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

be about us without us. Find NPR Black Stories Black Truths on the iHeart Radio app or wherever

you get your podcasts. On his new podcast, six degrees with Kevin Bacon, join Kevin for inspiring

conversations with his friends and fellow celebrities who are working to make a difference in the

world like actor Mark Ruffalo. You know, I found myself moving up state in the middle of this fracking

fight, you know, and I'm trying to raise kids there and, you know, my, my neighbors like

willing to poison my water. Listen to six degrees with Kevin Bacon on the iHeart Radio app Apple

Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. On this segment, we hear all sorts of strange stories

about how people met and what magical circumstances and planets had to align in order to bring the two

of them together. Yes. And then rip them apart because they're here with us. But when I

read the email from one of our listeners, Evan, I was flabbergasted. I was thunder struck even.

And the reason is because Evan claims he met a woman not online, but out in the real world in person.

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