{"id":10650,"date":"2017-02-13T17:28:48","date_gmt":"2017-02-14T01:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/episode-754-im-so-happy-for-you\/"},"modified":"2017-02-13T17:28:48","modified_gmt":"2017-02-14T01:28:48","slug":"episode-754-im-so-happy-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/episode-754-im-so-happy-for-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 754: I&#039;m So Happy For You!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/money\/2017\/02\/13\/515035040\/episode-754-im-so-happy-for-you?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=business\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2017\/02\/13\/valentine-s-day-2ce2fd0bd22ad84cb8d99da2ff558c49260bda88-s1100-c15.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2017\/02\/13\/valentine-s-day-2ce2fd0bd22ad84cb8d99da2ff558c49260bda88-s1200.jpg\">Enlarge this image<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>\n                Valentine&#8217;s Day candy.<\/p>\n<p>                <b><\/p>\n<p>                    Melissa Deakin Photography\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>                <\/b><b><b>hide caption<\/b><\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><b><b>toggle caption<\/b><\/b><\/div>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<p>        Melissa Deakin Photography\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>    <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Regret. Self-loathing. Jealousy. Love. Happy Valentine&#8217;s Day! We have it all.<\/p>\n<p>When we&#8217;re not making podcasts, we&#8217;re reading and watching and listening to stories on other podcasts and magazines and websites. And when we love something, we always ask, &#8220;Why didn&#8217;t we do that?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Today on the show, we bring you the little stories that we love so much we wish we had thought of them ourselves.<\/p>\n<p>Our valentines go out to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/mediadirectory.economist.com\/people\/ann-wroe\/\">Ann Wroe<\/a>, The Economist&#8217;s <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/obituary\/21697782-prince-died-april-21st-aged-57-nothing-could-pin-him-down-obituary-prince-nelson-rogers\">obituary writer<\/a>, who reveals the secret of distilling a life into a page.<\/li>\n<li>Timothy W. Martin&#8217;s story about a <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/what-does-nevadas-35-billion-fund-manager-do-all-day-nothing-1476887420\">pension fund manager<\/a> who does nothing all day, and is beating everyone.<\/li>\n<li>Ernie Smith, the founder of <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/tedium.co\/\">Tedium<\/a>, who makes the boring fascinating.<\/li>\n<li>Ryan Staake, who directed the video for <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_9L3j-lVLwk\">Young Thug&#8217;s <\/a><em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_9L3j-lVLwk\">&#8216;Wyclef Jean&#8217;<\/a><\/em>out of more or less, nothing.<\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_ausntSqxC8\">Tanner Braungardt<\/a>, a young, Kansas-based YouTube star who has built a miniature media empire out of his friends and his obsession with back flips and trampolines.<\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/reductress.com\/\">Reductress<\/a>, a satirical women&#8217;s magazine. Kind of like The Onion meets Cosmo.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><span>Article continues after <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/about-npr\/186948703\/corporate-sponsorship\">sponsorship<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<aside>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<aside>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><em>*Note: We got the whole idea from Bloomberg BusinessWeek&#8217;s annual &#8220;<\/em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/features\/2015-jealousy-list\/\"><em>Jealousy List<\/em><\/a><em>.&#8221; Yeah, we were jealous of it. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Music: &#8220;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.firstcom.com\/#!\/results.aspx?pageNo=1&amp;resultsPerPage=20&amp;viewTags=1&amp;mode=work&amp;sortFilter=Default%3C\/p%3E%3Cp%3EDesc&amp;keyword=742022&amp;keywordType=1\">Hep Cat<\/a>&#8220;, &#8220;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.firstcom.com\/#!\/results.aspx?pageNo=1&amp;resultsPerPage=20&amp;viewTags=1&amp;mode=work&amp;sortFilter=Default%3C\/p%3E%3Cp%3EDesc&amp;keyword=728683&amp;keywordType=1\">Run for the Levee<\/a>&#8221; and &#8220;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.firstcom.com\/#!\/results.aspx?pageNo=1&amp;resultsPerPage=20&amp;viewTags=1&amp;mode=work&amp;sortFilter=Default%3C\/p%3E%3Cp%3EDesc&amp;keyword=634194&amp;keywordType=1\">Move On<\/a>.&#8221; Find us: <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/planetmoney\">Twitter<\/a>\/ <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/home.php?ref=home#%21\/planetmoney?ref=ts\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/\">Let&#8217;s block ads!<\/a><\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/acceptable.html\">(Why?)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/money\/2017\/02\/13\/515035040\/episode-754-im-so-happy-for-you?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=business\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Episode 754: I&#039;m So Happy For You!\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/money\/2017\/02\/13\/515035040\/episode-754-im-so-happy-for-you?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=business<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/money\/2017\/02\/13\/515035040\/episode-754-im-so-happy-for-you?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=business\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2017\/02\/13\/valentine-s-day-2ce2fd0bd22ad84cb8d99da2ff558c49260bda88-s1100-c15.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2017\/02\/13\/valentine-s-day-2ce2fd0bd22ad84cb8d99da2ff558c49260bda88-s1200.jpg\">Enlarge this image<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>\n                Valentine&#8217;s Day candy.<\/p>\n<p>                <b><\/p>\n<p>                    Melissa Deakin Photography\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>                <\/b><b><b>hide caption<\/b><\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><b><b>toggle caption<\/b><\/b><\/div>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<p>        Melissa Deakin Photography\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>    <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Regret. Self-loathing. Jealousy. Love. Happy Valentine&#8217;s Day! We have it all.<\/p>\n<p>When we&#8217;re not making podcasts, we&#8217;re reading and watching and listening to stories on other podcasts and magazines and websites. And when we love something, we always ask, &#8220;Why didn&#8217;t we do that?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Today on the show, we bring you the little stories that we love so much we wish we had thought of them ourselves.<\/p>\n<p>Our valentines go out to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/mediadirectory.economist.com\/people\/ann-wroe\/\">Ann Wroe<\/a>, The Economist&#8217;s <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/obituary\/21697782-prince-died-april-21st-aged-57-nothing-could-pin-him-down-obituary-prince-nelson-rogers\">obituary writer<\/a>, who reveals the secret of distilling a life into a page.<\/li>\n<li>Timothy W. Martin&#8217;s story about a <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/what-does-nevadas-35-billion-fund-manager-do-all-day-nothing-1476887420\">pension fund manager<\/a> who does nothing all day, and is beating everyone.<\/li>\n<li>Ernie Smith, the founder of <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/tedium.co\/\">Tedium<\/a>, who makes the boring fascinating.<\/li>\n<li>Ryan Staake, who directed the video for <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_9L3j-lVLwk\">Young Thug&#8217;s <\/a><em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_9L3j-lVLwk\">&#8216;Wyclef Jean&#8217;<\/a><\/em>out of more or less, nothing.<\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_ausntSqxC8\">Tanner Braungardt<\/a>, a young, Kansas-based YouTube star who has built a miniature media empire out of his friends and his obsession with back flips and trampolines.<\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/reductress.com\/\">Reductress<\/a>, a satirical women&#8217;s magazine. Kind of like The Onion meets Cosmo.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><span>Article continues after <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/about-npr\/186948703\/corporate-sponsorship\">sponsorship<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<aside>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<aside>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><em>*Note: We got the whole idea from Bloomberg BusinessWeek&#8217;s annual &#8220;<\/em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/features\/2015-jealousy-list\/\"><em>Jealousy List<\/em><\/a><em>.&#8221; Yeah, we were jealous of it. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Music: &#8220;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.firstcom.com\/#!\/results.aspx?pageNo=1&amp;resultsPerPage=20&amp;viewTags=1&amp;mode=work&amp;sortFilter=Default%3C\/p%3E%3Cp%3EDesc&amp;keyword=742022&amp;keywordType=1\">Hep Cat<\/a>&#8220;, &#8220;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.firstcom.com\/#!\/results.aspx?pageNo=1&amp;resultsPerPage=20&amp;viewTags=1&amp;mode=work&amp;sortFilter=Default%3C\/p%3E%3Cp%3EDesc&amp;keyword=728683&amp;keywordType=1\">Run for the Levee<\/a>&#8221; and &#8220;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.firstcom.com\/#!\/results.aspx?pageNo=1&amp;resultsPerPage=20&amp;viewTags=1&amp;mode=work&amp;sortFilter=Default%3C\/p%3E%3Cp%3EDesc&amp;keyword=634194&amp;keywordType=1\">Move On<\/a>.&#8221; Find us: <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/planetmoney\">Twitter<\/a>\/ <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/home.php?ref=home#%21\/planetmoney?ref=ts\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/\">Let&#8217;s block ads!<\/a><\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/acceptable.html\">(Why?)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}