Nick Swardson

Blocks w/ Neal Brennan

Neal Brennan

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

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2025

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Neal Brennan interviews Nick Swardson (Grandma's Boy, Bucky Larson, Specials, Pretend Time, Adam Sandler movies and much more) about the things that make him feel lonely, isolated, and like something's wrong - and how he is persevering despite these blocks. 00:00 Intro 2:35 Congrats Marc Maron 3:10 Rebellious teenage years 21:48 Sponsor: BetterHelp 23:56 Sponsor: ExpressVPN 26:38 Addicted to Performing 29:30 Starting Comedy 34:47 Drinking on the Road 41:00 Quitting Drinking 49:35 Sponsor: Modern Mammals 51:08 Sponsor: Mando 54:07 Dark side of Alcohol 1:07:12 Anxiety from Alcohol 1:13:09 Key West Bender 1:21:03 Diabetes 1:25:30 Lucky to Be Alive 1:30:19 What He’s Proud Of ---------------------------------------------------------- Follow Neal Brennan: https://www.instagram.com/nealbrennan https://twitter.com/nealbrennan https://www.tiktok.com/@mrnealbrennan Watch Neal Brennan: Crazy Good on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/title/81728557 Watch Neal Brennan: Blocks on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/title/81036234 Theme music by Electric Guest (unreleased). Edited by Will Hagle ([email protected]) Sponsors: This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at https://www.betterhelp.com/neal and get on your way to being your best self. Visit https://www.expressvpn.com/NEAL to get an extra four months FREE! Visit https://www.modernmammals.com to shop for hair products. Control Body Odor ANYWHERE with Mando and get 20% off + free shipping with promo code [NEAL] at https://www.shopmando.com! #mandopod Sponsor Blocks: https://public.liveread.io/media-kit/blocks Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	My guest today, this is a do-over.
0:03.3	This guy, we recorded this a couple weeks ago, and it's a rare thing to want to do a podcast
0:11.6	over.
0:13.0	He's been frozen in place since the two weeks, when we shot it two weeks ago and recorded
0:18.6	it two weeks ago.
0:20.7	And, but he's a, he's a jesus hey kneel and back he's an
0:25.6	old buddy of mine 25 years we got and rough roughly and uh and he's made movies stand-up writer
0:33.9	producer all kinds of stuff tv He did a TV show.
0:38.2	And his name is Nick Swartson.
0:39.8	Hi, everybody.
0:40.6	Hey, buddy.
0:41.2	Thank you so much.
0:41.8	Good to see you, Neil.
0:42.6	Great.
0:43.1	Always great to have you back.
0:44.6	Yeah, it's going to be back.
0:45.4	New blocks the last three weeks.
0:46.6	What happened?
0:47.5	I went on a total spiral.
0:49.2	No, so truth be told, I thought this was going to be a writer's podcast talking about writing. And so...
0:55.0	Basically what happened was he watched the William H. Macy clip where me and William H. Macy were talking about improv.
1:00.0	It's not an actor's job to be funny. It's the writer's job to be funny.
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