Sep 28, 2026 · 17 min · 10 segments
Gratitude is a practice: done on purpose, whether or not you feel like it, with the feeling arriving afterwards as a consequence. This episode is about doing it on a Tuesday, without the shipwreck…
Paul CleworthHost
Written and directed by John Patrick Shanley, who just won an Oscar for writing Moonstruck.
Joe Banks works in the worst office ever put on film, and then a doctor tells him he has a brain cloud and a sort of made-up condition and six months to live.
So he quits and agrees for reasons that only make sense inside the film to jump into a volcano on a small island in the Pacific.
Most of the way there, his boat sinks in a storm, and he ends up adrift on a raft he's built out of four steamer trunks lashed together.
He's got a raft and a moon, and the thing that comes out of him isn't fear and it isn't a bargain.
Written and directed by John Patrick Shanley, who just won an Oscar for writing Moonstruck.
Joe Banks works in the worst office ever put on film, and then a doctor tells him he has a brain cloud and a sort of made-up condition and six months to live.
So he quits and agrees for reasons that only make sense inside the film to jump into a volcano on a small island in the Pacific.
Most of the way there, his boat sinks in a storm, and he ends up adrift on a raft he's built out of four steamer trunks lashed together.
He's got a raft and a moon, and the thing that comes out of him isn't fear and it isn't a bargain.
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