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Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio. Good Morning,

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Speaker 1: This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's

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Speaker 1: tip is to laugh out loud. Know what gives you

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Speaker 1: a good laugh, and build plenty of that into your life.

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Speaker 1: You might make yourself healthier, but you will definitely make

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Speaker 1: yourself happier. So it probably goes without saying that we

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Speaker 1: tend to laugh because we are feeling good. But this

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Speaker 1: goes the other direction too. If you laugh, you will

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Speaker 1: most likely feel better afterwards, even if you weren't feeling

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Speaker 1: all that great before. Laughter brings us closer to the

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Speaker 1: people we share a laugh with. There's even some research

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Speaker 1: finding that laughter makes us healthier, doing everything from lowering

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Speaker 1: blood pressure to boosting our immune systems. Chances are there

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Speaker 1: is something that makes you reliably laugh out loud. I

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Speaker 1: know one distinguished gentleman who is helpless in the face

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Speaker 1: of slapstick. Show him a video of someone banging their

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Speaker 1: head on a doorway, and he is in stitches. I

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Speaker 1: know someone else who couldn't speak for a long time

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Speaker 1: after watching a video about a prank where people were

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Speaker 1: told they'd be switched to ten digit house numbers. Who

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Speaker 1: knows why that did it? But boy did it? Ever?

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Speaker 1: In any case, if you know this about yourself, great,

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Speaker 1: If not, pay attention and figure it out. When are

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Speaker 1: you overcome with the giggles. Maybe it's when you watch

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Speaker 1: reruns of a certain sitcom, even if you have seen

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Speaker 1: that episode a dozen times before. Maybe it's a good

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Speaker 1: dad joke. But once you figure it out, try to

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Speaker 1: build regular doses of laughter the best medicine into your life.

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Speaker 1: If you like sitcom reruns, figure out which cable channels

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Speaker 1: reliably show your favorites, and when you've got twenty two

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Speaker 1: minutes to spare, go there first. If you've got a

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Speaker 1: thing for dad jokes, check out a book of them

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Speaker 1: with the Libby app from your library. See you've got

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Speaker 1: them ready to go on your phone or eReader whenever

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Speaker 1: you need them. If you've got a favorite comedian, you

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Speaker 1: can perk up a brown bag lunch by watching a

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Speaker 1: fifteen minute clip. Some comedians like Jim Gaffigan and Jen

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Speaker 1: Follweiler are reasonably safe for work. Or there's always headphones.

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Speaker 1: You will start the second half of your work day

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Speaker 1: with a lot of cheerful energy. I will put a

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Speaker 1: plug in here for that genre of literature known as

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Speaker 1: greeting cards. The UPS Store seems to stop greeting cards

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Speaker 1: especially designed to make you laugh out loud, which can

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Speaker 1: be a little awkward when you are waiting in line

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Speaker 1: to ship a package. But it's great if you buy

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Speaker 1: a few cards to make you laugh out loud in

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Speaker 1: the privacy of your own home, and to send a

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Speaker 1: friends and family to make them laugh too. Do you

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Speaker 1: love The Far Side or Family Circus or New York

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Speaker 1: or comics great? Buy a book of them to peruse

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Speaker 1: when you need a laugh, or get a comic a

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Speaker 1: day calendar you can make changing the date part of

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Speaker 1: your morning ritual and start your day in a much

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Speaker 1: better mood. You probably can't watch all of Legally Blonde

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Speaker 1: or a Monty Python movie between a stressful meeting and

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Speaker 1: your next zoom call, but funny movies can be great

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Speaker 1: for making you laugh when you have a little more time,

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Speaker 1: so they are a good option for a weekend when

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Speaker 1: you might otherwise be feeling a little blue. In any case,

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Speaker 1: it behooves us to make an official l O L

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Speaker 1: list brainstorm everything that makes you laugh out loud, or

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Speaker 1: even people who usually make you laugh out loud. Then

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Speaker 1: when you need a laugh or a pick me up,

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Speaker 1: You'll have plenty of ideas. There are very few things

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Speaker 1: that can reliably make you feel better in short bits

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Speaker 1: of time. Laughing out loud is one of them. So

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Speaker 1: it's worth putting this medicine into life wherever you can.

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Speaker 1: In the meantime, this is Laura. Thanks for listening, and

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Speaker 1: here's making the most of our ties. Hey, everybody, I'd

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