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Pop Rocket

Mad Men, Gay Anthems & Madonna Does Stand-Up

Pop Rocket

MaximumFun.org

Media, Comedy, Maxfun, Maximumfun, Music, Sociology, Journalism, Comment, Society & Culture, Television, Journalist, Discussion, Tv

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2015

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Karen Tongson (USC Professor of English and Gender Studies) joins the team this week to talk Mad Men and the entropy of the patriarchy, classic movies that we should have seen but haven’t and watching The Slap as “Norm-Porn”.

With Wynter Mitchell, Margaret Wappler, Guy Branum and special guest, Karen Tongson.

Produced by Colin Anderson for MaximumFun.org

Transcript

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0:00.0

Oh, hey there I'm Guy Branham and welcome to Pop Rocket, now all in one room. We will be able to interrupt each other with impunity and not have to

0:16.4

spend a bunch of time waiting for things to bounce off of satellites. With me to talk TV,

0:20.5

film, music, and everything else entertaining on our digital strategist Winter Mitchell.

0:24.6

Hello Hello Hello!

0:26.6

Journalist Margaret Wopler.

0:28.6

Hi.

0:29.6

Hello.

0:30.3

And since Oliver Wang is away on assignment this week,

0:33.0

we have USC Associate Professor of English

0:35.2

and Gender Studies, and one of the world's foremost

0:37.8

practitioners of the art of karaoke,

0:40.1

Karen Tonsen sitting in.

0:42.3

Yay. Welcome, Karen. Karen Tonson sitting in. Greetings.

0:43.0

Welcome, Karen.

0:45.0

Good to have you here.

0:46.0

Every week we start off the show by taking a question from a listener about our own pop culture tastes.

0:51.0

This week I'm going to go around the studio and have each of you

0:53.4

tell me what's the most critically acclaimed or culturally significant film that

0:57.2

you have somehow never seen and why not Margaret? I've never seen Jurassic Park. Oh my God! And the reason I didn't see it at the time that it was out is because I was too busy being cool smoking cigarettes in a cafe

1:16.0

writing about Jim Jar moosh movies in my journal at that point I just felt like I'm over

1:21.0

you Stephen Spielberg even though I love E.T.

1:23.4

and E.T. is one of my favorite movies all time but I just never saw Jurassic Park

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