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Pop Culture Happy Hour

Our 2022 Pop Culture Resolutions And What's Making Us Happy

Pop Culture Happy Hour

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🗓️ 30 December 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

It's the end of 2021, and the cusp of a new year — which means we're looking back, and we're looking ahead. It's time to see how we did sticking to our pop culture resolutions we made a year ago. And it's time to make some new ones for 2022.

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0:00.0

It's a new year and it's time to make new pop culture resolutions.

0:09.2

It's also time to see how we did sticking to the ones we made a year ago.

0:13.5

I'm Stephen Thompson.

0:15.0

And I'm Linda Holmes.

0:16.1

It's resolutions time once again on pop culture happy hour from NPR.

0:20.5

Joining us today from his home studio is Glenn Weldon of NPR's Culture desk, High

0:24.2

Glenn.

0:25.2

Hey Linda.

0:26.2

And also here from her home on the west coast of course is Aisha Harris.

0:29.1

Hey, hello Linda.

0:30.8

So if you've been listening to our year end shows for a while, you know that we like

0:35.4

to come back and make some resolutions and that at the end of the year, we hold ourselves

0:39.8

accountable by looking at our old resolutions.

0:43.3

Sometimes this is a wonderful experience.

0:46.4

Sometimes it is deeply and truly painful.

0:49.6

But we don't just rely on our memories.

0:53.0

We actually listen back to ourselves making resolutions.

0:56.9

So I want to hear Glenn's resolutions for the year 2021.

1:00.8

All right.

1:03.8

I'm going to start and finish a podcasting project that has nothing to do with NPR.

1:08.7

I'm going to do it with Powell and Friend of the show Chris Klimick.

1:11.4

It will be a deep dive into the 1960s British science fiction series The Prisoner which

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