Dale speaks openly for the first time about his personal experience with loss this week when he welcomes fellow podcaster Tawny Platis, founder of the Death is Hilarious Foundation. When Tawny’s husband died suddenly, she found herself a young widow with not a lot of avenues for support. Hoping to connect with others who were experiencing loss, she launched the Death is Hilarious podcast and a non-profit foundation of the same name. This resource has allowed for hundreds of people to interact, share, and grieve together, and to do so in a sometimes funny, irreverent way that speaks to the contemporary moment. Dale and Tawny talk about dark thoughts, how grief affects the voice, and using humor to push through sadness and depression. A modest warning, this episode contains discussion of suicide, dead bodies, and (ever so briefly) Pete Davidson. Plus Dale explains why he is wary of birds in the home.