Make My Day Episode 1: She's On Fire with Akilah Hughes

Make My Day with Josh Gondelman

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News, Society & Culture, Comedy, Politics

4.9 • 754 Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2020

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Akilah Hughes, author and co-host of the Crooked Media podcast What A Day competes to cheer Josh up. Akilah and Josh talk 90s r&b, red pandas, and the crossover film event of a lifetime. Akilah sets the Make My Day all time high score and wins $100 for Lighthouse Youth & Family Services in Cincinnati. Make your own donation to Akilah's cause of choice here: https://www.lys.org/about-us/ Buy Akilah's book, Obviously, here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/531147/obviously-by-akilah-hughes/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi everyone. I'm Josh Gondleman, and this is Make My Day, a comedy game show. It's a little
0:08.9	different than I thought it was going to be. The plan was for this to be a panel show where three
0:13.2	comedians would compete in a room together. It was going to be fun and riffy, and, you know,
0:18.1	because of pandemic conditions, we're not allowed in the same room as other people anymore.
0:21.6	So every episode, I'm going to call one friend and we're going to have a one-on-one game show.
0:26.6	The premise of the show is, the world is pretty bad, and the contestant tries to put a positive spin on the news,
0:31.6	so good luck to them with that. I'll assign points based on how much they personally cheer me up. It's probably the first and only one-on-one game show that exists, and I'm very excited for it.
0:41.4	Our contestant today is the author of the essay collection, obviously, which is available now wherever you get books.
0:47.3	And she's the host of What a Day, the Daily Podcast from Crooked Media.
0:51.1	Please welcome to the show, Akela Hughes.
0:53.4	Thank you for having me.
0:55.0	Thank you so much for being here.
0:57.3	This is great.
0:58.4	Thank you.
0:59.0	How are you holding up?
1:00.3	Oh, I'm good.
1:01.3	I'm like, if you hear my stomach rowing a ton,
1:03.5	I think that my at-home lockdown constant is just starving for some reason.
1:10.6	Like my body is just like never going to be sated.
1:13.8	So I apologize.
1:15.7	Well, that's okay.
1:16.5	What kind of snacking have you been doing?
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