E277. Can Mushrooms Kill The Ego? - Jeff Leach

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🗓️ 21 March 2024

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Comedian Jeff Leach sits down with Bridget for a talk about the entertainment industry, comedy, money and therapeutic mushrooms. They discuss the death of the ego, how the entertainment industry preys on ego, desperation, self-interest, and a desire for money, the definition of an icon, charting your own path, doing something new, not making decisions purely based on financial reasons, and how all the people who are trying to divide us are rich. The amount of control the government exerts on our lives, aliens, climate change, raising kids, accepting your lack of control, thinking about money the way rich people think about money, the rent or buy debate, and having a sense of purpose and service. Check out Jeff's new comedy special Jeff Leach Presents A Comedy Spectacular. Sponsor Links: Shopify - https://bit.ly/shopify-wiw Some More News - https://bit.ly/WiW-SomeMoreNews Pluto TV - https://bit.ly/WiWPlutoTV

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0:00.0	I'm with Jeff Leach, everybody. Welcome to Walk-In's welcome. Thank you for joining me.
0:04.8	Thank you for having me on the show. Again, apologies for being tardy. I am not normally like that.
0:10.0	So I, uh, you're deeply embarrassed. I understand things happen life happens. So I'm an
0:16.5	apologetic as well so I have to you know bring it up immediately the beginning of
0:20.0	the podcast. It's fine. Tell me about your comedy journey. I'm going to talk about this like you're like it's a
0:29.3	I was a broad question. I love I love hearing the stories of how people get into the mental illness factory that is stand-up comedy.
0:37.8	It's always different.
0:38.9	Yeah, I mean, I got into stand-up comedy as a gateway drug from TV hosting for the BBC and Channel 4 and some other networks in Europe back into my acting.
0:52.0	So I saw a lot of my, it doesn't work the same as the US, you know, in the US you can have the TV show, have the sitcom, have the write the book, post your own chat show being movies etc you can be the Ellen
1:04.6	De Generis you know kind of right whereas in England it's very much still what
1:09.4	are you you are you an actor you a stand up a TV presenter and pick one of those things and go full hog at it.
1:15.6	So I refused to do that.
1:17.5	And I noticed that all my stand-up comedian friends got a lot more film and TV acting auditions than I did as a TV host so that's
1:26.0	why I started and then I fell in love with it and I was like oh well I'm sick in the mind and
1:29.7	I'll have to do this for the rest of my life now.
1:32.1	It's the worst.
1:33.4	Isn't it?
1:34.4	And the best.
1:35.4	Simultaneously, the worst and the best thing you can do.
1:38.0	Yeah.
1:39.0	I took a long, I mean, yeah, long for stand-up comics.
1:42.1	I took a break and then I didn't think I'd go back I had a baby
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