Here's what we're going to talk about this week. We're going to talk about lifetimes worth of anxiety.

We're going to talk about powerful, indestructible imposter syndromes. We're going to talk about

not getting emotional support from your parents to be the person you want to be. And we're going

to talk about giant whale puppets that swallow entire bans. So, anxiety, imposter syndrome, parental

support issues, whale puppets. You might have some, or even most of these things in common

with our guest, probably not all four. It's depression mode. I'm John Moe. I'm glad you're here.

Music I'm John Moe. I'm glad you're here. It was on a wedding night. How they danced by the firelight, and the bride was well arrayed by her 15 chambermaid as her father raised the toes

to the health of all the hoes

we descended from the acts

to bear witness to the whole collapse

and it's oh no

we're jumped up and ready to go

that's a song called

Oh No by the Decembrists off their new album

as it ever was so it shall be again

it just came out and that's the voice of the band's lead singer Colin

Maloy. Now, just in that snippet, you hear words not often heard in popular music. Chambermaid,

apps, arrayed. You can find all sorts of fun words in Decemberus songs, Palinquin, falderall, parapets.

Sometimes it helps to have a dictionary nearby when you're listening to them.

And there are boats. A lot of boats in the lyrics Colin Malloy writes and sings.

One of their most beloved numbers is the Mariners' Revenge song.

We are to mariners Our ship's sole survivors

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