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🗓️ 9 August 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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We talk about the joys of summer and of navigating airports and subways. We also discuss how the Real Housewives can set a bad example (surprise!), and we grapple with how parenthood changes during the empty-nest/open-door transition.
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0:50.2 | Hello, we're here for more happier, a podcast where we get happier. It's the weekend. It's time for some weekend listening with a looser vibe. Hey, Elizabeth. Hi, Grouch. Today we'll talk about how the real housewives can show us the wrong way to do something important. And we will talk about how the empty nest, or as I like to call it, open door phase, is going for me. |
1:13.6 | But first, something making us happier. |
1:15.5 | Elizabeth, what is something making you happier? |
1:18.1 | Well, Gretch, it is summer, and, you know, I am sitting outside almost every day for a significant |
1:26.9 | amount of time, and it is making me so much happier. We have a |
1:31.5 | lovely backyard here, which we have worked very hard on, or I should say, Adam has worked very hard on |
1:37.1 | because I really didn't. Nothing. But I have just making a habit of it now that it's summer, |
1:43.8 | of taking coffee outside, sitting |
1:46.6 | outside with the dogs. |
1:48.7 | The other night, several other nights, I should say, Adam and I have sat outside in the evening. |
1:55.0 | A lot of times it'll be cool enough here to even turn on the fire pit, even though it's summer. |
1:59.9 | And it's just lovely. We've gotten |
2:02.8 | our citronella candles to keep the mosquitoes away that works with varying degrees of success, |
2:09.8 | depending on what it's like outside. But it really does make me happier to sit outside. |
2:16.2 | I'm so confused about the weather in Los Angeles, because isn't it really extremely hot now? |
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