Laughing through Life with The King of Humor | Dave Barry

The James Altucher Show

James Altucher

Education, Business

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2023

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Today, James sits down with legendary humorist Dave Barry to explore the absurdity of Florida, his prolific career as a writer, and his creative process.With over 50 fiction and nonfiction books to his name, including his latest release Swamp Story, Dave is a master storyteller and has been entertaining readers with his sharp wit and hilarious observations for decades.James and Dave discuss the ups and downs of the newspaper industry and how Dave has adapted to the changing times. They also touch upon Dave's experience with "Dave's World", a sitcom loosely based on his life as a humor columnist. Dave shares candidly about how the show strayed further and further away from his actual life as the series progressed.Later on. the conversation turns to the increasing role of generative AI in the newspaper business and how it might affect sports writers in particular, such as Dave's wife - a newspaper sports reporter.Strap in for lots of Floriday oddities, discussions about the writing process, and Dave's winding road that led him to be the most syndicated humor columnist in America.------------What do YOU think of the show? Head to JamesAltucherShow.com/listeners and fill out a short survey that will help us better tailor the podcast to our audience!Are you interested in getting direct answers from James about your question on a podcast? Go to JamesAltucherShow.com/AskAltucher and send in your questions to be answered on the air!------------Visit Notepd.com to read our idea lists & sign up to create your own!My new book Skip the Line is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever books are sold!Join the You Should Run for President 2.0 Facebook Group, where we discuss why you should run for President.I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltucher.com/podcast.------------Thank you so much for listening! If you like this episode, please rate, review, and subscribe to "The James Altucher Show" wherever you get your podcasts: Apple PodcastsStitcheriHeart RadioSpotifyFollow me on Social Media:YouTubeTwitterFacebook ------------What do YOU think of the show? Head to JamesAltucherShow.com/listeners and fill out a short survey that will help us better tailor the podcast to our audience!Are you interested in getting direct answers from James about your question on a podcast? Go to JamesAltucherShow.com/AskAltucher and send in your questions to be answered on the air!------------Visit Notepd.com to read our idea lists & sign up to create your own!My new book, Skip the Line, is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever books are sold!Join the You Should Run for President 2.0 Facebook Group, where we discuss why you should run for President.I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltuchershow.com------------Thank you so much for listening! If you like this episode, please rate, review, and subscribe to "The James Altucher Show" wherever you get your podcasts: Apple PodcastsiHeart RadioSpotifyFollow me on social media:YouTubeTwitterFacebookLinkedIn See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	So excited. One of the best humor writers ever comes on the podcast talks about humor, his
0:15.8	process, his career, what's happening next with humor and AI and social media and all that.
0:23.3	But he just finished a novel. It just came out. Swamp story. It's a great novel. So much
0:27.0	fun. It's also written one of my favorite books about the state of Florida called Best State Ever.
0:33.6	A Florida man depends his homeland for in 50 or so books. Dave Barry, we talk about everything.
0:39.8	It's so much fun. Listen to it.
0:41.8	This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host. This is the James
0:50.8	Altiger show.
0:51.8	So Dave, really loved Swamp story. Thank you. Since I got it on Advanced Copy, I think maybe I'm
1:07.8	the first person to write it outside your community, including Alan's Wai Bal who did not help you
1:12.7	at all with this book. No, he didn't. Nor would anything else in my life really. Do you
1:20.1	wait? Are you really like buddies with Alan's Wai Bal? Yeah, Alan and I are very close friends.
1:24.4	In fact, we wrote a book together called Lunatics. I was like about 10 years ago in novel where he
1:31.8	wrote a chapter. I wrote a chapter. We went back and forth and it actually got option for a movie
1:37.4	and the course that never got made because nothing ever does. But then it's just got optioned
1:42.0	again for me. So we're now rewriting this screenplay. But anyway, Alan and I are good buddies.
1:46.6	We hang out a lot and I love them. I've read one of his books recently. It's a book about humor.
1:52.8	It's called Laugh Lines. It was like a memoir because he's worked with everybody.
1:58.3	Yeah. It was a lot of his. He killed a radonary. He was part of writing partners with her.
2:03.0	I didn't know he helped create the Larry Sanders show. Yeah. He was in Larry and Larry and
2:08.0	Shanley were very close friends. And that was his job for like, I don't know how many years.
2:13.0	But that show, which is a great show, that was him and Larry Shanley. Yeah. Yeah. That was one
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