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Thank you for joining us for another episode of Good One,

the podcast where a comedian comes on to play and discuss one of their jokes. I'm your host,

Volster Senior Editor Jesse David Fox. This podcast was created to try to

capture how different comedians write jokes. Usually the how is about process,

you know, do they tape record themselves, do they write things out

long hand, you know what have you.

This episode, however, is different.

The question we try to answer with our guest, Pan Aswold, is how he was able to get on stage four months after his wife's

unexpected passing and how he was able to not just talk about it, but turn into hilarious material,

and how he was then able to actually film that material less than a year after starting to do stand up again.

The result was annihilation, his remarkable Netflix special from last October.

Though the first half of the hour is Patton trying to talk about anything but his wife's death,

the second half is like nothing I've seen and like nothing. Is Panin trying to talk about anything but his wife's death?

The second half is like nothing I've seen and like nothing

Panin has experienced in his legendary career.

Recounding the day it happened and the next day, which he calls the worst of his life,

when he had to tell their seven-year-old daughter.

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