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Joe Rogan Experience #1096 - Todd Glass

Todd Glass is a stand-up comedian and also hosts his own podcast called “The Todd Glass Show”. His latest special "Act Happy" is available now on Netflix.

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Mar 27, 20182h 33mWatch on YouTube ↗

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  1. 0:0015:00

    ... equipped, insulated walls…

    1. JR

      ... equipped, insulated walls put in (hands clap) the-- five, four, three, two, one. Someone's got a new Netflix special. (laughs)

    2. TG

      (laughs) (claps) (door creaks) Ha.

    3. JR

      (laughs) Couldn't think of any other way to start.

    4. TG

      The opposite of what I thought you... (laughs)

    5. JR

      (laughs) (burps)

    6. TG

      Wow.

    7. JR

      Dun-dun-dun. So you do have a new Netflix special, though?

    8. TG

      I do.

    9. JR

      I don't want this to be, like, an interview.

    10. TG

      No, but I, but I, but I, but I, I like it. I'm actually proud of it. You know, it's like, I'm still proud of it, you know?

    11. JR

      That's awesome.

    12. TG

      Usually, a certain amount of time will go by where I'm like, "Ugh."

    13. JR

      Yeah.

    14. TG

      Like, by the time I'm even... Now, I've gotten it better on the road, 'cause you know, I was-

    15. JR

      Right.

    16. TG

      ... you know, the day after you shoot it, you go out on the road-

    17. JR

      And you're a murderer.

    18. TG

      ... and you have a little fun with it.

    19. JR

      Yeah, yeah, yeah.

    20. TG

      And that's when you go, "Ugh," and then you go... But I'm still proud of it. It was my favorite thing I've... It, it... The guy did, Jeff Rowe is the guy who... And Scott Moran, but just everything I wanted, they did it perfect.

    21. JR

      That's awesome.

    22. TG

      The look, the lighting.

    23. JR

      Where'd you do it?

    24. TG

      I did it at The Lyric, but... And The Lyric is great, but there's no doubt-

    25. JR

      This, is The Lyric in LA?

    26. TG

      The Lyric is in LA. It's like at Melrose and, Melrose and La Brea.

    27. JR

      Ah.

    28. TG

      Pretty... But, but they sort of used it as a shell, and it's already a pretty cool club, but... You know, it's so... The b- the biggest compliment I got, someone said, "You know what's weird about your special? I wanna go there and it doesn't exist."

    29. JR

      Ah.

    30. TG

      What it looked like.

  2. 15:0030:00

    It's a different thing.…

    1. TG

      does j-

    2. JR

      It's a different thing.

    3. TG

      Even a joint, I don't roll joints 'cause I'm lazy, but whenever someone has a joint and they put it, I go, "This is when I ... This just-"

    4. JR

      Yeah.

    5. TG

      "... happens so-"

    6. JR

      Yeah.

    7. TG

      "... I get, I get a little higher." (laughs)

    8. JR

      I like to smoke joints. They, f- it's a g- it feels like it's real clear what's happening. You know, like, there's a lot of these vape pens, you gotta press them five times-

    9. TG

      Yeah.

    10. JR

      ... then hold them and you're sucking it in. You don't know what's in that oil, man. Who's making that stuff? Who's making that shit?

    11. TG

      And they yell at-

    12. JR

      Yeah.

    13. TG

      They yell at you when you can't do it. "Just press it twice! All right, it doesn't work as easy as you think."

    14. JR

      Oh, Jesus Christ with the press it twice.

    15. TG

      I got one more thing.

    16. JR

      Do you ever fuck around with spray?

    17. TG

      You mean-

    18. JR

      Jambo Spray? You ever fuck around with Jambo? Do you know what Jambo is?

    19. TG

      You put it in the water?

    20. JR

      No, Super Organic really High-End Edibles and Spray. And this fucking spray will put you on the moon.

    21. TG

      Wow, do you have any?

    22. JR

      Of course I do.

    23. TG

      Wow, but I have to drive... I have someone, someone hanging with me today, John Brian Wagner.

    24. JR

      Yeah.

    25. TG

      Give him a shout out. I give a shout out you piece of shit.

    26. JR

      This is the 1,000 milligram, like if you drank the whole bottle, it's 1,000 milligrams.

    27. TG

      That's too much to have of course.

    28. JR

      Oh, yeah.

    29. TG

      I wouldn't have a half a spray.

    30. JR

      Oh, yeah.

  3. 30:0045:00

    Yeah.... whenever I see…

    1. JR

      like, y- you get this ... That, that to me was what I was into. What I wasn't into is people that d- needed to be motivated. They, they just didn't, they couldn't, they would, they just half-assed things. They weren't enthusiastic. They were distracted. Maybe they were talking too much. Like, n- you could do all that stuff another time, but if you wanna get good at this, there's only one way. You have to be really interested in getting good at it. You gotta be really focused on all the things you're doing (hands clap) right or wrong.

    2. TG

      Yeah.... whenever I see a comedian, like you go back a year to a club, you saw a comedian, he's a newer comedian. If he has been going up at least twice a week and it's 52 weeks later-

    3. JR

      Right.

    4. TG

      ... it's fun to see that type of improvement.

    5. JR

      Oh, yeah.

    6. TG

      And you're like, "Wow." Like, j- yeah, maybe I've gone up, what, 300 times since you've been here.

    7. JR

      Yeah.

    8. TG

      But you can tell if they haven't.

    9. JR

      Do you have any friends that you knew when you were a professional and they were open micers?

    10. TG

      Oh, you mean-

    11. JR

      Like, y- they're professionals now-

    12. TG

      Oh, yeah. Yeah.

    13. JR

      ... but you were a full-blown professional, you met them when they were an open micer.

    14. TG

      Mm-hmm.

    15. JR

      Yeah.

    16. TG

      Matter of fact, it leads me to a little plug.

    17. JR

      Oh, you want a plug?

    18. TG

      (laughs) It does look like you set, uh, set me up for it. But Blake Wexler is a comedian, he's a professional comedian now, and he met me when he was, like, 15 or 16 at Helium. And he was wearing a Conestoga shirt, that's, uh, where I went to high school. So of course you're like... You know, and he said he's a new comedian, so right away.

    19. JR

      Right.

    20. TG

      You know, went to your high school and he's doing standup comedy. He was with his dad, we talked-

    21. JR

      Right.

    22. TG

      ... you know, like... I go, "Hey, if you wanna come back with your friend Saturday," I said, "here's my number, I'll put you on the guest list." And then, you know, years, year goes by, I was in Philly, h- I called him, I said, "Hey, Blake, you know, uh, uh, thanks for..." It was... Whatever it was, it would be a message I was leaving, "Hey, I got your friends on the guest list for Thursday." And then there's these messages, then we became good friends. So he told me, "I saved every one of your messages about a year ago." Eh, I've had people say that before, but then they go, "Oh, they got erased or when they..." You know, "Oh, I got my computer and then I lost them." He came over about a year ago with, uh, m- like, uh, 50 messages. And so we put them on a CD and put them on iTunes, and it's, uh, uh, uh, 12 Years of Messages from Todd Glass to Blake Wexler, simple name.

    23. JR

      (laughs)

    24. TG

      But, uh, the reason-

    25. JR

      (laughs)

    26. TG

      ... I think it's really pure i- in a... Which is a weird way to maybe s- say it, but it's just from me to him. Like-

    27. JR

      Right.

    28. TG

      Now, there was probably three or four at the end where I knew they'd probably end up on there, but I mentioned it, I go, "Now this whole thing is fucking ruined 'cause I know you're making that CD, so now I'm aware of it." But most of them, I never thought they'd end up on a C- so it's just me talking to Blake, and it sort of tells our friendship. You see the friendship grow, but it's, uh... They're, they're, they're f- they're so (laughs) very funny-

    29. JR

      Yeah.

    30. TG

      ... to hear them years later.

  4. 45:001:00:00

    It's so much fun,…

    1. JR

      thinking about stuff.

    2. TG

      It's so much fun, isn't it?

    3. JR

      Fuck yeah. It's awesome.

    4. TG

      It really is.

    5. JR

      It's the greatest gig.

    6. TG

      I still get like ... It really is. Just and the, and the, and, um, you know, with the recorder like on the phone.

    7. JR

      Yeah.

    8. TG

      That's changed. That's true. 'Cause I don't like writing stuff down. And I can say that's changed my life.

    9. JR

      Do you do, do the, um, text, uh, speech to text?

    10. TG

      Yes.

    11. JR

      Where you just talk into it and it writes your notes for you?

    12. TG

      Mm-hmm. Yeah.

    13. JR

      That's amazing.

    14. TG

      And it's every one of my ... I can just put jokes on there, bit by by ... You know, the recorder.

    15. JR

      Mm-hmm.

    16. TG

      Oh, that recorder, man. That just cleaned my head up.

    17. JR

      Yeah. The recorder's giant.

    18. TG

      Whoo. It's a big deal.

    19. JR

      Yeah, man. Any- anything where you can catch those slippery thoughts. Like, I think Neal Brennan said it best. He, I think he called his notebook, he's like, "This is like a net where I catch ideas." And I was like, "Ooh, that is a great way of looking at it." That is a great way of looking at it because some ideas, they just go away. Like they're so profound (laughs) . They're so profound but then a couple hours later you're like, "What the fuck was I thinking?" That always used to get me, where I'd have this amazing idea, or what I thought was an amazing idea, and then I, I go, "Ah, that's such a good idea. I'll remember it in the morning." And I go to sleep. (laughs)

    20. TG

      I know. I still pull that shit.

    21. JR

      I've never remembered it.

    22. TG

      Ne- never.

    23. JR

      Never.

    24. TG

      I still pull that. I go, "What are you doing?" If my phone, if I ... I didn't have my charger now, I finally got a cord and it's next to the bed so I always have a cord to plug in my phone. But, uh, never ... Why do I ... And not, not half the time. Never. And I still have the n- I'll go out ... "No, 'cause that's a good idea." Never.

    25. JR

      Hedberg had a joke about that.

    26. TG

      Too lazy to get up. (laughs)

    27. JR

      Yeah, about being too lazy to get up to get a pen to write something down. So I just convinced myself it wasn't that funny in the first place. (laughs)

    28. TG

      Is that great?

    29. JR

      But what's great is that, that was a bit he did on stage and it would kill.

    30. TG

      Yeah.

  5. 1:00:001:02:44

    (laughs) …

    1. JR

      100% correct. You could not be more correct. And there's a real problem. We gotta really avoid this shit. There's people that'll say things like, you know, "Women are all dumb bitches" or "Men are all p- shit." And that, that's nonsense. It's these gender-based generalizations are so stupid. There's nice people that are women.

    2. TG

      (laughs)

    3. JR

      There's nice people that are men. It's just... There's plenty of them.

    4. TG

      Yeah.

    5. JR

      You, you can't have a few bad relationships and turn on other people, uh, every person who has the same gender. And also, like, take a good look at yourself.

    6. TG

      (laughs)

    7. JR

      'Cause if you really... You know, there's, there's some people out there that do generalize like that. Like look at who... Look at your shit thinking that you're just diarrhea spraying out into the world.

    8. TG

      That's- (laughs)

    9. JR

      You know? I mean, that's really what it is. Whether you're a sexist against women-

    10. TG

      Just... (coughs)

    11. JR

      ... or a sexist against men. You, you have... You have such a piss-poor way of looking at things. Everybody knows you're wrong. Everybody knows you're wrong. You think that... I mean, whatever it is, any generalization, whether it's a racist generalization, uh, uh, sexist, homophobic, it's all the sa-... Everybody who's listening knows what it is. You know what it is when someone makes a generalization, like, "No. Look. No. You're not looking at it right. You don't know nice people that are Black. You don't know any nice people that are Black. That's ridiculous. Like, who the fuck are you? Like, h- how can you make this judgment when I've met so many? Like you're not meeting enough people." Or they meet you and they go, "Oh, this guy's a fucking asshole." So they avoid you, so everybody's got this thing that they're spreading about you.

    12. TG

      Yeah, that's why younger people tend to, you know, just by being around... I wish there was a place you could go if you couldn't afford college, because I don't think it's the education at college that you probably learn the most from, it's the being forced to be around other people.

    13. JR

      Sure.

    14. TG

      You go, "Oh, I'd rather hang out with that group that I hated because we have the same taste in music." And you learn it 'cause you're forced to live together.

    15. JR

      Right.

    16. TG

      But I wish... Wouldn't it be cool if there was like, where can you go if you're like, "Well, I don't afford college, but I wanna put my kids around all..." Well, some parents wouldn't wanna do it, but kids could do it. "I just wanna be around every type of person." But you don't know to do that. College, that's the thing about college. And I didn't go to college. I didn't even graduate high school. But, uh, isn't that true that that's where a lot of growing does with young kids when they're forced-

    17. JR

      Sure.

    18. TG

      ... to be around other people?

    19. JR

      Look, some kids, they're living with really suppressive parents, and the only way they even know who the fuck they are is if they could sleep in their own bed, would open their own door with their own key, go into their own room, lie down, and then just be alone. Be away from these f- other fucking people that are constantly giving you these rules that you have to follow and have these lofty expectations for your success and like, fucking Christ, you don't even know what you want to do and they want you to do something that's gonna pay a lot of money. "We're, we're spending a lot of money sending you to school, Todd. We wanna make sure that you're productive. Productive, Todd. No drinking, no gallivanting."

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