Listen Like It's Your First Date
The Science of Happiness
PRX and Greater Good Science Center
4.5 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 26 July 2018
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Do you find yourself looking at your phone when you're supposed to be paying attention to a friend? Our Happiness Guinea Pig, The Takeaway's Tanzina Vega trades in her technology for some old school listening.
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| 0:54.0 | My dad worked at the oil refinery and he would come home all dirty, like sit all over his face and he's like still |
| 1:06.1 | play baseball or he'd take me fishing like right after work just throw his work clothes off and |
| 1:10.8 | so it was pretty good growing up in Mississippi. Even on school nights we'd go in the |
| 1:16.2 | middle of the night and go out and go digging. Anything old that's kind of hidden in the |
| 1:21.5 | ground that people haven't seen in hundreds of years or |
| 1:24.2 | I've never seen it all. It's like digging for treasure. We found old tent hooks, arrowheads |
| 1:30.7 | and pottery. |
| 1:38.0 | 2005 I joined the Marines, so that's why I came out of California. I saw on the internet where people were digging fossils, |
| 1:42.0 | I went straight to them, started digging. |
| 1:44.9 | Yeah, a lot of sea fossils, sharks, teeth. |
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