Episode Transcript: #905 - Shane Smith
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Let's do the countdown. He has a hand on the false countdown. Four, three, two, one. Yee-haw! And we're live.
What's up, my brother? That was quick. How are you? I know. That's how it goes. I like it that way. Very efficient.
Very efficient. If you like it, just start. Just start. Boom. Make it happen. I like it.
So, things are getting weird. Real quick. Yeah? What are you thinking about this orange fella?
I mean, I gotta say, for me, it's the best time ever to start a news service.
Oh, yeah.
And we started our daily show about a month before, and it just is like, wow.
And you're doing it on Vice, on your channel?
No, it's with HBO. It's a daily news show on HBO. It's like we were doing so well on weekly.
I don't know about shit. Why don't I know about this?
We did our weekly show, and then that was doing well, so they gave us a daily show,
and they were gonna just put it on HBO Now and Go, but then was doing so well,
they put us on the air, on TV, so it's every night.
This is the best possible compliment for your show.
Your show is like what I would expect someone who's never done a show before to do
if you just gave them a fuckload of money.
Yeah, that's probably, that's exactly.
And gave the hosts who have really never hosted anything before and gave them a fuckload of money.
The whole thing feels so, the wrong word to use is unprofessional.
Right. But it's unpolished.