Welcome back to Jonah Asks.

In this episode, meet Andy. I've been friends with Andy for as long as I can remember...as we grew up our families had dinners together. Andy is a compassionate, kind and funny human being. He loves knowledge and ideas. He's a thinker and a professor, a husband and a new father, a son and a friend. I always love our conversations. Because of our history, I'm almost immediately at ease and ready to laugh with Andy.

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Topics we discuss:

*Joe Castiglione (voice of the Red Sox)

*snow and winter

*baseball and the changing of the seasons

*mortality and COVID

*our capacity for acknowledging and absorbing suffering

*sports fandom around Boston

*football and Trumpism

*use of technology and the internet

*being younger brothers -- impact on identity

*Dr. Thomas Boyce "The Orchid and the Dandelion"

*ritual weekday lunches (2012-2015)

*choosing to have a child

*dealing with the inner critic