We Took the Happiness Test… and It Backfired

The Really Very Crunchy Podcast

Emily & Jason Morrow

Kids & Family, Parenting

4.9 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2026

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Jason and Emily break down the famous 85-year Harvard Study on Adult Development, the one that followed people for decades to figure out what actually makes for a good life. It turns out it’s not just money or success, but relationships, purpose, stress, habits, and how you handle conflict over time. Naturally, instead of calmly reflecting on this like mature adults, they ranked themselves and each other on a scale of 1–10 in several of the study’s core areas. The result is equal parts thoughtful, competitive, revealing, and mildly dangerous for a marriage. If you’ve ever wondered how you’d score in the “good life” department, this episode might make you want to find out. Musicbed License MB01LB14RC1PRTN MB01LPNLPFWSBVO Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	We have an eight-year-old and an almost six-year-old, and now we're about to have a newborn.
0:05.5	There is a giant perspective shift.
0:09.0	Pinterest, I really enjoyed that because there's, like, beautiful pictures of flowers.
0:13.3	Yeah.
0:13.6	Now it's all Amazon ads.
0:16.4	Or AI images.
0:18.0	Yeah.
0:18.4	You know, I want to find a picture of a nice kitchen with the window. You type that in or whatever. Yeah. It's like, all AI. It's like, that destroyed Pinterest. You don't really enjoy helping people. Yeah. The other day I was talking to my mom. And she was like, Jason's a nice guy. Wait. The way she was saying. I'm like, he is very nice. To me, you're very nice to me.
0:40.9	Anybody else, I don't know. Newsflash, you're what I care about. You are everything to me.
0:55.2	You're listening to the really very crunchy podcast with your host, Emily.
0:59.5	And Jason.
1:00.5	When you nodded at me, I was like totally lost.
1:03.7	Like, what are we doing now?
1:04.3	Are you ready to go?
1:05.7	It's podcast time.
1:07.2	I was just like, okay, the non.
1:09.7	Oh, yeah.
1:10.7	Yeah. Emily, we are Oh, yeah. Yeah.
1:11.4	Emily, we are so wholesome.
1:15.6	How wholesome are we?
1:17.6	Is that what you were looking for?
1:18.6	Yeah.
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