#1580 - Andrew Schulz

Joe Rogan (0:17)

What's up, brother? How are you?

Andrew Schulz (0:18)

I'm good, man.

Joe Rogan (0:19)

Are you going no headphones? I'll go no headphones, too.

Andrew Schulz (0:20)

I always go no headphones, man. I don't know. It just locks me in in a weird way.

Joe Rogan (0:25)

In a weird way?

Andrew Schulz (0:26)

Yeah, the headphones, I don't know. I don't feel like I'm talking to you.

Now, like, I feel like we're having a conversation and there's just the microphone in the way. But this feels like it's on the phone.

Joe Rogan (0:35)

Yeah, I know it's on your show. You'd never do headphones on any of your podcasts. Yeah. No headphones.

Andrew Schulz (0:40)

Never. It is what it is.

Joe Rogan (0:42)

Dude, your show is fucking badass. The Netflix show is very, very good.

Andrew Schulz (0:47)

Did you watch it?

Joe Rogan (0:47)

You are. Yes, I did. Let's go. You are my favorite example of someone who took this pandemic and fucking rose through it.

You elevated through it. You raised your stock while all the comedy clubs are shut down. No one's out. Everybody else is trying to figure out what to do. They're doing Zoom stand up, which lowers you because people get to see your stand up. It's gross. You figured out how to do it, man. You really did. You did it in a multimedia presentation form that really other people weren't doing.

You fucking nailed it.

Andrew Schulz (1:25)

Thank you, man.

Thank you for being so supportive, man. Those videos popped off because you started reposting them.

Joe Rogan (1:30)

Oh, my pleasure. I love when people just get after it. I love that you do that. You hustle.

SPEAKER_5 (1:37)

Yeah, you work hard.

Andrew Schulz (1:39)

Obviously, it's super tragic, Corona and everything like that, but when, I don't know, for some reason, I kind of thrive in chaos. I don't know if that's a New York thing, but when it happened, part of me was like, oh, yeah, we're going to win.

Literally, I told the guys that I was like, when they said everything was getting shut down, I go, we'll win, guaranteed. We had just put the studio in there. I paid all the money to do the studio and I had no clue how I was going to make the money back.

It was like, you know when the colonizers or whatever, they'd stop on the island and then they'd burn the ships? Because if they weren't, everybody would be like, should we just go back to Spain? It's going to be better. There's Spanish people and shit. And then we were just like, nah, we're going to fucking figure it out.

And then it happened. We tried a few things that didn't work exactly.

And then- What'd you try that didn't work? We did, we did one thing that did work. We did like a talent show on Instagram Live. And that was sick. It was just Corona's Got Talent. And Corona Beer sponsored it. So it looked kind of cool. Yeah, they just were like, yo, can we send you beers like Corona's? Cause nobody's buying Corona's. We're like, fuck yeah, this is crazy.

Joe Rogan (2:39)

How ridiculous is that, that no one was buying Corona because of Coronavirus? That is so dumb.

SPEAKER_5 (2:45)

I know, it's wild.

Andrew Schulz (2:46)

So we did that, that was cool. Then we did like, I was just doing like straight to the camera stuff. And it was like, kind of like long form, almost like talking to people, but it wasn't like comedic. It was more just like, hey, this is what's going on. You know, but for me, I was like, I want to be funny in what I do, you know? Like we have the podcast where we get to joke around and that's longer form, but like if we're going to create something, like a piece of content, I want it to be funny. And then it was Bill Maher actually inspired it.

Really? Yeah, that's snarky fuck that guy.

SPEAKER_5 (3:18)

He's so snarky, bro.

Andrew Schulz (3:20)

But like, remember when he did that video where like, he was saying why it wasn't racist to call it the Chinese virus? And it was this great video and I got sent it by like 10 different people and like all different ages were sending it to me. Like my fiance now's mom and dad sent it to me and like my boys were sending it to me. And I remember going, oh shit, like people need like a safe way of describing their feelings.

Oftentimes like comics, that's kind of what we do. Like we'll describe how people feel in a funny way, so all of a sudden it's okay and safe. But if you just said that at work, it would be racist.