00:01:54.660He gets right up next to the microphone.
00:01:56.360I hear you can almost hear the eyelashes hit each other.
00:01:59.320You've never seen Italy so quiet as when the Pope gets up to wink on Halloween.
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00:02:12.360Our guest today is one of the most successful stand-up comedians in the world.
00:12:04.760I am very grateful that my downs were not my final moment.
00:12:08.760I was able to come back from things, whether it was health or whether it was relationships or whether it was just career going in weird circles and places and to be where I'm at now.
00:12:17.480I'm very grateful, but I know how hard it was to get here and I appreciate the hell out of it.
00:12:21.460For sure. I know me and Mike relate on this a lot, but we we really get along best with people who have been through shit, you know, trauma, tragedy, survived, overcome and adapt.
00:12:34.760And what I'm referencing. People who got their shit together are no fun.0.99
00:12:37.420it's been great it's been great good for you got all your teeth and everything0.99
00:12:43.020but i for those of you who don't know um the the the thing i'm referring to is in in 2017 you had
00:12:51.000a little bit of a a mental breakdown where you realized yeah time for yourself and the mental
00:12:56.200breakdown was basically me going through my first real breakup in my 40s i had never had heartache
00:13:01.400before like that it was it was my relationship that that came to an end when i was on the road
00:13:05.340And so, yeah, it's like, how am I supposed to be a functional entertainer when I can't keep my personal life together?
00:13:11.500And so it was one of those things that, you know, doing a lot of drinking, a lot of just, you know, the road.
00:13:15.620And, you know, unfortunately, it took its toll.
00:19:15.080Someone looks at you, that's the end way, which means you're fine, dude, in a weird way.
00:19:20.300So I find this interesting because 2022, we are in a time where people, I think, I'd be optimistic to think that are becoming more open and honest, especially with themselves.
00:19:34.760Right. Like, like, man, 50 years ago, talk about depression.
00:19:39.160Taboo. Slap back on the head, slap on the back of the head, like, you know, suck it up. Right.0.90
00:19:42.480And now I think people are more willing to have that conversation about going to therapy, about speaking to someone, a friend, a relative, whatever it is.
00:19:50.300i grew up with the kind of suck it up and get over and and because of that i became hardened
00:19:57.360you've seen both sides which in your idea creates a better self i think it's a mixture of the two
00:20:06.760because there's some people who can handle suck it up and and there's something in them that
00:20:11.500all right you know it's a sink or swim type of thing and and you know some people are built
00:20:16.120differently some people can handle it some people it's all right then i gotta do what i gotta do
00:20:20.280but there's there's part of them that still wants someone to listen someone they still wish they had
00:20:25.080that outlet and so i think finding that balance you know is very important that's the word right
00:20:29.880there balance i've been talking about it endlessly lately and it seems like you know your like work
00:20:34.920life balance was probably skewed in a direction that was unhealthy because you were tore and you
00:20:39.140weren't you were drinking you weren't focused on yourself i was go go go exactly as a lot of us are
00:20:44.200but i think another big thing too is like your mental health and and and your happiness is not
00:20:49.980a one uh one size fits all solution there's no you know answer like people ask me all the time
00:20:55.740like how did you you know get off drugs how did you get your mental health back in check whatever
00:20:59.080it's like dude i can't give you that answer there's a reason why people say life is a journey
00:21:03.640it's a journey dude we are all as i look around this room there's 20 people in here every single
00:21:07.680person in this room is trying their best to figure it out no one has it figured out you know and and
00:21:12.440as someone who's struggling, you know, on the daily or like a lot of people watching the show
00:21:16.600are, that's not the kind of thing that you want to hear. You want an answer. You want somebody to
00:21:20.160be like, yo, do X, Y, and Z. And you're going to arrive at the finish line that you've always been
00:21:24.440dreaming of. But you know that that wasn't the case. So through those two years of work,
00:21:29.620was there any sort of applicable realization that you had that you garnered that you took away that
00:21:34.820you said, okay, I can apply this and become a happier person? It was a day-to-day thing. Like
00:21:38.740you're saying it's it's not just one like okay here's the plan and that's it no every single day
00:21:43.940was part of that success every single day was part of that struggle part of that fight but you know
00:21:48.400you you got the ups the downs and at the end of the night when you put your head on the pillow
00:21:51.640how did it go today did we drink did we make a mess how do we feel about ourselves it's all day
00:21:56.480to day and so when people say all right so what's the plan you take it day by day i know it sounds
00:22:01.020cliche and they always people say that oh it's day by day but that's literally what it is i grew up
00:22:05.360With the saying of today has its own troubles.
00:22:10.460But to take it back about which is better, if you scale it back, I like to reflect not just on myself.
00:22:16.400I like to watch how people act so I can learn from them as well.
00:22:19.780The people that are like brush it off, get it, shut it down, bottle it, you'll notice they have troubles when they need emotion.
00:22:27.000When they need that intimate relationship, when they have that son or girlfriend relationship because they don't want to open up because they were trained, no, don't do that.
00:22:35.360So when they're bothered, they're like, bottle it down.
00:22:37.200But bottling up ends up being resentment.
01:26:48.540He gets right up next to the microphone.
01:26:50.240I hear you can almost hear the eyelashes hit each other.
01:26:53.360You've never seen Italy so quiet as when the Pope gets up to wink on Halloween.
01:26:58.160Listen to Artists on Artists on Artists on Artists every Thursday on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
01:27:06.200I'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.
01:27:16.240Each week I bring on an amazing guest.