Because when you're asking me where my style fucking came from, I think it would be, I don't think I would do any of that if I wasn't an addict first, you know, I mean, I do think a lot of this is like two people trying to fucking stay sober by saying shit.

Yeah, because you're not, I assume if you're an addict on this side of it, you've seen some shit. Yeah, and you've done some regretful shit. Yeah, and you've seen it for it, my friends. So there must be at some level, you're not like what?

You're just like, oh yeah, okay, it sucks up in there.

Hello everybody and welcome to the final episode of Ari Shaffir Skeptitech. I'm your host Ari Shaffir and this is Ari Shaffir Skeptitech podcast, it's a podcast of which I'm the host. I'm Ari Shaffir and I'm your host for the evening.

Welcome everybody to the final episode. What a run. Celebrations. It's over 12 and a half years. What a great run. You've heard some good ones. You've heard some solid, solid interviews. I'm losing my voice. I've been burning the candles on both ends trying to get this done and trying to get my veins.

I've done and trying to get my vacation ready. I'm going on a summer break. My first summer break in a long, long, long time. 12 years. I haven't had off for the summer. I know you could buy like, what do you mean?

Then you go to Ecuador for six months. Yeah, October through May. What about Southeast Asia? January through April. Summer break. I'm doing it. Not going to have anything. I'm not going to be on camera for a month. That's my goal.

Not to be recorded at all for one month. And after that, guys, I'm not going away forever. I'll still be on your podcast. I'll do a ton of other people's podcasts. But right now we're not talking about that. Right now we're talking about this episode of Ari Shaffir Skeptitech and man, I planned out three months ago, who I wanted to be my last episode. And it was this guy, Ron Bennington radio. Ron. Here's why.

Not only is he great. Not only one of the greatest dudes in the planet, one of the greatest radio personalities around and an excellent comic as well. But he is who I modeled my interview style after for Ari Shaffir Skeptitech podcast. If you liked any of the deep interviews that I've done, you know that style comes from Ron Bennington. He's the greatest.

I would listen to his unmasked. I remember hearing an unmasked with Jim Norton and going, I thought it was, I thought it was his album. I was just illegally downloading. Napster days. We just get everything. I was into comedy albums for a while, burning them on CDs and stuff. I got on a mass with Jim Norton. I was just figuring out Jim Norton was saying unmasked. I don't know. It's a title. It's a good title.

I heard it was this very interesting interview and it was like pre-podcasts. And Ron was doing it. He was really asking these interesting questions and getting people to talk. Talk, talk. All you want to do is talk, talk.

And when I started doing this podcast, I was like, that's what I had in mind for everyone. Let me tell you, before we go, some of my favorite interviews, some of my favorite podcasts from over the years.

And then you can, if you want, go listen to him one more time. I just made a quick list. I'll run through him. Damn, it's a lot. It's a lot.

If you want to listen to any of these, if you liked them, listen more quickly. Get in there and listen to them quick. The nut house, prostitute of fruity, Buddhism, love scam, ego, Chester, the molester, anonymous podcast, part one and two.

Cady Shack and Scrapie Dew, Greg Fitsimans, I actually who is with, Bernie Stevens, some Hooker, Duncan, Sarah Tiana. I think I think a bird or a Duncan, a guy who got molested when he was younger, people from anonymous,

childless with down a rare road rage with down bearers deliverance with Danish and on the, I'll talk about them in a second, art of war with Greg Jackson, going blind, sagora, heroin down in a hole, heroin addict, something P, don't have any P left delivery, John door, Jimmy door, true, fast 2013, especially cutting, Jesse Dodge, a cutter, you know what dad with a brand new father, Robert Kelly, 45 days of father, raping eggs with Kathy McGay, fuck the government, tape some.

I admit 2013, maniac, Jay Fodd, happiness with Steve Simone, gender bender with Lauren Hennessy, the first of my two interviews with trans people 2013, if you've been around for this podcast, we heard some stuff, revenge for the Holocaust, Asperger, the streets USA with a drug dealer, fucking gang member, divorce, of course, thrilled, black Lanna with Miss Pat HIV,

and I'm a great director with Deadman Jeff Scott Beijing a link, Popo injection protection prison rules, tenement when Nick Mullin was living in a tenement apartment in 2015, a couple of crop from Thailand, palsy, take me out to the ball, yeah, I was a good one, the herp the first Joe, this one, first responder, take a hike, the Theo Vaughn money for nothing, cleavage day,

Dan Soder, New York pizza party, the Lestis Guerrero's, which one of the pizza tour in New York, running in the bulls, the Kai and sloss, not all those who wander lost with Henry Rollins, the rake, REL, Jarn ant flow, all about periods, bird is fat, death of a salesman, tail, Tim Dylan's first one, tails of a teenage better with Mark Norman, caveman from Thailand, cleavage day, Jesu Tunba Day, from Cambodia, vagabondor with Rollfpots,

take my wife, please about open relationships, let my people go, mitsy, all me dealing with it from Sydney from all over Australia with my loss of my mentor and,

and mother and comedy hot tub time machine, I mean guys, these are great modern hip to a Tim Ferriss spain, with a homeless non-binary person on the streets of L.A. the revolution with Cali las and pod father with red band troll, one of the greatest ones with myleonopolis, e-rage,

machine and Renezese and Corinne war stories with a war reporter, jk and ran just got a hit with the stomach with a rubber bullet in the France riots, obsessive compulsive, lady with a giant hog, baby skeletons, six months of hating men and guys,

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