This is Eric Glass.

On This American Life, sometimes we just show up somewhere, turn on our tape recorders, and see what happens.

If you can't get seven cars in 12 days, you've got to look yourself in the mirror and say,

holy, what are you kidding me?

Like this car dealership, trying to sell its monthly quota of cars, and it is not going well.

I just don't want one balloon to a car.

Balloon the whole freaking place, so it looks like a circus. Real life stories every week.

Everything old is new again, it seems, and there's no reason that wouldn't apply to

werewolves. We now have a chance to enjoy a new wolfman. And of course, it maintains that

sometimes the monster is inside you all along. I'm Linda Holmes, and today we're talking about

Wolfman on Pop Culture Happy Hour from NPR. Joining me today is my co-host Glenn Weldon. Hello, Glenn.

Hey, Linda. Also with us is B.A. Parker. She's one of the hosts of NPR's

Code Switch podcast. Welcome to the show, Parker. Hi. And also with us is filmmaker, pop culture

critic and IHeart radio producer Joelle Monique. Good to see you, Joelle. Thanks for having me back.

For a little context,

Wolfman is part of an effort to reboot what are known as the Universal Monsters that were featured in Universal Pictures films in the first half of the 20th century. So that includes Dracula,

it includes Frankenstein, and it includes The Invisible Man. In 2020, Elizabeth Moss starred

in The Invisible Man, which was written and directed by Blumhouse's Lee Wanel. He directed and

co-wrote this here Wolfman movie, so that is why you are suddenly getting a werewolf movie

in 2025. It's a whole thing.

So here Christopher Abbott plays Blake, a gloomy dad who takes his gloomy wife and their daughter,

to the creepy old house in Oregon that he's just inherited from his father.

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