I'm Lisa Yuso, a digital producer at Ideas, the podcast that likes to feed your curiosity.

I ask my colleagues why they think you should listen.

Ideas can make you the smartest, most interesting guest at your next dinner party in less than 60 minutes.

It's got the best of a storytelling podcast

with the best of a great lecture.

You can pretty much never predict

where an episode will take you,

but you can count on every episode

to shift your perspective,

even just a little.

Find and follow ideas

wherever you get your podcasts.

This is a CBC podcast.

And we're sitting up here.

We go to please get all in our eyes.

We go to let's get all in our eyes. We go to please get all the place.

Let's kick this week off with a little listener. Yeah, let's do mail. Yeah, let's do it. Would you like me to read it?

Yeah, Lo, hit me with it. Read it up. Hey, I think you're interesting and you make me smile and laugh.

I recently went through a psychosis and I have a deep depression right now. Oh, no. But you made me feel a bit lighter and happier.

You made me think in another direction.

Thanks for that.

And my wish when I die is to be cremated and someone to paint a painting of me with my ashes

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