Our Revisionist (Personal) Histories ft. Jason Isbell | A Slight Change of Plans | Maya Shankar

What are the benefits?" And it seems like in your case, Jason, it would have been very easy to say, "Oh, I have this really frustrating habit where when I fear something, I jump in and I can't wait to just get rid of it." that instinct." And yet, here you are, later in life, learning that there is an advantage, and that when you channel some of those same instincts in the right direction, you can, you can have beautiful

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s that emerge, okay? Yes. Yes. No, I love that. I wonder if you can close us out with the song Cover Me Up, which is a beautiful ode to your wife, Amanda.

And yes, I would love to say that, um, that this is simply because it's in keeping with the theme of the show, but the reality is that I'm not going to not take advantage of the fact that Jason Isbell can serenade me. And so, all you Light Shifters listening, this is also a selfish desire of mine... Okay. ...Which is hearing one of my favorite songs sung by one of my favorite musicians. Okay, I'll do my best. Let me bring my microphone a little bit closer and I'll tune the guitar here. Let me take out one of my headphones.

Can you still hear me? Yes, good. And it's the end of the day, and my voice gets hot, and I can, but I'll do it now in D. Heart on the run keeps one hand on the gun, you can't trust anyone. I was so sure that what I needed was more, I tried to shoot the sun. The days when we got angry, we went off the page, that damage was already done. But I made it because someone knew it was meant for someone. Hey, thanks for listening. Join me next week when I talk to Nora McInerny, host of the Terrible podcast, thanks for asking.

Nora lost her husband to brain cancer in 2014, and in the months and years after her death, Nora found comfort and meaning in helping others through her grief. People began to see her as a kind of grief doula. Over time, these responsibilities began to increase and Nora felt overwhelmed, but she didn't believe she had a way out. Are you allowed to leave anything? Winners never give up and those who give up never win. Was she going to win the Best Widow award? I don't know. I think I felt in many ways that she had inadvertently constructed this identity that had become a cage for me.

A Slight Change of Plans was created, written and produced by me, Maya Shankar. The Slight Change family includes our senior producer, Tyler Greene; our producer and fact-checker, Emily Rostek; our editors, Kate Parkinson-Morgan and Jen Guerra; and our sound engineers, Ben Taladay and Andrew Vastola. Luis Guerra wrote our lovely theme song and Ginger Smith helped arrange the vocals. A Slight Change of Plans is a Pushkin Industries production, many thanks to everyone here and of course a very special thanks to Jimmy Li. You can follow A Slight Change of Plans on Instagram @dr

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. See you next week. Cover me and know that you are enough to use me forever.

It was good? It was ok? Oh my god, it was beautiful. Well. Thank you. Life is done, everyone. Life is done. That's great. Good thank you.