Ep. 113 - Julia Sweeney, Comedian and Author

Friendly Atheist Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Politics, News

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2016

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Julia Sweeney may be best known for her years on Saturday Night Live, where she famously played the androgynous character Pat. But she has since written multiple one-woman shows and books which speak to her experiences as a cancer survivor (God Said, Ha!), atheist (Letting Go of God), and mother (If It's Not One Thing, It's Your Mother). Speaking of which, if you haven't heard Letting Go of God yet, stop what you're doing and go listen to it. It's an incredible, funny story of how Julia shed her Catholicism. (A condensed version of the show was featured on a 2005 episode of This American Life.) At the recent American Humanist Association conference in Chicago, we spoke with Julia and her daughter Mulan about how the character Pat would go over today, the movie Mulan finally watched for the very first time, and what Julia thinks about the new all-female Ghostbusters reboot. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:52.4	Haven and I are here. Google account on both your phone and Chromebook.
0:54.0	Haven and I are here at the American Humanist Association
0:57.4	conference and we're here with Julia Sweeney
0:59.7	and I'm very excited about it and her daughter Milan.
1:01.9	Thank you so much for joining us.
1:03.5	Sure, no problem.
1:04.3	I'm being relaxed and chill and regular.
1:07.6	I'm such a big fan of yours.
1:09.5	Haven't you asked a thing?
1:12.0	No, it's been, I was telling Jessica earlier, so the first time I got to meet you in person
1:17.2	and Mulan was about 10 years ago at a conference way overseas and it was wonderful in Reykjavik.
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