Chuck

And since I started to sign off this episode like it was one of the OG episodes, that means it's time for listener mail.

This is from Cara.

Just kind of a thank you.

Cara started listening in 2008 when she was sick at home from high school with pneumonia.

Yours was the very first podcast I ever listened to back when hardly anyone knew what a podcast was.

I've been an avid listener to a lot of shows since, but you have been a constant in my life through the end of high school, college, grad school, and beyond.

Your voices have always been a sense of comfort and familiarity when things in life got really difficult.

I went to see you live in Boston three times.

Always on my own, and each show felt like a small celebration for myself of something that had carried me through so many years.

I wonder if that's the person who had the laugh that we called out in Boston every time.

Oh, I don't know.

Maybe.

I think Kara would have mentioned that probably.

Probably.

One rule with Stuff You Should Know For Me, though, is I could not listen to a new episode until I could really pay attention.

Like, other shows were background podcasts for me, but not yours.

The only downside was that I fell further and further behind

unless I had the focus to listen.

This year I've had to do a lot of driving, though, and things have settled down some, so I made it a goal to catch up in time to listen to the 2025 Halloween special on Halloween.

Also told myself if I did it, I'd finally write in and tell you how much I appreciate the information, banter, humor, and movie recs and stuff like that.