OFF THE CUFF Podcast Episode 1 with Danny LoPriore

Updated on October 6, 2020

This week we launch our much anticipated Off the Cuff Podcast with media celebrity, rapper, and comedian Danny LoPriore. The podcast shines a spotlight on issues relating to mental health.

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Danny is a huge social media influencer. His previous podcast, The Basement Yard, which he hosted alongside comedian and vlogger Joe Santagato, was a massive success. Danny’s goal is to leverage his social media influence in order to help the millions of people who are struggling to cope with their mental health issues.

Danny LoPriore on 'The Basement Yard' podcast. — Danny’s Previous Show is Called ‘The Basement Yard’

Over the coming weeks, Danny will interview professional athletes, comedians, influencers, and entrepreneurs and delve deep into the challenges, strategies, and mechanisms they use to maintain their mental well-being. His goal with this platform is to help erase the stigma associated with mental health and provide a source of genuine support, guidance, and empathy to help people become successful despite their mental health challenges.

Danny LoPriore doing his podcast show. — Danny’s Goal is to Help People Cope with Their Mental Health Issues

In addition to interviewing well-known people, Danny will also have live conversations with selected subscribers and create shows around their experiences. As well as hearing from very successful people Danny says that he wants to hear from ‘my people . . . who have been on this long . . . journey with me.’ He also wants to talk to the loved ones who live with people with mental health issues.

In this first episode, Danny talks about his battle with mental health and his own personal journey. He gets into his struggles with addiction and the lessons derived from his experiences. It’s raw, real, and unfiltered!

Podcast Key Points

In this podcast, Danny discusses the following issues:

Mental health is a daily battle but a winnable one.
His goal to use his position as an influencer to address the things that so many people, himself included are running from.
His experiences with paranoia.
The importance of sticking together as a collective and having fun even as things keep getting more crazy around us.

About Danny LoPriore

Danny LoPriore is a rapper and video content creator who saw initial success on Vine. He has a large following on SoundCloud. Danny lives in New York and is currently 31 years of age. He has tremendous followings on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. Danny is currently working to release his first album.

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hey everybody what is going on it is
your boy
danny uh here uh very excited to be
doing my first episode of
off the cuff uh presented by one in one
uh this show is going to be honestly
just an unapologetic
view on mental health uh real stories by
real people
uh i will be interviewing many many
people that i’m excited to interview
which we’ll get into later
but uh you know there are some things
that uh
i just wanted to say off the top that uh
i want to thank
drew and i want to thank corey at 101
for giving me this opportunity and
giving me a platform to uh
tell my story
in a unapologetic format and also being
able to get the stories of many others
that have uh gone through their own
mental health journeys
so for the first episode you know for
those that don’t know
i think that i should tell my own story
um with mental health
so uh let’s get into it shall we right
off the top
in 2018 i was diagnosed with bipolar
type 2
um so before that i was also struggling
with a lot of anxiety and a lot of
very frequent panic attacks that were
causing me to have some trouble
uh in my everyday life i couldn’t do
regular things
uh i couldn’t get to the store i
couldn’t poop
i couldn’t shower i couldn’t live a
normal
everyday today type of lifestyle
and these things kind of caused me to
enter a realm
of a point of no return honestly where i
thought that i would i wasn’t able to
uh bring myself out of that and get
myself to a
an area which i like to call the green
area now so i’ll tell you a lot of my
excuse me a lot of my mental health uh
terminology that i use now
but uh my green area is where i’m okay
all right my orange area is where i’m
starting to feel very anxious
uh but nothing too crazy
and then my red area is when i’m
probably dipping into a manic episode
that is uh entertaining let’s say
but um you know i just wanted to tell a
little bit about myself
excuse me i think i’m getting over a
cold it’s not covet
i’m negative i’m positively negative
as our president would say um
so yeah so in 2018 i was diagnosed with
bipolar type 2
and before that i was dealing with a lot
of uh depression
anxiety uh panic disorder so a lot of
things were happening all at once and i
didn’t think that i was able to really
handle that
so i ended up having a semi-nervous uh
breakdown
which by semi i mean full blown that i
actually ended up checking myself into
lenox hill hospital
new york city went up two on two
uh and i spent four days in there
and i never really realized how
neglected my
mental health had been
up to that point self neglection there
was a lot of things that i had to
realize about myself to get myself to a
level
and address certain things that have
happened in my life that i was either
afraid to address
or i have repressed or i didn’t see
myself
or see that i needed to worry about
these things it kind of got to a point
where i had to really
hone in on these things and that’s a
scary thing to do it’s very scary to
hone in on the things that make you the
way you are
um and to look at them from
a different side and say you know what
this is something that we need to
address this is something that we need
to talk about
and for me i think the best thing about
mental health is
i get to know a lot more about myself
through other
people so when i was developing the show
with corey and drew i really told them
that hey guys listen
i need full reign on this thing i need
to be able to be
who i am because for the people that are
watching me whether it’s from the
basement yard
or from vine or from you know me singing
about
uh boobies on the internet you know uh
everybody has a different story
either the way they found me or the way
that they found out uh you know that i’m
amazing
at uh singing or i’m amazing at uh
crying i’m amazing at uh
eating food or however you know me from
whether it’s still
fat uh you know all these things that
i’ve
created along the way or been a part of
the creation along the way
i just wanted to say thank you for
coming here and i had to tell them
listen i need to hone in on this topic
they gave me full reign they were like
hey listen man we want you to develop a
show for us we want you to
really be yourself go out of your way
uh you know to take control of this
thing so
you know i want to thank them for that
so you know when i started to think
about my own mental health journey
in the beginning i always thought you
know there’s an end to all of it and one
day
all of these things would be okay and
for those that are listening to this now
that’s
really not the
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the truth you know um it’s something
that you’re going to have to tackle
every day
and it’s exhausting you know there’s
some days where i’m like jesus
christ i can’t do this anymore you know
and there have been times where i’ve
gotten myself in situations where i just
thought that
maybe living wasn’t the best option
but you know those are things that i’ve
had to address and
you know going to that hospital uh
helped me out a lot
it really helped me learn a lot about
myself i had to get away from a lot of
people
uh to find myself and now that you know
i’ve
gone through these uh different types of
therapy
which i’ll get into a little bit later
um
you know it’s really helped me get a
grasp on who i am
and with this platform i want to talk to
and i will be talking to you know
professional athletes
um comedians uh influencers
people that own their own businesses
entrepreneurs that’s the big word
nowadays
i forgot the word uh you know and a
bunch of people from all different walks
of life
all different creeds all different races
all different upbringings
um and to see
you know not so much the dark side
of mental health because there is a dark
side you know but
we have to erase these stigmas that this
is the only way that we
could talk about this and it has to be
in a daunting
uh light and express ourselves with you
know
these these certain stigmas
that shine through when it comes to
talking about mental health i think a
lot of people
have a self
image issue when it comes to their own
mental health and i think i have too
you know it’s listen there’s some days
where i think i’m the hottest guy on the
planet and then there’s some days i look
in the mirror and i’m like jesus
who is that you know so that’s why i’m
i’m stressing it’s a day-to-day thing
with me and
anyone that’s out there listening right
now that struggles with their own
mental health issues it’s a battle
but it’s a winnable battle you know and
there’s levity to some of these
situations and
there’s a bright side to all things so
that’s mainly what i want this show to
uh
show’s goal to be is that i want people
to be able to relate
to people who are successful even
through their own mental health
struggles
uh people who are in their own pits
right now it’s another term i use pit
which is like kind of like your rock
bottom but i don’t like to say rock
bottom unless i’m giving a rock bottom
like the rock
you know what i’m saying uh
you know and to see where people come
from to find
that inner light within themselves and
that inner fight within themselves
to get themselves to a place where i
could be successful
even though i have these these uh issues
and these things that i deal with
i don’t let it get in the way of me
finding my own happiness
um and that’s something that i’ve had to
go through
and i think a lot of people that will
listen to the show will fully get an
understanding of what it’s like to
understand that you aren’t alone
you know many times i get uh
dms from fans saying you know you helped
me through this
uh you helped me through uh this
horrible breakup you helped me through
my my parents passing away uh you helped
me through
you know times where i didn’t have any
money and i just needed some kind of
escape and all that
made me realize that i think i have a
bigger purpose on this planet and i
think that purpose is to
bring light to a lot of these situations
and have these conversations that some
people aren’t having right now
but have them like i said before in an
unapologetic way
really going for it you know letting
yourself be
who you want to be but who you truly are
and that’s
okay to know that these things that we
deal with mentally
make us who we are you know and um
there’s things that we could do better
in our lives there’s things that we
could do more of there’s things that we
could do less of
but there’s a lot of things that i
understand now about myself that i
wouldn’t have known if i didn’t address
my mental health um
so that being said
thank you guys for all being here right
now um
i also have a just a a couple quick
announcements
uh to show how the show’s gonna go
things that will happen throughout the
show um
we will have guests who are you know
like i said entrepreneurs athletes etc
influencers etc etc 3d
sweetie heart you know but also i wanted
to add a twist to this show
where i have subscribers to the channel
that i will pick uh and have a
conversation with them
live and make an episode out of it
because
as much as you know hearing the voices
of
you know very successful people i want
to hear the voice of my people
as well i want uh my people
you know who have been on this
long ass
journey with me you know i’ve been
creating content for 10 years i think
now
and people just love me so much and i
love you guys so much too and it’s one
of those things where
i feel like if i could just change one
person’s life
with this show it’s all worth it
all the equipment all the talking all
the
craziness all the hardships all the
stuff that i’ve been through in my life
i think
it’s time for me to give back and be
able to hear your voices
as well and you know i want to start the
conversation and i want to delete
the stigmas of mental health
but i also want to talk to the people
that deal with deal with us
people with mental health issues you
know our loved ones
our families people that get to see us
at our highest of highs and our lowest
of lows
um
at times we could be a lot to deal with
um whether it’s our girlfriends or our
boyfriend’s husbands
wives brothers sisters moms dads
dogs uh whatever
it has a heartbeat around you and you’re
kind of going through it they go through
it with you
and uh you know i want this to be an
educational
show as well where you know you could
watch this
with your partner you can watch this
with your family and get to a point
where
you know i have a hard time
voicing this but maybe this guy can help
you understand so
in no way am i mental health
professional as you can read from the
disclaimer before
but i’m a guy that just deals with some
you know what i mean uh just like we all
do
and i want you to know that i’m here
with you
i’m rocking with you um i’m fully
getting to
know myself and i’m fully getting to
know myself with you
which is awesome you guys get to hold my
hand through this process
and really you know
give me a shot to show you that there
are a lot of better days ahead of us
but it starts with a conversation it
starts with us
really telling people how we feel or
getting across
our points in terms of listen this is
what i’m dealing with
you know uh different types of
uh know treatments
that people do uh different types of
therapy um
i for example uh i use uh uh
i’m sorry cognitive behavioral therapy
cbt
uh not cbd but some people use cbd
you know what i’m saying uh you know
that’s my main one but i’m
also here to learn as well so
hearing your stories as well as all
these other people who i will have on
the show
it’s a learning experience and that’s
what off the cuff really means to me
it’s
it’s about being true to ourselves and
having that forum where we can have
these conversations and not be afraid to
say what we want to say
um you know
i’ve had suicidal thoughts as many
people have had
you know i’ve thought about giving up
before
i’ve thought about maybe i’m not gonna
make it
you know i have body issues
you know i have weight issues i have
uh all these things that i deal with in
a society where
everybody portrays this image of
themselves as they are
perfect and they are locked in and they
post the best pictures of themselves
they post the most
uh flattering image of themselves for
the world to portray
but on the inside we’re struggling you
know
we’re we’re hurting and these are things
are getting neglected
in the way that we that we portray
ourselves on the internet and the way
that we portray ourselves
on a daily basis even just to our peers
you know a lot of times when people kill
themselves
a lot of people say that they were happy
a lot of people maybe you see it coming
yeah
but a lot of people are just like i
can’t believe that would happen
it’s because the conversations weren’t
had that’s
uh that’s something that i firmly
believe in that the conversations
need to be started and they never need
to end um
that’s why this show is so important to
me
and i’m really really really looking
forward to everybody just coming
together as a
community i don’t want this to just be a
show
that i put out every week and people are
like yeah i want a community i want to
know everybody in the comment section
i want to know everybody that’s
subscribed i want to know
everything about everybody because like
i said before
i get to know more about myself when i
get to know you
and i think a lot of people have
stuck with me this long because i have
been very truthfully honest about
my struggles and you know listen i’ve
made every mistake that a
man can make you know i’ve made every
mistake
in the book uh you know and these are
all things that have helped
me get a better grasp on who i am as a
person you know
there’s no feeling like letting your
friends down
letting your family down but letting
yourself down
hurts a lot and i’ve done that from time
to time
and i’ve been able to climb up out of
this
hole that uh
you know we get ourselves into from time
to time
anyone that’s watching this first
episode
needs to know that i am with you 100
percent
as you are with me right now um
we are going to grow this show as big as
we can
um
you know it’s just something that’s
really close to my heart and i said i
wasn’t gonna cry on the first episode i
don’t
i’m not gonna cry
but i’m close um i just have these
visual
visualization is it visibility
i just have these visualizations uh
these these visualization that
i know that my true calling in life has
always been to help people
uh and i’ve put my into a fault at times
because i’ve put myself
on the back burner for for a lot of
people from time to time and then
it all catches up with you and you’re
like wow there’s a lot of self neglect
there
there were a lot of things that i could
have done better here there were a lot
of things that i could have said
to myself to get myself through a
situation while i’m helping other people
the best version of yourself is going to
be the best version for other people
you know
being an influencer
means something different to me it’s not
about how many followers i have on
instagram
it’s not about you know how many
retweets and i get or
how many likes i get it’s all just been
about making it’s all just a bin
it’s all just been about making people
laugh and
having people have an escape
but now i want to have an escape where
we address the things that we’re
escaping
and running from because
in time it catches up with all of us
and it gets us to a point where we feel
like we might not make it out
and that sucks
but you’re not gonna go through that
alone and neither am i
i refuse to um i’ve come way too
far in my life to uh get to a
point where
i can’t be able to uh
express myself you know i can’t be able
to
you know address certain things in my
life
i still got a whole lot of growing up to
do and i’m 31
i’m gonna be 32 in january your boys
gotta grow up
still you know but that’s the beauty of
life man
you never you never you never stop
learning
you can never not get a little bit
better every day and i know these
cliches are corny as but it really
is true man i just try to be a little
bit better every day
you know what i mean and you know
why can’t we do that together you know
just being able to have this form and
this platform
and this pillar of you know
ah man i’m just thinking about my
journey guys sorry
but um just being able to have this
platform and being able to give back
right now is what i really really really
feel is the best thing for me to do
and you know people have asked you know
oh is this show gonna be funny is this
show gonna be yes it’s gonna be funny
because life is funny you know
there’s some dark that happens to
all of us and that is funny
at times you know you have to be able to
look back on things and laugh
and be able to give yourself the best
you know analysis of yourself but it’s
nice to have a chuckle from time to time
and like i said on my original off the
cuff before i had my nervous breakdown
uh i thought people were coming after me
and i thought like people uh in my
building were like in the mafia or
something
or like they were like hitmen looking
for me i didn’t do anything
but i was so up that i had no
idea what the hell was going on
uh i also was like calling my parents
non-stop
when i had my nervous breakdown and like
i was like
sleeping over there all the time but i
would sneak out at two o’clock in the
morning and go to the emergency room
this is a true fact i went to the
emergency room 12 nights in a row
so embarrassed to go to like the same
emergency room i would do like three
nights
uh at new york presbyterian and then i
would do like three nights at uh
at lennox hill and then another three
nights at like mount sinai
so i hit them all you know what i’m
saying those bills are pending
that that is not junk mail okay
um you know and i’ll be honest with you
i racked up bills of forty to fifty
thousand dollars
from all these emergency room trips when
i didn’t have insurance
uh before i went into inpatient and they
got me a uh
and they got me a little little rub from
the government
aka health insurance at a very
reasonable price
uh you know so then i was able to get
the treatment that i needed and
you know hearing what works for you guys
and what works for my guest
and what works for me they’re all gonna
be different you know you know there’s
the argument of medication
not medication meditation a mixture of
both
exercise these are all things we’re
gonna learn about each other along the
way
and i can’t wait to implement some of
the things that you do in my life
and what my guests do in my life um
and it’s just a really exciting time for
me you know uh
i’ve been through a lot in the last year
people that know me
um you know have uh
have seen some of the stuff and heard
about some of the stuff that i’ve gone
through
you know and for those people that are
here today i just want to thank you
for uh sticking with me and seeing the
best side of me
when times were dark for me and
you know giving a
that’s like something i’ll never i’ll
never forget
and uh you know like i said it’s
i’ve always felt a strong connection to
my fans
and then when i came out about my mental
health struggles everybody was so
supportive
and i think it’s just time that i give
back and have
you guys be a part of this journey as
well
and this is going to be awesome
and having opportunities to speak to so
many different people
and being able to encourage and being
able to help build people up
being able to raise money for awareness
being able to you know get people
talking sometimes it just takes
one person to stand up and i have no
problem doing that
but having you guys stand up with me and
walk me through this
holding my hand is gonna be nice
um and
i just wanted to say you know a lot of
people that got to know me
was from my previous show uh with joe
sanogado the basement yard and i want to
thank all of you for making your way
over here if that’s where you’re making
your way from
uh i just want to say i want to thank
joe
for his support throughout the years
um joe and i have a
relationship that
is very
very um
it’s it’s very brotherly um
he taught me a lot about life a lot
about handling things
and i believe that i did too
and you know he gave me an opportunity
on a great
platform to uh be myself and you know
he gave me the ball let me run with it
and you know that was
the best time of my life honestly in
entertainment was doing that
and uh you know his support through
everything going through
to me having my own show now um
he’s been great and i just want to thank
all of the fans from that show
i want to thank joe um and i just want
you guys to know
that at some point he’ll be on here
all right so i’ll have him on here uh
you know we’ll have all your little
funny
quips and stuff but uh it’ll be a
different type of twist
um i talked to joe every day so you know
i’m just trying to answer some of the
questions that you guys have probably
been you know
uh well what you gonna say yeah oh my
god
you know what i mean joe and i are great
man me and joe talk every day uh he just
dm me about uh i was doing a departed
audition on my
instagram uh but yeah man we send each
other links every day we watch tick
tocks together like 13 year old
girls
uh you know and and life is good man i’m
in a good place
um i’ll be moving back to new york
in january full time
um i
can’t express enough that
anybody that’s watching this whether
it’s ten people a thousand people
or three million that’s the number we’re
looking for
week one three million views eight
thousand uh
trillion subs and like 400
million bits all right but uh like i
said man it’s just about
getting the conversation started and
loving each other
being there for each other this
country
is crazy okay
that debate a couple nights ago was
enough to drive anybody insane
that was crazy
all right we’re over here trying to keep
ourselves together we got these
two guys up there talking nonsense
what were they talking about
that basically sounded like when you
have two friends outside
of a bar and they’re arguing it’s like
yo you’re a [ _ ] not you’re a [ _ ]
nah you now you
that’s what that conversation was so
things are gonna get rough so let’s
stick together here
let’s uh let’s move forward as a unit as
a collective
um and let’s have fun with this man
you know what i mean let’s have
there’s a beauty in all suffering i
really firmly believe that
there’s a beauty to all that um
and i don’t think there would be music
if it wasn’t for suffering and being sad
and going through emotions and
you know as humans it’s a blessing and a
curse to have the
the wherewithal to experience these
things
um which is
crazy to think about some days i wish i
was a fish
because they don’t worry about you
know i went to the uh
a aquarium the other day
i swear to god as soon as i got out of
there i forgot about every bad thing
that’s ever happened in my life because
i saw like a hammerhead shark
i was like dude this is amazing i love
everything about this
and then i went outside and i was like
oh man people
you know so it’s you know
it’s crazy i want this to be an escape
but also
for us to be able to address our
problems together i’m sorry if i’ve been
uh
repetitive at all through this it’s just
i’ve been so i didn’t want to have
anything scripted for the first episode
i didn’t want to have anything that was
not going to be off the cuff
pun intended [ __ ] yeah
i can’t get this one did i get it i
think i got it
steve there’s no steve
um but uh yeah man so let’s do this
welcome to off the cuff
i cannot wait to see you guys next week
uh i will pick somebody from the subs
this week
to be on a show with your boy and we
will talk about our mental health
journeys together
because you know this would be cool if i
just came on every week and i was like
this is
what i went through but you guys have
heard my story
already and you’re going to learn new
things about it as we go along but i
want to hear your stories
and i want to hear other people’s
stories and we could do this together
man
we can um again i want to thank the guys
at 101 i want to thank drew
i want to thank corey i want to thank
sexy joe uh ceo joe
um i want to thank everybody all of you
for coming here
i want to thank everybody who sent me a
message
in these tron times and told me that
they love me
i want you to know that i love you too
you guys don’t understand what you guys
have done for me
in time you will i hope through this
show
but as many times if you guys have
messaged me saying that i’ve helped you
out of a dark place you have helped me
out of a dark place as well
this is gonna be awesome uh
and i cannot wait
to hear your stories i really can’t um
and that’s it it’s the first episode of
off the cuff
uh we’ll be back next week uh at some
point i think we’re gonna be doing two
episodes a week
uh one with a fan and then one with a
guest a fan guest and a guest
um and
you know it’s off the cuff baby
we’re winging it and i’m ready to fly
with you not sexually i can’t i can’t do
that
you know because there’s a lot of red
tape there but mentally
i’m with you all right i love you guys
please be safe
enjoy the rest of your week and listen
your brain game
is fire peace
is that sexual

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