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If you travel by plane with any regularity, you've been there.

Stuck in an airport because your flight is delayed.

So we thought it best to give your most stressful travel moments a soundtrack.

I'm Stephen Thompson.

And I'm Aisha Harris.

And on this episode of NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour,

we're recommending songs for when your flight is delayed.

It's just the two of us today, so let's get to it.

The assignment is pretty simple.

Come up with a short playlist of songs that might be useful when you're stuck at the airport.

And Stephen, you brought us three songs today, and I got to admit, when I was first going into this, I was like, I'm curious what kind of songs we're going to pick here.

And I was not expecting the direction that you went in, but I was very pleasantly surprised.

I thought you were going to totally screw this up.

No, no, no, no.

I'm very excited for people to hear what you chose.

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