PopCultureHappyHour

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A reminder: going forward, we'll be in your feed four days a week. Tuesday through Friday, you'll hear the same show you know and hopefully love. There will be a new episode in your feed tomorrow.

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You can follow some of the PCHH folks:

Stephen: @idislikestephen
Aisha: @craftingmystyle
Glen: @ghweldon
Jessica: @jessica_reedy
Mike: @mikekatzif
Hafsa: @hafsabadsha

Thanks, everyone. We had some very good times and very bad puns on here.

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PCHH is stepping away from Twitter, for a lot of reasons.

(https://t.co/nDjKOj7dB0)

But you can still keep up with us in a lot of other places.

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Aisha, Stephen and Gene Demby discuss AIR, a movie about shoe, business.

https://t.co/KHM7LaAkng

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Stephen, Ronald Young Jr., Amil Niazi and Daisy Rosario saw SUPER MARIO BROS. and report that the script is in another movie.

https://t.co/mioXiKzA8q

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TOP CHEF is back, so here's an encore ep featuring Linda, Stephen, Kat Chow and E. Alex Jung talking favorite challenges, judges and (checks notes) cheftestants over the years.

https://t.co/f6gyWELz9C

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Stephen, Aisha and Glen really dug THE BIG DOOR PRIZE on AppleTV+, a show with a Stephen King setup but a Schitt's Creek follow-through.

https://t.co/hZ8ABXE4AZ

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Linda, Aisha, Monica Castillo and Cate Young take a walk down RYE LANE, a South London-set rom-com now streaming on Hulu.

https://t.co/vGm08Q0GUx

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And here’s Glen’s full review, in which he makes the same points he makes on the episode but with a lot more dependent clauses.

https://t.co/QxPt9KJ87m

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Stephen and Glen welcome Wailin Wong and Sam Yellowhorse Kesler for a 1d4-sided conversation about DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: HONOR AMONG THIEVES.

Plus What’s Making Us Happy.

https://t.co/PnvInJIgfW https://t.co/PnvInJIgfW

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It makes its charisma saving throw.

It casts Charm Audience.

It’s chaotic, good.

https://t.co/w693ViTznW

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In this encore ep, we review our listeners' rankings of Muppets.

Justice for Rowlf.

https://t.co/NuZZMkrayV

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And, speaking strictly as an impartial observer, as the PCHH brand identity on Twitter -- you know, like when Netflix™️ or Pringles™️ gets all sassy on main -- we have to say: When it comes to Best Muppet, Glen is right.

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On this encore ep, the Core Four™️ discuss:

1. Which Muppet is the Best Muppet, and
2. The Muppet with which they most identify

Two separate but distinct questions.

https://t.co/UMW8VYgpxZ

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Linda and Aisha talk Netflix's THE NIGHT AGENT, a spy thriller featuring lots of skulking and sneaking.

https://t.co/e5D7L9u0Vh

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That's only one tag of many (many many) that you can sort books under with Books We Love.

https://t.co/LyF7Bw8WIh

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Stephen gets some great recommendations for books that you can find under the tag "No Biz Like Show Biz" on NPR's Books We Love package.

https://t.co/3IeZT9al3R