{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Dr Aaron Carroll and Comedian Christian Finnegan","description":" Stand Up is a daily podcast. I book,host,edit, post and promote new episodes with brilliant guests every day. I have one sponsor which is an awesome nonprofit GiveWell.org\/StandUp for more but&amp;nbsp;Please subscribe now for as little as 5$&amp;nbsp;and gain access to a community of over 800 awesome, curious, kind, funny, brilliant, generous souls. &amp;nbsp; Dr Aaron Carroll&amp;nbsp;is one of my closest friends and one of the finest people I know. He is one of the most reasonable and thoughtful guys as well. His most recent&amp;nbsp;NY Times Op Ed is  &quot;Yes, People Are Traveling for the Holidays. Stop Shaming Them.&quot;&amp;nbsp;It has caused quite a firestorm of sanctimony, judgement and hate online and that is one reason to definitely give it a read.&amp;nbsp;He is a professor of pediatrics and associate dean for research mentoring at the&amp;nbsp;Indiana University School of Medicine. He is also vice president for&amp;nbsp;faculty development at&amp;nbsp;The Regenstrief Institute. Dr.&amp;nbsp;Carroll's research focuses on the study of information technology to improve pediatric care and areas of health policy including cost-effectiveness of care and health care financing reform. He is the author of&amp;nbsp;The Bad Food Bible&amp;nbsp;and the co-author&amp;nbsp;of three additional books on medical myths.   Subscribe to his&amp;nbsp;YouTube Channel    Buy his books   Read him at The NY Times   &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; Christian Finnegan&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;is an&amp;nbsp;American  stand-up comedian, writer and actor based in&amp;nbsp;New York City. Finnegan is perhaps best known as one of the original panelists on&amp;nbsp;VH1's&amp;nbsp;Best&amp;nbsp;Week&amp;nbsp;Ever&amp;nbsp;and as Chad, the only white roommate in the \u201cMad Real World\u201d sketch on&amp;nbsp;Comedy Central's&amp;nbsp;Chappelle's&amp;nbsp;Show.&amp;nbsp;Additional television appearances as himself or performing stand up have included \u201cConan\u201d, \u201cThe Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson\u201d, &quot;Would You Rather...with Graham Norton&quot;, \u201cGood Afternoon America\u201dand multipletimes on  The&amp;nbsp;Today&amp;nbsp;Show&amp;nbsp;and&amp;nbsp;Countdown&amp;nbsp;with&amp;nbsp;Keith&amp;nbsp;Olbermann, and on&amp;nbsp;History's&amp;nbsp;I Love the 1880s. He hosted&amp;nbsp;TV Land's&amp;nbsp;game show &quot;Game Time&quot;. As an actor, Finnegan portrayed the supporting role of &quot;Carl&quot; in the film&amp;nbsp;Eden Court, a ticket agent in &quot;Knight and Day&quot; and several guest roles including a talk show host on &quot;The Good Wife&quot;. In October 2006, Finnegan's debut stand up comedy CD titled&amp;nbsp;Two For Flinching&amp;nbsp;was released by&amp;nbsp;Comedy Central Records, with a follow-up national tour of college campuses from January to April 2007.&amp;nbsp;\u201cAu Contraire!\u201d was released by Warner Bros. Records in 2009. His third special &quot;The Fun Part&quot; was filmed at the Wilbur Theatre in Boston on April 4, 2013 and debuted on Netflix on April 15, 2014.   &amp;nbsp; Subscribe to Pete's YouTube Channel   Pete Dominick on Twitter   Pete On Instagram   Pete Personal FB page    Stand Up with Pete FB page  ","author_name":"Stand Up! with Pete Dominick","author_url":"http:\/\/standupwithpete.libsyn.com\/website","html":"<iframe title=\"Libsyn Player\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/18476156\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/88AA3C\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/content\/99395654"}