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Morgan Absher: Two Hot Takes & Calling Out A**holes

Berner Phone

Hannah Berner and Des Bishop

Stand-up, Comedy

4.45.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Morgan Absher was an occupational therapist... and then covid hit. She found herself scrolling reddit and the deep dark web to escape the reality of the pandemic. 8 months later, she launched a podcast that broke the internet call Two Hot Takes with almost 3 million followers on TikTok. Today, she reveals all the demons behind her journey of starting Two Hot Takes.

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0:00.0

Hello, I'm historian Greg Jenner, host of the BBC podcast You're Dead to Me,

0:03.9

and I've written a children's book. It's called You Are History. It's a funny,

0:08.1

fact-filled look at the amazing history behind 50 of the things that you use every day,

0:13.2

from the alarm clock that wakes you up to the bed that you collapse in at night.

0:17.0

Because no matter how modern you feel, you're doing the same things that our ancient ancestors did too.

0:21.9

You just have cooler shoes. Get your copy of You Are History written by me,

0:25.6

Greg Jenner, and illustrated by Jenny Taylor from all good booksellers. Thank you!

0:46.4

Hello, welcome to a very exciting L.A. episode of Hell. I kind of manifested this.

0:52.4

I can't believe she's in the studio with me. We have like a podcast phenomenon. We have a Midwest

1:01.2

girly angel baby pussy popping queen. God, I just came up with that. We're with Morgan Absher,

1:10.1

who is basically, has the sickest story of quarantine, and I'm so excited to have you here.

1:17.7

Morgan, welcome to Hell. Thank you for having me. I'm ready. This is also this mental health

1:24.9

podcast where I'm not comedy, but I talk to people about their demons. I feel like your podcasts

1:31.1

came from almost a similar place. I want to get started. You're from Minnesota?

1:36.8

Minnesota. I went to school in Wisconsin. Oh. Yeah, no, I'm not saying that.

1:43.7

Yeah. Oh, no. Should we just stop now? The badgers. I got to go be edgers.

1:49.1

I do have to say I'm going to get hate for this, but Minnesota people had good personalities.

1:54.1

Oh, yeah. We're the best. What do you think of the whole Minnesota nice concept?

1:58.8

It's Minnesota nice, but sneaky, passive, aggressive. There's niceness for sure. You get a flat tire,

2:07.0

so I'm going to help you. You need your driveway shoveled. Sure. I'll be there. I got a snow blow

2:11.3

or even. But afterwards you're like, the car is ugly. People don't know how to be forward,

2:16.8

which is what I appreciate so much about like East Coasters. You're just like, you're forward.

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