Marc Maron

Blocks w/ Neal Brennan

Neal Brennan

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

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2023

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Neal Brennan interviews Marc Maron (WTF Podcast, Maron on IFC, HBO Special: From Bleak to Dark + more) about the things that make him feel lonely, isolated, and like something's wrong - and how he is persevering despite these blocks. ---------------------------------------------------------- Marc's blocks: 00:00 Intro 15:03 Eating Disorder 23:08 Drugs 27:13 Relationships 36:34 Codependency 44:14 Death 1:01:55 Biopic Question ---------------------------------------------------------- https://nealbrennan.com for tickets to Neal's tour Brand New Neal Watch Neal Brennan: Blocks on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/title/81036234 Theme music by Electric Guest (unreleased). Edited by Will Hagle ---------------------------------------------------------- SPONSORS: https://betterhelp.com/neal for 10% off your first month Download the Gametime App and use code BLOCKS for $20 off your first purchase Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi Neil Brennan here. I have a Netflix special called Blocx where I talk about things that make
0:06.6	them feel like something's wrong with me and alone in the world. Jimmy Carr had the idea,
0:09.8	wanting to do a podcast where your friends come on, they talk about their blocks, and we heal the world with it.
0:15.2	My guest today is a guy I've known since 1992.
0:20.6	I was a doormand of the comedy club club you were a very young person but when I'm 18
0:25.9	you're 27 28 29 92 29 something like that so you're 29 I'm 19 wild and you Todd Berry Louie yeah are like seniors in high school
0:38.8	You know you always look so serious and you're kind of droopy and you have this long hair.
0:43.7	You didn't talk to anybody.
0:45.8	You know, when no one knew what you wanted or what you wanted to do, we all knew your brother.
0:49.6	Yeah.
0:50.6	Well, what's funny is, you said something to me back then that I think of as like a
0:56.3	Withering indictment and I'm gonna tell you right now you go hey little Brennan you famous yet
1:03.0	So I knew.
1:04.0	Which as a door man, you must have sent something.
1:07.0	I knew as a matter of time.
1:08.0	Yeah, you knew I had the, I had the shining.
1:11.0	Oh yeah, that must have been there.
1:12.0	And I wasn't doing anything about it. But you
1:16.7	was here's what I'll say about Mark Merrin. You're a fucking very astute person in general.
1:30.8	You're a very good interviewer on the podcast. You have a really good sense of art which is broad and pretentious but like you can do it and you can talk about it and you've gotten more
1:36.1	mainstream as you've gotten older which as a performer and a writer thank God which I find
1:42.4	funny and weirdly admirable,
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