Blake Griffin

Blocks w/ Neal Brennan

Neal Brennan

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

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2025

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Neal Brennan interviews Blake Griffin (NBA Rookie of the Year, 5-time All-NBA, Amazon Prime announcer) 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 1:45 Retirement 12:00 Mentoring 16:10 Clippers 19:50 Are NBA Players happy? 23:03 Sponsor: CookUnity 27:38 Coachability / arguing / Competitive 34:20 Clippers 47:40 Announcing 51:46 Survey 53:00 Sponsor: Huel 55:19 Luka's shape 1:05:40 Positive visualization 1:13:30 General racial ambiguity ---------------------------------------------------------- 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: 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. Go to https://www.cookunity.com/NEAL for 50% off your first week. Thanks to CookUnity for supporting the show! Take our audience survey at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/blockspodcast New customers visit Huel.com SLASH NEAL today and use my code NEAL to get 15% off your first order plus a Free Gift. 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, before you watch this thing, hit subscribe, would you?
0:02.6	Hey, everybody. It's Neil Brennan. It's a pox podcast. We heal the earth, et cetera, et cetera.
0:08.2	My guest today, I looked it up. I've known for 14 years. Pretty good. Feels longer.
0:14.5	No judgment. 14 years. When I met him, he was merely the NBA rookie of the year.
0:23.8	He's the first unanimous winner. Yes, he was the unanimous winner of the rookie of the year
0:28.9	award in over 10 years.
0:36.7	He went on to become all-NBA twice, three times.
0:41.4	Five times.
0:42.0	Well, my, let's start over, guys. I got the wrong guy. I didn't know if this was a talking
0:47.2	plot, like a talking intro. You shut the fuck up in trouble. Five time for, well, all NBA.
0:53.8	And I believe he'll be in the Hall of Fame.
0:56.6	He'll run his speech by me.
0:57.9	I'll give him notes.
0:58.6	He'll ignore them.
1:00.0	And he's the new Red Lobster spokesman, which nobody saw coming.
1:04.9	I make Red Lobster famous.
1:06.8	And he's about to be on the Amazon pregame,, post-game team with Dirk Novitsky,
1:15.0	and he's basically a retired NBA player, and now he's a full-time announcer,
1:19.7	and he's a buddy of mine, and his name is Blake Griffin.
1:23.9	Yay!
1:25.1	We never did figure out how to introduce people.
1:27.3	Thank you. I didn't know if I was how to introduce people. Thank you.
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