Stavros Halkias

Le Batard & Friends - South Beach Sessions

Dan Le Batard, Stugotz

Sports, Society & Culture, Tv & Film, Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.9 • 15K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2024

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

Who has a massively popular podcast, a hilarious hit Netflix special, and a new movie which he wrote, produced and stars in? It’s Stavvy, baby! Stavros Halkias has reached the highest levels of comedy success and makes it look easy, but it took Stavvy years and years of grinding to make his dreams come true, not to mention the pressure of living up to the high expectations of immigrant parents… especially when you’re actually high. Stavvy also tells Dan about his athletic past, his pre-comedy dreams of going pro and how he keeps his love for sports alive through his alter-ego, Ronnie, the beloved, worst kind of Ravens superfan. Go see Stavros’ new film, “Let’s Start a Cult,” in theaters now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	And so Welcome to South Beach Sessions. I'm excited about this one because I've watched this man's
0:20.9	career from afar and it seems like it's recently blossomed as if it's an overnight success story
0:27.1	but I think it goes back 15 years maybe more of grinding work and I can't believe Stavros
0:34.5	Halkyus with us here I don't know if I put a Latin flare on then
0:38.2	instead of Greek it works pronunciation wise you it is It has been really fun and funny to watch you become a tastemaker. I mean because you are you you start in the maker. it into a television show and now you've got a movie coming out and it seems like that
1:05.0	happened very quickly but it didn't really happen very quickly right it's just
1:08.4	sped up over the last couple of years yeah and I mean to be honest you I am also
1:12.2	surprised at like the because of all the things you mentioned all of those are the things that sort of helped me out, but the thing the through line for me has always been stand-up, you know, and so my stand-up is kind of, my stand-up career has really done well because of all those things, sort of.
1:31.0	It's like they've all, they've all kind of let it hit another
1:33.8	you know another sort of you've reached a level of fame and word of mouth in the
1:40.2	new media age where people you're like a dirty secret or word
1:45.0	we're a dirty secret and now you are so pop culture popular that you can lift
1:50.8	everything up and the most important thing for you to lift up is your
1:53.7	specials because it's what you're proudest of. Yeah just what I like doing the most I mean to
1:57.8	be honest with you everything else is sort of like you kind of have to get a bunch of different that's
2:04.3	stand up is such a I mean it's kind of having a bit of a cultural renaissance a
2:09.3	little bit but it's such an art it's kind of like jazz where no one really gives a fuck about stand-up or jazz.
2:14.8	But if they know you and they like you, like I get people into my shows the same way like
2:21.1	when Dust and Diamond was doing,
2:23.0	stand up is a thing where it's like,
2:25.0	they'll just go see a guy they know.
2:26.0	You know what I mean?
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