Name: Ari Shaffir | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #418
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Ari Shaffir | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #418

i want to announce some new return of the rat tour dates january 26 louisville
kentucky
january 28 indianapolis february 2 shreveport louisiana february 3rd and 4th
baton rouge
louisiana march 24th corpus christi texas march 25th and i believe 26th houston
texas
we just added a new show there in houston april 26th and 27th phoenix arizona
may 13th new york
city we just added a show there june 1st and 2nd austin texas and we will be
adding new shows as
current shows sell out so if it sells out just check back you can use the code
rat king if it's
before friday november 18th um if it's on friday november 18th or after then
you can just buy the
tickets as you go go through theovon.com slash t-o-u-r and uh to make sure you
get accurately
priced and thank you so much for all of your support um i'm so grateful to have
this opportunity
to get out there and see you i love you guys gang today's guest has been uh he's
been on quite a ride
as a human as a um as a content creator uh he's he's one of a kind there's no
doubt about that
um he has a new special jew out on youtube and uh and he's gonna tell us a
little bit about the
journey of creating that and and i'm just grateful to get to spend some time
with him uh while he's
out here in los angeles uh he has tour dates and everything you can check it
all out today's guest
our guest is ari shaffir
shine that light on me
i'll sit and tell you my stories
shine on me
and i will find a song
i'll see you since you came to nashville remember yeah dude that was cool man
that's ruined a lot
of me but not all of it um yeah i've been good man just still slowly just
getting over i had i mean
my burnout was so bad it's tough to say that to people because people don't
know it but like i
couldn't even sit through a conversation well this is a conversation i did with
this guy bryce mitchell
where i could barely even talk i was just my i mean just got burnt out you know
so it's just been
a slow like you know every couple weeks i feel a little bit better i got on
like some peptides and i
got like a lot of different vitamins and did that ayahuasca thing to try to get
better i mean i was
trying everything to kind of you know see what was going on but i was telling
bobby it needs to take
time off i tell him yesterday and i was he was like yeah i gotta do this and
this like dude you're
saying the same thing everyone's saying and i was saying i like you and i were
talking about it yeah
you and i appreciate you hitting me up you hit me up and say hey man you remind
me to take some time
off to go do some things for myself um but i said how like the comments were
all like yeah theo go
we'll still be here like go get right yeah comments weren't like no you better
not take off the
comments were like shockingly the other way like yeah why do you think we get
that feeling then that
we can't uh that we have to keep going what do you think some of that comes
from some of us to drive
within like to where it's like we had starvation mentality for so long you know
that we're still
like i gotta work i got a job i got an offer for a gig and you're like yeah
those are we have to be
comfortable you know like like you know you raise poor if you're like hey the
free breakfast stops at
at 10 we gotta get down there and then at some point you're like i'll just go
buy breakfasts you
know and you're like oh right yeah i guess i don't need the continental like
like you gotta just
convince yourself that you're you're fine that's a good point i think some of
that probably some of
that realization too some of that slowly coming into my own head like
everything's gonna be okay
you know um i yeah i remember we get the continental dude my mom sometimes we
would go meet my
grandparents and we'd stay at like this howard johnson hojo's bro oh they had
it they were nice
they were nice they had a nice eating place in there yeah you could eat there
yeah the waffle maker god
because then you weren't just eating good you were you were like contributing
yeah yeah you were there
you were like go make it like i can make waffles oh like the concierge
breakfast i'm like a french chef
now yeah yeah then you'd forget about it you have to turn it over bro i wonder
how many lawsuits
there have been of people who like just like just thick bitches that tore the
rotator cup it was pre-lawsuits
too they were like this guy fucking burned himself like yeah you know how
people are uh hot irons will do
that oh you let your seven-year-old yeah i probably shouldn't have done that
before that one at
mcdonald's who spilled coffee and then she sued and won at that point everybody
had to be like hey no
more freedoms for you guys they ruined it all man i used to love the freedoms
because yeah then anything
could happen you mean you'd meet a guy who like uh you'd meet a kid and his eye
was like sewn shut
from a waffle from like a hot waffle iron tell me your story i try to restart
remember no face at the
comedy store oh we had a comic named no face because he had like mac the knife
face oh he did
because he tried to fix it a one of those like things in the back of a boat
those uh those motors
he got way in it's like i know i can fix this he's fucking on it and then it
was like
it just no faced him
he was not a great comic he's like in his whole his cheeks got remixed huh he
just
he was he had all the sympathy but he was kind of a dick too and so he like
heckle oh but
he you knew he was him heckling because you know it's like dark in the comedy
store be like who's
heck because every heck would be like you suck that's like air was escaping
from his
lack of face oh my god tell a better joke
oh damn he didn't he had a valve issue
dude i saw sometimes the weirdest fans come out there was a guy who came to the
show and he's like
man you got to meet my cousin he's the biggest fan of yours he lost 70 of his
skull
like oh damn dude wow and you want to be like tell me about the 30 percent
well he would take his hat off and then he would go and his head would
literally go like that dude
i'd be like cartoon surprise yeah he would go and you see
oh how'd he lose his skull i don't oh they went into it man it was i thought it
was going to be a
little bit smoother of a deal you know it was something um i want to say it
like uh some some
of those like electronic double doors or whatever you know oh like at a you
know a you know like a chase
bank bit him or something on the way in or whatever he just didn't read a soul
and was like closed
i think it's just like yeah and i guess the argument in court was that his soul
wasn't showing
up on those monitors so it wasn't their fault yeah yeah he should have gone to
church more it wouldn't
have been an issue he'd go like this in the elevator and he's like it's not
closing
hey buddy uh your soul ain't showing up on here you know dude i got back from
um i don't know where
i was france and i got that uh global entry so you don't have to do a meeting
if you just like
odd you're on your way back you can do it so i'm sitting there waiting some
lady was like oh hey i'm
a fan of yours i'm like oh what are you getting your global interest because no
my they're not
registering my daughter's face she went full goth and then machine is like this
ain't her
damn i guess it can't tell so maybe goth is the way out of all of this maybe
goth's the way out
maybe maryland manson fans because you don't see a lot of like asian maryland
manson fans or things
like that you know or like uh um who is that lady who sang happiness uh it's a
warm gun no no
sing that the dog days oh florence machine yeah yeah you know she sang a song
they'll never play
again it's like uh about getting beat up really uh hit me what is it kiss with
a fist oh and they
don't play it much anymore it's such a good banger it's like you feel something
over nothing yeah and
then she's now she's like yeah well it's interesting because some people use
violence as their form of
affection uh-huh that's pretty wild um jew man let's talk about so let's talk
about your you have
you have a new special now new special so the journey of this special is
interesting because i remember
yeah because i remember when you were do you did this like you had started this
kind of years ago right
yeah five and a half years ago wow yeah yeah it was it was uh canceled a couple
times but you know
stopped me on first down and second down i still got third i picked it up you
know third and 14 i
picked it up jumar chase over here dude you're going deep yeah um well
congratulations man thanks
yeah i watched about the first 20 minutes so that's as far as i've gotten nice
that's more than
i can watch most comics even to put it on is to like is a is like a is a nice
compliment yeah like
hey i loaded up your thing yeah even if it's like i loaded up uh my mom called
i forgot to you know
but like just to load it up is like cool you know every comic is like we know
them all so we can't
watch them all yeah i um yeah and i love the candles i love the setup kind of
it felt a little scary kind of a
little bit it felt a little like uh we'd gone down into a hole in the desert
and you were kind of
telling me some stories kind of a little bit yeah it's got that campfire vibe
which is like religiousy
kind of feel yeah indiana had a little bit of an indiana temple of doom kind of
vibe uh-huh a little
bit for me yeah and we will waste your soul away they're gonna steal your heart
if you watch it too much
if uh all right if you watch it three times yeah and then it's like what does
it really say when he
was like in his art what is this what did he say he has some words in indiana jones
yeah pull it up
charlie mar something like that oh yeah huh i knew it it's close i'm close
um so that must have felt great huh yeah yeah i felt great and it was
interesting because if you'd
have done it in the beginning yeah it would have been for netflix no oh it
wouldn't have been yeah
okay sorry i thought that it was going to be for netflix and then now ended up
on youtube and that
would have seemed like almost a better choice uh yeah it was always going to be
youtube it was kind
of like before people were putting them on youtube i already had the thought of
like no this is the way
it's like you can get it to everybody you'll be like early on a platform um you
still own it
you still own it sure they can't stick some lady's name on the end of it as a
producer that i never
met once in my life or ever talked to like who the is this lady you guys just
stuck on the end of my
yeah i think credits are important you can't just stick some lady's name on
there uh they'll yeah they'll
just sticky text and bro yeah i'm like what um so yeah and and it honestly was
but i got to like go back
to these jokes like with like a year and a half off and go oh some of this is
too long these setups are
too long like some of these like oh this is the same joke twice i can't see if
you know forest for
the trees kind of and then i was able to like edit a lot better it's a lot
better because of all that
how much is it to shoot something like that this one cost me quite a bit um
they're expensive aren't
they yeah you can make them for for for very little and you'll still get the
jokes across you know
it'll still be good but the way i wanted to make it it costs it costs it costs
a lot a couple hundred
g 230. wow yeah the song costs 20. oh yeah isn't that crazy you're like oh this
song would be great
if it gets 20 grand you're like oh it was it was it was uh it was um satchmo
what's his name um louie
armstrong and he was it was eight grand i was like okay wow that's not crazy
that's a lot of
money but i'll pay for it they go well also there's like a chorus he uses on it
so you got to pay the
chorus guy also i'm like how much is he he's like he's 10. i'm like what and
they go yeah and they
have favored nations so it's 10 and 10. oh i'm what we're from eight to twenty
nations they're both
from africa aren't they yeah that's the favorite n