Hello everybody and welcome to episode number 709 of Stop Podcasting Yourself.

My name is Graham Clark and with me is always is a man who claims he doesn't have anything to talk about but I baked a different Mr. Dave Schumcke will see we'll see like there's going to be a reveal later in this episode where I talk about something that I've oh I it's quite unique but something I haven't done in years. Okay, this is fun. It's not it's literally not a thing.

And that voice you hear there is today's guest you can hear her on how to survive with Daniel and Christine. It's Daniel caning everybody. Hi. Hey, how are you? I'm good. So let me just get this straight. Dave you approached Graham and said, look, I got nothing to talk about. Let's do a podcast.

Well, that's been the bulk of it. 709 weeks ago, but I said, okay, just want to get on board. Well, what I said this week was I got nothing and I expected my comedy partner to be like, you know what? This is when I carry you. Yeah, I'm not going to let everyone know you've got nothing. But instead, but instead that did not happen. You're on your own, dude. Hello. Thank you for being on the podcast. Thank you. Should we get to know us? Yeah, let's get to know it.

Now, this podcast is brand spank and new this podcast. It is we've released two episodes as of this as of this conversation. And what are I know I listened to one of them was about fire. So it's like surviving like like forest fires more than just house fires. But I guess house fires as well. Yeah. So the premise of the show is my my friend and my podcast.

The podcast partner, Christine Kimmel, she's kind of scared of everything. She's one of those people who's like, she scared her house will burn down. She scared her kids will be taken from her. She scared. She'll run off a bridge, you know, just like one of those and there are a lot of people like that who just kind of go through daily.

My I have way different kinds of fears that are mostly involved with, you know, just me and the aging process. And yes, yes. I like son of the aging process process. So the idea is inevitable. You know, I mean fires and fires that happy is mayhem. Yeah, you know, it's a good way to get to speed up the aging process is get caught in a fire. Yeah, that's true. It's a you can really put bags under your eyes. Exactly.

So, um, and then do you figure out like because do you do you have all the answers or you just get all the answers all of them 100% of the answers. So the idea is that we take a topic that people are afraid of, you know, fires or bears or tornadoes or home invasion. And we kind of give you some some, you know, Googled tips with it. We do not we do not claim to be experts.

We are clearly not experts and we we're joking through the whole thing. We are giving helpful hints, but we are also joking to the whole thing. And then for the second half, we have on a guest who we didn't on the episode you listen to but every other episode we've had a guest who talks about how they survive something.

Oh, wow, less dramatic more comedic. For instance, um, you know, how to survive a wildfire. Oh, no, you did listen. I didn't listen to wildfire. How to survive a wildfire. The one that we paired with that is how to survive being fired and our friend Alex Alexander came on and told a really funny story about being fired.

I've been fired. Have you been fired? Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

Give us a quick rundown. What is the what are the positions you've been let go? All right. Well, I I'm a writer and I've written on a bunch of animated shows.

And I wrote on a Disney animated show. And there were only three of us writers. Well, they're originally were four of us writers. And our boss said, you know, I'm going to fire this other writer.

What the person I shared a room with. I was like, well, that's why are you telling me that? Like why are you telling me ahead of time that this person I like and who's, you know, this sweet woman is going to be fired. So she told me like weeks before she's going to fire her and then of course she was a can.

So then you're carrying around around this thing. I want to fire her. I just need to work up the courage.

I know why she was an odd woman. Then she told me that I was the only one who got the show. Okay. Great. Me of the three people. I'm the only one who gets gets the show.

Then it starts turning bad. And it's like, I don't know if you guys have ever are you guys writers. I know your comics. Are you writers?

A little bit of thing or two. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So when you're on a show, maybe not even as a writer in any capacity, you can kind of tell like, oh, things are going off the rails.

Like it's a brand new show and like this arm doesn't, this hand doesn't know what this hand's doing. And we want it to be this kind of show.

But we want it to be this kind of show. And it kind of start falling apart. And so some scapegoating started happening.

Yes. And was that the name of the show? Is it scapegoating?

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