Funology (YES, FUN) with Catherine Price

Ologies with Alie Ward

Alie Ward

Comedy, Science, Society & Culture

4.9 • 23.8K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2024

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

What exactly is “fun?” How will you know when you’re having it? Do introverts have special alone fun? Is it okay to seek fun in bleak times? Catherine Price is an award-winning journalist and author who spent years researching the science of fun for her book “The Power of Fun: How to Feel Alive Again.” She let me lob many questions at her including: adult vs. childhood fun, what’s the difference between happiness and laughter and fun, what does fun do to your actual meat body, how can you have more of it, do substances mean more fun, and how to have fun when the world is crumbling in cinders around you – and why it’s important that you do. It’s a fun one, I promise.

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0:00.0	Oh, hey, it's the coworker that you didn't recognize without his beard,
0:04.3	Ali Ward, and if you click this for fun, let's have at it.
0:08.0	Okay, this guest, hugely popular 2022 TED Talk.
0:12.1	It racked up millions and millions and millions of years. It's
0:15.4	titled, Why Having Fun is the Secret to a Healthier Life. Scientifically,
0:19.4	what is fun? Who has it? How? And as a science journalist, she has researched topics like the culture of wellness, what's fact,
0:28.6	what's flim flam, all about screen life balance, and wrote book The Power of Fun, How to
0:35.2	Feel Alive Again. So when I put out the call for questions at patron at patreon
0:38.7	com slash ologies, one patron Tabitha del Angelo upon hearing that the topic was fun, not knowing who we were interviewing,
0:45.0	offered, if you have not yet read it,
0:48.0	check out the power of fun by Catherine Price.
0:51.0	Tabitha, we were one step ahead of you. Also, thank you to all the patrons who
0:55.1	support the show. We literally could not do it without you and thanks to everyone
0:58.8	tagging their photos in Ologies merch so we can see where you've been this summer and repost them.
1:04.0	Murch is at ologiesmer.
1:06.0	Also thanks to everyone who leaves reviews because yes I read every single single one of them.
1:10.0	And this week's select is from Walker Barrow who wrote pick any
1:14.3	episode and you will be instantly hooked so if this is your first one I hope it
1:18.8	hooks yeah or maybe you're already hooked from the one on worms okay let's get to theology so as you're already hooked from the one on worms. Okay, let's get to the ology.
1:24.1	So as you're about to learn, there's very little on this
1:27.2	as an independent discipline.
1:29.0	So this is a rare episode where I have to task myself with fabricating anology for it, which we never do.
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