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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: The Soundtrack Show, Reservation Dogs, Janelle Monáe and more.
Janelle Monáe attends the 95th Annual Academy Awards on March 12, 2023 in Hollywood, Calif.

This week we saw some sheep, sang some songs, and played some Zelda.

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

The Soundtrack Show

What's making me happy this week is this podcast called This is a podcast that goes deep into analyzing film scores. It's written and hosted by this guy named David Collins, who I believe is a sound designer and a voice actor. It's back with a multipart series about John Williams' score for and it's like transcendently good. This show just ... I am, like, exploding head emoji the whole time I'm listening to it, because he goes so deep series, I would say, is a great point to jump in, because it is just one of the all-time great film scores. And I actually saw John Williams conduct his own music with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra a couple of months ago, and he played a little bit of and I just, like, floated into space. I was so happy to hear it.

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