What is happiness? Is it worth pursuing? Can we truly be happy? John and Mike tackle these questions in their usual manner: by running around them in wide, unpredictable circles and somehow making it back in one piece. Gender roles, Russian novelists, country music, and an unprecedented level of autobiographical candor from our hosts make this episode an instant classic. Believe us when we tell you, this one was worth the wait.

Reading List: The Republic by Plato The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevski Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Link to the Japanese population pyramid we talked about in the outro: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/02/Japan_sex_by_age_2015.png

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