Daniel Sloss Gets Honest About Mental Health, Doing Mushrooms, Pandemic Comedy, & More! Ep 44
A Conversation With...
Philip DeFranco
4.8 • 735 Ratings
🗓️ 27 January 2021
⏱️ 120 minutes
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00:24 - Harry Potter
03:18 - Covid-19 in the US Timeline
04:24 - Stand Up Comedy During the Pandemic
08:57 - Buying a Tesla
14:03 - News in America/Election Cycle
20:13 - Sloss Book Delay
22:15 - Sloss’ Mental Health Journey in 2020
29:08 - Sloss Found the Love for Standup Again
31:47 - “I was pretending to be Daniel Sloss”
41:05 - Daniel Sloss Joins Twitch
46:50 - Experimenting with Mushrooms
53:36 - Dad, Cocaine & Money
58:47 - “My love of booze”
1:01:06 - TikTok
1:08:18 - What’s the ultimate dream for you?
1:14:31 - Bo Burnham
1:18:00 - Daniel Sloss Has a Podcast…
1:20:54 - Best and Worst Experiences with Other Comedians…
1:27:13 - Cut toxic family out of your life
1:32:22 - Does losing your sister so young make you want a family more?
1:41:19 - What is your favorite part of the body and why?
1:52:05 - What do you think about Donald Trump getting banned from Twitter?
1:55:43 - Sloss Asking Phil Questions…
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, welcome back to a conversation with. |
| 0:02.5 | My name's Philip DeFranco. |
| 0:03.5 | I might be a little bit rusty. |
| 0:04.5 | I haven't done this in two months, but I am excited that the first conversation we're having back is with a fantastic Daniel Sloss. |
| 0:11.7 | Hello, sir. |
| 0:12.4 | Hey, man. |
| 0:12.8 | How you doing? |
| 0:13.6 | I'm good. |
| 0:14.2 | Did you like that I just, I completely changed the way my voice naturally sounds. |
| 0:18.3 | Yeah, yeah, it was good. Just luring them in being like with a real fucking audio book voice, you are listening |
| 0:25.1 | to Philip DeFranco reading Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. |
| 0:29.6 | Except you call it the Sorcerer Stone because nobody in America knows what philosophy is. |
| 0:33.6 | And I call it not nothing. |
| 0:35.6 | Did you actually, by living over there, did you have to read the books by law? |
| 0:42.0 | Not by law, but like when the first ones came out, I think I was like six or seven. |
| 0:46.8 | And then the third one came out and it started blowing up. |
| 0:51.1 | And my grandparents bought me the first, no, in fact, fucking worse. And I'll call my |
| 0:55.9 | grand out for this, right? So my grand's got a bunch of grandkids and she was out, I'm going to |
| 1:01.0 | buy them the Harry Potter book. So she bought the first one and second one, gave the first one to |
| 1:05.1 | my cousin Andrew, and then gave me the second one. So I'm just fucking reading Harry Potter in the Chamber of Secrets going, |
| 1:13.2 | what the fuck is this? |
| 1:14.7 | How was this meant to work? |
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