Ep 222 - Game of Thrones w/ Laura Krafft & Sarah Kessler
Pop Rocket
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4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 26 April 2019
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
First off, you're welcome Game of Thrones fans. This is a super-sized Pop Rocket loaded with theories, speculation, and yes, even love. While Wynter and Karen were away, Margaret and Guy tapped two die-hard fans for a full-on discussion of the series and their thoughts now that the first two of the last six episodes have aired. Assembled in the studio this week:
Guy "I've read all the George R.R. Martin books in the series" Branum
Sarah "I'm in a viewing group with a gaggle of lesbians and their gaybies" Kessler
Laura "I prepared delicious direwolf-shaped crackers" Krafft
Margaret "I host GoT viewing parties at my house" Wappler
This episode will reveal which Game of Thrones character Guy has dressed up for--TWICE!--for Halloween. Sarah finds one GoT character extremely annoying, and it's not Bran. Laura pines for a Winterfell man she fears will die in the next episode, and Margaret is pretty sure she knows who will take the throne.
This was a raucous, expansive conversation that will both delight and frustrate Game of Thrones fans.
All Abouts
Margaret: The podcast Going Through It hosted by Ann Friedman
Guy: Chasten Buttigieg’s Twitter account
Sarah:
Dr. Pimple Popper, now on Hulu
Laura: The FX show What We Do in the Shadows
That's My Jam
Guy: Lizzo - Better in Color
Margaret: FKA Twigs - Cellophane
Sarah: Rusted Root - Send Me on My Way
Laura: Stone Roses - Fool’s Gold
With Guy Branum, Margaret Wappler, Sarah Kessler, Laura Krafft
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, hey there I'm Guy Branham back from having a job and not being able to come and |
| 0:11.6 | welcome to pop of Rockets. |
| 0:14.0 | A weekly show picking over all the pop culture we love to love and then having years of battle |
| 0:20.4 | over who will control said pop culture. |
| 0:24.0 | With me to fight for control over TV, film, music, and anything else entertaining. |
| 0:30.0 | Our journalist and novelist Margaret Wopler. |
| 0:32.0 | Guy, it is so wonderful to see your beautiful face again. |
| 0:35.0 | It is beautiful to be back. |
| 0:37.0 | Margaret has a thoroughly East Los Angeles top on |
| 0:40.0 | and is sipping white wine out out of Japanese tea cup. |
| 0:44.4 | I mean, it's Peak Margaret Waupla. |
| 0:46.7 | I chose this because this is very of the moment |
| 0:49.7 | with all the ceramic ladies of Mount Washington, and whatnot. |
| 0:53.9 | And we have two very special guests. |
| 0:56.0 | Returning guests, Sarah Off Karen Kessler, |
| 0:59.5 | who is also a professor of feminist media at the Annenberg School at USC and a TV critic and my |
| 1:08.0 | erstwhile at a tress. |
| 1:10.0 | Hello, gee. |
| 1:11.5 | May I call you gee? You may call me whatever you like that. |
| 1:15.0 | Sarah, Sarah, what are you working on these days? |
| 1:19.0 | In addition to Rosé all day, I've actually been writing about presidential debates. Oh, that's exciting. |
| 1:26.0 | Yeah. Well, I mean, CNN seems hell bent on turning them into just like a type of television and not something that happens for like four months. |
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