A wacky merchandise quiz

Everywhere you look, movies and TV shows are teaming up with all kinds of companies to make odd product tie-ins. Green Shrek ketchup. The Handmaid’s Tale wine. Grogu serving boards. Today on the show, we’re playing a game about some very strange brand collaborations. If you like want more episodes like this one, check out: We fantasy cast 'The Traitors' https://www.npr.org/2025/02/18/1232304347/we-fantasy-cast-the-traitors Our 15th Anniversary Time Capsule https://www.npr.org/2025/08/19/nx-s1-5506094/our-15th-anniversary-time-capsule A Cameo Quiz https://www.npr.org/2022/03/31/1089909640/a-cameo-quiz Connect with Pop Culture Happy Hour: Letterboxd https://letterboxd.com/nprpopculture/ / Facebook https://www.facebook.com/pchh Our weekly newsletter https://www.npr.org/newsletter/pop-culture Support Pop Culture Happy Hour+ https://plus.npr.org/happy See pcm.adswizz.com https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for sponsorship and to manage your podcast sponsorship preferences. NPR Privacy Policy https://www.npr.org/about-npr/179878450/privacy-policy

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• 0:00Speaker 00

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• 0:19Linda Holmes?

  Everywhere you look, movies and TV shows are teaming up with all kinds of companies to make product tie-ins. We're not talking about just action figures or board games. They're doing a little bit of everything, and we do mean everything. I'm Linda Holmes, and today we're playing a game about some very strange brand collaborations on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour. Joining me today are my fellow Pop Culture Happy Hour hosts, Glen Weldon. Hello, Glenn.

• 0:45Speaker 02

  Hey, Lynda.

• 0:46Linda Holmes?

  Stephen Thompson. Hello, Stephen.

• 0:48Speaker 02

  Hey, buddy.

• 0:49Linda Holmes?

  And final contestant, Aisha Harris. Hello, Ayesha. Hello, Lynda. All right, so it's been a while since I subjected you all to a little quiz. This one is about some of the brands that have worked with movies and TV shows to create all kinds of things that you can buy that may or may not capitalize on the warm feelings you have about whatever you just watched. They are all multiple choice questions.

• 1:14Speaker 02

  Okay.

• 1:14Linda Holmes?

  You will each get three questions, and then we will see at the end if someone has won or if there's a tie. And if there's a tie, we're going to break it.

• 1:23Speaker 02

  All right.

• 1:24Linda Holmes?

  Okay.

• 1:24Speaker 02

  Just a heads up, I intend to win this. Yeah. This is amazing. We haven't done this in such a long time, and I just feel so free. I've done no prep. I've done no homework. It's all you and the producers who did all the...

• 1:38Linda Holmes?

  Yeah, I got a shout out. Producers Mike Katsev and Liz Metzger, especially, very helpful in creating this quiz. We're going to get right down to it. All right. Stephen, are you ready for the first question?

• 1:48Speaker 02

  Holmesy, I have never been more and less prepared in my life.

• 1:52Linda Holmes?

  All right, awesome. Perfect. Stephen, which of these is a real product tied to the release of The Hunger Games catching fire in 2013? Is it A, District 12 peasant bread and apple walnut loaf from Pepperidge Farms sold only at Costco? Katniss Cream Donuts, which were just cinnamon apple. The Capital Collection Cover Girl Makeup, based on the cartoonish appearance of the super rich.

• 2:18Stephen Thompson?

  Oh, man.

• 2:19Linda Holmes?

  Or is it a Hunger Games shampoo called Don't Tangle With Me?

• 2:24Stephen Thompson?

  Wow. I mean, I do remember some kind of strange tie-ins with these movies. And Catching Fire is the second book and the follow-up to a big hit movie. So it feels like the kind of thing where they go pretty far afield with these things. I mean, I remember like Star Wars branded oranges.

• 2:45Speaker 02

  So. Stephen, I'm not trying to help you, but just available only at Costco. That's a Linda Holmes brain detail. It's so good.

• 2:54Linda Holmes?

  Now, that's not fair.

• 2:55Speaker 02

  It's tempting, but you choose you.

• 2:57Stephen Thompson?

  Yeah, Holmesy's good at dropping details that make it sound so specific it must be real.

• 3:02Speaker 02

  My point.

• 3:02Stephen Thompson?

  I'm far too advanced a thinker to fall for such a ruse. I am gonna go with the makeup collection, which is definitely self-satirizing in a way, but at the same time, like, look like Jennifer Lawrence.

• 3:19Linda Holmes?

  Well, no, wasn't it look like the rich people in the movies?

• 3:21Stephen Thompson?

  Oh, right, right, right, right, right, right, right.

• 3:23Linda Holmes?

  Sorry, not to help you, but.

• 3:25Stephen Thompson?

  Good point. You are helping me. You are helping me. The Capital Collection. Gosh, that does sound like a Lynda thing too, though, doesn't it? I'm gonna go with my first hunch and go with the makeup, but yeah, I'm probably wrong.

• 3:37Linda Holmes?

  All right. The correct answer is The Capital Collection.

• 3:41Stephen Thompson?

  Yes.

• 3:41Linda Holmes?

  That was gonna be my guess, too. Cover girl makeup based on the cartoonish appearance of the super rich. Very good, Stephen. Well done.

• 3:51Speaker 02

  Available only at Costco.

• 3:54Linda Holmes?

  I mean, I could be wrong, but I don't know if Costco does that kind of thing, do they?

• 3:59Stephen Thompson?

  Right. Costco doesn't necessarily do a ton of like Costco-specific brands.

• 4:04Speaker 02

  It sounded good.

• 4:05Linda Holmes?

  All right. All right. So I screwed it up. I should've.

• 4:07Stephen Thompson?

  Kirkland brand and.

• 4:09Linda Holmes?

  I should've said available only at, I don't know, Giant or something.

• 4:12Aisha Harris?

  Walgreens, Target.

• 4:14Linda Holmes?

  Fine, fine. Ayesha, you are up on the second question. Which of these lines of marketing copy was briefly used to promote The Handmaid's Tale Wine in 2018?

• 4:28Aisha Harris?

  What?

• 4:28Linda Holmes?

  Was it A, it's useless to resist the wine's smooth and appealingly earthy profile, so you may as well give in?

• 4:38Speaker 02

  Okay.

• 4:38Linda Holmes?

  Was it B, they're out here crushing spirits, we're out here crushing the best grapes just for your palate? Was it C, she's had a lot of hard days and a lot of long nights, think of Offred as the original wine mom?

• 4:54Stephen Thompson?

  Wow.

• 4:55Aisha Harris?

  All of these could be possible.

• 4:57Linda Holmes?

  Or was it D, pleasure is forbidden in Gilead, but you'll have plenty when you invite this lively Cabernet Sauvignon into your home? Believe it or not, one of those four is a real-

• 5:10Aisha Harris?

  No, I believe all of them are possible. I mean, none of these quite reach the heights of she came for the pasta and got lost in the sauce from you, me, and Tuscany. But it's up there. The brilliance of all of these is that any of them sound like they could be under the caption of an influencer who's trying to sell or like put on a T-shirt to wear while you're out having wine with other wine moms.

• 5:37Speaker 02

  And they all include wine buzzwords. I mean, she's done her homework.

• 5:41Aisha Harris?

  Yeah.

• 5:42Stephen Thompson?

  She really has.

• 5:43Aisha Harris?

  Yeah, I think the crushing spirits one is drawing me in. Honestly, I have no idea. These are really good. Whichever ones you wrote are good job, Linda.

• 5:55Aisha Harris?

  I'm gonna go with B, crushing spirits, because that just feels like marketing.

• 6:00Linda Holmes?

  Gotcha. The correct answer is it's useless to resist the wine's smooth and appealingly earthy profile, so you may as well give in.

• 6:10Stephen Thompson?

  Wow.

• 6:12Linda Holmes?

  They did not use that marketing copy for very long because-

• 6:15Speaker 02

  Because you don't want to sell wine with despair.

• 6:18Stephen Thompson?

  I would guess there was blowback.

• 6:20Linda Holmes?

  As you may imagine, there was internet backlash. The wines were pulled after one day.

• 6:25Aisha Harris?

  Yes, yes. Okay, fine. Foiled by the resistance.

• 6:29Linda Holmes?

  Well, listen, I mean, it shouldn't be real marketing copy. It's just that it was.

• 6:35Speaker 02

  It really shouldn't.

• 6:36Linda Holmes?

  All right, Glenn?

• 6:36Speaker 02

  Yep.

• 6:37Linda Holmes?

  Your first question. Tied to Star Trek V, The Final Frontier, Kraft Foods sold a special item that could hang from your belt. What was it? A, a peanut shooter. B, a marshmallow dispenser. C, a mac and cheese tube. D, a ketchup syringe.

• 6:57Speaker 02

  Wow. Okay. So Star Trek V is the one where they go to the center of the galaxy looking for God. I want to say hang in an onion from their belt because it was the style at the time.

• 7:08Stephen Thompson?

  It was the style.

• 7:08Speaker 02

  But I don't think it's it. So, so what's the most futuristic? Tube is a very futuristic Star Trekkie word. Jeffrey's tubes, for example. So mac and cheese tube means you'd have to have the pasta, the macaroni, which is a tube inside a tube. That's a star, that's a science fiction concept. It ends up being in Star Trek. So while there's, you know, trappings of phaser battles and things like that, it's not militaristic. In fact, it's a we all should love each other kind of vibe. So I'm going to eliminate A. I'm going to eliminate the ketchup dispenser. I'm going to go with a marshmallow thing.

• 7:44Linda Holmes?

  The marshmallow dispenser?

• 7:45Speaker 02

  The marshmallow dispenser.

• 7:46Linda Holmes?

  Correct answer is marshmallow dispenser.

• 7:49Stephen Thompson?

  What?

• 7:49Linda Holmes?

  Because in my memory of reading about this, in the movie, Spock has a marshmallow dispenser that he uses to

• 8:00Speaker 02

  Dispense marshmallows?

• 8:01Linda Holmes?

  I think take a marshmallow to roast. They're roasting marshmallows.

• 8:05Speaker 02

  They do.

• 8:06Linda Holmes?

  I was really afraid you were going to remember.

• 8:08Speaker 02

  I should have. I really should have.

• 8:09Linda Holmes?

  Got it right anyway.

• 8:10Speaker 02

  Got it right anyway.

• 8:11Linda Holmes?

  So that is one round down. We've got two rounds to go.

• 8:14Speaker 02

  All right.

• 8:14Linda Holmes?

  We're going to take a second and we'll be right back for six more questions.

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• 9:45Linda Holmes?

  All right. We are back. Stephen, it is back to you. The movie Despicable Me 3 led to a partnership with what unexpected brand? A, Miracle Grow, which created a special fertilizer called Miracle Grew. B, The Huffington Post, which ran a series of short articles called Minions Opinions.

• 10:09Speaker 02

  OK, not this one, Stephen.

• 10:11Aisha Harris?

  OK, yeah.

• 10:13Speaker 02

  Whatever it is, not this one.

• 10:14Stephen Thompson?

  Oh, no, Glenn, this has to be the real one. Linda would never laugh at her own comedy.

• 10:18Aisha Harris?

  I feel like this is cheating, but it's fine. It's fine.

• 10:22Speaker 02

  Once we hear it, we're going to laugh, too, but we need to hear it.

• 10:26Aisha Harris?

  Why don't you swap them and do that choice last?

• 10:28Linda Holmes?

  Yeah, I'll do that one last. The History Channel, which ran a series of specials called Despicable about famous dictators. Zumba, which created exclusive choreography for one of the songs in the film. Or The Huffington Post, which ran a series of short articles called Minions Opinions.

• 10:46Aisha Harris?

  Okay.

• 10:47Speaker 02

  All banana based, really.

• 10:49Stephen Thompson?

  Minions opinions in the Huffington Post. Miracle grew, which certainly could be Linda's brain. These are all plausible.

• 11:01Speaker 02

  Would the History Channel play so fast and loose and glib about brutal dictatorships that they would invoke a children's movie?

• 11:08Stephen Thompson?

  Yeah, I'm gonna go with the Zumba dance.

• 11:10Linda Holmes?

  Go the Zumba dance? I have to tell you, I don't think you would have gone with Minions opinions, even if I had not laughed at my own joke.

• 11:19Speaker 02

  Okay.

• 11:20Linda Holmes?

  The answer is Zumba.

• 11:21Speaker 02

  All right.

• 11:22Stephen Thompson?

  Yes.

• 11:22Linda Holmes?

  Which created exclusive choreography for one of the songs in the film. I do apologize for arguably giving away the game on one answer.

• 11:31Stephen Thompson?

  Well, you you only tipped your hand on one of the four.

• 11:33Linda Holmes?

  I had written such an absolutely ridiculous and terrible thing that it made me laugh. I will admit. All right, we're pulling it together.

• 11:44Speaker 02

  Yep.

• 11:44Linda Holmes?

  Ayesha, next question for you.

• 11:46Aisha Harris?

  Feel free to laugh at whichever one you'd like, Linda.

• 11:49Linda Holmes?

  I will, I will.

• 11:50Aisha Harris?

  Just so I have a leg up here.

• 11:52Linda Holmes?

  Absolutely. The 2025 sequel, Wicked for Good, had a very robust collection of collaborations with brands, including something with the marketing phrase, "wonderfullest woods and beautifical blossom." What was "wonderfullest woods and beautifical blossom"? A, a fragrance used in laundry scent boosters made by Gain. B, a print used on sheets sold at Target. C, a green shade and a pink shade used together in special bags of M&Ms? Or D, a pair of squirrels featured on Wicked socks? For the purposes of fairness, you can assume I laughed at the Wicked socks.

• 12:36Aisha Harris?

  I just don't understand the squirrels part because I don't recall squirrels being a prominent part of Wicked.

• 12:41Linda Holmes?

  They may not have been. Perhaps you should assume that they weren't.

• 12:44Aisha Harris?

  Yeah, no, I'm gonna assume that they weren't. Hmm, "wonderfullest and beautifullest."

• 12:49Linda Holmes?

  "Wonderfullest woods and beautifical blossom."

• 12:52Aisha Harris?

  I mean, there was an era when M&Ms were quote unquote sexy and it was very weird.

• 13:00Aisha Harris?

  I forget the green M and M was sexualized in a very strange way.

• 13:03Stephen Thompson?

  This was actually briefly a culture war issue.

• 13:05Aisha Harris?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 13:06Stephen Thompson?

  Like, someone was mad that M and M's weren't sexy anymore.

• 13:09Aisha Harris?

  Yes, I remember that.

• 13:11Speaker 02

  I'm not trying to help you, Aisha, but the whole thing about Wicked was pink and green, and Wonderfullest Woods is green, and Beautifulst Blossoms is pink.

• 13:20Aisha Harris?

  I know, I know, yeah.

• 13:23Stephen Thompson?

  Glenn, what are you doing, man? This is a competition.

• 13:26Speaker 02

  I'm just, I just.

• 13:27Aisha Harris?

  I was already leaning that way anyway, because like I said, M and M's were sexy. And I guess maybe this is the way they pulled back and got less woke. And they were like, we're just gonna say Beautifulst and Wonderfulst as opposed to like hubba hubba. Yeah, I'm gonna go with the M and M's. Like, that just makes, whatever, I'm already down one. If I'm down two, it is what it is. Let's go with the M and M's.

• 13:49Linda Holmes?

  The correct answer is a fragrance used in laundry scent boosters made by Gain.

• 13:56Aisha Harris?

  Well.

• 13:56Speaker 02

  Wow.

• 13:57Linda Holmes?

  Well, what can I tell you? Your laundry can smell like Wonderfullest Woods and Beautifical Blossom.

• 14:04Stephen Thompson?

  I have a migraine just thinking about it.

• 14:05Speaker 02

  I know, right?

• 14:06Linda Holmes?

  There were actually, I think, a number of fragranced products that used these two phrases. So if that appeals to you, perhaps you can still find them on eBay or something like that. All right, Glenn, we're going over to you. Van Leeuwen ice cream made what actual movie tie-in ice cream flavor? Was it A, Glass Onion Ice Cream, which tasted like onions? Nosferatu Ice Cream, which tasted like garlic? Licorice Pizza Ice Cream, which tasted like licorice and pizza? Or Chicken Run Ice Cream, which tasted like chicken?

• 14:43Speaker 02

  Okay.

• 14:44Linda Holmes?

  For the purposes of round balance, you can assume I laughed at the licorice pizza ice cream.

• 14:48Speaker 02

  Licorice pizza ice cream. I'm eliminating Glass Onion, not because of the fact that there couldn't be onion-flavored ice cream, I know for a fact there is, but the word glass, you don't want the word glass anywhere near ice cream, so I'm eliminating that.

• 15:00Aisha Harris?

  Smart.

• 15:00Speaker 02

  I know that if you go to the Gilroy Garlic Festival in Gilroy, California, you will get some garlic ice cream, but I don't know if Nosferatu is the kind of film that would do lighthearted tie-ins. Eggers seems a little too self-serious for that, the director. I'm gonna go, and again, I don't think.

• 15:20Stephen Thompson?

  I don't think Licorice Pizza is the kind of film. It's it has kind of indie cred and I don't think it would wanna be tied into um anything as cheesy as ice cream flavor. But you know, studios are studios and studios are gonna studio. So I'm gonna go with Licorice Pizza.

• 15:36Linda Holmes?

  The correct answer is glass onion ice cream.

• 15:38Aisha Harris?

  Oh my god.

• 15:38Linda Holmes?

  Which tasted like onions. Great Matt Singer, who does a lot of tasting of high end foods, especially at places like Denny's and IHOP, tasted this and said he could only taste the onions.

• 15:50Stephen Thompson?

  Only taste the broken glass.

• 15:51Linda Holmes?

  The flavor palette was bourbon onion jam.

• 15:55Aisha Harris?

  Oh my god, that sounds disgusting.

• 15:57Linda Holmes?

  Along with some glazed pineapple infused honeycomb.

• 16:01Stephen Thompson?

  Yeah.

• 16:02Linda Holmes?

  But according to Matt, it just tasted like onions.

• 16:04Aisha Harris?

  Yeah, cuz onions overpowers every other flavor that you've mentioned there.

• 16:09Linda Holmes?

  You would think, you would think. Alrighty, so we're going back to full pallets of answers because I'm not going to laugh. So.

• 16:17Stephen Thompson?

  And Stephen, you're getting no help. No help from me, no help from anyone. You're on your own.

• 16:21Aisha Harris?

  Our lips are sealed.

• 16:22Stephen Thompson?

  Yeah.

• 16:23Linda Holmes?

  All right, Stephen, Godzilla versus Kong had its share of marketing muscle. Which of the following was part of it? A, Stomping Sneakers, a New Balance offering that could spice up your run with the spirit of Godzilla. B, Godzilla and Kong Electric Salt and Pepper Grinders from Williams Sonoma. C, a whey protein powder from Megaplex that promised to harness the two titans' strength, energy, and raw power. Or D, Zilla Vanilla, a frozen yogurt with banana chips.

• 16:55Stephen Thompson?

  Oh my gosh. Um, okay, so all of these feel fairly plausible. You're able to plausible them all. I mean, stupid but plausible. I feel like the kind of nutritional powder.

• 17:11Stephen Thompson?

  That feels like the most plausible to me because like harness the power of guts. I mean, there definitely are like, you know, the like Hulk smashing fists that make sounds, but would you do that with sneakers? I am going to go with whatever the like nutritional powder harness the power of two titans. That one feels the rightest to me.

• 17:30Linda Holmes?

  The correct answer is away protein powder from Megaplex that promised to harness the two titans, strength, energy and raw power.

• 17:38Speaker 02

  Three for three.

• 17:39Stephen Thompson?

  Oh, my gosh. Glenn and Ayesha are going to

• 17:41Speaker 02

  Lose.

• 17:42Stephen Thompson?

  Have to answer their quiz questions just like under a cloud of defeat.

• 17:47Speaker 02

  No, no. What else is new?

• 17:49Aisha Harris?

  Well.

• 17:50Linda Holmes?

  How gracious of you.

• 17:51Aisha Harris?

  Thanks for rubbing it in.

• 17:55Linda Holmes?

  All right. Ayesha, when Heinz decided to make Easy Squirt ketchup in unexpected colors, what character did they call upon to help promote one of the shades? A Barney the dinosaur on bottles of purple ketchup. B Smurfette on bottles of blue ketchup. C Pikachu on bottles of yellow ketchup. D Shrek on bottles of green ketchup.

• 18:18Aisha Harris?

  Okay. I feel like this was something that occurred during my childhood and I vaguely remember these ads. I would never eat ketchup because that's gross, but like Barney seems not right. Shrek sounds far more plausible. What Pikachu, you said? I don't think it's Pikachu because then it looks like, then it would look like mustard and it'd be confusing. Dumber things have happened. So I don't know.

• 18:45Linda Holmes?

  I think the entire theme of this quiz is dumber things have happened.

• 18:50Aisha Harris?

  I feel like it's down to Barney or Shrek. Uh, okay. Why am I, it doesn't even matter at this point.

• 19:01Aisha Harris?

  It really doesn't.

• 19:02Stephen Thompson?

  Embrace the futility.

• 19:03Aisha Harris?

  Yeah, I'm going to go with Shrek, knowing it'll probably be Pikachu and whatever.

• 19:07Linda Holmes?

  The correct answer is Shrek.

• 19:09Aisha Harris?

  Oh, yay.

• 19:12Stephen Thompson?

  Super appetizing.

• 19:14Aisha Harris?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 19:15Linda Holmes?

  All right. Glenn? Which is the most expensive of the following kitchen items available in the Disney store?

• 19:24Linda Holmes?

  Is it A, the Grogu serving board? Is it B, the mono rail corn cob holders? Is it C, the Yoda grill scraper with bottle opener? Or is it D, the Mickey Mouse slow cooker?

• 19:42Speaker 02

  Okay.

• 19:43Aisha Harris?

  Shocked you didn't give this question to me.

• 19:45Speaker 02

  Yeah, this is a Disney kid question. I mean, a slow cooker is an appliance. Corn cob holders are utensils. So if the Mickey Mouse slow cooker exists, it is the most expensive thing. Does it exist?

• 20:02Linda Holmes?

  They all exist.

• 20:03Speaker 02

  They all exist.

• 20:04Stephen Thompson?

  They all exist.

• 20:04Speaker 02

  Oh, they all exist. Well, then I'm gonna go with slow cooker because it's, it's a thing you plug in.

• 20:08Linda Holmes?

  That's true, but the answer is the Grogu serving board.

• 20:12Stephen Thompson?

  Yeah, serving boards are pricey.

• 20:14Linda Holmes?

  As of the time that I wrote these questions was forty-three, thirty-four on sale. Believe it or not, the slow cooker is only twenty-four ninety-nine. They've got some of those cheapy kitchen appliances down to a pretty low price now.

• 20:27Aisha Harris?

  I don't even remember them selling kitchen appliances at the Disney store. It's, well, it's better than it is.

• 20:32Linda Holmes?

  Yeah, you can get, a lot of them are Star Wars. There's a lot of like waffle irons and stuff like that. So I believe the answer is Stephen has won the quiz.

• 20:42Speaker 02

  Handily.

• 20:42Stephen Thompson?

  I have won the quiz. What was the tiebreaker, though?

• 20:46Linda Holmes?

  Oh, the tiebreaker was what is the price of the, the Devil Wears Prada two handbag popcorn bucket? Without going over, Price is Right rules.

• 20:58Speaker 02

  I don't buy these things. Have you guys ever bought one of these popcorn holder things? I don't know, I don't know what a going rate is.

• 21:03Stephen Thompson?

  No.

• 21:04Aisha Harris?

  I would say, okay, my guess for that would be, so this isn't just the, the holder itself? Or like assuming you're buying the popcorn too?

• 21:12Linda Holmes?

  I assume it comes with popcorn in it.

• 21:14Aisha Harris?

  Okay, so the last time I bought popcorn, which is like at the time of this taping, a couple of weeks ago, it was like, even for a small, it was like ten ninety-nine, which is ridiculous. So I'm gonna guess that. This is a medium to large size. It's probably going to be around $15.99 just for the popcorn. Add another like $15.99. So I'd say like 30, let's say 33, including, you know, including taxes and stuff.

• 21:43Linda Holmes?

  33. All right, Glenn, what's your guess?

• 21:46Speaker 02

  $1.

• 21:47Stephen Thompson?

  I haven't gone yet, bud.

• 21:48Speaker 02

  I know, I know, but I'm just gonna say.

• 21:50Linda Holmes?

  Steven?

• 21:51Stephen Thompson?

  I'm gonna say $1.50.

• 21:54Linda Holmes?

  Well, you all messed yourself up because Ayesha wins because of $39.95.

• 21:58Speaker 02

  Wow.

• 21:58Aisha Harris?

  Yeah.

• 22:00Stephen Thompson?

  $40.

• 22:01Linda Holmes?

  This is on the website. You can buy it.

• 22:03Speaker 02

  Wow.

• 22:04Linda Holmes?

  And, uh, and yeah, it's basically it's 40 bucks. So you both played yourselves.

• 22:08Aisha Harris?

  Still cheaper than a Coach handbag, so.

• 22:11Speaker 02

  Only just. Extruded plastic.

• 22:14Stephen Thompson?

  Well, I'm just glad to have gotten something wrong, just so the audience knows that I'm human.

• 22:18Linda Holmes?

  Oh, my God.

• 22:20Aisha Harris?

  Let me throw the wine that I had to resist.

• 22:24Speaker 02

  Exactly.

• 22:24Aisha Harris?

  At you.

• 22:25Speaker 02

  Crush his spirit.

• 22:27Aisha Harris?

  Crush his spirit like the grapes.

• 22:29Linda Holmes?

  So, yes, Steven got three. Ayesha and Glenn got one each.

• 22:34Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 22:34Linda Holmes?

  He got it this time. I'm sure we'll gather here and do this again sometime.

• 22:38Speaker 02

  Let's do it again.

• 22:39Linda Holmes?

  Yeah.

• 22:39Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 22:40Linda Holmes?

  That brings us to the end of our show. Aisha Harris, Glen Weldon, Stephen Thompson, thank you so much for being here.

• 22:46Stephen Thompson?

  Thank you, buddy.

• 22:47Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 22:47Aisha Harris?

  Thank you. Millions of opinions.

• 22:51Linda Holmes?

  I'm so sorry. This episode is produced heroically by Liz Metzger and Mike Katzif, and it was edited by our showrunner Jessica Reedy. Hello Come In provides our theme music. Thank you for listening to Pop Culture Happy Hour from NPR. I'm Linda Holmes, and we'll see you all next time.

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