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

Each week, Pop Culture Happy Hour guests and hosts share what's bringing them joy. This week: The movie Tenet, ventriloquist Megan Piphus, Season 3 of Virtual Big Brother, and Christmas decorations.
Elizabeth Debicki and John David Washington star in director Christopher Nolan's time-warping film, <em>Tenet</em>.

This week, the math was still not mathing, the opera lived to cause arguments another day, and Jake Gyllenhaal looked ... really different

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

Ventriloquist Megan Piphus

is – believe it or not — 's first Black female puppeteer. She's been on the show since 2021, and she voices the Muppet Gabrielle. I've been

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