Pop Rocket Ep 209 - SchadenFYRE - The Most Epic Fyre Fest Discussion Ever
Pop Rocket
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4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2019
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
This week's show is a double dose of schadenfreude!
The gang compares the dueling documentaries Hulu's "Fyre Fraud" and Netflix's "Fyre," which tell different versions of the tropical shit show that landed its mastermind Billy McFarland behind bars.
All Abouts
Wynter is all about Crashing and True Detective.
Margaret is all about the memoir Love and Trouble: A Midlife Reckoning by Claire Dederer, who you may recognize from her article in the Paris Review What Do We Do with the Art of Monstrous Men.
Karen is all about CATWALK: Tales from the Cat Show Circuit on Netflix, and the rivalry between a “well-muscled” Turkish Angora named Bobby, and a voluminous Red Persian named Oh La La
.
Guy is all about Sex Education on Netflix.
That's My Jam
Wynter: Phil Collins - I'm Not Moving (Idjut Boys remix)
Karen: Queen - Play the Game
Margaret: ROSALÍA - MALAMENTE
Guy: Mark Ronson (feat. Miley Cyrus - Nothing Breaks Like a Heart
With Guy Branum, Karen Tongson, Margaret Wappler, Wynter Mitchell-Rohrbaugh
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, hey there I'm Guy Branham and welcome to Pop Rocket, a weekly show peeking over all the pop culture we love to love. |
| 0:13.8 | With me to talk TV, film, music, anything else entertaining. |
| 0:17.4 | Our digital strategist Winter Mitchell Roarba. |
| 0:19.8 | Hello, hello. |
| 0:20.8 | Hello, Winter, How are you doing? |
| 0:23.0 | Fantastic. |
| 0:24.0 | We've got very flowy garb today. |
| 0:25.7 | I'm just, you know, leaning into the late 30s. |
| 0:28.0 | I mean, it's witchy woman. |
| 0:30.0 | There's some tie-dye. |
| 0:31.5 | Super blood wolf. |
| 0:33.0 | And I'm seeing some... |
| 0:35.0 | Yeah, some harem crotch going on. |
| 0:37.0 | Hingham crotch super-love-wolf. |
| 0:39.0 | I should. |
| 0:40.0 | And we've got journalist and novelist and Canadian tuxedo wearer, Margaret Waller. |
| 0:50.0 | Let me just say that I'm wearing blue denim on the top and black denim on the bottom. |
| 0:54.0 | Yeah, very bikini kill. |
| 0:55.0 | Yeah, it makes it more like Montreal. |
| 0:57.0 | You know what I mean? |
| 0:58.0 | Exactly. |
| 1:00.0 | I'm the cool part of Canada. |
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