Welcome to episode 121 with my guest Christian Finnegan, I'm Paul Gilmarten, this is the

metal illness happy hour, 90, not 90, an hour or two, let's be honest, two hours, about

all the battles in our heads, for medically diagnosed conditions and past traumas to

everyday compulsive negative thinking.

The show's not meant to be a substitute for professional metal counseling, it's not

a doctor's office, it's more like a waiting room that doesn't suck, the website for

the show is mentholpod.com, that's also the name you can follow me out on Twitter, and

there's a Facebook page dedicated to this, and there's on the website there's a forum

you can join, and a variety of topics that you can share on, some great people to meet

there, and there's a bunch of surveys you can take, and you can also see the responses

that other people have filled out on the surveys, so go check that out if you would.

Let's jump into it, I've decided that I'm going to try doing all the surveys at the

end of the show and see how you guys like that.

I'm just going to read this before we get to the interview with Christian, this email

I got from a woman who calls herself Libby, she writes, Paul, you do have issues with interviewing

young women, dude, interview a female older than say your age and your age as in capital

letters, either that or just fess up to using this podcast better or worse to attract damaged

young females, if I'm wrong, and I'm okay with being wrong, then please call me out, love

the podcast, but you shy away from admitting that you love interviewing young women, emphasis

on young, I would admit that I love interviewing women, I try to get younger guests on the

show, I'm trying to get younger men and women, and so I would say part of that is right,

and to the fess up that you're using this podcast better or worse to attract damaged young

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