angeles, you should understand how to do room tone and then come alive. We've also got journalist and novelist Margaret Wopler.
1:35.6	Hello there guy. Hello Margaret. What are you looking forward to from this first
1:40.8	live podcasting experience.
1:42.6	Well, we're gonna try to keep out of the scandal pages
1:45.2	because I know it's been a little rough for you guys lately.
1:47.8	We'll see, we'll see, it might get controversy.
	...

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