![]() Gaby Dunn You’ll also read and gasp and make noises to yourself. So, that’s where I’m at… to this day.Īllison Raskin Yeah, but I was one time walking down the street a couple of years ago in LA, and my friend was like, “What are you doing?” They were coming to pick me up and I was reading and walking. Like, “You’re a nerd!” Before I really knew what that meant.Īllison Raskin I would start reading the book on the way back from the library to my classroom, and walk into walls. Sarah Enni So, it was a whole staged thing? We hate it!” Mocking me at my own party.Īllison Raskin Did you walk out pretending to read a book? You know, you enter at your bat mitzvah, and everyone cheers for you at your party? The entrance joke was they were like, “Gaby… stuck in a book again. My parents mocked me at my own bat mitzvah for being too much of a reader. But, I’d love to hear how reading and writing were a part of growing up for you guys. I want to get the scope of where you guys are coming from and then we can talk about how you got into comedy and met. ![]() I just read… it’s a Trivial Pursuit question, I think. Gaby Dunn Have you visited the Everglades? Sarah Enni And the Everglades is the only place in the world where there’s both crocodiles and alligators.Īllison Raskin Whoa, why does everyone know so much about this except me? Gaby Dunn The Everglades, yeah, I’m close to the Everglades. Gaby Dunn What a stupid question! No, it’s a very hard question. Gaby Dunn Uh, no, kind of like trashy motels and a lot of airboats and that sort of, “Did you guys see The Waterboy?” It’s like that Īllison Raskin Are there more alligators? Or, crocodiles? So, Long Island? Is that right? Īllison Raskin God no. Sarah Enni I like to start the podcast by asking people where they were born and raised. Gaby Dunn Just so everyone knows our voices?Īllison Raskin I worry a lot that our voices sound too similar. Okay, so I would love for you to introduce yourselves please. Sarah Enni I know, we’re just here diving into it. Gaby Dunn Such a casual intro, I love it. So, hop in a Lyft bound for West Hollywood, don’t forget to text your best friend from high school, and enjoy the conversation. Turns out we all live in Los Angeles, so as the summer wound down we got back together to talk about the writing process for the book and the channel, their not precious approach to a creative life, and why comedy is the best way to make people think. I first met Gaby and Allison in New York at Book Con, which was my first opportunity to read I HATE EVERYONE BUT YOU and ask some questions. ![]() In 2014 the two women co-founded JUST BETWEEN US, a You Tube channel with three-quarters of a million subscribers where they perform original skits and answer fans questions. This week I’m talking to Gaby Dunn and Alison Raskin, New York Times Best Selling co-authors of I Hate Everyone But You a coming-of-age novel told mostly in text messages, emails, scripts and articles. This episode is brought to you by Modern Tarot by Michelle Tea which is one part memoir, two parts radical feminist’s take on one of the world’s oldest card games and forms of divination. Sarah Enni Welcome to First Draft with me Sarah Enni.
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