Hey, it's Rachel Martin. I'm the host of Wildcard from NPR. For a lot of my years as a radio host, silence sort of made me nervous. That pause before an answer, because you don't know what's going on on the other side of the mic. But these days, I love it. Oh, gosh. Give me a minute. Yeah, yeah. Think. Listen to the Wildcard podcast, only from NPR.

In Netflix's new animated comedy Haunted Hotel, you get a lot of fast funny jokes.

You get terrific voice acting from Eliza Coupe and Will Forte.

And you get a setting, a massive old hotel that's just the right mix of fun and creepy.

Also, not for nothing, you get some actual lore to make sense of it all, which is helpful because there's a lot of ghosts in the hotel, each with their own schick, and things get pretty wild.

I'm Glenn Weldon, and today we're talking about Haunted Hotel on Pop Culture Happy Hour from NPR.

Music and today we're talking about Haunted Hotel on Pop Culture Happy Hour from NPR. How are you choosing to live? On autopilot or with intention? The way you think you should or the way you want to.

I'm Mariel Segarra, host of the Life Kit podcast. Each episode is like a mini guidebook for

your vida. So you can manage time, money, fitness, amor, and other life things on your terms.

Listen to the Life Kit podcast from NPR.

Joining me today is Walter Chow. He's a writer, critic, and film instructor at the University

of Colorado. Welcome back, Walter. Hey, great to be here. Always get to have you. Also, with this is Jeff Yang. He's a writer, critic, and film instructor at the University of Colorado. Welcome back, Walter.

Hey, great to be here. Always get to have you. Also with us is Jeff Yang. He's a cultural critic and author

of The Golden Screen, the movies that made Asian America. Hey, Jeff. Hey, always great to talk to you,

Glenn. Always great to have you to talk to. In Haunted Hotel, Eliza Coup plays Catherine. She

moves into The Undervale, a very haunted old hotel with her family.

There's her son, Ben, a hapless teen, voiced by Skyler Gisando.

And her daughter Esther, a practitioner of Black Magic, who's more than a match for anything the hotel can throw at them.

Mostly, she's voiced by Natalie Palomides.

Catherine's dead brother Nathan is around to show them the ropes, vis-a-vis ghosts and

demons and bleeding mirrors and possession, etc. That is Will Forte. Also on hand, though

much, much less helpful, is Abadon, a demon trapped in the body of a boy from the 1700s.

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