July 10, 2025

Sir Hissalot snakes away

Sir Hissalot snakes away

A 1938 Virginia Tech class ring discovered in a Starbucks parking lot is returned to the owner's granddaughter. In Iowa, a 9-foot python named Sir Hissalott is rehomed in Illinois. French Polynesia creates the world's largest marine protected area. Scientists create the world's smallest violin using nanotechnology. In a humorous twist, around 60 cows, calves, and bulls are found loose in California, with locals encouraged to report any additional sightings.

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Callaroga Shark Media.

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Hey there, Shiney Mack with five few new stories. We

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have another lost ring that has been found. This won

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a nineteen thirty eight class ring found in the parking

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lot at Starbucks, and they were able to get it

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back to the original owner's granddaughter, Laurie said she found

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the Virginia Tech Class of thirty eight ring in the

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parking lot of a Starbucks in Wilmington. She told TV

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I just noticed a shiny object in the corner of

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the parking lot, and I thought, this is a beautiful ring.

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I'm a sentimental person and I appreciate family heirlooms, so

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I just didn't feel right to get rid of it

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or sell or give it away. She did some online

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research she found the original owner was Virginia Tech graduate

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Wallace Garst, who had died several years ago. Garst had

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a son who passed away in twenty twenty four. That

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obituary included a photo that showed him wearing his father's ring.

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From the obit they were able to find the granddaughter, Laura,

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who said, I feel it serendipitous that my dad was

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reaching out. He knew I'd been thinking about him, and

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he was popping in to say I'm here, what a

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nice story. In Iowa, a nine foot python was found

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in somebody's yard. Yikes, but good news. The python has

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found a new home in Illinois. The Cedar Rapids Animal

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Care and Control said. The python, given the name Sir

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Hisslot I love it. Sir Hisselot, was found in a

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residence front yard. Officials weren't sure if Sir Hisslota had

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escaped from his home or was abandoned. Animal care manager

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Ray sold the Gazette newspaper we can't confirm for sure

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if the python was abandoned, as it's entirely possible that

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it may have escaped some type of enclosure. But there

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is potentially some suspicion that it was abandoned because in

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my experience, this is a rather common thing for people

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to do and they can no longer care for them.

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Sir Hisslot has a new home in Illinois, where they

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would be cared for by a partner organization. The story

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hears says they didn't identify Sir Hisselot's new home for

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privacy concerns. Nice job. Out of French Polynesia, they announced

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the creation of the World the World's largest marine protected area.

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It is nearly one point nine million square miles. Of that,

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four hundred and twenty four thousand changed square miles will

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be designated as highly or fully protected, meaning only traditional

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coastal fishing, eco tourism, and scientific research are allowed. Practices

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like deep sea mining and bottom trawling restricted across the

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entire marine protected area. That's awesome. You know when somebody's

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being a little bit of a jerk and they're like,

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what's this. It's the world's smallest violin that I'm playing

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for you. You know when people do that. Well, a

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team of physicists have used nanotechnology to create the world's

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smallest violin. It's so small it can't be seen without

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a microscope. The platinum violin measures thirty five microns. Now

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you're like, John, I know a lot of things, I

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don't know what a micron is. Well, let me tell you.

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A micron is a measurement unit equal to one millionth

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of a meter. The violin is smaller than a human hair.

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A human hair can be seventeen to one hundred and

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eighty microns. The world's smallest violin is thirty five microns.

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The scientists say, though creating the world's smallest violin may

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seem like fun of games, a lot of what we've

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learned in the process has actually laid the groundwork for

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the research we're now undertaking. That technology is nano lithography,

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technology that allows scientists to build and study nanoscale objects

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and structures. And I know I do a lot of

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this type of story, but this one has a big

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number in it. Good news. We found your sixty cows. Yeah,

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I mean funny, not funny. Someone set about sixty cattle loose.

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Officers responded to a report of cows on the loose

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at around two am on a Sunday morning. They showed

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up and they found sixty cows, calves, and bulls had

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been released or from the pasture. Two of the bulls

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went over to the third hole of the Lone Tree

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Golf and Events Center. Locals are being asked to report

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any additional cattle sightings because they're not sure the numbers

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actually sixty. So if you see a cow loose, call

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the officials and be like, hey found another one around

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Gentrytown pork And those are your five good news stories

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I'm going to bring forward and yours and give it

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to you now. And he said, oh wow, that's great,

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thank you. That's so generous of you. Car that's great.

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But his wife, my sister in law, went ballistic. She said,

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

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want anything to do with and stormed out of the room.

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

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my god. So I realized from that that this was

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not an easy thing to do. So I learned a

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lesson from that, and I knew that I had to

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do this all authentically. I had to do it right,

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otherwise it was not going to work. So that happened.

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And then the third thing that happened was that I

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was looking at my financial statements, and I had more

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money there than I was really using. It was sitting there.

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I mean, it was growing, making profits and so forth,

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

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I wasn't using it for things that I really cared about,

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not for my people. So I thought, well, if I

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have all this money, now, why should I wait until

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

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it was a long process for me to come around

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

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well 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. Well,

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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 connect,

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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 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?

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What's that?

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So so you know, nobody has seems to have a

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happiness plan, but it's one of the most important plans

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you can get, and it doesn't have to be very complex.

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What is it that makes you happy? What values do

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you want to pursue? You know, what goals and dreams

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do you have, and you can pursue them. And so

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I got them to write a happiness plan. And then

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when I saw the plan, I gave them all the

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money all at one time. And so then they took

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it and I watched them with their plan. I saw

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all their plans, what they did, and how they became happier.

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And so you know, that had to be written about

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cause I wanted other people to see what they did

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so they 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. It 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 was so greatful to them,

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and that I wanted to express the gratitude. And I

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put them in my will and they could accept that,

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and I said, but I want you to have it now,

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and they said, oh no, no, we can't accept it.

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They turned it down. They turned it down. Well, we worked,

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and I said, look, I'm leaving it open. So several

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months later, I think his wife persuaded him to do it. Actually,

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you know, and you know, so they said, okay, we'll

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do it, because say, we're going to wait until you die,

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Why not do it now? And they did that and

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it wasn't the money, interesting life, they said, it was

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the coaching that made the big difference, that changed their

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mind their mindset from being so negative. You know, we'll

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never be happy again. We don't deserve to be happy.

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And the coach turned there thinking their mindset around and said, look,

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you know it can be you can be happy again.

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And they started to get the mindset of happy people.

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And now you cannot believe what these people they're traveling

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all over the world. They're in Tahiti right now. They

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climbed Killimungarrett. These people are loving life. And it was

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a major change. That is one of the most heartfelt,

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wonderful results of the And in a sense, she said,

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the wife said, this prequest changed or saved my life

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because we were no longer living, we were dead, and

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this brought us back to life.

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Yeah, I mean dealing with grief and many of us have.

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

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really it could be really difficult to find your way

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

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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 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 Happiness

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Experiment dot cog and they can pre order it there,

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and I hope they will.

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

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