“Jenny From the Block”—Jennifer Lopez

60 Songs That Explain the '90s

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4.7 • 849 Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2025

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Rob peruses the limelight love story of Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck while celebrating J.Lo’s 2002 smash hit, “Jenny From the Block.” Later, he is joined by writer Julianne Escobedo Shepherd to discuss the music and the drama that came with J.Lo in the 2000s. Host: Rob HarvillaGuest: Julianne Escobedo ShepherdProducers: Bobby Wagner, Jonathan Kermah, and Justin SaylesAdditional Production Support: Olivia Crerie Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's up, everyone? I'm Nora Prynciotti. And I'm Nathan Hubbard. And we're coming in like a
0:07.4	wrecking ball to announce a brand new series. That's right. It's every single album, Miley Cyrus.
0:13.2	Deep dive with us into the career of one of our most creative and confounding pop stars.
0:18.6	We're starting, of course, with the best of Hannah Montana.
0:21.7	And ending with her brand new album, Something Beautiful, in June.
0:25.4	And don't forget about Miley Cyrus and her dead pets.
0:28.4	We certainly will not be doing that.
0:30.1	So listen now on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:41.0	We come to this place for magic.
0:48.0	We come to this place to laugh, to cry, to care, and to duck when a TikTok poisoned teenager throws a full bucket of popcorn at the screen during the chicken jockey
0:54.1	scene, because we need that.
0:56.0	All of us, that indescribable feeling we get when the lights begin to dim and we go somewhere we've never been before,
1:05.0	which is a movie theater in the 21st century where any young person gives a shit. I took eight 14 year old kids to see the
1:13.5	Minecraft movie on a Friday night for my son's birthday birthday, one of the most fascinating and
1:19.7	harrowing cultural experiences of my entire life. Every kid in the theater screamed the entire time. Basically a SWAT team showed up. All the adults in the room were shitting themselves. We were not just entertained, but somehow reborn. Together, dazzling images on a huge silver screen and also half chewed flung remnants of sourpatch kids stuck to the huge silver screen sound that I can feel
1:53.4	specifically constant screaming including from some of the 14 year olds I had personally brought to this
2:00.3	theater who raised you okay I raised one of you but what about the including from some of the 14-year-olds I had personally brought to this theater.
2:02.0	Who raised you?
2:05.8	Okay, I raised one of you, but what about the rest he is?
2:10.9	Somehow heartbreak feels good in a place like this. But the 12 gin and tonics I drank afterwards just to decompress felt way better.
2:16.7	Our heroes.
2:19.9	The movie theater ushers are the heroes,
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