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Wrong Turns with Jameela Jamil

Danny Wallace

Wrong Turns with Jameela Jamil

Jameela Jamil

Society & Culture, Jameela Jamil, Storytelling, Disasters, Personal Journals, Comedians, Comedy Interviews, Conversation, Stand-up, Comedy, Funny, True Stories, Shame, Embarassing

4.73.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2021

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Comedian, filmmaker, and author Danny Wallace joins Jameela this week to discuss how his book Yes Man changed her life, the culture of rudeness, parenting young children, what its like being an only child. Check out Danny Wallace's book, Fuck You Very Much, wherever books are sold.

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0:00.0

Oh hello and welcome to another episode of I Way with Jermila Jamil. How are you?

0:05.7

You know I'm all right. I've enjoyed the news a bit more for a once for a change.

0:12.5

I've liked all of the action coming out of the Biden Harris administration. I like the talk of

0:18.0

climate change, control. I like the talk of racial equality being taken seriously and police

0:25.0

reform being addressed so instantly. This feels hopeful. I hope they keep up the same energy

0:31.2

throughout the next four or hopefully eight years because it feels good. I'm developing

0:37.7

something called faith, something I had lost for a really long time. So I'll try not to get

0:42.1

to ever excited. But dammit, we deserve to be a bit excited wherever we can because these are

0:47.4

bleak times. I hope you're starting to feel a bit better. January is finally ending. God January

0:54.2

was long. Fuck me. It was like a year long. I thought it was never going to end. It was awful.

0:59.6

It was so awful. I felt so awful during it. And so I'm enjoying that ending. And I don't know.

1:07.7

I'm sensing a tiny bit more positivity and energy coming back into the people around me, the people

1:13.2

that I follow online. We're moving on. We are such resilient people. We're such a resilient

1:19.9

generation. We should be so proud of ourselves for everything that we managed to withstand.

1:25.0

I know I say that often, but I really mean it. Thank you, by the way, for sending so many lovely

1:30.2

messages to Brittany Floyd Mayo. She was my guest last week. She goes by the name Trapp Yoga Bay

1:36.4

on Instagram. And she has the most extraordinary life story. One of the more extraordinary ones.

1:42.5

I've not only ever had on this podcast, but I've ever heard in my life. And if you are not into yoga,

1:46.8

that's okay. This episode is still for you because I'm not into yoga. I'm not really into

1:50.9

any kind of exercise in particular. And I always found it very, very inaccessible. And she talks about

1:57.2

it in this way that makes it sound so fun and funny and invigorating and empowering and just

2:01.8

real. It doesn't feel pretentious or inaccessible. She is diversifying the world of yoga, the world

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