Thank you for joining us for episode 450 of Live Happy Now.

What's so funny about 2024?

You're about to find out.

I'm your host Paula Phelps, and today I'm talking with Paul Osenkub, a speaker, corporate trainer, and author of the forthcoming book, The Humor Habit.

Paul recognizes the importance of humor as a tool to relieve stress,

improve our physical and mental health,

and to make the world more enjoyable for ourselves and those around us.

He's here today to tell us how we can create our own humor strategy for 2024

and make it a healthier, funnier year. Let's have a listen. Paul, welcome to

Live Happy Now. Thank you, Paula. This is my first time doing any kind of show or back and forth with

Apollo. So I'm excited to be Paul and Paula. The Paul and Paula show. That's right. I'll run that up the flagpole and let you know how it goes.

Okay. Yeah, yeah. Check with the supervisors.

So I'm really excited to have you on the show.

For me, it was a great way to start the year because you are all about humor and how we can develop it and use it.

And honestly, coming into 20, 24, there's people with a lot of trepidation

and they're not feeling that there's a lot of humor right now. So we want to kind of get into that.

But first, I'm interested to know how you got into the subject of humor. How did you study it,

learn its benefits? And like, are you a naturally funny guy? Well, I mean, I suppose

there's part of the natural proclivity for it because I'll tell you a quick story.

The first time that I noticed the impact of humor, I was in third grade. And my third grade

teacher, Mrs. Temple, I was speaking in class again when I wasn't supposed to.

And Mrs. Temple looked at me and goes, Paul, you have diarrhea of the mouth.

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