The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story
Pop Rocket
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4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2018
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
This week, Guy and the gang discuss The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story. How amazing is Penelope Cruz' performance? How "true" is this true crime story and does it matter? Plus, Guy is getting into faith-based comedy, Wynter is watching even more stand up comedy, Margaret has some thoughts on The Chi, and Karen discusses The Hollywood Reporter's feature on Ellen Pompeo.
With Guy Branum, Wynter Mitchell, Karen Tongson and Margaret Wappler.
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Karen Tongson - Chuck Mangione - Feels So Good
Wynter Mitchell - Gary Numan - M.E.
Guy Branum - Bow Wow Wow - I Want Candy
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Produced by Christian Dueñas for MaximumFun.org.
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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. |
| 0:13.0 | We'd meet to talk TV, film, music, and anything else entertaining our digital |
| 0:16.3 | strategist Winter, Winter, what's going on? |
| 0:20.3 | Everything's fantastic. |
| 0:21.3 | Good. |
| 0:22.3 | I'm glad. I appreciate that. We got journalist and novelist Margaret Woffler. |
| 0:27.0 | Hi there Guy, I'm enjoying your floral dress wear tonight. |
| 0:31.0 | Thank you. It was very springy in LA and I decided I couldn't wear long pants. |
| 0:39.8 | So I'm very floral. |
| 0:41.7 | And we've got Pop Culture Scholar and Dyke about town Karen Toxin. |
| 0:45.0 | Hey Guy, hi racketeers. |
| 0:47.0 | Karen, what's going on in your life? |
| 0:49.0 | Well, I was knocked out with some sort of terrible, cold plague thing. Luckily it wasn't the flu this weekend so I had |
| 0:55.8 | a chance to catch up a little bit with some things in popular culture and mostly just |
| 1:00.6 | learned about all sorts of homeopathic remedies. |
| 1:03.0 | Oh, that's wonderful. |
| 1:05.0 | What's your favorite one? |
| 1:07.0 | I mean, turmeric, everything? |
| 1:09.0 | Aregano oil in like everything also, |
| 1:12.0 | which is like, you know? Who would have that Tmerich would have a moment? |
| 1:15.0 | It's such a huge extended moment. |
| 1:17.0 | My favorite thing. |
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