#429 Anxiety Ridden Time Bomb of Self Loathing with Big Jay Oakerson

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Ari Shaffir

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4.6 • 6.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2021

⏱️ 135 minutes

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Summary

Standup comedian and host of The Bonfire and Legion of Skanks (in that order) Big Jay Oakerson talks about his struggle with anxiety disorder with comedian and host of nothing Ari Shaffir. Jay really went through it, man. He was fine and then one afternoon, he wasn’t. He couldn’t breathe, he couldn’t think straight, and the walls started crashing in. Ari has always been intrigued by mental disorders and this is the first time he has been able to really take a deep dive into anxiety. It was a very revealing and interesting discussion.

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The Music:

Green Day - Basket Case (live)

Bad Religion - Anxiety

Queen and Bowie - Under Pressure

Ramones - Anxiety

Transcript

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0:00.0	What anxiety does for you, it's talking about something that like it's a
0:04.1	smaction to shape a little bit, is it lets you know very quickly, now you're
0:08.0	terrified, you're quite the opposite of suicidal, you are night bearishly
0:12.6	terrified of that, so I know when I feel that way that it's like, oh just a
0:17.9	fucking brain fart, does that make sense? Yeah, so I can embrace more.
0:47.9	It's been a while, it's been a while since I had a serious episode.
1:09.6	Ladies and gentlemen on today's Skeptiteank, my buddy Big J. Ocasin comes on.
1:15.0	There was a, if you watch it on YouTube, it's fucking kicking right now. There was a
1:24.4	night, the Big J and I were doing a bunch of drugs, a bunch of fun party drugs,
1:32.2	my old apartment, and went out to the roof, sorry, to the fire escape, and you
1:40.2	know how it is when you're on fucking party drugs. I did just wipe my nose
1:45.0	when I said that, but it's not that kind of drug. MDMA, and you get
1:51.2	sherry, you get confidy with your friends, and we were on the fire escape, Jay was
1:58.3	smoking and he started telling me about something and he goes, yeah, it was the first
2:04.1	time I had an anxiety attack, he's referencing something, we just kind of
2:11.6	thought all the walls would come in. I never know how do you think like that
2:17.2	before. He's really good at hiding it, you know, and I just kind of listened to
2:26.2	him, he wasn't like crying or anything like that, he was just remembering
2:29.8	something that happened 10 years earlier, 10, 12 years earlier, and I was like,
2:36.4	damn, I didn't know Jay had anxiety like that. And I thought, you know, like I do,
2:44.0	I was like, maybe we should do a podcast about it, maybe be open to talking about
2:46.7	it. He seemed like he had dealt with it to the point where he wasn't like going
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