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Schulz: Gavin Newsom is politically a plastic bag in the wind
“Is he a plastic bag in the wind? Yes.”
Schulz: Americans will show no empathy if bad things happen to elites
“There's going to be no empathy if anything bad happens.”
Andrew Schulz bought back his comedy special from Amazon over content notes
“Now, my last special was supposed to be with Amazon, so it was with Amazon, and they had some notes, and I bought it back from them, and I put it out myself.”
Andrew Schulz: The 2024 election was a rejectionist vote against Democrats
“So I think people rejected the democratic proposal. And they went with what the other alternative was, which was Trump.”
Schulz: Donald Trump's greatest skill is listening to people
“I would say that his greatest skill is listening to what people say.”
Schulz: Domestic criticism undermines a leader's leverage in tariff negotiations
“It's impossible to do these negotiations with any leverage if you have the people within your own country questioning your ability to negotiate in real time.”
Andrew Schulz: Republicans message far better than Democrats due to clearer slogans
“I think this is what Republicans are doing way better than Democrats right now is like Democrats don't have build the wall. They don't have slogans. They don't have things that immediately tap into like core emotional feeling”
Schulz: Democrats could win by framing elections around class conflict
“I think that they could easily win the next election if they made it a class war, but they don't because it feels like they're in the pockets of these billion dollar corporations.”
Schulz: People only support capitalism when they hold ownership
“Capitalism is bad when you're left behind. When you're invested in capitalism, it's great, baby.”
Schulz: The American public has been tricked into viewing investing as gambling
“And I think that we've almost like tricked the American public into thinking that investing is gambling.”
Andrew Schulz: YouTube forced streaming networks to compete for comedy specials
“I think that what we did is created another marketplace for comedy that the streaming networks had to now compete with. So they were losing comics to YouTube because it was more advantageous to put your comedy up on YouTube and build a following and then go se…”
Schulz: Conspiracy theories thrive because they offer an easy dopamine hit
“There's an obsession with conspiracy, because there's, I mean, that's twofold. One, like, it's the easiest way for dumb people to feel smart, like, when you know something no one else knows, and you get to share with people, like, there's that, like, dopamine …”
Schulz: Elon Musk will behave well in Trump's administration
“So I think he's going to behave really well because now he's in the most powerful position he will ever be in.”
Schulz: JD Vance has high emotional intelligence and political ambition
“If you want to talk about like power plays, you got to watch out for JD. That guy's a, that guy's high emotional intelligence.”
Andrew Schulz: Accent comedy succeeds when rooted in authentic cultural knowledge
“If you tap into the culture, like to let them know, hey, I didn't learn this from the Simpsons. And I learned it from my buddy's family. Then I think you'll see people who are like Indian Sri Lankan, they'll be like, oh, he, oh, he got, he's got friends.”
Andrew Schulz: Expanding market participation will increase American patriotism
“Get the American people invested in American success, and you will find so much more patriotism.”
Schulz: NYC drivers quickly embraced congestion pricing after implementation
“And like two weeks after they put that congestion pricing thing, everybody I knew with a car was like, this is the greatest thing the city is.”