434 - Stephen Merchant: How to Live Through Your Life’s Awkward Moments… Build Your Ridiculous Muscle

The James Altucher Show

James Altucher

Education, Business

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2019

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Stephen Merchant is 2x GoldenGlobe-winning actor, writer and director. I'm a fan of everything he's worked on (The Office, Office Space, Extras, Hello Ladies, etc.). And now he has a brand new movie coming out that I highly recommend called "Fighting With Family." The Rock is in it. Stephen wrote and directed it. It's based off of a real-life family who raised their kids to be professional wrestlers. And it tackles all of these real-life human experiences like the fear of not making it, the pressure to succeed, setting difficult expectations for ourselves and so on. This episode is both funny and totally relatable. Just like Stephen's upcoming movie (coming out Feb. 14) I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltucher.com/podcast. Thanks so much for listening! If you like this episode, please subscribe to "The James Altucher Show" and rate and review wherever you get your podcasts: Apple Podcasts Stitcher iHeart Radio Spotify Follow me on Social Media: YouTube Twitter Facebook Linkedin Instagram ------------What do YOU think of the show? Head to JamesAltucherShow.com/listeners and fill out a short survey that will help us better tailor the podcast to our audience!Are you interested in getting direct answers from James about your question on a podcast? Go to JamesAltucherShow.com/AskAltucher and send in your questions to be answered on the air!------------Visit Notepd.com to read our idea lists & sign up to create your own!My new book, Skip the Line, is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever books are sold!Join the You Should Run for President 2.0 Facebook Group, where we discuss why you should run for President.I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltuchershow.com------------Thank you so much for listening! If you like this episode, please rate, review, and subscribe to "The James Altucher Show" wherever you get your podcasts: Apple PodcastsiHeart RadioSpotifyFollow me on social media:YouTubeTwitterFacebookLinkedIn See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host.
0:06.4	This is the James Altiger Show on the Choose Yourself Network.
0:12.4	Today on the James Altiger Show.
0:15.4	You know, Rick and I kind of got labeled with sort of making this comedy of discomfort
0:21.2	as some people say, watch it through their fingers, kind of cringe comedy.
0:24.4	I think it was just a byproduct of how we made it in our minds funny.
0:28.8	It just seemed funny to us to not let the audience out of the room.
0:34.4	You know, someone's just done something really embarrassing or humiliating.
0:37.6	And we just thought it seemed funnier to us if you just sat in that moment.
0:41.6	I remember there was a moment once where we were working and Ricky came back from the bathroom
0:50.4	and he said something like, yeah, I wouldn't go in the bathroom for a second.
0:54.8	That was a heavy lunch.
0:56.4	And then we just started laughing about, imagine saying that when you're on a date.
1:00.4	You know, if you're on a date with someone and you come back to your date,
1:03.6	I wouldn't use the bathroom for a while.
1:05.2	So we are. That was key.
1:07.2	And then it just expanded into this whole kind of riff.
1:10.2	And then subsequently we put it in extras where my character was on a date with a woman and did exactly that.
1:15.6	So when you're writing together, you're sort of alive to anything that's happening, right?
1:20.8	But being alive to everything that's happening, like again,
1:23.6	being able to switch from him saying that to something even more ludicrous to something even more ludicrous,
1:28.8	do you think that's almost like a muscle that you started to develop during the, you know,
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