Dan Soder: I Wish I Knew
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Guys, hi, Neil Brennan.
Why does Dan say cutting out comedy middlemen is the key to creative freedom?
We're switching the premise of this podcast.
Is it ever okay to “steal” from corporations?
Well, it's not a big switch, but I wanted to have my friends back and I they'd already done it. So we changed we're here's the new premise. I wish I knew.
How does body image and the fear of the pool affect confidence?
Or things I Twenty twenty hindsight, if I'd only known. We're gonna we need a title. I may call it Who Knew? Who knows?
Why does Dan argue that personality and humor matter more than abs?
But it's things we wish we'd known. You know what I mean? And uh and a guy that I thought would be a dynamite kickoff for the new premise, 'cause he ripped it when it was called blocks. Sister died and his dad died. Who can forget it?
What did the letter from Dan’s sister reveal about his dad’s abandonment?
And then his mom died eventually. No, not yet.
She's still holding on.
How can we stop taking everything personally?
Don't do that. You don't you fucking kill her off on your body?
Why does Dan stress the importance of regular exercise as we age?
You know what you can fucking kill her off on your pocket.
Um uh so you wish you knew your mom died? No. Um before you do this podcast. Yeah. Oh my god. What a bummer to find
out.
I'm being awful.
Horrible um a five camera shooter. But I
mean you want to talk about that's y that's good for forty thousand downloads for me. I'm gonna monetize your mom's death when it happens. I'm gonna release her and do a re release. The death cut. Anniversary re release. Um anyway, it's he's got uh he's he's doing it. He's one of the m I think the probably the most successful Internet transition comedians. He he had did an HBO special, he did a Netflix half hour.
Yeah.
Uh, and then he was like, This is stupid. Let me just do funny stuff on other people's podcasts and on my podcast and on Punch Up, his the website. Yeah, punch up dot live. Where he does live, you know, he does movie watches and stuff. Uh never invited me, don't worry about it. I'll do
that. I would love to do a movie watch. You know what I would do with you? The um I want to do the movie you directed. No, yeah, you're right. You can't make fun of something that you create. That is kind of fucked up. I'll find something.
Create is a big word. Um anyway, it's Dan Soder, ladies and gentlemen. Please clap.
It that is the the internet transition thing. I was like, where are you gonna go with this?
No, no, I text you. I texted you. I think I called you and was like, Hey man 'cause I I think about you on my I had a certain point I was like, What's gonna happen to Soda? 'Cause you were fucking really good but it was like you seen you were on serious, you were like doing I had a great Two thousand four career
in two thousand and nineteen.
Yeah.
Right? So it was like
So yeah, and you and then you were finally But then
Covid I was like, What the fuck? Bonfire was still fucking awesome. It was still fun as shit to do. But after a while I was just kind of like Why am I it felt like a day job. You wanna start talking about things you wish you knew. You don't owe the industry anything. And then say that clearer. You don't owe the industry anything. You don't own these people have jobs because of what you make. So once you realize that, you just cut 'em out. There's you shouldn't be getting notes from someone that you don't Creative jokes. Doesn't know how to write jokes. That you don't creatively agree with. I cause some people don't know how to write jokes, but creatively they make they make very excellent points. But sometimes people give you notes and you go, How the fuck did you get here?
Yeah. So know that. So you realize, like, cut out any middlemen. You don't have to go to after parties, that's all middlemen. You don't have to go to any of these things, it's it's middlemen. It's uh find a platform that you can put your stuff on. Find out how to make that stuff, put it on that platform, that's where we're at right now. I've been saying we're all the my pillow guy now.
Hello, I'm Mike Lindell, inventor of my pillow.
That's hilarious. Yeah, yeah. I'm just slapping stuff on the side to go. Yes. They block walls.
It's all d what they call D T C direct to consumer. It's there is no Netflix and H all these people are like the last stop. It's the Pele playing
In America. Yeah. If you could go back in time and have like a hood, and then you like revealed older Neil to young seven. This is what the
whole premise of
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–0:01
2
Why does Dan say cutting out comedy middlemen is the key to creative freedom?
0:01–0:03
3
Is it ever okay to “steal” from corporations?
0:03–0:13
4
How does body image and the fear of the pool affect confidence?
0:13–0:21
5
Why does Dan argue that personality and humor matter more than abs?
0:21–0:37
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What did the letter from Dan’s sister reveal about his dad’s abandonment?
0:37–0:40
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How can we stop taking everything personally?
0:40–0:40
8
Why does Dan stress the importance of regular exercise as we age?
0:40–1:15:43