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Mental Illness Happy Hour

Episode 123: Baron Vaughn

Mental Illness Happy Hour

Paul Gilmartin

Relationships, Sexuality, Mental Health, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.86.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2013

⏱️ 132 minutes

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Summary

The actor/comedian (Conan, Jimmy Fallon, Comedy Central) talks about his struggle to feel "authentically black" without betraying who he is, the state of comedy in the black community, honing his artistic voice, and his turbulent childhood especially with his alcoholic mother. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to episode 123 with my guest, Baron Vaughn.

0:06.3

I'm Paul Gilmarten.

0:07.3

This is the metal illness.

0:08.3

Happy hour.

0:09.3

An hour or two of honesty about all the battles in our heads for medically diagnosed conditions

0:13.9

and past traumas, the everyday compulsive negative thinking.

0:17.6

This show is not meant to be a substitute for professional metal counseling, it's not

0:21.3

a doctor's office, it's more like a waiting room that doesn't suck.

0:24.9

The website for this show is mentalpod.com, there's all kinds of stuff you can do there,

0:29.2

you can join the forum, you can support the show financially, you can take one of the

0:35.2

many surveys that we have or you can see how other people responded to surveys.

0:40.3

So please go and you can read blogs by me and a ton of guests that have written blogs.

0:46.5

What did I want to say?

0:51.7

I think I mentioned this in the last episode but I've got an offer to do a couple of live

1:02.6

versions of this show at a mental health, I don't know what you call it, an event in Toronto

1:11.4

in the middle of November of this year and I'm probably going to do it and if you are,

1:18.6

I've created a thread in the forum called Underneath the Thread is a mental illness happy

1:28.0

hour event feasible in your area, then there's a Toronto Thread subthread underneath that

1:34.6

and there's a poll.

1:35.6

So if you think you would come or possibly come to that Toronto show, it would be on the

1:40.6

15th and 16th of November, it would be probably like a group listener recording the night

1:49.1

of the 15th and then a live interview with a single guest and an audience in the afternoon

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