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The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

Jaackmaate: The Untold Story Of My Battle With Health Anxiety & OCD

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

FlightStory

Society & Culture, Education, Business

4.517.8K Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2022

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

Jaackmate is the host of the popular Happy Hour podcast and a youtuber with over one million subscribers. From humble beginnings in Norwich to one of the largest internet personalties working in Britain today, Jack has had a hell of a ride. But more thought goes into Jack’s comedy and its targets than you might think. Because Jack doesn’t just mock anyone, but is always interrogating himself as to whether he’s mocking the right targets, and whether there’s a sufficient ‘why?’ to everything he does. His ride to the top hasn’t been easy either, and Jack has had to overcome challenges he never expected along the way. From anxiety to dealing with criticism, Jack gives us the truth about inventing, and then reinventing, yourself on the internet. Follow Jack: Twitter - https://twitter.com/Jaack Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0BjnjltT8FEZyN3Iw5mN0Q  The rapper NF that Jack Refers to - https://www.youtube.com/c/NFrealmusicvideos/videos Follow me: https://beacons.ai/diaryofaceo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

People know Jack mate for being the guy to slag stuff off and that's funny.

0:06.0

And then when the content dried up, well I've now got to go and look for someone who's doing something wrong.

0:10.5

You can only do that for so long before you just hate yourself.

0:14.0

Didn't really get on with my mom.

0:16.0

She would do and say things that I don't think any mom should really do.

0:19.0

Things would happen at home and I'd have like a mark on my face,

0:22.0

like from someone that shouldn't have

0:24.2

given me that mark. I made a video reacting so well as Advent calendar. That

0:29.0

changed the game for me and that the upload before that I was going to quit. I struggle with health anxiety and

0:35.2

O. C. There's probably 15 to 20 times a day where I actually convinced myself that I have

0:41.7

cancer. So you're too fearful to go and get a health check done? If I go there

0:46.1

and the doctor's like yeah you're ill then that's the end for me. What do you mean

0:50.5

that's the MP? Jack, give me the context on your life you know I sat here yesterday with Israel

1:07.1

Adhesanya and he told me about his childhood and there was hints of that that

1:11.8

really kind of felt similar to the experience that I read you've had as a young man as well and then also I think the other one where I could see real distinct similarities and I think you might have listened to this podcast is Jimmy Carr. Yeah, yeah a man, right? He's like, I didn't realize he was

1:25.7

he was going to be such a philosopher. One of the things he said to me was, you know, when someone becomes a

1:32.1

comedic figure, which I consider you to be in many respects. I think you are...

1:35.0

I'll take that. Yeah good. I'll say that. He says that instead of asking because there's you know

1:40.5

there's this kind of stereotype that the person themselves is struggling with something and

1:44.3

they're trying to make other people laugh. He said to me, as you might have heard, he said,

1:47.3

you've actually got to ask them which one of their parents they were trying to please or to make happy.

1:52.3

Does that resonate with you at all?

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