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  • Grudge Book is Back!

    Greetings, loved ones. We’re back with one of our time honored Terrible traditions: The Grudge Book. Sit back, get cozy, bring your petties, and enjoy this selection of listener grudges…

    February 6, 2024

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  • The Christmas Curse (Happyish Holidays 2023)

    If your holiday season is feeling less sparkly, less warm, less…happy, you’ve come to the right place! Every year we make an episode about the bad, terrible and subpar side…

    December 12, 2023

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  • From the Archives: Not The Bummer Olympics

    In this special interlude episode of Terrible, Thanks for Asking, Nora McInerny addresses the common sentiment many listeners express when sharing their personal stories: "It doesn't compare."

    June 6, 2023

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  • Gifted and Terrible

    Enjoy this free TTFA Premium episode! And if you like it, consider signing up for future bonus content like this. Listener support makes our independent podcast possible. Consider joining to get…

    March 9, 2023

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  • Your Happyish Holiday Traditions

    The happyish holiday season can be whatever the heck you want it to be, no matter what pressures you feel from family and friends and society. So, here’s to creating…

    December 20, 2022

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  • Happyish Holidays 2022

    ‘Tis the season! Our terrible holiday tradition is back, this time with more of your painful, sad, awkward holiday stories. Plus: boundary setting advice from Melissa Urban and a fiery…

    December 13, 2022

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  • Anything Can Happen

    The thing about having your life fall apart is that there’s just so much to do, and there’s so much that you don’t know until it’s too late. In today’s…

    August 23, 2022

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  • Matchmaker, Make Me a Match

    Last year, we did a virtual live show on Valentine’s Day, and Nora — who considers herself a bit of a matchmaker — did some matchmaking. And while she was…

    May 31, 2022

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  • Motherless Day

    Some holidays are just more loaded than others, depending on our individual experiences. When you’re grieving the loss of your mother — either because they’ve died or because you don’t…

    May 3, 2022

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  • How’s It Going In There? 2022 Edition

    In 2020, we asked how it was going in there … wherever it was you were isolating, quarantining, social distancing. Somehow, it’s been *checks watch* TWO YEARS of COVID and…

    March 22, 2022

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  • Tell Me About Them

    When someone we love dies, we become the vessels responsible for carrying their memory forward. The people we love stay alive in the big things, of course … but in…

    March 1, 2022

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  • These Are Your Confessions

    We recently made an episode called “The Grudge Book” filled with your grudges, and the feedback was SO strong. People felt validated. They laughed. They connected. So Nora got to…

    January 26, 2022

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  • Why Are You Up?

    Sleep experts the world over seem to have countless tips and tricks for getting those eight hours of Zzzs each night. But sometimes our brains just … can’t shut down,…

    October 19, 2021

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  • The Grudge Book

    About six years ago, Nora took a notebook and wrote down all of the grudges she was holding against people … and then, she left that notebook in a seat-back…

    September 14, 2021

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  • Happyish Holidays 2018

    We’re back with our third annual Happyish Holidays episode!

    November 27, 2018

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