Comedian Josh Johnson On: Handling News Cycle Anxiety, His Insane Work Ethic, and Why AI is BS

Hey everybody, welcome to the Ten Percent Happier Podcast. I'm your host, Dan Harris. Today we have a fascinating, rangey, and super interesting conversation with the comedian Josh Johnson. We talk about uh how uh wild the mind is. We talk about uh dealing with uh the anxiety of uh the news cycle, the difference t between acceptance and resignation, his extraordinary work ethic and uh the kind of healthy obsession he has with comedy and um Stay tuned because after I say thank you, we actually have a long and really interesting discussion about AI and his very powerful uh negative feelings uh about AI. Just a little bit more on Josh before we dive in here. He is uh one of uh the uh hosts and correspondents on The Daily Show on Comedy Central. He's got a comedy special, an excellent one, on HBO Max called Symphony, and on his YouTube channel. He and this gets to his work ethic, he has for three years posted a new hour of comedy.

Every week. Take that in. A new hour of comedy. Every week for three years. Josh Johnson, uh a a rising star in the comedy world.

Really interesting, really smart. Josh Johnson, welcome to the show. How's it going? Oh, great. Nice to see you. Nice to see you. I'm a fan. Thanks, man. Night nice to meet you. I wanna play you a little clip just to get us started. This is a clip of you. Oh What uh oh.

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