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I guess I'm not great at posting on SA, so none of you know me. So it goes. I have a podcast where I talk to people who interest me. Past guests include Lewis Black, Gilbert Gottfried, Kaki King, Lawrence Block, Jackie "The Joke Man" Martling, Jon Ronson, and some other authors, musicians, and comedians, some you've heard of, some you haven't. So I got that out of the way. This week, I talked to the mighty comedian Jim Gaffigan and his wife/collaborator Jeannie Gaffigan. I've known these two since before they ever met each other, when I was a punk 19 year-old, 450 pounds and long greasy hair and a bad attitude. I'm not going to sit here and pretend that I'm some great interviewer, but I think because I have known them for so long, I maybe got something out of them you just don't necessarily get from People magazine or The Tonight Show. Listening back to it, my favorite part was just hearing them talk about how they met and started dating. There's a tenderness and love there. but we talked about a lot of stuff, including: How they put together Jim's last special. About how amazing it is, miraculous even, that Jim is able to walk the line when doing jokes about Donald Trump that manage to not offend his followers, because the President is so divisive. And about Jeannie's brain tumor, which she made a full recovery from, going in a year from surgery to directing a comedy special that she produced and wrote on. The link is here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tell-your-friends-historys-greatest-podcast/id1453758270 And if you don't gently caress with Apple, here it is on SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/simpletwist/tyf-67-team-gaffigan-w-jim-jeannie-gaffigan-and-kevin-allison Anyway, I like the community here and I promise to check in every day if you have something to say about the podcast, I'll answer eventually. Or I won't. I know the sound is lousy, but I'm a comedian not an engineer, and I'm trying to make it audible for people on their crappy earphones. I'M SORRY
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Every week I post a "classic" episode of the podcast. This week, it's an interview with Ophira Eisenberg, the host of NPR's "Ask Me Another." I think we talked right after we'd gotten the gig, so it hadn't become as popular as it is now (I mean, popular for NPR, among nerds). She had just written a book called "Screw Everyone: Sleeping My Way to Monogamy." It's pretty good. We sat in the NPR studio to have our chat, but don't worry, I didn't use professional studio equipment, we still did it through my scrappy little Zoom H4. Here's the download link: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tyf-classic-with-ophira-eisenberg-and-adam-wade/id1453758270?i=1000440735965
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Jun 6, 2019 20:38
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This Monday's episode of the TYF! podcast features an interview with director Jay Stern. No, not the famous film producer Jay Stern, although I'm sure that's going to get me some extra listens, so #sorrynotsorry. Jay Stern is a New York-based indie film director who, through one of those long series of events, ended up directing his first film with an actual budget, SAY MY NAME. It stars Nick Blood from AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D. (although I would watch a movie *about* a character named Nick Blood, it's such a great name). So anyway, I talk to him about growing up Jewish in Alabama, about moving to New York to attend the prestigious Tisch School at NYU, and about realizing what a scam that is (this is my mords not his necessarily) for rich kids to pretend to be artists for a few years until they have to get their MBAs. And he talks about getting his start in making movies through working in the NYC theater and improv worlds, and how you can get famous people to be in your low budget movie. You can download it through iTunes or Apple Podcasts or whatever it's called here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tyf-6-8-shush-with-jay-stern-and-emily-flake/id1453758270?i=1000441046703 Or on SoundCloud here: https://soundcloud.com/simpletwist/tyf-68-shush-with-jay-stern
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Jun 10, 2019 23:42
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Not that you care, but I am aware I'm a day late plugging this week's episode. What am I supposed to do? I'm a mildly sometimes in demand comedian in a studio apartment in Hollywood who sometimes has to #grind for work, and last week into Monday was one of those periods. The good news is, this week's episode is a genuine corker and I hope that the three of you on this forum who give this show the five minutes it deserves enjoy the hell out of that first five minutes this week. THIS WEEK ON THE TYF! PODCAST: David Itzkoff is a reporter on the culture beat for The New York Times who has written a stellar biography of the late great comedian Robin Williams., titled ROBIN, and available in paperback today through Amazon or your local indie bookstore. I talk to Dave about his career, rising from the lad mags of the turn of the millennium and how his first memoir got him noticed by and, eventually, hired at the Times. We discuss Robin Williams, and Dave talks about going comic book shopping with the man. Also, we get to hear the almost four year process of writing a book like this, and the toll of being a man in the world with a wife and a newborn baby and a book to finish. About how Dave got so much access to Robin Williams and his world and the people in it. Finally, I discuss the new Bob Dylan documentary, Rolling Thunder, and discusses the value of honesty and truthfulness in art. That's not as unbearable as I make it sound. ITUNES: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tyf-6-9-robin-with-dave-itzkoff/id1453758270?i=1000441856687 SOUNDCLOUD: https://soundcloud.com/simpletwist/tyf-69-robin-with-dave-itzkoff SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5qMIDILrJKOztWoAIS70fP
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Jun 18, 2019 19:25
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Do people read this? Do they click on the links? Am I just a brain in a jar dreaming that I host a podcast? Who can say? This past Thursday, I dropped a classic episode of the podcast. I use the word "classic" without a trace of irony, because each and every episode is destined for the Smithsonian as an American treasure. I talked to Julia Wertz, a legendary indie cartoonist who, at the time of recording had been nominated for an Ignatz. She's been on the show a few times since, always with someone you wouldn't expect a retiring cartoonist to hang with, but in this interview we talked about her career, what it is to draw autobiographical cartoons, and together we discovered on mic why her fans kept finding her home address. This good! Listen to it. Or don't. IDGAF. ITUNES: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tyf-classic-16-w-julia-wertz-adam-wade-and-stacey-nightmare/id1453758270?i=1000442127478 SOUNDCLOUD: https://soundcloud.com/tyfpodcast/tyf-classic-16-julia-wertz SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/episode/25a8t4HoRxGrOlL7zRVPsq
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Jun 22, 2019 21:23
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I wasn't originally going to interview David and Caroline for this week's episode. I was going to interview my friend Carla Rhodes, a former ventriloquist-turned-award winning nature photographer. But when I was a block from her apartment, I got a frantic text that her pigeon Pearl was having a health emergency and was being rushed to the veterinary ER. Everything I wrote above is 100% true. But the good news is, this turned out to be a pretty good episode! Info starts now: David Lowe is a photo librarian at the New York Public Library and he created the Photographers' Identities Catalogue (http://pic.nypl.org), a database allowing users to search the Library's collection of over 600,000 images by year, name, gender, location, and so on. Caroline Kasnakian is a visually-imapired psychologist at a large NYC university. They've been shackin' up for the past nine years, and in this week's episode, I ventured out to the wild fringes of Queens to their apartment to talk to them about how they met, how they ran the NYC marathon last year as Runner and Guide, how they got into running, and about the first time Caroline saw David's face. Plus, a story from Kevin Allison of the Risk! podcast about life, love, and the pursuit of romance in the big city. Also, Liam lets you in a little bit with a list of interesting facts about his life. There wouldn't be a TYF! episode without some weird audio problems, and this week's episode is full of them, starting (and ending with) multiple cat attacks upon the recording equipment. Follow me down to where the convo happens for hot links to listen and download. And support the Tell Your Friends! podcast at http://www.patreon.com/radio. APPLE: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tyf-6-10-bacon-soup-squid-w-david-lowe-caroline-kasnakian/id1453758270?i=1000442601717 SOUNDCLOUD: https://soundcloud.com/tyfpodcast/tyf-610-w-david-lowe-caroline-kasnakian-and-kevin-allison?in=tyfpodcast/sets/tell-your-friends-historys SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3ixnuxEaZc4wCcXQN1uIKx?fbclid=IwAR2rTB9KQTPCYiKrXMnvujTbPdRO5gYk2sN4Kom8J7doiC5lyjDQgZbkLsg
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Jun 24, 2019 22:05
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I don't have a lot of time to post because... well, no reason. I just don't have the patience. Also, I turned the AC off in my apartment and Los Angeles has entered its "uncomfortably warm weather" phase. So to hell with it. I mean, the whole city's going to be underwater in 30 years anyway, so if I want beachfront property I better be looking in Nevada. What am I talking about? Oh yeah, today's TYF! podcast classic is a live episode I hosted with LEWIS BLACK and GILBERT GOTTFRIED. God, I love those guys. FFS subscribe already. APPLE: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podca...Zd_Aut0W1uFc_K4 SOUNDCLOUD: https://soundcloud.com/tyfpodcast/tyf-classic-17-lewis-black-gilbert-gottfried SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1fKGUWNasnN7yozE8UWhg9?fbclid=IwAR2USSYL7YopPHWjCiZSikQRp8dtDyy0K0rbgEJErZmr1fy7WlHaj5_FXuU
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Jun 27, 2019 22:22
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This week on the Tell Your Friends! podcast, I am dropping an interview I recorded 4 years ago, I even cut together the episode, and then the show went on an extended hiatus before it dropped. So... better late than never. Also, I'm learning the new Garage Band, and I don't understand why they don't have a preset for podcast recording. I mean, not for nothing, but that's 90% of the use Garage Band gets ever. Apple is the biggest scam I can't stop throwing money into. Ritch Shydner is a classic comedian who achieved the kind of success starting in the 1980s that most working comics only dream of, scoring gigs on The Tonight Show with johnny Carson and Late Night with David Letterman, plus his own HBO special. After years focusing on his writing career, he returned to standup in 2010 as documented in the film I Am Comic. He wrote about his career as a 1980s boom comic in the memoir Kicking Through the Ashes, and Liam talked to him in October, 2015, in his Los Angeles home. Support the Tell Your Friends! podcast at https://www.patreon.com/radio APPLE: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tyf-6-11-canyon-man-at-home-with-ritch-shydner/id1453758270?i=1000443383765 SOUNDCLOUD: https://soundcloud.com/tyfpodcast/tyf-611-canyon-man-at-home-with-ritch-shydner?in=tyfpodcast/sets/tell-your-friends-historys SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/episode/252q44bp59PCOgSVqbyWto
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Jul 2, 2019 19:24
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This week is a good old lazy summer Best of episode. I really didn't feel like doing much work, and I'm passing the savings on to you! On this week's TYF!, it's the Best of the Music. All the live performances from the first season of the Tell Your Friends! podcast in one, easy-to-listen-to format, providing more ROCK and less TALK. Eden and John perform a couple songs and tell us how they met legendary cartoonist ROBERT CRUMB and convinced him to join their band. Plus performances from Mike Doughty Alana Amram Eytan Mirsky, and A Brief View of the Hudson. LISTEN & SUBSCRIBE ON APPLE PODCASTS: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podca...wRIV-0dzmTev5TU ON SOUNDCLOUD: https://soundcloud.com/tyfpodcast/tyf-612-best-of-the-music-w-mike-doughty-eden-john-and-more ON SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7MfT5MgKezSLCz1zmavwU5
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I feel guilty breaking the streak of only HeyIsLiam posts but I do like the chance to be one of the posters on the first page of a thread. Haven't listened to the podcast yet though. That'll wait until after breakfast and after the dishes.
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