I'm Dr. Laurie Santos, host of the Happiness Lab podcast. Making new friends and maintaining

old friendships is a great way to boost your happiness. But sadly, we don't always feel up

for being sociable. If I was approaching a stranger, my heart would raise,

I was gonna throw up, I just had so much anxiety around. So in a new season of the show,

I'll tackle how to make firm friendships firmer right through to the joy you can find

in talking to total strangers. I'm very much enjoying your animal print scarf, madam.

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Hi everybody, welcome to the Calm Down podcast. It is the beginning of September and the beginning

of football season. NFL college is well underway. I need a typical week right now for Aaron.

It is Thursday for us. What are we doing to prep for your game? Full disclosure, we are recording

this before this even goes on air, whether we're going to edit that, that I just said it or not.

So yeah, let's be honest, we are not going to record on Labor Day because we're not.

And if this is Thursday, you know what this shit means? This is a fucking home opener for the

box. This is Cowboys at box tonight. The banner is raising. Let's go. I can't wait to see this

defense pick back up. I can't wait to see TV back out there with those offensive weapons.

I can't wait to see, you know, how DAC starts out. I'm excited, right? Again, we are recording all

of this before so we don't know how the week is going to go. But if this is Thursday, that's what

what, you know, where we are today, right? Yeah, that's where we are today. And DAC, I hope that,

you know, he was limited in preseason with his shoulder situation, the knee situation or the

ankle, more of the shoulder than anything. But oh, I'm sorry. Welcome back and you get a

box defense. Well, yeah, all the things. The season is starting. I'm excited. But your game,

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