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BONUS: 12 Memorable Pop Culture Moments From 2020

Consider This from NPR

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Society & Culture, Daily News, News, News Commentary

4.26.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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0:00.0

Hey, consider this listeners. It's Sunday and we have a bonus episode for you.

0:04.3

It comes from our friends at NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour. Every year they round up the best

0:09.5

in film, TV, music, and more, and that's what we're bringing you today.

0:13.9

So here's Pop Culture Happy Hour hosts, Glen Weldon, Steven Thompson, Aisha Harris,

0:18.9

and Linda Holmes to take it away.

0:24.5

At the end of the year, even a year like this one, we look back on some of our favorite things

0:29.8

from the last 12 months of Pop Culture. We revisit some of the moments, achievements, and just plain

0:36.1

delights that helped us make it through. This year we went daily. We got a new host and now we've

0:41.6

got 12 more pieces of good tidings to share. I'm Steven Thompson. And I'm Linda Holmes. We're

0:47.8

talking about our 12 favorite things of the year on Pop Culture Happy Hour from NPR. Also,

0:53.4

with us is Glen Weldon of the NPR Arts desk, High Glen. Hey, Linda. And joining us at the center

0:59.2

of one of our favorite things to happen this year, it was the arrival of our newest cohost and her name

1:04.5

is Aisha Harris. Hi Aisha. Hello, Linda. So good having you here with us. It wouldn't be the same

1:11.6

with just the three of us. Now there are four of us. We are going to dive right in. We're just going

1:18.2

to go around the circle three times. Glen, I'm going to start with you. Give me something that was

1:23.3

one of your favorite things of the year. I went with the ensemble that Moira Rose, the character

1:31.1

played by Catherine Ara, chose when she officiated the wedding of her son David on the season finale

1:37.4

of the show Shits Creek. Now a lot of pressure was put on this outfit, both within the show,

1:44.1

the reality they're shown without, because it was going to be for the viewers at least the

1:47.9

really last statement look that we'd get from a character who we had come to associate with

1:53.6

a very distinct, very fashion forward sensibility, but it also had to do a lot of character work,

1:58.5

right? For the people of Shits Creek, that town and for the viewers, it had to say

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