Catching You Up Podcast with Nadav

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**SPONSOR** Support the show and try BlueChew for free – just pay $5 shipping. Head to https://www.bluechew.com and use code NADAV *** Become a producer on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/VeryNadavShow Someone made a subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/VeryNadavShow/ The No Jumper podcast network evolved from a blog on Tumblr in 2011 to a podcast in 2016, and later into a network with various hip...

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Become a producer on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/VeryNadavShow Someone made a subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/VeryNadavShow/ Today we're talking about the way more-interesting-than-you'd-suspect topic: laugh tracks! We learn about the start of laugh tracks due to the ingenuity of Bing Crosby, Bobby Burns and Charley Douglass. From I LOVE LUCY to Cheers to Friends to Big Bang Theory to The...

Become a producer on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/VeryNadavShow Someone made a subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/VeryNadavShow/ While working at Your Mom's House Studios with Tom Segura and Christina P, I would often catch myself having ridiculous conversations. Sometimes those were with my employers, the staff, but the funniest ones were talking to outside organizations. These are some of m...

Become a producer on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/VeryNadavShow Someone made a subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/VeryNadavShow/ Today we're chatting about why I think the next two years (at least) are going to be rough for podcasts due to an industry correction. Sure, we're having a mini-burst of the bubble in the podcasting industry, but how did we get there? The pandemic created the perfec...

Support the show and get 50% off of Factor at https://www.factormeals.com/NADAV50 and use code NADAV50 Become a producer on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/VeryNadavShow Someone made a subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/VeryNadavShow/ A lot of people are talking about this new Rogan Spotify deal... yes, Rogan got a dumb amount of money to keep publishing to Spotify but not remaining exclusive to...

Become a producer on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/VeryNadavShow Someone made a subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/VeryNadavShow/ This is a story from back when I was working at WeedMaps over a decade ago. We were getting involved in sponsoring concerts and music festivals and ended up covering a lot of Cypress Hill shows. I share a few stories of how much fun it was to work at WeedMaps, a cou...

Become a producer on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/VeryNadavShow Someone made a subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/VeryNadavShow/ Today's episode is about how I got my job at YMH Studios that eventually lead to my position as Executive Producer there. I discuss my journey starting in high school making dumb movies with my friends, to college, where I also made dumb movies with my friends. I ta...

Become a producer on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/VeryNadavShow Someone made a subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/VeryNadavShow/ Today's a special episode. A call had to be made in the 11th hour, which is par for the course for a producer. I'm gonna talk about my experience being a producer at YMH Studios and how mistakes get handled as the team grows. I talk about the different reasons a pro...

Support the show & get free breakfast for life at https://www.hellofresh.com/NADAVFREE with code NADAVFREE Become a producer on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/VeryNadavShow Someone made a subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/VeryNadavShow/ More and more of the bigger podcasts have began accumulating louder and louder haters online. Is it people that despise them? Is is people that are upset the s...

Become a producer on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/VeryNadavShow Someone made a subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/VeryNadavShow/ Tucker Carlson has been around forever and has always sucked while in the public eye, but he's making some interesting moves that might show he's a lot cooler than we all thought. I give a brief history of Tucker's early childhood, his dad and how he got into journa...

Become a producer on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/VeryNadavShow Someone made a subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/VeryNadavShow/ We're going to talk about the Kill Tony New Years Eve Streams and what this means for the comedy podcast industry. We talk about its founder Tony Hinchcliffe and Brian Redban, the premise of the live comedy podcast, and how it jumped from the World Famous Comedy Sto...

Become a producer on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/VeryNadavShow Someone made a subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/VeryNadavShow/ Today we're going to go over the history and evolution of Comedy Roasts. I talk about discovering the Comedy Central roasts with the one they did on Flavor Flav from Public Enemy and Flavor of Love. This is how I was introduced to Anthony Jeselnik and Amy Schumer li...

Get episodes a day early on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/VeryNadavShow Is the trend of comedians making comedy specials a money grab? Let's take a look at a few examples and see if we can determine that. I discuss the beginnings of YMH Live Shows and their evolution. We examine if the 69 Minutes with Tom Segura our of YMH Studios is a money grab. We take a look at the Skankfest live stream and...

Become a producer on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/VeryNadavShow Lets learn how podcasts make money. Content creators have multiple ways to monetize their podcasts. This will be a multi-part series with today's episode being about YouTube ad revenue. YouTube ad revenue has a few variables. One being length of content, and the other being CPM. We talk about demographics that can bring podcasters...

Show support and become a producer on my Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/VeryNadavShow This week, we analyze some decisions by comedians on comedy specials. Is Netflix or Youtube the best route to take? How can comedians be touring a new hour when they JUST released a comedy special? We study some moves made by some of the biggest comedians that popped over the last few years. We analyze Chris Di...

Become a Producer: https://www.patreon.com/VeryNadavShow Get your own smell proof Hautebox from Charlotte Welch at https://charlottewelch.co/ This week on Catching You Up with Nadav, I share some very personal and serious news about my gambling addiction and announce a new spin-off Holiday: CRAPSGIVING! My good friend and fellow YMH booth boy Enny Kravitz joined me a for a Thanksgiving Holiday wee...

Become a Producer: https://www.patreon.com/VeryNadavShow This week on Catching You Up with Nadav, we discuss the new podcast launched by a Comedy Central veteran and hilarious standup Daniel Tosh... Tosh Show. It seems like some of our favorite people from televesions have made their way over to podcasting. People like Conan O'Brien, Dax Sheperd, Jason Bateman, Will Arnett, San Hayes, Bill Maher,...

Producers: https://www.patreon.com/VeryNadavShow This week on Catching You Up w/ Nadav, we touch on the Carlos Mencia, one of the most notorious joke thieves in the comedy world. I show you the clip from the "I Am Comic" documentary from 2010, Marc Maron recounting the hit piece Joe Rogan made on Carlos confronting him at The Comedy Store, and Carlos's first appearance on WTF with Marc Maron. Carl...

Producers | https://www.patreon.com/VeryNadavShow Andrew Schulz Ep From Last Week | https://youtu.be/jgKe2cakr-Y This week, we peel the curtain back a little bit. I show you guys a little bit about how this podcast is put together and reveal one of the mega rules of having a podcast: CONSISTENT UPLOADS! I then start shedding some light on how last week's episode featuring Andrew Schulz went down....

https://www.patreon.com/VeryNadavShow This week, we look into Andrew Schulz, a juggernaut in the standup comedy and podcasting. Schulz started experimenting with multiple social media platforms and it's been paying off wildly. We chronicle his career startiong at his first appearence on the Joe Rogan Experience. We then see how he experimented with social media by posting standup comedy slip-s to...

https://www.patreon.com/VeryNadavShow There is no doubt that there are people that don't enjoy Brendan Schaub. But why? We give a brief history of context, his start as an athlete and his transition to podcast/personality. He discuss his comedy Showtime special "You'd Be Surprised," his YouTube special "Gringo Papi," and his blunders Annie Lederman, Khalyla Kuhn, Bobby Lee and his appearance on Ti...