James Adomian on his political awakening, his mathematician grandfather & coming out

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Katie Halper

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🗓️ 30 April 2018

⏱️ 37 minutes

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To hear the rest of my chat with James, go https://www.patreon.com/posts/18505673 I talk to stand up comedian and amazing impersonator James Adomian about being quarter Armenian, growing up conservative and religious, his self-designed major, finding the Left, coming out, and the birth of Trump vs. Bernie

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0:00.0	You know what, what, it's a crisp man out there,
0:01.8	is you listen to Katie Helper show.
0:03.3	I don't agree with anything she says,
0:04.9	but I want know what she says. Hello and welcome to the Katie Helper show. You can find us on iTunes where you can rate and review us. You can find us on sound cloud. You can
0:25.1	find us on Facebook. Find us on Twitter. You can hear the Katie Helper show every
0:29.8	Wednesday at 7 p.m. on WBAI that's 99.5 fm or WBA.org. On today's episode I speak to
0:39.5	comedian James Adomian about politics coming out as gay, coming out as left, and of course
0:48.4	find our bonus content and extended interviews, including my extended interview with James Adomian on
0:54.0	Patreon. Go to Patreon.com slash the Katie helper show again that's
0:58.1	patreon.com slash the Katie helper show. So excited to be here live in the living room of James Adomian.
1:12.0	Hi. Hi, James. One of James Adomian. Hi, James.
1:14.0	James is really one of, I know I like to kind of, I praise all my guests all the time,
1:18.0	but James really is really, really, really funny, smart, funny, smart.
1:22.0	I'm okay. He's he's alright I always tell this to people because I'm a big nerd I'm like James you know the thing about James is that in college he was a theater econ right am right? Wow you know this. Yeah
1:33.4	theater econ double major and that really gets to the heart of it because you're
1:38.0	really good at impersonations and mimicking and mimicry but you're also part of what makes you so good about that at that is
1:44.7	that you're really into policy. I understand some things. I've I've deliberately cut out
1:50.1	a lot of ongoing adult education from my life just for sanity's purpose.
1:55.2	Yeah I mean I used to know a lot. It also sounds like I'm being a total elitist
1:59.9	schmuck being like you know, well don't worry I did you know this this is amusing I failed out of my own self-designed major in college really and your self-designed major was
2:09.2	economic so what do you do when you failed that well I just I still owe them like nine credits. So you're like a you are a college
2:18.2	What I went the distance? I'm a four-year college ongoing student I guess could could say to make it look the nicest?
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