Welcome to episode 776 with my guest Chris Grace.

My name's Paul.

What's yours?

So dumb.

That's why I like to celebrate Thanksgiving is with dumb humor.

We are going to have a minimum, a very, very minimum of surveys. I'm just going to read one

before and one, one after, as I mentioned the last couple of weeks. Depression's been hitting

me a bit and just trying to protect my internal battery. so keeping it brief.

This is from the Happy Moment survey,

and this is filled out by a woman who calls herself Mary Kate Olson.

How does she come up with that?

She writes, in kindergarten art class, we were all asked to paint and decorate these Christmas angel cutouts.

I finished mine way early, but was too anxious to get up and tell the teacher, so I just kept piling more glitter and paint onto this totally over-accessorized angel.

Eventually, the art teacher came over and made a huge deal out of how beautiful my angel was.

They ended up hanging it in the school office, and I got some sort of award from the principal.

I was thrilled.

For once, I was getting attention for something other than my buck teeth

and speech impediment. A couple of months ago, oh, and this is a separate happy moment,

a couple of months ago, driving back to Detroit after my father's funeral in Connecticut,

I was with my boyfriend, feeling very connected and safe with him.

Also feeling the deep relief that all the funeral was over. All of it, 300 miles behind us and

counting. I felt oddly alive and indestructible. We hit standstill traffic on I 86,

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