Sometimes the pop culture we love just teens hits differently in retrospect.

Maybe it's a tabloid story we couldn't get enough of or an illicit student-teacher relationship

on our favorite show. We're Suzy Banna-Karim and Jessica Bennett,

posts of the new podcast in retrospect, where each week we'll revisit a cultural moment from

the past that shaped us and probably you to try to understand what it taught us about the world

and our place in it. You're the first person that I've talked to about this for years and years.

Listen to in retrospect on the iHeart Radio app Apple Podcasts or wherever you find your

favorite shows. Everyone in our country has a voice. It's something that says not just where you

come from but who you are. Welcome to NPR's Black Stories Black Truths, a collection of podcasts

and a celebration of the hosts and journalism who've always spoken truth to power.

Our voices are as varied, nuanced and dynamic as the Black experience and stories should never

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you get your podcasts. See that sign, Employees Only. That means keep out, buddy. It's just for us

by well employees. This is where we talk freely about all the stuff happening in the world.

You can keep Meghan Markle for all I care as long as I get to take Harry to a weekend in Vegas.

It's Employees Only, courtesy of Ron Howard, the new podcast from Imagine Audio,

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podcasts.

Dipping out on a first date without saying goodbye. Some of us have done it, some of us have had it

happen to us. Jose even went to the extreme of hiring producer Boyd as a waiter wants to come

up to his table with an envelope and say, excuse me, sir, are you Mr. Jose Balanios?

The STD results just came in from the kitchen.

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