Christian nationalists want to turn America into a theocracy, a government under biblical rule.

If they gain more power, it could mean fewer rights for you.

I'm Heath Drusen and on the new season of Extremely American

I'll take you inside the movement. Listen to Extremely American from Boise State Public

Radio, part of the NPR Network.

In the highly meta Deadpool and Wolverine,

Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman finally meet up for their own big movie.

Deadpool is still smarmy, Wolverine is still tragic, and they have to get together to of course save the world.

I'm Linda Holmes and today we're talking about Deadpool and Wolverine on Pop Culture Happy Hour from NPR.

Here with me today is my co-host Stephen.

Hello, Linda.

Also with us is filmmaker, pop culture critic and I heart radio producer.

Joelle Monique, hey Joelle, it's been a while.

It has been a while, he Linda, glad to be back.

Believe it or not, you need a little oversimplified corporate history

to understand this movie.

So Deadpool made a splash in 2016.

Deadpool 2 followed two years later.

Both of those were not part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

They were part of the X-Men franchise that was owned by Fox. And by the way the X-Men

franchise killed off Hugh Jackman as Wolverine in the very well-received 2017

film Logan. Okay, you're following so far but then Fox was acquired by Disney and everybody became one big family and of course death was no reason not to bring the IP of these two characters into the MCU in the first R-rated film in that

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