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Voices/Bridget Phetasy/E49. Jim Gaffigan Is Trying to Save America

Bridget Phetasy

Podcast · 396 episodes on record

E49. Jim Gaffigan Is Trying to Save America

Published

September 20, 2019

Length

1 hr 41 min

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September 20, 2019

E49. Jim Gaffigan Is Trying to Save America

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E34. Dave Rubin Discusses the Danger of Journalism Becoming Activism

E35. Michael Malice Explains How Culture is Created and Opposing Progressivism

E36. Robby Soave Hopes that Sensible Liberals Will See the Dangers of the Approach Activists are Taking

E37. Tim Dillon Thinks Stand-Up Comics are Mentally Ill

E38. Mitchell Sunderland Believes in Socializing with People You Disagree With

E39. Kira Davis Discusses What it Would Take to Have an Honest Conversation About Race

E40. Sarah Solomon Wonders Why You Would Have Kids if Not to Live Vicariously Through Them

E41. Andy Levy Fears Getting A Tarot Card Reading

E42. Marshall Herskovitz And the Importance of Betting on Yourself

E43. Ethan Nicolle Enjoys Disagreement and Debate

E44. Corinne Fisher Isn’t Talented, She’s Just Really Good at Being Herself

E45. Noah Rothman and the Myth of Social Justice

E46. Glenn Beck Believes When You’re Done Learning, You’re Dead

E47. Story Hour with Bridget Phetasy Part 4 – The Accidental Pundit

E48. Peter Boghossian Wants to Teach People How to Have Impossible Conversations

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E49. Jim Gaffigan Is Trying to Save America

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E50. Helen Pluckrose on Why Intersectionality is the Wrong Way to Go About Achieving Social Justice

E51. Jamie Kilstein Believes Comedy is Where Broken People Go to Make Other People Happy

E52. Cousin Maggie Discusses Battling the Demons of Depression

E53. Yasmine Mohammed Points Out the Contradiction in the Way Western Liberals View Fundamentalist Islam

E54. Adam Alter Helps You Manage Your Screen Addiction

E55. Melissa Chen Asserts That if You’re Ignorant in America, It’s A Choice

E56. Ryan Stout Says You Should Keep Creating, Even if the Industry Doesn’t Care

E57. Faisal Saeed Al Mutar Believes Focus and Dedication Can See You Through Anything

E58. Dana Goldberg Maintains that Comics Say What Most People are Thinking

E59. Bret Stephens On Why Disagreement is the Basis of Every Free Society

E60. Coach Tea Believes the Gifts We Are Given Should Be Used to Serve Others

E61. Helen Dale and the Changing Rules and Ramifications of Cancel Culture

E62. Michael Malice Wants to Foment as Much Chaos In Our Political Process As Possible

E63. Jessica Michelle Singleton Processes Her Trauma Onstage

E64. Rapper Zuby On Why Men Aren’t Out to Get You

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Summary

Comedian and actor Jim Gaffigan stops by to discuss the long and painful journey to a career in the entertainment industry, from studying finance at Georgetown, to taking improv classes so he can overcome his fear of speaking in meetings at the advertising agency where he worked, to falling in love with stand-up and watching everyone else in his comedy class find success before he did. Jim talks why failure is such a great teacher, getting lost in other people’s expectations, the creepy thing...

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