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Pop Culture Happy Hour

First Pop Culture Crushes And What's Making Us Happy

Pop Culture Happy Hour

NPR

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🗓️ 4 February 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

If you've ever posted a celebrity's picture inside a locker, used a photo of them as your lock screen, or followed every moment of someone's career, you know all about pop culture crushes. There are the ones you're proud of, the ones you're less proud of, and the ones that never quite go away. Today, we're sharing some of our earliest crushes and how they informed our later adorations along the way.

Transcript

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If you've ever posted a famous person's picture inside a locker or used it as a phone wallpaper

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or if you've ever followed every moment of someone's career while sying over their

0:15.6

talent or beauty or great hair, you know all about pop culture crushes.

0:22.0

There are the ones you're proud of later, the ones you're less proud of later, and the

0:25.7

ones that never quite go away.

0:27.9

I'm Stephen Thompson and I'm Linda Holmes and today we're talking about some of our

0:31.6

first pop culture crushes on pop culture happy hour from NPR.

0:36.0

Here with me and Stephen from his home studio bunker is Glen Weldon of NPR's Culture

0:40.0

Desk, Hey Glen.

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Hey Linda.

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And also here is yet another crush worthy member of our team Aisha Harris, Aisha.

0:48.1

I'm Swooning Linda.

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I'm Swooning.

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Swooning, yes.

0:51.9

So what we want to do is we are talking about some of our first pop culture crushes.

0:57.3

I don't know if it's always going to be like the very first but like one of the first.

1:02.0

And early example Aisha we're going to have you kick us off.

1:06.9

Go ahead.

1:07.9

Go ahead.

1:08.9

Well, this is actually quite tough for me because I was definitely the kid who had lots of

1:14.8

crushes very early on.

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I liked the boys.

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