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Each week, guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: JamesEarl333 on TikTok, The Dick Van Dyke Show and the songs "Young Lion" and "Kid on Christmas."

Pop culture critic Linda Holmes doesn't want battles or competition in her games — but she loves a satisfying puzzle she can figure out at her own pace. Sound like you, too? Here are recommendations.

Denzel Washington stars in a loose remake of the 1963 Akira Kurosawa film High and Low. And four anthropomorphic turtles are back in theaters for an anniversary re-release.

This collection of essays by novelist and scholar Joanna Russ was first published in 1983 — but it reads as if it might've come out last week. "Get angry; then get a reading list," says our critic.

If you've ever eaten at a Korean restaurant, you're used to the endless side dishes that come out with the meal. They're called banchan, and they're remarkably simple to make for yourself.

Vote counting was underway in Thailand's early general election on Sunday, seen as a three-way race among competing visions of progressive, populist and old-fashioned patronage politics.

Gubernatorial races in Kentucky, Louisiana and Mississippi are heating up. It could be a chance for Democrats to get a foothold in these states with Republican supermajorities.

NPR's Leila Fadel and Weekend Edition puzzlemaster Will Shortz play a word game with special guest, Ted Allen, host of Chopped and member of the original Queer Eye cast.

NPR's Leila Fadel and Weekend Edition puzzlemaster Will Shortz play a word game with KERA listener Adam Boyette of Fort Worth, Texas.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro and puzzlemaster Will Shortz play the puzzle this week with David Herbst of Inverness, Calif.