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Chapter 1: Who is Andrew Schulz and what is his new special about?
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'm like 17 minutes into your special right now. Oh, cool, cool, cool, cool. Dude, the control you have on stage, that's something I really...
admire like this like um it's almost like a sharpshooter up there kind of like there's something i don't know but you're the way you have this control on stage is something uh it's great thank you man i appreciate that brother Yeah, it's cool, man. How many times did you guys shoot? Twice? We did four shows. Wow. Yeah, two a night. Wow, that venue is so beautiful. It's shot so well. Who shot it?
Chapter 2: What challenges did Andrew Schulz face while filming his comedy special?
Thank you. So I had my guys do it, like shifty, shifty edited. I'm messing, I forget the guys, who's the DP. And then Troy Miller was the director. And, uh, 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 and you kind of realize that like each department is fighting against one another. Like the video department wants to make it look beautiful, right? but making it look beautiful might make the audio sound bad. 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? 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 people don't.
Yeah, so you want to have 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 that the special would be better if the audience enjoys it the most.
Yeah.
You know what I mean?
I agree with that. Yeah. Because if they have fun, you have fun.
Exactly. 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.
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Chapter 3: How did Theo Von and Andrew Schulz navigate the world of content creation and politics?
And when you walk in front of them with a camera, 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 tricky thing. I wish I didn't even have to tell him we were filming. Yeah. You know what I mean?
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 he 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 huge venue it's beautiful what is that yes 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 life i thought was perfect there's just a lot of great choices i thought
Yeah, the first Netflix special, the first thing that comes up on a 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. I'm at to, like, let me think. Oh, after you saw the baby, but you haven't gone through the journey about getting pregnant. It's just the actual seeing the child, I guess. The C-section story and all that kind of stuff. Yeah, 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.
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Chapter 4: What are Andrew Schulz's thoughts on becoming a father?
Chapter 5: How does Theo Von reflect on personal growth and fame?
existence is and you just get to go okay I'm not gonna fucking worry all day about what exactly I am and what I don't have and just be this you know bottomless pit that a lot of us in entertainment can be like there is and maybe that's what you need maybe you need that reminder yeah maybe you need that reminder you're part of something bigger
Yeah, I think that that's a good point because once you feel like you're part of something bigger, there's some connection, then you kind of don't just think about yourself. You're not as isolated.
Yeah, you're not. There's something liberating about knowing things are way bigger than you. Yeah. When it's not bigger than you, it's very easy to get caught in your own head. Fuck, it's a lot of pressure, I imagine.
If you're just thinking about you and how you're being perceived and if you're becoming the man you thought you would be and if you feel comfortable with the success you've had, how other people will react to that success.
Oh, yeah. Fuck, that's crippling. That shit – yeah, there's a lot of stuff that's kind of like scary I think as you get older. I think, yeah, popularity is kind of scary.
Watching your own ego and being conscious of like what is your ego and what is just you trying to have some self-confidence in yourself, especially if some of those things are kind of like – if you're like kind of a late bloomer and some of that shit is happening, it can be – happens simultaneously. It's all, yeah. What's an example of that?
I mean, even some of the like thinking about, I knew something about politics. It was like, just the fact that it took me a couple of weeks to realize, dude, you don't know about fucking politics. Like, yeah, you got to talk to some political people, but do, and how much do they really know? And, but it's like, don't, That's a trap, right? What do you know about?
You know about being curious, you know about wanting to talk to different people, you know about trying to be funny.
I think politics is always a reflection of culture. Politics is downstream from cultural needs and necessities. And I think that one of the things that's made you so successful is I think you're deeply connected to culture. You're aware of what people are feeling, you're aware of what they're frustrated by.
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Chapter 6: What struggles did Andrew Schulz face with his father's dementia?
I know he's sick, right?
Yeah, he's had dementia for a while now, so it's hard for him.
He did the intro to your special. Yeah, that was pretty cool. That was cool, dude. I was wondering, was that tough for you guys to get him to pull it off, or it was okay?
You know, what's interesting is we filmed that actually at the early part of the tour.
I loved how your special started off with the joke because it just like, oh, I'm already having a nice time. Boom. I thought it was a great choice. I thought it was one of the best I'd seen in a while. Thanks, man.
Yeah, it was cool to... Yeah, the first one we were thinking about, we're like, should we just start the joke? And then like... The first thing is, I think I go, uh, you guys want to hear my favorite New York joke. And we could have just cut that line, but there was part of me that went like, if I'm just hanging out with friends and I go, yo, I got a good joke. You guys, I,
my friends or anybody else in that group will go, yeah, I like hearing a good joke. Like this is why I'm tuning into a special. Like sometimes I feel like the first joke you tell on stage is the most inauthentic because it's like, Hey, we're going to do this thing where I talk and you guys just listen. And once we get into it, it will all make sense.
But the first, the first 30 seconds or a minute of it is inauthentic in a way, unless I honestly tell you, Hey, You guys ready? I'm going to tell you a joke.
Does that make sense while I'm trying to communicate? I've never thought about that before. Yeah, there's this kind of moment where... everybody pretends like they don't know you're about to tell it. Like they kind of like, there's this weird moment in the beginning.
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Chapter 8: What impact has fatherhood had on Andrew Schulz's life?
It's every cliche you've ever heard times a thousand. And it's – there's a reason why that exists I imagine. It's like we all should have this reaction towards children, right? Like their smile is the best smile. Their laugh is the best laugh. It's the most incredible experience you've ever had in your life. And there's a little part of you as like a comedian that goes –
oh, I'm going to have these unique takes on being a father. And it is, your takes are so similar to every other person who's ever been a dad, which is now I see as a beautiful thing. But yeah, your life gets really small. I can only speak for myself, but I just don't care as much about other things. I want to spend time with her. I want to spend time with my wife.
And as long as they're proud of me and happy with me, that's enough. Anything else is... It's icing on the cake. It feels really good. Like the response to the special feels really good. It's like amazing. Like all these people who went through IVF and had a similar journey as us to like get pregnant, like they, they, they talking about it like feels really good.
Yeah.
But, but I'll tell you one thing, as long as like my wife and baby are, are, are happy with me, like that's, it's, it is an amazing experience. I hope you experience it, man, if that's something that you'd like to experience, but it's transformative.
Yeah, I'd like to have that, man. It's cool to hear a parent say that, too, you know? I think that, like, it's nice to hear a parent say those things about their family.
It's so cool, man. It is. Also, you'll watch her, like, It's very, very rare in life you get to see somebody give 100%, like really 100%. And when you watch them in labor, it's 100%. Really? It's just they're giving everything they possibly can give.
What happens if they just do 80% or whatever, 60% or whatever?
that baby stays in there, bro. Like we had to do a C-section. Uh, we, my wife had to do a C-section. Obviously it was like, I didn't do anything. I just sat there like an asshole. And, uh, but it was, um, but yeah, it's just amazing what they're willing to do. Like my wife lost a lot of blood and like, uh, like 50 cent almost literally. It was like, yeah.
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