The Last Thing on the List

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4.8 • 11.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Standup comic Cassandra Dee struggles with depression. She jokes about it in her standup comedy but isn’t sure if she can pull it off. She jokes about the kids that bullied her growing up, the bad dates, the suicide ideations, the failed therapy sessions. The audience laughs, but she wonders… has she gone too far? And - a story from a young woman feeling trapped in her body, until one day she finds the perfect getaway vehicle.

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The Last Thing on the List from Love & Radio

Although this is a story about finding hope, please note it discusses suicidal ideation. Please take care while listening.

Thank you, thank you, to Cassandra Dee for sharing her story. Cassandra's comedy special, Uncle Earth, is available for free on YouTube from Helium Comedy Studios. You can also find her on Instagram.

This story was produced by Justin Kramon with Ana Adlerstein for the Love and Radio podcast.

Love and Radio is like family to Snap. Their stories are intense, strange, and unlike anything in podcasting – and they’re launching their tenth season later this year.

Special thanks to Aviva DeKornfeld for her help on this story. Huge thanks also to Brett Wean at the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. Artwork by Teo Ducot.

Help is available. If you or a loved one is in crisis, please call the Suicide Crisis Lifeline at 988 in the US. You can learn more about suicide prevention, healing, and connect locally with others whose lives have been affected by suicide through the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.

The Minivan

A young woman feels trapped in her body, until one day she finds the perfect getaway vehicle.

This story was performed at Snap LIVE at The Power Center in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in partnership with Michigan Radio and The Ann Arbor Summer Festival. Original Music by Alex Mandel. Music performed by Alex Mandel, Tim Frick, and David Brandt. Re-recording mix by Pat Mesiti-Miller.

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0:00.0	Never heard a podcast that made you say, wow, they really said that?
0:11.4	Risk is the show where people tell true stories they never thought they dare to share.
0:16.3	Listeners say the show makes them burst out laughing and crying, good crying.
0:21.6	Some say it saved their lives.
0:24.6	Surprising honesty.
0:26.2	The most jaw-dropping moments that are stranger than fiction.
0:29.9	Thank you for it at all.
0:31.2	Wait till you hear risk.
0:33.3	Available on the Odyssey app or wherever you get your podcast.
0:38.4	You know, I feel lucky.
0:41.9	So lucky in giving to share stories about my personal life here with you.
0:48.2	Because spinning these tales into stories, walking this tightrope,
0:57.9	it forces me to really examine what went down.
1:08.0	What happened? What did I do right? What did I do wrong? It's picking at scabs that otherwise I would leave to fester.
1:15.9	And all artists use their lives as the building bricks of their art.
1:24.2	But I think comics, comedians, they live closest to the truth because nothing's ever funnier than what actually happened.
1:27.7	And the hardest person to laugh at is always yourself.
1:32.1	So today, the deepest dive of all, we are so proud to present the last thing on the list.
1:42.1	My name is from Washington.
1:44.2	Believe me when I say, sometimes, the applause is all you have when you're listening.
1:54.1	The snap judgment.
1:59.9	Now, today's story takes us deep into the life of a professional stand-off comedian.
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