Seth Meyers On Fear, Fatherhood & Friendship

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🗓️ 14 March 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

We talk with the Late Night host about his second son's dramatic birth story, John Mulaney's intervention, and his new children's book, I'm Not Scared, YOU'RE Scared. Meyers says the book is about our relationship with fear.

Maureen Corrigan reviews The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka.

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0:00.0	This is Fresh Air, I'm Terry Gross.
0:02.5	My guest is Seth Meyers, the host of NBC's Late Night.
0:06.5	Many of us first got to know him when he anchored Weekend Update
0:09.5	on Saturday Night Live, a positioning held from 2006 to 2013.
0:14.3	He was also a head writer on the show.
0:16.7	He's written a new children's book called,
0:18.9	I'm Not Scared, You're Scared.
0:21.3	The story is about a bear and his best friend, a rabbit.
0:25.1	The bear is afraid of everything, even his own face in the mirror.
0:28.9	The rabbit loves risky adventures.
0:31.2	By the end of the story, the bear has shown that when he's called on
0:34.3	to have courage to rescue his rabbit friend, he can do what needs to be done.
0:39.2	It seems like a very timely children's book.
0:41.8	Seth Meyers' main job is as a comic.
0:44.2	He opens each episode of Late Night with a monologue about the day's news
0:48.2	and then does his segment, A Closer Look, which is a comic deep dive on one issue in the news.
0:54.4	Let's start with a segment from last Wednesday's Closer Look.
0:57.6	He was talking about the Biden administration's new ban on all Russian energy imports.
1:04.0	Living in a world where we derive our energy from clean renewable sources
1:07.6	would be so much better for so many obvious reasons,
1:10.3	including the fact that it would take power away from impressive oil-based dictatorships.
1:14.6	Right now, they have far too much power over both global and domestic politics
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