Musicals, Primaries and Pop Culture with Karen Tongson

Pop Rocket

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4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2015

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Karen Tongson joins the team to talk politics in the context of pop culture.

With Wynter Mitchell, Oliver Wang, Karen Tongson and host Guy Branum. Produced by Colin Anderson for MaximumFun.org

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0:00.0	Oh, hey there I'm Guy Brandon, and welcome to Pop Rocket, a weekly show picking over all the pop culture we love to love.
0:13.2	With me to talk TV, film, music, and anything else entertaining,
0:15.9	our digital strategist Winter Mitchell.
0:17.9	Hello, hello, Hello,
0:20.0	academic and DJ Oliver Wang.
0:21.6	Hi Guy.
0:22.5	Hello Oliver.
0:24.0	Since Margaret Wampler is a way for the holidays,
0:25.9	welcome back Academic,
0:27.4	karaoke Star and fifth Beetle of Pop Rocket, Karen Toggs.
0:31.2	Season's Greetings.
0:32.4	Season's. Season. Greetings.
0:33.0	Every week we start the show by taking a question from a listener about our own pop culture
0:38.1	taste.
0:39.1	This week I want you guys to tell me what is your favorite on or off-Broadway musical adaptation to film? I know that I should be going for something out there in indie and you know what you want is to hear somebody talk about Hedwig but for me like I'm all
0:56.7	about West Side story I'm all about like you know getting Rita Moreno and George Shakiris and I feel like in a period of time like in the 60s when they were screwing up a lot of the adaptations when they were dropping Julie Andrews from My Fair Lady and stuff like that, that we got Rita Moreno, giving us America on screen
1:18.8	in 1960 makes me so happy.
1:21.2	Actually, no, as I'm even saying saying this I'm realizing there is only one
1:24.2	answer and I'm completely wrong. The answer is Flower Drum Song. I know that I'm not
1:29.1	supposed to love Flower Drum Song but like being a child and seeing seeing something a this because I want to hear what you have to say. Okay. It was the most San Francisco thing I had ever seen ever.
1:47.2	It is so full of good songs and also just seeing a movie where Asian Americans or Asians weren't side characters.
1:57.5	They weren't bad guys from World War II.
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