Get in talk, dope village.

Been working on my language, Iceland.

That means hi there in German, dope village.

Hi, I'm Julie Fowdy alongside Lennel Zowee.

Bonjour, Jules.

We are bringing you another special episode of Laughter permitted.

And we're calling this one just for laughs.

And actually the jumping off point for this episode was our conversation with the one

and only Dr. Colleen Hacker in our recent podcast, in which she said, quite wisely,

Laughter is the antidote to stress.

And so since Lynn and I are professional laughers, we figured we could use that expertise

to help you all out.

Dr. Hacker also said that we should keep up with our friends during this time.

And even pick up the phone, actually pick up the phone and call someone.

So that's what we're doing.

We called up a couple of our pals and we asked for something specific.

We asked for one thing and that was a funny story.

Be funny, we said.

We told them it could be about sports, about life, whatever it just had to make me

snort out loud.

That is the prerequisite.

And let me tell you, these gals did not disappoint.

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