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Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Bonus Episode: Fantasy Island! We Explore the Making of the New FOX TV Drama

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Gretchen Rubin / The Onward Project

Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.713K Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

In this bonus episode, we dive deep into questions about the making of the new FOX TV drama “Fantasy Island” and Elizabeth’s role as showrunner. Get in touch: @gretchenrubin; @elizabethcraft; [email protected] Get in touch on Instagram: @GretchenRubin & @LizCraft Get the podcast show notes by email every week here: http://gretchenrubin.com/#newsletter Order a copy of Gretchen’s new book OUTER ORDER, INNER CALM here: http://outerorderinnercalmbook.com Leave a voicemail message on: 774-277-9336 For information about advertisers and promo codes, go to happiercast.com/sponsors Happier with Gretchen Rubin is part of ‘The Onward Project,’ a family of podcasts brought together by Gretchen Rubin—all about how to make your life better. Check out the other Onward Project podcasts—Do The Thing, Side Hustle School, Happier in Hollywood and Everything Happens with Kate Bowler. If you liked this episode, please subscribe, leave a review, and tell your friends! To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:40.4

Hello and welcome to Happier, a podcast about how to be happier. And sometimes to be happier,

0:46.6

we'd like to indulge some fantasy. And for this special bonus episode, we'll talk about the

0:52.0

terrific new Fox TV show, Fantasy Island. We're celebrating the launch of this new show that

1:06.7

Elizabeth has worked so hard on. I'm Gretchen Riven, a writer who studies happiness,

1:12.4

Good habits in human nature. I'm in New York City and joining me today from LA is my sister

1:17.9

Elizabeth Kraft, my sister, the showrunner. That's me, Elizabeth Kraft, a TV writer and producer

1:24.8

living in LA. And yes, Gretchen, it finally launched. It seemed like this day would never come.

1:32.2

I know. And yet it also seemed to come so fast because we had to do the show very fast. So

1:38.0

yeah, it was really exciting. Well, there's so many questions. So congratulations, you've been

1:43.8

getting so much buzz on the show. It's gotten such great reviews. You personally have gotten

1:49.5

interviewed and talked about a lot, which is so exciting. Our listeners are super curious. I'm

1:55.0

super curious. So we wanted to do this bonus episode where we could really get into it. So we

2:00.6

will start with my questions and then we'll open it up to the audience questions because there are

2:04.7

so many. Great. And thank you, everyone, for all of the awesome questions. And also, Gretchen,

2:11.4

I should say I will just speak on behalf of Sarah Fane, my co showrunner writing partner and co-host

2:20.4

of Happy or Hollywood, where if anyone wants to know, we've talked all about every single step

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