How To Offend Everyone - Mark Normand - #562

**Chris Williamson** (0:00)
Hello, friends. Welcome back to the show. My guest today is Mark Normand. He's a podcaster, an actor and a comedian. Mark grew up in a rundown New Orleans bed and breakfast with a cross-dressing manager. Fertile ground for becoming one of the most popular, hardest working and fastest growing comics in America then. But why is it so important to have a pursuit that you care about if you're going to do other seemingly unrelated hard things? Expect to learn the price that you pay for being a famous comedian, why Mark's life would fall apart if he didn't have a passion to care about, whatever happened to that lady who tweeted about AIDS on a plane to Africa, whether Cocaine Bear will be given the Oscar nomination it sorely deserves, whether bombing on stage changes your personality, and much more. It was rather difficult to hold it together in front of Mark. The guy is never serious, but I actually managed to get some serious stuff out of him today and I very much appreciate his dedication to the craft and the focus and level of attention that he brings to his calling in life. It's very, very cool to see and super inspiring. In other news, this episode is brought to you by Whoop. Whoop is the best fitness tracker that I have ever found. It has a proven ability to drive positive behavioral change by giving you gentle nudges in the app to take on more sleep or to take on more strain. Whoop members dramatically improve their habits and therefore their health 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Your Whoop is tracking everything that you do, your heart rate, your heart rate variability, your blood oxygen levels, your galvanic skin temperature, how many wake events you've had during the night. It feeds all of that out into a very simple app that gives you easy, actionable advice that helps you to move your health in a better direction. If you are looking to make a big change in the new year with your fitness, with your health, with your overall longevity, this is a great place to start. And, you can join for free. Pay nothing for the brand new Whoop 4 strap. Plus, you get your first month for free and there's a 30-day money back guarantee. So you can buy it for free, try it for free and if you do not like it, after 29 days, they'll give you your money back. Head to join.whoop.com/modernwisdom. That's join.whoop.com/modernwisdom.
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