Michael ian Black: MTV's THE State, Becoming A Better Man In Life And Work & The Struggles Of Success
The A Game Podcast: Real Estate Investing For Entrepreneurs
Nick Lamagna
5.0 • 101 Ratings
🗓️ 23 August 2021
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Join Nick Lamagna on The A Game Podcast with guest Michael Ian Black! Michael was first seen on the legendary sketch comedy show on MTV, The State and has earned a long career as an actor, writer, producer, director, standup comedian, podcast host and successful author of adult and childrens books. He has appeared as a regular in the hit show I Love the 80s, Ed, Wet Hot American Summer, Reno 911 and so much more. Michael has shared the screen with such greats as Bradley Cooper and Paul Rudd and has found a voice on his podcast and in the many books he has written. He opens up a thoughtful and vulnerable side in his recent book, "A Better Man A (Mostly) Serious Letter To My Son."
In this episode Michael shares honest, funny, thoughtful and smart lessons he has learned in decades chasing his dreams, gaining professional experience, navigating the bumpy road to success and the importance of emotional intelligence.
Topics In This Episode Include:
✅ The importance of Emotional Intelligence
✅ Lessons learned working on MTV's The State
✅ What is Economic anxiety & how can it help you
✅ Importance of no "Plan B" when chasing your dreams
✅ Fighting entrepreneurial burnout
✅ Why regret is worse than failure
✅ Interviewing Katy Perry
✅ Are you using social media to impress other people at the expense of your happiness ➡️ MORE!
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| 0:00.0 | All right, my guess today the A game podcast is Michael Ian Black. |
| 0:03.6 | Michael Ian Black is one of the original members of MTV's The State, |
| 0:07.1 | which has everybody probably by now knows is one of my favorite shows. |
| 0:10.6 | We've had almost the entire cast on now and I'm going to keep pushing to get |
| 0:14.0 | the rest of the mom, but he was one that I've been really wanting to get on. |
| 0:16.6 | I've been a fan of Michael's for a very long time. |
| 0:18.7 | He's funny, he's smart, he's sometimes controversial, he's been open, |
| 0:23.8 | he's been silly. |
| 0:24.6 | There's so many different phases of this guy that have made me listen to him to |
| 0:29.0 | laugh, to learn to many different things. |
| 0:30.7 | He's a polarizing figure on social media and his podcast had to be amazing. |
| 0:35.4 | It has had some amazing guests. |
| 0:36.9 | No pun intended. |
| 0:37.9 | He really brings his A game to everything he does. |
| 0:39.7 | I think he's a perfect fit for this podcast. |
| 0:41.3 | And we talk about a lot of different things from punk rock and New York City, |
| 0:44.8 | New Jersey growing up to the struggles of working through castmates of 11 |
| 0:49.5 | alphas in New York City with no leadership to the daily struggles of entrepreneurs. |
| 0:53.7 | So he also shows a little bit of the sense of his sense of aside with his new book, |
| 0:58.3 | A Better Man, which is a mostly serious letter to his son, where he talks all about |
| 1:02.2 | some of the things he learned growing up and some of the misconceptions of masculinity |
| 1:05.7 | and talks a lot about things like economic anxiety and struggles of entrepreneurial burnout. |
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