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Chewin' It with Kevin ad Steve

John Resig, the Chive

Chewin' It with Kevin ad Steve

Kevin Heffernan and Steve Lemme

Improv, Comedy

4.9749 Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2015

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

John Resig, Co-Founder & President of the massively popular, trendsetting website theChive.com joins Kevin & Steve.  They talk about how the Chive came to life, the origins of the name, how you get eyeballs, KCCO, Chivers & Chivettes,  Bill Murray, True Blood, Austin TX and MUCH MORE. Get ready for an AWESOME CHEW!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, everybody. This is Kevin Heffernan. Welcome to another episode of Chewing It on behalf of Steve.

0:05.3

Lemmy, thanks for joining us. Today on the podcast, we have an awesome guest, John Resick.

0:12.4

He is the co-founder and the president of the wildly popular trendsetting site, the chive.com.

0:19.6

If you don't know it, I'd be surprised because millions of people visit the site every

0:24.8

single day.

0:26.8

And, uh, but if you don't know it, it's a site that aggregates material about comedy and

0:31.2

beautiful women and fun in general.

0:34.0

And, uh, really you can't go anywhere these days without seeing someone in a chive t-shirt

0:39.5

it's everywhere and john and his brother leo are the masterminds behind it

0:46.4

and we had a great time shooting the shit with him he tells us the really amazing story about

0:52.0

how they launched the site and they grew it into what it is

0:55.0

and, you know, his hope is about where they take it next.

0:59.8

It's great because he doesn't really do a lot of interviews or things like this, so we were very

1:02.8

lucky to get him on.

1:05.8

So John Resick, he's a businessman, he's an entrepreneur, also an actor, which we talk about that, which is really a cool story.

1:14.9

But generally, he's a great guy with a great sense of humor, very much like ours, and we had a fun time hanging out with him.

1:21.0

And I guarantee that you will too.

1:23.8

So, Chew Crew, without further ado, we bring you the founder of the chive.

1:32.3

John Resick, enjoy the chew.

1:37.6

Now entering nerdist.com.

1:42.7

Chew it.

1:43.5

You're the guy named Kevin. Chew it. And this other guy, stay. Chew it from're the guy named Kevin

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