S6 Ep81: Ella Langley - Dandelion

0:00Hey, I'm Josh Speagle, host of the podcast, Lunatic in the Newsroom. If you enjoy journalism that drifts into my old panic, wild overthinking, and a guaranteed nervous breakdown, Lunatic in the newsroom is for you. It's news like you've never heard before, the only newsroom with a panic button. You'll laugh, you'll cry, and gasp and horror as the show spirals completely out of control. It's not just news, it's emotionally unstable. Lunatic in the newsroom, listen today. I've got to mate, I don't seem very much. He's kind of given up on life, and he lives in the countryside. He's my age, he does nothing, with his life he just works, and watches TV, and I don't know. I'm not saying it's bad, and I just work.

1:00Ambition, next goal, and he sometimes punctures my ambition, kind of as a joke, kind of as a cruel test. I say I'm going on a European tour, and he'll say, all right, cool, to what end? All right, just to increase my audience, and he'll say, all right, to what end? And I'll say to be creative in different places, and he'll come back to what end, and eventually it's like, OK, you've got me. You've got me, this is pointless, isn't it? What's on TV? Alan Carr's picture slam, cool, cool. Let's just give up, so nonsense, isn't it? It is all nonsense. Things just get blown away like a dandelion,

2:06but I've been driven for years, and recently the other side has been calling me more and more. I guess it's the time I spend on my phone. I realize, yeah, you could do this every day, Nathan. My mom retired when she was younger than me. She wasn't rich, but if you retire to the countryside, do nothing like my mate, and shop in the whoop section of Audi, where everything's moldy, you don't need very much to, you don't need much money at all, I could give up and do fuck all, just breathe in through the nose and out through the mouth. If only I was religious, I could take my foot off the gas in this life, it's annoying sometimes being an atheist,

3:10because it puts more pressure on this life. This is the one chance to do stuff, I believe. Now, one of the more religious you are, the less you do. Again, if you believe there's a paradise waiting one, earth would you want to do anything in this world? Apart from maybe the things you're not allowed to do in paradise, which I guess are two things, setting off bombs and fucking kids. That's what the ultra religious people do, don't they? They're self-bombs and they fuck kids, because they know in heaven. That's frowned upon. It is, it's frowned upon. Come in a way like it is here amongst those groups.

4:18You do it, but it's light. Okay, I'm frowning upon it, but okay. The sun shining, birds are singing and all feels right in the world. Until the season changes and suddenly you lose your motivation to get out of bed. In fact, one in five people experience some form of depression no matter the season or time of year. At the American Psychiatric Association Foundation, our vision is to build a mentally healthy nation for all, because we want you to live your best life and be your best you all year round. Please visit mentallyhealthynation.org to learn more.