Monsters for Art — with Emily Flake!
Everything is Fine
Jennifer Romolini and Kim France
4.8 • 875 Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2023
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Our guest this week is American cartoonist Emily Flake who began cartooning for The New Yorker in 2008, and has had more than a hundred cartoons published in the magazine since. Her most recent project, Joke in a Box, How to Write And Draw Jokes, was just released.
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You can find Emily at: emilyflake.com
You can buy Joke In a Box here.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi and |
| 0:05.0 | everything is fine a podcast for women over 40. |
| 0:08.0 | We are your hosts. |
| 0:09.0 | I'm Kim France. |
| 0:10.0 | And I'm Jen Ramalini. |
| 0:12.0 | And Jen, how are you doing today? |
| 0:14.0 | Doing all right, you know, I mean, shit's going on in my life, real adult shit's going on that for once I don't want to talk about on the podcast but yeah there's some it's |
| 0:24.4 | weird being a fucking grown up I really feel like I was not have grown up until 50 |
| 0:29.7 | years old I think I turned it I became a grown up this year. Well, because things happen and you're like, okay, now I'm irrefutably a grown up. Now I'm irrefutably a grown up. Isn't that ridiculous have I didn't realize how much I've been living my life as a frivolous fuck like I really didn't you know just playing fast and loose with like you know an old bill |
| 0:55.3 | just being like I'm not paying that $19 to that to that health insurance they |
| 1:02.3 | should have figured that out you know just like |
| 1:04.4 | how immature I am you know and and like suddenly like life changes and you're like oh |
| 1:09.6 | shit I got a I got to grow up and what you know what am I modeling for this for this young adult that lives in my house and how am I you know |
| 1:18.2 | showing up as a daughter and a sibling and God damn it fucking not fun. No it's not fun and it's I mean part of it is also it's not just like I'm a grownup it's like oh I'm an old yes |
| 1:30.8 | yes it is like I'm an old now. I'm the oldest person in the elevator. I'm the |
| 1:35.7 | oldest person waiting in this line. I'm the oldest, you know, you can go on and on and |
| 1:39.4 | on. Totally, totally. The sound on this is going to be bad because my mic just went out again. I do have a topic that I really want to discuss with you, which is unusual for me. Let me say this is my first experience |
| 1:53.9 | with this franchise, I believe. |
| 1:56.3 | But I am currently obsessed with the Golden Bachelor. |
| 2:00.2 | Yes. |
| 2:01.1 | I think it is the best version of this show that's ever happened, even though I have no knowledge. |
| 2:07.1 | I've like tried. I've tried The Bachelor, okay? This season of The Bachelor with older people who are not in it necessarily for like youthful fame, |
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