41 - Comedian Eddie Pepitone on Relapse & Recovery
Adult Child
Andrea Ashley
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2021
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Today we are diving deep with actor and stand-up comedian Eddie Pepitone. We discuss the ACA laundry list, the impact of his traumatic childhood, and his love for marijuana. He also shares about his relapse during the pandemic and how he made his way back into the rooms of recovery.
Eddie Pepitone is a master of the dark art of comedy. Hailed as a modern day cross between Jackie Gleason Don Rickles and Eckhart Tolle. Eddie is a force of nature on stage switching back and forth between social rage and self doubt. His shows are an energetic combo of calm and chaos blue collar angst and sardonic enlightenment. He began his comedy career in New York City quickly becoming a regular on the scene. He appeared regularly on Late Night With Conan O’Brien. His other numerous television appearances include Chappelle’s Show Jimmy Kimmel Live King of Queens Last Comic Standing It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia and The Sarah Silverman Program.
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| 0:00.0 | Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious. |
| 0:06.8 | My name is Andrea and this is Adult Child. |
| 0:27.2 | Welcome back to Adult Child where we take a deep dive into the impact of growing up in |
| 0:32.7 | a dysfunctional family. |
| 0:35.2 | And today we are diving deep with Eddie Peppaton. |
| 0:40.2 | Now for any mental illness happy hour listeners out there, you are probably familiar with Eddie. |
| 0:47.0 | But for those of you who are not, Eddie is an actor, he is a stand up comedian and he |
| 0:54.0 | is funniest fuck. |
| 0:55.9 | And I just want to let my girl MK know, MK was the one that sent me the email saying |
| 1:00.2 | that I say, fuck too much, I just want to let you know MK you're probably not listening |
| 1:04.8 | anymore, but just in case you are, there's a lot of fucks in this conversation. |
| 1:09.3 | So you can choose whether or not to proceed, you've been warned. |
| 1:14.5 | But we're talking about lots of things. |
| 1:16.2 | We're talking about the laundry list. |
| 1:18.1 | I showed Eddie the laundry list for the first time and like many of us, it was a spiritual |
| 1:24.5 | experience for him. |
| 1:26.2 | We're talking about addiction, we're talking about relapse, we're talking about comedy. |
| 1:31.4 | This is a bit lighter of a discussion. |
| 1:34.1 | You definitely will laugh several times. |
| 1:36.4 | But before we do that, let's take it down a few notches. |
| 1:40.5 | Let's take it down and then Eddie can lift us back up and let's talk about the holidays. |
| 1:46.3 | Now the holidays are even stressful for normies and they are doubly stressful for us adult |
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