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Feb 2025
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More Happier: The “More Happier” Debate,...

Gretchen Rubin / The Onward Project
About this episode

We review the great debate among listeners about whether our ungrammatical jokes about “More Happier” are fun—or annoying. We also discuss whether, as creative people, we expect our friends and family to read, watch, or listen to what we create. Plus we explore a silly question about whether we’d start to eat an item before we’d pay for it.

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