242: Delving Into Difficult Topics w/ Last Day Host Stephanie Wittels Wachs

Be Here For A While

Education, Comedy, Comedy Interviews, Self-improvement

4.6 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2020

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Host of the Last Day podcast, Stephanie Wittels Wachs, is back to discuss Season 2 of Last Day, a podcast that dares to tackle the subjects that are killing us. The stuff that's hard to comprehend and is getting worse everyday. Stephanie confronts massive epidemics with humanity, wit and a quest for progress. Season 1 chronicled the opioid crisis in America, and Season 2 delves into the growing suicide rate, telling real stories, talking to experts, and asking everyone along the way, "How did we get here, and what could we have done differently?" And, where do we go from here.

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0:15.8	Hello friends welcome back to the episode of Be Here for a a while. Today's episode of Be Here for a while is brought to you by
0:19.1	Cove, the migraine solution.
0:23.7	All right, I'm going to keep this intro short
0:25.2	because my parents are here and every TV is on full blast.
0:29.2	My mom says it makes her feel like she's got friends in the house,
0:32.2	although we're here, but we're not enough.
0:35.2	And everyone's scream talking over each other, so if I don't hurry, you might be hearing the
0:38.1	Oregon Duck football game in the background and my mom talking about the hunk of pork she's making.
0:43.3	So you don't need to know all that.
0:45.5	You want to hear from my guest today.
0:47.8	Okay, so my guest today is Stephanie Wittles Wax.
0:50.3	Stephanie has lived a big life. She's a voice actress, activist, and author. Her book, Everything
0:57.1	is Horrible and Wonderful, a tragicomic memoir of Genius, Heroin, Love and Loss, written after losing her dear brother Harris, a successful
1:04.8	comedian, writer, and actor to a heroin overdose.
1:09.0	That book hit home to so many of us who have had loved ones who have struggled with addiction or maybe have struggled
1:14.1	ourselves.
1:15.5	And since then, her whole life has taken a different trajectory after losing her brother.
1:20.3	She has launched a podcast network called Lemonautom Media, and she is the host of their flagship show Last Day.
1:27.0	Season 1 covered the loss of her brother and so many others due to the opioid epidemic.
1:31.0	She was also a guest before if you heard her I think
1:33.3	maybe back in March I think it was right when the pandemic started and
1:36.3	season two covers mental brain health and suicide I know it's a difficult topic
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