Welcome to Getting Curious

Getting Curious. I'm Jonathan Banez and every two weeks I sit down for a 30 minute combo with a brilliant expert to learn all about something that makes me curious.

This week I'm curious about gender identity and I am joined in studio by the amazing stand-up comedian

Ian Harvey.

He was on Season 1

transparent, which is where I fell in love.

And so welcome the end of this episode of getting curious.

Thank you, Jonathan.

So I really just want to talk about what your relationship has been with gender identity and what

gender identity even means.

So obviously, so you are a stand-a comedian.

I am.

So tell me about that. I started about 15 years ago when you were

11 and I started in Portland, Maine and I just fell in love with it. It was like the best drug I ever did and being a sober person it was it was something that kind of unleashed some something that I hadn't tapped into in a while like I had been sort of doing this professional life and started a business a web development company

back in Portland and someone offered a stand-up comedy writing class at the local comedy club and I was like, wait a minute, that sounds

really cool.

I've always kind of wanted to do something like that but I had no idea where to start, which is a lot of people's

story.

They're like, I didn't know how to get started and then all of a sudden this

magical postcard came in the mail from a guy named Tim Farrell who was a

writer for the Daily Show but he telecommuted to the Daily Show and he held a

class and just the structure of writing comedy and that sort of thing.

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