Vacations and Travel with Karen Tongson

Pop Rocket

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4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2016

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Guy, Wynter, and Oliver are joined by academic and Pop Rocket’s fifth Beatle, Karen Tongson to talk about vacations in pop culture! The gang has some suggestions on how to pass the time on a plane, train, and/or automobile. What’s the difference between a vacation and travel movie? Why are ABC show families always taking vacations? Karen talks about her trip to the Philippines and Vietnam, Oliver and Wynter aren’t too sure about The Get Down, and Guy is slowly losing hope in finding a truly amazing Jam that is deserving of the Song of the Summer crown.

Our regular host Margaret Wappler thinks it would be pretty cool of you to buy her new book Neon Green. Get it HERE or at your local independent bookstore. Check her website for tour dates.

With Guy Branum, Oliver Wang, Wynter Mitchell, and guest Karen Tongson

Produced by Christian Dueñas and Colin Anderson for MaximumFun.org

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0:00.0	Oh, hey, hey there I'm Guy Branham and welcome to Pop Rocket, a weekly show picking up for all the pop culture we love to love.
0:14.0	With me to talk TV, film, music, and anything else entertaining, our digital strategist,
0:17.7	Winter Mitchell.
0:18.7	Hello, hello, Hello, Hello, academic and DJ Oliver Wang.
0:21.7	Hi Guy. Hello Oliver. Oliver.
0:23.0	You're wearing pants.
0:24.0	I'm wearing pants.
0:25.0	It's summertime, it's very hot and I'm wearing pants like a real official adult man.
0:30.0	And you guys, we had an entire month without Margaret and we were like, oh, well, we'll just use the old reliable crutch of pop rocket.
0:38.8	We'll just go to our fifth beetle, Karen Tonsin, but somebody was out of the country for most of that month.
0:44.0	Yeah, exactly. Well, so I have to say hello again to conjure the spirit of Shelly Long.
0:49.0	It was the weakest of her late 80s comedy.
0:53.8	It's so true.
0:54.8	Possibly even worse than outrageous fortune.
0:57.0	Karen, where were you?
0:58.5	I was in the Philippines in Vietnam.
1:01.0	Uh-huh.
1:02.0	You know, a little homecoming. A little, I I've never been to Vietnam so I just sort of you know so it was a new thing a
1:06.9	little celebratory fifth anniversary trip for me and my lady friend. Oh that's lovely and her
1:11.7	birthday also and just you know lots of beaches, carousing, the usual eating.
1:16.8	Am I correct in remembering that you went to what is supposed to be the best Bonme
1:21.4	shop in the world or was the best
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