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The Smoke Break

The Smoke Break

By: Zane Thomas Zoë Schwartz & Taylor Barrett
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The Smoke Break, hosted by Zane Thomas, Zoe Schwartz, and Taylor Barrett, is a mental health and comedy podcast recorded in Portland, Oregon. Since 2020, they’ve been having candid conversations with comedians, musicians, performers, and other community members that help to make things like medication, psychosis, trauma, diagnoses, recovery, and loss feel normal. With their personal lived experience, working in the mental health field, and being comedians/creatives themselves, they balance the vulnerability of personal stories with some ridiculous jokes and wild laughter.

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Episodes
  • Episode 134: "Fear & Expectations" (ft. Keith Rosson)
    Jun 8 2025

    On this week’s episode of “The Smoke Break”, we were lucky enough to get to spend a little time with horror author Keith Rosson.

    We started with—you guessed it—fear, because what else do you do when you’ve got an expert around—how it can be paralyzing, motivating, or just plain fun.

    Then we went the next logical place…writer’s block. We’re all victims to it, we’ve all managed to escape it, we don’t really know how….

    And then we ended with expectations…The ones we set for ourselves, or society creates for us, and how easily disappointment pops up.

    Episodes drop every Friday on ALL platforms! Thanks for listening.

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    45 mins
  • Episode 133: "Embracing Irrelevance & Chaos" (ft. Joe John Sanchez The III)
    May 31 2025

    On this week’s episode of “The Smoke Break”, we had a delightful time with comedian, darling, and silly goose Joe John Sanchez the III.

    We started off talking about standing up for ourselves—times we’ve done it, times we wished we had done it, and how to get better at it, since none of us seemed to be experts on this one….

    Then we got into some delusions—the sort of magical headspace you have to get into to make being an artist of any kind worth it—comedy, writing, anything—and how that also helps us create the world we want to live in, a little bit at a time.

    Lastly, we talked about embracing irrelevance and chaos—because whatever, it’s all a simulation, life is short, and we’re just doing our best.

    You’ll just have to listen to understand this one.

    Basically, we had a great time.

    Episodes drop every Friday on ALL platforms! Thanks for listening.

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    46 mins
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