MAA #064: With Ari Shaker

Interview with the humble and humorous Ari Shaker, who has been doing comedy for about 2 years, and can be found performing a few times a week at various venues around Melbourne like the Comic's Lounge and Guerilla in Hawthorn. We discuss: Ari's experience of anxiety, the Headspace app and the benefits of meditation, riding out the bad emotions with the good, road raging, taking mental health days, Ari's secret beach, phone addictions and social media superficiality, love and hate of technology, Ari's video game addiction as a kid, Ari's joke development process, using mindful meditation to facilitate sleep, dealing with performance anxiety, feedback delivery in comedy, the "gleaming depression" of performing, Ari's super powers (and testing them out!), pet therapy, choosing to switch off from the news, and Ari's messages to meditate, put your phone down, don't pretend to be something you're not, and do right to the people around you.