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Jay Weldon Podcasts
Welome to History's Biggest Villians, where I talk about the most evil people the world has ever seen.
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Get obsessed with us. Four days a week, Pop Culture Happy Hour serves you recommendations and commentary on the buzziest movies, TV, music, books, videogames and more. Join arts journalists Linda Holmes, Glen Weldon, Stephen Thompson, and Aisha Harris - plus a rotating cast of guest pop culture aficionados. The Happy Hour team leaves room at the table for exploring a range of reactions and opinions on every bit of the pop universe. From lowbrow to highbrow to the stuff in between, they take ...
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Dispatched & Dysfunctional Because sometimes the worst calls make the best stories. ⚠️ The stories here are graphic, emotional, and laced with dark humor. They’re based on real EMS and first responder experiences — the kind that stick to your ribs long after shift change. This isn’t about polished hero tales. It’s about the silence after the tones drop, the jokes that keep us from breaking, and the weight we carry home in our boots and gear. Some episodes will make you laugh until your stoma ...
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Dan and Sean spend half the podcast talking to guests about the baffling choices they've made in life. The other half is Dan St. Germain and Sean Donnelly yelling at each other like an old married couple that should be divorced. It's not for everybody. Produced (and often co-hosted) by Thomas Attila Lewis.
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Idris Elba is in full action hero mode in the Apple TV series Hijack. He stars as a corporate business negotiator onboard an airplane that is taken hostage by an eclectic bunch of assailants with mysterious motives. The series is very fun and very silly. Hijack just came back for a second season, so we thought it was the perfect time to revisit our…
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There have been many TV crossovers over the years, but it’s a tricky balance to get right — for every mashup that feels organic, there are plenty more that amount to little other than weird stunts. So we decided to dream up the ultimate TV crossovers: Gilmore Girls and Nashville, Abbott Elementary and The Leftovers, Only Murders in the Building and…
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People We Meet On Vacation and What's Making Us Happy
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The new Netflix rom-com People We Meet On Vacation is about best friends Poppy (Emily Bader) and Alex (Tom Blyth) who have gone on annual trips together since meeting in college. But there's always been something between them that's not quite platonic, and reconnecting at a wedding just might bring it to the surface. Based on the beloved Emily Henr…
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Fry Your Chickens — Phil Barth on Stress, Humor & Not Letting the Job Eat You Alive
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Today’s guest isn’t EMS — but he knows exactly what it feels like when life grabs you by the collar and says: “Sit down. You’re not okay.” Phil Barth is a keynote speaker, stress-management strategist, and best-selling author of “Fry Your Chickens.” After surviving a heart attack, Phil rebuilt his life around intentional stress reduction, humor, an…
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Sabrina Carpenter and the Embarrassing Truth of Dating Men
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What's it like to date a man? Ask Sabrina Carpenter, Olivia Dean, or your friends, and you might hear it's a struggle. Today we’re bringing you an episode of NPR’s It’s Been a Minute. Host Brittany Luse and NPR Music Editor Hazel Cills break down a phenomenon called “heteropessimism.” Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adc…
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No Other Choice is a new bleak comedy about a man (Lee Byung-hun) at a crossroads. After losing his job at a paper company, he resorts to desperate, unhinged measures to get a new job. He tracks down the other candidates and eliminates the competition, one by one. Directed by Park Chan-wook (Oldboy, The Handmaiden), it’s filled with great performan…
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After five seasons and almost ten years, the saga of Netflix’s Stranger Things has reached its end. In a two-hour finale, we found out what happened to our heroes (including Millie Bobby Brown and Finn Wolfhard) when they set out to battle the forces of evil. The final season had new faces and new revelations, along with moments of friendship and c…
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2026 Resolutions and What’s Making Us Happy
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Hope springs eternal, and that is nowhere more true than in the realm of New Year’s Resolutions. Today, we give ourselves goals for 2026. And because we believe in accountability, we’ll tell you how well we stuck to our resolutions for 2025. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy…
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From Both Sides of the Desk — Autism, Family & the First Response Gap With Jennifer Kaufman
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Today’s guest is Jennifer Kaufman — principal of a school for students with autism, founder of First Response Autism, and author of Grandparenting on the Spectrum: A Journey from Both Sides of the Desk. Jennifer trains police, medics, and firefighters to recognize and respond to autism with patience instead of panic — and she’s living it every day …
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Danny Figueroa was just like any other kid before the invention of cellphones, as he loved being outside and spending time in nature. But these habits still carried on into adulthood, as it seemed like Danny’s mental state remained that of an adolescent. He called himself a survivalist, infatuated with military fatigues and sleeping outdoors, as he…
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What does 2026 have in store for pop culture? Today, we’re back for another year of pop culture predictions. We’ll touch on A.I., the future of RuPaul’s Drag Race, and what’s to come for the Law & Order Universe. Plus, we check in on our prognosticating for 2025 and see how things worked out. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices…
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If you’re anything like us, you spend a fair amount of your screen time playing video games. Whether you like combat, horror, or peacefully going over archival research, NPR’s roundup of best games of 2025 is a helpful guide to find something that’s just right for you. Today we’re talking about some of the best video games featured including Clair …
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NPR’s Books We Love is a roundup of the best books from the past year, sorted and tagged to help you find exactly what you’re looking for. This year we’ve got hundreds of book recommendations, so today, we’re highlighting some of our favorites – including Actress of a Certain Age by Jeff Hiller, The Ten Year Affair by Erin Somers, and Cannon by Lee…
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The new Anaconda movie is a meta reimagining in which Jack Black and Paul Rudd play aspiring filmmakers who attempt to make… a meta reimagining of Anaconda. It’s not quite a reboot, it’s not quite a sequel, and it’s played for laughs. Follow Pop Culture Happy Hour on Letterboxd at letterboxd.com/nprpopculture Learn more about sponsor message choice…
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When Success Stops Feeling Like Success — Caroline Sangal on Burnout, Realignment & the Courage to Ask “What’s Next"
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You’re listening to Dispatched & Dysfunctional — where chaos has a pulse, and burnout finally gets called by its real name. Today’s guest, Dr. Caroline Sangal, knows what it’s like to hit every benchmark of success — degrees, titles, awards — and still feel like something’s missing. After building a career in science and executive recruiting, Carol…
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The new movie Marty Supreme asks, can Timothée Chalamet play a supremely annoying character and still keep us interested from beginning to end? He stars as a working-class heel aiming to become a table tennis champion in the 1950s and features an eclectic supporting cast that includes Gwyneth Paltrow and Tyler, the Creator. Learn more about sponsor…
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What's the best Christmas gift you ever received? You probably didn't have to think about it; you knew it in your bones. Today, in this encore episode, we're talking about the actual, tangible gift you found waiting for you under the tree and still think about it from time to time. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoi…
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On Saturday, June 4, 1966 in Westminster, CA, police received a strange call. 19 year old Robert Liberty told them that his girlfriend Marcella Landis was dead in their apartment. When the cops showed up, Marcella was found just like Robert had described. But her body was sprawled on the couch with a silk stocking wrapped around her neck, candles l…
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The twisty thriller The Housemaid stars Sydney Sweeney as a newly hired live-in housekeeper to Amanda Seyfried’s wealthy housewife. Both women have dark secrets, and their dynamic goes downhill real fast. It’s directed by Paul Feig of Bridesmaids and A Simple Favor, so you know it’s going to be a bizarre, fun ride. Follow Pop Culture Happy Hour on …
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Avatar: Fire And Ash and What’s Making Us Happy
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In Avatar: Fire and Ash, James Cameron’s saga continues in a visually stunning movie full of epic battles, uneasy alliances, human assimilation, and debates with whales. The film follows the Na’vi (aka blue guys) as they’re chased by a human military that seeks both resources and revenge. The cast includes Sigourney Weaver, Zoe Saldaña, and Sam Wor…
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Caring for the Caregivers — Lynette Weldon on Burnout, Boundaries, and Finding Your Way Back to Joy
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Caring for the Caregivers — Lynette Weldon on Burnout, Boundaries, and Finding Your Way Back to Joy After 36 years of caring for everyone else — from raising a daughter with Down Syndrome to surviving her husband’s addiction and depression — Lynette Weldon learned the hardest truth of all: you can’t pour from an empty cup. In this episode, Lynette …
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The new show Heated Rivalry is a very sexy and very queer hockey romance streaming on HBO Max–and it’s a phenomenon. It follows archrival players Shane Hollander (Hudson Williams) and Ilya Rozanov (Connor Storrie) as they carry on a clandestine affair off the ice. And since it’s based on a whole series of interconnected romance novels by Rachel Rei…
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Fallout is based on a hugely successful video game series known for blending a sardonic, very dark comedic sensibility, and violence. The series is set in the game's post-apocalyptic world – an America divided into factions wrestling for control of an irradiated wasteland. When the hopeful Lucy (Ella Purnell) steps out of the comfortable life she's…
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Every year, we like to take a moment to look back and spotlight a few favorite films we didn’t have time to talk about. Today, we're making recommendations for great movies we missed in 2025 including The Secret Agent, Come See Me In the Good Light, Cactus Pears, and 100 Nights of Hero. Follow Pop Culture Happy Hour on Letterboxd at letterboxd.com/…
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Aisha and Stephen answer a mailbag question! Send in your own questions at [email protected], and we may answer it in a future bonus episode. This usually would be a bonus episode just for Pop Culture Happy Hour+ supporters, but this being the season of giving, we're sharing this one with everyone! To hear more bonus content like this every month and to…
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Nestor Pirotte: The Fake Aristocrat That Terrorized Belgium
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Nestor Pirotte had come from humble beginnings, but since he and his brothers played with the children of the aristocrats, he started to claim that he was a part of that group. When he grew up and eventually joined the military, he still had these claims, but he admitted to stealing from his comrades and other forms of theft. At the age of 21, he b…
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Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery and What’s Making Us Happy
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Netflix’s Wake Up Dead Man is the third installment in the Knives Out franchise. Daniel Craig returns as detective Benoit Blanc -- with a cast of suspects that includes Josh O’Connor, Glenn Close, Jeremy Renner, Andrew Scott, Kerry Washington and Thomas Haden Church. This time out, the mystery gets ecclesiastical in nature, involving the murder of …
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Jay Dobyns — Brotherhood, Betrayal, and the Cost of the Badge
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⚠️ PODCAST DISCLAIMER The following content is graphic, emotional, and includes dark humor that may not be suitable for all listeners. Discretion is advised. These stories are based on real-life EMS and first responder experiences. Calls are real. Providers are real. Names and patient details have been changed to protect privacy. They may be distur…
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In Netflix’s Jay Kelly, George Clooney plays the aging movie star Jay Kelly. His longtime manager (Adam Sander) and publicist (Laura Dern) struggle to manage Jay on a trip through Europe as he deals with the difficult relationship he has with his two grown daughters. From director and co-writer Noah Baumbach, the film is an exploration of regret an…
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