674 - How Meth Turned into the Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me with Comedian Greg Baldwin

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4.1 • 529 Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Comic/Actor Greg Baldwin (The Actors Theater, The Improv ) knew he liked sugar, alcohol, cocaine, and other addictive substances.... but meth? Plus, Greg had a great job, why would he risk it? Answer- Meth is goooodddddd.....

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Christine from Storyworthy. Today on the show, comedian Greg Baldwin talks about how meth turned into the best thing that ever happened in the whip.
0:14.8	I have a bag of meth in my suit pocket, and I think I do real good on the interview but there's a hole in my pocket in in my suit
0:22.8	and so I'm at ABC broadcasting which is owned by Disney and a bag of mats falls out of the
0:29.4	hole of my pant leg in his office of the general manager in the office and we're walking out
0:35.6	and the general manager reaches down, he sees the meth,
0:38.7	he grabs it, he picks it up, holds it in front of my face and he says, what's this?
0:44.0	And I'm like, oh my God, I'm like, I panic, right? So what did I do? I snatched it out of his hand.
0:50.0	And I said, vitamins. Today on the show, comedian Greg Baldwin talks about how doing meth turned into the best thing that ever happened to him.
0:59.8	Stay close.
1:03.0	Hey, my name's Greg Baldwin, and you're listening to The Amazing Storyworthy.
1:07.2	Thank you. Welcome.
1:22.2	Welcome to Storyworthy. My name is Christine Blackburn, and I'm coming to you from Los Angeles, California.
1:26.6	But you're a longtime fan of the show of
1:28.7	almost 11 flipping years or you're brand new to the show, welcome to Storyworthy. Now, I hope you guys
1:37.8	enjoyed the story last week by Wayne Federman. Fetterman is always, you know, what can I say? He's
1:43.7	Fetterman, you know? he's amazing. And now he's
1:47.1	written this new book, The History of Stand Up, that I really like. In fact, Greg, did you see this
1:52.5	book by chance? I haven't seen it yet, but I listen to part of the episode. It looks amazing.
1:57.6	It really is. And it's not that thick, right? It's not that thick, but it is
2:01.8	very thorough. And he talks all the way from when comedy started with a guy named
2:08.6	Ardimore Ward, I think, Artemis Ward. Yeah. And he goes all the way up until the pandemic
2:15.6	and even opening up trying to do drive-in theaters and stuff like that.
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