Comedian John Heffron may have been introduced to the world at large when he won the second season of Last Comic Standing but he’s been in the comedy game since college. Since then, there have been Comedy Central specials, The Tonight Show, Chelsea Lately and numerous VH1 talking head shows, among many other appearances. He’s also been Danny Bonaduce’s wingman on Detroit’s number one radio show, appeared on Courteney Cox’s Dirt and done stand up at numerous Fortune 500 companies. But he can also claim a gig that few comics can: an NA convention—an interesting irony because though he’s been sober many years, he doesn’t continue to go to meetings and disagrees with some 12-step tenets. Though Heffron doesn’t recommend the path he’s taken to other addicts, he’s able to find freedom through a series of brain exercises and philosophies. In this episode, he and I discuss why meetings make him want to drink, temporarily believing a shirt is going to fix things and the assistant we plan to share, among many other things.
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