From Washington, D.C., this is Lexicon Valley, a podcast about language.
I'm Bob Garfield with Mike Volo, and on today's show, searching for the true meaning of happiness.
Forget your troubles, come on, get happy.
You better chase all your cares away.
Shout hallelujah, come on, get happy.
Get ready for the judgment day.
The sun is shining...
Hey, Mikey.
Hey, Bobby.
How you doing?
Splendid.
Thank you.
And yourself?
I'm well, thanks.
Happy Thanksgiving to you, plus an early happy holidays.
Thank you so much.
I notice you're hitting the word happy as you say those sentences.
Perhaps that's because happy, the word, might be the topic of this episode.
But before we begin, Mike, we stopped doing this like five years ago.
Why are we here?