Ari Shaffir's Skeptic Tank

Eli Sairs came over to talk to me about his OCD. He's got it bad. And it's all wrapped up with Jesus, too, which makes it even harder to deal with. The levels this guy has to go through just to make through basic life stuff is astounding. I bet he eats box really thoroughly, though. Didn't ask him about that. I wish I had.

Follow Eli Sairs @EliSairs on Instagram

Click here for Eli's podcast, The Roast Ghost.

Follow me @AriShaffir on Instagram

Sign up for my patreon. Patreon.com/AriShaffir

The Music

Alt J - Interlude

Bill Withers - Lovely Day

Brand New Heavies - Dream On Dreamers

Kid Cudi - Trapped In My Mind

Daniel Johnston - Devil Town

Thank you to my sponsors:

DHM Detox. Go to NoDaysWasted.Co/Skeptic30 and use promo Skeptic30 for 30% off your order THIS WEEK ONLY.

Manscaped. Trim your pubes or your gross nose hairs, you animal. Manscaped.com and use code "skeptic" for 20% off your order and free shipping!

Zac Amico told me some amazing stories about producing low budget horror movies. Zac is a hilarious comic and podcaster and he's also a producer of films for Troma, one of the greatest pulp horror makers of all time. We talked about the history of this kind of campy, low budget horror. Why they always seem to have ditzy bimbos. Where the ridiculous titles come from. All of it. Plus I did the intro from an abandoned cemetery for maximum effect.

Watch Zac's horror podcast, Zac Amico's Midnight Spookshow,. catch him hosting Catalyst Wrestling or follow him on instagram at @ZacIsNotFunny. I'd tell you to go watch his movie that he made, Shakespeare's Shitstorm, but the last screening happened on Friday so unless it becomes a cult classic, you're gonna have trouble watching it. But I heard it was really good.

You can watch the entire podcast at YouTube.com/AriShaffir if you want to see what monsters Zac and I actually look like. 

And please subscribe to my Patreon.com/AriShaffir for bonus content, a way longer introduction to this episode, and really just o support me so I can keep doing the outsider stuff I like doing sometimes without having to worry about the financial impact it'll have on my life every time I lose all my sponsors just because I love crossing the line 3 times a year or so.

Thank you to my sponsor, KushyDreams.com. They make great CBD smokeables that I actually love smoking myself. It gets you re-laaaaaaaaxed for real. Use promo code "Ari" for 20% off your first order. I tried talking them down to 15% but they were pretty adamant they were gonna do 20. And they thought it was weird that I asked them to change it. 

The Music

DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince - Nightmare on My Street

Ramones - Pet Semetery

The J Geils Band - Fright Night

Rudy Ray Moore - The Player

Jake Hanrahan talked to me about conflict reporting. He goes to war zones and tries to bring back word of what's actually going on in these areas. It's crazy. He brings back tons of footage. Look at PopularFront.co and you'll see what I'm talking about. He's not even welcome in a lot of these places. Once they put him in a Turkish prison! Really interesting stuff in this one.

You gotta excuse the sound a little. I recorded in the wrong button on my audio recorder so I had to end up using the laptop mic and it's not as good as the regular Sennheiser mic. You'll get used to it but the first 2 minutes you're gonna get annoyed. I'm telling you, this one is worth the trouble. Jake Hanrahan has some crazy stories!

Go support Jake in his quest to bring the truth about wars. Become patron. You can do $1, $5, 0r $10 and no matter what you're going to be helping a real independent guy do his thing. Patreon.com/PopularFront

The Music

Eric Bogle - The War Correspondent

Death Grips - I've Seen Footage

Falco - Kamikaze Cappa

The Original Caste - One Tin Soldier

Thank you to our sponsors:

Get DHM Detox at NoDaysWasted.co/Skeptic. Use promo code "Skeptic" for 20% off your first order. I actually used this last night when I got exceptionally bombed and I felt good this morning.

Go to KushyDreams.com for all your CBD products. Using promo code "Ari" for 20% off your first order. Do it! They got that smokeable CBD. It gets me high in a really relaxed way. And it's good for aches and stuff. 

Jimmy O'Brien from Jomboy Media came over and we had a great talk about baseball. Jimmy is crazy about the sport. And we share favorite teams! The greatest sports franchise of all time, The New York Yankees.

Jomboy has these amazing videos on Instagram that you should all check out. He l it’s how to read lips so he somehow gives insight into what is actually being screamed at opposing players during fights and stuff. It’s awesome. Check it out at https://www.instagram.com/jomboymedia/

The live table read for Legion of Skanks has been moved to a live FREE YouTube event. 8pm EST/5pm PST Sunday October 18. Tune in at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENotTCaaOOE&feature=youtu.be

Thank you KushyDreams.com for sponsoring this week’s episode. Enter promo code “Skeptic” at KushyDreams.com for 20% off your first order.

Sign up for Ari’s Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/skeptictank

The Music

Jon Fogerty - Center Field

Mrs Robinson - Paul Simon (live at Yankee Stadium)

The Intruders - Love Is Like A Baseball Game

Kenny Rogers - Baseball Song

Joe Deros and Louis Katz met me in a park on the outskirts of Chinatown just to shoot the crap. Derosa and I drank Natty Lights. Katz kept his mask on the whole time. We got stared at by old Chinese people. A black dude named Freedom talked to us for far too long. It was a fun episode in the record-anywhere spirit of the Skeptic Tank. The mailbag part of it is something I do on my patreon. Patreon.com/SkepticTank.

The Skanks table read live Pay Per View is Sunday, October 18 at 8pm Eastern time. You can get tickets here.

The Sunday show at Stress Factory is What's Your F**king Deal. Big Jay hosts it. I'm either doing audience mic or doing the last set. The Friday and Saturday shows are just regular standup headline sets by me. Sunday is the only weird one. Come to both if you want, they'll be completely different. Get tickets here. 

On my patreon, I do solo versions of mailbag questions from fans, sex/dating advice, arrest stories, and travel tales that I call Plogs. Also, I often put out ahead-of-time releases of podcasts before they go out to the public. Please join up to support me at patreon.com/arishaffir

This episode is literally brought to manscaped.com. Use promo code "Skeptic" to get 20% off your first order and FREE shipping. For real, I would not have done this episode if they weren't paying me. I would have just taken the week off. So thank them for making it happen. If you're gonna trim your balls anyway, why not let Manscaped.com trim them for you?

Dave Smith and I finish the last 4 hours of the craziest year of our state of the union podcasts we've ever done. There was just so much going on. We got into politics, the press, war, the way everybody's turning on each other, and the role of government. Dave was giving me eyes the whole time like he wanted more than just talk, if you get my drift. I 

Check out Dave's podcast "Part of the Problem" if you want more political talk.

Check out Dave's other podcast "Legion of Skanks" if you want to hear a guy who knows how to shut up about what happened after this podcast that we can never take back if he doesn't want to get muted. 

The Music

Public Enemy - State of the Union

John Lennon - All I Want is Some Truth

Grimskunk - America

Bruce Springsteen - This Land Is Your Land

Joe Rogan - Hugh Hefner

Please help support me at patreon.com/SkepticTank so I don't have to cry every time I lose a sponsor because I can't help but bring bestiality into an ad read if I think it's funny.

Dave Smith came over to start our yearly talk on what's going on with America. Dave is a libertarian. So he's one of the more unbiased voices you'll get on politics because he has no political team. I mean, I guess Libertarian is a team, but it's not a team that ever wins so he's unbiased about the main two parties. 

This year, a bunch of stuff happened so we ended up having to stop ourselves after 3 hours and we're gonna come back and do a part 2 next week. 

The Music

Rammstein - Amerika

All American Me and You (chorus)

Duran Duran - 911 Is A Joke

Animaniacs - 50 States

Subscribe to Dave Smith's podcast called "Part Of The Problem" 

Thank you to our sponsor YoKratom.com. Home of the $60 Kilo. Please use them for your Kratom needs, you junkies.

Ryan Oneill and Jeff Danis come on to talk about some criminal mastermind shooting 3-5 gunshots at Oneill from about 4 feet away. Unfortunately the guy missed. But something good will come from it. And the good is that D&O, The Danish and O'Neill, The Beach Cops boys are able to come on Skeptic Tank to talk over the harrowing experience. Harrowing for Ryan. Jeff was changing his kid's diaper or something, which I guess is also harrowing. Probably more harrowing when you think about it. 

Check out Beach Cops on Patreon. It's the best way to support them. $5 a month can keep these lunatics making crazy stuff. Patreon.com/BeachCops

The Music

Bruce Springsteen - Point Blank

Pat Benetar - Hit Me With Your Best Shot

TLC - Survivor

Cat Stevens - I’m Gonna Get Me A Gun

Thank you Kushy Dreams for sponsoring this week's podcast. Enter promo code "Ari" for 20% off your first order at KushyDreams.com

Join the Skeptic Tank Patreon at Patreon.com/SkepticTank New secret content every week. 4 different podcasts at the same place.

Or the 6th and Jump Patreon at Patreon.com/6thAndJump New full video episodes ever Friday! It's here now because it kept getting taken down. It's still available on your podcast player for the audio only version. But this is where the video will live. Meet us at the chapel!

I'm playing Royersford, PA on Sunday. Mark Normand is opening (probably). 6pm show is sold out, 9pm show just added. https://nightout.com/events/arishaffir9pm/tickets or arishaffir.com for tickets. 

Steve Rannazzisi, Shane Gillis and Corinne Fisher came over to the Skeptic Tank Studio to talk about what it's like going through a mass internet backlash. It has many names, online mobs, cancel culture, outrage, but I like to call it e-rage. We talked about the similarities in all their situations while we detailed each of their experiences in more depth.

I've been trying to get this podcast done for literally years and it did not disappoint. One of the most interesting conversations I've ever hosted on Ari Shaffir's Skeptic Tank

Please subscribe to Patreon.com/AriShaffir to help me survive the next e-rage that hits me so I can go on making the content that interests me without having to worry or edit myself based on the financial implications of that decision. And there are also bonus podcasts each week. So, win-win.

Each of today's guests have their own podcast. Give them each a chance by listening to at least one episode and seeing if maybe they'll make it into your rotation.

Steve Rannazzisi has a podcast called "What's The Odds"

Shane Gillis has a podcast called "Matt And Shane's Secret Podcast"

Corinne Fisher has a podcast called "Without A Country"

The Music

Hole - Violet

The Bee Gees - I Started A Joke

Shirley and Company - Shame, Shame, Shame

The Beatles - Revolution

Kerryn Feehan came over to tell me about this wild world of getting dudes to just send you money. For nothing. I mean, legitimately for nothing. And then we started talking and she started telling me about how to get them to send you way more money for doing at least a little something. It's a crazy world we live in and it's full of simps. Also, we will tell you what a "simp" is while you listen to the episode. I honestly loved this one. I found it so interesting and entertaining and I hope you guys like it as much as I did.

This episode is brought to you by my subscribers at Patreon. Go to Patreon.com/AriShaffir to support this podcast and to listen to bonus episodes, travel stories, and early releases

The Music

Flying Lizards - Money, That's What I Want

Cardi B - Money

Danny P - Simp Song

Kanye West - Gold Digger