How to Fail, With Comedians Chris Gethard and Akilah Hughes

The Upgrade by Lifehacker

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Tech News, News, How To, Education, Self-improvement

4.6 • 688 Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2018

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

It’s our first live recording of The Upgrade, performed in front of an audience at the Bell House in Brooklyn, NY. Joining us are comedians Chris Gethard and Akilah Hughes, as well as Brittany Luse and Eric Eddings of Gimlet Media’s “The Nod.” We talk about how you can’t succeed without failure, and how to move past even the most embarrassing of screw-ups. Plus: we play a few rounds of Never Have I Ever (Upgrade-style) and a new game we’re calling “Lifehacker Saves Your Life.” See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Upgrade, the podcast from the team at LifeHacker, where we help you improve your life one week at a time.
0:17.7	I'm Melissa Kirsch, editor-in-chief of LifeHacker.
0:21.5	Thank you. And I'm Melissa Kirsch, editor-in-chief of Lifehacker. Thank you.
0:23.6	And I'm LifeHackers' deputy editor and Melissa's favorite person, Alice Bradley.
0:30.0	Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
0:33.2	And tonight the theme is How to Fail.
0:36.3	Yes, indeed. And we are not going to fail at our first live show, are we?
0:41.2	I mean, we could, frankly.
0:42.3	We could, but it's a live show.
0:43.8	Anything could happen.
0:44.6	All our friends are here.
0:45.6	It's true.
0:46.8	So we're among friends.
0:48.2	It's true.
0:49.4	So Alice.
0:50.4	Yes, Melissa.
0:52.1	I hear you have a failure story for me, and it's not my favorite failure story about you.
0:57.5	I like to catalog my failures from Melissa's entertainment, because there have been so many.
1:02.9	The one that is Melissa's favorite is when I failed gym and ended up in remedial gym with the bad girls from the high school
1:11.2	the Augustinello twins
1:12.8	who taught me how to key cars
1:15.3	but I didn't never do it
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