Episode 6: The Good Troll
Conversations with People Who Hate Me
Dylan Marron & TED
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 11 September 2017
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Dylan Marron calls James, a stand up comedian and self-identified troll, who publicly wrote that Dylan was “condescending as f*ck.” James walks Dylan through the difference between a good troll and a bad troll, and his views on comedy.
Conversations with People Who Hate Me is a production of Night Vale Presents. Credits: Dylan Marron (creator, producer, host), Christy Gressman (executive producer), Vincent Cacchione (audio engineer, mixer), Rob Wilson (logo designer). Theme song: “These Dark Times” by Caged Animals.
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| 0:00.0 | Ted Audio Collective. |
| 0:02.0 | Audio Collective. |
| 0:04.0 | Oh man, I'm such a troll. |
| 0:09.0 | You identify as a troll. |
| 0:11.0 | I identify as a troll. I identify as a troll. I think I just identify as a troll. |
| 0:17.0 | Hey listener, a quick favor. We are conducting an audience survey and we'd be really |
| 0:22.2 | grateful if you could take just a few |
| 0:23.9 | minutes to respond. Please visit survey.PRX.org slash Ted to take the survey today. |
| 0:30.3 | That's survey dot PRX.org. |
| 0:33.0 | Thanks. Thanks. Hey, I'm Dylan Merin, and this is Conversations with People Who Hate Me, the show |
| 0:49.1 | where I have extended conversations with some of the people who have sent me the most negative or hateful |
| 0:54.1 | messages on the internet. |
| 0:56.0 | In this show, and in interviews about this show, I've purposefully chosen to not use the word |
| 1:00.9 | troll out of respect for my guests. |
| 1:03.6 | The idea of calling them trolls feels like I'd be stripping them of their humanity, |
| 1:07.3 | you know, their people, some of whom strongly disagree with my views, others with my |
| 1:11.7 | sexuality, and a select view with my entire existence, |
| 1:15.4 | but there are still people and bless them for it. |
| 1:18.8 | But today I'm talking to someone who identifies as a troll, and who am I to stand in the way of someone's identity. To use his terminology, he first |
| 1:28.0 | trolled me when I made a video called Happy Heterosexual Pride Day, a satirical PSA inspired by the many who demanded that |
| 1:35.3 | straight people should get a Pride day if gay people get one. Here's a clip. |
| 1:40.5 | Today is Friday or Saturday or Sunday or Monday or Tuesday or Wednesday or it's |
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