Top 5: Love the Past, But Don't Live There

This is an iHeart Podcast. Guaranteed human. Pushkin. It's birthday season here at the Happiness Lab. We are celebrating our fifth year anniversary, and it's prompted us to go back into the archive to pull out five of my most memorable and meaningful episodes from the hundreds that we've made. My producer Ryan has number three on the list, which is So it's a show from season three called Why Nostalgia Ain't So Rosy. And I think I know why you're happy to grab this one out, but what you tell the listeners.

My heart throb. Yes. So this is uh an episode where I got to interview the actor Roblo, who definitely was one of my eighties heart throbs. I believe you made fun of me for what smile on my face in the zoom interview. Yes, I looked a little cheesy. And this was the first big season we made during the Covid lockdown. So I remember sitting with you on Zoom and with Rob Lowe. He told so many funny stories and did all the accents. We couldn't fit them all in. Yeah, I mean and aside from all his Hollywood anecdotes, Rob also really helped us understand the psychology of nostalgia. both the parts of nostalgia that we get right that help us and the parts of nostalgia that lead us astray. Because Rob's very nostalgic. I mean he there's lots of things in his youth he remembers fondly, but as I remember he's also careful not to get caught up in them. What are the things you get nostalgic about? Well Rob in eighties movies, obviously. Um, you know, really cheesy music from the nineties. I mean there's so many things I get nostalgic about, and and I think that's the beauty of our understanding of the nostalgia, right? Is that nostalgia can kinda bring us joy, but as we'll see in this episode it's something that we don't want to get caught up in. We want to be nostalgic without falling prey to the pitfalls of nostalgia. And that is what I think you'll learn today.

So here is why nostalgia ain't so rosy. Yeah. Yeah. When you hear the word nostalgia. Where do your thoughts go?

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