Speaker 1: Joining me now is my good friend Andrew Schultz. He's
Speaker 1: taking a big gamble, he's putting his special out to
Speaker 1: the people, and he's here to talk a little bit
Speaker 1: about it. So, Andrew, welcome to the show. It's great
Speaker 1: to see you again. Thank you for having me, my man.
Speaker 1: How are you? I'm doing fantastic. The real question is
Speaker 1: for you pre orders. You've decided to take this special,
Speaker 1: You've decided to put it out to the people on
Speaker 1: your website, the Andrew Schultz dot com. Why don't you
Speaker 1: tell us the backstory of that. The decision making it
Speaker 1: fits very much, I think within your major career. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so basically, long story short. You know, I had a
Speaker 1: special that I was going to put out with a streamer,
Speaker 1: and the streamer wanted to edit some of the jokes.
Speaker 1: And I'm kind of like tired of the edits on
Speaker 1: stand up, you know. And I'm fortunate enough where, like
Speaker 1: you know, I've built up a nice career and I've
Speaker 1: built up the ability to you know, put out the
Speaker 1: content I wanted and to be completely honest, like, this
Speaker 1: is my first stand up special ever that I was
Speaker 1: going to do with a streamer. My entire career was
Speaker 1: built on like YouTube and social media. And that's mainly
Speaker 1: because the comedy that I like to do was not
Speaker 1: supported by the industry when I was originally trying to
Speaker 1: get into it. So, you know, here I have my
Speaker 1: first comedy special with a major streamer, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna stop doing the thing that gave me everything.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm not going to water down the content that,
Speaker 1: in my opinion, is the reason why I have this career.
Speaker 1: So last thing I want to do is let down
Speaker 1: all these people who supported me my whole career and
Speaker 1: you know, helped me build this whole studio and help
Speaker 1: me build my whole you know, life existence by putting
Speaker 1: out a product that's just not authentic and it's just
Speaker 1: not real. So I said, screw it, and long story short,
Speaker 1: we bought it back so I could give it directly
Speaker 1: to people. And then that's the gamble. It's like, I
Speaker 1: think people want real comedy. I think people enjoy laughing
Speaker 1: at things. You know, you come to one of my shows.
Speaker 1: You've been to a bunch of my shows, like some
Speaker 1: most diverse group of people in any comedy show on
Speaker 1: the planet right now, and everybody's laughing at themselves. They're
Speaker 1: laughing at each other. It's like, I see this every
Speaker 1: single night. I don't need notes from some exec Like,
Speaker 1: I know what the people like and I know what
Speaker 1: the people enjoy. I understand they freak out because they
Speaker 1: see a white guy on stage making fun of every
Speaker 1: different like race, religion, you know, a culture. But at
Speaker 1: the same time, if if they're all there in the
Speaker 1: room represented and laughing along, then what the hell do
Speaker 1: you know? You know? I mean, yeah, like you said,
Speaker 1: I've been to several of these shows. Everybody's always having
Speaker 1: a good time, no matter what ethnic group you are,
Speaker 1: and it's time to get roasted, and everybody just accepts that.
Speaker 1: My question actually was on the specific joke. Was it
Speaker 1: a so I saw you put out the abortion jokes clart,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to ruin it. People can go and
Speaker 1: watch the teaser for themselves. Was it just the one
Speaker 1: joke or were there several edits that they were being
Speaker 1: asked by the streamers making. Yeah, there's a few that
Speaker 1: the abortion one there was like it was like one
Speaker 1: of the tags that they had an issue with. But
Speaker 1: then there was also I have a kind of longer
Speaker 1: piece about Michael Jackson that you're probably familiar with. And
Speaker 1: they they were not a fan of that one saga.
Speaker 1: They did not like that joke at all. And then
Speaker 1: and a lot of people know me for like me
Speaker 1: like roasting my Crown attractions, but like with my stand up,
Speaker 1: you come to the shows like I kind of do
Speaker 1: like longer pieces. Right, It's like it could be like
Speaker 1: a five six, seven eight minute like chunk on a
Speaker 1: topic where I'm like really kind of like, you know,
Speaker 1: digging into it and maybe taking what I believe to
Speaker 1: be the most comedic point of view, which is not
Speaker 1: often like the right thing to say. And so there's
Speaker 1: a bit on Michael Jackson. And then there's another bit
Speaker 1: that they did not like that much that I don't know,
Speaker 1: I haven't done it as much recently, but it's a
Speaker 1: bit about Ted Bundy and like serial Killers. I don't
Speaker 1: think I heard that. I don't think I've seen that one. Okay, Yeah,
Speaker 1: so that was that was another one which they were
Speaker 1: not very happy. And I get it because I'm saying
Speaker 1: that you know, it's it's the girl's fault, but you
Speaker 1: know it it is. But I have good reason for
Speaker 1: why say it. Okare you have to watch to find out.
Speaker 1: I mean, my question is on this for the only
Speaker 1: reason that you and I even met is because I remember,
Speaker 1: I think you were on Rogan with Charlot Mane and
Speaker 1: you were talking specifically about the rise of YouTube and more,
Speaker 1: and I started checking out your stuff and I was like, Wow,
Speaker 1: this guy is really inventing the game. Obviously it's been
Speaker 1: I think it's almost two years since that happened. And
Speaker 1: you know, do you see this in the context that
Speaker 1: this is going to change the comedy game as in
Speaker 1: I think it was Mark Norman. I believe I heard
Speaker 1: him on Rogan talking about He's like, you know, I
Speaker 1: did a Netflix special and he's like, I think the
Speaker 1: next one, I'm just going to go with YouTube. He's like,
Speaker 1: I don't see any reason to not just go direct
Speaker 1: to the fans, because I see much more of an
Speaker 1: impact on my career visibility and more so, you know, streamer,
Speaker 1: whoever it is aside, do you have any reason in
Speaker 1: the future that you would even have to work with
Speaker 1: the streamer given that you're almost they're almost paying you
Speaker 1: for less people to watch it. If that's the right
Speaker 1: way to think about it. I think this is the
Speaker 1: final level of the independence game. You know, I think
Speaker 1: the future is definitely ownership, not censorship. So you know,
Speaker 1: but I think that this is the final level like
Speaker 1: we've been building and I think this is this is
Speaker 1: really where it's at. And I think this also separates
Speaker 1: you know, the men from the boys. This is a
Speaker 1: scary thing because you find out exactly how much you're worth.
Speaker 1: You know, there's a lot of people saying they want
Speaker 1: this amount of money from a streamer. But if you
Speaker 1: can't generate that yourself, how you asking for it from
Speaker 1: you know, one of these streamers. You can't, right, So yeah,
Speaker 1: the tricky thing about doing you know, specials with the
Speaker 1: streamers is they used to be able to make superstars
Speaker 1: and now they can't make superstars like they used to.
Speaker 1: Like initially back in the day, you go do it,
Speaker 1: you know, a special with Netflix and it was just like,
Speaker 1: you know, next week you are boom selling out theaters
Speaker 1: all over the place. They can't give you the same
Speaker 1: amount of eyeballs as YouTube. YouTube just has a more
Speaker 1: robust algorithm and YouTube can be honest with its content
Speaker 1: because it's not putting out its own content. Yes, right,
Speaker 1: Netflix puts out its own content. I mean every Netflix
Speaker 1: shows a ninety percent. They don't have any shows that
Speaker 1: they messed up on. YouTube is not putting out the
Speaker 1: content right, right, they're just the marketplace. So if it sucks,
Speaker 1: they're like, sorry, people don't want to watch this. They're
Speaker 1: more honest, so it can get you to the most
Speaker 1: people now. But there was still a time where these
Speaker 1: streamers could pay you, they could overpay you. You know, YouTube,
Speaker 1: you're not making that much money on the ad rev right,
Speaker 1: so they would be able to overpay you. But now
Speaker 1: they're in a situation where they can't even overpay because
Speaker 1: you got to overpay me if people aren't gonna see me.
Speaker 1: At the end of the day, we're all capitalists, right,
Speaker 1: we want to make some bucks, you know. So it's like,
Speaker 1: if you can't give me the people and you can't
Speaker 1: overpay me for the people not seeing it, what's the point.
Speaker 1: And if we create a way where people comics can
Speaker 1: actually put their content out and they can make more
Speaker 1: money than they could make with a streamer, what happens
Speaker 1: Then you get the most pure, authentic version of comedy.
Speaker 1: That's it, no notes, and then the networks have to
Speaker 1: compete with that. They'll never give you note because they
Speaker 1: know you could make just as much money on your
Speaker 1: own right. The reason why it's important that comics are
Speaker 1: able to sell it is because in order to do
Speaker 1: a comedy special with this production value, which is what
Speaker 1: you want to do, it costs money. It's an investment.
Speaker 1: A lot of people don't know it, but it costs
Speaker 1: hundreds of thousands of dollars to even produce something like this.
Speaker 1: You know, so it's you at a certain point in time.
Speaker 1: It's like everybody would like to make a movie, but
Speaker 1: people don't have five million dollars to just invest in
Speaker 1: the movie. Right, You do need some capital. You're absolutely right.
Speaker 1: I tell people this all the time when I mean, listen,
Speaker 1: I've been in your chair. I had no idea this
Speaker 1: is going to work out, you know. I was like, hey,
Speaker 1: you know, people support us. It costs a shitload of
Speaker 1: money in order to do video production. People know that.
Speaker 1: You know, all these cameras and you guys travel on
Speaker 1: the road. I've met your crew. You guys have a
Speaker 1: lot of equipment. You have an entire show that you
Speaker 1: have to produce. You you you do it night after night.
Speaker 1: You have to record it, edit it. All of that.
Speaker 1: It costs a tremendous amount of resources, so on that,
Speaker 1: I know exactly how you're feeling. My last question, because
Speaker 1: you've always been in a stude observer on this is
Speaker 1: around culture, which is that while I think what we're
Speaker 1: doing here on YouTube is incredible and I know how
Speaker 1: it's wildly successful and more pierce the last bubble of
Speaker 1: popular culture, elite awareness and all of that has always
Speaker 1: been the most difficult part. So what do you think
Speaker 1: is going to work? If this is the future? Are
Speaker 1: they going to catch up eventually? I mean, in my opinion,
Speaker 1: should have caught up ten years ago, but they're still not. Like,
Speaker 1: at what point are they going to recognize what's really
Speaker 1: happening out here in our space? I think I think
Speaker 1: the one they're already recognizing it, but they recognize at
Speaker 1: the same time, any business recognize it when it hurts
Speaker 1: their bottom line, right, Like I mean, once, you know,
Speaker 1: once I started doing the YouTube thing and other comics
Speaker 1: started doing the YouTube thing. You know, I have conversations
Speaker 1: with these execs because I still do business with these
Speaker 1: streaming platforms. I'm not anti streaming platform I'm just anti
Speaker 1: edit my jokes. So you know, I talk to them.
Speaker 1: I know that their biggest competitor is now YouTube. You know,
Speaker 1: it's it's just what it is, like, that's where people go,
Speaker 1: and that's where we get the most eyeballs. At the
Speaker 1: end of the day, we're comics, right, we want the
Speaker 1: most people to see our stuff, so we can go
Speaker 1: tourn the road and do theaters. And it seems like
Speaker 1: right now YouTube is the most viable option for that,
Speaker 1: right and posting your stuff on social media. So now
Speaker 1: they've even had to capitulate. So I think once something
Speaker 1: affects their bottom line, you all of a sudden start
Speaker 1: becoming more malleable. Right The idea that like Netflix probably
Speaker 1: gets more views on their stand up that they post
Speaker 1: on YouTube than they do on Netflix proves the model
Speaker 1: of YouTube, Yes, you know what I mean. So I
Speaker 1: think once it affects their bottom line, they make change.
Speaker 1: That's just how the world works. You have to prove
Speaker 1: that it's valuable. You go out there. I do this,
Speaker 1: other comics do is improve And at the end of
Speaker 1: the day, it's up to the people. If people support
Speaker 1: this and they want this type of comedy and they don't,
Speaker 1: you know, and they're not down for the censor of jokes,
Speaker 1: then then then this fucking works, and all of a
Speaker 1: sudden they're gonna have to move their needle. All of
Speaker 1: a sudden, all these different streamers are gonna have to go.
Speaker 1: You know what, we have to let these wild jokes
Speaker 1: go out here, not because we want to, but because
Speaker 1: it's hurting our business model. And at the end of
Speaker 1: the day, that's what we care about. And that's okay
Speaker 1: if at the end of the day they care about that.
Speaker 1: You know, these a lot of times these people work
Speaker 1: in there. They're not comics. Man. They don't love it
Speaker 1: like we love it, you know what I'm saying. They
Speaker 1: love running a business and they got kids in fucking
Speaker 1: school and they got a mortgage of pay. I'm not
Speaker 1: mad at them. But we all have the things that
Speaker 1: we love. We all have the things that that we're
Speaker 1: passionate about, so we got to protect that, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean? I agree, And I hope they're all
Speaker 1: paying attention the Andrew Schultz dot com. Anything you want
Speaker 1: people to know about both the pre order, about how
Speaker 1: it's gonna post, how it's all gonna work. I know
Speaker 1: you guys have some stuff there. Yeah, just uh, you
Speaker 1: can go pre order my website. Dandrew shouls dot com.
Speaker 1: Uh I dropped a clip of it on uh on
Speaker 1: on YouTube that you can go check out. I got
Speaker 1: some stuff on Instagram, but it's on the seventeenth of July,
Speaker 1: but go pre order right now. Watch it with us
Speaker 1: all live. We're gonna do a live stream after with
Speaker 1: the Flagrant crew and uh yeah, just spread the word,
Speaker 1: tell everybody, and and yeah, you're gonna hear. You know,
Speaker 1: you're gonna hear a lot of wild stuff. But if
Speaker 1: you watch this show, you're used to wild stuff. You know,
Speaker 1: Like Soccer's been doubling down on this European coffee thing
Speaker 1: he made up, and I appreciate it because he couldn't
Speaker 1: be so wow. You were in Europe too. That was
Speaker 1: the best part. I actually thought of you. Well, I
Speaker 1: saw you, I saw you double down. I was like,
Speaker 1: I love this, dude, this may be be's so happy. Bro.
Speaker 1: You were like, nobody wants to have seven dollars coffee
Speaker 1: in Europe. It's true. Coffee's never been seven dollars in Europe.
Speaker 1: It's like fifty cents in Europe is the cheapest. He's
Speaker 1: not gonna I'll never I'll never give it up. I'll
Speaker 1: never give it up. By the way, their their currency
Speaker 1: just hit it twenty year low, so fuck you euros.
Speaker 1: That's my uh, that's my So it's even cheap, it's
Speaker 1: not seven dollars, and that's only because of their shit
Speaker 1: currency and countries. But we can talk about that at
Speaker 1: another date. Listen. I already pre ordered the show. I
Speaker 1: love you guys, flagrant everything that you guys do over there,
Speaker 1: and you always have a friend over here on breaking points.
Speaker 1: So thank you very much, Andrew. We're gonna have a
Speaker 1: linked down in the description. I've been where you are.
Speaker 1: I didn't know how it was gonna work out, Crystal
Speaker 1: and I people showed up for us. I predict that
Speaker 1: people are gonna show up for you. I already did.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be watching pre ordering on the live stream
Speaker 1: just like everybody else. So thank you very much, thanks
Speaker 1: for coming on. Thank you, Thank you so much, brother,
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