Happyish Holidays 2018

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Feelings & Co.

Society & Culture, Mental Health, Personal Journals, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 27 November 2018

⏱️ 54 minutes

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In case you didn't know, we're still making episodes that are available exclusively on Nora's Substack! - We're back with our third annual Happyish Holidays episode! This year, comedian Alyssa Limperis shares with us the holiday letter she wrote the year her dad died from brain cancer. We talk with Jay Mathews, a 48-year-old father and son who, with stage IV cancer, is probably experiencing his last holidays with his family. And we ask listeners what they took away from 2018, what they're looking forward to in 2019, and what it is about hoping for something that can be so scary. Nora also writes sad & funny books! You can buy them here. You can catch up with TTFA on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook using @ttfapodcast. Nora's Instagram is @noraborealis. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Nora McInerney and this is Happy Yesh Holidays from the American Public
0:05.4	Media Podcast Terrible. Thanks for asking. If you haven't listened to our
0:10.4	podcast you can probably tell from the title that it's about science.
0:13.4	Getting it's a podcast about feelings pretty much. It's a podcast about your
0:17.6	real feelings. Not just the happy face you put on for everyone when your life is
0:21.5	falling apart. Today we're talking about the holidays and today I am your
0:28.7	ghost of past, present and future. I'm walking you through the holidays of
0:33.0	yesterday. Today, year, tomorrow, year. Does that sound correct? But we start just
0:42.2	like in therapy with the past.
0:46.1	Alyssa Limparis grew up with a dad who was the absolute best. No offense to your dad
0:53.0	but Mr. Limparis was fantastic and he wrote amazing letters every Christmas
0:57.9	letters that would accompany the Christmas card and give a thorough and light
1:01.6	hearted update to every recipient leaving them fully informed on the goings
1:06.0	on in the Limparis household. But now Alyssa's dad is dead because cancer and
1:13.5	there's nobody to fill her dad's letter writing shoes or is there. We asked
1:20.8	Alyssa to write the honest Christmas card letter to reflect that first year
1:25.0	after her dad's death to really give everyone a taste of what the holidays
1:29.7	are like without one of the people you love the best.
1:38.8	Oh, oh, oh, well it's been another banner year in the Limparis household. 2015
1:45.7	gifted us with consistently worse new dawns piled delicately on top of each
1:50.5	other creating a record setting level of stress. We did it. We broke our record.
1:56.1	Yeah, while 75% of the Limparis clan went unemployed this calendar year, we
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