We Watch 'Wonder Woman' and Do a Taxonomy of the Summer Jam

Cannonball with Wesley Morris

The New York Times

News Commentary, Society & Culture, News, Arts

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🗓️ 8 June 2017

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summer is here, and so are the superhero movies and hit pop songs that define the season. We discuss the politics of “Wonder Woman,” the first female-fronted and female-directed superhero blockbuster. We also search for the definitive summer jam of 2017 and try to define what makes a great summer song along the way.

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0:00.0	I'm General Ortho.
0:01.4	And I'm Adiva.
0:04.0	Wesley Boris.
0:05.4	We're two culture writers for the New York Times.
0:08.0	I'm mostly right about how humans relate to technology.
0:10.9	And I'm mostly right about how popular culture and movies
0:13.7	relate to humans.
0:14.9	This is still for us, I think.
0:18.0	So welcome back to our show, everybody.
0:29.4	Hi.
0:30.2	Hello.
0:31.0	What a crazy week.
0:32.8	The craziest.
0:33.9	This madness, craziest week last week,
0:36.5	you can't think the country can get any crazier.
0:38.5	But the world, I don't even want to be.
0:40.0	Before we go into that, just tell me what's in your brain, please.
0:44.0	I'm going to go somewhere unexpected to start.
0:46.7	It's Peony season.
0:48.2	So Peony's are in season.
0:49.4	It's main June.
0:50.3	It's there a time to shine.
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