Hey y'all, from NPR on Sam Sanders, it's been a minute.

Today, I am taking a break.

I'm passing the mic to a good friend and colleague, Adi Cornish.

You know Adi is one of the hosts of NPR's all things considered, but what you might not

know is that for a while now, Adi has been putting on this awesome series of live events.

I've been to a few of these events.

They are quite fun.

And today, in my podcast feed, we're going to give you one of those chats.

Comedian Nicole Byer in conversation with Adi Cornish in front of a live audience.

Adi calls Nicole a quote star on the rise.

She has a comedy series.

It's called loosely exactly Nicole.

She also has two hit podcasts, a Netflix comedy special, and most recently, an Emmy-nominated

show called Nailed It.

This is a Netflix competition show devoted to baking failures.

All right, Nicole Byer talked with Adi in front of a live audience at the downtown independent

theater in Los Angeles earlier this year, right around the time when the team at Nailed

It heard about their Emmy nomination.

This event was put on in partnership with NPR at Member Station KPCC, and one last

bit of a warning.

There's some sensitive language in this episode that we have bleeped, and there's some discussion

of sexual content.

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