Greener Pastures Podcast

Now entering Greener Pastures!

Greener Pastures is a comedy and satire site run by a bunch of writers obsessed with out-writing, out-joking and out-funnying each other!

And because we love to writing satire, talking about it, and the people who do it, we’ve expanded into podcasting!

Today, Carlos Greaves is back to talk about his new book, Spoilers!⁠

Carlos is an Afro-Latino engineer, writer, and filmmaker based in Boston. His writing has been featured in The New Yorker, McSweeney's and other satire sites, and he also teaches online satire writing at The Second City.

Website + Twitter = Fan forever

Another interview coming at you next Monday, so stay tuned!

Follow us on Twitter at @greenerpastsat and on Medium at Greener Pastures Magazine.

Now entering Greener Pastures!

Greener Pastures is a comedy and satire site run by a bunch of writers obsessed with out-writing, out-joking and out-funnying each other!

And because we love to writing satire, talking about it, and the people who do it, we’ve expanded into podcasting!

Today, we interview Meg Indurti!

She is a humor writer for The New Yorker and Reductress and a headline contributor for The Onion.

She was named ⁠Chicago Reader’s People to Know⁠ in 2016, selected as a StandUp NBC Semi-Finalist in 2017 and as a semi-finalist in the Boston Comedy Festival in 2016, and featured in the NBC Breakout Comedy Festival in 2019.

Find Meg online:⁠ ⁠⁠⁠Website⁠⁠⁠

Tune in next Monday for the next episode!

Follow us on Twitter at ⁠⁠⁠⁠@greenerpastsat⁠⁠⁠⁠ and on Medium at ⁠⁠⁠⁠Greener Pastures Magazine⁠⁠⁠⁠.

Now entering Greener Pastures!

Greener Pastures is a comedy and satire site run by a bunch of writers obsessed with out-writing, out-joking and out-funnying each other!

And because we love to writing satire, talking about it, and the people who do it, we’ve expanded into podcasting!

Today, we interview JiJi Lee!

JiJi Lee is a comedy writer and performer.

She is a features contributor at The Onion and her humor writing has been published in The New Yorker’s Shouts and Murmurs, The New York Times, The Washington Post, McSweeney’s, and Reductress. Her writing has been included in The New Yorker’s yearly roundup of the most popular humor pieces and published in the McSweeney’s humor anthology Keep Scrolling Till You Feel Something.

Find JiJi online:⁠ ⁠⁠⁠Website⁠⁠⁠

Tune in next Monday for the next episode!

Follow us on Twitter at ⁠⁠⁠⁠@greenerpastsat⁠⁠⁠⁠ and on Medium at ⁠⁠⁠⁠Greener Pastures Magazine⁠⁠⁠⁠.

Now entering Greener Pastures!

Greener Pastures is a comedy and satire site run by a bunch of writers obsessed with out-writing, out-joking and out-funnying each other!

And because we love to writing satire, talking about it, and the people who do it, we’ve expanded into podcasting!

Today, we interview Chas Gillespie!

Chas is a writer and comedian, with work published in McSweeney's, The New Yorker, The Onion, Slack Jaw, among others. He's also at work on a satirical novel!

Find Chas online:⁠ ⁠⁠Website⁠⁠

Tune in next Monday for the next episode!

Follow us on Twitter at ⁠⁠⁠@greenerpastsat⁠⁠⁠ and on Medium at ⁠⁠⁠Greener Pastures Magazine⁠⁠⁠.

Now entering Greener Pastures!

Greener Pastures is a comedy and satire site run by a bunch of writers obsessed with out-writing, out-joking and out-funnying each other!

And because we love to writing satire, talking about it, and the people who do it, we’ve expanded into podcasting!

Today, we interview Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell!

Hilary is a cartoonist and illustrator. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, New York Times, Barron’s, and more. She also illustrates books for other folks and herself like her book of bad breakups, “Breaking Up Is Hard To Do, But You Could’ve Done Better” and her graphic memoir “Murder Book.”  And she also-also has a podcast, “What’d You Do This Weekend?”

Find Hilary online:⁠ http://www.cartoonsbyhilary.com/

Follow us on Twitter at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@greenerpastsat⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and on Medium at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Greener Pastures Magazine⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

Now entering Greener Pastures!

Greener Pastures is a comedy and satire site run by a bunch of writers obsessed with out-writing, out-joking and out-funnying each other!

And because we love to writing satire, talking about it, and the people who do it, we’ve expanded into podcasting!

Today, we interview Elizabeth Preston!

Elizabeth Preston is a freelance science journalist. Her humor has appeared in McSweeney’s, Slackjaw, Today’s Parent, The Belladonna, and more. Her 2019 piece “Hello, I’ll Be Your Toddler Tour Guide for this Trip Out the Front Door” was the 11th most read piece of the year.Socials:

Find Elizabeth online:⁠ https://elizabethgpreston.com/

Twitter: @Inkfish

Instagram: ⁠by.elizabeth.preston⁠

Follow us on Twitter at ⁠⁠⁠⁠@greenerpastsat⁠⁠⁠⁠ and on Medium at ⁠⁠⁠⁠Greener Pastures Magazine⁠⁠⁠⁠.

Now entering Greener Pastures!

Greener Pastures is a comedy and satire site run by a bunch of writers obsessed with out-writing, out-joking and out-funnying each other!

And because we love to writing satire, talking about it, and the people who do it, we’ve expanded into podcasting!

Today, we interview Melissa Balmain!

Melissa Balmain is a humorist, poet, journalist, and teacher. Since 2012 she has edited Light, the country's longest-running journal of light verse (founded in 1992). Balmain's poems and/or prose have appeared in The American Bystander, American Life in Poetry, Ecotone, The Hopkins Review, Lighten Up Online, Literary Matters, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Measure, Mezzo Cammin, The New Criterion, The New Yorker, The New York Times, The New Verse News, Poetry Daily, Rattle, Slackjaw, The Spectator (UK), Verse Daily, The Washington Post, Weekly Humorist, and many anthologies.

Find Melissa online:⁠ ⁠https://melissabalmain.com⁠⁠

Tune in next Monday for the next episode!

Follow us on Twitter at ⁠⁠⁠@greenerpastsat⁠⁠⁠ and on Medium at ⁠⁠⁠Greener Pastures Magazine⁠⁠⁠.

Now entering Greener Pastures!

Greener Pastures is a comedy and satire site run by a bunch of writers obsessed with out-writing, out-joking and out-funnying each other!

And because we love to writing satire, talking about it, and the people who do it, we’ve expanded into podcasting!

Today, Amy and Kegan share and dissect their favorite satire pieces!

Pieces mentioned in the episode:

"The Rules of this Board Game are Long, but Also Complicated" by Brian Agler

"Are You Baking Cookies with Children or Starring in a Gritty Crime Procedural?" by Audrey Burges

“College Drama Workshop, or Clinical Depression?” by Anna Pook

“Acceptable Mermaid Skin Tones: A Guide for Racists” by Gabriel Thibodeau

 “We Need to Talk About Your Behavior at Our Eyes Wide Shut Parties” by Nathan Pensky

“The Average Contestant on British Baking Shows vs. the Average Contestant on American Cooking Shows” by Rebecca Turkewitz

***Also, shoutout to Frazzled editor, Lindsay Hameroff, and their upcoming book, “Till There Was You."

Tune in next Monday for the next episode!

Follow us on Twitter at ⁠⁠⁠@greenerpastsat⁠⁠⁠ and on Medium at ⁠⁠⁠Greener Pastures Magazine⁠⁠⁠.

Now entering Greener Pastures!

Greener Pastures is a comedy and satire site run by a bunch of writers obsessed with out-writing, out-joking and out-funnying each other!

And because we love to writing satire, talking about it, and the people who do it, we’ve expanded into podcasting!

Today, Kate and Cassie share and dissect their favorite satire pieces!

Pieces mentioned in the episode:

I’M CAPTAIN AHAB AND I SAY WE MUST NEVER TRANSITION AWAY FROM A WHALE-BASED ENERGY INDUSTRY by RUYI WEN

SOCIETY’S PROBLEMS CAN BE TRACED TO CODDLING PARENTS, AND I KNOW THIS BECAUSE I HAVE RESEARCHED IT DEEPLY WHILE STARING OUT THE WINDOW AND THINKING by CHAS GILLESPIE

This City Pledges to be Carbon-Neutral By the Time It’s Too Late by Matthew Brian Cohen

An Oral History of Newman’s Own Salad Dressing

Amelia Earhart Discovered at the Bottom of Local Woman’s Favorite Totebag by Mary Collussi

Congratulations, Your Joke Will be Featured in the Next Issue of Repeated Louder by a Man by Catherine Elder

Tune in next Monday for the next episode!

Follow us on Twitter at ⁠⁠@greenerpastsat⁠⁠ and on Medium at ⁠⁠Greener Pastures Magazine⁠⁠.

Now entering Greener Pastures!

Greener Pastures is a comedy and satire site run by a bunch of writers obsessed with out-writing, out-joking and out-funnying each other!

And because we love to writing satire, talking about it, and the people who do it, we’ve expanded into podcasting!

Today, we interview Eli Grober!

Eli Grober is an American satirist, frequent contributor to The New Yorker and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, and former staff writer for The Tonight Show. He writes a weekly humor newsletter called Here’s Something and his first book, This Won’t Help, a collection of satirical essays and stories, releases Fall 2023.

Find Eli online:⁠ ⁠https://www.eligrober.com/

Tune in next Monday for the next episode!

Follow us on Twitter at ⁠⁠@greenerpastsat⁠⁠ and on Medium at ⁠⁠Greener Pastures Magazine⁠⁠.