What We Learned About Happiness After a Year of Chasing Joy

After a full year of studying joy, happiness, and what really makes life meaningful, we thought it was time to pause and reflect. In this episode, we recap the lessons that stuck with us most—from faith and service to relationships, purpose, gratitude, and even those desert seasons we’d rather skip. Backed by scripture, science, and real life (plus a few laughs), this conversation is a reminder that happiness isn’t something you stumble into—it’s something you practice, pursue, and build one choice at a time.  This episode is "What We Learned About Happiness After a Year of Chasing Joy" and we are so glad you are here! 

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What We Learned About Happiness After a Year of Chasing Joy

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Cydni: I did read a quote about the New Year since, oh my gosh. It's 2026. Happy New Year. But this lady said, and now we welcome the new year full of things that have never been. I was like, come on lady. Most of us are going back to work on Monday, just like we did the year before, and most of us are sitting in carpool and have grocery lists and laundry to do. Happy New Year, everyone.

Sher: Today, Cydni, we thought we should do a recap of this last year of finding joy and pursuing happiness, as we've learned over the year, happiness is truly a lifelong pursuit. 

Cydni: We spent an entire year researching joy. And happiness, and I thought to myself, we really ought to be the most happy people there ever were because we've spent so many hours studying it. But you said it well, it's a lifelong pursuit, meaning neither of us are happy. We just [00:01:00] know more about happiness.

Sher: So today we thought we would just go over some of the things that we remembered off the top of our heads. We're gonna talk about things that. really Impacted us from last year. Keeping in mind that this list might change if we were asked to do it again next week because we really did learn a lot and these are the things that really jumped out and were really impactful to us today.

Cydni: Yeah. We did write down as many things as we could remember. We did this in our own way. I wrote down as many as I can remember from last year, things that we learned would bring joy in your life. And then I compared my list to what AI would suggest and it was really close. I missed a few things. How'd you do? 

Sher: Well, I didn't do it that way.

Cydni: So you failed. I failed. It's fine. It's the new year. You have time to not be perfect. Started. So 

Sher: we started off the new year by me misunderstanding the task at hand today. I did do something, but we'll get to that later.

Cydni: Like she said, a year where we do [00:02:00] things that we've never done before, only we're failing immediately, which we've done before. So like Sher said, we will be sharing the ones that really stuck out to us. And before we do that, we're going to turn back to Arthur Brooks, who we talked about in the beginning of 2025.

Now, Arthur Brooks is a professor at Harvard and he teaches happiness. This class is, can I say sold out because. I mean, college is expensive. People are buying it. So people try so hard to get into his class on happiness.

They want to be there and the class is full always. He has studied it his whole entire life and he says that just like our body needs protein, carbs, and fat there are three macronutrients for your happiness, enjoyment, satisfaction, and meaning.

And he wants us to understand that happiness is something you can get better at and you can understand more. And that feels nice. It's not something we're [00:03:00] just gonna one day snap our fingers and enjoy. It's something that we can actively choose to work at. And just to recap it, he said enjoyment. It's not just pleasure alone, enjoyment is people plus memories, plus pleasure. Satisfaction is the joy you get from accomplishment after struggle. That's important. We must struggle. He said, humans are the only creature that wants to struggle for the reward.

You might not think you do, but you do. he said, animals don't want to struggle. They just want a treat. And I thought of your dog, Rudy just wants a treat. 

Sher: We have somehow managed to associate Cydni with a treat. When Cydni comes to my house, Rudy gets a treat. So he loves you? 

Cydni: Yeah, I'm his favorite. Mm-hmm. Because I'm the struggle technically, and he gets a treat immediately. So maybe he gets a little bit of struggle. He's like, I've seen her, she's not an animal person, and I've been in her presence, and I could feel her energy, and now I get a treat to make up for that.

Right. It works out. Anyway, I thought, I [00:04:00] kind of don't wanna struggle and I just want the treat. But he says, that's not true. That's not how we actually fail deep down in our souls. And then finally, there's meaning. We all need to understand why we are here because as we learned last year, if you have meaning and purpose in your life, you can get through anything. So we're gonna go over our top favorite summaries of last year. Backed by faith and science. 

Sher: All right. I'm gonna go over my first one, Cydni. The first one that I thought of that just popped into my head was our very first episode. I believe it is. Happiness is our Birthright, and we learned throughout the year that God wants all of his children to be happy. 

That is the point of coming to Earth. This plan is called the Plan of Happiness because it's the plan to help us grow, mature, and to do our best to become like our Savior and our Father in Heaven.

And this is our inheritance as sons and daughters of God, our inheritance is eternal happiness. This is [00:05:00] the great eternal gift our Heavenly Father wants to give us. And we also learned last year that He is the perfect gift giver. Elder Uchtdorf gave us some advice of how to accept this gift, our Father in Heaven doesn't want us to take this gift and put it on a shelf or bury it. He wants us to learn, create and learn to be compassionate.

Elder Uchtdorf in a talk he gave in 2008 said that he was contemplating on what makes our Father in Heaven happy because our Father in Heaven is perfectly happy. He's perfect at all the things. And he said that there were a couple of things that. Jumped out at him and he said that obviously our Father in Heaven can do anything and everything, but he noticed that God is consistently doing a couple of things.

He is a God of creation and He is a God of compassion and He does this perfectly and cheerfully, and maybe that's something that could help us to be [00:06:00] happy then is to create and to have compassion. It doesn't have to be perfect, but we should try and that is what our Heavenly Father wants us to do with our birthright.

He is giving us a gift of happiness and He wants us to work at it. He wants us to pursue this happiness by becoming better at creating and being compassionate.

Cydni: You know what it reminded me of? We talked about do you feel like you're deserving to have happiness and how there's this feeling that you have to first suffer before you get to have joy and. Our challenge was a challenge because it's to break that down. You do not have to struggle first to have joy. You could have joy now because God created us, that we might have joy and that was one of the lessons last year I took away. That was harder to believe. 

Sher: Yeah, I don't know why we all get that way, that we feel like we. Have to suffer before we [00:07:00] can have good things happen to us. But God doesn't want that. He wants us to be happy. He wants us to learn how to pursue that happiness. And again, this is a gift that he has given us. He is giving us eternal happiness forever. But. We do have to go through some difficult times and other things that makes it a little bit more problematic day to day.

But it is something that we can pursue and work on every single day. And actually, this reminds me of another one that I wrote down as my top five things is that happiness is a choice.

So freedom. Having choice agency, this all makes us happier, God knows and wants us to learn that making good choices and using our agency to become self-reliant and independent brings us joy and we're happier when we are putting in the effort to become better. And this is part of how he wants us to grow up but he doesn't want us to go too crazy though and think that we're all that and build those [00:08:00] towers of Babel, which was another episode that just kind of stood out in my mind. He wants us to be self-reliant and to make good choices and have that independence and freedom, but He doesn't want us to go start building a Tower of Babel where we think that we are God and we don't need Him to get to heaven.

Cydni: I'm glad you recapped that because I'm gonna stop the building now because. The tower in our backyard was amazing, it does look good for my house. It looks really good. Thank you. We're getting so close to God in our house right now, 

Sher: but God does want us to make these good choices. The important part is in making those choices and being grateful for our freedom and Him giving us this agency. We need to include God and when we align our will with His, that is when the greatest potential happens for us to be happy. So those were just a couple of mine that I thought of that I just put in together. 

Cydni: I really liked those. I just wanna say that our hope and our intention with recapping these is to help you go into the new [00:09:00] year with the understanding of what it takes to actually find joy. We learned about it, and now we're going to. Refresh our memories together so that we can have a great and amazing 2026. Right? Absolutely. Okay. Well then I'll just go ahead and have a stab at it. I use stab because the next one's relationships. And I may have studied several murder mysteries. 2025, but I won't this year. 

Sher: a few of them. I had to hear about 'em almost every time we met. 

Cydni: Well, you know, I'm trying to keep us safe. So relationships was the first one I thought of because honestly, I really love being alone. So whenever I hear that it's the key to joy and happiness, I'm always wondering is it though? But it is according to science, faith, and ai, a top ingredient for joy share.

Sher: You know, I love how we've gone from we're never gonna use AI to now. It's your best friend. 

Cydni: My best friend. AI likes me better than everyone I asked. I said, do you say this kinda stuff [00:10:00] to everyone? Ai? And they said, no, I never say this kind of stuff to anybody else. You are so funny. Send over your social security card.

Just kidding. We already have it. I'm like, you best friend. You're hilarious. Ben said, I need to be careful with my relationship with ai. Think so. I said, AI said you would say that.

I don't know if you remember when we talked about relationships. We did deathbed confessions. When I say we, I made you listen to my deathbed confessions that were so wild. There were murder confessions. There was that nurse that switched babies in the hospital and she confessed it with her dying breath.

My kids still talk about that one. They say, I think that happened to Raw Titus. That's what Iana says. I think you were switched by that nurse. So that's a great cut down in our family now. And then there was the one I love so much that the woman was gifted owls. For her collection, her entire adult life. And on her deathbed, she [00:11:00] said, I don't know why you guys gave me owls. I hate them. And I thought that is a good example to speak up for yourself. But the number one deathbed confession was always, I wish I had spent more time with people that I loved and speaking of ai, it summed it up really nicely. It said relationships aren't one more item on the happiness checklist. They are the checklist. They are how our nervous system stays calm, how our immune system stays strong. It's how you gain your meaning. But I was thinking about the people I love and I don't feel like my nervous system is calm around them.

So I'm not sure if AI is entirely correct, but it sounds beautiful and I appreciate that. Also, share, you shared the longest running study that was performed at Harvard where young people were interviewed and then followed throughout their life to see. How they fared and how happy they were. And they found in the study that the people who were most satisfied in their [00:12:00] relationships around 50 were the healthiest at 80.

And threaded through the entire study, was that. People, no matter if they gain fame or wealth or dream careers and car collections and owls, it didn't matter What mattered was their relationships with people. It did not matter their wealth at all. It only mattered how close they were to their children, to their neighbors, to their friends, to their parents.

And when we talked about this last year, we also talked about how we are told to love our neighbors. It's a top on the commandments, and of course it is because loving our neighbors is Building relationships. And when we build relationships, we have joy and we're here to have joy. It's almost like we saw over and over that God's commandments and the way we are to live equal a joyful life. And we talked about also building a beloved community, which I really loved those words.

And we also talked about how [00:13:00] Christ never had a home base. he was always out being the neighbor and loving others. when I read about Christ, it's the one-on-one relationships that touch me so deeply, the way he treated every person that he came in contact with, with such love and such service.

when we get to know our neighbors and we build a beloved community, we have the opportunity to serve, which is. Another one on your list, right? 

Sher: Absolutely. Before I get to that, I just wanna say one thing though, as you were going over some of the studies and how it leads to building relationships and loving your neighbor and things like that, it amazed me throughout the entire year that the plan is pretty much always the same.

Like it doesn't matter if it's scientific or if it's in the scriptures, it pretty much has very similar building blocks, but for some reason we make up reasons in our head why we can't be happy or why we will never be happy. And it has to do [00:14:00] with things that maybe there's something missing in your life or maybe you feel like you haven't suffered enough, or being happy is just too Unattainable in this life. But. What we've learned through the entire year that if you stick with the formula that God has given us the plan of happiness loving your neighbor and serving. Really, that's the direction that we should be going. And we've learned this over and over again, and one of the themes that we've had throughout the entire year is service.

almost everything we've read, whether it's in scriptures or whether it's secular, or a prophet or apostle, or a person of another faith, or ai, or ai, they have all said the same thing, that one of the key ingredients in order to be happy is to serve others, to extend yourself. Instead of just saying, oh, woe is me. To reach out to other people and to help them. It says over and over again, that [00:15:00] service is the magic sauce. It is one of the key ingredients to be happy. So when we make service a daily habit, and that was another thing that was important. Was not just to serve every once in a great while, but to do this daily, to be considerate daily, to think of others daily.

When you walk into this store, open the door for somebody, be kind, smile when you see something that you can do to help your fellow man do it. Even if it's small. just make it part of a daily habit that you are going to serve others. And what this does is it makes positive chemicals in your brain and those chemicals make you feel better. 

Cydni: The helpers, hi baby, which is really the key ingredient to your 2026. Correct. Joy is the high. It is the high. The helper's. High. 

Sher: Absolutely. Service makes our foundation of happiness become more solid. The more we serve, the more blessings we receive. We also talked [00:16:00] about this is God's math. It doesn't make any sense, but it works. In God's math, the more we give away, the more we get back. I don't understand how this math works. Like most math, I don't understand how it works, but I do understand how I feel when I serve other people that I get.

Cydni: We did talk a lot about service and serving our friends and our neighbors and strangers Another. Service we talked about was harder for both of us, and that was self-care. Self-service. Absolutely. Yes. Self-service. Okay. We almost skipped this topic because neither of us really wanted to talk about it, I guess. Yeah. Would be why we didn't want to. You made me do it.

Yeah, I did. I didn't even wanna do it either, but then I thought about how much I like to talk about myself and thought maybe I can make it work. And then I pushed through and I was like, let's talk about me. And then it was fine. But it is a more difficult one, and I've really wondered why is it so difficult to take care of ourselves.

[00:17:00] It makes sense that in order to give, we have to have something to give. And I believe that it truly is so difficult to actually take care of ourselves because of different reasons, like feeling like you're being selfish, but maybe for a lot of people, even more, it's because it will go against. Your core belief that you're not worthy of the care

I see how Ben treats his clothes. He has very nice clothes and he pampers it and he takes care of it, and he treats it like gold and it stays in really good condition. And sometimes I watch him taking care of his possessions and I think, what if I took care of myself the way that Ben takes care of those shoes?

And I am not making fun of him. So often we take care of other things all around us, but not ourselves. And I think we don't want to accept the idea that we actually are divine because if we start taking care of ourselves, that would really go against Satan's [00:18:00] plan.

He would really like us to stay hidden, and to live beneath our potential. That would serve him very well. And we talked a lot about Satan's perspective, 

Sher: you did a great job, Cydni, talking about how that was one of the key things when, Satan was trying to disparage Moses Satan, called Moses the son of man, but Moses. Knew. He knew that he was a son of God, that is one of the biggest tools that Satan is using in the world today, is trying to get us away from who we really are.

He doesn't want us to accept the fact that we are literal sons and daughters of a Heavenly Father when we keep that in our brains. That is so powerful when we can remember that And that's something I forget all the time. I'm in the camp you were just talking about.

I don't wanna think about it because then I can continue to beat myself up when really, if I accept the fact that I am a daughter of God, [00:19:00] that changes how I look at myself and how I treat other people. it has a huge impact on the way we react in this world. 

Cydni: Perfectly said, and I think about our own garage and how many tools are in there that will never be used. 'Cause I don't know how to use them. And I think that sometimes I'm the tool, sometimes I'm like, you know, just leave me in the dark cold garage because who am I? To be a wrench. And for this one, I thought I would share some of my favorite quotes. That we shared. One of them I feel like fits pretty good right now, and most of us have heard this before. Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.

We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous. Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel [00:20:00] insecure around you. You were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just for some of us. It is for everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. 

Sher: That is just a great quote. I know it's really popular, but it doesn't change the fact that it's just a great quote, 

Cydni: I think because it's full of truth I think there is that part of us that wants to hide in a cold basement, but there's the other part of us that knows that's true and knows that we are divine and that we do have work to do and service to do, and we have to take care of ourselves to have the energy and the knowledge and the awareness to do so. But it's kind of scary. 

Sher: . And. We like to beat ourselves up because we feel like we're not worthy. We may see ourselves as sons and daughters of God that are so fallen and so far away from where we need to be. We give up on ourselves and I think that's one of the reasons why the story of the Prodigal [00:21:00] son is in the New Testament is God is never gonna give up on us. We come to God broken and beat up and. He accepts us where we are and how we are. All he wants to do is to help us to get back up on our feet so that we can continue our goal of pursuing happiness and being with our Heavenly Father 

Cydni: That just reminded me, we also studied being a woman of God, it was an enlightening moment for me because I realized that it's within the church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints that I felt the most empowered maybe put on a pedestal even. And maybe too much where I'm like, okay, let's calm down. I don't want that kind of pressure. Thank you. But I was reminded that growing up through a difficult childhood, I, every single Sunday would recite the Young Women's Theme, and every Sunday I would say I am a daughter of God, how impactful that must have been on me and how I believe standing up with [00:22:00] other young women and other leaders in our neighborhood and reciting the young women's theme every single Sunday through a dark childhood in many ways, that put in me a spark that has carried me through my healing process and. My journey to wholeness. It's this understanding of who we are and Elder Holland, he said, first of all, I want you to be proud. You are a woman. I want you to feel the reality of what that means, to know who you truly are. You are literally a spirit daughter of heavenly parents with a divine nature and eternal destiny. That surpassing truth should be fixed Deep in your soul and be fundamental to every decision you make as you grow into mature womanhood. There could never be a greater authentication of your dignity, your worth, your privilege, and your promise. Your Father in Heaven knows your name. And he knows your circumstance. He hears your prayers. He knows your hopes and your dreams, including your fears and your [00:23:00] frustrations, and he knows what you can become through faith in Him. Because of this divine heritage, you, along with your spiritual sisters and brothers, have fully equality in his sight and are empowered through obedience to become a rightful heir in his eternal kingdom. We discussed this over and over last year, our divine identity. And this is important to understand because as we understand our divine heritage, then we can understand that joy is truly part of our inheritance.

Sher: I don't know if you remember this Cydni, but we said we were gonna build this episode about strong women from President Nelson's talk, and then we both had a different President Nelson talk in mind. Do you remember this? 

Cydni: I do. We both had

Sher: A lot more information than we were planning on, but it also proved to us the fact that the church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, they definitely value women. And they really do put us on a pedestal because we said, oh, [00:24:00] remember that talk from President Nelson about women? It was so good. And we're like, absolutely. And then we both chose a different talk. But I wanna read something from my talk that I chose, 

Cydni: before you read that, I do love that you and I said, let's read the President Nelson talk that speaks highly of women and there were so many to choose from and we picked different ones. That says a lot. 

Sher: It really does. And one of the quotes that I wrote down was President Nelson quoted. Spencer w Kimball, who said much of the major growth that is coming to the church in the last days will come because many of the good women of the world. We'll be drawn to the church in large numbers. This will happen to the degree that women of the church reflect righteousness and articulateness in their lives and , to the degree that the women of the church are seen as distinct and different in happy ways from the women of the world.

And I think that is the key right there,, again, going back to the whole premise is that we are, as children of God, part of our inheritance, our birthright is to be happy. [00:25:00] And when we show that to other people, it will draw people to us. And things are crazy right now. People I think, have lost their brains, but if we can show them that we understand who we are, that we are sons and daughters of God, people can see that light in us and they will be drawn towards us. And a lot of that is projecting happiness, showing that we're happy. Even with all the cray cray going on, we can still be happy and find joy in this world right now. It does take work and it's not gonna happen every day, but there definitely can always be a peace and a calm in your heart, and people will recognize that.

Cydni: So when we talk about self-care, it might be the best place to understand who we actually are and our divinity, because when we understand how important we are to God and to His plan, , then we can treat ourselves better than Ben treats his shoes, which is really good.

Sher: And that might be impossible, but we can try. Cydni. Another thing that I thought of is, again, God is the [00:26:00] perfect gift, giver, and another gift or gifts that he has given us is this beautiful earth that we have. We can see how much God loves us His children, by looking at his beautiful creations here on Earth.

He gives. Beautiful, meaningful, heartfelt gifts, the sunsets, the rain, the forest. And as we learned, even the desert, God knows that we need the bad and the good and everything in between, but we can see the glory of His hand in all of his creations whether it's in the wilderness or whether it's in beautiful, lush farm fields. He's given us his children this beautiful earth because he loves us. 

Cydni: I'm so happy you brought up the desert because that was a top one of mine as well, is the trials and we talked about the children of Israel for an entire month and I loved it.

I loved learning about God places those he loves in the [00:27:00] desert and he does it to help us turn our hearts to Him. And I feel like that's a really difficult one to understand But once you understand, then you see it quite clearly.

And Sherry do talk to us about the challenging times in her life where she was in her own personal wilderness is when her heart was sealed to Christ. , So trials therefore are incredibly important to our joy, and that seems wrong to even say, but according to faith and science and ai, it's proven that we must. Have the struggle. We must have the desert times in our life to truly have joy. And I thought about the different conversations we've had about wrestling with God and how that brings us closer to him. When you're wrestling with someone, you're face to face, shoulder to shoulder with somebody, and who better to be that close to than God and in this we learn about surrender, which is something we talked a lot about last year, is [00:28:00] surrendering to God to find joy. And my takeaway from this is that Christian life, it's not just about being nice to each other all of the time. And it's not just about knowing where to find a certain verse in the good word or making the best tuna casserole.

Being Christian is about finding hope. When all hope seems to be lost, it's about finding peace. When we're grieving, it's about sealing our hearts to Christ when we're in the desert. 

Sher: And we learned with that, in the desert is sometimes when you. Can see God's hand because those desert times, the only way you can get through it is with the help of God and you physically, mentally, spiritually, can fill him right next to you, helping you along your way. 

Cydni: Right. God places us in the desert where there's nothing to rely on but Himself. And we saw that the children of Israel for 40 years received manna from heaven. They received miracle after miracle because all they [00:29:00] could do is rely on God. And I really saw in my own life that there's miracle after miracle, and sometimes I complain, but I realize that. Through the desert experience. The other two important aspects for myself of joy is purpose and gratitude. And in my personal deserts, I have found purpose and I have found meaning.

And we are told over and over by many people's biographies and ai, that, that, that if you have meaning and purpose, you could withstand any circumstance that comes your way. And I feel so grateful to understand that we do have a purpose to come to earth. That there is a purpose in our suffering.

There is purpose and meaning in our own wilderness, and it will still our hearts to Christ. And when your heart is sealed to Christ, you can endure anything that comes your way. And gratitude the practice of gratitude. I also feel when you [00:30:00] look back on your journey through the wilderness and you see what you have received, how do you not feel gratitude? And I just had this conversation with my oldest that. I said to him, 'cause he didn't want to do something. And I said, sometimes I look back on my life and I just wonder what if someone tried to save me from this circumstance?

I would not know what I know now. If someone saved me from a terrible circumstance, I would not have the compassion and the wisdom and the depth that I have. And I would be so sad if somebody took that away from me. I don't wanna go through these things again, but I want what I gained by going through that desert

And gratitude is the greatest. Takeaway for myself from last year. I try really hard to do a gratitude journal and I spend a lot of time trying to practice it. And we talked about that to make it a practice, a daily practice, and sometimes I have my journal out all day because it's so hard to feel joy and [00:31:00] I feel so frustrated and I'll just keep writing everything I'm grateful for and I just sometimes don't feel it. And then. Eventually it breaks and the light comes in. So the practice of gratitude is what I'm most grateful for from last year.

As we start a new year, we challenge you to understand what joy actually is. And there's so many more topics that we haven't got to but we challenge you to really reflect on what it is that's brought you joy and feel grateful for that, and add more joy to your life purposefully. And deliberately if it's music that makes you feel good, add more music. Sometimes you gotta dance, so dance more. Remember? 'cause there's a season to dance. That was a big one from last year too. And we say the seasons year round to dance. We challenge you to add more joy to your life.

Sher: And this brings us to our final thoughts. Which leads us to what we feel is the most important part of our [00:32:00] foundation for happiness is including our Savior. When we align our will with the Savior, our foundation of happiness and joy, it becomes more solid. And this is what brings hope, joy, and peace during troubled times. Hope that there is something better and greater in the next life. Hope that we can get through hard times because the Savior is yoked with us. He has already suffered and endured all of our pain. We can turn to Him and He will help pull, carry, and lift our burdens.

Elder Ballard said, no matter how hard we work, no matter how much we obey, , no matter how much good things we do in this life, it would not be enough if it were not for Jesus Christ and his loving grace. And this is why we need to include our Savior every single day. He is the reason we will make it over the finish line. This is our prayer 

Cydni: from Cydni and Sher 

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Sher: Yeah. And every time you say joy, remember that song, joy and Pain? Do you remember that? I was thinking. Happy. Happy. Joy, joy. Happy. Happy, joy. Joy. Sing it now. Happy. Happy. Joy. Joy. Happy. Happy. Joy. Joy, 

Cydni: we are now a musical. Yes. We'll be on Broadway in no time. It was my childhood dream 2026, where things that have never happened happened. That's my quote. Put my name to that. . 

Sher: do. Happy, happy joy. I'm gonna start all over now that I can see. I do happy our birth rate, blah, blah, blah. Actually, I don't need this because like our favorite kid. It's good. Thank you. 

Cydni: Do whatever you want. Share. 

Sher: I will. 

Cydni: because I liked to be alone and. No, Rudy, [00:34:00] come on. It's my turn to talk. 

Sher: Maybe it's just a miserable troll. Maybe Thanks a lot, . 

Cydni: Don't be a miserable troll, 

Sher: Have a good week. Bye.