Believing Because You Want To Believe with Comic Adam Spiegelman

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4.1 • 529 Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2015

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Adam Spiegelman, writer/producer, sent emails to a high school friend ten years after graduation pretending to be the teacher begging for help. Even though all the evidence pointed to it being a fake, you'll never believe what the friend did next. How far would you go to believe something you want to be true?

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0:00.0	Hey, Honest, my new book, Pit to LAX, My Storyworthy Life is finally coming March 25th. Yes, it is an actual book on physical paper. It's true. And you've got all these great stories about being a flight attendant, people dying on the flight. You went in the Peace Corps? That's true. That's true. He survived cancer. Well, a lot of people who listen to the podcast know a lot of these stories, but now they're in one place. Pitt to LAX, my storyworthy life.
0:23.7	I'm so excited about it, getting a lot of great reviews, and people can pre-order it right now over at storyworthymedia.com or at storyworthypodcast.com as well. This is Adam speaking with from the podcast. Proud proudly resents, and you're listening to Storyworthy.
0:37.9	Boy, You're Smart.
0:48.2	Welcome to the Storyworthy podcast.
0:51.6	Here are your hosts, Christine Blackburn and Hanna Sfini.
1:04.7	Welcome to Storyworthy.
1:06.2	My name is Christine Blackburn, and I'm here with Hannaas Finney and we have traveled once again
1:11.0	to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, my hometown
1:12.9	to the Oriental Theater
1:14.5	which is a movie palace. I've been going to
1:16.6	movies soon. My whole life built in 1927.
1:19.7	Finally. The word Oriental was not considered offensive.
1:23.1	I guess it's okay if it's a building.
1:25.1	Right. People you can't say that anymore. Well it was the
1:26.8	man's Chinese theater of course. Right. But Chinese is, no, but Oriental is like, you're not supposed to call people Oriental because it's kind of just considered crude. Now you say Asian. Right. No, I understand Asian, but there's no country called the Orient, right? That's a region. The Orient is the East. Okay. Okay, but do you know where we are? We're in the West. But what's... The Far West. No, no, no. We're in the Near West. No, if the Orient is the East, what word is the West? Southwest. No, the Occident. Oh, Jesus Christ. I never would have found that. That never? Occidental College, right here in Eagle Rock where Obama went to school. Yes, I know that school. The Occident is the West and the Orient is the East. I am very impressed. You know that, Honest. You shouldn't be. I'm a genius. You've always have bits of information and nobody else would know.
2:18.0	I have information that does me no good whatsoever and never will. Yeah, but now in the storyworthy podcast it's all coming out. Everybody's knowing about you. Now the millions are pouring in. Oh, there's no millions. All right, all right. Well, we are here tonight, I guess here at this theater. which is a beautiful spot.
2:34.1	Because our guest tonight, Adam Spiegelman, Adam Spiegelman,
2:36.9	is the host.
2:37.5	Well, he are here tonight, I guess here at this theater. At the or anal theater, which is a beautiful spot.
2:34.2	Our guest tonight, Adam Spiegelman, Adam Spiegelman, is the host.
2:37.5	Well, he's a TV producer is what he is. Yes. He produces all sorts of shows. He's done shows for like Jimmy Kimmel and Arsenio Hall. but he also has his own show called Proudly Resents.
2:47.8	And this is one of those podcasts, Honestes, as you know,
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