In honor of the upcoming clash between same-day releases of Barbie and Oppenheimer,

we asked our listeners to weigh in on some of pop culture's most contentious match-ups and boy

did you deliver. We've got Ensign versus the Backstreet boys, we've got Superman

versus Batman, and who is the best Chris? I'm Stephen Thompson and I'm Linda Holmes and in this episode of NPR's Pop Culture Happy

hour we're competing to find out who knows our listeners best.

Here with me and Stephen today are our fellow pop culture happy hour hosts Glenn.

Hi Glenn.

Hey friend.

And also here of course is Aisha Harris.

Hey Iisha.

Hey Linda.

We should start by saying that we will be covering both Barbie and Oppenheimer.

This is not our coverage of those two movies.

But like a lot of other people people we've been highly amused by the

idea that they are mortal enemies. The pink fashion icon versus one of the most

important scientists of all time,

the Greta Gerwig Confection

versus the Christopher Nolan epic.

So we asked you, our listeners,

to cast your votes on some of pop culture's

really, truly important historic

standoffs and in the manner of say family feud or card sharks we're

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