July 13, 2025

International McDonald's Items Come to USA. Curly Fries!

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The arrival of curly fries at McDonald's in Chicago, two bears escaping and safely returning to their enclosure in a British wildlife park, a spider monkey causing a stir at a Mexican office, a Staten Island bodega owner rewarding children for good grades, and a photographer capturing rare footage of red foxes.

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Kalaroga Shark Media.

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Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with five good news stories Now.

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I dropped this story in the first position in the

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first recording of the New Batch as soon as I

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saw it, because I don't want you to miss out.

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If you're in Illinois. Chicago, specifically, curly fries have made

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their way to McDonald's. Yes. I even sent this to

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a friend in Chicago and asked her to go check

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this out. A McDonald spokesperson said the special fries are

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currently available at the international McDonald's at ten thirty five

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West Randolph. This particular McDonald's is regularly rotating in international

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menu items. The twister fries are being borrowed from the

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Malaysian McDonald's. Some other things on the menu the Mcrelette

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from Switzerland. I don't know what that is and I'm

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going to look it up. The Mcrolette is a limited

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time burger offered by McDonald's Switzerland. It features a beef patty,

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Swiss cheese, onions, pickles, and a sauce, all served on

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a chabbata roll. Also available the biscoff and white chocolate

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mcpops that's from Spain out of Canada. The bacon, hot

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honey mccrispy. That sounds really good? Why don't we have that?

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American McDonald's from India the mcalou tiki. I gotta look

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that up. The McDonald's block says. The combination of a

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potato and peas patty with special Indian spices, coated with

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bread crumbs, served with sweet tomato, mao, fresh onions and

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tomatoes in a regular bun is still a hit, not

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just among Indians, but even foreigners who have tried it

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during their visit to India. Also available the chips Ahoy

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mcflurry out of Guatemala, Why don't we have that? And

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the berry mcpops from Switzerland also low key McDonald's has

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really good donut game in Italy. How do you know that?

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Johnny mac? Why are you at a McDonald's in Italy?

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I will tell you why two reasons. One, McDonald's is

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your friend. Have you ever tried to find a public

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restroom in say Rome, McDonald's is your friend too. Have

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you ever tried to find a large drink with ice

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when you're in Europe? A you can't find a large drink?

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B you can't find ice. McDonald's is your friend. And see.

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Sometimes you're traveling with your mother in law who's a

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little picky about a breakfast, so you just give in

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and you go to McDonald's and get her something she's

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familiar with, and then you get a donut while you're there.

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They're pretty good.

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Two bears escaped from an enclosure in a British wildlife park.

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They made their way to the food storage area and

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they had a week's worth of honey. Ha Miss and

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Lucy are five year old bears. They escaped from their

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enclosure due to an operational error what is this Jurassic

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Park that allowed the bears to access a behind the

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scenes area use for food storage. The park was closed

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as part of standard procedure. Police were contacted. The zoo

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keepers were able to encourage both bears back into their

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enclosure without the need for any intervention. The park wants

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you to know the bears at no point post any

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threat to the public. Meanwhile, in Mexico, authorities responded to

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an office break in Oh no, who has broken into

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the office? Of course, the answer a spider monkey. Officials

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arrived to find the spider monkey running through the break room.

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The monkey showed signs of malnutrition, but it is now

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doing well and veterinary care on Staten Island, New York.

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A butdega owner is giving kids free food for good grades.

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While the owner was interacting with a young student and said,

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last time was ninety eight, that was ninety nine. What

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is it this time? The students said one hundred. Wally says,

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you know what happens, right and hands are a one

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hundred dollars and allowed her to pick snacks from the store.

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She opted for Smorti's and M and M's. Now the

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guy's not a zillionaire. His brother started to gofund me

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and his name. It raised nearly fifty thousand dollars. Wally says,

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I can't do it by myself. My fans comment and

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they celebrate these kids with me, and they acknowledged them

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with me. Let's say I'm giving them one hundred dollars

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or I'm giving them snacks for free or T shirt

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for me. That doesn't matter. The most important thing is

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you celebrate them and you show them that you really

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care about their hard work. Shout out to Wendy. Wendy

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dropped us a friendly email. Let me know that I

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got a story wrong. Wendy appreciate you listening, appreciate you

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taking the time to write, and I appreciate you doing

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it in a nice Why not being like this show's terrible?

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What is wrong with you?

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All right?

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What did Johnny Mack get wrong? Wendy? Let me know.

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Remember the oldest tavern story from about a week ago,

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the one in Newport, Rhode Island. The correct name is

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the White Horse, not the White House Tavern, which I'm

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surprised I got wrong because locally there's a pretty old

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establishment called the White Horse, which now I want to

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go to. Wendy, thank you for listening so much, and

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good news. If you were a red fox, No, not

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the late comedian, an actual fox that is red, You

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guys are not extinct. We know this because a California

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photographer recently caught three minutes of high quality camera footage

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of the red fox. It is believed there may be

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fewer than one hundred red foxes. The red fox lives

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high in the mountains, six thousand feet above sea level.

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It's pretty reclusive, so the people haven't seen too many

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of them. Photographer Randy rob is the one who saw

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the fox and told Fox Weather no pun although kind

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of funny. We're a couple generations away from these foxes

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dying out to inbreeding and that kind of thing because

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their populations are so small. So I think telling their

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story and getting the word out is important just to

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sort of motivate people, because people care, people want them

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to be saved. And those are your five good news

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stories for today. If you would like to program without

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commercial interruption, link of the show notes so or go

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to calier go dot com slash plus.

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You have an awesome day, our sister, I'm going to

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bring forward and yours and give it to you now.

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And he said, oh wow, that's great, thank you. That's

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so generous of you. Car that's great. But his wife,

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my sister in law, went ballistic. She said, this is

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too much money, this is wrong. I don't want anything

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to do with and stormed out of the room. And

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I thought, well, that's not what I expected. Oh my god.

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So I realized from that that this was not an

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easy thing to do. So I learned a lesson from that,

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and I knew that I had to do this authentically.

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I had to do it right, otherwise it was not

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going to work. So that happened, and then the third

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thing that happened was that I was looking at my

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financial statements and I had more money there than I

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was really using. It was sitting there. I mean, it

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was growing, making profits and so forth, but it wasn't

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being used. I wasn't using it for me. I wasn't

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using it for things that I really cared about, not

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for my people. So I thought, well, if I have

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all this money, now, why should I wait until I die?

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Why don't I bring it forward? And then it was

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a long process for me to come around to that,

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but that's what finally started this, and I said, well

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I'll do it. Now.

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Let's back up just a bit. Tell us a little

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bit about your new book. What is the Happiness Experiment?

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Well, this is a recording of the real events with

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real people who I decided that I would bring forward

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the inheritance the money I had for them in my

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will and made it a prequest. So it was a

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chunk of money that they were going to get while

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they were still young enough to enjoy it. And I

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was still alive to see it happening. So I saw

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what they were doing. So when I sat down with them,

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I talked about money and happiness and how one can cognect.

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And I said, look, I'm going to bring this forward

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to and give it to you, but what I want

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from you is a plan so that you use this money,

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so it's really a big benefit for you. I don't

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want this to overwhelm you. And they said what kind

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of plan? I said, I want a happiness plan, and

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they said, a happiness plan? What's that? So so you know,

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nobody has seems to have a happiness plan. But it's

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one of the most important plans you can get, and

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it doesn't have to be very complex. What is it

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that makes you happy? What values do you want to pursue?

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You know, what goals and dreams do you have, and

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you can pursue them. And so I got them to

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write a happiness plan. And then when I saw the plan,

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I gave them all the money all at one time.

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And so then they took it and I watched them

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with their plan. I saw all their plans, what they

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did and how they became happier, and so, you know,

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so that had to be written about so because I

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wanted other people to see what they did, so they

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too could do the same thing.

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Which prequest is the most unique one you've come across.

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Well, it was a very very painful and sad story

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because two dear friends of mine had a beloved daughter

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and she was hit head on by a drunk driver

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and killed. She happened to be eight months pregnant at

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the time, so that killed the granddaughter too, and also

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their daughter. They were totally totally wiped out, devastated, and

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they died emotionally. They had decided that they could never

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be happy again. They would be wrong to be happy.

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They didn't deserve to be happy because their darling daughter

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had been killed. Tremendously painful, awful, awful story. So they

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were grieving six years later and I met with them

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and I told them how much they had added to

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my life and how much I I was so grateful

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to them, and that I wanted to express the gratitude

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and I put them in my will and they could

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accept that. And I said, but I want you to

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have it now, and they said, oh no, no, we

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can't accept it. They turned it down. They turned it down. Well,

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we worked and I said, look, I'm leaving it open.

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So several months later, I think his wife persuaded him

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to do it. Actually, you know, you know, so they

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said Okay, we'll do it because I say we're going

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to wait until you die, why not do it now?

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And they did it. And it wasn't the money, interesting life,

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they said, it was the coaching that made the big difference,

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that changed their mind their mindset from being so negative.

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You know, we'll never be happy again. We don't deserve

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to be happy. And the coach turned there thinking their

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mindset around and said, look, you know it can be.

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You can be happy again. And they started to get

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the mindset of happy people. And now you cannot believe

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what these people. They're traveling all over the world. They're

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in Tahiti right now. They climbed Killimungarrett. These people are

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loving life. And it was a major change. That is

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one of the most heartfelt, wonderful results of the And

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in a sense, she said, the wife said, this prequest

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changed or saved my life because we were no longer living,

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we were dead, and this brought us back to life.

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Yeah, I mean dealing with grief and many of us

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have I have. You know, when you're in those depths,

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it's really it can be really difficult to find your

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way out of it. And you know, often it looks

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like there isn't a way out of it. And you know,

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sometimes you want to map right, and it looks like

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this concept could be a good map for you. If

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that it sounds like it was for these folks. I

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always like to end interviews by asking, is there anything

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that I didn't ask that I should have?

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How can my listeners benefit from this book? What should

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they do? What would be good for them? And so

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I'll answer that question. First off, think about happiness, Think

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about being happy happiness? Do you you deserve to be happy?

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And you can be happy, but you have to make

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it as a choice. I'm going to increase my happiness

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just that if you make that realistically, I want to

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and I'm going to increase my happiness that choice, and

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then talk to people about it. Talk to a husband

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or wife, or a girlfriend or a friend, a therapist

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or coach, talk to somebody about it and say, look,

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I'm made the decision that I want to be happier,

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and I'm like you to help me create a happiness

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plan and then work on it. And it's not that hard,

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but it is challenging, but it's a wonderful exercise. And

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if they do it, I guarantee they will increase their happiness.

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I guarantee it.

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Carl Barney is the author and the book is called

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The Happiness Experiments, A Revolutionary Way to Increase Happiness. Carl,

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where can people find the book?

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Wherever books are sold, And it's now available for pre

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order from Amazon, and they can go to the house

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Pennis Experiment dot com and they can pre order it there,

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and I hope they will.

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Carl, thanks so much of the time. I really appreciate it.

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Yeah, thank you, Dan. It's been fun