Coming to America With Maeve Higgins

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

News, Daily News

4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2017

⏱️ 30 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Three years ago, Maeve Higgins left a successful career as an author comedian in Ireland to try her hand at New York City. Since then, she's been obsessed with fellow immigrants, people who have chosen to make their life in the USA, often against formidable odds. In her podcast, Maeve in America, Higgins tells these stories, from Syrian refugees to Korean academics to English comedians. For the Spiel, a fable that explains everything you know about Trump's speech to Congress. Today's sponsors: Control GX gray-reducing shampoo. It is the first shampoo that gradually reduces gray. It reduces gray a little with each shampoo. It's easy to use and provides subtle, natural-looking results. And Green Mountain Coffee. Green Mountain Coffee is passionate about making a smoother-tasting cup. Try it today $4 off, when you buy two boxes of most Green Mountain Coffee K-Cup pods at keurig.com with code TRYGMC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:30.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:34.0	It's Wednesday, March 1, 2017, from slated to the gist I'm Mike Pesca.
0:43.0	And now with the rebuttal to the gist, we go to a diner in Paduca, Kentucky,
0:47.0	to Coal Country, Mike Pesca.
0:50.0	Ha! I'm Coal Country, Mike Pesca.
0:55.0	Same as regular Mike Pesca, but with a tucked-in shirt, and I'm the son of a preacher,
1:01.0	not a teacher, pretty dang close if you ask me.
1:04.0	Plus regular Mike Pesca records in a studio alone.
1:07.0	I like to fill up the place with my neighbors, or at least fellow diner patrons
1:12.0	who can't get the waitress's attention because I'm doing all the talking.
1:16.0	A little more about me because you asked, I'm a proud Republican, and Democrat,
1:21.0	and mostly American, but also one-sixteenth Cherokee, I assume because I have exceptional cheekbones.
1:28.0	I'm a lot of other things too.
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