No BS with Buddy Wakefield

The Angry Therapist Podcast

John Kim

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2019

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

In this special hour-long conversation, John Kim (The Angry Therapist) speaks with poet and friend Buddy Wakefield about the shape of life, the length of love and the metaphysics that hold us all together. This is a special one.

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BUDDY WAKEFIELD is a three-time world champion spoken word artist featured on the BBC, HBO’s Def Poetry Jam, ABC Radio National and has been signed to both Sage Francis’ Strange Famous Records as well as Ani DiFranco’s Righteous Babe Records.

Buddy has been a busker in Amsterdam, a street vendor in Spain, a team leader in Singapore, a re-delivery boy, a candy maker, a street sweeper, a bartender, a maid, a construction worker, a bull rider, a notably slow triathlete, a facilitator at Quantum Learning Network, and is the most toured performance poet in history.

Wakefield, who is not concerned with what poetry is or is not, delivers raw, rounded, disarming performances of humor and heart. He is now based in Los Angeles, CA, where he lives as a free agent pursuing acting and screenwriting for both television and film.

Check out Buddy's work here --> https://buddywakefield.com/

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi, my name is John Kim, and I'm a therapist who went through his own
0:07.6	rebirth. I share my feelings and revelations. I believe in casual or
0:11.9	clinical and with you instead of at you. I come unrehearsed on
0:16.8	purpose because self-help doesn't have to be so complicated. So Buddy and I met on Craigslist, casual encounters.
0:25.0	I've actually used that joke over 9,000 times.
0:30.0	There should be an expiration date on jokes. All my friends would agree. I have like four jokes that I just used over and over and that's my how I met Buddy Wakefield joke. Anyway, Buddy Wakefield and I met at my Crossfit Box back in the day and the
0:49.2	Crossfit Mindset and Los Feels and I started to run groups because I wanted to help people process
0:55.8	their workouts and that's where I met Buddy and he started attending these
1:00.6	groups I found out quickly that he's a very authentic guy but also we spoke the same
1:06.7	language we both speak broken Korean in a fourth grade level now we spoke the
1:12.2	same language in that we're both
1:14.1	seekers and curious and interested in things that we can't see and so like
1:21.6	energy and serendipity and all of that and so we connected on that and
1:26.6	then we started to run these dinners called nine based on people random people colliding and people we didn't know and having conversations
1:36.3	that we wouldn't normally have out of the quote unquote real world because these conversations were abstract
1:43.6	and different and so then of course we got busy and started doing other things
1:48.8	but he's still my friend I still love him to death he's a very very busy guy. He's on tour. He's a world
1:55.0	champion spoken word poet also did an amazing TED Talk, is also an author and
2:02.0	actor has many gifts.
2:04.7	Buddy Wakefield is not just a person, he is an experience,
2:08.2	he is an experience, and that's, I mean that
2:11.2	as a very high compliment. One of my favorite people, here he is Buddy Wakefield.
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