Art, Acid and Anarchy with Ian Swordy

It's All Bad

Mental Health, Comedy Interviews, Comedy, Health & Fitness, True Crime

4.8 • 570 Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2020

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Episode 57. This week we have a very different picture of New York. Ian Swordy escaped his wasp-y, Long Island upbringing in pursuit of punk rock, partying and political anarchy in the late 90s/early aughts. And while everyone around him got their legs snapped along the way, Ian seemed to coast through it all on a plate of blueberry pancakes and a message from God. That is until the message ran out. Ian eventually found himself alone, broke and wasted, waiting for someone who was never coming back. Today Ian—an artist—is 2 years sober and works un-ironically at a craft brewery in Bushwick. He has a new book out which you purchase from his site (below) along with his sculptures. Thanks for listening.

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0:00.0	How's everybody doing this week?
0:02.9	Oh, I'm all right.
0:04.0	I had another COVID test Saturday, so that was exciting.
0:07.7	Yeah, I got one last Thursday, negative.
0:09.7	Well, not detected.
0:11.8	Yeah.
0:12.7	Which I guess is negative.
0:14.5	How's it going where you're at, Ian?
0:16.6	I mean, New York is kind of the spot to be right now, I think.
0:19.5	We have zero, zero deaths.
0:22.4	It was hairy there for a minute, but we're good now.
0:25.2	Yeah.
0:26.3	Zero deaths.
0:27.5	Zero deaths, yeah.
0:29.3	Dude, that's wild.
0:30.8	Dude, it's so good.
0:32.5	I'm glad, man, because New York went through the fucking ringer.
0:36.1	It was crazy.
0:36.6	New York got its ass handed to it. And because it's so dense, you could only imagine visually that that must have been intense. Am I wrong? I don't know. You know, I mean, it must have been. Yeah, I mean, and you could just, like I was saying, I mean, it was just ambulance, ambulance, ambulance. It's like it started to be a little bit like, you know, like feel a little crazy, you know?
0:58.1	Yeah. I was saying. I mean, it was just ambulance, ambulance, ambulance. Like, it started to be a little bit
0:54.5	like, you know, like, feel a little crazy, you know? Yeah. That's a lot, man. But it's good now.
1:01.1	I mean, everyone's good. Everyone wears masks. There's hand sanitizer, like, everywhere. And,
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