What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend viewing, reading and listening
This week, Mickey Mouse became a murderous freak, and Disney couldn't do anything about it; someone finally "beat" Tetris; and Katt Williams accused Steve Harvey of plagiarism and referred to him as "Mr. Potato Head" – amidst many, many other bold and brash proclamations.
Here's what the NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour crew was paying attention to — and what you should check out this weekend.
Fad Camp podcast
is a podcast hosted by comedians, wedding diets, and, of course, fat camps for children. What I love aboutis that Conor and Grace are intellectually certain about how anti-fatness is damaging — and yet they're still vulnerable enough to admit that they sometimes struggle with their own body acceptance. It's information mixed with vulnerability and humor. It always makes me laugh and think.
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