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Blocks w/ Neal Brennan

Sam Morril

Blocks w/ Neal Brennan

Neal Brennan

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

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Neal Brennan interviews Sam Morril (We Might Be Drunk Podcast, Netflix special 'Same Time Tomorrow') about the things that make him feel lonely, isolated, and like something's wrong - and how he is persevering despite these blocks. -------------------------------------- Sam's blocks: 00:00 Intro 2:28 Biological Father 10:37 Can’t Take Time Off But Also Exhausted 22:13 Afraid Success Will Go Away 36:14 Alcohol 44:15 Ladies -------------------------------------- https://nealbrennan.com for tickets to Neal's tour Brand New Neal Watch Neal Brennan: Blocks on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/title/81036234 Theme music by Electric Guest (unreleased). Edited by Will Hagle -------------------------------------- SPONSORS: https://gametime.co code: NEAL https://bluechew.com/neal for first month free https://betterhelp.com/neal for 10% off your first month Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, I'm Neil Brennan, and I have a Netflix special called Blocks, and if you haven't seen it, I go over my personal issues, the things that make me feel like something's wrong with me, make me feel crazy alone in the world, and Jimmy Carr had the idea to have my

0:14.5

friends on and ask them what their blocks are what makes them feel like

0:19.5

something from them makes them feel crazy. Basically their their problems we are very vulnerable here people

0:25.2

thank us for it we shame shame today my guest is a what do I know, 10 years, easy?

0:33.5

Something like that.

0:34.6

Don't know you well, but I think there's a mutual respect there.

0:37.4

Yeah, for sure.

0:38.4

I really enjoyed your last special.

0:39.8

Yeah, thank you.

0:40.3

But yeah, you're a great comic,

0:41.7

you've got good values you always write you're like a 90s in the way that I think of myself in the same way like

0:49.4

You're a son of a tell I open for him for a while and he's like he's the best person.

0:56.5

Yeah I'm saying Dave Atel is a comedian like amazing. Every comic thinks he has the best

1:01.3

jokes. Yes. Kind of changed joke writing structure in comedy and just excellent.

1:07.8

But there's an emphasis on like writing and discipline and repetition and the things that I do like it's

1:16.3

Colin Quinn too I mean it's the New York scene is the New York scene is what it is because

1:21.1

of those guys because they were you know you'd see them at the cellar and there's certain people who don't write as much there but those guys are just it's always new shit yeah so you're just like, it's like sports.

1:33.3

If you have good veterans on the team, the young players are like, oh, this is what you do.

1:38.0

But I don't think everybody did it.

1:39.4

But if you like subscribe to it, It just teaches you values.

1:43.2

Well it's the thing is I remember when I would open for him,

1:46.0

he'd say something's like, do new stuff this show, you know?

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