#25: Comic Books (Mike Lawrence)

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🗓️ 3 October 2011

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

While I was visiting New York, I interviewed comedian Mike Lawrence about comic books. I was trying to interview him about what comic book nerd life was like, but then it just turned to talk about comic books and the movies. I'm not a great interviewer. Anyway, fun conversation.

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0:00.0	I love everybody and welcome to Ari Shafir's skeptic tank number 25 first and foremost before we get
0:17.2	the started I just want to say that I promised a new episode every Monday and so far one for one
0:22.5	that's the biggest streak of my life in anything. So in today's episode I talked to a New York
0:29.7	comedian named Mike Lawrence who's a very very funny but he's also an
0:33.5	aficionado of comic books. I hate to say comic book nerd because it's such a
0:37.8	cliched and such a cliched line and phrase but it's like he's a humongous nerd
0:43.4	and he really loves comic books so I guess call it what you want. But sit back and
0:50.4	relax and enjoy Ari Shafir's skeptic tank number 25 comic book
0:59.7	so you're into comic books yeah you're into that world like you oh yeah yeah
1:13.8	definitely I think that's weird when people my friend Mike Black is into it too and I
1:18.6	guess a bunch of people are I guess it's not you're not keeping the industry
1:21.6	alive but like what's that how much of that day do you just take up how much of
1:28.2	my day does take up you know I'd say it ebbs and flows on average about two to
1:38.4	three hours two to three hours a day it depends you know sometimes I won't read
1:43.6	that much and then other times I'll read for like you know four or five hours does
1:47.8	that include like research time oh what do you mean my research time I mean like
1:54.6	my friends know what what books are coming out graphic novels are coming out they
1:58.7	can't wait for this this guy's writing this episode of Batman and that's
2:02.5	interesting yeah well I mean yeah I guess if you want to count that then yeah it I
2:08.3	mean the thing the thing about my comic book fandom that I'll just get out of
2:12.2	the way is you know I I had a huge action figure collection I I'm from Florida
2:18.0	and in Florida I had a huge action figure collection and at least ten Florida had
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