- also guinea pigs. - also guinea pigs, ok. i m getting a theme going here. what else? but maybe it s much simpler than i m making it out to be. for inspiration, i ve turned to a particularly unfiltered bunch. ice cream and robots? ok, what else? - like, something like, something like a bird caucus. - like a bird caucus? - yeah! - i think a bird caucus sounds really interesting. i m not sure what that is. - [laughing] - i always say that! - [laughs] - oh, that made you happy! oh, my god, this is gonna be the greatest party ever. go! bird caucus? bird caucus. yeah. eureka! bird caucus. [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 sou
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 [upbeat music] - oh, man, this view is insane. chiang mai, thailand s rose of the north, a 700-year-old
- 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, explain what makes some places happier than others? i m looking at the ways that where we are effect who we are. it has been said that [inaudible] is the chief force of unhappiness. well, that is okay. i m already unhappy, so i have nothing left to lose. holman le pen here s some
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. - 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
[high-pitched rewind whine] [projector humming] i grew up as a big-headed baby in seattle, moved to nicaragua when i was three, made friends with parrots and sloths. moved back to washington state when i was five, learned to play the bassoon. moved to illinois and joined the drama club, and eventually, i landed in los angeles as dunder mifflin s assistant to the regional manager. - please welcome rainn wilson. - rainn wilson. - yet for all my success, my wife and son, whom i love, a nice house, people tattooing my face on their feet. [beeping, whirring] [sighs] you d think i d be happier. [upbeat music] but like so many others, i struggle. to find fulfillment. amy. to find true joy. i need to be honest with you all. it s just i ve been going through a really hard time recently on a number of different levels, and i ve been feeling a little bit low, a little bit less than, a little depressed and humbled and lost these days. and so i ve churned through countless thera