Pop Rocket Ep. 195 A Star is Born
Pop Rocket
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4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 12 October 2018
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
This week gay America received so much, but in particular, A Star is Born starring Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper, who also directed the movie. Guy, Wynter, Karen & Margaret--aka the full panel--got a chance to watch, cry, and be torn apart by the story of a lady who gained the world, but lost the man that she loves.
On this episode, we go over the history of this film and all the remakes, share predictions on whether The Academy will hand out statues to Lady Gaga and/or Bradley Cooper, or if they'll have to settle for the less-prestigious adulation from foreign journalists. Plus, Karen pushes back on Sam Adams's Slate article, which argues that "the movie's battle between rock and pop, authenticity and artifice, and art and commerce is outdated at best."
All Abouts
Wynter is all about the new Halloween starring Jamie Lee Curtis and the kerfuffle over Curtis's views on gun ownership on Fox News.
Karen is all about NBC's new primetime airplane sci-fi thriller, Manifest.
Margaret is all about the Twitter beef between Lana Del Rey and Azealia Banks over rapper Ye formerly known as Kanye West's MAGA-ness.
Guy is all about Katmai National Park & Preserve's Fat Bear Week competition.
That's My Jam
Karen - Barbara Streisand - Evergreen (Love Theme from "A Star is Born" 1976)
Wynter - Lady Gaga - Why Did You Do That? (A Star is Born Soundtrack)
Margaret - Judy Garland - Over the Rainbow (The Wizard of Oz: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack).
Guy - Cher - Waterloo
With Guy Branum, Karen Tongson, Wynter Mitchell-Rohrbaugh, and Margaret Wappler.
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Produced by Laura Swisher for MaximumFun.org. Edited by Shana Daloria.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, hey there I'm Guy Branham and wanted a pop rock at a weekly show picking over all the pop culture we love. |
| 0:12.9 | We have meetings like TV, film, music, |
| 0:14.4 | and anything else entertaining. |
| 0:15.6 | Our digital strategist, Winter Mitchell Roarba. |
| 0:18.3 | Hello, hello. |
| 0:20.4 | Journalist and novelist Margaret Wobbler. |
| 0:23.0 | Why'd you just do that to me? |
| 0:24.0 | What do you mean? |
| 0:25.0 | You just moved the script to put me second? |
| 0:28.0 | What's going on? |
| 0:29.0 | A star was born today. |
| 0:31.0 | Winter has place of privilege with the Hello Hello. |
| 0:33.5 | She always gets to open with a double hello. Yeah. I'm I just wanted to inject some |
| 0:39.4 | tension into the show. Yeah. |
| 0:41.1 | More than there already exists. |
| 0:42.6 | Thank you, Wobbler. |
| 0:43.6 | What American needs right now? |
| 0:46.5 | And we got Pop cultural scholar and Dyke about town, Karen Toxen. |
| 0:49.8 | Hey guy, hi rocketeers. |
| 0:51.9 | Coming up on this week's show, A Star is Born. |
| 0:54.6 | Plus, we'll each be sharing our latest jams. |
| 0:57.0 | But first, let's find out our arts and entertainment, news or events |
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