June 25, 2025 • 56 mins
In this candid episode, comedian Andrew opens up about his tough battle with addiction, how rehab changed his life, and the role comedy played in his sobriety. He shares raw stories about his intervention, early recovery struggles, and how running ultramarathons became a powerful tool in his healing journey.
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🔥 Highlights include:
What it was like to get forced into rehab and the role of family
Using comedy as a coping mechanism in recovery
The evolving comedy scene and sobriety culture
Preparing for a 12-hour treadmill run to raise overdose awareness
How exercise helps with anxiety and mental clarity
Whether you’re in recovery, know someone struggling, or just curious about addiction and healing, Andrew’s story is brutally honest and deeply inspiring.
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(00:23):
How's it going, Andrew? Good.
How are you, man? I'm.
Good buddy. Thanks so much for coming in.
I appreciate you. Of course, happy to be here.
I've been following you on Will somebody message me?
This is I love Instagram. You know, these there's a lot of
good and a lot of bad in social media, but for sure, I've been
connecting to a lot of cool people through this whole
podcast process. A lot of people in recovery, a
lot of people suffering with other addictions.
(00:43):
You know, I've been talking a lot about food addictions, like
all these cool avenues that I'venever would have known about if
I didn't start this thing. And somebody messaged me, One of
one of the viewers messaged me and said, you gotta reach out to
this guy. He's fucking hilarious.
He's sober, you know, And so I started watching your stuff and
I love, I love what you're doing, man.
It's great. Like I love that you're open and
vulnerable about, you know, being in recovery too, because I
(01:05):
think there's a lot of people inyour industry, but in kind of
this creator industry that are that are maybe suffering and
don't talk about it enough. So.
Yeah, I think it's good, You know, like you're in recovery as
well, right. So when you get sober after a
little bit, you try to think of like ways you can give back, you
know, how you can maybe use yourspecific like set of skills to,
(01:28):
to contribute. And one thing that I'm sort of
blessed with is that I'm just comfortable talking about sort
of anything because I've been doing comedy for like 15 years.
So I'm like, just really used tolike embarrassing myself in
front of rooms full of people and like oversharing and stuff
like that. So whereas for some people like
(01:49):
talking about addiction, I thinkit's kind of hard for me.
Like it doesn't really bother meat all.
So I figure I might as well because, yeah, a lot of people
don't like to talk about it. And then they end up stuck in it
for longer because they're not talking about it, right?
They're kind of ignoring it. And I think a lot of people who
struggle like we do have a lot of shame.
And, you know, there's nothing to be ashamed of.
(02:11):
It's a thing that, like, so verymany people struggle with.
You know, it's a normal human thing.
And a lot of people lose, like more of their life than they
should have to lose, like so many just years of their life
evaporating because they don't want to admit that they have
problem. They have shame about their
(02:32):
problem. And it's like if they didn't
feel that shame, you know, maybethey would have cleaned up a
decade before. So I try to just wear it on my
chest as much as I can and hope that that does something for
someone out there. Do people reach out to you like
about addiction? I do.
I do get that on Instagram. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Which I'm always. I try to reply to everybody.
(02:52):
As my account grows, it gets harder to manage and also it's
funny, sometimes people really share.
Which is, which is. Cool.
Which is cool. Like anyone can message me
anything. I'm totally fine with it.
It's just sometimes you're like,oh, I don't know what to do.
I'm not qualified for this. You know, is I, I started
posting about sobriety when I was only, you know, nine months
(03:13):
in or something. So it's like, you know, I'm kind
of just showing the baby steps of when you're in early
recovery. But so, and I think that can be
helpful to some people. And I have some pretty basic
advice that I feel comfortable giving.
But ultimately, even right now, I'm less than three years, I'm
not like an expert, you know, sosometimes people would come to
me with some shit. I feel like I don't know what
(03:34):
to, I got a message from like some lady and I think like Yemen
and you know, she's a woman in Yemen.
We I couldn't relate less to what her life is.
And she's like, I'm struggling so much and I don't know what to
do. And I was like, I was like,
well, could you? Is rehab an option?
Do you think you could do that? And she was like, in my country,
that would ruin my life. It would ruin my life.
(03:55):
If I went to rehab. She was like, I would, I would
be just viewed as a drug addict for the rest of my life and
completely written off. And I was like, OK, good luck
out there. You know, I don't know what to.
Sorry. God, I wish I could help you,
but I got nothing. I got nothing for a woman in
Yemen struggling with addiction,unfortunately.
Oh man, it's true though. He's like, we can relate on a
(04:18):
lot of things. But yeah, like rehab's the only
thing that helped me, you know, and we were talking about this
before. That's the only thing that I was
able because I, for me, I, I just couldn't stop on my own to
get that, that first bit of clarity where it's like you kind
of have this experience in rehaband maybe you can relate to this
where you look back and you're like, holy shit.
You're like, who's that guy? Who's that guy doing all those
(04:39):
things, right? So can you get into a little bit
about, you know, how you got into recovery and what brought
you here? Yeah, so rehab also worked for
me. A lot of people like, you know,
they go to rehab when they're like finally ready or whatever.
I was cornered and forced. I got, I was intervened upon
very much in the way that you see on TV.
(05:02):
It's fucking brutal. Did you have an intervention?
Yeah from oh man my I'm gonna get killed for this, but for I
had a an intervention from my inlaws on Christmas.
In laws. Wow.
So I've had, you know, some before that, yeah, one or two
that I can think of for my parents, but they had known what
(05:24):
was going on. But this one was like.
Wait on Christmas? That's only just hitting me,
Yeah. It was, it was a lot.
Yeah. So I I was like, Merry
Christmas. I was not in a good place.
Yeah. No, what a day.
But it's funny like how squirrely addicts can be and how
tricky it is sort of to corner us sometimes because sometimes
(05:46):
you know that that's like comingdown the pipe maybe so you can
be hard to track down. And I guess they were like
Christmas, he's got to be here, we'll get him at Christmas.
We know the date and location we're going to get him.
There's food here. He's going to show up.
Yeah, yeah. That's so funny.
So I don't know if yours was like this.
I think I feel like they're all kind of similar, but, you know,
(06:08):
it's a bunch of people that you like and love and your, their
opinion of you matters and they sit you down.
And then my my friends all had letters that they'd written out.
My friends are comedians, so they're good writers.
They they know how to write and they didn't write funny for
this, but they're good writers. And then they just really
(06:29):
accurately describe everything that's wrong with you right to
your face. And you just got to got to take
it on the chin and be like, oh, no, nothing you're saying is
wrong. And it sucked.
So I would, I sort of got put inrehab against my will.
Really. Well, not, I mean, I went
(06:50):
ultimately, you know, no one canlike force you to go, but I
didn't want to. But they, yeah, they cornered
me. They told me everything they
thought was wrong with me. Then they were like, they were
like, we've already talked to this rehab facility.
It's in Kingston. It's less than a three hour
drive. We can take you there right now.
And I was like, shit, OK, yeah, maybe we can do that.
(07:13):
And they were like, great, It's $25,000.
And I was like, shut the fuck up.
I was like. What are?
You talking about $25,000? It was $25,000.
I do cocaine four times a week. I don't have $25,000.
I'm already in debt from all of the cocaine.
Doing like this is gonna ruin mylife.
And then they were like, well, we talked to your parents and I
(07:34):
was like, you talked to my fucking parents.
You know, parents have entered the chat.
I was super stressed about that.But I am also a really lucky guy
and that my parents, like we didn't grow up like rich, but
they are super good with money and super frugal people in a
good way. And they've done well for
themselves over the course of our life.
And they were like, if you know,if it means that you won't die,
(07:57):
we have, we will. We have money and you know, you
can pay us back kind of whenever.
And a lot of people don't have that.
So I'm really fortunate that they were willing to help out
and so I agreed to go not to that first one that was 25 Ki
refused to accept that price forsome reason.
I was like, there's got to be a better deal than that.
(08:17):
And it sounded too nice and I was feeling shame.
I was like, we good we got to find a worse cheaper one worse
in terms of the accommodations, not like the quality of care.
So I went to we found one for 15grand and I went I went there.
Yeah, rehab was so helpful, but I definitely going in, I didn't
(08:39):
even know if I wanted to quit drinking.
I just, I knew cocaine was a huge problem.
I was like, I got to stop doing coke.
But I was like, I can't even imagine life without alcohol
because it's so common and like prevalent in my industry, like
doing comedy. Every show is in a bar or
wherever. You know, all my friends drink.
My friend has a bar in his housenamed after me.
(09:02):
There's an Andrew Bar. It's like my buddy's basement.
He named it after me because my last name.
It's a pun, but, you know, like alcohol.
OK, I just got that. Yeah.
Yeah. The Andrew Barr, right?
Yeah, yeah, Yeah. So alcohol was like really
entrenched in my life, but I didn't know if I.
Had a choice. I didn't know if I wanted to
give that up. I was like, I'll stop doing
cocaine. But I think, yeah, rehab, the
(09:23):
most important thing it gave me was just that reset.
Just like 35 or wait, no, I was there for 33 days.
That's the longest I had ever gone since I started without
drinking or doing drugs. And it like your mind does snap
back a little bit in that time. Like the addiction loses some of
the control and more of yourselfhas control again.
(09:45):
And that was so valuable, I found.
I, I had that exact same thing happen to me where I was like,
OK, I can, I can accept the, thecocaine thing 'cause I, I was a
coke adder too. And, but I can't imagine not
drinking for the rest of my life.
And people just kept saying, andI always say this, but people
could just kept saying just don't drink today, You know,
(10:07):
just one day at a time, Just don't drink today.
And that was really helpful for me, but I've ultimately come to
this realization that it's all the same shit, you know, same
shit, different shovel. I always say that I heard that
one time, You know, I use, I useoutside things to, to change my
insides, right. And I, I agree with you.
I, I was, I'm, we are fortunate 'cause I'm in, I was in the same
place as you where, and I was feeling a lot of guilt and shame
(10:29):
too. And, and my therapist, you know,
kind of helped me through that where she said if my daughter
was struggling with addiction and drug abuse, like, do you not
think or, And she posted on me too.
If you had a daughter, I don't have kids yet.
You had a daughter or a son thatwas struggling with drug
addiction and alcoholism in there, had the possibility of
dying at any moment, right, 'cause cocaine nowadays is
fucking laced with fentanyl, could happen.
(10:51):
Would you pay whatever it took to save her life?
And I was like, fuck you. Fuck yeah.
Like, God, that's so true. And it made me feel better,
right, 'cause like, yeah, ultimately I would, I would pay
whatever price to, to save theirlife, right.
And I'm super grateful too, thatI had my, my in laws.
You know, we laugh, we laugh about it, but because it was
painful and it's kind of a bit of a coping mechanism, I want to
(11:12):
get into that too, this kind of coping mechanism with comedy.
And, you know, you do stand up for a living.
So I'm really interested in that.
But I'm grateful for that day because I didn't really know
that I was affecting my in laws as much as I as I was.
Yeah. And they saw their daughter just
going through it, me dragging her through the mud.
Right, right. Yeah, It's affecting their kid.
Exactly, and you know they do anything to protect their kid,
right? For sure, Pack.
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And I'm extremely grateful for that day.
Yeah, that's a lot of love from the in laws.
Yeah. You know, not even blood.
Yeah. But stepping up to the plate,
Yeah. Yeah.
So it's nice thing, yeah. And and that was a moment too,
where I was like, fuck, like, I need to get back into this,
right? I'm I, yeah, Once again, I don't
have control over this situationlike I thought I did.
I don't have control over my drug addiction.
Yeah, Yeah, I didn't either. Yeah, I'm so lucky that my my
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parents were able to help out. You know, what helps me a little
bit with the guilt is that before I went to rehab, my
brother went to rehab like a fewyears before.
But I was like, oh, OK, that's kind of evens it out.
You know, my parents are always about like, if they buy him
groceries, they'll like send me 50 bucks or whatever.
They're very like they want to, they don't want to show
(12:18):
favoritism to one over the other.
So I'm like, OK, he got rehab first.
I get one. You know, makes sense now.
Now, now I have to be a good boy, but I had to sort of get
out of jail free card sitting there.
Love it. Yeah.
So talking about that, like, howdo you, how do you incorporate
your kind of addiction and into your your sets and your bits?
(12:38):
And has it changed as you stayedsober longer?
Yeah, I think when I first got out I did like a lot of stand up
about sobriety, which is good. And I, I still do those jokes
and stuff, but especially then it was just like, the only thing
I ever thought about is it's, it's so on your mind when you're
first sober here because you're not sure if you're going to
(12:59):
relapse and everything. And I really, yeah, I just
wanted to wear it on my chest right away because it's what I
was going through and what I wasthinking about all the time.
And also I was nervous about relapsing.
So I wanted like the accountability, you know, I was
like, if I'm talking about it all the time, everyone around me
is going to know about it. And then that puts in a good
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way, I think, just more pressureon me to stay the path, you
know. So I just wanted everyone around
me to know, hey, this is what I'm going through.
This is what I'm doing. I'm not supposed to be drinking.
If you see me drinking, that's bad.
And yeah, I do like talking about it on stage.
Now that I'm a couple years in, I've started to like, you know,
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write jokes about other things. Again, it's funny, like it's,
it's kind of nice. I think every phase of sobriety
so far I've found really nice. Like the early going is great.
I really liked the first six months because you start to feel
like yourself again. You know, you get like control
of your brain back and it's really good.
Now I'm at a phase where even though it's still a massive part
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of my life, it's maybe not as much my entire personality as it
was for a little bit, which I still a huge part, but I'm just
learning things like every everyother sober person I meet
doesn't have to be my new best friend.
I don't know if everyone's like that in the early going, but
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when I was early in sobriety, every time I met a sober person,
I'd be like, OK, we, we're soberpeople.
And so now we go for coffee. We talk all the time.
You know, I, I thought every person I met had to be like my
new best pal. And sometimes after shows,
people will be like, oh, hey, awesome show.
I'm in recovery. And I'd be like, OK, what?
What next? And they're like, they're like
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just saying hi, really. Like I'm on my way home.
I gotta go back to New York, man.
Like, yeah. Yeah, it's, you know, I'm not
your new dad. Dad over here.
Just like good. Nice show.
Goodbye, Strange man. Yeah.
That's awesome. So yeah.
So you find that like what's what, what's kind of like the
comedy community like nowadays? Is it kind of split with like, I
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think a lot of people want to know myself, I love stand up,
right? It helps me a lot.
There's a lot of comedians that I like to watch.
But is it, do you do you see it a lot?
Do you see the addiction? And you're like, oh man, that
guy's in it bad right now or. You know what?
Way less than I used to. I think there's a lot of talk in
general about how the next generation is drinking way less,
(15:37):
you know, and I think that's where you know, so you're
probably seeing that in every industry and comedies in one of
them, the younger comics, maybe they just, it's just that I'm
not around when they're really fucked up and stuff.
But I don't see people drinking quite the way that they used to.
I think possibly that's there's an economical reason for that as
(15:57):
well. Like it's the the rent in the
city has gone up so much and thecost of drinking has gone up a
lot and maybe mother fuckers just can't afford it.
I don't. Know but.
I don't see people really getting turned up on a Monday
and Tuesday like I used to when I started, but the city was a
much more affordable place at the time too, so that could be a
factor. But I find the the community's
(16:21):
been really supportive of me being sober.
Frankly, everybody's been great to me about it and I never feel
like any pressure to drink or anything like that.
And I think that, you know, there's people in the community
that are sober a lot more than they used to be, which is nice
for me. There's still people that drink
pretty heavy, but everybody getsalong from what I can tell.
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You know, we're all sort of artists 1st and you know, I
don't, I don't mind being aroundpeople that drink honestly, as
long as it's not like a huge problem for them or whatever.
Like, you know, some people can have a few and you know, it
doesn't ruin their whole life like it does, like it does for
me. And I, even though, yeah, I find
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it kind of confusing, I'm happy for them, right?
Like I, I don't know, some people are like, yeah, I had
five beers and now I'm going home.
I'm like, oh, OK. I, I would be calling a guy and
I'd be up for the next, you know, 14 hours probably.
That's good for you. Yeah, I don't.
I don't mind being around peoplethat are, that are drinking and
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stuff. So that's been good to a point.
I don't know if you're like me, like, I like being around people
when they're drinking up until like a certain point and then I
go home and it's not a big deal.Like when first I got sober, I
had a lot of FOMO, right? I was worried about because I
was always the guy who shut downthe bar like every day almost.
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I was the last person in the bar.
Everyone else had gone home. I'd have a drink or two with the
staff while they were cleaning up.
Like I never missed anything. So when I got sober, I was like,
oh, I'm going to miss all this fun stuff.
And then, you know, you hang outin a bar sober, and by midnight,
you're like, OK, yeah. Nothing here for me, yeah.
After midnight, nobody's saying shit.
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I, I, my, my cue often to go home is when someone starts
telling me a story for the second time.
That's usually when I'm like, OK, you guys are on a different
plane now. You guys are doing a lap.
Basically, you know, everything social, everything that social
need that was gonna happen has happened and now you're just
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doing it again. It's like, you know what, that's
super fun for you. And no, of course, no judgement,
but you know, that's my cue to go home and play a little bit of
video games by myself on the couch and go bed.
And then wake up and not hate yourself the next.
Day the waking up not hating yourself is pretty good, isn't
it yeah yeah I. Remember my first New Year's in
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recovery like I've so I've been in recovery since 2015.
Nice. Congrats.
Well, I've had three. I mean, yeah, Congrats.
It is good because yeah, I've done a lot of hard work.
I've had, I'm back at probably six months now again because I
had a relapse, hence the three rehabs.
I didn't go for fun You. Know yeah, yeah, just.
Testing them out. Yeah.
Yeah. No, this one's good.
That one's not so good. Yeah.
I always, I was like the food critic, the guy that goes up in,
(19:10):
in like undercover clothes. Yeah.
I wasn't actually there. And I was just testing out the
rehab centers. No, I went because I had to go.
And that was a fucking mess. But yeah, it, you know, you, you
learn a lot. You mentioned the early going
being being really good. Yeah.
I think they call it the pink. Cloud, Yeah.
Pink cloud days. Yeah, yeah.
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And obviously you're past that now, right?
Yeah. When you have, you know, really
tough days in recovery and life happens and shit goes on and
stuffs out of your control, whatkind of things do you do to to
mitigate or get back on the horse?
I'm a huge exercise guy. That's been really helpful.
I feel like I can tell that you are also fit.
Yeah. I used to run marathons too.
I mean, you run ultra marathons,right?
(19:52):
I've. Run 2 technically, but yeah
that's new for me. How?
Many kilometers? Is that just so people know?
Well, I I guess technically an ultra marathon is anything over
42. 42 which is a regular marathon.
Yeah, which is a regular marathon is 42.2.
So I've run a 52 and I've run a 6565 is the farthest I've run.
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I did that last week, actually. Nice.
Yeah, not at like an official event.
I just did it on a treadmill. I was going to say, that's even
more impressive. Yeah.
I was going to ask you, wasn't it on a treadmill?
I was watching your video. Yeah, I just did it on a
treadmill by myself. It was.
It was really boring and hard. But it feels so good when you're
done right? It does, yeah.
Yeah, I was proud of. It you mentioned you broke a
toenail too I think in that video.
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You know what? It stayed on there.
It's funny sometimes, I don't know.
Yeah. You've run long distances.
You know, your body just will start to complain about stuff
while you're doing it, and you have to sort of assess while
you're running. Like, OK, is what my body's
complaining about serious? Or is it just being a bit of a
bitch? You know, I find like most of
the time any external pain like stuff on my feet or like, you
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know, sometimes my nipples chafeor stuff like that.
That's a tough. One, yeah, it's tough, but I
find those ones you can plow through.
Like if you just ignore it for long enough, your body sort of
realizes you're not going to stop and it's like, fine, and it
stops. It gives up.
It stops giving you that pain notification because it's like
it's not doing anything. He's not changing his behavior
so whatever. So my toenail was really bugging
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me and I thought it fell off butit was still on.
Thank God. I find foot pain you can plow
through. It's when your organs get mad at
you that you're in real trouble.Probably a good indication you
should do something about. That Yeah, Yeah.
When the organs start to bark atyou, then you're like, OK,
something actually needs to change.
Because I guess technically, youknow, you could live without
your feet. You could live without your
arms. Technically, you know, they're a
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little bit expendable, and I think they know that.
But your organs are like, no, werun the show, motherfucker, you
need us. Plus, they're really expensive
on the black market. Absolutely, yeah.
And I, you know, I'm still in rehab debt.
Same. Yeah, Oh, man.
But yeah, the, the exercise for me when I'm having a hard time
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is running, especially if you'refeeling anxious, you know, it's
a really hard thing to get into.I feel a lot of people find
running daunting, and it is. It's hard.
And like, at first you get shin splints, it's painful, stuff
like that. But once you get really good at
it, yeah, like you can eliminatea lot of anxiety in an hour if
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you can just go RIP on the treadmill for an hour.
Like a normal like hour run for me is like, you know, between
12:00 to 14K and you can just get on that thing and like smash
1000 calories and like it's likethe calories were anxiety.
Like it's just feel so much better after every time.
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I find too that, and maybe I don't know if you do this too, I
was going to ask you about your creative process a little bit.
But whenever I'm like, whenever I'm struggling with like a
dilemma or a problem that I have, I find that when I go on a
run, I really here's my thought process and I get a lot of good
ideas, you know, whether creative or not creative.
Yeah, I agree with that for sure.
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I think you'd running is good for finding like clarity.
If something's really bugging you, you'll typically feel
better at the end of the run because of the like endorphins
and shit. But also, yeah, there is
something that about it that sort of lets you, like, meditate
on your problems in a way that is like, productive instead of
like stewing. I guess.
(23:25):
Like if I had a problem and I spent an hour thinking about it
on the treadmill or an hour thinking about it sitting in a
chair, just kind of mad. I feel like definitely I'll
reach a better resolution with the treadmill running, yeah.
Yeah, I meant to ask you this before, but how did you know
that you were going to get into stand up?
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I know that's like the kind of it's not an easy decision to
make, right? Just choose that path.
I sort of happened by it really when I was in high school.
So I would say as a kid at firstI wanted to be like an athlete.
Specifically, I wanted to be a pro wrestler and then.
You got, you kind of got the body for it like.
I got a miniature. I could be like maybe a
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luchador. If I was gonna.
Appropriate a culture a little bit.
Yeah, yeah, I'm, I'm. That's The thing is I've, I'm
too little for like the big leagues anyway, unless I were to
be like a high flying kind of guy, I guess.
But Rey Mysterio, yeah, yeah, I could be maybe a Rey Mysterio if
I had got started 20 years ago getting into it.
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But I don't know. That dream sort of evaporated
because I was so little. And I also just like lived in
small town Ontario and it was really lofty thing, but I was
still kind of into athletics andstuff for a while.
Like I was a sprinter actually. I never did any distance running
as a kid, but I was a pretty fast sprinter for a little bit
and I liked that. And then I stopped growing in
the eighth grade and other kids kept growing.
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And you know, I just got phased out of athletics pretty much,
which was what my life sort of revolved around at that point,
which is a tough pill as a kid because like I said, I'm from a
really remote place. So I was kind of a stud there.
But that I remember we, we, I went to this track meet and I
was from a town of like all white people.
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You know, there was like 2 Asianfamilies, One ran the
convenience store and one ran the Chinese restaurant.
And then other than that, only white people live in the town.
So I remember I went to this like, bigger track meet and
pretty much like met a black person for the first time and
that guy destroyed me in the 100meter dash.
I remember getting to the starting line.
He's like, I was like, yeah, 57.He was like 6-1, just ripped
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veins popping out. And I was like, I don't, oh, I
got to get into theater. I think.
I was like, I, I never beat thisspecimen in a race.
This guy's A7 fucking unit, you know?
So I got, I got into the arts when nature told me that I would
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never be an athlete. And I was doing like improv and
theater stuff in high school andI was enjoying that.
And then I found out about the Humber Comedy program, which is
a legitimate college program that's comedy oriented that you
can take. A friend of mine who is a couple
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years older than me took it and my parents were very like, after
high school, you need to go to college, some kind of post
secondary education. We don't care what it is,
university, college, but you have to take something.
You know, we have money set aside.
This is like mandatory. You got to do something.
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And then I came back and I was like, there's this comedy
program. And they were like, we didn't
know that existed when we, you know, they were like, oh, OK.
It's. Technically a college program.
So I did that and I sort of fellin love with stand up there.
I came in with like more of an improv sketch background and I
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thought I would be one of those guys.
And then I did stand up like once and I was like, oh, that's
what I like doing. I feel fortunate to have found
that at a young age. I was like, you had to stand up
for the first time when I was 17still or freshly 18.
And I knew right away that I really, really love doing it.
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And takes a lot of people a lot longer to find like whatever
thing is their thing, you know, So I'm grateful that I found it
that young. A lot of people start stand up
when they've like already failedat a couple other things.
Like I feel like it's like late 20s is normally like they've
been to college a couple times and it didn't really work out
and they're like fuck it, I'm finally going to try stand up.
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I've always wanted to do it and I'm yeah, lucky that I pretty
much just started doing it from jump.
What? What?
What about it like excites you? Like what?
What is it that makes you happy about it?
It's just so direct, like it's just you, the audience.
You say something, they laugh orthey don't, and that as an
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addict, like that dopamine hit of I say something immediately,
people laugh really hard in yourface at your idea is so that
feeling is better than any drug that I've had.
It's really great. And I think one of the things I
enjoy about stand up a lot is that as a kid I always felt kind
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of unusual, right? Like, I don't know, I think I'm
a bit of an odd person. I'm not like most people in a
lot of ways. And I think as a kid I found
that really isolating, which is possibly where the origins of
addiction are for me as well, is, you know, you want to fit
in. And when everyone's on the same
drug, it's easier to feel like you all belong together because
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of your minds are all being altered in the same way.
But yeah, as a as a kid, I felt often unusual.
And what I like about stand up is I can take what's unusual
about my brain and craft it intosomething and show it to people.
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And when they laugh at it, it's like validating.
And it makes me feel not so alone, you know, that there's,
it feels like there's some purpose to me being skewed in
the way that I am. You can use it as a gift.
Right. Yeah.
That's awesome. Yeah, it turns it into something
that is special instead of something that is, you know,
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negative or other. Yeah, have you ever?
I think I already know the answer to this, but have you
ever bombed really bad? Oh buddy, it happens thousands
of times. I was hoping there's one that's
sticking out, but it's like a brain of let me.
Think, see if I can think, is itwhen when you first start stand
up, all you do is bomb, unless you're so fortunate.
But yeah, it's, it's really hardto do.
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Like most people's number one fear is public speaking, right?
If you put on top of the fact that you have to just talk in
front of people that those you have to make them laugh, ideally
like a few times a minute. It's a lot of pressure.
It's difficult to do, especiallywhen you're young.
Like I started doing stand up when I was like 18.
I had nothing to talk about, youknow?
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Like no one gives a shit what you think when you're 18 years
old. I'm like 18 performing for rooms
full of people that are like 30 to 40 years old.
Like, what do they give a fuck, you know?
So yeah, when for most comics, the first few years is like,
you're bombing as often as it's going well, you know, if you're
lucky. I'm grateful that my first set
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went pretty good, and that was enough to sort of give me the
bug and give me the confidence that, OK, like, this can go
well. I just have to figure out how to
do that more consistently. But I am capable of this if I
just bombed my first set, I don't know.
I don't know if I'd be here today even.
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But yeah, bombing is just part of it.
As you get better and more experience, you will learn.
I feel like you never fully stopbombing.
Your bombs just don't look as bad like you.
Learn to bomb gracefully. Yeah, you bounce back a little
bit. Better, Yeah, and, and you know
what, bombing really isn't that bad a thing if you're
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comfortable in your own skin. Like, you know, once you've been
doing it for a while, a joke cannot land and you just go,
okay, well, that one didn't work, did it?
Oops. You know, and people are like,
okay, I find as long as you feelcomfortable, the audience feels
comfortable. But in the early stages, you're
uncomfortable and when a joke doesn't work, then you're really
uncomfortable. And then if they if they can see
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that you're really uncomfortable.
They can smell that. Yeah, then they get really
uncomfortable trying to think ifI have any like, epic bombs.
I've definitely walked some people when I first started.
It's funny when you're an early pro comic because they'll
they'll send you somewhere and you know, you've played like the
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clubs in the city and you think I'm pretty hot shit.
You know, you're in front of like warm crowds that show up to
a comedy club. They're comedy fans.
They know what they're getting into.
You know, these environments arekind of easy mode.
So you start there and you thinklike, OK, I'm fucking pretty
good at this. And then you get to the point
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where you start to work the roadand they send you places, which
is better money, gigs. But now you're in like some
small town. These people have seen comedy
only on TVA couple times. Comedy comes to their town once
a year. And you know, I remember when
I'm doing like a golf resort andI'm like, I didn't know how to
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dress good for gigs yet either or anything.
It's just like golf resort. I had like an open flannel shirt
and a doom T-shirt on and they're all like 60 year old
white people in like suits or like nice clothes and shit.
So right away I'm, I like look like I don't belong there.
And we're supposed to be kind ofclean, but they don't specify,
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like, what exactly clean means. You know, I talked to the guy
before I saw like, what does clean mean to you?
Like, what are you trying to? And he was like, I don't know,
don't worry about it. So dangerous.
Yeah. Yeah, right.
I but. Telling a comic that.
Yeah, yeah. He was like, I don't know, it's
probably fine. And I was like, OK, so I just
went up and did my normal shit. It's time.
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Was really not clean. I've I watched tables people
left, which is a it's a hard feeling when you're when you're
when you're up there and it's not going well and already
you're a little bit panicking. Then you see a couple people get
up and leave. That moment is like, oh God,
like what if they all get up andleave, you know, and you're
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trying to just find a good note to leave on and save face or
something. But you know, your mind is just
spiraling because you're like, people are getting up and, you
know, you're like, am I in trouble?
You know, and a little bit I will.
I didn't get in a in a ton of trouble, but I got chewed out a
little bit. It was funny.
The organizer sent the guy that was headlining the show to like,
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chew me out. He was, you got to go talk to
that guy. But so this guy is another
comedian and like my friend, right?
So I get off stage, pulls me aside, and he's like, listen,
here's what's happening. You messed up a little bit.
It's not that bad. But that guy over there, he
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wants to see me yell at you. So this is me yelling at you.
But it's not a big deal. I ordered you a burger while you
were on stage. It should be here in a few
minutes. So guy over.
Yeah. The guy in the distance like
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thinks I'm being disciplined or whatever when in reality the guy
was being pretty soft on me and.Then I had a burger.
Yeah, So that, that was kind of,that was one of my first tough
bombs. Also that guy who told me not to
worry about being clean when people were leaving.
I saw him like talking to the crowd, being like they were told
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well in advance not to be sayinganything like that.
And I was like, you motherfucker, he was throwing
me. I was like, you kind of gave me
permission, like, this is on you, too.
But he totally. Yeah, passed the buck and threw
you right. Under the bus.
Yeah, threw me way under the bus.
Oh my God, So you're, you like to cook too?
I do, yeah, 'cause I, I was watching a few of your videos.
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They're, they're a hilarious man.
Honestly. It's the idea of, you know,
asking AI to combine 2 meals together is it's a great idea.
Where'd you come up with that and can you explain it a bit?
Yeah, yeah. So I've, I've been doing this
thing called Man versus AI cooking show.
And it's just that I have AI randomly generate or what,
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randomly give me two existing meals and then I have to figure
out a way to marry those two things into one sort of cohesive
dish. I think I had just been doing
like general cooking videos for a while where I would make
something and it was starting tofeel like maybe a little stale.
And I wanted something that would maybe keep people a little
a little bit more engaged and especially until the end of the
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video. And I figured that doing it like
this, you know, I get the two, Iget the two dishes.
I got to make them into one thing.
Now the audience themselves is thinking, oh, shit, how would I
do that? How is he going to do that?
What, where, where is this goingto end up in the end?
So I think it's a good idea to like keep people watching
through the whole video and hopefully maybe like, you know,
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just get some conversation goingwith people in the comments.
I. Love the comments section and
those videos. I.
Love to hear I love to hear likewhat someone else would have
done. You know, a lot of the last one
I posted, a couple people were like, here's how I would have
done it. And I'm like, oh, that's cool.
I like because I love food stufftoo.
So when someone is like, well, you could have done this, I'm
like, oh, OK, that's cool. Actually, I didn't think of that
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because realistically I like to cook, but I'm not like trained
or anything, you know, I, I think I'm, I've got a couple
moves. One of those people it's like
it's a little bit smoke and mirrors.
I can really cook a few things pretty well, but once you get
past that, I'm like, I don't really know what the.
Fuck I'm doing, If you were on like a cooking show you'd be
fucked. Yeah, if they were like, OK
today, today you're cooking Indian, I'd be like, OK, I'm
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done. I'm smoked.
Back to comedy. Yeah, what?
Was the the last video you made?It was some sort of pad Thai.
And yeah, so my, my, my brain process for this one was so AI
gave me sheet pan lemon chicken with veggies and no bake
chocolate peanut butter bar. So you know, you I feel like a
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lot of times to get, if you haveto combine 2 food things that
seem completely unrelated, you have to find some kind of in
between. So first I was like, OK, let's
just marry the chicken and the peanut because that's easy.
Chicken and peanut goes togetherThai food.
They've been doing it for years.Yeah, exactly.
So I was like, OK, Thai food. It said she pan chicken and
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veggies. It didn't specify which veggies.
So I was like, OK, Pad Thai has vegetables in it.
It has chicken in it. I'll make the lemon chicken,
then I'll make the lemon chickeninto a pad Thai with like red
pepper, veggies covered. I've achieved that part of the
ask. There's still the chocolate to
deal with. I got to get chocolate in here
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and and I wanted it said no baked chocolate peanut butter
bars. So I thought it should be served
as a in bar form to to meet the challenge.
So I took the pad Thai and smushed it into like an 8 by 8
baking thing. Just put it in the freezer.
And then I was like, OK, chocolate molay like a Mexican
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chocolate sauce is a thing. I think they put I think they
put it on meat. I've never even had it so I just
looked up what goes into a mole,which I know is a sauce that
normally takes like 24 hours or something if you want to make it
correctly. But I just melted some chocolate
sauce or some some like Baker's chocolate in a double boiler.
Threw in like the Mexican spices, waited for that pad Thai
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to freeze, cut it into bars, dunked it in the chocolate, put
that in the fridge, wait for thechocolate to set.
It was edible. We got it to edible and I you
know, when you hear lemon chicken, chocolate peanut butter
bar, if you can get that ask to edible.
I think small victory. I was reading the comments and
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some when I love fucking comments on on videos.
Man, some people are so clever, but this one lady is like, I'm
Mexican and I would never eat this in my life or I would
never. Oh.
Yeah, it's just like, yeah, although that that Lady, she,
she was like, I'm Mexican and she said I hate mole.
And then she said I'll never eatthis.
And I was like, well, if you hate mole, you know, I, I feel
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like it's crazy to be like, thislooks like it sucks.
I hate the ingredients used in it.
Like, well, then of course you think it looks bad if you don't
like the things that are in it. Oh, man, that's not on me.
Fuck. That's good stuff.
But yeah, that, that engagement code, it's a fucking piece of
shit to crack on on Instagram. I don't, you know, keeping
people to watching the whole videos.
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I mean, I watched that whole video 'cause I was like, I gotta
see the end of this, right? That's what I'm hoping for with
these ones. It's figuring out algorithms is
such a difficult thing and like,maybe not the best for addicts
too, because we're, you know, weget addicted to stuff and social
media is really addictive. And sometimes in trying to, you
know, grow my audience on socialmedia, I also just end up on it
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for like, way too long and I have trouble putting it down.
But yeah, algorithm stuff is so tricky.
I my mine's been tanking. And I think I figured out why.
A few months ago, Instagram asked me, they had this new
feature. They were like, do you want us
to translate your videos to Spanish?
And I was like, OK, why not? Yeah, I would, you know, just
more people to potentially see my content.
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Sure, go ahead. Do that, translate my videos to
Spanish, show it to Spanish people, see if they like it, you
know, And then my traction started going down and I've
realized that the algorithm, because I'm translating to
Spanish, thinks that I want a Spanish audience.
It's like pushing my shit way more towards Spanish than like
my audience that I've already built it's.
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Like getting, they're getting. All these Spanish people are
like, who the fuck's this guy obviously doesn't speak any
Spanish with his AI translated video.
Like they're not biting on it. And now the people that I
actually made the video for aren't seeing it.
So I just, yeah, I just turned that off and I'm hoping now my
numbers will go back up. But I'm like, damn, that's a
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feature you guys pitched to me and it just ruined my shit, you
know? So precarious.
I hate it, but yeah, to your point, like fuck, some days I'm
like yeah, chasing those likes and those follows so much on
the. Podcast.
And that's a little dopamine. Yeah, Yeah, you got to be
careful with it. One of the things that I enjoyed
most about rehab, honestly, and I need to try to incorporate
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this in my life a little bit more, is that it improved my
relationship with my phone because we weren't allowed to
have our phone that was. Nice in.
Rehab, we got them for one hour a day or actually 50 minutes 50
and that was great. That was a great phone
relationship because when you only have it for about an hour a
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day, you use it to do stuff likeyou, there's shit you got to get
done. I would pick up my phone every
day and I'd have things to do. I just things as simple as like
responding to texts from friendsthat I was keeping in touch with
to help keep me sane and stuff. But I'd pick up my phone and
there'd be a bunch of notifications and I would plow
through that shit and then put it down in a way and done, you
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know, Whereas now that I have myphone with me all the time
again, I'm constantly checking it.
And I feel like a lot of people are like that.
I'm a constant phone checker andit gets really compulsive and
kind of addictive and the subtext sort of every time you
look at it and there's nothing to look at, it's like a little
loss, you know, you're looking at it to see, did anybody
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message me? Did I get an e-mail?
Am I, am I hearing back about this?
Did I get any new likes? And every time, the more you
check it, the less likely it is that there's anything for you to
see. And every time you look at it,
it's just like, oh, no, no one'strying to get in touch with you.
Oh, no, no one likes your thing.Oh, no, no one.
You know, I feel like it's like really like bad mental health
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stuff. So I, I got to get back to, for
a little bit when I got out of rehab, I would mostly leave my
phone in the charger in the room.
But like, if I wanted to go overand look at it, I'd have to
physically walk over. There it was a whole thing.
Yeah, and I was using it less. And then you know how addiction
is slowly over time, you know, ramps up and ramps up.
But now I'm on my phone. I'm on my phone way too much
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again. But I'd like to get a handle on
that. Yeah, you, you bring up a really
good point. And I I hadn't thought about it
like that as you were talking. I'm thinking like, and this
probably already exists, but it's like I I need like a lock
box for my phone that's like on a timer.
Yeah. But even just thinking about
doing that, Yeah, my my addict brain is like, don't fucking do
that, idiot. Like, yeah.
Yeah, they want that. Idea exactly right.
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Yeah, yeah. And I, I kind of have to see my,
myself in these two figures, right?
My, my addict is currently in the parking lot doing push ups
right now waiting for me to fuckup, right?
Yeah, yeah. You hear that?
And it's it's true. Learning to separate the
addict's brain and the and you is a really tricky thing
because, yeah, you know, you'll think that you've got it all
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figured out and then. But your attic brain is learning
too, right? So it'll be like, OK, I tried
this and it didn't work. OK, what else can I try?
And then it might wait a few months, bust out some new move.
You know, it's wild the way it can mess with you and like how
convincing it can be. When I first got out of rehab, I
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moved in with some guy. This forbid my buddy who is also
in recovery now but at the time that we moved in together he was
supposed to be sober and he ended up relapsing a lot and it
was a for me a really chaotic and difficult living situation.
And this is how like evil your addict brain is.
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Because he was relapsing my attic brain was like this is a
free to free relapse for you. You can relapse and everyone
will blame him, you know, and itwon't even be your fault, right?
Because you went into this living situation that was
supposed to be a sober environment for you, and it's
not. And you're trapped there.
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And people will understand if that breaks you.
And the blame really won't even be on you.
And then you can get sober againand everyone will treat you like
a hero again, like they did whenyou first got sober.
And that'll be really nice. And I'm like, you're an evil
bitch, you know? But it's like it can be really
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convincing. Yeah, kind of baffling.
Powerful. God, that is so relating, man.
Relatable. Yeah.
I've never had that exact experience, but I totally
understand that sometimes so many different ways.
Sometimes the attic brain is like, listen, just relapse.
You'll get sober again. You know, you beat me already.
It's sort of, it's just like, yeah, you already beat me.
Just fucking have a have a month, have a party month, get
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sober again. You know, you already know you
can do it, but it's like, yeah, but I might die in that fucking
month, man, you know? Or I might not come back.
Yeah, I might think I can beat you again, but I can't or
whatever. The most consistent message I
got when I was in rehab, that has been helpful over the course
of the 33 days, a lot of different speakers, a lot of
different meetings. You know, you hear a lot of guys
talk. Most consistent thing that
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people said was every time they relapsed that it was worse that
they were worse. Every time that the things that
they did were worse, that they felt worse that they did like
went crazier with their use. Every single person said that.
That was my experience too. Yeah, yeah.
And but your attic brain, I think wants you to, you know, it
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wants to tell you. Yeah, just relapse Now.
You're educated about addiction.You know about it.
You know, you're stronger. You'll be you'll be able to have
a better handle on it this time.You'll you'll have a better eye
for when things are getting out of hand and you'll keep it under
control. You know, it's and you're like,
yeah, why? That makes sense.
I know more about addiction now.I know the signs.
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Maybe maybe it will be OK. But you know, the logic is
there. But every single person that
I've heard talk is like, Nope, it's it's so much worse.
I never thought I was going to smoke meth and then I did, so
yeah. Fuck I probably would have.
I never did but like I if someone handed it to me at the
right. Time.
Yeah, like, you know, when I waslike super boozed up and coked
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up if anybody who offered me anything, I'd be like, yeah,
okay. Why not?
You mean it'll get me in a different place than where I am
at now? Yeah, sure.
Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
Especially I think if like my high from the coke was maybe
started or off or something and they like here's something to
bring it to another level. I'd be like, oh, thank you.
Yeah. Sold.
Yeah. Easy sell.
Yeah, take my money. Yeah, man, it's, it's a, that's
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a really good way to put it. I, you know, I appreciate that.
Can you talk about this? You have a really cool event
coming up in August I believe. Yeah, so I'm about 2 1/2 years
sober right now. You know, I've, I've got, I'm at
a point where I feel like I've got myself pretty under control
and I'd like to give back a little bit now that I'm not so
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worried about me all the time. Do some stuff for some other
people too. So I want to raise some money
for the rehab center that I wentto and also for this cool
charity in the states called theEnd Overdose.
So this August the 24th, I am going to put my running skills
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to the tests I'm going to. I'm going to run on a treadmill
for 12 hours. The goal in those 12 hours is to
make it 100 kilometers. We'll see.
So far the farthest I've run is 65.
I did that in six hours though, so I feel like.
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What's the what's the pace on that, do you know?
I don't know, but I I I exactly,I think like 528.
OK, that's really good. Something like that for that,
for that length of time, that's.Really good.
Yeah, 5 minutes, 28 seconds. That's really good.
Yeah, but I I think it's something like that.
I can't remember, but I'm just looking at it like, OK, I made
it 65 and six, that gives me another six to make it 35.
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Maybe doable, but we'll see. I don't know.
I don't know if my body can handle it.
I'm excited to find, but the idea is, so I'm going to.
I'm going to be on the treadmillfor 12 hours.
However far I make it is how farI make it.
Ideally 100 kilometers. We're going to live stream that.
I'm going to have comedians coming in throughout the day and
they're going to sit on a couch next to the treadmill and shoot
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the shit while I'm just there running slowly.
Like an activity being broken. Down.
Yeah, kind of. It's funny too, because I won't
be able to. I need to focus on my breath so
much that I won't be able to talk to them.
Like they just have to talk. And I'm just going to be there
like furniture, essentially moving furniture for the 12
hours. And then I'm doing this on stage
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at a comedy club. So when there's only 30 minutes
left in the run, we're going to fill up the room with audience
and then I'm going to record a comedy special right after being
on the treadmill for 12 hours. No shower.
No. No shower.
I want to look like shit. I think it's so funny.
I don't know why I like it so much.
I, I think, you know, usually when people record this special,
they're like prim and like, you know, they just got their hair
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cut and they're wearing, you know, brand new clothes.
They look like 1,000,000 bucks. I think it's funny to record it.
Just distraught and it all messed up.
I'm going to be walking funny. I don't know.
I think it's gonna look interesting.
And I think I like after you've run that for like a really long
time, you feel like really vulnerable.
And I'm curious about how that'll impact the performance.
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Yeah. Totally.
And I'm also curious about, likethe extent that an audience can
revive A performer 'cause I findlike an audience's energy really
can, like, bring you to life. You know, sometimes I'll do a
show, maybe I'm sick, I'm a little under the weather, I'm
coughing, I get on stage, none of that shit.
The adrenaline just kind of takes over.
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The energy from the people almost is like healing.
So I'm like, OK, let's see if wecan find the edge of that.
Let's see if a crowd can be so hot that after I have run for 12
hours that they can bring me back to life, You know?
Yeah, I'm super pumped about that.
The whole day is sort of a metaphor for addiction, right?
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The treadmills addiction. You know, you're stuck.
You're stuck in the same place. You're not moving forward.
You're doing the same thing overand over again.
But it's just getting more and more difficult the longer you do
it. And maybe for a little bit you
think you're having fun, but it is slowly breaking you down and
breaking you down. And at a certain point, you have
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to admit I can't beat this thing.
I just have to stop. I just have to get off of this
fucking thing and go do something else.
And that's what the day is. And to your point too, it's like
you're bringing in the audience kind of like as community to
help. Community through it.
Yeah, exactly that. Exactly that.
And even during the day when I'mrunning on the treadmill and my
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friends are sitting there on thecouch, but I can't really talk
to them. I can't engage with them the way
that I would like to engage withthem because I'm too wrapped up
in this thing that I'm doing. That's addiction too, right?
Because a lot of times when I was around people in social
settings, I was almost still alone because I was so focused.
Like I was there to get fucked up and the socializing was
secondary, right? I was like, when is my dealer
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going to while someone's talkingto me?
I'm like, when's my dealer goingto get here?
And stuff like that, you know, so the fact that my friends will
be there, but I can't really converse with them is all.
It's all part of the metaphor. And yeah, I think that if I can
go through all of that, I'm basically, I was, I was in
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addiction for like 12 years. This is 12 hours.
I'm basically condensing the whole thing into one day.
And I think if I can, if I can walk off that treadmill with a
smile on my face and go do a show, I don't know, I think it's
really cool. I think it says something that's
awesome. Like, I think to me, the because
it's obviously I tell people I'mdoing this and like, that sounds
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really horrible. And I'm like, yeah, yeah, it
does. But I think for me, the day it's
not about pain. It's about what you can do once
you've put the pain behind you, what you're still capable of
even after all of that. And I want to, I want to show
people that. I want to show people that after
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you've been through something horrible, that you're still
capable of incredible things. It's beautiful.
Yeah. I love it.
How do we sign up? How do we find it?
Where do we find? You so yeah, it's going to be a
comedy bar Danforth location August 24th tickets are on sale
actually already if you go to their website and you go to
August 24th, it should say like Andrew Barr comedy special
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taping tickets are live and the after I cover the venue fee and
everything. All of the money's going to the
to the charities. I'm not taking any money.
So if you want to come you're supporting a good cause and it's
a legitimate world's first event.
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No one's ever done this before. That's what really excites me
about it, is no one in the history of the world has done
it. Yeah, mostly 'cause it's a
horrible idea. But but still, I'm gonna be the
first guy, and I think that's exciting 'cause I know none of
us know what it's gonna look like.
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People told the Wright brothers that flying was a horrible idea.
Yeah. Maybe this would be a new thing,
maybe every year some comic would be like, fuck it, I'm
gonna run 100 kilometers in the Corp.
But yeah, man, I'm really pumpedup about it.
That's amazing. And then how do we find you on
Instagram? At Andrew Barr, Comedy perfect,
yeah. Dude, I appreciate you man.
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I had a lot of fun today. Thanks SO.
Much no problem man. Thanks for having me, really
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How's it going, Andrew? Good.
How are you, man? I'm.
Good buddy. Thanks so much for coming in.
I appreciate you. Of course, happy to be here.
I've been following you on Will somebody message me?
This is I love Instagram. You know, these there's a lot of
good and a lot of bad in social media, but for sure, I've been
connecting to a lot of cool people through this whole
podcast process. A lot of people in recovery, a
lot of people suffering with other addictions.
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You know, I've been talking a lot about food addictions, like
all these cool avenues that I'venever would have known about if
I didn't start this thing. And somebody messaged me, One of
one of the viewers messaged me and said, you gotta reach out to
this guy. He's fucking hilarious.
He's sober, you know, And so I started watching your stuff and
I love, I love what you're doing, man.
It's great. Like I love that you're open and
vulnerable about, you know, being in recovery too, because I
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think there's a lot of people inyour industry, but in kind of
this creator industry that are that are maybe suffering and
don't talk about it enough. So.
Yeah, I think it's good, You know, like you're in recovery as
well, right. So when you get sober after a
little bit, you try to think of like ways you can give back, you
know, how you can maybe use yourspecific like set of skills to,
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to contribute. And one thing that I'm sort of
blessed with is that I'm just comfortable talking about sort
of anything because I've been doing comedy for like 15 years.
So I'm like, just really used tolike embarrassing myself in
front of rooms full of people and like oversharing and stuff
like that. So whereas for some people like
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talking about addiction, I thinkit's kind of hard for me.
Like it doesn't really bother meat all.
So I figure I might as well because, yeah, a lot of people
don't like to talk about it. And then they end up stuck in it
for longer because they're not talking about it, right?
They're kind of ignoring it. And I think a lot of people who
struggle like we do have a lot of shame.
And, you know, there's nothing to be ashamed of.
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It's a thing that, like, so verymany people struggle with.
You know, it's a normal human thing.
And a lot of people lose, like more of their life than they
should have to lose, like so many just years of their life
evaporating because they don't want to admit that they have
problem. They have shame about their
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problem. And it's like if they didn't
feel that shame, you know, maybethey would have cleaned up a
decade before. So I try to just wear it on my
chest as much as I can and hope that that does something for
someone out there. Do people reach out to you like
about addiction? I do.
I do get that on Instagram. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Which I'm always. I try to reply to everybody.
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As my account grows, it gets harder to manage and also it's
funny, sometimes people really share.
Which is, which is. Cool.
Which is cool. Like anyone can message me
anything. I'm totally fine with it.
It's just sometimes you're like,oh, I don't know what to do.
I'm not qualified for this. You know, is I, I started
posting about sobriety when I was only, you know, nine months
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in or something. So it's like, you know, I'm kind
of just showing the baby steps of when you're in early
recovery. But so, and I think that can be
helpful to some people. And I have some pretty basic
advice that I feel comfortable giving.
But ultimately, even right now, I'm less than three years, I'm
not like an expert, you know, sosometimes people would come to
me with some shit. I feel like I don't know what
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to, I got a message from like some lady and I think like Yemen
and you know, she's a woman in Yemen.
We I couldn't relate less to what her life is.
And she's like, I'm struggling so much and I don't know what to
do. And I was like, I was like,
well, could you? Is rehab an option?
Do you think you could do that? And she was like, in my country,
that would ruin my life. It would ruin my life.
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If I went to rehab. She was like, I would, I would
be just viewed as a drug addict for the rest of my life and
completely written off. And I was like, OK, good luck
out there. You know, I don't know what to.
Sorry. God, I wish I could help you,
but I got nothing. I got nothing for a woman in
Yemen struggling with addiction,unfortunately.
Oh man, it's true though. He's like, we can relate on a
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lot of things. But yeah, like rehab's the only
thing that helped me, you know, and we were talking about this
before. That's the only thing that I was
able because I, for me, I, I just couldn't stop on my own to
get that, that first bit of clarity where it's like you kind
of have this experience in rehaband maybe you can relate to this
where you look back and you're like, holy shit.
You're like, who's that guy? Who's that guy doing all those
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things, right? So can you get into a little bit
about, you know, how you got into recovery and what brought
you here? Yeah, so rehab also worked for
me. A lot of people like, you know,
they go to rehab when they're like finally ready or whatever.
I was cornered and forced. I got, I was intervened upon
very much in the way that you see on TV.
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It's fucking brutal. Did you have an intervention?
Yeah from oh man my I'm gonna get killed for this, but for I
had a an intervention from my inlaws on Christmas.
In laws. Wow.
So I've had, you know, some before that, yeah, one or two
that I can think of for my parents, but they had known what
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was going on. But this one was like.
Wait on Christmas? That's only just hitting me,
Yeah. It was, it was a lot.
Yeah. So I I was like, Merry
Christmas. I was not in a good place.
Yeah. No, what a day.
But it's funny like how squirrely addicts can be and how
tricky it is sort of to corner us sometimes because sometimes
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you know that that's like comingdown the pipe maybe so you can
be hard to track down. And I guess they were like
Christmas, he's got to be here, we'll get him at Christmas.
We know the date and location we're going to get him.
There's food here. He's going to show up.
Yeah, yeah. That's so funny.
So I don't know if yours was like this.
I think I feel like they're all kind of similar, but, you know,
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it's a bunch of people that you like and love and your, their
opinion of you matters and they sit you down.
And then my my friends all had letters that they'd written out.
My friends are comedians, so they're good writers.
They they know how to write and they didn't write funny for
this, but they're good writers. And then they just really
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accurately describe everything that's wrong with you right to
your face. And you just got to got to take
it on the chin and be like, oh, no, nothing you're saying is
wrong. And it sucked.
So I would, I sort of got put inrehab against my will.
Really. Well, not, I mean, I went
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ultimately, you know, no one canlike force you to go, but I
didn't want to. But they, yeah, they cornered
me. They told me everything they
thought was wrong with me. Then they were like, they were
like, we've already talked to this rehab facility.
It's in Kingston. It's less than a three hour
drive. We can take you there right now.
And I was like, shit, OK, yeah, maybe we can do that.
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And they were like, great, It's $25,000.
And I was like, shut the fuck up.
I was like. What are?
You talking about $25,000? It was $25,000.
I do cocaine four times a week. I don't have $25,000.
I'm already in debt from all of the cocaine.
Doing like this is gonna ruin mylife.
And then they were like, well, we talked to your parents and I
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was like, you talked to my fucking parents.
You know, parents have entered the chat.
I was super stressed about that.But I am also a really lucky guy
and that my parents, like we didn't grow up like rich, but
they are super good with money and super frugal people in a
good way. And they've done well for
themselves over the course of our life.
And they were like, if you know,if it means that you won't die,
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we have, we will. We have money and you know, you
can pay us back kind of whenever.
And a lot of people don't have that.
So I'm really fortunate that they were willing to help out
and so I agreed to go not to that first one that was 25 Ki
refused to accept that price forsome reason.
I was like, there's got to be a better deal than that.
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And it sounded too nice and I was feeling shame.
I was like, we good we got to find a worse cheaper one worse
in terms of the accommodations, not like the quality of care.
So I went to we found one for 15grand and I went I went there.
Yeah, rehab was so helpful, but I definitely going in, I didn't
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even know if I wanted to quit drinking.
I just, I knew cocaine was a huge problem.
I was like, I got to stop doing coke.
But I was like, I can't even imagine life without alcohol
because it's so common and like prevalent in my industry, like
doing comedy. Every show is in a bar or
wherever. You know, all my friends drink.
My friend has a bar in his housenamed after me.
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There's an Andrew Bar. It's like my buddy's basement.
He named it after me because my last name.
It's a pun, but, you know, like alcohol.
OK, I just got that. Yeah.
Yeah. The Andrew Barr, right?
Yeah, yeah, Yeah. So alcohol was like really
entrenched in my life, but I didn't know if I.
Had a choice. I didn't know if I wanted to
give that up. I was like, I'll stop doing
cocaine. But I think, yeah, rehab, the
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most important thing it gave me was just that reset.
Just like 35 or wait, no, I was there for 33 days.
That's the longest I had ever gone since I started without
drinking or doing drugs. And it like your mind does snap
back a little bit in that time. Like the addiction loses some of
the control and more of yourselfhas control again.
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And that was so valuable, I found.
I, I had that exact same thing happen to me where I was like,
OK, I can, I can accept the, thecocaine thing 'cause I, I was a
coke adder too. And, but I can't imagine not
drinking for the rest of my life.
And people just kept saying, andI always say this, but people
could just kept saying just don't drink today, You know,
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just one day at a time, Just don't drink today.
And that was really helpful for me, but I've ultimately come to
this realization that it's all the same shit, you know, same
shit, different shovel. I always say that I heard that
one time, You know, I use, I useoutside things to, to change my
insides, right. And I, I agree with you.
I, I was, I'm, we are fortunate 'cause I'm in, I was in the same
place as you where, and I was feeling a lot of guilt and shame
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too. And, and my therapist, you know,
kind of helped me through that where she said if my daughter
was struggling with addiction and drug abuse, like, do you not
think or, And she posted on me too.
If you had a daughter, I don't have kids yet.
You had a daughter or a son thatwas struggling with drug
addiction and alcoholism in there, had the possibility of
dying at any moment, right, 'cause cocaine nowadays is
fucking laced with fentanyl, could happen.
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Would you pay whatever it took to save her life?
And I was like, fuck you. Fuck yeah.
Like, God, that's so true. And it made me feel better,
right, 'cause like, yeah, ultimately I would, I would pay
whatever price to, to save theirlife, right.
And I'm super grateful too, thatI had my, my in laws.
You know, we laugh, we laugh about it, but because it was
painful and it's kind of a bit of a coping mechanism, I want to
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get into that too, this kind of coping mechanism with comedy.
And, you know, you do stand up for a living.
So I'm really interested in that.
But I'm grateful for that day because I didn't really know
that I was affecting my in laws as much as I as I was.
Yeah. And they saw their daughter just
going through it, me dragging her through the mud.
Right, right. Yeah, It's affecting their kid.
Exactly, and you know they do anything to protect their kid,
right? For sure, Pack.
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And I'm extremely grateful for that day.
Yeah, that's a lot of love from the in laws.
Yeah. You know, not even blood.
Yeah. But stepping up to the plate,
Yeah. Yeah.
So it's nice thing, yeah. And and that was a moment too,
where I was like, fuck, like, I need to get back into this,
right? I'm I, yeah, Once again, I don't
have control over this situationlike I thought I did.
I don't have control over my drug addiction.
Yeah, Yeah, I didn't either. Yeah, I'm so lucky that my my
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parents were able to help out. You know, what helps me a little
bit with the guilt is that before I went to rehab, my
brother went to rehab like a fewyears before.
But I was like, oh, OK, that's kind of evens it out.
You know, my parents are always about like, if they buy him
groceries, they'll like send me 50 bucks or whatever.
They're very like they want to, they don't want to show
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favoritism to one over the other.
So I'm like, OK, he got rehab first.
I get one. You know, makes sense now.
Now, now I have to be a good boy, but I had to sort of get
out of jail free card sitting there.
Love it. Yeah.
So talking about that, like, howdo you, how do you incorporate
your kind of addiction and into your your sets and your bits?
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And has it changed as you stayedsober longer?
Yeah, I think when I first got out I did like a lot of stand up
about sobriety, which is good. And I, I still do those jokes
and stuff, but especially then it was just like, the only thing
I ever thought about is it's, it's so on your mind when you're
first sober here because you're not sure if you're going to
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relapse and everything. And I really, yeah, I just
wanted to wear it on my chest right away because it's what I
was going through and what I wasthinking about all the time.
And also I was nervous about relapsing.
So I wanted like the accountability, you know, I was
like, if I'm talking about it all the time, everyone around me
is going to know about it. And then that puts in a good
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way, I think, just more pressureon me to stay the path, you
know. So I just wanted everyone around
me to know, hey, this is what I'm going through.
This is what I'm doing. I'm not supposed to be drinking.
If you see me drinking, that's bad.
And yeah, I do like talking about it on stage.
Now that I'm a couple years in, I've started to like, you know,
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write jokes about other things. Again, it's funny, like it's,
it's kind of nice. I think every phase of sobriety
so far I've found really nice. Like the early going is great.
I really liked the first six months because you start to feel
like yourself again. You know, you get like control
of your brain back and it's really good.
Now I'm at a phase where even though it's still a massive part
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of my life, it's maybe not as much my entire personality as it
was for a little bit, which I still a huge part, but I'm just
learning things like every everyother sober person I meet
doesn't have to be my new best friend.
I don't know if everyone's like that in the early going, but
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when I was early in sobriety, every time I met a sober person,
I'd be like, OK, we, we're soberpeople.
And so now we go for coffee. We talk all the time.
You know, I, I thought every person I met had to be like my
new best pal. And sometimes after shows,
people will be like, oh, hey, awesome show.
I'm in recovery. And I'd be like, OK, what?
What next? And they're like, they're like
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just saying hi, really. Like I'm on my way home.
I gotta go back to New York, man.
Like, yeah. Yeah, it's, you know, I'm not
your new dad. Dad over here.
Just like good. Nice show.
Goodbye, Strange man. Yeah.
That's awesome. So yeah.
So you find that like what's what, what's kind of like the
comedy community like nowadays? Is it kind of split with like, I
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think a lot of people want to know myself, I love stand up,
right? It helps me a lot.
There's a lot of comedians that I like to watch.
But is it, do you do you see it a lot?
Do you see the addiction? And you're like, oh man, that
guy's in it bad right now or. You know what?
Way less than I used to. I think there's a lot of talk in
general about how the next generation is drinking way less,
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you know, and I think that's where you know, so you're
probably seeing that in every industry and comedies in one of
them, the younger comics, maybe they just, it's just that I'm
not around when they're really fucked up and stuff.
But I don't see people drinking quite the way that they used to.
I think possibly that's there's an economical reason for that as
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well. Like it's the the rent in the
city has gone up so much and thecost of drinking has gone up a
lot and maybe mother fuckers just can't afford it.
I don't. Know but.
I don't see people really getting turned up on a Monday
and Tuesday like I used to when I started, but the city was a
much more affordable place at the time too, so that could be a
factor. But I find the the community's
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been really supportive of me being sober.
Frankly, everybody's been great to me about it and I never feel
like any pressure to drink or anything like that.
And I think that, you know, there's people in the community
that are sober a lot more than they used to be, which is nice
for me. There's still people that drink
pretty heavy, but everybody getsalong from what I can tell.
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You know, we're all sort of artists 1st and you know, I
don't, I don't mind being aroundpeople that drink honestly, as
long as it's not like a huge problem for them or whatever.
Like, you know, some people can have a few and you know, it
doesn't ruin their whole life like it does, like it does for
me. And I, even though, yeah, I find
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it kind of confusing, I'm happy for them, right?
Like I, I don't know, some people are like, yeah, I had
five beers and now I'm going home.
I'm like, oh, OK. I, I would be calling a guy and
I'd be up for the next, you know, 14 hours probably.
That's good for you. Yeah, I don't.
I don't mind being around peoplethat are, that are drinking and
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stuff. So that's been good to a point.
I don't know if you're like me, like, I like being around people
when they're drinking up until like a certain point and then I
go home and it's not a big deal.Like when first I got sober, I
had a lot of FOMO, right? I was worried about because I
was always the guy who shut downthe bar like every day almost.
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I was the last person in the bar.
Everyone else had gone home. I'd have a drink or two with the
staff while they were cleaning up.
Like I never missed anything. So when I got sober, I was like,
oh, I'm going to miss all this fun stuff.
And then, you know, you hang outin a bar sober, and by midnight,
you're like, OK, yeah. Nothing here for me, yeah.
After midnight, nobody's saying shit.
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I, I, my, my cue often to go home is when someone starts
telling me a story for the second time.
That's usually when I'm like, OK, you guys are on a different
plane now. You guys are doing a lap.
Basically, you know, everything social, everything that social
need that was gonna happen has happened and now you're just
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doing it again. It's like, you know what, that's
super fun for you. And no, of course, no judgement,
but you know, that's my cue to go home and play a little bit of
video games by myself on the couch and go bed.
And then wake up and not hate yourself the next.
Day the waking up not hating yourself is pretty good, isn't
it yeah yeah I. Remember my first New Year's in
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recovery like I've so I've been in recovery since 2015.
Nice. Congrats.
Well, I've had three. I mean, yeah, Congrats.
It is good because yeah, I've done a lot of hard work.
I've had, I'm back at probably six months now again because I
had a relapse, hence the three rehabs.
I didn't go for fun You. Know yeah, yeah, just.
Testing them out. Yeah.
Yeah. No, this one's good.
That one's not so good. Yeah.
I always, I was like the food critic, the guy that goes up in,
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in like undercover clothes. Yeah.
I wasn't actually there. And I was just testing out the
rehab centers. No, I went because I had to go.
And that was a fucking mess. But yeah, it, you know, you, you
learn a lot. You mentioned the early going
being being really good. Yeah.
I think they call it the pink. Cloud, Yeah.
Pink cloud days. Yeah, yeah.
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And obviously you're past that now, right?
Yeah. When you have, you know, really
tough days in recovery and life happens and shit goes on and
stuffs out of your control, whatkind of things do you do to to
mitigate or get back on the horse?
I'm a huge exercise guy. That's been really helpful.
I feel like I can tell that you are also fit.
Yeah. I used to run marathons too.
I mean, you run ultra marathons,right?
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I've. Run 2 technically, but yeah
that's new for me. How?
Many kilometers? Is that just so people know?
Well, I I guess technically an ultra marathon is anything over
42. 42 which is a regular marathon.
Yeah, which is a regular marathon is 42.2.
So I've run a 52 and I've run a 6565 is the farthest I've run.
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I did that last week, actually. Nice.
Yeah, not at like an official event.
I just did it on a treadmill. I was going to say, that's even
more impressive. Yeah.
I was going to ask you, wasn't it on a treadmill?
I was watching your video. Yeah, I just did it on a
treadmill by myself. It was.
It was really boring and hard. But it feels so good when you're
done right? It does, yeah.
Yeah, I was proud of. It you mentioned you broke a
toenail too I think in that video.
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You know what? It stayed on there.
It's funny sometimes, I don't know.
Yeah. You've run long distances.
You know, your body just will start to complain about stuff
while you're doing it, and you have to sort of assess while
you're running. Like, OK, is what my body's
complaining about serious? Or is it just being a bit of a
bitch? You know, I find like most of
the time any external pain like stuff on my feet or like, you
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know, sometimes my nipples chafeor stuff like that.
That's a tough. One, yeah, it's tough, but I
find those ones you can plow through.
Like if you just ignore it for long enough, your body sort of
realizes you're not going to stop and it's like, fine, and it
stops. It gives up.
It stops giving you that pain notification because it's like
it's not doing anything. He's not changing his behavior
so whatever. So my toenail was really bugging
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me and I thought it fell off butit was still on.
Thank God. I find foot pain you can plow
through. It's when your organs get mad at
you that you're in real trouble.Probably a good indication you
should do something about. That Yeah, Yeah.
When the organs start to bark atyou, then you're like, OK,
something actually needs to change.
Because I guess technically, youknow, you could live without
your feet. You could live without your
arms. Technically, you know, they're a
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little bit expendable, and I think they know that.
But your organs are like, no, werun the show, motherfucker, you
need us. Plus, they're really expensive
on the black market. Absolutely, yeah.
And I, you know, I'm still in rehab debt.
Same. Yeah, Oh, man.
But yeah, the, the exercise for me when I'm having a hard time
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is running, especially if you'refeeling anxious, you know, it's
a really hard thing to get into.I feel a lot of people find
running daunting, and it is. It's hard.
And like, at first you get shin splints, it's painful, stuff
like that. But once you get really good at
it, yeah, like you can eliminatea lot of anxiety in an hour if
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you can just go RIP on the treadmill for an hour.
Like a normal like hour run for me is like, you know, between
12:00 to 14K and you can just get on that thing and like smash
1000 calories and like it's likethe calories were anxiety.
Like it's just feel so much better after every time.
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I find too that, and maybe I don't know if you do this too, I
was going to ask you about your creative process a little bit.
But whenever I'm like, whenever I'm struggling with like a
dilemma or a problem that I have, I find that when I go on a
run, I really here's my thought process and I get a lot of good
ideas, you know, whether creative or not creative.
Yeah, I agree with that for sure.
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I think you'd running is good for finding like clarity.
If something's really bugging you, you'll typically feel
better at the end of the run because of the like endorphins
and shit. But also, yeah, there is
something that about it that sort of lets you, like, meditate
on your problems in a way that is like, productive instead of
like stewing. I guess.
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Like if I had a problem and I spent an hour thinking about it
on the treadmill or an hour thinking about it sitting in a
chair, just kind of mad. I feel like definitely I'll
reach a better resolution with the treadmill running, yeah.
Yeah, I meant to ask you this before, but how did you know
that you were going to get into stand up?
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I know that's like the kind of it's not an easy decision to
make, right? Just choose that path.
I sort of happened by it really when I was in high school.
So I would say as a kid at firstI wanted to be like an athlete.
Specifically, I wanted to be a pro wrestler and then.
You got, you kind of got the body for it like.
I got a miniature. I could be like maybe a
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luchador. If I was gonna.
Appropriate a culture a little bit.
Yeah, yeah, I'm, I'm. That's The thing is I've, I'm
too little for like the big leagues anyway, unless I were to
be like a high flying kind of guy, I guess.
But Rey Mysterio, yeah, yeah, I could be maybe a Rey Mysterio if
I had got started 20 years ago getting into it.
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But I don't know. That dream sort of evaporated
because I was so little. And I also just like lived in
small town Ontario and it was really lofty thing, but I was
still kind of into athletics andstuff for a while.
Like I was a sprinter actually. I never did any distance running
as a kid, but I was a pretty fast sprinter for a little bit
and I liked that. And then I stopped growing in
the eighth grade and other kids kept growing.
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And you know, I just got phased out of athletics pretty much,
which was what my life sort of revolved around at that point,
which is a tough pill as a kid because like I said, I'm from a
really remote place. So I was kind of a stud there.
But that I remember we, we, I went to this track meet and I
was from a town of like all white people.
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You know, there was like 2 Asianfamilies, One ran the
convenience store and one ran the Chinese restaurant.
And then other than that, only white people live in the town.
So I remember I went to this like, bigger track meet and
pretty much like met a black person for the first time and
that guy destroyed me in the 100meter dash.
I remember getting to the starting line.
He's like, I was like, yeah, 57.He was like 6-1, just ripped
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veins popping out. And I was like, I don't, oh, I
got to get into theater. I think.
I was like, I, I never beat thisspecimen in a race.
This guy's A7 fucking unit, you know?
So I got, I got into the arts when nature told me that I would
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never be an athlete. And I was doing like improv and
theater stuff in high school andI was enjoying that.
And then I found out about the Humber Comedy program, which is
a legitimate college program that's comedy oriented that you
can take. A friend of mine who is a couple
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years older than me took it and my parents were very like, after
high school, you need to go to college, some kind of post
secondary education. We don't care what it is,
university, college, but you have to take something.
You know, we have money set aside.
This is like mandatory. You got to do something.
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And then I came back and I was like, there's this comedy
program. And they were like, we didn't
know that existed when we, you know, they were like, oh, OK.
It's. Technically a college program.
So I did that and I sort of fellin love with stand up there.
I came in with like more of an improv sketch background and I
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thought I would be one of those guys.
And then I did stand up like once and I was like, oh, that's
what I like doing. I feel fortunate to have found
that at a young age. I was like, you had to stand up
for the first time when I was 17still or freshly 18.
And I knew right away that I really, really love doing it.
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And takes a lot of people a lot longer to find like whatever
thing is their thing, you know, So I'm grateful that I found it
that young. A lot of people start stand up
when they've like already failedat a couple other things.
Like I feel like it's like late 20s is normally like they've
been to college a couple times and it didn't really work out
and they're like fuck it, I'm finally going to try stand up.
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I've always wanted to do it and I'm yeah, lucky that I pretty
much just started doing it from jump.
What? What?
What about it like excites you? Like what?
What is it that makes you happy about it?
It's just so direct, like it's just you, the audience.
You say something, they laugh orthey don't, and that as an
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addict, like that dopamine hit of I say something immediately,
people laugh really hard in yourface at your idea is so that
feeling is better than any drug that I've had.
It's really great. And I think one of the things I
enjoy about stand up a lot is that as a kid I always felt kind
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of unusual, right? Like, I don't know, I think I'm
a bit of an odd person. I'm not like most people in a
lot of ways. And I think as a kid I found
that really isolating, which is possibly where the origins of
addiction are for me as well, is, you know, you want to fit
in. And when everyone's on the same
drug, it's easier to feel like you all belong together because
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of your minds are all being altered in the same way.
But yeah, as a as a kid, I felt often unusual.
And what I like about stand up is I can take what's unusual
about my brain and craft it intosomething and show it to people.
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And when they laugh at it, it's like validating.
And it makes me feel not so alone, you know, that there's,
it feels like there's some purpose to me being skewed in
the way that I am. You can use it as a gift.
Right. Yeah.
That's awesome. Yeah, it turns it into something
that is special instead of something that is, you know,
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negative or other. Yeah, have you ever?
I think I already know the answer to this, but have you
ever bombed really bad? Oh buddy, it happens thousands
of times. I was hoping there's one that's
sticking out, but it's like a brain of let me.
Think, see if I can think, is itwhen when you first start stand
up, all you do is bomb, unless you're so fortunate.
But yeah, it's, it's really hardto do.
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Like most people's number one fear is public speaking, right?
If you put on top of the fact that you have to just talk in
front of people that those you have to make them laugh, ideally
like a few times a minute. It's a lot of pressure.
It's difficult to do, especiallywhen you're young.
Like I started doing stand up when I was like 18.
I had nothing to talk about, youknow?
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Like no one gives a shit what you think when you're 18 years
old. I'm like 18 performing for rooms
full of people that are like 30 to 40 years old.
Like, what do they give a fuck, you know?
So yeah, when for most comics, the first few years is like,
you're bombing as often as it's going well, you know, if you're
lucky. I'm grateful that my first set
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went pretty good, and that was enough to sort of give me the
bug and give me the confidence that, OK, like, this can go
well. I just have to figure out how to
do that more consistently. But I am capable of this if I
just bombed my first set, I don't know.
I don't know if I'd be here today even.
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But yeah, bombing is just part of it.
As you get better and more experience, you will learn.
I feel like you never fully stopbombing.
Your bombs just don't look as bad like you.
Learn to bomb gracefully. Yeah, you bounce back a little
bit. Better, Yeah, and, and you know
what, bombing really isn't that bad a thing if you're
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comfortable in your own skin. Like, you know, once you've been
doing it for a while, a joke cannot land and you just go,
okay, well, that one didn't work, did it?
Oops. You know, and people are like,
okay, I find as long as you feelcomfortable, the audience feels
comfortable. But in the early stages, you're
uncomfortable and when a joke doesn't work, then you're really
uncomfortable. And then if they if they can see
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that you're really uncomfortable.
They can smell that. Yeah, then they get really
uncomfortable trying to think ifI have any like, epic bombs.
I've definitely walked some people when I first started.
It's funny when you're an early pro comic because they'll
they'll send you somewhere and you know, you've played like the
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clubs in the city and you think I'm pretty hot shit.
You know, you're in front of like warm crowds that show up to
a comedy club. They're comedy fans.
They know what they're getting into.
You know, these environments arekind of easy mode.
So you start there and you thinklike, OK, I'm fucking pretty
good at this. And then you get to the point
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where you start to work the roadand they send you places, which
is better money, gigs. But now you're in like some
small town. These people have seen comedy
only on TVA couple times. Comedy comes to their town once
a year. And you know, I remember when
I'm doing like a golf resort andI'm like, I didn't know how to
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dress good for gigs yet either or anything.
It's just like golf resort. I had like an open flannel shirt
and a doom T-shirt on and they're all like 60 year old
white people in like suits or like nice clothes and shit.
So right away I'm, I like look like I don't belong there.
And we're supposed to be kind ofclean, but they don't specify,
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like, what exactly clean means. You know, I talked to the guy
before I saw like, what does clean mean to you?
Like, what are you trying to? And he was like, I don't know,
don't worry about it. So dangerous.
Yeah. Yeah, right.
I but. Telling a comic that.
Yeah, yeah. He was like, I don't know, it's
probably fine. And I was like, OK, so I just
went up and did my normal shit. It's time.
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Was really not clean. I've I watched tables people
left, which is a it's a hard feeling when you're when you're
when you're up there and it's not going well and already
you're a little bit panicking. Then you see a couple people get
up and leave. That moment is like, oh God,
like what if they all get up andleave, you know, and you're
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trying to just find a good note to leave on and save face or
something. But you know, your mind is just
spiraling because you're like, people are getting up and, you
know, you're like, am I in trouble?
You know, and a little bit I will.
I didn't get in a in a ton of trouble, but I got chewed out a
little bit. It was funny.
The organizer sent the guy that was headlining the show to like,
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chew me out. He was, you got to go talk to
that guy. But so this guy is another
comedian and like my friend, right?
So I get off stage, pulls me aside, and he's like, listen,
here's what's happening. You messed up a little bit.
It's not that bad. But that guy over there, he
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wants to see me yell at you. So this is me yelling at you.
But it's not a big deal. I ordered you a burger while you
were on stage. It should be here in a few
minutes. So guy over.
Yeah. The guy in the distance like
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thinks I'm being disciplined or whatever when in reality the guy
was being pretty soft on me and.Then I had a burger.
Yeah, So that, that was kind of,that was one of my first tough
bombs. Also that guy who told me not to
worry about being clean when people were leaving.
I saw him like talking to the crowd, being like they were told
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well in advance not to be sayinganything like that.
And I was like, you motherfucker, he was throwing
me. I was like, you kind of gave me
permission, like, this is on you, too.
But he totally. Yeah, passed the buck and threw
you right. Under the bus.
Yeah, threw me way under the bus.
Oh my God, So you're, you like to cook too?
I do, yeah, 'cause I, I was watching a few of your videos.
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They're, they're a hilarious man.
Honestly. It's the idea of, you know,
asking AI to combine 2 meals together is it's a great idea.
Where'd you come up with that and can you explain it a bit?
Yeah, yeah. So I've, I've been doing this
thing called Man versus AI cooking show.
And it's just that I have AI randomly generate or what,
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randomly give me two existing meals and then I have to figure
out a way to marry those two things into one sort of cohesive
dish. I think I had just been doing
like general cooking videos for a while where I would make
something and it was starting tofeel like maybe a little stale.
And I wanted something that would maybe keep people a little
a little bit more engaged and especially until the end of the
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video. And I figured that doing it like
this, you know, I get the two, Iget the two dishes.
I got to make them into one thing.
Now the audience themselves is thinking, oh, shit, how would I
do that? How is he going to do that?
What, where, where is this goingto end up in the end?
So I think it's a good idea to like keep people watching
through the whole video and hopefully maybe like, you know,
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just get some conversation goingwith people in the comments.
I. Love the comments section and
those videos. I.
Love to hear I love to hear likewhat someone else would have
done. You know, a lot of the last one
I posted, a couple people were like, here's how I would have
done it. And I'm like, oh, that's cool.
I like because I love food stufftoo.
So when someone is like, well, you could have done this, I'm
like, oh, OK, that's cool. Actually, I didn't think of that
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because realistically I like to cook, but I'm not like trained
or anything, you know, I, I think I'm, I've got a couple
moves. One of those people it's like
it's a little bit smoke and mirrors.
I can really cook a few things pretty well, but once you get
past that, I'm like, I don't really know what the.
Fuck I'm doing, If you were on like a cooking show you'd be
fucked. Yeah, if they were like, OK
today, today you're cooking Indian, I'd be like, OK, I'm
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done. I'm smoked.
Back to comedy. Yeah, what?
Was the the last video you made?It was some sort of pad Thai.
And yeah, so my, my, my brain process for this one was so AI
gave me sheet pan lemon chicken with veggies and no bake
chocolate peanut butter bar. So you know, you I feel like a
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lot of times to get, if you haveto combine 2 food things that
seem completely unrelated, you have to find some kind of in
between. So first I was like, OK, let's
just marry the chicken and the peanut because that's easy.
Chicken and peanut goes togetherThai food.
They've been doing it for years.Yeah, exactly.
So I was like, OK, Thai food. It said she pan chicken and
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veggies. It didn't specify which veggies.
So I was like, OK, Pad Thai has vegetables in it.
It has chicken in it. I'll make the lemon chicken,
then I'll make the lemon chickeninto a pad Thai with like red
pepper, veggies covered. I've achieved that part of the
ask. There's still the chocolate to
deal with. I got to get chocolate in here
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and and I wanted it said no baked chocolate peanut butter
bars. So I thought it should be served
as a in bar form to to meet the challenge.
So I took the pad Thai and smushed it into like an 8 by 8
baking thing. Just put it in the freezer.
And then I was like, OK, chocolate molay like a Mexican
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chocolate sauce is a thing. I think they put I think they
put it on meat. I've never even had it so I just
looked up what goes into a mole,which I know is a sauce that
normally takes like 24 hours or something if you want to make it
correctly. But I just melted some chocolate
sauce or some some like Baker's chocolate in a double boiler.
Threw in like the Mexican spices, waited for that pad Thai
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to freeze, cut it into bars, dunked it in the chocolate, put
that in the fridge, wait for thechocolate to set.
It was edible. We got it to edible and I you
know, when you hear lemon chicken, chocolate peanut butter
bar, if you can get that ask to edible.
I think small victory. I was reading the comments and
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some when I love fucking comments on on videos.
Man, some people are so clever, but this one lady is like, I'm
Mexican and I would never eat this in my life or I would
never. Oh.
Yeah, it's just like, yeah, although that that Lady, she,
she was like, I'm Mexican and she said I hate mole.
And then she said I'll never eatthis.
And I was like, well, if you hate mole, you know, I, I feel
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like it's crazy to be like, thislooks like it sucks.
I hate the ingredients used in it.
Like, well, then of course you think it looks bad if you don't
like the things that are in it. Oh, man, that's not on me.
Fuck. That's good stuff.
But yeah, that, that engagement code, it's a fucking piece of
shit to crack on on Instagram. I don't, you know, keeping
people to watching the whole videos.
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I mean, I watched that whole video 'cause I was like, I gotta
see the end of this, right? That's what I'm hoping for with
these ones. It's figuring out algorithms is
such a difficult thing and like,maybe not the best for addicts
too, because we're, you know, weget addicted to stuff and social
media is really addictive. And sometimes in trying to, you
know, grow my audience on socialmedia, I also just end up on it
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for like, way too long and I have trouble putting it down.
But yeah, algorithm stuff is so tricky.
I my mine's been tanking. And I think I figured out why.
A few months ago, Instagram asked me, they had this new
feature. They were like, do you want us
to translate your videos to Spanish?
And I was like, OK, why not? Yeah, I would, you know, just
more people to potentially see my content.
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Sure, go ahead. Do that, translate my videos to
Spanish, show it to Spanish people, see if they like it, you
know, And then my traction started going down and I've
realized that the algorithm, because I'm translating to
Spanish, thinks that I want a Spanish audience.
It's like pushing my shit way more towards Spanish than like
my audience that I've already built it's.
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Like getting, they're getting. All these Spanish people are
like, who the fuck's this guy obviously doesn't speak any
Spanish with his AI translated video.
Like they're not biting on it. And now the people that I
actually made the video for aren't seeing it.
So I just, yeah, I just turned that off and I'm hoping now my
numbers will go back up. But I'm like, damn, that's a
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feature you guys pitched to me and it just ruined my shit, you
know? So precarious.
I hate it, but yeah, to your point, like fuck, some days I'm
like yeah, chasing those likes and those follows so much on
the. Podcast.
And that's a little dopamine. Yeah, Yeah, you got to be
careful with it. One of the things that I enjoyed
most about rehab, honestly, and I need to try to incorporate
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this in my life a little bit more, is that it improved my
relationship with my phone because we weren't allowed to
have our phone that was. Nice in.
Rehab, we got them for one hour a day or actually 50 minutes 50
and that was great. That was a great phone
relationship because when you only have it for about an hour a
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day, you use it to do stuff likeyou, there's shit you got to get
done. I would pick up my phone every
day and I'd have things to do. I just things as simple as like
responding to texts from friendsthat I was keeping in touch with
to help keep me sane and stuff. But I'd pick up my phone and
there'd be a bunch of notifications and I would plow
through that shit and then put it down in a way and done, you
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know, Whereas now that I have myphone with me all the time
again, I'm constantly checking it.
And I feel like a lot of people are like that.
I'm a constant phone checker andit gets really compulsive and
kind of addictive and the subtext sort of every time you
look at it and there's nothing to look at, it's like a little
loss, you know, you're looking at it to see, did anybody
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message me? Did I get an e-mail?
Am I, am I hearing back about this?
Did I get any new likes? And every time, the more you
check it, the less likely it is that there's anything for you to
see. And every time you look at it,
it's just like, oh, no, no one'strying to get in touch with you.
Oh, no, no one likes your thing.Oh, no, no one.
You know, I feel like it's like really like bad mental health
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stuff. So I, I got to get back to, for
a little bit when I got out of rehab, I would mostly leave my
phone in the charger in the room.
But like, if I wanted to go overand look at it, I'd have to
physically walk over. There it was a whole thing.
Yeah, and I was using it less. And then you know how addiction
is slowly over time, you know, ramps up and ramps up.
But now I'm on my phone. I'm on my phone way too much
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again. But I'd like to get a handle on
that. Yeah, you, you bring up a really
good point. And I I hadn't thought about it
like that as you were talking. I'm thinking like, and this
probably already exists, but it's like I I need like a lock
box for my phone that's like on a timer.
Yeah. But even just thinking about
doing that, Yeah, my my addict brain is like, don't fucking do
that, idiot. Like, yeah.
Yeah, they want that. Idea exactly right.
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Yeah, yeah. And I, I kind of have to see my,
myself in these two figures, right?
My, my addict is currently in the parking lot doing push ups
right now waiting for me to fuckup, right?
Yeah, yeah. You hear that?
And it's it's true. Learning to separate the
addict's brain and the and you is a really tricky thing
because, yeah, you know, you'll think that you've got it all
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figured out and then. But your attic brain is learning
too, right? So it'll be like, OK, I tried
this and it didn't work. OK, what else can I try?
And then it might wait a few months, bust out some new move.
You know, it's wild the way it can mess with you and like how
convincing it can be. When I first got out of rehab, I
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moved in with some guy. This forbid my buddy who is also
in recovery now but at the time that we moved in together he was
supposed to be sober and he ended up relapsing a lot and it
was a for me a really chaotic and difficult living situation.
And this is how like evil your addict brain is.
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Because he was relapsing my attic brain was like this is a
free to free relapse for you. You can relapse and everyone
will blame him, you know, and itwon't even be your fault, right?
Because you went into this living situation that was
supposed to be a sober environment for you, and it's
not. And you're trapped there.
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And people will understand if that breaks you.
And the blame really won't even be on you.
And then you can get sober againand everyone will treat you like
a hero again, like they did whenyou first got sober.
And that'll be really nice. And I'm like, you're an evil
bitch, you know? But it's like it can be really
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convincing. Yeah, kind of baffling.
Powerful. God, that is so relating, man.
Relatable. Yeah.
I've never had that exact experience, but I totally
understand that sometimes so many different ways.
Sometimes the attic brain is like, listen, just relapse.
You'll get sober again. You know, you beat me already.
It's sort of, it's just like, yeah, you already beat me.
Just fucking have a have a month, have a party month, get
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sober again. You know, you already know you
can do it, but it's like, yeah, but I might die in that fucking
month, man, you know? Or I might not come back.
Yeah, I might think I can beat you again, but I can't or
whatever. The most consistent message I
got when I was in rehab, that has been helpful over the course
of the 33 days, a lot of different speakers, a lot of
different meetings. You know, you hear a lot of guys
talk. Most consistent thing that
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people said was every time they relapsed that it was worse that
they were worse. Every time that the things that
they did were worse, that they felt worse that they did like
went crazier with their use. Every single person said that.
That was my experience too. Yeah, yeah.
And but your attic brain, I think wants you to, you know, it
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wants to tell you. Yeah, just relapse Now.
You're educated about addiction.You know about it.
You know, you're stronger. You'll be you'll be able to have
a better handle on it this time.You'll you'll have a better eye
for when things are getting out of hand and you'll keep it under
control. You know, it's and you're like,
yeah, why? That makes sense.
I know more about addiction now.I know the signs.
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Maybe maybe it will be OK. But you know, the logic is
there. But every single person that
I've heard talk is like, Nope, it's it's so much worse.
I never thought I was going to smoke meth and then I did, so
yeah. Fuck I probably would have.
I never did but like I if someone handed it to me at the
right. Time.
Yeah, like, you know, when I waslike super boozed up and coked
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up if anybody who offered me anything, I'd be like, yeah,
okay. Why not?
You mean it'll get me in a different place than where I am
at now? Yeah, sure.
Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
Especially I think if like my high from the coke was maybe
started or off or something and they like here's something to
bring it to another level. I'd be like, oh, thank you.
Yeah. Sold.
Yeah. Easy sell.
Yeah, take my money. Yeah, man, it's, it's a, that's
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a really good way to put it. I, you know, I appreciate that.
Can you talk about this? You have a really cool event
coming up in August I believe. Yeah, so I'm about 2 1/2 years
sober right now. You know, I've, I've got, I'm at
a point where I feel like I've got myself pretty under control
and I'd like to give back a little bit now that I'm not so
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worried about me all the time. Do some stuff for some other
people too. So I want to raise some money
for the rehab center that I wentto and also for this cool
charity in the states called theEnd Overdose.
So this August the 24th, I am going to put my running skills
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to the tests I'm going to. I'm going to run on a treadmill
for 12 hours. The goal in those 12 hours is to
make it 100 kilometers. We'll see.
So far the farthest I've run is 65.
I did that in six hours though, so I feel like.
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What's the what's the pace on that, do you know?
I don't know, but I I I exactly,I think like 528.
OK, that's really good. Something like that for that,
for that length of time, that's.Really good.
Yeah, 5 minutes, 28 seconds. That's really good.
Yeah, but I I think it's something like that.
I can't remember, but I'm just looking at it like, OK, I made
it 65 and six, that gives me another six to make it 35.
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Maybe doable, but we'll see. I don't know.
I don't know if my body can handle it.
I'm excited to find, but the idea is, so I'm going to.
I'm going to be on the treadmillfor 12 hours.
However far I make it is how farI make it.
Ideally 100 kilometers. We're going to live stream that.
I'm going to have comedians coming in throughout the day and
they're going to sit on a couch next to the treadmill and shoot
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the shit while I'm just there running slowly.
Like an activity being broken. Down.
Yeah, kind of. It's funny too, because I won't
be able to. I need to focus on my breath so
much that I won't be able to talk to them.
Like they just have to talk. And I'm just going to be there
like furniture, essentially moving furniture for the 12
hours. And then I'm doing this on stage
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at a comedy club. So when there's only 30 minutes
left in the run, we're going to fill up the room with audience
and then I'm going to record a comedy special right after being
on the treadmill for 12 hours. No shower.
No. No shower.
I want to look like shit. I think it's so funny.
I don't know why I like it so much.
I, I think, you know, usually when people record this special,
they're like prim and like, you know, they just got their hair
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cut and they're wearing, you know, brand new clothes.
They look like 1,000,000 bucks. I think it's funny to record it.
Just distraught and it all messed up.
I'm going to be walking funny. I don't know.
I think it's gonna look interesting.
And I think I like after you've run that for like a really long
time, you feel like really vulnerable.
And I'm curious about how that'll impact the performance.
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Yeah. Totally.
And I'm also curious about, likethe extent that an audience can
revive A performer 'cause I findlike an audience's energy really
can, like, bring you to life. You know, sometimes I'll do a
show, maybe I'm sick, I'm a little under the weather, I'm
coughing, I get on stage, none of that shit.
The adrenaline just kind of takes over.
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The energy from the people almost is like healing.
So I'm like, OK, let's see if wecan find the edge of that.
Let's see if a crowd can be so hot that after I have run for 12
hours that they can bring me back to life, You know?
Yeah, I'm super pumped about that.
The whole day is sort of a metaphor for addiction, right?
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The treadmills addiction. You know, you're stuck.
You're stuck in the same place. You're not moving forward.
You're doing the same thing overand over again.
But it's just getting more and more difficult the longer you do
it. And maybe for a little bit you
think you're having fun, but it is slowly breaking you down and
breaking you down. And at a certain point, you have
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to admit I can't beat this thing.
I just have to stop. I just have to get off of this
fucking thing and go do something else.
And that's what the day is. And to your point too, it's like
you're bringing in the audience kind of like as community to
help. Community through it.
Yeah, exactly that. Exactly that.
And even during the day when I'mrunning on the treadmill and my
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friends are sitting there on thecouch, but I can't really talk
to them. I can't engage with them the way
that I would like to engage withthem because I'm too wrapped up
in this thing that I'm doing. That's addiction too, right?
Because a lot of times when I was around people in social
settings, I was almost still alone because I was so focused.
Like I was there to get fucked up and the socializing was
secondary, right? I was like, when is my dealer
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going to while someone's talkingto me?
I'm like, when's my dealer goingto get here?
And stuff like that, you know, so the fact that my friends will
be there, but I can't really converse with them is all.
It's all part of the metaphor. And yeah, I think that if I can
go through all of that, I'm basically, I was, I was in
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addiction for like 12 years. This is 12 hours.
I'm basically condensing the whole thing into one day.
And I think if I can, if I can walk off that treadmill with a
smile on my face and go do a show, I don't know, I think it's
really cool. I think it says something that's
awesome. Like, I think to me, the because
it's obviously I tell people I'mdoing this and like, that sounds
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really horrible. And I'm like, yeah, yeah, it
does. But I think for me, the day it's
not about pain. It's about what you can do once
you've put the pain behind you, what you're still capable of
even after all of that. And I want to, I want to show
people that. I want to show people that after
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you've been through something horrible, that you're still
capable of incredible things. It's beautiful.
Yeah. I love it.
How do we sign up? How do we find it?
Where do we find? You so yeah, it's going to be a
comedy bar Danforth location August 24th tickets are on sale
actually already if you go to their website and you go to
August 24th, it should say like Andrew Barr comedy special
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taping tickets are live and the after I cover the venue fee and
everything. All of the money's going to the
to the charities. I'm not taking any money.
So if you want to come you're supporting a good cause and it's
a legitimate world's first event.
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No one's ever done this before. That's what really excites me
about it, is no one in the history of the world has done
it. Yeah, mostly 'cause it's a
horrible idea. But but still, I'm gonna be the
first guy, and I think that's exciting 'cause I know none of
us know what it's gonna look like.
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People told the Wright brothers that flying was a horrible idea.
Yeah. Maybe this would be a new thing,
maybe every year some comic would be like, fuck it, I'm
gonna run 100 kilometers in the Corp.
But yeah, man, I'm really pumpedup about it.
That's amazing. And then how do we find you on
Instagram? At Andrew Barr, Comedy perfect,
yeah. Dude, I appreciate you man.
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I had a lot of fun today. Thanks SO.
Much no problem man. Thanks for having me, really
appreciate. It that's great, thanks for
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