How Do You Build the Thing You’ve Been Waiting Your Whole Life to See? with Joey Clift

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Ana Marie Cox and Open Mike Eagle

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4.6 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Writer, comedian, and director Joey Clift joins us to talk about making the work that matters, especially when the world doesn’t make it easy. From Paw Patrol to Peabody nominations to his new animated short POW, Joey opens up about the long road to representation, what it means to build a career without a “big break,” and why doing it the right way isn’t always the fastest—or easiest—path. Watch POW: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOTuVqdwu8Y Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:06.9	I was nominated for a Peabody Award this year and I did all this other cool stuff. But like when I tell people that I wrote an episode of Paw Patrol, it's like if they have a kid, they're just like, holy shit. It's like I wrote two episodes of that. You don't care about the Emmy I was nominated for, you know. This week we're talking to Joey Clift,, comedian, and director of the new animated short,
1:31.3	POW about what it means to keep building a career on your own terms.
1:37.4	We get into representation, responsibility, and why doing the work the right way takes more than just showing up.
1:44.1	It's a conversation about ethics, identity, animation, and what happens when you decide to make the thing you've been waiting your whole life to see.
1:52.2	The creative economy is broken, but some people are still making it work. We're here to find out how.
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