Name: Andrew Santino | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #621
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Andrew Santino | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #621

there are some new uh things in the merch shop i want to let you know about we
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um and thank you so
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you guys today's guest is a comedian he's an actor he's a podcaster you know
him from whiskey ginger
and bad friends he has a new special white noise that's out on hulu right now
today's guest is my
friend mr andrew santino
what's up good to see you man great to see you bro so good to see you good how
are you feeling i'm
i'm feeling good man i'm feeling good dude what's going on i don't have to tour
anymore
you're done so for how long we might have to retake my special but uh you want
to talk about it on the
show yeah i'm curious as fuck are you big time yeah i'm totally okay talking
about it yeah i want to
know yeah well so uh yeah what do you want to know so like you know all i saw
was what i saw on the
internet of the taping and then i texted you and i was like how are you are you
good what's going on
yeah because the internet likes to drum up nonsense yeah and you texted me some
love back and i just
want to know how it went or what was the deal like what was going on you know
yeah i mean well when we
left out of there that night we thought like it went pretty good like felt good
after it yeah i felt
i was like i don't know if we got it because there was definitely some hang-ups
it was like
i mean there was a lot of stress like going into it you know and i don't i don't
know i don't know if
i want to go super down that road but like there had been i switched off my
medicine because i wanted
to have a little bit more emotional like a storyline kind of i wanted to be
able to like kind of connect
a little bit more in some moments um and i was having trouble having any
feelings because of
uh antidepressants yeah it was just hard it's like you try to get a feeling and
it kind of stalls out
it like gets stuck in the mud you know um so that was kind of one thing and
then like the government
put out this dhs video that made me really scared the the immigration video
yeah talk about pulling
that out of context they're so good at that they just took something that had
nothing to do with
something else you making a joke and then they're like he's our spokesperson
you're like what i didn't sign up for that bro and so i just got so much like
hate stuff i mean a lot
of it i didn't see but i would just see enough where it was like this is scary
and that charlie
kirk thing had happened not i think a couple weeks before and so i started just
getting real paranoid
yeah you know yeah i started getting real paranoid at home i was paranoid about
the show like if
there could be somebody in the audience you know like oh yeah it just like it i
think it made me
really scared to be honest with you yeah and um yeah so that was happening and
then uh there was just
kind of too many cooks in the kitchen on this set and then during it um yeah i
was just like i think my
uh like i just had too much it was just it was all kind of too much to i think
get the show off as
best as i could and so that's all i left there thinking like i couldn't
remember where the next
joke kind of went yeah sure because it's overwhelming yeah i think people don't
know
that i think i've said that a hundred times is like i always quote dan soder soder
always goes
like when someone says oh i didn't like i i like theo more this way than the
special or whatever or that
but it's because like with this you're getting it straight from the tap he's
like you're getting it
right you're drinking out of the hose like you're a kid like this is drinking
out of the hose and
podcast world and and internet world and live stand up yeah when you do when
you do a taped
special there's so many more elements that go into it that people have no idea
dude i was changing
when i taped this last one i did for hulu white noise yeah white noise i
changed 10 different things
from the to the on the second to last show because i was tripping i was
freaking out i mean and i
zach townsend who who's great comic who opens for me yeah you know zach from nashville
yeah he's great
and zach was helping me kind of rewrite some stuff to like tighten it up and
cut the fat and
because i was bummed about a few of the jokes that i told they didn't hit the
way they did when i was
touring and then it gets in your head and then i'm sitting backstage kind of
having you know this
moment of like do i just not do that joke he was like no that's a great joke
but i think it's hard
to get that confidence back when you you feel overwhelmed they don't really
feel it as much as
you do no they don't know and there should be a meter that they see yeah how i
feel about this
shit right now and it's just jumping up and down yeah and they can honestly
they can tell you're
like look i'm feeling this is like a four and a half right now it was a six in
des moines but now
i don't know that's the worst when you get in your head about because after the
first one you're like
now what do i change anytime you get to like the you're standing at the finish
line kind of
and you're like what do i adjust but you've been around the whole track with
all these jokes
oh dude it's hard you know what sometimes it feels like especially when a joke
you think was really
good you know some nfl players get in trouble because they drop the ball before
they cross
the the goal line i feel like i was doing that a little bit because i wasn't
committing to the joke
because i was unsure of the way that the you know a tag came in or the punchline
snapped and then so
i started to doubt myself but that's so natural because tvs are because tv
cameras are up so your brain
does a thing that it doesn't do live live you fly so free it doesn't matter you
know what i mean
that's me yeah dropping the ball before i get in the end zone but i did it on
like two or three jokes
and then the last taping zach kind of reinstilled some confidence in me and was
like dude just cut
it out that was nice of him to say that yeah he helped me out a lot he helped
me out a lot i i
like i think if you don't have people with you and you're in your team of
whether it's features or
hosts or friends or producers or directors or whoever to kind of give you that
extra dude you're good
you're good it gets hard and sometimes there's too many cooks sometimes you're
like i know how to
make this meal man you got to leave me alone yeah but when you need it you need
it i think the more open we
are to the audiences about that the better off it is because the criticism is
higher than it's ever
been for specials and for live taping for tapings i mean and i think when you
come clean about what it
is what affected you and the reality of it the more loving they get around it
because this is a it's
it's just a difficult task to film something you're trying to capture lightning
in a bottle and the
greats do it often because they're the the reason that louie does it so well is
because louie's the
in my opinion the greatest to ever do it yeah so yeah he captures lightning
very well it's really hard
i'm trying i'm out there with a kite and the key but it's tough to get it dude
it's really hard and
we do the best that we can delivering after we've already toured this thing a
ton and sometimes you
over perfect it you know you want to pinch this and change that and turn this
here and push this in
front of this and then at some point you have to let it go but i was concerned
in the fact that i you
know you're one you're one of my oldest friends in comedy and i just wanted i
wanted you to feel good
because i know how it feels sometimes when i did my half hour with comedy
central dude it was my
childhood best friend and my wife uh my girlfriend at the time in the green
room and i got off stage
and my best friend was like bro and he came give me the biggest hug and i go
can you give me like two
minutes in the green room with her is that okay and he got out and i just
started bawling
i thought i tanked no way i just felt the pressure and i let it all go finally
oh dude now that you
say that i thought my first special after i did it i was like i why did i
choose to do it like it
was i thought let's do it at home yeah but people there had never seen comedy a
lot of them there's
a lot of like lsu tiger fans there was like some lady like yelling defense the
whole show
i'm not even joking dude cover two cover two in the middle of your joke people
had no idea how to act
people were just yelling out like tell the story you know yeah it was just and
you know so that was
a hectic and i remember getting through that and being like god this is a that
was a it was that was
hell it's it's hard but i like i wanted to know you were good when i hit you
because i wanted to know
that everything was okay and you know people have their own opinions on the
internet of what went down
which is like that video that circulated of you talking to the fans after the
show
yeah that was crazy and i don't even really remember it you know because you're
you're you're
running hot at the end of a show you're not really paying attention to anything
i think somebody had
kept kind of bothering me a little bit i want to say bother because people came
to the show but someone
was being aggressive kept asking me for something like will you do will you do
that can you do this
thing can you make me a video and i i feel like i was like look lady i'm just
trying to take my own
life okay it's been a tough couple of months or whatever yeah you know that's
the only place i can
imagine that i would kind of say something like that or if i would just kind of
set it flippantly
or something but i was trying to think of like what retort because it's not
like i was like hey guys
it's i'm just trying not to take my own life it's been a cup it's been a tough
couple of months it's
not like i was making a speech like that somebody but yeah we left out of there
and we thought like
oh everything's good yeah i think we got it um let's wait and see in the edit
we went out to a
some country bar we had a great time uh glennie balls was there my buddy aaron
was there um and
then we wake up in the morning and there was just like a ton of online yeah and
uh and i was like i
just can't even deal with all this it made me learn a lot about online and i
didn't even look at it like
i didn't even look at any of that stuff and i haven't looked at any of the
articles one of them
popped up when i was scrolling um it was like theo bombs netflix or something
which wasn't even true
it was just like uh and there were moments during the show it was like look
guys i'm just having a
tough time you know like i remember i went out there on stage and my mouth
immediately got extremely dry
and i was like oh man something is wrong anxiety you're you're you're excited
and nervous about
doing something so important to you it it that hadn't happened this whole time
like you know
and i was like i can't go to my stool and get water right now i just walked on
stage like
they're clapping i can't fucking take a break already you know like like didn't
you get water
backstage man you're like there's no water back there man we keep it all on the
stool we can't we
don't we don't got it back there brother it's only on the stool like the guy
that shits when he gets
right to work dude right the moment he walks in the door oh that i got a shit
right away that's what it
feels i think it's i think it's an overwhelm