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Hosted by A.C. Valdez · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 23 episodes
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A short daily show featuring interviews with smart, creative people and making them play ridiculous games.
A.C. Valdez hosts Serious Nonsense, a comedy show with 23 episodes published.
Sam Jones entertains a bunch of silly questions sort of related to chemistry, including fictional metals and solving a problem about cleaning coffee-making devices. Useful! If you want to learn more about Sam Jones you f
Sam Jones of Tiny Matters and tells us about the Mandela Effect, death in space, death on Earth, and what we might want to misremember. If you want to learn more about Sam Jones you can visit the site for the American Ch
Ever try to break up with someone and it just didn't take? How about trying to get fired? Dana Gartland has got your guide to doing it right. Or wrong. Or something. If you want to learn more about Dana you can visit her
Dana Gartland tells us her tale of breaking through on stage in a uniquely British tradition. Caveat: this episode is not suitable for children or people who have dealt with sexual abuse, so please be aware. If you want
I did my best to creep out Zach. Maybe you have a better two-sentence horror story? If so, send it to me! acvaldez@joyfulamazing.biz. You can find out more about Zach at his website and more about Serious Nonsense at joy
Zach tells us about the scariest building ever, which you might remember from a favorite movie. Definitely download this one with a VPN. You can find out more about Zach at his website and more about Serious Nonsense at
We talk about snacks, choices, and rankings. WHAT IS THE BEST SNACK? Listen and find out. You can find out more about Negar Ahkami's art at her website. Negar is making history here by writing me post-interview with a ca
Negar Ahkami tells me about why she makes dance floors as art. You can learn more about Negar at her website and you can find out more about Serious Nonsense at JoyfulAmazing.biz/podcast/ Also! If you like the show and w
David and I discuss the virtues and problems with various weird symbols and titles and evaluate whether we'd use any of them. You can find more of David's comics at Wondermark.com and you can find out more about Serious
David walks us through the process of coming up with funny collages, as he does at Wondermark.com , a wonderful collage comic. You can find out more about David at the link above or about Serious Nonsense at joyfulamazin
Ryan's written a comic about things that don't exist. But he's also written an entire book on how to invent everything. Can he explain himself? Let's find out! You can learn more about Ryan at the links above, and more a
In which Ryan and I discuss dialogue, the socratic method, and more about writing comics and dialogue. You can find out more about Ryan at dinosaurcomics.com or ryannorth.ca. Like Serious Nonsense? You can find out more
In which I challenge Alex to tell us whether certain quotes are from Lena Dunham's "Girls" or some other place. A personal favorite: just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand! You can find more of Alex's
Alex Sujong Laughlin of Defector.com and I break down the reasons why Girls hits and Dunham's latest memoir doesn't. In brief: everyone needs an editor. You can find more of Alex's writing at Defector.com (truly, I mean
Ronald's (very good!) podcast Weight for It discusses self-image, being a fat person, and all sorts of nuance. This game is much more shallow because I basically tortured him with questions about Gravity. You can find ou
Sometimes I'm simply charmed by a person, their ideas, their work, their ability to self-criticize (complimentary). It's for these reasons I kind of got over myself and reached out to Ronald Young, Jr. to discuss a whole
We play a game of "real or made up?" about apples. You can read more of Rachel's writing and editing at TheAtlantic.com, if you liked this episode, share it with a friend after aging it for fourteen months. Find out more
I have obsessed over this story for years: Rachel ate an apple. It was...old. It's a a pandemic weird behavior classic. To find more of Rachel's writing, visit TheAtlantic.com, and if you like this episode, share it with
I highly advise you stay away from Reddit.com/r/eatityoufuckingcoward and you have been warned. But I made Sabrina take a look at a bunch of things that they might want to eat anyhow. You can find out more of Sabrina Imb
Just how much plastic is in your brain? Sabrina Imbler of Defector.com breaks it down for us. You can learn more about Sabrina's writing at Defector.com and I highly recommend reading their very disturbing and fun piece
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Serious Nonsense is hosted by A.C. Valdez. The show is categorised under comedy (interviews) and has published 23 episodes.
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