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The Hilarious World of Depression

American Public Media

Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.8 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

During this long stretch of just staying home, we decided to reach out to some friends of THWoD, hear their voices, and find out how they're holding up. Writer Ana Marie Cox is drawing strength from her sobriety, actor John Ross Bowie is balancing work and fatherhood, and comedian Solomon Georgio has found a soothing new hobby of driving to the airport and then turning around and going home again.

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0:00.0	It's the hilarious world of depression.
0:17.9	I'm John Moe coming to you from my old closet, which is my new office.
0:23.8	Same thing.
0:24.8	Good acoustics though, I think, because of the various flannel shirts and suit jackets.
0:29.7	We were planning to bring you an episode with Dave Holmes this week.
0:33.4	That will appear next week.
0:35.3	We pulled a different one together instead, given the times we're living in.
0:40.3	We are in the midst of a global pandemic as we record this episode.
0:45.0	There's a lot of uncertainty and fear, anxiety, depression, and we've been thinking about
0:50.6	what we can do to be of use to our listeners.
0:54.3	We're thinking about why people listen in the first place.
0:57.7	And one of the reasons you've told us is open, honest, talk about mental health in general.
1:03.8	That's what we do.
1:05.2	We believe in talking about mental health, not hiding it in the darkness.
1:10.1	And right now, that means talking about the stress and fear that go with COVID-19.
1:16.7	On this episode, we thought some familiar voices might be good to hear, might be comforting.
1:21.7	People who have been on the show before.
1:24.0	These are people who have dealt with clinical depression firsthand.
1:27.9	Anna Marie Cox is a writer and journalist.
1:30.4	She's a political analyst on TV.
1:32.9	She's been on the show a couple of times.
1:35.2	Anna lives with her husband in Minneapolis.
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