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Here are your hosts, Christine Blackburn and Hannah Spinn.

Hey. Welcome to Storyworthy.

I am Christine Blackburn, and I'm here with Hanna Sfini, and we're coming to you from the Camarillo State Mental Hospital in Camarillo, California.

It's one of the most famous state mental hospitals because it's in a lot of movies. Is it really? Well, I've actually heard of it. Because why? Because it's outside Los Angeles and a lot of movies take place in Los Angeles and if there's a crazy person, I was at Camarillo. I believe that it is technically where what's her name, Sarah Connor was in Terminator 2. There's a lot of finger pointing and a lot of testicle grabbing here in the crowd. That's going to be. You're agreeing with you. Yes, exactly. That's a good thing. All right. And we're saying that because what is our topic? Mental illness. Our topic tonight is mental illness. That covers a lot of ground. It does cover a lot of ground. And I did not come up with this topic on us. It's not like, I'm like, hey, you guys, I want to talk about mental illness. Who wants to be my guest and talk about mental illness? That's not the way it works around here. That's right. They bring the topic to us. Oh, well, I find the guest. Or they come to me. A lot of times I find them. Usually the guest just emails you the topic, but in this case, the guest actually cut out letters for magazines. That's right. He wrote in his own blood mental illness. And I thought, well, this has to be a good story right there. Yeah, that's good. And props are good for radio. All all right before we start talking about mental illness i do

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