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It's “That Guy… Who Was in That Thing” meets "WTF" but with people even less well known! Sure it's fun to interview the crazy famous and ask them about the difficult years, but that's been done. Memories are plastic - we're getting the real dirt from people still crawling through it. Laura Scruggs is the playwright and Jake Scruggs is the technical guy who listens to a lot of “This American Life” and thinks that qualifies him to interview people.

Jul 27, 2015

3:00 - Where can you find Jakub "hot cabbage" Haczkiewicz online? https://twitter.com/creativejakub https://instagram.com/creativejakub/

4:13 - Jakub has a really arresting image, which includes his face and is inspired by the formerly trapped Chilean miners. It is currently on his “about” page http://cargocollective.com/creativejakub/About-Jakub-Haczkiewicz

6:26 - Jakub's sister and girlfriend see all of his shows; you have to have someone in your corner

7:20 - Jakub talks about how long he's been doing comedy and his journey (literal and figurative). 

20:06 - Nilsa and Jakub collaborated together on bobrauschenbergamerica 

20:16 Jakub is the only person Nilsa has worked with that cracks her up so much she can't keep it together on stage.

26:23 - "Twelve Hungry Men" 

31:30 - What made Jakub pursue stand-up comedy?

46:29 - Jakub has a son. Also, he tries to be a clean comic

49:29 - The difference between Chicago and New York

55:11 - What keeps Jakub in New York as opposed to Chicago

 

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Edited/Notes by Laura and Jake Scruggs. Intro Music: "Are You Famous, Yet?” - Laura Scruggs. Outro Music: "The Devil Is In The Beats” - The Chemical Brothers