00:01:00.000Hi, this is Kylie Brakeman, Angela Jaritana, Jeremy Culhane, Patrick McDonald, and we're the hosts of the Artists on Artists on Artists on Artists podcast.
00:01:09.760The Improvised Character Comedy podcast, where each week a new panel of artists discuss their craft.
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00:01:18.680And we do a little Halloween sometimes.
00:01:24.500He gets right up next to the microphone.
00:01:26.240I hear you can almost hear the eyelashes hit each other.
00:01:29.140You've never seen Italy so quiet as when the Pope gets up to wink on Halloween.
00:01:34.660Listen to Artists on Artists on Artists on Artists every Thursday on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
00:01:42.140I'm Lacey Mosley, author, actor, stand-up comedian, creator, and host of Scam Goddess Podcast,
00:01:47.800the true crime comedy podcast all about robbery, fraud, and those who practice it.
00:01:52.180Each week I bring on an amazing guest.
00:03:27.900And you're staying on rent if you're doing that every show.0.95
00:03:28.900your house is insane thank you crazy we've seen some crazy houses we just went to tony robbins0.96
00:03:34.060house oh wow motivational uh strategist crazy house but your house tell me like i'm you know0.98
00:03:41.100first thing in my mind is what's the most unique thing in this house he has a slide that goes from
00:03:47.100his second floor to his basement and i think it's like the only way to get there yeah it's a slide
00:03:51.860and so you have to go down he had to get a permits approved wow a tube slide yeah there's no stairs
00:03:57.340or there's an L there's an elevator yeah I guess you can take that down as well but no what what
00:04:03.300it is I guess in Florida you can't have basements because it's so wet there yeah and they had to
00:04:09.200build this massive like submarine almost to house what he wanted to put in his basement which is
00:04:16.260like bowling lanes oh wow basketball courts studios first his seminars so he can do them
00:04:23.460digitally what else i mean yeah you got a pickpock table a pool table a movie theater room yeah a
00:04:28.480kind of a lounge area like this and yeah dude like i i've been in your house for five minutes
00:04:32.520and mike has jumped uh three stories off into a pool uh george's girlfriend bell has done twists1.00
00:04:39.100into your uh phone pit very impressive by the way she's very twisting many spins so many spins yeah0.87
00:04:45.180uh i i can't help but have this burning desire to do mushrooms and acid especially in that one
00:04:52.640furry room yeah yeah that's the perfect room doing it for sure because i've even laid you
00:04:57.200could sprawl out on the floor it's so soft and everything's so colorful already so you're just
00:05:01.020like it's like every kind of are you speaking from experience i don't i mean i don't even need
00:05:05.580a trip man like i'm already pretty high in life and high on everything else aren't aren't you sober
00:05:10.260like full sober yeah i mean sober is the wrong word for me because i i don't it's not like i
00:05:14.860have like a i'm not like recovering or anything i just i did drink pretty heavily because of i i
00:05:22.060would just drink whenever i would dj and then at a there was a 2000 that was a big turning point
00:05:27.000when i just was like all right i'm done drinking every show um and then that that just led me just
00:05:34.540i was like okay i'm pretty good i never actually got into hard drugs um i tried dabbled in weed
00:05:41.120very little enough to try enough where it just didn't do what it's supposed to do yeah you know
00:05:46.900it feels exhausting that that that life of constantly traveling and and smoking and drinking
00:05:52.260and i feel bad for most djs because a lot of them get through it by partying but like did you have a
00:05:57.460a catalyst that made you go cold turkey like did something go horribly wrong yeah my my very yes
00:06:05.220yeah my very close friend he was more of like uh kind of like a bigger big brother to me he passed
00:06:14.400away and that that that really like tore me up so um it wasn't like he died of drinking per se it
00:06:24.060was just for me i just needed it it was a complete reality check on everything and uh and and like
00:06:30.840you know i you know when you're djing and you're like i mean in the beginning when you're djing
00:06:36.520smaller bars and clubs it's like it's like you're partying you know when you're djing
00:06:44.320concerts and bigger shows you're putting on a show but when you're in the club world you're like
00:06:51.120you're like kind of one with the crowd so like if they're like but they're lit like you're lit
00:06:55.600with them you know what i mean so it's kind of easy to to like drink and party with them and
00:07:00.020if that's your thing every night you know a couple years down the line you're like wow i i drank like
00:07:05.980you know i got drunk like 200 nights a year you know it's a lot you know what i mean like
00:07:10.960so um you don't realize until it catches up with you and then that at that moment i was like well
00:07:15.820i'm done i'm just gonna just stop i'm just gonna use this as like a kind of stopping point yeah
00:07:20.920and like for me i feel lucky because i didn't i was never really addicted to it where i needed
00:07:26.300to drink i just was always nervous before i got before i went for sure to dj and it like helped
00:07:33.120me loosen up where i can just get crazy with it yeah yeah yeah which i totally understand it's
00:07:38.960liquid courage is what it is and by the way i'm sorry to hear about the loss of a friend that i
00:07:42.320did a horrible lead into that it was way too light-hearted no no no i mean no no i mean we're
00:07:47.780just we're just casually talking about it but like um you know his name is dj am and he's of course
00:07:53.320yeah and he and he's you know at that time he was the pioneer for djs he he kind of he was the
00:08:02.540aspirational goal of what djs could do with their lives and because before then like djs would be
00:08:08.940we'd make money but not like that we were like popular but we were not celebrities he was a
00:08:16.200celebrity he was you know he was he was the first one to really make like some sizable amount of
00:08:22.340money from it and um and he was also just a really kind generous human being so i was lucky just to
00:08:29.660be able to be his presence and learn a lot from him and uh and it's just a sad story of him passing
00:08:35.380away and um you know i i mean since since that turning point though like it's clear my like my
00:08:44.380shows have changed i've transformed as a human you know uh i've i learned how to like treat myself as
00:08:52.820an athlete mentally and when you do that then you you start changing the things that are important
00:08:59.780in your life like for me i care about longevity yep i care about being able to play a lot of shows
00:09:04.360and you know performing at the highest caliber so you have to you have to stop certain things you
00:09:09.620have to like you know just like you like you know when you're in training mode you're like okay these
00:09:14.400are the things that i have to do in the day these are the priorities i have to make in order for me
00:09:18.360to excel at that level but it's so obvious for me i'm a boxer it's like i have to do these things
00:09:23.620physically to be able to do the thing right the event the fight for you one of the first things
00:09:29.080i remember someone telling me about you is how regimented you are with your health and um were
00:09:34.720you at one point on a vegan diet yeah i was vegan for five years but that was probably the most0.99
00:09:40.080unhealthy i've ever been in my life oh shit same story vegans plug your ears no no i mean i i'm all0.95
00:09:47.240about a vegan lifestyle but like when i was vegan i was not healthy i was like i was ethically i was0.99
00:09:53.400doing for ethic reasons ethical reasons like you know because i didn't want to kill animals per se
00:09:57.720but like i was eating like every carb on the on the plate you know like and only carbs yeah so
00:10:04.600but i didn't really understand nutrition at that point um until later in my life i really dove into
00:10:11.220that space and then you know but but now but now you do right you have i see the ice baths i see
00:10:17.100the gym yeah yeah and when you're traveling as much as you are even just like walking in your
00:10:22.540house i took a picture of the world records that oh yeah right there one of the world records here
00:10:27.100The most traveled musician in one year is producer slash DJ Steve Aoki who clocked up 241,000 miles, performing a total of 168 shows around the world in 2012, which means you're on the road for more than half the year going crazy at parties every night.
00:10:44.580And you can't have an unhealthy lifestyle.
00:10:46.340You have to treat your body like a temple.
01:11:31.760I hear you can almost hear the eyelashes hit each other.
01:11:34.880You've never seen Italy so quiet as when the Pope gets up to wink on Halloween.
01:11:39.680Listen to Artists on Artists on Artists on Artists every Thursday on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
01:11:47.700I'm Lacey Mosley, author, actor, stand-up comedian, creator, and host of Scam Goddess Podcast, the true crime comedy podcast all about robbery, fraud, and those who practice it.
01:11:57.740Each week I bring on an amazing guest.