Josh Johnson on Humor and Healing

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Eric Zimmer, The One You Feed

Buddhism, Mental Health, Religion & Spirituality, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Education

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🗓️ 11 August 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Josh Johnson is a comedian and an Emmy-nominated writer. He is currently a writer on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah and a former writer and performer on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Josh was named New York’s Funniest Comic at the New York Comey Festival in 2018. In this episode, Josh Johnson and Eric talk about comedy and how humor can facilitate healing, understanding, and our connection with one another. But wait – there’s more! The episode is not quite over!! We continue the conversation and you can access this exclusive content right in your podcast player feed. Head over to our Patreon page and pledge to donate just $10 a month. It’s that simple and we’ll give you good stuff as a thank you! In This Interview, Josh Johnson and I Discuss Humor and Healing and… The duality of being human Using humor as a coping mechanism that can facilitate healing How when you laugh you feel no pain That levity can strip something of its power over us What it means to be truly content The role of comedy in his life The relationship between objectivity and comedy How he’d rather try and fail on stage than not try something out of fear The prevalence of mental health issues in comedians The way humor can change our perspectives How he approaches depressive episodes in his own life How skewed our feedback can be based on who surrounds us Josh Johnson Links: joshjohnsoncomedy.com YouTube Facebook Twitter Instagram Indeed: Helps you find high impact hires, faster, without any long term contracts and you pay only for what you need. Get started with a free $75 credit to boost your job post and get in front of more quality candidates by going to www.indeed.com/wolf Best Fiends: Engage your brain and play a game of puzzles with Best Fiends. Download for free on the Apple App Store or Google Play. Talkspace: the online therapy company that lets you connect with a licensed therapist from anywhere at any time. Therapy on demand. Non-judgemental, practical help when you need it at a fraction of the cost of traditional therapy. Visit www.talkspace.com and enter Promo Code: WOLF to get $100 off your first month. If you enjoyed this conversation with Josh Johnson on Healing and Humor, you might also enjoy these other episodes: Pete Holmes Paul Gilmartin See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	If you can understand people, you can make them laugh. If you understand, it makes them tick.
0:03.6	You understand what they enjoy. If you understand what they enjoy, you understand,
0:07.3	have a cure, some of their ails, because you'll know where they're coming from.
0:18.2	Welcome to the One You Feed. Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the
0:22.8	importance of the thoughts we have, quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think.
0:29.2	Ring true, and yet for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us.
0:34.7	We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear. We see what we don't have, instead of what
0:41.3	we do, we think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit. But it's not just about thinking.
0:47.7	Our actions matter. It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living.
0:54.0	This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction,
0:58.4	how they feed their good wolf.
1:15.2	Thanks for joining us. Our guest on this episode is comedian Josh Johnson.
1:19.7	In addition to stand up, he's an Emmy-nominated writer and is currently a writer on the Daily Show
1:24.8	with Trevor Noah and a former writer and performer on the Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon.
1:30.0	Josh was named New York's funniest at New York comedy festival in 2018, and his story Cat Fishing
1:36.1	the KKK has a mast over 8 million hits on YouTube. Hi Josh, welcome to the show.
1:42.1	Hey, thanks for having me.
1:43.3	Pleasure to have you on. Let's start like we always do with a parable. There's a grandfather
1:48.0	who's talking with his grandson. He says in life, there are two wolves inside of us that are
1:52.2	always at battle. One is a good wolf which represents things like kindness and bravery and love.
1:58.5	And the other is a bad wolf which represents things like greed and hatred and fear.
2:03.2	And the grandson stops and he thinks about it for a second. He looks up at his grandfathers,
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