meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
Pop Rocket

Pop Rocket Ep. 205 The Pop Rocket Holiday Playlist Spectacular

Pop Rocket

MaximumFun.org

Comedy, Tv, Discussion, Journalism, Media, Maxfun, Comment, Society & Culture, Journalist, Television, Maximumfun, Music, Sociology

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2018

⏱️ 55 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Happy Holidays, everyone! Wynter and Karen are joined by special guest panelists Tre’Vell Anderson (Director of Culture and Entertainment at Out Magazine) and 'Who Shot Ya?'s' Alonso Duralde to create the ultimate holiday playlist. Each panelist created a top ten list of their favorite holiday songs, out of which they’d select twenty for inclusion in the official Pop Rocket Holiday Playlist. Well, that was the plan, anyway. In practice, when faced with making the tough choices, they flopped. Whose version of "Sleigh Ride" should be on the playlist: Andy Williams’s, Ella Fitzgerald’s or TLC’s? Spoiler alert: They couldn’t decide.

Plus, the panelists describe their holiday family traditions, and if you’ve ever been curious what the most popular Philippine Christmas song is, resident scholar Karen Tongson reveals the answer.

From Ella Fitzgerald to Donny Hathaway, from the Morehouse Glee Club to Quad City DJs, the variety of musical stylings in this episode will get your feet tappin'.

All Abouts

For the last All Abouts of the year, each panelist picked one thing in 2018, that they could watch, listen to, read, or consume, OVER & OVER again.

Alonso is all about the Amber Ruffin segment on Late Night With Seth Meyers - 'Amber Says Why'

Karen is still all about the series finale of The Americans.

Tre’Vell is awed by EVERYTHING about Cardi B, but especially her recent appearance with James Corden in Carpool Karaoke.

Wynter can’t stop watching Mission Impossible: Fallout.

That's My Jam

For this week’s jams, each panelist picked a song that best summed up the year that was 2018.

Karen: Sound of Music Soundtrack - So Long, Farewell
Tre’vell: Fantasia - Lose to Win
Alonso: Lizzo - Good as Hell
Wynter: Drake - Nice for What

Did you know that you can now call and leave voicemails for the show? You can! If you want to comment on an episode, give us any feedback, or just call to get advice from a panel member, the number is: (530) 237-4108

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

If you haven't already, follow us on Instagram.

Produced by Laura Swisher for MaximumFun.org. Edited by Shana Daloria.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

The I just wanted to play that and this is care of Daniel Crawford who is the husband of Lindsay

0:26.8

Kucandale Crawford who's a friend of mine and that was her husband's

0:30.2

version of Silent Night.

0:33.0

And you're listening to Pop Rocket.

0:35.3

Welcome to Pop Rocket.

0:36.8

I'm Winter Mitchell-Ragnor Rock, for now,

0:39.6

filling in for Guy Branham,

0:41.4

and welcome to Pop Rocket, a weekly show picking over all the pop culture

0:45.5

we love to love.

0:46.5

I've had a little bit of Tequila so we're kind of all over the place and it's Christmas.

0:50.6

With me to talk TV, film, music, and anything else entertaining for our final episode of the year.

0:56.0

We fucking made it!

0:58.0

I'm really shocked.

1:00.0

It was a little dicey there.

1:02.0

Our pop culture scholar and Dyke about town,

1:05.0

Karen Tauntson.

1:06.0

Hey Winter, hi rocketeers.

1:09.0

Hi, Katie.

1:11.0

I'm happy to see you.

1:12.0

I'm glad to be back. I've survived the plague that has been plaguing everyone

1:16.2

this season. It really tried to take me down. I was like a Dyke not about town.

1:21.2

You weren't, you were about that bedroom.

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from MaximumFun.org, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of MaximumFun.org and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.