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that’s why I think it’s good like what
you do in terms of coversation is like you
basically say you know I’m gonna do long
form because that you know feels like at
least from my perspective the healthiest
form
yeah it’s conversation but is even in
that case people will take long-form
edit things out of context and then it
becomes the same problem that we have on
Twitter and with everything else you get
these little sound bites so there’s
little video clips and you don’t
understand the full context of the
conversation or what was actually said
and then people get outraged at that
it’s you know it’s we are living in a
very strange time and I believe it’s an
adolescent stage of communication and I
think it’s going to give our
frustrations for this are going to give
birth to a better full
and I think one of the things that
podcasts what it’s in response to the
popularity of the long-form is in
response to people being upset with like
these traditional late-night talk show
things where there’s a window here with
one guy on the right and a window here
with a guy on the left and there’s a
person in the center and they’re yelling
at each other and then you cut to
commercial and you don’t really feel
like things got resolved so the response
to that where people gravitate it’s
three is theater yeah I think he’s was
it hard for you you know when we came up
his comments it was also at that point
like it was sort of a gladiatorial
environment you know and I remember you
know the Boston scene you know was
always like that’s a tough scene yeah
he’d come up and it was kind of
gladiatorial and but you had that
audience and you develop kind of that
thick skin is it hard to then make that
switch in your mind to this different
form that’s so much more considered so
much less about conquering the stage
yeah it is about being open and is that
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something that for you what was the
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switch for you from those two forms
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because that’s and that’s an interesting
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switch well in the beginning there
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wasn’t very good switch you know it’s
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like one of the reasons why the early
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episode sucked it’s like I didn’t know
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what I was doing and I didn’t think
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anybody was listening it was just for
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fun and there was a lot of just hanging
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out with comics and just doing what
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comics do if we were at a diner
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somewhere just talking shit and making
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each other laugh but we were doing it
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and videotaping it and then along the
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way I started interviewing actual
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interesting people and talking to them
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and having conversations and not you
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know I don’t you know I there’s a place
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for comedy and then I don’t I make a
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really big point in never trying to
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force comedy into places where it
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doesn’t belong that’s I do that also
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with the UFC when I do commentary I’m
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never funny there’s no reason to be it’s
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not what my job is you know and then
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when I’m doing a conversation with
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someone I just try to talk I don’t try
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to be a comic I don’t try I just I’m a
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human I want I want to know what they’re
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talking about and I want to I want to
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get them to expand upon their
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ideas as best they can and I want to be
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engaged that’s what I’m trying to do so
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it wasn’t that it wasn’t that was a big
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