Oscars Special with Chris Schleicher

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4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2017

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

This is a rush edition of Pop Rocket focusing on The Oscars. Guy Branum, Margaret Wappler, Karen Tongson and special guest Chris Schleicher waste no time in dishing on cinema's biggest night. They skip the "all abouts" and jams and get right to the WTF of it all--the best picture debacle, Casey Affleck and Brie Larson, bad hair, bad clapping and Hacksaw Ridge. Plus, we'll get to the bottom of why Margaret Wappler wants to be Taraji P. Henson's eyebrows when she grows up.

Guy Branum explains why he has a problem with standing ovations, and reveals a fact about director Ezra Edelman (OJ Made in America) that blew him away.

Margaret Wappler hearts Natalie Portman's performance in Jackie and, apparently, Taraji P. Henson's eyebrows.

Karen Tongson analyzes the ways Moonlight was successful in moving the lens away from gay white people.

And Chris Schleicher gets all Zapruder film in breaking down the Best Picture fiasco and gives us his theory about Faye Dunaway.

Dive in!

Guy Branum, Karen Tongson, Margaret Wappler, and Chris Schleicher

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0:00.0	Oh, hey there I'm Guy Brennham. Welcome to a bonus pop rocket, the Oscars'
0:09.0	Oh, hey there, I'm Guy Brennham.
0:10.0	Welcome to a bonus pop rocket, The Oscars edition.
0:13.7	Joining me now to discuss the craziest Oscars of all time,
0:17.6	our journalist and novelist Margaret Wobbler.
0:20.0	It was a difficult evening for all of us. Academic and karaoke artist, what are we calling you?
0:27.0	People like Dyke about town, I know you feel shy about saying it.
0:30.0	I like Dyke about town as well.
0:32.0	Also amateur stut Eater is another one.
0:35.0	That's beautiful.
0:38.0	And my colleague, a writer for the Mindy Project, Twitter Artist, and Academy Award, like...
0:45.0	Devote? Devote is very good.
0:48.0	I was thinking more like Maven.
0:50.0	Oh, I love that.
0:52.0	Then it needs to be Oscars, Maven, Chris Schlicher.
0:56.0	Hello, hello, hello, Chris.
0:58.0	Chris, I've explained a lot about you and you've been on the show before,
1:01.0	but what more can you tell people about yourself?
1:04.8	I was just trying to think of a moniker for myself and I think notorious former teenager is
1:11.9	when I like to go by or you know precocious child.
1:17.0	Yes, former semi-professional figure skater.
1:21.0	Oh right that's like my whole back story. And by the way
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