Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery and What’s Making Us Happy
Pop Culture Happy Hour
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🗓️ 12 December 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's Linda Holmes. Before we start the show today, I want to talk for a minute about something near and dear to our hearts around here, public media. It's a phrase that's been in the news a lot this year. It's also what makes pop culture happy hour and all the podcasts you love from NPR unique. Here in the U.S., the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 said that local public media |
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| 1:51.0 | Benoit Blanc is back, baby, and Netflix has got them, |
| 1:54.7 | and the four of us are spoiler, very happy about that fact. |
| 1:57.9 | Wake Up Dead Man is the third installment of the Knives Out franchise, |
| 2:01.4 | and in this one, Daniel Craig returns as everyone's favorite detective with a flashy wardrobe |
| 2:06.2 | and a southern drawl thicker than shoefly pie. The mystery gets ecclesiastical in nature |
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