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Pop Rocket

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4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2018

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

This week, Louis Virtel takes over hosting duties to talk about The Post and journalism movies with Margaret and special guest April Wolfe! What kind of stories would the gang like to see in the future? Is Broadcast News secretly creepy?

Plus, Louis LOVES awards season, April talks SNL, and Margaret discusses Kesha's Grammy performance and her legal feud with Dr. Luke.

With Louis Virtel, Wynter Mitchell, April Wolfe and Margaret Wappler.

That’s My Jam:

Margaret Wappler - Rayvn Lenae - Sticky
April Wolfe - Tweak Bird - Whorses
Louis Virtel - Colonel Adams - I'm Not Gonna Let You

Each week we’ll add everyone’s jams to our Spotify playlists.

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

Produced by Christian Dueñas for MaximumFun.org.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Oh, hey there I'm Louis Vertell, the Zeppo Marks of Pop Rocket, filling in for Guy Branham, and welcome to Pop Rocket, a weekly show
0:16.4	picking over the pop culture we all love to love.
0:19.4	With me this week to talk TV, film, music, and anything else entertaining are journalist and novelist, Margaret,
0:25.8	I'm so thrilled to be reacquainted.
0:27.8	I know.
0:28.8	I thought it was just going to be a one-week rendezvous.
0:30.9	No, a fair to remember.
0:32.3	Deep, Carrie Grant, Deborah Kerr. Thank God a fair to remember. Deep Cary Grant, Deborah. Thank God.
0:34.3	Car, pardon me, homosexual here. And our special guest, film critic, and
0:38.4	hosted the Switchblade Sisters podcast, April Wolff.
0:40.9	Hi Lewis. April, I always adore seeing you.
0:43.0	How have you been?
0:44.0	Um, I've been doing pretty great, I think.
0:47.0	Yeah.
0:48.0	All right.
0:49.0	Sun dance doesn't exist to me now.
0:50.0	Oh, no, but, but, congrats.
0:52.0	All in the rear view mirror.
0:52.6	Yeah, doesn't exist.
0:53.8	I went to Sundance last time I was there was eight years ago,
0:56.1	so I still think of it as a place where 50 cent
0:58.0	hawks vitamin water.
	...

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