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61. Was Austan Goolsbee’s First Visit to the Oval Office Almost His Last?

People I (Mostly) Admire

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You Were a National Champion Debater, but You Were an Improvised Comic?

"i'm an undergret. He would sit me down, he would tell me about econome tricks," she says of heckman. "When you're out there doing improv nd you have nothing, everything is a yes and world m so if somebody says something,. put something out in a skit, no matter how random it is, you accept that as a gift, and then you're like, yes." The quickest way to turn seen into nothing is to reject an idea, the comedian adds.

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