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Pop Culture Happy Hour

Dicks: The Musical

Pop Culture Happy Hour

NPR

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4.510.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2023

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

The frantic, absurdist new movie Dicks: The Musical is about a pair of misogynistic narcissists (played by Josh Sharp and Aaron Jackson) who discover they're long-lost twins. Also starring Megan Mullally, Nathan Lane, and Megan Thee Stallion, the movie's got cheeky song and dance numbers — plus crude humor and a distinctly queer sensibility.

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A warning, this episode contains explicit language.

0:04.0

Dix the musical is an extremely apt title for the frantic absurdist new movie.

0:14.0

It's about a pair of misogynistic narcissists who discover their long lost twins.

0:18.0

It's got cheeky song and dance numbers, plus the crude humor and distinctly queer sensibility of John Waters in his divine era.

0:26.0

Maybe, okay definitely, leave the kiddos at home for this one and your more narrow-minded relatives.

0:31.5

I'm Glen Weldon. And I'm Aisha Harris and today on

0:34.4

NPR's pop-poacher Happy Hour we're talking about Dick's The Musical.

0:47.2

Joining me in Glenn today is Jeffrey Masters. He's the host of the podcast LGBT Q&A and senior producer at the New Yorker radio hour.

0:52.8

Hey Jeffrey, welcome back.

0:54.3

Hey y'all, thank you.

0:55.6

Are you ready?

0:56.6

Are you ready to talk about this?

0:57.6

Maybe.

0:58.6

I think so.

0:59.6

To make it safer in PR, there's going to be some gymnastics, I think.

1:03.4

Yes, a lot of gymnastics.

1:05.8

So, first of all, Dix the Musical stars Josh Sharp and Aaron Jackson as obnoxious salesman, Craig and Trevor.

1:13.2

When their company merges, they meet for the first time and discover their twins who were

1:17.0

separated at birth, each raised by one of their parents.

1:20.3

They decide to conduct their own parent trap to get the whole family back together.

1:24.4

It doesn't go exactly as planned. Now they're extremely eccentric mom and dad are played by

1:29.8

Megan Malale and Nathan Lane. There's also Megan The Stallion, who plays

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