Hijack
Pop Culture Happy Hour
NPR
4.5 • 11.6K Ratings
🗓️ 14 January 2026
⏱️ 18 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This message comes from How Did This Get Made, the comedy podcast that celebrates bad movies. |
| 0:05.7 | Join Paul Shear, June Diane Rayfield, and Jason Manzoukis as they break down the worst films of all time. |
| 0:12.9 | Listen wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:19.5 | The Bracing Drama Series hijack is about, well, a hijacking. |
| 0:24.6 | An airplane heading for London is taken hostage by a bunch of assailants with mysterious motives. |
| 0:30.3 | Their problem? A brilliant business negotiator, played by none other than Idges Elba, is a passenger on this plane. |
| 0:36.4 | And he's not going to let them carry out their plan without a challenge. |
| 0:39.8 | Hijack just came back for a second season, |
| 0:42.0 | so we thought it was the perfect time to revisit our conversation |
| 0:44.5 | about the first season of this series. |
| 0:46.7 | I'm Aisha Harris, and we're talking about the thrilling Apple TV show, |
| 0:50.0 | Hi Jack on Pop Culture Happy Hour from NPR. |
| 0:56.7 | At Radio Lab, we love nothing more than nerding out about science, neuroscience, chemistry. |
| 1:04.1 | But, but we do also like to get into other kinds of stories, stories about policing or politics, country music. Hockey. Sex. Of bugs. Regardless |
| 1:14.2 | of whether we're looking at science or not science, we bring a rigorous curiosity to get you |
| 1:19.6 | the answers. And hopefully make you see the world anew. Radio Lab, Adventures on the Edge of what |
| 1:24.1 | we think we know. Wherever you get your podcast. |
| 1:29.7 | Have you ever thought about leaving the U.S. |
| 1:31.2 | Starting over somewhere new? |
| 1:32.6 | Well, I have. |
| 1:39.5 | And according to one poll, 40% of young women said they've moved to another country permanently if they had the chance. |
| 1:40.3 | But why? |
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