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What's Making Us Happy: A Guide For Your Weekend Watching, Listening And Reading

Each week, the guests and hosts on Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. Today it's new music from Big Thief, Netflix's Bake Squad and a new article from Priya Krishna.
Hosted by Christina Tosi of Milk Bar, Netflix's <a href="https://www.netflix.com/title/81218438"><em>Bake Squad</em></a> asks four professional bakers to create an epic dessert for a special occasion in each episode.

Now that we're past the Olympics, we're already looking ahead to fall movies. But in the meantime, there's good writing out there, and good music, and there's no reason you can't enjoy all of it.

What to watch

The Inevitable Defeat of Mister and Pete, Prime Video

This week, I was talking about and some of her great roles, and I want to encourage people to check out the film, It's one of those

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