In the second Combo episode of The Glow Diner, Virginia serves up Joy: The Secret Ingredient to Happiness, and why cultivating joy isn’t naive… it’s neurological.

We live in a world where joy can feel inappropriate. Where having fun can feel guilty. Where choosing light feels like ignoring darkness.

But as Dan Savage once said about the AIDS crisis:

“We buried our friends in the morning, we protested in the afternoon, and we danced all night… and it was the dance that kept us in the fight because it was the dance we were fighting for.”

And as Michelle Obama reminds us:

“Joy has always been a form of resistance.”

We break down the cultural moment around Bad Bunny's SuperBowl Half Time Show, the power of choosing celebration in the face of hate, and how denying yourself joy doesn’t make you moral ...