I have so much to tell you so all the items will be short
Take a breath. Here we go.
It’s the first day of our annual Max Fun Drive where we raise membership for shows like Depresh Mode. If people donate, we can exist. If they don’t, we can’t.
We’re offering many thank you gifts this year, including a Max Fun Family Cookbook, accompanying apron and bespoke spice bottle, and RESTICKABLE stickers.
This week’s Depresh Mode episode features comedy icon Dana Gould!
He talks about being one’s own worst parent, staying awake for 11 days or at least thinking that he did, having a panic attack in the middle of a comedy set, and preferring the Bowery Boys over hunting and guns.
Joe Biden is having the cast of Ted Lasso by to talk about mental health.
I hope that he also invites people who know are, you know, trained experts to talk about mental health some time but hey whatever it’s good it’s fine.
Good piece about how it’s bad news that Senator John Fetterman is suffering from depression but it’s good news that he’s getting help and making that public.
More than half of the people with mental illness do not receive any help for their disorders, according to The American Psychiatric Association. The reasons for this is largely because of the stigma, prejudice and discrimination people with mental illness face. For men, the stigma is especially present because of the stereotype of the strong man or fatherly figure which is one who has all the answers and never needs help from anyone else. To admit to needing help, let alone admit to having a mental health issue, often results in being deemed as weak and less manly.
If you become a supporter of Depresh Mode at the $20 a month level, you can get a Max Fun baseball cap OR the MAX FUN FAMILY COOKBOOK and accompanying jar of spices. I have a recipe in the cookbook and I’m calling it a salad. It’s for something called Marshmallow Crappy and it goes a little something like this:
A large mixing bowl or even a large serving dish.
1 container of Cool Whip, standard size.
1 bag of mini marshmallows. Not the big ones. The small ones.
1 box of Jell-o instant pudding mix, pistachio flavor.
1 can of crushed pineapple. Not chunks, not rings. Crushed.
(optional) 1 packet of crushed walnuts.
Then you dump all the stuff into the thing, stir it, and then eat it and feel great about yourself and your choices.
Paddy “The Baddy” Pimblett speaks out about mental health.
He is, I gather, someone who beats the shit out of people in a professional setting. Well, good for him and thanks, professional shit beater outer.
You may wish to know that Chuck E. Cheese’s still operates by floppy disks. You may not wish to know this. But you know it now anyway.
Everything Everywhere All At Once did very well at the Oscars, even though they didn’t use the title my mother-in-law used: Everyone Everything Here We Go.
If you enjoyed EEAAO, as many did, you may wish to watch another movie by the Daniels, Swiss Army Man. Daniel Radcliffe plays a dead body who can turn into a motorboat via his farts. It’s unexpectedly moving and it’s on HBO Max in the United States.