FYI with Chris Martin

FYI with Chris Martin

We Are Moths in a Podiatrist's Office

Escaping our default setting

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Chris Martin
Oct 19, 2021
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Last month I watched a vlogbrothers video from John Green in which he shared his two favorite jokes of all time. Here is one of them, which you may recognize:

A moth walks into a podiatrist’s office, and the podiatrist says, “What seems to be the problem, Moth?”

And the moth says, “Ah, doc, if there were only just one problem. My father died, and I miss …

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