Linda Holmes Leaves Law to Concentrate On Watching TV and It Works Out Great

The Hilarious World of Depression

American Public Media

Comedy, Comedy Interviews

4.8 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2018

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Before she was the host of NPR's popular Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast, Linda Holmes was an attorney working at the Minnesota Legislature. Before that, she was a student living in squalor. And before that, she was the victim of some seriously messed up mean kid behavior. We hear about her unusual path to a better life, the older and very recent struggles she has had, and how the written word proved redemptive. We also hear about how Linda's weight was seen as a symptom of her depression when in fact the depression itself was the problem all along.

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0:00.0	I'm Cameron Espazito and I have a lot of jobs. I'm an actor. You've seen me on ABC's and a million little things.
0:04.8	I'm a stand-up comic bestselling author, but I am no expert at survival.
0:08.5	On my new podcast Survivor Diet trying, we're going to learn together from shark attacks to
0:13.8	tsunamis and bad breakups. This is your one-stop shop to prepare for the absolute worst-case scenario.
0:20.0	Join me and some special guests on Survivor Diet trying a comedy podcast that prepares you for anything.
0:26.4	Listen and follow wherever you get your podcasts.
0:30.0	Is depression funny? I feel like the right answer to this is supposed to be yes.
0:36.0	My answer to it is no because I don't like to give depression any credit for the things that I find
0:43.9	funny when I talk about depression. There's no right or wrong answer.
1:00.2	The guy goes in to see a doctor says there's something wrong with me I got.
1:08.9	The sadness I can't shake now is there something I can't take now.
1:17.8	It's the hilarious world of depression. I'm John Moe. On this program I interview people
1:22.8	who are funny and who have dealt with depression. They have interesting stories to tell
1:26.8	and the humor helps. On this episode the story of someone becoming who she truly is with the help
1:32.5	of resiliency, intelligence, television, bold career swerves, and medical science. And it only
1:39.2	takes a lifetime. I'm Linda Holmes. I'm a pop culture correspondent at NPR and I'm in a booth
1:45.2	at NPR headquarters in Washington DC. In Washington DC, yeah. Linda Holmes is the host of NPR's
1:53.0	pop culture happy hour podcast. It's NPR but without the serious,
1:59.3	expensive tone that so many people associate with NPR. It's pretty much Linda and her friends
2:05.6	having fun and talking pop culture movies, music, TV. Here's a clip from the show Linda and guests
2:12.7	are talking about the movie Lady Bird. There is such a heavy, interesting, thoughtful family
2:18.1	story here. But there is also I think such a blessedly not that complicated story about her
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