July 8, 2025

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Callaroga Shark Media.

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Greetings, trivia fans. I'm Mark Ellison, and today we're celebrating

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the sixty seventh birthday of versatile actor Kevin Bacon. Question

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one in which nineteen eighty four film did Kevin Bacon

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play Wren McCormick, a teenager who fights to overturn a

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town's ban on dancing? Question two? What popular party game

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is based on the concept that Kevin Bacon is connected

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to every other actor in Hollywood? Question three? In which

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nineteen ninety thriller did Kevin Bacon play an underground dweller

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who becomes obsessed with a family living above ground? Question four?

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What is the name of the music duo that Kevin

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Bacon formed with his brother Michael? Question five? In which

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long running TV drama series did Kevin Bacon star as

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FBI agent Ryan Hardy. We'll be right back with these

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well connected answers after this break. Welcome back, trivia fans.

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Let's reveal today's answers. Question one in which nineteen eighty

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four film did Bacon fight a dancing band? Answer? Footloose?

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Bacon played Wren McCormick, a Chicago teenager who moves to

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a small town where dancing in rock music have been banned.

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The film became a cultural phenomenon and established Bacon as

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a leading man, spawning a successful soundtrack and later a

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Broadway musical. Question two, What party game is based on

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Kevin Bacon's connections? Answer? Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon? Based

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on the six degrees of separation concept, Players try to

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connect any actor to Kevin Bacon through their film roles

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in six steps or fewer. The game was created by

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college students and became so popular that Bacon initially found

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it annoying before eventually embracing it. Question three in which

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nineteen ninety thriller did Bacon play an underground dweller? Answer? Tremors.

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Bacon played Valentine McKee, a handyman in a small Novada

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town threatened by giant underground creatures called Graboids. The film

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became a cult classic and spawned multiple sequels, though Bacon

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only appeared in the original. Question four, What musical duo

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did Bacon form with his brother? Answer? The Bacon Brothers.

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Kevin and Michael Bacon have been performing together since the

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nineteen nineties, blending rock, folk and country music. Kevin plays guitar,

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and sings, while Michael plays various instruments. They've released several

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albums and twour regularly. Question five in which TV series

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did Bacon play FBI agent Ryan Hardy answer the following.

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This psychological thriller series ran from twenty thirteen to twenty

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fifteen and featured Bacon as an FBI agent pursuing a

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charismatic serial killer and his cult of followers. The show

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marked Bacon's return to series television and showcased his dramatic

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acting range. That concludes today's five Daily Trivia questions. I'm

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Mark Allison, and today's questions were crafted with the help

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Stick 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. Call. That's great,

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But is why 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

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room and I thought, well, that's not what I expected.

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Oh my god. So I realized from that that this

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was not an easy thing to do. So I learned

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a lesson from that, and I knew that I had

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to do this 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, well,

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I'll do it. Now.

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Let's back up just a bit and tell us a

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little 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

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magnect and I said, look, I'm going to bring this

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forward to 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? What's that? 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 a very complex What is

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it you're 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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that had to be written about so because I wanted

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other people to see what they did, so they too

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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 diedtionally. They had decided that they could never be

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

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

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

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grieving six years later, and I met with them and

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I told them how much they had added to my

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life and how much I was so grateful 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

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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 I say we're going to wait

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until you die, why not do it now? And they

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

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it was the coaching that made the big difference, that

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

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will 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 are

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

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They climbed Killimungarrett. 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

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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 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 wife,

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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 plan and

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

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it is challenging, but it's a wonderful excep size 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 Experiment, 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 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.

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