Name: Stavvy's World #111 - Ian Lara | Full Episode
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Stavvy's World #111 - Ian Lara | Full Episode

Opa! Welcome everybody to Stavis World, 904-800-STAV.
Call in, we'll solve all your problems.
We have returning, after a long absence, our pal Ian Lara.
Ian, thanks for coming, buddy.
Thank you for having me, bro. I feel like I was one of the first episodes in
the studio.
And then I watched the clip. Didn't you have Blake here?
I had Blake Griffin in that very seat.
I'm like, what the hell?
In that very seat, Blake Griffin sat.
Dude, when I saw that, I was like, he couldn't have.
They must have built a makeshift studio at 30 Rock.
There's no way Stav invited him.
No, dude. We've thought about this. We've thought about switching studios.
There's something so nice about making famous people come to some shitty
apartment building in Queens.
And be like, this is the podcast?
Yeah, I'm like, did he bring security?
I thought that was insane, but I'm happy to be back, man.
Yeah, dude. No, we honestly have thought about switching it up.
You know, the R U Garbage Boys.
Those motherfuckers pay probably who they got.
They got prime Manhattan real estate.
Yeah, I mean, they did like two episodes and was like, okay, we got to move to,
we got to move to Hollywood.
This is, this is not.
Yeah, who the fuck do those assholes think they are?
They're doing it the good way. I was like, Jesus. No, but they're great.
Yeah, everyone talks about how nice their studio is.
It is insane.
But this works, though.
Thank you. Thank you. This works. We'll take that.
That's a, that's a route. Like we were earlier, we were just going over the
level of sound engineering we have.
There's a noisy room next door and Eldest sometimes remembers to shut the door.
And that's all. He always worries about that. I've never seen him tweak a
microphone.
No. I've never seen him do any research on, you know, sound quality.
That's the magic behind the scenes, man. The best engineering is there's a lot
going on, but the stuff you don't notice.
I'm sure. While we were talking, he was like touching the camera. I'm not sure
he was touching it.
He was like, we were talking and I was seeing him like adjusting, but I wasn't
sure he was moving the cameras at all.
See, unfortunately that he does do that every time. And that's actually not a
sign of being good at his job.
Because these cameras have not moved one centimeter since the day we set them
up every time a guest is here.
Like, sometimes it takes Eldest, we're sitting here ready to go. Eldest, the
cameras that have been here, he's adjusting them for 15 minutes.
And we have to do that awkward, we thought we were about to pod, but now we're
going back to regular friend conversation.
And he's just like, tweaking what on earth? I have no fucking idea.
Yeah. We got to get you autofocus, man. We got to get you cameras with autofocus.
I've learned to just give up. You're never going to figure it out. We just need
better cameras.
A good engineer is like God. He's everywhere and nowhere at once in his
creation.
You don't see him or hear him, but you feel him.
We see you constantly. We see you constantly and we feel it constantly and how
fucking annoying it is.
What are you talking about?
Man, I think it's that big, big dick energy.
Oh no. You tried to make him big dick Eldest last time.
Why did we wait so long to get Ian back on?
I don't like that. Ian was honestly the first speed bump in setting up the Eldest
persona.
Because early on, you were probably like episode, what, four or some shit like
that?
Like it was like Patreon number four or three or four or something like that.
I thought he wasn't on a free ep.
Oh, maybe he was.
Yeah, I was. I was on a free ep.
Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
No, but that was when we went on the road, I was opening for you and I tried to...
That's right, that's right.
I tried to brand him.
Yeah, he tried to brand him big dick Eldest.
I was hoping he wouldn't let it ride.
There was no way we're letting...
I've been trying real hard to make that one stick.
There's no way we're letting big dick Eldest stick, no chance.
Who knows though, now he's developed a little cult of personality.
Yeah.
So now the true Eldest heads might get behind big dick Eldest.
Yeah.
Sound off in the comments.
Well, all the Eldest heads, I was the first dude to lift him up.
That's true.
He didn't even talk back then.
No, no, no.
He's really come out of his shell.
He really came out of his shell at 35.
I think he got married after that.
He just changed his life after a weekend at home.
That's true.
That's true.
Albany, that was fucking awesome.
Yeah.
That was one of my favorite moments.
Did we talk about this on the last ep?
Maybe.
Who knows?
It was years ago.
It was literally over a year ago.
But my favorite moment, which really made me and Eldest think about how we
consume media,
is when we kept, we were like, dude, we gotta watch, you know, we like to watch
shitty stand-up specials on the road.
Yeah.
And we pitched a specific special to you and you were like, so you guys just
watch shit that sucks?
And you were, you were so confused that we were like pumped to see something
that was horrible.
And we were pitching it to you like, dude, it's awesome.
This guy's bombing the whole time.
Right, right, right.
And you were like, what?
Why the fuck?
No.
You guys were looking forward to it.
Like, like it was the season finale of Penguin.
Yeah.
You guys were like, we're gonna go back to the house.
We're gonna throw on a special, man.
And we had watched it.
You're gonna love it.
We already watched it, by the way.
We had seen it like two days prior and we were excited to show it to you.
Cause he's, cause it sucked.
You're like, you're gonna love it, man.
It fucking stinks.
The act outs are bad.
The promises are bad.
Everything about it is the worst.
Yeah.
We really have developed so much of what we like to watch is shit.
That's horrible.
The funny shit is I don't want to say who it was.
Yeah.
We can't say it.
The next day, like I was working with you that weekend.
And then when I got back to New York on Sunday, I was invited to his premiere
of his new special.
So I went to the premiere and the whole time I'm thinking about, man, when Starro
watches this.
I mean.
Oh, and I watched it.
He thought the other one was bad.
Oh, and I watched it, brother.
I literally, I have like.
Did we just watch that?
We watched that.
He's had two since then.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Oh, we've kept up.
No, we watched the second one recently.
The one after that one.
Oh, my God, bro.
That one's really bad, too.
I loved it.
That one is like, I'll admit that one is like level up bad.
It's awesome.
Cause it's like.
He's the king, dude.
It tries to be like meta.
Exactly.
It's like, it's not just bad comedy.
It's like.
No, it's fascinating.
Yeah.
And unfortunately we really.
It's just a bad look to just openly trash someone, even if we think their stuff
stinks.
But maybe we need to create another tier on the Patreon eldest for like our
true thoughts.
The true thoughts tier.
Dude.
I was.
I went to the premiere and I was watching people pretend that they were like.
Like that they were that they were like moved.
Yeah.
That's another element.
This is like deep.
That's my favorite thing about stand up comedy now is people pretend we're deep.
It's like, that's so stupid.
Yeah.
You need to be funny.
Right.
The entire job is be funny.
Right.
There is not any other thing about it.
It's the simplest art form on earth is make people laugh by any any way you
need to do it.
Figure it out.
But don't you don't got to make them think it doesn't have to be fucking poignant.
And some people can do it.
But it's like funny is out, bro.
It's coming back, brother.
It's coming back.
It's no longer funny.
It's coming back, brother.
You're like old school.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Call me crazy.
I think we I think stand up should have jokes and be funny and not pander.
You ought to be funny.
I mean, that's the funny thing about that is I like because I feel like some
comics, they
just stay away from it.
Like they don't they don't like they just like I just do this shit that I do.
Yeah, whatever happens.
And then some some of them try to fight the culture wars of like that's the
fucking most
bitch ass thing you could possibly do.
I thought so.
And it's what's so funny is all that like there's a now because it's like
obviously everyone
would make fun of alt comics for pandering, but it is literally worse on the
right.
It's now worse.
It's so worse.
And you know what?
Alt comics weren't funny and they were like and and like, you know, half of
them were hacks,
but some of them were doing imaginative things.
Right.
Some of them are doing interesting things for the art form.
No one is doing anything good on the right.
No, there is not one actually funny and everyone who goes that way gets less
funny and people
are going to be fun.
Some of the worst listeners in our fan base are going to be mad at me for
saying that suck
my dick and unsubscribe.
But there is not one there is not one really.
There's not one like innovator who's talking about not being able to say slurs.
There's not one person who with me, you know, it's just me.
I don't even think who I would come up.
Now it's so fucking hack.
And they're the same.
They're the same as the left.
It sucks.
I agree.
I think that's the funny part.
It's the same.
Like it's the same on the other side, but they don't see it.
Like, yeah, they saw it objectively when it was one side.
We all saw it because obviously, especially in New York, there was like a phase
where the
comics would go on stage and it was just like kind of clapped.
They'll say things like, you know, women shouldn't be sexually assaulted.
Yeah, right.
And everyone was like, yeah.
I mean, yeah, we agree.
Yeah, that's fair.
Oh, not funny to you.
Yeah.
White fucking oppressor.
They're from Connecticut.
Right, right.
It's a girl that was a Republican until three years ago.
And they're calling straight white men the devil.
And it's like, all right.
We called it out when it was that.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And it was fine.
But then when the other, like now the same people that was calling it out is
doing it
on the other side, but they don't see it.
And now, and it's awesome because they're doing, they're being so, they're
literally
being gayer than some of the gay alt comics.
Like the guys that put on, Tyler Fisher will put on lipstick and wear, and they'll
dress
like women.
And it's like, that's gay.
You are being gay, dude.
And it's like, and I like gay comics, but you're making fun of them by, you buy
lip,
you go to the store to buy lipstick.
They've probably bought, there's, there's alt, there's like right comics that
have purchased
makeup multiple times.
Yeah.
For their act.
Yeah.
They know the shade of lipstick that works best.
They have opinions on the shade of lipstick that works for their lips and they're
making
fun of trans people.
It's like, what are we fucking doing here, man?
It's pretty wild.
It's like, what the fuck are we doing here?
Yeah.
It's pretty wild.
What I think is pretty wild is that like some, some of them are making it seem
like they're
on this like crusade to like break through, but they're getting like really
rich off of
it, which is like a weird thing.
Yeah.
Of course.
It's a weird thing of being like, I'm fighting for the thing.
But if like, if you want to fight that you're fighting for, then you would just
be pointless
because your whole thing is fighting that thing.
Right.
So if, if that thing stopped, then what would you do?
Then you would just have to be a comic.
They have nothing to say.
They have nothing to say.
Right.
Yeah.
Their acts stink.
You're mediocre at best, mediocre at best.
And you don't grow if you fucking, and here's the other thing having, and we'll
stop talking
about comedy soon.
We just, you know, because I don't want to be one of those podcasts that overdoes
it,
but like, yeah, you're just, you exist in against something.
And it's like, what do you have to say?
Right.
Like all the people who talk about free speech, and I 