Episode 119 Bonus: Holiday Mathis Makes Us Laugh

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Episode 119 Bonus: Holiday Mathis Makes Us Laugh

Christie Aschwanden

Aug 29, 2024

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Let’s laugh! In this lively bonus episode, Holiday Mathis delivers a brief stand-up comedy bit (look out dentists) and then we talk about what goes into writing and performing it.

Holiday Mathis writes the daily horoscope for The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post and hundreds of newspapers around the world. In her decades-long syndication she's pub…

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Emerging Form is a podcast about the creative process in which a journalist (Christie Aschwanden) and a poet (Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer) discuss creative conundrums over wine. Each episode concludes with a game of two questions in which a guest joins in to help answer questions about the week's topic. Season one guests include poets, novelists, journalists, a song writer, a circus performer, a sketch artist and a winemaker.

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