Episode 224 - Greg Nussbaum

Cartoonist and comedian, Greg Nussbaum joins us on the second half of the podcast this week. Greg is a fairly new cartoonist, his first cartoon in the New Yorker was in the Dec. 2, 2024 issue. Since then, he has had one other cartoon and a Daily published.Greg is also a standup comedian. You can see him performing around Brooklyn and Manhattan. We talk about his "baby raised by firetrucks" routine during the podcast and if you want to see the image we talk about, you can find it on the podcast facebook page:https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100075679507023You can check out his growth as a cartoonist on his instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/gegnussbaum/You can also buy some of his merch (with prints coming soon) at:https://geg.threadless.com There was a problem with Greg's audio initially, but we got it cleaned up by the 13 minute mark.On Part 1 of the episode, we discuss the current contests:Winning captions for New Yorker contest #962 (Tentacly, I'm the pilot)Finalists for contest #964 (Bearly caught out)Current New Yorker contest #966 (What is the root, root, root cause?)We also talk about our favorite cartoons from the current issue of the New Yorker.You can buy original New Yorker cartoon art at Curated Cartoons:https://www.curatedcartoons.comDig deep into the New Yorker cartoon caption contest data at:https://wordsbelow.app Send us questions or comments to:  [email protected]