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Try! with Nate Dern
by Nate Dern
Hosted by comedy writer Nate Dern, each episode interviews someone trying something new. It's dedicated to all of those who get outside of their comfort zone and try something different, learn a skill, or just experience something new. The topics range from the silly (eating a ghost pepper or learning to roller skate) to the serious (saving endangered wolves or changing how elections work). Nate is a comedy writer and a sociologist, so each episode tries to make you laugh and hopefully make you learn something, too. Nate writes for The Tonight Show and is the author of the book "Not Quite a Genius." Whatever it is you're trying to do, I hope you keep on trying.
Episodes
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TRAILER: I've Got a Hunch — my new podcast!
Hello, listeners of "Try! With Nate Dern." I've to a new podcast called I've Got a Hunch. The week of my 40th birthday, a suitcase fell on my head. I’ve Got a Hunch is a podcast about my funny, obsessive quest to fix my posture, recover from injury, and learn to stand up straight again—both...
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Bryan Brinkman Is Trying To Make NFTs
In this episode I talk to former Tonight Show graphic artist and current digital artwork creator, Bryan Brinkman. We focus on Bryan's work in the NFT space, discussing the success he has had there, with his work being featured on billboards in Times Square, Sotheby's auctions, and more. You can...
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Michael Cruz Kayne Is Trying To Give Parenting Advice
Michael Cruz Kayne is a stand-up comedian, a writer for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, and host of the podcast A Good Cry, where he talks about grief by sharing the experience of the loss of his infant son in order to talk with others who have lost loved ones about the grief podcast. He's a...
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Rachel Wenitsky Is Trying To Keep Her Plants Alive
Rachel Wenitsky (Friend Who Folk, Good Dogs on a Bad Day) is a comedy writer, a talented actor, an amazing singer and — dare I say — a good friend. But on this episode of the Try! podcast, we don't talk about any of that, we just talk about her recent passion for cultivating plants in her house....
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Arthur Meyer Is Trying To Play Piano
Comedy writer Arthur Meyer started taking piano lessons in December of 2019 after he left his job writing for The Tonight Show. I interviewed him then, and a year and a half later I interviewed him again to check in on his progress. We discuss how it's important to have a hobby, and how it can be...
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Miranda Erokan Is Trying To Get Pregnant
In this special episode that covers the last three years of our life, I talk to my wife Miranda Erokan about the process of trying to get pregnant and our journey at a fertility clinic. Miranda is a postpartum doula and childcare expert with lots of experience caring for infants and young…
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Jess Dweck Is Trying To Try Something
Jess Dweck is a comedy writer (Big Mouth, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, The Tonight Show) and in this episode we talk about her many attempts trying to try something new during the pandemic, from cooking to playing the ukulele to rollerblading. We discuss Jenny Odell's book "How To Do Nothing" and…
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Steady Holiday Is Trying To Release An Album
Dre Babinski is a Los Angeles-based actor, singer and songwriter that you also might know as the indie-pop musical artist Steady Holiday. In this episode, I talk to Dre about what it took to self-produce and release her new album "Take The Corners Gently." We get into how paradoxically focusing…
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Avery Monsen Is Trying To Promote His Book
Avery Monsen (author of "All My Friends Are Dead") wrote a new children's book called "I Am The Longest Dog." Now he has to figure out how to promote the book so people know about it and maybe, just maybe, will also buy it. We talk about how it feels gross to have to promote something at all, and...
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Karen Chee Is Trying To Watch New Movies
In this episode, I talk with comedy writer Karen Chee (Late Night With Seth Meyers) about trying to watch new movies, when really her deeper desire is just to rewatch the same ten or so movies from the "Karen Chee Cinematic Universe" that she knows she will love and be comforted by, such as...
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Will Hines Is Trying To Play Video Games
Will Hines is an improv teacher and actor who lives in Los Angeles, and this past year he has been trying to finish a series of video games to 100 percent completion, including the cowboy survival story of Red Dead Redemption 2. We talk about the addictive quality of video games, how time just...
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Jon Gabrus Is Trying To Read More
Today's guest is Jon Gabrus, a comedian (MTV's Guy Code, Comedy Bang! Bang!, TVLand's Younger) and a podcast expert (High and Mighty, ActionBoyz, Raised By TV). He is from Long Island. But we don't talk about that stuff. Instead, we talk about something Gabrus is trying to do: read more. Gabrus…
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Jo Firestone Is Trying To Drink Water
Jo Firestone is a comedian who is trying to drink water. She prefers to eat rather than drink, and she gets her hydration from foods that have been wetted with a sauce of some kind. On this episode, we dig into where Jo's aversion to water comes from and, listeners, I think we have a…
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Natasha Vaynblat Is Trying To Run
In this episode, I talk to Natasha Vaynblat, a comedian and writer (Comedy Central, A Little Late With Lily Singh) about her effort to try to run. During the pandemic, Natasha found that since she could no longer go to exercise classes, running outside was a way to get outside of her apartment…
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Albertina Rizzo Is Trying To Learn Guitar
Albertina Rizzo is a comedy writer who has written for The Tonight Show, Late Night, and a couple Marvel series. But we're not here to talk about that. We're here to talk about how during quarantine, Albertina decided to finally pick up a guitar and try to learn how to play. Albertina is very...
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Langan Kingsley Is Trying To Phone Bank To Get Out The Vote
Langan Kingsley (a big time TV comedy writer for shows like ABC's The Goldbergs and Comedy Central's Corporate!) is trying to phone bank. She's making calls and sending letters in order to get out the vote for this November's election. Nate talks to Langan about why she feels motivated to phone...
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Tim Barnes Is Trying To Make A Web Comic
Tim Barnes is a comedian and writer for The Tonight Show. In this episode, Tim talks about making a web comic for the first time, called "Uncertain Life." The comic follows a black man named Gordon - who bears a striking resemblance to Tim - as he navigates everyday adventures like awkward small...
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George Zisiadis Is Trying To Replace Partisan Elections With Democratic Lotteries
George Zisiadis co-coordinates an organization called of by for. They are advancing democratic lotteries as an alternative to our current electoral system. In essence, it would mean that a demographically and ideologically representative group of citizens are selected by lottery to serve as a...
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Sanji Moore Is Trying To Make A Game About Sandwiches
Sanji Moore has been working on designing a card game based on creating the best possible sandwich for the last ten years. Originally called "The Sandwich Game" and now called "As You 'Wich," Sanji thought of the basic premise for the game in a moment of panic when she was trying to fill an…
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Sasheer Zamata Is Trying To Roller Skate
Sasheer Zamata (SNL, Woke, Creep) is an amazing comedian, but we don't talk about that in this episode. We just talk about how she's been trying to learn how to roller skate during quarantine with her best friend Nicole Byer (who also happens to be her co-host on the Best Friends podcast). And...
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Rhonda Dern Is Trying To Save The Wolves
Rhonda Dern is not only the mother of the Trying Pod host, she's also a longtime activist for environmental justice. Lately she's been working on a campaign with the Wolf Action Fund and the Sierra Club to reintroduce wolves to the Colorado wild, along the lines of a similar campaign done in...
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Matt Klinman Is Trying To Grow And Eat A Ghost Pepper
In the debut episode of the Try! With Nate Dern, Nate interviews Matt Klinman about trying to grow and eat a ghost pepper. Matt Klinman is a comedy writer (The Onion, Funny Or Die, Team Coco's Smartr Podcast) and an aspiring "pepper head." He puts his spicy skills to the test in a pepper ceremony...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Hosted by comedy writer Nate Dern, each episode interviews someone trying something new. It's dedicated to all of those who get outside of their comfort zone and try something different, learn a skill, or just experience something new. The topics range from the silly (eating a ghost pepper or learning to roller skate) to the serious (saving endangered wolves or changing how elections work). Nate is a comedy writer and a sociologist, so each episode tries to make you laugh and hopefully make you learn something, too. Nate writes for The Tonight Show and is the author of the book "Not Quite a Genius." Whatever it is you're trying to do, I hope you keep on trying.
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Hosted by comedy writer Nate Dern, each episode interviews someone trying something new. It's dedicated to all of those who get outside of their comfort zone and try something different, learn a skill, or just experience something new. The topics range from the silly (eating a ghost pepper or...
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Try! with Nate Dern is created and hosted by Nate Dern.
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