#422 Chinese Circus Freak with Andrea Jones-Rooy

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Ari Shaffir

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4.6 • 6.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2021

⏱️ 224 minutes

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Summary

Comedian and Political Scientist Andrea Jones-Rooy came over to talk to standup comedian @Ari Shaffir about her time being a circus performer in Shanghai, China. That is correct. It’s one of the more interesting episodes of Ari Shaffir’s Skeptic Tank you’re ever going to hear.

Andrea made me miss Shanghai. Even though I’m traveling right now, this podcast made me have wanderlust. She made me homesick for being away from home. And what a story!

Andrea Jones-Rooy got into circus performing in one of the wildest cities in the world, Shanghai. I did the intro in a river tributary in South America. It’s a podcast that’s gonna make you want to leave. Wherever you are, you’re going to want to leave.

Check out Andrea's podcast @AskaPoliticalScientist https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSk4eWAHQYnG4CgyGjXnxHw

Follow Andrea on Twitter and Instagram @JonesRooy http://www.jonesrooy.com/

Join Ari’s Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/skeptictank

The Music:

Brittney Spears - Circus

Shigeru Umebayashi - Take Me To Shanghai

Akinyele - Just Put It In My Mouth

Three Dog Night - The Show Must Go On

Transcript

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0:00.0	There was an expat scene where part of the reason I left was like basically if you hit three years
0:04.8	You either leave or you're there for the rest of your life
0:08.1	And I was like I have to go because this isn't real. It's amazing, but it's not real
0:13.0	Yeah, and there are people who stay and I think they just do cocaine forever and then they have art attacks
0:17.5	It's just the drugs and the drink. There's no reason not to drink you can be it if you teach English you can be hungover
0:22.6	More it doesn't matter. Yeah, it's intense. What drugs were you went through there?
0:26.3	I was definitely gonna get fired. I was definitely it's I okay cocaine is the answer
0:56.3	When I put on a show
1:27.2	I
1:35.4	Hello everybody and welcome to R.I. Shafirs skeptic tank podcasts. My name is R.I. Shafir. Oh
1:41.6	What a fun one to say his episode
1:45.9	Is a mistake
1:48.2	So there's a guy with a podcast called lost in America
1:52.0	I'm yelling because the sound of the river is right fucking here
1:56.4	But now it's hitting me that you guys are not gonna have any problem hearing at all
2:02.2	This guy named Turner sparks and he booked me when he was a booker over comedy club in Shanghai and
2:09.6	He booked me to come there's my first foreign trip. I fucking owe him a million things
2:13.2	So when I got back from Southeast Asia and all these comics were like come do my podcast cuz do my podcast
2:17.5	I get it. It's not a normal story, but I was like nah fuck that. I'm gonna go do turners
2:22.1	So if you want to hear about all my shit when I was like just came back from set from three four months away
2:27.7	Go listen to lost in America episode the first one I was on
2:32.5	But I was looking for new fucking podcast people especially over the early quarantine and Turner immediately called me
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