Johnny Mitchell: From Kingpin to Comedy & Redemption

2 Girls 1 Blunt

Jaime Lee Simmons, Emily Wade

2 Girls 1 Blunt, Cannabis Podcast, Influencer Podcast, Emily Wade, Tiktok Podcast, Top Comedy Podcast, Stoner Podcast, Comedy Interviews, Comedy, Jaime Lee Simmons, Weed Stories, Stand-up

4.7 • 548 Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2024

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Join us today for another episode of 2 Girls 1 Blunt as we dive DEEP into the raw and riveting life of Johnny Mitchell, former dr*g kingpin turned comedian, and host of The Connect with Johnny Mitchell. Today, Johnny joins us to break down his wild journey from prison cells to comedy clubs. We unpack Jaime's crazy story of her father’s arrest, Johnny’s path of redemption while pursuing his dreams of comedy and writing behind bars, and how he rebuilt his life from the ground up. Johnn...

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0:00.0	You go after the injured...
0:02.0	Yeah.
0:02.6	The injured little cheetah, not the one that can...
0:05.0	That'll make it difficult for you. That's starting running a job in the fucking prison. Yeah. It's like you could... if you take my ass, it's... It's gonna be hard work. You won't even enjoy it by the end. Yeah. Or maybe you'll enjoy it a lot. If it's hard work, then they enjoy it. They're like, I earned this shit.
0:23.5	I've... It's hard work than they enjoy it. They're like, I earn this shit.
0:27.1	I have one of the biggest true crime podcasts on the internet.
0:28.1	Oh, really?
0:28.3	Yeah.
0:29.2	Tell us about it.
0:31.9	I like how you went straight to the drug dealer for her.
0:33.4	Yeah, exactly. No, that's my dad.
0:34.8	Really?
0:35.5	Yeah, my dad went to prison for selling prescription drugs.
0:39.4	That's such a Florida thing?
0:41.2	He's actually from Boston.
0:42.5	So he was like a rich dude.
0:44.4	We'll get into it.
0:45.2	He hurt his back on a job, like fell off scaffolding, got back surgery, got addicted
0:50.0	to his perks, perks turned to oxies, oxies turned to heroin.
0:53.9	While him and his wife were on heroin, they stole a prescription pad from a hospital. Ended up writing fake scripts for perks and oxies. And then one day, like, 63 people got swatted. And everyone was like, it's Eric Simmons. He's the ringleader. He's the ringleader, but there was no proof of him doing it.
1:15.4	And then my dad, we've been in like the papers my whole like high school and after.
1:19.0	Well, I got to say, the roofing, very Boston.
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