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🗓️ 5 February 2021
⏱️ 25 minutes
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In a rare interview, the man behind @TheTweetofGod—former “Daily Show” writer David Javerbaum—opens up about creating that wildly popular Twitter account and adapting it into the new ‘Godcast’ podcast. He also tells stories about writing jokes with Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart, composing songs with James Corden and Adam Schlesinger and teases his upcoming book, ‘The Book of Pslams: 97 Divine Diatribes on Humanity’s Total Failure.’
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0:00.0 | Hey, everybody. This is God, Lord Almighty, King of the Universe. Thanks for listening. I just wanted to say hello. This is my regular voice. I know it's not very impressive. I know it's not Morgan Freeman-esque or anything, but this is how I talk, and I don't think you should make fun of me for that because it would not be in your interest. |
0:22.4 | Trust me. |
0:28.2 | This is the last laugh. |
0:30.4 | I'm Matt Wilstein from the Daily Beast, and today I am joined by the man who helps God |
0:35.0 | run his wildly popular Twitter account at the Tweet of God, |
0:39.2 | and just launched a new podcast called Godcast, comedian and writer David Jabberbaum. Welcome, David. |
0:47.1 | Thanks for having me. Great to be here. Yeah, I'm so excited to talk to you. I guess just to start |
0:51.5 | to get this out of the way, can you kind of describe your relationship |
0:54.5 | with God? No. I mean, not in a single podcast I can. It's very complex. I just know that about, |
1:03.4 | I guess, 11 years ago now, he came to me in my home office and he, in the form of a burning |
1:09.3 | futon, my futon was burning, and it did go up in flames. |
1:13.0 | It didn't sit there and not burn like the burning bush did. This actually went up in flames. |
1:17.0 | And he said, I want to communicate again to the people of the world. And you're a comedy writer who's |
1:22.7 | currently out of a job. And I'm just going to commandeer you indefinitely. And that's what it's been ever since. |
1:29.3 | I take no responsibility whatsoever for any of the tweets that I type and send. |
1:34.3 | Ah, got it. So they just come to you from God. So you've been helping for over 10 years with |
1:39.4 | at the tweet of God, which has become incredibly popular. It's over 6 million followers, which is a lot, maybe not as many as you would think God |
1:48.0 | would have, but still a lot. |
1:49.5 | That's a unit that God refers to as one Holocaust. |
1:52.9 | I have a Holocaust of survivors. |
1:55.1 | Was that the goal when you started this thing? |
1:57.6 | It wasn't my goal. |
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