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Dan Harmon on #MeToo & Apologies

Neal Brennan | October 8, 2024



Dan Harmon tells Neal Brennan about his experience being called out for past behavior online, and how he apologized. From the Blocks Podcast w/ Neal Brennan.

Full Episode: https://youtu.be/FHrOkYoKz0w

Watch Neal Brennan: Crazy Good on Netflix:
https://www.netflix.com/title/81728557

Theme music by Electric Guest (unreleased).

#podcast #standup #comedy #community #rickandmorty

Written by Neal Brennan

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  1. @Lurklen

    October 8, 2024 at 5:14 pm

    I get the points he's making, but if someone spills a drink on me, I do not care that they have learned their lesson. I care that they acknowledge how they've ruined my night, and yeah, maybe my jacket. There are different kinds of apologies for different circumstances. But the only actual ingredient for an apology is acknowledgment of wrongdoing and remorse. It is purely saying "I did you wrong, and I am sorry for it." Unless you can actually substantively rectify the situation, there's basically nothing else you can do that matters. You can say you'll never do it again, or you'll strive to be better, but honestly you can't predict the future, and I as the aggrieved party am not terribly interested in your journey of self improvement. I'm pissed my jacket is damp and my night is ruined.

    When you apologize, you are offering a gift to the aggrieved of your total admission of guilt for whatever you did, and they can do with that what they will, with no expectation from you. Committing to doing better in the future is good, and encouraged, but that's a you thing. If someone you've aggrieved asks that of you, then sure. And if it seems appropriate, offer it up. But, I don't think it's actually appropriate to be verbalized as a part of all apologies. It puts the guilty party too far back in the center of things. And offering to replace a jacket or to do something to make amends is polite, if it is heartfelt and actionable.

  2. @memegazer

    October 8, 2024 at 5:14 pm

    I don't want therapy to be men should feel like they have to be reformed under strict supervison.

    Those type of men never had anything to contribute to society.

  3. @ac-uk6hs

    October 8, 2024 at 5:14 pm

    First of all amazing podcast.
    But what I find amazing is that almost everyone in Hollywood is depressed, everyone has huge streaks of jealousy, everyone is in a button of therapy, so many are divorced so many are drug addicts. Yet you guys have the biggest megaphones and are the supposed moral leaders of our country.
    And now I look back at our country over the last 50 years We have 70,000 drug deaths a year, half a million abortions a year. Highest suicide rate in our history highest divorce rates in our history highest children out of wedlock.

    Obviously it's not all your fault but if all the drug addicted divorce the depressed people in therapy are our heroes and have 100 million followers well what do you expect.

    But nice podcast

  4. @manysides2340

    October 8, 2024 at 5:14 pm

    Pretty inspiring. Not inspiring for the behavior then, but for the capacity for growth. None of us are perfect, and sometimes we’re victims, and sometimes we victimize, but being able to recognize them in the basis of reality is really wonderful wisdom.

  5. @TheRealmRover

    October 8, 2024 at 5:14 pm

    Good for him. "Yeah, it was fucked up" is a huge moment of clarity when it's sincere. It really is a "holy shit" moment that not everyone will have to go through in life, lucky them..

  6. @ewetyube

    October 8, 2024 at 5:14 pm

    Harmon talks about white privilege and then he cuts off at, "grandfathered in", an idiom which originates from a law codifying white privilege. But he's a smart writer so I assume he knows that and I now want to know why he self-censors there?

  7. @brittanycarriger5502

    October 8, 2024 at 5:14 pm

    One of the major challenges I face as a person is 1.) accepting when I've been wronged, and 2.) accepting when I make mistakes and I think they are inextricably tied to one another. (PS. cannot wait to listen deeply about toxic shame)

    My challenge is as a person who has been a victim, I do not go through the process of identifying the way I've been wronged and I blame myself for it having happened. ( i.e. I shouldn't have worn that top that day etc.)
    In turn when I make mistakes from sheer ignorance, I don't recognize that I was in fact ignorant and I take on an absurd amount of blame on, rather than simply making a commitment to changing and moving forward. This was an incredibly powerful episode. Thank you both so much.

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