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Based on feedback from our subscribers, we can confidently say we send out amusing emails. Other brands might just send you product photos and say "buy stuff" but here at Boredwalk amusing you is job #1.

Because everything is terrible everywhere right now, we recently added a new weekly email to our regular email content and it's entirely focused on trying to make you smile and it comes out every Wednesday. Below is a round up of what we shared this week. If you like this join our email list. You can find the email sign up at the bottom of this page on the right (scroll all the way down to the footer).

1. Comedian Neel Nanda's new half-hour set.

(Note: Neel is very funny, but he also has an affinity for the odd four-letter word. Headphones up if your pious granny is in the room...but also, chill out, granny.)

Neel has been a friend of ours since Meredith and I first arrived in Los Angeles. He is extremely funny and wholly dedicated to the craft of telling jokes. It's been a blast getting to see his material evolve over the last several years and watch him grow into a superb stage performer. Netflix, give this man an hour! In the meantime, you can get your LOLs free of charge on YouTube, just click the link above.

2. Cats & Dominoes.

If you haven't seen this since it was first posted to YouTube a couple weeks ago, the title pretty much says it all. Two cats, countless dominoes, three and a half minutes of feline befuddlement. You're welcome!

3. Dolly Parton has come to save us all (and read us a bedtime story).

Famed songwriter and general righter of wrongs Dolly Parton is here to help us all get to sleep. Starting April 2nd — hey, that's tomorrow! — at 7:00PM and continuing for the next ten weeks, Ms. Dolly will be reading bedtime stories to help kids feel a little safer during all this craziness.

4. More koalas than you can shake a eucalyptus stick at.

The folks at Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary have blessed us all with an embarrassment of riches in the form of multiple livestreams from the koala habitat they maintain. Koalas, who are generally pretty sedentary creatures, don't tend to be very active. If you're in the mood for more movement, though, just keep scrolling to the dingo tracker feeds!

5. Goats have overrun this Welsh seaside town, and it's adorable.

Chances are that if you ventured outside over the last couple weeks you've noticed a change in nature. Bluer skies, cleaner air, and loads of wildlife emerging from hiding to assert its newfound dominance. We've noticed it here in SoCal with wild peacocks and coyotes flourishing in the streets, and our buddies in the UK are experiencing a similar re-wilding of their environment. A herd of 122 Kashmiri goats have descended on the small seaside town of Llandudno, Wales and are taking advantage of the empty town center streets for their daily cavortings. Good on them!

Welcome to our weekly Boredwalk Community series, where we ask Boredwalk fans fun questions! This week we're talking to Matt B. of Chicago IL, showing off a whiskey shirt.

1. What's your actual day job and what's your dream day job?

I'm an events planner for a medium-sized nonprofit organization in Chicago. I absolutely love it. My dream day job is to be an events planner for a Formula 1 team. Preferably McLaren or Haas.

2. What's your biggest pet peeve?

Injustice.

3. What's a book that you think the Boredwalk community should read?

Essentialism by Greg McKeown. About 15 months ago I made the conscious decision to truly improve my life. I went on new brain drugs, got a new job I'm passionate about in the industry I love, started seeing a therapist, and reading self-improvement (not self-help) books. Essentialism had the most impact on me. It's about the disciplined pursuit of less: stop taking millimeter steps in a million different directions and take meter-long steps in one or two things that have true meaning to you.

(Ed. note: this tracks well with my own experience as someone with ADD. Nibbling at tasks/projects on the margins is a good way to accomplish very little.)

4. What's a life pro tip that the Boredwalk community needs to know?

If you don't prioritize your life, someone else will.

5. You can curse your nemesis with a minor annoyance for eternity; what do you choose?

Any time they drink something, a few drops end up on their shirt.

6. Where can the rest of the Boredwalk community find you?

@mberan42 on Twitter. No Facebook — I deleted that over a year ago as part of my decision to improve my life. It was just making me angry. I still have the Insta, though. Same handle — @mberan42

Welcome to our weekly Boredwalk Community series, where we ask Boredwalk fans fun questions! This week we're talking to Tricia K. of Oglesby IL, showing off a Amateurs Wait for Inspiration shirt.

1. What's your actual day job and what's your dream day job?

I give tours of the Hegeler Carus Mansion in La Salle, Illinois. It’s 144 years old and almost entirely original. Awesome place, though I wish it was haunted. My dream day job? Hmmm…that’s actually a tough one, because I’m one of those intolerable jerks that already loves their job. Although if someone paid me an obscene amount of money to read books and watch old cartoons all day….

Oh, and I’m also a professional storyteller. And I dog-sit. I get to do all the stuff I love. Pthththth! (Ed. note: The number of non-haunted mansions in this country is too damn high!)

2. What's your biggest pet peeve?

Going to the fridge for an ice cold soda and finding the last one’s been taken. That really gets on my nerves…especially since I live alone. (Your roommate sounds like a grade-A soda scoundrel!)

3. What's a book that you think the Boredwalk community should read?

Stephen King’s Skeleton Crew. It’s a book of short stories, so even the easily distracted can get hooked.

4. What's the most useful piece of advice you've received?

My father once told me, “What others think of you is none of your business.” It was great advice, and I listened. Granted, he also told me to leave his ‘damn power tools’ alone, and I did not listen…which explains the belt sander scar on my leg. (Ouch! Well, hopefully that incident built some character where your flesh used to be.)

5. What experience do you most want to cross off your bucket list?

I would like to meet author Stephen King and not act like a total jackwagon in front of him. (Is "jackwagon" a technical term?)

6. Clear up a misconception (about your job, where you are from, some other topic you know a lot about).

Arsenic wasn’t only found in Victorian wallpapers; you could find it in your chocolate bar wrappers, your candles, hats, socks, children’s toys, hair ornaments, dresses, curtains…the possibilities for poisoning you/your family were endless back then! (They really knew how to party in the 19th century. Here's to living dangerously in uncomfortable clothes!)

7. Where can the rest of the Boredwalk community find you?

I don’t do the Facebook/Twitter stuff, but I do have a website: BlarneyTales.com. You should also check out HegelerCarus.org. Killer cool old house, no joke! (Well, wait for the stay-at-home orders to be lifted. Bookmark it for your next trip to or through La Salle, IL!)