TLPP: "Blocking Cowards" w/ Matt Balaker

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🗓️ 4 November 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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This episode of The Lou Perez Podcast is a collaboration with The Matt Balaker Podcast. We talk about blocking cowards on Facebook, Charlie Kirk, living in bubbles, and my roadtrip with Scott Thompson (The Kids in the Hall, The Larry Sanders Show, Buddy Cole)—a highlight of my life that I still haven’t fully processed. Check out my book, That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore: On the Death and Rebirth of Comedy https://amzn.to/3VhFa1r Watch my sketch comedy streaming on Red Coral Universe: https://redcoraluniverse.com/en/series/the-lou-perez-comedy-68501a2fd369683d0f2a2a88?loopData=true&ccId=675bc891f78f658f73eaa46d Rock XX-XY Athletics. You can get 20% off your purchase with promo code LOU20. https://www.xx-xyathletics.com/?sca_ref=7113152.ifIMaKpCG3ZfUHH4 Support me at www.substack.com/@louperez Join my newsletter www.TheLouPerez.com Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../the-lou-perez.../id1535032081 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2KAtC7eFS3NHWMZp2UgMVU Amazon: https://music.amazon.com/.../2b7d4d.../the-lou-perez-podcast YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLb5trMQQvT077-L1roE0iZyAgT4dD4EtJ Lou Perez is a comedian, producer, and the author of THAT JOKE ISN'T FUNNY ANYMORE: ON THE DEATH AND REBIRTH OF COMEDY. You may have seen him on Gutfeld! , FOX News Primetime, One Nation with Brian Kilmeade, and Open to Debate (with Michael Ian Black). Lou was the Head Writer and Producer of the Webby Award-winning comedy channel We the Internet TV. During his tenure at WTI, Lou made the kind of comedy that gets you put on lists and your words in the Wall Street Journal: “How I Became a ‘Far-Right Radical.’” As a stand-up comedian, Lou has opened for Rob Schneider, Rich Vos, Jimmy Dore, Dave Smith, and toured the US and Canada with Scott Thompson. Lou has also produced live shows with Colin Quinn, the Icarus Festival, and the Rutherford Comedy Festival. For years, Lou performed at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater (both in NYC and L.A.) in sketch shows with the Hammerkatz and his comedy duo, Greg and Lou. Greg and Lou is best known for its sketch "Wolverine's Claws Suck," which has over 20 million views on YouTube alone. In addition to producing sketch comedy like Comedy Is Murder, performing stand-up across the country, and writing for The Blaze's Align, Lou is on the advisory board of Heresy Press, a FAIR-in-the-arts fellow, and host of the live debate series The Wrong Take and The Lou Perez Podcast (which is part of the Lions of Liberty Podcast Network). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.9	This is Lou Perez and you're listening to the Matt Ballacher podcast.
0:45.9	Today's guest is a comedian, author, thought leader who won't insult your looks, weight, or mental health unless he's in an argument with you.
0:53.7	Please welcome back Lou Perez to the show. How are you doing, unless he's in an argument with you. Please welcome back
0:54.6	Lou Perez to the show. How are you doing, Lou? I'm doing well. Thank you, Matt, for making me a
0:59.4	thought leader. I appreciate that. I need to elevate all our guests, but I think in your case,
1:06.2	you are a thought leader, because some people are thought followers, but you're one that you'll post something.
1:11.4	It'll be reshared. People will change their lives. It's, it fits, is what I'm saying.
1:17.2	Thanks, man. I need to figure out a way to monetize that, you know, especially with all the life
1:21.6	changing. It seems as though if any lives I'm changing, no one's getting more money that they're like,
1:27.1	you know what, I got to throw some more money lose way.
1:29.4	You got to change it to some sort of health phenomenon.
1:33.0	Yeah.
1:33.1	If you can link it to vitamins or even like wellness, just something where like there's like a 90% margin and you can collect almost all of it.
1:42.0	I think I think that's your key to monetary success. Yeah, I think I think that that's probably the way to go. I'm wondering, like, are there, is there room for like a comedian who's trying to get healthy? Yeah, there must be a, it must be a market out there, right? Hey, funny guy who's trying to, you know, there's always a, there's a lot of comedians who,
2:01.6	you know, are sober now, right? And I think people will like kind of follow them along and stuff.
2:07.4	And, and I think that, that's really cool. But I wonder if anyone would be interested in, like,
2:11.9	here's a comedian trying to get 200 grams of protein a day and 50 grams of fiber and, you know, keeping his saturated
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