We Fantasy Cast The Traitors

Pop Culture Happy Hour

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🗓️ 18 February 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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The Peacock reality show The Traitors continues to be a delightful mix of treachery, foolishness, and Alan Cumming's outfits. In the United States, the cast is made up exclusively of so-called celebrities. So today on the show we're fantasy casting who we think should be on the next season of The Traitors.

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0:29.0	The reality showed the traders now in its third season, continues to be a delightful mix of treachery,
0:33.9	foolishness, good and bad strategy, and Alan Cummings outfits.
0:38.1	But with the way they're ripping through our supply of reality stars, are they going to run out of good casting ideas? No. No, they are not, because we are here with some fresh inspiration.
0:45.1	I'm Stephen Thompson. And I'm Linda Holmes, and today on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour, we are
0:50.4	fantasy casting the next season of The Traders.
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1:19.1	Joining us today are our fellow co-hosts Aisha Harris.
1:22.9	Hello, Aisha.
1:24.0	Here and ready for murder, my friends.
1:28.8	And also Glenn Weldon, hello, Glenn.
1:32.2	Hi, greetings, Linda Holmes.
1:34.5	Very good.
1:35.4	I appreciate the fact that both of you went with the accent.
1:38.3	Went at the accent.
1:39.3	Yes, yes, yes, yes.
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