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I'm Johnny Mack with five good news
stories to start your day. We all

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want to be happy, right,
but happiness can be hard to quantify.

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It means different things to different people. What if you could change one thing

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in your life to become a happier
person. Would it be your income,

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your job, your relationships, your
health well. Doctor Robert Waldinger has been

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working on this for decade. He
said, we've spent so much time studying

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what goes wrong in life, and
so this was a study of how people

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take good paths as they go through
life. They studied people through decades,

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consulting with their parents and now their
children. Waldinger said, we do like

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that sugar rush high that I'm having
fun right now with this party kind of

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high. And then there's the happiness
that comes from feeling like I'm having a

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good life, a decent life and
meaningful life. We all want some of

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both, but some of us really
prioritize one kind over the other kind.

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So people could change one thing in
their life to be happier, what is

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the data say the answer invest in
relationships with other people. The study shows

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that the strongest predictors for people to
maintain their happiness and health aughout the course

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of their lives. Were people who
describe their relationships as having satisfying levels of

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quality and warmth. That applies to
a wide breath of interactions in your daily

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life. Spouses, close friends,
colleagues, the barrista who makes your coffee,

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or the person delivering your mail.
He points to relationships and there's acting

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as stress regulators. Chronic stress is
linked to a variety of negative health impacts

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and can take its hole on people's
physical and mental health. Having an effective

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outlet like a good friend of rents
who after a long day, can help

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alleviate that pressure. Listen how long
the study's been going. You know,

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we've tracked these lives for eight decades. The wonderful thing about following these life

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stories as we learn it's never too
late. There were people who thought they

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were never going to have good relationships
and then found a whole collection of good

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friends in their sixties or seventies.
There were people who found romance for the

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first time in their eighties. The
message we get from studying these thousands of

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lives is it's never too late.
As I put together these shows, I

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find there's an insane amount of McDonald's
related stories. I don't know what that

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is. I guess McDonald's makes people
happy. While McDonald's in Germany is making

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people happy. They're cutting down on
plastic and packaging waste. They've been testing

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serving some of their most popular drinks
and desserts in reusable packaging. McDonald's guests

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can specify which of the test products
they'd like to use reusable packaging four when

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ordering at the ten selected restaurants,
a one euro deposited's charge per package.

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When the reusable cups are returned to
the participating McDonald's, you get your deposit

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back. I love it. I
struggle to see that catching on the States,

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but I do like it. Meanwhile, in Australia, plastic contamination on

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Australian beaches has fallen by twenty nine
percent since the last survey in twenty thirteen.

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Some local towns have had waste control
measures, and a decade later we're

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seeing cleaner beaches Areas that didn't update
their waste control measures they had dirtier beaches.

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I am Patty Callahan, Henry,
I am Mary kay Andrews. I'm

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Kristin Harmel, and I'm Kristy Woodson
Harvey Friends of Fiction is led by four

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longtime friends, the four of us, with more than seventy five i've published

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conversations and interviews, we discussed the books

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we've written, the books we're reading, and the art of storytelling. We

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are here with endless stories to support
indie bookstores, authors, librarians and readers

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trends in publishing. On this channel, you will find hundreds of episodes with

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some of your favorite authors, including
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releases, as we reveal the stories
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talk about the creation of novels,
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right place. You can listen to
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and grass for Jaylen Smith Jaylen is
eighteen. Jaylen is also the mayor.

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He graduated from high school last spring. He decided to stay put in Earl,

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Arkansas, and he ran for mayor
and he won. He said,

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why should I have to go somewhere
else to be great when I could be

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great? Right here in Earl,
Arkansas. I'm kind of a go getter.

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When I was in high school,
I was always told no, but

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I kept pushing it because I knew
there was someone that was waiting to tell

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me yes. One of his biggest
obstacles as a candidate was persuading skeptics who

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cited his age and lack of experience, especially since his opponent in the election

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was the city's far more seasoned sanitation
and street manager. But his supporters argued

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they weren't asking voters to vote for
any eighteen year old. This was Jalen,

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the teenager who started wearing suits to
school in ninth grade and as gospel

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of music blasting from his computer speakers. He had also become a fixture at

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city council meetings and community events.
Councilwoman Angela Jones said, sometimes when the

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city council members didn't show up,
Jalen was there. He attends the school

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board meetings, the water commission meetings. He was young and he was doing

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this. Who does that at a
young age? He had purpose. Congratulations

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mister Mayor, and good news if
you like. Pasta. Grace Hoffman writes

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for The Daily Mirror and tried quotes
the world's best pasta sauce that only contains

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three ingredients. Hey, maybe even
I can make this one. What are

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the ingredients? Johnny Mac? All
right, you're ready. An onion,

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butter, and tomatoes. Apparently this
was started by American food writer Marcella Hazan,

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who passed away in nineteen ninety two. Hasan argued that a good pasta

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sauce is remarkably simple and economical.
Her recipe can be found in her cookbook

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Essentials of Classic. Itsan cooking pot, half a peeled onion into a pot

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with butter and tinned tomatoes. Let
it's simmer for forty five minutes. That's

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it. The writer says. I
was skeptical at first. At the end

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of the day, the recipe was
just tomato sauce. How could the sauce

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be any different? You don't even
have to chop the onion, just throw

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it in there. Let it's simmer
forty five minutes. How was it?

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The writer says, I was pleasantly
surprised. That's your good news for today.

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