July 13, 2025

DeVito's 'It's Always Sunny,' Taylor Tomlinson's Journey, and Andy Samberg on 'The Naked Gun' Reboot

DeVito's 'It's Always Sunny,' Taylor Tomlinson's Journey, and Andy Samberg on 'The Naked Gun' Reboot
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Danny DeVito and Charlie Day discussed their work on Season 17 of 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia,' including how DeVito joined the show. Taylor Tomlinson opens up about her career and personal struggles, including growing up in a religious family and coming out as bisexual. Andy Samberg shares insights into the upcoming 'The Naked Gun' reboot, directed by Akiva Schaeffer, and expresses his excitement for the film. The episode also touches on quirky stories like fans watching Adam Sandler's 'Click' every week, and Channel Four's new comedy content for YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram.

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Callaroga Shark Media.

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Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with your Daly comedy news

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The La Signs, which has a great conception. By the way,

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They caught up with Danny DeVito and Charlie Day. They're

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out promoting season seventeen. If It's always sunny in Philadelphia.

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Danny DeVito apologized for sounding like he had just come

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out of the salt mines. He said, I did a

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lot of yelling this week. Danny talked about joining the

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show and said, I knew lots about the show already.

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I was going in because I was friends with the

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president of the network at the time, John Langraf, sent

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me the first eight shows and I watched it with

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my family. He was saying he was talking about these

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really talented guys that he was working with, and John

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was building a network over there. I can't remember exactly

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where we met, but when we met, it was weird.

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It was the first thing. Throw me a little bit.

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Do you remember where it was? Charlie said, yeah, we

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had a lunch. You meet Robin Glent on Beverly Boulevard.

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We didn't have an office. We were writing the second season.

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You'd agreed to the show and you came in, like

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your character from Get Shorty. You started ordering for all

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of us, and you told us some crazy story about

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your father having a box full of tea and watches,

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and we're just taking notes. I think we pitched a

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couple different character names. I think you shot down a

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few of them, but you liked Frank. Charlie Day said Danny,

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I know that I went and spent maybe a whole

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week rewatching almost everything he'd ever done. I watched every

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episode of Taxi. I watched almost every single movie I

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could find, just studying a fighter you're going up against,

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and it was Get Shorty that really kind of locked in

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for me. A lot of people, what have you do

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that Louis de Palma thing over and over again. You're

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so great at that. But there was something so idiosyncratic

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about to Get Shorty character and unpredictable that we were like, oh,

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if we could tap into that. I think it took

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us a couple of seasons to do it, And then

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it felt like Kissmith that he sort of came in

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a meeting like that. Guy. Divido talked about Frank and

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Charlie's relationship and said, I like the idea of the

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scheming and everything that everybody else does, and they do

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it in a normal way. They want to make money,

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they want to get ahead, they want to be famous,

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they want the bar to succeed. They want this that

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Whenever Charlie does something, it titillates Frank. The Times of

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London spoke with Taylor Tomlinson. Now something driving me nuts here.

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First of all, I really like Taylor Thomason, but I

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just think this copywriting is so lazy. The Taylor Swift

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of stand up talks about oversharing it. Why is she

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the Taylor Swift of stand up? Because their name is Taylor,

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because they're both blonde. Taylor Thompson looks more like Taylor

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Swift than I do by a lot. But is she

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the Taylor Swift of stand up?

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Like?

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What does that even mean? They're both named Taylor. Okay,

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Joe Coy has never made a mean, horrible joke about

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Taylor Thompson as far as I know. Taylor Thompson has

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never iced Joe Coy's career by giving him a dirty

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stare instead of just laughing at the joke and going

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ha ha. Anyway, I digress. The Taylor Swift of comedy said,

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I've been a full time comedian for ten years, and

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it's been NonStop. Before that, I was working two jobs

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and in college. I think after this tour, I'm going

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to take some real time off because I've been burning

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the canile. It both ends for a long time. My

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career is everything I've ever wanted. There are certain aspects

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of my personal life that could certainly use some time

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and attention. Taylor grew up in a religious family. She

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began a question her of faith at age eight after

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her mother died from cancer and her father, who she

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no longer speaks to, remarried ten months later. Tomlinson said,

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I've had to work through a lot of my guilt

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and shame around sex and leaving the church. When there's

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a significant part of you that's being repressed because you

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were raised a certain way by certain people, I don't

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think it's possible to talk about that without a lot

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of anger and resentment release. It wasn't for me. Coming

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out as bisexual was the final piece. Look, I'm not

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an atheist. I'm not ruling anything out or judging anybody's choices,

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as long as you're not using religion to scare, manipulating, control, people,

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so it's just been many years of sorting through all that.

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Sometimes it's funny to make jokes about something you're really

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angry about, but it also could be detrimental if you

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try to talk about something too soon. Some of the

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jokes I've done about my mom dying, I tried when

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I was twenty and I hadn't been in too much therapy,

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and I think you can tell when someone's not doing well.

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It's similar to going on stage and knocking over the mic.

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It just makes people nervous if they feel like you

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don't have full control over yourself their jokes I wrote

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for this tour, then I ended up cutting because I

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was like, I don't think I'm ready to talk about

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that yet. It would feel icky and like I overshared

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because I was talking about things that aren't resolved for

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me emotionally and are still very much affecting me in

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a complicated negative way. Mack Packer Andy Samberg says that

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Liam Neeson's upcoming Naked Gun reboot is good. That's stunning.

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I'll trust Andy Samberg, now, let's all be fair. The

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Naked Gun is directed by Akiva Shaeffer, who's the frequent

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collaborator with Andy Samberg, both from The Lonely Island and

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The Wonderfully Terrific. What is the jose Ca and Seiko

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Mark Maguire thing? What's that called? Oh my god? I

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love that thing. So either he's stating out with his

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friend or you know, Akiva. Schaeffer's got a pretty good

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track record. When I saw the trailer, when I saw

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the original idea, I was like, yeah. But Andy Samberg

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says The Naked Gun is pure joy, saying that Schaeffer

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crushed it. Samberg says everyone who's seen the film loves it,

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and the film is all jokes. Wall A Wall. Everyone

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I've seen it with walked out saying the same thing,

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which is like, I didn't realize how much him is

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that feeling of a pure silly comedy that's all jokes.

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Wat a Wall in a theater, Me and a Kiva

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are always involved in each other stuff, and I think he

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just crushed it. Liam is so funny at it. He's

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so good. Pam Anderson is so good at it too.

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I'm really excited for them. I hope everybody goes and

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sees it because it's super funny album. Hopefully, The Naked

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gun is out. August first caught this one in Vice.

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I didn't write this article. I'm just telling you about it.

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The headline in Vice is, these guys watch Adam Sandler's Click,

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the most demoralizing film ever made. Every single week. I'm

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telling you I didn't write this. Wece wrote ever have

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the misfortune of seeing Adam Sandlor's Click. I put it

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on to ease a hangover sometimes in two thousand and eight,

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expecting a brain numbing, heartwarming rump, abiding by the same

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two word arc that all Adam Sandler films abided by.

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That point, idiot prospers. In case you're wondering, it goes

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a little something like this. Adam Sandler's character finds a

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magic TV remote in a warehouse that can fast forward

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time itself. He rejoices because he can now skip all

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the boring parts of his life, arguments being ill, eating

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dinner with his family, and go straight to the good

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stuff like promotions and pay hikes. But then the magic

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TV remote learns Sandler's preferences, and it goes rogue, choosing

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for itself which parts of his life to fast forward. Soon,

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Adam Sandler's hurtling towards the grave, powerless to stop the remote.

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One minute, his kids are toddlers, the next day have

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gray hair, His wife marries their swimming coach. His dogs

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keep dying until one attacks, and when he's a pensioner

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and the doctor's find out he has cancer. This year

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I came across the Twitter account click Thinks, ran by

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two anonymous Australians who've been watching the Adam Sandler movie

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Click every week since twenty twenty, and will continue to

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do so for the rest of linear time. One of

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the anonymous fans said, we started an online movie night

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during the pandemic. We didn't think too hard about our

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first pick. We just landed on Click. Then the next

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week came around, instead of something new, we just watched

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Click again. Five years on, we're still watching Click every

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week as if it's the only thing holding reality together.

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It's like a dare that nobody backed out of. I

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like that it feels like a play with a clear

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two act structure. For the first half, it's the kind

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of humor that Sandlor fans would expect. But then as

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the film transitions into its second act, it pulls the

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rugout from under you. Suddenly it's no longer about the

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comedic possibilities of a TV remote, but about the devastating

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consequences of prioritizing the wrong things in life. This guy

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has over one hundred and fifty physical versions of Click.

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He says his favorite is the Japanese version, which translates

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to if you could choose yesterday. He's got a Korean

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VHS tape. He's working on a rare Russian VHS copy.

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The Click fan said, the film encourages us to reframe

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how we see our daily lives, not as filler between

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big events, but as the core of our human experience.

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Kickstand Comedy today. Check that one out that sounds fun.

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And now stick around for this.

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Interview our sister. I'm going to bring forward and yours

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and give it to you now. And he said, oh wow,

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that's great, thank you, that's so generous of you. Car

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that's great. But his wife, my sister in law, went ballistic.

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She said, this is too much money, this is wrong.

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I don't want anything to do with and stormed out.

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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 going to work. So that happened. And

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then the third thing that happened was that I was

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looking at my financial statements and I had more money

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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. 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 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 cognect.

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And I said, look, I'm going to bring this forward

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and give it to you, but what I want from

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you is a plan so you use this money, so

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it's really a big benefit for you. I don't want

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this to overwhelm you. And they said what kind of plan?

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I said, I want a happiness plan, and they said,

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a happiness plan?

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What's that?

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So you know, nobody has seems to have a happiness plan,

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but it's one of the most important plans you can get,

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and it doesn't have to be very complex. What is

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it that makes you happy? What values do you want

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to pursue? You know, what goals and dreams do you have,

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and you can pursue them. And so I got them

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to write a happiness plan. And then when I saw

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the plan, I gave them all the money all at

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one time. And so then they took it and I

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watched them with their plan. I saw all their plans,

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what they did and how they became happier, and so

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you know, that had to be written about so because

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I wanted other people to see what they did so

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they too 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 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, off 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 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 life, 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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we'll 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 killamungarratt. 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 could 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 it sounds like it was for these folks. I

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always like to end interviews by asking is there anything

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that 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 you deserve to be happy?

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And you can be happy, but you have to make

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it as a choice. I'm going to increase my happiness

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just that if you make that realistically, I want to

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and I'm going to increase my happiness that choice. And

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then talk to people about it. Talk to a husband

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or wife or a girlfriend or a friend, a therapist

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or coach, talk to somebody about it and say, look,

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I'm made the decision that I want to be happier,

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and I'm like you to help me create a happiness

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plan 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, Lutionary Way to Increase Happiness. Carl, where

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could 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.