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Pop Rocket

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4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2015

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

The team say goodbye to Grantland, consider whether Twitter's business model is broken and discuss the good, bad and ugly of TV's current Late Night offerings.

With Guy Branum, Wynter Mitchell, Oliver Wang and Margaret Wappler.

That’s My Jam: Wynter Mitchell - Kathy Lee by Jessy Lanza Oliver Wang - As One by Low Leaf Margaret Wappler - Feel You by Julia Holter Guy Branum - His interview with Margaret Atwood on this week's Bullseye With Jesse Thorn.

Each week we’ll add everyone’s jams to this handy Spotify playlist.

Here's the Atlantic article we talked about on The Decay of Twitter.

You can let us know what you think of Pop Rocket and suggest topics in our Facebook group or via @PopRocket on Twitter.

Produced by Colin Anderson for MaximumFun.org

Transcript

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0:00.0	You guys, hello, I'm Guy Perran and welcome to Pop Brackett, weekly show picking
0:09.6	over all the pop culture we love to love. With to talk TV film music and everything else entertaining are
0:16.6	Digital strategist Winter Mitchell hello hello hello
0:20.1	journalist Margaret Wopler.
0:24.0	Hi there Guy.
0:25.0	Hello Margaret.
0:26.0	Academic and DJ Oliver Wang.
0:28.0	Hello Guy, how are you?
0:29.0	I'm doing very well.
0:30.0	How is your Halloween?
0:31.0	My Halloween was fine. I didn't have as good of a time as I should have.
0:35.2	It's a game manager obligation to take the most advantage of it, but I think I was slightly sick.
0:39.7	Every week we start the show by taking a question for our listeners about our own pop culture tastes.
0:43.4	This week I want you guys to tell me, which website do you visit the most winner?
0:48.0	Oh no, they didn't, is what it's called.
0:50.3	It's a live journal site.
0:51.5	I don't know how they make money, but I've been reading it since I was 23 years old and I read it like 8 9 10 times a day.
0:57.0	It's just the gossip is always aggregated and curated the right way. I know they're going to hit a topic right when I need it.
1:05.2	And the community itself, the comments inside the community,
1:08.1	you get to know people and people evolve and come and go,
1:11.2	but the comments make the whole thing.
1:14.0	Well-curated gossip.
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