Mark Laita is a photographer, documentarian, and creator of the YouTube channel "Soft White Underbelly." www.youtube.com/c/SoftWhiteUnderbelly www.softwhiteunderbelly.com www.marklaita.com
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Their self-worth is broken.
You can't fix a childhood.
None of these people are down and out and just like, oh my God, I'm homeless. That doesn't happen. They're all drug addicts.
The Joe Rogan Experience
When you first started doing these videos, did you have to figure out a way to balance your own mental health with interviewing these people?
Because I gotta tell you, like, I watched a bunch of videos today in the gym while I was working out and I felt like shit.
And I hope these feel good after our workout.
It affects people in different ways. Some people make, oh my god, my problems are not so bad, my life is pretty great.
I've heard that many times. I've heard that more often, but I get what you're saying, because I'm immersed in it.
What you see on my YouTube channel is 1,200, maybe 1,300 videos. I've done over 5,000.
Because not everything I shoot, like with you, you're doing interviews with Elon Musk and Dave Chappelle and Huberman, and they're great.
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