Introducing First Day Back Season 3

First Day Back

Stitcher Studios

Comedy, Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.6 • 657 Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2019

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

First Day Back returns this season with the story of Jason Weems, one of Baltimore’s biggest comedians. Jason’s life changed on May 3, 2017 when just minutes into a set, he had a severe asthma attack. It was so bad, his heart stopped. Sixteen hours later, he was barely alive, recovering in a Philadelphia hospital. This season on First Day Back, host Tally Abecassis follows Jason as he tries to come back…from death. He wants to keep doing comedy— the stage is where he’s always felt the most alive. But now it’s a place of real trauma. Can Jason Weems transform the worst thing that ever happened to him in to the event that changes his life? Listen to the trailer now and subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen. New episodes drop every Wednesday beginning January 23, 2019.

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0:00.0	Start making some noise right now. Start making some goddamn noise right now. Start making some noise right now all the way from Beechore and back from heaven.
0:10.2	Get it up for Jason Wings!
0:17.0	I'm alive, motherfuckers. Oh, I'm so happy. I'm alive. I'm alive, motherfuckers. Oh, I'm so happy I'm alive.
0:23.3	Jason Weems is one of Baltimore's biggest comedians.
0:26.9	One night, while he was performing, he had an asthma attack on stage.
0:31.7	When his eyes went back in his head, it was like, everything changed.
0:34.9	I screamed, someone called 911, we need help.
0:37.4	And I knew he had kids. And so I was like, am I. I screamed. Someone called 911, we need help. And I knew he had kids.
0:39.3	And so I was like, am I watching somebody's dad die? The attack was so severe, his heart stopped.
0:46.6	I mean, he was dead. He was totally dead. It was really an awful thing to see. For five minutes,
0:53.5	Jason lay lifeless on the floor of a comedy club.
0:56.5	He was lucky.
0:57.9	A woman in the audience was able to revive him.
1:02.7	I'm Tally Abacassas, the host of First Day Back,
1:06.0	a documentary podcast about trying to get your life back after an event that changes you.
1:12.1	This season, I'm following the comedian Jason Weems, who's coming back from death.
1:18.6	After the attack, every time I got on stage, I felt like I was almost always on the edge of having another attack.
1:25.2	Now, Jason is dealing with his death the only way he knows how, by making jokes about it.
1:30.7	I feel like 50 cents when he dropped his first album.
1:33.6	Like 50 got shot nine times, I died of an asthma attack.
1:36.3	Pretty much the same thing in the streets.
1:38.6	But his severe asthma is still lurking.
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