{"podcast":{"title":"The Blackout Diaries","slug":"the-blackout-diaries-5576104","podcast_index_feed_id":5576104,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/theblackoutdiaries","website_url":null,"image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/bb864e12-f1aa-11ec-bb6f-074ae5b659c6/image/BlackoutDiaries-Cover.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"Starburns Audio","episode_count":127,"summary":"Hilarious and true drinking stories, recorded at the live Blackout Diaries show in Chicago. Hosted by Sean Bair-Flannery and CJ Sullivan, two standup comedians and friends who have been featured on Comedy Central, Sirius Radio, NPR and more. They have over 30 years of standup experience between them and about 800 missed flights.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-16T00:17:19.565482+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-blackout-diaries-5576104"},"episode":{"title":"#121 Nick Gets High & Controls Someone's Brain","slug":"121-nick-gets-high-controls-someone-s-brain","published_at":"2026-02-10T10:58:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-blackout-diaries-5576104/121-nick-gets-high-controls-someone-s-brain","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-blackout-diaries-5576104","url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/BALJIWAH1425848999.mp3","audio_url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/BALJIWAH1425848999.mp3","summary":"Comedian Nick Cartwright tells our live audience about the time he and a buddy did acid only for his friend to think Nick was controlling his brain to make him covet Nick, eventually leading to a half destroyed house and visit from the police. It's a great Blackout Diaries story in that its equal parts (like all perfect cocktails) scary and funny. Nick joins CJ and Sean in the studio to share more details on the story, along with more general talk on bad trips. CJ and Sean share some stories from bad trips, be it figurative, transcendent drug-induced trips, or traveling adventures, i.e. trips, that went bad. We detail how and why drugs make us falsely confident that we are having profound thoughts. Checkout Nick online at nikcartwrightcomedy for more hilarious comedy plus the odd piece of advice on cards and gambling.","meta_description":"Comedian Nick Cartwright tells our live audience about the time he and a buddy did acid only for his friend to think Nick was controlling his brain to mak…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4247,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-blackout-diaries-5576104/episodes/121-nick-gets-high-controls-someone-s-brain/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-blackout-diaries-5576104/121-nick-gets-high-controls-someone-s-brain.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}