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Is Doing It Yourself the Only Honest Way Left? with Michael Burns

Is Doing It Yourself the Only Honest Way Left? with Michael Burns

Update: 2025-09-24
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Writer and video essayist Michael Burns joins us to talk about what happens when the platform you helped build stops serving the work and starts serving itself. After Wisecrack, he set out to make something smaller, stranger, and more his own. We get into the emotional cost of reinvention, the illusion of creative security, and why doing it yourself might be harder… but also the only honest way left.




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Is Doing It Yourself the Only Honest Way Left? with Michael Burns

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Ana Marie Cox and Open Mike Eagle