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I'm John Caramonica, a critic at The New York Times. And I'm Joe Cascarelli, a culture reporter at The Times. Together we host Popcast, a weekly pop culture chat show where we speak to the biggest musicians, actors, internet celebrities, and more. We've had Bad Bunny, Olivia Rodrigo, and Anne Hathaway. We've also hosted live performances with Andre 3000 and Erica Badu.

Plus we end every conversation with a snack. Catch new episodes of Popcast every week on YouTube and anywhere you get your podcasts. Welcome to another subscriber only Ask Me Anything. You all send in a ton of questions. We are going to respond to a small fraction of them, I think.

Here joining me is our amazing executive producer, Claire Gordon, who has chosen a bunch of questions that I mostly don't want to answer if I had five brothers. But Claire, thanks for being here this morning, uh, jet lagged from a late night flight back from California. Hopefully it'll make this more interesting. The first bunch of questions are really synthesized from a ton of responses we got from the last few episodes, which really flooded our inbox.

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