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Blocks w/ Neal Brennan

Jim Norton

Blocks w/ Neal Brennan

Neal Brennan

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

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 February 2024

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Neal Brennan interviews Jim Norton ('Nikki & Jim,' 'Jim Norton & Sam Roberts,' 'Opie & Anthony,' standup specials + more) about the things that make him feel lonely, isolated, and like something's wrong - and how he is persevering despite these blocks. --------------------------------------------------------- 🎙️ Have a Question about your Blocks for Neal? 🎙️ Email “NealBrennanBlocks@Gmail.com” to have your question answered on a future episode. ---------------------------------------------------------- 00:00 Intro 1:19 Sex Addiction 30:43 Compulsion 41:15 Negative Confirmation Bias 50:18 Greed 1:07:00 What He’s Done 1:08:27 Emotional Goals ---------------------------------------------------------- https://nealbrennan.com for tickets Watch Neal Brennan: Blocks on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/title/81036234 Neal's Instagram: https://instagram.com/nealbrennan Neal's Twitter: https://twitter.com/nealbrennan Theme music by Electric Guest (unreleased). Edited by Will Hagle -------------------------------------------------------- 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. My guest today is a guy I've known not well for over 20 years. He's nodding that I didn't know him well and I don't know.

0:08.0

A great comic, sort of New York staple, and a satellite radio stable just told me 20 years on satellite,

0:17.0

Obian Anthony, and his own solo show now.

0:21.0

He had an HBO series called Down and Dirty with Jim Norton. He's a bunch of

0:24.2

HBO specials. You have a YouTube channel now with your wife. Yeah.

0:28.9

Who is trans, I believe, and we'll get into that yeah as we progress Jim Norton everybody Jim

0:35.8

Norton it is true we don't know each other well like I know you and I like yeah

0:39.5

for a long time but that's how it is in the business some guys you just see like I'm

0:42.4

comfortable when I see you to say high and sit down.

0:44.4

Yeah, but then you'll eat in front of me. I'll eat in front of you. It's there's no like what I know about you I'm always

0:51.0

interested in though, which I'm happy to have because I'm always.

0:54.0

Here's what my observation about you just from far away.

0:57.0

So people like me started doing, well, Berbiglia started doing the sort of emo shows.

1:03.2

I started doing emo shows and then Hassan and Hannah Gatsby and a few other people

1:07.2

that I'm forgetting.

1:08.3

Jackie Novak's got one now, Alex Edelman, etc.

1:12.2

But you were talking about weird shit early. Like you in what's

1:19.6

is it candy rain the name of the HBO special? Uh, Monster Rain.

1:23.4

I was gonna look it up and forgot.

1:25.3

You talk about being molested.

1:28.2

You know, my therapist said I was molested.

1:29.9

I was at a point, I was blowing all my friends as a kid and my therapist says you were

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