Podcasts and Radio

This is what it looks like when Stephen and I have our picture taken together.

This is what it looks like when Stephen and I have our picture taken together.

At NPR, I am one of the hosts of a daily (well, weekdaily) roundtable podcast called Pop Culture Happy Hour. I have three marvelous co-hosts: Stephen Thompson of NPR Music; Glen Weldon, who covers pop culture for NPR and is also the author of two books on superheroes and NPR’s guide to podcasting; and Aisha Harris, a film and TV critic and commentator who previously did the great Slate podcast Represent. We also have tons and tons of panelists from inside and outside NPR. We’ve been making the show since 2010. We have great producers — as of this writing, we have Jessica Reedy, Mike Katzif, Hafsa Fathima and Liz Metzger. 

I'm also fairly regularly on the radio in some capacity or another. Sometimes, NPR even puts me on video. The most fun I ever had in that business was a whole bunch of videos where Bob Mondello and I read online comments about Oscar-nominated movies. 

Opinions about films -- especially Oscar nominees -- are complicated, hilariously varied, and wonderfully individual. To show that, we combed through comments on RottenTomatoes.com a scripted a series of pro-con debates -- in the words of the Internet. Part One: "American Hustle." Find some of NPR's movie reviews here: http://n.pr/1fGDpzY

 

I also pop up on other radio shows and podcasts whenever I’m invited.