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It's Been a Minute

Weekly Wrap: "It Is Written."

It's Been a Minute

NPR

News Commentary, Society & Culture, News, Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality

4.68.8K Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2018

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Sam esta bailando with Pop Culture Happy Hour host Linda Holmes (@lindaholmes) and NPR Politics Podcast host and congressional correspondent Scott Detrow (@scottdetrow). Catch up on the week's news: the World Cup, Trump administration immigration policy, and diversity in film criticism. Email the show at [email protected] and tweet @NPRItsBeenAMin with feels.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey y'all, this is Sam's like Daddy.

0:02.5

This week on the show, the host of NPR's pop culture happy hour, Linda Holmes,

0:08.8

and congressional correspondent and NPR's politics podcast host, Scott Detro.

0:16.0

All right, let's start the show.

0:22.1

Hey y'all, from NPR, I'm Sam Sanders. It's been a minute.

0:25.6

As Betty said, we got two great guests here. Linda Holmes, host of NPR's pop culture happy hour,

0:30.8

Scott Detro, congressional correspondent and NPR, also the host of the NPR

0:35.4

politics podcast, a crew that know quite well. Thank you both for being here.

0:39.6

Thank you, Sam. It was exciting to get the Aunt Betty intro.

0:42.8

Oh yeah, oh yeah. So this song, which has some Foo's elevives, it is actually one of the World Cup songs for this year.

0:50.6

So there is an entire cottage industry of World Cup songs.

1:00.0

There's always the official one commissioned by FIFA, but then countries commissioned their own World Cup songs,

1:06.2

companies commissioned their own World Cup songs.

1:09.4

This one you're hearing right now, it was commissioned actually by the television network,

1:14.0

Telemundo. Oh nice. It is a song called Positiveo by J Balvin and Michael Brun.

1:22.6

It's kind of a Foo's elevat-ish.

1:27.7

I didn't know they were so controversial until I tweeted that I like Foo's salas and people literally

1:32.6

sent me death threats. They did. We should self-books what those are. These were the things that

1:37.4

showed up in the World Cup a few years back. Those big old... The horns.

1:41.6

What those plastic tubes that make that awful horn noise.

1:45.2

Yeah, I can try and do one for you.

1:47.2

Oh, well, do it.

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