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Happiness Scale · Let's Ask the Mamas!

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  Speaker 1: We got a question for American mama's on a scale
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  Speaker 1: of one to ten, with ten being the absolute happiest
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  Speaker 1: ever and one being the most depressed ever. Where do
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  Speaker 1: you think you would rate your baseline happiness? Well, let's
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  Speaker 1: ask our American mama's.
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  Speaker 2: Mamma Mama.
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  Speaker 1: And joining us now our American mama's Terry Ediville and
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  Speaker 1: Kimberly Burleson. Okay, so scale of one to ten, this
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  Speaker 1: is baseline happiness?
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  Speaker 2: Is this?
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  Speaker 1: I guess this is just kind of where you are
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  Speaker 1: on an average day. Is that what we're saying here?
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  Speaker 3: Yes?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so, and I've got a companion question that's going
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  Speaker 1: to follow this up. But all right, Terry, where do
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  Speaker 1: you think your baseline is?
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  Speaker 3: Easily during the day, I'd say eight.
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  Speaker 1: An eight eight, you're just kind of happy and joll
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  Speaker 1: it takes yeah, And Kimberly, where's yours?
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  Speaker 4: I feel like I'm a nine ten for the most part.
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  Speaker 4: I do. I do. There's this TikToker that goes around
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  Speaker 4: and he asks people are you happy? He just walks
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  Speaker 4: up to ran of people, and it's it breaks my
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  Speaker 4: heart because there's so many people that are like, no,
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  Speaker 4: I'm not, I'm not happy at all, and it's like,
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  Speaker 4: start listening all their things. But the people that he
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  Speaker 4: asks and they say are you happy, they're like absolutely,
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  Speaker 4: And he's asked why, and they're always like, because I'm alive,
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  Speaker 4: because the sun is shining. It's like and there you
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  Speaker 4: see this aura about them that's just.
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  Speaker 3: Just happy lack of goodness.
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  Speaker 4: But I understand there are times there's situational depression, and
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  Speaker 4: so I may be happy nine a nine to ten.
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  Speaker 4: Most of the time I have those twos. You know,
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  Speaker 4: you have the times that you're low, and to me
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  Speaker 4: it's totally different. Baseline is pretty much I'm a happy
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  Speaker 4: person with moments of.
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  Speaker 1: That was going to be my other part of this
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  Speaker 1: question is not just where your baseline is, and of
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  Speaker 1: course it's being a nerd, I'm thinking in statistics terms,
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  Speaker 1: So what is your standard deviation from that? So like
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  Speaker 1: you won all the way from a nine down to a.
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  Speaker 4: Two, I wouldn't say that, maybe that's a little bit
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  Speaker 4: too far, but i'd say four, okay, you know, five
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  Speaker 4: being even keel, but a four being okay.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, for me, it's like she said, it's situational.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a really happy person. It takes a lot. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, Kevin can come in with one line and
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  Speaker 2: get me down to a two.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I won't get into it over something.
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  Speaker 1: Still, I would absolutely imagine that your range is larger
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  Speaker 1: than Kimberly's.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure.
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  Speaker 2: It's like I'm up, up, up, and then if somebody
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  Speaker 2: crushes my heart, then I'm down.
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  Speaker 3: I'm low. It breaks my heart, right, and so what
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  Speaker 3: about you?
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  Speaker 1: Honestly, I probably sit about a six, and I will
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  Speaker 1: go maybe down to a four and a half, and
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  Speaker 1: I will go up maybe.
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  Speaker 3: To a seven and a half, but never above that.
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  Speaker 1: I don't really have huge ranges anymore. I used to
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  Speaker 1: when I was younger. I don't really, But I'll tell
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  Speaker 1: you what I have is I walk around with like
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  Speaker 1: a nine in piece. So I don't. I think there's
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  Speaker 1: too much going on in my head on a regular
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  Speaker 1: basis of this is where this is heading, and this
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  Speaker 1: is what I've got to accomplish here. I've got to
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  Speaker 1: do this of the thing here that there's a lot
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  Speaker 1: that's going on up there, Uh for me to just
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  Speaker 1: be walking around going. But I don't get too high
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  Speaker 1: and I don't get too low anymore. And I do
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  Speaker 1: walk around going. You know, whatever it's gonna be, it's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be fine.
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  Speaker 2: Right and well in peace, Trump's happiness.
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  Speaker 1: That's where I am so like, you know, I can,
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  Speaker 1: I can just tap into joy as I need to.
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  Speaker 3: That's even that's even greater.
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  Speaker 1: So so it's it's my my baseline's lower probably than y'alls.
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  Speaker 1: But at the same time, my range is lower, and
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  Speaker 1: I don't get as low as I used.
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  Speaker 2: To, I think innately, you know, I'm just a happy person.
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  Speaker 2: I've always I've always been like that. It it really
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  Speaker 2: does take a lot to make me feel very sad,
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  Speaker 2: but I think a lot of that. I wonder, Kimberly,
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  Speaker 2: if you feel the same way. Is who raised us
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  Speaker 2: the mindset that they gave us. Having parents, we lived
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  Speaker 2: in a bubble until college. Basically, you know, we we
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  Speaker 2: weren't allowed to watch too much or listen to too much,
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  Speaker 2: and so we were constantly pumped with you know, God's
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  Speaker 2: grace and look what God has in store for you,
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  Speaker 2: and well they were grateful for everything.
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  Speaker 3: Let's have full kind of people. Yeah, that's what we
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  Speaker 3: grew up with.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, it's interesting because I married somebody who
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  Speaker 2: I guess he would say this too. He's more of
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  Speaker 2: a half empty, you know, whereas I'm more of a
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  Speaker 2: people might have called me Pollyanna. I'm just optimistic, very positive.
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  Speaker 2: He's kind of half empty. And we kind of come together,
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  Speaker 2: we kind of help each other out. But he would
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  Speaker 2: even say that raising our children to see things half full,
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  Speaker 2: to raise them with that optimistic attitude, that positive feeling
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  Speaker 2: that it's going to be okay, everything's going to work out.
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  Speaker 5: And I feel sorry for people that their default is
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  Speaker 5: kind of like how Kevin is, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 5: It's like they want so badly to be like you
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  Speaker 5: and to be at that happy area, but they just can't.
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  Speaker 5: It's just not who they've been their whole lives. It's
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  Speaker 5: a struggle. And I feel like there's we're we're lucky.
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  Speaker 5: We're lucky that our default is basically happy.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and we in the show every day saying may
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  Speaker 1: your pursuit of happiness bring you joy. I do believe
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  Speaker 1: in the pursuit of happiness. It's what drives the economy
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  Speaker 1: to begin with. But what's more important to me than
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  Speaker 1: that is joy. So I don't actually seek happiness out.
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  Speaker 1: I actually seek joy out. So if I'm doing something
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  Speaker 1: It's not that I want to necessarily be happy. It's
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  Speaker 1: that I want to grab onto this thing that is
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  Speaker 1: joyful that I can just hold because joy lasts longer
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  Speaker 1: than happiness. True. Does that make sense?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? So do you think that that Trump's peace or
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  Speaker 3: do you think peace? Trump's all?
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  Speaker 1: Peace? Trump's all because you can be miserable and as
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  Speaker 1: long as you have peace, you can keep going forward.
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  Speaker 3: I agree.
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  Speaker 1: If you like to ask our American Mama's a question,
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  Speaker 1: Tearing out of Kimberly Burgst and thank you so much.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you,