Good Omens
Pop Culture Happy Hour
NPR
4.5 • 11.6K Ratings
🗓️ 1 August 2023
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The series Good Omens continues the tale of an Earth-bound angel and demon played by Michael Sheen and David Tenet. |
| 0:10.0 | They've been around since in the beginning and they worked together to prevent the |
| 0:13.7 | apocalypse back in season one. Now in season two they're stuck with an amnesiac |
| 0:18.2 | archangel played by John Ham whom they must hide from both heaven and hell |
| 0:22.0 | until they can figure out what happened to it and why. |
| 0:25.0 | I'm Glenn Weldon and today we're talking about the Prime video series Good Omen on Pop Culture Happy Hour from NPR. |
| 0:40.0 | Joining me today is the host of W.B. E. Z.'s Nurdett Podcast, which is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year. Greta Johnson, hey! |
| 0:43.4 | Hi, Glenn, how are you? |
| 0:44.9 | Thank you. |
| 0:45.9 | And congrats, that's awesome. |
| 0:47.3 | Thank you. |
| 0:48.3 | It's nuts. I mean, Pop Culture Happy Hour has been around longer, so I'm not the oldest one in the room, |
| 0:51.7 | which I always appreciate. |
| 0:53.0 | Well now you will get to go to the senior discount get Early Bird specials at |
| 0:57.8 | Russeller. |
| 0:58.8 | Also with us his video producer for NPR's Jazz Night in America and the co-host of the |
| 1:03.6 | podcast a thousand eyes and one. Nicky Birch, welcome back Nicky. |
| 1:07.0 | Hey happy to be here, excited to talk about this. Happy to have you. |
| 1:10.4 | Okay so the second season of Good Omen's reteems actors Michael Sheen and David Tenet as the fussy dithering |
| 1:16.6 | angel Azirophale and the loose hard-living demon Crowley respectively. In the first season John Ham played the |
| 1:22.4 | archangel Gabriel basically Heaven's second in command, as kind of a condescending corporate jerk, who was more than willing to destroy a Zerifail for preventing Armageddon. Ultimately, both Zeririfil and Crowley were fired from their respective positions, |
| 1:35.8 | but allowed to walk the Earth among humans. |
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