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

    Each week, the guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: Spellbound, Cheat Codes, This Is Pop and more.
    by Wailin Wong Mar 24, 2023 4 minutes
    Black Thought (left) and Danger Mouse.

    This week, we asked to see your pet artwork, watched a crazy megafan spiral on Swarm, and traced generations of one mathematician's descendants.

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

    Spellbound

    I recently revisited one of my favorite documentaries, , which came out in 2002. It follows a bunch of kids who are competing in the 1999 National Spelling Bee. We actually have the movie on DVD, because this is a movie that I like to revisit. I was a competitive speller as a child.

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