Here's a Fun One for the Holidays (Nora McInerny)

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Okay, so I wanted to do something a little different this week. I feel like we’ve been covering a slate of, well, pretty hard topics—which I obviously love and am very here for. But, you know, it’s also nice to mix in some joy and levity now and then. So I asked my very funny friend Nora McInerny to come on, and make you laugh and keep you company for a little bit while you perhaps do some holiday prep, run an errand, or maybe you’re just hanging and enjoying the start of some time off.

Nora, of course, contains multitudes. She is currently the host of a podcast called Thanks for Asking, which is a call-in show that you should all listen to! I also highly recommend her Substack, . Nora is again, so funny, and wise. Some of you will know her from her books about grief and living and laughing, and from the Hot Young Widows Club that she formed after the death of her first husband. This has been an incredible resource for so many, including my brother.

I will link all of this in the show notes but today we keep it pretty light! We talk about holiday traditions, growing up and now. Nora kinda blew me away with her successfully minimal gift-giving method. And she also has a few other holiday traditions that would be fun to copy with your family or friends.

We inevitably talk about The Real Housewives, The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, and the documentary Surviving Mormonism—as well as Nora’s favorite orders for dirty sodas, which are also known as Mormon sodas.

Nora suggests another funny show to binge now, along with a personality survey for us to check out.

I laughed a lot, the whole time. I hope you do, too.