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Hello, and welcome back to big mood, little mood. I am your host, Danny Lavery, and with me in the studio this week is Danny Faith Leonard, a writer, comedian, and producer.

Danny is known for creative storytelling, a fun vibe on set, and for always having a caffeinated beverage in her hand. Danny, welcome to the show.

Thank you. Thank you so much for having me. I do have a caffeinated beverage in my hand.

I'm very, very glad to hear it. Would you say that cultivating a fun vibe on set is like a rare gift? Is that something that you think is often lost?

I do, especially when I'm coming from the point of view of being the producer. I think that it is something that you can cultivate, but it has to be intentional.

Otherwise, it's so much of producing is solving everyone else's problems in addition to solving your own problems that you have in that moment, and the fun can definitely get lost.

Yeah, that sounds about right. I don't often think of like, oh, yeah, solution systems. What's the most fun one I can think of?

Well, I'm excited then because it feels very straightforward and intuitive that you will be able to bring, if not the fun element, at least the problem-solving element of producing into our questions today.

These letter writers, they've got some problems. Oh, they do.

They do indeed. All right. Well, with that said, I will begin our series by reading the first letter, if that's all right with you.

Great.

And frankly, even if it isn't, because that's the format of the show. I would do it even if you object. It's your show.

Yeah, I would just say, sorry. So the subject here is not a dick.

My family has a name. Let's say Richard that gets passed down to the first son on the paternal side.

I got this name when I was born, but I recently came out as a trans girl and picked a name for myself.

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