The Pop Rocket Summer 2017 Book Club
Pop Rocket
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4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 28 June 2017
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Hello Rocketeers! Charge up your Kindles, rewind your audiobook cassette tapes, or dust off your book and come join Guy, Karen, and Margaret for the annual Pop Rocket Summer Book Club Special! This week, the gang discuss Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower. They also take some of YOUR questions and comments from the Pop Rocket Facebook group. Plus, Karen is super into Ken dolls, Margaret is in full summertime jam mode, and Guy has a few words on The Beguiled.
With Guy Branum, Karen Tongson, and Margaret Wappler
That's My Jam:
Margaret Wappler - The Magic Numbers - Love Me Like You
Karen Tongson - SWV - Right Here (Human Nature Remix)
Guy Branum - Ricky Martin - Vente Pa' Ca
Each week we'll add everyone's jams to this handy Spotify playlist
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Produced by Christian Dueñas and Kara Hart for MaximumFun.org
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, hey, hey there I'm Guy Brandon, and welcome to Pop Rock and weekly show picking over all the pop culture we love to love. |
| 0:13.8 | We've made to talk TV, film, music, |
| 0:15.2 | and anything else entertaining, |
| 0:16.6 | our journalist and novelist Margaret Wobbler. |
| 0:19.0 | Hey there, Guy, I love it when you use your NPR voice. I hate it like I have always felt there's something |
| 0:25.5 | deeply oppressive about NPR voice about how it is like over it normative like it is like deeply committed to people not being emotionally invested in things |
| 0:35.4 | and you know I love emotional investment in things. |
| 0:37.8 | Yeah, it's all about the emotional distance. |
| 0:39.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:40.8 | Even over shwettie balls. Even over shwett sweaty balls. |
| 0:43.0 | sweaty balls. |
| 0:44.0 | I like I do love when what's her name with the bad Philly accent. |
| 0:50.0 | Terry Gross talks to like rappers because she always takes such a tone of and we all know that when you left the Wu Tank Clan Like she just feels so committed to that. |
| 1:04.6 | And we have pop culture scholar in Dyke about town, |
| 1:07.0 | Karen Toxin. |
| 1:08.2 | Hi guy, hey rocketeers. |
| 1:10.7 | Karen, how are you doing? |
| 1:12.0 | I'm doing well. My voice is recovered for this week. |
| 1:15.0 | And just a quick note on mining Karen's gender expression. Today is reach one of those magical overlap points of efficient |
| 1:25.4 | queer shorts. Yes. Efficient queer shorts although I'm wearing very dower |
| 1:31.2 | like converse sweatshorts. |
| 1:35.8 | You're kind of like half gym rat, half goth. |
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