Hey, welcome to Mentally Chill.

It's me, your host, Kristen Carney, and today's guest is Mike Carrano.

He's been on the show before.

He is swell.

He's a super funny guy, super neurotic, and we talk so long.

It's actually really funny because we both came into this episode saying we didn't really want to talk and this is what happens when

two talkers say they're not in the mood to talk we get a podcast that's almost two hours we could

have kept going but we didn't and i didn't edit anything out i was thinking about maybe sitting down and

chopping a lot of it but whatever you only live once liked it all. Even the parts where I said,

maybe I should cut this. And then I never do because I like those parts too. And we cover a lot.

We talk about everything from his childhood in a cult to my heavy brain to JetBlue employees.

So stick around, check it out. Before we get to it, though, of course, want to say

thank you to my Patreon peeps. Thank you so much to Rachel P and Stacey C for becoming Patreon donors.

You guys have no idea. I know I say it, but you really have no idea how much it helps. And there

are a lot of cool things on the Patreon page, resources from things we've talked about to mini pods that I do. So if you're

thinking about supporting the show, please do and go to patreon.com slash mentally chill. And I know

you want to hear the show before you decide to support the show or not, but before I get to the

main event, I do want to

read this iTunes review from Black Boy Joy. That is his name. I did not give him that name. I wish I did,

but I didn't. And I always love any five-star review. And they're all written beautifully. And this one

struck me in a way that made me a little emotional.

So that's why I'm reading it. So he says, so usually when I start a podcast, I start from the most

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