Spider-Man: No Way Home And What's Making Us Happy

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🗓️ 17 December 2021

⏱️ 24 minutes

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In Spider-Man: No Way Home, we spend time with some familiar characters. The film stars Tom Holland as Peter Parker and Zendaya as MJ, and, this time, also brings in Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch), plus an array of villains who'll already be familiar to fans of the franchise. But the film is more complicated than that, as the Marvel Cinematic Universe delves deeper into the mysteries of the Multiverse.

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0:00.0	In Spider-Man No Way Home, we spend time with some familiar characters, not only Spider-Man
0:10.6	himself but also Dr. Strange and some villains who already be familiar to fans of the series.
0:16.6	But the film is more complicated than that as we delve deeper into the mysteries of the
0:20.9	multiverse.
0:21.9	I'm Glenn Weldon, and I'm Stephen Thompson.
0:23.5	Today we are talking about Spider-Man No Way Home on pop culture happy hour from NPR.
0:29.4	Here with Glenn and me is Daisy Rosario.
0:32.0	She's an executive producer at Stitcher with the show Celebrity Book Club with Chelsea
0:35.9	Devantes.
0:36.9	It's in its first season right now.
0:38.5	Hey Daisy.
0:39.5	Hey how's it going?
0:40.5	It is going great.
0:41.5	Also joining us is I Heart Radio Producer Joelle Monique.
0:44.9	Hey Joelle.
0:45.9	Hi Stephen.
0:46.9	So glad you could join us.
0:48.6	So right up front there are a great many spoilers to work around here.
0:53.0	We are going to stay away from the biggest ones and stick to what's been revealed in
0:57.1	the trailers, but if you're excited about Spider-Man and you want to stay completely unspoiled,
1:02.2	you're probably not even listening but you're definitely going to want to revisit this
1:05.0	discussion after you've seen the movie.
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