Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Hello everyone,
Speaker 1: this is your morning Run for Thursday, March twentieth. The
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Speaker 1: Monday through Friday. I'm Amy Robots and I'm TJ.
Speaker 2: Holmes. Yes, Thursday, March twentieth, also known as the Happiest
Speaker 2: sporting day of the year, the NCAA Tournament officially kicks
Speaker 2: off in a major way today. This is the day.
Speaker 2: Today and tomorrow are they have to be the best
Speaker 2: sporting days of the year every single year.
Speaker 1: Wow, the passion that just spring out of your voice
Speaker 1: this moment talking about March madness. It's palpable. You have home.
Speaker 1: How many screens set up today?
Speaker 2: There will be four screens because yes, every game is
Speaker 2: on in its entirety over several networks, so you don't
Speaker 2: miss a thing. So people, you still have time to
Speaker 2: get your brackets in until games kickoff at noon. You
Speaker 2: can still submit them online to all these bracket challenges.
Speaker 2: Subdue that thing. But we are going to get through
Speaker 2: this morning run because I got other stuff to do today.
Speaker 2: So thanks. Get going on this Thursday on the run.
Speaker 2: Today we will be talking about Trump continues to work
Speaker 2: the phones, and now President Zelenski and President Putin have
Speaker 2: agreed to a partial ceasefire.
Speaker 1: And Israeli troops head back into Gaza after breaking a
Speaker 1: two month ceasefire with massive airstrikes that killed hundreds. And
Speaker 1: another signing ceremony today in the Oval Office as President
Speaker 1: Trump plans to sign an executive order to dismantle the
Speaker 1: Department of Education amid legal questions and lawsuits.
Speaker 2: Also, the Trump administration is withholding one hundred and seventy
Speaker 2: five million dollars from one university, why because they allowed
Speaker 2: a transgender athlete to compete on a women's team. Also
Speaker 2: this morning, the markets rallied yesterday after they liked what
Speaker 2: they heard from the Fed on interest rates.
Speaker 1: Plus another positive announcement from the Vatican about Pope Francis
Speaker 1: as he continues to show signs of improvement, and the
Speaker 1: DoD dee eyed Jackie Robinson and then reinstated a tribute
Speaker 1: to him just hours later.
Speaker 2: Also today on this run, Bye bye winter and happy
Speaker 2: first day of Spring. But are you, as an American
Speaker 2: actually happy? The World Happiness Report has just been released,
Speaker 2: and where do you think the US ranks in the
Speaker 2: world here's a hint, not very high.
Speaker 1: We're gonna do our best, though, to raise that happiness
Speaker 1: quotion with this morning run today. So we'll begin our
Speaker 1: run with progress. Another day, another phone call, another step
Speaker 1: towards ending the war between Russia and Ukraine.
Speaker 2: President Trump and President Zelensky had what Trump says was
Speaker 2: a very good call yesterday. Zelensky called it a substantive
Speaker 2: and frank talk. And after that chat, the two sides
Speaker 2: announced that Ukraine had agreed to a partial ceasefire with Russia.
Speaker 1: It was just a day earlier that Trump was on
Speaker 1: the phone with President Putin, who rejected a full scale ceasefire,
Speaker 1: bus agreed to a pared down version of that ceasefire.
Speaker 1: The partial ceasefire was specific Russia would stop attacks on
Speaker 1: certain targets in Ukraine. A bit of discrepancy right now
Speaker 1: about which ones?
Speaker 2: Okay? So yeah, devil in the details here. Ukraine announced
Speaker 2: it agreed to a partial ceasefire in which Russia would
Speaker 2: stop attacks on energy and other infrastructure targets in Ukraine,
Speaker 2: while the US announced the partial ceasefire would stop attacks
Speaker 2: only on energy targets. So that discrepancy, which is a
Speaker 2: significant one, still needs to be worked out.
Speaker 1: But what was very notable was a stark, starkly different
Speaker 1: tone from Zelenski in his message yesterday on AX. We
Speaker 1: remember in days and just how long ago was it?
Speaker 1: Not even two weeks ago where we had that very
Speaker 1: dramatic and difficult to watch meeting between you.
Speaker 2: You say dramatic and difficult, disastrous, disastrous.
Speaker 1: That Okay, we'll just keep all the d's in there. Yes, So, yes,
Speaker 1: we all saw what was happening between those two men,
Speaker 1: and specifically what zelen said and wrote on Twitter, well,
Speaker 1: our ex excuse me yesterday, a very different tone. Here's
Speaker 1: just some of what we heard from Zelensky on X.
Speaker 1: He said, we believe that together with America, with President
Speaker 1: Trump and under American leadership, lasting peace can be achieved
Speaker 1: this year.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: I mean, hey, we'll take it.
Speaker 2: He understands the assignment a little better now and somebody
Speaker 2: got in his ear, but yes, he was very effusive
Speaker 2: in his praise, not just in saying thank you, but
Speaker 2: he was directing a lot of that towards President Trump.
Speaker 2: And maybe we can understand why, but that discrepancy needs
Speaker 2: to be worked out. But how many months are we
Speaker 2: into President Trump's presidency this is the most movement of
Speaker 2: anything related to a ceasefire and stopping that war that
Speaker 2: we have seen. Don't like his methods. A lot of
Speaker 2: people argue with sure, but this is movement that some
Speaker 2: people have a hard time disagreeing with and not applauding
Speaker 2: at least that something is happening.
Speaker 1: More has happened in these three months than in the
Speaker 1: entire three years since this war began, for sure.
Speaker 2: You continue here on our run this morning, though with Israel,
Speaker 2: apparently they were not bluffing after breaking the months long
Speaker 2: ceasfire on Tuesday with that surprise barrage of air strikes
Speaker 2: that killed four hundred people in Gaza, Israel vow, do
Speaker 2: you remember that was just the beginning.
Speaker 1: They've now followed up with more deadly air strikes yesterday
Speaker 1: and now a ground incursion. Reports say anywhere between twenty
Speaker 1: to forty people were killed in this new round of
Speaker 1: air strikes. Meanwhile, Israeli troops moved back into Gaza for
Speaker 1: the first time since the ceasefire was put in place.
Speaker 1: Israel says it's reclaimed some sections of land that served
Speaker 1: as a buffer zone.
Speaker 2: Israel is making clear they will keep this up with
Speaker 2: the goal of eliminating Hamas. The Israeli Defense minister put
Speaker 2: it this way, quote, if all the Israeli hostages are
Speaker 2: not released and Hamas is not eliminated from Gaza, Israel
Speaker 2: will act with forces you have never known before. Quote.
Speaker 1: For its part, Hamas called the Israeli air strikes a
Speaker 1: violation of the ceasfire, but said it was still committed
Speaker 1: to that ceasefire is really Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyah, who
Speaker 1: says he ordered a resumption of strikes against Gaza because
Speaker 1: of a lack of progress in peace talks.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that first phase of the ceasefire largely held in
Speaker 2: several exchanges of hostages in Palestinian prisoners took place like
Speaker 2: they were supposed to. But that first phase came and went.
Speaker 2: It ended March first, and there wasn't a lot of
Speaker 2: movement after that. There was no next phase of the
Speaker 2: ceasefire deal. So Prime Minister Benjamin NATANYAHUO said we are
Speaker 2: going to go back at it. They said, we spoke
Speaker 2: about this yesterday. Any deal now, any stop in fighting
Speaker 2: is going to be done under fire. There will be
Speaker 2: no more ceasefires. We're not messing around with us.
Speaker 1: That's heartbreaking, it's heartbreaking to watch, all right. Next up
Speaker 1: on the run, President Trump is taking another step at
Speaker 1: eliminating the Department of Education. Today. He's scheduled to sign
Speaker 1: an executive order at the White House that instructs his
Speaker 1: Education secretary to begin dismantling the department, even if he
Speaker 1: can't legally completely shut it down on his own.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the day. He was created during the Order administration
Speaker 2: in nineteen seventy nine by Congress and can only be
Speaker 2: eliminated by Congress. Still, the President can essentially cripple the
Speaker 2: department through a series of actions. The administration has already
Speaker 2: cut the department's workforce in half, so he can make
Speaker 2: it almost impossible for the department to function.
Speaker 1: Yes, the executive order instructs Education Secretary Linda McMahon to
Speaker 1: take all necessary steps to facilitate the closure of the
Speaker 1: Department of Education and return education authority to the States.
Speaker 1: Trump will be joined by Republican governors for the signing ceremony.
Speaker 1: McMahon will be there as well, and you can bet
Speaker 1: the lawsuits, yes, will continue.
Speaker 2: DeSantis, former rival, is going to be there as well.
Speaker 2: He was supposed he talked about for a while for
Speaker 2: Department of Defense. Yes, for a little bit, but they
Speaker 2: have gone at it. But some Republican governors will be
Speaker 2: back and like you said, what's going to happen here?
Speaker 1: Though?
Speaker 2: I mean, they can make it what usaid. You can
Speaker 2: take all the money, you can do all these things
Speaker 2: and cripple the agency to the point it just doesn't function.
Speaker 1: It can't function.
Speaker 2: It can't function, so he can shut it down. It
Speaker 2: was it wasn't interesting, Linda mcmahonny told her at the beginning.
Speaker 2: Your job is to put yourself out of a job. Yep,
Speaker 2: as Education.
Speaker 1: Says, and he's moving forward with that plan.
Speaker 2: All right. On the next leg of our run here,
Speaker 2: let's head over to Pennsylvania. Check this out. That Trump
Speaker 2: administration is with holding one hundred and seventy five million
Speaker 2: dollars from an Ivy League school there for allowing a
Speaker 2: transgender swimmer to compete on its women's team.
Speaker 1: Leah Thomas became the first transgender athlete to win a
Speaker 1: Division one national championship as swimmer. As a swimmer on
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty two University of Pennsylvania women's team. Thomas's
Speaker 1: story and success set off a national and sometimes ugly
Speaker 1: debate about trans athletes.
Speaker 2: So President Trump signed an executive order last month stating
Speaker 2: that federal money could be withheld from schools that allowed
Speaker 2: transgender athletes to compete on girls and women's teams, and
Speaker 2: soon after that order, the administration started looking into Penn.
Speaker 1: That's right. The administration now says one hundred and seventy
Speaker 1: five million dollars in funding is being withheld from the school. However,
Speaker 1: Penn claims it is in compliance with NC double A
Speaker 1: rules and Leah Thomas hasn't competed at the school since
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, that's when she graduated.
Speaker 2: So at that time, back in twenty twenty two, the
Speaker 2: NC DOUBLEA did allow for individual sports and their governing
Speaker 2: bodies to set their own rules for participation by transgender athletes.
Speaker 2: They changed that policy and are now in compliance with
Speaker 2: Trump's order. So still it's a little confusing. They weren't
Speaker 2: in violation of his order in twenty twenty two because
Speaker 2: he wasn't president, but he's still making this move and
Speaker 2: this is sending a very big message.
Speaker 1: It certainly is, and I wonder what could be done
Speaker 1: by Penn at this point to correct it if they're
Speaker 1: in compliance now and they just weren't three years ago
Speaker 1: when Trump wasn't president. Clearly, this is certainly a warning
Speaker 1: to any other school who chooses not to comply.
Speaker 2: Is that the strategy?
Speaker 1: I believe that would the only thing that makes sense
Speaker 1: with this action. Yes, exactly, all right, next up on
Speaker 1: the run, we're going to head to Wall Street. The
Speaker 1: US stock market rallied after the Federal Reserve announced it
Speaker 1: would keep interest rates unchanged as expected.
Speaker 2: Yeah, indicated there will be two quarter point interest rate
Speaker 2: cuts later this year. The markets have been wildly unsteady
Speaker 2: as investors try to gauge how President Trump's tariffs are
Speaker 2: going to affect the economy, also trying to figure out
Speaker 2: which ones are coming, which ones are going, which ones
Speaker 2: are going to be in place, which ones are going
Speaker 2: to go away because of legal action. Is just uncertainty,
Speaker 2: and the markets hate.
Speaker 1: That, they certainly do. But the Federal Reserve also forecast
Speaker 1: slower economic growth for the US and higher inflation. And
Speaker 1: despite that, the Dow closed nearly four hundred points up
Speaker 1: following their announcement, and the NASDAK rose by one point
Speaker 1: four percent. So hey, we'll take an update on Wall Street.
Speaker 1: We certainly have had several down ones.
Speaker 2: All right, we'll stay with us here on this Thursday morning.
Speaker 2: Ron when we come back, good news for the Pope.
Speaker 2: Jackie Robinson gets kicked out of the military. Spring is
Speaker 2: here and America apparently is not a very happy place.
Speaker 2: Welcome back to this morning's run, and the next leg
Speaker 2: of the run will take us to Rome, where we
Speaker 2: have some more encouraging news. The Vatican says Pope Francis
Speaker 2: is no longer using mechanical ventilation to help him breathe
Speaker 2: at night.
Speaker 1: Yes, and they added that as doctors believe the Pope
Speaker 1: will continue to improve even further. Pope Francis has been
Speaker 1: in the hospital now for nearly five weeks, battling double pneumonia.
Speaker 2: Well, he's still receiving oxygen through a small hose under
Speaker 2: his nose, but doctors say his blood tests are normal,
Speaker 2: his infection is under control. No word on when he
Speaker 2: might be released from the hospital. Robes, We've been doing
Speaker 2: these every day for a full month, and every time
Speaker 2: I'm relieved.
Speaker 1: A Thank goodness, it's an I's it kind of feels
Speaker 1: a little bit like a miracle. I don't think any
Speaker 1: of us will, at least I didn't expect this outcome,
Speaker 1: and certainly happy that that is what's happened.
Speaker 2: There were some dark days, there were some really scary days.
Speaker 2: Can you imagine the moment he shows back up at
Speaker 2: Saint Peter Square. That's the image. Now I can't get
Speaker 2: out of my head that possibility.
Speaker 1: That I just got chills when you said that, because
Speaker 1: there are still so many people The New York Times
Speaker 1: that a huge article on this, still believing that the
Speaker 1: pope is dead, so many social media influencers and TikTokers
Speaker 1: still trying to storm the hospital looking for him. So
Speaker 1: those rumors are still out there, and there are people
Speaker 1: who actually believe that the Vatican is hiding the pope's
Speaker 1: true condition, the fact that he might be dead. So yes,
Speaker 1: the moment where we see the Pope leaving the hospital,
Speaker 1: or at least coming out there on Saint Peter Square
Speaker 1: and a wave, a nod, a smile, that will be everything.
Speaker 2: We can people think he's dead, they put out a
Speaker 2: picture confirming he's fine.
Speaker 1: Sorry, that very revealing photo from behind where you can't
Speaker 1: even see if his eyes are closed or open. You
Speaker 1: mean that one? Oh okay, all right, next up on
Speaker 1: our run, well head back here to the us of
Speaker 1: a Robinson got deied right out of American military history.
Speaker 1: But he's back. He's back now. A tribute to Jackie
Speaker 1: Robinson's military service was taken down from the Defense Department website.
Speaker 2: Okay, so how does this happen? Apparently this is part
Speaker 2: of a purge of DEI content from the Department. But
Speaker 2: the pentagona is saying that Jackie Robinson's tribute page was
Speaker 2: mistakenly deleted now apparently, and they can't go through page
Speaker 2: by page and line by line trying to scrub a
Speaker 2: DEI from the Pentagon page. So they say they use
Speaker 2: whatever algorithm, and they're using keywords. It finds those keywords
Speaker 2: throughout and eliminates those pages. They say, that's what happened here.
Speaker 2: It happened also with the Tuskegee Airmen. They had a
Speaker 2: dedication page that was also removed mistakenly, So that's how
Speaker 2: they say it happened. But they saw the era. The
Speaker 2: page is back up. We did look at it this
Speaker 2: morning and can confirm. The article is called sports Heroes
Speaker 2: who Served Baseball Great Jackie Robinson was a World War
Speaker 2: or two soldier. It is back up.
Speaker 1: Wouldn't you love to know what the keywords are?
Speaker 2: They didn't give them to black history.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I was just trying to.
Speaker 2: Figure that out that could come up through that stuff.
Speaker 1: I kind of need to know what the keywords were.
Speaker 2: Into What did he do he integrated baseball? He I mean,
Speaker 2: what would a word have been just black?
Speaker 1: I mean right, That's why I was like black history.
Speaker 1: Pentagon spokesperson explained what happened this way. We are pleased
Speaker 1: by the rapid compliance across the department with the directive
Speaker 1: removing DEI content from all platforms, but added they correct
Speaker 1: the content so it recognizes our heroes for their dedicated
Speaker 1: service alongside their fellow Americans period.
Speaker 2: Okay, acknowledged that we are doing what we want to
Speaker 2: do and sometimes there is a mistake, but they have
Speaker 2: several they need to put back up. This is just
Speaker 2: one of those shocking things. Look, maybe it was probably
Speaker 2: was a mistake, but it's just so jarring to think
Speaker 2: that this is how they're going about it, that even
Speaker 2: Robinson could get kicked out of the military and a
Speaker 2: part of American history Oopsie, based on some words were
Speaker 2: not even sure of next up on the run here, folks,
Speaker 2: I have to let y'all know Robot stopped me while
Speaker 2: we were working on the rundown this morning and said, ooh, countdown,
Speaker 2: we only have a few minutes left in winter.
Speaker 1: It was six minutes. We had six minutes left in winter.
Speaker 1: I just wanted you to know.
Speaker 2: I just wanted to go away. Should have told me, hey,
Speaker 2: we got spring in six minutes. But that's what was
Speaker 2: going on. Yes, Spring officially started at five one a m.
Speaker 2: Eastern this morning, so fun fag this is the first
Speaker 2: day of spring. It's actually called the vernal equinox. Well, yeah,
Speaker 2: everybody knows that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, duh. It's only one of two times each year
Speaker 1: when the Earth's equator is not tilted towards or away
Speaker 1: from the Sun, so there are equal amounts of daylight
Speaker 1: and darkness across the world, across all latitudes. That's pretty cool.
Speaker 1: I don't think I realized that. The other time that
Speaker 1: happens is on the first day of fall, or the
Speaker 1: autumnal equinox. It's different than the solstice, which is the
Speaker 1: longest and shortest day of the year. So this is
Speaker 1: when daylight and nighttime are exactly equal.
Speaker 2: Is there anything attached to this like a full moon?
Speaker 2: They say people started at start acting weird at times
Speaker 2: and stuff, happenings with the Earth and things and planet.
Speaker 1: Name my moods and my behaviors once a month on
Speaker 1: the full moon.
Speaker 2: But this is not the equinox. Is not a thing
Speaker 2: where they think people are odd behavior.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but if I have some strange behavior today,
Speaker 1: I'll just blame it on the.
Speaker 2: Equal How would I notice it's all weird?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 2: Okay, we get the final leg or you're on this
Speaker 2: Thursday run. Now, the annual list of the Happiest Countries
Speaker 2: on Earth was just released. So where do you think
Speaker 2: the United States ranks.
Speaker 1: Here's a hint. We're not even in the top ten.
Speaker 1: We're not even in the top twenty. All right, let's
Speaker 1: start at the top of the list. Though. Let's start
Speaker 1: with the good news. This is the annual list put
Speaker 1: out by the UN, and for the eighth year in
Speaker 1: a row, Finland has ranked as the happiest country on Earth.
Speaker 2: Okay, Finland might not be for you. You don't want to
Speaker 2: move there. How about you move to the second happiest
Speaker 2: country in the world, Denmark? You know what, not a
Speaker 2: big Denmark guy myself. Not for me necessarily, So let's
Speaker 2: go to the third happiest place. You want to go
Speaker 2: to Iceland? Okay, what about the I love Iceland? Iceland?
Speaker 2: You go to that one. So the fourth happiest place
Speaker 2: on Earth is Sweden. So have you noticed the theme here?
Speaker 2: The top four happiest places on Earth are all these
Speaker 2: Nordic countries. Finland, Denmark, Iceland, Sweden, your top four.
Speaker 1: You know what, They're never in the news? Are they
Speaker 1: for anything negative? It just all seems like they got
Speaker 1: it going on. No news is good news. That is
Speaker 1: the same top four, by the way from last year.
Speaker 1: We're gonna have more on why these countries are at
Speaker 1: the top and just a moment. So where does the
Speaker 1: United States rank? Well, it's not good. In fact, it
Speaker 1: is the lowest happiness ranking the US has ever had
Speaker 1: in the history of this list. We are at number
Speaker 1: twenty four.
Speaker 2: Okay, if it feels like this story is going to
Speaker 2: be a depressing one, we're gonna bring it home here
Speaker 2: in just a second, all right. So this is the
Speaker 2: first time the United States has ever ranked outside the
Speaker 2: top twenty and these rankings, so what's behind our drop?
Speaker 2: The re searchers are telling us that it is being
Speaker 2: driven by younger folks, people under the age of thirty
Speaker 2: who are pessimistic about the direction of their own lives
Speaker 2: and report feeling less supported by friends and family. They
Speaker 2: also report feeling less freedom.
Speaker 1: That's so interesting, right. The list has been compiled by
Speaker 1: the UN for the past thirteen years in conjunction with
Speaker 1: World Happiness Day, which is today. By the way, maybe
Speaker 1: it's because it's the first day of spring too. Also,
Speaker 1: it uses Gallop pulling data from people in more than
Speaker 1: one hundred and forty countries who are ranked on happiness
Speaker 1: based on average life evaluations, and it looks at several
Speaker 1: key variables including social support, healthy life expectancy, generosity, perceptions
Speaker 1: of corruption, among other things.
Speaker 2: So let's go back to that top four, the Nordic countries.
Speaker 2: Why they consistently rank at the top, Well, the researchers
Speaker 2: tell us they have a virtuous cycle of society, which
Speaker 2: means certain segments of society all kind of tie in
Speaker 2: together and feed into each other in a productive way.
Speaker 2: So you're talking about democracy, you're talking about good and
Speaker 2: trusted government, talking about low crime, good general welfare benefits
Speaker 2: all come together and it makes for a good society.
Speaker 2: And yes, low crime has a lot to do with that.
Speaker 2: So the countries that do rank. We talked about the
Speaker 2: top four. The ones at the bottom of the list
Speaker 2: not necessarily a surprise when you hear them, but Afghanistan
Speaker 2: once again last on the list, and then Sierra Leone, Lebanon,
Speaker 2: Malawi and Zimbabwe round out the bottom five.
Speaker 1: We loved this quote from one of the editors of
Speaker 1: this Happiness report. You found this TJ. And this is
Speaker 1: something we can all take with us today on World
Speaker 1: Happiness Day.
Speaker 2: Look, we always do a quote of the day. We
Speaker 2: have one at the bottom, but this one, Folks, if
Speaker 2: you don't listen to anything else in this podcast, please
Speaker 2: listen to this quote that Robot is about to give you.
Speaker 1: Look seriously at the people with whom you are working with,
Speaker 1: whom you are living, who are on your streets, and
Speaker 1: put on a rosier set of glasses when you're dealing
Speaker 1: with them. And that'll change your behavior in traffic, It'll
Speaker 1: change your behavior in political discussions, It'll change everything. Talking
Speaker 1: less and listening more helps with attitude shifts that can
Speaker 1: lead to more cooperation. Negativity is poisonous to happiness. Wow.
Speaker 1: And so it's in all of us. The power is
Speaker 1: within all of us to be happier and to spread happiness.
Speaker 2: This is from one of the founding editors of this report,
Speaker 2: and I just keep that with it. If you almost
Speaker 2: keep that in your pocket you have a bad moment,
Speaker 2: just pull that out and take a look at it.
Speaker 2: But it is, it's in each of us. It reminds
Speaker 2: us in the simplest of ways. I love what he
Speaker 2: said here, and this is a current quote happening to
Speaker 2: do with this the current.
Speaker 1: List, and it's empowering because it's something that we can
Speaker 1: all change and it's something we can all do. I
Speaker 1: found something else really interesting in the report, because you know,
Speaker 1: I don't mind being alone. I prefer to be with people,
Speaker 1: but I really can't stand dining alone. I've always told
Speaker 1: you that for me, it's it's such a it's such
Speaker 1: some it's an event that I want to share with people. Well,
Speaker 1: this report found that Americans specifically are spending more and
Speaker 1: more time dining alone. They said roughly one in four
Speaker 1: Americans reported eating all of their meals alone in the
Speaker 1: previous day, and that's a fifty three percent increase since
Speaker 1: twenty years ago. So, for whatever reason they just said,
Speaker 1: dining alone has become more prevalent for every age group
Speaker 1: in the United States, but especially for young people, and
Speaker 1: it's those young people who are reporting that they're less happy.
Speaker 1: I don't know if one is leading to the other
Speaker 1: or if the other is contributing to the unhappiness, but
Speaker 1: it is an interesting note that they made in this report.
Speaker 2: That's one thing that we all. It seems so communal right.
Speaker 2: You can watch a show by yourself, you can do
Speaker 2: a lot of things on your own. But if you're
Speaker 2: dining alone, if you see someone dining alone, even it
Speaker 2: feels sad to some reason, even though it might not be.
Speaker 2: I love dining alone, as you know, but I never.
Speaker 1: Do because I'm always with you, I.
Speaker 2: Always people are always around. So I relish a moment
Speaker 2: that I get to sit and be alone. And we've
Speaker 2: talked about that plenty. I just we don't even know
Speaker 2: how that's impact. Even if you're voluntarily dining alone, you're
Speaker 2: doing it by choice, it's still it might be doing
Speaker 2: something to you that you don't even realize. I didn't
Speaker 2: see that note that you pointed out about the dining,
Speaker 2: but that is it's tough to hear young people are
Speaker 2: feeling that way and are pessimistic about their own future.
Speaker 1: Yeah it is, and so again that quote. We all
Speaker 1: have the power to make that change and to find
Speaker 1: a little extra happiness in our life. And if you
Speaker 1: were curious about the top ten happiest countries, will listen
Speaker 1: them for you right now. Finland, Denmark, Iceland, Sweden, nether Life,
Speaker 1: Costa Rica, Norway, Israel, Luxembourg and Mexico. That I mean,
Speaker 1: that's a little bit surprising that list, but interesting to note.
Speaker 2: Put happier than all of us. And you know what,
Speaker 2: we do have a quote of the day. You want
Speaker 2: to save this one for tomorrow, the one you have,
Speaker 2: and then in the back and make that quote the
Speaker 2: quote of the day again to agree from the editor,
Speaker 2: because that's just a great one, folks. Yes, we always
Speaker 2: leave you with the quote of the day. We have
Speaker 2: another one in here we were ready to give you,
Speaker 2: but this is just a beautiful, beautiful one that ties
Speaker 2: into World Happiness Day and it's a great reminder that
Speaker 2: you should take with you. Maybe we'll post this and
Speaker 2: you can have it in your pocket later. But by
Speaker 2: all means, ropes, give them to him one more time,
Speaker 2: the quote of the day from the editor of this
Speaker 2: Happiness Report.
Speaker 1: Look seriously at the people with whom you are working, with,
Speaker 1: whom you are living, who are on your streets, and
Speaker 1: put on a rosier set of glasses when you're dealing
Speaker 1: with them, and that will change your behavior in traffic,
Speaker 1: it will change your behavior in political discussions, It'll change everything.
Speaker 1: Talking less and listening more helps with attitude shifts that
Speaker 1: can lead to more cooperation. Negativity is poisonous to happiness.
Speaker 2: And with that, folks, we hope you have have some
Speaker 2: happiness on this world Happiness Day. If you can't find
Speaker 2: it anywhere else, I can guarantee one place you can
Speaker 2: find it at noon today, when the NCAA tournament kicks off,
Speaker 2: So enjoy that. That's exactly what I'll be doing. We
Speaker 2: always appreciate you running with us, folks, But for now on.
Speaker 1: Tejay and I'm Amy Roebuck. We will see you on
Speaker 1: the run tomorrow. And it's Friday,