Martini Shot

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A wry take on real life in Hollywood.

03/18/2020

Psychic break

This is Rob Long and on today’s Martini Shot, I talk about the audience, which has been practicing a kind of social distancing since the moment Netfix started streaming — or, if you want to get deeper, since YouTube dot com turned on the juice. Now it’s Hollywood’s turn to stay home.

5 min
03/12/2020

One or the other

This is Rob Long and on today’s Martini Shot I realize that there are two kinds of people in the world. We’re all either R2D2 or C3P0 or Wile E Coyote or the Road Runner or Moses or Complaining Israelites or Jeffrey or Ina.

5 min
03/05/2020

You keep forgetting

This is Rob Long and on today’s Martini Shot, I try to figure out how YouTube made fifteen billion dollars, and how to handle breaking up with my barber. They are deeply linked, I promise.

5 min
02/27/2020

The babysitter

This is Rob Long and on today’s Martini Shot I reveal what a friend of mine confessed to me years ago. One time, when she was babysitting an infant, all it did was sleep, which bored her. So she woke it up and made it cry. Sometimes we’re the baby. And sometimes we’re the babysitter.

5 min
02/20/2020

Quibi

This is Rob Long and on today’s Martini Shot I talk about the newest venture in Hollywood and how people like to say, Never Gonna Work about things that, you know, really could work.

5 min
02/13/2020

Still angry

This is Rob Long, and on today’s Martini Shot I get really angry at something that hasn’t happened yet, and then get angry when it doesn’t happen, and then don’t know what to do with all of that pre-anger when it everything turns out okay. I’m like the opposite of a Buddhist.

5 min
02/06/2020

Pay the money

This is Rob Long, and on today’s Martini Shot I watch a group of people refuse to pay the cover charge at a jazz club and think, I wonder if those people pay for Netflix.

5 min
01/30/2020

Illy

This is Rob Long and I need to offer a trigger warning on today’s Martini Shot. It’s about my wonderful dog Illy. And it ends the way all stories about wonderful dogs end. In a lot of tears and a lot of gratitude.

4 min

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Rob rules!!!

05/20/2021

igormax

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Great!

05/04/2021

PD Hall

I learn so much about the inside workings of Hollywood
Rob Long is the best

07/11/2020

KEN_JR?

Hollywood gospel according to Rob. This is the word of Rob. Let us give thanks.
Only one complaint

03/19/2020

Harveyreally

These do not come out fast enough !!!! (Also, small “note”: as they are posted three at a time, they are posted newest first when it should be oldest first because sometimes one episode builds on the last)