Expertise: Stories about knowledge
b'Experts are a dime a dozen, but true expertise is hard to come by. In this week\\u2019s episode, both of our storytellers \\u2013 who shared their stories at our annual Proton Prom fundraiser this week \\u2013 struggle with finding the knowledge they seek. We\\u2019re especially grateful to the Burroughs Wellcome Fund for supporting the event and making this all possible.\\nPart 1: When Zach Weinersmith agrees to create a trivia game, he doesn\\u2019t realize how hard it is to come up with facts that are both interesting and actually true.\\nPart 2: Concerned about his eyesight, comedian Josh Johnson desperately searches for a good doctor.\\nZach Weinersmith is a cartoonist, best known for making the comic strip SMBC. He co-authored the NYT bestselling pop science book Soonish, illustrated the NYT bestselling Open Borders. His work has been featured in too many places and society is the worse for it.\\nJosh Johnson is a stand-up, Emmy-nominated writer, performer, and NAACP award-winner from Louisiana by way of Chicago. He is currently a writer on The Daily Show, and is a former writer and performer on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, where he made his late-night debut. Johnson is Comedy Central\\u2019s \\u2018most watched comedian ever\\u2019 with 40M+ views to date across their platforms. As a stand-up, Johnson performs at clubs, colleges, and festivals around the world. Johnson was named Comedy Central\\u2019s \\u201cComic to Watch\\u201d in 2015, a \\u201cNew Face\\u201d at the Just for Laughs comedy festival in 2016, and \\u201cNew York\'s Funniest\\u201d in 2018. Comedy Central released Johnson\\u2019s first hour-long special #(Hashtag) in June 2021, and he taped his second hour-long special at The Bourbon Room in Los Angeles in May 2022, which is set to debut early 2023. Johnson\\u2019s self-released comedy and music mixtape album Elusive, was described by Vanyaland as \\u201clive stand-up observational humor with musical compositions. Both elements wade in and out of political and social waters between the two \\u201carcs\\u201d of the multi-genre epic". Johnson also co-hosts two podcasts, The Josh Johnson Show (with fellow stand-up Logan Nielsen) and Hold Up (with The Daily Show colleague Dulc\\xe9 Sloan). Johnson\\u2019s other credits include, CONAN (TBS), @Midnight, Kevin Hart\'s Hart of The City, The New Negroes, and This Week at The Comedy Cellar on Comedy Central. Johnson lives in New York and can be seen performing regularly at The Comedy Cellar.\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'