Guy Branum Goes to Minnesota, Gets Good Internet, Finds Self

The Hilarious World of Depression

American Public Media

Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.8 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2018

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Comedian and writer Guy Branum was expected to be a construction worker his whole life. Maybe a football player. He was large, strong, and grew up in a town more known for agriculture than metropolitan sophistication. After scoring good grades and pining for places usually seen in the movies or magazines, he moved on to college and then law school in Minnesota, where he was able to come out as gay and realize that his interests were way more tilted toward comedy than the practice of law. What's it like to find yourself after suspecting you don't belong anywhere?

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0:00.0	I'm Cameron Espazito and I have a lot of jobs. I'm an actor. You've seen me on ABC's and a million little things.
0:04.8	I'm a stand-up comic bestselling author, but I am no expert at survival.
0:08.5	On my new podcast Survivor Diet trying, we're going to learn together from shark attacks to
0:13.8	tsunamis and bad breakups. This is your one-stop shop to prepare for the absolute worst-case scenario.
0:20.0	Join me and some special guests on Survivor Diet trying a comedy podcast that prepares you for anything.
0:26.4	Listen and follow wherever you get your podcasts.
0:30.1	Is depression funny? Oh, absolutely.
0:35.2	Depression is funny because it is a fun house mirror. You don't see anything the way that it
0:39.7	really is. Things are too big, things are too small, and that is a ridiculous little way of
0:45.2	looking at life.
1:00.9	God goes in to see a doctor says there's something wrong with me. I've got a sadness I can't shake now.
1:10.4	Is there something I can't take now?
1:15.6	It's the hilarious world of depression. I'm John Moe. This episode is about coming to terms with who
1:21.2	you are when who you are seems different from who most people are. It's about being told you're a
1:27.0	monster trying to manage your life as a monster and then deciding, hey, wait a minute, I'm not a
1:32.2	monster. My name is Guy Brannem. I am a stand-up comedian. I'm the host of Talks to the Game Show
1:37.8	on True TV and the author of My Life as a Goddess and then more through unpopular culture.
1:42.4	And I am currently in a booth at an audio facility on the Melrose Avenue.
1:49.2	Guy was in LA where his brand of intellectual comedy delivered with some degree of bomb-bast is
1:54.7	rapidly making him a star. I was in Minnesota, which is where Guy went to law school. Minnesota,
2:00.8	as you will learn, is a very important place to guy. I would say the real upsides of Minnesota,
2:07.2	you're very strong pancake game. Also, like the entire summer slate of festivals, your aqua tenio,
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