Hey, big mood, little mood listeners. I want to remind you of all the cool things that happen when you sign up for a sleep plus membership.

You'll stop hearing ads on all sleep podcasts. You'll stop hearing me reading ads on my sleep podcasts.

Think of how much better your life would be if you didn't have to hear that.

I know mine would.

You'll be supporting big mood, little mood, and all of sleep's shows.

Sleep Plus helps keep our shows going. You'll get to hear bonus episodes of this show as well as all your other favorite sleep shows like Slowburn, Amicus, and Political Gap Fest.

And you'll have unlimited access to every article and advice column on Sleep's website, never hitting the paywall, plus an additional question and answer from me each week.

Support our show and sleep's journalism and sign up for sleep plus at sleep.com slash mood plus. That's sleep.com slash mood plus.

Hello and welcome back to big mood, little mood. Once again, and as always, I am your host, Daniel M. Lavery, and with me in this studio this week is Marissa Governe, a documentary and commercial editor living in New York City.

She has worked on such titles as Jane Fonda in five acts for HBO and Lennox Hill for Netflix, but otherwise counts herself as a movie enthusiast, part-time song and dance man and friend to all House Pet's Marissa. Welcome to the show slash our joint sick bet.

Hi, Danny. Happy to be here.

Sure. Yeah, I mean, you know, not happy about the state that we're in, but happy to be here nonetheless.

What state are you in? Physically, emotionally, spiritually, temporally?

Well, let's see, physically, I have a stomach bug at the moment. So not great. I had to actually come home from work from working in the office and come home and sit down and watch a bunch of habit elementary instead of doing work.

That's an excellent, excellent decision. I've been enjoying that show very much. Yeah, I know it's quite good.

And I also, I like the idea of from now on opening this show with just a discussion of everyone's low grade ailments.

It's like, what's, what's bothering you? Yeah, but like, it's got to be low grade, but it's got to all require some sort of like tending and puttering.

I hope that that works. As you know, I'm rising from my own sick bed. I just tested negative last night for the first time for COVID after a nine day about where I was

bed bound and doing nothing but listening to Steve Allen books on tape.

Brilliant.

It was amazing because I had forgotten how outrageously, like just for sheer output, you couldn't beat him. Like he would, if he had a thought, it became a book or a song or a TV show, like, at no point was there ever a barrier to publishing with Steve Allen.

So like, there is an immense, immense, like, grade of quality when it comes to Steve Allen's output, where I think some of it is, you know, as good as it is cracked up to be.

...