We're Out of Time
Jay Mohr Overcoming Victim Mentality & Checking Ego in Addiction Recovery
14 Jan 2025
Jay Mohr joins the We're Out Of Time podcast with @RichardTaiteOfficial and cohost Jason LaChance for an eye-opening and hilarious conversation about Jay's journey from addiction to recovery, Saturday Night Live stories, and checking one's ego. For all things Richard Taite, the We're Out Of Time podcast, and Carrara Treatment Wellness & Spa: For 1 Call Placement: 888-808-6159 For more on Jay Mohr: Key moments from this conversation with Jay Mohr, Richard Taite & Jason LaChance. Intro 00:00 Jay shares a funny story about the Saturday Night Live skit "How Much You Bench". 00:34 What does Jay say was his "first addiction" and how did he break his victim mentality? 01:40 Jay and Richard share some funny stories from childhood and how does it make their struggles with addiction make more sense? 06:10 What happened when some guy threw a Coke can at Jay's car? 10:19 "It's such a weird job to be a comedian in recovery." 12:49 After Jay quit alcohol how did other substances take over his life? 16:08 Jay shares Saturday Night Live stories about Norm Macdonald, Nirvana, and Aerosmith? 18:03 Jay shares words of hope for anyone struggling with sobriety and a HILARIOUS Christopher Walken impersonation? 24:13
Full Episode
My first addiction was your approval. It's such a weird job to be a comedian in recovery. Your whole job in recovery is to smash your ego. My entire existence, the reason I own a home is because people clap for me. And then having an alcoholic mom, I personally don't think anything caused my addiction because then that can still paint me as a victim. And a guy threw a can of Coca-Cola at my car.
And then I happened to have a tire iron. Then I took the tire iron and I smashed in his windshield. And then I went, yeah, I should go back to at least two meetings with him.
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To my right, Richard Tate, the man who revolutionized addiction treatment. Good to see you, my friend. Thank you. I'm Jason Lachance, a certified addiction recovery coach. And on this episode of We're Out of Time, we're going to give this a James Caan, Godfather, trash can style beating. He knows why. How much you bench?
How much you bench? 240, steroid free, just like you guys. 240, you call to brag about that? Put the phone down. Other gays at the gay bar want to use it. Jay Moore, thanks for joining us. Yeah, my pleasure. I had to do that. One of my favorite cast members of SNL, so... That got me chills. That's like a dream come true right there, Richard.
That sketch, we had little mechanical legs because we were steroid guys. And then we so we had to kneel inside of chairs. And so the little mechanical legs. But if you go back and watch David Spade, they used his real legs. He's just sitting there kicking his little legs around.
Oh, shit. That's too good. That's too good. You know, it's always interesting for me. I mean, all this stuff with us with addiction starts in childhood. And I know for me, grew up in a home of addiction. So I kind of wanted to talk about that with you because I know you talked about your mom not getting clean. She got clean when you were about 10?
When I was 10, yeah. Yeah. Well, my first addiction was your approval. Right. You know, and I think my I think my drug addiction and alcoholism precedes my youth. Well, I know it does for me. It precedes my actual usage. Like I was insatiable and needed more. And I had this disease of perception before I treated it with drugs and alcohol. So like my first drink was maybe 13.
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