Speaker 1: Callaroga Shark Media.
Speaker 2: Hey air, I'm Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news.
Speaker 2: Good news, the comedy dearth is over. I've got plenty
Speaker 2: for the next few days, as I've been doing lately.
Speaker 2: On Friday, I like to take a look at the
Speaker 2: late night jokes. I've got to tip my cap to
Speaker 2: the writers of Jimmy Kimmelive. They've been teeing up Anthony
Speaker 2: Anderson with some great ones. But let's take a look
Speaker 2: at the week. Ronnie Chang on The Daily Show commented
Speaker 2: on the Epstein files and said, that's it. You're not
Speaker 2: releasing any more information. I've never been ghosted by a
Speaker 2: conspiracy before. Ronnie again. The Attorney General said the client
Speaker 2: list was on her desk. Let me guess your desk
Speaker 2: also hung itself. Runnie again. Pam Bondy was supposed to
Speaker 2: release the pedophile list. If we wanted an attorney general
Speaker 2: to cover up sex crimes, we would have stuck with
Speaker 2: Matt Gates. That's a great joke and same topic at
Speaker 2: this point. The only way we can learn who's a
Speaker 2: certified pedophiles if Kendrick Lamar makes a song about them.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 2: Ouch. Anthony Anderson said Trump has been riding high after
Speaker 2: Congress passed his Big Beautiful Bill. This bill gives one
Speaker 2: hundred billion dollars to ICE, kick seventeen millions off their healthcare,
Speaker 2: and cuts food asistants for kids. At this point, the
Speaker 2: only bill that's effing more young people is Belichick. On
Speaker 2: the topic of Benjamin Netton Yahoo nominating Donald Trump for
Speaker 2: a Peace Prize, Ronnie Chang said, Yeah, Peace Prize nomination
Speaker 2: from Nettan Yahoo is very meaningful, right up there with
Speaker 2: a Husband of the Year nomination from O. J. Simpson.
Speaker 2: Anthony Anderson, Pope Leo is reportedly taking a six week vacation.
Speaker 2: Hold on, he's taking six weeks off? Who the hell's
Speaker 2: he think he is? Jimmy Kimmel, that's great? And one
Speaker 2: more from Anthony Anderson, who had a really good week
Speaker 2: at the White House. Today, President Trump met with leaders
Speaker 2: of five West African countries. Things got off to a
Speaker 2: rough start when he congratulated them on winning the NBA finals.
Speaker 2: Bill Burr is all upset about the AI generated music.
Speaker 2: Have you seen this thing? The quote unquote band The
Speaker 2: Velvet Sundown. I actually wrote about them on Monday on
Speaker 2: my sub stack link in the show notes. The Velvet
Speaker 2: Sundown is an AI project created using the Suno app.
Speaker 2: Bill Burr not happy about it. He said, these f
Speaker 2: in nerds have taken over the music industry. People can't
Speaker 2: even play instruments and computers and find thingg bands it
Speaker 2: don't exist writing songs and then they bots listen to
Speaker 2: them and they get like five hundred thousand views and
Speaker 2: then people think this is a real band and it isn't.
Speaker 2: What eff in world are we living in here? It's unbelievable,
Speaker 2: these fen people, they can't make enough money, wasn't enough
Speaker 2: to be screwing musicians the way they have unapologetically just
Speaker 2: fing them over. The 'shire existence of the music business.
Speaker 2: They've done nothing but absolutely bend over and f musicians.
Speaker 2: And if that isn't enough, now the other band they're
Speaker 2: writing music, This like Fleetwood Mac meets fucking Delec with
Speaker 2: just a dash of Brian Adams and then they just
Speaker 2: put it in the thing. It spits it out. Wait,
Speaker 2: so the AI comedians go along, Bill, you know that's coming.
Speaker 2: Sarah Sherman has signed on board with a new film project.
Speaker 2: She will store in the new Netflix film Roommates. You
Speaker 2: know that one that's the one they've been working on
Speaker 2: in New Jersey, where Adam Sandler has been seen. It
Speaker 2: also stars Natasha Leona Nick Kroll. Roommates centers on a
Speaker 2: budding friendship that turns sour when two college freshmen move
Speaker 2: in together. Also starring in the film famous actress Sadie Sandler.
Speaker 2: HBO Max. Wait, is that what we're calling you? I
Speaker 2: lost track? Yes, it's HBO Max. Now they just changed
Speaker 2: the name back this week. I'm not being coy. I
Speaker 2: just I started to read the copy and I was like, wait,
Speaker 2: what are they know? Yeah, but it's HBO Max. They
Speaker 2: announced a Big Bang Theory spinoff. It is called Stuart
Speaker 2: Fails to Save the Universe. Now, buckle up, this gets
Speaker 2: pretty complicated, but it sounds interesting. Chuck Lorie, creator of
Speaker 2: the franchise, said, Stuart Fails to Save the Universe, which
Speaker 2: we're already abbreviating as sft STU, which trips up my
Speaker 2: brain because it looks way too much like st FU,
Speaker 2: which means something else entirely sf T STU. We're not
Speaker 2: calling you that. Let's say, what can we call this thing?
Speaker 2: Stuart fails to Save the Universe. We could just call
Speaker 2: this Show Stuart now, because then you're going to think
Speaker 2: Daily Show, all right, fails to save the universe. Wow, John,
Speaker 2: you took one word off all right. I don't know
Speaker 2: we're calling this thing anyway. Chuck Laurie says it's trying
Speaker 2: to incorporate science fiction, fantasy, and comedy and will feature
Speaker 2: extensive CGI. STU is set in the future. See even
Speaker 2: that sounds like I'm reading like a CSI or a
Speaker 2: Law and Order spin off SFT STU set in the
Speaker 2: future after the events in Big Bang. In It, comic
Speaker 2: book store owner Stuart Bloom is tasked with restoring reality
Speaker 2: after he breaks a device built by Sheldon and Leonard,
Speaker 2: accidentally bringing about a multiverse armageddon. Apparently Sheldon and Leonard
Speaker 2: worked on this device after the end of the original series.
Speaker 2: Stewart is aided in his quest by his girlfriend Denise,
Speaker 2: his geologist friend Burt played by Brian Possain, and quantum
Speaker 2: physicists all around Pain in the Neck Barry. Along the way,
Speaker 2: they meet alternate universe versions of characters we've come to
Speaker 2: know and love from the Big Bang theory, and, as
Speaker 2: the title implies, things don't go well. I already forgot
Speaker 2: what this show is called I've said it five times,
Speaker 2: it's called Stuart fails to Save the Universe. Okay, so
Speaker 2: it's sliders. But the Big Bang Theory is that what
Speaker 2: I'm getting here? Chuck Lorie said, I wanted to do
Speaker 2: something radical that would take me out of my comfort zone,
Speaker 2: something that characters on The Big Bang Theory would have loved,
Speaker 2: hated and argued about. All right, that's fun, all right
Speaker 2: from the near post. I want to make sure I
Speaker 2: get this one right. This gets all kinds of convoluted. Apparently,
Speaker 2: Kamala Harris gave an interview before the election that was
Speaker 2: so quote confusing and weird that she and the host
Speaker 2: both agreed it shouldn't air. Apparently, Harris was on Subway Takes,
Speaker 2: an online series hosted by Kareem Rama where guests admit
Speaker 2: their favorite hot take. It was filmed in the summer
Speaker 2: of twenty twenty four. Rama told Forbes her take was
Speaker 2: really confusing and weird, not good, and so we mutually
Speaker 2: agreed we shouldn't publish it. All right, what could this
Speaker 2: possibly have been about world peace, the economy?
Speaker 4: Nope.
Speaker 2: Rama tells us her take was on bacon as a spice. Well,
Speaker 2: there's More, according to the story, Harris's team had told
Speaker 2: the producers that Kamala's hot take would have been taking
Speaker 2: a stand against removing her shoes when on an airplane,
Speaker 2: but when the interview started, Harris apparently surprised Rama with
Speaker 2: a different hot take, which was bacon is a spice.
Speaker 2: The New York Times apparently has the unpublished video, so
Speaker 2: this seems like it's real. Rama told Forbes her take
Speaker 2: was really confusing and weird, not good. Rama, who's Muslim
Speaker 2: and does not eat pork, responded, I don't know, or
Speaker 2: stubbles down and says, think about it. It's pure flavor.
Speaker 2: She explains how bits of cooked bacon could be used
Speaker 2: to enhansome meal like seasoning, said. Rama asked, could ease
Speaker 2: bee for turkey instead, and then paused the interview and
Speaker 2: said he doesn't eat bacon. He then asked if they
Speaker 2: could do the segment on taking shoes off on airplanes instead.
Speaker 2: Harris decided instead to declare her love for anchovies on pizza.
Speaker 2: After speaking to an advisor, wrapped it up and said, well,
Speaker 2: I'm one hundred percent I'm sure on both of those.
Speaker 2: The post says Harris's office did not immediately respond to
Speaker 2: request for comment. It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia is back out.
Speaker 2: Minor spoilers for the new season. I personally haven't seen
Speaker 2: the new season yet because I keep forgetting. I don't
Speaker 2: have cable TV right now. I got rid of it
Speaker 2: for the summer because I like to be outside and
Speaker 2: I don't watch all that much TV. I'll get it
Speaker 2: back come September so I can watch the football. So, yes,
Speaker 2: It's Always Sunny came out, but I'm like, oh, I
Speaker 2: gotta wait until they posted it to FX. Plus, the
Speaker 2: new College Football Game is out, so if I am
Speaker 2: in front of a TV, I'm going to playing the
Speaker 2: college football video game. I'll get to It's always funny anyway,
Speaker 2: Minor spoilers coming up. Charlie Day spoke to The Hollywood Reporter.
Speaker 2: He explained why episode one spoilers It Won't Kill You.
Speaker 2: Why episode one was the conclusion to the crossover with
Speaker 2: Abbott Elementary. Charlie explains, because their episode was the last
Speaker 2: time we saw our characters, we thought, let's just jump
Speaker 2: in with our version of it. Now. This is interesting.
Speaker 2: Charlie says it could possibly be the end after the
Speaker 2: already renewed season eighteen interesting. They talked about writing this
Speaker 2: season's season finale, and they asked Charlie did he think
Speaker 2: of it as a season finale in that sense? Charlie said,
Speaker 2: I mean it, I did. I mean, I knew there
Speaker 2: was an offer for season eighteen as well, and I
Speaker 2: knew that we'd all discussed likely wanting to do it.
Speaker 2: But I personally went into the writer's room last year
Speaker 2: as if it was my last chance to be in
Speaker 2: the writer's room. Fortunately, I think we're lining up everybody
Speaker 2: and we're going to come back for season eighteen. Beyond
Speaker 2: season eighteen, I don't know, it could quite possibly be
Speaker 2: the end, but I think there was something about writing
Speaker 2: this season and having David and John chernback in the
Speaker 2: writer's room, and having Robert Zelle and David Hornsby in
Speaker 2: a little bit of the old gang back, and then
Speaker 2: having some of the episodes work so well was exciting
Speaker 2: in a way that reinvigorated everybody. So we'll see how
Speaker 2: long we can keep it going. But one season is
Speaker 2: but one season at a time, The Hollow Reporter said. Recently,
Speaker 2: on social media, people were sharing the new messaging that
Speaker 2: comes up before watching Rush Hour. I talked about that
Speaker 2: this week, I think yesterday blah blah blah. Do you
Speaker 2: think your show's aged well, Charlie said, I think for
Speaker 2: the most part, it's age really well. From the beginning.
Speaker 2: We always set out to make a show that was
Speaker 2: satirizing bad people behaving badly, And when your intention is
Speaker 2: to highlight the bad behavior and comment on it, that's
Speaker 2: sort of an evergreen message. In terms of a disclaimer
Speaker 2: before an episode, I'm neither four or against it. I
Speaker 2: think it's better than just getting rid of, say rush hour.
Speaker 2: Let people make up their own minds. By the way,
Speaker 2: we've always had a disclaimer before episodes. It's always said, hey,
Speaker 2: this is TVMA or X or whatever, lookout, watch out.
Speaker 2: But the thing that really mystifies me in our culture
Speaker 2: is how completely accepting we are of extreme violence in
Speaker 2: our content. People getting shot and killed and murdered horrific ways.
Speaker 2: But a couple of dirty, little naughty jokes seemed to
Speaker 2: really throw everybody from a loop on gossip Corner. I
Speaker 2: guess whose name I'm gonna drop. That's right, Pete Davidson
Speaker 2: once again TMZ saying Pete and his girlfriend Elise Hewett
Speaker 2: apparently had a nice fourth of July, Elise posted some
Speaker 2: Instagram snaps seventeen photos, some of which show off what
Speaker 2: TMZ refers to as her toned bikini body. Apparently Pete
Speaker 2: and Elise are living together. Good luck to the couple.
Speaker 2: The laugh Out Loveland Comedy Festival is back for its
Speaker 2: third year. Friend of the show Dan Bubletz Junior putting
Speaker 2: this one together to downtown Loveland July thirty first through
Speaker 2: August third. Laughout Loveland dot com for the info. It'll
Speaker 2: bring thirty comedians from across the country to perform at
Speaker 2: various venues. Dan says every year the festival grows. This
Speaker 2: year is no exception. In our first year we had
Speaker 2: seven shows with six headliners. This year we have nine
Speaker 2: headliners and ten shows. Headliners for this year's festival include
Speaker 2: Andrew Overdaal Hayden, Crystal Movida, Al Gaviy, Mike Stanley, and
Speaker 2: Matt Cobos. Festival feature some of Colorado's up and coming
Speaker 2: comedians along with comedians from across the country. We'll take
Speaker 2: a look at that as it gets a little closer,
Speaker 2: but that's a solid festival out today. Greg warrens The
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Speaker 2: audio releases for comedians. So nice job, Greg Warren the champ,
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Speaker 2: our sister.
Speaker 3: I'm going to bring forward and yours and give it
Speaker 3: to you now. And he said, oh wow, that's great,
Speaker 3: thank you. That's so generous of you, Carl, that's great.
Speaker 3: But his wife, my sister in law, went ballistic. She said,
Speaker 3: this is too much money, this is wrong. I don't
Speaker 3: want anything to do with and stormed out of the room.
Speaker 3: And I thought, well, that's not what I expected. Oh
Speaker 3: my god. So I realized from that that this was
Speaker 3: not an easy thing to do. So I learned a
Speaker 3: lesson from that, and I knew that I had to
Speaker 3: do this authentically to do it right, otherwise it was not.
Speaker 1: Going to work. So that happened.
Speaker 3: And then the third thing that happened was that I
Speaker 3: was looking at my financial statements and I had more
Speaker 3: money there than I was really using.
Speaker 1: It was sitting there.
Speaker 3: I mean, it was growing, making profits and so forth,
Speaker 3: but it wasn't being used. I wasn't using it for me.
Speaker 3: I wasn't using it for things that I really cared about,
Speaker 3: not for my people. So I thought, well, if I
Speaker 3: have all this money now, why should I wait until
Speaker 3: I die? Why don't I bring it forward? And then,
Speaker 3: you know, it was a long process for me to
Speaker 3: come around to that, but that's what finally started this,
Speaker 3: and I said, well, I'll do it.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 4: Let's back up just a bit. Tell us a little
Speaker 4: bit about your new book. What is the Happiness Experiment.
Speaker 3: Well, this is a recording of the real events with
Speaker 3: real people who I decided that I would bring forward
Speaker 3: the inheritance the money I had for them in my
Speaker 3: will and made it a prequest, so it was a
Speaker 3: chunk of money that they were going to get. Well
Speaker 3: they were still young enough to enjoy it, and I
Speaker 3: was still alive to see it happening. So I saw
Speaker 3: what they were doing. So when I sat down with them,
Speaker 3: I talked about money and happiness and how one can cognect.
Speaker 3: And I said, look, I'm going to bring this forward
Speaker 3: to and give it to you, but what I want
Speaker 3: from you is a plan so you use this money,
Speaker 3: so it's really a big benefit for you. I don't
Speaker 3: want this to overwhelm you. And they said what kind
Speaker 3: of plan? I said, I want a happiness plan, and
Speaker 3: they said, a happiness plan?
Speaker 1: What's that?
Speaker 3: So so you know, nobody has seems to have a
Speaker 3: happiness plan, but it's one of the most important plans
Speaker 3: you can get, and it doesn't have to be very complex.
Speaker 3: What is it that makes you happy? What values do
Speaker 3: you want to pursue? You know, what goals and dreams
Speaker 3: do you have, and you can pursue them. And so
Speaker 3: I got them to write a happiness plan. And then
Speaker 3: when I saw the plan, I gave them all the
Speaker 3: money all at one time, and so then they took
Speaker 3: it and I watched them with their plan. I saw
Speaker 3: all their plans, what they did and how they became happier,
Speaker 3: and so you know, that had to be written about
Speaker 3: so because I wanted other people or to see what
Speaker 3: they did so they too could do the same thing.
Speaker 4: Which prequest is the most unique one you've come across.
Speaker 3: Well, it was a very very painful and sad story
Speaker 3: because two dear friends of mine had a beloved daughter
Speaker 3: and she was hit head on by a drunk driver
Speaker 3: and killed. She happened to be eight months pregnant at
Speaker 3: the time, so that killed the granddaughter too, and also
Speaker 3: their daughter. They were totally totally wiped out, devastated, and
Speaker 3: they died emotionally. They had decided that they could never
Speaker 3: be happy again. They would be wrong to be happy.
Speaker 3: They didn't deserve to be happy because their darling daughter
Speaker 3: had been killed. Tremendously painful, awful, awful story. So they
Speaker 3: were grieving six years later, and I met with them
Speaker 3: and I told them how much they had added to
Speaker 3: my life and how much I was so grateful to them,
Speaker 3: and that I'm I wanted to express the gratitude, and
Speaker 3: I put them in my will and they could accept
Speaker 3: that and I said, but I want you to have
Speaker 3: it now, and they said, oh no, no, we can't
Speaker 3: accept it. They turned it down. They turned it down. Well,
Speaker 3: we worked and I said, look, I'm leaving it open.
Speaker 3: So several months later, I think his wife persuaded him
Speaker 3: to do it. Actually, you know, and you know, so
Speaker 3: they said, okay, we'll do it because I said, we're
Speaker 3: going to wait until you die, why not do it now?
Speaker 1: And they did that.
Speaker 3: And it wasn't the money, interesting life, they said, it
Speaker 3: was the coaching that made the big difference, that changed
Speaker 3: their mind their mindset from being so negative. You know,
Speaker 3: we'll never be happy again. We don't deserve to be happy.
Speaker 3: And the coach turned there thinking their mindset around and said, look,
Speaker 3: you know it can be. You can be happy again.
Speaker 3: And they started to get the mindset of happy people.
Speaker 3: And now you cannot believe what these people they're traveling
Speaker 3: all over the world. They're in Tahiti right now, they
Speaker 3: climbed Killimungarrett. These people are loving life. And it was
Speaker 3: a major change. That is one of the most heart felt,
Speaker 3: wonderful results of the And in a sense, she said,
Speaker 3: the wife said, this prequest changed or saved my life.
Speaker 3: Because we were no longer living, we were dead, and
Speaker 3: this brought us back to life.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean dealing with grief and many of us
Speaker 4: have I have. You know, when you're in those depths,
Speaker 4: it's really it can be really difficult to find your
Speaker 4: way out of it. And you know, often it looks
Speaker 4: like there isn't a way out of it, and you know,
Speaker 4: sometimes you want to map, right, and it looks like
Speaker 4: this concept could be a good map for you. If
Speaker 4: that sounds like it was for these folks. I always
Speaker 4: like to end interviews by asking, is there anything that
Speaker 4: I didn't ask that I should have?
Speaker 3: How can my listeners benefit from this book? What should
Speaker 3: they do? What would be good for them? And so
Speaker 3: I'll answer that question. First off, think about happiness, Think
Speaker 3: about being happiness. Do you you deserve to be happy?
Speaker 3: And you can be happy, but you have to make
Speaker 3: it as a choice. I'm going to increase my happiness
Speaker 3: just that if you make that realistically, I want to
Speaker 3: and I'm going to increase my happiness that choice. And
Speaker 3: then talk to people about it. Talk to a husband
Speaker 3: or wife or a girlfriend or a friend, a therapist
Speaker 3: or coach, talk to somebody about it and say Look,
Speaker 3: I'm made the decision that I want to be happier,
Speaker 3: and I'm like you to help me create a happiness
Speaker 3: plan and then work on it. And it's not that hard,
Speaker 3: but it is challenging, but it's a wonderful exercise. And
Speaker 3: if they do it, I guarantee they will increase their happiness.
Speaker 1: I guarantee it.
Speaker 4: Carl Barney is the author and the book is called
Speaker 4: The Happiness Experiments, A Revolutionary Way to Increase Happiness. Carl,
Speaker 4: where could people find the book?
Speaker 3: Wherever books are sold, And it's now available for pre
Speaker 3: order from Amazon and they can go to the Happiness
Speaker 3: Experiment dot com and they can pre order it there,
Speaker 3: and I hope they will.
Speaker 4: Carl, thanks so much of the time. I really appreciate it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, thank you, Dan, it's been fun. Our sister. I'm
Speaker 3: going to bring forward and yours and give it to
Speaker 3: you now. And he said, oh wow, that's great. Thank you.
Speaker 3: That's so generous of you. Carl, that's great. But his wife,
Speaker 3: my sister in law, went ballistic. She said, this is
Speaker 3: too much money, this is wrong. I don't want anything
Speaker 3: to do with and stormed out of the room. And
Speaker 3: I thought, well, that's not what I expected. Oh my god.
Speaker 3: So I realized from that that this was not an
Speaker 3: easy thing to do. So I learned a lesson from that,
Speaker 3: and I knew that I had to do this authentically.
Speaker 3: I had to do it right, otherwise it was not.
Speaker 1: Going to work. So that happened.
Speaker 3: And then the third thing that happened was that I
Speaker 3: was looking at my financial statements and I had more
Speaker 3: money there than I was really using.
Speaker 1: It was sitting there.
Speaker 3: I mean, it was growing, making profits and so forth,
Speaker 3: but it wasn't being used. I wasn't using it for me.
Speaker 3: I wasn't using it for things that I really cared about,
Speaker 3: not for my people. So I thought, well, if I
Speaker 3: have all this money now, why should I wait until
Speaker 3: I die?
Speaker 1: Why don't I bring it forward?
Speaker 3: And then, you know, it was a long process for
Speaker 3: me to come around to that, but that's what finally
Speaker 3: started this, and I said, well, I'll do it.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 4: Let's back up just a bit. Tell us a little
Speaker 4: bit about your new book. What is the Happiness Experiment.
Speaker 3: Well, this is a recording of the real events with
Speaker 3: real people who I decided that I would bring forward
Speaker 3: the inheritance the money I had for them in my
Speaker 3: will and made it a prequest, so it was a
Speaker 3: chunk of money that they were going to get. Well
Speaker 3: they were still young enough to enjoy it, and I
Speaker 3: was still alive to see it happening.
Speaker 1: So I saw what they were doing. So when I.
Speaker 3: Sat down with them, I talked about money and happiness
Speaker 3: and how one can magnect and I said, look, I'm
Speaker 3: going to bring this forward to give it to you,
Speaker 3: but what I want from you is a plan so
Speaker 3: you use this money, so it's really a big benefit
Speaker 3: for you. I don't want this to overwhelm you. And
Speaker 3: they said what kind of plan? I said, I want
Speaker 3: a happiness plan, and they said, a happiness plan?
Speaker 1: What's that? So so you know, nobody.
Speaker 3: Has seems to have a happiness plan, but it's one
Speaker 3: of the most important plans you can get, and it
Speaker 3: doesn't have to be very complex. What is it that
Speaker 3: makes you happy? What values do you want to pursue?
Speaker 3: You know, what goals and dreams do you have, and
Speaker 3: you can pursue them. And so I got them to
Speaker 3: write a happiness plan. And then when I saw the plan,
Speaker 3: I gave them all the money all at one time,
Speaker 3: and so then they took it and I watched them
Speaker 3: with their plan. I saw all their plans, what they
Speaker 3: did and how they became happier, and so you know,
Speaker 3: that had to be written about so because I wanted
Speaker 3: other people to see what they did, so they too
Speaker 3: could do the same thing.
Speaker 4: Which prequest is the most unique one you've come across.
Speaker 3: Well, it was a very very painful and sad story
Speaker 3: because two dear friends of mine had a beloved daughter
Speaker 3: and she was hit head on by a drunk driver
Speaker 3: and killed. She happened to be eight months pregnant at
Speaker 3: the time, so that killed the granddaughter too, and also
Speaker 3: their daughter. They were totally totally wiped out, devastated, and
Speaker 3: they died emotionally. They had decided that they could never
Speaker 3: be happy again. They would be wrong to be happy.
Speaker 3: They didn't deserve to be happy because their darling daughter
Speaker 3: had been killed. Tremendously painful, awful, awful story. So they
Speaker 3: were grieving six years later and I met with them
Speaker 3: and I told them how much they had added to
Speaker 3: my life and how much I was so grateful to them,
Speaker 3: and that I wanted to express the gratitude, and I
Speaker 3: put them in my will and they could accept that,
Speaker 3: And I said, but I want you to have it now,
Speaker 3: and they said, oh no, no, we can't accept it.
Speaker 3: They turned it down. They turned it down. Well, we
Speaker 3: worked and I said, look, I'm leaving it open. So
Speaker 3: several months later, I think his wife persuaded him to
Speaker 3: do it. Actually, you know, and so they said, okay,
Speaker 3: we'll do it. Because I said we're going to wait
Speaker 3: until you die, why not do it now.
Speaker 1: And they did that.
Speaker 3: And it wasn't the money, interesting life, they said, it
Speaker 3: was the coaching that made the big difference, that changed
Speaker 3: their mind their mindset from being so negative. You know,
Speaker 3: we'll never be happy again. We don't deserve to be happy.
Speaker 3: And the coach turned there thinking their mindset around and said, look,
Speaker 3: you know it can be. You can be happy again.
Speaker 3: And they started to get the mindset of happy people.
Speaker 3: And now you cannot believe what these people they're traveling
Speaker 3: all over the world. They're in Tahiti right now, they
Speaker 3: climbed Kiliman Garrett. These people are loving life. And it
Speaker 3: was a major change. That is one of the most heartfelt,
Speaker 3: wonderful results of the And in a sense, she said,
Speaker 3: the wife said, this prequest changed or saved my life
Speaker 3: because we were no longer living, we were dead and
Speaker 3: this brought us back to life.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean dealing with grief and many of us
Speaker 4: have I have. You know, when you're in those depths,
Speaker 4: it's really it can be really difficult to find your
Speaker 4: way out of it. And you know, often it looks
Speaker 4: like there isn't a way out of it, and you know,
Speaker 4: sometimes you want to map, right, and it looks like
Speaker 4: this concept could be a good map for you. If
Speaker 4: that sounds like it was for these folks. I always
Speaker 4: like to end interviews by asking is there anything that
Speaker 4: I didn't ask that I should have?
Speaker 3: How can my listeners benefit from this book?
Speaker 1: What should they do?
Speaker 3: What would be good for them? And so I'll answer
Speaker 3: that question. First off, think about happiness, Think about being happiness.
Speaker 3: Do you deserve to be happy? And you can be happy,
Speaker 3: but you have to make it as a choice. I'm
Speaker 3: going to increase my happiness just that if you make
Speaker 3: that realistically, I want to and I'm going to increase
Speaker 3: my happiness that choice, and then talk to people about it.
Speaker 3: Talk to a husband or wife or a girlfriend or
Speaker 3: a friend, a therapist or coach, talk to somebody about
Speaker 3: it and say, look, I'm made the decision that I
Speaker 3: want to be happier, and I'm like you to help
Speaker 3: me create a happiness plan and.
Speaker 1: Then work on it.
Speaker 3: And it's not that hard, but it is challenging, but
Speaker 3: it's a wonderful exercise. And if they do it, I
Speaker 3: guarantee they will increase their happiness.
Speaker 1: I guarantee it.
Speaker 4: Carl Barney is the author and the book is called
Speaker 4: The Happiness Experiments, A Revolutionary Way to Increase Happiness. Carl,
Speaker 4: where can people find the book?
Speaker 1: Wherever books are sold?
Speaker 3: And it's now available for pre order from Amazon, and
Speaker 3: they can go to the Happiness Experiment dot com and
Speaker 3: they can pre order it there and I hope they will.
Speaker 4: Carl, thanks so much of the time. I really appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you, Dan. It's been fun.