The Joe Rogan Experience - May 07, 2013


Joe Rogan Experience #355 - Dom Irrera


Episode Stats

Length

2 hours and 20 minutes

Words per Minute

194.99641

Word Count

27,358

Sentence Count

3,194

Misogynist Sentences

116

Hate Speech Sentences

69


Summary

On this week's episode of the Joe Rogan Experience, the boys discuss the new law that bans people who shit on the subway in San Francisco, a werewolf in the hotel lobby, and the best way to sell your phone on the phone company Ting. Also, the guys talk about the new Ting app and how it's going to change the way we use our phones in the future, and how they're going to make it cheaper for us to get our phones on the market. Joe also talks about how he's selling Ting, and why he thinks it's a good idea. And, of course, he talks about the Law of Shitting in Your Pants and why you should be scared of werewolves. Logo by Courtney DeKorte. Theme by Mavus White. Music by PSOVOD and tyops. The theme song is Come Alone by Suneaters, courtesy of Lotuspool Records. Our ad music is by Build Buildings. Please rate, review, and subscribe to our podcast on Apple Podcasts and Podchaser. If you like what you hear, please HIT SUBSCRIBE and leave us a rating and review! We'll be looking out for the next episode next week with a review on iTunes! Thank you so much for all the love, support, and support! Peace, Blessings, Joe, EJ and EJ. (and Cheers. Cheers, Cheers! - The Joe Rogans. - Jon and the Podcast - EJ & the Joe & the Podcast. . -Jon and the Podcast, Jon Rogans and the Crew Joe and the Podchucks . . Jon & the PodChucks - J. Rogan. Jon -- Tom and the pod, Joe 5th, Joe 5 , Joe5 And the Pod Chicks AND THE PODCAST, , Joe 5, and The PodChicks, & The Pod Chucks , and The Podchicks, and ... This is , JOSEPHOST, JOE 5, JOB 5, and JOSETTE, AND JEAN, and JOSIE, and THE MAGIC, etc.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Yeah, it is, right?
00:00:01.000 It's delicious.
00:00:07.000 Wow, you recorded one.
00:00:09.000 Beautiful, Jamie.
00:00:11.000 And my fucking laptop is on.
00:00:13.000 This is my real laptop, folks.
00:00:15.000 It's not like we have a dedicated laptop in the studio.
00:00:18.000 I actually use this laptop on the road.
00:00:21.000 It's not just here.
00:00:23.000 This laptop is mine.
00:00:26.000 It's very important to me, Donald.
00:00:27.000 Thanks for warning me about the werewolf in the lobby.
00:00:30.000 Scared the shit out of me when it came in.
00:00:33.000 Did that thing make you shit your pants?
00:00:34.000 It was eyeballing me.
00:00:35.000 Speaking of shit in your pants...
00:00:36.000 I didn't tell you that it was there?
00:00:38.000 No!
00:00:38.000 Jamie, tell me about the law.
00:00:40.000 Tell me about the law of shit in your pants you were reading.
00:00:43.000 There's a headline here that says...
00:00:45.000 Let me see.
00:00:46.000 San Francisco just...
00:00:48.000 San Francisco finally able to ban people who shit on their subway.
00:00:53.000 They finally can ban people.
00:00:55.000 Before it was considered okay.
00:00:57.000 San Francisco is a beautiful place.
00:00:59.000 It's a very unusual place.
00:01:00.000 Just go into that corner.
00:01:02.000 It's important for a place like San Francisco to exist.
00:01:05.000 To be that far off the left wing trail.
00:01:07.000 You know what's interesting about it?
00:01:09.000 They're really conservative up there.
00:01:11.000 They're just conservative liberals.
00:01:12.000 Yeah.
00:01:13.000 That's very well put.
00:01:14.000 They're unbending.
00:01:15.000 You know exactly what they think on every issue.
00:01:18.000 This episode of the Joe Rogan Experience podcast is brought to you by Squarespace.com.
00:01:24.000 I don't know if Squarespace is in San Francisco, but a lot of smart motherfuckers are.
00:01:29.000 A lot of smart dudes up there, Tom Herrera.
00:01:31.000 Brilliant.
00:01:31.000 Well, they got Sunnyvale right near there with all the techno people.
00:01:35.000 Yeah, Atherton and all that.
00:01:38.000 Squarespace is a website-building website.
00:01:42.000 If you've ever thought about starting your own business, Website, just to fucking write shit down, just to create a blog, just for fun, just to, you know, whatever.
00:01:52.000 Make a website with pictures of you and your friends.
00:01:54.000 Start a business.
00:01:55.000 If you wanted to do that, Squarespace is one of the easiest ways to do it.
00:01:59.000 Unlike in the past where you had to get to know a program and learn Dreamweaver or actually try to code it yourself with HTML, which is so beyond my grasp.
00:02:10.000 I wouldn't even think about attempting to do that.
00:02:13.000 I know how stupid I am.
00:02:15.000 But with Squarespace, you can do it, and it's pretty easy.
00:02:18.000 There's a bunch of different cool designs, and you don't have to even pay to try it out.
00:02:23.000 If you go to squarespace.com forward slash Joe, you don't need to give them any credit card.
00:02:28.000 Just go and check it out.
00:02:31.000 And if you want to use it, then you use the code name Joe, and what is it now?
00:02:38.000 It's 5. It's fucking May.
00:02:41.000 Joe5.
00:02:41.000 So that's one word.
00:02:43.000 It's Joe and the number 5 together.
00:02:46.000 So Squarespace.com forward slash Joe and the offer code is Joe5.
00:02:52.000 It's a really cool website building machine, really.
00:02:56.000 It makes it so much easier than back in the Diz-A. And you can make a really competent site and you can build an online store.
00:03:04.000 Super easy to do.
00:03:05.000 So go check it out, you fucks.
00:03:08.000 Got through it.
00:03:10.000 That was good.
00:03:11.000 Do you like that?
00:03:11.000 I threw that angry part at the end.
00:03:13.000 It made me legit.
00:03:14.000 It was a good pitch.
00:03:14.000 Even though I'm selling them something.
00:03:16.000 You got ghetto on them.
00:03:18.000 I gotta get my street cred back.
00:03:19.000 Bitch.
00:03:20.000 That's what it is.
00:03:21.000 Yeah, you know, folks, there's a certain amount of grossness in selling anything, and I will absolutely admit that.
00:03:27.000 There's a certain amount of grossness in saying the same thing over and over again.
00:03:31.000 Go to Ting, and Ting's a cool company.
00:03:33.000 Yeah, but at least you don't sell shit you don't believe in.
00:03:35.000 That is true.
00:03:37.000 And if I'm wrong about any of this stuff, I'll let you know as well.
00:03:39.000 What if Ting turned out to be evil?
00:03:44.000 Ting was a secret branch of the government.
00:03:47.000 Designed to get you more happy with your phone.
00:03:50.000 People were getting discontent.
00:03:51.000 Ting came along with a better deal.
00:03:53.000 Calm everybody down.
00:03:54.000 It's another conspiracy.
00:03:55.000 Tom, we need people on the phone.
00:03:57.000 We need them on the phone.
00:03:58.000 All the time, man.
00:03:59.000 Let's make it cheaper.
00:03:59.000 Come on, let's make it cheaper.
00:04:01.000 Have you ever met anybody through...
00:04:02.000 Well, you wouldn't have to.
00:04:03.000 You've been...
00:04:04.000 You're with somebody, but the idea, like, because I saw black people meet black people.
00:04:09.000 They have one commercial.
00:04:10.000 Did you see that?
00:04:10.000 No.
00:04:11.000 What is this?
00:04:11.000 It's just a place for black people to meet black people.
00:04:14.000 Like a website?
00:04:14.000 Like, they're so hard.
00:04:15.000 Why don't you just go to a black neighborhood?
00:04:16.000 Go to a bar.
00:04:19.000 They have a website.
00:04:20.000 Well, there's nothing wrong with being specific, you know?
00:04:24.000 I mean, if you...
00:04:25.000 I can't imagine Italians meeting Italians.
00:04:27.000 Hey, Antoinette!
00:04:28.000 You don't think so?
00:04:28.000 There's gotta be an Italians looking for Italians website.
00:04:31.000 There's gotta be.
00:04:32.000 Yeah, it's like JD. Yeah, because Italians love other Italians.
00:04:36.000 I've never been out with an Italian girl.
00:04:38.000 Oh, they're the worst.
00:04:39.000 They're the best and the worst.
00:04:40.000 I've related to them.
00:04:41.000 They're savages, sexually.
00:04:43.000 They're fucking animals.
00:04:44.000 Oh my goodness, they're fucking beasts.
00:04:47.000 They're like...
00:04:47.000 Yeah, they're savages.
00:04:49.000 They're savages.
00:04:50.000 I like that.
00:04:52.000 I like a girl who's not like me.
00:04:56.000 You used to say, she's a good kid.
00:05:00.000 She's a good kid.
00:05:03.000 But the last Italian girlfriend I had, she's likely to swing at me.
00:05:09.000 She would get crazy.
00:05:10.000 Yeah, that's what my friend said to me about it.
00:05:12.000 He said, I'd never cheat on my wife.
00:05:13.000 I'd be afraid she'd stab me in the neck when I was asleep.
00:05:16.000 Yeah, this girl would like to yell.
00:05:20.000 I know you had an Italian girlfriend.
00:05:22.000 That was the last one.
00:05:23.000 Before I met you, though.
00:05:24.000 Yeah, I was like...
00:05:25.000 I think I was 21. She was a great kid.
00:05:28.000 Beautiful person, but...
00:05:30.000 They're just wild.
00:05:31.000 You keep in touch with her?
00:05:32.000 No, I do not.
00:05:34.000 No, I do not.
00:05:35.000 Just testing you.
00:05:37.000 Ting is the other podcast sponsor.
00:05:39.000 Ting is a cell phone company that uses the Sprint backbone, and what it does is they...
00:05:46.000 Have it set up so there's no contract, so you can quit anytime you want.
00:05:49.000 You buy the phones.
00:05:50.000 The phones that they sell are the best Android phones available.
00:05:54.000 They have all the high-end Android devices, including the Samsung Galaxy Note 2, which is this crazy fucking phone.
00:06:03.000 If you've never seen this thing before, it is preposterous.
00:06:06.000 It's a gigantic, preposterous phone.
00:06:08.000 What's the one that starts your car and all that?
00:06:11.000 Is there one that does that yet?
00:06:12.000 I saw it last night.
00:06:13.000 It sets the climate in the car, like if it's cold out.
00:06:17.000 It's so ridiculous.
00:06:18.000 It starts your fucking car!
00:06:19.000 How is that possible?
00:06:20.000 Is that really possible?
00:06:22.000 An app that starts your car?
00:06:23.000 Oh yeah, because they had those remotes for a while.
00:06:27.000 They would do it in cold, like in Montreal, cold places.
00:06:30.000 Tom Herrera, I'm not ready for this yet.
00:06:32.000 Joe, you got it.
00:06:33.000 I'm not ready for apps to start your fucking car.
00:06:35.000 I'm not ready for that.
00:06:36.000 That's too much for me.
00:06:36.000 The car pulls up.
00:06:37.000 Get in, Joe.
00:06:38.000 Jesus!
00:06:39.000 That's coming.
00:06:40.000 That's Google Cars.
00:06:41.000 They're doing that already, Dom.
00:06:43.000 They already have these remote-controlled cars that they drive around the city, and they drive themselves.
00:06:46.000 They react to cars coming at them.
00:06:48.000 They haven't even been getting in accidents.
00:06:50.000 It's nuts.
00:06:51.000 It's fucking nuts.
00:06:52.000 I still wouldn't trust it.
00:06:53.000 I can't imagine sitting in the back seat with my car driving itself.
00:06:57.000 There are a lot of fucking assholes out there, Dom, that drive cars.
00:07:00.000 There's a lot of fucking assholes.
00:07:02.000 I saw some kid the other day just weaving in and out of traffic, speeding.
00:07:07.000 He was flying past people.
00:07:12.000 Why don't they get arrested?
00:07:13.000 He just was in the wrong place at the right time.
00:07:16.000 He was doing the wrong thing at the right time.
00:07:18.000 There was no cops anywhere by him.
00:07:19.000 But the way he was driving was really crazy aggressive, cutting people off and racing in front of them.
00:07:25.000 It was dangerous.
00:07:26.000 He was cutting random strangers off, barely missing their car.
00:07:32.000 It was kind of maniacal to watch.
00:07:35.000 Every now and then you just get a person like that.
00:07:37.000 It's just really crazy.
00:07:39.000 I read an article about teenagers that their brains aren't fully developed.
00:07:43.000 And there's a reason they get in so many accidents, because their perception and their reactions are good physically, but they make wrong choices.
00:07:51.000 Terrible choices.
00:07:52.000 I was a terrible driver when I was a teenager.
00:07:54.000 Oh, I'm a terrible driver now.
00:07:55.000 See me drive?
00:07:56.000 Don't even watch me pull it out.
00:07:57.000 Would you be happy if Google came along with something and you could say, take me home, and the fucking robot car takes you home?
00:08:03.000 That's coming.
00:08:05.000 Mind if I open up a six-pack?
00:08:07.000 I would definitely.
00:08:07.000 Now, if you're drinking and driving and your car's driving itself, can you still get arrested?
00:08:12.000 It's a very good question.
00:08:13.000 Because it would have to know for sure you know where you're going.
00:08:18.000 Right.
00:08:18.000 You know, you couldn't tell it to, hey, go fucking drive in the wrong lane of this street.
00:08:24.000 I mean, there would have to be some sort of...
00:08:25.000 It would have to have a thing that said it couldn't do that.
00:08:29.000 Yeah.
00:08:29.000 So then it would have to be, how does it know when there's a light that turns green?
00:08:33.000 How does it know when there's a light that turns red?
00:08:35.000 And it's going to have to be plugged into the whole system.
00:08:39.000 There's going to have to be...
00:08:41.000 You know, if you really think about it, it's going to have to be like a Wi-Fi network or something everywhere that controls these cars.
00:08:46.000 I mean, they would have to have like real control.
00:08:49.000 To let a car go and just drive around with no person touching the handles and make sure that it stays on path, wow, I would think that would be really hard to pull off.
00:08:59.000 That would be hard to trust.
00:09:01.000 I mean, I don't know how you're controlling it.
00:09:02.000 I don't understand how's it getting to it.
00:09:04.000 It's got to get there from a cell phone service.
00:09:06.000 There's got to be some sort of a signal that's reaching the car, unless the car is just a robot, a self-sufficient robot, which is even crazier.
00:09:14.000 That means no one's controlling it.
00:09:16.000 That means it just goes on, you know, what it knows about what's in front of it with radar or whatever it's using, sonar.
00:09:22.000 I don't know what it's using.
00:09:23.000 Whew, that's crazy.
00:09:25.000 That's kind of nuts.
00:09:27.000 Yeah, I think...
00:09:28.000 And if that happens, that's an app.
00:09:30.000 So you get the fucking Take Dom Arrera Home app.
00:09:33.000 And you press that on your phone and your fucking car just drives you home.
00:09:37.000 Why is that so weird to me?
00:09:39.000 Of course that's coming, right?
00:09:40.000 Take me home.
00:09:40.000 Are you hungry?
00:09:42.000 That's all coming, isn't it?
00:09:43.000 It's coming.
00:09:44.000 It's coming.
00:09:44.000 It's amazing how technology has advanced so much in the last five years.
00:09:47.000 It's madness, Dom Arrera!
00:09:50.000 Madness!
00:09:50.000 We have panic attacks if we forget our cell phone now.
00:09:53.000 I have a panic attack if I forget my cell phone.
00:09:56.000 Yeah.
00:09:57.000 And, you know, it's so valuable for finding shit out.
00:10:01.000 It's so valuable for, like, going on websites.
00:10:03.000 Nobody has to read anymore because they can get the answers at their fingertips.
00:10:07.000 Yes!
00:10:07.000 Well, it's not that you don't have to read, but, man, information is flowing so much quicker now.
00:10:12.000 Like, if you had a question before Google, it would be like a really hard thing to do to research the question.
00:10:17.000 And there was, like, a lot of people who developed some really good bullshit arguments back in those days.
00:10:22.000 And they don't hold up anymore because of Google.
00:10:25.000 Wikipedia is not necessarily always right.
00:10:27.000 So that's the only thing you ever hear in the argument.
00:10:29.000 Yeah, that's a big one.
00:10:32.000 People love to say that.
00:10:33.000 But there's always going to be people downplaying it.
00:10:36.000 But the bottom line is no one knows everything.
00:10:38.000 It's impossible.
00:10:39.000 And you can find more things because of this.
00:10:43.000 Like, this is amazing.
00:10:44.000 This is a great time to be alive.
00:10:47.000 This is your phone.
00:10:48.000 You fucking pick up your phone and you talk to it and tell it to go to websites for you.
00:10:54.000 I mean, this is where we live.
00:10:55.000 You ever use that Google Voice?
00:10:57.000 It's the shit.
00:10:59.000 You press it and you say Dom Herrera and it'll go right to your website.
00:11:03.000 I like the one where you go call Joe.
00:11:07.000 Oh yeah, that's great too.
00:11:09.000 Calling Joe.
00:11:11.000 Almost all of them also have the ability to read text so you can talk to it and it'll write shit down for you.
00:11:20.000 Which is really helpful.
00:11:22.000 You ever use that note thing on the iPhone?
00:11:26.000 Yeah.
00:11:27.000 Oh, it's beautiful.
00:11:28.000 You can talk to it, Dom.
00:11:29.000 Yeah, yeah.
00:11:29.000 Like, I can press this button and say, Dom Irera is a bad motherfucker.
00:11:33.000 And it literally will say, Dom Irera is a bad motherfucker.
00:11:36.000 It's amazing.
00:11:37.000 I was trying to get a porn this morning.
00:11:39.000 Oh, you savage.
00:11:40.000 On your phone?
00:11:41.000 No, on DirecTV.
00:11:44.000 And it was because it was Cougars Seeking Kittens.
00:11:47.000 Which I don't know, I find very erotic.
00:11:50.000 Like the older women that like young girls.
00:11:52.000 Really?
00:11:53.000 Yeah, yeah.
00:11:56.000 That's so nasty.
00:11:57.000 And the fucking thing wouldn't listen to my phone number.
00:11:59.000 I kept saying 694. She goes 695. And then I'm getting mad at the fucking computer.
00:12:04.000 I go, will you open up your fucking ears?
00:12:08.000 694, you fucking douchebag.
00:12:11.000 This is what you get for trying to buy porn.
00:12:13.000 I know.
00:12:14.000 Why are you trying to buy porn?
00:12:15.000 It was super specific.
00:12:17.000 Yeah, and I'm too lazy to download it and shit.
00:12:21.000 I hear you.
00:12:22.000 It's always much easier to use that credit card.
00:12:24.000 Yeah, it is.
00:12:27.000 Because they just send it to your bill.
00:12:28.000 You don't even have to read the letters.
00:12:30.000 Go to rogan.ting.com and save $25.
00:12:34.000 It's a credit.
00:12:35.000 What is Ting, Joe?
00:12:36.000 It's a cell phone company with no contracts.
00:12:38.000 I like the no contracts thing because that's another commitment in life I'd rather not make.
00:12:42.000 Why do you need it for cell phones?
00:12:44.000 That always bugs me.
00:12:45.000 It's a gross one.
00:12:46.000 And they keep adding a couple years.
00:12:48.000 Every time you take it back, you're giving fair.
00:12:49.000 Motherfuckers.
00:12:49.000 Those motherfuckers, Dom Herrera.
00:12:51.000 Ting doesn't do that.
00:12:52.000 It's a conspiracy.
00:12:53.000 They also save you money on the bill by if you don't use, like if you use under your minutes, they credit you the difference on your next bill.
00:13:00.000 They bump you down to a lower level and they credit you the difference.
00:13:03.000 So it's an awesome company.
00:13:05.000 They're great.
00:13:06.000 Check them out.
00:13:07.000 Onnit.com is our last sponsor.
00:13:09.000 Go to O-N-N-I-T.com.
00:13:12.000 If you haven't been there in a while, there's a lot of new shit.
00:13:14.000 Especially in the strength and conditioning department.
00:13:17.000 We have these Primal Bells now, which are insane.
00:13:20.000 They're the coolest fucking kettlebell in the history of the universe.
00:13:26.000 We had the idea of doing kettlebells with these evil chimpanzee faces on them.
00:13:33.000 And this chimpanzee's face.
00:13:37.000 Can you pull that face up, Jamie?
00:13:39.000 This chimpanzee's face.
00:13:42.000 It just looks like he's about to fucking kill you.
00:13:46.000 Can you see it?
00:13:47.000 I see it.
00:13:49.000 I love that thing.
00:13:51.000 Because when I work out with it, I pretend that I'd have to fight that thing to the death.
00:13:55.000 That's what I do when I work out.
00:13:57.000 It puts the fear of God into you.
00:13:59.000 It's amazing how much stronger they are than us.
00:14:03.000 We're so silly.
00:14:05.000 Because they look kind of the same size as us, so you get super confused.
00:14:08.000 But we are made out of Jell-O. And that thing is corded steel.
00:14:15.000 Chimpanzees are stupid strong.
00:14:18.000 Like, we can't even get it around our head.
00:14:20.000 It would be so strong that once it grabbed ahold of you, you would feel so helpless.
00:14:24.000 You'd feel so helpless.
00:14:26.000 A 150-pound chimp is like a 500-pound man.
00:14:30.000 Remember the one that ate that woman's face?
00:14:32.000 Oh, Jesus Christ.
00:14:33.000 They're so terrifying, these fucking things.
00:14:36.000 So, to have one as a kettlebell is the shit, son.
00:14:40.000 And it's only 36 pounds, and you're like, Joe Rogan, I ain't no pussy.
00:14:43.000 And I'm like, dude, I didn't say you were.
00:14:45.000 But the reality is I have a workout for you that will work with that 135-pound kettlebell.
00:14:53.000 I guarantee you it'll kick your ass.
00:14:55.000 It's the Extreme Kettlebell Cardio DVD. We sell it on Onnit.com, and we have the new one, Extreme Kettlebell 2. Which I haven't done yet, but I'm sure it's awesome.
00:15:05.000 The guy, Keith Webber, is a bad motherfucker.
00:15:08.000 And it's a great way to, like, you force yourself to just keep up with him.
00:15:12.000 Just force yourself to do what he's doing, and it'll just kick your fucking ass.
00:15:17.000 See, I'm built like that under my present body.
00:15:19.000 I know, Dom Herrera.
00:15:20.000 You're in there.
00:15:21.000 It's in there.
00:15:22.000 It's right underneath my layer.
00:15:24.000 We're going to get you using the fucking medicine ball.
00:15:27.000 Doing some body weight squats, Dom Herrera.
00:15:30.000 Eating healthy.
00:15:31.000 Cheers to that.
00:15:32.000 Cheers.
00:15:33.000 Cheers.
00:15:35.000 Talking healthy drinking beer, ladies and gentlemen.
00:15:40.000 That's that Deschutes Brewery Black Butte Porter that stuff the shit on it.
00:15:46.000 I said Black Butt.
00:15:47.000 Black Butt.
00:15:48.000 Fucking stupid.
00:15:49.000 How dare you?
00:15:51.000 But it looks basically...
00:15:53.000 It should be like Butt.
00:15:54.000 T-T-E. Why is that Butte?
00:15:56.000 Why is it Butte?
00:15:57.000 I don't know.
00:15:57.000 Why is Houston Street not called Houston Street?
00:16:00.000 That's a good fucking question, goddammit.
00:16:03.000 See?
00:16:03.000 I got questions as well.
00:16:05.000 I've got a lot of observations like other comedians.
00:16:07.000 Only mine aren't funny.
00:16:08.000 They're just observations.
00:16:10.000 Someday I'm going to upgrade them.
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00:16:24.000 Yo, that might be the douchiest shit I've ever said in my life.
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00:17:10.000 Train by DJ! My long-time friend, one of my longest-timest friends in the history of my life, Mr. Dominic Guerrero, my brother.
00:17:22.000 Thank you, John, for fuck's sake.
00:17:24.000 Dom and I have been friends for, shit, it's been at least 20 years now.
00:17:28.000 That's not weird.
00:17:28.000 Yeah, it's crazy.
00:17:30.000 It was 20 years, right?
00:17:31.000 I brought you up in Montreal.
00:17:32.000 That's the first time I remember meeting you.
00:17:33.000 I think it was 93. Yeah, I think that was 93. And then we met in Amsterdam Billiards, and we talked for a little bit.
00:17:42.000 I didn't know you played pool, and I was all excited.
00:17:44.000 There's only a few of us that play pool, like Ferrara.
00:17:47.000 Adam Ferrara plays really good pool.
00:17:49.000 Fitzsimmons.
00:17:49.000 Fitzsimmons plays really good pool.
00:17:50.000 Ari plays good pool.
00:17:52.000 Yeah.
00:17:53.000 I get so excited.
00:17:55.000 I remember bringing you up thinking...
00:17:57.000 This is a new-braided comedian.
00:17:59.000 This kid looks like a fucking tough kid.
00:18:00.000 Even when I didn't know you were into martial arts.
00:18:03.000 I mean, you were funny.
00:18:04.000 You were always funny.
00:18:05.000 I'm not just stroking you.
00:18:06.000 But I remember bringing you up thinking, this ain't the fucking kid who had problems with his mother that talks about this.
00:18:11.000 You know what I mean?
00:18:12.000 It was a different—and I told you this before—your group of comedians were, like, more tougher men.
00:18:19.000 I grew up with a lot of, like, nebbishy kind of— Well, I grew—well, doing comedy, I started out in Boston.
00:18:26.000 And those guys were particularly manly.
00:18:28.000 That's a good breeding ground, yeah.
00:18:28.000 They were particularly manly.
00:18:30.000 You know who made me think that I could do it, honestly?
00:18:33.000 It didn't make me think that the way I looked would be an impediment?
00:18:36.000 It was Nick DiPaolo.
00:18:37.000 Oh, okay.
00:18:38.000 Because Nick DiPaolo was a great head of hair.
00:18:41.000 He was a fucking devastatingly handsome guy.
00:18:43.000 He was way better looking than me.
00:18:44.000 And he was bigger than me.
00:18:45.000 He was big, like a football player.
00:18:46.000 Yeah, he was a football player.
00:18:47.000 But he was hilarious.
00:18:49.000 And I was like, whew.
00:18:50.000 It was a weight off my shoulders.
00:18:51.000 Because I remember thinking that I looked like an athlete or something.
00:18:55.000 And it looked like a jock.
00:18:56.000 If you look like a jock, like...
00:18:58.000 You're automatically categorized, and it automatically makes you less funny.
00:19:02.000 Yeah, yeah.
00:19:03.000 No, it's definitely...
00:19:03.000 I mean, there's...
00:19:04.000 Like, look at Gary Goldman.
00:19:06.000 Yes.
00:19:06.000 Perfect example.
00:19:07.000 Beautiful man.
00:19:08.000 Too tall, handsome.
00:19:10.000 Too beautiful.
00:19:10.000 Too, yeah.
00:19:10.000 Too beautiful.
00:19:11.000 He's perfect.
00:19:12.000 Yeah.
00:19:12.000 He's a hunk.
00:19:13.000 He's cute.
00:19:14.000 You know what I like about him is hips.
00:19:15.000 He's got beautiful hips.
00:19:16.000 He's a fucking devastatingly handsome man.
00:19:18.000 He's big.
00:19:19.000 He's handsome.
00:19:20.000 One time Laura Keitlinger, he's hunky.
00:19:23.000 He's hunky.
00:19:23.000 I'd like to take him to a prison cell.
00:19:27.000 Laura Keitlinger, right?
00:19:28.000 We're in Ireland.
00:19:29.000 Remember Laura?
00:19:30.000 Sure, yeah.
00:19:30.000 Very funny.
00:19:31.000 Very pretty too.
00:19:32.000 Yes.
00:19:32.000 She's dressed, she looks like a fucking model.
00:19:35.000 And she's dying on stage and she's really funny.
00:19:38.000 She goes, what happened?
00:19:38.000 I go, you look too good.
00:19:40.000 The guys can't laugh at you.
00:19:41.000 The girls don't think you're funny because you're too pretty.
00:19:43.000 And the guys can't laugh because their girlfriends are looking at them to see if they're looking at you.
00:19:48.000 Do you know Brian Frazier?
00:19:50.000 Do you remember Brian Frazier from Boston?
00:19:52.000 Probably.
00:19:52.000 He stopped doing stand-up, but he writes.
00:19:55.000 I haven't spoke to him in quite a bit.
00:19:57.000 But he, at one point in time, was enormous.
00:20:01.000 He was a bodybuilder.
00:20:02.000 I mean, he was super...
00:20:04.000 He's one of those super dedicated, super disciplined dudes that can force himself to work an hour and a half a day and eat strictly healthy.
00:20:13.000 He was fucking gigantic.
00:20:15.000 I mean, he was huge.
00:20:16.000 And he would go on stage with a golf shirt on.
00:20:19.000 And I had to pull him aside.
00:20:20.000 I go, dude, you can't wear that.
00:20:22.000 And he's like, why?
00:20:23.000 And I go, because you're too big.
00:20:24.000 I go, trust me.
00:20:25.000 I go, you gotta trust me on this.
00:20:28.000 I go, dude, you're my friend, and you make me nervous.
00:20:32.000 Like, your fucking arms are gigantic.
00:20:34.000 He had like pythons in his arms.
00:20:36.000 They were too big.
00:20:37.000 You couldn't not look at them.
00:20:39.000 How about Piscopo when he got...
00:20:40.000 You know those things at the carnival where you stick your head into the muscle man's body?
00:20:44.000 Yeah.
00:20:45.000 That's what Piscopo looked like.
00:20:46.000 Yes.
00:20:46.000 No, no, no.
00:20:47.000 Brian Fraser was bigger than him.
00:20:48.000 Yeah.
00:20:48.000 I'm telling you.
00:20:49.000 He had to be worried about.
00:20:51.000 No, he was not.
00:20:51.000 No, no.
00:20:52.000 Piscopo worried about him.
00:20:53.000 Maybe, yeah.
00:20:54.000 But Fraser was just like super dedicated.
00:20:57.000 He was like crazy dedicated.
00:20:59.000 Here's a funny fucking story.
00:21:01.000 Because he's a really funny guy.
00:21:04.000 And he looks like maybe like an Irish guy from the Midwest.
00:21:09.000 But he's Jewish.
00:21:10.000 And he at this time had like a really fucking...
00:21:15.000 You know, he's got a temper.
00:21:16.000 And he doesn't like people fucking with him.
00:21:18.000 You know?
00:21:19.000 He and I never had any problems.
00:21:21.000 But he was at a gig in Vermont once.
00:21:26.000 And we were together.
00:21:27.000 We worked together up there.
00:21:28.000 And he had a little bit of a problem with his voice.
00:21:33.000 He had a little bit of a cold.
00:21:34.000 And so he was saying to the owner of the club, he was like apologizing for his voice being fucked up.
00:21:45.000 And the guy who owned the club said something like, you know...
00:21:51.000 What are you, being a Jew or something?
00:21:53.000 Something along those lines.
00:21:54.000 Like, you sound like a Jew.
00:21:56.000 Right.
00:21:56.000 Because he didn't think he was Jewish.
00:21:58.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:21:58.000 It was something along those lines.
00:21:59.000 It was, like, really crude.
00:22:01.000 And Brian went fucking crazy.
00:22:04.000 He went crazy.
00:22:05.000 There was a desk between him and the guy, and that's probably the only thing that stopped him from smashing this guy.
00:22:12.000 But he was so scary, because he was, like, really fucking strong.
00:22:15.000 And I remember thinking, like, because back then...
00:22:18.000 I didn't even lift weights.
00:22:20.000 I never lifted weights in my Taekwondo days.
00:22:22.000 I was pretty skinny in comparison.
00:22:25.000 He was way bigger than me.
00:22:27.000 I was like, God damn it, I don't know if I can stop him from hurting this guy.
00:22:31.000 Yeah, yeah.
00:22:32.000 You know?
00:22:32.000 Because he's just so much stronger than him.
00:22:33.000 You could just run right through him like a bull.
00:22:35.000 But that one thing the guy said to him, like, don't be a Jew.
00:22:39.000 Like, what are you, being a Jew?
00:22:40.000 I forget.
00:22:40.000 I forget what it was.
00:22:42.000 But I remember going, oh, shit.
00:22:45.000 Like, that's the moment where you're trying to talk your friend out of doing something really stupid.
00:22:51.000 Where the moment you're like, I know how you feel, I know how you feel, and you're right to be upset, but please don't do anything.
00:22:56.000 Let's get the fuck out of here.
00:22:58.000 If you do something right now that's going to be stupid, it's a mistake, and it's going to fuck up your freedom.
00:23:03.000 You're going to get locked in a cage.
00:23:05.000 You're not going to do this.
00:23:06.000 This is not what civilized people do.
00:23:08.000 Keep the fuck away from people if you don't like them, but you don't have to beat them up.
00:23:12.000 That gets real weird.
00:23:14.000 I know when you get that look that you're thinking it, but you don't go into action.
00:23:18.000 I remember one night, some drunken kids came up to us at the pool hall, and one kid just fucking lit you up, and I just looked at you, and I thought, I know he ain't gonna lose it, but this kid has no idea the fucking danger he's in.
00:23:30.000 Well, I remember what you were talking about.
00:23:32.000 It's just drunk men.
00:23:34.000 Yeah.
00:23:34.000 I mean, I couldn't imagine what it's like to be a woman.
00:23:37.000 And deal with a drunk man wanting to hold you down and fuck you.
00:23:40.000 You would just run into people that are just...
00:23:46.000 Maybe they're not like that when they're sober.
00:23:48.000 I don't know.
00:23:49.000 Some people just have a problem.
00:23:50.000 They drink and they just get weird.
00:23:52.000 But when you're around aggressive drunk dudes, it's so unfortunate.
00:23:56.000 It's like, oh, what a fucking predicament.
00:23:58.000 This has got to suck to be a chick.
00:24:00.000 And then they start repeating themselves.
00:24:02.000 But I always say, look, you know, it bothers me a little bit, but at least it's not threatening like it is to a chick.
00:24:09.000 I really always think about that when I see those kind of really drunk, douchey guys.
00:24:14.000 It's got to be a terrifying thing to have a guy, you know, want to hold you down and fuck you.
00:24:22.000 It is.
00:24:22.000 It is, Joe.
00:24:23.000 It's got to be awful.
00:24:24.000 Tell me the truth.
00:24:25.000 Tell me the truth.
00:24:25.000 It's terrible.
00:24:26.000 I can't take it anymore.
00:24:28.000 My back's killing me.
00:24:29.000 When you were saying the thing about...
00:24:31.000 It's kind of fucked that that's still around, isn't it?
00:24:33.000 Yeah, well, you know, with my goddaughter living with me, I can't sleep unless she's home.
00:24:41.000 You know what I mean?
00:24:41.000 And like, honestly, my godson, he's like close blood.
00:24:45.000 If he got blown at a party by the kid's mother who threw the party, I'd go, Danny, tell me about it.
00:24:52.000 And don't rat the lady out.
00:24:54.000 But you know what I mean?
00:24:56.000 It's so different with girls.
00:24:57.000 It's totally different.
00:24:59.000 It's totally different.
00:24:59.000 I was thinking of something you said before about when you said the guy was Jewish and he didn't...
00:25:04.000 You know how you're part of your culture, you're part of your background?
00:25:07.000 I was married to a Jewish woman, right?
00:25:09.000 And one day I said, not meaning it in anything, just my own ignorance, I said, yeah, maybe we can Jew the guy down.
00:25:16.000 And she said, that's really insulting.
00:25:18.000 I go, why?
00:25:20.000 And she explained it to me.
00:25:21.000 So then I just started saying, let's Christian that motherfucker down.
00:25:24.000 Just to bring it back on myself.
00:25:26.000 That's funny, because Frasier got mad at me for using that expression.
00:25:31.000 Oh, that guy?
00:25:32.000 Yeah, yeah, same guy.
00:25:33.000 I mean, he didn't get mad at me and, like, threaten me.
00:25:35.000 You know, we're friends.
00:25:36.000 But he's like, you know, that's really a rude thing to say.
00:25:38.000 And I thought about it.
00:25:38.000 I was like, you know, I've always said it.
00:25:40.000 I never thought of it.
00:25:41.000 I didn't even think it was a bad thing.
00:25:42.000 I was like, you know, a guy's got gold chains on it.
00:25:45.000 Oh, he's guineeing it up.
00:25:46.000 Yeah, yeah.
00:25:47.000 You know, you want to get some money?
00:25:48.000 Oh, chew the guy down.
00:25:50.000 I didn't think that it was bad to be frugal.
00:25:52.000 No.
00:25:52.000 You know?
00:25:54.000 I never connected the two.
00:25:56.000 I never meant it as an answer.
00:25:57.000 Until he said it, and then I saw it, and then it was obvious.
00:25:59.000 Yeah, of course.
00:26:00.000 Once he said, I was like, yeah, I guess that is pretty insensitive.
00:26:04.000 Speaking of that, do you know that they got a guy today, 95 years old, who was a Nazi at one of the camps?
00:26:11.000 Oh, God.
00:26:12.000 95 and they arrested him.
00:26:14.000 You think he's going to get life?
00:26:16.000 But seriously, did you see it?
00:26:20.000 That's a terrible thing for karma that that guy lived that long.
00:26:24.000 Argentina.
00:26:25.000 Yeah, 95. That was a big thing.
00:26:27.000 South America, right?
00:26:28.000 Yeah, they all went there.
00:26:29.000 He said he was a cook at the concentration camp.
00:26:32.000 Oh my god.
00:26:34.000 Yeah.
00:26:37.000 You know what's scary about the Nazis?
00:26:39.000 That shit was not that long ago.
00:26:42.000 These guys are still alive.
00:26:43.000 Not that long ago, yeah.
00:26:44.000 They're still alive.
00:26:45.000 Some of them are still alive.
00:26:46.000 Well, that's what I think about when Mel Brooks did The Producers, how fresh that was.
00:26:51.000 I mean, how fucking ballsy was that?
00:26:53.000 Don't be a dummy, be a schmarty.
00:26:54.000 Come and join the Nazi party.
00:26:56.000 Remember when they were doing the goose step dance?
00:26:58.000 Yeah.
00:26:58.000 Remember the movie?
00:26:59.000 Yeah.
00:26:59.000 And I was thinking, that was in the 60s.
00:27:01.000 Yeah.
00:27:02.000 And the war didn't end until the 40s.
00:27:04.000 Yeah.
00:27:05.000 45?
00:27:05.000 47, I think it was.
00:27:06.000 Was it?
00:27:07.000 Was it 47th though?
00:27:09.000 I thought it was 45, but whatever.
00:27:10.000 It wasn't that far back.
00:27:13.000 And he did this whole thing about Hitler.
00:27:15.000 It was fucking hilarious.
00:27:17.000 Total balls.
00:27:18.000 Oh, yeah.
00:27:19.000 It was 45 at the end?
00:27:21.000 No, Brooks was a bad motherfucker.
00:27:23.000 Still is.
00:27:24.000 Still is, apparently.
00:27:26.000 Brian Callen knows him.
00:27:28.000 Oh, no, no, it's Fitzsimmons.
00:27:31.000 Fitzsimmons knows him.
00:27:33.000 Says the guy just fucking hangs around, goes to a coffee shop and talk to people.
00:27:38.000 I'd love to know him.
00:27:39.000 I met him.
00:27:40.000 Like a super personable guy.
00:27:42.000 Right.
00:27:42.000 Just a real nice guy, enjoying life.
00:27:44.000 His fucking son is a badass author.
00:27:48.000 Yeah.
00:27:48.000 His son is the one that wrote that World War Z movie.
00:27:51.000 Oh, yeah?
00:27:52.000 Yeah, his son wrote the book, which I guess a lot of people...
00:27:56.000 I haven't seen the movie yet, obviously, but a lot of people are pissed that they deviated from the book.
00:28:02.000 Oh, yeah.
00:28:02.000 You know, sometimes they do that.
00:28:04.000 But, yeah, his son's a badass author.
00:28:09.000 He had two of the funniest movies ever, Young Frankenstein, Producers, Blazing Saddles, three movies.
00:28:15.000 Yeah, Young Frankenstein was fucking hilarious.
00:28:17.000 At the time, he was the man.
00:28:20.000 I mean, if you went to see a Mel Brooks movie, there's really no one to compare it to today, because he would act in them, he would write them.
00:28:27.000 He always had to sing or something.
00:28:29.000 I saw High Anxiety, and he was singing like a lounge singer.
00:28:34.000 He's going, hi, anxiety.
00:28:36.000 And he goes, Ziety, each time you are near.
00:28:40.000 You know, just the idea of Ziety.
00:28:42.000 So fucking stupid.
00:28:43.000 Mel Brooks was a genius, man.
00:28:45.000 He was a powerful, prolific genius.
00:28:51.000 He did a lot of really good stuff.
00:28:53.000 Well, at the time, it was him and Woody Allen were kind of like, I don't know.
00:28:56.000 He was more silly.
00:28:58.000 Yeah.
00:28:58.000 Woody Allen's pretty fucking silly, too.
00:28:59.000 Oh, yeah, yeah, sure.
00:29:00.000 I love the one where he's playing the cello in a marching band, but he has to run up and sit down for a couple bars.
00:29:07.000 Take the money and run.
00:29:09.000 Have you seen Mel Brooks' History of the World?
00:29:12.000 Yeah.
00:29:13.000 Yeah, it's funny.
00:29:14.000 Man, that's beautiful stuff.
00:29:16.000 It's beautiful stuff.
00:29:18.000 At the time, there was nobody else making movies like that.
00:29:23.000 You heard it was a Mel Brooks movie.
00:29:25.000 You knew it was a certain standard of comedy that you were going to get.
00:29:28.000 It was great stuff.
00:29:29.000 Though they could never make Blazing Saddles today.
00:29:31.000 No, they couldn't.
00:29:32.000 Just too racially charged.
00:29:35.000 There could never be an all in the family today.
00:29:37.000 It's true, yeah.
00:29:38.000 I don't believe they're...
00:29:39.000 And it's sad.
00:29:40.000 It's sad that people would...
00:29:42.000 You know, the good thing is, look, it sucks that people like that ever exist.
00:29:48.000 That there really could be a guy like Archie Bunker that's that racist.
00:29:51.000 Yeah.
00:29:51.000 But it's still funny.
00:29:52.000 My uncle was like that.
00:29:53.000 Yeah.
00:29:53.000 We had family members that were like that.
00:29:56.000 There were people that were worse than that, by the way.
00:29:58.000 Like, way worse than that.
00:29:59.000 He wouldn't even give black people credit for being good looking.
00:30:02.000 You know what I mean?
00:30:03.000 Like, if a black woman was beautiful, he'd go, that's a white nose.
00:30:07.000 She's got a white note.
00:30:08.000 You know what I mean?
00:30:09.000 He'd bring up, as if all white people are beautiful.
00:30:12.000 That's funny.
00:30:13.000 Yeah.
00:30:13.000 But it was real.
00:30:14.000 You know what I mean?
00:30:15.000 He hated, like, you know, because when I was a kid, I grew up with the Beatles.
00:30:19.000 He hated the Beatles.
00:30:20.000 He hated, like, anything rock and roll.
00:30:22.000 That was a ruination of the world.
00:30:24.000 Well, you know what, Dom?
00:30:25.000 I think I used to wonder what the fuck that was all about.
00:30:28.000 And I think what it really boils down to is that people have these weird, natural, tribal instincts.
00:30:35.000 They have these weird tribal instincts, and they belong to a tribe.
00:30:39.000 Yeah.
00:30:39.000 And whether that tribe is being a Republican, or whether that tribe is listening to fucking classical music, you know, whatever the fuck it is that they decide this is where they draw the line, this is where they take a stand.
00:30:51.000 It's a tribal thing, you know?
00:30:54.000 It's weird deviations of our need to form groups, you know, so we'll get upset about shit that doesn't matter even a little bit.
00:31:01.000 I try and not be stuck in any one era.
00:31:05.000 The only thing I was thinking, I don't even know if this is funny or not, but what's going to happen in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 15 years when there's no groups left and rap music is dominant?
00:31:18.000 You know what I mean?
00:31:19.000 Is it going to be like, motherfucker this, motherfucker...
00:31:23.000 Do you not like any rap music at all?
00:31:24.000 I do.
00:31:25.000 What do you like?
00:31:27.000 Well, I mean, I like Snoop is great, I think.
00:31:32.000 I like Eminem, I love.
00:31:34.000 Some of the music we hear...
00:31:36.000 Would you like buy Eminem on iTunes?
00:31:38.000 Yeah, I have.
00:31:39.000 I couldn't imagine seeing Dom Herrera.
00:31:41.000 Well, you know, I get brought up to...
00:31:43.000 What do you want?
00:31:44.000 Lose Yourself.
00:31:45.000 You know, Lose Yourself?
00:31:46.000 Yeah.
00:31:46.000 That's fucking great.
00:31:47.000 The beginning is great.
00:31:49.000 And just, you know, when you get one chance in a lifetime, don't blow it.
00:31:52.000 Yeah, no, that's a beautiful song.
00:31:54.000 Yeah.
00:31:54.000 No, he's a bad motherfucker, Eminem.
00:31:56.000 And I like the one, Mama, never meant to hurt you.
00:31:58.000 Tonight I'm cleaning out my closet.
00:32:00.000 It's pretty fucking heavy.
00:32:01.000 He's got some great fucking songs.
00:32:03.000 He's got an album coming out soon.
00:32:04.000 Does he really?
00:32:05.000 Good for him, man.
00:32:06.000 He's brilliant.
00:32:07.000 Yeah.
00:32:08.000 I think he doesn't like to perform.
00:32:09.000 I heard that he has a problem.
00:32:11.000 He doesn't like to go outside.
00:32:12.000 He gets anxiety?
00:32:13.000 Well, you know, I mean, didn't you know how fucking famous that dude is?
00:32:17.000 He got so famous.
00:32:18.000 I mean, he got crazy famous.
00:32:19.000 He got famous to the point where it probably fucks with your head.
00:32:22.000 Yeah, well, you know, I was thinking last time we were shooting pool, and you're very good with people, but the guy got on your nerves because Joe was just, we were getting tired, and both of us were kind of tired, and you said, I'm fucking racking the balls he wants to take a picture.
00:32:38.000 You're like, that made a difference.
00:32:40.000 There was no good time.
00:32:41.000 The poor guy, I mean, you were nice to him anyway.
00:32:44.000 But I just knew you weren't in the mood for...
00:32:46.000 It's just drunks.
00:32:47.000 It's alright.
00:32:48.000 And that guy in particular, that was no big deal.
00:32:50.000 Yeah.
00:32:52.000 That was just, you know, someone was just enthusiastic and wanted to take a picture.
00:32:56.000 That's all good.
00:32:57.000 It doesn't bother me at all.
00:32:59.000 What bothers me is the drunk thing.
00:33:02.000 Yeah, yeah.
00:33:03.000 The drunk, close to your face.
00:33:05.000 They're clunky.
00:33:06.000 Repetitive.
00:33:06.000 They grab you.
00:33:07.000 Yeah, I really like that.
00:33:09.000 Grab my neck again.
00:33:10.000 I go for that.
00:33:11.000 I'm cool with everything but the drunk thing.
00:33:13.000 And if it seems like you're drunk, it's like, ooh, boy, I don't know.
00:33:16.000 Are you drunk?
00:33:17.000 How close do I get to you, stranger?
00:33:20.000 You know, you've never seen me drunk.
00:33:22.000 I've seen you drunk.
00:33:24.000 Really?
00:33:24.000 I've seen you drunk at the Laugh Factory.
00:33:26.000 Really?
00:33:27.000 Yeah.
00:33:27.000 How long ago?
00:33:28.000 At least an hour ago.
00:33:30.000 An hour ago?
00:33:33.000 I don't think you've seen me drunk.
00:33:34.000 Yeah, it was months ago.
00:33:36.000 Many, many months ago.
00:33:38.000 One of the last...
00:33:39.000 I mean, I've only been in the Laugh Factory maybe three or four times over the past decade.
00:33:43.000 You're not going to come back?
00:33:44.000 No, I would go back.
00:33:45.000 I like when you do that Wednesday night show of mine.
00:33:47.000 I'll do whatever you're doing.
00:33:49.000 If you're doing shit there, I'll be happy to do your show.
00:33:51.000 Breaking balls with Dom Rear.
00:33:53.000 I'll be happy to do it.
00:33:54.000 Because I like when you do the half hour at the end, then we have the interview.
00:33:56.000 Yeah, that was fun.
00:33:57.000 You had a great crowd.
00:33:59.000 They were smart people.
00:34:01.000 You know, that was a fun crowd.
00:34:03.000 But I've been to the Laugh Factory, like I said, like four or five times.
00:34:08.000 But one of those times you were drunk, you motherfucker.
00:34:10.000 I was drunk.
00:34:11.000 On stage?
00:34:12.000 No, no, not on stage.
00:34:14.000 No, one time on stage I was drunk because I said something.
00:34:18.000 And then when I realized I was drunk, I said something to go...
00:34:20.000 I don't know what the fuck you're talking about.
00:34:22.000 You know?
00:34:23.000 You didn't even say it like in an attacking way.
00:34:24.000 You're like confused.
00:34:25.000 And I realized, oh, fuck.
00:34:27.000 You were hammering?
00:34:28.000 Yeah, because he gives me an Irish coffee.
00:34:30.000 You can't give an Irish coffee with half that there's so much whiskey the coffee's cold.
00:34:35.000 Oh, is that what he did?
00:34:35.000 Yeah.
00:34:36.000 And I'm drinking, I drank two of them.
00:34:38.000 Two of them.
00:34:39.000 So what is that, like five drinks probably?
00:34:41.000 Five whiskeys?
00:34:42.000 Yeah.
00:34:43.000 Oh, Jesus Christ.
00:34:44.000 Oh, shots?
00:34:45.000 Yeah, at least.
00:34:45.000 That makes my balls hurt.
00:34:48.000 You say that like, you know what else makes your balls hurt right here?
00:34:51.000 I was out to a restaurant last night with a friend of mine.
00:34:55.000 You know those guys that make everything sexual, like whatever, and the waitress was, her fish was taken long, and waitress, I'll get you some zucchini sticks.
00:35:04.000 This has nothing to do with sex.
00:35:06.000 And when she walks away, she goes, I'll give you a zucchini stick.
00:35:10.000 I'll give you the fucking, you know what I mean?
00:35:12.000 Like, nothing to do with anything.
00:35:14.000 Yeah, there's dudes that always have that.
00:35:15.000 I'll give you a fucking sandwich.
00:35:18.000 You want a sandwich?
00:35:19.000 Yeah, I'll give you a fucking sandwich.
00:35:20.000 Got a nice meatball right here.
00:35:26.000 Like I said, I'm glad I'm not a girl.
00:35:30.000 I'm glad you're not a girl too.
00:35:31.000 You'd be fucking scary.
00:35:33.000 I've never seen a girl with such a defined back.
00:35:37.000 I've seen them.
00:35:38.000 I've seen some big ones.
00:35:39.000 How about the one who came out last week?
00:35:42.000 She's got an Adam's apple.
00:35:43.000 Who's that?
00:35:44.000 I forget her name.
00:35:45.000 She just went into the pros.
00:35:47.000 I think her team won the national championship.
00:35:51.000 Brittany Griner?
00:35:52.000 Yeah, Brittany Griner.
00:35:52.000 She went into the pros for what?
00:35:54.000 I'm not saying she's got like a beard on her dick.
00:35:57.000 She's so fucking masculine.
00:36:00.000 She's so masculine.
00:36:03.000 But she came out of the closet.
00:36:05.000 Who is she?
00:36:06.000 She was the all-time shot blocker in the NCAA, the women's division.
00:36:11.000 She played for Baylor.
00:36:11.000 But she is like a man.
00:36:13.000 So this is basketball?
00:36:14.000 Yeah.
00:36:14.000 But I mean, the thing is, it was nothing.
00:36:16.000 It meant nothing to anybody.
00:36:17.000 Then that guy comes out, the seven-foot guy, the twin, which he didn't tell his twin brother he was gay.
00:36:24.000 Did you see that?
00:36:24.000 What?
00:36:25.000 Oh, my goodness.
00:36:26.000 He came out of the closet.
00:36:28.000 But he came out of the closet at 34. This guy?
00:36:31.000 No, that's this guy.
00:36:32.000 But look at her Adam's apple.
00:36:34.000 Wait a minute.
00:36:35.000 Hold up.
00:36:36.000 What's going on there?
00:36:36.000 That's a girl?
00:36:37.000 That's a girl.
00:36:38.000 You want to hear her voice?
00:36:40.000 Sure.
00:36:42.000 Give me a second.
00:36:44.000 So she just came out of the closet?
00:36:46.000 Is that what you're saying?
00:36:47.000 She came out of the closet a while ago.
00:36:48.000 There's a player who plays in the NBA. His name is Jason Collins.
00:36:51.000 He just came out this week in Sports Illustrated.
00:36:53.000 Right, right.
00:36:53.000 That was a big deal, right?
00:36:54.000 Yeah.
00:36:55.000 Was he the first gay player ever?
00:36:57.000 He was the first who was actively, who still might be playing.
00:37:01.000 But he might not even make a team because he's 34 and he's not any good.
00:37:05.000 It's like a third string center.
00:37:06.000 He might have done it because of that.
00:37:07.000 He might have done it for that.
00:37:08.000 Maybe he would go...
00:37:09.000 President Clinton?
00:37:10.000 That's rude.
00:37:10.000 You're saying he went gay just for publicity.
00:37:13.000 That's what you're saying.
00:37:14.000 Yeah, I think it was.
00:37:14.000 He might not even be gay.
00:37:15.000 Well, no, he's gay.
00:37:18.000 I can see by the way he shoots.
00:37:19.000 Do you think before they tie that, we're like, look, we're ready to put this story to bed, but we need to see you suck a cock first.
00:37:25.000 You're right.
00:37:26.000 I mean, this might be a big publicity stunt.
00:37:27.000 Have you heard Gilbert talk about it?
00:37:29.000 No.
00:37:29.000 Is that what he said?
00:37:29.000 He said he should pay a cover charge to go to the shower.
00:37:33.000 That's funny.
00:37:34.000 That's very funny.
00:37:35.000 That's very funny.
00:37:36.000 Bill Burr, I don't get him.
00:37:37.000 I love people that say I don't get him.
00:37:39.000 Who says that?
00:37:40.000 You know, just somebody who's jealous.
00:37:42.000 There's a lot of that, by the way.
00:37:44.000 Fucking Bill's as good as anything.
00:37:46.000 You know, there's a real disturbing thing in comedy where people don't want other people to be good as well.
00:37:53.000 I don't know what it is, but we all know a certain number of people who've been afflicted by that, voluntarily or involuntarily.
00:38:01.000 Some of them try to kick it.
00:38:03.000 Yeah.
00:38:04.000 Well, Jimmy Brogan's one of those old, bitter guys.
00:38:06.000 You know, a nice guy, but he used to write for The Tonight Show.
00:38:08.000 You know who he is?
00:38:09.000 Yeah.
00:38:09.000 And he was upstairs, and somebody was on stage, a young comic.
00:38:13.000 He goes, I don't get it.
00:38:15.000 I go, you know what?
00:38:16.000 It doesn't matter.
00:38:16.000 They get it.
00:38:17.000 Listen to the audience.
00:38:18.000 They get it.
00:38:19.000 It doesn't mean everything's quality, but...
00:38:21.000 Give them credit, you know?
00:38:23.000 Yeah, that's a weakness, man.
00:38:26.000 Either like it or don't like it, but to really focus all your negative energy on it like that.
00:38:35.000 Those people, they become a drain.
00:38:39.000 It's a horrible aspect to dealing with other people.
00:38:47.000 When you're all in the same sort of business together and there becomes a guy who just for one reason or another just can't seem to get it together.
00:38:54.000 Yeah.
00:38:54.000 And so they start spewing venom and then you're around them.
00:38:58.000 You pick that up.
00:38:59.000 Like if you happen to be working with a guy, you know, he's like a middle act.
00:39:02.000 He's just bitter and nasty.
00:39:03.000 Like you can ruin your whole weekend.
00:39:05.000 Yeah, Deb Davidoff played Invincible.
00:39:08.000 He played a character that was part of Vince Papali's group, the guy who was the football player who they based the movie on.
00:39:15.000 And it was an interesting character because he was...
00:39:18.000 He's so resentful of his friend's success that when everybody was cheering, you just see him looking in his glass and stirring, you know, like, fuck, he got something else in life.
00:39:28.000 And here I am at the bar.
00:39:30.000 You know what I mean?
00:39:31.000 The dub played it really well, but it was an interesting character because I thought about...
00:39:34.000 I've seen it with comedians.
00:39:36.000 When a comedian gets something, it's like...
00:39:38.000 When I started out, I started out with Eddie Murphy.
00:39:41.000 Right.
00:39:42.000 And I was up for Saturday Night Live.
00:39:45.000 And I was hired for three episodes.
00:39:47.000 I don't know if I ever told you that.
00:39:49.000 Yeah.
00:39:49.000 Anyway, Eddie became a star, and people would actually say to me, does that bother you?
00:39:55.000 I go, no, do you think that if Eddie Murphy didn't do 48 hours, I would have?
00:39:59.000 I said, that's nothing to do with me.
00:40:01.000 It's him.
00:40:02.000 He did it.
00:40:02.000 He's talented.
00:40:04.000 Yeah, but what is it that stops people from ever seeing that?
00:40:07.000 What is it that makes people just go, fuck him, fucking Eddie Murphy.
00:40:11.000 If I was in that movie, it'd be even better.
00:40:14.000 Tell you what, fuck Eddie Murphy.
00:40:16.000 They're petty and bitter.
00:40:17.000 They couldn't follow me in Cleveland.
00:40:18.000 It was this weekend in Cleveland, I fucking buried him.
00:40:21.000 He was the middle.
00:40:23.000 I was the middle.
00:40:24.000 He was the headline.
00:40:24.000 I was like, seriously?
00:40:28.000 Well, we know so many of them.
00:40:30.000 Those stories are so gross.
00:40:32.000 The I Blew Them Off the Stage stories.
00:40:33.000 Oh, yeah.
00:40:34.000 And crushed.
00:40:35.000 Unless they're talking about a dickhead.
00:40:37.000 And then suddenly they become cool.
00:40:40.000 If it was a guy you don't like.
00:40:41.000 Somebody you hate.
00:40:42.000 Yeah, and you're like, oh, how bad did he eat it?
00:40:44.000 You know I don't like that guy.
00:40:45.000 Plates and plates of shit.
00:40:47.000 You know I don't like Bobby Collins, right?
00:40:49.000 Yes, I know.
00:40:51.000 There's only three guys I really don't like in comedy, and he's one of them.
00:40:54.000 And...
00:40:56.000 I did this benefit.
00:40:58.000 It's called Rags to Riches in Vegas.
00:41:01.000 It's all these rich Jews and Italian garment guys.
00:41:03.000 Fucking hilarious crowd.
00:41:05.000 They all think they're funny.
00:41:07.000 And Bobby Collins was there last year.
00:41:10.000 And I said to them, I said, no matter how bad I do, I know I'm not going to be worse than fucking Bobby Collins.
00:41:16.000 Right?
00:41:16.000 And they fucking cheered because he had a tough set.
00:41:21.000 This isn't on the air, right?
00:41:23.000 No.
00:41:24.000 This is only on the internet.
00:41:26.000 It only reaches a small amount of people.
00:41:31.000 It's a weird group.
00:41:34.000 I love that they listen to you in Ireland.
00:41:36.000 Like I told you, I'm going to be in Kilkenny in three weeks.
00:41:38.000 Yeah, well, that's one of the most beautiful things about the internet is that you can get shit from anywhere.
00:41:43.000 You can listen to a podcast like London Real.
00:41:45.000 Those guys do one from London.
00:41:46.000 You can listen to a podcast from Switzerland or Iceland or fucking whatever.
00:41:50.000 It's so fucking cool.
00:41:51.000 Yeah.
00:41:51.000 It's taking so much power away from the man.
00:41:54.000 When you think about it, think about like...
00:41:56.000 The man!
00:41:56.000 The man!
00:41:57.000 Like the main motherfucking man.
00:41:59.000 Yeah.
00:41:59.000 He was my main man.
00:42:01.000 You killed him.
00:42:02.000 Yeah, it definitely does.
00:42:04.000 And every comic has a podcast now.
00:42:07.000 It's like, yeah, there's every comedian that I know has a podcast.
00:42:10.000 Isn't that funny?
00:42:10.000 It's amazing.
00:42:11.000 Yeah.
00:42:12.000 It's like having a podcast is like having a Twitter account.
00:42:14.000 Well, it's like having an act.
00:42:15.000 I mean, you know, you can have an act, but it doesn't mean it's going to be that good.
00:42:19.000 Yeah, that's true.
00:42:21.000 But it's another part of your act, sort of.
00:42:26.000 Jamie and I were talking about that before you came in, and I asked him, and it was kind of awkward, but I had to ask him, do you have eye makeup on?
00:42:35.000 He's just a beautiful man.
00:42:37.000 His eyes, not for nothing, not that I was resting on him, I'm just saying that I glanced by.
00:42:43.000 His eyes look like he has makeup on.
00:42:46.000 He's just beautiful.
00:42:47.000 He is beautiful.
00:42:48.000 The idea that your podcast is a part of your act, I mean, it's like, when you're doing stand-up, you know, one thing that you're selling almost more than anything is like a point of view.
00:43:02.000 It's like one of the beautiful things about watching a guy is that you lock into the way he's thinking, and you go, oh, I see what he's...
00:43:09.000 Huh.
00:43:10.000 Yeah, yeah.
00:43:10.000 You know, and then you start laughing, but you lock into a point of view.
00:43:15.000 You know, you figure out a way to lock into his point of view.
00:43:18.000 Well, it's cool to do something without your act.
00:43:21.000 Yeah.
00:43:21.000 You know, people go like...
00:43:22.000 You know, I told you, not to struggle, but you were...
00:43:27.000 Because of the power of your podcast and your popularity, you were by far the biggest act we've had on as far as numbers went.
00:43:33.000 Wow, that's awesome.
00:43:35.000 Yeah, and we've got a lot of good guys.
00:43:37.000 Don Marrera live from the Laugh Factor.
00:43:39.000 That's a fun podcast.
00:43:40.000 Jamie was on today.
00:43:41.000 You're really good.
00:43:43.000 You're so...
00:43:44.000 Well, the thing about you is, hey, we'll just give each other a little massage, ladies and gentlemen.
00:43:47.000 This is what we do in show business.
00:43:49.000 Hey, I embarrassed this man.
00:43:49.000 Is that we can celebrate each other?
00:43:51.000 You just, you know, you're the real deal.
00:43:53.000 So you don't bullshit things.
00:43:55.000 You don't fake things.
00:43:56.000 It's really Don Marrera there talking.
00:43:58.000 Some people, for whatever reason, can't do that.
00:44:00.000 They get weirded out if they're doing an interview or they...
00:44:03.000 They have that hard time just completely being themselves.
00:44:06.000 Well, you don't have to do a punchline every sentence.
00:44:09.000 Well, you know that, but there's a lot of guys who don't.
00:44:13.000 They get nervous.
00:44:14.000 The thing I love about you, Dom, is that you always stayed true to stand-up.
00:44:20.000 Stand-up is always the big thing for you.
00:44:22.000 You would occasionally do a TV show, or it would It'd be great if I got a series, but I'm a stand-up comic.
00:44:30.000 That's what I do.
00:44:31.000 And you've always loved it.
00:44:31.000 You're always writing new shit.
00:44:33.000 You're always improving.
00:44:35.000 I still love it.
00:44:35.000 You still love it.
00:44:36.000 And you still come up with new shit all the time, too.
00:44:39.000 That's so important.
00:44:40.000 It's so...
00:44:41.000 It's such a rare little group of people that we know, that really love and appreciate the art of stand-up.
00:44:52.000 Yeah, Brian Callen does.
00:44:53.000 Fuck yeah, he does.
00:44:55.000 Ari does.
00:44:56.000 Ari does, yeah.
00:44:57.000 I went on after Brian the other night at the Laugh Factor.
00:45:00.000 He had a terrific set.
00:45:01.000 I'm busting the crowd.
00:45:03.000 It's so nice to follow Brian because he sets the bar so low.
00:45:08.000 He starts hollering at me from upstairs.
00:45:11.000 They know we're fucking friends.
00:45:13.000 I wouldn't do it.
00:45:14.000 When I host a show, I say, the true sign I don't like a person is if I give them a straight nice intro.
00:45:20.000 If I'm being nice, that means I don't have time for him.
00:45:25.000 And what people don't understand, too, is we bust each other's balls, and it's really like a pleasure.
00:45:31.000 It's fun.
00:45:32.000 Oh, yeah.
00:45:32.000 If you say some stupid shit about me, or if I say some stupid shit about you, we enjoy it.
00:45:36.000 Of course.
00:45:36.000 We make each other laugh, and some people don't see that.
00:45:40.000 They see two comics busting each other's balls, and they think, oh, they are asserting dominance and hurting each other's feelings.
00:45:47.000 They're jealous.
00:45:47.000 No, they're having fun, and the fact that they can do it to each other, you know, it's a part of being a comic.
00:45:55.000 The busting balls thing is a part of being a comic.
00:45:57.000 Yeah, well, when you said something a couple minutes ago about the guys who seriously talk about themselves in comedy, like, you know what, first of all, I'm not bragging, but I was incredible.
00:46:09.000 I buried him.
00:46:09.000 He couldn't follow me.
00:46:11.000 They should have a music act on after me, just to calm the audience down.
00:46:16.000 There was a guy that he shall remain nameless, but he had a website.
00:46:20.000 Name names, man.
00:46:21.000 That's what we're on a podcast for.
00:46:22.000 He had a website, and in his website, it had a whole story about how he blew Dice off the stage.
00:46:28.000 Oh, really?
00:46:29.000 Dice couldn't follow him.
00:46:30.000 Yeah.
00:46:31.000 Who would that be?
00:46:33.000 Oh, I don't know, but it's the fucking silliest shit I've ever read.
00:46:37.000 I was like, okay, what are you talking about?
00:46:41.000 One of the things I like about Dice is nothing phases him on stage.
00:46:45.000 He doesn't give a fuck.
00:46:46.000 He did that special.
00:46:47.000 He aired that two CD special called The Day the Laughter Died.
00:46:52.000 And he went up, essentially went up at Dangerfields in New York.
00:46:56.000 Unannounced.
00:46:56.000 No one knew he was going there.
00:46:57.000 And if you've ever been to Dangerfields, Dangerfields, when I was a kid, when I first came to New York, I fell in love with Dangerfields.
00:47:06.000 That was my spot in New York City.
00:47:07.000 It was an old time nightclub.
00:47:09.000 It was an all-time nightclub.
00:47:10.000 It was off the beaten track.
00:47:11.000 They gave you half an hour.
00:47:13.000 The crowds were very small, except weekends and sometimes prom shows were packed there.
00:47:20.000 But it was where they filmed the Ronnie Dangerfield HBO special.
00:47:26.000 Yeah, I was there.
00:47:26.000 To me, that was mecca in New York.
00:47:31.000 I went there all the time.
00:47:32.000 But we had to work with some really fucking crazy people.
00:47:37.000 It was this Scottish guy who was the bouncer, owner, whatever.
00:47:40.000 Jimmy, he was a character.
00:47:42.000 Frank?
00:47:42.000 No, it's not a Frank.
00:47:43.000 What is his name?
00:47:44.000 He looked like he was sitting down when he was standing.
00:47:46.000 He was so squatty.
00:47:47.000 He was a brick house.
00:47:48.000 He was a bowling ball.
00:47:49.000 He was a brick house.
00:47:50.000 That guy was gigantic.
00:47:51.000 You don't get a fucking laugh for fuck's sake.
00:47:54.000 He was a power lifter, that dude.
00:47:55.000 Yeah.
00:47:56.000 He would, like, grab people and throw them out there.
00:47:59.000 He was a gentleman.
00:48:00.000 Up until someone wasn't a gentleman to him.
00:48:02.000 Right, you'd reach across.
00:48:03.000 And then you fucked up.
00:48:04.000 You'd notice he was a big guy, but he was deceptively strong.
00:48:09.000 He would do crazy weightlifting things.
00:48:11.000 He had cement buckets.
00:48:14.000 I didn't know about this.
00:48:16.000 He had them filled with cement, and he would do exercises with them.
00:48:19.000 He did powerlifting.
00:48:20.000 He did a lot of crazy shit.
00:48:22.000 That guy was stupid strong.
00:48:24.000 Yeah, but he was perfect for the Nightcloak.
00:48:27.000 He was hilarious, too.
00:48:29.000 He was always, you're gonna try again with that shite act of yours?
00:48:34.000 He would bust your balls, but it was warm, you know?
00:48:37.000 It's like he would do it with like half a smile on his face, and he'd be like, hey man, I'm just trying to do my thing.
00:48:43.000 And he would laugh.
00:48:44.000 He was a good dude.
00:48:45.000 But if you ever got in a tussle with that guy, oh my god, he was terrifying.
00:48:49.000 I saw him pick a guy up by his neck.
00:48:51.000 He grabbed the guy by the back of the neck and just hoisted him up in the air.
00:48:54.000 He was essentially doing it completely by his neck.
00:48:56.000 These prom shows, kids would come in.
00:48:59.000 And they would get so fucked up.
00:49:02.000 Oh yeah.
00:49:03.000 They were so fucked up.
00:49:04.000 Do you remember Al Lubel?
00:49:05.000 Yeah.
00:49:06.000 A kid went on stage, took the microphone away from Al Lubel and blew cigar smoke in his face.
00:49:12.000 Wow.
00:49:13.000 It was crazy.
00:49:15.000 What did Al do?
00:49:15.000 He didn't know what to do.
00:49:16.000 He didn't want to get in a physical confrontation with him.
00:49:18.000 Al was a lawyer, remember?
00:49:20.000 Yeah, yeah.
00:49:20.000 So he backed away, and I don't remember how it was resolved, because this was, Jesus, this was like 1991 or something like that, 92. Anybody ever come on stage with you?
00:49:32.000 No, no.
00:49:34.000 It wasn't his fault.
00:49:35.000 It was just the kid was really fucked up.
00:49:38.000 The kid was really big, too.
00:49:39.000 He was a big football player-looking kid.
00:49:41.000 He was just really bold.
00:49:44.000 They were all trying to be superstars.
00:49:46.000 They were at Dangerfields and it was clear that no one really had the run of the place.
00:49:50.000 It was almost impossible to corral the crowds.
00:49:53.000 They were really crazy.
00:49:55.000 That prom crowd is also...
00:49:57.000 It's like St. Patrick's Day.
00:49:59.000 It's one day everybody gets fucked up.
00:50:02.000 They were tough.
00:50:02.000 It was the craziest shows I ever worked in my life, without a doubt.
00:50:06.000 Because, first of all, you would work from the time it was dark out, from 7 o'clock, you would do shows until 2 o'clock in the morning.
00:50:14.000 You would get off stage at 2 in the morning.
00:50:15.000 People told me that, I didn't believe them, but it was good money.
00:50:19.000 The last spot at the improv used to be 345. Wow.
00:50:23.000 345 on the weekend nights.
00:50:25.000 I remember having 330 spots.
00:50:27.000 Wow, that is incredible.
00:50:29.000 But you know, I don't know if I ever told you this.
00:50:31.000 The first time I did stand-up for money was $50 at Seton Hall, right?
00:50:35.000 I'm just fresh out of improv.
00:50:37.000 Improv group, all this shit.
00:50:39.000 And I go up on stage and a girl starts heckling me.
00:50:42.000 She was fucking out of her mind.
00:50:43.000 So I bring her up thinking, no, improv, right?
00:50:46.000 The worst thing I could have done.
00:50:47.000 Then she's laughing hysterically and then she starts crying hysterically.
00:50:51.000 Oh my God.
00:50:52.000 Like sobbing, crying.
00:50:54.000 And I'm thinking, man, this fucking stand-up is harder than it looks, you know?
00:50:58.000 And I don't know what to do.
00:50:59.000 And then this guy, you wouldn't know this guy.
00:51:01.000 He died a long time ago.
00:51:04.000 He comes up on stage.
00:51:05.000 He was a real pro.
00:51:07.000 And he just, like, took her off.
00:51:10.000 And I found out later that her brother's girlfriend was killed in an accident.
00:51:13.000 So she was fucked up on pills and stuff.
00:51:15.000 But it was the first time I ever did stand-up.
00:51:18.000 And he covered for me.
00:51:19.000 He did my extra 20 minutes and all.
00:51:21.000 But, you know, like, this is my first fucking indoctrination that his whole new life.
00:51:25.000 I'm going, holy shit.
00:51:26.000 Is that harder than it looks?
00:51:29.000 What a shit roll of the dice.
00:51:31.000 Never brought anybody up after that.
00:51:33.000 That's fine.
00:51:37.000 It's funny how hard stand-up really is, but then once you get good at it, how easy it is.
00:51:41.000 Well, it's easy because you can take your time, and you can think, like, you can literally think.
00:51:46.000 When you're doing an act...
00:51:48.000 It's rote.
00:51:49.000 Then you're thinking, oh, if I lose my place, I don't have a place.
00:51:53.000 Right.
00:51:53.000 So I can't lose my place because it doesn't matter.
00:51:55.000 You don't care.
00:51:56.000 Right.
00:51:57.000 If you go off in something, you know...
00:51:59.000 Well, you've got to always have things to talk about.
00:52:04.000 Yeah, but I mean, you don't do the exact same act, not even close.
00:52:11.000 No.
00:52:11.000 And that makes it so much easier because then you're free.
00:52:15.000 And that's when I think it gets easy.
00:52:17.000 Yeah, that is when it gets easier.
00:52:19.000 That's why I hate doing the Tonight Show and shit like that, when they have it scripted of what you're going to say.
00:52:24.000 It takes all the fun and spontaneity away from it.
00:52:27.000 Well, it's really unfortunate that that's still the thing, those little seven-minute conversations.
00:52:31.000 Yeah, they're the hardest thing I do.
00:52:33.000 Yeah, especially because you're doing it with a stranger.
00:52:35.000 I mean, who's the closest?
00:52:38.000 Who are you friends with out of all those guys?
00:52:40.000 Craig Ferguson or Conan.
00:52:44.000 Do you do Conan?
00:52:44.000 Yeah.
00:52:45.000 No, I do Craig and Fallon.
00:52:47.000 So, like, even though you see those guys, like, you know, maybe every now and again, you don't really like buddies with them.
00:52:53.000 It's not like you can sit down with them and be yourself.
00:52:56.000 No, but I gotta say, the thing about Ferguson, he never gets to a question.
00:53:01.000 All the times I've done, I've done his show probably eight times, never gets, they ask, they have the pre-interview and the producers call, the segment producers, and they're so worried about what you're going to say.
00:53:10.000 Oh, he doesn't know much about baseball, but he knows about football, and all right, all right.
00:53:15.000 And then never gets to a fucking thing.
00:53:17.000 Wow.
00:53:18.000 I had one of my most fun moments ever on television on his show.
00:53:22.000 Because he asked me, he plugged a date at my Denver Comedy Works, and I had already done it.
00:53:27.000 I said, well, you've got a really cracked staff here.
00:53:29.000 I said, I've gotten so hot they have to post-plug my dates because there would be a riot if they all knew I was there, right?
00:53:36.000 And he goes, and then he says to me from his desk, look, we'll start over.
00:53:40.000 I go, I ain't starting over.
00:53:41.000 And he walks over.
00:53:42.000 I go, look, I got a spot at the Laugh Factory I gotta get to.
00:53:45.000 I said, I'll do my little monkey dance for you, and I'll come over and talk to you, but I ain't starting over.
00:53:51.000 And we had like a fake fight.
00:53:52.000 But it was great because the audience knew it was real.
00:53:55.000 You know what I mean?
00:53:56.000 And then I went over to the panel and we just fucked around.
00:53:59.000 That's great.
00:54:00.000 Well, he's a funny guy.
00:54:01.000 He apparently does a lot of stand-up too, right?
00:54:04.000 Does a lot of stand-up, yeah.
00:54:05.000 Does a lot of road gigs.
00:54:06.000 I know there's been places that I've been where I said he was just there, was going there.
00:54:10.000 Yeah, good for him, man.
00:54:12.000 I would like to see him even more in an uncensored format for hours.
00:54:17.000 Fascinating guy.
00:54:18.000 I've only worked with him once in Toronto.
00:54:21.000 You know when I really became a fan of his?
00:54:23.000 When he was talking about Britney Spears.
00:54:25.000 Do you remember that?
00:54:26.000 No, what did he say?
00:54:29.000 It was, I don't want to paraphrase, but it was right around the time when she kept running into all these problems, and it was obvious that there was something wrong, but she was fucking tailspinning.
00:54:40.000 He basically was like, why does everybody care about this?
00:54:44.000 Like, you're talking about a little girl who needs help, like a young girl who needs help.
00:54:48.000 And it was kind of, I mean, I didn't say little girl, but a young lady who needs help.
00:54:52.000 And it was really kind of refreshing.
00:54:57.000 You could tell it wasn't something that was like he was posturing and he was making an attempt at saying this because he just wanted to achieve some moral high ground or something like that.
00:55:10.000 It felt like he has a voice.
00:55:14.000 He's on television.
00:55:15.000 Let's see if I can just get this message out.
00:55:17.000 And it was so right.
00:55:18.000 It was like, why is everybody freaking out about this young lady?
00:55:21.000 Who obviously does have problems.
00:55:23.000 Yeah.
00:55:24.000 When we're in the middle of fucking two different wars and who knows what else is going on in the world.
00:55:29.000 Who knows what the fuck else is going on.
00:55:31.000 Yeah, well, it's like Lindsay Lohan now.
00:55:34.000 It's like she makes the news and...
00:55:35.000 But it's so...
00:55:36.000 We're so weird with that, man.
00:55:38.000 It's so weird to fix it on individuals.
00:55:40.000 I think we like to build somebody up and knock them down.
00:55:42.000 It's so weird to fix it on individuals like that.
00:55:45.000 It's so weird.
00:55:47.000 Yeah, we definitely like to build them up and knock them down.
00:55:49.000 There's no doubt about that.
00:55:51.000 But it's weird how people just get locked into that.
00:55:56.000 Yeah.
00:55:56.000 You know?
00:55:58.000 What's Lindy Lohan up to now?
00:56:00.000 It's like once she becomes this sideshow, there's a market.
00:56:05.000 It's almost like she becomes infected with fame.
00:56:08.000 And then that fame fucking sucks onto her.
00:56:12.000 And she needs it sort of to give her money and they need her and people like her to fuel their little publicity machine.
00:56:22.000 It's really fascinating stuff.
00:56:24.000 Because they also have an incestuous relationship a lot of times.
00:56:27.000 Some of these celebrities, they actually choose to get their photos taken.
00:56:31.000 Oh, sure.
00:56:32.000 They ask to set things up.
00:56:34.000 Yeah, yeah.
00:56:34.000 And their publicists set things up to keep them in the chatter.
00:56:39.000 It's fascinating.
00:56:40.000 We had Justin Bieber at the Laugh Factory one night.
00:56:42.000 And I knew he was up there.
00:56:43.000 And he even said a couple things to me.
00:56:45.000 I was hosting.
00:56:46.000 And he had that really cute little chick that he goes out with.
00:56:48.000 I forget.
00:56:49.000 She's a singer.
00:56:50.000 Yeah.
00:56:50.000 I think it's Selena Gomez.
00:56:52.000 Yes, right.
00:56:52.000 Beautiful.
00:56:53.000 I'm sad, and I know that, but I do.
00:56:55.000 She's beautiful.
00:56:55.000 You said it before I could.
00:56:56.000 Anyway, his manager came up to Jamie to ask me to mention that he was there.
00:57:03.000 I thought that was so unusual, because, you know, a lot of times, like, say, Sean Penn comes in, he just wears his baseball cap down, nothing, not a word.
00:57:11.000 Right.
00:57:11.000 You know?
00:57:12.000 And this kid won the detention.
00:57:13.000 I'm thinking, how much fucking attention do you need?
00:57:16.000 You're like one of the most famous 16-year-olds ever.
00:57:20.000 Ever.
00:57:20.000 You know?
00:57:21.000 Well, that's...
00:57:22.000 He wanted to be brought up.
00:57:23.000 I mean, like, get a hand for him and all this shit.
00:57:27.000 Really?
00:57:27.000 Yeah.
00:57:27.000 Well, he's probably, you know, it's his thing.
00:57:29.000 Gets a kick out of doing that.
00:57:31.000 Yeah.
00:57:31.000 He could just show up places and be able to cheer him.
00:57:33.000 I bet he could, like, do that.
00:57:35.000 Just show up at a restaurant.
00:57:36.000 Oh, fuck yeah.
00:57:36.000 Ladies and gentlemen, Justin Bieber's here.
00:57:40.000 That's a fascinating thing, man.
00:57:41.000 Well, it's fascinating to me that people comp movie stars and couldn't give a fuck about the guy who's laying in the alley.
00:57:49.000 Right.
00:57:49.000 You know, it's like...
00:57:50.000 Well, he seems like he's handling it way better than most people would.
00:57:55.000 Well, it's pretty unusual, yeah.
00:57:56.000 I mean, he's like, you know, he says some silly things every now and again, but he's like 17 years old or 18 years old, whatever he is.
00:58:02.000 You should see the girlfriend.
00:58:04.000 He's a young kid.
00:58:04.000 That girl's fucking hot.
00:58:06.000 You can't say that.
00:58:07.000 I think she's too young.
00:58:08.000 I'm allowed to say she's hot.
00:58:10.000 She's 18?
00:58:11.000 Okay.
00:58:11.000 If she's 17, you can't say she's hot.
00:58:13.000 I think you've got to lie to yourself.
00:58:17.000 What a girl, 17. She was just 17, you know what I mean?
00:58:20.000 Yeah, right?
00:58:21.000 That was okay to sing back then.
00:58:23.000 Yeah, but don't forget, he was only 20. How about Gene Simmons?
00:58:26.000 Christine, 16?
00:58:28.000 Oh, yeah.
00:58:28.000 Remember that?
00:58:29.000 Christine!
00:58:30.000 Oh, with Kiss?
00:58:31.000 16, yeah.
00:58:32.000 Yeah, yeah.
00:58:34.000 That was a Gene Simmons joint.
00:58:35.000 She was just 17, you know what I mean?
00:58:37.000 But the way she looked was like beyond compare, wow.
00:58:40.000 But this was, Gene Simmons was singing how he has to have her.
00:58:43.000 I've got to have you!
00:58:45.000 I've got to have Christine!
00:58:47.000 That's a great fucking song.
00:58:48.000 And if you say it's not a great song, I say, fuck you, bitch.
00:58:51.000 That's good.
00:58:52.000 That's a mature reaction.
00:58:54.000 That's how I handle it.
00:58:55.000 Fuck you, bitch.
00:58:56.000 You can't shit on my childhood.
00:58:58.000 Yeah, there were a couple Sweet Sixteen songs.
00:59:01.000 Yeah, there was a lot of creepy dudes back then that got away with it.
00:59:03.000 That's not creepy if you're 18. People died younger back then.
00:59:06.000 That's what it was.
00:59:07.000 We're not talking about the Roman Empire, Joe.
00:59:09.000 That's what it was, Dom Herrero.
00:59:11.000 Dom Herrero, people died earlier back then.
00:59:14.000 It's a known fact.
00:59:15.000 That's what people could have said before Wikipedia.
00:59:18.000 It's a known fact.
00:59:18.000 Yeah, before Google, that's a big point right there.
00:59:21.000 A known fact.
00:59:22.000 And that guy could just bullshit you right around.
00:59:24.000 And there's nothing you could say.
00:59:25.000 If he was good at bullshit, you'd be like, all right.
00:59:27.000 No, you just don't want to fucking admit that Encyclopedia Britannica, I've read all the volumes, Like, you don't know if you've read it.
00:59:35.000 Ah, fuck.
00:59:36.000 We're a quagmire here.
00:59:37.000 You can't get out of this bullshit conversation.
00:59:40.000 Asshole.
00:59:41.000 Asshole's just bullshitting.
00:59:42.000 I know he's bullshitting.
00:59:43.000 And then you find out years later that he was bullshitting.
00:59:45.000 It's a known fact.
00:59:46.000 That's funny.
00:59:47.000 Those motherfuckers.
00:59:48.000 Those it's a known fact guys.
00:59:50.000 They talk some crazy shit.
00:59:51.000 You can look it up.
00:59:52.000 I can't look it up yet.
00:59:53.000 Imagine what, if you were like a long time bullshitter, like if you're a crazy con man type dude and you're just an excellent bullshitter for many, many years.
01:00:05.000 Yeah.
01:00:05.000 I wonder how pissed those people were when Google came along.
01:00:07.000 Oh, I know.
01:00:08.000 It's like, oh, I was watching Catch Me If You Can the other day where Leonardo DiCaprio becomes a pilot when he's 17 and starts making checks and getting money.
01:00:27.000 You can't do that shit today, son.
01:00:29.000 Walked into a bank and they believed him because he was a pilot.
01:00:31.000 Did he perform an operation, too?
01:00:33.000 Is that the one?
01:00:34.000 Maybe.
01:00:35.000 I don't know.
01:00:36.000 Yeah, the idea that you could have a fake company and get people to invest in your fake company and then you go, oh, where's the money?
01:00:42.000 Shit!
01:00:43.000 Those days are, you have to be really dumb.
01:00:45.000 I'm sure there's people that are really dumb or get, you know, they're super gullible, older folks, people with mental illnesses that get sucked into weird deals.
01:00:52.000 Yeah, and people that are trying to get a quick buck, like the Madoff thing.
01:00:57.000 Madoff thing, I was personally affected by that because of people I love.
01:01:00.000 But a lot of people were just looking for- People that you love lost money?
01:01:04.000 Oh, millions.
01:01:05.000 Millions.
01:01:05.000 Wow.
01:01:06.000 Well, you love a lot of people that are fucking powerfully rich.
01:01:10.000 I know some people.
01:01:11.000 I've been around.
01:01:11.000 That's a lot of money.
01:01:12.000 I've been around a block a couple times.
01:01:14.000 Yeah, that Bernie Madoff thing was- To me, you know what that showed?
01:01:18.000 That showed that this is a crazy system.
01:01:21.000 Because if you guys didn't know he was cheating, how is it possible- How is it possible that no one knew?
01:01:27.000 Because it was like a pyramid scheme, and there were people still collecting money, so they were teased by it constantly.
01:01:32.000 Well, they weren't just teased.
01:01:33.000 They benefited and profited from it immensely.
01:01:35.000 Some of them made, like, big profits.
01:01:38.000 But there's other ones that lost so much fucking money.
01:01:41.000 Oh, yeah?
01:01:42.000 That guy just went baller on everybody.
01:01:44.000 Just had everybody's money all tucked away and just squirreled it off.
01:01:49.000 Crazy fucking sociopathic asshole.
01:01:52.000 And it's just...
01:01:53.000 What are you trying to say?
01:01:54.000 He ain't a bad guy.
01:01:55.000 He's just a victim of circumstance.
01:01:57.000 Probably a psychopath.
01:01:59.000 But the idea that it's possible for a guy to do that, that was so disheartening for me.
01:02:03.000 Because I thought that it was more complicated and I thought it was more secure than that.
01:02:08.000 Some of it had to do with the greed of the people, too.
01:02:11.000 Of wanting to be quickly rich.
01:02:13.000 And these are people that, like I said, I know a lot of people and I care about them, but They readily admit they were looking for a quick buck.
01:02:21.000 Right, of course.
01:02:22.000 Yeah, well that's what he was promising, right?
01:02:24.000 He was promising big returns to a lot of people, right?
01:02:27.000 It's just a shocking thing, like how much money he was handling.
01:02:30.000 You know, it's really shocking.
01:02:32.000 Yeah.
01:02:33.000 And then the wife's trying to squirrel some away and disappear into the night while the husband's locked up in jail for the rest of his life.
01:02:39.000 Did one of his sons commit suicide?
01:02:41.000 Yeah, I think so.
01:02:41.000 Oh, Jesus Christ.
01:02:42.000 Yeah, it was tough.
01:02:43.000 He should have just changed his name.
01:02:45.000 Oh, my God.
01:02:46.000 Should have just what?
01:02:47.000 Changed his name.
01:02:49.000 The son?
01:02:50.000 Madoff.
01:02:50.000 No, I don't think it was even that.
01:02:52.000 No, I don't.
01:02:52.000 The son just realized, like, his...
01:02:54.000 Yeah, that's...
01:02:55.000 You know, I think...
01:02:57.000 Especially when you're a young man and you probably grow up thinking that your family is doing really well because your father is a hard-working, smart man and then he brings you into the business.
01:03:11.000 And then somewhere along the line they probably had it figured out.
01:03:14.000 Somewhere along the line.
01:03:16.000 If they didn't know from the jump, And then the guy couldn't take it, I guess.
01:03:20.000 Or who knows?
01:03:20.000 It's a pressure of prosecution.
01:03:22.000 Yeah, yeah.
01:03:23.000 I mean, you're talking about like billions, billions and billions of dollars, right?
01:03:27.000 Yeah.
01:03:28.000 What was the number?
01:03:29.000 What was the total number?
01:03:30.000 I don't know, but it was definitely in the billions that I've heard.
01:03:32.000 I think it was like 50 billion.
01:03:33.000 It's a known fact.
01:03:34.000 Joe.
01:03:35.000 Jesus Christ.
01:03:36.000 It's a known fact.
01:03:37.000 It's a known fact.
01:03:39.000 This fucking guy lost more money.
01:03:42.000 I'm smelling Bitski.
01:03:45.000 Did I ever tell you what Eddie Griffin was saying after 9-11?
01:03:51.000 What?
01:03:52.000 A lot of people don't even know that they store gold under the World Trade Center and the subways kept running 24 hours a day.
01:04:10.000 He would get high and just say crazy shit.
01:04:13.000 He actually thinks he's like a genius.
01:04:16.000 And I heard him one night at the store.
01:04:19.000 Who's going to argue with this bit?
01:04:21.000 He goes, we've got to stop giving our kids in Compton...
01:04:25.000 Guns and knives and educate.
01:04:26.000 Like, first of all, who gives the kids a gun?
01:04:28.000 Hey, come here.
01:04:29.000 Johnny, I want you to have a gun and a knife.
01:04:31.000 Here.
01:04:31.000 Go to school.
01:04:33.000 And he said, we've got to start educating them.
01:04:35.000 Give them pencils and papers and books.
01:04:37.000 Like, who the fuck is not going to agree to educate kids?
01:04:41.000 I don't think they need education.
01:04:43.000 They need guns and knives.
01:04:44.000 Eddie Griffin definitely had some crazy times.
01:04:46.000 But I've seen Eddie Griffin fucking destroy.
01:04:51.000 I saw him in his prime.
01:04:53.000 When he did his first comedy special.
01:04:56.000 It was a short set, I believe.
01:04:58.000 Like, I want to say it was a half an hour, but it might have been even less.
01:05:01.000 He had a lot of confidence.
01:05:02.000 God damn, he crushed Dom O'Reilly.
01:05:04.000 He fucking crushed.
01:05:05.000 He crushed and it was a scary talent.
01:05:08.000 It was a scary level of talent and energy that he put out.
01:05:11.000 And I remember watching him going, wow, that guy is fucking good.
01:05:15.000 I remember thinking that, like, wow.
01:05:17.000 Wow, that guy's got a lot of power in his act.
01:05:19.000 His act was scary.
01:05:20.000 It was like, boom, bang, bang!
01:05:22.000 Yeah, yeah.
01:05:22.000 It was so good.
01:05:23.000 It was so dynamic, the way he moved, the way he paused and expressed himself.
01:05:28.000 And he had moments like that that make me think, if that guy just really dedicated himself to nothing but stand-up and really went legit and went down the path, he had moments.
01:05:41.000 If he could recapture those moments...
01:05:43.000 Yeah, I agree.
01:05:44.000 I think he had some mental issues, to say the least.
01:05:46.000 He could be a little bit dumb.
01:05:48.000 A little bit fucking dizzy.
01:05:50.000 It's a known fact that a lot of people of his ilk, the stand-up comedian fellas, a lot of you motherfuckers go crazy.
01:05:59.000 It's a known fact.
01:06:00.000 Don Marrera, it's a known fact.
01:06:02.000 Your mental illness and your being funny, it's not a coincidence, Don Marrera.
01:06:07.000 Okay?
01:06:08.000 It's a known fact.
01:06:09.000 You know, Joe, you think I'm paranoid.
01:06:11.000 You don't think I see these people laying for me in the bushes outside waiting to fucking stop me?
01:06:18.000 Eddie Griffin was fucking funny at one time.
01:06:20.000 I don't know.
01:06:21.000 I haven't seen Eddie in a long time.
01:06:22.000 I shouldn't say he isn't anymore.
01:06:26.000 Who knows?
01:06:27.000 He might be out there killing it.
01:06:29.000 I don't hear about him much.
01:06:30.000 He's a warm guy, too.
01:06:34.000 He's got a good heart.
01:06:36.000 He is a very friendly guy.
01:06:38.000 Part of his deal when he goes to a comedy club is he has to have brand new sneakers.
01:06:43.000 Did you ever hear this?
01:06:45.000 I've heard things like this.
01:06:47.000 I didn't know it was him.
01:06:48.000 Yeah, I don't know whether they're Adidas or I think.
01:06:52.000 Whatever it is, it's a big company and he has to have a brand new pair of white Michael Jordans or something.
01:06:57.000 I think it's Nike.
01:06:59.000 But, uh, fucking hilarious.
01:07:01.000 That's wild.
01:07:02.000 The man, the guy goes, I couldn't fucking find them.
01:07:05.000 Well, if you like to wear, if you have a thing where you need to wear brand new sneakers right as you walk on stage and that gives you, like, superpower, that might sound ridiculous, but if you were a young guy and you grew up When you got a new pair of sneakers,
01:07:21.000 that was a really exciting thing.
01:07:24.000 So it could be that by not wearing the sneakers until he goes on stage, he makes him feel like with new sneakers on, it gives him a little extra power.
01:07:33.000 And it sounds ridiculous, but...
01:07:35.000 I remember when I was a kid, getting a new pair of sneakers was a big deal.
01:07:39.000 So maybe for him, he kept that tradition.
01:07:41.000 Joe.
01:07:42.000 And it's easier for him if they buy it.
01:07:44.000 Why don't you buy it?
01:07:45.000 Because I want to change them right before I go on stage.
01:07:47.000 I asked you before I came on a show.
01:07:48.000 Not to be insightful and intelligent.
01:07:52.000 Not to have any compassion for people.
01:07:54.000 There you go.
01:07:54.000 No, you're right.
01:07:55.000 That's a good thought.
01:07:56.000 I try to have as much compassion for people as possible.
01:07:58.000 I never thought of that.
01:07:58.000 Even people that interrupt our pool game, Dom Herrera.
01:08:00.000 Even people that interrupt.
01:08:02.000 I can't believe a fucking racket.
01:08:03.000 When we get fucking serious here, Dom Herrera and I, when we play, we occasionally will joke around, but Dom plays a very good pool, and I play a pretty good pool, and we have some fun battles.
01:08:15.000 It's really fun.
01:08:16.000 Joe, first of all, he played more than pretty good.
01:08:18.000 Not to get the Sammy Marlin show.
01:08:20.000 It's a known fact.
01:08:21.000 Joe is like right below a pro.
01:08:23.000 I'm a consistent B player.
01:08:24.000 No, you're a consistent like...
01:08:25.000 For a regular person, I'm an A player.
01:08:28.000 But for a regular pool player, I'm a B player.
01:08:32.000 I just don't have enough time.
01:08:33.000 No, you're more than an A player for a regular person.
01:08:35.000 No, no, no.
01:08:36.000 Joe, I never fucking played anybody that ran out nine ball like you.
01:08:39.000 It's done all the time.
01:08:40.000 Yeah, but not regular people.
01:08:42.000 I'm telling you.
01:08:43.000 I played a lot of pool in my life.
01:08:46.000 You know what?
01:08:47.000 It's so funny.
01:08:47.000 When I'm not playing against you because I get a chance to shoot more, I play better.
01:08:52.000 Oh yeah, yeah.
01:08:53.000 But you sit the guy down.
01:08:54.000 Tighten up, yeah.
01:08:55.000 And then you want to get back on the table.
01:08:56.000 I can run some packages, but I can't run packages like my friends can.
01:09:01.000 So I have the luxury of knowing Max Eberle, who's one of the best pool players in the world.
01:09:06.000 You know Max very well.
01:09:07.000 Me and Max, we spar every time I go to Vegas.
01:09:10.000 Pool spar.
01:09:12.000 He just fucking keeps me in the chair.
01:09:14.000 The guy just runs out from everywhere.
01:09:15.000 He's a monster.
01:09:16.000 Max Eberle is like world class.
01:09:18.000 He won the straight pool championships at the Derby City Classic this year.
01:09:22.000 What did he run?
01:09:22.000 It's one of the prestigious pool tournaments in the world.
01:09:25.000 I don't know what he ran.
01:09:26.000 I mean, he regularly runs 100 balls.
01:09:28.000 Yeah, that's incredible.
01:09:29.000 Yeah, he's a world class pro.
01:09:30.000 He's a world class pro.
01:09:31.000 And a sweetheart of a guy.
01:09:33.000 He's a sweetheart, Max Eberle.
01:09:35.000 Yeah, yeah.
01:09:35.000 What a nice guy.
01:09:36.000 I miss that place.
01:09:37.000 A fun guy to be around.
01:09:38.000 I miss it too.
01:09:40.000 Hollywood Billiards.
01:09:41.000 Hollywood Billiards.
01:09:42.000 What was the one before that that we used to go to by the gym?
01:09:46.000 Right off of Hollywood Boulevard across from the Cat and Fiddle.
01:09:50.000 Remember?
01:09:50.000 Isn't that Hollywood Billiards?
01:09:52.000 Well, then we went to another place on Hollywood Boulevard.
01:09:54.000 What was that called?
01:09:56.000 Remember?
01:09:57.000 We went to two places for years.
01:09:59.000 Two places.
01:10:00.000 The second one.
01:10:00.000 Oh, I know what you're talking about.
01:10:02.000 The Boston Athletic Club.
01:10:03.000 The Athletic Club.
01:10:03.000 Yeah, that's the first place we went to.
01:10:05.000 Yeah, that place was great.
01:10:07.000 That was great.
01:10:07.000 That was a former athletic club that they converted into this giant pool hall.
01:10:12.000 Yeah, because they had the track upstairs.
01:10:14.000 I used to play in a Saturday tournament there.
01:10:16.000 When I first moved to LA, they had a Saturday morning tournament.
01:10:19.000 It started at like 11 a.m.
01:10:21.000 I made good friends there.
01:10:23.000 That Saturday morning pool tournament.
01:10:25.000 That was when I first moved here.
01:10:27.000 That was a great place.
01:10:28.000 Remember?
01:10:29.000 They had the track along the top of it.
01:10:31.000 Yeah, I remember we doubled one night.
01:10:33.000 We took the girls to...
01:10:34.000 Oh, that's right.
01:10:35.000 Sophie and...
01:10:36.000 Was her name Jerry?
01:10:37.000 Yeah.
01:10:38.000 I only remember her because she was hot.
01:10:40.000 Isn't that sad?
01:10:42.000 Well, that's not sad.
01:10:44.000 But I mean, that's all I remember.
01:10:47.000 Yeah, pool is a great thing on a date, except if a chick beats you.
01:10:51.000 If a chick beats you, it's very depressing.
01:10:54.000 If a chick beats you at pool...
01:10:55.000 But there's a thing about a girl beating you at pool that's demoralizing for some dudes.
01:11:00.000 It's funny to watch.
01:11:01.000 I had a friend who said, will you shoot my girlfriend?
01:11:04.000 Because she was practicing a lot.
01:11:05.000 And she said to me, I'm going to kick your ass.
01:11:08.000 Oh my goodness.
01:11:09.000 Right?
01:11:11.000 So...
01:11:11.000 First of all, how rude.
01:11:16.000 She broke and I ran the table.
01:11:21.000 It was fucking easy.
01:11:23.000 It was those pockets like this.
01:11:24.000 Oh yeah, right.
01:11:25.000 It's not like what we play when the ball just about fits in it.
01:11:28.000 And I ran the table and I go, eh, so much for kicking my ass.
01:11:31.000 She goes, you want to play again?
01:11:32.000 I go, no.
01:11:33.000 Ooh.
01:11:34.000 I don't want to fucking play.
01:11:34.000 Shut her down.
01:11:36.000 You're saying it's over.
01:11:37.000 Yeah.
01:11:37.000 You don't like that kind of attitude from women.
01:11:39.000 I don't like that kind of attitude from anybody.
01:11:41.000 From anybody.
01:11:41.000 I don't like braggers and I'm going to kick your ass.
01:11:44.000 But that said, a woman that can kick your ass and pull, she doesn't have to be rude about it.
01:11:48.000 Just a woman who can kick your ass and pull.
01:11:49.000 Just let her play.
01:11:49.000 It's humiliating for men.
01:11:52.000 A nice woman who's very polite, who kicks your ass, like that Alison Fisher woman, you know who she is?
01:11:57.000 Of course.
01:11:57.000 She'd kick my ass, for sure.
01:11:59.000 Easy.
01:12:00.000 She'd kick my ass.
01:12:01.000 Trust me, she's way better than me.
01:12:02.000 Who's the big blonde?
01:12:03.000 She was like a snooker champion, and she came over from Europe and just dominated women's pool.
01:12:08.000 In fact, here's the real problem with pool's popularity.
01:12:12.000 This woman, Alison Fisher, is probably the most dominant sports person ever in any sport, in any game, in women's billiards.
01:12:20.000 I love watching her shoot.
01:12:21.000 And it's not like there's only a few women playing women's billiards.
01:12:24.000 There's a lot of really good players.
01:12:27.000 Everybody knows Jeanette Lee because she's a beautiful Asian woman.
01:12:31.000 But there's like a whole gang of like top pros that would tour around the country and this woman consistently beat all of them on a regular basis.
01:12:41.000 She was like player of the year, like who knows how many fucking years in a row.
01:12:44.000 She won the U.S. Open, who knows how many years in a row, like, or what not, I don't know if it was the U.S. Open, WPBA, whatever their version of like their national championship, she would win every I don't even understand.
01:12:55.000 Why are men better than women?
01:12:57.000 It doesn't make much sense.
01:12:58.000 It doesn't make any sense.
01:12:58.000 It's just a coordination thing.
01:13:00.000 It is and it isn't.
01:13:02.000 It can be overcome.
01:13:03.000 Women like Alison Fisher, she could beat a man playing pool.
01:13:07.000 But she wouldn't beat the top pros.
01:13:09.000 Most likely not, and there's a few issues with spatial intelligence.
01:13:15.000 There's something to, and this is really theoretical stuff, I think, something to the way the male mind interprets 3D space, that it is beneficial for certain things, and pool might be one of them, because after the break,
01:13:32.000 pool doesn't really rely on strength.
01:13:34.000 No.
01:13:35.000 And the average woman could easily stroke a ball about as hard as you need to.
01:13:40.000 You really don't ever need to hit it really hard outside of the break.
01:13:43.000 The break shot, especially in rotation games or eight ball, it becomes a big issue because if a guy can really smash the rack, he can make, like sometimes you break and you make like four balls on the break.
01:13:54.000 There's like that guy Shane Van Boning.
01:13:57.000 Who's a fascinating character because he's the best pool player in America and one of the best players in the world.
01:14:03.000 Really?
01:14:03.000 Yeah, and he's deaf.
01:14:04.000 And when he plays, he shuts his hearing aid off.
01:14:07.000 And he's not good because of that, but it is an added element.
01:14:11.000 It's good because he's good.
01:14:12.000 He practices relentlessly.
01:14:14.000 The guy's like super dedicated.
01:14:15.000 He's good because of that.
01:14:16.000 But he's also got this added element where he can shut that...
01:14:20.000 He has the beast.
01:14:21.000 And he doesn't hear anything.
01:14:22.000 He doesn't hear anything.
01:14:23.000 So when he's in pro tournaments, he goes into this weird zone.
01:14:27.000 It's kind of weird.
01:14:28.000 Yeah.
01:14:28.000 It's kind of weird.
01:14:29.000 It's really fascinating because it's a form of sensory deprivation.
01:14:32.000 And people have actually decided that it helps him so much that people started wearing earmuffs and shit.
01:14:38.000 Really?
01:14:38.000 Yeah.
01:14:39.000 This is this guy Earl Strickland.
01:14:41.000 I know Earl Strickland.
01:14:42.000 He's an amazing, amazing player.
01:14:44.000 He puts these things that the air traffic controllers wear, these giant head things over his head.
01:14:50.000 And he plays pool with those on.
01:14:53.000 It's fucking gigantic!
01:14:55.000 Just to even it off with the other guy?
01:14:56.000 Yeah, so he puts earplugs.
01:14:58.000 One of his senses.
01:14:59.000 Yeah, but he tries to recreate it.
01:15:00.000 He puts earplugs in, too.
01:15:02.000 So he puts earplugs in, and then he puts these gigantic fucking earmuffs over the earplugs.
01:15:07.000 And then he plays like a man possessed.
01:15:10.000 Both of those guys, they play scary.
01:15:13.000 At that level, pool is madness.
01:15:15.000 It really is.
01:15:15.000 Did you ever hear Willie Moscone?
01:15:17.000 Oh, of course I've heard of him, I'm sure.
01:15:18.000 Okay, because he was the guy that was the big deal in Philly when I was a kid.
01:15:21.000 High run as straight pool, all-time high run.
01:15:23.000 Really?
01:15:23.000 I think it's like 580 balls.
01:15:24.000 Oh, my God.
01:15:25.000 Yeah, but it's very controversial because he ran it on a 4x8.
01:15:30.000 It wasn't a 4.5x9.
01:15:32.000 Is that true?
01:15:33.000 That's how much of a dork I am.
01:15:34.000 Is that true?
01:15:34.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:15:36.000 Luther Lasseter was the guy who, I don't know if you ever heard that name.
01:15:39.000 Yes, of course.
01:15:40.000 Yeah, he was a big straight ball.
01:15:42.000 Yeah.
01:15:42.000 Yeah, man.
01:15:43.000 If there was money in pool when I was a kid, I would have become a professional pool player.
01:15:47.000 Because I was enjoying it.
01:15:48.000 There's Ero Stricken with the earmuffs on.
01:15:50.000 Because I was enjoying playing pool as much as I was enjoying doing comedy.
01:15:55.000 But I wasn't good enough to go professional.
01:15:58.000 We talked about this.
01:15:59.000 You would never have the time because you have too much of a career.
01:16:02.000 Believe me, if you were on a lull as a comedian, you could turn pro.
01:16:06.000 If you could play four hours a day...
01:16:08.000 It's so much time and so much effort, and the guys that are playing that are at the highest level of the game, they're several notches better than me.
01:16:18.000 It wouldn't be an easy thing to even do battle with those guys.
01:16:23.000 It would take a long time.
01:16:24.000 It seems like it would.
01:16:25.000 You'd win some nine-ball games, though.
01:16:26.000 Thank you very much, Tom.
01:16:27.000 No, you would win.
01:16:28.000 I mean, straight pool.
01:16:29.000 A guy can sit you.
01:16:30.000 There's nothing you can do.
01:16:31.000 Yeah.
01:16:32.000 It's just too bad that that game doesn't get...
01:16:34.000 To me, it's like a form of meditation.
01:16:37.000 It's like if I can get into the zone and I can block everything else out and I can move the ball exactly where I want it to go and I know where it's going, I know how to hit it, I know what speed to hit it and it gets to the right spot.
01:16:47.000 There's a beautiful feeling to that.
01:16:49.000 It's like you're enforcing this weird zen state.
01:16:56.000 Enforcing this state where you know exactly how many rotations a ball is going to go.
01:17:01.000 For people who don't play pool, they're like, should we shut the fuck up about pool already, Joe Rogan?
01:17:06.000 Jesus Christ!
01:17:07.000 I didn't fucking tune in for a fucking pool podcast!
01:17:11.000 And you queers don't even talk about MMA, okay?
01:17:13.000 Jon Jones broke his foot.
01:17:14.000 You didn't say a word about it on your podcast.
01:17:17.000 Well, I had to show you my shaky hand when you...
01:17:20.000 Yeah, that's crazy.
01:17:22.000 Yeah, I got this thing...
01:17:23.000 Is that a nerve issue?
01:17:24.000 Yeah.
01:17:27.000 What did you hurt?
01:17:28.000 You hurt your shoulder?
01:17:29.000 It wasn't as bad.
01:17:30.000 No, I never hurt anything.
01:17:32.000 Something in the nerve, the chiropractor told me.
01:17:35.000 He said, you know, if it doesn't bother you...
01:17:37.000 He said, it bothers my friends more than me.
01:17:39.000 Do you stretch out at all and do anything like that?
01:17:41.000 Yeah.
01:17:42.000 You know, I dance in my house.
01:17:44.000 I do.
01:17:45.000 I do interpret modern jazz.
01:17:48.000 Do you do any athletics at all?
01:17:50.000 I boogie.
01:17:50.000 A little stair climber, elliptical machine?
01:17:53.000 I don't like where you're going.
01:17:54.000 I've got to tell you.
01:17:55.000 I'm just saying, stretching is very good for the pliability of the limbs.
01:17:59.000 Do you want a piece of this?
01:17:59.000 It might help your nerves.
01:18:00.000 Do you want a piece of this right now?
01:18:02.000 Nay, I do not.
01:18:02.000 Come on over here.
01:18:05.000 I do the treadmill.
01:18:08.000 Ah, I do.
01:18:09.000 It's a shame when you can't tell if somebody ever worked out.
01:18:13.000 That's pathetic.
01:18:14.000 Do you do anything physically?
01:18:16.000 That's not what I meant.
01:18:17.000 I mean, I was trying to find out what it was and whether or not you incorporated stretches, especially stretches to your shoulders and your spine.
01:18:24.000 I especially stretch on the road after flights and all that and, you know.
01:18:29.000 That's good.
01:18:29.000 Yeah, I do the yoga things, whatever I learn from the videos.
01:18:35.000 That's my favorite thing to do before I go on stage.
01:18:37.000 My favorite thing to do, I do yoga.
01:18:39.000 That's my favorite thing to do.
01:18:40.000 I've tried a bunch of different things that feel good before I go on stage.
01:18:44.000 Hard cardio is one of them.
01:18:46.000 Hard cardio makes me high.
01:18:48.000 When I really do really hard cardio...
01:18:50.000 You do that before you go on stage?
01:18:51.000 Yeah, about two hours.
01:18:53.000 I like to do it two hours before.
01:18:55.000 Especially before it's a big show.
01:18:57.000 If I'm going to be thinking about it, I don't want to trip out.
01:18:59.000 It does give you energy.
01:19:02.000 It just releases some weird endorphin with me.
01:19:05.000 If I do a real hard cardio session, I just feel silly.
01:19:09.000 It makes me sillier.
01:19:10.000 It relieves me.
01:19:12.000 It relieves me of, like, physical tension.
01:19:14.000 It just makes me sillier.
01:19:16.000 And I think whenever I can go on stage and be in more of a silly mood, the sillier I can feel, the more funny I think things are, which is the more funny I... When you get a kick out of it, yeah.
01:19:26.000 Yeah, the more funny I deliver it.
01:19:28.000 Yeah, when you get a kick out of it.
01:19:29.000 And when you're...
01:19:30.000 You know, you're saying it in a way that's...
01:19:35.000 That connects with people.
01:19:36.000 Sometimes if you're too upset about something and they don't understand why, it connects with people.
01:19:40.000 It has to be an honest balance for why you're pissed off or why you're happy.
01:19:48.000 There's got to be an honest balance.
01:19:50.000 You know that weird feeling when you watch someone on stage and they're acting pissed off about something, but you know they're not really pissed off about it and how gross that is?
01:20:00.000 Airplane food!
01:20:01.000 It's not even that.
01:20:02.000 They just fake it.
01:20:04.000 Whatever it is.
01:20:05.000 What I hate is a fake laugh.
01:20:07.000 Always at the same time.
01:20:11.000 I can name you five people that do it.
01:20:13.000 I don't even want to get into that.
01:20:15.000 You know when someone's mad for real.
01:20:18.000 And you know why they're mad for real.
01:20:20.000 You feel it.
01:20:21.000 You know when someone's mad for real.
01:20:24.000 You know?
01:20:24.000 When they really are upset.
01:20:26.000 You know it.
01:20:26.000 And you know when someone's faking it.
01:20:28.000 And when they're faking it, it's really weird.
01:20:30.000 Yeah.
01:20:31.000 It's so awkward.
01:20:32.000 It's too much of an act.
01:20:33.000 Yeah.
01:20:34.000 And I know a lot of us, especially when you're doing it on stage, it's like you just, you know, either you don't realize that yet, or, you know, maybe you're just out of sorts that night.
01:20:43.000 Yeah.
01:20:46.000 You have a bad set.
01:20:47.000 You're not in the right groove.
01:20:49.000 We've all had those over the years.
01:20:51.000 I love watching Joey Diaz because of that.
01:20:53.000 Joey is so fucking real.
01:20:56.000 He's not a phony bone in his body.
01:21:01.000 He's just so pure in that sense.
01:21:04.000 Oh yeah, he's not trying to win anybody over.
01:21:06.000 No.
01:21:07.000 He's just trying to be funny to the people who love Joey Diaz.
01:21:10.000 I think he just realized somewhere along the line that he's really good.
01:21:16.000 He realized that.
01:21:17.000 He really is, yeah.
01:21:18.000 But he realized that himself, and he didn't give a fuck anymore.
01:21:22.000 And when he didn't give a fuck anymore, that's when people really wanted to hear more.
01:21:27.000 And so all the people around him, like if he had anyone around him that didn't believe in him at this point, they all really have fallen by the wayside.
01:21:36.000 It's taken a long road for Joey to get recognized as how funny he really is.
01:21:41.000 And along the way, a lot of people had a chance to work with that guy and they didn't believe in him.
01:21:45.000 Yeah.
01:21:45.000 I was telling people about Joey Diaz in, like, 1998. I was like, you're fucking crazy.
01:21:50.000 I'm like, this guy makes me laugh hard all the time.
01:21:53.000 He makes me laugh hard.
01:21:54.000 I go, he doesn't give a fuck, and he makes me laugh hard.
01:21:57.000 And they're like, he's too this, and he's too that, and this doesn't work, and that doesn't work, and if you can't be in a sitcom, you know.
01:22:04.000 Yeah, yeah.
01:22:05.000 My agent called me up, and he said, do you like Joey Diaz?
01:22:08.000 I go, I love him.
01:22:08.000 He goes, you want to work with him?
01:22:09.000 I go, anything.
01:22:11.000 We're doing the Ice House at the end of July.
01:22:13.000 That's awesome.
01:22:13.000 Yeah, it'll be fun.
01:22:14.000 That's a beautiful show.
01:22:15.000 I might come and watch.
01:22:16.000 You know what?
01:22:17.000 What day is that?
01:22:18.000 I think it's 27, 28, if I remember in my weird mind that I can remember shit.
01:22:26.000 I don't remember why I walked into a room.
01:22:28.000 I'm like a savant.
01:22:29.000 What days are those?
01:22:31.000 Friday, Saturday.
01:22:32.000 Okay, it's not the 27th or the 28th.
01:22:34.000 See, I was wrong.
01:22:35.000 My savantness didn't kick in.
01:22:37.000 It could be the 24th and the 25th.
01:22:39.000 Does that make sense?
01:22:40.000 It could be that.
01:22:41.000 What's the last weekend of July?
01:22:42.000 The last weekend is that, and then there's the 31st and the 1st.
01:22:45.000 No, that would be it.
01:22:46.000 The 31st and the 1st.
01:22:47.000 The one before that.
01:22:47.000 The one before it.
01:22:48.000 Damn, I'm not even going to be around.
01:22:50.000 I'm going to be in Vegas.
01:22:51.000 I want to see that.
01:22:52.000 What do you got coming up, Joe?
01:22:55.000 I'm doing Atlanta this week, the improv, and then hilarities in Cleveland.
01:22:59.000 You ever do hilarities?
01:23:00.000 No, I have not.
01:23:02.000 I'm looking forward to the improv.
01:23:03.000 I don't think I did.
01:23:04.000 Maybe I did.
01:23:05.000 What other clubs are in Cleveland?
01:23:06.000 Is there an improv in Cleveland?
01:23:07.000 Yeah, there's an improv in Cleveland.
01:23:08.000 I think I did that.
01:23:10.000 Hilarity's is one of the nicest clubs I've ever seen.
01:23:12.000 Looks like a giant cruise ship.
01:23:14.000 It's got everything.
01:23:15.000 It's got a fucking martini bar, dancing girls, a sports bar, theater.
01:23:20.000 I did one of the clubs in Cleveland.
01:23:23.000 I think it was the Improv.
01:23:24.000 I did it with Heffron and Charlie Murphy.
01:23:27.000 It's right next to a strip club?
01:23:29.000 I don't remember that.
01:23:30.000 There were like markings of my life.
01:23:34.000 We didn't have much time when we did this tour.
01:23:36.000 I did this Maxim comedy tour way back in the day with Hefron and Charlie Murphy.
01:23:40.000 It was really fun.
01:23:41.000 John was feisty.
01:23:42.000 He liked to fight.
01:23:43.000 Did he?
01:23:44.000 Hefron?
01:23:44.000 I don't know.
01:23:44.000 He never seemed like that with me.
01:23:46.000 We were always very friendly with each other.
01:23:48.000 No, no.
01:23:48.000 Not with me.
01:23:49.000 Oh, with other people?
01:23:50.000 Yeah.
01:23:51.000 Oh, really?
01:23:51.000 I got along with him great.
01:23:53.000 He's a great guy.
01:23:54.000 Yeah.
01:23:54.000 But, I mean, we were out a couple times.
01:23:56.000 I think he stopped drinking, but he wanted to fucking fight.
01:23:59.000 I said, John, what are you, crazy?
01:24:00.000 Oh, yeah.
01:24:01.000 It was probably the booze.
01:24:03.000 The demon in a bottle, that.
01:24:04.000 Old demon alcohol.
01:24:05.000 Demon in a bottle.
01:24:07.000 Yeah, but we did that place, and we did a different place almost every night.
01:24:11.000 It was really crazy.
01:24:12.000 We were out for 20, I think it was 22 gigs.
01:24:15.000 After that exposure he got on that?
01:24:18.000 Yes, after he won, Heffron won Last Comic Standing, and Charlie Murphy had just done the Chappelle Show.
01:24:24.000 Nice guy, Charlie Murphy.
01:24:25.000 Fucking sweetheart of a guy.
01:24:28.000 As real as they come.
01:24:30.000 And a great storyteller, man.
01:24:32.000 Charlie Murphy will kill you in the green room.
01:24:34.000 He'll tell you some stories in the green room and just kill you.
01:24:37.000 He's a natural storyteller.
01:24:39.000 See, that's a fun thing.
01:24:41.000 You get to bring people with you and stuff.
01:24:42.000 That's cool.
01:24:43.000 Well, that wasn't my idea.
01:24:44.000 It was something that Maxim and Bud Light put together.
01:24:47.000 We all just did it together and became friends once we did it.
01:24:51.000 I didn't know either one of those guys before we did the tour, so I was so lucky that they're both cool as fuck.
01:24:56.000 Because Half Ron is cool as fuck, and so is Charlie Murphy.
01:24:59.000 And that's how we met Tom Segura too.
01:25:02.000 We were at the Celebrity Theater in Phoenix, and Segura was the opening act.
01:25:10.000 Maxim would hire a local act, a local pro, and they would do 10 minutes or so before the show would start with Hefron, and then it would either be me or Charlie Murphy.
01:25:24.000 Most of the guys were good.
01:25:26.000 They were all good, but one guy was a dick.
01:25:28.000 One crazy guy in Boston was a douchebag.
01:25:31.000 He was crazy and drunk.
01:25:32.000 I don't know his name, man.
01:25:34.000 Hey, do you remember Ted Bergeron?
01:25:34.000 Angry and drunk.
01:25:35.000 Yes, I do.
01:25:36.000 Oh, good.
01:25:37.000 When you said crazy in Boston.
01:25:38.000 They all were pretty good, but Segura just really stood out.
01:25:43.000 No kidding.
01:25:44.000 Oh, yeah, yeah.
01:25:45.000 He went out there.
01:25:46.000 I mean, the Celebrity Theater was a weird place, too, because it was in the round.
01:25:49.000 Those shows are odd if you've never done that before.
01:25:52.000 Yeah, I've done it.
01:25:53.000 He went out there and just slayed it.
01:25:57.000 He did?
01:25:57.000 Yeah.
01:25:58.000 Lenny Klock!
01:25:59.000 Lenny Klock and I. Now, he was a tough fucker.
01:26:01.000 Lenny Klock!
01:26:02.000 He's fucking huge.
01:26:03.000 He's a big fella.
01:26:04.000 Not anymore.
01:26:04.000 Well, I mean, he's a big man.
01:26:08.000 But not anymore.
01:26:08.000 No, well, now he's thin.
01:26:10.000 I mean, he's in shape.
01:26:11.000 He wasn't always fat, but he was big.
01:26:14.000 No, he was big.
01:26:15.000 Plus, you know he would fight.
01:26:16.000 Oh, yeah.
01:26:18.000 And he might have a little bit of a yayo in his system, too, before he slugged you.
01:26:22.000 Those guys were animals.
01:26:24.000 Those guys, Gavin and Sweeney and Knox.
01:26:29.000 Animals.
01:26:30.000 Knox was a little bit later.
01:26:32.000 Kenny Rogerson.
01:26:33.000 Those guys were savages.
01:26:35.000 They don't get nearly the credit they deserve.
01:26:38.000 There should have been a time capsule that really captured that moment in comedy.
01:26:42.000 Didn't somebody do a movie about them?
01:26:45.000 Yeah, yeah.
01:26:45.000 Franz Halamita did.
01:26:47.000 It was pretty good.
01:26:48.000 It was when stand-ups stood out.
01:26:49.000 Very good, actually.
01:26:50.000 I mean, for me, I don't want to, because it was so close to home, I guess it was much more impactful.
01:26:56.000 I don't want to oversell it, but I thought it was really fascinating.
01:26:58.000 If you're a fan of comedy, I think it's brilliant.
01:27:00.000 I'll just never forget how they didn't bury me in Boston.
01:27:04.000 They tried.
01:27:05.000 No, no, they didn't.
01:27:06.000 They really, like, you could tell we had an instant relationship, and Don Gavin gave me a great intro, and Nobody tried to...
01:27:14.000 Well, they didn't want to, if that's what you mean.
01:27:16.000 Like, they didn't think you were a dick.
01:27:17.000 They all loved you.
01:27:18.000 Yeah, they were good to me.
01:27:19.000 They would think some guys were dicks, though.
01:27:22.000 Yeah.
01:27:23.000 And they would greenlight them.
01:27:24.000 Oh, yeah.
01:27:26.000 Because that was like a freight train of comedy.
01:27:28.000 You couldn't fuck with that.
01:27:29.000 They greenlit Billy Crystal.
01:27:31.000 They did that to Richard Lewis, too.
01:27:33.000 Richard Lewis hid behind the stage until the audience left.
01:27:36.000 There was these guys, man, and he was one of them, that for whatever reason, they generated, well, a little bit of Billy Crystal, but more Richard Lewis.
01:27:47.000 These guys generated a lot of hate.
01:27:50.000 Yeah.
01:27:51.000 At certain comedians.
01:27:53.000 Certain comedians were like, this guy just ain't fucking funny.
01:27:57.000 He's not fucking funny.
01:27:59.000 I heard club owners say that.
01:28:02.000 I was like, why?
01:28:02.000 Obviously, some people like him.
01:28:04.000 He obviously has an audience, right?
01:28:09.000 But it's from his movies more than his stand-up.
01:28:11.000 I don't know about that with Richard Lewis.
01:28:14.000 Oh, Richard Lewis.
01:28:15.000 No, no, I thought you were talking about Billy Crystal.
01:28:17.000 No, no, no.
01:28:17.000 Yeah, Richard Lewis definitely is stand-up.
01:28:19.000 Yeah, but for whatever reason, there's certain people that would love to hate that guy or disrespect his comedy.
01:28:25.000 It's like, everybody's got different tastes.
01:28:29.000 And that's so hard for, like, some people who are fans of stand-up comedy to realize.
01:28:33.000 That's why there's no best stand-up.
01:28:34.000 Well, not only is there no best stand-up, you're crazy to look for it.
01:28:38.000 Like, don't even look for it.
01:28:39.000 Just enjoy what you enjoy.
01:28:42.000 Because it's subjective, it's not objective.
01:28:44.000 Like, there's a best 100-yard dash guy, because the fastest guy wins.
01:28:49.000 You can't argue.
01:28:50.000 I think the third guy was faster.
01:28:51.000 And there's some guys that all they...
01:28:54.000 I mean, they want to see Gaffigan say anything Gaffigan says.
01:28:58.000 There's some guys and gals that Gaffigan just fucking, for whatever it is, he hits their frequency.
01:29:04.000 And for other folks, it's a tell.
01:29:06.000 And whatever it is, it is.
01:29:08.000 And you can't get upset that some guy's like a tell.
01:29:11.000 Like, I don't even see it.
01:29:12.000 I don't even see it.
01:29:13.000 Relax.
01:29:14.000 Don't concentrate on that.
01:29:15.000 I know.
01:29:16.000 Just relax.
01:29:17.000 Don't get angry.
01:29:18.000 People love telling me that Dane Cook's not funny.
01:29:22.000 I know.
01:29:22.000 It's like, okay, relax.
01:29:24.000 You don't have to think he's funny.
01:29:26.000 Apparently he made millions of dollars because somebody thought he was funny.
01:29:29.000 People get too much pleasure out of other people sucking.
01:29:32.000 That is a problem.
01:29:34.000 That's a weird thing with people.
01:29:35.000 They get this weird pleasure out of other people sucking.
01:29:40.000 I don't know what it is.
01:29:42.000 It's interesting though.
01:29:43.000 It's a weird little side effect.
01:29:45.000 A little hater side effect.
01:29:47.000 It's jealousy.
01:29:48.000 It's a combination of a lot of things.
01:29:49.000 But it's so bad for the person who thinks it.
01:29:51.000 That's what they don't understand.
01:29:52.000 It's just a massive distraction.
01:29:56.000 It just takes away so much energy from your own life.
01:29:59.000 Because instead of concentrating on this other person, you should be concentrating on your own shit.
01:30:03.000 And if something bothers you, you should find a way, if at all possible, because of course it's some egregious offense or crime or some sort of sin against man and nature, find some way to turn it into a motivating factor for you.
01:30:18.000 If you feel weak because you see some guy like I don't know, name your fucking mogul, Bill Gates on TV, and then he's got a billion dollars in his underwear.
01:30:29.000 And you feel like, God, I can't even fucking pay my student loans.
01:30:32.000 Figure out what the fuck you need to do so that you become so successful that you don't worry about Bill Gates anymore.
01:30:39.000 You don't have to be as successful as Bill Gates, but become enough of a person who figures your way through the net of civilization to the point where you don't have to worry.
01:30:49.000 Everybody has their own gradient.
01:30:51.000 For some people, it might be just making a living is good enough.
01:30:55.000 For some people, it has nothing to do with how much money they make.
01:30:58.000 It has to do with getting their fucking mind right.
01:31:01.000 Either going to a shrink or doing some yoga or going on a mushroom trip.
01:31:06.000 Figure out whatever the fuck you need to do to get your mind right.
01:31:09.000 It doesn't matter how much money you make.
01:31:10.000 It doesn't matter anything that else is going on in your life.
01:31:13.000 If you don't have your mind right, If you're not thinking about life clearly, you're going to make some shitty, stupid decisions.
01:31:20.000 You're going to be annoying to almost everybody around you.
01:31:23.000 You're going to fuck things up left and right.
01:31:25.000 Get it together, bitch.
01:31:27.000 Hey, are you talking to me?
01:31:28.000 No, not you.
01:31:29.000 Don Mariah, you know I would never.
01:31:31.000 So you're going to find Sasquatch?
01:31:33.000 I'm going to find Sasquatch.
01:31:34.000 Can we talk about that?
01:31:35.000 Yes, we are.
01:31:36.000 We can.
01:31:36.000 Can't talk too much because it is top secret, Don Mariah.
01:31:39.000 But for my new sci-fi show, very soon, in the near future, I'm going to go searching for Sasquatch, a very peculiar and particular location that has been known for a high volume of Sasquatch sightings.
01:31:51.000 Is there a particular forest that he frequents?
01:31:54.000 Perhaps.
01:31:55.000 Is there more than one?
01:31:56.000 I can't say.
01:31:57.000 Is there more than one?
01:31:58.000 I've said too much already.
01:31:59.000 But we will be camping.
01:32:02.000 And we will be getting our freak out in the woods.
01:32:05.000 I don't think I'd want to go camping, Joe.
01:32:07.000 Yeah, maybe not.
01:32:09.000 I'll tell you when I get back whether or not it was worth it.
01:32:12.000 Didn't you go somewhere with Callen?
01:32:13.000 Yeah, we went hunting in Montana.
01:32:15.000 Notice I said hunting with no G. That's because I'm a hunter.
01:32:19.000 I say it so often, it just flows off the top.
01:32:22.000 You live by a coat on my railroad.
01:32:26.000 I make my own arrows.
01:32:29.000 Did you ever see that Bo Jackson thing?
01:32:31.000 What Bo Jackson thing?
01:32:32.000 That he makes his own arrows.
01:32:33.000 Oh, does he really?
01:32:34.000 Yeah, he's fucking crazy.
01:32:35.000 Oh, he's like a madman hunter and fisherman, right?
01:32:38.000 Yeah, yeah.
01:32:39.000 He's a real outdoorsman.
01:32:40.000 He's a calibrator and he's sitting there.
01:32:43.000 That's his favorite thing in the world.
01:32:45.000 Well, it's very fun, you know?
01:32:48.000 The people don't want to hear that because they don't want you going out there killing animals.
01:32:51.000 They think, oh, wow, you can't say it's fun.
01:32:54.000 You say that, you call that fun, man?
01:32:55.000 Well, it's rewarding and beautiful and it connects you to nature and it's very humbling and it's also, you know, it's a really intense thing, like making your own, getting your own food.
01:33:07.000 You know, going out and hunting your own food is very intense.
01:33:10.000 I don't think everybody should have to do it.
01:33:13.000 But for me, it was pretty intense.
01:33:16.000 I like five-star restaurants.
01:33:19.000 I like being upgraded.
01:33:20.000 Me too.
01:33:21.000 All these things are good as well.
01:33:23.000 Yeah.
01:33:23.000 I'm too lazy.
01:33:25.000 I don't want to pick up a tent.
01:33:27.000 I feel you.
01:33:28.000 I feel you, bro.
01:33:29.000 I'm not into it all the time.
01:33:30.000 I respect that you like it.
01:33:32.000 No, I don't like it.
01:33:33.000 No, you just do it.
01:33:34.000 Just because I don't like it doesn't mean I'm not going to do it.
01:33:37.000 You went hunting with Brian.
01:33:38.000 You must have liked that.
01:33:39.000 Yeah, it was cold as fuck.
01:33:41.000 We were camping out in the middle of the snow in Montana.
01:33:44.000 Or in the middle of freezing weather.
01:33:45.000 It didn't snow.
01:33:46.000 It did rain one day, though.
01:33:48.000 That's worse than snow.
01:33:49.000 You know, it's miserable.
01:33:51.000 But I wanted to experience it.
01:33:54.000 I think we're so far removed from being in the wilderness that to have an opportunity, especially with expert outdoorsmen, to go out into the wilderness for five days, I'm like, I'm going.
01:34:05.000 This is going to be wildness.
01:34:09.000 Ari Shafir and I are going salmon fishing.
01:34:11.000 We're headed up to the great white north of Alaska.
01:34:13.000 Is that right?
01:34:13.000 We're trying to get a date in Anchorage.
01:34:15.000 Yeah.
01:34:16.000 To go salmon fishing.
01:34:16.000 Sure you could get a date in Anchorage.
01:34:18.000 Yeah.
01:34:19.000 We're going to go, hopefully, go catch some fucking salmon, Dom Arara.
01:34:24.000 Pull those giant...
01:34:25.000 Swimming upstream, those cocksuckers.
01:34:27.000 Giant monsters.
01:34:28.000 Crazy fucking fish.
01:34:30.000 Powerful muscular fish.
01:34:31.000 Show them how quick you are.
01:34:33.000 Imagine how hard it must have been to eat fish back before people figured out rods and reels and spears and shit like that.
01:34:39.000 Fucking hard to get a fish meal.
01:34:42.000 What are you going to do?
01:34:43.000 You going to grab it with your hands, stupid?
01:34:45.000 Well, the idea of them swimming upstream, there were so many of them, you could bat them out of the air.
01:34:49.000 So ridiculous that that was like the choice for survival, that they would go all the way upstream back to the river, or back up the mouth of the river.
01:34:57.000 Not the brightest fish.
01:34:58.000 Well, it's nuts that they live in fresh water and they also live in salt water.
01:35:03.000 What a crazy animal.
01:35:05.000 Brackish water.
01:35:06.000 Wild fucking animal.
01:35:07.000 Is that a real thing that's been going around, this thing with human-like teeth?
01:35:11.000 It's called a sheep-shed, sheep?
01:35:13.000 Sheep-shed?
01:35:15.000 Fish?
01:35:15.000 Sheep-shed fish?
01:35:17.000 Yeah, it's all over the internet.
01:35:19.000 Yeah, fish are weird, man.
01:35:21.000 They're out there breathing water and shit, swimming around.
01:35:25.000 I watched a show today about a paddlefish.
01:35:27.000 You know what a paddlefish is?
01:35:29.000 No.
01:35:29.000 It doesn't have any bones.
01:35:31.000 Some weird prehistoric fish that lives in, I think it was the Ozarks or something like that.
01:35:37.000 I forget what they were saying.
01:35:38.000 Wow.
01:35:39.000 You can't even catch them with bait.
01:35:41.000 The way you catch them is by having a line with a bunch of hooks on it.
01:35:47.000 We're good to go.
01:36:09.000 And the way they gut them, it's so strange.
01:36:11.000 They make an incision and they pull out the spinal cord.
01:36:14.000 They eat them?
01:36:15.000 Yeah, they eat everything.
01:36:16.000 And the roe of these animals is apparently very much like sturgeon roe, which is what caviar is, which is worth a lot of money.
01:36:27.000 And so in order to make sure that they didn't allow a market for this stuff to develop, even though it's legal to kill the animal and legal to eat the animal, it's only legal to possess its roe on the dock.
01:36:43.000 You can only either have it on your boat or on the dock.
01:36:45.000 So you've got to either eat that roe or throw it out.
01:36:48.000 Why?
01:36:48.000 Because you can't take it with you because you can develop a market for it.
01:36:52.000 You can't develop a market for it.
01:36:54.000 Because then the animal's roe would be worth too much and they would worry that even though you have a certain number that you can kill in a day and eat.
01:37:01.000 They say it tastes good.
01:37:03.000 They say it tastes like pork.
01:37:04.000 That's what they were saying when they grilled it.
01:37:06.000 They said, you know, because a lot of people have an aversion to eating it because it's a strange, like, it's almost like they have prejudices against it because it doesn't have any bones and it looks like it's a fucking billion years old.
01:37:18.000 It looks like a crazy dinosaur fish.
01:37:20.000 It's amazing they keep discovering new species and new fish.
01:37:23.000 Have you ever heard of a snakehead fish?
01:37:24.000 Yeah, those are a real problem.
01:37:26.000 They have snakehead fishes in fisheses?
01:37:29.000 Snakehead fish have been spotted in Central Park.
01:37:32.000 Yeah, thanks for finishing my sentence.
01:37:35.000 Yeah, they've invaded in Central Park.
01:37:37.000 How the fuck did they get there?
01:37:38.000 Somebody had to bring them.
01:37:39.000 Yeah, that's what's going on in Florida, right?
01:37:41.000 They've been outside of water for a couple days, which is the scary part.
01:37:43.000 Yeah, they walk, dude.
01:37:44.000 They walk.
01:37:45.000 Hey, how you doing?
01:37:46.000 How you doing?
01:37:47.000 Did you ever see that special about the Congo?
01:37:50.000 I think that's where they live.
01:37:51.000 I think where they live is in the Congo.
01:37:54.000 It's the...
01:37:55.000 Made into Asia and Russia is what this says.
01:37:58.000 Is that what it is?
01:37:58.000 That's what this article says.
01:37:59.000 Well, they're probably right.
01:38:00.000 I mean, I'm sure I'm wrong, but there's a fish like it.
01:38:03.000 It might not be the snakehead, but there's a video.
01:38:06.000 Let me see if I can pull it up on YouTube.
01:38:08.000 It's BBC Congo, and I've talked about it before.
01:38:12.000 It's really a damn shame that this video isn't like one of those...
01:38:18.000 You know those Mother Earth or Planet Earth DVD setups?
01:38:23.000 Well, they're super easy to get.
01:38:24.000 Everybody knows about them, right?
01:38:26.000 It's like if you want to see some cool shit on nature, the Planet Earth series is amazing.
01:38:30.000 Well, the BBC one, the Congo one, really should be just as fascinating to people.
01:38:37.000 It's really sad that for whatever reason that video is hard to get a hold of.
01:38:42.000 But in one of the scenes, there's this...
01:38:45.000 Weird fish, probably similar to Snakehead, gets out of water and starts walking.
01:38:52.000 And you're like, I can't even believe this.
01:38:54.000 It just walks over to another puddle and then jumps in.
01:38:57.000 You're like, I can't believe what I'm seeing.
01:38:59.000 This is a dinosaur.
01:39:01.000 This fucking thing just did some dinosaur shit.
01:39:03.000 I mean, we're literally seeing life evolve.
01:39:07.000 That's like the beginning of that, right?
01:39:09.000 The ability to come out of that water and walk on the ground to better water.
01:39:14.000 Holy shit.
01:39:16.000 What a freaky fucking snake fish thing.
01:39:19.000 Whatever it is.
01:39:20.000 How do they call it snake fish?
01:39:21.000 I don't know.
01:39:22.000 I wonder what it's called in the Congo.
01:39:24.000 Snake head fish?
01:39:29.000 The Congo is apparently like one of the densest, densest rainforests in the world.
01:39:39.000 Yeah, I don't know what the fuck that fish is called.
01:39:41.000 I guess it's not a snake head.
01:39:42.000 It's something else.
01:39:45.000 But if you get a chance to get a hold of that documentary, I think it's just called BBC Congo.
01:39:49.000 Let me Google it real quick.
01:39:52.000 I think that's what it was called.
01:39:54.000 There's something coming up for Mystery Fish of the Congo, but the video won't play.
01:39:58.000 Well, there was also those ones that...
01:40:00.000 You ever watch that show, River Monsters?
01:40:03.000 Yeah.
01:40:04.000 That guy's badass.
01:40:05.000 Yeah, that's cool.
01:40:06.000 He's a fishing motherfucker.
01:40:08.000 That guy went out in a wooden canoe.
01:40:09.000 I used to think nothing of that show.
01:40:11.000 I'd say, oh, it's the guy fishing.
01:40:12.000 What's the big deal?
01:40:13.000 No.
01:40:14.000 This guy fishes how the locals fish.
01:40:17.000 He got in this wooden boat, okay, with like a hundred hooks in it, and they were in this like tippity-toppity boat, and they're dropping these lines in for giant catfish.
01:40:28.000 So at any point in time, something could fucking grab one of those lines and pull those fishing lines, and who knows how many hooks are flying in that guy's direction.
01:40:38.000 And actually people have died from that.
01:40:39.000 Like one of the people in this tribe died from that.
01:40:42.000 He got caught in a hook and dragged underwater.
01:40:44.000 Like, that guy is legit.
01:40:45.000 Wow.
01:40:46.000 And this is the other thing that he said.
01:40:48.000 While he was there, one of the people, one of the main people in their tribe, the chief, disappeared.
01:40:54.000 He was gone for a whole day.
01:40:56.000 And they were seriously worried.
01:40:59.000 And because they believe in bad spirits and bad omens, they believe that he had caused the chief to disappear.
01:41:07.000 And if the chief didn't come back, they were planning on killing him.
01:41:11.000 They were going to stone him to death.
01:41:13.000 And thankfully the chief came back and everybody was elated because like...
01:41:17.000 But he was like, you don't understand how Krosa came to dying.
01:41:21.000 Like they would have tried to kill him because they felt like he was a bad omen and he created...
01:41:25.000 Even if he didn't actively do anything to the chief, he created the bad luck that made the chief disappear.
01:41:31.000 Here's your fucking canoe.
01:41:33.000 Motherfuckers.
01:41:34.000 Remember that joke?
01:41:35.000 What's that from?
01:41:35.000 Joke.
01:41:36.000 It was a stupid joke, but remember?
01:41:38.000 A guy captured by these savages...
01:41:42.000 They're gonna eat him.
01:41:44.000 And he said, I'm gonna butcher the joke, but I just love the punchline.
01:41:48.000 And he goes, what are you gonna do with your skin?
01:41:51.000 And they go, we're gonna make a canoe out of it.
01:41:53.000 And he grabs a knife, he goes, here's your fucking canoe.
01:41:56.000 He just punched holes himself?
01:41:58.000 Oh god.
01:42:00.000 That's harsh.
01:42:02.000 It's a joke.
01:42:03.000 That's a tough joke.
01:42:04.000 That's a tough joke.
01:42:06.000 I come from a tough neighborhood, Joe.
01:42:08.000 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
01:42:10.000 It's a known fact that 90% of all queers come from your town.
01:42:14.000 He's got me there.
01:42:16.000 There's no retort to that.
01:42:18.000 The best one is only two types of things that come from Oklahoma.
01:42:22.000 Steers and queers.
01:42:25.000 Somebody was the first guy to say that.
01:42:27.000 I believe it's just queers anymore.
01:42:29.000 The guys that still live there.
01:42:31.000 Yeah.
01:42:31.000 Still live there.
01:42:35.000 You can't call him faggot no more without starting a revolution.
01:42:40.000 Queer seems to roll off the tongue a tad easier.
01:42:43.000 You sound like the mean Larry the Cable Guy.
01:42:46.000 The mean Larry the Cable Guy.
01:42:47.000 Larry Dice Cable Guy.
01:42:51.000 I'll tell you what.
01:42:54.000 Mexicans gonna go ahead and suck my dick real quick.
01:42:57.000 Here's how bad my taste is.
01:42:59.000 Here's how bad a manager or agent I would be.
01:43:03.000 Dan Whitney's his name, right?
01:43:05.000 Yeah.
01:43:06.000 Great guy.
01:43:07.000 Great fucking guy.
01:43:07.000 Yeah, he's a great guy.
01:43:09.000 I've met homeboy.
01:43:10.000 I was trying to talk him out of the Larry the Cable guy thing.
01:43:14.000 I was basically trying to talk about a life of a billion dollars.
01:43:18.000 Oh my goodness.
01:43:19.000 I said, Dan, I love you.
01:43:20.000 This character's strong, but you know, I like your old character better.
01:43:25.000 I don't know, Dom.
01:43:26.000 It's doing pretty well.
01:43:27.000 Boy, were you fucking wrong.
01:43:28.000 Oh, I know.
01:43:30.000 Boy, were you fucking wrong.
01:43:31.000 All right, all right.
01:43:32.000 I have to say it twice for a fact.
01:43:33.000 Jesus, Dom Herrera.
01:43:35.000 Bad advice, Dom Herrera.
01:43:37.000 No, you're coming down on me, Joe.
01:43:39.000 You're throwing me to the wolves.
01:43:40.000 Has a guy ever become really good that you didn't see coming?
01:43:45.000 We saw him in the beginning and you're like, oh, this guy's fucked.
01:43:48.000 I'll tell you who became really good that I was more surprised because he was so shy.
01:43:55.000 Brian Regan.
01:43:57.000 Oh, Brian Regan's very funny.
01:43:59.000 Yeah, but see, Brian, I knew him since the beginning.
01:44:01.000 He was a, like, 19-year-old kid, 20-year-old, that was an MC. And he was just, like, gracious and deferring and not silly at all.
01:44:10.000 He was like a classic, like, Tonight Show stand-up.
01:44:13.000 Right.
01:44:14.000 But none of the, you know, the...
01:44:15.000 He's, like, all over the place, the character...
01:44:18.000 You know, he's fucking brilliantly funny.
01:44:21.000 He just knows how to be funny.
01:44:22.000 It's his style, too.
01:44:24.000 His style of being funny.
01:44:26.000 He's got his own thing, yeah.
01:44:28.000 He's like a few guys, maybe three or four guys that are squeaky clean, but that everybody agrees are awesome.
01:44:37.000 It used to be Hedberg, before Hedberg died.
01:44:39.000 Everybody loved Hedberg, but what people forget is that Hedberg was squeaky clean.
01:44:44.000 Really.
01:44:44.000 I loved that.
01:44:45.000 Brilliant.
01:44:46.000 He was brilliant.
01:44:47.000 He was really an all-time great for me.
01:44:49.000 He's one of the few guys that else to this day listen to his old stuff.
01:44:54.000 Just to laugh.
01:44:55.000 Yeah, I know.
01:44:56.000 If I'm at the airport or something like that.
01:44:57.000 I used to love...
01:44:58.000 He was on...
01:44:59.000 Remember Full Frontal Comedy?
01:45:00.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:45:02.000 And Hedberg was on.
01:45:03.000 I remember one line he said, no matter how much I practice tennis, I'll never be as good as the wall.
01:45:10.000 Yeah.
01:45:10.000 Yeah.
01:45:12.000 The wall is relentless.
01:45:15.000 He took an old expression and made it a really funny bit.
01:45:20.000 Playing tennis ball against the wall.
01:45:23.000 Look at this fucking guy.
01:45:24.000 He's playing tennis ball against the wall.
01:45:25.000 You're never going to win.
01:45:27.000 He turned it into one of the funniest bits ever.
01:45:30.000 Fucking brilliant.
01:45:31.000 I was just in his home in one of his towns, Austin, a couple weeks ago.
01:45:35.000 He's from Minneapolis, isn't he?
01:45:37.000 He did a lot of comedy in Texas.
01:45:40.000 I met him in Houston.
01:45:42.000 But they really are big fans of his down there.
01:45:45.000 Yeah, he was awesome, man.
01:45:47.000 He was beautiful.
01:45:48.000 That guy was really fucking funny.
01:45:49.000 Great stand-up, yeah.
01:45:50.000 He was really fucking funny.
01:45:52.000 One time he offered me coke at a party in Montreal.
01:45:56.000 And he's such a nice kid, you know.
01:45:58.000 I said, Mitch, I don't do coke.
01:46:01.000 He goes, I'm sorry.
01:46:02.000 I go, sorry?
01:46:03.000 You're fucking generous.
01:46:04.000 That's basically like offering me a $200 sweater.
01:46:07.000 Yeah.
01:46:08.000 No, it's nice of you.
01:46:09.000 It's just that I don't happen to do it.
01:46:11.000 I'm not judging it.
01:46:12.000 He came up to me in Rochester, New York.
01:46:14.000 We met for...
01:46:16.000 And he was so proud that he was only drinking beer.
01:46:19.000 You know, he wasn't doing drugs.
01:46:21.000 I said, so basically you're bragging to me about only being an alcoholic.
01:46:25.000 I said, yeah, kind of.
01:46:27.000 There's such a giant difference between those drugs and all the other ones.
01:46:32.000 The opiates and all the other ones.
01:46:35.000 I saw a commercial the other day for some sort of clinic for opiate addiction.
01:46:39.000 It was just talking about how easy it is to get hooked and all the different people that are hooked and don't want to admit they're hooked.
01:46:46.000 It was just showing you the examples.
01:46:48.000 I would like to do it.
01:46:49.000 Yes.
01:46:50.000 No, I would.
01:46:50.000 I'm serious.
01:46:51.000 I would love to do heroin if there was, you know, I mean, if it wasn't so dangerous.
01:46:57.000 Yeah.
01:46:57.000 But I'd love the feeling because I don't want to fucking, I don't want to be high.
01:47:01.000 Like, I don't want to be, like, methed out or anything speedy, cocaine.
01:47:05.000 Yeah, that's scary.
01:47:06.000 You already know.
01:47:07.000 I don't even drink too much coffee.
01:47:09.000 But fucking mellows, I like.
01:47:11.000 I like to be nodding off.
01:47:13.000 Like, throwing up.
01:47:16.000 With a sense of music.
01:47:17.000 All of a sudden, I think I can work on a song.
01:47:20.000 Yeah, you just get to the root of things.
01:47:22.000 Wouldn't you like to try heroin, though?
01:47:24.000 Wouldn't you like to know what the feeling's like?
01:47:26.000 I don't trust myself.
01:47:27.000 I don't trust that I wouldn't like it.
01:47:29.000 I don't trust anything.
01:47:32.000 This is my rule, and I don't tell anybody what to do, ever.
01:47:35.000 That's not true.
01:47:36.000 Why am I lying?
01:47:38.000 If you say I'm stupid, I'll tell you don't do it.
01:47:42.000 I don't fuck with anything that's addictive.
01:47:45.000 I don't fuck with anything that can get you.
01:47:47.000 I don't even like coffee, because coffee can get you.
01:47:50.000 You're not addicted to pot?
01:47:51.000 No.
01:47:52.000 I take weeks off a pot all the time.
01:47:54.000 Do you really?
01:47:54.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah, all the time.
01:47:56.000 That's fucked up.
01:47:57.000 The only time I absolutely smoke pot, it used to be before jujitsu, but it's before isolation tank.
01:48:05.000 I almost always do it before that, or before writing.
01:48:08.000 A lot of times I do it before writing.
01:48:10.000 It helps you?
01:48:12.000 It gets me in a nice groove.
01:48:14.000 It helps me release my current grasp on reality.
01:48:21.000 I just think when you get an opportunity to look at things, like coffee doesn't do that.
01:48:26.000 Coffee sort of inspires movement, inspires me to act, me to have energy to start things off.
01:48:32.000 But for me, the best inspiration is like a mental inspiration, like an inspiration where I can step away from it all and see it from a different perspective.
01:48:40.000 That's what, a lot of times, what getting high does for me.
01:48:42.000 It allows me to just, like, move over to the next window.
01:48:46.000 You know, I've been looking at things through the window of sober, sustained reality.
01:48:50.000 Let's move over and look at things from the, oh, look at over here.
01:48:53.000 If you're kind of high and you relax a little bit, you realize this is kind of funny, really.
01:48:59.000 And then you start poking holes at things.
01:49:01.000 I don't get funnier at all with alcohol.
01:49:04.000 That's the only thing I ever do.
01:49:05.000 But one martini...
01:49:09.000 Will get me funny.
01:49:10.000 Yeah?
01:49:10.000 Two martinis, not funny.
01:49:13.000 It's really a big difference.
01:49:15.000 I mean, it just slows me down enough where I don't feel that fucking...
01:49:21.000 Oh, yeah.
01:49:23.000 And one, I can do.
01:49:26.000 One is, yeah, like a little bit of a buzz.
01:49:28.000 Like a tiny little bit of a buzz.
01:49:30.000 It's kind of nice.
01:49:30.000 Because I don't get nervous.
01:49:31.000 Do you get nervous at all?
01:49:32.000 No.
01:49:33.000 I get...
01:49:34.000 The only time I get anxious at all is if someone I know is going to be there like me.
01:49:38.000 But that makes me usually perform better.
01:49:41.000 Yeah.
01:49:41.000 I'll be a little bit sharper.
01:49:43.000 I'll be a little bit more alert.
01:49:45.000 Which is everything, right?
01:49:46.000 Comedy clubs, I don't get nervous.
01:49:48.000 I mean, theater sometimes...
01:49:49.000 2,000 people is a lot for me.
01:49:51.000 It's weird.
01:49:52.000 It's a different sort of experience.
01:49:54.000 Yeah, I did a trap in Atlantic City, and it's the only 2,000-seater that I do that has so much of a meaning for me.
01:50:02.000 I've done them in Canada.
01:50:04.000 But, like, my family's there.
01:50:05.000 My friends are there.
01:50:06.000 It's my home.
01:50:07.000 Right.
01:50:07.000 And that's a little fucking...
01:50:09.000 That's where I get a little bit, you know...
01:50:11.000 Yeah.
01:50:11.000 I feel it in my stomach.
01:50:12.000 It's a lot of fucking human beings.
01:50:15.000 It's a lot.
01:50:15.000 Standing in front of 2,000 fucking human beings.
01:50:17.000 It's a lot of material, too.
01:50:18.000 An hour and ten.
01:50:19.000 Yeah.
01:50:20.000 Yeah.
01:50:20.000 Yeah.
01:50:21.000 It's fun, though.
01:50:22.000 There's no better gig on the planet.
01:50:24.000 It's so fun.
01:50:25.000 No.
01:50:25.000 I've done so many different things, but there's nothing like the comedy.
01:50:28.000 Nothing like the stand-up.
01:50:29.000 Nothing like the stand-up, either, as an audience member.
01:50:33.000 Like, I like a lot of things.
01:50:34.000 Yeah.
01:50:35.000 You know, obviously, I like...
01:50:37.000 I like different sports, and I like MMA, and I like going to movies, but I like going to see a really great stand-up.
01:50:45.000 I love that.
01:50:46.000 It's fun, yeah.
01:50:46.000 It's so fun.
01:50:47.000 It's fun when you can laugh and be, separate yourself from that.
01:50:49.000 Yeah.
01:50:50.000 And to get excited still, I like, when I see someone who's really good, I want to go right.
01:50:54.000 Yeah, yeah, definitely.
01:50:56.000 Oh, yeah, 100%.
01:50:56.000 I was at Laugh Factory the other night, and it's funny because I was at the Comedy Store first, and I didn't feel like, I canceled Friday.
01:51:03.000 I never canceled.
01:51:04.000 I was just beat.
01:51:05.000 Right.
01:51:07.000 And Bill Burr said something that I've been thinking.
01:51:10.000 He goes, I just don't have anything to say tonight.
01:51:12.000 I don't feel funny.
01:51:13.000 I don't feel it going on.
01:51:14.000 And I thought, thank God.
01:51:16.000 Here's Bill saying it, somebody I respect so much.
01:51:19.000 And I was fine at the Comedy Store, but by the time I got to the Laugh Factory, I was juiced.
01:51:24.000 I was ready to go.
01:51:25.000 And I loved it because I'm seeing all these college students laughing at me.
01:51:30.000 And this is a very young crowd.
01:51:32.000 And there was four 20-year-old girls right in the front.
01:51:35.000 And I go, when would I ever get a chance to talk to you?
01:51:38.000 I said, I'm like three feet away from you, four 20-year-olds.
01:51:42.000 I said, you go, I came up to you at a bar.
01:51:46.000 You go, get lost, pops.
01:51:48.000 Before I report you to the manager.
01:51:51.000 It's funny.
01:51:52.000 Yeah, it's fun, man.
01:51:54.000 I'm still driven by that.
01:51:56.000 That ego of showing off in front of pretty girls.
01:52:01.000 How much of a factor is that?
01:52:03.000 It's a factor.
01:52:04.000 I get a kick out of it.
01:52:05.000 I get a kick out of making them laugh.
01:52:10.000 Also, tough guys.
01:52:12.000 If I can crack a guy who looks like a gang member.
01:52:15.000 You know, I see him with the fucking, just got the whole gang member dodger jacket.
01:52:20.000 See, just like little challenges.
01:52:22.000 Yeah, yeah.
01:52:24.000 Yeah, that's part of the fun of it, for sure.
01:52:26.000 I just think it's amazing when you can translate to other groups, you know?
01:52:29.000 I mean, let's face it.
01:52:30.000 If I was fucking stuck with Goombas my age, I'd be dead in the water.
01:52:34.000 You have to translate.
01:52:35.000 You have to go across generations.
01:52:37.000 My favorite is old ladies that laugh at me.
01:52:39.000 Isn't that great?
01:52:40.000 That's my favorite.
01:52:40.000 When you see them fucking crying.
01:52:42.000 Yeah.
01:52:42.000 Like if you see like a girl, like sometimes like a college kid will come over to her grandmother.
01:52:46.000 I see them both laughing at a jizz joke.
01:52:49.000 You know, the first time in their life to, you know.
01:52:52.000 She'd be amazed.
01:52:53.000 I mean, especially because the old ladies today, they're like, you know, they were around in the 70s and the 80s, you know, and now they're in the 60s and 70s.
01:53:01.000 They're coming out to comedy clubs.
01:53:03.000 Like, they have a pretty goddamn good sense of humor.
01:53:05.000 Yeah, right.
01:53:06.000 They didn't grow up in an innocent...
01:53:07.000 In the Depression.
01:53:07.000 They didn't grow up in the Depression.
01:53:09.000 That's the difference between, you know, our parents' parents and these people that are coming up today.
01:53:14.000 Yeah.
01:53:15.000 This is a more relaxed bunch.
01:53:17.000 They grew up with Jimi Hendrix.
01:53:18.000 Yeah.
01:53:19.000 I've had a lot of older, gray-haired folks come up to me after shows.
01:53:23.000 Isn't that great?
01:53:24.000 It's beautiful.
01:53:24.000 Yeah, it's awesome.
01:53:26.000 There's no reason to not just enjoy yourself and have fun.
01:53:30.000 Like, oh, this is like...
01:53:31.000 We have a lot of self-imposed restrictions on the way we view things and the looseness in which we approach things.
01:53:37.000 And a lot of it is just because people have to work.
01:53:39.000 They have to be serious because they have to work all day, shitty fucking jobs all day.
01:53:43.000 It's hard.
01:53:45.000 It's hard to really have time to step back and make fun of it all and step back and look at it for what it really is, some weird temporary state that could end at any minute.
01:53:55.000 You know, it's gotta be a weird thing to be a person who's an old person who's just locked and rigid and set in their ways and not seeing the end coming like a goddamn freight train just rolling down the track and they're just...
01:54:09.000 Don't be getting philosophical with the meter organ.
01:54:12.000 Acting cunty and fucking...
01:54:14.000 I know, what a waste of fucking energy in life.
01:54:17.000 We know a lot of folks like that though, huh?
01:54:19.000 I think it's funny, the guys who won't talk, you know, they don't talk a certain way in front of women And yet they have no idea that the group of women are fucking pigs talking about fucking sucking cock and all this shit.
01:54:32.000 Yeah, there's some guys that are just, they don't get it.
01:54:36.000 The boys club guys.
01:54:37.000 Some guys don't want to know either.
01:54:39.000 There's some guys that don't want to know that women, like some guys want like really innocent women that never joke around about that.
01:54:47.000 It's a fantasy.
01:54:47.000 Women that don't even exist.
01:54:48.000 Well, maybe they just want to find that one girl from Wisconsin that came here and hasn't been spoiled yet, Tom Herrera.
01:54:55.000 Yeah.
01:54:55.000 You ever think about that, pal?
01:54:57.000 Yeah, I did.
01:54:57.000 All right.
01:54:58.000 Okay.
01:54:58.000 Don't jump down.
01:54:59.000 Don't get fresh.
01:55:01.000 Do you ever hear the...
01:55:01.000 Whatever happened to Fresh?
01:55:03.000 Joe, don't give me the business.
01:55:04.000 You're giving me the business.
01:55:05.000 Whatever happened to Fresh?
01:55:06.000 I think we should bring that back.
01:55:08.000 Like, don't get Fresh.
01:55:09.000 I think that is a nice thing you can say to people.
01:55:12.000 Jamie today is on the podcast.
01:55:14.000 Oh, Christ.
01:55:15.000 Why do you let him on the podcast, first of all?
01:55:17.000 He wanted to come.
01:55:19.000 Frasier Smith was on.
01:55:20.000 You're a beautiful man, but that's a terrible idea.
01:55:22.000 He was doing a filibuster.
01:55:25.000 Jamie did?
01:55:25.000 He was telling the guests to shut up.
01:55:28.000 Buddy, listen to me.
01:55:29.000 I've been running La Factory since 1975. I work.
01:55:34.000 I work.
01:55:35.000 For hold on, buddy.
01:55:37.000 He kept saying to Frazier, shut up.
01:55:39.000 I said, you can't have a guest on and tell him to shut up.
01:55:42.000 He's a fucking guest.
01:55:43.000 He was brutal.
01:55:44.000 So many people, that podcast I did with you and him, they were like, please don't ever bring him on again.
01:55:48.000 It was like the majority of the comments was like, who the fuck is that guy and why is he on with Joe and Dom?
01:55:54.000 I told you what they said, too.
01:55:55.000 Not the majority.
01:55:56.000 I made that up.
01:55:57.000 We think you're funny, but you gotta lose the little Mexican.
01:56:00.000 They're calling him a little Mexican.
01:56:01.000 Why are you blaming this on Mexicans?
01:56:04.000 He's Iranian Jewish through Israel, but what a fucking character.
01:56:09.000 That is being really shitty at being racist.
01:56:12.000 Thinking he's Mexican?
01:56:13.000 It's like you're a racist, you just suck at it.
01:56:15.000 You even suck at being a racist.
01:56:17.000 What do you do with the fucking Mexican?
01:56:19.000 Like, as if he Buddy, listen to me.
01:56:23.000 I was in small country a long time ago.
01:56:27.000 Yeah, that sounds exactly like a Mexican.
01:56:32.000 Buddy, listen to me.
01:56:36.000 Listen, I've been working La Factory since 1976. Every year he gets younger when he came over here.
01:56:44.000 Buddy, listen.
01:56:45.000 I was six years old.
01:56:46.000 I was toddler.
01:56:48.000 I came by myself.
01:56:49.000 Buddy, I bring microphone.
01:56:51.000 I sneak them in my underwear as I come to America.
01:56:55.000 That silly bitch.
01:56:57.000 Hey, he's still kicking, man.
01:56:59.000 Still out there supporting stand-up.
01:57:01.000 If it wasn't for guys like him, people that own comedy clubs, they're all crazy.
01:57:04.000 But you have to be crazy to own a comedy club.
01:57:06.000 He loves it.
01:57:07.000 He loves comedy.
01:57:10.000 There's a few people that drive comedy in this country.
01:57:16.000 Wendy from Colorado, from Comedy Works.
01:57:18.000 She drives comedy in Colorado.
01:57:20.000 What a story.
01:57:21.000 She was a waitress.
01:57:22.000 She ends up owning the club.
01:57:23.000 She's awesome.
01:57:24.000 She's a beautiful person, too.
01:57:25.000 But she drives comedy in Colorado.
01:57:27.000 She was one of the reasons why, when I wanted to escape, it was Project Escape from L.A., When I was looking at a place to go, Colorado was one of my choices.
01:57:35.000 And one of the reasons being is that she has a real comedy scene there.
01:57:38.000 It's a legit comedy scene.
01:57:40.000 She does.
01:57:40.000 Great clips.
01:57:41.000 Yeah, she's got open micers all the way up to headliners, like local headliners.
01:57:45.000 And she works those guys.
01:57:46.000 She has a whole rotation.
01:57:49.000 You're allowed to do 10 minutes, and here you're allowed to do 15 minutes.
01:57:52.000 She develops comics.
01:57:54.000 She has open mic nights.
01:57:55.000 A lot of people forgot about open mic nights.
01:57:57.000 Yeah.
01:57:57.000 Jamie still has them.
01:57:58.000 It's beautiful.
01:57:59.000 You have to have them.
01:58:00.000 Yeah.
01:58:01.000 You have to have them.
01:58:01.000 They're so important.
01:58:02.000 The problem is a place like LA where everybody thinks they're fucking funny.
01:58:05.000 Yeah.
01:58:07.000 Which everybody sucks in the beginning, but some people suck to the point of no return.
01:58:10.000 You didn't suck at the beginning, did you?
01:58:12.000 Fuck yeah, I did.
01:58:13.000 It was terrible.
01:58:14.000 I didn't.
01:58:14.000 You were awesome?
01:58:15.000 No, I wouldn't say I was awesome, but I think I didn't suck because I was already over my nerves because of acting.
01:58:21.000 Oh, okay.
01:58:22.000 I mean, I didn't...
01:58:23.000 I didn't have much of an act, but I think I always could bail myself out.
01:58:27.000 I don't want to sound like a jerk off and say I didn't suck, but I'm sure I would think I sucked.
01:58:31.000 But I'm not that big a fan of mine today.
01:58:34.000 I was very socially anxious before I did stand-up, but I also was able to teach martial arts classes.
01:58:42.000 And because I had taught so many martial arts classes, I had like a little bit less fear of talking than I probably should have had.
01:58:50.000 Sure, at least you were doing public speaking.
01:58:53.000 Yeah, I had conducted a class.
01:58:56.000 I did many classes.
01:58:57.000 You know, that's what I was doing for a living.
01:58:58.000 How far did you go in martial arts, Jim?
01:59:01.000 When I was 19, I was teaching Taekwondo at Boston University.
01:59:07.000 I was a black belt.
01:59:08.000 When I was in Taekwondo, I was a black belt, I think, when I was 16 or 17. Probably 17. Somewhere around there.
01:59:16.000 And I won the Massachusetts State Championship like four years in a while.
01:59:21.000 No kidding.
01:59:22.000 It's so good.
01:59:23.000 It's so good for your head, too.
01:59:24.000 Well, not really if you get hit.
01:59:26.000 No, I mean the emotional head.
01:59:29.000 Well, it was for me.
01:59:30.000 For me at the time, it was big.
01:59:32.000 But the teaching, it was really satisfying watching people learn things.
01:59:36.000 That's what I learned.
01:59:38.000 I really love sharing things.
01:59:41.000 And I also learned that in sharing teaching techniques with people, I really concentrated on my own techniques.
01:59:47.000 I think a lot of my kicks and a lot of my movements got even sharper because I was teaching them to people.
01:59:52.000 I was breaking them down, showing them how to do them from scratch.
01:59:55.000 And then I had a few people.
01:59:57.000 There was this one girl that I trained.
01:59:59.000 She came in as a white belt and then she got all the way up to...
02:00:03.000 I don't want anybody to get mad at me, but I believe it was yellow, green, blue, red, black.
02:00:09.000 I think that was the thing.
02:00:10.000 She got up to blue.
02:00:11.000 Which was pretty high.
02:00:14.000 It means you're starting to compete against people that are dangerous.
02:00:18.000 They can kick you in the face.
02:00:20.000 You can get crazy.
02:00:22.000 And she won this tournament, and I was coaching her.
02:00:23.000 So I coached her from the time she was a white belt all the way to the time she was a blue belt.
02:00:27.000 Oh, that's cool.
02:00:28.000 That's true.
02:00:28.000 Oh, it was amazing.
02:00:29.000 Yeah, it was amazing.
02:00:30.000 And she was a young kid.
02:00:31.000 She was in high school.
02:00:33.000 She was really talented.
02:00:35.000 She just knew how to listen.
02:00:36.000 She knew how to listen and she knew how to do what I explained.
02:00:41.000 She was super focused.
02:00:43.000 It was really interesting.
02:00:45.000 Teaching someone something and seeing someone completely dive into something that you appreciate and watching them get better at it.
02:00:53.000 It's so rewarding to be able to pass that on.
02:00:56.000 I always used to remember my instructor when there was guys that were really good in the class and they did something really good, whether it was a sparring demonstration or whether they did a drill on the bag or something like that.
02:01:10.000 We're good to go.
02:01:27.000 By helping them create something, by helping them create these movements and figuring out how to do these movements correctly.
02:01:33.000 That it's not just like learning how to kick.
02:01:36.000 It's like tapping into this area where you have control over the whole package, even for just a brief moment.
02:01:44.000 And in doing that, there was a phrase that they had from the Taekwondo brochure when you signed up that I'll never forget.
02:01:53.000 It said that it was a vehicle for developing your human potential.
02:01:57.000 So that's how I thought of it, and that's how I would teach it.
02:02:01.000 So when you were teaching that, it's like I had an opportunity.
02:02:04.000 I always felt like I had an opportunity to show somebody something that can change their life.
02:02:09.000 I'll show you what changed my life.
02:02:11.000 I'll show it to you, and you can do it too, and it'll change your life too.
02:02:14.000 You will literally become a different person.
02:02:17.000 I taught fourth grade, and now those kids are grown-ups.
02:02:21.000 Wow.
02:02:22.000 And that's really cool because some of them told me it was the best year of their lives.
02:02:25.000 They come to see me do stand-up.
02:02:27.000 Oh, that's amazing.
02:02:28.000 It's very cool.
02:02:29.000 What were you teaching?
02:02:30.000 Fourth grade, I taught everything.
02:02:31.000 Oh, fourth grade is like math, science, everything?
02:02:34.000 I mean, yeah, it's different than what you did because you went to some people who had like an interest and a love for something and wanted to explore it, what you were doing.
02:02:43.000 But mine is different.
02:02:44.000 They had to be there.
02:02:46.000 So my thing was self-esteem.
02:02:48.000 I figured I can't teach, these subjects are going to come and go in their lives, but teaching them self-esteem and some of the most rewarding things were like, I had this one kid, he was real shy, he was so shy, he was real tall, and he was embarrassed by it.
02:03:01.000 And he would stay in the cloakroom, they'd call it.
02:03:05.000 You know, with all the coats.
02:03:06.000 And he'd just stay in there.
02:03:07.000 He wouldn't come out.
02:03:07.000 I used to call him Sky King because he was a space cadet.
02:03:10.000 I go, Sky, you've got to come out.
02:03:12.000 You can't stay.
02:03:13.000 I can't let a kid just sit, you know.
02:03:15.000 And by the end of me just, like, working his self-esteem and all, he was in the middle of the class, just with everybody else waving his hand and...
02:03:24.000 And his mother came up to me and she was like really touched by it and told me that I changed his life.
02:03:30.000 And you know, that kind of shit's cool.
02:03:31.000 And now I got like a couple of the girls come to see me.
02:03:34.000 One of the girls goes, Mr. Irira, why did you let us do so much stuff?
02:03:39.000 I said, because you were smarter than me.
02:03:42.000 I said, look, I had more knowledge because I was an adult, but you kids, a lot of you have more brain power than me.
02:03:49.000 I know.
02:03:50.000 I was smart enough to know that I wasn't.
02:03:53.000 That's why you ran the class.
02:03:55.000 You know what I mean?
02:03:55.000 So you were an easy teacher.
02:03:57.000 That's what you're trying to say.
02:03:57.000 Oh, really easy.
02:03:58.000 I told them at the beginning of the year, I said, look, I want this to be the most fun year of your life.
02:04:03.000 Only you can mess it up.
02:04:04.000 What a fucking awesome opportunity that must have been.
02:04:07.000 And I said, I want to go to the gym.
02:04:09.000 This is when I was playing basketball.
02:04:10.000 I said, I want to go to the gym more than you do.
02:04:12.000 So, you know, we're going to have a party every Friday afternoon.
02:04:16.000 We'd have, like, kids that would do break dancing and stuff.
02:04:20.000 Really?
02:04:20.000 Yeah, it was awesome.
02:04:21.000 That's awesome.
02:04:22.000 Yeah, it was great.
02:04:23.000 Did you ever try to pitch that as a sitcom?
02:04:26.000 No, but somebody else had an idea for it a couple times.
02:04:29.000 That would be a hilarious sitcom.
02:04:30.000 That seems like a natural.
02:04:31.000 Yeah.
02:04:32.000 You as a funny teacher.
02:04:34.000 Because you really did it, it's legit.
02:04:37.000 And if you really stop and think about it, that would be like, for a kid, that's like one of the greatest rolls of the dice a kid can get for a fourth grade teacher.
02:04:44.000 Yeah, I had to grow up.
02:04:45.000 Yeah, down my rear for your fourth grade teacher.
02:04:47.000 Yeah.
02:04:47.000 She still calls me Mr. Irera.
02:04:48.000 She's 26 years old.
02:04:51.000 And she calls me Mr. Irera.
02:04:54.000 And I go, Teresa, first of all, you're taller than me.
02:04:58.000 She's hot blonde.
02:04:59.000 I go, stop with the Mr. Irera.
02:05:01.000 You're going to call me Dom.
02:05:02.000 She goes, I just can't call you Dom.
02:05:04.000 Isn't that funny?
02:05:04.000 Like, she's got me down as Mr. Irare.
02:05:07.000 That's good.
02:05:08.000 That'll keep you from being a dirty bird.
02:05:10.000 Whoa, whoa, whoa.
02:05:11.000 Hey, stay away, Dom.
02:05:13.000 You've known her since she's a little girl.
02:05:14.000 Let her call you Mr. Irare.
02:05:16.000 She's trying to establish boundaries.
02:05:17.000 Somebody said, why do you go out with a girl so young?
02:05:19.000 I go, because I can.
02:05:20.000 Come on.
02:05:22.000 Oh, jeez.
02:05:23.000 Oh!
02:05:24.000 Is this thing on?
02:05:26.000 Is this on?
02:05:27.000 Is the sound just working here?
02:05:28.000 Hello?
02:05:30.000 That was one of my favorite bits of yours.
02:05:32.000 I mean, it was almost like an interstitial.
02:05:35.000 It was so fun to do.
02:05:37.000 Sometimes you'd throw it in between jokes that kill.
02:05:39.000 Hello, come on, folks.
02:05:40.000 Give a little.
02:05:40.000 Get off your high horses.
02:05:41.000 Even jokes that were killing, you would throw that in there.
02:05:43.000 Yeah, yeah.
02:05:44.000 You remember Nathan Lane?
02:05:46.000 Nathan Lane.
02:05:47.000 He's an actor?
02:05:47.000 Yes.
02:05:48.000 Was he in like a musical?
02:05:50.000 Yeah, there's been a bunch of them.
02:05:51.000 He's great.
02:05:52.000 He lives in New York.
02:05:52.000 He was in The Producers.
02:05:54.000 I should know who he is.
02:05:54.000 He was in La Caja Fall.
02:05:56.000 But anyway, he used to give me...
02:05:58.000 He had his great memory.
02:05:59.000 And I would do that Fritzie Anderson character, and he would remember shit.
02:06:03.000 He goes, get off your high horses.
02:06:05.000 Because I would go, get off your high horses.
02:06:06.000 Come down up your exalted mountains.
02:06:08.000 Retreat from your petite plateaus.
02:06:10.000 Come on, folks.
02:06:11.000 Ooh, ah, ooh.
02:06:12.000 And it was just so much fun to do because it was so physical and loud.
02:06:16.000 We used to kill my voice.
02:06:18.000 What do you call a dog with no legs?
02:06:20.000 Nothing no matter what you're calling me, you ain't coming!
02:06:22.000 Where did I lose you?
02:06:26.000 Hello?
02:06:28.000 Yeah, having characters that you can just bring back like that is always fun.
02:06:31.000 Oh, that was a fun character.
02:06:33.000 All it was was a conglomeration of every lounge mountain comedian I've ever seen.
02:06:39.000 You know, like the sappy songs.
02:06:42.000 I write the jokes to make the whole world smile.
02:06:46.000 You know, that kind of guy.
02:06:48.000 I had a nightmare last night, I guess it was last night, that I bombed on stage in a hell gig in Long Island.
02:06:57.000 Wow.
02:06:57.000 Very specific.
02:06:58.000 Oh, God, because Long Island was, I did a lot of hell gigs in Long Island.
02:07:04.000 Did you really?
02:07:05.000 Yeah.
02:07:07.000 You've done brokerage and governors.
02:07:08.000 Yeah, I did the nice places too, but I also did Fast Eddie's in Huntington.
02:07:12.000 I didn't know that.
02:07:13.000 That was when I got my manager convinced to let me be dirty.
02:07:21.000 Jeff?
02:07:22.000 You've been with Jeff a long time.
02:07:23.000 Yeah, from the beginning.
02:07:24.000 He picked me up when I was a scrub.
02:07:26.000 He picked me up when I was an open-miker.
02:07:27.000 We've been together forever.
02:07:28.000 He's the best.
02:07:29.000 He is the best.
02:07:30.000 I love him, too.
02:07:30.000 He's my friend.
02:07:31.000 He's not just a manager.
02:07:33.000 He's the best manager, and I love him.
02:07:35.000 But in the beginning, we were still trying to figure it out.
02:07:38.000 I was only like 20-something years old.
02:07:39.000 I didn't know shit.
02:07:40.000 Maybe you should be clean.
02:07:41.000 That was back in the day where everybody should be clean.
02:07:44.000 And I'd done some clean sets too.
02:07:46.000 I think he asked me to do one clean set for him.
02:07:48.000 So I did a clean set at Catch a Rising Star.
02:07:51.000 But then we went to the place that was way out.
02:07:56.000 Was it Eastside?
02:07:57.000 Yeah, Eastside Comedy Club.
02:07:58.000 I did a set out there.
02:07:59.000 And then we did a set at this Fast Eddie's place, and this Fast Eddie's place was a dive!
02:08:04.000 And there was a dude named George Gallo, I don't know if you remember him.
02:08:07.000 He was on stage, a real physical act, and he was doing this thing where he would do a reverse shit with a banana.
02:08:15.000 Oh, the old reverse shit.
02:08:17.000 I guess he would put the banana fully formed on his lips and then suck it back into his mouth or something like that and call it a reverse shit with a banana.
02:08:26.000 And so Jeff, I'll never forget, he looks over at me and he goes, you don't have to do this.
02:08:30.000 I'm going to get you out of this.
02:08:31.000 And I go, no, no, no, no.
02:08:34.000 I told him, I go, these are my people.
02:08:36.000 I go, trust me, we're going to be fine here.
02:08:38.000 I know how to make these people laugh.
02:08:39.000 And so I went up and did my hell gig material, you know, because I did so many hell gigs.
02:08:43.000 That's when you started being dirty again?
02:08:45.000 Well, it was when he was convinced.
02:08:47.000 He gave in watching that one set in this crazy nightclub.
02:08:51.000 Like, it was the end of discussion whether or not I should be clean.
02:08:54.000 He goes, okay, we just got to concentrate on just go all dirty.
02:08:58.000 See what he said?
02:08:59.000 Yeah.
02:08:59.000 He's the best.
02:09:01.000 Having a guy like that...
02:09:03.000 As a manager, it just takes all the worry out of, like, career and handling things, you know?
02:09:11.000 Like, you got a relationship like that with a guy, you love the guy, like family, and he's also your manager.
02:09:17.000 It really alleviates so much, you know?
02:09:20.000 He's the best!
02:09:22.000 He's the best!
02:09:23.000 So is Chandra, they're the best.
02:09:24.000 But I just got so lucky that I met them, you know?
02:09:27.000 There's a lot of kooky faces out there, a lot of crazy fucking people in show business.
02:09:32.000 I mean, how many Looney Tunes managers have we met?
02:09:35.000 How many people off the deep end?
02:09:36.000 How many people that fucking swindle people and wind up stealing money or owing money or embroiled in controversy every other year?
02:09:44.000 Oh, yeah.
02:09:45.000 Lenny Clark got fucked.
02:09:46.000 Oh, he got fucked hard.
02:09:48.000 So did Jerry Seinfeld.
02:09:49.000 He got fucked in that as well.
02:09:51.000 A lot of guys did.
02:09:53.000 Some agent stole hundreds of thousands of dollars.
02:09:56.000 I know who it is.
02:09:58.000 I'm not going to name him here.
02:09:59.000 Dirty sacks of shit.
02:10:01.000 Yeah.
02:10:03.000 It's a funny business we're in, Tom Amara.
02:10:05.000 You and I have known each other for a long fucking time now.
02:10:07.000 Yes, me brother.
02:10:09.000 20 years.
02:10:10.000 20 years of Nineball, too.
02:10:12.000 You'd think I'd be a little better.
02:10:14.000 A lot of fucking pool, Dom Herrera.
02:10:17.000 Concentrate on your stroke.
02:10:18.000 We're still going to shoot tonight?
02:10:19.000 Fuck yeah, bitch.
02:10:20.000 Come on, son.
02:10:21.000 I got two hours in me, that's all.
02:10:23.000 That's all you need.
02:10:24.000 Two hours, that's what the doctor ordered, son.
02:10:26.000 I got to tell you now, Joe.
02:10:29.000 Dom Herrera, relax over here.
02:10:32.000 Dom Herrera, where can the folks see you next?
02:10:34.000 I'll be at the Improv in Atlanta this Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and then the following...
02:10:39.000 I didn't even know that they had an Improv in Atlanta.
02:10:42.000 Yeah, I heard it's nice.
02:10:43.000 Is this new?
02:10:43.000 Pretty new, yeah.
02:10:44.000 Wow.
02:10:45.000 You want to hear how I got the gig?
02:10:46.000 How did you get the gig?
02:10:47.000 I was doing a benefit for Animals.
02:10:51.000 It was for Alan Habe.
02:10:53.000 And for animal shelters.
02:10:54.000 And I didn't even know what it was.
02:10:56.000 I just went in because it was Alan.
02:10:57.000 And I said, I thought maybe Alan needed money.
02:11:00.000 And then they go, no, it's for dogs and cats.
02:11:02.000 I go, fuck dogs and cats.
02:11:03.000 I'm kidding, you know.
02:11:04.000 But anyway, so then I get a call the next day.
02:11:07.000 I've been wanting to go to Atlanta.
02:11:09.000 And Bud Friedman called and my agent.
02:11:12.000 Isn't that funny?
02:11:13.000 Oh, Bud Friedman's opening this joint?
02:11:14.000 Well, he's booking it, yeah.
02:11:16.000 Oh, that's funny.
02:11:17.000 Wow, I didn't know Bud booked things anymore.
02:11:18.000 Yeah, he does.
02:11:19.000 He does, like, Reno and Tahoe and a couple things.
02:11:22.000 Oh, he had, like, had something at the Improv a couple years ago where he was, like, officially retiring.
02:11:27.000 But he always does.
02:11:28.000 Yeah, you know what it is?
02:11:29.000 It's probably too fun for him.
02:11:30.000 Yeah.
02:11:30.000 This guy's been in the fucking business his whole life.
02:11:32.000 Yeah, yeah, he can't give up.
02:11:34.000 He loves getting up and saying hello.
02:11:37.000 He does.
02:11:37.000 And you know what?
02:11:39.000 Comedy's a great fucking thing to still be a part of.
02:11:41.000 It's a fun thing to still be a part of.
02:11:42.000 Yeah, it is.
02:11:44.000 If you're a stand-up comedy fan, I don't think there's ever been more funny guys around than now.
02:11:53.000 I don't think so either.
02:11:53.000 I think it's one of the best times ever.
02:11:56.000 There's so many good people.
02:11:57.000 Men, women, there's so many funny chicks.
02:12:00.000 I think there's more funny chicks now than ever before.
02:12:03.000 I was with Sarah Silverman the other night.
02:12:06.000 She's hilarious.
02:12:07.000 Just her and Amy Schumer, I think they rank up with the funniest chicks of all time.
02:12:11.000 I don't know Amy's work.
02:12:12.000 Bonnie McFarlane does as well.
02:12:13.000 She's fucking hilarious.
02:12:14.000 She's hilarious.
02:12:15.000 She's very smart.
02:12:17.000 She's a very smart person.
02:12:19.000 She sees things.
02:12:20.000 She points out things and they make sense.
02:12:23.000 You go with it.
02:12:24.000 It's great stuff.
02:12:25.000 Oh, hilarious.
02:12:27.000 You ever heard the podcast?
02:12:29.000 She gives me anxiety.
02:12:30.000 She tortures him.
02:12:31.000 She tortures him.
02:12:32.000 It hurts my feelings.
02:12:35.000 I'm like, Rich, just shut the fuck up.
02:12:37.000 Just please, Rich.
02:12:38.000 Well, she's hotter.
02:12:39.000 I'm just saying.
02:12:40.000 She's hotter and smarter.
02:12:41.000 I'm just saying.
02:12:43.000 Yeah, that's a funny podcast.
02:12:45.000 The best comedy couple by far is Segura and Christina Pazitzki.
02:12:51.000 You don't know her?
02:12:53.000 I think I do.
02:12:53.000 Tom Segura's wife?
02:12:54.000 Dude, that chick is fucking funny.
02:12:57.000 Yeah.
02:12:58.000 We did one of Sam Tripoli's shows.
02:13:00.000 You know, Sam Tripoli had that naughty show.
02:13:01.000 And Sam Tripoli's naughty shows, if you've never seen them, he does these shows with improv.
02:13:05.000 And they're not just comedy.
02:13:07.000 There's like all kinds of craziness to it.
02:13:09.000 A lot of porn stars and stuff, right?
02:13:11.000 Yeah, porn stars.
02:13:11.000 They played some thing where if the guy got the question wrong, the porn star beat him with a belt.
02:13:17.000 So this chick is like beating this dude's ass with a belt and everyone's screaming and going nuts and then BOOM! They bring Kristina Positsky on stage.
02:13:26.000 She's not?
02:13:28.000 She's very pretty.
02:13:29.000 Yeah.
02:13:30.000 But she's not like a porn star looking chick.
02:13:32.000 She's like a very pretty regular chick.
02:13:34.000 So she goes on stage and by the way, don't ever ask me if my wife, my friend's wife is hot.
02:13:40.000 That's rude as fuck.
02:13:41.000 I didn't mean to put you on the spot.
02:13:41.000 I just realized that.
02:13:42.000 But you did you son of a bitch.
02:13:43.000 Yeah but you bought it.
02:13:45.000 But you handled it well.
02:13:46.000 You said she's pretty for a regular trip.
02:13:48.000 So it wasn't like she was selling sex.
02:13:50.000 She was just selling funny.
02:13:51.000 You know, she was going up there and being funny.
02:13:53.000 I mean, she dresses like, you know, like anybody.
02:13:56.000 Nice ass.
02:13:58.000 I wouldn't say it was a badass.
02:14:02.000 Trying to be as respectful as possible, Mr. Rare.
02:14:04.000 Would all due respect.
02:14:06.000 And anyway, she goes up there and I'm thinking, man, I just meet her, right?
02:14:10.000 And she's with Tom.
02:14:11.000 And I'm just like, you know, she seems so nice.
02:14:13.000 And now for sure she's going to go eat dick up there.
02:14:16.000 It's gonna be terrible.
02:14:16.000 How do you follow that?
02:14:17.000 The guy just beat a dude's ass with a belt and everybody was screaming.
02:14:21.000 How do you follow that?
02:14:21.000 He took his pants down?
02:14:23.000 I want to say yes.
02:14:25.000 I want to say, at the very least, his underwear was out.
02:14:28.000 He had his underwear on.
02:14:29.000 They beat his ass with a belt.
02:14:31.000 He got fucked up.
02:14:31.000 That dude got hurt.
02:14:33.000 Anyway.
02:14:34.000 She crushes.
02:14:36.000 Crushes.
02:14:36.000 Just grabs it.
02:14:38.000 Makes fun of it.
02:14:39.000 Makes fun of the whole situation.
02:14:41.000 Relaxed.
02:14:42.000 Gets to it on her own due time.
02:14:44.000 Just controlled the whole room.
02:14:45.000 Like a pro.
02:14:46.000 It's so nice when you see that.
02:14:48.000 You're like, oh, she knows what she's doing.
02:14:51.000 Whew.
02:14:52.000 Because there's nothing worse than befriending someone and then you've never seen them before.
02:14:56.000 And you're on those weird pop-in nights at the improv, where a lot of times on those Wednesday and Tuesday night shows, some of the people in the crowd will be supporting the guy who's on stage and they bring like 10 people with them, right?
02:15:11.000 Yeah.
02:15:12.000 So you never know.
02:15:13.000 I brought a girl, I didn't bring her there, but she lives in Chicago and the Laugh Factory is in Chicago.
02:15:20.000 And I was doing it, and she asked me if she could do some time, because her family's there.
02:15:23.000 I never even saw her on stage.
02:15:25.000 Oh no.
02:15:25.000 But she's hot.
02:15:26.000 Thank God.
02:15:27.000 Not only did she bring her family, she brought a shitload of people.
02:15:31.000 And she did very well, and she's really hot.
02:15:33.000 Wait a minute, she's good?
02:15:35.000 I wouldn't say she's good, but I mean, she's probably not like in Christina's class.
02:15:40.000 Yeah, Christina Pozitzki.
02:15:41.000 But she did very well.
02:15:43.000 I mean, she's a newcomer.
02:15:44.000 You know, she's really, really green.
02:15:46.000 But I mean, like, all it was was just like me going, yeah, you're hot.
02:15:50.000 Fuck, yeah, do seven minutes.
02:15:51.000 What do I care?
02:15:52.000 You know who impressed me the most doing like a pop-in set like that?
02:15:56.000 Lil' Esther.
02:15:57.000 Oh, she's great.
02:15:59.000 She did the Chicago Theater, Don.
02:16:01.000 There was 3,400 people there.
02:16:02.000 Whatever the fuck it seats.
02:16:03.000 It's more than 3,000.
02:16:04.000 I don't know how many seats, but it's more than 3,000.
02:16:07.000 She destroyed.
02:16:08.000 No kidding.
02:16:08.000 Yeah, she's good.
02:16:09.000 She was funny on the podcast, too.
02:16:11.000 There's so many funny fucking people today.
02:16:14.000 This is crazy time.
02:16:15.000 It came back, you know?
02:16:17.000 Fuck yeah, dude.
02:16:19.000 I think it's better than ever.
02:16:20.000 Yeah.
02:16:21.000 I really do.
02:16:21.000 Look, Kevin Hart, I mean, think about Brian Callen, Nick DiPaolo, I mean, Jim Brewer, Bill Burr, David Tell, Dave Chappelle,
02:16:38.000 Chris Rock, Louis C.K., Tosh.
02:16:46.000 Just stop right there.
02:16:47.000 Look at how many guys you're dealing with there.
02:16:49.000 Patton Oswalt.
02:16:50.000 You can't forget Patton Oswalt.
02:16:52.000 He's one of the best.
02:16:53.000 Yeah.
02:16:53.000 There's so many good guys right now, man.
02:16:55.000 There's so many fucking good guys.
02:16:58.000 You know who fucking makes me laugh, though, even though he's not a traditional stand-up?
02:17:01.000 Who?
02:17:01.000 Andy Kindler.
02:17:02.000 Oh, he's hilarious.
02:17:03.000 He fucking kills me.
02:17:04.000 He is a traditional stand-up.
02:17:05.000 He just makes fun of stand-up.
02:17:07.000 He makes fun of, yeah.
02:17:09.000 When he bombs, he does better than when he's doing good.
02:17:12.000 Yeah.
02:17:13.000 He's the funniest bomber ever.
02:17:15.000 He's awesome.
02:17:16.000 Yeah, he's quite a character, that guy.
02:17:19.000 Yeah, we live in good times.
02:17:21.000 This is great times for comedy.
02:17:22.000 And the fact that everybody has a podcast now, I think is awesome.
02:17:26.000 I just think it's one of the most amazing things ever, that all these different people have something that connects to the act.
02:17:31.000 You get to see the person.
02:17:33.000 Instead of just seeing the jokes on stage, you get to see the unfiltered human being.
02:17:38.000 See them fuck around with shit.
02:17:40.000 Talk about serious shit.
02:17:41.000 Talk about not so serious shit.
02:17:43.000 Bust balls.
02:17:44.000 Be silly.
02:17:44.000 Maybe sell a little ting.
02:17:45.000 Sell a little this, a little that.
02:17:47.000 Is it wrong to bring up ting?
02:17:48.000 A little ting.
02:17:49.000 If you go to rogan.ting.com, there's a little something in it for you.
02:17:52.000 A little something in it for yourself.
02:17:54.000 Okay?
02:17:56.000 Squarespace.com.
02:17:57.000 Go there too, you fucks.
02:17:59.000 You fucking whore master!
02:18:01.000 Yeah, I'm supposed to like, what is the Squarespace URL? You motherfucker!
02:18:06.000 Who is that from?
02:18:07.000 You motherfucker!
02:18:08.000 That was from Joey Pesci.
02:18:10.000 You motherfucker!
02:18:13.000 He told me that Pesci came in to see his goddaughter at the lab factory, and he thought I was going to go up, so he agreed to do my radio show.
02:18:22.000 I had a radio show there at the time, two years ago.
02:18:25.000 Excuse me.
02:18:27.000 And I says, I'm not going on, I'm tired.
02:18:30.000 He goes, well, if you're not going on, I'm not fucking doing your podcast.
02:18:33.000 I said, you're right.
02:18:35.000 Don't do it.
02:18:35.000 He goes, Dom, I go to this fucking Italian restaurant in Vegas.
02:18:40.000 Your picture's in the fucking urinal.
02:18:41.000 I'm looking at you.
02:18:42.000 I feel like a fucking fag.
02:18:44.000 Looking at you when I'm taking a piss.
02:18:45.000 That's a joke.
02:18:46.000 Is that or is this a joke?
02:18:47.000 No, that's what he said.
02:18:48.000 Really?
02:18:49.000 He thought he was a fag.
02:18:50.000 Don't do jokes.
02:18:51.000 Huh?
02:18:52.000 He felt like he was a fag?
02:18:53.000 Something like that.
02:18:54.000 You should have just pulled your cock out and see what happens next.
02:18:57.000 Could you imagine if Joe Pesci just turned...
02:18:59.000 Mowing down your cock?
02:19:00.000 No, I can't.
02:19:01.000 Even if you're, you know, obviously you're not gay, but even if you, just for the experience is what I'm saying.
02:19:08.000 That's a good point.
02:19:09.000 I'll keep that in mind.
02:19:10.000 Keep that in mind the next time we see him.
02:19:12.000 If he brings it up again.
02:19:14.000 Well, I was trying to figure out why he was telling you that.
02:19:16.000 Well, because my picture was up above the urinal.
02:19:18.000 Because he loves you.
02:19:20.000 He does.
02:19:20.000 Joe Pesci's low.
02:19:21.000 He had his cock in his hand.
02:19:22.000 Pass it around.
02:19:22.000 And it was so memorable.
02:19:24.000 He had to bring it up.
02:19:25.000 Why'd you have to fucking say that for?
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02:19:31.000 Save yourself some money.
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02:19:40.000 Dominic motherfucking Irera Esquire.
02:19:43.000 Thank you, sir.
02:19:44.000 Thank you.
02:19:44.000 You're the fucking man.
02:19:45.000 I am proud to be your friend, my friend.
02:19:47.000 I'm honored.
02:19:48.000 Right back at you.
02:19:48.000 It's been a lot of fun and joy over the 20 years of knowing you.
02:19:51.000 We've had a lot of good times, my friend.
02:19:52.000 Oh, yeah.
02:19:53.000 And we plan on having more.
02:19:54.000 Ain't that more coming!
02:19:55.000 All right, you fucks.
02:19:57.000 Powerful Dan Hardy will be here Wednesday.
02:19:59.000 It'll be an early podcast.
02:20:01.000 11 a.m.
02:20:03.000 on Pacific Time for Powerful Dan Hardy.
02:20:06.000 And then there will also be one on Thursday.
02:20:09.000 And I'll let you know who's going to be on that.
02:20:10.000 All right, you fucks.
02:20:11.000 We love the shit out of you.
02:20:13.000 Appreciate you all, and mad love to you.
02:20:16.000 Big kisses.
02:20:18.000 Thanks, Joe.