This week Cate Berlin introduces her listeners to the narrative Lead In with a story about American jeans, Armenian folk dress, and what happens when your mom raises you on a spice called Mrs. Dash. Listen to her ideas on how to use comedy techniques and theories to train your brain to beef up the flavor of your very serious business and professional writing, like why it is helpful to understand the similarities between the game of hide and seek and US immigration employees. (As you learned from the last episode, it is not what you think.) Berlin is an American author, editor, and columnist who has been transplanted to a place that is very much not America. Download a new episode every week to see how she is surviving, and to hear a segment from her university course, 'This Sentence is a Joke; Writing Funny and Other Ways to Persuade.'