4.8 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2018
⏱️ 48 minutes
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The idea was to become an engineer or maybe an architect. Jonny Sun has degrees in both, and he's a dissertation away from a doctorate in urban studies and planning from MIT. But a phenomenally humane, funny, and popular Twitter account has placed him in an unexpected comedy career. Meanwhile, he realized that this dark sad feeling he's had forever has a name.
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0:00.0 | I'm Cameron Espazito and I have a lot of jobs. I'm an actor. You've seen me on ABC's and a million little things. |
0:04.8 | I'm a stand-up comic bestselling author, but I am no expert at survival. |
0:08.5 | On my new podcast Survivor Diet trying, we're going to learn together from shark attacks to |
0:13.8 | tsunamis and bad breakups. This is your one-stop shop to prepare for the absolute worst-case scenario. |
0:20.0 | Join me and some special guests on Survivor Diet trying a comedy podcast that prepares you for anything. |
0:26.4 | Listen and follow wherever you get your podcasts. |
0:30.0 | Is depression funny? It's funny when I read something about depression that I immensely relate to. |
0:37.8 | I've been there before and there's something about the specificity of that joke that tells me that |
0:47.2 | this person has also experienced it and we are bonding over this thing together. |
1:18.0 | It's the hilarious world of depression. I'm John Moe. We're going to do two things differently |
1:27.3 | than we usually do on this episode. We're talking to an unusual type of guest who is not a stand-up |
1:32.4 | comedian or musician or an actor. He's more of an engineer and we're going to tell his story in |
1:38.2 | a kind of unusual way. We're not going to follow a traditional chronological timeline. We're |
1:43.3 | going to have fun and we're all going to learn something. So buckle up. Let's ride. |
1:47.8 | My name is Johnny Sun. I am sitting in a very lovely, comfortable recording studio in Los Angeles. |
1:55.2 | What do you tell people is your job title? I try to avoid it as much as possible. I think because I |
2:01.9 | don't know. I think I exist as a lot of slashes, like academic slash writer slash comedy person |
2:11.7 | maybe slash illustrator. I think is kind of where I sit right now. All those slashes. |
2:18.6 | Yeah. Guitarist for Guns and Roses slash. |
2:24.1 | Johnny Sun is the author slash illustrator of the book Everyone's an Alien when you're an alien |
2:29.8 | too. It's about a cartoon alien sent to earth to understand humans, which he tries to do. |
2:36.0 | The book sprang from very popular tweets along the same lines. Johnny has well over a half million |
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