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Pop Culture Happy Hour

If I Had Legs I'd Kick You

Pop Culture Happy Hour

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🗓️ 29 October 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Rose Byrne shows off her dramatic chops in the new movie If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, where she plays a therapist shouldering all the responsibility of caring for her ill daughter while her emotionally absent husband is away for work. Her patients have their own issues, and sometimes they don't grasp the meaning of "boundaries." And her relationship with her own therapist/co-worker, who’s played by Conan O’Brien, is… messy. And that’s only the beginning.

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Roseburn has spun comedic gold for years from from bridesmaids, neighbors, platonic, but in the new movie,

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if I had legs, I'd kick you, she shows her dramatic chops, and she's fantastic. She plays a therapist

0:32.2

showering all the responsibility of caring for her ill daughter, while her emotionally absent

0:36.6

husband is a way for work.

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And that's only the beginning. Other disastrous life events begin to accumulate and wear her down.

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Yes, it's extremely stressful, but it's also a highly absorbing melodrama.

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I'm Aisha Harris, and today on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour, we're talking about if I had legs, I'd kick you.

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Support for NPR

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and the following message

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comes from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

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RWJF is a national philanthropy

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working toward a future

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where health is no longer a privilege

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but a right.

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Learn more at RWJF.org. Joining me today is Walter Chow. He's a writer, critic, and film instructor at the University of Colorado. Hello, Walter. Welcome back. Hi, thanks. I'm so happy to be here. Great to have you. Also with us is entertainment journalist Christina Escobar. She's the co-founder and editor-in-chief of Latina Media Ponto Co. Welcome back to you to

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