Something Less Bad

Social Distance

The Atlantic Monthly Group, LLC

Health & Fitness, News, Science

4.6 • 935 Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2020

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Jim and Katherine call Maeve Higgins, a comedian and writer who left New York a month ago for her home country of Ireland. She talks about the precarious situation of immigrants, what it’s like to live at home again as an adult, and her disastrous flirtation with self-improvement. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, Jim.
0:05.0	Hey, Catherine.
0:07.0	We're hoping to do something not as depressing today.
0:11.0	Not that...
0:12.0	You said said fun.
0:13.0	Yeah.
0:14.0	Yeah, those are synonyms.
0:15.0	Okay, right.
0:16.0	Not depressing and fun.
0:17.0	Fun in my world means not as depressing as other things.
0:21.0	Okay. Less depressing. Right. Um,
0:23.7	coronavirus fun is just something that is less bad
0:28.7	than other things. Sure. Yeah. So we're gonna do a little coronavirus fun today, which is what? Why don't you say?
0:36.4	We're going to talk to my friend Maeve Higgins, who's a comedian and writer.
0:41.2	She writes regularly for the New York Times she knows a ton about
0:46.7	immigration policy and happens to be an immigrant and she has left the country, partly at my urging, even though I didn't want her to go.
0:56.0	I asked you if she would talk to us and you sent me a text message.
1:02.0	Oh, yeah. So she says she likes the podcast and she
1:06.8	describes it as Catherine's always crying and you're like well I can't help you.
1:15.0	Ha ha ha.
1:16.0	Can't wait to doctor.
1:18.0	Hi.
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