Aug. 18, 2026

Joe Rogan and Shane Gillis and Nate Bargatze PLUS Stavros Halkias shades bro podcasters over politics

Show Notes
Transcript

Johnny Mac recaps Daily Comedy News, starting with The Daily Beast’s reaction to a Joe Rogan episode featuring Shane Gillis, Ari Shaffir, and Mark Normand discussing attending a Trump White House/UFC-related event, VIP-room photos involving Nate Bargatze, and a past Trump photo. The episode also includes the group’s talk about communism versus policies like free healthcare and education, and Rogan’s criticism of Trump-related crypto corruption and business dealings. On Popcast, Stavros Halkias says comedians have had “dumb” political opinions, resents being pushed into politics, and argues podcasters either naively or cynically platformed politicians; he also criticizes A-list comics chasing wealth and arena fame. Mike Birbiglia cancels some John Mulaney tour dates for an unnamed “dream project.” Kelsey Cook’s self-financed special “Happy Hour” lands on Netflix, and Rory Scovel discusses Netflix vs YouTube, leaving LA for Colorado, the changing comedy landscape, and merch-for-charity. Late-night ratings are noted, with Fallon leading; Rhys Darby’s “25 Years” debuts, and SCTV arrives on Netflix September 1.

00:16 Daily Beast vs Bargatze
00:41 Rogan White House Clip
01:29 Communism and Healthcare Bit
02:28 Rogan on Trump Crypto
03:04 Stavros on Political Comics
04:56 Fame and Adversity Debate
05:32 Birbiglia Cancels Dates
06:33 Kelsey Cook Netflix Deal
07:38 Rory Scovel Special Talk
10:36 Vulture Review Spoilers
11:10 Late Night Ratings Recap
12:54 More Comedy Releases
13:17 Poolside YouTube Updates

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Callaroga shark media.

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Man. The Daily Beast doesn't like Nate BRIGHATSI, Hi, I'm

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Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news. Joe Rogan had

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on Shane Gillis, Ourry Shafir and Mark normand the Daily

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Beasts listened to it and their headline was Mega friendly.

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Comedian Shane Gillis may have been willing to attend Trump's

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UFC birthday cage fight at the White House, but he

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also drew the line being photographed inside his VIP room,

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unlike Nate BURGHATSI, all right, here's the gang. In discussing

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this on the Joe Rogan experience, I have clipped it

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for both pacing and language.

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He was at the White House.

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Yes, so was I. So was Shane.

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You know what I'm saying, Like, that's the problem.

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To go in the VIP rome.

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I said, no, I.

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Went in there. Photos are gonna be taken and were

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in there, I know, and that I stood outside in

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the rain.

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I was like, I'm not getting my picture taken.

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I took zero heat for that event.

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But you took with Trump a couple of years back

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a photo that was.

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Great photo where you were wearing the Pablo Escobar shirt.

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A lot of things. That's true.

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That's pre pre world record. No no, no, not me personally.

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I mean.

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Back then when I was taking that picture, I was like,

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this guy is going to release the Epstein files and.

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It was a killing Americans.

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On that episode of the Joe Rogan Experience, we also

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learned that communism is gay.

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Some mean needs to look into how gay communism. But

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it isn't crazy that it's making a comeback. Yeah, it

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always does. It's a cycle. There's a cycle.

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Is if we cannot call it communism.

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If we get free health care, that.

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Would be a good move. That would help a lot.

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We're calling everybody communist.

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Pre health care is cool.

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We should have that.

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It's normal. That's not communism.

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You should treat the entire country. Look at the community.

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If you have a community, would you want the sickest

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person to die, who could be very valuable if you

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could like take care of them, and do you have

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the resources to take care of them.

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You should take care of exactly what the library.

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This is the problem with don't feel like the community

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with This is the reason why people turn on all

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these billionaires. They turn on them because they why do

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you have so much when people have so little. But

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it's because it's the game. It's the game that they're playing,

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and you're playing the game too, you're just not playing

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it at that level.

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Joe Rogan, who I'm going to point out before this clip,

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seems perfectly healthy. He doesn't seem like the kind of

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guy that's suddenly gonna drop out of a heart attack.

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You know, it looks very very healthy. Takes care of

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himself anyway. He has some thoughts about crypto that I've

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clipped for pacing in language.

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The crypto stuff's nuts. It's like Trump has made billions

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in crypto, like, and then you got his sons, and

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his sons are involved in all these weird business deals

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where the business deals have to do with some things

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that Trump put and then the sons are involved in

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these businesses, and like there's a lot of money flowing

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that you could dig in and start arresting people.

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Another good listen is Star Wars Hockey Is. On the

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pop Cast podcast, he discussed comedians getting political.

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A lot of stand up comics happened the last couple

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of years to have some of the dumbest opinions on Earth.

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And they are my friends and I'm like, all right, guys,

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can we talk about this.

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When you look back at twenty twenty four, in the

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run up to that election, you saw how the right

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was activating or maybe in some cases weaponizing, totally comedy

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in the podcast space. Were you having behind the scenes

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conversations with those folks about what was happening, and did

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you at all feel like you have to issue some

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kind of corrective in what you're doing.

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I do kind of resent it because I do feel

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like they've forced a lot of my contemporars have forced

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me to be explicitly political in a way that I'm

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not interested in doing. Even something I said today, it's like,

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I don't want people to know I know who Muhammad

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most said that was.

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No, no, I want I don't want them to know

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how to polycide degree right, Like the most charitable reading

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is uh, some people thought their platform was important enough

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to host either the President of the United States, the

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vice president whatever, and they want to do a public service.

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And I think that is that was naive. It's either

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you're either naive, which some people think were, or you're

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so arrogant that you think that's true. I think it's

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either that or it's cynically again part of the problem

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of wanting to be as famous as possible and being like, well,

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just this will get clicks, or they thought culture was

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going to go to the right and they're like, we

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want to I want to get out in front. And

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by the way, I do think it did feel that way.

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full blown fascist right out of the gate, I think

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that is the way things would have gone Cultruly, I

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do think there's whatever the answer is. I think it

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was a mistake.

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On the podcast also called out how wealth and fish

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or changing a list comics. The New York Times went

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out of their way to do an article just on

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that point. The transcript reads as Stavro saying, people just

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want to be as successful as possible. They want to

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play arenas for arena's sake. They want to be the

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kind of guy like they want to be on a

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private jet that sucks. I really want adversity because nobody

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gets funny or on a private jet. At one point,

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do we have like a responsibility? Isn't that the whole thing?

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But stand up? Isn't speaking truths of power? Which I

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found corny. Isn't that theoretically part of it? I don't

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like that we're trying to get as famous as possible.

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Mike Birbiglia has canceled some of his shows that he

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was doing with John Mullaney. You think they're backstage going, Hey,

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you know that guy, John Marcos SIRESI he's ripping you off, John,

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which John Marco is not. That is just absurd. I

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like making fun of the idea that John Marco is

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somehow doing Mullany. He's not. I digress. Birbiglia has canceled

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a bunch of shows to pursue an unnamed quote unquote

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dream project. So if you were planning to see him

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at the Great Outdoors Comedy of Them Calgary, or perhaps

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in New Hampshire or some other dates, check his website.

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I'm not going to read a list of canceled dates.

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Burbiggs said, I wanted to let you know that a

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dream project of mind came together for the September, which

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is great, like really really great. I can't wait to

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tell you more. I think you'll love it, but I

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can't tell you yet. That says I'm no longer able

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to perform Some dates on the John Mulaney mister whatever tour.

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As you know, this is something I always try to avoid,

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but in this case, there's no way around the schedule overlap.

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So go see John's show. It's epic. It'll be John's

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best special. In my opinion, you will love it. Love

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in all caps. Top of his Game out on Netflix today,

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Kelsey Cook has a new special. She shared that she

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was on the phone with her agent. He was just

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being casual and said, by the way, Netflix is buying

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your special. Kelsey said, I'll never forget that moment. I

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was on cloud nine. She financed Happy Hour herself, hoping

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to sell it to a streaming platform, but knowing she

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could always upload it to YouTube or whatnot. It took

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a few months and now Happy Hour is on Netflix.

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Filmed in the Twin Cities. How does that work? Did

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she film half of it in Minneapolis and half of

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it in Saint Paul or did she just film it

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in one of the Twin cities? I like to nitpick language.

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Cook said, I wanted to make sure that this, especially

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because I was hoping it would go on Netflix, would

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be like anybody who watches it can feel like there's

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something for them sometimes if you do too much local

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stuff at a special, it can feel not quite as

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interesting and you want to open so strong. In Happy Hour,

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she talks about her fiance's road rage, pooping in airplane bathrooms, sobriety, depression,

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and her mother's experiences with dementia. Putting the special together,

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she said, you're always trying to find that happy medium

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between feeling confident in the joke. You've gotten to the

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point where they feel ready to shoot, but you also

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haven't run on them in the ground. We were really

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sick of telling them. Did you watch Rory Scovell's special

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out on Netflix last week? It is the number two

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special of the year, in my opinion, the only one

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better so far as Chris Fleming, I thought Rory's was fantastic.

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He was asked how he would describe the market for

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comedy specials today. Skoll said, for me, it's like where

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do you get the eyes? And it's probably in Netflix

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or YouTube. My last one was on HBO and that

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felt so cool because as a kid, it was like, oh,

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here's HBO. And also they don't do one hundred a year.

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They're very selective. But in terms of globally, who has

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access to stuff. YouTube is probably the best, Kui, dude, dude,

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shut up, turn up, you shut up. You're messing with Netflix.

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Take the Netflix money. It's just such a gamble because

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now you're hoping you make ad money, and if you

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do and it hits, as we've seen, you can really explode.

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It can change your life. Netflix is probably up there

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as well in terms of, hey, we press a button

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and now everyone has access to it, and if that works,

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then good. But I think word of mouth is still

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the strongest force in me. When I hear someone tell

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me that I should see something or read something or

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check something out, that is so much more weight to

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me than anything that I get served. Honestly, if I

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get their own something too much on my phone and

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this goes against my own publicity efforts, I'm like, why

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are you trying to talk me into this? Yeah, dude,

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just take the Netflix money and let their algorithm put

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into the big box and people click on it. Do

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you see this? Notf people watch on Netflix. Don't mess

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with YouTube, take the Netflix money. Say good things about Netflix.

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Netflix rules, right, Yeah, we don't know Netflix rules. Rory

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talked about leaving LA. He said, yeah, we got out

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we were there for fourteen years, and I do love

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this job, but I was like, I got to be

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around less people. Not that it's affordable anywhere, but I

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need more affordable. It's also fun to live in a

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place like Colorado where there's not so much industry of

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one kind, and it feels good. I feel very inspired

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to want to create more, as though it will be seen.

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Rory discussed the business today, said, I guess I'm most

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excited that it seems to be a landscape that keeps changing.

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And that really used to frustrate me because I thought, no,

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we're all supposed to do this, and the next happens.

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And I think a great lesson in revelation for me

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and probably a lot of comics when I started, was Hey,

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everything that you thought you needed to do, maybe that

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still works for you, but it isn't necessarily going to

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get you attention. Now, this is interesting, Rory said. And

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someone had just started who figured out this other format

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of showcasing their humor is already crushing it and selling

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more tickets. And it's frustrating. It makes you feel like

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someone's cutting in line, even though that's absurd. But I've

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come to the realization of well, it's actually easier to

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get an audience now. The frustrating thing is it gets oversaturated.

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But if you do come out the other side, you've

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gained an audience. You've really proved that what we have

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is a valuable product. I just hate having to work

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that hard. Having to work hard is frustrating. However, people

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keep showing up, and I'm fortunate that Netflix we want

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to show your special and that only leads to more

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eyeballs and bigger and better things. I hope, and I

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can't really be upset about any of it. I'm in

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a spot where if you'd told me when I started

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that i'd be here in twenty two years, I'd be like, well,

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that's the goal. They were curious how his merch sales

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are going. If you know, you know, and if you don't,

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it's just a question about merch sales. Goebal said. If

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people buy the shirts, one hundred percent will go to charity.

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So I'm hoping that people just lose their mind and

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really want the T shirts. One of them has this

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dope picture of my dad. I did ask my siblings, like,

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are you guys okay with me putting Dad on a

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T shirt, because I think it would be really funny

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if this thing caught on a lot of random people

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have our dad on a T shirt. That is funny.

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All right, I've sat on this, but you had a

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week to watch Rory Scholvill. I mean even I watched it,

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and you know I'm always late on watching comedy specials.

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Vulture had their spoiler laid in reviews, so spoilers ahead,

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you had a week. The hour's opening section says Vulture

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is an optical illusion of guy yelling about politics. Goebel's

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not sincerely trying to sell himself as a guy with

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right wing viewpoints. It's all a set up of right

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wing brorage baiting, but he continues to toy with the reversals.

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The game of it is how quickly he switches back

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and forth. They say, show must go on is a

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legitimate achievement for Skulvill. You'll find it on Netflix. Late

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Nighter did their weekly recap of the Late Night ratings.

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Who won the week? Jimmy fallon both in total viewers

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and adult eighteen to forty nine. Now, the Kimmel Show

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was in repeat, so we got to grade this on

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a bit of a curve. But again, as Johnny Max

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said at the beginning of the summer, I think Kimmel

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should have worked this summer. You're letting Fallon in the door.

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Jimmy's working, And again, believe me, I like summers off.

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Right now, as I'm recording, it's eighty and sunny outside,

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but the landscapers are out. As much as I like

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the bit of un recording pool side, it's too loud

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to do that. I had to come inside. I'm sitting

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in a windowless basement, and to be honest, I wanted

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to go to the beach today, but I have to

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record my other show, Five Good News Stories, because I

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have no episodes left, so I actually have to work.

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Sometimes you have to work, right, Jimmy Fallon, That's right, right,

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Jimmy Kimmel. Jimmy Kimmel says, no, we will see. The

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tonight show average one point five six one million total viewers,

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up a bit from the week before, eighteen to forty

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nine two hundred and twenty six thousand viewers. Kimmel repeats

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of guest host repeats averaged one point zero zero six million. Wow,

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that's a pretty low number for that particular show. Again,

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you know, it's a repeat, and it's not even a

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repeat of Jimmy hosting it. The Late Show at Stephen

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Colbert had zero viewers because CBS got rid of it.

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Comics Unleashed averaged six hundred and fifty four thousand viewers,

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down two percent week to week, and sixty seven thousand

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whole people eighteen to forty nine, which isn't even a

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good number for a podcast. At twelve thirty seven of funny,

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you should ask to average about four hundred and thirty

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thousand viewers and in the eighteen to forty nine forty

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six thousand. Yikes. Seth Myers is in repeats for seven

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weeks for some reason. So that got seven hundred and

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forty thousand viewers down twenty two percent, and he's got

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one hundred and nine thousand adults eighteen to forty nine.

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We'll see what seven weeks of repeats does to that show.

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Out today on the eight hundred pound Guerilla, Reese Darby's

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specials called twenty five Years coming to Netflix soon. Second

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City Television better known as SCTV, all six seasons will

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be on Netflix September first. Now that should be interesting.

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We'll see if that show catches on with the youths.

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I haven't watched that in a million years. It'll be

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nice to just have it right in front of you.

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I think that will be great, And I got some

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other stuff, but like I said, it's nice out that

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can wait for tomorrow. Let me know if you're enjoying

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the little three minute four minute things I've been doing

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pool side. So part of that is I'm just trying

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to get more eyeballs on YouTube. You know, the youth

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today are all on the YouTube, so I'm just trying

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to record some casual video there, and while the video exists,

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I'm ripping the audio. So hopefully I'm not cluttering up

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your podcast feed here or you're getting annoyed with it,

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but you can let me know. My email is in

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the show notes or jump in the Facebook group Daily

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Comedy News Podcast Group. I'm also finding it's a way

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to quickly comment on things, both casually and more timely.

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As I do record the long form audio podcast ahead sometimes,

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but the short YouTube things I can just jump on

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and get something out in a matter of hours. So

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let me know. If you hate it, I can stop.

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If you like it, I can do more. And that

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is your comedy news for today, see tomorrow