A note to our listeners. This episode contains discussions of suicide and sexual assault that some might find difficult.

I don't know how closely you listen to the credits of this podcast every week, but if you listen all the way to the end, you'll hear me say that it's a production of Maximum Fun and Popa Chick.

Now, Maximum Fun, you probably know as the network that the show is on.

It gets promoted a lot.

We have the Max Fun Drive every year, established brand, Maximum Fun.

So what's Poppich?

Well, see, that's my company.

I don't work for maximum fun.

I work with maximum fun.

It's a co-production.

I also work with other organizations on podcast stuff.

So, okay, who cares?

You don't care.

But you ask, what does that word mean?

Papa chick.

Is it like father of the chicks?

The Papa chick?

No, it's spelled different. P-O-P-U-T-C-H-I-K. It's a Russian word,

and it's for something that doesn't really have an English word. So when you travel, you might meet

someone in the seat next to you on a plane or a train or a bus and you get to know them.

You get to talking. You get to know their life story and why they're traveling and what they

think of the experiences that they've had. Their adventures and their misadventures, their

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