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The Oscar-winning animated film Spider-Man Into the Spider-Verse

introduced us to Miles Morales, a Brooklyn teenager who becomes Spider-Man. He soon meets various spider people

from other dimensions of the multiverse.

In the new sequel across the spiderverse, Miles travels, well, across the multiverse

to battle a new villain and encounters even greater

threats along the way. I'm Aisha Harris. And I'm Stephen Thompson today on

NPR's pop culture happy hour we're talking about Spider-Man across the Spider-verse.

Joining us today is Daisy Rosario, senior supervising producer of audio at Slate.

Hey Daisy, hey, Stephen, how's it going?

It's going really well.

Also with us is I Heart Radio producer and host

Joelle Monique.

Welcome back, Joelle.

Hi Stephen, how are you?

It is a pleasure to have you both here. So across the Spider-verse is of course a sequel to 2018's

into the Spider-Ver. That movie introduced us to a new animated Spider-Man, Miles Morales, a Brooklyn teenager voiced by Shemique Moore.

Miles becomes Spider after he's bitten by a radioactive spider, we all know that story by now, but his

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