Happyish Holidays 2020

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Feelings & Co.

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

4.7 • 13.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

This episode features conversations with people doing the best they can in difficult circumstances. Like Dr. Lucy Kalanithi, whose husband Dr. Paul Kalanithi was a notable and rising brain surgeon who wrote When Breath Becomes Air, a bestselling memoir about his fatal battle with cancer. And comedian Amber Tozer, who tells a funny and poignant story about walking in on her mother’s wedding… on Christmas Day. We will also talk with some of the women of the Hot Young Widows Club on their hopes and dreams for the upcoming year. Plus, stories of people’s worst Holidays ever. Support our independent production (and get bonus content galore!) by joining TTFA Premium. We now offer tiers as low as $4.99 / month. Sign up. Our email subscribers get first dibs on ticket sales, new merch, show announcements and more. Join our mailing list here. Nora also writes sad & funny books! You can buy them here. Did you know we’re on TikTok? Yep, it’s true. Follow Nora. You can catch up with TTFA on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook using @ttfapodcast. Nora's Instagram is @noraborealis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	All right, here goes happy as holidays, Marcel.
0:08.8	Are the holidays happy for you?
0:11.4	It's okay if they're not.
0:13.4	Are the holidays happy for you?
0:15.4	It's okay if they're not.
0:17.8	Just making up some free-sale songs.
0:20.8	Okay, Marcel?
0:21.8	It's okay if you don't do holidays because you are an agnostic or an atheist, it's your
0:27.7	call.
0:29.0	The holidays are optional.
0:31.9	Ooh, that was good.
0:33.0	The holidays are optional.
0:35.8	Okay, here we go.
0:41.5	I'm Nora Mcnerney and this is terrible.
0:44.2	Thanks for asking.
0:46.1	It's the holiday season here in the USA and things are going to be weird.
0:51.3	Like, weirder than normal.
0:52.8	Weirder than the time my mom gave me a water bra for Christmas and my dad left the room.
0:58.8	Maries.
1:01.3	Way back in 2016, when this podcast was just starting out, our colleagues at APM offered
1:06.0	us the opportunity to make a holiday special and I was like, eee, have you met me?
1:11.7	Do you know I'm a person who's husband died three days before Thanksgiving?
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