intro
Theme includes sample of Run for You by Buke & Gass. Check them out! Intro background music is a song by Múm.
from hell’s heart
Daniel Kaufman looks at the tragic story of Herman Melville.
nothing
You can’t fail doing it.
confederacy of dunces
Cory MacLauchlin, author of Butterfly in the Typewriter tells the real story of John Kennedy Toole and his posthumous hit.
writer’s block
Jane Anne Staw, author of Unstuck, suggests a paradigm shift: is it failure or success we fear?
the gap 1
We can’t all be special.
plane crash follies
The Captain apologizes. Performed by Chet Grissom.
(don’t) give up
Deciding whether to quit is very tricky and we maybe shouldn’t find it so shameful. Thanks to Jimmy Dore for the Brian Regan interview excerpt from his podcast, Comedy and Everything Else.
the gap 2
Can we accept the distance between the ideal and the real?
lust for life
Uncle Marty drops some positivity on Dan.
bombing
Comedian and host of Never Not Funny, Jimmy Pardo tells the story of a Tonight Show performance that took him years to get over.
tilting at windmills
We never celebrate failures, but maybe we should.
failing and flying
By Jack Gilbert, Read by Chet Grissom.
discuss!
thanks
Thanks to everyone mentioned above. Also thanks to Joel Fletcher, author of Ken and Thelma for his kind help behind the scenes. Thanks to Bryan Lotz and Mark Hutchison for their heroic assistance in putting this episode together.
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