After months of comedy writing rejections, Todd suddenly notices his own joke out in the wild. Matt indulges in a little tirade at the office.
After a week of scheduling conflicts, we’re back in our basements to praise brands much too freely. This is our first week with video! To see it, you need to watch in the Spotify app.
If you’re new to the podcast, welcome. This is something a bit different for the site, a comedy podcast featuring me, Todd Mitchell, and my friend, streamer and internet person Matt Hill, discussing life in general in the US Midwest where we both grew up.
The theme of this episode is grinding. I’ve been pitching humor outlets and projects nonstop for months, which I’m happy to do because opportunity usually has to be clawed out of the ground by hand. The only reason it was a little frustrating around the time of recording is that I’d come fresh from a couple of new editor rejections, only to notice a joke I wrote years ago recently took off without me. It’s actually a pretty wild story.
Matt had a great story of his own about the positive potential of being brutally honest at work. He regrets it (though he was the first to say it had a positive outcome), but I wholeheartedly endorse it. I fully believe in the power of being kind and respectful, but our concept of being “nice,” particularly in professional environments, has become distorted. Much too often, “nice” has been repurposed to mean skipping a difficult conversation, accepting more than your fair share of hardship, or letting someone else behave selfishly. We need to get rid of the concept of accepting someone else’s happiness at your own expense. The book I mentioned along these lines is Not Nice: Stop People Pleasing, Staying Silent, & Feeling Guilty… by Dr. Aziz Gazipura.
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