Ari Shaffir

Blocks w/ Neal Brennan

Neal Brennan

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Comedy, Mental Health

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2025

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Neal Brennan interviews Ari Shaffir (America's Sweetheart on Netflix, You Be Trippin' Podcast, This Is Not Happening & more) about the things that make him feel lonely, isolated, and like something's wrong - and how he is persevering despite these blocks. ---------------------------------------------------------- 00:00 Intro 00:58 Neal gives Ari his flowers 3:15 Anti-authority 6:12 Parking Lot Urchin 7:50 Moving to LA, Comedy Store, how he changed 13:39 Wanting to Make Things 17:40 Sponsor: CookUnity 19:22 Sponsor: BetterHelp 21:06 Doesn’t Care About Money 26:50 Living in Defiance 30:09 Travel 40:15 Doesn’t follow the news 45:05 Sponsor: Hims 47:01 Sponsor: Rocket Money 48:15 Openly Amoral 49:50 Contrarian 52:03 Being positive 1:05:53 Drugs ---------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe to Ari Shaffir: @arishaffir Subscribe to You Be Trippin': @youbetrippinpod Watch Ari Shaffir: Jew - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2YtIBYM4w0 Follow Neal Brennan: https://www.instagram.com/nealbrennan https://twitter.com/nealbrennan https://www.tiktok.com/@mrnealbrennan Watch Neal Brennan: Crazy Good on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/title/81728557 Watch Neal Brennan: Blocks on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/title/81036234 Theme music by Electric Guest (unreleased). Edited by Will Hagle ([email protected]) Sponsors: Go to https://www.cookunity.com/NEAL for 50% off your first week. Thanks to CookUnity for supporting the show! This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at https://www.betterhelp.com/neal and get on your way to being your best self. Visit https://www.hims.com/NEAL to start your free online visit. Cancel your unwanted subscriptions and reach your financial goals faster with Rocket Money. Go to https://www.RocketMoney.com/NEAL today. Sponsor Blocks: https://public.liveread.io/media-kit/blocks ---------------------------------------------------------- #podcast #comedy #mentalhealth #standup Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody. It's Neil Brennan. It's The Block's podcast. My guest today, the guy I've known 17 years,
0:06.5	he's got a new Netflix special called America's Sweetheart that's very good that I watched.
0:13.4	You got a podcast. What's the podcast called? Trip. You be tripping. You be tripping?
0:17.8	Cultural appropriation. Uh-oh, he's coming in, that's his finger.
0:23.1	This is a, that's a good distillation of who he is.
0:28.0	The, anyway, Ari Shafir, everybody.
0:29.5	He's, you know how he is.
0:32.3	Here's what I want to say to you.
0:41.4	You're, I actually think you're underrated as a creative, a generator of creative shit.
0:49.1	Meaning like, so what I mean is the production design on the special, the background.
0:52.2	Specifically chosen.
0:55.4	Black people, honestly, I hope you get white privilege someday soon.
0:59.3	But until that happens, man, you make excellent decoys.
1:03.9	If I'm at CVS and three brothers walk in, I'm like, it's go time.
1:06.2	For the special.
1:09.8	I saw the trailer and I went, fuck.
1:10.3	Yeah.
1:12.8	Because I was like, I wanted to do that.
1:14.2	John Mayer had a thing like that.
1:17.7	He had like floral arrangement on his stage at one point.
1:20.0	It was like, and I don't like 15 years ago.
1:21.1	I was like, I would like to do that.
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