Paula Poundstone

Blocks w/ Neal Brennan

Neal Brennan

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

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2024

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Neal Brennan interviews Paula Poundstone (Killer comic, 'Nobody Listens to Paula Poundstone' podcast, NPR's 'Wait Wait Don't Tell Me' panelist), about the things that make her feel lonely, isolated, and like something's wrong - and how she is persevering despite these blocks. ---------------------------------------------------------- 3:12 Drinking 4:10 High Maintenance Friend 7:33 Tricky Family 9:57 Solo Parenting 20:24 Asexuality 28:17 Sponsor: Tushy 29:50 Avoiding Confrontation 36:39 Quitting Drinking 44:33 Terrible Boss 57:21 Rumination 59:44 Biggest Successes & Failures of Life ---------------------------------------------------------- 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 Sponsor Blocks: https://public.liveread.io/media-kit/... ---------------------------------------------------------- Sponsors: https://www.hellotushy.com promo code: NEAL for 10% off your first bidet order Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Neil. I forgot to record a proper intro, so here it is.
0:03.3	Guess today is Paula Poundstone.
0:05.7	Started stand up in the early 80s at the age of 19 in San Francisco.
0:10.6	Since then, she's done every imaginable type of special you can do.
0:15.0	She's a killer comic, a ton of crowd work. She doesn't like me calling of that, but that's what I call it.
0:20.0	We talk about family, sobriety, she has foster kids. Should note she had some sort of
0:27.5	legal run-in with foster care early in the early 2000s. Seems to have worked out just dandy and we had a great
0:36.2	conversation she's absurdly unique Paula Pownstone. What did what did you just
0:41.7	say I said don't you wish that you could take you know what you've what you've trained for what you've learned at like say whatever age right?
0:50.0	Over let's say 45 plus. Yeah and then and then time travel and go back and use those new skills.
0:57.6	Well what I guess my question is did you train?
1:02.4	You train for something else and then you got a skill almost inadvertent.
1:10.4	Do you know what I mean?
1:12.1	Meaning I don't what did I train for?
1:15.0	Well, I feel like if I were to go back and be 40. Yeah. I could be really good at it
1:21.6	Got it like an unbelievable.
1:24.0	I would win, you know, the annual 40 awards.
1:28.0	The very prestigious.
1:30.0	Yeah, I would, yeah, I would be people, would, when my name would come up, people would go,
1:35.0	my God, she was unbelievable at 40.
1:38.0	Yeah.
1:39.0	What didn't you know at 40?
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