Joe Rogan Experience #1134 - Kyle Dunnigan

1. 0:00 – 15:00

   (ticking sound) Four, three, two,…

   1. JRJoe Rogan0:01

      (ticking sound) Four, three, two, one. Kyle Dunnigan, ladies and gentlemen.

   2. KDKyle Dunnigan0:07

      That's right, baby.

   3. JRJoe Rogan0:08

      Uh, headphones or no headphones? How are you gonna do this?

   4. KDKyle Dunnigan0:10

      Oh, sure. Headphones.

   5. JRJoe Rogan0:11

      Grab them-

   6. KDKyle Dunnigan0:11

      Sorry.

   7. JRJoe Rogan0:11

      ... right there. Be a Goddamn professional, sir.

   8. KDKyle Dunnigan0:14

      Yeah, baby.

   9. JRJoe Rogan0:14

      Yeah. That, uh, wh- where'd you get that-

   10. KDKyle Dunnigan0:16

       Yeah.

   11. JRJoe Rogan0:17

       ... "yeah, baby"?

   12. KDKyle Dunnigan0:18

       Yeah, yeah.

   13. JRJoe Rogan0:18

       Why? (laughs)

   14. KDKyle Dunnigan0:18

       Well, I just noticed she, like ... She answers herself. She's like, "So I went to the store-"

   15. JRJoe Rogan0:22

       I like that you called her a she.

   16. KDKyle Dunnigan0:22

       Yeah, yeah.

   17. JRJoe Rogan0:23

       I like that.

   18. KDKyle Dunnigan0:23

       Oh, I'm very politically correct.

   19. JRJoe Rogan0:25

       Yeah.

   20. KDKyle Dunnigan0:25

       But she'll be like, "Yeah, so I went and I bought some Jimmy Choos, yeah, yeah."

   21. JRJoe Rogan0:29

       (laughs)

   22. KDKyle Dunnigan0:29

       "And I called my sister, yeah." And so, she, like ... I think she spends a lot of time alone maybe, and she's-

   23. JRJoe Rogan0:34

       Yeah. Crazy.

   24. KDKyle Dunnigan0:35

       ... answering herself.

   25. JRJoe Rogan0:36

       What is going on with her voice? 'Cause it, she didn't have the voice when she was Bruce. It's a different voice.

   26. KDKyle Dunnigan0:41

       Is it? I thought it was, like, pretty similar. It's like ... What's different?

   27. JRJoe Rogan0:44

       Hmm.

   28. KDKyle Dunnigan0:44

       It's a little higher or something?

   29. JRJoe Rogan0:45

       It's, like, numb. Like, her face is numb.

   30. KDKyle Dunnigan0:48

       Right. Oh, her face.
2. 15:00 – 30:00

   No, you gotta go…

   1. KDKyle Dunnigan15:00

      Try to edit it down 'cause, um, you wanna make it, like, pretty tight with, like ... Online people don't want a minute of fluff or anything, so-

   2. JRJoe Rogan15:07

      No, you gotta go quick.

   3. KDKyle Dunnigan15:09

      Yeah, and the actual process of, of getting them to talk ... I'll take the person who talks the most, like if it's Kaitlin, and I'll, I'll film that and I'll have the whole script written out so as I film it, in my mouth I'll talk the other words-

   4. JRJoe Rogan15:22

      Mm-hmm.

   5. KDKyle Dunnigan15:22

      So the timing is kinda close enough.

   6. JRJoe Rogan15:24

      Yeah.

   7. KDKyle Dunnigan15:24

      And then I'll send that video to myself to my ... I'll AirDrop it to my laptop and turn it really low and then I'll do the next character and have that playing so I can have that synced up right, and then-

   8. JRJoe Rogan15:36

      Wow.

   9. KDKyle Dunnigan15:36

      ... I pair those and then do the next person like that.

   10. JRJoe Rogan15:38

       Whoa.

   11. KDKyle Dunnigan15:39

       Got a lot of time on my hands.

   12. JRJoe Rogan15:40

       Yeah.

   13. KDKyle Dunnigan15:41

       But I'm only 47, so ...

   14. JRJoe Rogan15:44

       (coughs) So what was the thought process when you quit? You just couldn't do it? Like, you had to, you had to get out?

   15. KDKyle Dunnigan15:49

       Yeah. I, I just, um ... Something was, like, uh, panicking. It just was, I think, seeing my life and going ... I, I, I wanna at least try to be, like, a performer is why ... what I wanted to do.

   16. JRJoe Rogan16:01

       Right.

   17. KDKyle Dunnigan16:01

       Like, I can't even read very well. Like, being a writer, to me, is, uh, um, it's not as fun. I, I mean if I didn't have the experience beforehand, like, um, I don't think I'd feel this way. It's just I got a taste ... You know, I had some stuff that I did that I really enjoyed and-

   18. JRJoe Rogan16:18

       Yeah.

   19. KDKyle Dunnigan16:20

       ... it, it just ... I think I just saw the, the trappings of it.

   20. JRJoe Rogan16:24

       Well, some people are really good writers and they ... that's what they wanna do. That's all they wanna do.

   21. KDKyle Dunnigan16:29

       Yeah, yeah.

   22. JRJoe Rogan16:29

       They don't wanna perform. But the problem with being a good performer is sometimes you can help other people out, like, "Hey, maybe if you just tighten this up here." And like-

   23. KDKyle Dunnigan16:36

       Yeah.

   24. JRJoe Rogan16:36

       ... "Maybe if you just explain this a little better, it would work better." And y- you know, you, you, you, you start writing.

   25. KDKyle Dunnigan16:41

       Yeah.

   26. JRJoe Rogan16:41

       Next thing you know ... You're like, "Hey, would you work on my show?"

   27. KDKyle Dunnigan16:44

       Right.

   28. JRJoe Rogan16:44

       "Sure."

   29. KDKyle Dunnigan16:45

       Yeah.

   30. JRJoe Rogan16:45

       And then you're there in the office and you're ... got a cork board and you're putting index cards up-
3. 30:00 – 45:00

   When was this sketch…

   1. KDKyle Dunnigan30:00

      came out very mediocre.

   2. JRJoe Rogan30:01

      When was this sketch show? When was this sketch show?

   3. KDKyle Dunnigan30:03

      It was ... What was it called? It was called Indaflow and it got changed to like something else, and it just became like ... It was Affion Crockett's show.

   4. JRJoe Rogan30:11

      Ah.

   5. KDKyle Dunnigan30:11

      I was like a high- ... Like a cast member or whatever. And then at the end ... You know, Fox pays all this, millions of dollars. And Affion's going, "All Fox cares about is their wallets." But we showed them, not realizing we had to wait for a pickup, and I'm just standing on stage-... thinking this is my last shot to have anything, 'cause I was already, like, 40. And I just was like ...

   6. JRJoe Rogan30:33

      (laughs)

   7. KDKyle Dunnigan30:34

      Then we go to the wrap party and the whole thing was just-

   8. JRJoe Rogan30:37

      Oh. (laughs)

   9. KDKyle Dunnigan30:38

      ... a disaster.

   10. JRJoe Rogan30:38

       What happened at the wrap party? (laughs)

   11. KDKyle Dunnigan30:40

       Well, me and ... Eric Andre was on it too.

   12. JRJoe Rogan30:43

       Oh, okay.

   13. KDKyle Dunnigan30:43

       And so we just were like, "What's happening?"

   14. JRJoe Rogan30:47

       (laughs)

   15. KDKyle Dunnigan30:47

       (laughs) And we go late to the wrap party and we walk into this nice restaurant. And Jamie Foxx is standing up and there's a whole li- big table. And he's going down, "What's your favorite animal? What's your favorite animal?"

   16. JRJoe Rogan30:57

       (laughs)

   17. KDKyle Dunnigan30:57

       Everyone's like, "Goose. I mean, a rabbit."

   18. JRJoe Rogan30:59

       (laughs)

   19. KDKyle Dunnigan30:59

       Like, everyone's just, like, scared. (laughs) And then he goes, "What's your second favorite animal? What's your second favorite animal?"

   20. JRJoe Rogan31:05

       Oh my God. (laughs)

   21. KDKyle Dunnigan31:06

       And everyone's just terrified.

   22. JRJoe Rogan31:07

       What the fuck? (laughs)

   23. KDKyle Dunnigan31:08

       Yeah.

   24. JRJoe Rogan31:09

       (laughs)

   25. KDKyle Dunnigan31:10

       And then I go ... and then he goes, he goes, "The first animal's who, who you think you are. The second animal's who you really are."

   26. JRJoe Rogan31:16

       (laughs)

   27. KDKyle Dunnigan31:16

       I told Tom Cruise that and he said it was awesome.

   28. JRJoe Rogan31:20

       (laughs)

   29. KDKyle Dunnigan31:20

       Anyway, it's Instagram.

   30. JRJoe Rogan31:23

       Ah! Ah! Ah.
4. 45:00 – 1:00:00

   Yeah, you need people…

   1. JRJoe Rogan45:00

      like, 10,000 people.

   2. KDKyle Dunnigan45:02

      Yeah, you need people who like to fuck a lot, that are really pervy to get-

   3. JRJoe Rogan45:05

      Yeah. Pervy.

   4. KDKyle Dunnigan45:05

      ... jump that up.

   5. JRJoe Rogan45:07

      Well, you know, Brett Weinstein, who is a... (coughs) Yeah, he was a professor-

   6. KDKyle Dunnigan45:11

      Excuse you.

   7. JRJoe Rogan45:12

      Sorry. I don't know what's going on with me. I smoked weed before the show. I'm not gonna, not gonna lie to you people. Um, he, um, was explaining with his wife, who's also a biologist, that there's two different things that men are attracted to. They're attracted to a beautiful woman, but they're attracted to a hot woman.

   8. KDKyle Dunnigan45:29

      Mm-hmm.

   9. JRJoe Rogan45:29

      Like, a hot woman doesn't necessarily have to be beautiful, but what she does is offer an opportunity for, like, very quick sex. Like, you could just have sex with her. You don't have to-

   10. KDKyle Dunnigan45:39

       Oh.

   11. JRJoe Rogan45:39

       ... court her, like a girl with a short skirt and her tits are popping out and she's wearing a lot of makeup.

   12. KDKyle Dunnigan45:45

       Mm-hmm.

   13. JRJoe Rogan45:45

       That, what that signals is that there's an opportunity for you to spread your genes.

   14. KDKyle Dunnigan45:50

       Yeah.

   15. JRJoe Rogan45:50

       And you have, uh, no responsibility. You wouldn't have to take care of it. You wouldn't have to-

   16. KDKyle Dunnigan45:55

       Oh.

   17. JRJoe Rogan45:55

       You wouldn't have to spend a lot of time with her or court her.

   18. KDKyle Dunnigan45:58

       Yeah.

   19. JRJoe Rogan45:58

       That she was... She's the type of person that allows you to just fuck her.

   20. KDKyle Dunnigan46:01

       You can move on and spread your genes elsewhere.

   21. JRJoe Rogan46:02

       Yeah.

   22. KDKyle Dunnigan46:02

       That makes sense.

   23. JRJoe Rogan46:03

       Yeah, that there's a, like an evolutionary reason for that being a stimulating thing for men. Like, for men, like, this idea of, like, these loose women.

   24. KDKyle Dunnigan46:12

       Yeah.

   25. JRJoe Rogan46:12

       Like, loose women are very attracted, very attractive to us for that reason.

   26. KDKyle Dunnigan46:17

       Huh.

   27. JRJoe Rogan46:17

       It's not just that, like, "Oh, yeah, if I can get some, not deal with all these bitches and their problems." No-

   28. KDKyle Dunnigan46:22

       Yeah.

   29. JRJoe Rogan46:22

       ... it's literally an evolutionary trait that we have adapted to.

   30. KDKyle Dunnigan46:26

       The disease thing knocks it back a little bit-
5. 1:00:00 – 1:08:51

   It's hard. …

   1. JRJoe Rogan1:00:00

   2. KDKyle Dunnigan1:00:00

      It's hard.

   3. JRJoe Rogan1:00:00

      ... they, they feel like they're, they feel like they have this little tiny ass hourglass, and it's just running out of sand every day.

   4. KDKyle Dunnigan1:00:06

      Mm-hmm. Yeah. And like you said, it's, you know, a lot of times you're not starting with the most secure people.

   5. JRJoe Rogan1:00:12

      No, almost never.

   6. KDKyle Dunnigan1:00:14

      I started-

   7. JRJoe Rogan1:00:14

      Almost never.

   8. KDKyle Dunnigan1:00:15

      I s- I got on stage 'cause I was in so much pain. Like I literally like was f- was pushed... I was in college. I had like no friends. (laughs) I'm really painting a pretty picture of myself today. But I, uh, yeah, I wanted like attention. Like that really was the first impulse. And-

   9. JRJoe Rogan1:00:31

      Yeah.

   10. KDKyle Dunnigan1:00:33

       ... um, yeah.

   11. JRJoe Rogan1:00:34

       But sometimes that leads to the funniest shit and the funniest people. Like th- there's that pressure one way that throws you in another direction.

   12. KDKyle Dunnigan1:00:43

       Yeah.

   13. JRJoe Rogan1:00:43

       I mean, th- that, that bad feeling, when you're-

   14. KDKyle Dunnigan1:00:45

       Mm-hmm.

   15. JRJoe Rogan1:00:45

       ... just trying to escape that bad feeling. The energy and the desire to escape that bad feeling is so intense that it creates a good feeling.

   16. KDKyle Dunnigan1:00:52

       And af- after a while though, it flips too. Like now I, y- you know, um, uh, like sometimes I don't wanna be looked at.... you know, I think if, if I got into a bad spot, I'd wanna go on stage again. But sometimes ... Do you ever feel like that? Like you just don't feel like being, like, looked at. (laughs)

   17. JRJoe Rogan1:01:11

       That you don't feel like being looked at?

   18. KDKyle Dunnigan1:01:12

       You're looking at me like I'm ... Like that's not what happens with you.

   19. JRJoe Rogan1:01:15

       Um-

   20. KDKyle Dunnigan1:01:15

       Sometimes I don't feel like going on stage.

   21. JRJoe Rogan1:01:16

       Yeah. No, d- definitely.

   22. KDKyle Dunnigan1:01:18

       Yeah.

   23. JRJoe Rogan1:01:18

       I, I, uh, one of the things that I've been doing lately (coughs) is ... For a long time, I never, I hardly took any time off. But, uh, after I did my special, I just filmed a special in April, I took a month off where I didn't do any standup for a month.

   24. KDKyle Dunnigan1:01:34

       Yeah.

   25. JRJoe Rogan1:01:35

       At least, like, three weeks, right? Like three m- maybe it might have been four weeks. But I was like, "I'm not doing shit."

   26. KDKyle Dunnigan1:01:42

       Yeah.

   27. JRJoe Rogan1:01:42

       I went to Hawaii. I, I, I fucking hung out. I did podcasts. I didn't do any standup and it felt great. It felt great that I would leave here and I'd be done.

   28. KDKyle Dunnigan1:01:54

       Yeah.

   29. JRJoe Rogan1:01:54

       I wouldn't, I wouldn't have another gig to go to at night.

   30. KDKyle Dunnigan1:01:57

       Yeah. I-

Episode duration: 2:29:05