Neal Brennan, Does Brilliance Have Boundaries? | Ep 9 | Soul Boom
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- Опубликовано: 2 июл 2024
- Comedian Neal Brennan (Chappelle's Show, Crazy Good, Blocks, 3 Mics) joins Rainn Wilson to engage in a deep and revealing conversation exploring the aftermath of Chappelle's Show, the sacrifices Neal made for his craft, and the profound impact of mental health on his life and career. Neal opens up about his struggles with depression, the therapeutic role of comedy, and his journey toward self-acceptance. Tune in for an insightful discussion that blends humor, vulnerability, and philosophical reflections on creativity and resilience.
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In this episode, we discuss:
00:00 Neal's Self-Esteem List
00:45 Sacrificing Therapy for Success
01:57 The Cost of No Boundaries
03:33 Maniacs of Comedy
04:18 Emotional Caffeine
05:24 Sad Clown Paradox
09:00 Unhealthy Pursuit of Showbiz
29:00 Neal's Journey through Mental Health Treatments
30:55 Neal's Spiritual Awakening
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I love everything Neal does. I've heard him talk about his mental health and spirituality so much, but Rainn still pulls things out of him that I haven't heard before. I love this show
Thanks for tuning in!! 🙏
I hope Duncan Trussell is on this someday, he loves musing about deep introspective subjects
Same
I hope it's a long one!
A very important tool i feel is slipping away is physically writing down your true inner frustrations. Instant feedback and transition to both the observer and creator. So simple it feels arcane
Well said!
Keeps getting better & better ❤🌈soulboom is one of the best new podcast out here
So glad you’re loving it!! 🙏
These conversations do help us viewers. It’s so hard to start the work on yourself but especially Rainn’s serenity makes it seem worth it and possible
I’m really digging this pod. Love Neal!
We dig YOU!
Been enjoying your show, Mr. Wilson. Might go without saying, but Duncan Trussell would be another great guest.
We agree!!
Awesome! This is gonna be a great Tuesday morning at the office! :D
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This show just keeps giving! Much love from Portland all ✌️
We love you Portland!!
This is gonna get deep lol great guest Rainn man
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It was awesome, Loved the part where Rainn says you don't need drugs, read some books and do the hard work.
It was beautiful and so true.
Just one request bring Steve Carell Please !
The one I've been waiting for. Thank you all 🙏
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Rainn, I care about your movies. I'll always love your role as Fish Boy 💗
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Great conversation about spirituality and mental health. I loved how Rainn challenged a few aspects with an open mind.
I love this conversation. I could think about existentialism all day. ❤
It's Rainning men hallelujah. Two funny intelligent men hallelujah 🎉
Neal Brennan is the Wizard of Traumedy... Through years of dabbling in the dark arts, Neal has found the ability to weave sadness with joy into masterful works of hilarity all while teaching you something about your own faults.
Please keep your podcast going.
Great addition to the excellent SoulBoom universe! Tuesdays are the new Fridays! ❤
Love that 🙌
Neal’s podcast is top of my rotation. So good.
These podcasts have been amazing, thank you so much Rainn
Rainn, if a person is able to have a transcendent experience with a psychedelic treatment -- and they happen to have a profound spiritual shift --- that sounds like a good thing to me. I mean, we need all the help we can get in this cruel, capitalist culture that offers no comfort or hope. With you on the spiritual bypass though, too. I've been at this for decades, so doing ALL the work.
When i think of a the central creation force, whatever it might be to you. I just try and envision what's in the centre of a black hole. Its something totally beyond our understanding..maybe even will never know and never see it, but it exists. Time stops, matter is gone, light can't escape it..the singularity is beyond everthing.
Whatever inside that blackhole is creation for me
hands down, neal is the BEST podcast guest! always!
Such a wonderful and rich conversation. Thank you
Rainn, the Ursula K Le Guin book you mentioned is likely The Lathe of Heaven 👍 excellent podcast, thank you ❤
So much better than watching this on steadfast YT. No commercials!!
Truly great ep. Love Neal already
I appreciate the subject matter of this channel. Purpose is extremely important to me on my spiritual journey. Stop taking your thoughts as who you are
i love you rainn wilson. you have brought much joy to my life. i am not just talking about the office.
Two very deep, introspective guys- really enjoyed the conversation.
This was great!!
Great episode. Loved his 3 Mics special
Neal Brennan says its hard to Influence people, well: My imput is the next one: INSIDE ALL OF US exists the same desire of a better world ( understand the "word" WORLD as much as to be yourself more happier, to make another human being be happier, to live a happiest life, to build some happy community of friends, family or whatever) so IF SOMEONE AS RAINN with Soulboom takes the lead, and points the way and talks about the possibility of a better world, I think he doesnt has to do A VERY HARD WORK INFLUENCING NOBODY cause he is calling that inner voice that exists in every people to think and want the same thing, he will connect with whoever is more or less connected with that mandate and will encourage to a LOT of about doing something about it; SOMETIMES YOU NEED JUST ONE PERSON TO START WALKING IN A DIRECTION TO BE FOLLOWED BY OTHERS ( Remember Forrest Gump?)
So many times people dont change cause nobody encourage them to change, cause nobody makes them believe they can change for better.
I just want to gave my imput on this...
Another aspect in wich I believe is this one: humanity needs to reverse its to think about mental Health as a problem or a dessease but mostly be able to see it as a a departure from the truth, which is: we are powerful, we are well, we can be loved, we do not have to be perfect or fit in, there are things that hurt, we all having different times and rythim, it is okay to be different, the same things happen to all of us different degrees or scales, there isnt such a thing as: to be born with a bad star, being cursed, or being condemned to misfortune, there is just a mind to comprehend and emotional body to experience different sensations, an eternal look for pleasure and escape from pain, an non clear understanding of death, and a desperate look for meaning and the survival or an idea that there isnt one; and all that works with the ideas we give it to our mind, soul and body and the perceptions that we made based on what we feel and the way that we see the world around us.
I DONT KNOW IF THIS IDEA IS CRAZY BUT... WHAT ABOUT TO HAVE RICHARD GADD on the PODCAST? ♥ Love you Soulboom.
I would have never thought Rainn would be a spiritual person , this is awesome! I'm subscribing! I hope to see some Christian Philosophers.
Stay tuned!! Also check out last week’s episode with Kate Bowler - great chat about modern American Christianity 👇
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@@SoulBoom too awesome! Thanks 🙏🏽
Saw You, Rainn, with Neal on BLOCKS... I got SO MUCH out of it. I am so pleased that I got this notice and I've happily subscribed! Thank You.
After watching the Bobby Lee episode I was thinking Darrell Hammond would be a great guest. Then I saw Neal had him as a guest just recently....synchronicity
So enjoying this. A great follow up for talking about human default wiring and how meditation and other practices can help give it an upgrade, if he's not already on your guestlist, would be Rick Hanson, author of Buddha's Brain, Hardwiring Happiness, and others!
This podcast is 10/10 every single week! I always learn from it and it widens my perspective on so many subjects. I can’t wait to read Soul Boom this weekend. And now that you mention her, I would love to see Anne Lamott as a guest! Annie Lederman also has a lot of great experience with psychedelics affecting forgiveness.
"You can't be laughing and be sad at the same time". Bipolar can experience it in rapid succession
you mean borderline
Oh my goodness, I am so grateful that I discovered Rainn has his own channel! I’ve watched ‘The Office’ countless times and it helps me to sleep. Dwight is definitely the greatest character in the show, he helps to ease my mood. However, there aren’t many videos about them. Now, I can watch Dwight every week, or I don’t know the frequency he posts, but please continue, Rainn, or Dwight, because it is so motivating and so important! / second time post, hope Rainn can see and plz continue, you are a beautiful human being!
Central creation force -- love it.
Rainn asking all the right questions
Neal Brennan is very nice-looking and is not at all weird-looking. Respectfully.
Interesting people have interesting conversations. Nice episode guys.
Ancestral knowledge of plants is the most ancient form of medicine that we have. Further, all modern pharmaceuticals are chemicals derived from plant and animal parts. The mixture of plants that makes Ayahuasca effective were known to shamans of the Amazon basin for thousands of years; modern scientists "discovered" this in the 1950's, and guess where their groundbreaking research was conducted, and where these plant derived medicines were discovered? The very same place that the shamans inhabited. To take exception to the term "plant medicine" is to take exception to the very foundations of the science that allows us to treat so many human ailments. The shamans themselves describe the plants themselves as the ones that imparted the knowledge to the shamans. Consider the possibility that your Creator did not construct the non-animal/non-human kingdoms to be lesser and unworthy of the ability to communicate? Please accept this gentle correction in your knowledge. Heroin was invented by Bayer corporation and was the biggest driver of its growth in the 1800's. Guess how it was legal? Yep, it was 'medicine'.
Really enjoying the podcast. I had major depression all my life. Have tried every kind of med and TMS and nothing has really helped. Also, love the move "Super" :).
Could move on a farm, and bee-keep and enjoy pottery and be happy. Feels like everyone has something like this that would make them feel content and good with life.
Love Neil … he’s helping people and that’s a great thing. Rainn is also … he’s even written a book with the same name as this podcast … I didn’t know that. I have to read it. He’s really quite the opposite of his character portrayed in the office which is so perfect. Great stuff
Great interview
At points i felt Neal was trying to steer the convo and gave vague information
good convo regardless, im new to this pod and like how different the conversations are without being preachy
Keep up the good work
Since you’re observing comments for feedback, consider less commercials, or at the very least, insert them between thoughts instead of in the middle of sentences.
Funny what you said near the end. Often when i hear someone complain about their job for example, ill think, dont complain to me you choose the job.
"tuning into the suspicion you have about yourself and trying to make it actual"
big fan rainn!
Hey rainn, i love the rocker! Also, the office. So thats my 2-20 for you. I need to find more though
This needs a soul boom. Share with your friends
1:12:42 I think that there IS a Spiritual Truth that underlies this experience you're describing.
Purportedly, we all CHOOSE to be here, in whatever "roll of the dice" situation we're born into, so it would ultimately NOT be a roll of the dice, but a Conscious choice (yes, even the 'starving children in africa' or 'babies born with cancer' tropes, I do not pretend to know the reason why those are chosen if this idea is True)
Recently I've been receiving multiple messages through Spirit/Spirit Guides that are effectively telling me to stay positive/maintain a High Vibration, even if it seems like the world is burning down around me.
It reminds me of Ram Dass talking to Emmanuel, and he was told, "You're in a School, so why don't you try taking the curriculum? Why don't you try being Human?". ❤🌎
You should lay off the shrooms
@@WillToNihilsm Haven't touched em in about 16 years. You are worthy of Love❤
@@dpclerks09 your mom is worthy of my love
"If you do it, and it's great, turns out, you're qualified." - Neal Brennan
Loved this episode! Rainn and Neal's worry about psychedelics reminds me of soma. They used to use soma to communicate with the gods. It was limited to the priest class and then filtered into the laypeople and from there it got into the general population. They went from communion with the gods to, "Let's go 'communicate with the gods'" (wink wink) and it became so abused in the population that they took a hammer and chisel to all references to it. The journey downward of the drug is basically the story of virtually all the drugs that have been used and are still. Even tobacco and chocolate were those things, too, at various times.
I want to try something guided sometime because I feel like there's a "veil" or "filter" that's keeping me from connecting with something. I know there is, actually. But I hesitate because I don't know if my time here is to figure out how to lift that veil/filter off without that shortcut, or if I get to know about the options from being born at this time and place and if I get to the otherside and I find out the universe is handing me its version of the punchline to the classic joke, "I sent you a Jeep, and boat, and a helicopter."
More wow= wowzers!
So, this is the first episode of Soul Boom I've seen. I watched it in its entirety and, after having given myself 24 hours to think it over, and assuming Rainn and the producers of this channel are interested in constructive comments, I'd like to share two thoughts: First, I am deeply shocked that Rainn, especially after seeing just how sincerely hurt and dumbfounded Neal was by Rainn's first (frankly, unkind) comment about his appearance, that he would make a SECOND comment, though he probably thought that including himself for disparagement would soften the blow. Second, I would really encourage Rainn to deeply consider how he often interrupts and talks over his guests. There were several times in this interview where both of them were doing their best to share a thought and, though I may be mistaken, it seemed that Rainn would not take a step back and let Neal, his guest, finish his thought. He just kept hammering away until Neal gave up and let Rainn speak. I certainly appreciate that Rainn feels passionately about the thoughts he wants to share in these moments but, given that the subject matter of this channel will, most likely, continue to drill down on these same subjects, I am certain whatever intelligent thoughts Rainn had to share in those moments will wait until the same subject matter comes again. Remember, you'll get to speak each and every episode, Rainn, but your guests will only have an opportunity while they've been welcomed into your home. All the best to all of you.
You should get Pete Holmes on soon
Stay tuned!
For the alg. Yay Neal
I’d love to see Rainn on JRE
I would love to see Paulo Coelho on your show.
Man, you gotta pump up the audio a few db. The commercial interruptions are loud af. Otherwise, enjoying the pod!
Great chat between these new Bobby Lee friends. 😂
Enjoyed the dialogue, thank you for sharing the space with transparency.
1:14:33 You probably done care about this but horror fans are big fans of House of 1,000 Corpses. It’s very well respected for the die hard horror community. I did a horror movie podcast for 7 years and I almost never heard from a fan who didn’t like it.
Match made in heaven
hallucination spirituality is kind of like the light of a flashlight. its transient, made of nothing really, but can point your way especially when you need it.
Or it's just a hallucination 🙄
@WillToNihilsm then that's not for you. Easy. That's all you need to take away from it.
@@bstring7773 it's just your brain being influenced by a drug to make you feel and see things. Nothing more.
@@WillToNihilsm...or a dream? Both created by one's unconscious, and thus begging integration. Not easy, but as it's one's mind, which creates one's reality, it's important to the experiencer, imo.
There is a difference between plant medicine and drugs derived from plants. Cannabis is the plant and the poppy is processed into heroine and cocaine its not the same thing
Anyone know the name of the Ursula K Le Guin book Rainn referenced at 47:07? :D
caffeine is stimulant tol tho. ive tried several stimulants and its up there on the same similar effect intensity line amphetamine for me. "Caffeine activates noradrenaline neurons and seems to affect the local release of dopamine. Many of the alerting effects of caffeine may be related to the action of the methylxanthine on serotonin neurons."
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not gonna lie, I have thought for at least 15 years that if my parents were just a little worse or a little better I would be a hilarious stand-up. instead I am a disabled veteran....
I was a Christian for nearly thirty years, until something happened last year and I just could no longer believe. I still feel like I’m on a spiritual journey, but I just can’t believe in an interventionist “god” anymore. No god swooped down and rescued me during my three decades of faith. I highly doubt it’s going to happen now
The same thing happened to me...
Do what works for you. In my opinion, a lot of us need to hydrate better. Get your electrolytes people. And sunshine and nature and socializing. If you need medication take it, it Definitely saves lives. Whiskey helps too lol for some of us.
Please let us know when your online store goes live with the summer 2024 collection of Rainns handmaid ceramic piss pots
Absolutely gutted that Rainn said "beekeeping and pottery" and not "beet farm"
@47:00 ish on the idea of simulation theory, I think a better (but kinda the same) model is the Holographic Universe model - Michael Talbot's book of the same name is worth a read for anyone interested in this concept
What did Neal mean at the end by “you better enjoy this or we’ll kill you”
Who is going to kill him? Or did i miss something
Top Gun 2 stole the end of Star Warz.
That thing blew up real good.
I mean caffeine is also a stimulant. that is very much a significant effect. i understand where Neal is coming from, but it very much is a stimulant.
i don't believe Rainn when he says hes not making judgments on people for having done drugs and now they have a new perspective on their life that has benefited them.
Two rich guys talking about how blessed they are 😂
The stuff in the lava lamp is either honey, beer, or urine from someone on a bad diet.
Salad is a performance enhancing drug 😂
Dysthymia is persistive mild depression.
44:42 You could reword this:
Critic: How do you know that the god you’re worshipping couldn’t just be an elaborate set of stories made up by men and that’s all there is to it?
Christian: I’m totally willing to accept that could also be true. It certainly doesn’t feel like it.
It’s insane how much I identify with these guys. It makes wonder if it’s trauma or what? The only way I could identify with “normal ppl” was heroin. Then later in my life weed. I found the world and ppl boring. The things I would do to keep myself entertained is insane. How’s this person going to react if say or do this or that? Been terrified of death my entire life. You’d think that would make me cautious. Just the opposite I’d go right up to the line then stick my foot right over it. I got bored with drugs and don’t take antidepressants. I just had to come to the realization I’m never going to find joy the way others do. Sometimes I wake up and I’m just sad other times angry and other time happy and energized That’s ok . It’s not real. I find fleeting moments of joy thru guitar music comedy and my pets. That’s has to be good enough. I’ve learned to tell myself no. I force myself to do some of the things normal ppl do and it’s made my life easier. There’s no answer. Challenges I need to do the things my brain tells me I can’t. Which is everything. Psychos are the best at everything. Science art creativity. Me being crazy self loathing and obsessed is the reason why I can’t master anything my heart desires. But I’m also terrible at everything and I hate myself. It’s also why I’m compelled to write books in comment boxes no one will ever read.
Thank you so much for sharing 🙏😊
I read it my friend. Resonates. Best your way.
I saw that Mission Impossible movie and it was trash. What is wrong with everyone! That motorcycle scene is the one good part of the whole movie and it's in the trailer.
I would love to work with you bud...🙏
I'm creative, funny, spiritual, and also a very very good poet
...many blessings
Just realized Neal, who I really, like, never seems to really laugh hard in any of his podcasts...
we are all weird looking, btw.
💯 that’s what makes us HUMAN
All humans have mental health struggles at some point or another -- of course there are degrees of suffering.
maybe there's something sacred
i wish that lava lamp was on
57:26 most Christian denominations push legalism as does Islam. They tell you what you have to do and what you need to do. Jesus is about grace. It’s about what He did, not what you do. “It is finished” Matthew 27. There is nothing you have to do except for put your faith in what He did and believe.
It is so uncertainly listening to Rainn repeatedly dog on psychedelics with no personal experience. I think a lot of his skepticism and criticism are right on the money, but it’s kinda like complaining about how elephants trample crops without ever having seen an elephant