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Hey, folks, just a warning before we get started.
In part of today's story, we talk about depression and suicidal ideation.
If you're feeling depressed or just want to talk to someone, know that if you're in the US, one resource you can call is the national suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1802 738255.
Once again, that's 1802 738255.
We'll put that information, as well as some other resources for people in other parts of the world in our show notes.
Also, if these subjects are hard for you to listen to, you might want to skip this one.
Okay, here's the show from Gimlet.
This is reply all.
I'm Emanuel Jieuchi.
There's this storyline in the tv show lost that I've been thinking about a lot recently.
If for some reason you haven't seen lost in, I don't know, the eleven years since it ended, I promise I am only going to spoil no lie, just one part of one storyline from one episode for you.
Anyways, lost is the story of what happens after a bunch of plane crash survivors find themselves stranded on a tropical island.
But this island turns out to be full of all kinds of supernatural, incredibly strange things.
And one of the bizarre, like, hard to explain events that happens on this show, and there are many, is that one day, the survivors of the plane crash discover this hatchen buried deep underground in the middle of the island.
And it turns out that in that hatch, there is a man.
Like, there's a man living down there, this lovable scottish dude named Desmond.
He's been down there for years, all alone, pushing a button every day in order to reset a clock that keeps counting down because he thinks that if he doesn't push the button and the countdown gets to zero, he'll cause, like, this global catastrophe.
He doesn't actually know this, but he won't take the risk.
So he's just kind of stuck.
He's a prisoner in this kind of weird private hell where he does the same thing every day to the tune of Cass Elliott's song, make your own kind of music.