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What's making us happy: A guide to your weekend viewing and listening

Each week, the guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: The Blamo! podcast, Paris Is Burning, Sheryl Lee Ralph's Sleigh and Crash Landing on You.
Son Ye-jin as Yoon Se-ri and Hyun Bin as Ri Jeong-hyeok in <em>Crash Landing on You.</em>

This week, Germany returned looted artifacts to Nigeria, we looked back on the weird, wild and wonderful stories you may have missed, and we learned how to be better movie watchers according to film critics.

Here's what the NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour crew was paying attention to — and what you should check out this weekend.

Blamo! podcast, Avery Trufelman episode

I listen to this podcast called It's a fashion podcast that is hosted by this guy named Jeremy Kirkland. There was a . She does the podcast that just dropped a whole season about "prep" and "ivy." But on this appearance, they started talking about fashion and clothes and how dumb it is to enjoy all these things — something I've been thinking

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