Greetings to you friends, it is I. D. Trucell transmitting to you from a

Kempton Inn in Charlotte, North Carolina where I've been doing stand-up comedy.

I want to give a shout out to Richard Fawcett from the New York Times.

Thank you so much for the awesome ride-up.

What's in our cue?

Dunkeitrusle Hour, and more.

Check it out, it's pretty cool, completely unexpected,

definitely the last place I expected to see my podcast appear in,

but it definitely made my ego feel especially puffed and pulsing.

Thank you Richard. Thanks for listening to the show.

We have a wonderful episode for you today.

With this here today, returning to the DTFH

is an author.

one of his books which I would highly recommend is the answer to the

riddle is me.

It's David Stewart McLean.

He is a dear friend of mine. We actually went to college together and I love

him so much and you're about to see why. This is a great episode. He is about to publish his next book which is a series

of essays about parenting and depression.

And we had one of my favorite conversations

of the year about depression and my God, the experience of trying to be a good dad while simultaneously

being depressed which is something that David struggles with.

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