Memorial Day Special with Dave White

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4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2017

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

On a special mini episode, the gang is joined by film critic Dave White to talk about films that memorialize war, soldiers, and veterans. We get history lesson from Karen about the origins of Memorial Day, and how it spread across America eventually becoming a national holiday. The gang talk about the huge responsibility war films have, in both their messaging and cinematography, and how some miss the mark. Wynter tells us why she doesn't watch war movies, and the panel talks about the one war comedy that was able to pull it off (just barely). And in lieu of all abouts and jams, Dave tells us about a four hour black and white art house film that we must not miss (he promises that it is very watchable).

You can catch Dave on his podcast Linoleum Knife and read his film reviews on The Wrap.

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0:00.0	Oh, hey there I'm Guy Branham and welcome to Pop Rocket, a weekly show picking up for all the pop culture we love to love.
0:13.0	We've been to talk TV, film, music, and anything else entertaining
0:15.5	are digital strategist Winter Mitchell.
0:17.3	Hello, hello, hello, pop culture scholar Karen Toxen.
0:20.7	Hi Guy.
0:21.7	Hey Karen, how's it going? Great. And Margaret Wopler is out today
0:27.5	But we do have our very special guest film critic Dave White's
0:31.3	Maori. How's it going, Dave?
0:33.4	Really well.
0:34.4	Dave, what should people know about you?
0:36.0	Educate us.
0:37.0	Well, if you were listening to a most recent episode, my husband, Alonza-Dirale, was a guest. So we're a team of film
0:45.0	critics. I think we are the only married film critics in the United States at
0:49.4	this point, and we're certainly the only gay ones.
0:53.0	Yeah.
0:54.0	Look Dave, I don't want to A, define you in terms of your relationship or B, normalize gay marriage.
1:01.0	He called you the velvet lawnmower and I think that's pretty true.
1:07.0	There was a listener, we have our own podcasts, it's called Lenoleum Knife and a listener called me that.
1:15.0	And I thought it was funny.
1:18.4	We started making a list of all the things that people call me based on how I sound.
1:24.0	Number one was Cartoon Dog.
1:26.0	And then Velvet Lawnmower, which is somewhat erotic, I guess,
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