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This week, Karen Tongson and Margaret Wappler chat it up with pop culture maven and Pop Rocket\'s own podcast godmother Linda Holmes, the host of\\xa0NPR\'s\\xa0Pop Culture Happy Hour. The ladies revisit that wonderfully awkward time of their lives of Clearasil and body self-consciousness also known as 8th Grade while doing an in-depth exploration of Bo Burnham\'s debut film\\xa0Eighth Grade. The movie centers around this socially awkward teen girl who tries really hard to fit it and be popular at school, but can\'t quite get there. Karen, Margaret, and Linda harken back to the drama of that time in their own lives, and also flesh out whether one of the scenes in the movie should--or not--be labeled a #MeToo moment.

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Margaret is all about journalist href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/25/magazine/big-business-gwyneth-paltrow-wellness.html">Taffy Brodesser-Akner\'s latest article in the NYTimes Magazine about Gwyneth Paltrow\'s lifestyle brand company\\xa0Goop\\xa0and how it went from Paltrow\'s Martha Stewart-like project to a 250 million dollar company. Linda is all about a new (and disappointing)\\xa0study on inequality in film out of USC Annenberg
that highlights the lack of progress in inclusion in film. Karen is all about\\xa0Episode 7 of\\xa0The Affair, specifically the scene that features \\u201csapphic dabbling in a yurt\\u201d between Helen (Maura Tierney) and Sierra (Emily Browning).

With\\xa0Karen Tongson,\\xa0Margaret Wappler,\\xa0and\\xa0Linda Holmes.

That\'s My Jam:

Linda-\\xa0Kelly Clarkson - Since U Been Gone.

Margaret -\\xa0Nine Inch Nails - Down In It.

Karen -\\xa0Debbie Gibson- Only In My Dreams.

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Produced by\\xa0Laura Swisher\\xa0for\\xa0MaximumFun.org. Edited by\\xa0Shana Daloria.