Pod Insights Pop Culture Happy Hour The Pop Culture Hill I’ll Die On About this episode We've all got that one argument we're always making: that non-negotiable stance, that immutable truth we're sticking to no matter what. Today, we're revisiting our conversation about the pop culture hills we'll die on. We discuss: Jacob Elordi, Timothée Chalamet, boss battles in video games, Bryan Adams, and attending concerts.
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0:30 Stephen Thompson? And when it comes to culture, we've all got at least one of those. The argument we're always making, that non-negotiable stance, that immutable truth we're sticking to no matter what. Nobody's going to convince you otherwise, but arguing about it sure is fun. So that's why we're revisiting this conversation from 2024 about the pop culture hills we'll die on. I'm Stephen Thompson.
0:52 Aisha Harris? I'm Aisha Harris, and you're listening to Pop Culture Happy Hour from NPR.
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2:33 Aisha Harris? Joining us today is our fellow PCHH host Glen Weldon. Hey Glenn.
2:37 Speaker 04 Hey Aisha.
2:38 Aisha Harris? And also with us is the former host of Slate's internet culture podcast, Icy YMI, and former pop culture Happy Hour producer, Candace Slim. Welcome back Candace.
2:47 Speaker 05 Oh my gosh, it is really nice to see all of you.
2:49 Aisha Harris? Yes, and I'm also very much looking forward to everyone's hills that they shall die on. The premise here is pretty simple. Each person here will share a pop culture-related perspective that they feel extremely passionate about, and then the rest of us will judge them for it.
3:05 Speaker 04 We're not talking hot takes here. We were gonna call this hot takes. And we decided not to call it hot takes because we don't want it to be like confrontational, in-your-face, man. This is just something we feel strongly about.
3:15 Aisha Harris? Absolutely. Mine might arguably be a hot take, but I'm not gonna present it that way. We'll see.
3:21 Aisha Harris? Candace, why don't you kick us off with the hill you will die on?
3:25 Speaker 05 Whew. I need to warn you. It is a two-parter, so I'm gonna state my thesis. We'll do an intermission at the semicolon. Okay, here we go. Jacob Elordi is the new Timothy Chalamet, and he could be the next Andrew Garfield. Timothy Chalamet is the current Leonardo DiCaprio, who will have the career of Tom Cruise. Okay, marinate, marinate, marinate.
3:50 Speaker 04 There's a lot to absorb there.
3:52 Aisha Harris? Explain. Unpack.
3:53 Speaker 05 Jacob Elordi's 2023 reminds me a lot of that 2017, 2018 period when Timmy was exploding because he was in Greta Gerwig's Lady Bird and Luca Guadagnino's Call Me By Your Name. And so I remember back in 2017, Timmy is exploding beyond internet stardom. You could not open Twitter, Tumblr, Yelp without seeing photos, fan cams of this boy. But I think Timmy's time as the internet's number one boy is over because 2023, Jacob comes out, two movies back to back, Sofia Coppola's Priscilla, Emerald Fennel's Saltburn. And I could not go one scroll without seeing that exact GIF of Jacob Elordi in Saltburn
4:35 Speaker 05 as Felix with the little like cowboy hat on. And I just think he is occupying Timmy's space because he has this like effortless, cool, gender bending street style. Coppola and Fennel are two people who have definitely contributed to this pipeline because they've really just like captured that allure of Elordi through the female gaze. Now, in terms of Jacob's near future, he's gonna be in this mini-series called The Narrow Road to the Deep North, which is based on a book by Richard Flanagan. It's about this like World War II lieutenant's life as he grows up and falls in love. This screams Andrew Garfield to me. And I think Andrew and Jacob, they've both shown range very early on in
5:16 Speaker 05 their careers. Jacob did The Kissing Booth. Some may say that's Andrew's Spider-Man. And I just think Jacob could be like an Oscar bait actor the way Andrew has. But I want to add an addendum, which is that
5:29 Aisha Harris? Okay.
5:30 Speaker 05 I think he should become the next Margot Robbie.
5:32 Aisha Harris? So many actors, I can't keep them straight. I know, I know, the shorthand, the shorthand.
5:36 Speaker 05 I know, I know. That's why you gotta, so you gotta take notes, take notes. So I feel like we don't study the Margot Robbie super producer playbook enough and how she is doing so much behind the scenes to secure not only her legacy in Hollywood, but her control as an actress. And I just think Jacob has good taste and I'd like to see him use it to become this like mega producer who just like attaches his name to projects he likes. That is part one. Thoughts, questions, concerns? Let's go.
6:03 Aisha Harris? Wow. That's part one? That's part one. Okay, I think I'm with you on the he could be Oscar bait, whatever. I see that. I see that for him.
6:13 Speaker 05 Yes.
6:14 Aisha Harris? What I don't agree with necessarily is the idea that there can only be one.
6:19 Speaker 04 Right.
6:19 Aisha Harris? Timothy, Timothy, Timothy, however he pronounces his name, you know, he can exist and coexist alongside Jacob Elordi. All right, I can, I can see it, I guess, kind of.
6:30 Speaker 04 I mean, we can't say he didn't show your work, right?
6:32 Stephen Thompson? Yeah.
6:32 Speaker 04 And there's the example.
6:34 Aisha Harris? But what I really needed, though, was a whiteboard.
6:36 Stephen Thompson? I was gonna say.
6:37 Aisha Harris? So I could track it all.
6:38 Speaker 04 A red string.
6:39 Aisha Harris? And some string.
6:40 Speaker 05 I know. I left my red string corkboard in the other room, guys. I'm so sorry.
6:45 Aisha Harris? Okay, what's part two?
6:47 Speaker 05 All right, Timothy Chalamet is the current Leonardo DiCaprio who'll have the career of Tom Cruise.
6:51 Stephen Thompson? Okay.
6:51 Speaker 05 When I look at an actor's Wikipedia, sometimes I'll pick out a few roles and I'll ask, was this actor chosen or choosing?
6:59 Speaker 04 Hmm.
6:59 Speaker 05 I think Timmy is now in a place where he can choose his roles. And I think Timmy is trying to ball with the bros, like attaching himself to the biggest directors possible. That means choosing Wonka, choosing Dune. And we move to the next part, him being the current Leo. I think the comparison is obvious, you know, he is boyish, he became Hollywood A-list very quickly. And the Timmy hype reminds me a lot of Leo's Titanic era. But when Leo chose to attach himself to Martin Scorsese, best career choice of his life.
7:30 Aisha Harris? Sure.
7:30 Speaker 05 And even though Timmy has attributed a lot of his success to Luca Guadagnino, I think he's looking for his second auteur. And so when he does, I could see Timmy going down this path of like, okay, I made my name in the indie scene, but if I'm only gonna do one or two movies a year, they better make a hundred million at the box office. Who does that sound like? Tom Cruise.
7:51 Aisha Harris? Okay.
7:52 Speaker 05 I would say Tom, you know, reliable, making movies, putting in the work, nominated for three acting Oscars. Timmy is Academy loved, someone who is not afraid to take a check over the art of acting. And so that is my pop culture hill I'll die on, that Jacob Elordi is a new Timothy Chalamet, who could become the next Andrew Garfield, which should become Margot Robbie. Timothy Chalamet is the current Leonardo DiCaprio who will have the career of Tom Cruise. End scene.
8:22 Stephen Thompson? I really appreciated this elevator pitch.
8:24 Aisha Harris? Yeah.
8:25 Speaker 05 Yeah, longest elevator of your life, yeah.
8:27 Speaker 04 Let's focus on the Tom Cruise, because it's the only part I remember.
8:31 Speaker 05 Yeah, sure. Go for it.
8:32 Speaker 04 So comparing anybody to Tom Cruise is always fraught for me because he is so singular. He was an action star. And then some of the success, a lot of the success, I would say, of the past few years is Tom Cruise going from broody action star, realizing that doesn't really work for him anymore, and pivoting to action star who acknowledges his age in kind of a wry knowing way. It's about self-knowledge. It's about an earned self-awareness. I think Chalamet is way too young for that kind of thing.
9:03 Aisha Harris? Tom Cruise is like in his 60s now. And so like his career, I think we have to sort of isolate a era of his career as opposed to the long game of his career. And I can see the point if we're talking about him and his risky business Top Gun era. Yeah, I think that's comparable because Timmy is still doing like he did Bones and All, that very weird cannibal movie. But then on top of that, he also did Dune. So I think that seems more comparable. Maybe we'll see him start to get into the rom-com era like Tom Cruise did very briefly with Jerry Maguire. But as far as like action hero star, I don't know. I don't know if I see that for him right now.
9:45 Speaker 05 Timmy and the word bulk, I don't know about that. But the thing is like, I can see Timmy studying the game of Tom Cruise and being like, what if I fell off a building, but I was like really French and cool about it? So that might be something the girls want, who knows?
10:01 Aisha Harris? I followed like a quarter of that and I think you made very good points.
10:05 Speaker 05 Thank you so much, guys.
10:06 Aisha Harris? I feel like maybe on like Instagram or the socials or something, you should definitely share the whiteboard.
10:11 Speaker 05 Make a PowerPoint.
10:15 Aisha Harris? Please do, Candace.
10:16 Speaker 05 Absolutely.
10:17 Aisha Harris? Well, thank you, Candace. Now Glenn.
10:19 Speaker 04 Yeah.
10:19 Aisha Harris? Tell me, do you have a whiteboard here?
10:22 Speaker 04 No, this is very simple. But before we get to that, I have to say that over the long and storied history of this show. We've had occasion to visit several hills I'm prepared to die upon. A, Das Sound Machine was robbed from the film Pitch Perfect 2. The sun flashlight is terrible. Das Sound Machine rocks. Yes. Store bought Halloween superhero costumes are better than any so fro hobby lobby nonsense you can whip up as a parent. Because your kids want to look like superheroes. They do not want to look like some sad Santa Fe gallery textile installation. So you let them look like superheroes. Candy corn is high fructose earwax. These are all hills that are littered with my son's bleach bones.
11:00 Aisha Harris? Don't sound like hot takes to me, but okay.
11:02 Speaker 04 No, no, they're just observations. They are mere observations.
11:05 Aisha Harris? They're too real to be hot. Yeah.
11:06 Speaker 04 Here is my fresh hill I will die on. Boss battles in video games are pointless and frustrating, and they are retrograde holdovers from an antiquated gaming era. They add nothing to a game's enjoyment. In fact, they subtract substantially from them. It is time they were consigned to the dustbin of history where they belong. You all know what I mean when I talk about boss battles, yes? Yes.
11:29 Aisha Harris? Oh, yes. I have battled many a boss. I might need a little refresher.
11:34 Speaker 04 A boss battle Candace is where any game that you're playing's innovation and idiosyncrasy and freshness and novelty stops dead. So we can go back to gaming's most basic mechanics of pattern recognition. And so the game stops dead while a boss sits there, the big bad that you have to fight, and goes for their patterns that you are forced to memorize. They will throw out three fireballs, then they will unleash five minions, then they will send out a shockwave. Then they will become vulnerable for three seconds, then they will retreat, and then it all starts again. You, as the gamer, you have nothing to do except dodge the fireballs and fight the minions and jump over the shockwave, run in, whale on them as fast as you can to take 2% of their health, then retreat and repeat.
12:19 Speaker 04 And when you've got them halfway down, then they transform into a final form where they do everything they just did, but faster and with more damage. And maybe now you have to aim for some stupid glowing spot under their thorax to do any damage. The thing is that this is what games used to be. This is all that games used to be. And people loved it back then. They loved the repetition. They loved memorizing the rhythm and this feeling of accomplishment of dying countless times because you miscounted a fireball. And I remember the feeling of bliss that crashes over you when you finally get it. I am an older man now and games aren't on rails anymore like they used to be. They are much richer and wider and wilder.
13:00 Speaker 04 They give you more options, more possibilities, more potential to do anything, more ways to accomplish whatever you want to do, except fight the boss. Those remain lather, rinse, repeat. I find nothing about them fun or challenging. I mean, it's challenging in the way that churning butter is challenging because it is hard, it is repetitive, and we don't need to do it anymore is the thing. So throw off the shackles of yesteryear is what I say and let dull, mindless repetition go the way of the dodo.
13:30 Stephen Thompson? Now Glenn, there are more games now where you can avoid the boss battles, correct? Like, I feel like there's a whole cottage industry in video gaming where you're trying to set a record for speedrunning a game. And one way to do that is to like dodge and weave and kind of duck past. And it seems like it's like more and more of those boss battles, you're able to avoid them if you want to.
13:50 Speaker 04 If you want to, more of that, I say. But my worry is that this will never go away completely because gaming as an industry is just besotted with nostalgia, with like the throwback, with people yearning for the games they played as kids. I just think they're a waste of everyone's times and we have to do better. We must do better.
14:09 Aisha Harris? Yeah. Hi, it's me, the person who only plays games that I played when I was like 12. But I will say, and it's like a handful, I have the newer version of Crash Bandicoot, which I love. But I agree, the boss battles are terrible. The whole game is repetition because you, it's literally just you're running and you have to dodge things. But like in between, there are those boss battles that are just like, to me, uh, that frustration you're getting at Glenn, because at least with normal level games themselves, you're moving forward.
14:40 Speaker 04 A goal.
14:40 Aisha Harris? Whereas the boss battles, like there's just, it's just one thing. It's so terrible. So I'm with you there.
14:46 Speaker 04 I'll be in the middle of an amazing game and I'll be like, we're doing this again? This now? Still?
14:51 Speaker 05 Yeah, I appreciate the boss battle explainer, Glenn, because as someone who does not game, I genuinely thought you meant like, in every game, there's a part where the manager yells at you for not filling out your time sheet. And I was like, wow, every game has that? That's crazy.
15:08 Speaker 04 Yeah. I could send you some indie games where you're not far off.
15:12 Speaker 05 Stu, and a PS5 with that.
15:17 Aisha Harris? Well, thank you, Glenn. That's a great hill to die on. I completely concur. And I'm glad that this is something that is somewhat gone by the wayside, even if not completely. Steven, tell us, what is the most passionate thing you want to argue right now?
15:31 Stephen Thompson? Well, I get to piggyback on something that Glenn said. Glenn gave me a beautiful distillation of the idea of throwing off the shackles of yesteryear. And it ties into my thoughts on music.
15:43 Speaker 04 Not a surprise.
15:44 Stephen Thompson? Basically, I think there needs to be a mechanism whereby songs are forcibly retired.
15:50 Aisha Harris? Okay.
15:50 Speaker 04 Say more.
15:51 Stephen Thompson? So, big movie comes out, it leaves theaters after a few weeks, maybe if it's a big hit, a couple of months. TV shows, they pop up when you search them out. And maybe people are talking about them when they come back. Otherwise, if you want to avoid it, you can generally avoid it. Songs stay on radio playlists and kind of on the wind, in stores, in your car, if you're a car radio person. And more and more radio stations are programmed in such a way where even if it's an oldies station, even if it's a classic rock station, that station will be constructed around a core playlist of like a dozen songs. And so if you turn on a classic rock radio station, or you're flipping the dial and you just hit like,
16:33 Stephen Thompson? oh, here's some guitars, the odds that you will hear Bryan Adams' "Summer of 69"
16:40 Stephen Thompson? are shockingly high.
16:48 Stephen Thompson? A song from 1985 about how life was best in the 60s is still inescapable if you listen to classic rock radio. And to me, that is absurd. This applies to holiday music. My god. When was the last time we got a holiday song recorded in the last 25 years?
17:10 Aisha Harris? I mean, there are a lot. It's just they're not winding up on.
17:12 Stephen Thompson? We get them. Oh, my gosh.
17:14 Speaker 04 I'd like to introduce you to Cher.
17:16 Aisha Harris? And Cheryl Lee Ralph.
17:17 Stephen Thompson? Yes. Please, please allow me to clarify that I do not mean that nobody is recording holiday music. For the love of god, I am well aware that that is the case. But in terms of what kind of seeps into the cultural firmament to the point of inescapability, it's just this endless rehashing and regurgitation of songs that were recorded 30, 50 years ago. I just think there needs to be like a blue ribbon panel of curmudgeons made up entirely of me.
17:46 Speaker 04 Led by you.
17:46 Stephen Thompson? That maybe says, in the case of Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree by Brenda Lee, this song is on hiatus for five years. We will revisit it in the holiday season in 2028, or whatever. But in the case of like Bryan Adams' Summer of 69, that that song be permanently retired and never played on the radio ever again.
18:08 Aisha Harris? I'm just trying to think of the logistics of this because like, what is a classic rock station but a station that is going to be playing the oldies?
18:15 Stephen Thompson? But there are so many oldies, Aisha.
18:17 Aisha Harris? Fair.
18:18 Stephen Thompson? This is my point, is like Bryan Adams had like 12 hits. Play a different one.
18:23 Speaker 04 One way to toss off the shackles of yesteryear and to avoid that inescapability you mentioned is by, you know, maybe not listening to a classic rock station in 2024, as I do not. And these things you are claiming are inescapable and inevitable are very evitable. I assure you.
18:39 Aisha Harris? Yeah.
18:40 Stephen Thompson? Okay, that is true. I am in the unusual position of sharing a car with three people who insist only on the radio.
18:48 Speaker 04 There you go.
18:48 Stephen Thompson? But I also go to stores. I also go to courtyards. I go to places where music is on the wind.
18:58 Speaker 04 And I hear this stuff all the time.
19:00 Aisha Harris? No, that's true. I've always wanted someone to do like the data on like, what is the most common song you're going to hear in any given public environment, whether it's like an Applebee's or a Walgreens.
19:13 Speaker 05 I think it's Ed Sheeran, "Shape of You." Okay, so I'm gonna back you, Stephen. I listen to the radio. I live in L.A., so these numbers will only apply to Angelino's. Like, the hottest music hottest is 102.7 Kiss FM. And then, once you grow up, you go to 104.3 My FM. And then, once you're like about to die, you go to 103.5 Adult Contemporary. Tell me, why am I driving to McDonald's on a Tuesday and Ed Sheeran is on 103.5?
19:39 Speaker 04 Right.
19:39 Speaker 05 Why? But I'm with you, Stephen, which is that like, when you think about the incongruency of like, why people are mad that certain people didn't win Album of the Year at the Grammys? It is because this industry and the people listening to it are like very different people with different motives. And those radio people, they're basically just trying to find songs to play between as. They're gonna play to their interests and whoever brings in the money. And I'm gonna be honest, if I'm listening to Lizzo on 103.5 or a Kohl's, I kinda have to take it.
20:11 Speaker 04 I hear what you're saying, because there was a period of time when one could not enter CBS without hearing "Smooth Operator" by Sade.
20:17 Aisha Harris? Oh, my God, yeah.
20:18 Speaker 04 It's a song I happen to like. It's a pretty good song.
20:21 Aisha Harris? She has like 100 other songs.
20:22 Speaker 04 But she has so many other songs that are so good. But separately, that doesn't happen to me anymore, not because the CBS's aren't still CBS-ing, but because I am listening to podcasts on my AirPods as I
20:32 Aisha Harris? Yeah.
20:33 Speaker 04 walk through the aisles of the stores.
20:34 Aisha Harris? I'm the same way. Unfortunately, this hill you die on
20:37 Speaker 04 It's your hill.
20:37 Aisha Harris? will probably be.
20:38 Speaker 04 Oh, I will die on it. It will not.
20:40 Aisha Harris? Yeah, you will die before it actually comes true.
20:41 Speaker 04 This is the hill that will kill me.
20:44 Aisha Harris? So I guess we'll move on to mine, which I did hint might be a sort of controversial take, I think, because there are so many variabilities involved. And it actually kind of jumps off of yours, Stephen, because it has to do with music. It is listening to music, watching music in public at concerts. Now, Gerald Mission, on its face, it's the egalitarian way. Presumably, everyone has paid the same or a not-too-dissimilar price for those tickets. And you have the freedom to just move about as you please. You're not beholden to the confines of a seat.
21:14 Speaker 04 You're gonna argue against egalitarianism. Good, good, good. Keep going. Say more.
21:18 Aisha Harris? Okay. But here's the thing, at concerts and festivals, this arrangement can be a scourge for those of us who are on the short end of the spectrum, who are height challenged, as they say, who must not only deal with the enthusiastically flailing elbows of tall people in their faces, or the increased risk of those tall people getting bumped and then spilling their drink on your head, which has happened to me multiple times. But you also get every boring person who stands for minutes at a time with their arm up in the air, taking a bad recording of a performance they're probably never going to watch again, except to post on social media just to say they were there. Now, I have very little faith in humanity, and I'm not going to argue here that tall people should all of a sudden
22:00 Aisha Harris? stand on the sidelines or move to the back for shorties. You can't help how tall you are. And also, as someone who is in a long-term inter-height relationship, I'm five foot one, he's six foot two. Look, I recognize that there is no perfect solution here. But I think that there is a solution. It's not perfect, but that if we were just a little bit more mindful, and especially if concert venues were a little bit more mindful, there should be sections that are designated for people five, five or shorter. And it can be in any part of the room, preferably closer to the front, maybe on the side, or the balconies. You get up, just like if you're going to on a roller coaster, you've got to stand next to the thing.
22:41 Stephen Thompson? I was going to say, there's like a you must be this tall to enter.
22:44 Aisha Harris? Yes, you must be this tall. And you can choose, if you are short, to go in there, or if you don't care. But I think that there should be some sort of section for people who are short so that they can reasonably enjoy seeing the artists that they want to see.
22:59 Speaker 04 The only way this is ever going to happen, Ayesha, is if you incentivize it for them. Are you willing to pay more money for this option?
23:05 Aisha Harris? You know what, I am in my 30s now, so yeah, I am.
23:08 Speaker 05 What about like a free t-shirt, like Patreon style? Like, if you're tall, you get nothing, but if you're short, you get a free t-shirt and a toque, New Yorker.
23:17 Aisha Harris? I just think, look, I will pay the extra, like, however much for the extra legroom. I sympathize with everyone who's tall and has to ride on these tiny little planes. I just, I just think that there needs to be some sort of way to offer, even if just a small handful of people and we're paying extra, whatever, it's fine. But I also think that like, the amount of fees that are involved here, they should be just absorbed into the fees that they're already charging everyone.
23:45 Stephen Thompson? Aisha, I once wrote a column.
23:47 Aisha Harris? Oh, I know.
23:48 Stephen Thompson? About how tall people should be courteous towards shorter people at concerts, and maybe move to the back of the room, maybe just make some arrangements.
23:56 Aisha Harris? I was actually hoping you would bring this up.
23:58 Stephen Thompson? I personally, I'm 5'10", my partner's 5'10", we both have somewhat wide hair, so we sometimes try to make arrangements if, for example, we're standing directly in front of people who are shorter than us. I'm not sure I have ever gotten more negative feedback to a thing that I have written in my entire career.
24:19 Aisha Harris? I, I did, I did read this article. Like, I came across it while I was doing a little research. And you were, you were so nice about it, Stephen. And this is again, why I say, we shouldn't leave it up to the patrons to do this. Like, I don't believe me.
24:32 Stephen Thompson? Any patron who feels disadvantaged by this will lose their mind. If they feel like they are having a right or a privilege taken away from them, oh my gosh. I'd love to see the world try.
24:44 Speaker 05 Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I back you, Aisha. I, I guess we're all saying our heights now. I'm 5'5" on a good day. And my whole thing, though, is that, you ever seen a big dog who thinks they're small? You know, it's that situation of like, the self-awareness needs to also maybe be there a little bit. But I, I think if we unionize, okay, if we talk to the right people, we can get this off the ground, Aisha.
25:09 Aisha Harris? Look, you can take my money if that means that I'm going to be able to see Questlove's face from the audience and not have to like, look at someone's phone the whole time.
25:18 Stephen Thompson? I'm rooting for you, buddy. That's all I can say.
25:21 Aisha Harris? I, I real, I realize mine, my, my, the chances of this happening are maybe even more.
25:27 Stephen Thompson? Writing that piece and reading the responses to that piece did not give me a ton of faith. Candace, I think you got the best shot here.
25:34 Speaker 04 A, because there were many tentacles to your thesis. But B, because I think, yeah, the rest of this, it's not going to happen.
25:43 Aisha Harris? The, ours, ours are pipe dreams, basically. Ours are also grievances. Oh.
25:48 Speaker 04 That's true.
25:49 Aisha Harris? This is true. This is true. But anyone who wants to get on board with this, at me, and anyone who doesn't, I don't want to hear from you. I don't want to smoke like Stephen.
25:58 Speaker 04 That'll work.
26:01 Aisha Harris? Well, those are our pop culture hills. We will die on grievances, you might say, for some of us. And we want to know about the pop culture hill that you would die on. Find us at facebook.com/pchh. And that brings us to the end of our show. Kansas Lim, Glenn Walden, Stephen Thompson, thanks so much for being here and, you know, letting us know those things you feel so, so strongly about.
26:24 Speaker 04 Thank you. Thank you.
26:25 Aisha Harris? Thank you. This episode was produced by Liz Metzger and Romell Wood and edited by Mike Katsev. Our supervising producer is Jessica Reedy, and Hello, Come In provides our theme music. Thank you for listening to Pop Culture Happy Hour from NPR. I'm Aisha Harris. We'll see you all next time.
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