Felipe Esparza

Blocks w/ Neal Brennan

Neal Brennan

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

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2024

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Neal Brennan interviews Felipe Esparza (Bad Decisions on Netflix, Last Comic Standing & more) 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 2:25 Fame 5:08 Addiction 11:13 PTSD from growing up in Boyle Heights 20:31 Sponsor: Mando 22:30 Sponsor: BetterHelp 24:06 PCP 28:15 Terminator 2 Story 36:06 Recovery 46:15 Weed & Mushrooms 51:30 Stuttering 56:56 Need for Respect & Feeling Slighted ---------------------------------------------------------- Follow Felipe Esparza: @felipeesparza 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.shopmando.com/ use promo code: NEAL for $5 off your Mando starter pack https://www.betterhelp.com/NEAL for 10% off your first month. ---------------------------------------------------------- Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, it's me Neil Brennan. This is the Black's Podcast. My guest today, I've known for 16, 17 years.
0:08.4	The first time I saw him at the Laugh Factory, I thought, oh fuck fuck if you cut to this guy in a movie he
0:16.4	immediately would get a laugh just the sight of him do it now great You see how funny that was?
0:26.0	He's just a he's an observably funny motherfucker and then the fact that he could write jokes and he had a point of view it
0:35.8	would to me was a miracle he's had one or two Netflix specials comedy Central
0:42.3	I think you were on last comic standing man.
0:44.5	Yeah, I won.
0:45.4	He won last comic standing man.
0:46.4	He won last comic standing.
0:47.4	I beat them.
0:48.4	He beat them.
0:49.1	He thinks he's funnier than all you fools.
0:51.9	Felipe as far asza, ladies and gentlemen,
0:54.2	Felipe Esparza.
0:56.0	What's up, Neil Brandon?
0:57.2	How you do you do you think your career is going good?
1:01.1	I think it is.
1:01.9	I think it is. From the outside in I'm like I wonder
1:03.9	Felipe is happy with how it's going from. I think about Kevin Hart's career
1:08.7	and people at that level and the amount of interviews they're going to do every morning and preparation for
1:15.0	a lot of things and I'm like yeah I like the little rolls yeah side rolls where I just
1:22.3	get invited to the red carpet and that's it.
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