Josh Gondelman

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Alison Rosen

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🗓️ 2 November 2015

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

Writer and comedian Josh Gondelman (Last Week Tonight, Billy on the Street, New Yorker) traveled all the way from New York to be on my podcast and while he was in town he stopped by the Emmys. Or maybe I have that backwards. Regardless, he was in town and we talked about all sorts of stuff including his experience writing on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, You Blew It! An Awkward Look at the Many Ways In Which You've Already Ruined Your Life (his new book with Joe Berkowitz), discovering comedy, writing the @modernseinfeld Twitter account, why Twitter is better than OK Cupid, the fragility of adult friendships, job searches, elementary school Spanish, ramadas, porches and so much more. We also answered your questions and did a round of Just Me Or Everyone.

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, hi, hello, it is me, Allison Rosen. Welcome to another episode of Allison Rosen's
0:28.0	New Best Friend. I am sitting here in dining rooms studios with Josh Gondelman,
0:32.8	comedian, author, writer for last week tonight, and author of the forthcoming book, You Blue
0:39.1	It, An Awkward Look at the Many Ways in which you've already ruined your life, comes out October
0:43.8	6th but it's available for pre-order and Josh told me, hello. Hello. That if you pre-order it,
0:50.2	you'll email each person who pre-orders it and embarrassing secret about yourself. True. Yeah, so the
0:55.3	easiest way to probably do it is if they pre-order it in tweet, I can just DM them an embarrassing
0:58.9	secret about myself. But if they don't feel comfortable with that, if they just email me,
1:02.6	I will email them back in embarrassing secret. And so far, they've all been unique embarrassing
1:06.8	secrets. That's what I was going to ask. Are you potentially going to run out of embarrassing
1:10.2	secrets? Well, you don't know my life. I don't. But that's what I'm hoping to find out. Yes, so I
1:16.6	think I have plenty. And the embarrassment range from the minor of like, I hate this thing that
1:25.2	everyone says is good and I feel ashamed. Let me think of one that I haven't said is a secret.
1:31.2	I wouldn't be a secret. I'll put this one out in the world. It's pretty low stakes.
1:34.8	I feel like the band pavement is like a prank on me, especially their first album where people
1:42.8	are like, this album changed my life. And I'm like, in what way? And not the end like, I've liked
1:49.4	other Stephen Malcolmist stuff. But like when people, that specific album is a touchstone for people,
1:54.0	I'm just like, Oh, it just doesn't I don't. I guess it's not for me. Right. Things like that.
2:00.4	I liked the one that has cut your hair on it, which I feel like is probably the most commercial album.
2:04.6	That was not their first. I'm so poorly schooled. But I like, I forget. I also like, I have like
2:11.3	very populist taste in a lot of things where someone will be like, that's the one where that band
2:15.3	really like lost their way and went to commercial. That's what I discovered them. Yeah. And there's
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