Online Dating & Silicon Valley with Megan Koester
Pop Rocket
MaximumFun.org
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 30 May 2015
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Comedian Megan Koester joins the team to talk about the pros and cons of online dating, nuanced portrayal of ethnicity in Silicon Valley and our own dream Pop Rocket guests.
With Wynter Mitchell, Oliver Wang, Megan Koester and host Guy Branum.
Produced by Colin Anderson and Jennifer Marmor for MaximumFun.org
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, hello, hello there guys. I'm Guy Branham and welcome to Pop Rocket. A weekly show picking over the pop culture we all love to love. I am here in New York in some sort of weird shared workspace that I rented a office at, but over in LA to talk TV, music, film, and anything else entertaining, |
| 0:27.0 | our digital strategist Winj Mitchell. |
| 0:28.7 | Hello, Hello, Hello. |
| 0:31.1 | And to Academic and DJ Oliver Wang. |
| 0:33.6 | Hi, Guy. |
| 0:34.8 | Hello, Oliver. |
| 0:36.8 | And Margaret Wopler is off. |
| 0:39.6 | I assume, penning a heartfelt album of singer-songwriter folk guitar. |
| 0:46.0 | So instead we are joined by my friend |
| 0:50.0 | and contributing writer to Vice magazine and many other online publications. |
| 0:55.0 | A very funny stand-up comedian, Megan Beth Kiester. Megan, how are you doing? |
| 0:59.6 | I'm doing fantastic guy. Why don't you tell the people a little bit about yourself? |
| 1:05.0 | A little bit about myself? |
| 1:06.0 | Can put you in context. |
| 1:07.0 | I'm a 31 year old divorcee. |
| 1:09.0 | I'm childless and I sleep in a closet. |
| 1:12.0 | Yes. Also an avowed bisexual. |
| 1:15.0 | Indeed. |
| 1:16.0 | All right, every week we start the show by taking questions from a listener about our own pop culture tastes. |
| 1:21.0 | This week I want you to tell me who would be your dream pop rocket correspondent. Oliver. I went with low-hanging fruit, |
| 1:29.3 | which would be Jay smooth who I think I mean to be quite, you know, Jesse Thorne and the folks that Max |
| 1:34.8 | fun originally conceived of this program, he was sort of the kind of person that he had in mind. |
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