Welcome back to the Rocket Talk podcast! Emo Kylo Ren pays Justin a visit this week, in the form of the woman behind it all—Alexanda Petri! Together they discuss Star Wars, Jeopardy, internet culture, politics, and Petri’s book, A Field Guide to Awkward Silences.
Alexandra Petri is a Washington Post columnist and blogger, an International Pun Champion, a playwright, and a Jeopardy! loser, and she’s been on your TV a couple of times. She is also a congressman’s kid, if that interests you. When she remembers, she does stand-up comedy too. You can follow her on Twitter @petridishes, or keep up with her alter ego @KyloR3n.
Rocket Talk Episode 79 (40:57)
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This girl is my hero. She’s in some ways what saved TFA for me because I was so depressed after that movie I needed some much needed laughter.
Kind of holding out hope Weird Al does a Star Wars song for the new movie (as he’s done one for the other two trilogies) and makes it based on this twitter account in the style of MCR or Evanaesence, ha. I’d also love to see some type of ERB between Emo Kylo Ren and Ebony from My Immortal but I’m probably the only person that would think it’s funny. Although I did find a rather funny slashfic about the two of them once :)