Normal and What’s Making Us Happy

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You're listening to Pop Culture Happy Hour, the podcast that keeps you up to speed on the latest and greatest in movies, TV, music and more. If you're a pop culture obsessive who's not yet following us, you can fix that right now by following Pop Culture Happy Hour on your podcast app of choice. Next week we'll be talking about the new season of the Netflix show Beef, and we'll have a deep dive on all the ways Michael Jackson has been portrayed on screen, how hard he worked to shape his legacy in real time. So make sure to listen. Now, onto the show. [upbeat music] So the Liam Neesification of comedy legend Bob Odenkirk, have you been keeping up on it? Because it is proceeding apace. He's already pivoted from sketch comedy to dramatic acting, and most recently to late middle-aged action star in the films Nobody and its sequel. Now he's starring in Normal, playing a small town sheriff who finds out his small town isn't so normal after all, which will of course require some sexagenarian butt-kicking. I'm Glen Weldon. Joining me today to talk about Normal on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour is Ronald Yong Jr. He's the host of the film and television