That's something that I've tried to focus on a little bit more lately: to get a message that I think will resonate with people who are maybe not so far gone and who are maybe younger, who are saying, "Which way should I go in this world? Left or right?" Resonate with them, be a little funny and be a little ridiculous, and not be fucking corny. I can get a message on there that's getting out to a lot of people. But I can get onto a show, like Dennis Prager's show, that has millions of people listening. It is a comedy channel to make people laugh and it's meant to be silly. I'll sit down with somebody like Libby Watson, she deals a lot in healthcare, or Tim Faust. I'm lucky enough to have friends who have a high level of knowledge on particular subjects that I don't.
There are some, obviously, but it is overwhelming how many of these there are and how popular they are, and how many people are listening and how effective they utilize these shows to get these really shitty messages out there. People say, "Why don't you call left-wing shows ever?" Because they don't fucking exist on the same level. The sheer volume of it is what has been eye-opening to me. It showed me a lot of people that you don't want to think exist-you don't want to believe that these people with these points of views and these perspectives-are actually out there in droves. Have these prank calls changed or informed your idea of the right wing radio media ecosystem? Then the next shows I called, I was like, "Do you like Curt Schilling?" And then if they said, yes, then I would start pranking them. So I started phoning him and bothering him.
And I saw he was just talking about the craziest shit ever. There's really been a massive influx of people doing their Facebook, YouTube shows, but back then it was less. I happened to notice Curt Schilling was doing a Breitbart show, a call-in show on Periscope at that time. So I was like, "Hey, I'm going to do my own thing." Even to have some success, especially in Canadian stand-up, it's all waiting on other people to tell you if you're good for that year. I live in Canada and I made a living as a stand up comedian. What was the genesis of "Not Even a Show"? VICE spoke to Chris James to understand what goes into a good prank call, and what he's learned from hundreds of hours speaking to right-wing figures. "All told, it takes me about 20 hours," he said. Now, his weekly episodes run for approximately twenty minutes, with a bonus 10-minute episode for his Patreon subscribers. In the first two years of producing the show, a single nine-minute episode would take forty hours to assemble, James said.
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Over the course of making "Not Even a Show," James learned how to edit: the show is well-produced, with lots of on-screen annotations, animations, and parodical musical covers. James will also call in to radio shows to conduct his own show's cold open, and surprisingly enough, the hosts are often game to play along. James is perhaps best-known for his many calls to former Trump advisor turned supplement shill, Sebastian Gorka, and he even has a song celebrating their rivalry. The guests-slash-targets include an impressive cast of America's brightest minds, such as Rudy Giuliani, MyPillow's Mike Lindell, Laura Loomer, Lauren Boebert, Rush Limbaugh, Todd Starnes, and most recently, Marjorie Taylor Greene. His show, "Not Even a Show," is a weekly compilation of these calls, streamed on YouTube and Twitch.
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