In this episode of the Joe Rogan Experience Podcast, the boys are joined by none other than the one and only Dom Perla. Dom is a comedian, actor, podcaster, and podcaster. He's also the founder of AlphaBrain, a cognitive enhancing nootropic supplement that can improve your brain function and improve your overall well-being. Joe and Dom talk about his journey to becoming a stand-up comic, how he got into comedy, and how he came up with the idea for the AlphaBrain supplement. They also talk about Bill Romanowski, the man who created the Concussion Protocol, and what it's like to be a professional football player in the early days of the Denver Broncos. Joe also talks about how he almost got into the NFL, and why he thinks it's a good idea to eat lunch with a player who's been diagnosed with concussions. Joe also discusses his love of Doritos, and the fact that he's not a fan of Taco Bell, but he does like them anyway. Joe Rogans is a great guy and Dom is an even better dude. This episode is a must-listen, so you won't want to miss it! Enjoy, and spread the word to your friends and family about this episode to let them know it's good stuff! If you like it, tweet me if you re a friend of the show! Timestamps: or and/or if you think it s good, we ll llllllll lllll like it. or not? We llll ll ll lll llllleeeelllllllllllleeeeeellllll Thank you for listening! -Joe Rogans - - Timestamp: - 5:00 - 6:00 - 7:15 - 8:30 - 9:30 - 10:00 | 11:30 | 12:00 // 13:00 / 15:00/16:30 // 15:30 / 16:15 - 17:20 - 16:20 | 17:15 | 18:00 + 17:40 - 18:10 - 19:00s - 21:20 - 20:00 szn - 22:30 & 21:30 + 23:00 & 23:40 - 25:40 // 22:00 ? 26:00+ 27:20 // 27:40 / 26:40 +28:00 @ 35:40 & 35:00 = 30
00:05:31.000It's this Russian strength training where you're swinging around these fucking giant cannonballs.
00:05:38.000So every movement is a compound movement that requires your whole body to work as one unit.
00:05:43.000So it transfers very well athletically, like to jiu-jitsu or to football or even if you're a good basketball player, it would transfer even to that.
00:05:52.000Kettlebell is one of the best exercises I've ever used, ever.
00:08:23.000Give me something We gotta have Nick DS To Joe Rogan experience Train by day Joe Rogan podcast by night All day Train by day Joe Rogan podcast Stop stop stop Is that Joe Diaz?
00:08:39.000Yeah, I don't think you should do that anymore.
00:10:45.000I had, like, my first 20 minutes all revolved around Boston, because when you're fucking sinking out there and you're looking for something, you know that you can make fun of a girl from Revere, because she has big hair.
00:17:46.000You know, like I said, I paid to see you before I ever even did it, really.
00:17:51.000You've always been just, like, that's what you are.
00:17:56.000You're not like a guy who's trying to get a series, and if you got that series in, you'd abandon stand-up or a guy who wanted to be a movie.
00:18:02.000You're always just Dom Irera, professional comedian from television.
00:18:06.000You know, you would even introduce yourself like that.
00:18:08.000Dom Irera from television, they can do it.
00:18:09.000Well, you know, I was on Suzanne Somers' show when I came out here, and I really liked her.
00:20:30.000When I was there that night, when you invited me to the pond, and I see these guys really getting fucking whacked, and you know when it really hits the reality is when you're sitting, like I told you, I was sitting behind the guy's mother and girlfriend when he got knocked out.
00:23:31.000You know, not a nice joke, but hopefully, you know, he took it in the spirit that he was a big success and I was a new comic, and that's the way he took it, you know.
00:25:10.000But, you know, he was the kind of, I mean, I didn't know that he was so psychotic that he was in that kind of pain that he would shoot himself.
00:25:17.000But, you know, I did see symptoms of incredible insecurity and incredible holding on to things, you know?
00:28:33.000Sometimes they're like 30 and 50, but they've been super packs sighted recently in Russia that they're really getting scared of, that they're in the hundreds.
00:28:43.000And what's nutty about that is they're all starving to death.
00:30:09.000I had to have a bar welded around the perimeter of the fence because he figured out that he could Get his head in and bend the bars just by sheer force.
00:32:05.000The dark side of it is that they take these animals after they let them fuck each other up, and then they shoot one of them or kill one of them, the one that quit.
00:32:35.000And every time I see it, I'm like, that's not cool.
00:32:38.000You have to at least be able to, like, if something happens, take care of it and not slap it with a white glove and shit.
00:32:44.000Not every pit bull will freak out and fuck other dogs up.
00:32:47.000Some pit bulls are very well, you know, like, socialized and well-trained and, you know, they're exercised well so they're, you know, they get tired out and That's an important thing with dogs.
00:33:48.000But I mean, really, like, you know, I don't do dog bits like that, you know, that in my act, but I mean, it really is amazing how his reacts to me, whatever it is.
00:34:15.000Look, you know, I had a pair once, climbed up on my shoulder, and I had a baseball hat on, and he bit the little top button off the top of the hat.
00:34:25.000I was like, ah, that'd be fun to have around.
00:38:06.000Okay, we were at the Improv for Comedy Juice, and there was a big gang of, you know, comics outside of the Improv, you know, and just hanging out smoking cigarettes and shit.
00:38:15.000And across the street, there's, like, this Mexican tequila bar.
00:38:18.000And this celebrity was coming out, and the valet put their car there, and it was, like, Lindsay Lohan-style paparazzis everywhere, like, fucking flashbulbs and fucking jumping on top of their car, like, around their cars, you know, like, just, like, surrounding them, fucking flashbulbs and fucking jumping on top of their car, like, around And so they're in the car, and they're taking photos of photos.
00:38:39.000And so all the comics were just screaming stupid shit across the street.
00:39:04.000And so she drove by, and she's smiling at us, like, ha-ha, you guys were funny while this whole thing happened.
00:39:09.000So it was cool, because all the comics are like, yeah, mission accomplished.
00:39:12.000But then, the second they left, all the paparazzis, this big gang, just fucking slowly started walking into traffic, the cars honking the horns, like, slamming on their brakes, and they didn't give a shit, and they were just walking across the street, and then getting up into all the comics' faces and going, you got a fucking problem, man?
00:40:13.000Slams on drugs across the street, talks to the valets, points over to us, and then fucking just takes off and blows through, like, two red lights.
00:40:20.000And I was just like, what the fuck are these paparazzi gang members?
00:40:50.000That's why I think the AIDS blood thing I was talking about.
00:40:52.000You had AIDS blood and just started, like, winging it around?
00:40:55.000Really, honestly, I don't think it should be legal to have a gang of people just standing out there with a camera and photographing someone like that and freaking people out.
00:41:02.000Especially when they're walking into traffic like that.
00:41:05.000That should be something you should be able to get in trouble for.
00:41:08.000It seems like if you want to go bust pot chops, pot chops aren't hurting anybody.
00:41:12.000These guys are walking in traffic and big giant groups freaking out some chick.
00:41:31.000Look, everybody's got to grind out a living.
00:41:33.000I don't hate a guy trying to make a living.
00:41:35.000The way you can make a living is taking pictures of Eva Mendes or whoever the fuck it is.
00:41:39.000As long as they're not really harassing people, and I don't think they are for the most part.
00:41:42.000I think a lot of it, there's a few that'll, I mean, like, clearly when Britney Spears was going bonkers and shaving her head and running around and beating cars with an umbrella, clearly they were just following her.
00:42:01.000But I know for a fact that people set up fake situations Where they tell someone A publicist will set it up with the paparazzi So the paparazzi waits for them So they make it look like it's a big deal They're everywhere I go What am I going to do?
00:42:20.000Meanwhile they're fucking asking for it They're setting it up It's part of the whole let's be famous thing It was scary, though.
00:42:29.000To me, if that was me that had that happen to me, like, with all the...
00:42:34.000Because those people were trying to pull out in their car, and there was just, like, 20 people around their car.
00:42:38.000They were like, come on, get the fuck out away from my car, you know?
00:42:42.000And they're just, like, touching your car and shit, and that would...
00:45:37.000Like, if you're not funny, how can you be a comedian?
00:45:40.000And we know a lot of comedians that aren't funny, but they're successful because they know some of the tricks and they're good looking or they're good at marketing themselves, you know.
00:49:04.000You know, like I did all these girls where I'm like having to like be a certain person and I do like a bunch of shit, like a lot of maintenance involved with dating hot girls.
00:49:14.000What kind of shit are you having to do?
00:49:16.000You know, like, just, I don't know, try harder.
00:49:26.000If I ever break up with my girl or whatever, and then like, I think the next girl on my day is going to be a girl like in a wheelchair or something.
00:49:34.000Wait a minute, do you have a girl now?
00:50:26.000I've been thinking about it a lot lately.
00:50:28.000Someone has to appreciate you as much as you appreciate them.
00:50:31.000If there's any sort of an imbalance like that, like if someone feels like they can shit on you because you won't do anything because they have the upper hand in the relationship because you'll never break up with them.
00:50:39.000There's a lot of people that get in those kind of relationships and it's fucking stupid.
00:51:15.000No, but I mean what I'm saying is I need somebody with issues.
00:51:19.000I need somebody with daddy issues or flawed in some way or is so enamored by my talent they don't look at me like the Mongolian look that I am.
00:55:03.000And my theory on that, tell me what you think, is that black women get stiffed a lot culturally and by a lot of black men because part of like a success in some eyes of some black men is to have a white chick.
01:03:57.000I think anybody who watches it, no one knows what we're talking about.
01:04:01.000We talked about this Bigfoot show, and then they talked about it on South Park, and someone on our message board said, oh, someone from South Park probably heard you guys talking about it.
01:04:11.000I'm like, but hold on, but anybody who watches that Bigfoot show is going to get the same jokes.
01:04:15.000Yeah, but you're only missing half of it, though.
01:04:17.000Well, also in that episode, supposedly, I haven't seen this episode...
01:04:20.000But supposedly there was a part where he's like, don't just eat your buttholes all day or something like that, Cartman says.
01:04:25.000And then the week before, I have this whole thing at Death Squad where I take a piece of bread and I take the cat bread where I tell my fans to send me photos of them taking a piece of bread, taking a hole out of the middle of the bread and then putting their cat head through it.
01:05:14.000And then this week, I heard that they were talking about Bigfoot and itching assholes, and I'm like, this is getting cool.
01:05:20.000I hope everything that we talk about becomes a South Park episode.
01:05:24.000Well, now, what they're going to do is an episode about a retard radio host who can't get his facts straight and blames Cartman for something he didn't really do.
01:06:02.000It was my dad's best friend, and he lives in, I think, Pittsburgh.
01:06:06.000And the only time I'd ever go to Pittsburgh, back and forth, once a year, we'd go and they'd have this huge party where he just invites all his families.
01:06:16.000That's how I know Italians for my first time, was that they would just have these huge parties with hundreds of family members once a year.
01:06:23.000And we were invited to that all the time.
01:07:18.000It was like, you know what you were saying about how you've seen things, like how unflappable you are, like you've seen things right next to you and it doesn't even faze you?
01:08:23.000Well, because of where I'm from and like, you know, like, I lived in a poor black neighborhood in West Philadelphia.
01:08:27.000We moved from an Italian neighborhood.
01:08:29.000I mean, like, we were really connected to the mob.
01:08:31.000Yeah, we're undercover, you know, that's why we're in this row home in a black neighborhood.
01:08:36.000But, because we were the oppressed whites, you know, which was a very interesting perspective of life because people don't ever think about what about the white kids that were let back In a tough black neighborhood.
01:08:46.000I was lucky because I played ball and they were all my friends.
01:08:49.000But you couldn't walk through there, just like a black kid couldn't walk through the Italian neighborhood.
01:10:33.000It gets into a groove where you can't stop saying it.
01:10:36.000You go through words, though, definitely, because I remember we used to say powerful, and we used to say something else, like carrots or something.
01:10:41.000Joe was the first one I ever heard say whatever.
01:11:48.000Dude, it's the pause that makes it so uniquely mine.
01:11:52.000That pause in the middle of whatever, that's where all the brilliance lies.
01:11:56.000You know, you used to crack me up when people would go to me, like, whatever, like, you know, like, you're going to take credit for like that, and you were the first one I heard, but like, people would say to me, doesn't it bother you that the Sopranos do bada boom, bada bing?
01:21:02.000You know, I used to get my grandfather would get samples, and I would smoke cigarettes one after another, and I'd go, fucking, that'd be so dizzy.
01:24:57.000I did something the other day that I started doing where I'll order vodka and Diet Coke, and then I'll tell the guy every three of them, make them just Diet Cokes.
01:25:07.000So I don't even know when I'm doing it or not.
01:25:11.000I felt drunk at the end of the night, and I was like, how many have I had?
01:25:14.000And he's like, you've only had two, and you've been here for six hours, so you're fine.
01:26:35.000The weird thing about that world is a lot of them are very nice, and you get to meet them, and you're like, wow, this is just some nice girl who just...
01:26:44.000Somehow or another, she found herself in some situation where she has this almost insatiable desire for sexual attention, and a lot of that is because they were molested.
01:26:53.000And then when you find that out, it's a buzzkill.
01:26:57.000Yeah, yeah, then you start feeling bad.
01:31:45.000You know what's good about the pot that you get is that you're getting it from an illegal place, which means hopefully it's not tainted in anything.
01:31:53.000I don't know why anybody would go to a really shady neighborhood and buy shit off a drug dealer who may never see them again.
01:32:21.000You could be looking at it in a distorted way because saying it is what it is is you might be looking at it in some sort of a fucked up way to justify your position.
01:32:31.000I never expected an answer to that question.
01:36:26.000And it's interesting to see because you can tell which comedians have improv chops and which guys are only funny behind their act right away.
01:39:29.000I was talking to an emergency room doctor, and she told me that the Xanax that I take, at the level I take it, is probably a placebo at this point.
01:39:46.000Well, is that what you're supposed to do?
01:39:47.000You're supposed to continue to up the dosage?
01:39:49.000No, but I think if I were an addict in the sense of being really addicted to the drug and the feeling of it, it would be normal to try and get higher.
01:39:57.000I think it's just a psychological thing that I think I needed to go back to sleep and all.
01:40:01.000Well, when you hear about guys like Rush Limbaugh, and he starts doing Oxys, and you hear about him doing 99 a day, and you know you want to do that Xanax every day and have a drink every day, do you ever see that and go, fuck, how far away is that from what I'm doing?
01:43:13.000You know what's really hard to fathom is, and this is not to depress you, you're 37. No matter what you do, no matter how much you work, you'll never be as good as Joe or myself.
01:43:48.000Because I do so much podcasting, I consider this like a different kind of comedy where instead of doing like 15 people at a comedy club, I'm doing...
01:45:10.000You know, the idea is that, what Burr said that was so hilarious was that they took the fear out of comedy, and they made it so everyone's ultra-supportive, and you go there, and you can be, like, really awkward.
01:45:22.000And he goes, meanwhile, we had to go through fucking bars, you know, the places that we did stand-up, we were starting out, and getting booed at, and screamed by drunks.
01:45:30.000Yeah, but do you believe if you're either funny or you're not?
01:48:28.000He would go on stage singing, and really singing it, and everybody would be waiting for it to be a joke.
01:48:32.000I told you he threatened to kill me once, because he said I was stealing his act, because some bartender in San Francisco said I was doing his act.
01:50:59.000Getting on stage and public speaking is one of the most terrifying things.
01:51:01.000Joe, honestly, I think my pulse goes down when I'm on stage.
01:51:06.000The only time in the last 15 years I was ever like a little bit anxious was Madison Square Garden with Cher because I was worried about the sound system and the people in the back not hearing me because I heard it was a little screwy.
01:51:21.000And my sister got a little panicky about me going on.
01:51:25.000She goes, I can't believe you're going to go up in front of all these people.
01:51:28.000And I didn't want to look up at the banners and stuff of the Knicks and Rangers and the history and the garden and thinking Ali Frazier and Sinatra was there and the Beatles were there or whatever.
01:51:49.000It's so funny how relative it is, because the next night, after the second set, we were at the Pepsi Center in Denver, which is bigger than the garden, and I thought, oh, it's good to be out of there.
01:53:43.000Well, I mean, there were probably Sheriff fans coming to see her.
01:53:46.000And generally, her crowd was so eclectic That it was easy to do stand-up for because she doesn't get like a rock and roll crowd.
01:53:53.000It's not like Quiet Riot or something.
01:53:55.000It's like, you know, she's got people that, because she won Academy Awards, you've got grandmothers with their granddaughters and transvestites.
01:54:01.000Yeah, people forget she won an Academy Award.
01:54:03.000Yeah, and she's, you know, also an Emmy Award.
01:55:45.000The my god I sort of an ironic sense of humor and he's a he's got a good delivery, but I think he requires an attentive audience Yeah, but he also said on the podcast we had at death squad that when he came out that the people didn't know what to Of course expect and so he came out and just started to come in people immediately when you came out start going That's a big difference.
01:56:07.000Yeah, well that's him being a rookie He's yeah, but these Yeah, but these people paid money to see Charlie Sheen and some dude's just sitting there talking.
01:56:18.000If you're hired as a comedian to go on stage in front of Charlie Sheen and no one knows what the fuck is going on, this is the first show you guys have done.
01:57:09.000What he wound up doing is bringing comedians with him.
01:57:11.000I know Russell Peters did a couple of them.
01:57:13.000He did Toronto with him and a few other places, I think, as well.
01:57:15.000And they would go up on stage and Russell would sit down with them and Charlie would interview, you know, Russell would interview Charlie and talk to him and then crack a bunch of jokes along the way.
01:57:25.000And, you know, Russell's great at that shit.
02:01:10.000But I mean, I'm not gay because I like women so much, but it would be like, I was thinking about it, even at this point, the way I look now, and this is what's great about show business, is that I couldn't be gay if I wanted to, because I could never get guys as good looking as the girls I could get, because guys are more superficial, but you can get girls because they like talent and money.
02:03:30.000But, you know, there was a few people that were fascinated by it, but he was, like, super thankful.
02:03:35.000And I talked to, you know, Kindler and I briefly said, you know, we're like, maybe there should be some sort of a fucking comedian's union.
02:03:43.000You know, should there be a union or something?
02:03:53.000It was about health insurance and trying to unionize.
02:03:57.000But it's tough when everybody's in competition with each other for jobs.
02:04:01.000I think the only place it would work is when you have to get rid of thieves.
02:04:06.000That is when having comedians together...
02:04:09.000People don't understand the issue behind thievery, and that's why there was a lot of people that thought that what I did was really douchey when we released that Carlos video.
02:04:18.000But when you have someone who is being unchecked and they're doing well...
02:04:22.000And they're just running through the comedy world.
02:04:24.000People don't understand what that's like.
02:04:26.000It's like you're working with someone who just might steal your car and no one else that you work with is going to do shit about it.
02:04:32.000The guy's just going to steal your car.
02:04:33.000I mean, really, that's what it's like.
02:04:35.000A joke is actually worth more than a car.
02:05:10.000You know, several times throughout our career, a guy who comes along is just a fucking buccaneer who's just grabbing him from all over the place.
02:05:17.000And nobody wants to do anything about him.
02:05:20.000That's the time where I think something like a comedy union would help.
02:05:23.000You know, we could all get together and just all of us unanimously say, ladies and gentlemen of the audience, you people out there that pay to see stand-up comedy, this guy's a fucking thief.
02:08:05.000No, but I mean, you know, it was always like, you're coming into Hollywood shooting pool with me there.
02:08:09.000It was nice to get that off my chest, just to finally admit it, that even that day we were shooting, and those dogs were just walking around, just solid muscle and teeth, fucking jaws of death.
02:11:29.000Anyways, if you just Google MacVirus, it will come up with a couple pages, and there's links to the code that you cut and paste into your browser.
02:11:39.000And it's 9to5mac.com is the one that I saw it on.
02:11:43.000And it's pretty much, you just type in these codes, and it tells you what to look for and what not to look for to tell you if you have it.
02:11:50.000But, you know, honestly, the only thing you really have to do is just open up your little app on the left-hand corner, hit it, and then go to System Update.
02:11:58.000And there's a Java update in that that will patch it.
02:12:03.000And if it's not in there already, I mean, check to make sure you have it.
02:12:40.000I checked, though, this laptop and this iMac.
02:12:43.000You updated it last night, so everything's cool.
02:12:46.000And if you go to 9to5mac.com and you look at the map that who's infected, there is a lot of people infected, but we're talking about worldwide.
02:13:00.000Didn't Don Barris say that he had someone hacked into his computer?
02:13:05.000Don Barris had a meltdown last night on stage because he had his Facebook hacked and his Gmail hacked.
02:13:11.000So then he went in there and changed all the shit and then they hacked it again and He pretty much on stage was like, you know what I give up.
02:13:20.000I I'm not putting my I'm not doing that any more podcast anymore I'm not I'm done with this ding-dong shit like it really freaked him out that people are Why is it that easy to freak him out?
02:13:30.000Well, it's the point that, I mean, like we were talking about this the other day, if a girlfriend finds your cell phone and looks through your cell phone, that's scary sometimes.
02:13:40.000Like, you don't know what you fucking say to your friends, or like, you know, like, dude, you see that chick's tits?
02:13:50.000LOL. It's like if I ever die and my parents find my fucking laptop and they have to go through it and sort things, that's the most scariest shit ever.
02:13:58.000My mom's going to be like, what's wrong with Brian?
02:14:00.000And then I can't be like, Mom, no, I downloaded those for Photoshop so I could put Joe's face on it and it sent it on his message board.
02:14:50.000I was like, Joe, you know there's at least seven people in New Zealand right now listening to this phone call that are ahead of us in technology.
02:15:42.000I would highly recommend, though, this is something that I'm personally going to start doing, is to take your fucking computer and empty it all out onto external hard drives and then unplug those external hard drives from your computer and only use them when you need to.
02:15:59.000Like, if people are hacking Macs and people are doing this shit, nowadays with, like, WikiLeaks and all this fucking crazy shit, if you really want to fucking protect yourself...
02:16:27.000Well, have you seen this new thing on the cover of Wired, this month's Wired, about the NSA? Building the most incredible security spying computer system ever where they're going to be able to literally keep a data record of every phone call you make, every text you send, every phone call that gets in and out.
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02:22:47.000Pacific Coast time because Jim has a show out this away.
02:22:52.000He's going to be at the Canyon Club tomorrow night.
02:22:54.000If you don't know and you live in Agoura Hills, go check out one of the top stand-ups in the country right now, Jim Jeffries, the Australian lad, and he's going to be here tomorrow.