Episode #PLACEBO: Hitting the Nail on the Head
The Hilarious World of Depression
American Public Media
4.8 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 31 July 2017
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Depression can be really hard to define, making it difficult for anyone who doesn’t have it to be understand it. And that can make the people who do have it feel that much more alone. We asked our listeners what movie, TV show, artwork, or other piece of culture gets depression right. The answers range from John Cusack yelling out a window to Norwegian expressionist painting, to a cuss-filled bit of sour optimism in the Wild West.
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| 0:00.0 | exhales. |
| 0:12.2 | Jacob's |
| 0:15.7 | and see a docences |
| 0:18.2 | something wrong with Bianca |
| 0:21.6 | as sad as I can't shaking |
| 0:24.5 | now is there something to |
| 0:26.8 | Take now. |
| 0:29.3 | It's the hilarious world of depression. |
| 0:31.3 | Placebo edition. |
| 0:32.6 | Placebo's are smaller versions of our regular show. |
| 0:35.9 | I'm John Moe. |
| 0:36.8 | Our regular full episodes are coming up soon. |
| 0:40.2 | By the way, season two is on the horizon. |
| 0:43.3 | We've been flying all over doing interviews. |
| 0:45.7 | It's going to be great. |
| 0:47.0 | Look to early fall for that. |
| 0:48.9 | So anyway, depression. |
| 0:51.5 | Websters defines depression as, no, I'm not going to do that. |
| 0:56.3 | I'm not going to go down that road. |
| 0:57.8 | But to be honest, though, depression is hard to define. |
| 1:01.8 | It has no physical form, no color, no shape. |
| 1:06.1 | And it shows up in different ways to different people. |
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