Brittany Luce

That's all for this episode of It's Been a Minute from NPR.

I'm Brittany Luce.

Talk soon.

Hello and welcome to the Pop Culture Boardroom.

I am your pop culture CEO, Brittany Luce, and I'm joined by two members of the Pop Culture C-Suite, Matthew Lawson and Joan Summers.

They are the hosts of the Eating for Free podcast.

And Matthew, Joan, what's the Q1 2026 pop culture vibe in one word?

Girl.

Girl.

Also fair.

Also fair.

Well, I have gathered the boardroom together to take stock of the year so far.

I want to know, what are the achievements, setbacks, MVPs, and future forecasting for 2026 thus far?

And as the CEO, I am going to lead the meeting, but I want to hear from both of you, Joan and Matthew, about what you're seeing.

And of course, I want to hear from our stakeholders, aka all of you listening.

Drop your thoughts for each of our categories in the comments.

Hello, hello.

I'm Brittany Luce, and you're listening to It's Been a Minute from NPR, a show about what's going on in culture and why it doesn't happen by accident.

Okay, so diving into our agenda, what were we right about heading into 2026?

Have any of your pop culture predictions already come true?