As you know, if you listen to the show, Elizabeth is hard at work shooting the pilot for the fix.

Because of her work on the pilot, she's not recording in her usual place, and you may notice a difference in the sound quality.

Hello and welcome to Happier, a podcast where we discuss cutting-edge science, the wisdom of the ages,

lessons from pop culture, and our own experiences about how to be happier.

This week we'll talk about why you might make a weekly phone date and how a simple sticker can boost your happiness.

I'm Gretchen Rubin, a writer whose studies happiness, good habits in human nature.

I'm in New York City, and with me is my sister, Elizabeth Krap, and Elizabeth, we have by weekly Sunday morning phone dates,

and then we also talk at other times too, so we have lots of phone dates.

Yep, that's me, Elizabeth Krap, a TV writer and producer, living in LA, and Gretchen probably talked to you on the phone more than anybody else in my life.

I know, like phone calls are not people forget, you can make phone calls in this age of so much stuff.

Now, Elizabeth, you have exciting updates from Hollywood.

Yes, Gretchen, Sarah and I are hard at work on our pilot.

We love it. Our director has been doing an incredible job.

I really think it's going to look beautiful, and our cast is amazing, so I'm getting to the point now where if it doesn't go to series, I'm just going to be gutted.

I'm going to need a lot of happiness tips to just think it's not go series.

I'm getting how I got here, but hopefully it will.

When do you know? When do you find out? Probably like May 12th.

Okay, so a little bit of time, but not much.

Right, right, time passed.

Good luck. Good luck.

I have news too. I've been working on my little book, Outer Order Intercom, kind of on and off for a while now, because it's just this kind of project that's a lark.

It's just something that I did because I just couldn't resist. I just loved it.

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