Before we dive in, just a quick redirect, we are now on Blue Sky, the social media platform

Blue Sky, at Depresh Mode. We're no longer adding new stuff to the Twitter account, or

X account. X or Twitter became such a gross place full of cruelty and bullying and bots.

It didn't feel like a healthy place for a show

like ours about honesty and vulnerability. So on Blue Sky, at Depression Mode, find us there.

Okay. Now, the show. It's like we're all in school. Not high school, not college, not grad school,

not grade school, but school. We're here to learn, gather knowledge, analyze it, synthesize it.

This school is called life, but you probably already knew that.

And in this school, we've all been assigned this big research project.

Investigate what happened to you, figure out how it made you who you are, figure out how to manage the whole operation as best you can, given what you found out, in order to prepare

yourself for what's still to come.

Now, good news.

There's no deadline for this research project, and there are no grades.

But make no mistake, it has been assigned to you, and it's for your own good.

You can do this research and keep the notes, too. You don't have to turn it into the teacher because there is no teacher. We just ask that you do the research. You can keep your own private notebook about your past, your bumps, your lessons, your inventory of experiences,

you don't have to share it with anybody. Or you could share it with the whole class. You can do an

oral presentation. Our show, this show, is often a venue for people to give their oral reports.

It's Depression Mode. I'm John Moe. I'm glad you're here.

I was running. I was running scared.

Scared of myself. Scared of my own power.

Then one day I stopped and said hello to the parents.

I changed everything.

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