Are Airline Pilots Allowed to Be Depressed?

For this episode, we asked for your stories about medication side effects. You told us about the weird, from sleep-eating to compulsive spending. You told us about making trade-off calculations: Is an improved mood worth a decreased sex drive? And we heard about the loneliness of ...  Show more

Now famous as a New York City nightlife fixture and for his role on Somebody Somewhere, comedian Murray Hill used to keep his personal history private. In fact, the persona of “Murray Hill” started as a drag king character modeled after old-timey comedians. Over time, though, the ...  Show more

<span style= "font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'; color: black;"> Episode 340 Show Notes</span>

Troy Merritt, a pilot for a major U.S. airline, returned from his 30th birthday trip in Croatia in October 2022 — sailing on a catamaran, eating great food, socializing with friends — and cried. This wasn’t back-to-work blues but collapsed-on-the-floor, full-body-shaking miser ...

<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; color: black;">Episode 341 Show Notes</span>

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