Quickie: You’ve stopped laughing

Dirty Mother Pukka with Anna Whitehouse

Heart

Parenting, Kids & Family

4.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Somewhere between the pandemic and extreme childcare costs, we stopped laughing. There’s a guilt in feeling joy in a cost of living crisis; An anxiety in laughing when the world is seemingly crumbling. Anna and Polly try to force a smile and question the importance of laughter and how to get it back.

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0:00.0	This is a global player original podcast.
0:09.6	Welcome to this episode of Dirty Motherpucker.
0:17.5	This is your Quicky, your podcasting bit on the side with me, Anna White House, the founder of Motherpucker, and it is the one of a very only.
0:24.7	I'm already laughing.
0:26.4	I'm already in the spirit of today's topic.
0:29.2	Who's over there?
0:30.2	Polly.
0:30.6	Oh, Polly. I'm sorry, my name, Polly Hayserwood.
0:32.7	Here I am.
0:33.2	One job, one job. So ironically, we've actually probably had our four laughs of the day
0:38.2	because we wanted to talk about the decline of laughter in the over 40s.
0:44.2	So in psychology today, apparently the average four-year-old laughs 300 times a day.
0:50.3	The average 40-year-old, only four.
0:53.7	Well, that's our five.
0:54.6	What's count as a full laugh?
0:57.0	Is it just a ha-ha?
0:58.5	Is it a belly?
0:59.2	Does it matter? Does it? Belly laugh?
1:00.1	I think it's just anything that isn't grimace or trolling someone or anger generally at the general public.
1:07.6	Oh, how depressing is that?
1:09.0	It is really sad. And actually, I've noticed it in
1:11.5	myself. Like, um, I, it almost feels there's a guilt to laughter at the moment because everything
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