Make My Day Episode 80: A Light in the Storm with Casey Johnston and Ashley Feinberg

Make My Day with Josh Gondelman

Radio Point

News, Society & Culture, Comedy, Politics

4.9 • 754 Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Casey Johnston (She's A Beast newsletter) and Ashley Feinberg (Trashberg newsletter) compete to cheer Josh up. During a game of Good News, Rad News, Casey and Ashley give amazing answers about the FUTURE OF JOURNALISM (sort of). They then donate their winnings to The West Fund. Plus, pep talks for people who have punny articles written about their deaths, anyone who thinks the CIA killed JFK, and Casey. Donate to The West Fund: https://actionnetwork.org/fundraising/contribute-to-abortion-access Subscribe to Casey's newsletter She's A Beast: https://shesabeast.substack.com/about Subscribe to Ashley's newsletter Trashberg: https://www.trashberg.com/ 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	Nope, I'm sorry, I'm Josh Gondelman, and this is Make My Day, a comedy game show.
0:11.0	The world is a stressful place to be, so every week we try to make it a little more friendly, a little more fun.
0:18.0	I play a game with a guest or a team of guests who are guaranteed to win
0:21.7	because they're the only contestants. And as we go, I assign my guests points based on how much
0:27.1	their answers to the questions I made up for them. Cheer me up. It's very simple and very pleasant.
0:32.4	Then at the end, the winners each receive a $100 donation or contribution to the charity or aid cause of their choice.
0:39.2	And we all give a pep talk to someone that we think needs or deserves it this week.
0:43.1	Because this isn't all about me, it's just mostly about me.
0:46.8	My guests today are two of my favorite writers.
0:50.7	Casey Johnson is the author of the newsletter.
0:53.0	She's a beast about strength training and having a human body. Ashley Feinberg is the author of the newsletter. She's a beast about strength training and having a human body.
0:56.1	Ashley Feinberg is the author of the newsletter Trashberg, which I categorize as a series of sometimes disturbing newsworthy investigations.
1:04.8	Both currently available for subscription on Substack. Welcome to the show, Casey and Ashley.
1:11.1	Thank you. Thanks. That's a great description. I'm going to start show, Casey and Ashley. Thank you.
1:12.0	Thanks.
1:12.3	That's a great description.
1:13.0	I'm going to start using that.
1:13.8	Please.
1:14.0	Yeah, you got to steal that outright.
1:15.5	Much better than what I've been saying.
1:17.2	What have you been saying?
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