#180 - Robert Smigel
5/11/20262 hr 12 min
Robert Smigel joins the podcast to discuss his new podcast HUMOR ME, the origins of Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, trying and failing to become a dentist, the formidable Jewfro he donned until his mid-30s, how he could have wound up a Reddit guy if things went differently, and much more. Robert and Stav help callers including a man who wants to get tattoos to attract goth chicks but is scared his grandma will write him out of the wheel if he does, and an escort whose favorite client betrayed her trust.
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First 90 secondsStavros Halkias· Host0:00
[upbeat music] Opa! Welcome everybody to Stavy's World, 904-800-STAVY. Call in, we'll solve your problems. We have an incredible episode. Robert Smigel is here. A h- a hero of mine, one of the funniest guys. But, but he, one of his friends, a very high profile friend of his, he, he, he will not stay for the whole episode, but he did have some things he wanted to get off his chest, so very quickly. Look, whoa.
Triumph the Insult Comic Dog0:24
Oh.
Stavros Halkias· Host0:24
Triumph the Insult Comic Dog.
Triumph the Insult Comic Dog0:27
[laughs] Stavy. It's Stavy, baby. Yes.
Stavros Halkias· Host0:30
That's me.
Triumph the Insult Comic Dog0:31
What a thrill. I- Thank you for being here, Triumph. Thank you. I, aren't I a good actor?
Stavros Halkias· Host0:35
You're incred- oh.
Triumph the Insult Comic Dog0:36
I'm so excited. [laughs] No, Stavy, baby, yes.
Stavros Halkias· Host0:41
Yes.
Triumph the Insult Comic Dog0:41
It's so exciting. Everyone calls you Stavy Baby, am I correct?
Stavros Halkias· Host0:44
That's right, Triumph.
Triumph the Insult Comic Dog0:45
I, I, I understand that's because you look like someone rolled an infant around the barbershop floor. [laughs] Am I right?
Stavros Halkias· Host0:52
That's actually not right.
Triumph the Insult Comic Dog0:53
That's not correct?
Stavros Halkias· Host0:54
[laughs] No, no, no.
Triumph the Insult Comic Dog0:55
Oh, okay. There is- That's just kind of a- That sounds like some kind of joke that was pre-written then [laughs] No, no, no.
Stavros Halkias· Host1:02
That's just, yeah, just, I don't know, a nickname.
Triumph the Insult Comic Dog1:05
A nickname?
Stavros Halkias· Host1:05
Has nothing to do with me being a, an infant rolled on discarded hair.
Triumph the Insult Comic Dog1:08
Okay. All right. I, I'll take your word for it.
Stavros Halkias· Host1:11
[laughs] Okay.
Triumph the Insult Comic Dog1:11
Well, let me ask you this, you know.
Stavros Halkias· Host1:13
Yeah.
Triumph the Insult Comic Dog1:13
Uh, you started the show with the opa, which implies that you're Greek.
Stavros Halkias· Host1:17
Right. Right, right.
Triumph the Insult Comic Dog1:18
Yeah, 100% Greek, I understand.
Stavros Halkias· Host1:20
100%.
Triumph the Insult Comic Dog1:21
And yet, the god that you're most associated with is Buddha.
Stavros Halkias· Host1:25
[laughs] Buddha.
Triumph the Insult Comic Dog1:27
You see. Because Buddha has a