Hello and welcome to topics listener or mail where we read some of our listener

mail that we've been receiving over the last week or two about some of the shows that

we've been doing. How you doing, Mike? I'm doing great. This is always such a fun part of the

podcast for me because it allows us to engage with the listeners and sometimes it just opens up

new avenues of thought that I had never even considered.

So it's always an exciting time for me.

So this is an episode from, sorry, this is a letter from Sarah Beck.

She says she loves the show, but she often feels very guilty while listening.

You say, you guys say throughout the episodes that you're diving into topics in a more serious manner, but she often feels very guilty while listening. You say, you guys say throughout the episodes that you're diving in a topic's

in a more serious manner, but I often find myself having deep belly laughs while listening.

Should I feel guilty about laughing and trying to have fun?

Well, we've addressed this exact question before.

I don't know if she's not doing her homework or if she's being

sort of willfully obstinate because either she's not doing her homework or she knows the

answer or it's possibly she's just very insecure and she just needs some reassurance.

Yeah, I mean, I think, you know, even, you know, any of what you just said is, is possible.

I think it's probably worth repeating, though, our kind of our take on this.

Yeah, it's actually pretty simple.

Michael and I are comedians.

We're known for our comedy.

We excel at comedy, but we're also more well-rounded human beings than just comedians.

Look, I'm proud to apply that title to myself, but it's not the totality of who I am.

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