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What’s one question you wish someone would ask you? What would be your answer? I really feel this gets people to express something they are passionate about.

Obsessive listening of TAL - do you think its common and/or healthy?

I'm in Australia. I started listening in my first year of university in 2012 to tune out my anxious thoughts before sleep. Suddenly now it's twelve years later and I've listened to at least one episode every single day (from the archive), at a minimum to fall asleep to. I've listened to the entire archive start-to-finish at least two, maybe three times. Have you heard of this as being common amongst fans? (Yes, I do attend regular therapy - don't worry!)

Time machine

What is one story you wish you could go back and retell? Why?