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Tonight's episode, Stranger Danger.

Tonight we're headed up to the Pacific Northwest, specifically a town called Bellingham, Washington.

It sits right on the edge of the Salish Sea, that's S-A-L-I-S-H, just a stone's throw from the Canadian border.

Yep, I've been through there a handful of times, a lovely little town, still have one friend,

Chris, who I've known since first grade, who lives there now.

Wow. Yeah, so I think he likes it. One thing he told me, it can be a dark, damp, rainy place, like much of the west side of the state of Washington.

You know, he's been living there, I don't know, 25 years or so.

But he said that he was feeling moody every morning when he woke up.

And then he realized that it's because there's not enough light there.

So he got one of those pairs of glasses that, yeah, I think I first saw them.

Yeah, seasonal anxiety disorder, sad, isn't that fitting?

And it just shines daylight temperature light into your eyes.

And I think I first saw that on the show Northern Exposure, where people wear those.

And he said, like, yeah, it really brightened my mood.

So I would play chess online and just wear those for like 30 minutes.

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