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Happier with Gretchen Rubin

More Happier: Dinner for Breakfast? Plus A Basic Question About Very Basic Questions

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Lemonada Media

Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement

4.7 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2026

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

We explore a surprisingly divisive question: would you eat dinner for breakfast? We also discuss how people learn the unwritten rules of everyday life. Plus, the pleasure of being able to watch, listen, and read as many times as you like.  Resources & links related to this episode: Life in Five Senses (Amazon, Bookshop)  Quiz: What's Your Most Neglected Sense? "Design Your Summer"—download the Happier app  Ann Truitt, Turn: The Journal of an Artist (Amazon)  Get in touch: podcast@gretchenrubin.com Visit Gretchen's website to learn more about Gretchen's best-selling books, products from The Happiness Project Collection, and the Happier app. Find the transcript for this episode on the episode details page in the Apple Podcasts app.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Lemonada.

0:02.8

Hello, we are here for more happier, a podcast where we get happier.

0:21.7

It is the weekend.

0:23.4

We are talking with just a little bit of a looser vibe.

0:27.6

Hey, Elizabeth.

0:28.4

Hi, Gratcham.

0:29.2

Today, we'll talk about my very basic question, about very basic questions,

0:33.4

and we will explore our views about dinner for breakfast.

0:37.2

But first, something making us happier.

0:39.5

Elizabeth, what is something making you happier?

0:41.9

Well, Gretch, the other day, Adam and I went to a wine tasting party.

0:47.1

Oh, nice.

0:47.7

So our friends had kind of won this wine tasting party where, you know, it's exactly what it sounds like.

0:55.4

You go. You taste wine. There's a guy there who tells you about all the different wines.

1:00.4

You can order the wines if you want to. But what was so fun about it was that it was this

1:05.8

couple's night that Adam and I had together. I didn't even realize we sort of hadn't had like a couple's thing for

1:12.3

quite a while. So we went together, we sat together, we sat with another couple and a friend.

1:19.2

And it just, I don't know, there was something about it that just felt really fun and lively.

1:25.4

I think because there was this activity that always kind of makes something fun.

1:30.2

It's not like just the two of us going to dinner. Yeah. It felt very different. Yeah. I'm just curious,

1:36.6

how many couples was it and how many wines did you taste? It wasn't just couples, but there was,

1:42.0

I think, about maybe 20 people. Oh, okay. So it was pretty good size.

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