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Welcome to Sick Boy, a podcast where we talk about what it's like to be sick.

This week's guest is Ben Nempton.

He's a mental health advocate and the creator, executive producer,

and co-host of MTV's The Buried Life.

Let's talk about it.

You can pop those on if you want to. one, pop those on if you want to. Once I, like, realize it.

Um, all right, well, uh, I'm really excited for this.

I feel like this is, I feel like this is kind of like a long time coming, you know, this is, uh, to, to sit down with you, Ben you ben and and have this chat was something that

i think we've talked about like a little while ago and and you were you were mentioning our

friend jesse from uh from jack dot org we i mean we recorded with jesse now it feels like ages ago

that was uh that was last summer i believe yeah that was last summer i I mean, even back, like, back forever than that.

Yeah. Man, we, we spoke to you on the phone, like, in... Holy fuck. Yeah. We hadn't been doing this

podcast for, like, more than two or three months, and I, maybe three, four months. It was the day of our first live show. That's right. So January. So maybe like three, four months.

It was. Because Jeff, our mutual friend, Jeff, um, uh, put us in touch with you and was just like, hey, you should talk to Ben. Like he's got some, he's done some cool shit. And we were, man, crazy. And that was just like a conversation to just have a chat and not even really talk about anything specific. We talk to you a little about a little bit about like your experience and like production and doing a show and man and now we know your sister. Yeah. Well, let's let's before we go too deep into that for the listeners. No, let's just do the Coles notes and shut it down. Yeah. Well, for the listeners, let's like let's break. Why don't you just let us know, let them know, let everyone who's tuning in who you are and maybe like some of the shit that we might kind of jump into today. Yeah. Well, we'll start at the beginning. I mean, and thank you guys for having me here. I've been looking forward to this for a long time too. So it's very exciting.

We got pastries. You know, we're celebrating. We're in Vancouver. So I grew up in Victoria.

I don't have to say BC, but everywhere else I say Victoria, BC. And for me, I ended up starting this

thing with three friends called The Buried Life.

And the way that came about for me was a really dark place where I was, I was, I was,

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