Got an email from Ben Blacker the other day.

Ben is the host of the Dead Pilots podcast here on Maximum Fun.

He's the co-creator of The Thrilling Adventure Hour.

He's a friend of mine.

Hope you're hanging in all right. The email said,

please tell me how you are. Healthy, saneish, busy. Meanwhile, I'm writing to see if you would

like to have John Ross Bowie as a guest on an upcoming Depression Mode episode. That's what Ben

wrote to me, because that's what this is. It's Depress Mode. I'm John Moe. I'm glad you're here.

Ben is producing a new show called Household Faces, and it's hosted by John Ross Bowie.

Interviews with character actors whose faces you know, but whose names you might not. Household

Faces. John himself is kind of a household face. He played Cripke on Big Bang

Theory for years. He starred on the show Speechless. His IMDB page goes on for days. You've

seen him in many things. And I was like, yeah, of course, I'll talk to John Ross Bowie. I love

John Ross Bowie. I've interviewed John

Ross Bowie before about mental health, depression, and anxiety. And John is always eloquent.

He is the one John is who told me when the pandemic started with the isolation and the fear.

He said, hey, this is the depressed person's time to shine. We've all been training for this

our whole lives. All of these feelings that the people without depression are feeling,

we're veterans at this. Finally, our skills and our training can be put to good use. So that's

great. Plus, John's a legit real friend of mine. I love the guy So, yeah, I want to talk to him. So we set up a time and I talked to him. And the thing is, sometimes if you have a good interview subject, the topic of the interview reveals itself after you start rolling. When I talked to John, it became apparent to me as we went along that he's been

an actor for many years, and there's something about that that is universally applicable to

everybody who's not an actor right now, because acting in Hollywood, TV, movies, operates in a

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