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Pop Culture Happy Hour

Presence

Pop Culture Happy Hour

NPR

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4.510.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

In the new Steven Soderbergh film Presence, a family moves into an old house, and weird stuff starts happening. But what's different about this haunted house story is that the movie told from the point of view of the ghost. We only get glimpses of the family, but gradually we start to piece together their brittle dynamic.

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0:00.0

President Trump is back in Washington, pursuing major policy changes on his own terms.

0:06.4

We know from the past that means challenging precedent, busting norms, and pushing against the status quo.

0:12.1

NPR is covering it all with Trump's terms, a podcast where we curate stories about the 47th president with the focus on how he is upending the way Washington works.

0:21.5

Listen to Trump's terms from NPR.

0:28.0

In the new Steven Soderberg film Presence, a family moves into an old house and weird stuff starts

0:34.6

happening. That is a pretty standard haunted house story on paper.

0:38.8

But what's different here is that we're the ones haunting the house in question,

0:42.9

because this is a ghost story told from the point of view of the ghost.

0:47.4

I'm Linda Holmes.

0:48.4

And I'm Glenn Weldon, and today we're talking about presence

0:50.9

on Pop Culture Happy Hour from NPR.

0:57.2

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1:14.9

Matt Wilson spent years doing rounds at children's hospitals in New York City.

1:19.6

I had a clip on tie. I wore helies, size 11. Matt was a medical clown.

1:24.5

The role of a medical clown is to reintroduce the sense of play and joy and hope and light into a space that doesn't normally inhabit.

1:32.8

Ideas about navigating uncertainty. That's on the TED Radio Hour podcast from NPR.

1:38.9

Hey, it's Robin Hilton from NPR music. Many years ago, I helped start the Tiny Desk concert series.

1:44.8

And right now, NPR is looking for the ago, I helped start the Tiny Desk concert series. And right now,

1:50.5

NPR is looking for the next great, undiscovered musician to perform behind the famous desk.

1:55.6

Think you've got what it takes? Submit a video of you playing an original song to the Tiny Desk contest by February 10th. Find out more and see the official rules at npr.org slash tiny desk contest.

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