Archive - Reasonably Happy

Money, Fame, and Misery: Meet the Beatles

By the end, the Fab Four weren't feeling so fab

Mar 19 • Paul Ollinger

58:00

Believe and You Will See! (w/ Nir Eyal )

Listen now (58 mins) | My guest this week is Nir Eyal, whose two books ('Hooked’ and ‘Indistractable’) have sold over 1 million copies in over 30…

Mar 12 • Paul Ollinger

57:45

Gina Gershon on Fame, Desire, and Boobs

Listen now (61 mins) | Guess who I got to meet last week - Gina Gershon.

Mar 5 • Paul Ollinger

1:00:41

February 2026

The Courage to Be Right w/ Matt Kaplan

Listen now (58 mins) | Matt Kaplan is a science correspondent at the Economist and author of the new book I Told You So!: Scientists Who Were Ridiculed…

Feb 26 • Paul Ollinger

58:17

Avoiding Middle Aged Trouble

How to NOT screw up your life

Feb 24 • Paul Ollinger

Insider Trading w/Tom Hardin

Listen now (74 mins) | How do you handle it when you screw up badly?

Feb 19 • Paul Ollinger

1:13:51

Surviving Middle Age w/ Ben Markovits

Listen now (48 mins) | Ben Markovits is the author of several acclaimed novels, including his most recent release The Rest of Our Lives, which explores…

Feb 12 • Paul Ollinger

47:59

Marriage, Infidelity, and Millennial Disillusionment with Erin Somers

Listen now (42 mins) | Erin Somers' new novel, The Ten Year Affair is a story about Millennial disillusionment (and extramarital sex).

Feb 5 • Paul Ollinger

41:46

January 2026

A.I. Facts, Fears and Fiction (w/ Bryan Reimer)

Listen now (43 mins) | AI will have at least as big an effect on society as the invention of electricity.

Jan 28 • Paul Ollinger

43:16

From Apartheid to Atlanta w/ Robyn Curnow

Listen now (60 mins) | My guest is Robyn Curnow, a native South African who spent over two decades at CNN, where she hosted CNN’s Newsroom, and anchored…

Jan 15 • Paul Ollinger

59:38

Rewrite Mental Illness w/Laura Delano

Listen now (71 mins) | Laura Delano is the author of Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance. Laura was fourteen years old when she saw…

Jan 7 • Paul Ollinger

1:11:26

Has Comedy Gone Right-Wing?

The entrenched intellectual class wants you to think so

Jan 5 • Paul Ollinger

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