003 - Frank King and Me
The Jeff Macolino Podcast
Jeff Macolino
5.0 • 104 Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2021
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Frank King wrote for the Tonight Show for 20 years and spent many years as a standup comedian. Now his focus is mostly on TEDx talks and suicide prevention. We talk about a lot, from comedy to depression and suicide.
Contact Jeff at saintjmac@gmail.com or on Twitter @SaintJMac.
Frank's links: www.TheMentalHealthComedian.com
http://www.YourTEDxCoach.com
http://www.instagram.com/mentalhealthcomedian
http://www.twitter.com/theMHcomedian
https://www.youtube.com/thementalhealthcomedian https://www.linkedin.com/in/frankkingthemhcomedian
Born to Be Funny https://youtu.be/mugOzr6ItFk
Mental With Benefits https://youtu.be/mCnsHSdAn48
A Matter of Laugh or Death https://youtu.be/IeMg6OFYfU0
Suicide, The Secret of My Success https://youtu.be/3D4m33DXtsI
Art credit: Chase Henderson
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone. Today I have my first guest. He is an amazing guest. Frank King. He is a |
| 0:16.0 | comedian, the mental health comedian. He's a former writer for the tonight show who now |
| 0:21.0 | speaks on suicide prevention and in his bio summary also adds he knows what the barrel |
| 0:27.0 | of his gun tastes like. I'm going to link everything in the show notes below and I |
| 0:33.0 | really encourage you to check it out. A couple notes on the episode. I am extremely |
| 0:38.0 | angry the last about 10 minutes of our conversation got chopped off by shitty |
| 0:45.0 | recording process and then there's a couple minutes where the volume's a |
| 0:51.0 | little iffy in the beginning. So bear with me. I'm so angry. We had some good |
| 0:56.0 | stuff after the recording got cut. But all I can say is just definitely check out |
| 1:04.0 | Frank King and his TEDx talks are amazing and he's doing great work and he was a |
| 1:12.0 | very gracious guest to join me for this episode. So I hope you enjoy. |
| 1:26.0 | All right, hello everyone. We now welcome the mental health comedian Frank King. |
| 1:39.0 | Frank, thanks for coming on to the podcast. How are you doing? Well ladies |
| 1:46.0 | gentlemen who are listening I want you know I didn't have a choice. It was kind of a |
| 1:49.0 | plea bargain that I signed up for up to jail or join Jeff on the podcast. |
| 1:54.0 | Okay, Jim might have been a better choice. It's we'll see we'll see how it goes. |
| 2:02.0 | So I'll be honest I reached out to you initially. I just read your bio and thought |
| 2:08.0 | it's interesting. I love comedy and mental health is something obviously that's |
| 2:13.0 | intriguing and suicide prevention and all that stuff. When you when you |
| 2:18.0 | responded that you come on I quickly became the biggest Frank King fan on the |
| 2:23.0 | internet because I watched your TEDx talks and oh my goodness. |
| 2:31.0 | And I'll have them all linked on the podcast. When I when I post this it spoke to |
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