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The Minimalists

216 | Toxic Fame

The Minimalists

Joshua Fields Millburn

Home & Garden, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Leisure

4.711.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Joshua and Ryan discuss fame, notoriety, the difference between being famous and being well-known, and the upsides and downsides of stardom with actor, writer, and director Jennette McCurdy, and they answer the following questions:

Why do we seem to get more satisfaction from celebrities losing fame than gaining it? (03:13)

What can we do about celebrities that use their fame to spread ill will? (17:46)

Will the general public ever finally realize that fame is hollow? (30:01)

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0:00.0

Tha Minimists

0:30.0

Hello everybody welcome to the Minimists podcast we're

0:35.2

going to discuss what it means to live a meaningful life with less my name is

0:38.0

Joshua Philz-Milber and I'm Ryan Nicodemus and together we're the

0:40.8

Minimists today we're going to talk about fame we're going to talk about

0:44.4

notoriety we're going to talk about the difference between being famous and

0:47.8

being well-known and we're going to talk about the upsides and downsides of

0:52.2

stardom with today's guest Jeanette McCurdy is here an actual famous person

0:56.3

thanks so much for being here thanks for having me I think you're probably like

0:59.2

the most famous person that's been on our podcast so far really yeah well I

1:03.5

guess it depends on who he has not you guys are doing the podcast so that's

1:09.4

crazy so you probably know Jeanette from Icarly Sam McCat she's she's an

1:14.7

actress she is a singer-writer producer director we'll talk about a lot of

1:19.8

that I also want to talk about how we first met but first I just a quick

1:23.4

update for our audience we're getting ready to go on tour the the less

1:27.6

coast tour yes and we're going to be in eight cities U.S. and Canada and we had a

1:32.4

bit of a small problem with the venue so I just want to give people an update

1:35.5

here all of the events are now teenager friendly we had a bit of a problem

1:39.7

where there were like three or four of the venues where it's like 18 or 21

1:44.9

and so we had to go back to the venues and sort of work it out with each of

1:49.0

them and and so now every venue is teenager friendly if you want to check out

1:53.5

the city that we're gonna be in closest to you head on over to the minimalist

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