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Joe Rogan Experience #1177 - Sober October 2

Joe is joined by Bert Kreischer & Tom Segura to discuss the challenge for Sober October 2.

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Oct 1, 20183h 7mWatch on YouTube ↗

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  1. 0:02 – 1:47

    Sober October 2 begins: blunts, booze stash, and the looming detox

    1. JR

      Five, four, three, two, one. (heart beating) Dude, it seemed like we just did this.

    2. BK

      It does feel like-

    3. TS

      (laughs)

    4. BK

      ... pretty recent.

    5. JR

      How was it a year ago?

    6. BK

      I don't know.

    7. TS

      I don't know.

    8. JR

      It's already October. I'm scared. Let's just fucking spark up a joint and bill right now.

    9. BK

      What?

    10. TS

      (laughs)

    11. BK

      No.

    12. JR

      With these fat blunts.

    13. BK

      One of them Backwoods.

    14. JR

      Smell one of these Backwoods. These are so good. Just smell it, just smell it.

    15. TS

      Whoa.

    16. JR

      Yeah.

    17. TS

      You know everyone was commenting on your-

    18. BK

      Let me see that.

    19. TS

      ... blunt rolling technique after the Elon Musk thing?

    20. JR

      Oh, I don't roll them.

    21. TS

      I know they were like... And I knew that. And they were like-

    22. JR

      Yeah.

    23. TS

      ... "Oh, what is he... He just, he can barely roll a blunt." And I was like, "It's professionally rolled. It's a pretty r- good blunt."

    24. JR

      You can't read those comments.

    25. BK

      That does smell good, man.

    26. JR

      That smells so good. They taste good too. Those are, those are phenomenal. The, I l- I'm a blunt man. You know, I know it's probably bad for your lungs, but there's something about the tobacco gets you a little high up and then the marijuana sort of like-

    27. BK

      Mm-hmm.

    28. JR

      ... spreads you out and it puts you in like a new dimension.

    29. BK

      Yeah, that's-

    30. JR

      I like it.

  2. 1:47 – 5:27

    Ari as the wildcard + what “real” effort looks like in yoga/CrossFit

    1. JR

      Ari's so much more fun when he's high.

    2. TS

      (laughs)

    3. BK

      Oh, yeah.

    4. TS

      (laughs)

    5. JR

      He's so scary and grumpy when he's sober. I don't-

    6. BK

      He's such a grouchy dog.

    7. JR

      But he gets-

    8. BK

      Yeah.

    9. JR

      ... like legit angry. Like he could joke around about anything when he's high.

    10. BK

      Yeah.

    11. JR

      When he smokes weed. But then when he's not smoking weed, you're like, "Wait, wait, wait. Are you fucking serious?"

    12. BK

      He gets upset.

    13. TS

      Do you remember when you texted the three of us? You were like, "Ari, I don't think you're doing the right classes." Do you remember the-

    14. JR

      You went crazy.

    15. TS

      ... meltdown he had? (laughs)

    16. JR

      I, I said, "I think you're gonna have to do them again."

    17. TS

      (screams)

    18. BK

      (laughs)

    19. JR

      Obviously, I'm fucking joking around.

    20. BK

      You gotta love it.

    21. TS

      You calling me a liar? Jesus, son of a liar. Son of a liar to my face.

    22. BK

      Didn't he, didn't he call?

    23. JR

      No, I meant, "I love you."

    24. BK

      He called you, right? He called you upset.

    25. JR

      Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. He was upset. I don't remember if we texted or called, but I go, "Ari."

    26. TS

      (laughs)

    27. JR

      "I love you. I'm just joking. I'm sure you d-" But one thing about Ari is, this is one thing that you could say after all the, the welting talking, all the nonsense. Ari has rock solid ethics.

    28. BK

      Yeah, yeah.

    29. TS

      Yeah.

    30. JR

      Like rock solid.

  3. 5:27 – 9:01

    Joe’s workout fuel: fear, violence fantasies, and martial arts ‘switch’ thinking

    1. TS

      What is it in your brain that makes you do that? 'Cause I g- we just looked at your MEPs.

    2. JR

      Mm-hmm.

    3. TS

      And you, that you burned 1,000 calories. Is there some sort of... I talked to Pat McAfee one time, he said it's about explosivity.

    4. JR

      It's about rape and murder.

    5. TS

      (laughs)

    6. BK

      (laughs)

    7. JR

      My head's filled with it. Stopping rapists and stopping murderers and killing child molesters. That's what I think about, killing bad people.

    8. TS

      When you work out?

    9. JR

      Yeah, that's what I do when I get tired. If I get tired, I think about like saving someone I care about. I think about stopping someone who's trying to murder someone I love. That's what I think about.

    10. BK

      I love your face.

    11. TS

      (laughs)

    12. JR

      I'm not kidding.

    13. BK

      Bert's face.

    14. TS

      I think about my second wife. (laughs)

    15. BK

      (laughs)

    16. JR

      I think about protect, I think about protecting people I care about.

    17. BK

      Then you tell, you told me one time, um, you'll, if it's hard, you'll go, uh, uh, pretend like someone's trying to kill me.

    18. JR

      Yeah. Yeah.

    19. BK

      Yeah. So you're like pretending-

    20. JR

      Yeah. Yeah.

    21. TS

      I really don't have words for that.

    22. JR

      That's what you gotta do 'cause that's w- that's what ... If you g- think about worst case scenario, you're tired and someone's trying to kill someone you care about, and you don't have enough energy to stop them.

    23. TS

      But do you think you learned that switch in, like, uh, Tae- Taekwon- or not Taekwondo, uh, Kr- uh ...

    24. JR

      Uh, yeah. I learned it from martial arts for sure.

    25. TS

      Sh- yeah.

    26. JR

      Yeah.

    27. TS

      Jiu-Jitsu?

    28. JR

      For sure. Yeah. Yeah. Because that's the scariest place you could ever be. Like, the scariest place you could be is life and death. So, like-

    29. TS

      (sighs)

    30. JR

      ... y- just putting yourself in, "Oh, I just wanna lose weight." Okay, good. Yeah. That's good. B- but that's not ... You're not gonna save yourself. Like, you got, you gotta put yourself in, like, animalistic fury. That's how you gotta, you gotta put yourself. You gotta put yourself in this, this state of just 100% effort. Yeah, I was pegged at like 180, 177 beats per minute for the last 35, 35 minutes.

  4. 9:01 – 11:40

    Vanity as motivation: skinny throwbacks, spin class, and ‘make them want you’ energy

    1. TS

      This is so silly. The one ... The best shape I've ever been in is when I met my wife, I was 186 pounds.

    2. BK

      Damn.

    3. JR

      Ooh.

    4. TS

      Yeah, dude, I, I look ... You ... It's t-

    5. JR

      You must've shredded.

    6. TS

      Jamie, type in Skinny Bert.

    7. JR

      I've seen those pictures.

    8. TS

      I've shown ... Yeah, yeah. It's ... I don't even look-

    9. JR

      Yeah. You almost had a six pack.

    10. TS

      Almost.

    11. JR

      You had a three pack.

    12. TS

      And I had, like, side muscle.

    13. JR

      Yeah. Little s- little oblique.

    14. TS

      I'm going for that this year, this month.

    15. JR

      Damn.

    16. TS

      I'm really going hard.

    17. JR

      You can do it.

    18. TS

      I'm going hard this month. I've, I've gua- I said to J- Jamie, I made a b- deal with myself. Every day I'm gonna do 50 air squats and 50 pushups. I was gonna do 100.

    19. JR

      Look at that. Look at Skinny Bert. Damn, dude.

    20. BK

      Wow.

    21. TS

      In that ... By the way, I was joke pot posing.

    22. JR

      You fucking stud. But you were a fucking stud. Look at that.

    23. TS

      That was me. That was when I was in spin class.

    24. JR

      Look how skinny your face is.

    25. TS

      I know.

    26. JR

      Well, your s- your face was super skinny after last year's Sober October. That photo that we ... that you posted, that you sent to us.

    27. TS

      Yeah.

    28. JR

      Like, "Look at my skinny face."

    29. TS

      I'm going back. I'm going hard this month. I really am. And I'm gonna ... 'cause I'm gonna enjoy it. Last month I think ... last time I did it was outta spite. I wanted to prove to everyone I could stop drinking. This month I'm going into it having not drank probably a, a third as much as last year. I mean, meaning like I've drank three quarters as much. Does that make sense?

    30. JR

      Mm-hmm.

  5. 11:40 – 13:35

    New specials and the craft: perfectionism, taglines, and post-tapings panic

    1. BK

      Thank you very much. Everyone, it's Secret Time, it's streaming right now. But Joe Rogan special star- drops tomorrow?

    2. JR

      Tonight.

    3. TS

      Tonight at midnight.

    4. BK

      Midnight. Midnight.

    5. JR

      Midnight. Yeah.

    6. TS

      I saw that ... Dude, that, that trailer's one of the best trailers I've seen for a special in a long time.

    7. JR

      I worked hard at it. I hope people like it. Some people are gonna hate it, but that's normal.

    8. BK

      That is normal.

    9. JR

      But I've, I've worked at it as hard as a- anything I've ever worked on, ever. For sure.

    10. BK

      This hour.

    11. JR

      Yeah.

    12. BK

      Yeah.

    13. JR

      Yeah. I fucking went hard on this one.

    14. BK

      No, ..........................

    15. TS

      It's a good feeling to go ... to get done with something-

    16. JR

      Yeah.

    17. TS

      ... and go, "I did the best I could do."

    18. JR

      "I did the best I could do, for sure. A hundred percent. I couldn't have done any better." Because if I did any more ... The only thing that c- you could say is like, maybe a little more time, like maybe a month or two more time on some of the bits. Like, but you never know when that is.

    19. TS

      Yeah.

    20. JR

      You know? It's like-... there's a, there's a, there's a sort of like a period where they're developing and then they mature and then they're solid. And then you never know, like, are they done or is there, like, one more tagline that I'm missing here? 'Cause you know how like s- (laughs) it's always the case, you, you film and then right after you're done you have a brand new tagline that makes the bit-

    21. BK

      Always.

    22. JR

      ... five times as good.

    23. BK

      Dude-

    24. It's always like the next Saturday, you're like, "You motherfucker."

    25. Dude, the next week-

    26. (laughs)

    27. ... I wrote that, did that special. The next week I'm in, I'm in, uh, Michigan doing some theater and, uh, I had that Alexa bit about, um, fucking t- uh, Alexa talking back. I talk to Alexa like I talk to women and whatever the bit is. And then next week I write the bit. I wish they had a fleshlight attachment for Alexa so I could shut her up the way I want to.

    28. JR

      (sighs)

    29. BK

      And fuck, and I'm like, "Goddammit, where the fuck was that?"

    30. It's always like that.

  6. 13:35 – 18:56

    Comedy work ethic and crowd reality: sets, open mics, and bombing in the real world

    1. JR

      Yeah, because you know you can do it. That's one of the, the sad things about these guys. Like, I was talking to a guy the other day, like, "How long you been doing comedy?" And he's like, "Seven years." I go, "How much time do you have?" He's like, "20 minutes." I go, "That's fucking ruthlessly unacceptable."

    2. BK

      It's terrible.

    3. JR

      I go, "You, you're lazy."

    4. BK

      Yeah.

    5. JR

      Like, you've been doing comedy for seven years, you have 20 minutes and out of those 20 minutes, 10 you should throw away.

    6. BK

      Right.

    7. JR

      That's crazy. But that's what happens.

    8. BK

      But they're not, but they're not doing it enough. You're not doing it enough.

    9. JR

      They don't get enough sets and the s- you know, it's hard. You're doing open mics and when you're doing open mics, everyone sucks, so you look like a hero if you have anything that's remotely humorous.

    10. BK

      Yeah.

    11. JR

      And so y- but then you try to remotely humorous stuff and you do it on, at the Icehouse and people are like, "Ha."

    12. BK

      Yeah.

    13. JR

      You know, like, you go on between you and you and, you know, you do this bullshit that you used to do in an open mic night and people are just not having it.

    14. BK

      That's why real sets are so different than-

    15. JR

      Oh, yeah.

    16. BK

      ... you know what I mean? If you don't, if you don't get in front of real crowds-

    17. JR

      Yeah.

    18. BK

      And it's not, you know, it's not entirely up to you, obviously, when you're starting out. It's hard to get in front of real-

    19. What do you mean, what do you mean real crowds?

    20. Like a real show.

    21. JR

      Professional?

    22. BK

      A professional audience.

    23. Oh, oh, like not just open mics?

    24. Yeah.

    25. JR

      As opposed to, yeah. Those Bringer shows-

    26. BK

      Like, those open mic shows. You know, th- that's why it's invaluable, like, even if you give somebody an opportunity to come on your show for them, like a, a, an up and comer, because they don't normally have real audiences-

    27. JR

      Mm-hmm.

    28. BK

      ... to perform in front of.

    29. JR

      Yeah, it's giant for them.

    30. BK

      Oh, yeah.

  7. 18:56 – 24:38

    Hecklers, offensive premises, and why you have to let the bit finish

    1. JR

      Well, some people just think that if you're saying something they disagree with, they, they don't think that they need to just like wait it out. They think they can stop you in the middle.

    2. BK

      Yeah.

    3. JR

      And the problem for me in particular, like a lot of my bits start off one way, like they look like they're gonna be way more outrageous than they are, and then I turn them around.

    4. BK

      Sure.

    5. JR

      But when I'm starting it off, and then you, you just attack, like, like you're fucking up the bit, like you don't even understand-

    6. BK

      It's-

    7. JR

      ... what I'm doing. It's the whole thing about freedom of speech in a weird way. I had a joke about pedophilia, uh, and I just started it, and the woman ju- this woman who was a fan of mine and everything, she just goes, "No! Stop!"

    8. BK

      Oh.

    9. JR

      And then now it looks like I'm pro-pedophilia. (laughs)

    10. BK

      (laughs)

    11. JR

      Haven't gotten to the fucking punchline.

    12. BK

      Yeah.

    13. JR

      Just looks like I'm into fucking kids and 'cause now I'm not allowed to finish it.

    14. BK

      Now, those people shouldn't be a- you know, allowed at shows because they're not even letting, they're not even letting the, the art form take place.

    15. JR

      Yeah. You can't.

    16. BK

      You crafted something, you know?

    17. JR

      Yeah.

    18. BK

      You're like, let it play out.

    19. JR

      You can't do that. I mean, you just, they should just kick you out. You just like, you're fucking up the whole experience for the whole crowd because like a guy like Brian Holtzman would literally never be able to perform-

    20. BK

      Yeah.

    21. JR

      ... if the audience is filled with people like that.

    22. BK

      Yeah.

    23. JR

      So people like you and I who enjoy him, we would never be able to see him because his whole act is saying outrageous shit like that, that absolutely he doesn't really mean.

    24. BK

      Right.

    25. JR

      But the funny thing is the twists and the turns-

    26. BK

      Right.

    27. JR

      ... getting you to laugh at this stuff.

    28. BK

      The other funny thing is, is that he's supposed to act like he does mean it.

    29. JR

      Yes. (laughs)

    30. BK

      Like that's what's funny.

  8. 24:38 – 28:36

    Tape review and nerdy optimization: audio/video recording setups for stand-up

    1. JR

      And then I'm like, maybe the... Okay, I, I gotta... But do you, how much time do you spend listening to recordings?

    2. TS

      A lot.

    3. JR

      Hm.

    4. TS

      A lot now. I, uh, after that last special, I did it obsessively.

    5. JR

      Yeah.

    6. TS

      And then I got into it. I got into recording. And now what I do is I will bit out. I, if I don't have video, I like to have video because I think the video aspect really lets me know why things were... Like-

    7. JR

      Right.

    8. TS

      ... I had this bit where I, my, I do my eyes a little different and it was killing and I saw it on video and I went, "Oh, I gotta make sure to do that." But, um, I, for me it's that, I, I, it's almost like I'm always tr- trying to chase to get back to that first time I told it.

    9. JR

      Right, that feeling.

    10. TS

      Yeah. I like to clip it out and then put chunks of like, all right, here's where the Starbucks bit is, here's this is. And then look at the different ones and go, "Oh, why did that work better than this one?" But, um, but I'm also, I've gotten really into editing videos and stuff, so it's a lot easier for me than it was when I first started. Now I'm just like, oh, real quick, sync up audio and... 'Cause I'll do audio and video, different tracks, sync them up, and then just clip them out and put them in folders.

    11. JR

      Audio and video? What do you mean?

    12. TS

      I t- I do... I'm a, I got a little nerdy about it. I take a H46 and H-

    13. JR

      What is that?

    14. BK

      An audio recorder.

    15. TS

      It's a, it's a z- a Zoom recorder.

    16. JR

      Mm-hmm.

    17. TS

      Zoom H46. And then I'll take my camera, put it in the back, oh, if I can, or I'll have the club run, run video. But I like to sync up clean audio and clean video. That way if I do have something fun, like Hannibal got on stage with me the other night, and I was like, "Ah, cool, I got all this shit that's, I could d- definitely put online." If I... I don't know I'm gonna want to do that to Hannibal. I'd have to run it by him first. But I got real clean audio of it.

    18. JR

      Oh, that's interesting. So you are doing it through the soundboard?

    19. TS

      No, I do it through... The H46 is like the best. It's, it... And I have a, uh, basically a surround sound mic on that.

    20. JR

      Which one's it called again? What is it?

    21. TS

      H46. It's bigger.

    22. JR

      H46 Zoom?

    23. TS

      A Zoom H46. Right? Am I right on that? Or is it just the H6? Oh, it's the H6. It's the H6.

    24. JR

      H6. H6.

    25. TS

      H6. The other one's the H4N.

    26. JR

      And it's Zoom?

    27. BK

      Yeah.

    28. TS

      Zoom H6.

    29. JR

      Z-O-O-M?

    30. BK

      O-O-M. Yeah.

  9. 28:36 – 32:05

    Tech tangent: Galaxy Note 9, stylus notes, and “walled garden” phone ecosystems

    1. JR

      So you, if you do a mini SD card, you could take that mini SD card and put it... If you have a phone like a... I just, uh, got an Android phone. I got this, uh, Galaxy Note 9, and it has, uh, it, it takes up to one terabyte of storage. Look at that.

    2. BK

      Holy shit.

    3. JR

      Look how pretty. Look.

    4. BK

      Yeah.

    5. JR

      Look at the stars. Look at all those stars.

    6. TS

      Is that new?

    7. JR

      Yeah, but-

    8. TS

      And it takes an SD card?

    9. JR

      Yeah.

    10. TS

      Shut the fuck up.

    11. JR

      Yeah, it takes an SD card. It takes up to one terabyte of storage. Um, it's fucking phenomenal.

    12. BK

      Yeah, it's great.

    13. JR

      It's fucking phenomenal. They used to be that they were like way inferior to iPhones. It's not the case anymore. In fact I think... Like look how big that screen is. Look how pretty.

    14. TS

      Yeah.

    15. JR

      Look how much storage.

    16. TS

      That's great.

    17. JR

      Look how pretty. Look how pretty.

    18. BK

      Who makes that?

    19. JR

      Uh, Samsung.

    20. BK

      That's Samsung.

    21. JR

      The, um, the, the fingerprint reader is fucking instant and it has a, a pen where you could write on the lock screen.

    22. BK

      Hm.

    23. JR

      So on the lock screen you can take notes and write on the screen.

    24. TS

      I haven't written in my joke book-

    25. BK

      Really?

    26. TS

      ... in forever I feel like.

    27. JR

      Look at that.

    28. BK

      Whoa. (laughs)

    29. JR

      (laughs)

    30. TS

      (laughs)

  10. 32:05 – 40:00

    Ride-or-die murder hypotheticals + historical brutality + Tom’s lucid dream detour

    1. BK

      So wait, let's, let's talk about, um ... So for the month ...

    2. TS

      (laughs)

    3. JR

      (laughs)

    4. BK

      (laughs) That's me.

    5. TS

      (laughs)

    6. JR

      (laughs) Yeah, he's been thinking about himself.

    7. BK

      (laughs) Fuck.

    8. JR

      You just gotta think of that.

    9. TS

      (laughs)

    10. JR

      You gotta think of rage. I got, I think of killing coyotes with my bare hands. I think of, uh, I think all kinds of crazy shit.

    11. BK

      I'll tell you what, I'm gonna ... I'm not even fucking around. I'm going to find my inner voice that speaks to me when I need that explosivity.

    12. JR

      You just gotta find your dark place. (exhales)

    13. TS

      (exhales)

    14. JR

      (snorts)

    15. TS

      That's easy access for me, man.

    16. JR

      (laughs)

    17. TS

      (laughs)

    18. (laughs)

    19. BK

      (laughs)

    20. JR

      Yeah, someone said that. Someon- (laughs) So-

    21. TS

      (laughs)

    22. JR

      Someone said, uh, "Why is it so, uh, why is it so difficult to Tom, for Tom 'Sober October'," um, he should take time off of thinking about murdering baristas.

    23. TS

      (laughs)

    24. (laughs)

    25. BK

      (laughs)

    26. TS

      If you guys don't know, him and his wife have been doing this thing where, uh, you guys had like, "If you murdered somebody, would you turn me in to the cops?"

    27. JR

      Yeah.

    28. BK

      I was blown away by her answer.

    29. JR

      She said she would. She was like, "100%." And I was like, "Are you out of your fucking mind?" She goes, "Well, was it an accident?" I'm like, "No. I just told you that I killed somebody, and I got the body in the trunk and no one knows." She's like, "You're a psycho. I don't know what you're gonna do. You're gonna kill me next." I'm like, "Why would I kill you next?"

    30. TS

      (laughs)

  11. 40:00 – 42:37

    How Sober October will be scored: points, two-a-days, yoga quotas, and heart-rate math

    1. BK

      So, what does-

    2. JR

      ... those, those images of these workouts every day. And I'm doing two a day.

    3. TS

      You're doing two workouts a day?

    4. JR

      Two, two a day like that.

    5. BK

      Yeah, me too. I already did mine today. I walked three miles.

    6. JR

      Ooh, I'm gonna do-

    7. BK

      On that bullshit fucking treadmill that, uh, we were talking about.

    8. JR

      Andy Stump's treadmill? You don't like that?

    9. BK

      Uh, dude, it just is not enjoyable.

    10. JR

      'Cause it's hard.

    11. BK

      It's hard as fuck.

    12. JR

      Yeah, but that's the whole idea behind it. It's difficult to run on.

    13. BK

      We are going for point total, right? That's what we're doing?

    14. JR

      Uh, is that- ... That's the move, right?

    15. BK

      Well, I mean, there was- there was two ... Like-

    16. JR

      What are the other things?

    17. BK

      The, the in- ... The initial thought I had was, like, last year we had a- ... It was 15 90-minute hot yoga classes.

    18. JR

      Right.

    19. BK

      So, the idea was-

    20. JR

      I'm gonna do those too.

    21. BK

      ... the- ... Okay. Well, the idea for that was that it was difficult, but attainable, right?

    22. JR

      I'm gonna do those.

    23. BK

      And you had to be disciplined to do it. So, now you're gonna do two workouts a day.

    24. JR

      Yup.

    25. BK

      And 15 min- ... 15-minute-

    26. JR

      Yeah, I'm gonna count the yoga as one.

    27. BK

      As one, okay.

    28. JR

      As one of my workouts a day.

    29. BK

      And then another hardcore one.

    30. JR

      But I'm, I'm doing them. I'm doing the 15 hot m- yoga classes on top of all the other shit.

  12. 42:37 – 45:29

    Arena comedy: Rogan’s Toronto show, scaling nerves, and the new reality of touring

    1. BK

      (laughs) Hey, speaking of arenas, how was Toronto?

    2. JR

      Fucking insane.

    3. TS

      What is it like in the... when you're doing 10,000 people?

    4. BK

      Yeah.

    5. JR

      10,600 people at the Scotiabank arena. It was the Air Canada Center. The UFC is back there in December. I'm back there again for the UFC.

    6. BK

      Isn't that crazy though? You're gonna be like, "Oh, one time I was here alone, talking-"

    7. JR

      It's ridiculous.

    8. BK

      ... and then you see it f- like, filled for-... events like that. I mean, that's where the fucking Raptors play.

    9. JR

      It, it's, it's so ridiculous it doesn't seem real. But I gotta say, the show felt like as intimate as, uh, a set at the Storr.

    10. BK

      Really?

    11. JR

      I'm not bullshitting. Yeah. Yeah.

    12. TS

      Welcome to the set!

    13. JR

      Yeah. It was, it was fucking nuts. Like-

    14. BK

      For real?

    15. JR

      Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was fucking easy-peasy. It was fun. I mean, it was literally like any other set. I was, I was nervous that I wasn't nervous.

    16. BK

      Yeah.

    17. JR

      I, I was nervous that I was calm. I mean, I did a lot of sets leading up to it. Like, when, um, I did, I di-... You know, I wa-... I constantly do sets, but I did, like, I did four sets Thursday night. I did-

    18. BK

      Really?

    19. JR

      Yeah. I did the Icehouse Wednesday, so I did an hour-plus at the Icehouse. I did three sets on, um, on, uh, Tuesday night. Yeah. I mean, that's, that's... I think that's the key is you just gotta do-

    20. BK

      You gotta be sharp for it.

    21. JR

      ... so many. Yeah. You have to just do so many that you're, you're just... Just like working out. You can't have any doubt. You gotta be just in shape. I just sent you a video. This is, this is, shows you how ridiculous the crowd looked.

    22. BK

      But when you're, um... But you're s-... You're also getting used to arenas 'cause you've done-

    23. JR

      Yeah.

    24. BK

      ... a few now.

    25. JR

      It's weird.

    26. TS

      This is your fourth arena?

    27. JR

      Fourth? Yeah. Maybe fifth. I did, I did, um-

    28. TS

      Columbus.

    29. JR

      Vancouver. I did Columbus. I did Kansas City. Kansas City was weird 'cause it was outside. That was weird.

    30. BK

      That's like an amphitheater, right?

  13. 45:29 – 1:02:13

    Why comedy is booming: podcasts, friendliness, and the end of ‘three-channel’ gatekeeping

    1. TS

      So I was thinking last night, and I know you... I know that you're not like this. I... You know, you're a little bit like this. But to compare different times of comedy, right? Um, and compare people. And I know you don't like comparing people, but has there ever been a time in comedy where this many acts were selling arenas, this many acts were selling theaters, and this many acts were selling out clubs?

    2. JR

      I don't think so. Well, well, Burr sold out Madison Square Garden, which is way bigger than that. Madison Square Garden I think is 18,000.

    3. BK

      That's true.

    4. JR

      How about this? Sebastian is ready to sell four sh-... He's already sold out three.

    5. BK

      Yeah.

    6. JR

      He's... They opened up a fourth show at Madison Square Garden.

    7. BK

      Yeah.

    8. JR

      Just stop and think about that.

    9. BK

      Yeah.

    10. JR

      That's almost 80,000 people.

    11. BK

      That's crazy. Yeah.

    12. JR

      Yeah.

    13. BK

      That's like a fucking NFL game stadium.

    14. JR

      Sebastian's murdering it.

    15. TS

      Has there, has there ever been a time... Like, just look at theater comics, just legit selling, like, multiple theater shows. Eliza, D'Elia. You can name any of you.

    16. JR

      Right. Right.

    17. TS

      Myself. Like, all... You go down the list.

    18. BK

      Aziz.

    19. TS

      Aziz. There's so many comics selling-

    20. JR

      Theaters.

    21. TS

      ... theaters-

    22. JR

      Right.

    23. TS

      ... that I don't think there's ever been a time-

    24. JR

      Elia. No. There's never been a time like this. Never. There's never been a time when this many comics are selling out multiple thousand-seat places. And then, there's the big... Well, first of all, there's Kevin Hart, who's the biggest of the big. He sells out 50,000.

    25. TS

      But Katt Williams is actually a lot bigger than he is.

    26. JR

      Katt Williams?

    27. TS

      Oh, yeah. I watched it on The Breakfast Club. (laughs)

    28. BK

      (laughs)

    29. JR

      (laughs) Aw. Shit. I thought you were drunk.

    30. TS

      I'm joking. I'm joking.

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