Mickey 17 And What's Making Us Happy
Pop Culture Happy Hour
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🗓️ 7 March 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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| 0:22.6 | slash happy. Mickey 17 is writer-director Bong Joon-Ho's follow-up to Parasite, which won him a raft of Oscars back in 2020, |
| 0:35.0 | including Best Picture and Best Director. It stars Robert Pattinson, Mark Ruffalo, and Tony Collette. |
| 0:40.6 | In this sharply satirical sci-fi film, Pattinson is a manual laborer on a spaceship who just keeps dying. |
| 0:47.6 | But each time, he also gets reprinted. |
| 0:50.0 | His memories get downloaded into a new body. |
| 0:53.0 | What could go wrong? |
| 0:54.5 | I'm Aisha Harris. |
| 0:55.7 | And I'm Glenn Weldon, and today we're talking about Mickey 17 on Pop Culture Happy Hour from NPR. |
| 1:01.0 | Joining us today is Jeff Yang. |
| 1:02.8 | He's a cultural critic and author of The Golden Screen, the movies that made Asian America. |
| 1:07.6 | Hey, Jeff. |
| 1:08.2 | Hey, Glenn. |
| 1:08.7 | Hey, Aisha. |
| 1:09.7 | Hey. |
| 1:10.2 | Also with us is Kristen Mineser. She co-hosts |
| 1:12.4 | the Daily Fail, a podcast that does comedic, close readings of the tabloid. Hey, Kristen. Hey, thanks for |
| 1:17.3 | having to be back. Of course. So let's get to it. In the future, a spaceship bound for a remote |
| 1:23.2 | ice planet is loaded with folks loyal to a failed politician played by Mark Ruffalo and some |
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