Challengers And What's Making Us Happy

Pop Culture Happy Hour

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4.5 • 10.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

The terrific new film Challengers is about being intense about tennis, sex, and competition. Directed by Luca Guadagnino, the film stars Zendaya as Tashi, a tennis coach and object of desire to two men. She's married to Art (Mike Faist), who is facing his old friend Patrick (Josh O'Connor) at a Challengers event. This reopens all the trio's old wounds, and they excavate all of their relationships with each other.

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0:00.0	This message comes from NPR sponsor Subaru and the 2024 Subaru Cross Trek Wilderness.
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0:14.0	Adventure on the Edge.
0:17.0	The terrific new film challengers isn't just intense, it's about being The and intense about relationships with other people.
0:33.4	The film stars Zendia as a coach, partner,
0:36.1	antagonist and object of desire to two men who are almost,
0:40.3	but maybe not quite as competitive as she is.
0:43.0	I'm Stephen Thompson.
0:45.0	And I'm Linda Holmes and today we're talking about
0:47.0	challengers on Pop Culture Happy Hour from NPR.
0:50.0	Joining us today is Senior Supervising Producer of Audio at Slate, where she just relaunched the beloved
0:56.6	podcast Death, Sex, and Money, Daisy Rosario.
1:00.6	Hello, Daisy.
1:01.6	Hello, Linda. So happy to be here. we're so happy to have you also with us and
1:06.1	making their pop culture happy hour debut whoop whoop whoop new panelist Siren is entertainment host, culture commentator, and glad media consultant Ryan Mitchell.
1:18.1	Welcome to the show, Ryan.
1:20.0	If only everyone could have saw the dance I did, it was iconic.
1:23.0	I'm super excited to be here.
1:24.6	Absolutely.
1:25.6	The thing is like, it's always just such a treat
1:27.6	when I get to set the siren off, you know what I mean?
1:29.7	No, I appreciate it.
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