Pop Rocket Ep. 178: We Say Goodbye to The Americans
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4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 6 June 2018
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
**Warning: This episode contains spoilers from The Americans series finale. If you, like Margaret, want to avoid the spoilers, skip from 7:01 to 14:20.**
This week, Margaret Wappler and Karen Tongson are joined by Alonso Duralde, one of the hosts of the Max Fun podcast Who Shot Ya?, a movie podcast that isn’t hosted by dude-bros. The gang will discuss the finale of FX Series The Americans and the effect of the Cold War on pop culture.
Alonso is all about is all about National Drive-In Day, which is on June 6th but can absolutely be celebrated all month. Margaret is all about Ali Wong’s new Netflix Special Hard Knock Wife , which has gained a lot of attention for being equal parts hilarious, honest and raunchy. Karen is all about the finale of The Americans which - SPOILER ALERT - she and Alonso will discuss in detail.
And in honor the Russian spy drama coming to an end, the team will take a look at what effect the Cold War, nuclear anxiety and cloak-and-dagger politics had on pop culture, both in the modern context and in the 80’s.
With Margaret Wappler, Karen Tongson and Alonso Duralde.
That’s My Jam:
Alonso Duralde - The Police - Miss Gradenko.
Karen Tongson - Sting - Russians
Margaret Wappler - The Smiths - Ask.
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Produced by Laura Swisher for MaximumFun.org. Edited by Julian Burrell.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi Rocketeers I'm your host Karen Tonsin filling in for Guy Branham who'd hope to make it home for dinner but things got topty turvy at the hour and With me to talk TV, film, music, and anything else entertaining are journalist and novelist Margaret |
| 0:25.4 | Wobbler. How you doing, Magwops? |
| 0:27.4 | I'm doing pretty good. How are you, Karen? |
| 0:28.9 | Yeah, do you like have a very like bright springy shirt on with large polka dots of joy. |
| 0:35.0 | Marimmecco. |
| 0:37.0 | Oh yeah, people are really into that line. |
| 0:39.0 | It's good. |
| 0:40.0 | And we also have film critic and co-host of Max Funds Who Shotya, also one of our honorary fifth Beatles, |
| 0:47.0 | Alonzo de Ralde. Professor Togson, nice to see you. |
| 0:50.3 | It's good to see you. |
| 0:55.1 | Coming up on this week's show in honor of the American series finality, we'll be talking about our enduring fascination |
| 1:01.8 | with the Cold War and pop culture. |
| 1:04.0 | Plus we'll obviously be sharing our latest jams, but first let's find out what arts and |
| 1:08.1 | entertainment news or events have caught our attention this week. |
| 1:11.5 | Alonzo, since you haven't been here in a while, why don't you kick it off? |
| 1:15.0 | Okay, well this episode drops on June 6th, but this will apply really for the whole summer. |
| 1:21.0 | June 6th is National Drive-In Day, which paying homage to the fact the first |
| 1:26.8 | drive-in in America was opened in Camden, New Jersey in 1933 on this very date. |
| 1:34.0 | Oh, wow. And, you know, drive-ins are this vintage great piece of Americana that has been dying away |
| 1:41.5 | over the decades, you know, the real estate became |
| 1:44.1 | too valuable or people didn't want to see movies outdoors anymore, but you know |
| 1:49.5 | drive-ins are still great and they're still out there and if you go to I believe it's Drive-In movie.com, yes, with no dashes or anything, it will tell you where the nearest one to you is. |
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