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DMA#37: How to Survive Farting At The Queen (and Why Hippos are Murder Potatoes)

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Draw Me Anything with Jason Chatfield
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Mar 9, 2026
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1958
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.newyorkcartoons.com \While I was going back and re-listening to this episode to write the recap below, I wrote down so many gems that she shared- tips I will honestly keep with me forever. This was a really great conversation. I hope you find it as valuable as I did. I am currently setting a new personal record for the number of times I can wash the same load of laundry without ever putting it in the dryer. I think I’m on wash number five. I put the clothes in, turn the machine on, walk away, immediately forget the machine exists, and then remember three days later when the super tells me the basement has started smelling like a wet golden retriever that has been trapped in a swamp. So, I wash them again. And the cycle continues. This is what having an adult ADHD brain actually looks like. It’s not just being a little “flighty” or getting distracted by shiny objects. It’s a relentless, exhausting daily battle with your own executive function. It’s opening an email, deciding you don’t have the emotional bandwidth to answer it, marking it as “unread,” snoozing it to tomorrow, and then doing that exact same sequence of events 49 more times over a two-week period. This is also why my chat with Jenny Lawson on yesterday’s Draw Me Anything was less of an interview and more of an aggressively validating group therapy session. Jenny Lawson (thebloggess) has been writing online for over 15 years, and she has a new book coming out on March 31st called How to Be Okay When Nothing Is Okay: Tips and Tricks That Kept Me Alive, Happy, and Creative in Spite of Myself . I got an advance copy, and I genuinely could not put it down. Have you ever read a book so good you run out of sticky notes? It is a wildly funny, deeply…