Pop Rocket Ep. 168: On the Couch w/ Megan Auster-Rosen

Pop Rocket

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4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2018

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

This week, Karen Tongson and Margaret Wappler are joined by clinical psychologist and actress Megan Auster-Rosen to discuss therapy in film and television shows.

Margaret Wappler is all about High Maintenance on HBO and the show’s weed dealer/confidant The Guy. Megan is all about Parkland student, Emma Gonzalez and her six minutes of silence, dedicated to the victims of the shooting at Stoneland Douglas High School. Karen is all about the NBC drama, Rise, even though it falls into some unfortunate tropes of the white man passing over the qualified woman of color for the job.

The panel will explain their first experiences with therapy in their personal lives. Then, they’ll get into therapy in such movies and shows like Big Little Lies, Meet the Fockers, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, The Sopranos and more. Plus, Megan will give her professional opinion on the benefits and downsides of TV therapy shows like Dr. Phil.

With Karen Tongson, Margaret Wappler and Megan Auster-Rosen.

That’s My Jam:

Megan Auster-Rosen - Alicia Keys - No one

Karen Tongson - Lovin' Spoonful - Butchie's Tune.

Margaret Wappler - Peter Gabriel - Come Talk to Me

Each week we’ll add everyone’s jams to our Spotify playlists.

You can let us know what you think of Pop Rocket and suggest topics in our Facebook group or via @PopRocket on Twitter.

Produced by Laura Swisher for MaximumFun.org.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi Rocketeers, I'm Karen Tonson filling in for Guy Branham and welcome to Pop Rocket, a weekly show picking over all the pop culture we love to love.
0:16.0	With me to talk TV, film, music, and anything else entertaining,
0:20.0	our journalist and novelist Margaret Waupler.
0:22.0	Hey there, Karen. Hey Margaret. Our journalist and novelist and novelist Margaret Magwops as guy christened you last time around
0:29.2	Feels good. I like the WAP to be yeah, you whopping yeah and we have a very special guest with us tonight
0:36.9	clinical psychologist storyteller and actress Dr Megan Auster Rosen hello Hello Megan, welcome to Pop Rocket.
0:43.9	Hi, Katie.
0:45.0	Hi.
0:46.2	Coming up on this week's show, as you know,
0:48.3	we have a doctor in the house,
0:49.5	so we're going to be talking about therapy,
0:52.2	and particularly therapy and psychology in pop culture.
0:55.0	Plus we'll be sharing our latest jams as usual. But first let's find out what
0:59.8	arts and entertainment news or events have caught our attention this week.
1:03.4	Margaret, what have you got going for us this week?
1:06.8	I'm such a fan of high maintenance.
1:08.9	In a way, high maintenance, which is a show on HBO, started as a web series from Kacha Blickfield,
1:15.4	Feld and Ben Sinclair.
1:17.5	In a way, this show ties into the theme
1:19.8	because Ben Sinclair plays a character on the show just known as the guy.
1:25.0	And he is a weed dealer and he goes in and out of people's lives in New York City
1:30.4	biking to deliver them weed, sometimes mushrooms.
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