Best of the Week!
Interview w/ Award-Winning Storyteller Shannon Cason + Top 5 Jokes Of The Week!
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[Shannon Cason] Is The Genre
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PODCAST: You Are The Genre
Award-winning storyteller Shannon Cason joined me to talk about his road from rapping in Detroit to sharing is stories at The Moth, Snap Judgement and more!
— paid subscribers have access to two ADVANCED episodes of You Are The Genre! One, with host of The Interview Show, Mark Bazer —
— and the other with sci-fi novelist Micaiah Johnson!
LETTER: Welcome to February, 2025
All subscribers now have access to my February letter filled with personal insights and recommendations!
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TOP FIVE JOKES OF THE WEEK!
Note: Whenever there is a tie, I become the deciding vote.
MONDAY: 2-10-2024
Donald Trump has ordered the treasury to stop minting Pennies. I understand its a cost-saving measure, but, come on, man, hasn’t Lincoln taken enough shots?!
[read the other jokes from that day here]
TUESDAY: 2-11-2025
PBS is closing an office dedicated to diversity, equity and inclusion efforts. How do you get to Sesame Street? Trick question. It’s Sesame Heights now and a big birdy told me that if you’re fuzzy, feathery, or any color of the rainbow, you should really hit the road before sundown.
Related: The next Ken Burns documentary is titled Ken Burns’ Ken Burns: A Slow Zoom Into Whiteness.
[read the other jokes from that day here]
WEDNESDAY: 2-12-2025
Disney is adjusting the content warnings ahead of some of its old movies, including “Peter Pan” and “Dumbo,” amid an overall shift in DEI strategy. The previous version noted that the film “includes negative depictions and/or mistreatment of peoples or cultures,” while the new version reads: “I ain’t scared of you motherfu***ers.”
[read the other jokes from that day here]
THURSDAY: 2-13-2025
Shonda Rhimes and Ben Folds have departed the Kennedy Center as Donald Trump becomes chair. It’s a historic move for Donald Trump as he will be the first sitting chair to be sat on by Elon Musk.
[read the other jokes from that day here]
FRIDAY : 2-14-2025
Roku crossed the $1 billion threshold in platform revenue. Unsurprisingly, none of that money is going toward fixing Roku City’s crumbling infrastructure.
Wait, actually can we zoom in there?… Yeah, that appears to be a Roku Bernie Sanders giving a speech about it.
[read the other jokes from that day here]
If you enjoyed those Five Jokes, check out the top jokes from last week!
BEST OF THE BEST!
Vote on your favorite joke among the top 5 — that way I can email the “Top Jokes of February” in an upcoming letter.
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