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Joe Rogan Experience #1126 - Erik Griffin

Erik Griffin is a stand-up comedian, writer and actor. His new special "AmERIKan Warrior" premieres on June 8 on Showtime, and he can be also be seen in the Showtime show "I'm Dying Up Here."

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Jun 4, 20182h 49mWatch on YouTube ↗

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  1. 0:011:16

    Android watch + iPhone: relationship-driven tech compromises

    1. JR

      You don't want them to know.

    2. EG

      (laughs)

    3. JR

      Boom! And we're live, Eric Griffin. So we were talking before-

    4. EG

      Thank you.

    5. JR

      ... this podcast how you mix it up with the Android watch but the Apple phone. It's very curious.

    6. EG

      Yeah, well, see, I used to be all Samsung. I loved the, the Android, and the watch is great, I love how it interacts.

    7. JR

      Mm-hmm.

    8. EG

      But then I get a girlfriend who has an iPhone.

    9. JR

      Right?

    10. EG

      And she's like, "I wanna FaceTime with you."

    11. JR

      So why don't you tell her to get Skype?

    12. EG

      Yeah (sighs) .

    13. JR

      Skype app?

    14. EG

      You're married. You don't understand-

    15. JR

      Yeah.

    16. EG

      ... what, like, you can't... Anyway.

    17. JR

      Mm-hmm.

    18. EG

      (laughs) I got, I-

    19. JR

      Gotta set standards.

    20. EG

      Well hey, I, I'm not the sa- standard guy.

    21. JR

      Line is in the sand. Line is in the sand, brother.

    22. EG

      (laughs) So then I... But then they have, like, a, a, they had this app on the i- Apple now called Gear.

    23. JR

      Oh.

    24. EG

      Which lets you hook up y- your phone, but you can't really interact with it. You can't, like, talk or anything. But it's actually kinda nice. You just wanna know stuff's going on.

    25. JR

      It's probably, yeah, we were saying it's probably better that you can't interact with it.

    26. EG

      Yeah.

    27. JR

      'Cause Jamie was telling me that they, you could do walkie-talkie with your iPhones now.

    28. JV

      Yeah, they're d- it's still being announced right now so I don't know all the details. But the Worldwide Developers Conference is going on, the WWDC, so they're announce the new operating system, the new Apple Watch, and the new aut- like, automatic workout detection, walkie-talkie mode, and something else is going on.

    29. JR

      There's just too much.

  2. 1:162:38

    Smartwatches, rudeness, and the death (and return?) of real conversation

    1. EG

      I have a Apple Watch too. I love it. You can leave it at m- at least sometimes I leave my phone. I don't even bring my phone with me.

    2. JR

      Yeah?

    3. EG

      'Cause you can, uh...

    4. JR

      Do you feel weird when you do that?

    5. EG

      Yeah. 'Cause and here's the-

    6. JR

      Like you're a rebel?

    7. EG

      Here's what's happening now though, like-

    8. JR

      Okay.

    9. EG

      ... if I have my watch, like so I'm right... When, when you look at your watch, what does that cue? It cues like you wanna go or you're missing out on something orI I don't-

    10. JR

      Right.

    11. EG

      ... have any more... No, now when you do that, it's just 'cause you're looking at a text message.

    12. JR

      Mm-hmm.

    13. EG

      So now it's just as rude as-

    14. JR

      Yeah.

    15. EG

      It does n- you know, we're not... This isn't helping.

    16. JR

      No.

    17. EG

      It's not helping when I go, if I'm looking, you know, we're talking and I go like this, I look down and you think, "Hey, just, you have to go someplace?"

    18. JR

      Yeah.

    19. EG

      No, no, I just got a text.

    20. JR

      It's too much, right?

    21. EG

      Yeah, just got a tweet. I got a retweet I'm looking at, you know, that's what it is.

    22. JR

      Yeah, what are we doing? What are we doing here?

    23. EG

      I have no idea. And you know what's really s- weird about all this stuff, the phones and how we talk? Everybody wants to text, like, you, you can't get people to call you.

    24. JR

      Right.

    25. EG

      You can't get people to... And now, and now they're putting little emojis.

    26. JR

      Right.

    27. EG

      Right? And then from the emo- now they're putting, like, GIFs of real people.

    28. JR

      Yeah.

    29. EG

      So this is how I feel.

    30. JR

      Mm-hmm.

  3. 2:383:44

    Memoji and copycat features: Apple vs Android one-upmanship

    1. JR

      Hmm. What is this, Jamie?

    2. JV

      This is the new thing they showed. It's, uh, you're making a emoji of yourself called Memoji.

    3. JR

      They already did that with Sandra- Samsung.

    4. JV

      This is, like, it's working in-

    5. JR

      How in-

    6. JV

      ... the Apple.

    7. JR

      ... they're ripping them off.

    8. EG

      This is what I'm- We're searching, we're trying to find ways to be more ourselves. You don't need an emoji of yourself, just do-

    9. JV

      Oh, they're gonna-

    10. EG

      ... be yourself.

    11. JV

      Sorry, they're going against each other.

    12. JR

      Oh, the-

    13. JV

      It takes on.

    14. JR

      ... takes on Samsung-

    15. JV

      I thought it was-

    16. JR

      ... AR emoji. Yeah, they ripped off the idea.

    17. JV

      I thought it was-

    18. JR

      Cheap fucks.

    19. JV

      ... taken on.

    20. JR

      Isn't that funny?

    21. EG

      Apple's always late (laughs) .

    22. JR

      Like, Apple's ripping people off. No, they were first with the f- iPhone. The iPhone was the first of these kinda things, the first iPhone. But Androids are real close now. They're real close. I mean, it's, it's very-

    23. EG

      But E-

    24. JR

      ... debatable.

    25. EG

      ... but everything after that, they were late. Like-

    26. JR

      Really?

    27. EG

      ... like, on an Android you could copy and paste on an Android.

    28. JR

      Oh, you could do that?

    29. EG

      Two, three years before you could do it-

    30. JR

      Oh, really?

  4. 3:449:01

    Platform lock-in and the iMessage ‘trap’ when switching phones

    1. JR

      Is there anything native to Android like, uh, like, the, uh, the FaceTime thing? Is there something that's on the-

    2. EG

      No.

    3. JR

      ... right away?

    4. EG

      They do, they have, like, they had, like, their own-

    5. JR

      Version of that?

    6. EG

      They have their own version of that, but I don't think people really use it. They have their own An- like, Samsung Video.

    7. JR

      Oh, but Samsung has one.

    8. EG

      Yeah, yeah, Samsung.

    9. JR

      But does, like, what if you have, say, like, a Google Pixel phone?

    10. EG

      Yeah, that, they might have, but I don't think enough people have a Google Pixel phone to make that even a thing.

    11. JR

      Oh, really?

    12. EG

      Yeah.

    13. JR

      I thought those were really popular.

    14. EG

      Are they? Who do you know? Name me one person you know that has a Google Pixel.

    15. JR

      Damn, that's a good call.

    16. EG

      Yeah.

    17. JR

      Me. I have one.

    18. EG

      You don- you do not have a Google Pixel.

    19. JR

      I do have one.

    20. EG

      D- but you-

    21. JR

      I don't use it.

    22. EG

      Yeah, okay, so you were given a Google Pixel-

    23. JR

      No, I bought one.

    24. EG

      Why?

    25. JR

      'Cause I wanted to try it out, but here's what happened. Um, I couldn't get text messages to work. This is the scam.

    26. EG

      (laughs)

    27. JR

      Because you are hooked up to this, uh, i- what are you showing me, Jamie?

    28. JV

      So they do have it, it's with the Pixel 2 or something, like just-

    29. JR

      Oh.

    30. JV

      ... or maybe it's new to that.

  5. 9:0113:04

    Hardware nitpicks to generational tech nostalgia: keyboards, typing class, early computers

    1. JR

      You know what's not easy though? Um, Apple does not have good keyboards. Like if you have a, a desktop keyboard at home and you can add a second keyboard, you know, like buy a mechanical keyboard-

    2. EG

      Oh, right, right, right.

    3. JR

      If you are a writer, if you like to write, y- ... the, the problem with Apple keyboards is there's no key travel. It's very l- very shallow. So it's like, uh, just a tiny movement. Click, click, click, click, click. W- what I use is I use a ThinkPad. And then one of the reasons why I use a ThinkPad is there's like travel to these keys.

    4. EG

      Oh.

    5. JR

      Like this k- ... these keys have motion to them.

    6. EG

      Okay.

    7. JR

      Like if you-

    8. EG

      You're just-

    9. JR

      You-

    10. EG

      You're old school.

    11. JR

      Yeah. Well, the thing is you feel where the keys are. You feel. Like so as you're typing, I can just look at the screen and I don't, I don't have to look down at the keyboard. And they've depressed with your fingers, like you f- you have ... there's motion to it. So there's no accidental pressing of the keys.

    12. EG

      Did you take typing in high school?

    13. JR

      Yes.

    14. EG

      Yeah.

    15. JR

      I don't remember any of it though.

    16. EG

      Yeah, me too.

    17. JR

      Yeah.

    18. EG

      I my h- my high school year was the last year that they had typing at my school.

    19. JR

      Really?

    20. EG

      Yeah. I remember-

    21. JR

      The last year?

    22. EG

      They, they des- ... they were saying like, "This is no longer ..." 'Cause they, they had a computer class that they were starting. I just thought, "Damn." Like I look back on this things and I just go, wow, the, the ... how times have changed. Our generation is this like generation that is like we went through the first of all of these things. I had a Commodore 64. I-

    23. JR

      Did you?

    24. EG

      Yes. I remember the first Apple laptop.

    25. JR

      Mm.

    26. EG

      I rememb- I remember like when game systems changed and color TV and call waiting and, uh, like all the things that we w- you know, there-

    27. JR

      Answering machines.

    28. EG

      Answering machines and then n- then no more answering machines and-

    29. JR

      Yeah, could you even buy an answering machine today?

    30. EG

      N- n- n- nine, seven, six numbers and, you know, like all, all of that stuff was like-

  6. 13:0414:14

    Notifications, Bieber fame, and celebrity as political force

    1. EG

      My phone's gonna like... The, the only time my phone has blown up like this before is when, uh, Justin Bieber posted a picture with h- him on... With-

    2. JR

      With you?

    3. EG

      Yeah. On, on his Instagram. And then my phone was shaking, shaking for, for, for a month straight.

    4. JR

      Just from the notifications?

    5. EG

      Like, I'm like... I, I turn on the notif- I say, "You guys..." Nobody believed me. Let me turn on the notifications and I put it down like this and it's just like... (mimics phone vibrating) Like, I'm talking about. That guy-

    6. JR

      Thousands of notifications.

    7. EG

      He could... That guy could topple a government if he really wanted to like... if he got political. (laughs)

    8. JR

      Right, that's a problem.

    9. EG

      Yeah.

    10. JR

      I mean, that's what we're dealing with with Trump, a famous person who becomes the president. I mean, this little kid is only 24, right? What the fuck ha- Is he ev- is he even 24? 23?

    11. EG

      Yeah, he just turned 24, yeah.

    12. JV

      Not really.

    13. JR

      Okay.

    14. EG

      Yeah.

    15. JR

      Jamie's hating. Jamie's hating.

    16. JV

      I didn't. I didn't.

    17. EG

      No, he's not.

    18. JV

      I did.

    19. EG

      He's actually a good kid, you know, he really is. But if I gave you... If I gave you $100 million and no parental supervision, you'd do some dumb shit too.

    20. JR

      He'd do way worse.

    21. EG

      Yeah, but I, I, I... Listen, right now, I would do a lot of dumb shit if you gave me $100 million.

    22. JR

      Yeah.

    23. EG

      Just out of nowhere, you know.

    24. JR

      Out of nowhere. Yeah.

    25. EG

      Yeah.

    26. JR

      He's done well for, for the... what he is, you know, the kind of fame that that guy possesses.

    27. EG

      (sighs)

    28. JR

      He's off the charts famous.

    29. EG

      Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

    30. JR

      It's like-

  7. 14:1417:25

    Online voting idea (Columbia House-style) and a detour into record-industry ‘crooks’

    1. EG

      This is why, this is why we can't get rid of the electoral college though, by the way. Not to get political, but-

    2. JR

      It does help, but I mean did... He rigged that. I mean-

    3. EG

      But you can't have-

    4. JR

      He didn't rig it but played the game well, I should say.

    5. EG

      But you can't have a popularity contest.

    6. JR

      But it is a popularity contest no matter what, even with the electoral college. You just have to be popular in Iowa, popular in Ohio, know how to r- do that. Just go over there and talk about Muslims.

    7. EG

      I don't know-

    8. JR

      Shake your fist.

    9. EG

      Why don't we... I don't... I still don't understand why we don't just have online voting-

    10. JR

      Voting. Absolutely.

    11. EG

      ... or like, or like... or with their phone. Like, you have to have a phone-

    12. JR

      Preach.

    13. EG

      ... and then you register your phone so that IMIE number that your phone has is, is, is strictly for you.

    14. JR

      Yeah.

    15. EG

      They, they already have, uh... What do you call it? Like facial recognition software. Uh, you could... Yo-

    16. JR

      Yeah.

    17. EG

      Their phones have fingerprint.

    18. JR

      Yeah.

    19. EG

      So there's like three different ways to like register-

    20. JR

      Mm-hmm.

    21. EG

      ... and then you'll get everyone's vote. I always say votes should be like the Columbia DVD had them. Remember Columbia DVDs?

    22. JR

      Oh, they would just... They planned on-

    23. EG

      They would just send them.

    24. JR

      ... just giving it to you free.

    25. EG

      You know, you... So use your... Your... So if you're a Republican, right?

    26. JR

      Yeah.

    27. EG

      Then your vote goes to the Republican until you go, "I don't want this Republican." (laughs)

    28. JR

      I wonder what the numbers of people that... If people don't know what we're talking about with Columbia DVD because we're old, but back in the day you would sign up for like cassette tapes-

    29. EG

      Yes.

    30. JR

      ... and they would send you a bunch of cassettes. Like you would pick like what you liked.

  8. 17:2523:03

    Fame up close: Bieber stories, entitlement, and why stars get ‘dick’ reputations

    1. EG

      You don't get that famous, you don't get that famous at, at the time when people are treating you like just a god, you know, everywhere you went. I mean, he... The, the... Rock star.

    2. JR

      I bet there's some people-

    3. EG

      That was the pinnacle. Rock star-

    4. JR

      Right.

    5. EG

      ... A-list s- uh, A-list actor, professional athlete.... that, that's the order.

    6. JR

      But do you think they have to be dicks?

    7. EG

      No, no, no.

    8. JR

      Or do you think they become dicks be- just because, here's my theory about that, is that the, the fame, that level of fame is overwhelming.

    9. EG

      Yes.

    10. JR

      People grabbing at you all the time, so you just develop this dicky thing, just to keep people the fuck away from you.

    11. EG

      Yes.

    12. JR

      Like, if you get to that, I would imagine, like, that Michael Jordan or, uh, (blows raspberries) , even Bieber.

    13. EG

      Yeah.

    14. JR

      I mean, that, there's a level where you can't go anywhere.

    15. EG

      Listen, I've been a- I've been around Bieber.

    16. JR

      Yeah? What's it like?

    17. EG

      He's not an, uh, I don't, uh, he's never alone. He's-

    18. JR

      Never.

    19. EG

      ... always got somebody there.

    20. JR

      Right.

    21. EG

      I don't think he trusts anyone. And that level of fla- fame, where you're just also used to, you know, "Hey, get me a water. Uh, get the car."

    22. JR

      Right.

    23. EG

      "I wanna go here. I wanna..." When you get used to... That becomes normal.

    24. JR

      Just telling people.

    25. EG

      Just telling people what to do becomes normal.

    26. JR

      (laughs)

    27. EG

      Listen, dude, I was at a, I was at a, a party, and he was, he was there, and he's, he's, like, playing his music for his new album. And he just looks at me and he says, "Hey, can you get me a, can you get me a vodka?" He says, "Get me a vodka," I think, and then I went, I was like, "Oh, okay." You know, I-

    28. JR

      (laughs)

    29. EG

      (Laughs) And I goes... (laughs) Like, uh, I was so mad at myself.

    30. JR

      (laughs)

  9. 23:0327:31

    Traveling early in a relationship: Costa Rica disaster, food poisoning, and compromise

    1. JR

      You ever been to Costa Rica?

    2. EG

      I have been to Co- oh, god.

    3. JR

      Oh.

    4. EG

      Just went to Costa Rica with my girlfriend. Uh, we just started to get together and it, it was, it was good and bad.

    5. JR

      Just started to get together-

    6. EG

      Yeah, we were-

    7. JR

      ... and you took her to Costa Rica.

    8. EG

      Yeah. Well, I mean, we were-

    9. JR

      That's a bold move, sir.

    10. EG

      I mean, it was. It was, it was too soon.

    11. JR

      Bold move, sir.

    12. JV

      (laughs)

    13. JR

      How long were you guys dating?

    14. EG

      I, it was too, it was too soon, I thought. Maybe we were, like, four, five months, you know. But it was, like, Christmastime, and I'm, I'm with her. I'm like, "Let me make this special." So we go to Costa Rica, you know. I do it up.

    15. JR

      And she went Christmas with y- with you and not the family.

    16. EG

      Yeah. Well, she's Jewish, so...

    17. JR

      Oh, oh, there you go. There you go.

    18. EG

      Yeah. So, you know, they're, they're all monsters. (laughs)

    19. JR

      (laughs) .

    20. EG

      How dare you? Only kidding.

    21. JR

      You gotta be careful with that kinda talk-

    22. EG

      I know.

    23. JR

      ... in this day and age.

    24. EG

      (laughs) I know.

    25. JR

      People are g-

    26. EG

      There it is. There, that's it.

    27. JR

      People are getting after people.

    28. EG

      That's my c- career is over. No, I'm just teasing. My girlf- my girlfriend's Jewish. She has a beautiful family. So, uh, she was like, "Well, I don't care about Christmas anyway, so let's go."

    29. JR

      Right. Bam.

    30. EG

      But I don't go see my mom, who moved to, uh, my parents just moved to Malaga.

  10. 27:3131:14

    Aging, wanting a family, and a relationship turning point via self-help audio

    1. EG

      I don't know, I don't know if it's gonna be over. We're coming up on a year.

    2. JR

      Oh, shit.

    3. EG

      Yeah, we're coming up on a year.

    4. JR

      Goddamn. That gets scary.

    5. EG

      But I hear people... You know what it is? It's you, people like you, it's your fucking fault.

    6. JR

      It can work.

    7. EG

      You're on stage talking about your great family and, and just how-

    8. JR

      'Cause you want a family.

    9. EG

      ... and how you deal with it. Yeah, you think about these things, man.

    10. JR

      How, how old are you now?

    11. EG

      I'm 46.

    12. JR

      So are you thinking about shooting live ones in there, making, making little jokes?

    13. EG

      Um, I'm thinking about, like, "You know what? Maybe it's time..." You know what it is? It's, like, once... I, I've, I'm not super successful, but I've enjoyed my career.

    14. JR

      Right.

    15. EG

      And now I'm like, "Oh, I enjoy this. I wanna share this with someone that really cares about me." And I... And one thing I'll say for her, she, she... I feel the love, you know.

    16. JR

      That's awesome.

    17. EG

      Yeah, I really do feel the love. She's a very loving woman, uh, very beautiful.

    18. JR

      And so she got used to you after a while and understands your jokingness-

    19. EG

      Yeah. Right, right.

    20. JR

      ... and appreciates you?

    21. EG

      I'm gonna-

    22. JR

      Knows you're a good guy?

    23. EG

      I'll tell you something that she did that... This is why me even talking about her right now, something that... She moved me, Joe.

    24. JR

      Aw.

    25. EG

      The other day, we were having, like, a little fight.

    26. JR

      Little fight.

    27. EG

      A little fight.

    28. JR

      Right.

    29. EG

      And then it was obviously, I was like, "We're not communicating," I told her. You know what she did? She downloaded Communicating With Your Man audiobook and she... And we sat and listened to it together.

    30. JR

      Boom.

  11. 31:141:00:39

    Starting stand-up late: comedy class, first set at The Comedy Store, and learning originality

    1. JR

      So, you started doing standup at 30?

    2. EG

      Yeah, yeah, yeah. I, I-

    3. JR

      That's a good, that's, that's a late start, right?

    4. EG

      I started, I went to a comedy class when I was in my early 20s, 'cause my mom's one of those supportive women. I said, "Hey, Mom, I think I wanna be a comedian." Next day, I'm signed up at the, at, at UCLA Extension, you know, and I... With a notebook, and like, she's like, "Here's a notebook."

    5. JR

      Really?

    6. EG

      Yeah, yeah. That's all my mom. If I said I wanted to be a rock-

    7. JR

      That's amazing.

    8. EG

      If I said I wanted to be a rock climber, my mom was like, "Okay." She go... She would've bought ropes and, like, hooked me up with the... 'Cause she wanted me out of the fucking house (laughs) , you know what I mean?

    9. JR

      Right, right.

    10. EG

      She wanted me, like, when I was young, you know? Uh, so I went to the class taught by Sandi Shaw.

    11. JR

      Oh, Jesus.

    12. EG

      Yeah, yeah. It was a, uh... (sighs) I thought, I thought, "This is gonna be it."

    13. JR

      Sandi Shaw's daughter?

    14. EG

      Her mom... Her, her, her mom owns The Comedy Store. I'm gonna make it, you know?

    15. JR

      How bad was the advice?

    16. EG

      The a-... (sighs) Look at you. Wow. (laughs)

    17. JR

      (laughs)

    18. EG

      This, this, this motherfucker right here, boy.

    19. JR

      (laughs)

    20. EG

      Whoo! Joe Rogan trying to start shit!

    21. JR

      Excuse me, how good was the advice?

    22. EG

      It wasn't good. Come on.

    23. JR

      I, I, I must... I misspoke.

    24. EG

      Can I, can I tell you this?

    25. JR

      Yes.

    26. EG

      This is, uh... I really, I, I, I, I need... It, I, I suggest to anyone, if you wanna be a comic, go to one comedy class, just for the comfort of the environment and the support.

    27. JR

      Right.

    28. EG

      Go to one comedy class. But after that, you gotta get out there to the open mics, and you gotta-

    29. JR

      Yeah.

    30. EG

      ... do it on your own. But I suggest one comedy class, all right?

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