498 - How to Quit the Stable Job You Hate For Something Better: Mike Bullard on His Journey from Cop to Comic

The James Altucher Show

James Altucher

Education, Business

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2019

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Mike Bullard dropped out of school to become a cop. He wanted to solve murders. But no one really gets murdered in Canada. So he quit. And became a stand-up comedian. Then a talk show host and radio host. He's since been named the greatest TV talk show host in Canadian history. I asked him about his decision to quit and turn toward a new (and harder) dream. Here's Mike Bullard on how he made it to the top. 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 Check Out The Altucher Book Club Series: Apple Podcasts YouTube 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.
0:10.4	Today on the James Altiger Show.
0:15.4	The key is I don't care how shitty the place is and I don't care how many people are there.
0:21.6	The difference between froze and everybody else's, you don't get nervous and you don't get lack of
0:28.0	physical. You get excited every time before you get up. You come in, you look at the room, you look at the people
0:34.4	and you build up some excitement inside yourself before you set foot out there. That's the key to everything. Excitement.
0:40.8	So do you think this kind of intense environment that you were growing up in?
0:46.4	I think this helped with that crowd work which got you ready for the concert?
0:49.2	You know what? My old man was great man. My mother was the father and my father was the mother.
0:56.6	My mother would kick the shit out of us at any given opportunity.
1:01.0	You know what I mean? My father, different story, come and talk to me.
1:05.8	And my father allowed us to say anything we wanted. Like from the, I'm not kidding from the time we were five.
1:13.4	My old man was saying anything you wanted. You know, don't swear at the table.
1:19.4	But this dinner table is for talking. You can say anything you want.
1:23.4	And when you got three brothers and you're competing for your two minutes of conversation time with your dad,
1:29.0	it becomes a free for all. You know, and that's where it happens.
1:33.0	You're Jewish right? Yeah, yeah. You don't even know.
1:37.0	I got to talk to a lot of comics. Liri too. He comes from an Irish family and he said that dinner table on Sunday night.
1:43.0	Man, you got the hook. It was the first place you got the hook.
1:47.0	Like if your mother and father trained you to shut up and your brothers got the stage now,
1:52.6	you failed. That's what it was. It was like a comedy club.
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