“It’s so rare,” emphasized Padman.
“We’ve had other comics on and…everyone’s great,” she said, “but they don’t feel bad. They double down on why they can be—which is fine.”
“There’s a lot of reasons for that where that works,” said Bargatze, “and there’s another reason you need that—like, you could have a mix of both.”
“It’s the singular person. I always think about the singular person,” he said. “You know, it’s like this group thought where you think, like, we all, you know, even in this country, where it’s all, like, so nuts and everybody’s so crazy.”
“But if you polled everybody individually and you could get them and talk to them one-on-one,” Bargatze said, “you would go like, ‘We’re the exact same person.’” The cohosts agreed.
“You do you. You have no judgment over anyone else that’s doing their thing,” said Shepard. “And you recognize there’s a space and a need and a—because, let’s be truthful, also comedy is this incredible political force, often for good, and people should do that, and people should do what you do.”
“You can have everything that you want,” Bargatze said, meaning that people are free to choose whatever type of comedy they want to consume.
“That was even a hard decision, when it was getting political and saying your opinions,” he mentioned, “and there was a time where it was like a lot of comics that were younger than me were just flying by me career-wise ‘cause they were being more vocal on both sides, whichever way, but just being politically vocal.”
“And it was again…I want everybody to do everything that they want to go do,” he said, “and there’s places for all of them.”
“I just felt like I have a direction I’m supposed to go. I mean, I was very pulled because it was just like, people were passing you,” Bargatze added.
“It was happening to us in the podcast space,” Shepard shared.
“You got to just sit, and I trusted,” said Bargatze, “you know, that I’m being led to do where I’m supposed to be. And you just go, ‘I’m not gonna do it.’ And then I see signs of it now more than ever.”
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