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Thinking Out Loud w/Friends # 193 - Join your host Jan Landy and his amazingly knowledgeable panel of friends for an entertaining robust discussion offering opinions on current events and life in general. 

Good For A Few Laughs And More Satisfying Than Seeing A Therapist while sharing your opinions and learning about what is happening in our world and how it affects us.

Join the panel and offer your opinion with us on Zoom every Wednesday at 5 PM  - Pacific (UTC-7)/ 8 PM EDT  

Topics Discussed (01/31/2024): The team had a wide-ranging discussion on various topics, including space exploration, astrophysics, the Super Bowl, and the political situation in Thailand. They also discussed the challenges of incorporating live instruments into a DJ performance and the potential impact of a new blood test for Alzheimer's disease. Other topics included cybersecurity, coaching changes in football teams, and the future of live audio products.

In this week's episode David, John and Kyle discuss Trevor Noah leaving The Daily Show (1:55), the long-awaited announcement of a Community movie (9:55), Rolling Stone's 100 greatest TV shows of all time list (14:50) and Tom Hanks' top four films (23:30). We also look into the Netflix hit Monster: The Jeffery Dahmer Story (30:40). Finally, we review the season three premiere of Ramy (44:25) and give a spoiler-filled review of Don't Worry Darling (51:45).

This episode was originally recorded on October 3rd on Twitch and can be replayed on YouTube. Be sure to subscribe to the podcast and follow us on social media! 

Over the course of his 30 year career, Aasif Mandvi has learned that the dreaded phrase, “Jack of all trades, master of none,” is nothing more than a myth. As an actor, writer, producer, podcast host and much more, Aasif has no shortage of creative endeavors and has learned to embrace that multiplicity rather than fight it.

Born in Mumbai, India, Aasif moved with his family to the U.K. and grew up in north England. His creativity was evident from a young age, from drawing to writing poetry to even performing a radio play as encouraged by his parents. Joining a children’s theater company, Aasif describes how acting served as an escape for him and how the “no pressure” attitude from his parents gave way to a sense of freedom in his acting with no expectations attached.

After moving to America, Aasif studied drama in both high school and college and immediately secured a job with Disney. Upon moving to New York, Aasif felt that the lack of representation in the media left him without a career roadmap to follow from other actors that looked like him. While studying his craft, Aasif began to explore other ways he could get seen within the industry and wrote a one-man-show titled, “Sakina’s Restaurant” which was the first story of a south Asian immigrant family to be performed in New York City’s theater scene in Times Square. 

You’ve seen him in hit films and television series such as CBS’ “Evil,” “This Way Up,” “Million Dollar Arm,” “Blue Bloods,” “The Last Airbender,” CBS’ “Jericho,” “The Internship,” “The Proposal,” and a fan favorite correspondent on “The Daily Show” with John Stewart. Today, Aasif opens up about his character-building process. He shares with listeners how to work with material that you may be struggling to connect with, and reveals how he navigated the decision to stick with telling his own story early on, even when other opportunities began to present themselves.

These are the unforgettable stories that landed Aasif Mandvi right here.

Guest links:

• IMDB: Aasif Mandvi
• INSTAGRAM: @aasif
• TWITTER: @aasif
• PODCAST: Lost at the Smithsonian with Aasif Mandvi
• AUDIBLE: Sakina's Restaurant
• AMAZON: No Land's Man

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I first spoke to Johnson in 2019 for The Boston Globe, and back then he was already an established headlining comic with a distinct voice. He is a smart joke writer at ease with his own vulnerability, and those are qualities that are only enhanced as he gets bolder as an artist. Most of this episode is centered around Elusive: A Mixtape, his album-length exploration of comedy and music. Johnson isn’t a singer or a musician, but he had an idea that he wanted to put stand-up and music together, so he called some musician friends and made an album that is at turns silly and thoughtful, with live comedy punctuated by music recorded in a studio. It also couldn’t have been easy writing for the Daily Show in a year when it felt like the world was ending, and Johnson shares how working with Trevor Noah has helped him both as a writer and a person. I should note that Johnson’s new one-hour Comedy Central special, Trevor Noah Presents Josh Johnson: #, was released after out conversation. But there was plenty to talk about concerning Elusive, and I’m sure we’ll be hearing much more from Johnson sooner rather than later.

The new album is Elusive: A Mixtape, which you can find on Apple Music and Spotify and wherever you get your music. The new special, #, is on Comedy Central now. You can also see The Daily Show on Comedy Central. His website is www.joshjohnsoncomedy.com, and you can also find him on IG at @joshjohnsoncomedy and Twitter at @joshjohnson.

Jeff is back with another season of The Reluctant Phoenix!  Co-creator of The Daily Show, comedian Lizz Winstead is the founder and Chief Creative Officer of Abortion Access Front. She shares how she uses comedy, media, and grassroots organizing to support abortion clinics around the country - and she and Jeff discover that they have something else in common.

Lewis Black saves the Boston Comedy Festival. Lewis shares what he is doing during the pandemic. Lewis shares he views on zoom shows. We discus the distance Lewis projects nasal droplets during a rant. Lewis Black an I discuss our gig on cruise ship. Lewis tells the story of seeing the MLK I have a dream speech at 14. Lewis and I talk about how George Carlin helped Lewis and was a fan. Lewis talks about how working with Craig Kilborn, Jon Stewart and Trevor Noah on the Daily Show on Comedy Central. Lewis and I talk about his doing comedy on Oprah. Check out Lewis Blacks rant cast! Thank you Lewis Black!

You may have seen Roy Wood Jr. in his many standup specials—or as a correspondent on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah. Roy's brownprint is humbling and is filled with hard work and gratitude. But the man hasn't even achieved what he considers his definition of success. 

In this episode, Roy talks about when he became interested in comedy and how he saw it as a tool to talk about serious topics. Roy also explains how he meticulously studied his craft in order to stand out, how his fear of failure keeps pushing him to be better and so much more. This conversation has a lot of great takeaways, including why it's always important to choose kindness.

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Fortune interviews comedian and "Daily Show" correspondent, Dulce Sloan, about their upcoming movie "Chick Fight." They also talk about fasting, getting through the pandemic, and the Black Lives Matter movement. 

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In this episode, Candace and Tom sit down with Zhubin Parang, producer and writer at The Daily Show with Trevor Noah.  He discusses the process of deciding what to cover and whether they consider themselves an appropriate source of "news".  Zhubin also discussed his path from a big law firm to one of the most important comedy shows of our generation.

Three Things:

1) Reopen Protests

2) Biden's Veepstakes

3) Disparate impact of COVID deaths on people of color

(Evil, The Daily Show, The Brink, Halal in the Family, The Proposal)

We had so much fun getting to talk with Aasif!  Here are some of the things you’ll hear about in this episode: 

1) How many years did it take Aasif to get his first professional acting job? 

2) How did Scott Baio influence Aasif’s acting career (WHAA?)? 

3) What was it like when Aasif and Connie Britton used to perform for a Murder Mystery company in the 1990s?

4) Why should YOU think about writing a one-man/woman show? 

5) How did Aasif’s first agent work? (It isn’t what you think!)

Christian and Shonali host another edition of WDEK in front of a live audience at HiFi.  Special guests include actress Amy Ryan, comedian Jena Friedman, NY1 reporter Roger Clark and musician Matt Whyte.  Christian has a brand new industrial blender and cooking injury. If you had to get plastic surgery, what kind would you get?  Even Justin shares his thoughts?  What is it like to become a professional actress just after high school?  Academy Award nominated actress Amy Ryan answers that question and more.  Catch her in Birdman with Michael Keaton, Louder Than Bombs with Gabriel Byrne, and Steven Spielberg's newest with Tom Hanks.  Unbelievable right?  Comedian Jena Friedman shares her insight into the ebola epidemic, Letterman, The Daily Show and American Girl mania.  Follow her on Twitter ya'll.  One of our favorite tv personalities, NY1's morning features reporter, Roger Clark is a bowler, a rock n' roller, and sometimes gets star struck. Have you seen him doing parkour, air guitaring to Rush, or break dancing at the Flushing YMCA?  Check out his band Perp Walk.  Musician and former Earl Greyhound, guitar player/vocalist, Matt Whyte just finished a new solo release called Rupe Shears.   Find out why kids in high school liked him outside of the fact he wore Malcolm X glasses.   For the WDEK audience he played two songs.  One called The Hoover Dam, and the other was a Bossa Nova tune, which he sang in Portuguese so we have no idea what that one was called.  

Stay tuned for a pic of Christian's injury.