What Comes After Hollywood? w/ Nerdrotic

Hollywood is dying, but what comes next? Gary “Nerdrotic” joins me to unpack the rot and his wild journey from battling addiction and prison to fatherhood and YouTube with 1M+ subs, and why pop culture is still worth fighting for.

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00:00:00 Intro
00:01:37 Nerdrotic’s New Book
00:05:38 How Gary Went From Prison to YouTube
00:19:49 Going to Prison For the First Time
00:24:22 Getting Out and Going Back to Prison
00:29:28 Prison vs Hollywood Myths
00:34:00 Starting Over
00:42:48 Relapse and the Addictive Mindset
00:43:22 Politics and Government
00:49:43 How Gary Recovered
00:53:05 Fathers, Masculinity, and Cultural Guardrails
00:58:09 Nerdrotic’s Critique of Pop Culture
01:05:53 Outro + Where to Find Gary