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What's making us happy: A guide for your weekend reading and viewing

Each week, the guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: The Secret History, a Futurama reboot and more.
Alan Ritchson stars in <em>Reacher.</em>

This week, we recapped the Super Bowl, Disney announced it'll make its second foray into the housing market, and our colleagues on NPR's science desk shared a quiz to help us determine what kinds of immune cells we, based on our personalities. (NPR culture desk intern Fi, who works on this story each week, is a resourceful, reliable, and creative Memory B Cell. Seems about right!)

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