Comedy Saved Me Trailer for episode with Thom Tran

Join Lynn Hoffman for this upcoming episode with Thom Tran. He shares his incredible journey and the healing power of comedy.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
I have a severe case of gas guitar acquisitions. That
what that was, because I was wondering, Yeah, guitar acquisition syndrome.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
It's comedian musician, military veteran and advocate Tom Tran on
comedy saved me.

Speaker 3 (00:14):
I spent a career in the Army and spent you know,
a combat deployment in Iraq, suffering some of the worst
tragedies a soldier can and I came home and I
wanted music to.

Speaker 1 (00:25):
Be the thing that saved me.

Speaker 3 (00:26):
But as much as I love it, the business part
of music and having to deal with other band members, producers, right, well,
things like that. When comedy became a viable option in
my life as a tool for therapy but also as
a career, that's when I went, Okay, I don't have

(00:46):
to spend the thousands of dollars I have spent on
guitar equipment and pedals and apps.

Speaker 1 (00:52):
Comedy saved me.

Speaker 4 (00:53):
A buzz Night Media Productions podcast about the power of comedy,
available wherever you get your podcast.

Speaker 3 (01:00):
You know, next week it will be about my cat
that just cost me six thousand dollars for basically he
ate too much cheese and you just, oh, he just
had gas, that's all it was. It cost me a
lot of money to find out that he just he's
a fat and he loves cheese, that's it.

Speaker 1 (01:16):
Stumped