Hey everyone. Imagine a sci-fi world made up of sentient objects. Today's book is Bossy Pants by Tina

Fay. Boy, was it not what I expected. I'm Kellyn Erskine. I'm a comic, a father, and just like

Tina Fey, I too once auditioned for Saturday Night Live. I'll tell that story on this episode.

I didn't make it on, even though I have a totally clean Twitter history.

And I'm David Vance. I haven't made it on to SNL, but I could if I wanted.

Bossy Pants is an autobiographical comedy book by Tina Faye, full of honest stories and applicable

lessons learned from a career in comedy.

It's sold over 2.5 million copies, so it reminds me of the autobiography that I will write someday.

And this is the book pile. This person calls himself Disney movie lover. The subject is high quality. And he or she

says, it's funny and informative. I love the balance. Well, Disney movie lover, you have a great

middle name. And we love that you love things that eventually be worth a billion dollars.

A billion dollars. Both us and Disney. Yep,

you got the joke, Dave. All right, and without further ado, here are our favorite lessons from

Bossy Pants. Lesson one, there are no mistakes, only opportunities. Also, I found out from my mom this

year that I was an opportunity. So she gives

this example from improv. She says, say you go out on stage, you know, pretending to be a cop on a bike,

but your scene partner calls you a hamster on a hamster wheel. At first, that would seem to us like

it's a mistake in the scene, but she says, that's not a mistake. Now you're just a hamster. And the scene can go in a funny direction from there. She says, in improv, there are no

mistakes, only beautiful, happy accidents. Many of the world's greatest discoveries have been

by accident. Look at the Reese's peanut butter cup or Botox. I love that idea of taking a mistake

and alchemizing it into something great. Herbie Hancock told

this story about playing with Miles Davis this time. And Miles was in the middle of a solo and Herbie

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