Episodes

  • Wendell & Wild And What's Making Us Happy

    Wendell & Wild And What's Making Us Happy
    Oct 28 2022
    Director and animator Henry Selick, best-known for films like The Nightmare Before Christmas and Coraline, has teamed up with co-writer Jordan Peele for Wendell & Wild, a new stop-motion animated movie from Netflix. Peele also stars in the film, reuniting with Keegan-Michael Key as a pair of demon brothers who escape the underworld with the help of Kat, a teenager with a tragic past.
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    26 mins
  • Top 10 Muppets

    Top 10 Muppets
    Mar 30 2023
    When we asked our listeners to tell us which Muppets were their favorites, we knew you'd all come through. More than 6,000 of you cast more than 18,000 votes — and we have the results.
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    18 mins
  • Our Favorite Muppets

    Our Favorite Muppets
    Mar 29 2023
    Today we are tackling two of the most important questions of our time: who are our favorite Muppets? And which Muppets do we most identify with? As they always say, the Muppets are the window to the soul.
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    23 mins
  • Ticket to Paradise

    Ticket to Paradise
    Oct 27 2022
    In the film Ticket to Paradise, George Clooney and Julia Roberts play divorced parents determined to stop the wedding of their adult daughter. It's part romantic comedy, part wacky adventure, and part gorgeous travel movie. Clooney and Roberts star alongside Kaitlyn Dever, Maxime Bouttier and Billie Lourd.
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    21 mins
  • The Night Agent

    The Night Agent
    Mar 28 2023
    An FBI agent working in a lonely, secret office in the White House basement gets a phone call. A woman needs help, right away. That's the beginning of The Night Agent, a Netflix spy thriller series full of action and intrigue. Created by The Shield's Shawn Ryan, the series follows Peter and Rose — the agent and the tech expert he's protecting — as they try to uncover a conspiracy that goes right to the heart of the government.

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    15 mins
  • Taylor's Swift's Midnights

    Taylor's Swift's Midnights
    Oct 26 2022
    Taylor Swift's tenth studio album, Midnights, once again reshapes her music in unexpected ways. Along with producer and co-writer Jack Antonoff, she's working with a palette of buzzy electro-pop. Midnights showcases love songs, confessions, and anthems — and all of them are rendered in the singer's distinct songwriting voice.
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    18 mins
  • Carly Rae Jepsen's The Loneliest Time

    Carly Rae Jepsen's The Loneliest Time
    Oct 25 2022
    Carly Rae Jepsen is back with a new album called The Loneliest Time. The Canadian singer first broke through with the inescapable banger "Call Me Maybe." But in these last few years Jepsen has become a full-blown pop star, thanks to well-received albums like Emotion and Dedicated. Her new album mixes hard-driving pop jams with breezy ballads.
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    21 mins
  • Books We Love: No Biz Like Show Biz

    Books We Love: No Biz Like Show Biz
    Mar 27 2023
    NPR's Books We Love is full of stories. The feature rounds up fiction and nonfiction of many different kinds, and it gives you lots of ways to find what you might love, too. Today we're recommending great books for people who love show business, including a fictional take on a popular gossip Instagram account, a love story, and a memoir.
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    9 mins