Let's talk about the holiday blues on Ask Science Mike this week. This is going to be one of those I just talk in the microphone

episodes so no theme song no intro if this is your first episode of Ask Science Mike, this is a weekly

podcast hosted by me, Mike McCarg, dubbed Science Mike by a friend at a party, and then that became my job somehow. This is a

podcast where we honor every sincere question with an honest and non-judgmental

response because we think that curiosity is important.

Sometimes we change the format up and we just explore a topic together and that's what we're doing this week before we do that I'd just like to remind you that my travel is starting back up in 2020 and there's a couple things there first First of all, Buffalo, New York,

I'm headed your way to Trinity Church

on January 11th for the Fresh Voices series.

And then if you're in Fort Smith, Arkansas, you have the opportunity to spend an entire week with me

at First Presbyterian Church from January 20th through January 27th.

And speaking of 2020 and bookings, you know I'm re-evaluating the way I do

travel, I'm having to lead all my decisions with taking care of my heart and supporting my mental health.

So I am not touring as extensively as I used to.

I'm not hitting as many dates per year as my cardiologist thinks that that cycle of heavy travel

may have played a role in my heart disease so I'm trying to do what I try to tell all of you to do, and that is I'm trying to take care of myself.

But next year has some really exciting things. I've got a book coming out April the 28th called

You're a miracle and a pain in your ass and it's been about my journey the last few

years learning more about my journey the last few years, learning more about my feelings and

accepting my feelings and honoring my feelings and learning how to be closer

to others through that process of learning about my feelings.

It's a book about why, you know, what we feel and what we do so often seems to run counter with what we want, right?

And so I started by examining, you know, behavioral economics and cognitive psychology and interpersonal

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