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Hello and welcome back to The BigMood LittleMood Show. I'm your host, Danny M. Levery,

and with me in the studio, this week I have two guests. Halle Kiefer is the senior comedy

and entertainment writer at Crooked Media. Alice and Liby is a New York-based comedian,

writer and producer who is currently on tour with her one-woman show, Oh God, a show about abortion.

Together, Halle and Alice and also host Crooked Media's weekly horror film podcast,

Ruent. Welcome to The Show. Thank you for having us. Thank you for having us. What an intro.

I mean, I just, you know, I'm just thrilled. I'm so excited. I hardly know where to begin.

I think we're going to have so much. Hopefully you do because we don't.

We don't. Yeah. Yeah. Well, we'll start by talking about the problems of other people

and how we can be ideally useful to them. Yeah. Yeah. It's nice. And, you know, I feel like

perhaps more than usual today, the questions that we are confronted with feel very,

like not just individual questions, but representative of very common types.

I hesitate to use the word relatable because it's impossible to say it without sounding

like I hate what I'm saying. But I do think these are incredibly like common and let's go ahead and

say relatable problems. And I think that can be genuinely useful. So I will take our first letter

and then we will all maybe talk briefly about jobs we've had that bring up this particular feeling

for ourselves. Because I think anyone reads this letter and they immediately go to the last job

that was this for them. Yes. Absolutely. So the subject is Monday dread. Do I leave a job that

is draining away my will to live? I'm a woman in my 30s in Australia receiving treatment for

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