Blog Category: Writing

Episode 270: Obama’s Former Speechwriter “[President Obama] knew who I was, but he knew who a lot of people were,” David Litt, a former speechwriter for the president, told me in this podcast. He wrote speeches for the president. Now he writes for “Funny or Die”. And before the White House, David wrote for “The Onion”. […]

Episode 269: How He Found a Gap in The Market and Became The Billionaire Founder of Virgin Sir Richard Branson. End of notes. Enjoy. Just kidding. The advice from Richard is priceless. He’s a self-made billionaire (BILLION!) who windsurfed across the English Channel with his kids, biked from Northern Italy to Southern italy with his whole […]

Episode 264: ‘Despacito’ Songwriter Erika Ender “Everyone has their own talent,” Erika said. “And my talent is expressing through writing songs and from singing them.” She wrote “Despacito” – the fastest song to hit 3 billion downloads in the history of music. Now it’s past 4 billion. That’s half the planet.  I asked how she […]

Episode 261: Discomfort and Curiosity AJ’s about to launch a TV show. A few months ago he started a podcast. He’s 49 years old. And it all started because he decided to write a book on a weird idea he had. “I wonder what it would be like to live the Bible.” It’s especially weird […]

Episode 259: 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don’t Do I don’t like writers. Stop writing advice books if you’ve never lived through it. Just. Stop. That’s why I asked Amy Morin, author of “13 Things Mentally Strong People DON’T Do” on my podcast (released today). Only someone who has been through horror and pain and […]

Shawn Stevenson, host of The Model Health podcast said, “In the lab, they found anti-depressants in the New York City water system.” Anti-depressants! Ok, no problem. I’ll drink tap water. Save on therapy costs. In NYC everyone has to go to therapy. It’s a requirement. “This week my therapist said…” “There’s also these other chemicals […]

Episode 240: The Comedians Toolkit – The Best Joke When Patton Oswalt, one of the top comedians over the past several decades, was going through the worst experiences of his life this past year, he wrote an entire post about one joke Gary Gulman made. ONE JOKE. Oswalt starts off: “This is…so perfect.” I like […]