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- I'm Elamin Abdelmahmoud, and this is Pop Chat.
Kathleen, Sarah, Angelina,
I would love it if you would give me
some kind of recommendation to orient my life around.
Drop something in the group chat.
I wanna know what you are watching
or reading or listening to.
Let me start with Angelina.
- I've been watching Borgen.
- [Elamin] The Danish show?
- The Danish political drama, the Danish show.
It's old, but like it's a good one to bring up now.
It makes politics look kind of like quaint and fun
in comparison to what's happening here in the U.S.
(laughs)
There's a female leader, which is also astonishing.
And there's some really hot like office love drama.
So I think it's got it all.
- Kathleen's a psych to these times.
- Like make-outs?
(laughs)
- Did you say kissing?
- Eyes just popped out, she's just opened her eyes
- Lips touch? Yeah, you should check it out Kathleen,
it's for you.
- I remember when the conversation
around House of Cards was happening
and everyone was like, watch Borgen.
It's so much better than House of Cards.
And then I never did, so I will now go back
and watch Borgan after I'm done watching the finale
of Emily in Paris, because I still haven't finished it.
And I'm so excited to.
Kathleen, what about you?
What would you like to drop in the group chat today?
- I have been re-watching episodes
of The Good Wife, but that is not my pick.
My pick is the 40 year old Version, it is on Netflix.
It is written, produced, directed, and starring Radha Blank.
She is just this incredible writer, actress.
She plays this playwright who needs
to like reinvent herself, she's 39,
she made a bunch of like 30 under 30 lists.
And then is now seen as this
this, this like discarded woman, like, ew you're over 35.
And so she like reinvents herself as a rapper.
This movie is just like so special
and unique and we don't get to see
like joyful black stories that often
especially not with a woman over a certain age.
So it gives you all of that.
But it's also just like funny and great and stylistic.
- That sounds so much fun, I'm into it.
- She said she co-opted the name,
The 40 year old Version,
since white people love to steal stuff from us.
So it's on Netflix.
- I'm watching it for that alone.
Sarah, what about you?
- God, So I, I love re-watching movies and I,
this is like the perfect time too when things
are getting cold.
So my friend and I are re-watching the Rocky movies
and Kathleen, if you remember, I watched them all
for the first time last year, around this time.
- I do, I do I love that.
- And I'm just mesmerized by Rocky Balboa.
Like, I honestly like
the movies are so wild to me
and so just, you're just like, what are you saying Rocky?-
(laughing)
- Like you can't, you can't watch it
without close captioning and like my friend and I played
this game where she was like okay, close your eyes.
Don't read it, what is Rocky saying?
And we're like, we don't know what he's talking
about and I just love that he you know what
I love his love with Adrienne.
I think it's like one of the purest sweetest things.
Like she's just this woman with glasses who works
at a pet store and he's like this Himbo boxer hunk who lives
in this disgusting apartment.
Who's just obsessed with Adrienne and I,
and I love at the end of Rocky when he wins and he's
just like, Adrienne, Adrienne and you're like, wow he
just like, he just did something amazing.
And all he wants is Adrienne, you know what I mean?
So that's how desperate I am
for emotion and romance
and love.
That's how lonely I am is that I'm like, Oh, wow Rocky
and Adrienne have the best romance.
- They do though, I just, I mean, for those who don't know
my dog's name is Apollo Creed.
Like I, I stand Rocky hard and there remain, you know
- I'm going to start a conspiracy theory
and it's that Sylvester Stallone, he doesn't know
how to read or write.
And wow, like he like, and nothing can tell me
- That's your conspiracy theory?
- Like I just love a simple man, you know
and Rocky's so simple...
- You know the amazing story with ...
- ... he's there for her, he's there for Adrienne.
- ... the amazing story with him is that like,
when he came, when he wrote Rocky
and he was like gonna sell the movie Rocky...
- When he wrote Rocky, yes.
- ... when he wrote Rocky and he was going
to go sell the script, everyone was like, look Sylvester
like, we're not really sure
that audiences can understand you in the movie.
And he was like, I'm not selling this if I'm not
in the movie, like he insisted so much to be in the movie.
And that's actually why Matt Damon
and Ben Affleck are in Goodwill Hunting.
They were like, we're going to do what he did.
And we're not going to sell this
unless we're attached to be like the stars of it.
So he started a thing, man.
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- It's great that he let white men dream of a world
where they can write and star in their own movies.
Like to me, that's so inspirational.
And, and I love that white men have that power now.
It's like, it makes me really happy
and he's done so much for white culture.
But I honestly like, yeah, I just, I love Rocky.
He's my dream guy, I'll just say it, he's my dream guy.
- Well, it's such a fun conversation.
Thank you to the panel; Sarah Hagi,
Kathleen Newman-Bremang, Angelina Chapin.
Thank you for joining me today on Pop Chat,
the show where we try our best to help you make sense
of the cultural drama blowing up the internet.
I'm your host Elamin Abdelmahmoud, I'll see you next week.
Sorry, what were you going to say Sarah?
- You can rent Rocky on YouTube, on iTunes,
on your play station on Amazon prime.
There's a lot of places to watch Rocky.
It's a classic movie, Elamin thank you, goodbye.