Barbie: Spoiler Episode
Pop Culture Happy Hour
NPR
4.5 • 11.6K Ratings
🗓️ 25 July 2023
⏱️ 23 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | There are many barbies. There's a Dr. Barbie, a lawyer barbie, a president barbie, and so on. |
| 0:11.0 | Well, the barbie we're talking about today is the Barbie that spoils the new Barbie movie. |
| 0:16.1 | I'm Linda Holmes. |
| 0:17.3 | And I'm Stephen Thompson. |
| 0:18.3 | In this spoiler-packed episode of NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour, we are talking about Barbie. |
| 0:29.0 | Here with us today is our fellow co-host, Aisha Harris, |
| 0:32.0 | hey Aisha Hey Aisha. |
| 0:33.0 | The Patriarchy! |
| 0:35.0 | We're going to talk about the patriarchy. |
| 0:37.0 | Also with us is film critic and culture journalist |
| 0:40.0 | Badatry D Chaudry. |
| 0:41.0 | Welcome back, Badatry. |
| 0:42.0 | Thank you so much. And if you hear me heavy breez. journalist Badatri D Chaudhry. Welcome back, Badatri. |
| 0:42.5 | Thank you so much. |
| 0:43.4 | And if you hear me heavy breathing, |
| 0:45.3 | it's the sigh of relief, because I can talk with spoilers now. |
| 0:50.3 | Finally, we can be our truest selves. |
| 0:52.4 | So in Friday's episode, we gave our spoiler-free thoughts on the new and very hotly anticipated Barbie movie, |
| 0:59.0 | which is directed and co-written by Greta Gerwig. |
| 1:02.0 | Long story short, we enjoyed the heck out of it, |
| 1:03.9 | albeit with some reservations. |
| 1:05.8 | We adored the way it looked, |
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