Ep. 43 Life as an Actor with Josh Segarra

Josh Segarra is an actor of both the stage (On Your Feet) and screen (Arrow, Orange is the New Black, Sirens), and today he is our guest on The Stacks. Josh talks with us about acting, how reading fits into his life as a dad, and we go off on a tangent into sports biographies. Get ready for some good book recommendations and a lot a laughs.

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Everything we talk about on today’s episode can be found below in the show notes and on Bookshop.org and Amazon

• Rap Dad by Juan Vidal

• So You've Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson

• The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson

• Wild at Heart by John Eldredge

• Mans Search by Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl

• Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff by Christopher Moore

• Broken Bananah by Ross Asdourian

• The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg

• Sick in the Head by Judd Apatow

• The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene

• The Art of Seduction by Robert Greene

• The Game by Neil Strauss

• The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz

• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon

• Eleven Rings by Phil Jackson

• The Last Season by Phil Jackson

• Sacred Hoops by Phil Jackson

• Have a Nice Day by Mick Foley

• Shaq Uncut by Shaquille O'Neal

• The Mamba Mentality by Kobe Bryant

• Those Guys Have all the Fun by James Andrew Miller

• The Book of Basketball by Bill Simmons

• Junot Díaz

• Drown by Junot Díaz

• This is How You Lose Her by Junot Díaz

• The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz

• Malcolm Gladwell

• The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell

• Blink by Malcolm Gladwell

• What the Dog Saw by Malcolm Gladwell

• David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell

• Neil deGrasse Tyson

• Goosebumps Classic (Series 1) by R. L. Stein

• To Kill A Mocking Bird by Harper Lee

• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

• The Bible (The New King James)

• Seven Sundays by Alec Penix

• Oh, the Places You'll Go by Dr. Seuss

• Small Fry by Lisa Brennan-Jobs

• Neil Simon

• Laughter on the 23rd Floor by Neil Simon

• The Odd Couple by Neil Simon

• Martin McDonagh

• The Pillowman by Martin McDonagh

• Take Me Out by Richard Greenberg

• Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

• Pimps, Hos, Playa Hatas, and All the Rest of My Hollywood Friends by John Leguizamo

• The Works of John Leguizamo: Freak, Spic-o-rama, Mambo Mouth, and Sexaholix by John Leguizamo

• The Other Two (Comedy Central)

• Arrow (The CW)

• Sirens (USA)

• Orange is the New Black (Netflix)

• On Your Feet

• AJ and the Queen (Netflix)

• RuPaul

• Michael Patrick King

• Sex and the City (HBO)

• Two Broke Girls (CBS)

• The Comeback (HBO)

• Izzy Gaspersz

• The World's Best (CBS)

• RuPaul's Drag Race (VH1)

• Emilio Estefan

• Gloria Estefan

• Andrea Burns

• Songs for a New World

• Josh Brolin

• Christian Bale

• Little Women (Columbia Pictures)

• The Machinist (Paramount Classics)

• Stranger Things (Netflix)

• The Umbrella Academy (Netflix)

• This Is Us (NBC)

• Parenthood (NBC)

• "The Art of the Pan: What’s the Point of a Bad Review in 2019?" (Rob Harvilla, The Ringer)

• John Krasinski

• The Office (NBC)

• Tyler Perry Movies

• White Chicks (Columbia Pictures)

• The Hangover: Part III (Warner Bros. Pictures)

• "Ep. 13 Writing Your Book with Ross Asdourian" (The Stacks)

• "Ep. 14 The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg -- The Stacks Book Club" (The Stacks)

• Lebron James

• The Shop (HBO)

• More than an Athlete (ESPN)

• Maverick Carter

• Serena Williams

• Kevin Durant

• J.J. Watt

• The Offseason: Kevin Durant (HBO)

• Michael Jackson

• Revisionist History (Malcolm Gladwell/Pushkin)

• "McDonalds Broke My Heart" (Revisionist History)

• Godspell

• Romeo + Juliet (20th Century Fox)

• Claire Danes

• Leonardo DiCaprio

• Harold Perrineau

• Oz (HBO)

• Zero Dark Thirty (Columbia Pictures)

• John Leguizamo

• Homeland (Showtime)

• The Ministers (Allumbra Pictures)

• "The Short Stacks 4: Juan Vidal//Rap Dad" (The Stacks)

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