The Lowdown
Pop Culture Happy Hour
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4.5 • 11.6K Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2025
⏱️ 21 minutes
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| 0:57.9 | The lowdown is a modern-day Western noir comedy. |
| 1:01.9 | Ethan Hawke plays a freelance investigative reporter with a knack for sticking his nose where it doesn't belong and getting that nose punched. |
| 1:09.0 | He gets drawn into the CD goings-on of one of Tulsa's most prominent families by following |
| 1:15.2 | a trail of breadcrumbs, breadcrumbs in the form of notes left by one member of that family |
| 1:21.0 | whose death raises more questions than it answers. |
| 1:24.6 | I'm Linda Holmes. |
| 1:25.6 | And I'm Glenn Weldon. This is NPR's pop culture happy hour. And today we're |
| 1:29.0 | talking about FX's The Lowdown. In the U.S., national security news can feel far away from daily life. |
| 1:40.5 | Distant wars, murky conflicts, diplomacy behind closed doors on our new show, sources and methods. |
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