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Jack Handy once said something along the lines of,

before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes.

That way, you'll be a mile away and have their shoes.

Well, if you remember Freaky Friday, you know Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis trade more than just shoes.

They swap bodies.

Two plus decades later, they're back for a sequel that

claims to be freakier than its predecessor. That is even more convoluted. There are twice as many

body swaps, fights galore, and a whole lot of jokes about being old and kids these days. I'm Aisha Harris.

This is Pop Culture Happy Hour, and today we're talking

Freakier Friday. I'm here at the co-host of Slate's ICYMIMI podcast and former Pop Culture

Happy Hour producer Candace Lim. Welcome back, Candice. Hello. Lovely to have you. Also with us

is New York Times Food Reporter and author of the best bestselling cookbook, Indianish, Priya Krishna.

Hello, Priya, welcome back to you too. Thank you. And making her pop culture happy hour debut is Mia Venkatt. She's a producer on NPR's All Things Considered. It's so great to have you here, Mia. Welcome. Thank you. Happy to be here. Yeah, yes. So Freakyaky Friday came out in 2003 and starred Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis as warring teen daughter Anna and her mom Tess. Now, in the sequel,

Anna's this big-time music manager and a single mom to teenager Harper, who's played by Julia

Butters. And then conflict arises when Anna becomes engaged to a celebrity chef played by Mani Jacinto.

He just so happens to be the dad of Harper's school nemesis Lily, who's played by Sophia Hammonds.

Through a series of extremely elaborate events, the girls slash women trade bodies, Anna with her daughter Harper, and Tess with Lily.

She just has crevices all over her face. Look at the crevices. Yes, so many crevices. So old, so old.

The would-be stepsisters take advantage of this strange circumstance by cooking up their own version of a parent

trap in hopes that they can stop the wedding from happening. It's very complicated. Freakier Friday,

freakier Friday, that is a tongue twister. Freakier Friday is in theaters. Now, Candice, I'm going to start

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