July 9, 2025

Tom Hanks: America's Sweetheart Turns 69

Tom Hanks: America's Sweetheart Turns 69
Celebrate Tom Hanks' 69th birthday with five questions about the beloved actor's remarkable career. From Oscar-winning dramas to animated adventures as Woody, explore the films and performances that made Hanks one of America's most treasured entertainers. Enjoy Five Daily Trivia Questions commercial-free at caloroga.com/plus.
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Calarogus Shark Media.

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

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the sixty ninth birthday of America's sweetheart, Tom Hanks. Question one,

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for which two consecutive films did Tom Hanks win Academy

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Awards for Best Actor in the nineteen nineties?

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Question two?

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In which nineteen eighty eight film did Tom Hanks play

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a child trapped in an adult's body after making a

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wish at a carnival machine?

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Question three?

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What animated character has Tom Hanks voiced in four feature

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films since nineteen ninety five?

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Question four?

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In which two thousand film did Tom Hanks play a

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FedEx executive stranded on a deserted island? Question five? What

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production company did Tom Hanks co found with Gary Gutzman

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that has produced many of his films. We'll be right

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back with these oscar worthy answers after this break. Welcome back,

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trivia fans. Let's reveal today's answers. Question one, for which

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two films did Hanks win consecutive Best Actor Oscars? Answer?

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Philadelphia nineteen ninety three and Forrest Gump nineteen ninety four.

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In Philadelphia, he played a lawyer with aids fighting discrimination,

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and in Forrest Gump, he portrayed the title character in

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the epic drama. These back to back wins established Hanks

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as one of the finest actors of his generation. Question two,

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in which nineteen eighty eight film did Hanks play a

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child in an adult's body? Answer?

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Big?

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Hanks played Josh Baskin, a twelve year old boy who

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makes a wish to be big and wakes up in

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an adult's body. His childlike performance, including the famous piano

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scene at Fao Schwartz, earned him his first Academy Award

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nomination and proved his dramatic range. Question three, What animated

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character has Hank's voice since nineteen ninety five? Answer Woody

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from the Toy Story franchise, making the character one of

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his most.

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Beloved and recognizable roles.

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Question four, in which two thousand film was Hank's stranded

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on an island? Answer?

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Cast Away.

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Hanks played Chuck Noland, a FedEx executive whose plane crashes

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in the Pacific Ocean, leaving him stranded on an uninhabited island.

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For four years.

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His dramatic weight loss and powerful performance, including his relationship

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with a volleyball named Wilson earned critical acclaim. Question five,

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What production company did Hank's co found? Answer? Play Tone,

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Founded with Gary GutsMan. Playtone has produced many successful films

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and television series, including Castaway, Charlie Wilson's War, and the

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HBO mini series Band of Brothers and The Pacific showcasing

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Hanks's talents behind the camera as well. That concludes today's

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five Daily Trivia questions. I'm Mark Ellison, and today's questions

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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 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.

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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.

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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. 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, you know, it was a long process for

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me to come around to that, but that's what finally

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started this, 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 money I had for them in my will and made.

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It a prequest.

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So it was a chunk of money that they were

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going to get. Well, they were still young, enough to

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enjoy it, and I was still alive to see it happening.

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So I saw what they were doing. So when I.

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Sat down with them, I talked about money and happiness

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and how one can magnect. And I said, look, I'm

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

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

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

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a happiness plan, and they said, a happiness plan?

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What's that? So so you know, nobody has seems to.

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Have a happiness plan, but it's one of the most

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important plans you can get, and it doesn't have to

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be very complex. What is it that makes you happy?

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What values do you want to pursue? You know, what

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goals and dreams do you have, and you can pursue them.

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And so I got them to write a happiness plan.

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And then when I saw the plan, I gave them

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all the money all at one time, and so so

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then they took it and I watched them with their plan.

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I saw all their plans, what they did, and how

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they became happier, and so you know, that had to

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be written about so because I wanted other people to

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see what they did so they too could do the

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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 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 said.

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We're going to wait until you die, why not do

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it now? And they did it. And it wasn't the money.

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Interesting Now, they said, it was the coaching that made

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the big difference, that changed their mind their mindset from

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being so negative. You know, we'll never be happy again.

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We don't deserve to be happy. And the coach turned

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there thinking their mindset around and said, look, you know

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it can be you can be happy again. And they

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started to get the mindset of happy people. And now

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you cannot believe these people that are traveling all over

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the world. They're in Tahiti right now. They climbed Killamu Garrett.

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These people are loving life. And it was a major

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change that is one of the most heartfelt, wonderful results

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of the And in a sense, she said, the wife said,

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this prequest changed or saved my life because we were

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no longer living, we were dead, and this brought us

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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? Should they

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do what would be good for them? And so I'll

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answer that question. First off, think about happiness, Think about

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being happiness. Do you deserve to be happy? And you

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can be happy, but you have to make it as

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

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if you make that realistically, I want to and I'm

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going to increase my happiness that choice. And then talk

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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.

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A happiness plan.

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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 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.

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