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The Hilarious World of Depression

A Message From Inside John's Closet. I Mean Office.

The Hilarious World of Depression

American Public Media

Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.84.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2020

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Hi, it’s John, and I’m sending you this recording from my makeshift office about what’s going on for us THWoD-balls during COVID-19, and ideas about how to get through it as best we can.

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0:00.0

It's the hilarious world of depression.

0:18.0

I'm John Mell, that theme song by Rett Miller was played off of a tiny Mac computer that

0:25.0

I have here on my new office, which is formerly known as the closet in my bedroom.

0:35.3

My wife set up this nice little office.

0:37.2

She cleared off a little shelf while sending some pictures over on the Facebook page.

0:43.4

This is where I work now.

0:44.4

I don't know how long I will be working in this closet, but that's just the way it is.

0:51.8

Rather than trying to build a studio with perfect soundproofing and get all the mic equipment

0:59.1

that I need to make everything perfect, I thought I would just do this.

1:03.1

I'm talking into my iPhone.

1:05.4

It's an iPhone XR, I believe, and I have my little computer here.

1:14.0

We're making do with what we have because that's kind of the spirit of the times right now.

1:18.8

We are in, I guess, a quarantine, not really a quarantine in our house because everybody's

1:26.1

feeling fine.

1:27.8

We are allowed to leave the house, but as a society, we're being told to kind of stay away

1:33.7

from each other in meat space.

1:37.0

But in the world of bits, in the world of computer transmitted thingies, we can still talk.

1:43.4

I can still talk to you and I thought maybe I should because this is a tough time if

1:50.3

you're depressed.

1:51.9

Also another tough time if you're depressed is all the time, but this is kind of something

1:58.3

else what we've been going through.

2:01.4

I want to talk a little bit about the brain shape of the whole thing rather than getting

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