How Jim Jefferies’ mother affected his relationships
Jim Jefferies tells Neal Brennan about his abusive mother and how she impacted his future relationships. From The Blocks #podcast with Neal Brennan
Full episode: https://youtu.be/GFH_7tF0vh0
Watch Neal Brennan: Blocks on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/title/81036234
Theme music by Electric Guest (unreleased).
#podcast #jimjefferies #comedy #standup
@JacksonAction-iu3mt
October 7, 2025 at 1:16 pm
I love when Neal tries to add something it subtracts. Keep it up Neal.
@Marsi-811
October 7, 2025 at 1:16 pm
Damn! The gut wrenching truth of growing up with a bi-polar parent! So unfair!
@WernerVonWeener
October 7, 2025 at 1:16 pm
UP GUNTHER!!!!! UP!!!!!
@007nadineL
October 7, 2025 at 1:16 pm
5:42 I can guarantee 100% Jeff would still marry a thin woman even if his mother was a skinny abusive woman. Because biology. Men made straight women to be attracted to thin women.
@warriorzoul13
October 7, 2025 at 1:16 pm
Neil, why don’t you ask him about his relationship with his kids? Because I work at a certain theater that I will not name but the Aladdin musical came by and Jim had bought tickets for his kids and himself and I saw merchandise and he asked his kids what they wanted and his son said oh I want this doll in that doll and he said I’m not buying you any FUCK in dolls what else do youwant? Hmm😮
@zerphase
October 7, 2025 at 1:16 pm
Is Jim Jeffries sure he doesn't want to marry a fat dominatrix, who hits him and puts stuff in his butt?
@hamooon
October 7, 2025 at 1:16 pm
the car pulling up really hit a spot for me there. Lights on at home, garage opening up, all curtains not drawn, windows open, noises of footsteps near my door. lol
@will9001asd
October 7, 2025 at 1:16 pm
Every kid deserve parents but not every parent deserve kids 😔😔
@brandonhinrichs4393
October 7, 2025 at 1:16 pm
My father was raised to believe an abusive man who raped and impregnated his sister was his father and didnt learn the truth until after his older sister had the child and he died then my grandmother denied the reality of what happened and blamed her teenage daughter. My dad was 17 when he found out the truth and was sent to live with his father and the family he didnt even know. He was never what i would call physically abusive though I've been hit but he was emotionally and psychologically abusive and blew up at the drop of a hat and had zero interest in me growing up unless i was getting in trouble. The only time it seemed like he gave a shit was when he was pissed off at me. Mom always had my back but she was also oblivious to my life, especially my mid to late teens and so was my dad to an extent if you could weather the storm of him just belittling you constantly trying to provoke you into responding to him with anger so he could physically intimidate you. Im 41 and he's attempted that shit with me 3-4 times over the past 20 years and each time it ends with him getting tossed across a yard or a kitchen because when he gets worked up he will not let anything go
@leylinetarot
October 7, 2025 at 1:16 pm
My first trip to the psych unit my doctors name was "Dosyng Yeun" and i was convinced he was just trying to dose me with medication to stop me from "catching on to the secret". The paranoia is so crazy and the medication never made any of it go away. The other patients were also going through similar things and would exacerbate my own symtoms with a simple random phrase. I think its good that you had access to your phone because it sort of helps the blow when you get out and get complete access again. How did you speak to someone who didnt exist? That would make everything so much worse mentally. Did you smoke marijuana? I wish there was more understanding behind these symptoms but it seems as if medicine is just about numbing the symptoms. Thank you for talking about your experience.
@jeaniebird999
October 7, 2025 at 1:16 pm
I don't think the term gaslighting is overused, I think it's misused. I think gaslighting happens a lot more often than most are aware.
@jeaniebird999
October 7, 2025 at 1:16 pm
My mom would beat us with whatever she could reach. My oldest brother got the worst of it. At age 7, she cheated on the best step-dad we ever had and moved us in with Paedophile Pop and Paedophile Jr. Eventually, Paedophile Pop got her to stop beating us. We were grateful, but boy did we owe him for that…
The step-dad she ripped us away from, found us, on Facebook, 40 years later, and has been literally taking care of myself and my brother, ever since. AND the poor guy is dealing with cancer and lives several states away!😢 We're in our 50's and he's the best parent we've ever had! Wish I could be there for him.
@christinamartell11
October 7, 2025 at 1:16 pm
It's understandable he had a skewed view of women. A woman having daddy issues is more socially acceptable than a man having mommy issues. Men are just scoffed at while women get to be heard. Good on him for looking outside of the situation and making peace with it. He's a good guy and fucking hilarious.
@quicoboy
October 7, 2025 at 1:16 pm
…a child that does not fear their parents does not fear God…smh…criminals dont fear God's wrath either…
@Tim_Beitel
October 7, 2025 at 1:16 pm
Gaslighting is a term that is quite overused. So much so that experts in mental health are coming out and asking people to stop claiming that everything is gaslighting. Yes, gaslighting is a thing that does happen but it’s quite rare and more complicated than what social media would have you believe
@klbriceno1
October 7, 2025 at 1:16 pm
oh boy… I feel bad for Jim but the kid and him saying "you are just like Carolyn/mom" seems soooo not good though. None of us could really understand what he went through I guess. lol
@Charbenaro
October 7, 2025 at 1:16 pm
IFS therapy is top notch for ppl who went through this type of abuse and other issues.
@BudoReflex
October 7, 2025 at 1:16 pm
It’s good he opened up about this, because I had a negative opinion of him. It’s nice to get context.
@jeffyankey7916
October 7, 2025 at 1:16 pm
Sounds like melodramatic malignant narcissism, i have a family of them
@HeidiMerkley
October 7, 2025 at 1:16 pm
There is a physical reaction to stressors, long after traumas. It does get better over time.
@chrisvalleqatsi
October 7, 2025 at 1:16 pm
OMFG the anxiety of "Mom Coming Home" – fuck me, that's still (53yo) basically every day when my wife pulls up. Always a litte icewater down the back, and a spot check to see what I might get yelled at for. goddamn
@momma_goose
October 7, 2025 at 1:16 pm
I’ll speak for most men with domineering and abusive mothers. Yes it has a large effect on your relationships with women – I love this podcast 😂
@brandonthomas9288
October 7, 2025 at 1:16 pm
His appearances on Opie & Anthony are legendary. He's not that funny to me these days though.
@shannond1511
October 7, 2025 at 1:16 pm
Jim Jeffries!?! A problem with women due to mommy issues, you don’t say!?!?
@deniseferron3397
October 7, 2025 at 1:16 pm
My step dad woke us up at 3 a.m. to make cement and build a back patio along our 60-foot long house. We were at it till well after sunrise. I was 11 years old. This was not at all uncommon in that household. My sister and I ran away from home.
@mimio008
October 7, 2025 at 1:16 pm
I was disturbed by the "when women do it everybody's on their side" tangent Brennan was trying to go on at some point. Yes, men's trauma is not well understood yet by society and it needs to change. The solution is not to drag women down though. The gender war that gets injected in every conversation is getting really tiresome and gets us nowhere.
@robr177
October 7, 2025 at 1:16 pm
People who have had good childhoods with loving parents need to hear stories of people who had shit parents. I am so grateful for my childhood now. I used to think it was crap – but it was heaven compared to what a lot of people go through. I try to talk to my kids about this stuff because they experience what some kids are like who have this situation, and because of my exposure to these kinds of stories, I was able to help them to understand these kids better, and to treat them as nicely as possible. My son was able to get a bully to become his friend because of being understanding and kind to him, despite how he treated others. And now he's quite a nice kid. I can only hope that it was my son's treatment of him that changed him, because you can't know.
@susanbland6790
October 7, 2025 at 1:16 pm
Wow, Listening to Jims story really moved me. It's so sad to hear about the trauma and disfunction that people experience at the hands of their parents. I also am so curious and saddened by the story from his Moms perspective. My Mom, although no where near as abusive as Jim's, definitely struggled with unacknowledged mental health issues and it is only now at 61 that I am able to see her as a human being that suffered.
@kittybluett8887
October 7, 2025 at 1:16 pm
My mother sometime physically abused us but the worse abuse has been her verbal, emotional and psychological abuse. A Counselor told me when I told her that my mother was sickeningly nice to people but really she was a nasty person that it was narcissistic personality disorder and yes it fits. She’s still alive at 90 and still causing problems.
@wiredforstereo
October 7, 2025 at 1:16 pm
No kids are "bad people."
There are plenty of kids with bad parenting. Kids learn to be "bad people from their parents."
When there is a real problem with a kid, then the parenting is the problem. The older I get the more I know this for sure.
@wiredforstereo
October 7, 2025 at 1:16 pm
I understand not liking fat women if one severely abused you.
Also, most fat women are tons of fun.
@Zumcho
October 7, 2025 at 1:16 pm
Jim Jeffries mom sounds a lot like mine. I think it's that whole generation of mothers. Not a cultural thing, more a generational thing.
@RolandDeschain1
October 7, 2025 at 1:16 pm
Magda Szubanski was perfectly cast as his mother in LEGIT. She nailed that kind of malignant narcissist that I think most families have one of.
With me it's one of my uncles. A complete bag of shit who I can't stand. Three strokes he's had and none of them have had the good grace to finish him off.
@RolandDeschain1
October 7, 2025 at 1:16 pm
One of my best friends growing up had parents who treated him like shit. I don't think they were physically abusive but there was never a time I was there where his mother didn't scream at him about something. His dad was really condescending to him as well, always cutting him down.
He ended up going into the military and joining the Special Forces. So I imagine he's taking his anger out of some poor brown people overseas.
@sdot5389
October 7, 2025 at 1:16 pm
Jim Jeffries trying to explain to Neal Brennan about siblings not getting along 😂
@rosablume4346
October 7, 2025 at 1:16 pm
Thanks for the great interview, Neal, that was very well done/ handled, your questioning, and not putting yourself first. And I did not know about Jim‘s horrible childhood,
it takes quite a lot to overcome a battering or trauma like that
@Sammaysamiis
October 7, 2025 at 1:16 pm
I wish I had people who understood. My heart goes out to you
@l.t.5535
October 7, 2025 at 1:16 pm
Heartbreaking! there's a special place in hell for parents who hurt their children. For anyone who hurt children, but parents are supposed to be the child's safe haven
@RosieTime_
October 7, 2025 at 1:16 pm
I can relate to what Jim said. My mother was a bully too. Bless his heart.
@samuelchoi7309
October 7, 2025 at 1:16 pm
Neal, let's talk about the relationship with your brother.
@MJBOGAN
October 7, 2025 at 1:16 pm
I know Jim Jefferies makes this whole lookamee I'm a Aussie act, but he's not someone anyone in Australia watches.
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