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Blocks w/ Neal Brennan

Dan Harmon

Blocks w/ Neal Brennan

Neal Brennan

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

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2024

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

Neal Brennan interviews Dan Harmon (Community, Rick and Morty) 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 3:10 Before ‘Community’ 4:37 Emotional Health headline 5:12 Thoughtlessness in Relationships 8:30 Emotional Origin Story 14:47 #metoo and apologies 28:35 Sponsor: ExpressVPN 30:40 The Audience 32:05 Compulsion to be Special 42:25 Shame 55:57 Fearing Nobody Needing Him & Being Alone 1:00:29 Nagging Concern That He’s Never Been A Person 1:09:39 Goals for Himself 1:24:37 Face Blindness ---------------------------------------------------------- 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]) Sponsor Blocks: https://public.liveread.io/media-kit/blocks Sponsors: https://www.ExpressVPN.com/NEAL for an extra 3 months free! ---------------------------------------------------------- #podcast #comedy #mentalhealth #standup Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi everybody it's the blocks podcast my guest today was the creator of the show

0:05.2

community and the co-creator of the show Rick and Mordy and he sent me a list of blocks that's I don't if you can see it on the it's multiple it's a few

0:17.2

pages it it's what you would kind of expect from the from the co-currico-mortem it's it's uh he referred to

0:25.8

as recursive and it's it's eating its own tail it's a parody of blocks and it's a departure from it's it's everything you want. I don't know how I'm going to do it.

0:39.2

Well, it's is it time for your show to, you know, have that peak episode where can Neil talk to a man who is mostly block?

0:58.3

And to your earlier point and looks like it. Yeah. If you see on video he was not happy with his his single. Yeah. His close-up is a little concretey.

1:05.0

Yeah, you know, I want to say not happy because that implies that like I feel

1:10.7

entitled to look better than I do.

1:12.8

Like, I just, it just, I don't, I don't see,

1:16.5

I have very low lighting in my bathroom

1:18.8

and then I brush my teeth and I go to go to work

1:22.0

and so it, just just it's just a gentle reminder to get

1:26.2

back on what would you what would you do what would you do if like seeing what

1:31.0

you see now what now what do you do

1:33.0

uh...

1:36.6

i stop eating uh...

1:36.7

snacks for every meal like i had so i'm on a meal plan

1:41.6

like it's not like a birthday cake and pizza and I don't indulge but

1:44.7

the problem is that because I have a nutritionist and I've been I I've experienced

1:51.6

what I'm supposed to do and gotten the results which is I just have a meal plan if I just eat the five meals a day

1:59.4

I'm fine. I'm high energy. I'm focused. I feel good and all this stuff. And then there's like these little snacks that I'm allowed to have.

2:07.6

So it's five plus snacks? Well, no, no. Well, no. Well, no, there's like it's like emergency there's a bowl of like like look if

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