Joe Rogan Experience #1083 - Dom Irrera

1. 0:01 – 1:28

   Irish tours, Kilkenny festival, and old comedy-road connections

   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. 1:28 – 3:30

   Comedy Store door guys and the club’s “renaissance” era

   1. DIDom Irrera1:28

      He was a joyless doorman. Like, he made the comedy (laughs) experience tense and miserable.

   2. JRJoe Rogan1:33

      Yeah.

   3. DIDom Irrera1:33

      But it's pretty funny.

   4. JRJoe Rogan1:34

      He was, he was rough as a doorman. Harris is... But he's one of those old staples of The Comedy Store-

   5. DIDom Irrera1:40

      Yeah.

   6. JRJoe Rogan1:40

      ... which is almost kind of weird, not having him around.

   7. DIDom Irrera1:42

      Yeah, yeah. He... I mean, he made it so uninviting, you know. Like-

   8. JRJoe Rogan1:46

      Yeah.

   9. DIDom Irrera1:47

      ... just have a smile to show to people, you know, they're going to have a good time. He made it like a military thing, you know.

   10. JRJoe Rogan1:52

       Yeah, it wasn't good. Yeah. (laughs) And then there was Chewy, who was always the, the, the, the guy who was sort of working the door, guard the bar-

   11. DIDom Irrera1:59

       You could get anything you wanted or anything you needed from Chewy.

   12. JRJoe Rogan2:02

       Yeah, allegedly.

   13. DIDom Irrera2:03

       He... You know, he played, he played guitar at the House of Blues across the street, and he was really good.

   14. JRJoe Rogan2:08

       Yeah.

   15. DIDom Irrera2:08

       And he was with this group, and I was thinking, 30 feet away, you're, like, the sh- the shlub who's, like, you know, running around, trying to, trying to sell s- you know, coke or whatever he was doing, and here, you're like a big star. Like, it's so close, yet so far, you know.

   16. JRJoe Rogan2:22

       Yeah, he used to headline at the House of Blues. We would all go over and see him.

   17. DIDom Irrera2:26

       Yeah, yeah.

   18. JRJoe Rogan2:26

       And he was fucking good, man.

   19. DIDom Irrera2:28

       Very good, yeah.

   20. JRJoe Rogan2:28

       His band... Where's he at?

   21. DIDom Irrera2:30

       I don't know.

   22. JRJoe Rogan2:31

       Wow.

   23. DIDom Irrera2:33

       I haven't been seeing him in years.

   24. JRJoe Rogan2:35

       You haven't seen that guy in literally forever.

   25. DIDom Irrera2:38

       Well, this whole, uh, re- renaissance at The Comedy Store has happened since you, you came back and the guys... Then they started filtering back, Bill Burr and, and, uh, Chris D'Elia came in, you know, but it's... But when he was here, it was some slow nights, man.

   26. JRJoe Rogan2:51

       Oh, yeah.

   27. DIDom Irrera2:52

       You know, you know, when you know the place is slow when Paulie and I are the most famous people. (laughs)

   28. JRJoe Rogan2:56

       (laughs)

   29. DIDom Irrera2:57

       That's not a good sign. I'm not putting myself down, but let's face it, it... You need a little more than the two of us.

   30. JRJoe Rogan3:03

       Yeah, it's weird there now, isn't it? You go there now, it's like it's mobbed.
3. 3:30 – 5:03

   Different LA club crowds and the value of same-night stage time

   1. DIDom Irrera3:30

      Yeah. Well, I love the crowds there. I mean, I really get something out of all three clubs. I really do. Like, Laugh Factory is like college kids and, and foreign students and fore- foreign people. And The Comedy Store, to me, is the most, uh, cross-pollinated, like, in the sense that there's so many more tourists-

   2. JRJoe Rogan3:48

      Yeah.

   3. DIDom Irrera3:48

      ... because there are hotels, you know?

   4. JRJoe Rogan3:49

      Right.

   5. DIDom Irrera3:49

      And then at... The Improv is kind of like Hollywood slick.

   6. JRJoe Rogan3:52

      Yeah, yeah. And then there's the Improv Lab, which I just can't get a read on.

   7. DIDom Irrera3:57

      I've done it a couple times just for the challenge, and man, they sit there, and then all of a sudden they laugh, it like scares you, 'cause they were sitting there-

   8. JRJoe Rogan4:04

      (laughs)

   9. DIDom Irrera4:05

      ... it's like, it was quiet and then they, you know, they go... They-

   10. JRJoe Rogan4:08

       It's a weird little room.

   11. DIDom Irrera4:09

       Yeah, they're very discerning, you know. That, that's like the hip spot there.

   12. JRJoe Rogan4:13

       The thing is, that room used to be a great room when it was set up the other way.

   13. DIDom Irrera4:16

       I liked it the other way too. Yeah.

   14. JRJoe Rogan4:17

       The other way was amazing, when it was the, that whole bar area.

   15. DIDom Irrera4:20

       Yeah.

   16. JRJoe Rogan4:21

       Yeah.

   17. DIDom Irrera4:22

       Well, you know, uh, I just, um... And the thing is, I don't know if, if- if you go... Do... You don't do the multiple, uh, shows... Or you do them all at The Store?

   18. JRJoe Rogan4:31

       I do some of, um... Some nights I'll do The Improv, then I'll jet over to The Store too. I don't really do The Factory anymore.

   19. DIDom Irrera4:38

       Yeah.

   20. JRJoe Rogan4:38

       Uh, but if I can do it, if I do an early show at The Store, sometimes I'll do the Icehouse as well.

   21. DIDom Irrera4:44

       Well, you'll do benefits there once-

   22. JRJoe Rogan4:45

       Yeah.

   23. DIDom Irrera4:45

       ... in a while.

   24. JRJoe Rogan4:46

       Yeah.

   25. DIDom Irrera4:47

       That's the way Bill d- Bill does it too. It's like, you know-

   26. JRJoe Rogan4:49

       Mm-hmm.

   27. DIDom Irrera4:49

       ... whatever makes you happy. You know, we've talked about this. It's like, uh, we- we're... I- I just love the idea, and I, and I know you do. You have a thought and you can go on that night.

   28. JRJoe Rogan4:59

       Yeah.

   29. DIDom Irrera4:59

       You know? I mean, what... Imagine like, you know, an actor can't do that.

4. 5:03 – 5:54

   From napkin notes to colonoscopy jokes: aging material and audiences

   1. JRJoe Rogan5:03

      No, it's giant too, because sometimes that thought is funny to you right there in that moment and you know why it's funny to you-

   2. DIDom Irrera5:08

      Yeah.

   3. JRJoe Rogan5:08

      ... and you might forget why it's funny the next day.

   4. DIDom Irrera5:10

      Oh, yeah.

   5. JRJoe Rogan5:10

      You might have, like, a little napkin with something written down, you know, uh, tampons, Kleenex-

   6. DIDom Irrera5:14

      Right.

   7. JRJoe Rogan5:15

      ... you know, paper towels.

   8. DIDom Irrera5:16

      Well, I don't carry tampons anymore.

   9. JRJoe Rogan5:18

      Anymore?

   10. DIDom Irrera5:19

       Because my rectal bleeding has ceased.

   11. JRJoe Rogan5:22

       Yeah.

   12. DIDom Irrera5:22

       More what I started with.

   13. JRJoe Rogan5:23

       I don't think that's the way to go with rectal bleeding. I think there's other options.

   14. DIDom Irrera5:26

       I think (laughs) ... You think you're... Did you ever get the colonostomy?

   15. JRJoe Rogan5:30

       No.

   16. DIDom Irrera5:30

       Colonoscopy, right?

   17. JRJoe Rogan5:32

       Yeah.

   18. DIDom Irrera5:32

       Anyway, people ask me, they say... I was saying something, they go, "It's funny." I said, "I don't think these college kids want to hear about that."

   19. JRJoe Rogan5:38

       No.

   20. DIDom Irrera5:39

       You know? It's not the kind of subject I would bring up. It's bad enough I'm older than them. I don't want to bring up stuff that hasn't happened to them yet.

   21. JRJoe Rogan5:45

       Yeah, stuff that they, they don't... They're never going to understand, like Alzheimer's. "Hey kids, you know what, about Alzheimer's-

   22. DIDom Irrera5:50

       Yeah.

   23. JRJoe Rogan5:50

       ... disease, right?" What's the name of that-

   24. DIDom Irrera5:52

       You know, what's the name of that disease? I can't remember the name.

   25. JRJoe Rogan5:53

       Ah, Parkinson's.

5. 5:54 – 10:55

   Australia, deadly wildlife, and Joe’s deep dive into bowhunting

   1. DIDom Irrera5:54

      Well, we were talking, Jamie, we were talking... Uh, I was telling him the power of this podcast. Not to stroke you, but you know, you know how strong it is. When I went to Australia d- not even thinking of... All these boys were, were there.... and they were, like, busting my chops about not knowing how ... Do you remember we did a thing about how much does a gorilla weigh?

   2. JRJoe Rogan6:12

      (laughs) Yeah.

   3. DIDom Irrera6:13

      And you were much closer than I was and they were busting my balls about not knowing how much ... "Rogan beat you on that one," you know?

   4. JRJoe Rogan6:18

      (laughs)

   5. DIDom Irrera6:19

      Isn't that funny?

   6. JRJoe Rogan6:20

      Fucking Australia. Of course it's about wildlife over there. I, I got a buddy, my buddy Adam Greentree is always trying to get me to come over to Australia and every time I find something on- online that can kill you from Australia, I send it to him.

   7. DIDom Irrera6:31

      (laughs)

   8. JRJoe Rogan6:31

      I'm like, "Fuck you."

   9. DIDom Irrera6:32

      Yeah, but you never see that stuff. You gotta go to the Outback for that.

   10. JRJoe Rogan6:35

       Well, that's where he wants to take me.

   11. DIDom Irrera6:36

       Now what are you ... Why would you want to go there? You might as well just go to the Mojave.

   12. JRJoe Rogan6:40

       Um, bow hunting.

   13. DIDom Irrera6:41

       You could get everything.

   14. JRJoe Rogan6:41

       There's a lot of bow hunting in Australia.

   15. DIDom Irrera6:43

       Bull hunting?

   16. JRJoe Rogan6:43

       Bow.

   17. DIDom Irrera6:44

       Oh.

   18. JRJoe Rogan6:44

       Bow. Like archery.

   19. DIDom Irrera6:45

       Oh my ... C- Can you do that?

   20. JRJoe Rogan6:47

       In Australia?

   21. DIDom Irrera6:48

       No, can you do it? Are you, are you good with a bow and arrow?

   22. JRJoe Rogan6:51

       For real?

   23. DIDom Irrera6:51

       Yeah.

   24. JRJoe Rogan6:52

       That's where I got that.

   25. DIDom Irrera6:54

       Wow.

   26. JRJoe Rogan6:55

       No, I didn't-

   27. DIDom Irrera6:56

       You didn't know I bow hunted?

   28. JRJoe Rogan6:57

       Can't believe I never told you that.

   29. DIDom Irrera6:58

       No, I've done it-

   30. JRJoe Rogan6:59

       I've been doing it for years.
6. 10:55 – 13:35

   Ethics of hunting, wounded game, and moose burgers in the freezer

   1. DIDom Irrera10:55

      Now did you ever sh- shoot an animal, hit it and then it ran away?

   2. JRJoe Rogan10:59

      Uh, unfortunately yes. I did that, uh, on TV. I did that-

   3. DIDom Irrera11:03

      Oh.

   4. JRJoe Rogan11:03

      ... with that Meat Eater show. Yeah, there was a problem with the rifle. The, um, the rifle scope was off.

   5. DIDom Irrera11:09

      Yeah, yeah, yeah.

   6. JRJoe Rogan11:09

      It had fallen and the rifle sco- the rifle scope was installed by one of the guys as we got there. We changed scopes because there was a sponsor of the company-

   7. DIDom Irrera11:19

      Oh.

   8. JRJoe Rogan11:19

      ... a sponsor of the show rather, and they put a different rifle scope on and, uh, shot a deer with it and it was wounded and it wa- it didn't die.

   9. DIDom Irrera11:27

      Yeah, that's got to suck.

   10. JRJoe Rogan11:28

       And they had to cut it off. It was horrible. I mean, I'm sure, it sure had died within a couple of hours but we couldn't get to it in time.

   11. DIDom Irrera11:33

       Yeah.

   12. JRJoe Rogan11:34

       We couldn't find it.

   13. DIDom Irrera11:35

       I'd rather just hit it with a car.

   14. JRJoe Rogan11:37

       Blah.

   15. DIDom Irrera11:38

       Come on.

   16. JRJoe Rogan11:38

       Well that's one of the problems with where we were.

   17. DIDom Irrera11:40

       Yeah.

   18. JRJoe Rogan11:40

       In Wisconsin, like, at nighttime you got to drive slow.

   19. DIDom Irrera11:43

       Oh, yeah.

   20. JRJoe Rogan11:44

       They, they're fucking everywhere. They're darting out into the middle of the road, especially when what's called the rut kicks in.

   21. DIDom Irrera11:50

       What's a-

   22. JRJoe Rogan11:50

       Do you know what the rut is, Tom Iger?

   23. DIDom Irrera11:51

       No. The de- you get all horny. That's what I was thinking, yeah.

   24. JRJoe Rogan11:54

       Yeah. They rut, they rut around. They get fucking crazy. They get so crazy they'll just, like, walk right into traffic and just stare at cars.

   25. DIDom Irrera12:02

       I'll fuck anything. (laughs)

   26. JRJoe Rogan12:04

       (laughs) You know that's what they're doing?

   27. DIDom Irrera12:04

       Even if it's coming at me.

   28. JRJoe Rogan12:05

       I mean, there's, there's videos of, uh, moose, uh, trying to fuck bales of hay during the rut. Like, they literally lose their mind. They have no idea what's going on. They just-

   29. DIDom Irrera12:14

       The moose are, like, nine feet or something?

   30. JRJoe Rogan12:15

       They're gigantic.
7. 13:35 – 15:41

   Birds, dinosaurs, pterodactyls—and learning science from your kids

   1. JRJoe Rogan13:35

      Do they know whether or not pterodact- I, I just found out from my seven-year-old that pterodactyls are not dinosaurs.

   2. DIDom Irrera13:42

      Really?

   3. JRJoe Rogan13:42

      Yeah, she corrected me.

   4. DIDom Irrera13:43

      They came in a different period?

   5. JRJoe Rogan13:44

      I don't know. She told me they're not dinosaurs, and we Googled it and she was right. And then I was like, "How am I so stupid?"

   6. DIDom Irrera13:49

      They're not dinosaurs?

   7. JRJoe Rogan13:50

      And then I was thinking, you know, we always had those images of pterodactyls where they were flying around and they had like bat-like wings, right?

   8. DIDom Irrera13:56

      Right.

   9. JRJoe Rogan13:57

      What do you got, Jimmy? You got something for me?

   10. GSGuest (unidentified third person in studio)13:59

       That's what it says, it says that they lived at the same time but they're not actually dinosaurs.

   11. JRJoe Rogan14:02

       Hm.

   12. DIDom Irrera14:03

       What, what makes it a dinosaur, technically?

   13. JRJoe Rogan14:04

       Good question. Somehow, they're not actually dinosaurs. They were flying creatures, and paleontologists keep telling us that dinosaurs are birds, so the di- what? Wait a minute.

   14. GSGuest (unidentified third person in studio)14:14

       Yeah.

   15. JRJoe Rogan14:15

       They're pterosaurs. But that doesn't make any sense, because dinosaurs are birds. So birds became dinosaurs, but pterodactyls, who could fly, are not dinosaurs.

   16. DIDom Irrera14:25

       Well, isn't the bird the, the, uh, closest descendant of dinosaurs?

   17. JRJoe Rogan14:29

       Yes. Yeah. They're not dinosaurs, so what the hell are they? Here's the thing, like when they show that image of them with, uh, the skin for wings instead of, uh, bats, I don't know if they know if that's real. I don't know if that's based on what they absolutely know or like what they think, because they're starting to think that a lot of dinosaurs had feathers now. This is pretty recently, uh, I was in the museum in Bozeman, Montana. There's a museum, like a natural history type museum-

   18. DIDom Irrera14:59

       Mm-hmm.

   19. JRJoe Rogan14:59

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

   20. DIDom Irrera15:06

       Wow.

   21. JRJoe Rogan15:07

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

   22. DIDom Irrera15:12

       I didn't know that-

   23. JRJoe Rogan15:12

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

   24. DIDom Irrera15:14

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

   25. JRJoe Rogan15:19

       Really?

   26. DIDom Irrera15:19

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

   27. JRJoe Rogan15:21

       You really didn't know?

   28. DIDom Irrera15:22

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

   29. JRJoe Rogan15:25

       (laughs)

   30. DIDom Irrera15:26

       I always go by The Flintstones. (laughs)
8. 15:41 – 17:47

   Dom the Catholic-school teacher: fun classrooms and lasting impact

   1. 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.

   2. JRJoe Rogan15:48

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

   3. DIDom Irrera15:52

      No.

   4. JRJoe Rogan15:52

      What did you teach? In paleontology?

   5. DIDom Irrera15:54

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

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

      (laughs)

   7. JRJoe Rogan15:55

      (laughs)

   8. DIDom Irrera15:55

      I taught everything 'cause it was Catholic school.

   9. JRJoe Rogan15:57

      Oh.

   10. DIDom Irrera15:57

       I taught everything but the, but the smart kids math, 'cause I was dumb, I s- I stuck with the dumb kids, and-

   11. JRJoe Rogan16:03

       Oh.

   12. DIDom Irrera16:03

       ... we would split the class. Like, "Come on, you retards, come with me," which you couldn't say now.

   13. JRJoe Rogan16:08

       Yeah, you couldn't say that now. You'd get in serious trouble. You'd be on the front page of USA Today.

   14. DIDom Irrera16:12

       You know, I still have kids get in touch with me.

   15. JRJoe Rogan16:14

       Really?

   16. DIDom Irrera16:15

       Yeah. They said, and it made- makes me feel so good that it was the best year of their lives as far as going to school. 'Cause I really, m- we, we had fucking fun. I would go in, my, my speech was, "I want to go to the gym more than you guys do, so don't mess it up for me."

   17. JRJoe Rogan16:29

       Mm-hmm.

   18. DIDom Irrera16:30

       And you've got to learn some of this stuff, I don't know why I hate it too. You know, I'd be like kind of honest.

   19. JRJoe Rogan16:34

       Right.

   20. DIDom Irrera16:35

       And they dug it, and we had just, we said, a d- we had dance contests and everything.

   21. JRJoe Rogan16:39

       (laughs)

   22. DIDom Irrera16:40

       It was hilarious. I had this one kid, Tyrone Dunn, he was like a baby James Brown. He could do a split, a complete split and then s- then get his, his self up without touching anything.

   23. JRJoe Rogan16:51

       Wow.

   24. DIDom Irrera16:51

       Yeah, amazing.

   25. JRJoe Rogan16:52

       Like James Brown?

   26. DIDom Irrera16:54

       Yeah, yeah.

   27. JRJoe Rogan16:54

       Wow. Yeah, well, when you're a kid and you're going to school, like anyone who has any spark of life is exciting.

   28. DIDom Irrera17:01

       Yeah.

   29. JRJoe Rogan17:01

       I still, to this day, think about some of the teachers that I had in high school. I had two really good teachers in high school. One lady, I wish I could remember her name, and one guy who was a Spanish teacher that I'm pretty sure fucked one of my friends, who was a girl.

   30. DIDom Irrera17:17

       Oh.
9. 17:47 – 21:17

   Comics’ dirty memories: teen sex jokes, masturbation myths, and Crazy Lenny

   1. DIDom Irrera17:47

      I remember I did this clean show at the, uh, that hotel in San Diego, the, uh, I forget what it was, Some Like It Hot was.

   2. JRJoe Rogan17:55

      It's a clean show?

   3. DIDom Irrera17:56

      Ch- Del Coronado. Uh, I did a clean show, like an early show at 7:00 on a Saturday.

   4. JRJoe Rogan18:00

      Did they, did they make you be clean?

   5. DIDom Irrera18:02

      Uh, they can only make you be so clean, but to the point, the, the thing I was getting at was, uh, there was these 15-year-old boys there, right? And they were with their parents, and you could tell their parents were a little snooty. So I said, "15, what a great age." And this, this is, this can be a dangerous thing to say. I said, "You know what's great about f- being 15? You can nail a 15-year-old girl and not go to jail for the rest of your life." (laughs)

   6. JRJoe Rogan18:23

      (laughs)

   7. GSGuest (unidentified third person in studio)18:24

      (laughs)

   8. DIDom Irrera18:24

      Right? Like s- and the p- the kids were crying laughing, and the parents were really, they looked like they wanted to pull them out of there, you know?

   9. JRJoe Rogan18:31

      Oh, yeah. Parents don't want kids fucking. Isn't that hilarious?

   10. DIDom Irrera18:36

       Well, if they're both fif- 15-

   11. JRJoe Rogan18:37

       Yeah.

   12. DIDom Irrera18:38

       ... they re- they really can't get in trouble.

   13. JRJoe Rogan18:39

       Well, the girl could get pregnant.

   14. DIDom Irrera18:41

       Yeah.

   15. JRJoe Rogan18:42

       That's no bueno. But, like, the idea that you're gonna stop them, like, "Hey, you stop doing that thing that feels better than anything-"

   16. DIDom Irrera18:48

       (laughs)

   17. JRJoe Rogan18:48

       "... you're ever gonna do, at school, at work." Don't do that, though. Your o- all of your cells in your body are compelling you in that direction.

   18. DIDom Irrera18:58

       But don't do that.

   19. JRJoe Rogan18:59

       But don't do it. Your whole body, your DNA, your thoughts are haunted. Everything is wrapped around, like, tits and ass and legs and feet and mouths and argh.

   20. DIDom Irrera19:11

       (laughs)

   21. JRJoe Rogan19:12

       Don't do it.

   22. DIDom Irrera19:13

       I remember the first time I whacked off in my... I was in my bedroom in Philly, and I came so much that I thought, "I'll never have children."

   23. JRJoe Rogan19:23

       (laughs)

   24. DIDom Irrera19:23

       I re- I really did. I thought I... I swear, Joe, I thought I emptied it.

   25. JRJoe Rogan19:27

       (laughs) It's how you drain the tank.

   26. DIDom Irrera19:29

       It just kept coming-

   27. JRJoe Rogan19:30

       Oh, no.

   28. DIDom Irrera19:31

       ... like flow, like flow, it gushes.

   29. JRJoe Rogan19:32

       Yeah. Isn't it amazing how far you would shoot back then, too?

   30. DIDom Irrera19:35

       Oh.
10. 21:17 – 27:01

    Pool culture, Twitch streaming ideas, and avoiding overexposure

    1. DIDom Irrera21:17

       I remember meeting you d- on the, at the, the Club Soda.

    2. JRJoe Rogan21:20

       Yeah, that was fun.

    3. DIDom Irrera21:21

       Yeah.

    4. JRJoe Rogan21:21

       And then we ran into each other again at Amsterdam Billiards.

    5. DIDom Irrera21:23

       Right, and then we started shooting pool.

    6. JRJoe Rogan21:24

       And I was like, "Oh, this time of year to play the pool."

    7. DIDom Irrera21:27

       (laughs)

    8. JRJoe Rogan21:28

       There's only a few of us that play the pool. Artie Lange plays real good pool.

    9. DIDom Irrera21:31

       Does he?

    10. JRJoe Rogan21:32

        Yep, very good. Fitzsimmons was here yesterday. He plays real good.

    11. DIDom Irrera21:34

        Yeah. Uh, Greg and I just played at the, uh, the, uh, at the Improv. They used to have a, a quarter table upstairs.

    12. JRJoe Rogan21:40

        Oh, really?

    13. DIDom Irrera21:41

        Yeah, for years.

    14. JRJoe Rogan21:42

        Oh. The, the setup up there is very nice, though, now, at the Improv.

    15. DIDom Irrera21:45

        Yeah, the-

    16. JRJoe Rogan21:45

        That whole green room with the, the, the, uh, podcast studio.

    17. DIDom Irrera21:49

        Yeah, that, it's cool.

    18. JRJoe Rogan21:50

        It's very nice. It's a good setup.

    19. DIDom Irrera21:52

        We're plugging the shit out of these clubs.

    20. JRJoe Rogan21:54

        Oh, that's what we do down there at uh...

    21. DIDom Irrera21:56

        (laughs)

    22. JRJoe Rogan21:56

        But yeah, like, out of... Guys who play pool, like comics who play pool, it's a fucking small group of us.

    23. DIDom Irrera22:01

        Yeah.

    24. JRJoe Rogan22:02

        Not that many. Who else? Somebody else plays good.

    25. DIDom Irrera22:05

        I think, uh, M- Adam Ferrara plays.

    26. JRJoe Rogan22:07

        Yes! Ferrara plays very good.

    27. DIDom Irrera22:09

        He does?

    28. JRJoe Rogan22:10

        Adam plays very good. Yeah.

    29. DIDom Irrera22:11

        He was at my house playing, but I know I'll never get you back there 'cause there's too many, uh, obstacles.

    30. JRJoe Rogan22:16

        Just gotta jack up, do... Like have one of those little baby cues.
11. 27:01 – 33:59

    Jim Carrey, “Man on the Moon,” and Dom landing a TV role by accident

    1. DIDom Irrera27:01

       I also, it's like, I th- the thing that bothers me, and I, I love standup and, uh, I, it, it's when a guy acts so different a- like, all of a sudden he goes into this character.

    2. JRJoe Rogan27:10

       Mm-hmm.

    3. DIDom Irrera27:11

       You know what I mean? Like just-

    4. JRJoe Rogan27:12

       Yeah.

    5. DIDom Irrera27:12

       ... instead of them ... I mean, the funniest guys to me are guys that do characters but they're themselves.

    6. JRJoe Rogan27:17

       Yeah.

    7. DIDom Irrera27:17

       And they talk real, like, you know. And that's why, I mean, you and Burr, y- you're the same guys on and off stage. You know, when, when we're, we're talking, sometimes you get silly, sometimes you're serious. Right?

    8. JRJoe Rogan27:28

       Right. Be ... Just be yourself, yeah. I know what you're saying.

    9. DIDom Irrera27:30

       Yeah.

    10. JRJoe Rogan27:30

        Be sincere.

    11. DIDom Irrera27:31

        But you can be just as fucking goofy as you want, but don't stay in that.

    12. JRJoe Rogan27:34

        Yeah.

    13. DIDom Irrera27:34

        It's so hacky to me.

    14. JRJoe Rogan27:37

        It can be. I'm always waiting for someone to do it right, someone ... I don't wanna pass judgment. Like, maybe one guy comes along and he's in character all the time, but it's fucking hilarious.

    15. DIDom Irrera27:45

        Oh, I just-

    16. JRJoe Rogan27:45

        It's possible.

    17. DIDom Irrera27:46

        ... I just watched Jim Carrey on th- uh, the, uh, when he did Andy Kaufman.

    18. JRJoe Rogan27:50

        Yeah.

    19. DIDom Irrera27:50

        It was fucking amazing.

    20. JRJoe Rogan27:52

        Oh, that was that m- the documentary, um-

    21. DIDom Irrera27:53

        Oh, that, that was ... Yeah, that sprang, sprang from that.

    22. JRJoe Rogan27:56

        Right.

    23. DIDom Irrera27:56

        But I was watching the r- the movie last night, I forget what it's called. Uh, uh, something-

    24. JRJoe Rogan28:00

        Man on the Moon? Man in-

    25. DIDom Irrera28:01

        Yeah, Man in the Moon.

    26. JRJoe Rogan28:02

        Yeah.

    27. DIDom Irrera28:03

        Boy, Jim's good.

    28. JRJoe Rogan28:04

        Oh, it's s- br- brilliant. You know what's really interesting with him? He's taken, like, a severe, um, psychological and I guess philosophical turn where he's, he's just thought about life and things. Some ... He must have had, like, some psychedelic experiences too.

    29. DIDom Irrera28:23

        I think so. Sounds like it.

    30. JRJoe Rogan28:24

        Yeah, because he's just talking about, like, what matters and what doesn't matter. A- and, you know, and there's this, a bunch of, like, interviews and, uh, clips of him discussing things where you're like, "Whoa." Like, this guy does not ... He's not talking like Jim Carrey, the world-famous-
12. 33:59 – 1:04:46

    Fights, fatherhood, and purpose: from MMA memories to pay-the-athletes rants

    1. DIDom Irrera33:59

       Man, I would love to see you fight, Joe.

    2. JRJoe Rogan34:01

       I was a different guy, man. I was, uh, very intense. I wasn't v- very funny.

    3. DIDom Irrera34:06

       Did you ever think you'd be a comedian when you were... in those days?

    4. JRJoe Rogan34:08

       No.

    5. DIDom Irrera34:09

       Oh.

    6. JRJoe Rogan34:10

       I didn't think I was funny. I made people laugh, but the people that I made laugh were all psychos. They were all, like, guys that I, I was training and fighting with.

    7. DIDom Irrera34:18

       Right, right.

    8. JRJoe Rogan34:18

       And I was just... Like, I felt like we were all freaks, you know, 'cause we were martial artists that were traveling literally all around the country and entering these full-contact tournaments, and it was terrifying.

    9. DIDom Irrera34:29

       You don't have any video?

    10. JRJoe Rogan34:30

        I have some video. There's a video of me on YouTube with me knocking somebody out.

    11. DIDom Irrera34:33

        No kidding.

    12. JRJoe Rogan34:34

        Yeah, when I was 19 in Connecticut.

    13. DIDom Irrera34:35

        You think you could beat me in a sparring court?

    14. JRJoe Rogan34:37

        That's why... No. I couldn't, I love you too much.

    15. DIDom Irrera34:39

        (laughs)

    16. JRJoe Rogan34:40

        I'd just hold you.

    17. DIDom Irrera34:41

        Well, you know what you do, which is really interesting for a str- guy that's strong, you never-

    18. JRJoe Rogan34:44

        That's me right there. That's me in the blue and I kick that guy and launch him.

    19. DIDom Irrera34:49

        Oh. Wow.

    20. JRJoe Rogan34:50

        That's all I have.

    21. DIDom Irrera34:51

        It's great.

    22. JRJoe Rogan34:53

        I have some other video on my computer somewhere of some, like, uneventful round of some TaeKwonDo tournament. There's a guy out there who's got a couple of videos of me though, and he and I have gone back and forth on that.

    23. DIDom Irrera35:04

        What weight were you?

    24. JRJoe Rogan35:05

        That was 154. I... When I was in s- senior year in high school, I fought at 140 and I was too light. It was too hard for me. I was always dehydrating myself and I would, uh, like, uh, do things in the shower, like jump up and down in the shower and shadow box in the shower with the s- the f- the hot water on to try to sweat out weight.

    25. DIDom Irrera35:27

        Mm-hmm.

    26. JRJoe Rogan35:28

        I couldn't eat for, like, a whole day. And then, I would, I would fight that day and it was terrible. I did that for one year.

    27. DIDom Irrera35:33

        That sounds horrible.

    28. JRJoe Rogan35:34

        Yeah.

    29. DIDom Irrera35:34

        My father was a professional boxer.

    30. JRJoe Rogan35:36

        Yeah.

Episode duration: 1:36:57