Episode 65: Mike Posner

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Mike.

Self-improvement, Education, Society & Culture, Sports

5.0 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2020

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

Mike Posner is a GRAMMY-nominated, 3x platinum recording artist. He most recently walkedcacross the United States in 2019, starting from New Jersey and traveling until he reached the Pacific Ocean. It took him over 5 months to complete. Now, Posner is just as much as an adventurer as an artist. He's taken up hiking mountains and embraces a lifestylecfocused on self-help and Eastern spirituality. While it may seem like a coincidence the two both started their music careers while attending Duke together, Posner and Mike’s reconnecting in this episode might suggest they’ve been on similar wavelengths the entire time. They explore similar life philosophies they’ve taken up and share what led them to those teachings along the way. Posner then touches on what it was like to fall out of fame after recording 3 platinum songs, only to find stardom yet again after recording “I Took A Pill In Ibiza.” When an artist has such a filled career in a short amount of time, the question of “What happens now?” arises quicker than expected. Posner explains what his future plans are and how he wishes to approach music from now on. There are many great book recommendations, stories of adversity, and observations on how the world has changed in the past 10 years. This is a real Mike & Mike show, Steve. Sit back.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to another episode of the Yink K Podcast.
0:06.0	Yeah!
0:08.0	Butter my Biscuit and call me a dirty slut because today's guest on the podcast is a big one. His name is Mike. He went to
0:16.1	Duke University with Mike and he's a musician just like Mike. You may think he's cooler
0:21.8	than me until he took a pill and a visa. Ladies and germs, give it up for Mike Posner. This week on the Y&K Podcast.
0:32.0	You called me. When did you call me about a month ago and we talked? Y&K Podcast.
0:32.5	You called me, when did you call me about a month ago and we talked like randomly for the first
0:36.2	time in a long time.
0:37.2	Yeah, we talked for like three, four hours, like a long time on the Face Time and I was just like wow it was great to reconnect but it
0:44.2	also reminded me of how much I've kind of looked at what you were doing and
0:50.3	when you started to take the spiritual turn, I didn't balk at it at all as somebody
0:56.2	who's like just known you and been a follower and just loosely known what the hell you were
1:00.8	doing all the time.
1:02.4	I didn't balk at all. I actually was like, it was, yeah,
1:07.2	a long, it was, for lack of a better word, it was just like inspiring and made sense and it kind of of aligned with like some of the premature
1:15.1	early rumblings I already had going on in my spirit of just like wait there's
1:20.5	more to there's way more to this and like there's way more to the shit that I care about there's there's a lot more yeah I mean that was that was really sort of my journey was
1:31.6	at 22 or 23, I basically got everything I ever wanted, you know, so I felt like my audience
1:41.1	had basically gifted me the opportunity to realize life is not about money,
1:50.0	girls attention, you know, attention from the opposite sex and having everyone else
1:54.7	think I was cool because I got all those things around 22 and I realize I
2:01.6	felt pretty much exactly the same and I realize I felt pretty much exactly the same. And I remember when I when we were in
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