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Music from All Songs Considered, available wherever you get your podcasts. Hope Springs Eternal, and that is nowhere more true than in the realm of New Year's resolutions.

We are back again to give ourselves goals for 2026, and because we believe in accountability,

we'll tell you how well we stuck to our resolutions for 2025. I'm Stephen Thompson. And I'm Linda Holmes. And today we're talking about

resolutions on Pop Culture Happy Hour from NPR. Joining us today are our fellow Pop Culture Happy Hour

hosts, Aisha Harris. Hello, Aisha. Hello, Linda.

And Glenn Weldon. Hello, Glenn. Hey, pal. All right. You know how this goes. We look at last

year's resolution. We see how it went. Then we look to next year's resolution. Glenn, we're going to

start with your 2025 resolution. I want to hear it so we can then ask you how it went.

So what I'm going to do is not even a genre. It's a feature of movies. I'm going to watch long movies because Lord knows we complain a lot about movies going on too long. But what about most movies that reportedly at least earn their duration? I'm talking about four hour plus movies. I mean, the brutalists kind of loosen the jar, but now I'm going to dig in. I'm going to seek out films that I've avoided because of their length. Nymphomaniac, Carlos, Little Dorrit, Happy Hour. I'm going to find these movies.

I'm going to clear my damn schedule,

and I'm going to let 2025 be the year I let movies take me for a extended ride.

Well, this won't take long.

I'm going to slap a failing grade on this one.

This didn't happen, I'm ashamed to admit. But I will say in my defense, there's a very good substantive, logistical reason it didn't happen, something that factors hugely into my failure to execute this resolution to the extent that I hope to. And it's a bit complicated, but I'm going to try to explain it anyway. I suppose that you would say the technical term is I, I plumb forgot. Oh, yeah. Just didn't remember that I said I was going to do it. So follow my logic. I didn't do it. And I'm not proud of that. It feels like a personal failing. I have no excuse for it at all. But, yeah, no, didn't set out to do it. Didn't do it.

Saw some long movies. Not intentionally. You'd think watching a long movie with triggers. Memory of this thing. You'd be wrong. I've never been great at keeping these resolutions, but this is the first full, beefed it, abject failure face plant, and I'm going to own it. You know, the nice thing about that, Glenn, though, is that, you know, the eternal sunshine of the spotless mind.

You spent the entire year not beating yourself up.

This is true.

Yeah.

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