Randall Park

Blocks w/ Neal Brennan

Neal Brennan

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

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2024

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Neal Brennan interviews Randall Park (Always Be My Maybe, Fresh Off the Boat, WandaVision, Shortcomings) 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 1:30 Ali Wong 3:00 UCLA & Asian-American representation 5:20 Parents & Upbringing 6:24 How the Immigrant Experience Influenced Him 8:48 Randall’s dad passing away 12:27 Anxiety 16:43 How to undo existential dread 20:47 Wanting to Be Liked 21:14 The Interview controversy 24:17 Wanting to be Liked 28:43 Sponsor: Tushy 30:30 Sponsor: Uncommon Goods 32:05 Fear of Success 36:12 Racism in Hollywood 45:35 Fear of Dead Animals 50:23 Mourning 1:00:50 Eulogy for his Father ---------------------------------------------------------- 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: https://www.hellotushy.com/NEAL for 10% off your entire order. https://www.uncommongoods.com/BLOCKS for 15% off your next gift. Sponsor Blocks: https://public.liveread.io/media-kit/blocks ---------------------------------------------------------- #podcast #comedy #mentalhealth #standup Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, guys, it's me, Neil Brennan. It's the Blocks podcast. My guest today is an actor, writer.
0:09.7	Are you officially a comedian or you're just more in the comedy space?
0:13.5	No, yeah, I don't know. He exists in the comedy space, the liminal comedy space.
0:20.5	He was a star of Fresh Off the comedy space. He was,
0:21.9	it was the star of Fresh Off the Boat.
0:23.5	It was star of Always Be My Maybe with the Great Alley Wong.
0:26.7	What are your other big ones?
0:28.7	Wanda Vision, I was in.
0:29.9	Oh yeah, you're Wanda Vision on Disney.
0:32.4	Directed a movie, shortcomings.
0:34.5	I don't know if that was a big one, but it was big to me.
0:36.5	Yeah, but it took a lot of time,
0:38.0	didn't it? Um, Randall Park, ladies gentlemen, here he is. Hey. It's great to, uh, we've met once
0:45.9	that I know of. Yeah. If not twice. Yeah, yeah, I definitely remember one. You were,
0:52.2	you were on the street. Oh, yeah, oh, I thought I met you with Moshe. Oh, you were on the street.
0:54.6	Oh, yeah.
0:55.6	Oh, I thought I met you with Moshe. Oh, we met on the street.
0:56.8	Yeah.
0:57.0	Oh, with Moshe.
0:57.8	That's right.
0:58.1	That's right.
0:58.6	That's right.
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