April 17, 2025 • 23 mins
THE REVOLUTION IS HAPPENING. What a wild ride.
In this episode we chat about the concept of the podcast itself, the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, what is next and also...
Pirating TV shows, Trump Tarrifs and are you a peasant or a pirate?
• Performing to only 2 people in a 120-seat venue creates a bizarrely intimate yet challenging comedy experience
• Working a 9-to-5 job while pursuing comedy creates significant time management challenges
• Streaming platforms now treat basic subscribers as "peasants" by forcing them to watch ads unless they pay more
• It's often easier to pirate content than to watch it legally through paid subscription services
• The so-called "Chinese retaliation" through factory workers on TikTok is actually just individuals trying to sell directly to consumers
• Comedy and live performances remain valuable because they can't be pirated - you need the in-person experience
• The future of this podcast may include developing revolution-themed elements like symbols and salutes for comedic purposes
Send me Fan Mail! It could be anything, we are desperate at this point.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to this latest episode of Sharam
Namdarian Starts a Revolution,the podcast where you and I we
accidentally start a revolution.
Now, I figured out how to makethis podcast because it's
important that this podcast ispopular, not because I want it
to sustain my life, but alsobecause we're gonna start a
(00:21):
revolution.
We need it to be good, right?
We're going to start arevolution.
We need it to be good, right.
So if you watched or listenedto the last episode, which, to
be honest, was the most popularepisode I've done, it was
literally, I would say, anapathetic, pity party.
It was me basically whingingand crying and dealing with the
(00:43):
review.
I got from the Age for mycomedy festival show review.
I got from the Age for mycomedy festival show which, to
be honest, made me a realcomedian.
Oh, I'm sorry everybody elsefor getting positive 5 stars all
the time 4 stars, so good.
Being instantly right out ofthe gate, good.
But you've never beencriticised and demonised like I
(01:05):
have.
Point is, every comedian startsout shit and I've got it in
paper.
So, yeah, that'll be.
Um, that'll be a perpetualknife in my back, I reckon.
But this, this podcast, needsto be way more fun.
I feel like the last episode.
It was good.
It went to a level, that, uh,of honesty which is good for
(01:27):
this sort of stuff.
I think I want to be thathonest with you.
You know, you, the people butit is important that this
podcast is fun.
So I've got a lot of stuff thatI do want to talk about.
Um, okay, so there's about threeshows left for my Melbourne
International Comedy Festivalshow.
If you are in Melbourne orcoming to Melbourne for the long
(01:49):
weekend, please, for the loveof god, see my show.
It's 120 seater venue.
I've had up to 15 people inevery single show.
Oh, I'm almost breaking even.
You know, I'm almost not even.
Um, let's be honest, people,I'm not breaking even.
I'm almost breaking even.
You know, I'm almost not even.
Let's be honest, people, I'mnot breaking even.
I'm almost about to pay thevenue back.
(02:10):
Nothing.
That's really where I'm at.
I bit off way more than I canchew and I've learned that
because it's interesting, right,I've realized what I do is I
tend to bite off more than I canchew because I'm so used to
telling myself I'm bad atsomething that, oh, I watch
everyone else.
Everyone else sold out theirshows.
It's like, yeah, because theyhad a 15 seater.
(02:31):
They had a 20 seater.
If I had that same seater, Icould have very well easily told
people I sold out my show.
So, yeah, it's going to becrazy to be crazy, but it has
been absolutely nuts right.
The the hardest show I did wasto an audience of two people and
(02:52):
that was insane.
That was absolutely insane.
Two people in a auditorium thatfits 120 people.
That's actually a seminar room.
I had to like overact it inorder to get people, in order
for them to laugh at how absurdtheir life has become like.
It was just absolutely insane.
And I also want to shout out toDrew and Tim, two comedians who
(03:16):
have been helping me tech theshow thank you so much.
You guys have been absolutelygreat.
I know Drew listens to thissometimes.
So, so much, you guys have beenabsolutely great.
I know Drew listens to thissometimes, so, or watches this
sometimes.
So, yeah, he's pointed out thatI go, yeah, pretty much when
I'm trying to remember a joke orI'm stalling because I'm like
(03:36):
what's this thing?
Yeah, so the festival's beencrazy, but oh my god, I'm so
tired, so tired.
Doing the same show every singlenight for two weeks, same time,
is exhausting, and you mightsay like no shit, sherlock.
(04:02):
But no shit Sherlock, how did Inot?
I've done it before, butusually the venue would force me
to have a break.
The venue would force me and belike look, tuesdays, we don't
have Tuesdays, or we don't haveMondays, and I'm like all right,
two weeks straight, notincluding Mondays.
Yay, yay, yay, yay, yay, yay,but holy crapamole, yeah, yeah,
(04:23):
yeah, but holy crap-a-moly ifyou don't have a break.
This is why weekends exist.
Did you ever know that, likeweekends exist for a reason?
You need the time off tointegrate the thing I've been
telling people in my regularlife, you know, because I am too
human and I am too human.
(04:44):
I've been telling people in myregular life what it feels like.
It's like.
Have you ever, like worked out?
You know, and when you work out, it's the next day.
Often you feel quite tired,like your body is in recovery
mode.
It's digesting, it's processingthe things, it's recovering
your nervous system.
It feels like that, like I'mwaking up the same tired as if
(05:05):
I've had a crazy, crazy workout,but the workout is all in the
brain, like my brain feelsfatigued.
Um, yeah, it's a crazy journeyand I recommend everyone to do
it if you're insane.
Either that or you can jointhis revolution.
Now, look, look, I vaguelythemed this podcast around me
(05:27):
starting a revolution.
I don't know if that was thebest idea.
I'm starting to regret it alittle bit.
Should it have just been thesharam namdarian show?
I don't know, but I've bit off.
I think it's a fun premise,because if I ever think, oh, I
should just call it the SharmDarien show, I get annoyed
because I think it's a boringconcept and there are a million
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comedian name insert name hereshows.
So like the vague concept thatthis podcast is going to get so
popular that we start arevolution, or like governments
are going to be freaking outbecause they're like oh shit,
sharm announced a podcast.
All of his, all of the peoplethat listen to it are just gonna
do what he says, or whatever isinsane.
(06:09):
Like life is pointless, likeit's fun, it's exciting, it's
whatever, but also like it's thewe take everything so seriously
.
I think and I just I thinkthat's what this thing stands
for is the the arbitrary natureof existence, like we never
wanted to be born and now we'rehere and we're like ah, I think
(06:32):
I want to be an accountant, likeyou never wanted to want things
, you just were born.
Yeah, so the festival's beenfun.
I managed to do some othershows and stuff like that.
Next year I think really whatI'll be doing is a lot of random
stuff, like so it might be likethree days here, four days,
this other thing, just a lot oflineups.
I need to participate in the um,the comedy scene more, like
(06:54):
I've.
Yeah, I just need toparticipate more.
I am like I run the dirtysecrets comedy.
Uh, that's fun, but I do needto participate more.
Like I need to connect withmore comedians better, more
openly, more honestly, like Irealize.
Sometimes I have my walls up andsome people have been pointing
(07:16):
that out, like famous comedianDan Rosario.
He points it out.
He's like dude, you fucking,you need to open up and hang
more.
And I'm like I can't.
Do you know what it's like?
Dude, you fucking, you need toopen up and hang more.
And I'm like I can't.
Do you know what it's like?
This is okay, let's get intothe meat of it all.
I work nine to five, that'sright.
(07:37):
This is a rags to riches story.
You're in the rags section.
If you hang out in this showlong enough enough, we'll get to
the pennies section, then we'llget to the dollars section,
then we'll get to the richessection, but right now we're in
the rag section.
So I'm working nine to five and, to be honest, I like my job.
It's a lot of fun.
It's a lot of stress but it's alot of fun.
(08:00):
But the last episode I put out,the last episode I put out, the
last episode it got so far it'sat 400 views on YouTube.
Crazy, considering that all theother episodes have got 2 views
, 12 views, whatever.
400 views.
(08:20):
Now I look at the AdSense onthat.
That's 50 cents at 400 views.
Now I look at the ad sense onthat, that's 50 cents at 400
views.
If I made this podcastinteresting and something people
wanted to watch and to carry onwith and to connect with every
week, holy crap-a-moly.
That's a dollar.
We skip the penny section, weget straight to the dollars.
(08:43):
We skip the penny section, weget straight to the dollars.
And if that happens, thathappens, that happens, that
happens, that happens.
That's my life set.
Have you ever worked like adaytime job and a nighttime job
at the same time?
While trying to write like mylife is full?
People like, hey, you shouldlike loosen up and I'm like I'm
(09:05):
trying, I'm trying so hard toloosen up.
I'm a man in my own tower thatI created.
I don't know.
This is why people like you'reneuro something and I'm like I
don't want that I created.
I don't know.
This is why people like you'reneuro something and I'm like I
don't want to be diagnosed, Idon't care.
It is like I have a structuredbrain.
I have such a structured brainI create things and I get stuck
(09:28):
in those structures and it'sannoying.
And then I'm so like peoplelike, oh, you need this morning
routine.
I'm like, no, I need lessroutines.
You tell me to do a thing, I'lldo it.
Then I'm stuck and then it'slike, oh, why didn't you do this
other thing?
It's like you told me to do theroutine.
Like, ah, hustle culture is forchumps.
Just have a reason to live.
(09:50):
Fuck, oh my God.
People who follow hustleculture because they feel like
they're lacking.
Is that you're lacking?
Deal with the lack.
You won't need the hustleculture anymore, you'll just be
whatever.
I don't know if people reallyhave hustle culture anymore.
It's a bit of a joke these days,to be honest.
Uh, ah, shit.
(10:13):
And my show is called frombrunswick Love and I finally
learned how to address it in theshow.
But did you know and thisyou'll think this is very
obvious.
But naming a show FromBrunswick With Love means that
some people think the entireshow is just me ragging on
Brunswick.
Who would have thunk?
(10:33):
I should have thunk.
Who would have thunk, I shouldhave thunk.
It's interesting because whenyou do that it is very much like
a like.
When people come to the showand I finally do do the
Brunswick joke and those peoplewere from Brunswick their hearts
open up like a flurry ofdiamonds opening up to receive
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the birth of the universe.
That is this one Brunswick joke.
Like it's insane.
So I've got to think more aboutthe ramifications of the titling
of comedy shows, because it isit's more of a sticky wicket
than you think.
(11:16):
It's more of a sticky wicketthan you think.
Hey, here's some stuff that wecould start arbitrary
revolutions on.
Why is it easier to pirateshows?
This is a premise, but fuck it.
Why is it easier to pirateshows than it is to actually
like stream the show from therelative platform?
(11:38):
I think we're in a weird worldnow where for a while people
pirated shows, we downloadedthem, we torrented them.
We did all this sort of stuffwith them.
I've been thinking a lot aboutthis, but nowadays it's actually
easier to pirate the show thanit is to pay for the show.
(12:02):
Pirating was overall lessbecause we ended up, because
they just made it easier.
Like, why would you fight yourway through a million ads, have
to download or fight?
You know, like, download thething if Netflix, you could just
pay like 10 bucks a month andhave access to all of this stuff
?
I found that really interestingbecause you know, cost of
(12:25):
living, oh shit.
We had this thing where we werelike, oh, the last episode of
White Lotus is here, but wedon't want to pay for binge
anymore.
Like we don't, we're not goingto be using it after White Lotus
, and we paid for it for months.
So we're like, fuck it, we'lljust get off it.
And Binge has ads, or at leastthe shittiest, the peasant
version.
The peasant version of Bingehas ads.
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And so it was easier for us tothen just be like oh, the last
episode, we'll just pirate it,whatever, we've paid enough.
And so we did, and it wasactually easier to watch it as a
pirate, as an R, and it wasactually easier to watch it as a
pirate, as an R, than it wasthe actual streaming platform,
because the pirate doesn't haveads.
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Binge is basically punishingpeople for being peasants, is
what I'm trying to say.
We're all peasants and we'retrying to survive, and binge and
all the other streamingplatforms is like hey, you want
to watch this?
You're a fucking peasant, yourmoney is no longer enough.
We have to stream ads while youwatch the show because you are
(13:31):
not enough.
That to me, we're starting arevolution.
We're starting with that.
That's why I'm doing stand-upcomedy.
You can't pirate a show.
You can.
You know, you can obviouslylike pirate a special or
whatever, especially if it's onlike a platform, and that's.
That's different.
But the in-person experience,the spontaneity, the liveness of
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it all is interesting.
You cannot, you cannot pirate alive show.
You will not get thatexperience.
So, live show, you will not getthat experience.
So but binge Netflix eventuallyor if it does, it probably
already has it.
Disney started doing this, butDisney makes you, allows you to
skip it.
(14:15):
I don't know all the otherplatforms, but they probably
have it too.
Prime.
They're basically saying,unless you give us more money,
you are a peasant.
And you know what peasants do?
They revolt, they revolutionize, they take down the fucking
kings and queens, the JeffBezos's, I don't know.
It's just interesting.
It just seems like acounterintuitive thing.
That's what companies do, andfuck it.
(14:36):
If I'm rich, that's what I'lldo.
You know, you try and squeezethe things to try and get the
most out of people that you can,and then you realize you've
squeezed too far and then you gooh, this isn't the peasant
version, you know, becausethere's like the tears right, if
you want no ads, you can pay usmore.
And it's like but it wasn't, itwasn't.
(14:57):
You decided that I was apeasant.
You decided that I was suddenlynot good enough for that, that
my money was no longer goodenough.
What are we paying for?
I don't want to pay to be apeasant anymore.
It actually feels better tojust be a pirate than it is to
be a peasant.
What do you want to be?
(15:23):
So we started, we streamed thefinal episode and it like oh my
god, this is so much nicer.
There's no ads, we don't havebinge.
Being like hey, peasant, youwant to watch this?
You want to watch rich peoplehate each other on this show
called white lotus, season three, that was surprisingly the best
season.
Yet admit, admit, you're apeasant.
That's what they're basicallysaying.
I think it's crazy.
I think that you know supplyand demand right.
(15:46):
If they're supplying it andthere's no demand for it,
because the supply is filledwith ads, and why, then they've
got to change the supply?
That's it.
We're in a weird economic placeright now and I think that's
insane.
On the other hand, trump tariffslet's talk about that.
I want to talk about thatbecause I spend a lot of time.
I'm chronically online.
It's a problem.
(16:06):
That's why I think that I onlyexist unless I do a podcast.
I'm chronically online.
It's a problem.
Now, I don't know if you'venoticed this, but people have
been talking about.
So there was the Trump tariffs,which apparently ooh has
rumored to go up to the TrumpChinese.
So the Trump, the, the it's noteven American, it's the Trump
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tariffs.
That's the dumbest part aboutit.
Trump has done tariffs on Chinathat could go up to 245%.
Now, on my own Instagram, Iposted saying something like I
reckon the tariffs are going togo above 200.
Who wants to place bets?
Guess what?
No one took my bet because youall chump bastard wannabes who
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can't handle that.
I can predict the future.
It's interesting because whathappens now is factory workers
in China have started to producetheir own content on TikTok and
(17:13):
other social media platforms,basically trying to sell their
products direct to consumer.
Now they do not have onlinestores.
You have to talk to what theycall an agent, someone who's an
import, export agent, basicallysomeone who's working for them,
who can export the product.
But obviously the news likes tospin it like China's
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retaliation.
Tiktok is now pumpingalgorithms and trying to
undercut whatever.
No, they're not.
I love the phrase.
If you read only headlines, youwill get a headline mind.
I did five minutes ofinvestigation, therefore, I have
a five minute mind.
(17:57):
But there was even one guy whobasically started this trend of
trying to sell luxury bags.
I can't remember his name, buthe was talking about how your
luxury bags aren't actuallyluxury.
They are made in China, thenthey're shipped to, say, italy,
where they're finalized, andthen they're basically shipped
all over the world.
So they can say made in Italy,because it was partly made in
Italy, but the materials thatwere maybe not necessarily from
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Italy, that were maybe notnecessarily from Italy.
But that guy why would that beChinese retaliation through
TikTok, trying to flood TikTokand social media with their
factory workers selling theirproduct direct to consumers
because they need to make moremoney.
(18:38):
When that guy, who's the personwho started the trend while
talking about these luxury bagsbags he was banned.
He was banned multiple timesand had to start multiple
different accounts.
Unless it's an amazing chinesecover-up, in which I love that
they're going ah, if people lookinto it, they'll see this guy
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was banned.
So they won't think it's us,they'll think it's individual
people.
Dude, it is just people tryingto make money online, just like
me.
Watch this podcast, share itwith your friends.
It's, it's insane, I do think.
I do think that conspiracytheories are indicative of some
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truth, like I think, as asociety and as a collective hive
mind, we know when people arelying to us.
So if so, basically if I thinka conspiracy theory is not
necessarily true, but it isindicative of a lie that there
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is some form of cover uphappening.
You know like, oh, did we go tospace?
Yeah, I reckon.
I reckon we did go to the moon,but I reckon there is some lie
somewhere else that people arefeeling Like no one objects to
that.
Plants need water becauseotherwise plants won't grow.
You know what I mean Like, noone's objecting to that, we've
(20:06):
all accepted it.
But if someone was to lie aboutit, we would all fight it
because we would know, as acollective hive mind, we root
out the problems.
Anyway, what's next for me inthis thing?
First of all, I've got tofigure out if I'm sticking with
the idea of Shara Omdurianstarts a revolution, because
I've got to figure this out now.
(20:27):
I've got guests coming, guestscoming on the show.
We've got good guests who'vesaid yes, I don't want to say
names, these are good guests,like Australian icons, or almost
Australian icons when it comesto comedy, right.
So you will look at these namesand you go, wow, how do you
know these people?
Yeah, that's right.
Dumpster fire comedian SharamNamdarian.
(20:50):
The quote from the age isrefreshing.
That's not the full quote.
Oh, I've got to get over it.
The point is is I've got tofigure that out.
So if you've listened up tothis far, please let me know Do
you like this thing?
Because in the future, if we dostick with the Shonandarian
(21:10):
starts a revolution, right?
What will happen is is we'll do.
We'll do like fake, not likefake protest, you know, we'll
come up with a symbol, we'llcome up with a salute.
We'll come up with a thing likeall the attributes of a
full-blown revolution, but forno point, just for comedic
(21:32):
purposes, because I wanted thisto be a diary.
I wanted this to be talkingabout whatever's going on in my
life and connect with otherpeople, and maybe at the end,
maybe to be a diary.
I wanted this to be talkingabout whatever's going on in my
life and connect with otherpeople, and maybe at the end,
maybe we start a revolution.
But today's revolution is figureout whether or not you want to
pay for the streaming platformsif they give you ads.
(21:53):
I think it's so dumb.
Prime, amazon Prime.
They're like you're paying forPrime.
The way they see it is not thatyou're paying for prime video,
that they just have a librarythat you get access to only, and
you can buy more from them ifyou want to do.
(22:14):
You know what prime?
Here's the truth.
All right, here's the truth,all right.
Here's the truth.
Any prime movie here's thetruth.
Any prime show TV show, anyAmazon prime TV show or movie
that is locked behind a paywallon Amazon Prime is going to be
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available for free at the samequality the day, if not the next
day, on all these otherplatforms.
That, to me, is veryinteresting.
If you want to support the arts, make the people who supply the
arts better.
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Make them realize that they arefucking everybody up by making
it harder to watch their shows.
Join the revolution.
Thank you for watching orlistening.
Welcome to this latest episode of Sharam
Namdarian Starts a Revolution,the podcast where you and I we
accidentally start a revolution.
Now, I figured out how to makethis podcast because it's
important that this podcast ispopular, not because I want it
to sustain my life, but alsobecause we're gonna start a
(00:21):
revolution.
We need it to be good, right?
We're going to start arevolution.
We need it to be good, right.
So if you watched or listenedto the last episode, which, to
be honest, was the most popularepisode I've done, it was
literally, I would say, anapathetic, pity party.
It was me basically whingingand crying and dealing with the
(00:43):
review.
I got from the Age for mycomedy festival show review.
I got from the Age for mycomedy festival show which, to
be honest, made me a realcomedian.
Oh, I'm sorry everybody elsefor getting positive 5 stars all
the time 4 stars, so good.
Being instantly right out ofthe gate, good.
But you've never beencriticised and demonised like I
(01:05):
have.
Point is, every comedian startsout shit and I've got it in
paper.
So, yeah, that'll be.
Um, that'll be a perpetualknife in my back, I reckon.
But this, this podcast, needsto be way more fun.
I feel like the last episode.
It was good.
It went to a level, that, uh,of honesty which is good for
(01:27):
this sort of stuff.
I think I want to be thathonest with you.
You know, you, the people butit is important that this
podcast is fun.
So I've got a lot of stuff thatI do want to talk about.
Um, okay, so there's about threeshows left for my Melbourne
International Comedy Festivalshow.
If you are in Melbourne orcoming to Melbourne for the long
(01:49):
weekend, please, for the loveof god, see my show.
It's 120 seater venue.
I've had up to 15 people inevery single show.
Oh, I'm almost breaking even.
You know, I'm almost not even.
Um, let's be honest, people,I'm not breaking even.
I'm almost breaking even.
You know, I'm almost not even.
Let's be honest, people, I'mnot breaking even.
I'm almost about to pay thevenue back.
(02:10):
Nothing.
That's really where I'm at.
I bit off way more than I canchew and I've learned that
because it's interesting, right,I've realized what I do is I
tend to bite off more than I canchew because I'm so used to
telling myself I'm bad atsomething that, oh, I watch
everyone else.
Everyone else sold out theirshows.
It's like, yeah, because theyhad a 15 seater.
(02:31):
They had a 20 seater.
If I had that same seater, Icould have very well easily told
people I sold out my show.
So, yeah, it's going to becrazy to be crazy, but it has
been absolutely nuts right.
The the hardest show I did wasto an audience of two people and
(02:52):
that was insane.
That was absolutely insane.
Two people in a auditorium thatfits 120 people.
That's actually a seminar room.
I had to like overact it inorder to get people, in order
for them to laugh at how absurdtheir life has become like.
It was just absolutely insane.
And I also want to shout out toDrew and Tim, two comedians who
(03:16):
have been helping me tech theshow thank you so much.
You guys have been absolutelygreat.
I know Drew listens to thissometimes.
So, so much, you guys have beenabsolutely great.
I know Drew listens to thissometimes, so, or watches this
sometimes.
So, yeah, he's pointed out thatI go, yeah, pretty much when
I'm trying to remember a joke orI'm stalling because I'm like
(03:36):
what's this thing?
Yeah, so the festival's beencrazy, but oh my god, I'm so
tired, so tired.
Doing the same show every singlenight for two weeks, same time,
is exhausting, and you mightsay like no shit, sherlock.
(04:02):
But no shit Sherlock, how did Inot?
I've done it before, butusually the venue would force me
to have a break.
The venue would force me and belike look, tuesdays, we don't
have Tuesdays, or we don't haveMondays, and I'm like all right,
two weeks straight, notincluding Mondays.
Yay, yay, yay, yay, yay, yay,but holy crapamole, yeah, yeah,
(04:23):
yeah, but holy crap-a-moly ifyou don't have a break.
This is why weekends exist.
Did you ever know that, likeweekends exist for a reason?
You need the time off tointegrate the thing I've been
telling people in my regularlife, you know, because I am too
human and I am too human.
(04:44):
I've been telling people in myregular life what it feels like.
It's like.
Have you ever, like worked out?
You know, and when you work out, it's the next day.
Often you feel quite tired,like your body is in recovery
mode.
It's digesting, it's processingthe things, it's recovering
your nervous system.
It feels like that, like I'mwaking up the same tired as if
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I've had a crazy, crazy workout,but the workout is all in the
brain, like my brain feelsfatigued.
Um, yeah, it's a crazy journeyand I recommend everyone to do
it if you're insane.
Either that or you can jointhis revolution.
Now, look, look, I vaguelythemed this podcast around me
(05:27):
starting a revolution.
I don't know if that was thebest idea.
I'm starting to regret it alittle bit.
Should it have just been thesharam namdarian show?
I don't know, but I've bit off.
I think it's a fun premise,because if I ever think, oh, I
should just call it the SharmDarien show, I get annoyed
because I think it's a boringconcept and there are a million
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comedian name insert name hereshows.
So like the vague concept thatthis podcast is going to get so
popular that we start arevolution, or like governments
are going to be freaking outbecause they're like oh shit,
sharm announced a podcast.
All of his, all of the peoplethat listen to it are just gonna
do what he says, or whatever isinsane.
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Like life is pointless, likeit's fun, it's exciting, it's
whatever, but also like it's thewe take everything so seriously
.
I think and I just I thinkthat's what this thing stands
for is the the arbitrary natureof existence, like we never
wanted to be born and now we'rehere and we're like ah, I think
(06:32):
I want to be an accountant, likeyou never wanted to want things
, you just were born.
Yeah, so the festival's beenfun.
I managed to do some othershows and stuff like that.
Next year I think really whatI'll be doing is a lot of random
stuff, like so it might be likethree days here, four days,
this other thing, just a lot oflineups.
I need to participate in the um,the comedy scene more, like
(06:54):
I've.
Yeah, I just need toparticipate more.
I am like I run the dirtysecrets comedy.
Uh, that's fun, but I do needto participate more.
Like I need to connect withmore comedians better, more
openly, more honestly, like Irealize.
Sometimes I have my walls up andsome people have been pointing
(07:16):
that out, like famous comedianDan Rosario.
He points it out.
He's like dude, you fucking,you need to open up and hang
more.
And I'm like I can't.
Do you know what it's like?
Dude, you fucking, you need toopen up and hang more.
And I'm like I can't.
Do you know what it's like?
This is okay, let's get intothe meat of it all.
I work nine to five, that'sright.
(07:37):
This is a rags to riches story.
You're in the rags section.
If you hang out in this showlong enough enough, we'll get to
the pennies section, then we'llget to the dollars section,
then we'll get to the richessection, but right now we're in
the rag section.
So I'm working nine to five and, to be honest, I like my job.
It's a lot of fun.
It's a lot of stress but it's alot of fun.
(08:00):
But the last episode I put out,the last episode I put out, the
last episode it got so far it'sat 400 views on YouTube.
Crazy, considering that all theother episodes have got 2 views
, 12 views, whatever.
400 views.
(08:20):
Now I look at the AdSense onthat.
That's 50 cents at 400 views.
Now I look at the ad sense onthat, that's 50 cents at 400
views.
If I made this podcastinteresting and something people
wanted to watch and to carry onwith and to connect with every
week, holy crap-a-moly.
That's a dollar.
We skip the penny section, weget straight to the dollars.
(08:43):
We skip the penny section, weget straight to the dollars.
And if that happens, thathappens, that happens, that
happens, that happens.
That's my life set.
Have you ever worked like adaytime job and a nighttime job
at the same time?
While trying to write like mylife is full?
People like, hey, you shouldlike loosen up and I'm like I'm
(09:05):
trying, I'm trying so hard toloosen up.
I'm a man in my own tower thatI created.
I don't know.
This is why people like you'reneuro something and I'm like I
don't want that I created.
I don't know.
This is why people like you'reneuro something and I'm like I
don't want to be diagnosed, Idon't care.
It is like I have a structuredbrain.
I have such a structured brainI create things and I get stuck
(09:28):
in those structures and it'sannoying.
And then I'm so like peoplelike, oh, you need this morning
routine.
I'm like, no, I need lessroutines.
You tell me to do a thing, I'lldo it.
Then I'm stuck and then it'slike, oh, why didn't you do this
other thing?
It's like you told me to do theroutine.
Like, ah, hustle culture is forchumps.
Just have a reason to live.
(09:50):
Fuck, oh my God.
People who follow hustleculture because they feel like
they're lacking.
Is that you're lacking?
Deal with the lack.
You won't need the hustleculture anymore, you'll just be
whatever.
I don't know if people reallyhave hustle culture anymore.
It's a bit of a joke these days,to be honest.
Uh, ah, shit.
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And my show is called frombrunswick Love and I finally
learned how to address it in theshow.
But did you know and thisyou'll think this is very
obvious.
But naming a show FromBrunswick With Love means that
some people think the entireshow is just me ragging on
Brunswick.
Who would have thunk?
(10:33):
I should have thunk.
Who would have thunk, I shouldhave thunk.
It's interesting because whenyou do that it is very much like
a like.
When people come to the showand I finally do do the
Brunswick joke and those peoplewere from Brunswick their hearts
open up like a flurry ofdiamonds opening up to receive
(10:56):
the birth of the universe.
That is this one Brunswick joke.
Like it's insane.
So I've got to think more aboutthe ramifications of the titling
of comedy shows, because it isit's more of a sticky wicket
than you think.
(11:16):
It's more of a sticky wicketthan you think.
Hey, here's some stuff that wecould start arbitrary
revolutions on.
Why is it easier to pirateshows?
This is a premise, but fuck it.
Why is it easier to pirateshows than it is to actually
like stream the show from therelative platform?
(11:38):
I think we're in a weird worldnow where for a while people
pirated shows, we downloadedthem, we torrented them.
We did all this sort of stuffwith them.
I've been thinking a lot aboutthis, but nowadays it's actually
easier to pirate the show thanit is to pay for the show.
(12:02):
Pirating was overall lessbecause we ended up, because
they just made it easier.
Like, why would you fight yourway through a million ads, have
to download or fight?
You know, like, download thething if Netflix, you could just
pay like 10 bucks a month andhave access to all of this stuff
?
I found that really interestingbecause you know, cost of
(12:25):
living, oh shit.
We had this thing where we werelike, oh, the last episode of
White Lotus is here, but wedon't want to pay for binge
anymore.
Like we don't, we're not goingto be using it after White Lotus
, and we paid for it for months.
So we're like, fuck it, we'lljust get off it.
And Binge has ads, or at leastthe shittiest, the peasant
version.
The peasant version of Bingehas ads.
(12:46):
And so it was easier for us tothen just be like oh, the last
episode, we'll just pirate it,whatever, we've paid enough.
And so we did, and it wasactually easier to watch it as a
pirate, as an R, and it wasactually easier to watch it as a
pirate, as an R, than it wasthe actual streaming platform,
because the pirate doesn't haveads.
(13:08):
Binge is basically punishingpeople for being peasants, is
what I'm trying to say.
We're all peasants and we'retrying to survive, and binge and
all the other streamingplatforms is like hey, you want
to watch this?
You're a fucking peasant, yourmoney is no longer enough.
We have to stream ads while youwatch the show because you are
(13:31):
not enough.
That to me, we're starting arevolution.
We're starting with that.
That's why I'm doing stand-upcomedy.
You can't pirate a show.
You can.
You know, you can obviouslylike pirate a special or
whatever, especially if it's onlike a platform, and that's.
That's different.
But the in-person experience,the spontaneity, the liveness of
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it all is interesting.
You cannot, you cannot pirate alive show.
You will not get thatexperience.
So, live show, you will not getthat experience.
So but binge Netflix eventuallyor if it does, it probably
already has it.
Disney started doing this, butDisney makes you, allows you to
skip it.
(14:15):
I don't know all the otherplatforms, but they probably
have it too.
Prime.
They're basically saying,unless you give us more money,
you are a peasant.
And you know what peasants do?
They revolt, they revolutionize, they take down the fucking
kings and queens, the JeffBezos's, I don't know.
It's just interesting.
It just seems like acounterintuitive thing.
That's what companies do, andfuck it.
(14:36):
If I'm rich, that's what I'lldo.
You know, you try and squeezethe things to try and get the
most out of people that you can,and then you realize you've
squeezed too far and then you gooh, this isn't the peasant
version, you know, becausethere's like the tears right, if
you want no ads, you can pay usmore.
And it's like but it wasn't, itwasn't.
(14:57):
You decided that I was apeasant.
You decided that I was suddenlynot good enough for that, that
my money was no longer goodenough.
What are we paying for?
I don't want to pay to be apeasant anymore.
It actually feels better tojust be a pirate than it is to
be a peasant.
What do you want to be?
(15:23):
So we started, we streamed thefinal episode and it like oh my
god, this is so much nicer.
There's no ads, we don't havebinge.
Being like hey, peasant, youwant to watch this?
You want to watch rich peoplehate each other on this show
called white lotus, season three, that was surprisingly the best
season.
Yet admit, admit, you're apeasant.
That's what they're basicallysaying.
I think it's crazy.
I think that you know supplyand demand right.
(15:46):
If they're supplying it andthere's no demand for it,
because the supply is filledwith ads, and why, then they've
got to change the supply?
That's it.
We're in a weird economic placeright now and I think that's
insane.
On the other hand, trump tariffslet's talk about that.
I want to talk about thatbecause I spend a lot of time.
I'm chronically online.
It's a problem.
(16:06):
That's why I think that I onlyexist unless I do a podcast.
I'm chronically online.
It's a problem.
Now, I don't know if you'venoticed this, but people have
been talking about.
So there was the Trump tariffs,which apparently ooh has
rumored to go up to the TrumpChinese.
So the Trump, the, the it's noteven American, it's the Trump
(16:27):
tariffs.
That's the dumbest part aboutit.
Trump has done tariffs on Chinathat could go up to 245%.
Now, on my own Instagram, Iposted saying something like I
reckon the tariffs are going togo above 200.
Who wants to place bets?
Guess what?
No one took my bet because youall chump bastard wannabes who
(16:48):
can't handle that.
I can predict the future.
It's interesting because whathappens now is factory workers
in China have started to producetheir own content on TikTok and
(17:13):
other social media platforms,basically trying to sell their
products direct to consumer.
Now they do not have onlinestores.
You have to talk to what theycall an agent, someone who's an
import, export agent, basicallysomeone who's working for them,
who can export the product.
But obviously the news likes tospin it like China's
(17:34):
retaliation.
Tiktok is now pumpingalgorithms and trying to
undercut whatever.
No, they're not.
I love the phrase.
If you read only headlines, youwill get a headline mind.
I did five minutes ofinvestigation, therefore, I have
a five minute mind.
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But there was even one guy whobasically started this trend of
trying to sell luxury bags.
I can't remember his name, buthe was talking about how your
luxury bags aren't actuallyluxury.
They are made in China, thenthey're shipped to, say, italy,
where they're finalized, andthen they're basically shipped
all over the world.
So they can say made in Italy,because it was partly made in
Italy, but the materials thatwere maybe not necessarily from
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Italy, that were maybe notnecessarily from Italy.
But that guy why would that beChinese retaliation through
TikTok, trying to flood TikTokand social media with their
factory workers selling theirproduct direct to consumers
because they need to make moremoney.
(18:38):
When that guy, who's the personwho started the trend while
talking about these luxury bagsbags he was banned.
He was banned multiple timesand had to start multiple
different accounts.
Unless it's an amazing chinesecover-up, in which I love that
they're going ah, if people lookinto it, they'll see this guy
(18:59):
was banned.
So they won't think it's us,they'll think it's individual
people.
Dude, it is just people tryingto make money online, just like
me.
Watch this podcast, share itwith your friends.
It's, it's insane, I do think.
I do think that conspiracytheories are indicative of some
(19:22):
truth, like I think, as asociety and as a collective hive
mind, we know when people arelying to us.
So if so, basically if I thinka conspiracy theory is not
necessarily true, but it isindicative of a lie that there
(19:46):
is some form of cover uphappening.
You know like, oh, did we go tospace?
Yeah, I reckon.
I reckon we did go to the moon,but I reckon there is some lie
somewhere else that people arefeeling Like no one objects to
that.
Plants need water becauseotherwise plants won't grow.
You know what I mean Like, noone's objecting to that, we've
(20:06):
all accepted it.
But if someone was to lie aboutit, we would all fight it
because we would know, as acollective hive mind, we root
out the problems.
Anyway, what's next for me inthis thing?
First of all, I've got tofigure out if I'm sticking with
the idea of Shara Omdurianstarts a revolution, because
I've got to figure this out now.
(20:27):
I've got guests coming, guestscoming on the show.
We've got good guests who'vesaid yes, I don't want to say
names, these are good guests,like Australian icons, or almost
Australian icons when it comesto comedy, right.
So you will look at these namesand you go, wow, how do you
know these people?
Yeah, that's right.
Dumpster fire comedian SharamNamdarian.
(20:50):
The quote from the age isrefreshing.
That's not the full quote.
Oh, I've got to get over it.
The point is is I've got tofigure that out.
So if you've listened up tothis far, please let me know Do
you like this thing?
Because in the future, if we dostick with the Shonandarian
(21:10):
starts a revolution, right?
What will happen is is we'll do.
We'll do like fake, not likefake protest, you know, we'll
come up with a symbol, we'llcome up with a salute.
We'll come up with a thing likeall the attributes of a
full-blown revolution, but forno point, just for comedic
(21:32):
purposes, because I wanted thisto be a diary.
I wanted this to be talkingabout whatever's going on in my
life and connect with otherpeople, and maybe at the end,
maybe to be a diary.
I wanted this to be talkingabout whatever's going on in my
life and connect with otherpeople, and maybe at the end,
maybe we start a revolution.
But today's revolution is figureout whether or not you want to
pay for the streaming platformsif they give you ads.
(21:53):
I think it's so dumb.
Prime, amazon Prime.
They're like you're paying forPrime.
The way they see it is not thatyou're paying for prime video,
that they just have a librarythat you get access to only, and
you can buy more from them ifyou want to do.
(22:14):
You know what prime?
Here's the truth.
All right, here's the truth,all right.
Here's the truth.
Any prime movie here's thetruth.
Any prime show TV show, anyAmazon prime TV show or movie
that is locked behind a paywallon Amazon Prime is going to be
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available for free at the samequality the day, if not the next
day, on all these otherplatforms.
That, to me, is veryinteresting.
If you want to support the arts, make the people who supply the
arts better.
(23:02):
Make them realize that they arefucking everybody up by making
it harder to watch their shows.
Join the revolution.
Thank you for watching orlistening.
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