00:00Robin Williams, that interview stands out in a way as the only existing interview of that guy when he's not amped up.
00:09The sitting president, Barack Obama, coming to the garage, they had to bring the Secret Service and all that stuff.
00:14They had to figure out where they were going to, you know, put snipers, you know, because it was in a neighborhood.
00:30I think the show, you know, at the core is really a kind of living audio diary of my life, the arc of my life over these 16 years.
00:43So I think the connection that the primary audience has is deep and real.
00:48And I do think that in a lot of cases I kind of help them, you know, manage, you know, their own emotions and their own obstacles in life.
00:57I know that to be true.
00:58So that element of my audience lives in my head and it's it's a bit difficult to leave them hanging in a way.
01:07But but I think most of them have been very kind of supportive of the of the change that, you know, they've been sort of like, you know, I get it.
01:17And, you know, we're going to miss you. And that's sort of a testament to who my audience is.
01:21I think a lot of the interviews are singular interviews.
01:23And I sort of see them as kind of, you know, audio portraits of people where, you know, I feel that after in an hour, hour plus, you know, once you get past 20 minutes or 30 minutes of whatever.
01:37You know, people's, you know, not defenses break down, but they get more comfortable and because it's audio, they forget that they're on a mic.
01:44And then you get something that is unique to that interview.
01:48And because of the way that we did the show, you know, a lot of it is a fairly honest representation of who they are.
01:57That was a big day. The sitting president, Barack Obama, coming to the garage, a lot went into that.
02:02They had to bring, you know, agents in, the Secret Service and all that stuff.
02:06They had to figure out where they were going to, you know, put snipers, you know, because it was in a neighborhood.
02:12There was a big motorcade that, you know, I had to ask my retired neighbor if we could put snipers on his roof.
02:17And he was excited because they had tried, apparently, because Brendan went out to the house before I got back from Hawaii to meet with Secret Service.
02:23And apparently they put a couple of guys on the roof of the garage and they were jumping on it to see it was sturdy.
02:28And Brendan goes, it's not, it's not, it's coming in, you know.
02:31And so the day came, you know, and it was a big deal.
02:35And we had made choices around that interview.
02:37We were not going to do a political interview, which we were both capable of producing, having done political talk radio.
02:43We were going to keep it within the context and confines of the kind of conversations we had on our show.
02:48There was some political stuff that needed to be dealt with at the beginning because it was in the news.
02:53And we did what we do.
02:54We had an hour.
02:55We very rarely, if ever, you know, write questions, but we had a time limit.
02:58They gave us final edit.
03:00They didn't vet the questions because they were dealing with a competent and sophisticated, intelligent president who could handle himself in a dignified and candid way, really.
03:10It was a big day for me.
03:12I think it was a big day for the president.
03:14I'm not sure how much it stands out, but it definitely put the medium of podcasting on the map as a real thing.
03:22Robin Williams, that interview stands out in a way as the only existing interview of that guy when he's not amped up and very candid.
03:36Because I went up to his house, I drove up and I did the intro and the car driving up.
03:42And it was literally, you know, his assistant let me into the house and it was just me and him.
03:46And I think with him, and I'm a comic, so I speak the language and I had a very specific intention, you know, talking to him.
03:53It was kind of hard to put together.
03:54It was probably a little more, there was more hoops to jump through for him than the president, really.
03:59Pretty private guy, very well represented, very well protected.
04:02And we had to, you know, we had to do a lot of stuff to make that happen.
04:05I don't think it was on him so much as, but his people.
04:09I had gotten tired of people kind of dismissing Robin, you know, as either a joke thief or a hack or, you know, whatever, comic talk.
04:18And, you know, because this is a guy that's done everything, you know, major hit TV series and tons of hit movies.
04:26And these dumb little comics were like, yeah, but they're good.
04:28I'm like, he did everything you wanted and he did it brilliantly and he did it like no one else.
04:33I mean, what is your bitterness?
04:36I mean, how are you judging this guy?
04:37So it annoyed me and that kind of drove me to kind of, you know, really want to talk to him as a person and as a comedian.
04:43And it was pretty amazing.
04:44It was very, very candid and very open and it wouldn't have happened if there was one other person.
04:51If he could somehow make an audience, which I think requires two people in the Robin brain, you know, he can bounce all over the place.
04:59But because it was him and I in his house, you know, talking as two comedians, you know, you got a side to him that I don't think it ever happened again.
05:08It hadn't happened before because after he passed away, a lot of people used it.
05:12He also talked about suicide in it, which, you know, is kind of sad.
05:19But I do think it's a very kind of raw representation of who that guy was.
05:23I think that audio was really the way to go and stay because it is a much more intimate medium and it's a lot more personal.
05:33But I think ultimately because the podcast format, whether video or audio, is just so easy and now it's been kind of co-opted by branded people and it's just everybody's just blabbering away.
05:51And I still think that mine stands out as pretty unique outside of a couple of people that directly copped my style, which, you know, it happens.
06:05But it's a little it's a little inundated and and not as special anymore.
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