This is Ira Glass of This American Life.

Each week on our show, we choose the theme, tell different stories on that theme.

All right, I'm just going to stop right there.

You're listening to an NPR podcast.

Chances are you know our show.

So instead, I'm going to tell you, we've just been on a run of really good shows lately.

Some big, epic emotional stories and some weird funny stuff, too. Download us,

This American Life.

John Wick's back, baby. And this time, it's in a spinoff where Anna DeArmas plays a ballerina

turned assassin. She makes her way through the international criminal

underworld and crosses past with some new and familiar faces, including the one and only

Keanu Reeves. I'm Aisha Harris, and today we're talking about ballerina on Pop Culture Happy Hour

from NPR. Joining me today is Waylon Wong. She's the co-host of NPR's Daily Economics Podcast, the Indicator from Planet Money.

Hello, Wailin.

Hello, great to be back.

Great to have you.

Also with us is Jeff Yang.

He's a cultural critic and author of The Golden Screen, The Movies That Made Asian

America.

Hey, Jeff.

Hey, Aisha.

Great to have you here as well. And rounding out our panel

...