Make My Day Episode 84: A Cornucopia of Pep Talks

Make My Day with Josh Gondelman

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News, Society & Culture, Comedy, Politics

4.9 • 754 Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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EPISODE SUMMARY: An all-pep-talks episode with appearances from lots of past Make My Day guests. Josh announces the show is going on a little hiatus and curates a series of pep talks from many wonderful past Make My Day contestants. A huge thank you goes out to everyone who contributed: Ron Funches, Bridger Winegar, Sadie Dupuis, Jon Gabrus, Anthony DeVito, Karen Chee, Sarah Hagi, Zach Reino, Jessica McKenna, Tom Bodett, Maris Kreizman, Daniel Kibblesmith, Aparna Nancherla, Mike Drucker, Tess Lynch, Jo Firestone, Mina Kimes, Laura Stevenson, Tom Scharpling, Wyatt Cenac, Alison Roman, Myq Kaplan, John Hodgman, Scaachi Koul, Matt Braunger, Dani Fernandez, and Ophira Eisenberg! Please consider donating to your local food bank or contributing to a local mutual aid organization this holiday season. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Make My Day.
0:06.0	This is Josh, obviously.
0:08.0	Or I'm Josh, and this, as I said, is Make My Day.
0:11.0	The holidays, or some holidays, I guess, are coming up,
0:14.0	and I wanted to do something a little different this week on the show.
0:17.0	Instead of playing a game with one guest as usual,
0:19.0	I asked a whole bunch of previous Make My Day contestants to send me new pep talks like the kind we do at the end of every episode, and I'm going to play them all for you now.
0:27.1	People really came through with great stuff, and I'm excited for you to hear everyone's submissions.
0:31.7	Also, just a little show news up top, with the chaos of holiday schedules, Make My Day is going to go on hiatus through the end of
0:38.2	2021 and maybe a little bit longer as we get things back together up and running. Thanks for
0:43.1	bearing with us through this little downtime, and hopefully we'll be back very soon. Without out of the
0:47.8	way, here's my pep talk, and it's for anyone who dreads this time of year. I know that things
0:53.5	seem maybe harder than usual lately.
0:56.1	Is the lack of daylight a constant psychological drain?
0:58.5	Yes.
0:59.5	Is the oncoming cold weather after an all too brief, beautiful autumn in many climates,
1:04.5	additionally exhausting?
1:06.0	Also, yes.
1:07.6	Is it sometimes hard to schedule travel and coordinate with families or to not have family to coordinate with?
1:13.2	Also, also yes.
1:15.3	Is this pep talk really taking a while to get to the pep part?
1:18.2	Absolutely yes, I understand.
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