Joe Rogan Experience #1083 - Dom Irrera

1. 0:00 – 15:00

   And four, and three,…

   1. JRJoe Rogan0:01

      And four, and three, and two, and one. Dominic Herrera.

   2. DIDom Irrera0:07

      Oh, what a way to lead the show there, Joe Rogan.

   3. JRJoe Rogan0:09

      I like to do it that way. I don't know why I've been talking to you like that forever, but I have.

   4. DIDom Irrera0:13

      I know, you al- (laughs) We- we always go into those Irish accents.

   5. JRJoe Rogan0:16

      (laughs)

   6. DIDom Irrera0:17

      They would throw us out of Ireland with those accents.

   7. JRJoe Rogan0:19

      I think it was when you started touring in Ireland on a regular basis.

   8. DIDom Irrera0:23

      Uh-huh.

   9. JRJoe Rogan0:23

      Like-

   10. DIDom Irrera0:24

       That's a long time, Joe.

   11. JRJoe Rogan0:25

       Yeah. But you, you've always been touring in Ireland. I remember you talking about how great Ireland was, (sniffs) decades ago.

   12. DIDom Irrera0:30

       Yeah.

   13. JRJoe Rogan0:31

       Yeah.

   14. DIDom Irrera0:32

       Right?

   15. JRJoe Rogan0:32

       You've always loved it there, huh?

   16. DIDom Irrera0:32

       I've been to the Kilkenny Festival more than any other white guy. No, I mean American.

   17. JRJoe Rogan0:37

       (laughs)

   18. DIDom Irrera0:38

       (laughs)

   19. JRJoe Rogan0:38

       How long you been there? How many, how many times?

   20. DIDom Irrera0:40

       I think, like, 22.

   21. JRJoe Rogan0:41

       Holy shit.

   22. DIDom Irrera0:42

       And R- Rich Hall al- also went a lot, but he's, he's based in London. I'm the only one that actually still comes over.

   23. JRJoe Rogan0:48

       Rich Hall. He's not-

   24. DIDom Irrera0:50

       Remember him? He did the Sniglets.

   25. JRJoe Rogan0:51

       Yeah.

   26. DIDom Irrera0:51

       He was on Saturday Night Live for a-

   27. JRJoe Rogan0:52

       He's based in London now?

   28. DIDom Irrera0:53

       Yeah, he likes it better there, you know.

   29. JRJoe Rogan0:55

       Huh.

   30. DIDom Irrera0:55

       He, I mean, he still works here once in a while. He's got a place in Montana. But he was on Saturday Night Live, and he did that Sniglets book, and it was a big smash.
2. 15:00 – 30:00

   Wow. …

   1. JRJoe Rogan15:00

      a, like a split image of a, um, dinosaur, like a raptor, and it's covered with feathers.

   2. DIDom Irrera15:06

      Wow.

   3. JRJoe Rogan15:07

      Yeah, because they think it's entirely possible that a lot of the dinosaurs were covered in feathers.

   4. DIDom Irrera15:12

      I didn't know that-

   5. JRJoe Rogan15:12

      There's just not as much fossilized remains of it.

   6. DIDom Irrera15:14

      Huh. I didn't know that man never lived with dinosaurs at the same-

   7. JRJoe Rogan15:19

      Really?

   8. DIDom Irrera15:19

      ... period, yeah. I didn't know that until a couple years ago.

   9. JRJoe Rogan15:21

      You really didn't know?

   10. DIDom Irrera15:22

       I thought cavemen, you know, 'cause they always show them like in cartoon.

   11. JRJoe Rogan15:25

       (laughs)

   12. DIDom Irrera15:26

       I always go by The Flintstones. (laughs)

   13. JRJoe Rogan15:29

       (laughs) You really didn't know?

   14. DIDom Irrera15:31

       Well, I mean, uh-

   15. JRJoe Rogan15:32

       You're a real comic, Tom.

   16. DIDom Irrera15:33

       I guess I am.

   17. JRJoe Rogan15:34

       Y- y- you don't pay attention to shit. (laughs)

   18. DIDom Irrera15:38

       (laughs)

   19. GSGuest (unidentified third person in studio)15:38

       (laughs)

   20. JRJoe Rogan15:38

       Outside of telling jokes.

   21. DIDom Irrera15:39

       Thank God I can do that decently, Joe.

   22. JRJoe Rogan15:41

       Yeah. (laughs)

   23. DIDom Irrera15:41

       What would I do? I w- I have no skills. I s- I like to teach kids. I like, I liked teaching fourth grade and that was about it.

   24. JRJoe Rogan15:48

       But you like having fun. Well, if you teach kids, don't teach them about dinosaurs.

   25. DIDom Irrera15:52

       No.

   26. JRJoe Rogan15:52

       What did you teach? In paleontology?

   27. DIDom Irrera15:54

       Ta- I taught everything. (laughs) Yeah, I r-

   28. GSGuest (unidentified third person in studio)15:55

       (laughs)

   29. JRJoe Rogan15:55

       (laughs)

   30. DIDom Irrera15:55

       I taught everything 'cause it was Catholic school.
3. 30:00 – 45:00

   Just randomly? …

   1. DIDom Irrera30:00

      Dom was." He goes, he goes, "I wanna put him in this show." And, uh, Melissa goes, "Well, I'll tell you one thing, he's not gonna dance for you. You want him, yeah, ask him, but he ain't gonna audition." He goes, "I'm not gonna make him audition. I've known him for fucking 30 years." Anyway, that's how I got the part. Isn't that funny?

   2. JRJoe Rogan30:15

      Just randomly?

   3. DIDom Irrera30:15

      Randomly. He was ... Uh, he came in to look for young comedians. I am not one of them.

   4. JRJoe Rogan30:19

      (laughs)

   5. DIDom Irrera30:20

      (laughs) If you could tell by my, my receding hairline. But yeah, I, I mean, isn't that amazing? I mean, just there on a Thursday night randomly.

   6. JRJoe Rogan30:27

      Is that show still going on?

   7. DIDom Irrera30:28

      Yeah. We're, we're shooting, uh, they're shooting 10 more. I'm, I got a ...I know I'm doing, um, an alcohol, an alcoholic the whole time. Which is-

   8. JRJoe Rogan30:38

      (laughs) I never watched it. I watched one episode and I thought it was pretty good. But, I, uh, heard that it was-

   9. DIDom Irrera30:43

      It got better.

   10. JRJoe Rogan30:43

       Yeah, yeah. I heard that it was improving.

   11. DIDom Irrera30:45

       Yeah.

   12. JRJoe Rogan30:45

       That's what I heard.

   13. DIDom Irrera30:46

       Well, you know, look-

   14. JRJoe Rogan30:47

       All those things start off clunky.

   15. DIDom Irrera30:48

       Yeah. Do you remember Seinfeld at the beginning?

   16. JRJoe Rogan30:50

       I remember News Radio, the show I did in the beginning.

   17. DIDom Irrera30:52

       Yeah.

   18. JRJoe Rogan30:52

       It was clunky.

   19. DIDom Irrera30:53

       Yeah.

   20. JRJoe Rogan30:53

       It took a while to really get rolling.

   21. DIDom Irrera30:55

       Yeah, to get the rhythm.

   22. JRJoe Rogan30:55

       To become what it is.

   23. DIDom Irrera30:56

       Yeah.

   24. JRJoe Rogan30:56

       Sitcoms are very difficult. You know, I mean, one of the reasons why people are like, "Oh, why aren't there any good sitcoms on the air?" Well, goddamn, it's hard to do.

   25. DIDom Irrera31:04

       Well, this is a serious one. Like, I'm kind of the comic relief on this because it's about, like, comedians but not like, you know, when we goof around, (imitates crazy person babbling)

   26. JRJoe Rogan31:13

       Right.

   27. DIDom Irrera31:13

       It's not... You don't see hardly any of that. You see them more, like, jealous of each other and-

   28. JRJoe Rogan31:17

       Yeah.

   29. DIDom Irrera31:18

       ... yeah, they're showing the, the dark side of it. The woman who plays the Mitzi part is, uh, Melissa Leo. She's a, she won an Academy Award for some boxing movie, I forget. Uh, but she, she's playing Mitzi really serious. And I don't want to say anything, you know, because she's a t- great actress. But if I were asked to give one note, I would say M- they were... Mitzi really had a fun side to her.

   30. JRJoe Rogan31:42

       Yeah.
4. 45:00 – 1:00:00

   Right. …

   1. JRJoe Rogan45:00

      guys get into the UFC too young and then they're fighting top flight competition-

   2. DIDom Irrera45:04

      Right.

   3. JRJoe Rogan45:04

      ... like, right away and it's either sink or swim.

   4. DIDom Irrera45:06

      Yeah, yeah.

   5. JRJoe Rogan45:07

      And some guys swim, but some guys have real massive potential but really, they should be fighting someone of a lower caliber and developing their skills-

   6. DIDom Irrera45:14

      Sure.

   7. JRJoe Rogan45:14

      ... and experiencing a bunch of different styles, and then eventually working their way up to the UFC after, you know, five, six years or so. And instead they're fighting in the UFC at 20 years old, and they're just not really ready for top flight competition.

   8. DIDom Irrera45:26

      Yeah.

   9. JRJoe Rogan45:26

      'Cause in the UFC, if you string together five, six wins, you're in title contention in some weight divisions.

   10. DIDom Irrera45:30

       Yeah, that'll discourage the shit out of you.

   11. JRJoe Rogan45:32

       Yeah, and you're getting fucked up by some guy who's just many, many levels above you. You really shouldn't be-

   12. DIDom Irrera45:37

       Yeah.

   13. JRJoe Rogan45:37

       ... fighting him. Like the flyweight division is a perfect example 'cause it's run by this guy Demetrious Mighty Mouse Johnson.

   14. DIDom Irrera45:43

       Uh-huh.

   15. JRJoe Rogan45:43

       He's probably the best pound-for-pound fighter that's ever lived. And-

   16. DIDom Irrera45:46

       Wow.

   17. JRJoe Rogan45:46

       ... you know, if you-

   18. DIDom Irrera45:46

       That's, that's saying something, man.

   19. JRJoe Rogan45:48

       He's fucking incredible and he's, he's a wizard.

   20. DIDom Irrera45:50

       Mm-hmm.

   21. JRJoe Rogan45:51

       Like, he barely gets hit and, you know, and you s- we've seen him in the octagon develop and grow and become this guy and now-

   22. DIDom Irrera45:58

       Uh-huh.

   23. JRJoe Rogan45:58

       ... now he's just, just, uh, there's everybody and then there's Mighty Mouse. Mighty Mouse is just another level above everybody.

   24. DIDom Irrera46:03

       I never seen anybody as good as Mayweather to, to avoid punches.

   25. JRJoe Rogan46:07

       No one's better. No, no one, no one gets hit less.

   26. DIDom Irrera46:09

       That's incredible.

   27. JRJoe Rogan46:10

       Yeah. I mean, the guy's 50 and 0, and obviously one of them was Conor McGregor, which is kinda crazy.

   28. DIDom Irrera46:15

       (laughs)

   29. JRJoe Rogan46:15

       But Conor hit him, you know? I mean-

   30. DIDom Irrera46:17

       Yeah.
5. 1:00:00 – 1:04:46

   What, uh, yeah. …

   1. JRJoe Rogan1:00:00

      I'll tell you, uh, one of Tony Hinchcliffe's new bit. I can't say it on stage, but I'll, I'll tell you on stage when you tell me your thing on stage?

   2. DIDom Irrera1:00:07

      What, uh, yeah.

   3. JRJoe Rogan1:00:08

      Tony Hinchcliffe, uh, has a new bit that's fucking ruthless and killed me, and we came up with it in the car this weekend. We were on a road trip and, uh, we were talking about something and he said it, and, uh, I, I fucking died. I said, "You gotta say that on stage." He goes, "Seriously?"

   4. DIDom Irrera1:00:23

      (laughs)

   5. JRJoe Rogan1:00:23

      I go, "You gotta say that on stage."

   6. DIDom Irrera1:00:25

      Yeah, he's funny.

   7. JRJoe Rogan1:00:25

      I, I'll tell you. He did it last night and the room fucking exploded.

   8. DIDom Irrera1:00:29

      You gotta come back and do the show when I do it.

   9. JRJoe Rogan1:00:31

      What show?

   10. DIDom Irrera1:00:32

       His show.

   11. JRJoe Rogan1:00:32

       His show?

   12. DIDom Irrera1:00:33

       Kill Tony.

   13. JRJoe Rogan1:00:34

       Kill Tony? I don't like to work Monday nights.

   14. DIDom Irrera1:00:36

       Oh, yeah. Well, you gotta-

   15. JRJoe Rogan1:00:36

       I have a schedule now.

   16. DIDom Irrera1:00:37

       No, you gotta see the family. I agree.

   17. JRJoe Rogan1:00:39

       Yeah, but I have a schedule now, on Monday-

   18. DIDom Irrera1:00:41

       Sundays and Mondays-

   19. JRJoe Rogan1:00:42

       Sunday n- ... Yeah, Sundays and Mondays is ex- extreme family time. I just-

   20. DIDom Irrera1:00:46

       Good.

   21. JRJoe Rogan1:00:46

       I don't do jack shit.

   22. DIDom Irrera1:00:47

       No, because you won't have these days and they, and they grow up so fast. Not to get corny, but enjoy them.

   23. JRJoe Rogan1:00:51

       It's true. Yeah, it's true. Um, I'm enjoying it. I'm ...I'm happier now than I've ever been in my life.

   24. DIDom Irrera1:00:57

       Good. That's great to hear that.

   25. JRJoe Rogan1:00:59

       Yeah.

   26. DIDom Irrera1:01:00

       Yeah.

   27. JRJoe Rogan1:01:00

       And I'm also, I think I'm a nicer person now than I've ever been in my life.

   28. DIDom Irrera1:01:03

       Way little, way, way, way nicer? Geez.

   29. JRJoe Rogan1:01:06

       (laughs)

   30. DIDom Irrera1:01:06

       Don't have much to compare with. (laughs)

Episode duration: 1:36:57