Name: Andrew Schulz | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #569
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Andrew Schulz | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #569

I have some tour dates to tell you about. We'll be coming to College Station,
Texas,
Belton, Texas, Oxford, Mississippi, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Chicago, and Miami.
All tickets at
theovon.com slash T-O-U-R. Make sure to not go to any secondhand site. Just go
through the links
at theovon.com slash T-O-U-R. Today's guest is a stand-up comedian. He's a podcaster.
He has
a new special called Life on Netflix. It is miraculously done. I'm very
thankful to have
him return to the podcast. Today's guest is Mr. Andrew Schultz.
Good to see you, man. Good to see you, too. Congratulations on the child. Thank
you,
bro. Appreciate that. Congratulations on all your success. Thanks, man. Yeah, I
appreciate
it, dude. I saw, I'm like 17 minutes into your special right now. Oh, cool,
cool, cool, cool.
So, dude, the control you have on stage, that's something I really admire. Like,
this, like, it's almost like a sharpshooter up there, kind of like, there's
some, I don't
know, but you're, the way you have this control on stage is something, it's
great. Thank you,
man. I appreciate that, brother. Yeah, it's cool, man. How many times do you
guys shoot?
Twice? We did four shows. Yeah, two a night. God, that venue's so beautiful. It
shot so well.
Who shot it? Thank you. So, I had my guys do it, like, shifty, shifty, edited.
I mess,
I forget the guys, who's the DP. And then Troy Miller was the director. And
yeah, it's tricky,
like, filming, filming standup is so tricky, especially when you do these, you
know, we're
used to just kind of doing it all ourselves. So, then you go do a special. Yeah.
And you
kind of realize that, like, each department is fighting against one another.
Like, the video
department wants to make it look beautiful. But making it look beautiful might
make the audio
sound bad. Ah. The audio department wants to make it sound beautiful. What
makes it sound
beautiful might mean your mic is really low in the room. So, now the show could
be shitty
for the audience. You know what I mean? Yeah. So, there's, like, all these,
like, we had
speakers, I don't know if you noticed, like, in the front. Like, usually a lot
of times,
Yeah, I saw you once when you had your foot up on it. Yeah. And, like, most
people don't
do that because the shot is more beautiful if you just have, like, raw stage.
But I was, like,
I think the special would be better if the audience enjoys it the most. Yeah.
You know
what I mean? Like, that's how I agree with that. Yeah. Because if they have fun,
you have
fun. Exactly. I was, like, there was, there was one, there was one, I think it
was, like,
show one. And there was, like, miscommunication or something. The camera guy
was a really sweet
guy. But, like, he thought it was his job to just keep walking down the aisle
and back up
the aisle with the camera. And I'm, like, bro, they got to believe that this is
kind of just
happening. And when you walk in front of them with a camera, all the illusion
kind of falls
apart. Right? They feel like they're part of a filming instead of, like, just
part of this show.
So, yeah, that's the trick. I wish I didn't even have to tell them we were
filming.
Yeah. You know what I mean? Like,
Right. Just make it be a regular show. This is just a show. So if you guys yell
out or do something,
this is as natural as it could possibly be. I wonder if you could have probably
could have done
that in hindsight. Yeah. I mean, earlier ones, I was able to do that. But I
think this one,
I don't know, this one, maybe I was, like, nervous. I was, like, fuck, I really
want to make
sure that we could, you know, fill that place four times. And, you know, I don't
know.
It's a huge venue. It's beautiful. What is that?
Yeah, it's the Beacon in New York.
Wow.
Yeah, it's pretty.
Yeah, dude, this looks, I mean, I thought, I was, like, this is unbelievable
looking.
Oh, thanks, man.
Yeah, you guys crushed it. Even the font that they chose for Andrew Schultz's
life, I thought,
was perfect. There was just a lot of great choices, I thought.
Yeah, the first, the Netflix special, you know, the first thing that comes up
on the black screen,
that's actually my wife's handwriting.
Oh, really?
Yeah. Yeah. She wasn't aware that that's what it was, but it was, because I don't
know how far
you are in the special yet, but most of it is this, like, journey of us trying
to get pregnant.
Yeah, yeah. That's where I'm at to, like, let me think. Oh, after you saw the
baby, but
it's, you haven't gone through the journey about getting pregnant, it's just
the actual seeing
the child, I guess.
Oh, yeah, yeah. The C-section story and all that kind of stuff.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Dude, it's incredible. Congrats, man.
Thanks, man. Thank you.
Yeah, good to see you, man.
Great to see you, man. It's unbelievable, bro. Unbelievable.
It's freaking been a while, dude. You've been caught up in some beef. You were
in the
fucking rat beef. I was like, this dude, I thought you were going to pop out at
Super Bowl.
You know, I was supposed to go to the Super Bowl. I was supposed to be part of
the show.
I was like, how wild is this shit going to get?
No, no, no. We were going to go, actually. How about, you were there, right?
No, I didn't go, man. I was, me and David Spade started making that movie, and
so we
had to shoot that. How's that going?
It's interesting, man. It's done.
Do you like, do you, because I remember, like, years ago when we were doing the
pod, there
was a, you know, hopefully you don't feel bad about me, Sharon, but you had
some frustration
with, like, not being able to create these projects. Do you remember us having
these
conversations where you, like, you really wanted to make a TV show and didn't
feel like
those doors were open, and now you're making this movie, you know, you're at
the top of
the world. It must feel pretty cool.
Well, I think we just did it ourselves. Nobody wanted to make it. We took it
out. We took
it to the streamers, and we...
Oh, you created your own movie?
Yeah.
You filmed it before even pitching it to them?
No, no, no. We pitched it first.
Okay.
Right, so we pitched it, and nobody...
No way.
Oh, dude, we couldn't get... And it was Spade, you know? I'm like...
Even with you and Spade, at this point in your career, there was still
hesitation.
I just felt like it would have been nice to feel some support there, you know?
Yeah.
Like, it just would have been like, hey, look, just even as a good faith thing,
we'll do,
you know, something.
Also, you probably got PTSD, too, from, like, years of wanting to do these
things and not
really feeling it.
That's true.
And then, like, now you're at this point where you're on top of the world. You're
like,
all right, now everybody's gonna give me the opportunity, and then to still
feel that,
oh, that sucks.
Yeah, but then I realized it's just how it is. It's just life.
Yeah, I think... I didn't feel like... I don't know if I felt on top... I felt
like this
was a brave thing we were trying to do.
Yeah.
It was a new thing I was learning, but I felt like with Spade, it kind of was
gonna be
okay because he...
Kind of a no-brainer.
Right, he knows what he's doing.
That's the other thing is, like, giving us money to make a movie, like, we're
kind of
knuckleheads.
It's kind of a bad idea.
Yeah, it is.
Like, to us, it's a great idea. We're like, we'll figure it out. And they're
like, have
you done this before? And I'm like, nah, but it's just... It's a movie, right?
It can't be that hard, right?
But a guy like Spade, he's done it before, you know?
Yeah, he'll fucking know. He'll have the camera in his trunk of his car.
It's easy.
Everything will be fine.
Got all figured out.
So...
Yeah, why do we have that attitude? Like, we want to make a movie and it costs
$30 million
and we're like, these fucking assholes. How dare they not give us $30 million
even though
we've proven we can do nothing? What is that about?
That's a great point.
That's kind of on us a little bit.
Oh, totally.
Is that narcissism? Is it ego?
Well, I think... I would never think, give me dirt. I would never... Like, if
they even
try to do something like that, I'd be like, this is insane. But I think what I
realized
in it was, I just want to do something if I can do it by myself, whether it's
win or lose.
It's like, I'd rather make it something small. And even if some was like, hey,
come do it
with us or some studio, I don't want to do that. It's like, I just want to do
something
that it's like, okay, will people like this? Will they believe that I tried my
best? Even
if it's not that good, it's like, that's okay. I can just tell people that go
to see it in
advance, hey, I'm not going to be that great in it, but it'll be a cool movie.
I just don't
want to lie to it. It's just like, as long as there's just a transparency, then
I think
it's fine. I think people admire those that take risks. I think that's almost
like an American
thing in general. We like risk takers. We like people who are brave. And I
wonder if it's
baked in our DNA a little bit, like our family members that left their families
around the
world to never see them again for like maybe an opportunity here. Right. Like,
I think that
we're probably, we have like the DNA of the biggest risk takers on the planet.
Yeah. Like Christopher Columbus, dude, like what about his sister or whatever?
She's a boring bitch.
Yeah. She just got left and fucking wherever.
And probably lived a way better life. She's not learning Native American. She's
just chilling.
She's out over here lying to Indians for fucking, for lunch.
Just shows up. What do you mean there's no gold?
Yeah. But dude, you had to, imagine taking off in a boat. You, people are like,
where are
you headed? You're like, I don't fucking know. You're trying to be cool. Right.
Cause it's
like your last day on the docks or whatever. You're like, I don't know. We'll
figure it
out when we get out there. Like when we get out there.
You got to be selling the dream though. You're like, no, no, no. Trust me.
That's true. Trust me. It's crazy. Oh yeah. They got everything. Women that you
get out
there. I heard that you get a couple miles out there. There's just a lot of
women out
there. They got them on the way. You don't even have to make it the whole way.
They got
stops. Yeah, it is. So anyway, so I think, I think like naturally, you know,
you get a
lot of success. There are going to be people that enjoy seeing you fail or
whatever it is.
But unfortunately I guess human beings, we got that in us a little bit, but I
do also feel
like the people that ride for you appreciate the risk that you'd be taken.
Yeah. I do think all of us as comedians, I think they do. I think that's one of
the
reasons why comedians are in podcasts and maybe does well is because well, for
one, I think
we try to, I don't know, this sounds fucking egomaniacal. I have no idea, but
no, I heard
somebody say that like a lot of podcasters, they're just trying to figure out
the truth.
They just, they're not like, we don't work for anybody. So it's like you, if
you ask somebody
a question, it's just cause you want to know usually it's not cause like
there's a producer saying, let's, let's get this answer.
Yeah. Curiosity is kind of punished in a way, but maybe it's cause they'll put
us on such
a pedestal. They're like, you should know the answer to these things. It's like,
well,
I don't. And that's why this guy's here. Cause I'm trying to figure out the
answer to
it. And I just want to know their take.
Right. I might not even be able to communicate that well or rebuttal or grill
them that well,
but I just want to like, I want to grill them. I want to know what they think.
And then I'll bring
somebody else who thinks something different and I'll ask him that. And, but
yeah, that is, I guess,
maybe some criticism is like, uh, well, why'd you ask, why didn't you ask this
question? Or why didn't
you rebuke, uh, rebuke that? And it's like, bro, I don't know. I don't know
anything just yet.
Yeah. I'm not