Jason Gay, I WOULDN'T DO THAT IF I WERE ME: Modern Blunders and Modest Triumphs (but Mostly Blunders)
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Zibby Owens
4.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 2 November 2022
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Wall Street Journal sports columnist and NYT bestselling author Jason Gay joins Zibby and Kyle to discuss his hysterical new book of essays, I Wouldn’t Do That If I Were Me: Modern Blunders and Modest Triumphs, which they read (and cried laughing at!) while sitting in standstill traffic. They discuss the importance of finding joy and humor in everyday moments, our society’s frighteningly low attention spans, our fear of aging, and our undeniable need for human interaction, all of which we re-learned during COVID and can read about in this book!
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Zivie Owens, the creator and host of the award-winning podcast that you're listening to right now. |
| 0:07.8 | Thank you so much called Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books. |
| 0:10.7 | It is a daily podcast 365 days a year, and each day we talk to an author about all of the things related to their career, their book, their life, and more in 30 minutes or |
| 0:21.1 | less, because who has time? I am now an author myself, although I wasn't when I started this |
| 0:25.9 | podcast, and you can get my new memoir, Bookends, a memoir of Love, Loss, and Literature, |
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| 0:39.5 | but really you're here to learn more about the authors, |
| 0:42.2 | and that is what we're going to do. |
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| 0:58.7 | Thank you. at Zcastnetwork.com and definitely check out those shows as well. Jason Gay is the author of I Wouldn't Do That If I Were Me, Modern Blenders and Modest Triumphs, but |
| 1:04.5 | mostly Blunders. Jason is the sports and humor columnist at the Wall Street Journal and is |
| 1:09.4 | very aware of how hilarious that |
| 1:11.0 | sounds. He was named Sports columnist of the Year by the Society of Professional Journalists in |
| 1:15.9 | 2010, 2016, and 2019. And his first book, The New York Times bestseller, Little Victories, |
| 1:21.6 | was a finalist for the Thurber Prize in American Humor. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland, |
| 1:25.8 | with his family surrounded by way too many in-laws. |
| 1:28.6 | This is the second time Jason has been on this podcast, and you will hear Kyle, my husband, |
| 1:33.5 | Kyle, and me just fawning over him because we love, love, love the way he writes. And by the way, |
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