Episode notes
Look, this world can be spinny and chaotic and upsetting, enough to cost you some valuable sleep time. Aisha Harris from NPR’s Pop Culture Hour has a way of making sense of the world and it’s her habit of memorizing the birth and death years of famous pop culture figures of the last hundred years or so. Did you know that Shaq, Ben Affleck, Eminem, and Gwyneth Paltrow were all born in 1972? Aisha did. And she knew that 1922 was the year the world received Judy Garland, Betty White, and Carl Reiner. Does any of it matter a lot? Of course not. Is it sufficient data to occupy your mind and keep it from swirling anxiety thoughts? We think so.
Aisha is the fourth of four Pop Culture Happy Hour hosts to appear on our program, which means if there was a universe-killing glove that required all four hosts, we would now own it. But we’d never give it to Thanos. Don’t worry.
Still Awake? The Other PCHH Host Episodes Are:
Linda Holmes (Beverly Hills, 90210)
Glen Weldon (The Silmarillion)
Stephen Thompson (Tiny Desk Concert Bric-a-Brac)
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Guests
- Aisha Harris
About the show
Getting to sleep can be difficult sometimes. Now you can achieve that urgently needed rest by taking advantage of our most precious natural resource: celebrities. Each week on the slyly humorous and reassuring Sleeping With Celebrities, host John Moe talks with a different guest from the world of entertainment about something they know a lot about. The conversation is guaranteed to be just interesting enough to draw your attention away from your own swirling anxieties but never interesting enough to keep you awake. No startling revelations, no dramatic screaming confrontations, but plenty of low-key dialogue, intricately laced deadpan comedy, and a ticket to dreamland.
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