Hi. Hi. Hi. How are you there? Hi. Hey, Nora.

I'm Nora McInerney, and this is thanks for asking, a call-in show about what matters to you.

Hi everybody, it's Nora McEnnerney, and this is, thanks for asking, and it's going to be okay.

For a few years there, we made this little daily show. I say little,

but honestly, it was ranking very high top percentage of podcasts worldwide, a number that,

like so many other numbers in the world really does not mean much. But the point is, we made this little daily show called It's Going to Be Okay.

It was like five to eight minutes, a little bit of okay for your day.

We shared something, something small that made other people feel like it was going to be okay.

Was everything going to be okay?

No, we aren't stupid. We don't look around at

the world that we all inhabit, that we are all aware of its many flaws and say, you know what,

guys, everything's going to be okay. Don't sweat it. We say, look, let's acknowledge that we're all

sweating very much right now. We're all very, very worried. And before we fall into the pit of despair, let us take our little finger, that little

weak fingernail there, hook on to one small bit of hope, one okay thing, and let's just

try to hang on.

Let's just hang in there a little bit. Now, the origin of this show,

if you already know, this is boring to you. But if you're new, it might also be boring to you.

Either way, I'm the one talking. So you could fast forward or I don't know why I'm bringing

this attitude to this show. I really don't. But the origin of the show, that phrase, it's going to be okay. You've heard it before. We've all heard it before. It's something that people just say. But it's special to me because it is something that my husband Aaron said to me while he was dying. Also something that he said to me when he wasn't dying, when he was young, when he

was healthy, when we did not know that inside of his head, he was also growing a brain tumor that

would ultimately kill him. He was breezy. He was buoyant. I'm not. I am naturally depressed. I am

the brick that was tied to his emotional balloon and he somehow

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