Celebrity guest!! Paul Scheer, JOYFUL RECOLLECTIONS OF TRAUMA

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 15 July 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Award-winning actor and comedian Paul Scheer joins Zibby to discuss JOYFUL RECOLLECTIONS OF TRAUMA, a vulnerable and hilarious memoir-in-essays about coming to terms with his childhood trauma and embracing his authentic self. Paul reflects on his experiences growing up with an abusive stepfather and how it shaped his need to hold onto positive memories through keepsakes. He also describes his late-in-life ADHD diagnosis and shares his best advice for aspiring writers.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Zivie Owens, and I am the host of this podcast. Moms don't have time to read books.
0:08.1	I am also a newly minted USA Today bestselling author of the novel, Blank.
0:14.2	I've created a whole community of book lovers around this podcast, a publishing company, reading retreats, a bookstore, and more.
0:21.8	Learn more at zivimedia.com or follow me on social at Zivie Owens or join the community at
0:28.4	Zivie Readers.
0:31.2	Paul Shear is the author of Joyful Recollections of Trauma, a memoir which hit the New York
0:37.4	Times bestseller list.
0:39.1	Paul is a comedian, actor, filmmaker, and podcaster.
0:42.5	Paul is best known for his roles in FX's The League, by the way, I've watched every episode
0:47.1	of that show, and Showtime's comedy series Black Monday.
0:50.3	He also co-created and starred in MTV's Human Giant and Adult Swim series NTSF-S-D-S-UV and has had recurring roles on ABC's fresh off the boat and HBO's Veep.
1:03.2	Away from his acting work, he also co-hosts two film discussion podcasts.
1:08.0	How did this get made alongside his wife, June Diane Raphael, and longtime
1:12.5	collaborator Jason Mansuchas, and unspooled with film critic Amy Nicholson. He currently lives in
1:19.2	Los Angeles. Welcome, Paul. Thank you so much for coming on moms don't have time to read books
1:23.7	to discuss joyful recollections of trauma, your best-selling book. Congratulations.
1:28.7	Yeah. Thank you so much. I'm, well, I'm honored to be on your book club. I mean,
1:33.6	this is like, truly, that's the biggest honor I could possibly be. Oh, I loved it. It's so good.
1:39.2	Oh, thank you so much. Yeah. It's, you know, not everybody has the bravery or the introspection to say, like, I'm going to take out all of the cabinets of like all my secret stuff and decode them for the entire world.
1:51.5	And as summary, as someone who has like 20,000 memory boxes like scattered everywhere, I'm related to that very much.
1:57.2	I'm like, who's going to know about this ticket or why it's important to me?
2:00.7	I know. They make me feel so good. Like, I have this collection of boxes, you know, and they really do hold everything from like a kindergarten report card all the way to like what my son brought home this year in an art project. It's like little things, not everything.
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