Mental Health With Brendan Eyre
The Blind Mike Project
Blind Mike
4.7 • 822 Ratings
🗓️ 18 January 2021
⏱️ 97 minutes
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Summary
Mike is joined by comedian Brendan Eyre of "The Rad Dudecast" podcast in his first long form interview of The Blind Mike Project. Brendan has gone through his own mental health struggles through the years and tells Mike about his journey. He talks about his failed suicide attempt where he had to yell out his mom for help (7:00), how he was diagnosed with 6 different mental disorders (12:00), the time he beat up a random stranger who he believed sold him bad cocaine (49:00), and becoming a dad during Covid quarantine (1:00:00).
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| 0:00.0 | Brendan Eyre, what's going on, man? You're very prompt. You're the first comedian I've had on this edition of the podcast. And the first one I booked was Lewis J. Gomez, and he was booked for Saturday at 10 a.m. And I'm still waiting for him. So I appreciate the promptness. He'll be there. No show. I'm going to start a podcast |
| 0:22.2 | war with him, I think. I feel like that's how you kind of entice the rattlesnake, you know? |
| 0:26.2 | Yeah, that's how you get them. Yeah, that's a weird thing about comedy. And no one's on time. |
| 0:32.3 | And it's a pet peeve of mine because I'm always on time. And so like a lot of times bookers will tell you a time |
| 0:40.7 | for the show working in the fact that comedians are always late. And I and so I'll get there at the |
| 0:49.3 | time they told me and have to sit around for half an hour. And I'll be like, no, this is ridiculous. Tell me the time |
| 0:55.9 | it starts, you know? I do that naturally because I don't drive, obviously. So I have to like Uber |
| 1:02.8 | everywhere or whatever I have to do to get places. So I'm naturally, like I factor in that |
| 1:09.7 | the guy might be just an asshole driver or there's traffic or whatever. So I'm everywhere an hour early and I'm just sitting there like listening to a podcast waiting for shit to start. It's the life of responsible people like me and you that it's miserable. Yeah yeah that we're stuck waiting places because of our |
| 1:31.1 | consideration for others um so i i asked you on uh alone this time because i so i had you guys on |
| 1:39.5 | over the summer the rad the famous rad dude cast with Greg Stone, Anthony DeVito, and yourself. |
| 1:45.3 | And it was one of the most fun podcasts I've ever hosted because I didn't have to do anything. |
| 1:51.7 | It was a shit show. |
| 1:53.5 | I just, I just opened, I just opened stream yard and let Greg Stone make shit up for an hour |
| 2:00.6 | and a half. |
| 2:01.4 | Yeah. |
| 2:02.7 | Um, |
| 2:03.0 | that for eight years. |
| 2:04.5 | But it is, |
| 2:06.7 | it is wild, |
| 2:07.5 | which we'll get into in a minute. |
| 2:08.5 | But the reason I asked you on alone is because I know you deal with some, |
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