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Try! with Nate Dern

Try! with Nate Dern

By: Nate Dern
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Hosted by comedy writer Nate Dern, each episode interviews someone trying something new. It's dedicated to all of those who get outside of their comfort zone and try something different, learn a skill, or just experience something new. The topics range from the silly (eating a ghost pepper or learning to roller skate) to the serious (saving endangered wolves or changing how elections work). Nate is a comedy writer and a sociologist, so each episode tries to make you laugh and hopefully make you learn something, too. Nate writes for The Tonight Show and is the author of the book "Not Quite a Genius." Whatever it is you're trying to do, I hope you keep on trying.Nate Dern
Episodes
  • TRAILER: I've Got a Hunch — my new podcast!
    Jul 31 2026

    Hello, listeners of "Try! With Nate Dern." I've to a new podcast called I've Got a Hunch. The week of my 40th birthday, a suitcase fell on my head. I’ve Got a Hunch is a podcast about my funny, obsessive quest to fix my posture, recover from injury, and learn to stand up straight again—both literally and figuratively. It's an interview podcast with storytelling, essays, and research about back pain and surviving midlife. Each episode has guests spanning the worlds of comedy and wellness. From Connor Ratliff (Dead Eyes) and D'Arcy Carden (The Good Place) to chiropractors, posture experts, and more, tune in and leave with your head held a little higher.


    https://open.spotify.com/episode/6OJ72yUIxYVL5gwA2IE46P

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    1 min
  • Bryan Brinkman Is Trying To Make NFTs
    Mar 21 2022

    In this episode I talk to former Tonight Show graphic artist and current digital artwork creator, Bryan Brinkman. We focus on Bryan's work in the NFT space, discussing the success he has had there, with his work being featured on billboards in Times Square, Sotheby's auctions, and more.

    You can follow Bryan on Twitter here:

    https://twitter.com/bryanbrinkman

    And check out more of his artwork here:

    https://www.bryanbrinkman.com/


    And just to do my due diligence, while I believe that Brinkman is a good person using the space for good, there are also a lot of scammers out there in the NFT and crypto worlds, so if you're new to the space, please proceed with caution! For an overview of some of the risks and critique of the less than savory parts of the space, watch this YouTube video "Line Goes Up - The Problem with NFTs":

    https://youtu.be/YQ_xWvX1n9g

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    35 mins
  • Michael Cruz Kayne Is Trying To Give Parenting Advice
    Nov 16 2021

    Michael Cruz Kayne is a stand-up comedian, a writer for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, and host of the podcast A Good Cry, where he talks about grief by sharing the experience of the loss of his infant son in order to talk with others who have lost loved ones about the grief podcast. He's a beautiful human and a good father. Since this is the first episodes of the podcast that I've recorded since the birth of my daughter Clover six weeks ago, I decided to insist that Michael try to give me parenting advice, so that's what today's episode is all about. We talk about the Philip Larkin poem "This Be The Verse" and Michael wonders if from day one parenting is just the most beautiful trauma. Give it a listen!

    Michael's podcast "A Good Cry":

    https://headgum.com/a-good-cry

    My sister Courtney's parenting Instagram:

    https://www.instagram.com/beechstreetparenting/

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    37 mins
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