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This is from a 99 percent Invisible Podcast
John Green
Can I tell you my favorite joke? I’m sure you’ve heard this joke but you’ve never heard me do it.
Roman Mars:
Okay.
John Green:
So a moth walks into a podiatrist’s office. Do you know this joke?
Roman Mars:
I don’t. I don’t know it from that set-up.
John Green:
All right. Then you don’t know the joke.
Roman Mars:
Okay.
John Green:
A moth walks into a podiatrist’s office and the podiatrist says, “What seems to be the problem, moth?” And the moth says, ” … doc, if only there were one problem. I mean, my wife doesn’t love me anymore. It’s not just that she doesn’t love me, I don’t even remember a time when she did love me. My daughter has married a man whom I despise and who despises me. My son is a wretched failure. And, to be honest, when I look at him, all I see is a reflection of my own failures. I just don’t know how to go on, doc. I don’t know. I don’t know. You know?”
John Green:
And the podiatrist says, “Well, those seem like very serious problems, moth, but I’m a podiatrist. What brought you here today?” And the moths says, “Oh, the light was on.”
charts appropriated from this short and interesting Wikipedia page about the tiny Serbian hamlet of Donji Srb.

Westlake and Third
From the Epic of Gilgamesh, ca. 1600 BCE,
From Gilgamesh, a New English Version by Stephen Mitchell

https://www.theallusionist.org/allusionist/supername
Unless I missed the great Helen Salzman does not once mention that the title of her podcast is a superhero name, like this guy in Michael Chabon’s book “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay“, which is also great.

Spokane Street Bridge

Under West Seattle Bridge