Brandon Novak

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Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast · Ep 530 - Novak's House (feat. Brandon Novak) · 22 Nov 2024 podcast

Yeah, dude, I remember that was like a weird shock for me. I went to school for social work for a while, a couple years ago, and I would get inmates housing. That was a thing I did for one of the field placements. And then there was this one guy who was a fucking pain in my ass. He'd always call me and just be like, you're not doing shit, blah, blah, blah. Sure.

He was under the gun because they were going to take his kid, a bunch of shit if he didn't find appropriate housing. And, uh, and I remember the day I found him a house, we're both in this place and I called him up and I was like, yo, dude, we got it. And he, it like, we both were so happy. And I was like, that was such a funny. Yeah. For something so dumb. I mean, it's a big deal. It's a house.

But I remember like I won this like comedy contest and I was like, this is it. And then I got the guy house. It was literally the same feeling again. It was the same exact feeling of like timing and opportunity to create a beautiful outcome. But it is a weird thing.

That was, like, a weird thing for me when I was, like, oh, you can get just as happy for doing nice things for people as you can, like, you know, achieving some sort of personal victory. Yeah, any monetary fucking victory. Exactly.

It is, honestly, I would argue that, like, when you do something, like, awesome for a person, I think it feels better than if you, like, if you just, like, kill it in some way with, like, a sales thing. Straight up. Yeah.

Yeah, that is a nice thing. And it's one of those things, too. It's one of those things I think people sneer at. They're like, making the world better. It's like, what the fuck else are you going to do? You should be a dickhead all the time. But it's like, I feel bad for, personally, it's like, so you have, you know, people, they go through, you know, drug addiction.

There's like this whole thing. It's like, you know, everyone, when, you know, I would imagine you're a drug addict. There's like a part of it. Like everyone knows I'm an addict. People are talking shit on me, everyone, blah, blah, blah. But then it almost like you're like, you reach a point where you're like, I don't give a fuck. And that's like a very freeing experience eventually.

Whereas there's people who don't,

ever you know fall into a deep uh drug addiction but they never get to really face their own like self-defeating mental patterns and in a way it's almost like the person in my opinion who goes through addiction and gets out of that ends up having i think a richer existence than if you never really have to face that or come like face to face with yourself and like really look at yourself because there's people who get through life good on you know on paper but it's like you know they're tortured absolutely it's like i always thought it was like a shame

Because everyone I know who's in recovery is very open. Almost like you can tell. It's like, okay, this person really has turned a corner because it's like something switches. Nobody really knows exactly what that is, but it really is. The most consistent factor is having some sort of spiritual experience or an awakening experience.

So that's crazy. You really didn't think people were like hip to you at all?

I was the last person.

That's really funny.

Like all this nonsense.

So it snowball affected into this. Yeah. Yeah. It's just crossing that like threshold, even consider the possibility. It was so simple, though. I missed it. I overlooked it. Yeah, dude, I think most people go their whole life without ever saying it.

Hear me out here. I failed to promote my shows in the Irvine Improv, SoCal. I'm so fucking SoCal. I forgot to do the ads or make a flyer for the Irvine show. Eeps. My bad. It's next weekend. Thanksgiving weekend. Friday, November 29th. Saturday, November 30th. Two days. Fo' shows. Come out to motherfucking Irvine Improv. Um... And I'll be honest, I'm not just saying this because I'm doing a show.

I love Irvine. Irvine was the first place I went to in California. And I was telling someone recently, I'm like, I fucking love Irvine. And they lived in L.A. And I'm like, are you kidding? Are you trying to be funny? I'm like, no, why? And apparently everyone from L.A. just snubs Irvine. Like, I would never. Fuck you guys, dude. Irvine rules. L.A. 's fucking bullshit. Irvine.

We're talking Laguna Beach. We're talking motherfucking Newport Beach. Conservative-ass stronghold down there in SoCal, dude. Shit. Come out. I love Irvine. It's literally the first place I went to in California. I'm very excited to go there. I'm going to bring my whole motherfucking family. We're all going to do Thanksgiving out there. It's going to be sick.

So Irvine Improv, Friday, November 29th, Saturday, November 30th. Let's go. Let's show these L.A. fucking pussies, dude, who's really fucking SoCal. They're not fucking SoCal. They're north of Irvine. Yeah. So how did you get into the recovery homes? When did you start that? And like, what was that like?

So are you all like, do you fuck with like the Instagram and all that shit? Yeah, I like that.

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