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I'm Jesse Thorne live on tape from my house in Los Angeles. It's the sound of Young America from MaximumFund.org and PRI Public Radio International.

This week's sound of Young America podcast will be recorded live at WNYC in New York City. Let's go to the stage and my conversation with Judith Threeblaker.

My first interview guest for our program tonight is series regular on the television show 30 Rock.

He is also the author of the new book How to Beat Up Anybody, which features instructions on beating up anyone from a rapist to a Sasquatch.

Please welcome the world champion, Judith Friedlander.

It is a joy to have you here, Judith. It's good to be here. Thanks a lot, man. It was cool. I got to correct you right up front, man. Sorry, okay, go ahead.

In the book, I don't really directly teach you how to beat up a Sasquatch. I teach you how to beat up a bigfoot.

Excuse me. Yeah, and there's a difference. There's bigfoot. There's a vulnerable snowman. There's Sasquatch and there's Yeti's.

So Yeti, wait, Yeti is different from a bomber. Yeah, there's Europe and Asia. Sasquatch is Canada. Okay.

The normal snowman is Antarctica and the bigfoot is American and the bigfoot is the toughest of all of those.

So that's why I teach you how to beat up a bigfoot because if you can beat up the bigfoot, the others are no problem.

You know what? So when you sell my book as saying it teaches you how to beat up a Sasquatch, that's kind of like saying it teaches you how to beat up the third toughest of the biped woodland creatures that are mythical but also real.

I just want to clear that up, man. I didn't want to start off. I'm sorry. I know the last thing I want to do, and certainly this is a public radio program.

There's no shortage of pedantry. If not in here, at least out in the radio audience. I give out my email address at the end of the show. I would have received correct.

I give my now during the show. Yeah, let's go.

It's a top secret email that no one will ever be able to figure out. It's always a good guess. I'm always surprised at how many of my guests when I'm like trying to figure out like how to book them or something like that.

I've come to the point where maybe I should just email their name at gmail.com. Yeah, it works pretty often. I find it surprisingly effective.

I want to talk a little bit about your early life. Okay.

When did you become interested in martial arts, and specifically the Japanese martial art karate?

I got to correct you again. I apologize, Jesse. It's not pronounced karate. It's karate. This is America.

I first learned karate when I was 13, when I was in federal prison in China for a crime I didn't commit.

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