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    What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend viewing, listening and reading

    Each week, Pop Culture Happy Hour guests and hosts share what's bringing them joy. This week: The Open Ears Project, R.F Kuang's The Poppy War trilogy and a Dungeons & Dragons show called DesiQuest.
    by Wailin Wong Mar 01, 2024 3 minutes
    The cast of <a href="https://www.desiquest.com/">DesiQuest</a>, a Dungeons & Dragons actual-play show on YouTube.

    This week, one of our greatest neurotics said goodbye, The Rock gained ownership of "Candy Ass," and Georgia took steps to slow down some of the tax credits that have made it a filming favorite.

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

    The Open Ears Project, from WNYC

    is a classical music podcast that has just returned after a years-long hiatus. They bring on a guest for each episode — sometimes it's someone very famous, sometimes it's just an

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