WHATRYADOIN’ – Jack Hitt, Part 1

The Well

Anson Mount & Branan Edgens

Society & Culture, Comedy

4.9 • 821 Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Jack Hitt is an American author. He is a contributing editor to Harper's, The New York Times Magazine, and This American Life. In this episode Jack sits down with Anson and Branan to look into their crystal balls and speculate upon what a post-corona world may look like, Jack suggests a John Prine song as our new national anthem and Branan is attacked by an animal on air!

Mentioned in this episode:- A tale of a theatrical production gone horribly wrong, FIASCO!:https://www.thisamericanlife.org/510/fiasco-2013- The story of the remote island of Nauru’s involvement in the bankrupting of the Russian economy, global terrorism, and the late 1980s theatrical flop of a London musical based on the life of Leonardo da Vinci called Leonardo, A Portrait of Love. (30 minutes): No Island is an Islandhttps://www.thisamericanlife.org/253/the-middle-of-nowhere/act-one-0- Jack’s Peabody award-winning podcast, Uncivil: the time our divisions turned into a war, and bring you stories left out of the official history.https://gimletmedia.com/shows/uncivil

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0:00.0	Well, so are y'all, y'all are in separate places. Is that right?
0:04.1	No, we're in the same house isolated from each other.
0:06.9	I see. Right. Okay.
0:08.7	Yeah.
0:09.3	Yeah. So I'm in, I'm in his downstairs closet and he's in his upstairs closet.
0:16.1	See, it's just like the 1950s. We're all going back into the closet.
0:19.7	I know that in the back into the closet.
0:28.3	I knew that in the back of my head that there was a joke in there somewhere, and you found it. Welcome to The Well. I am Brandon Edgins.
0:43.2	And I am Anson Mount.
0:44.6	And today's guest is Jack Hitt.
0:48.0	I kind of forgotten you hadn't actually met him before.
0:50.6	I sort of...
0:51.6	No, but it's strangely...
0:52.8	It feels like I had. He's
0:56.2	one of those writers, journalists,
0:58.0	that just writes from such a
0:59.8	personal
1:01.5	place, and also he's Southern, and he
1:04.0	went to Swanee, so it seems like I would have
1:05.9	met him before now. Right. He's in our
1:08.0	social circle, and in my case, he's the uncle to one of
1:09.9	my good friends, so I've had the pleasure of dining out with Jack Hitt. And he is a one of a kind raconteur. There's not many raconteurs left in the world, I feel like. But he's one of them. He's got the gift of Gab. He's a fantastic writer. He's written for Harper's New York Times Magazine, This American Life, Outside
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