ABOUT THIS EPISODENick Mirisola is a Duddist, and what that means is really up to you. Take some philosophy from Buddhism, and some from “The Dude”, mix them up and you get some sense of what it means. It’s wonderful and I think I’m a convert. When not not preaching Duddism, Nick is a musician who goes by Meditative Animal and recently released his latest album “Alternative Phenomenon“, which if you are a fan of Jack Johnson, you will absolutely love.This episode’s sketch: “Duddatation”For more episodes, information, and apply to be on the show, visit: http://sketchcomedypodcastshow.comSketch Comedy Podcast Show is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.© Copyright 2023 Stuart RiceSOCIAL MEDIAFACEBOOKTWITTERINSTAGRAMSUBSCRIPTIONS & REVIEWSAPPLEYOUTUBEPODCHASERMORE ABOUT THE GUESTMeditative Animal is singer songwriter Nick Mirisola's music project. It is indie alternative folk rock with jazz, blues, hip hop, funk, and reggae influences that come together in a timeless original sound. Frequently featuring other artists, Nick plays guitar, harmonica, hand percussion, keyboards, and bass in addition to singing, and writing the songs and lyrics. Nick also does the artwork. He is a lay Zen monk, shaman, ordained Dudeist priest, and self dubbed Duddha.Nick has been singing for his entire life, and writing songs since 2000. Meditative Animal has been in SoundCloud's top 20 for their Folk/Singer-Songwriter genre, and has appeared on ReverbNation's national chart top 100 for singer songwriters, and is frequently in their top ten for the Portland Maine region. The songs Echoes Left In My Head, Timed Temperance, and Telescope eyes got over 50,000 spins each on global FM radio. Meditative Animal also had two top ten songs on the official international indie music chart IndieTop Chart.LinksOfficial WebsiteYouTube ChannelApple MusicTRANSCRIPT[00:00:00] Stuart: In this episode, musician and meditative animal nick marisol and I came up with a few sketch ideas, I like the idea of just someone so chill, so in tune with uh not being flummoxed that no matter what the situation is there a okay with it? You know, we were talking about dealing with feelings and using meditation for that and what if the, what if the feelings were like um I'm hungry, like how do you deal with the hunger? I'm thirsty, like how do you deal with the thirsty? I'm horny, like how do you deal with the horny nous? And then the last one would be, I gotta, I gotta poop and like how do you deal with it while you're meditating buddhist glam, like like using the bragging, using all of that type of stuff, but in a, with a buddhist tilt so it's like you're not like you're bragging about how enlightened you are or whatever it is, which one did we pick? You'll find out on this episode of, it's a sketch comedy, Welcome to sketch comedy podcast show. The one of a kind show where I Stewart rice invite interesting people to have intriguing conversations and then improvise a comedy sketch based on what we talked about. It's the only show like it on the internet, nick maris ola is a dude ist and what that means is really kind of up to you take some philosophy from buddhism and some from the dude, mix them up and you kind of get a sense of what that means, it's wonderful and I think I'm a convert when not preaching dude is um Nick is a musician who goes by the name meditative Animal, and recently released his latest album, alternative phenomenon, which if you're a fan of Jack johnson, you are going to love without any further ado, let's get right into my conversation with the meditative animal himself. Nick maris, Ola. Hey, Nick. Yeah, thanks for being on the show.[00:02:18] Nick Mirisola: Oh, you're very welcome. Thanks a lot for having me Stuart.[00:02:21] Stuart: Absolutely. Have a really quick question to ask you. All right, What makes you interesting?[00:02:29] Nick Mirisola: What makes me interesting? Well, let's see, maybe. Hm[00:02:36] Stuart: jeez, I told you it's not an easy question,[00:02:42] Nick Mirisola: you know, I could have a lot of answers to that or I could I could uh I can play kind of coy and be like, well my relationship with nothing, this might be the most interesting part. So technically nothing makes me interesting. Alright, that was my kind of buddhist monk style response. Uh but yeah, I don't know, I'm I'm kind of a renaissance man. I guess I have a few different um skill sets or talents or gifts whatever you wanna call them. Um artist, musician, philosopher. I don't know. I I personally think my take on religion might be one of the most interesting parts of me though. Well[00:03:27] Stuart: let's let's start there now, you I don't want to be presumptive here. But did you start a religion or is this? No? Okay, tell us about, Tell us about that though.[00:03:38] Nick Mirisola: Alright. Uh, okay. So the only religion technically that I'm uh, legally and ...
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