Jimmy Jacobs Doesn't Know

After 30-some days on the road, Danny Duggan (@HotShotDannyD) and I brother it up on the podcast talking about balancing wrestling with real life and being on the road. Danny shares his experience of the serious car accident he was in on May 1, 2019 and how it changed his life.

Spiritual conduit, medium, personal development coach, author and international speaker Dan King (@dankingsoulgasm)! Dan and I talk about being your authentic self, connecting with spirits, and the dangerous of following what you've been told.

It's a time for gratitude! While in the middle of a 26 day tour of Canada, I celebrate Thanksgiving with other wrestlers. On this episode of the podcast, I talk to 5 different wrestlers about what they're grateful for. TK O'Ryan (@WildHorseTKO), Blair Onyx (@Blairxyno), Vincent (@TheHorrorKingVM), Brian Johnson (@Bjo_mecca) and The Juice Juventud Guerrera (@JUVENTUDGUERRE2).

Comedian Marty DeRosa from the Marty and Sarah Love Wrestling podcast! After walking over to my house in Lululemon tights, Marty converses with me about how he deals with depression, comedy culture, how wanting more leads to wanting more and the romantic story about how Marty & Sarah met.

The Bryan and Jimmy Book Club is back with Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. It's a challenging read with some complex ideas, but Bryan gives his best interpretation of the book while I just try to keep up! The next book on the Bryan and Jimmy Book Club is Becoming Supernatural by Dr. Joe Dispenza.

Pro wrestler and fur-baby mother Solo Darling! The former Sugar Creature comes on the podcast to share all her wisdom on love languages and connection, and gives a moving case against nihilism. And we talk about Officer Magnum and Lady McMurray... the dogs!

Singer of the band Fucked Up. Host of the podcast Turned Out a Punk. Creator of the docuseries The Wrestlers on Viceland. Damian Abraham is a jack of many trades and this week he's on the podcast to talk the punk life, his DMT experience, synchronicity, making documentaries, his struggle with anxiety and his subsequent discovery of medical marijuana after years of being straight edge.

Holistic healer and life coach Brittany Brda from spiritandmatterchicago.com is on the podcast this week. We talk about the benefits of reiki, identifying as our trauma, Burning Man, psychosomatic illness and limiting beliefs.

It's TV personality, host and interviewer Gabby Loren! Gabby and I talk about spirituality, manifestation, breaking personal patterns and free will. Gabby talks about her life-changing trip to Israel and what she learned about the Torah.

It's professional wrestler and recovering addict JT Dunn! JT publicly opens up for the first time about different aspects of his life. He talks about the childhood traumas that led him to addiction, dealing with those traumas now as an adult, and how he locked himself in his house for 57 days in order to get sober.

Artist, philosopher, conspiracy theorist, and truth seeker Nick Hinton is on the podcast this week. The multiverse, singularity, AI, simulation theory, the Saturn Time Cube, DMT, symbolism, archetypes, myths, and did our universe actually end in 2012?

The WWE Universal Champion, atheist and nihilist Seth Rollins is on the podcast! Seth and I talk about the journey he's been on to discover more about the nature of our existence and if there's something more out there. Seth tries to sell me on determinism and tells me why his 20-year-old self would hate his current day self. We talk about his success in WWE and if everything he dreamed of as a child is really all it's cracked up to be.

Futurist, Biohacker, Psychonaut, World Traveler, Quantum Observer, Spiritual Gangster, and Esoteric Philosopher PJ Black is on the podcast this week. From DMT to the Ancient Pyramids to interdemensional travel to the very nature of time and space, this is a conversation you don't want to miss!

Writer, director, producer and all around good dude Matt Mazany! Matt and I met while writing for WWE. In this fun conversation, Matt and I talk about being in good spiritual shape, sharing the human experience through art and eventually I convince Matt to have kids! mattmazany.com

The man Cary Silkin is on the podcast this week! In this honest and beautiful conversation, Cary opens up about his years of partying in NYC in the '70 & '80s, the characters he met hustling on the streets, his relationship to AA, coming to terms with his sexuality, and the connections he made in the years he owned Ring of Honor.

The Quit Man is here! But what is here? What is truth? What is reality? And hey, did Robert Evans REALLY quit WWE in Gorilla Position? All this and so much more in this fun and existential episode of the podcast!

Giv'er! Cody Deaner is on the podcast this week. Cody talks about his faith, charity, the importance of connection and much more, while Jimmy goes on some existential rants (What else is new?)

It's the next book in Bryan and Jimmy's Book Club with The Second Mountain by David Brooks. It's selfish vs selfless, independent vs interdependent, me vs us, 1st mountain vs 2nd mountain when Bryan and Jimmy talk about the themes of this book. They go in depth about life's journey from personal success to community, marriage, faith, religion, and commitment. And Bryan laughs a lot!

Comedian Matt McCarthy sits down with Jimmy to talk about his time writing in WWE, how he used comedy as a kid to get what he wants, what led him to sobriety and why he still collects VHS tapes. You can see more of Matt at thisismattmccarthy.com

AWAKENING! Clinical psychologist Meg Roekle joins the podcast week to bring some enlightenment to Jimmy's existential journey. Nonduality, no self, the stories we tell ourselves, listening to our bodies, and the Wizard of Oz. This episode covers it all. For more info, visit Meg's website at megroekle.com

Jimmy sits down this week with his friend, roommate & life manager Caitlin. As Jimmy tries to sort out his existential journey, Caitlin opens up about the recent tragedy of her friend's suicide and how it brought her closer to her friends. Caitlin also talks about her 20 years of being straight edge and why she finally gave it up.

You may know her from the opening song of the podcast- it's all around good dude and funny person Sarah Shockey. In this episode, Sarah and Jimmy compare notes on personal growth. Sarah tells hilarious stories from her childhood, talks about her early creativity and shows her appreciation to the beauty of the sky.

The Innovator of Violence Tommy Dreamer gets EXTREME...ly deep and personal this week when Tommy opens up about his love of wrestling, family, loyalty, his dying father's advice to him, and why he went public about his dark thoughts of murder/suicide.

Jimmy talks to his new friend, writer, director and all around fun person Julie Zhan. Jimmy and Julie met at a personal growth workshop, so they get real introspective. Julie talks about her struggle letting go of control, her relationship to her work and being in the entertainment business as an Asian American. Julie's short film Zoetic is available on HBO Go and HBO Now.

Former WWE Intercontinental Champion, current public speaker and the happiest person on the planet, Marc Mero joins Jimmy Jacobs to talk about how he went from being a successful professional wrestler to losing everything (including almost his life), how he went on to gain so much more. Jimmy and Marc discuss death, how to stay positive, and the effect Marc has on the lives of the kids he talks to.

It's the first edition of Bryan and Jimmy's Book Club. This week, Bryan Danielson and Jimmy Jacobs talk about The 5AM Club by Robin Sharma. The 5AM Club is a self improvement book, written as a narrative, giving advice on how to use your days to maximize the results in your life. There's a lot of good stuff in this book, and as Jimmy and Bryan discuss, there's also a lot of bad.

Do any of us really know who we are? Great dude and wonderful friend Sami Zayn comes on the podcast to try to the answer the question, "Who am I?" Sami also addresses why he tries to withdraw from systems he objects to, his guilt, how we live like kings, gratitude and nihilism. Sami recently relaunched Sami for Syria which you can donate to at samiforsyria.com

He's got his PHD in Mathematics, he's a philosophy wiz, and most of all he's the brother of Jimmy Jacobs. Dr. Nicholas Scoville, professor at Ursinus College, sits down with his brother and talks about the nature of happiness, why logic and reason have brought him to Catholicism, and what it means to live the good life.

The drummer from Fall Out Boy, Sect and Racetraitor, straight edge vegan anarchist Andy Hurley sits down with Jimmy Jacobs to discuss his love for music, capitalism, and why it's important to him to reconnect to his activist roots.

The world's first one-legged professional wrestler and recovering addict Zach Gowen opens up to Jimmy about his tough upbringing, surviving cancer at a young age, his time in WWE, active addiction and his life now in recovery.

He's been on Joe Rogan and Conan, now writer, comedian and podcaster Jamie Kilstein is talking with Jimmy Jacobs. Upon their first meeting, Jimmy and Jamie get deep talking about depression, addiction, gratitude, getting in touch with your masculinity, and what it's like to have it all then lose everything.

Jimmy talks to Amy Dresner, the author of "My Fair Junkie: A Memoir of Getting Dirty and Staying Clean." Amy gets raw and real when she opens up about addiction, recovery, dopamine triggers, social media, changing lives, her time on a chain gang and so much more.

On the first episode of the Jimmy Jacobs Doesn't Know Podcast, Jimmy talks to longtime friend Bryan Danielson about fame, success, consciousness, animals' souls, living forever and so much more. And at the end, they start a book club!

Professional wrestling personality and recovering addict Jimmy Jacobs comes to the realization that he doesn't know anything about life.