Common Beliefs That Make Disasters Worse (with Jason Pargin)
The Cracked Podcast
Literally Media
4.6 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 27 April 2020
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
Alex Schmidt is joined by New York Times-bestselling author Jason Pargin (pen name David Wong) for a close look at mistakes society needs to stop making now, and stop making always. Alongside that, they’ll explore ways you can help people survive this coronavirus thing, just by being thoughtful.
Footnotes: https://www.cracked.com/podcast/common-beliefs-that-make-disasters-worse-with-jason-pargin/
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| 0:00.0 | Hey folks, it is your pal Alex Schmitch, Mitty the Clam with an exciting announcement because I have made a one-off podcast mini series |
| 0:08.1 | That is my own little passion project and I'm very very excited about it. It is called one way to make an emoji |
| 0:14.2 | It's the story of me creating the bison emoji because just anyone in the entire world can |
| 0:20.5 | Suggest a new emoji for the emoji keyboard and a secret world governing organization decides to add it or not and |
| 0:27.5 | Mine worked out. They're gonna add a bison. I'm so excited about it |
| 0:31.4 | I made a whole special tiny little podcast for it search for one way to make an emoji in your podcast app |
| 0:36.9 | That's the number one in that title number one way to make an emoji |
| 0:40.9 | There's also links for Apple and Spotify and Stitcher in the food notes of this episode if you want to subscribe that way |
| 0:47.3 | Also, I did a column for cracks this week about many emoji things |
| 0:51.6 | So you can find that as just a fun thing on the site that's going on |
| 0:54.9 | I think it's a really great column in general the smiling pile of poo emoji is there because of course it is and many other |
| 1:01.2 | Crazy stories about emoji either way that podcast is one way to make an emoji |
| 1:05.5 | Please find it in your podcast app. Please subscribe and see you then |
| 1:09.8 | Hey |
| 1:11.8 | There folks welcome to another episode of the cracked podcast the podcast all about why being alive is more interesting than people think it is |
| 1:27.5 | My name is Alex Schmidt. I'm also known as Shmitty the clam and also known as Shmitty the champ |
| 1:31.0 | I am also also |
| 1:33.1 | joined by my former colleague this week on the show in my former colleague is a guest who writes for cracked and for the New York Times bestseller list as David Wong |
| 1:42.7 | His true name is Jason Pargin and as you probably saw announced on on the website and stuff |
| 1:48.6 | Jason has voluntarily you know decide to go on and focus on his work as an author |
| 1:53.4 | He's also still popping in for columns and podcasts and stuff so he's not totally departing |
| 1:57.9 | But he's gonna focus on books for a while and let me tell you about those books because right now |
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