Comedian Tom Segura discusses finding success making audiences laugh, and improving his well-being with WHOOP.

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Recovery, Health, Life Sciences, Data, Optimize Performance, Science, Hrv, Fitness, Wearable, Health & Fitness, Sports, Strain, Whoop, Sleep

4.6 • 690 Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Tom Segura is one of the biggest acts in comedy right now and recently released his latest Netflix special, Ball Hog. He joins the WHOOP Podcast to talk about his career and how to best optimize his WHOOP data. Tom discusses why he wanted to be a comic and how he broke into the business (2:25), discovering stand-up (6:25), what it was like the first time he took the stage (10:21), the rush of performing (13:33), how he develops new material (16:35), why this age of political correctness gives...

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0:00.0	Hello, folks. Welcome to the WOOP podcast. I am your host, Will Ahmed, the founder and CEO of Woop,
0:09.6	and we are on a mission to unlock human performance. So if you're unfamiliar with WOOP,
0:15.3	we build technology across hardware and software and analytics to measure the human body.
0:20.8	We measure things like sleep and recovery and strain and provide a membership to help you
0:26.0	perform at a higher level.
0:28.1	We have a fascinating guest today, but first I'll remind you, if you don't have a
0:32.0	membership, you can sign up with code Will Ahmed, that is W-I-L-L-A-H-M-E-D, and get 15% off your WOOP membership.
0:44.0	This week's guest is comedian Tom Segura.
0:47.6	I think we all need a little laughter to lighten the mood of the global pandemic.
0:51.7	And so Tom is a phenomenal guest in that regard. He is one of the biggest
0:57.3	comedians in the world. His new Netflix special Ballhawk is out now. He's the host of your mom's
1:03.6	house podcast. And he's been a longtime Woop member. So he was a participant in Sober October with
1:10.3	Joe Rogan and a group of comedians. And he's been wearing WoopP member. So he was a participant in Sober October with Joe Rogan and a group of comedians
1:12.9	and he's been wearing Woop ever since. We talk about how he became a comedian and what the life
1:19.4	of a comedian is really like. I definitely learned a lot there. How he finds humor in everyday life
1:25.4	and tries to bring those experiences to the stage. I think in general
1:29.5	hard work was a really interesting theme. I think there's this presentation that comedians put on of
1:34.9	being slabs or being self-deprecating or doing the least in a situation. And in fact,
1:41.6	comedians, and I think the very best comedians are actually constantly working on their craft. And Tom is no difference. We talk a lot about his process. Tom actually asked me a ton of really good questions about himself from wearing whoop. I think a number of questions that many whoop listeners out there may have themselves. So listen for that. I will also be doing a
2:02.6	Q&A from Whoop members at the end of this podcast. So stay tuned. And without further ado,
2:08.7	here is Tom Seguera.
2:13.6	Tom, welcome to the Woof podcast. Thank you for having me. I'm a big fan of yours.
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