4.6 • 8.8K Ratings
🗓️ 23 November 2018
⏱️ 53 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hey y'all from NPR, I'm Sam Sanders, it's been a minute. |
0:08.7 | If you are hearing my voice right now, you survived Thanksgiving. |
0:13.8 | I am proud of you, give yourself a round of applause, a pet on the back, you made it |
0:18.2 | through a lot. |
0:19.2 | Relatives talking politics at the table, long lines at the grocery store, oven mishaps, |
0:25.1 | your aunt Ruth Potato salad, you made it. |
0:28.3 | And now you deserve a break. |
0:29.9 | A little slice of feel good, a few laughs. |
0:32.5 | Listener, that's what we are giving you this episode. |
0:35.0 | We're going to highlight some interviews I've done with comedians over the last year or |
0:38.4 | so. |
0:39.4 | First up, a couple of stories from comedians on their way up, struggling just to make |
0:43.6 | it. |
0:44.6 | Long before he was the star of the oath and shows like Eastbound and Down and the Mindy |
0:48.7 | Project, Ike Baron Holtz was a college dropout. |
0:52.1 | He left Boston University, moved back home to Chicago. |
0:55.8 | He was doing improv at night and he had a day job to make ends meet. |
1:00.1 | I loved school. |
1:01.5 | Sure you did. |
1:02.5 | But I hated studying. |
1:04.6 | And so I loved my teachers. |
1:08.0 | I loved talking to my teachers. |
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