Glen Weldon
@ghweldon.bsky.social
Author, THE CAPED CRUSADE, NPR’s PODCAST START UP GUIDE. Unauthor, SUPERMAN: THE UNAUTHORIZED BIOGRAPHY. Host, POP CULTURE HAPPY HOUR.
If, like me, you spent the 2010s putting up boring non-fiction/literary fiction-only folks dismissing GoT because it was about “dragons and fantasy shit,” tell them to check out A KNIGHT OF THE SEVEN KINGDOMS and pretend it’s alt-history.
www.npr.org/2026/01/16/n...
www.npr.org/2026/01/16/n...
'A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms' is 'Game of Thrones' for the haters
There are no dragons, no maps and no internecine family trees in this Game of Thrones prequel about an underdog knight and his would-be squire.
www.npr.org
January 16, 2026 at 2:17 PM
If, like me, you spent the 2010s putting up boring non-fiction/literary fiction-only folks dismissing GoT because it was about “dragons and fantasy shit,” tell them to check out A KNIGHT OF THE SEVEN KINGDOMS and pretend it’s alt-history.
www.npr.org/2026/01/16/n...
www.npr.org/2026/01/16/n...
See now I suggested Molly Mondays and the squares in the NPR newsroom just clucked their tongues and stroked their beards.
Update — Here is what the new apparent CBS News segment "Whiskey Fridays with Tony Dokoupil" may look like:
January 14, 2026 at 12:27 AM
See now I suggested Molly Mondays and the squares in the NPR newsroom just clucked their tongues and stroked their beards.
In first grade the teacher told us she was giving each of us our own folder that would hold our papers & that we had to be careful not to lose. It was a huge responsibility, she said.
I imagined we were each getting our own tiny robot; we’d hand it our work & it would fold it for efficient storage.
I imagined we were each getting our own tiny robot; we’d hand it our work & it would fold it for efficient storage.
January 10, 2026 at 3:21 PM
In first grade the teacher told us she was giving each of us our own folder that would hold our papers & that we had to be careful not to lose. It was a huge responsibility, she said.
I imagined we were each getting our own tiny robot; we’d hand it our work & it would fold it for efficient storage.
I imagined we were each getting our own tiny robot; we’d hand it our work & it would fold it for efficient storage.
That Love Island Traitors dude is giving Guy You Crushed On From Afar In High School But Then Actually Met And He Was The Heat Death of Charisma And You Were Like Oh
January 10, 2026 at 12:36 AM
That Love Island Traitors dude is giving Guy You Crushed On From Afar In High School But Then Actually Met And He Was The Heat Death of Charisma And You Were Like Oh
The PCHH newsletter drops in a few minutes, and everything I review and recommend this week has been engineered to offer an infusion of joy, of humor, of, essentially, Not This.
Sometimes this job feels like a calling. This week, especially.
Sometimes this job feels like a calling. This week, especially.
January 9, 2026 at 9:37 PM
The PCHH newsletter drops in a few minutes, and everything I review and recommend this week has been engineered to offer an infusion of joy, of humor, of, essentially, Not This.
Sometimes this job feels like a calling. This week, especially.
Sometimes this job feels like a calling. This week, especially.
F and I have the flu - he’s upstairs in bed, I’m downstairs in my office.
Whenever I cough - always honking, always twice - I wait a beat and hear him do the same. As if in response.
It’s like we’re a pair of geese out in the wild, only you know, phlegmier.
Whenever I cough - always honking, always twice - I wait a beat and hear him do the same. As if in response.
It’s like we’re a pair of geese out in the wild, only you know, phlegmier.
January 7, 2026 at 4:24 PM
F and I have the flu - he’s upstairs in bed, I’m downstairs in my office.
Whenever I cough - always honking, always twice - I wait a beat and hear him do the same. As if in response.
It’s like we’re a pair of geese out in the wild, only you know, phlegmier.
Whenever I cough - always honking, always twice - I wait a beat and hear him do the same. As if in response.
It’s like we’re a pair of geese out in the wild, only you know, phlegmier.
Max Dugan will return in Avengers: Doomsday
January 7, 2026 at 2:43 PM
Max Dugan will return in Avengers: Doomsday
the week of circling back …
… it begins
… it begins
January 5, 2026 at 2:45 PM
the week of circling back …
… it begins
… it begins
Trying to purge things by watching Robyn and David Byrne doing Dancing on My Own on SNL50 and what should be a cathartic experience is undercut by the shots of egregiously white people clapping on the 1s and 3s.
January 4, 2026 at 12:38 AM
Trying to purge things by watching Robyn and David Byrne doing Dancing on My Own on SNL50 and what should be a cathartic experience is undercut by the shots of egregiously white people clapping on the 1s and 3s.
KUMAIL on TASKMASTER.
I’s calling it: The all too rare CONFLUENCE OF AWESOME.
www.comedy.co.uk/tv/news/8613...
I’s calling it: The all too rare CONFLUENCE OF AWESOME.
www.comedy.co.uk/tv/news/8613...
Taskmaster Series 21 line-up revealed - British Comedy Guide
Amy Gledhill, Armando Iannucci, Joanna Page, Joel Dommett and Kumail Nanjiani will take part in the twenty first series of Taskmaster.
www.comedy.co.uk
January 3, 2026 at 10:43 PM
KUMAIL on TASKMASTER.
I’s calling it: The all too rare CONFLUENCE OF AWESOME.
www.comedy.co.uk/tv/news/8613...
I’s calling it: The all too rare CONFLUENCE OF AWESOME.
www.comedy.co.uk/tv/news/8613...
Can’t wait tau faurget saume auld acquaintances. THEY KNAUW WHY.
December 31, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Can’t wait tau faurget saume auld acquaintances. THEY KNAUW WHY.
Gonna head outside at midnight because I want my face to be the last thing 2025 sees before it dies.
December 31, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Gonna head outside at midnight because I want my face to be the last thing 2025 sees before it dies.
The week between Christmas and New Years is the calendar’s perineum.
December 28, 2025 at 1:54 PM
The week between Christmas and New Years is the calendar’s perineum.
The cottage isn’t a cottage it’s a lake house.
That’s first.
Also I loved that the mom pivoted to Shane’s endorsements immediately and adroitly. Because she would. She should.
Also, it was always gonna default to schmoopy doe-eyed love because genres are defined by their parameters.
That’s first.
Also I loved that the mom pivoted to Shane’s endorsements immediately and adroitly. Because she would. She should.
Also, it was always gonna default to schmoopy doe-eyed love because genres are defined by their parameters.
December 28, 2025 at 4:05 AM
The cottage isn’t a cottage it’s a lake house.
That’s first.
Also I loved that the mom pivoted to Shane’s endorsements immediately and adroitly. Because she would. She should.
Also, it was always gonna default to schmoopy doe-eyed love because genres are defined by their parameters.
That’s first.
Also I loved that the mom pivoted to Shane’s endorsements immediately and adroitly. Because she would. She should.
Also, it was always gonna default to schmoopy doe-eyed love because genres are defined by their parameters.
(To her friends) “He’s funny. I mean he’s got the ugliest body I’ve ever seen in my life. …. I don’t care if he heard.”
Luckily this occurred in ninth grade, when I wasn’t entirely consumed with the fear of someone saying … well pretty much that exactly.
Luckily this occurred in ninth grade, when I wasn’t entirely consumed with the fear of someone saying … well pretty much that exactly.
What's an insult you'll never forget?
December 26, 2025 at 4:49 PM
(To her friends) “He’s funny. I mean he’s got the ugliest body I’ve ever seen in my life. …. I don’t care if he heard.”
Luckily this occurred in ninth grade, when I wasn’t entirely consumed with the fear of someone saying … well pretty much that exactly.
Luckily this occurred in ninth grade, when I wasn’t entirely consumed with the fear of someone saying … well pretty much that exactly.
The day before Boxing Day is Unboxing Day
December 26, 2025 at 12:16 PM
The day before Boxing Day is Unboxing Day
Ok no but for real tho
If you’re not doing this
What, the fuck, ARE you doing?
If you’re not doing this
What, the fuck, ARE you doing?
December 24, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Ok no but for real tho
If you’re not doing this
What, the fuck, ARE you doing?
If you’re not doing this
What, the fuck, ARE you doing?
The state of discomfort experienced among queer folk when they go home for Christmas and find themselves once again mired in the culture of blithe, heedless, implacable straightness of their youth:
-heteronativity
-heteronativity
December 24, 2025 at 10:34 PM
The state of discomfort experienced among queer folk when they go home for Christmas and find themselves once again mired in the culture of blithe, heedless, implacable straightness of their youth:
-heteronativity
-heteronativity
FARMER GRAY: Hey handsome.
PARSON BROWN: Wha- what?
FARMER GRAY: Relax. Have some coffee and some pumpkin pie.
PARSON BROWN: Th-Thank you.
FARMER GRAY: It’s like we’re in a game of Clue, you and me.
PARSON BROWN: Pardon?
FARMER GRAY: You know: Brown, Gray.
PARSON BROWN: Oh. Yes. Clever.
PARSON BROWN: Wha- what?
FARMER GRAY: Relax. Have some coffee and some pumpkin pie.
PARSON BROWN: Th-Thank you.
FARMER GRAY: It’s like we’re in a game of Clue, you and me.
PARSON BROWN: Pardon?
FARMER GRAY: You know: Brown, Gray.
PARSON BROWN: Oh. Yes. Clever.
December 24, 2025 at 9:36 PM
FARMER GRAY: Hey handsome.
PARSON BROWN: Wha- what?
FARMER GRAY: Relax. Have some coffee and some pumpkin pie.
PARSON BROWN: Th-Thank you.
FARMER GRAY: It’s like we’re in a game of Clue, you and me.
PARSON BROWN: Pardon?
FARMER GRAY: You know: Brown, Gray.
PARSON BROWN: Oh. Yes. Clever.
PARSON BROWN: Wha- what?
FARMER GRAY: Relax. Have some coffee and some pumpkin pie.
PARSON BROWN: Th-Thank you.
FARMER GRAY: It’s like we’re in a game of Clue, you and me.
PARSON BROWN: Pardon?
FARMER GRAY: You know: Brown, Gray.
PARSON BROWN: Oh. Yes. Clever.
From the studio that brought you A CHRISTMAS CAROL …
Evil stalks the shadowy cobblestone streets of Edwardian London …
An evil born many years before, when one old man’s redemption unleashed a dread curse …
Christmas 2026
Terror will be annoyingly cheerful
Because …
TINY TIM DID NOT DIE
Evil stalks the shadowy cobblestone streets of Edwardian London …
An evil born many years before, when one old man’s redemption unleashed a dread curse …
Christmas 2026
Terror will be annoyingly cheerful
Because …
TINY TIM DID NOT DIE
December 24, 2025 at 7:07 PM
From the studio that brought you A CHRISTMAS CAROL …
Evil stalks the shadowy cobblestone streets of Edwardian London …
An evil born many years before, when one old man’s redemption unleashed a dread curse …
Christmas 2026
Terror will be annoyingly cheerful
Because …
TINY TIM DID NOT DIE
Evil stalks the shadowy cobblestone streets of Edwardian London …
An evil born many years before, when one old man’s redemption unleashed a dread curse …
Christmas 2026
Terror will be annoyingly cheerful
Because …
TINY TIM DID NOT DIE
IT’S THE HOLIDAY SEASON!
-Uh-huh
THE HOLIDAY SEASON!
-yep sure is
-SO HOOP DE DOO!
-sorry what
-AND DICKORY DOCK!
-what are you saying now what’s going on
-AND DON’T FORGET! TO HANG UP YOUR SOCK!
-gross
-and like, settle down
-Uh-huh
THE HOLIDAY SEASON!
-yep sure is
-SO HOOP DE DOO!
-sorry what
-AND DICKORY DOCK!
-what are you saying now what’s going on
-AND DON’T FORGET! TO HANG UP YOUR SOCK!
-gross
-and like, settle down
December 24, 2025 at 6:49 PM
IT’S THE HOLIDAY SEASON!
-Uh-huh
THE HOLIDAY SEASON!
-yep sure is
-SO HOOP DE DOO!
-sorry what
-AND DICKORY DOCK!
-what are you saying now what’s going on
-AND DON’T FORGET! TO HANG UP YOUR SOCK!
-gross
-and like, settle down
-Uh-huh
THE HOLIDAY SEASON!
-yep sure is
-SO HOOP DE DOO!
-sorry what
-AND DICKORY DOCK!
-what are you saying now what’s going on
-AND DON’T FORGET! TO HANG UP YOUR SOCK!
-gross
-and like, settle down
JOSEPH: No room? We booked ahead!
INNKEEPER: Sorry sir we have no record of that.
JOSEPH: This is unacceptable.
INNKEEPER: Perhaps you’d like to speak to our manger?
JOSEPH: Absolutely. Wait what why’d you say it like that
INNKEEPER: Sorry sir we have no record of that.
JOSEPH: This is unacceptable.
INNKEEPER: Perhaps you’d like to speak to our manger?
JOSEPH: Absolutely. Wait what why’d you say it like that
December 24, 2025 at 6:28 PM
JOSEPH: No room? We booked ahead!
INNKEEPER: Sorry sir we have no record of that.
JOSEPH: This is unacceptable.
INNKEEPER: Perhaps you’d like to speak to our manger?
JOSEPH: Absolutely. Wait what why’d you say it like that
INNKEEPER: Sorry sir we have no record of that.
JOSEPH: This is unacceptable.
INNKEEPER: Perhaps you’d like to speak to our manger?
JOSEPH: Absolutely. Wait what why’d you say it like that
My seven-year-old realization that Snow Miser sings “friends call me Snow Miser” but Heat Miser sings “they call me Heat Miser” means that HM doesn’t have friends - was the moment I unlocked that lyrics reveal character and was probably the reason I became whatever the hell it is I am today.
December 24, 2025 at 4:34 AM
My seven-year-old realization that Snow Miser sings “friends call me Snow Miser” but Heat Miser sings “they call me Heat Miser” means that HM doesn’t have friends - was the moment I unlocked that lyrics reveal character and was probably the reason I became whatever the hell it is I am today.
Celebrating - no, OBSERVING - the very first time someone made you watch a funny video and then sat there watching you watch it.
It changed drinks out with friends. It changed dinner parties. It changed family get-togethers. It changed holiday meals.
It changed the world.
It changed drinks out with friends. It changed dinner parties. It changed family get-togethers. It changed holiday meals.
It changed the world.
December 23, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Celebrating - no, OBSERVING - the very first time someone made you watch a funny video and then sat there watching you watch it.
It changed drinks out with friends. It changed dinner parties. It changed family get-togethers. It changed holiday meals.
It changed the world.
It changed drinks out with friends. It changed dinner parties. It changed family get-togethers. It changed holiday meals.
It changed the world.