ugh! how much longer do i have to sit here? i m just gonna do it. i m shut up. stop talking pee my pants in your brain they won t even know. bears, beets, battlestar galactica. oh, my god, can we please literally go anywhere else? silence the chatter. bjork, bjork, bjork. shut up, brain! shut up! gah! [nicky blitz blast off ] - getting too close, better pull on back - what if i travel the world, exploring what makes some places happier than others? - need a one-two - i m looking at the ways that where we are. - yeah, i m a-comin , i m a-comin - affect who we are. - whoo, i m a-comin i m a-comin , yeah - it s been said that the search for happiness is the chief source of unhappiness. - i m a-comin , i m a-comin - well, that s okay. i m already unhappy, so i ve got nothing to lose. - let s blast off let s blast off blast off
- thank you. - very excited. we re gonna go talk to people about happiness. - oh, oh, beautiful. you guys are going to like it. - are we gonna find some happiness here? - of course. - yeah? - i can feel it. - ok. - trust me. [chuckles] [horns honking] - if the point of this journey is to find happiness, i need to force myself out of my comfort zone. so i m visiting one of the statistically most optimistic countries on earth. this place is an avalanche of smiles and cheeriness. i well, i can t get past the feeling that all this positivity is gonna be the end of me. [nicky blitz blast off ] - getting too close, better pull on back what if i travel the world, - what if i travel the world,
we know a thing by its opposite. hot means nothing without cold, and since i m traveling the world to explore the nature of happiness and my own struggles to find it, i decide to visit an unhappy place. and if i m going to do unhappy, i want somewhere that does it with panache and takes pride in its wallowing, somewhere full of beautiful expressions like, i don t want to feel good. i just want my neighbor to feel bad. [upbeat acoustic music] welcome to bulgaria. [nicky blitz blast off ] - getting too close, better pull on back - what if i travel the world, exploring what makes some places happier than others? - need a one-two. - i m looking at the ways that where we are. - yeah, i m a-comin , i m a-comin - affect who we are. - whoo, i m a-comin i m a-comin , yeah.
what i want to know is, which places? [nicky blitz blast off ] - getting too close, better pull on back - what if i travel the world, exploring what makes some places happier than others? - need a one-two. - i m looking at the ways that where we are. - yeah, i m a-comin , i m a-comin - affect who we are. - whoo, i m a-comin i m a-comin , yeah. - it s been said that the search for happiness is the chief source of unhappiness. - i m a-comin , i m a-comin . - well, that s okay. i m already unhappy, so i ve got nothing to lose. - let s go let s all blast off [birds chirping] [bells tolling] [bouncy music] for my first stop of this harebrained experiment,