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

Each week, Pop Culture Happy Hour guests and hosts share what's bringing them joy. This week: The books Collecting the Simpsons and The Angel of Indian Lake, and the third season of Is It Cake?
A snake (cake?) from the third season of <em>Is It Cake?</em>

This week, Beyoncé Beyoncé Beyoncé! Also, somebody paid a lot of money — a lot — for a door, and baseball returned, extremely terrible uniforms and all.

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

Collecting the Simpsons: The Merchandise and Legacy of Our Favorite Nuclear

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