Ep 249 - Pursuing Happiness with Dr. Laurie Santos

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Lipstick Nancy, Inc. & Glassbox Media

Comedy

4.8 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2023

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Can money buy happiness, and if not, can we at least rent it? We’ve got Yale professor and the host of “The Happiness Lab”, Dr. Laurie Santos, here to drop some breadcrumbs along the trail to Happytown! And now that we’ve made you happy, prepare to be slightly annoyed, as we plumb the depths of corporate minutiae again in our Department of Fine Print! GUEST Dr. Laurie Santos Yale professor. Scientist. Podcast host. drlauriesantos.com YouTube Channel twitter instagram happinesslab - facebook HOUSE BAND Ashley Walchli twitter.com/squonkywalchli facebook.com/ashley.walchli Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Alright. Without further ado, do I have permission to just go straight into the show?
0:14.4	Yeah, go straight into the show. I mean, I think the listeners prefer not having a cold
0:20.5	open. I do. Some of them do for sure. Yeah, yeah. Some of them really want it though.
0:26.2	No, but some of them don't want that peak behind the curtain. You know, they don't want to know
0:30.4	about the disagreements about the bitter infighting that's... Oh, all the infighting we do. I agree.
0:36.2	It's tearing this family apart. What if we got a nicer curtain? Oh, to peel back.
0:41.8	I was on stage somewhere. I forget where now it doesn't matter. It's not relevant to the story.
0:45.9	It just makes it take longer to tell it's not important. That was on stage somewhere.
0:50.4	It might have been Rhode Island. It might have been Skokie. I can't really remember. It's not your main to the story for God's sake.
0:57.8	Sometimes you just want the story. You know, what all the little details. This is one of those times.
1:03.6	Yeah, yeah. It could have been a 1500 c-tea-ter, but if it was only 800 people were there.
1:09.7	But does that affect the story? No, it doesn't matter. It's not important to the story. There's no point in
1:15.7	even telling that. That's just negative. No, but if it was a 500 c-tea-ter, I can guarantee it was full.
1:22.2	But I... Sure, but that's neither here nor there. Doesn't matter at all. It makes no difference. So I think it was...
1:31.1	You know, I'm not entirely certain, but it may have been up in the finger lakes of New York somewhere.
1:38.2	It doesn't. If that important to the story. It doesn't fucking matter. It was some place where I perform.
1:44.8	You know, stand up comedy that I do. Sure, sure. I can't usually have some music like the plays for the house.
1:50.9	Not anything. I recorded it, but you know, like... I think we can assume that we all know what a stand up gig is. Unless that's, you know, important to this particular tale.
1:58.5	No, not at all. It's not even... It's not important at all. So, you know, usually what I do is I work at a theater somewhere.
2:08.5	And, you know, the way or don't bother with the way or Jesus leave the way or alone.
2:13.4	It might have been two son. It could have been two son. Doesn't matter.
2:17.0	Doesn't matter. So I was in a theater somewhere and I went on stage and you know, when it was time.
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