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🗓️ 11 October 2024
⏱️ 88 minutes
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David Finch (@HoodFinch) is an actor/writer/producer turned full time visual artist. His new book of clever comics (Output of a Perfectionist) draws from the ups and downs of his own life, including his path to sobriety.
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0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 717 with my guest David Finch. So excited for you guys to meet David and to become |
0:08.9 | familiar with his brilliant comics. |
0:16.4 | Yes. |
0:17.4 | I'll get into in the interview, how our paths crossed, |
0:21.8 | but just one of those beautiful moments of the the universe |
0:25.8 | Putting someone in your life who |
0:28.8 | It feels like a kindred kindred spirit |
0:33.0 | Hey if you're new, welcome. |
0:37.0 | Welcome. |
0:38.0 | Let me tell you a little bit about myself. |
0:41.0 | My life is ruled by fear and in my brain everything is going to be a |
0:46.7 | catastrophe. How are you doing? What's up with you? The website for our show is, do people even go to websites anymore? I suppose they |
1:00.0 | do I was at a rally with my girlfriend and I asked this organizer. I said what's your |
1:07.7 | website and they put with my girlfriend and the woman I was asking kind of turned to me and was one of those oh my |
1:15.9 | God I'm old moments where like and she said well our Instagram handle is such and such, and I suddenly went, oh, okay. |
1:27.0 | And I'm going to go get dinner at 4.30. This is from the Fear Survey and this is filled out by a woman who calls herself suicidal |
1:38.7 | songbird and she writes, the last weeks I wake up in the mornings thinking about suicide. |
1:45.4 | I picture how I can arrange someone taking care of my two dogs. |
1:50.1 | I have several great candidates among friends who would love to have them. |
1:54.0 | I think about the funeral, who I don't want there and who could perhaps say a few words. |
2:00.0 | I love how, and I totally identify, I love how even in post death we want to control things |
2:09.1 | I picture their faces how they react when they get the message. I think many will think her, killed herself. She, who |
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