3 Famous Hoarders (Weird Al Yankovic, Jim Norton, Todd Barry)
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- Опубліковано 12 чер 2024
- Guests of the Blocks podcast with Neal Brennan discuss hoarding.
00:00 Weird Al Yankovic
6:12 Todd Barry
15:16 Jim Norton
Theme music by Electric Guest (unreleased).
#podcast #comedy #standup #mentalhealth #hoarder - Комедії
Q: What's the difference between collecting and hoarding?
A: SHELVES.
Hoarders have plenty of shelves. They are in boxes stack on the ground for all the other boxes to stack up on !
A pile is a primitive shelf.
Fuck that, the CDs stay and it’s non-negotiable
Al is so genuine, he's a breath of fresh air in the entertainment industry.
Hes been at it since the 80s 😅
While anything can be overdone. To me CDs, vinyl, books, and all genuine physical media, are not "hoarding". Akin to a library or owning art.
My Dad had a recording on 8 track of Alan Watts talking, partly to my dad, and he even addressed me (I was about 5) briefly. It was from Japan. Alas, it has disappeared.
Weird al is damn adorable what a kind gentle soul
I’m with Weird Al for keeping his physical media, considering tech companies can simply block you from listening or watching streaming media you paid for (an actual thing that can happen) I’m all for owning something like that that can be played forever
Now they're trying to make Blu-Rays and DVDs go extinct too, it's sick.
That is a brilliant metaphor at 18:45 of the slow drain at the bottom of the hole you are trying to fill, so it always seems like you are about to be able to fill it.
Comedians have incredible insight.
I would have scanned (or had someone scan) all of Weird Al's fan mail so it doesn't take up physical space but you still have a record of it and respect the fan, haha. So ephemeral.
As someone who has hired organizers, read books, blah blah blah here's what helped me:
"I don't know where to start." Start with TRASH. It helps to take the overwhelm out of looking at a pile.
Then look for the "easy" stuff: "Why is this here? It goes in such-n-such room." TAKE IT THERE NOW. This one thing goes against conventional organizing advice, but it seriously changed my life. Then if you get interrupted or have to stop, you don't turn around to more of a mess with a "Keep" pile to deal with later. There is no later.
"I don't want/need this anymore." Have a donatable DONATE box.
Those are the first few steps from Dana K. White at A Slob Comes Clean. Her method is especially ADHD-friendly and helpful for people dealing with time or energy or mobility issues. She has a podcast, YT channel, and books on her "no mess" method. She interviews a hoarding specialist on her podcast who uses her method. (I'm not affiliated in anyway, just a huge fan of her work!) Hope that's helpful for someone else. 🙂
There’s also a cleaning/organizing program something called Unfuck your Habit
Hey you don't need that TV. Let me get it
Oh my god, I've literally thought to myself "...maybe if I put this off I'll die and won't have to do it."
That’s actually a pretty solid plan
Mom? Is that you?!
I love Weird Al! I got to see him on the Running with Scissors tour. One of the best shows I’ve ever been to.
I saw him back in the day. For a finale, the s.o.b. came onstage hopping on one leg, the other behind his head, playing the accordion!
This video is the perfect Venn diagram of two things I love, Todd Barry and a messy apartment. Thanks Neal!
Cds are not hoarding. The way artists are ruining their own online legacy by replacing their original mix albums with increasingly safe yet obnoxious remixes and remasters, all of us music lovers are going to end scouring the internet for used CDs or lovingly pirated copirs of the originals.
Just go and listen to the album versions a band like Pearl Jam has of their first five albums. It sounds horrible. Don't throw away your CDs!!!
Or your stereo setup for that matter, but it seems everyone got stupid at the start of the 2000s
I hate shelves. I love how my house looks now that I don’t have movies and games and music everywhere. More room for guitars. Those I have way too many of
Real fans own the cds
I collect CDs and have them uploaded to hard drives. I fear some stock market bs is gonna change everything
@@6woody559Yep or Vinyl records which is what I'm into
Yes cds are pieces of art. I love my hardcopies of albums.
Im a staunch supporter of keeping physical media, at the very least its nice to have cds/dvds/blu ray when the internet goes out or if you have bad service while driving or something, not to mention labels change or remove music from streaming all the time so you never know when your favorite album is just gone because of licensing disputes
My grandma came from a 3rd world country where they saved and repurposed everything. It took us a year and a half to clean out her house after she died. Sometimes I'm afraid I've developed some tendencies living with her. Maybe it's just depression. But sometimes the dishes and laundry are the hardest things to do because I've let them pile so high
There won't be any internet in the Apocalypse but I'm counting on having electricity to run my boombox and turntable. The CD's and albums (and a few cassettes!) STAY!
I love playing CDs. One car has a great flash drive setup but the other is better for CDs. Albums are tracked for reason.
Visited with Wierd Al and Dr. Demento in the 80s. Maybe it was the coke, but his house was fairly neat. The Doctor however, is a certified hoarder. I remember slinking through a narrow labyrinth lined with boxes of recorda and tapes, to see museum rooms of chaos.
Kinda sweet Al kept the fan mail.
It's fascinating to hear Weird talk about this kind of thing that I've struggled with off and on!
Been catching more Neal interviews. Awesome work man
This is soooo cathartic and the timing... Un-fkng-CANNY!! I'm not religious whatsoever, but if I was, I'd surely venture to say this video ending up on my feed as being divine intervention!! ...Or interference, In any case, thank you so very much for sharing this video. Hoarding's rarely about greed, but moreso it's a trauma response to the end of a long term, abusive relationship.
If we don't have room to fit someone else into our home, then it saves us from finding ourselves in another abusive relationship. It's a subconscious form of self preservation, in the same way that some sexual assault victims will gain huge amounts of excess weight, to make themselves unattractive in hopes of avoiding any future attempted assaults. It's unhealthy, either way, and the term self preservation is misleading, as far as I believe, as in either case, both coping mechanisms will shorten that person's life, rather than preserve it!
Wow this is really great! It helps a lot to hear about others I respect who also have struggles in similar areas!!!! Thanks Mr. Brennan, Mr. Yankovic, Mr. Barry and Mr. Norton!!!!!
The fan mail is really a sweet sentiment. The Reverend Robert Tilton got in big trouble for throwing tons and tons of prayer requests away (they kept the cash). Yet another reason Weird Al is better than a pastor.
I still need CDs for the car!
I have my dad’s cassette tape collection. Even though he passed away I feel he is with me when I play his tapes.
This was a goldmine.
My mom hoarded a lot of thrift store crap later in life. She used to shrug it off and tell me to just have Goodwill pick it up after she died. Well, she died at the height of the pandemic when Goodwill wouldn't come out. I got the family to come take what they wanted and then paid some guys to haul away the rest. I understand she couldn't really help herself but part of me still resents the layers of family stuff I had to sift through and feel bad about.
I love weird Al even more now. Also, now I know I'm a genius because i'm just like him.
I'VE KEPT ALL OF MY SHIRTS!
My mom had 14 storage units going at the same time. She moved those into 2 climate controlled 24x87 ft.underground units for YEARS most of the time we had 3600 ft under roof that had a THING in every place, every space.
CDs sound better than mp3s
My rationale for keeping CDs (and DVDs for that matter) is that there's no guarantee that digital media will always be accessible. But as long as you can find a CD or DVD player, you can still listen to your CDs... Or you can use your computer to rip the MP3s off the CD and burn to a new CD if the original one is getting too old.
Good to know that I'm not alone.
Jim really likes filling holes
My cousin is a hoarder, he had food trash and all other sorts of crap building up in his old apartment. There was a walking path to get through everything, he’s got a 12 year old, she was about 10 at the time we discovered his hoarding he wouldn’t ask for help. His ex wife knew, but didn’t do anything and my family was furious. The breaking point was when his leg needed to be amputated because of his diabetes, he had to move to a house he was letting my aunt stay in. She passed just as this all happened, the house was my grandmothers and he won’t let anyone visit because we all gave him an ultimatum that if he ruined that house we’d be calling a few different people on him, all grew up in that house. One of his cats “disappeared” only to be found dead under his bed. He almost died from eating chicken wings that he left out for almost a month. Runs in the family our grandpa was a hoarder… sad to see
Someone teach me what a block actually is. I want to desperately understand 😵💫 I love this podcast!!!!
Hoarding runs in my family and I’m the total opposite. I try to be as minimal as possible
Todd is hilarious 😂
Weird Al should melt those cds down and make his casket and tombstone out of it.
My problem is what Neal talked about. I hate the idea of adding to the landfill. Im ok with throwing things away emotionally, but stuff I don’t know what to do with is the bane of my existence. I’m ok with things that can be recycled. But a lot of stuff is in ok enough condition but, with no car, the idea of donating seems like such a huge ordeal. Years ago I had a company who takes used computers and they picked some up, but stuff like cd’s etc are harder to know what to do with. I have a one bedroom with no storage. I relate to the story about finding a business card from 10 years ago beside my kitchen sink. Stuff just disappears and reappears in my tiny apartment. I think it’s haunted! 🤣
It's hard to deal with, but if you think about it, most things are destined for the landfill. You can put it off a few years--maybe--by donating, reselling, trading, etc., but ultimately, it's destined for trash the day it's manufactured. And the thing I've learned about hoarding is, if you're not willing to put it in a landfill, your living space becomes the landfill. 🫤
Weird Al probably hoards accordians and spatulas
He said, "Storage Unit(s)".
Oh lord, I don’t know if I could toss fan mail…..wow
Al should've scanned them and saved them digitally
That's a lot of work for stuff you'll never look at again. Trust me.
@@JP-ve7or someone would have.
21:40 no, most people can, its not the majority who can't drink responsibly
Norton hoards 🐓 🐓 🐓 & 🏀 ⚽️ 🎾
I can't believe he took so long to throw out my fan letter. I sent him a letter in 97 decrying my love of Harvey the wonder hamster. It was not a thing you could describe as a 'keeper'.
He is Weird. He is Al. We are Yankovic!
Big house and minimalist are oxymorons in my eyes. I've been to someone's big empty house. Like why?
The self awareness of these men is really something. Ya love to see it
For ADHD, the trick is start with a small victory, put the dopamine kettle on, or work within a set boundary- until you can get that thing whistling.. As in, with the desk example, _just_ organize your pencil cup. Straighten one stack of papers. _Just_ empty the trash bin. Do one tiny task that will be immediately apparent to you. Clean off the top left corner of your coffee table, or line up the remotes on the right. Put _just_ your makeup brushes away. Find an empty container and put your charging cables in it. Replace your pet's waterbowl. Don't take the shower yet, just get your underwear, clothes and towel and out them in the bathroom.
Don’t do _all_ of the dishes, just get them out of the sink and into manageable piles on the counter:
-put on a 20 minute NB UA-cam video like this one.
-Put on gloves for these tasks bc adhd is typically very sensitive to sensory input. The gloves must fit! Get cleaning gloves that fit you really well.
-Drag the trash bin over, take the lid off so you can access it.
-Get a sturdy, dirty glass out of the sink and rinse it out and start putting forks and spoons in it.
-Then start putting like with like, stack plates and bowls to the left of the sink, dumping debris in the trash as you go, (rinsing can be simultaneously or as a separate step if it is something you hate)
-just keep getting the dishes out of the sink and matching them until the video is over, and then stop.
-Put on a 15 minute video while you take a break.
find another 20 minute video, play it, and go back to your dishes or start a new project.
These are all in *blocks* if you will, so you’re looking to set up the task, not “do” the task.
New blocks of larger tasks are
-gathering your laundry (can be divided into room by room, bedroom is one chunk, bathroom/living room another)
-or sorting it into 2 or 3 piles, grouping by color and fabric texture.
-taking a trash bag with you and entering into each room looking around saying out loud, “trash… trash… trash…” ( _don’t laugh at me just SAY IT_ ) and while you do this you’re finding JUST trash and putting it in your bag. Do this until your 20 minute video ends. Take a ten minute break. Do another block/chunk/task
What should be happening here for ADHD people is you should begin to feel more and more motivation growing as you go, the more so for any quick, visible tasks you can accomplish in one block and you can see the results from wherever you’ve taken your break at.
I’m writing a book about Decluttering, organizing, unf*cking your life as an adult with ADHD and too much figurative and literal garbage in your life and not enough dopamine to throw it out. I have ADHD though so, who knows -if- when I’ll finish it
I hrd but it’s things like toys, computer parts, miniatures & paints, clothes….like W
Wait, he threw away my letter?
I know Todd Barry is a mega celebrity, but who are the other two guys?
Lol
I have bookschelves. But I just like real books. Maybe it's just some sort of nostalgic thing, but I just like to hold the paper. E-reader just doesn't do it for me.
Comedians who are hoarders and Gilbert doesn’t even get an honorable mention?
I dont get it. I feel the opposite. Just want to get rid of things
You and those like you are so lucky!
I want to consolidate and organize my hoards and make it look like I got rid of tons of shit, but keep everything I'll be glad I kept later.
Watching the Hoarders show has turned me into the opposite, haha.
@@shuckslbjthe problem is, your stuff will never let you get there without clearing some out first. I’ve found that choosing your keeps is easier than choosing your throwaways. I pick out the stuff I want to keep and store the rest for 6 months. Then, if I don’t get back into that bin over that time, I’ll get rid of it.
The great depression shaped generations into basically hoarding but the most conservative estimates for job loss due to AI make the great depression look like the roaring 20s
Oh grow up
Please never throw away with this throw away comment. You never know...
Anyone who thinks you should get rid of your cds is an Op
Hoarding from Catholic guilt?
Kiss sucks
I have a big house and its basically empty.. open, clean, minimal and manageable :)
so nice that you’ve got a big empty house