Andrew Schulz: Interviewing Trump, Roasting Tom Brady, and ‘Life’ on Netflix

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🗓️ 19 March 2025

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Andrew Schulz knows that hosting Donald Trump on his Flagrant podcast would make everyone think he’s a “right-wing MAGA lunatic.” But, as he makes clear in this episode, his politics are more complicated than what meets the eye. Schulz, who just put out a surprisingly vulnerable Netflix stand-up special called ‘Life’ about his experience with fertility and fatherhood, opens up in this conversation about the backlash he has received for being part of the Joe Rogan-led podcast manosphere, how he thinks this new Trump era could actually be bad for comedy, why he believes his triumphant set at the ‘Roast of Tom Brady’ marked the night “wokeness died”—and his inspired idea for which “GOAT” Netflix should roast next. We also go deep on his controversial Trump interview, the “Rorschach test” reactions from the two ends of political spectrum, why he declined an invitation to attend Trump’s inauguration, his biggest disappointment in the administration so far, and a lot more.

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0:32.6	This is the Last Laugh.
0:39.2	I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast, and this week we have an episode that is probably
0:44.3	going to surprise listeners of this show in a lot of ways.
0:48.7	So here's the deal.
0:49.9	As you may have noticed, I don't typically have conservative comedians on this podcast.
0:55.0	And after spending about 90 minutes with comedian and podcaster Andrew Scholes,
1:00.0	I'm not sure he totally deserves the hardcore MAGA label that has been put on him.
1:04.6	But I can confirm that we do disagree on a lot of stuff.
1:08.2	And part of the reason why this episode is longer than usual is that I wanted to
1:11.9	keep pretty much all of what ended up being a sometimes contentious, but I thought really
1:16.9	illuminating conversation in the final edit. Andrew has a new stand-up special called Life that is
1:23.5	streaming now on Netflix. He also had a breakout set in last year's roast of Tom Brady,
1:28.9	but he's probably still best known for hosting Donald Trump on his very popular podcast,
1:34.3	Flagrant, just a few weeks before the 2024 election. As he explains to me in our conversation,
1:40.6	he knew that he would get shit for, quote, platforming Trump in that way.
1:44.7	But he always responds to that criticism by pointing out that you don't really know what you're
1:49.3	going to do until you're given the opportunity to speak to any given person.
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