Make My Day Episode 8: Six Layer Dip with Shea Serrano

Make My Day with Josh Gondelman

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News, Society & Culture, Comedy, Politics

4.9 • 754 Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Bestselling author Shea Serrano (Where Do You Think We Are?, Movies and Other Things, The Ringer) competes to cheer Josh up! Shea absolutely dominates a game of Giving Ends to My Friends and It Feels Stupendous. Oscar Isaac may have come up once or twice. In the end, Shea sets the Make My Day all time high score and wins $100 for the Minnesota Freedom fund. Plus, an all time great pep talk from Shea! Get Shea's new PDF of essays about Scrubs: https://gumroad.com/l/ySrff Read Shea's work at The Ringer: https://www.theringer.com/authors/shea-serrano Pick up Shea's books: https://www.indiebound.org/search/book?keys=shea+serrano Donate to Minnesota Freedom Fund-approved organizations: https://minnesotafreedomfund.org Also, shout out to Arturo Torres! (www.twitter.com/arturodraws) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, this is Josh Gondelman.
0:05.0	No, I'm sorry, I'm Josh Gondelman, and this is Make My Day, a comedy game show.
0:10.0	The world is a stressful place, and for about half an hour every week we try to make it a little nicer.
0:15.0	Every week, I play a game with one guest who is guaranteed to win,
0:19.0	and I assign them points for each question based on how
0:22.0	much they cheer me up specifically. Then, at the end, the winner gives a pep-time. It's very easy.
0:28.0	Completely subjective, full-on nonsense. The winner every week, who is the only contestant again,
0:32.9	gives a pep talk to cheer up the person or group of their choice, because this isn't all about me.
0:37.2	It's just mostly about me. Then, of course, the grand prize group of their choice, because this isn't all about me, it's just mostly about me.
0:39.1	Then, of course, the Grand Prize winner, who is once again the only contestant, wins a $100
0:43.9	donation to the charitable cause of their choice.
0:46.9	Today's guest is a staff writer at The Ringer.
0:49.3	He is the author of three New York Times bestsellers, including most recently, movies and other
0:53.4	things. His new collection of essays about the show Scrubs is called Where Do You Think We Are?
0:58.1	And it is available now for order via PDF.
1:00.5	Welcome to the show, Shea Serrano.
1:02.3	What up, homie?
1:03.4	How are you doing? How are you holding up?
1:05.4	Pretty miserable. What about you? Everything's sucky?
1:08.7	It's pretty bad. It's a rough week.
1:14.3	I've been cooking a lot of eggs. That helps a little.
1:15.3	Does it?
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