Lemonada.

And my sister looked at me and was like, why are you crying?

Because it's just something we don't do.

And I looked at her and I wasn't crying because I was sad. I was crying because I was angry.

And I was like, I am a junior in high school and at this point this is like my seventh

eighth funeral that I've been to I am so tired of you.

Yeah.

Welcome to Pod Crushed.

Welcome, welcome to Pod crushed. You might hear there's a sort of a laugh and a smile on my voice, which is not normally the case.

Yeah, normally, it's Depression City over here.

Yeah. Normally it is raiding all kinds of cynicism and misery but masking it

with whatever it is that I mask it with.

Today's episode brings, I think, genuine holiday cheer, and I mean that, because the holidays

are a very bittersweet time for everybody, if they mean anything to you because they're meant to be I don't

know some fantastical ideal and yet they are threaded through with with something

that's bitter.

I think I'll call it sadness and often grief.

Today's episode does center around loss and grief.

If you listen to Pod crushed, you must because you're here for a bonus episode.

But then you know that we'd talk about this a lot.

So our guest is Katie Florence and she's somebody who is experienced.

What will we say now? But like an like an in an uncommon number of personal losses?

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