This is Space Cats Peace Turtles, the unofficial podcast for Fantasy Flights Twilight Imperium.

Episode 451. How to play Twilight Imperium in 2026. With music by Ben Prunty, art by son Sanders, produced by Shelton Brister, hosted by Hunter

Donaldson, and featuring Jedeem Jedi. Being a stand-up comedian, if there's a reason for any average person to try stand-up comedy.

I've said this before, but I don't know if I've said this on Spacecats.

If you're just somebody out there and you're thinking about trying stand-up,

I would really encourage you to, not because you're going to become a comedian.

You won't, all right?

Just so you know, the amount of people in this world that actually become comedians is such a low percentage of the population.

You are most likely not secretly a comedian. I'm not even a comedian, really, at the end of the day.

But here's what I'll tell you you should do. Try stand up because it's important to have a safe space to publicly

fail in a major intense way. And I think there's value in that. It is absolutely harmless.

The only damage you're taking is purely psychic damage, right?

And you can tank psychic damage.

You know what I mean?

Like, the idea of you're standing up there, there's all these people there, they're

expecting to laugh, and then you try something, and it doesn't work.

And of course, it's embarrassing.

It feels, it doesn't feel good.

It feels bad.

But you can absolutely learn to just deal with it and accept it.

And there's a sort of beauty and freeing aspect of knowing that I can fail publicly in front of people.

And that's okay, you know, I will be fine.

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