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This sounds like nonsense. There is only one way to truly become sober. There are many ways to “stop” drinking. Abstinence and sobriety are completely different things.
@@XJon2011 actually a huge portion of the last decade of his life was spent talking about his faith and belief in the teachings of Christ Or so the Germans would have us believe
nice going, congrats on the 53 days so far! its not easy but every day sober feels better than the last! im 369 days in and it was the best decision i ever made
I quit alcohol and smoking roughly a month ago but I don't count the days because I'm not going back. I don't drink or smoke and that is that. Could be day 1 or 300, dosnt matter. I don't drink or smoke
Congrats man. I’m almost 5 years in. Been fantasizing about drinking lately. So I’m watching sobriety content to remind me of what’s up. Didn’t even know Norm was sober.
@tomas746 I'll get an urge to drink when things are going badly and I'm stressed and frustrated. But, now there's a sense of relief when I realize, as bad as things may be going, at least I'm not going to make them worse by drinking!
Im a die hard norm fan, ive seen every damn clip a hundred times over.. Yet not this one. I quit drinking last month, been a drunk since I was 19 (30 now). Its fuckin hard, quitting. Real steep cravings today... And this shows up right at the top of my feed, out of nowhere. Thanks, Norm. Feels like you're looking up at me, watching over me right now.
@@CeeZee001 we can do this homie 💪🏼 dont get bored, dont give in. ive started making a cup of coffee every time i have cravings lateley, not like im sleeping very much anyways without booze lol. Gotta find something to fill that booze shaped hole in our brains.
I absolutely love how there’s so much content on RUclips. I’ve been watching Norm MacDonald heavy the last five years. I’ve never come across this, and of course, there must be so much footage of him playing poker with people.
The first ten seconds of this video is so amazing. Norm does that shit where he doesn't finish a sentence. But he's so good at comedy which goes hand in hand with making sure people get what ur meaning that he knows he doesn't gotta say the last word or two. Amazing. I have dabbled with this all my life and never been one thousandth as hood at as Norm is. #GOAT
I just had a random thought about Norm yesterday and then today I get reccomended this video. The guy was so unique, his way of thinking is so pure and spot on. And he was always so humble, never thinking he was as good as he was. Rest in peace Norm, wish I could've met you.
I thought I'd seen every single Norm clip on RUclips, this was an amazing find! I've been a weekend binge drinker type for the past 20 years, and now that I've hit middle aged, I'm starting to get burned out on that lifestyle. This really helps.
@@LeeDavyCoaching Thanks! So far I think I've got it under control. About 6 months ago I switched from Ice beer to Light beer, and I'm 20 days into Dry January with zero desire to drink. I still want to drink on occasion, but the weekly non sense has to stop. So awesome you got to meet Norm, he might have been the funniest person to have ever lived.
Norm is speaking in rhetorics and passive contradictions, sitting and waiting on announcements in a betting hall, talking to the happiest man on the planet.
I heard the saying in passing and out of context a few times, and didn't quite get it. Norm put it into perspective here. Great mantra, especially for creative folk
Like when Norm accidently sat next to Joe Rogan the whole flight telling Joe he was a non-smoker then went straight to the airport Kiosk for a pack when they landed. Pretty sure Norm drinks alcohol.
Having that drive, and that fired up ambition, is an excellent indication you're in a good place. To read a very simple method that takes about an hour to alter your brain and lasts permanently, read Steffon Barkload's approach, and stop foor good.
Norm, you and this fella are terrific. Speaking truth. And at the same time entertaining as all get out with the giant booming voice interrupting every few seconds.
Yes- his least physically dangerous vice, I think. His autobiography reveals a pretty clear repressed memory of being raped by an elder man on a farm. The trauma was overpowered by addiction, and so it thrived as cancer instead.
How did you get this interview with Norm? Did you just see him at a poker tournament and start filming? Would love to hear the backstory to this and anything else you remember from “behind the scenes”. Great conversation! You can tell Norm really respects you and even laughs at some of your quips, incredible honor.
I was working at the PokerStars PCA as a poker journalist, and I had a 10-minute interview with Norm on poker (PokerStars had invited him to play, and all the media got to speak to him). While I was waiting for the interview to start, we were talking, and he asked me what I did for a living, and I told him that I helped people quit alcohol. He told me that he once had a problem with it, but didn't drink anymore. I was supposed to interview the skateboard king Tony Hawk straight after, but I thought, fuck it, and I asked him if I could interview him for my podcast, and he said yeah. I know it's so noisy in the casino, and I had to record it on my phone, but it was well worth it. Later that evening, PokerStars invited me to a stand up show starring Norm and would you believe it he used our entire interview as his material for the 60-minute show. He was awesome.
When norm got interrupted with the announcer and then just slipped in the word mates to a British guy and the smiles a few seconds later cos he knew he got away with it by emphasising friends. Literally god tier humour
I had my pc on mute when this video popped up and I started giggling. Norm had that presence where he didn't even have to say a thing to make you laugh. 😂😔
It would be hilarious if right after the interview ended, norm stormed straight to bar, shaking with a drink in this hand. The interviewer being like "what the hell norm?" And norm says "sheesh, all that talking about drinking... just makes a guy wanna have a drink"
Having worked as an advertising creative on alcohol brands for years in agencies with bars in the office, the biggest thing I realised is how much drinking has an effect on creativity over a prolonged period of time. While coming up with ideas with a writer while tipsy is fun, you spend half your days tired and irritable, when people ask you questions in creative reviews you're not anywhere near as sharp as you could be in defending them so good ideas are easily killed. Ironically it was only after I quit drinking that I started doing my best work on alcohol brands and was sharp enough to present well to clients and defend the integrity of the ideas so they didn't get interfered with.
Almost 3 years sober. I like the part where the norm related to being sober to working out. We should feel some sense of 'superiority' we worked hard and earned it!!
I was a serious drinker up until my early forties and then the last group of friends that I drank with moved out of state and all of a sudden out of nowhere and through no effort at all on my part I wasn't drinking anymore,, that was 2001,, and I don't drink ,,,,,, it just ended.. Talk about lucky..
@@LeeDavyCoaching It was,, I didn't try or even think about it and still don't. Cigarettes,,,,,,,,,, that was TOUGH,, I finally stopped in 2019 but it was horrible...
Biggest realization I've ever had about drugs of any kind including caffeine or melatonin even.....they begin as a help to your normal but end up being needed to get to normal. I say this not criticizing or complimenting drugs/compounds......just observing.
Thanks for sharing. Was the interview planned in advance or just on the spot? Must have been a thrill, he’s a hilarious guy. (Just quietly, is it possible he may not be 100% sober at the table here...?)
I was watching this, realizing how smart norm is and ( apparently forgetting his death ) started to imagine more wise talks from norm in the future . Then I remembered the reality and got sad for a moment .
Batman sized bat. Norms response is like 0.0001% and he’s doing it on a podcast no one will see. This guys got 1k subs. God has blessed me today by showing me this 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Omg I’ve been blessed by norm. The way he gets interrupted with the call out guy repeatedly is pure comedy. Whoever owns this channel has something only 35k people have seen. I feel blessed to be laughing at new norm stuff. Rip norm, this podcast reminds me that the worst thing to ever happen to America in September was your death.
In other videos Norm has explained how admired Dean Martin’s act and would act dumb and drunk on purpose emulating him. Im not sure if he was faking the drink on the Tom Greene show in true Martin’s fashion or not. I’ve wondered. He for sure seemed loaded on Howard Stern and one time on the View, but it could have been Cancer treatment, or delirium and caffeine from staying up all night gambling the night before
@@yogawithtim it's just a hilarious thing to say if you do indulge, but yeah he drank on camera many times lol He also insisted he never smoked pot but other comedians let it slip norm would partake with them On his show he told Tom Green people couldn't tell when he was inebriated, and I believe he liked to keep it that way
He was very generous to you. A noticeable lever cooler than you too! I guess he was one of the greatest. He must have liked you, to be so open and thoughtful like that. You can tell everyone that he definitely liked you.
As somebody who has done LSD a bunch of times i would steer clear of it for alcoholism, if you wanted to try that approach though i would go with mushrooms instead, psilocybin to be exact. It has a much cleaner comedown without the serotonin depletion you can get from LSD being that you need all the serotonin you can get when detoxing your body.
@@ThunderDomeBoxingTalk MDMA effects the seretonin receptors and can potentially kill you. LSD works a bit different. There has never been any case of overdose despite an elephant who expired after a cosmic dosage.
Here is an interesting anecdote which I only learned recently. Bill W., the guy who founded Alcoholics Anonymous, actually had his breakthrough to sobriety after an LSD trip. Then he made an industry out of crediting his sobriety to “a higher power” instead, birthing a whole race of irritating, donut-eating Christian evangelists. And for that, God gave Bill W. emphysema, and he died. Don’t be a liar like Bill. Embrace the higher power of LSD like he did, and be free from addiction.
I love Norm but there is a pretty unintentionally hilarious comment he said when he was talking about alcohol being the only drug where people deny being drunk, and he gives the extreme example that whenever you see someone on heroin they never deny being high. First off that is such an extreme example, how often do you see people high on heroin compared to people being drunk, and secondly it's ironic because his friend Artie Lange has repeatedly denied being on/using heroin on countless occasions.
I believe you missed the point he was making or trying to make. If few people drink together, most of the time they won't say that they are drunk but if people are doing drugs together, they don't do that, it's obvious that they are high and it would be pointless to state otherwise but this is a generalization and there are so many different drugs which would obviously have different impact on your perception of reality but anyway, he was talking about that and not about talking to "outsiders" I think.
@savad.7898 again the irony being that his friend Artie went through so many times of denying being high on heroin. To say that heroin uses never deny being high is hilarious because of Artie and also that drug addicts all the time deny being high when they are. For heroin it's portrayed in the media that way (I don't know any heroin addicts myself, I guess your arguing Christopher denial of drug use on the Sopranos was unrealistic?). But I have friends who definitely have been high on weed and we're in denial about it
@savad.7898 now I read your message, lol. I disagree that drunk people hang out and deny being drunk, unless they are trying to drive drunk. But we can agree to dosagree
I like drinking but it does make me become 50% less of a human the next day. Slower, foggy, weaker, etc. but with certain old friends, nothing better than sitting at a table and having drinks
Yeah, dude. It boggles my mind to realize that he probably did this to almost everyone in his life. Everyone was always just experiencing his act with no way to tell what was real or just for the joke.
I mean regarding the alcohol, it's always weird to me when people don't get it. He says you wouldn't eat another ham sandwich or something if it made you puke for 3 hours, but then agrees it's a drug. You get a high from it, it takes off the edge, it makes you feel comfortable and makes mundane life interesting. Tons of people self medicate with alcohol for countless reasons. If it were that simple, it wouldn't be a problem.
I love to drink🥃 and a ham sandwich never made me feel awesome.just kinda full. It's just the health reasons for quitting if it's causing problems, like gout. That is painful and life disrupting when you cant walk all of a sudden. I don't know how alcoholics do it🤷♂ I was told diet and alcohol use cause it, so i quit
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You’ve probably tried everything-cutting back, making rules, or even going cold turkey. But nothing sticks.
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What if the real problem isn’t alcohol but the beliefs you’ve been taught about it?
The STUCK Phase of the STRIVE Method is a free trial to help you break down those beliefs and uncover why you drink. No pressure to stop-just clarity.
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All of the thumbs down
This sounds like nonsense. There is only one way to truly become sober. There are many ways to “stop” drinking. Abstinence and sobriety are completely different things.
Norm maintained his humanity at all times, he could sit with any man and give him the same respect, as if he was sitting with Johnny Carson.
Yeah, he was a lovely bloke.
I feel like I have a yak on my chest
And he didn't attribute it to being a follower of Christ. Holy cow.
@@XJon2011 .....?
@@XJon2011 actually a huge portion of the last decade of his life was spent talking about his faith and belief in the teachings of Christ
Or so the Germans would have us believe
i thought i had seen every norm clip on the internet,aside from him hosting golf tournaments, then this appeared!
It's like he came back from the dead for 20 minutes
Right? So glad I found this one
Yeah very strange this was recommended to everyone this week. I also genuinely thought I'd seen it all
You should check out some of the golf tournaments Norm hosted. He really goes to town on those sandwiches.
Im a huge norm fan and quit drinking 53 days ago and it’s so cool to find a new norm video and it’s about quitting drinking. Thanks for this!
Came across this video for the first time today. I’m on day 68 and every day sober feels like a win. keep it up bro
nice going, congrats on the 53 days so far! its not easy but every day sober feels better than the last! im 369 days in and it was the best decision i ever made
I quit alcohol and smoking roughly a month ago but I don't count the days because I'm not going back. I don't drink or smoke and that is that. Could be day 1 or 300, dosnt matter. I don't drink or smoke
55 days *
When you stop counting the days you're a free man
Thanks for taking the time to talk to Norm & share the conversation. Much appreciated.
Excellent location for an interview. Where are you? A hog auction?
Someone's got to feed them hogs...
ಠ_ಠ
They cut out the beginning, when Norm opened his mouth and said, "Oink".
I think its a poker event
People are carrying shoes. Bowling alley?
This is a real hidden gem
He should of asked Norm: Where do you get your ideas from?
Why
@@zkokalj7590 because super dave hates that question
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Ralph's
@@juancarlo888Great apples!
going on 19 yrs sober. i couldn't be better. i don't miss it one bit!
Congrats man. I’m almost 5 years in. Been fantasizing about drinking lately. So I’m watching sobriety content to remind me of what’s up. Didn’t even know Norm was sober.
@@tomas746stay strong brother!
You crave it, go on, have a drink mate.
@@rickstalentedtongue910 really normal guy you are
@tomas746 I'll get an urge to drink when things are going badly and I'm stressed and frustrated.
But, now there's a sense of relief when I realize, as bad as things may be going, at least I'm not going to make them worse by drinking!
Im a die hard norm fan, ive seen every damn clip a hundred times over.. Yet not this one.
I quit drinking last month, been a drunk since I was 19 (30 now). Its fuckin hard, quitting. Real steep cravings today...
And this shows up right at the top of my feed, out of nowhere. Thanks, Norm. Feels like you're looking up at me, watching over me right now.
Good on ya, occupy your time constructively and you'll find ways to live and be happier than you ever have been with alcohol
I just relapsed last night after 3 days, I had 20 days before that. In the last 5 years I haven't gone more than 120 days... it's horrible
@@CeeZee001 we can do this homie 💪🏼 dont get bored, dont give in. ive started making a cup of coffee every time i have cravings lateley, not like im sleeping very much anyways without booze lol. Gotta find something to fill that booze shaped hole in our brains.
Yeah well don’t fuck it up. Otherwise you’re back at square one still being insufferable to others
Let me know if you need any help quitting.
Real stream of consciousness going on here
Yeah, it's called conversation
The guy who made this comment? He's a real jerk!
@@PierceTravelsyeah I think you missed the joke, bud. You should dive deeper into Norm folklore.
@@Fenriz1222 LOL my reply is exactly how norm replied to the stream of consciousness comment, bud
@@PierceTravels ignore him he's down syndrome
I absolutely love how there’s so much content on RUclips. I’ve been watching Norm MacDonald heavy the last five years. I’ve never come across this, and of course, there must be so much footage of him playing poker with people.
5:53 Norm pauses as that arrow whistles past his head, fortunately missing
Funny comment. More of the same please.
The first ten seconds of this video is so amazing. Norm does that shit where he doesn't finish a sentence. But he's so good at comedy which goes hand in hand with making sure people get what ur meaning that he knows he doesn't gotta say the last word or two. Amazing. I have dabbled with this all my life and never been one thousandth as hood at as Norm is. #GOAT
His stand up that I watched a few hours after this was incredible. He took our conversation, and turned it into his performance.
@@LeeDavyCoaching a true artist. Easily one of the greats of comedy. Thanks for replying. Cheers
Is there a video of this performance
@@capealio No, unfortunatly. Do you mind if I ask how you find your way here?
@@LeeDavyCoaching just looking up Norm Macdonald clips i spose
I just had a random thought about Norm yesterday and then today I get reccomended this video. The guy was so unique, his way of thinking is so pure and spot on. And he was always so humble, never thinking he was as good as he was. Rest in peace Norm, wish I could've met you.
Watching this morning has made me put down the bottle. Thank you. Norm. Nassau, and this channel.
Daniel, if you want further help with that then reach ut at www.1000dayssober.com
Good on you! I’m 6+ months sober and loved watching it, too.
Is the bottle still down?
Him and John Dunsworth
I thought I'd seen every single Norm clip on RUclips, this was an amazing find! I've been a weekend binge drinker type for the past 20 years, and now that I've hit middle aged, I'm starting to get burned out on that lifestyle. This really helps.
Let me know if you need any help changing that.
@@LeeDavyCoaching Thanks! So far I think I've got it under control. About 6 months ago I switched from Ice beer to Light beer, and I'm 20 days into Dry January with zero desire to drink. I still want to drink on occasion, but the weekly non sense has to stop.
So awesome you got to meet Norm, he might have been the funniest person to have ever lived.
Nice to see a good convo with norm, he clearly enjoyed it too. Two handed shake.
Thank you so very much for doing this interview. Your work is more than significant.
Massive Norm fan so this came up in my feed. Great chat, and great to see him again, so relaxed and clearly getting on with you guys. Thanks.
In life, there are generally 2 kinds of smarts:
Book smarts
Street smarts
Norm maxed out book smarts through his street smarts.
A true social genius.
the title doesn't need the first four words.. they're implied by the two after
i'm drunk as hell, and norm is saving me. holy fuck, norm is the greatest of all time, the Epictetus of our time
And now that you’re sober you barely have any memory of this life saving moment
You have a long way to go.. lose the ego brother. . It comes from within.. not from a RUclips video
Have a mint before you comment next time…..jeez.
@ Explain which part of my comment contained an exceptional expression of Ego.
@ wait. . . .I remember...
5 months sober huge Norm fan Rest In Peace now I know why I think he stopped drinking
Massive props, Don. How are you finding life, 5-months sober x
1:34 “it’s like an old guy doing a story”
*Cough cough* thats you Norm *cough cough*
What a guy. I'd love to buy him a drink.
I can get him a bottle
Norm is speaking in rhetorics and passive contradictions, sitting and waiting on announcements in a betting hall, talking to the happiest man on the planet.
I thought I had seen all Norm videos. Thank you for recording this.
"Don't take a wild swing at me. I'm happy."
🤣🤣🤣
As soon as my dad drinks a beer he becomes a serial killer. He eats all the count chocula
Still pretty cool to have Frank Stallone as a dad, I bet.
I don’t do drugs. I am drugs.
I heard the saying in passing and out of context a few times, and didn't quite get it. Norm put it into perspective here. Great mantra, especially for creative folk
I cannot believe I've only just found this! Thank you!
My pleasure
Norm is the drunkest sounding sober person
Thank God. I needed my Norm fix.
Norm Macdonald--making us smile.
@@LeeDavyCoaching Do you have a link to that one?
Lee Davy you saw him in the Bahamas? That’s awesome.
@@johann5924 I don't sorry, it wasn't filmed.
Norm Macdonald doesn't do drugs, Norm Macdonald is drugs.
Hearing that announcer drown out this conversation makes me want a drink!
It's a nightmare, but when Norm says he gonna sit down and talk about this stuff, you don't ask him to move somewhere quieter - you take the moment.
1000 Days Sober: The Truth About Alcohol very true
@@LeeDavyCoaching why dont you ask him?
You couldn't write the comedy of it though and the looks on his face.
4:26. Where do you get your ideas?
Jerry Garcia said the same thing about snorkeling as Norm did pertaining to its very similar to tripping
Like when Norm accidently sat next to Joe Rogan the whole flight telling Joe he was a non-smoker then went straight to the airport Kiosk for a pack when they landed. Pretty sure Norm drinks alcohol.
Oh sure a beer with close friends, at home. Don't forget the cancer was there, too.
Having that drive, and that fired up ambition, is an excellent indication you're in a good place. To read a very simple method that takes about an hour to alter your brain and lasts permanently, read Steffon Barkload's approach, and stop foor good.
I can't believe this guy thought it was appropriate to interview Norm at a livestock auction. A man has needs.
Hey what a jewell, glad I found this video :)
Great video, thanks. Very genuine and insightful from both parties.
This would be a 3 minute interview if not for that announcer guy.
Norm’s a hero of mine, thanks for this video! ❤
Thank you for following your instincts, and posting this long form interview with the man Norm. Needed to hear this ❤
algorithm gave a bunch of us a hidden treasure for some reason
Norm, you and this fella are terrific. Speaking truth. And at the same time entertaining as all get out with the giant booming voice interrupting every few seconds.
This is fantastic. But he is in a casino waiting to gamble...
Yes- his least physically dangerous vice, I think. His autobiography reveals a pretty clear repressed memory of being raped by an elder man on a farm. The trauma was overpowered by addiction, and so it thrived as cancer instead.
LOL
How did you get this interview with Norm? Did you just see him at a poker tournament and start filming? Would love to hear the backstory to this and anything else you remember from “behind the scenes”.
Great conversation! You can tell Norm really respects you and even laughs at some of your quips, incredible honor.
I was working at the PokerStars PCA as a poker journalist, and I had a 10-minute interview with Norm on poker (PokerStars had invited him to play, and all the media got to speak to him). While I was waiting for the interview to start, we were talking, and he asked me what I did for a living, and I told him that I helped people quit alcohol. He told me that he once had a problem with it, but didn't drink anymore. I was supposed to interview the skateboard king Tony Hawk straight after, but I thought, fuck it, and I asked him if I could interview him for my podcast, and he said yeah. I know it's so noisy in the casino, and I had to record it on my phone, but it was well worth it. Later that evening, PokerStars invited me to a stand up show starring Norm and would you believe it he used our entire interview as his material for the 60-minute show. He was awesome.
Omg that would be so cool to have a conversation with Norm! Anyone know if he still gambles in cali or Vegas? And which casinos does he frequent?
Yea. He does. Think he’s going tonight
This was great, a hidden gem
He literally conversated his act .......amazing........you could compare this and his act to see how he created art: observation to comedy
Unfortunately, the stand up show was private and never filmed
This is awesome 👌
Knowing Norm, he's hammered drunk during this
Nice of Norm to give feature spots to the announcer.
The "I’m gonna talk about alcohol" at the end killed me
When norm got interrupted with the announcer and then just slipped in the word mates to a British guy and the smiles a few seconds later cos he knew he got away with it by emphasising friends. Literally god tier humour
Best Norm- interview I've ever seen. ❤
IT relaxes YOU 5:50
I had my pc on mute when this video popped up and I started giggling. Norm had that presence where he didn't even have to say a thing to make you laugh. 😂😔
It would be hilarious if right after the interview ended, norm stormed straight to bar, shaking with a drink in this hand.
The interviewer being like "what the hell norm?"
And norm says "sheesh, all that talking about drinking... just makes a guy wanna have a drink"
Rest in peace Norm ❤
Having worked as an advertising creative on alcohol brands for years in agencies with bars in the office, the biggest thing I realised is how much drinking has an effect on creativity over a prolonged period of time. While coming up with ideas with a writer while tipsy is fun, you spend half your days tired and irritable, when people ask you questions in creative reviews you're not anywhere near as sharp as you could be in defending them so good ideas are easily killed. Ironically it was only after I quit drinking that I started doing my best work on alcohol brands and was sharp enough to present well to clients and defend the integrity of the ideas so they didn't get interfered with.
I am glad you commented on this, Maurice because I hear the opposite view too many times. I share your views entirely. Thanks for commenting.
As Norm drinks he explains
Almost 3 years sober. I like the part where the norm related to being sober to working out. We should feel some sense of 'superiority' we worked hard and earned it!!
You don't get credit for doing what you're supposed to do.
@@LarsLarsen77 okay bud 👌
Where does Norm get his ideas from?
Awesome video, I'd love to have a conversation with Norm one day
And youd be blessed if so
What topics would you like to indulge in?
I wanna talk to that guy who keeps interrupting them with that super deep voice!
😔
I could listen to hours and hours of this
He actually took this short conversation and turned it into a one hour stand up later that night in the resort
I was a serious drinker up until my early forties and then the last group of friends that I drank with moved out of state and all of a sudden out of nowhere and through no effort at all on my part I wasn't drinking anymore,, that was 2001,, and I don't drink ,,,,,, it just ended..
Talk about lucky..
I bet it wasn't all luck, brother x
@@LeeDavyCoaching It was,, I didn't try or even think about it and still don't.
Cigarettes,,,,,,,,,, that was TOUGH,, I finally stopped in 2019 but it was horrible...
@@2packs4sure Well done on giving both of them the elbow brother.
Hey Norm, where do you get your ideas from?
Youll be dialing soon
Biggest realization I've ever had about drugs of any kind including caffeine or melatonin even.....they begin as a help to your normal but end up being needed to get to normal. I say this not criticizing or complimenting drugs/compounds......just observing.
Thanks for sharing.
Was the interview planned in advance or just on the spot? Must have been a thrill, he’s a hilarious guy.
(Just quietly, is it possible he may not be 100% sober at the table here...?)
I wondered the same thing until I seen more videos of him. He’s normally like that.
Uncle Dust it’s one of his jokes
It was spontaneous, and the only thing that Norm seems to be addicted to is Red Bull. This is how he is sober.
This is awesome
Wisdom hidden behind genius humour
I was watching this, realizing how smart norm is and ( apparently forgetting his death ) started to imagine more wise talks from norm in the future . Then I remembered the reality and got sad for a moment .
Batman sized bat. Norms response is like 0.0001% and he’s doing it on a podcast no one will see. This guys got 1k subs. God has blessed me today by showing me this 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Guy on the right seems like he’d try to hold your hand as a friend
Omg I’ve been blessed by norm. The way he gets interrupted with the call out guy repeatedly is pure comedy. Whoever owns this channel has something only 35k people have seen. I feel blessed to be laughing at new norm stuff. Rip norm, this podcast reminds me that the worst thing to ever happen to America in September was your death.
My ass he doesn’t drink booze. He was always drinking on the Tom Green show
This was two years before he died, he had probably stopped due to health issues
In other videos Norm has explained how admired Dean Martin’s act and would act dumb and drunk on purpose emulating him.
Im not sure if he was faking the drink on the Tom Greene show in true Martin’s fashion or not. I’ve wondered.
He for sure seemed loaded on Howard Stern and one time on the View, but it could have been Cancer treatment, or delirium and caffeine from staying up all night gambling the night before
@@yogawithtim it's just a hilarious thing to say if you do indulge, but yeah he drank on camera many times lol
He also insisted he never smoked pot but other comedians let it slip norm would partake with them
On his show he told Tom Green people couldn't tell when he was inebriated, and I believe he liked to keep it that way
I watched Norm drink 6 shots with Tom Green. And every time he’s about to drink booze he says he doesn’t drink booze. He drinks, no doubt.
He says he doesn't smoke then lights up a cigarette.
Point is he doesn't drink or smoke often. But by God does he eat fistfuls of Xanax
He's also deeply closeted workaholic
@@kirkstable and a cinefile
He actually stopped in 2021.
@@kirkstable workahol is a dangerous drug.
He was very generous to you. A noticeable lever cooler than you too! I guess he was one of the greatest. He must have liked you, to be so open and thoughtful like that. You can tell everyone that he definitely liked you.
Norm mentions LSD quite a few times here. What are your thoughts on it? Especially regarding treatment of alcoholism.
As somebody who has done LSD a bunch of times i would steer clear of it for alcoholism, if you wanted to try that approach though i would go with mushrooms instead, psilocybin to be exact. It has a much cleaner comedown without the serotonin depletion you can get from LSD being that you need all the serotonin you can get when detoxing your body.
I don't have a view on it. I have a system that's very effective and doesn't involve the use of other drugs, so I have never given it much thought x
@@ThunderDomeBoxingTalk MDMA effects the seretonin receptors and can potentially kill you. LSD works a bit different. There has never been any case of overdose despite an elephant who expired after a cosmic dosage.
Here is an interesting anecdote which I only learned recently. Bill W., the guy who founded Alcoholics Anonymous, actually had his breakthrough to sobriety after an LSD trip. Then he made an industry out of crediting his sobriety to “a higher power” instead, birthing a whole race of irritating, donut-eating Christian evangelists. And for that, God gave Bill W. emphysema, and he died.
Don’t be a liar like Bill.
Embrace the higher power of LSD like he did, and be free from addiction.
where do you get your ideas from
The C H in The Montreal Canadians cap stands for club de hockey 🏒
The "e" and "b" that made up the M on the Expos cap stood for equipe de baseball.
I love Norm but there is a pretty unintentionally hilarious comment he said when he was talking about alcohol being the only drug where people deny being drunk, and he gives the extreme example that whenever you see someone on heroin they never deny being high. First off that is such an extreme example, how often do you see people high on heroin compared to people being drunk, and secondly it's ironic because his friend Artie Lange has repeatedly denied being on/using heroin on countless occasions.
I believe you missed the point he was making or trying to make. If few people drink together, most of the time they won't say that they are drunk but if people are doing drugs together, they don't do that, it's obvious that they are high and it would be pointless to state otherwise but this is a generalization and there are so many different drugs which would obviously have different impact on your perception of reality but anyway, he was talking about that and not about talking to "outsiders" I think.
@savad.7898 again the irony being that his friend Artie went through so many times of denying being high on heroin. To say that heroin uses never deny being high is hilarious because of Artie and also that drug addicts all the time deny being high when they are. For heroin it's portrayed in the media that way (I don't know any heroin addicts myself, I guess your arguing Christopher denial of drug use on the Sopranos was unrealistic?). But I have friends who definitely have been high on weed and we're in denial about it
@savad.7898 now I read your message, lol. I disagree that drunk people hang out and deny being drunk, unless they are trying to drive drunk. But we can agree to dosagree
I don't drink. Don't like the taste. Don't like being dizzy. And Rillington Place is one of my favorite movies too. "Christie done it."
That’s exactly what and how I used to feel. Until the loud noises overshadowed the downsides of alcohol.
Great interview, love normy
I like drinking but it does make me become 50% less of a human the next day. Slower, foggy, weaker, etc. but with certain old friends, nothing better than sitting at a table and having drinks
There's something funny about Norm saying he's lucky he doesn't have the addictive gene while at a poker tournament lol
Everything Norm says to this guy I’ve heard in one of his standup sets. So basically this guy got a free 20 minute set sitting next to the legend.
Yeah, dude. It boggles my mind to realize that he probably did this to almost everyone in his life. Everyone was always just experiencing his act with no way to tell what was real or just for the joke.
This entire thing feels like it's a prepared routine, but he's just doing it off the cuff. Crazy. He's thought about it a lot, though.
Holds up
I mean regarding the alcohol, it's always weird to me when people don't get it. He says you wouldn't eat another ham sandwich or something if it made you puke for 3 hours, but then agrees it's a drug. You get a high from it, it takes off the edge, it makes you feel comfortable and makes mundane life interesting. Tons of people self medicate with alcohol for countless reasons. If it were that simple, it wouldn't be a problem.
Norm had the right idea... keep the beer, give me the pot... RIP King
Man is talking all that while drinking vodka is crazy.
I love to drink🥃 and a ham sandwich never made me feel awesome.just kinda full. It's just the health reasons for quitting if it's causing problems, like gout. That is painful and life disrupting when you cant walk all of a sudden. I don't know how alcoholics do it🤷♂ I was told diet and alcohol use cause it, so i quit
This norm dude is a real funny guy..
Gambling seems a bit intrusive also though 😂
Hi Norm! XOXO ❤