{"id":558601,"date":"2026-08-04T09:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T09:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/558601\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T09:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T09:46:09","slug":"we-debate-the-sweatiest-movie-of-all-time-pop-culture-happy-hour-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/558601\/","title":{"rendered":"We debate the sweatiest movie of all time : Pop Culture Happy Hour : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1785836769_878_.jpeg\" data-template=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/3376x1899+1+0\/resize\/{width}\/quality\/{quality}\/format\/{format}\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F86%2Ff4%2Fa7cf010645e69d6f3e89dabfe8d0%2F8f00420b-6b7c-4490-b40c-48d8e2ba56b2.jpg\" class=\"img\" alt=\"Is Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing the sweatiest movie of all time?\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n                Is Spike Lee&#8217;s Do the Right Thing the sweatiest movie of all time?<\/p>\n<p>                    Anthony Barboza\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>                hide caption\n            <\/p>\n<p>              toggle caption<\/p>\n<p>        Anthony Barboza\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Whether they&#8217;re lightly perspiring, gently glowing, or soaked through from sweltering, people in the movies sweat a lot. But what movie has had people sweat the very most? With another summer underway, we are revisiting our debate about what is the sweatiest movie of all time \u2014 including Do the Right Thing, Dog Day Afternoon,\u00a0Y tu mam\u00e1 tambi\u00e9n, and Body Heat.<\/p>\n<p>If you like need more summery suggestions, check out these episodes:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/06\/10\/1253920685\/the-summer-blockbusters-we-finally-watched\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The summer blockbusters we finally watched<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/08\/28\/nx-s1-5518187\/jaws-is-still-stuck-in-our-teeth-50-years-later\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8216;Jaws&#8217; is still stuck in our teeth, 50 years later<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/09\/16\/nx-s1-5538427\/the-summer-i-turned-pretty-has-drama-romance-and-the-music-of-taylor-swift\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8216;The Summer I Turned Pretty&#8217; has drama, romance and the music of Taylor Swift<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Connect with Pop Culture Happy Hour:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/letterboxd.com\/nprpopculture\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Letterboxd<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pchh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/newsletter\/pop-culture\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Our weekly newsletter<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Support public media with NPR+ and enjoy perks for over 25 podcasts like this one. This show&#8217;s perks include bonus episodes and sponsor-free listening. Learn more at <a href=\"http:\/\/plus.npr.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">plus.npr.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Is Spike Lee&#8217;s Do the Right Thing the sweatiest movie of all time? Anthony Barboza\/Getty Images hide caption&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":558602,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[156,409,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-558601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=558601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/558602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}