Wakanda Forever with Tavia Nyong'o

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4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2018

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Karen Tongson takes over hosting duties and is joined by special guest Tavia Nyong'o to discuss Black Panther! The gang chats about the impact the soundtrack had on them, afro-futurism/afro-centrism as part of the storytelling, and "double consciousness." Plus, Margaret talks Monica Lewinsky, Karen just finished watching Ugly Delicious, Tavia has some thoughts on the reboot of Heathers, and Wynter discusses GQ's article on Brendan Fraser.

And producer Christian comes into the studio for a very special announcement and his very first jam.

With Karen Tongson, Wynter Mitchell, Margaret Wappler and Tavia Nyong'o.

That’s My Jam:

Margaret Wappler - Ella Jenkins - Who's Gonna Be Your Man?
Karen Tongson and Wynter Mitchell- Janelle Monae - Make Me Feel
Tavia Nyong'o - MeShell Ndegeocello - Waterfalls
Christian Duenas - Frank Ocean - White Ferrari

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.

Farewell Rocketeers! It's been a blast getting to know you all on the Facebook and on Twitter. I'm gonna miss you so much!
Christian Dueñas

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey Rocketeers and Lubbos. I'm Karen Tonsen filling in for Guy Branham and welcome to Pop Rocket
0:14.2	the weekly show picking over all the pop culture we love to love. With me to talk
0:18.8	TV, film, music, and anything else entertaining, our digital strategist Winter Mitchell.
0:23.6	Hello, hello!
0:24.6	Who, who, who, who, hello Winter.
0:31.4	We're already getting hot and heavy up in here. We have journalist and novelist Margaret
0:36.6	Wobbler. Hi there, Karen. Hey, Margaret, so nice to see you pre-show as well as during
0:42.1	show. I know, we've pre-gamed at the prince one of
0:45.4	LA's finest establishments. Exactly. It needed to happen. I kind of miss pre-show
0:50.1	wopler. Exactly. We got pre-Show Wappler today. And also this week we have a very special guest.
0:58.1	He is the professor of theater, African American Studies, and American Studies at the venerable Yale University.
1:05.0	Also a very dear friend who's enjoying his sabbatical here in Los Angeles with his crystals in yoga.
1:11.0	Our dear friend Tavia, just Tava, and Yongo.
1:15.0	Hey, how's it going? This has been a long-term dream of mine.
1:20.0	See, you know, when you come to LA, TAV, dreams do come true.
1:24.0	It's true.
1:25.0	Exactly.
1:26.0	So yeah, coming up on this week's show, we're talking Black Panther, and we're going to try to make it spoiler free,
1:32.0	but you know, really what we have here in the house is a kind of
1:35.7	Force of
1:36.9	Scholastic scholarly
1:39.3	Mines and also our regular hot shit minds to talk about this phenomenon.
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