July 11, 2025

Baseball Legends

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Step up to the plate with five questions about baseball's greatest players and most memorable moments. From home run kings to strikeout artists, explore the records, rivalries, and remarkable achievements that have defined America's national pastime for generations. Enjoy this episode without ads at caloroga.com/plus.

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Callaroga Shark Media.

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Greetings, trivia fans. I'm Mark Allison, and today we're stepping

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up to the plate with questions about some of baseball's

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greatest players. Question one, Which player holds the all time

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record for most career home runs in Major League Baseball?

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Question two?

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What pitcher holds the record for most career strikeouts in

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MLB history?

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Question three?

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Which player is known as the Sultan of Swat and

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the Bambino?

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Question four?

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Who broke Baseball's color barrier by becoming the first African

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American to play in the modern major leagues?

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Question five?

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Which player has the highest career batting average and MLB

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history hitting point three six six over his career. We'll

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be right back with these Hall of Fame answers after

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this break. Welcome back, trivia fans. Let's reveal today's answers.

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Question one, who holds the all time home run record? Answer?

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Barry Bonds.

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With seven hundred sixty two career home runs, Bonds broke

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Hank Aaron's long standing record of seven hundred and fifty

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five and two thousand seven. Aaron had previously broken Babe

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Ruth's record of seven hundred fourteen home runs in nineteen

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seventy four, making the home run chase one of baseball's

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most followed storylines.

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Question two.

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Who holds the career strikeout record? Answer Nolan Ryan with

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five thousand, seven hundred fourteen strikeouts. The Ryan Express played

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for twenty seven seasons and also holds records for most

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no hitters seven and most walks allowed. His fastball was

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regularly clocked over one hundred miles per hour, making him

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one of the most intimidating pitchers ever. Question three. Who

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is known as the Sultan of Swat Answer Babe Ruth.

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Babe Ruth revolutionized baseball with his home run hitting and

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larger than life personality. His sale from the Boston Red

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Sox to the New York Yankees in nineteen nineteen allegedly

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cursed the Red Sox for eighty six years. Question four.

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Who broke baseball's color barrier? Answer Jackie Robinson. On April fifteenth,

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nineteen forty seven, Robinson became the first African American to

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play in the modern Major leagues when he took the

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field for the Brooklyn Dodgers. His courage and talent paved

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the way for integration in professional sports. Question five, who

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has the highest career batting average answer Ty Cobb with

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a point thirty six six average. The Georgia peach was

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known for his aggressive style and fierce competitiveness. He held

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numerous records for decades and was one of the first

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five players inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in

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nineteen thirty six. That concludes today's five daily trivia questions.

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I'm Mark Ellison, and today's questions were crafted with the

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help of AI technology. If you'd like to enjoy five

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daily trivia questions without ads, check the link in our

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show notes or visit Caloroga dot com slash plus. Have

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a great weekend and we'll see you on Monday. Stick

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around now for this interview our sister.

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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.

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Call. 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 authentically. I had to do it right, otherwise

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

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then the third thing that happened was that I was

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looking at my financial statements and I had more money

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there than I was really using.

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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.

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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?

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Why don't I bring it forward?

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And then it was a long process for me to

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come around to that, but that's what finally started this,

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and I said, well I'll do it.

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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 will.

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I made it a prequest, so it was a chunk

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of money they were going to get well, they were

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still young enough to enjoy it, and.

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I was still alive to see it happening. So I

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saw what they were doing.

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So when I sat down with them, I talked about

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money and happiness and how one can connect. And I said, look,

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I'm going to bring this forward and give it to you,

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but what I want from you is a plan so

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that you use this money, so it's really a big

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benefit for you. I don't want this to overwhelm you.

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And they said what kind of plan? I said, I

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want a happiness plan? And they said, a happiness plan?

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What's that?

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So you know, nobody has seems to have a happiness plan,

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but it's one of the most important plans you can get,

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

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it that makes you happy? What values do you want

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to pursue? You know, what goals and dreams do you have,

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and you can pursue them. And so I got them

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to write a happiness plan. And then when I saw

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the plan, I gave them all the money all at

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one time, and so then they took it and I

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watched them with their plan. I saw all their plans,

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what they did, and how they became happy and so

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you know, that had to be written about so because

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I wanted other people to see what they did so

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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.

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And also their daughter.

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They were totally totally wiped out, devastated, and they died emotionally.

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They had decided that they could never be happy again.

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They would be wrong to be happy. They didn't deserve

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to be happy because their darling daughter had been killed.

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Tremendously painful, awful, awful story. So they were grieving six

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years later, and I met with them and I told

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them how much they had had it to my life

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and how much I was so grateful to them, and

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that I wanted to express the gratitude. And I put

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them in my will and they could accept that, and

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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

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

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several months later, I think his wife persuaded him to

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do it. Actually, you know, and you know, so they said, okay,

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

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you die, why not do it now?

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And they did it.

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And it wasn't the money interesting enough, they said, it

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was the coaching that made the big difference, that changed

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their mind their mindset from being so negative. You know,

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we'll 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 Killimung Garrett. These people are loving life. And it

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was 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 this

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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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it sounds like it was for these folks. I always

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like to end interviews by asking, is there anything that

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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 deserve to be happy? And

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you can be happy, but you have to make it

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

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that if you make that realistically, I want to and

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I'm going to increase my happiness that choice. And then

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talk to people about it. Talk to a husband or

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

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talk to somebody about it and say, look, I'm made

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

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like you to help me create a happiness.

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Plan and then work on it.

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And it's not that hard, but it is challenging, but

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it's a wonderful exercise. And if they do it, I

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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?

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And it's now available for pre order from Amazon, and

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they can go to the Happiness Experiment dot com and

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they can pre order it there, and I hope they will.

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Carl, thanks so much of the time.

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I really appreciate it. Yeah, thank you, Dan. It's been fun.

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