Joel McHale

Blocks w/ Neal Brennan

Neal Brennan

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

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2024

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Neal Brennan interviews Joel McHale (Animal Control, The Soup, Community) 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 1:54 How He Got Into Showbiz 5:06 College football career 8:41 Almost Live 10:56 Marriage & Grad School 12:46 Early Career 16:37 The Soup 17:46 Inner Life 20:07 Dyslexia 24:04 Sponsor: Mando 27:10 Community 31:25 Workaholic OCD 33:21 Parenting 46:15 Status 50:22 Extreme Extrovert 55:30 Self-loathing & Imposter Syndrome 57:20 Gratitude ---------------------------------------------------------- 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 Sponsor Blocks: https://public.liveread.io/media-kit/... ---------------------------------------------------------- Sponsors: https://www.shopmando.com promo code: NEAL for $5 off the Mando starter pack Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everybody it's Neil Brennan the Splash Podcast where we talk about things that are wrong with us. You didn't so many blocks.
0:06.8	I was so late. I can figure that's what's wrong. There's nothing wrong with me. I can figure out. I can guess. Yes. And my guess today is a guy who was on the soup and then he was on a community and now he's on animal hospital.
0:21.6	Control! I literally looked it up, looked up Animal Hospital, didn't find it, and...
0:28.8	Animal Hospital was a show on NBC actually.
0:31.8	I know Bobby Lee was in it, I remember it. He's on a show called Animal Control.
0:36.0	Animal Control on Fox.
0:38.0	Animal Control.
0:40.0	Only on Fox.
0:42.0	Fox and Crime Scene Kitchen on Fox.
0:45.0	Crime Scene Kitchen, what's that?
0:47.0	It's a competition baking show.
0:48.0	Bake!
0:50.0	I love it proves my point that you could just make a show up you can absolutely or
0:55.0	house of villains is that another show your own yeah wow this guy but is booked
0:59.7	well blessed but and desperate I'll take it and low standard of material
1:06.7	well at a certain point what differences to make no one no one gives it no one gives a shit it is not like it was no
1:15.0	70s 80s 90s or even early aots yeah you're like you can't do that it doesn't
1:19.7	matter what you do how many commercials have you done? The number and and I and I'm people like I saw you on that thing. I'm like what the the jackpot party? Ready to party? Or was it for Klondike ice cream bars? Klondike bar.
1:36.4	Yeah I love it. Yeah you don't you walk in big money. I'll do it walk out. Yeah and if that's make it fun like I still I can't you know what they don't even got to make it fun. Yeah. I mean as you do you know is like we went into this silly business and if someone wants to pay his money to do it, how lucky are we?
1:55.0	So well that's what I was, one of the things I've always been curious about with you is,
2:00.0	how did you get into show, but you're tall and you're good-looking and now I am with the surgeries?
2:06.8	And thanks to doctors is more or whatever doctor from the guys from Botched. That's right.
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