Joe Rogan Experience #1275 - Luis J. Gomez

1. 0:00 – 15:00

   ... all this shit.…

   1. LGLuis J. Gomez0:00

      ... all this shit.

   2. JRJoe Rogan0:02

      Four, three, two, one. (sniffs) Pow, Luis Gomez, we are live. We are live, connected through the interwebs, and through a network of comedians, Luis Gomez.

   3. LGLuis J. Gomez0:18

      Luis J. Gomez.

   4. JRJoe Rogan0:19

      Luis J. Gomez. What, why do you-

   5. LGLuis J. Gomez0:20

      Don't forget the J.

   6. JRJoe Rogan0:20

      ... like the J, why do you like the J?

   7. LGLuis J. Gomez0:22

      'Cause go Google Luis Gomez and watch how many baseball players-

   8. JRJoe Rogan0:25

      Oh, right, right, right.

   9. LGLuis J. Gomez0:26

      ... criminals, uh-

   10. JRJoe Rogan0:28

       (laughs)

   11. LGLuis J. Gomez0:28

       ... fucking just-

   12. JRJoe Rogan0:29

       That's a problem, making people use the J. That's very pretentious for a guy like you.

   13. LGLuis J. Gomez0:33

       Yeah, I agree. No, no, no, it is, I understand.

   14. JRJoe Rogan0:35

       You have to.

   15. LGLuis J. Gomez0:35

       But it's almost like, well, m- it's almost ironic-

   16. JRJoe Rogan0:38

       Why don't you give him a nickname?

   17. LGLuis J. Gomez0:38

       ... because I'm such a piece of garbage, so I would have, like, a middle initial, like, um-

   18. JRJoe Rogan0:42

       Right, like you're like a, a luminary.

   19. LGLuis J. Gomez0:45

       Yeah.

   20. JRJoe Rogan0:45

       Some important (laughs) some important intellectual.

   21. LGLuis J. Gomez0:48

       Yeah. It is.

   22. JRJoe Rogan0:49

       Hmm.

   23. LGLuis J. Gomez0:49

       Uh, but yeah, it does, it separates me as well. But I almost feel like I, I, I've made it a joke at this point to correct everyone that doesn't say the J. So if I didn't correct you-

   24. JRJoe Rogan0:57

       Oh, I see.

   25. LGLuis J. Gomez0:57

       ... I wouldn't be being true to myself.

   26. JRJoe Rogan0:59

       I understand. So, Luis J. Gomez-

   27. LGLuis J. Gomez1:01

       Thank you.

   28. JRJoe Rogan1:01

       ... I feel like, um, you know, I've- we've talked about this ad nauseam on the podcast, but I think this is one of the most unique times for, uh, like, networks of comedians, that we're all connected together-

   29. LGLuis J. Gomez1:12

       Yeah.

   30. JRJoe Rogan1:12

       ... in a way that we were n- we weren't really before. It was always, like, East Coast versus West Coast for some stupid fucking reason. There was always this debate where the best comics are from and the style of comedy. But that shit seems to be out the window.
2. 15:00 – 30:00

   Yeah. …

   1. JRJoe Rogan15:00

      trigger, because people have pulled the trigger on them.

   2. LGLuis J. Gomez15:02

      Yeah.

   3. JRJoe Rogan15:02

      Whereas, like, there's a lot of people that talk a lot of shit, but they never really pull the trigger.

   4. LGLuis J. Gomez15:05

      Well, you see those guys. Those are the guys who are-

   5. JRJoe Rogan15:06

      Yeah, I mean, when I, when I say pull the trigger, obviously I need, mean punch someone. I don't mean actually pull the trigger.

   6. LGLuis J. Gomez15:10

      Oh, you said, you said Chicago, so

   7. NANarrator15:11

      (laughs)

   8. JRJoe Rogan15:11

      Yeah, well, e- anywhere.

   9. LGLuis J. Gomez15:13

      (laughs) Yeah.

   10. JRJoe Rogan15:13

       I mean, it's like, especially after that Nipsey Hussle guy got killed. It's like-

   11. LGLuis J. Gomez15:16

       That's crazy.

   12. JRJoe Rogan15:17

       (sighs) That's so sad.

   13. LGLuis J. Gomez15:18

       Yeah, on video, too, they have the, uh-

   14. JRJoe Rogan15:20

       No, Jesus Christ.

   15. LGLuis J. Gomez15:22

       It's fucked up, um. I- I- I'm not a hip hop fan at all, um, but apparently he was very positive, like anti-violence. Like, it wasn't like a-

   16. JRJoe Rogan15:28

       Yes.

   17. LGLuis J. Gomez15:28

       ... you know, thuggy rapper that was promoting, you know, drug dealing and, and gang violence, which I don't really know if even people do that as much anymore.

   18. JRJoe Rogan15:37

       I don't know, but by all accounts, this guy was loved.

   19. LGLuis J. Gomez15:40

       Yeah.

   20. JRJoe Rogan15:40

       And, uh, you know, he just ... It's just beyond fucked. (sighs) Just, like, that, that is still going on in this world.

   21. LGLuis J. Gomez15:50

       It was, if I'm not mistaken, um, he got into a fight with a guy, right? And the guy came back with a gun-

   22. JRJoe Rogan15:58

       I don't know.

   23. LGLuis J. Gomez15:59

       ... and shot him. That's what I read. I, I think it was, like, a- something-

   24. JRJoe Rogan16:02

       I don't know if it was along those lines. Something along those lines.

   25. LGLuis J. Gomez16:04

       'Cause y- the, this ... When you hear about a hip hop artist gunned down, you're like, "Oh, is this some long-standing beef?"

   26. JRJoe Rogan16:09

       Yeah.

   27. LGLuis J. Gomez16:09

       And, you know, you know, who knows? But I think it was literally a fight that these guys got in, and the guy came back with a gun and just fucking started unloading, which is-

   28. JRJoe Rogan16:18

       Mm.

   29. LGLuis J. Gomez16:18

       It's brutal. That's literally how my father died. Literally ... Well, except with a, it was with a knife, which is a much more hardcore way to do it.

   30. JRJoe Rogan16:24

       (laughs)
3. 30:00 – 45:00

   I got no problem…

   1. JRJoe Rogan30:00

      take over the world. I mean, they took over the world for a long ass time.

   2. LGLuis J. Gomez30:03

      I got no problem with Italy. It sounds great.

   3. JRJoe Rogan30:04

      Barbarian people.

   4. LGLuis J. Gomez30:05

      Yeah. But you... Now, today, there's not much opportunity if you wanna drive a cab, make some tomato sauce.

   5. JRJoe Rogan30:10

      Dude, I was driving with this cab driver with my kids in the car, and this guy slowed down to check out this chick's ass and yelled out the window at her. (laughs)

   6. LGLuis J. Gomez30:18

      (laughs)

   7. JRJoe Rogan30:18

      They're fucking savages, man. They are ape people. My ancestors, I'm allowed to say it.

   8. LGLuis J. Gomez30:24

      I, uh-

   9. JRJoe Rogan30:25

      They're ape folk.

   10. LGLuis J. Gomez30:26

       I used... I used to love catcalling. In a f-

   11. JRJoe Rogan30:28

       It's terrible for you.

   12. LGLuis J. Gomez30:29

       In a funny way, though. It's not... Yeah, it's wrong. I will preface this by saying it's wrong. But... And as- as an adult, as a 37-year-old man, uh, who has a six-year-old boy, um, who will probably watch this one day, I will say, "Don't do that."

   13. JRJoe Rogan30:44

       Don't do what Daddy says.

   14. LGLuis J. Gomez30:45

       Yeah.

   15. JRJoe Rogan30:45

       Do as I say, not as I do.

   16. LGLuis J. Gomez30:46

       Exactly. But I will say, it was sort of like a funny thing. We would just, we would just catcall chicks in a funny way. We would do it almost like mocking guys who catcall. However, from the girl's perspective, she's just being catcalled.

   17. JRJoe Rogan30:57

       Yeah, the girls don't like it. Unless they really like it.

   18. LGLuis J. Gomez31:00

       Well, it depends.

   19. JRJoe Rogan31:00

       Uh, they, they could be freaks. But it's, it's never worth the risk.

   20. LGLuis J. Gomez31:03

       You can go to, you can go to the hood-

   21. JRJoe Rogan31:03

       It's not like... One out of 10 may, might like it.

   22. LGLuis J. Gomez31:06

       I, I had talked about this in my special, but if you go holler at a fucking Puerto Rican chick or a Black chick...

   23. JRJoe Rogan31:12

       They want it?

   24. LGLuis J. Gomez31:13

       They like it.

   25. JRJoe Rogan31:13

       Okay.

   26. LGLuis J. Gomez31:14

       I'm making a generalization here-

   27. JRJoe Rogan31:15

       Different culture.

   28. LGLuis J. Gomez31:15

       ... but I'm telling you right now, it's how... It's a different level of community. I'm telling you, go watch in Harlem or if you go to Brooklyn, just watch-

   29. JRJoe Rogan31:22

       Luis J. Gomez defends catcalling.

   30. NANarrator31:24

       (laughs)
4. 45:00 – 1:00:00

   To wear ... It's…

   1. JRJoe Rogan45:00

      That's a meme right there. You have to have a big dick and a nice butt to wear a singlet.

   2. LGLuis J. Gomez45:03

      To wear ... It's the truth. What do you want-

   3. JRJoe Rogan45:04

      (laughs)

   4. LGLuis J. Gomez45:04

      ... me to say? The, uh ... It's crazy. I, w- I'm in the ninth grade. I'm like, "I'm waiting for my dick to grow in still, okay? I'm not doing this for another couple of years." So, I joined for, like, a day and in my s- high school we had a pool, and it was like a heated pool for the swim team. I went to a pretty nice high school actually, and there was a ... They would make us run around the pool b- like, for like four miles before wrestling practice.

   5. JRJoe Rogan45:26

      Hmm.

   6. LGLuis J. Gomez45:27

      Before. Before wrestling practice. It were, it was three miles total, whatever it was, and it was like a sauna. So you were doing like a hot warmup in a hot pool, and then you would start training. And yeah, two days later I was like, "Fuck this, dude."

   7. JRJoe Rogan45:41

      And they beat your ass from wrestling. But that's what makes people so tough. That's why wrestlers are like mentally some of the toughest people alive.

   8. LGLuis J. Gomez45:48

      Yeah.

   9. JRJoe Rogan45:48

      They're, they're so used to that grind. They can, they, they, uh, they also take pleasure in suffering like no other sport. Like, they enjoy it.

   10. LGLuis J. Gomez45:55

       Yeah.

   11. JRJoe Rogan45:56

       Like, they enjoy not being prima donnas like all the best wrestlers. If you, you go back and you look at like the history of amateur wrestling, they're all known as being like hard, hard men like Dan Gable. Dan Gable was a hard man.

   12. LGLuis J. Gomez46:07

       Yeah.

   13. JRJoe Rogan46:08

       You know, that motherfucker just trained his body into the ground. I think he's got two hip replacements, two knee replacements. Doesn't mean he just destroyed-

   14. LGLuis J. Gomez46:15

       And they just keep going.

   15. JRJoe Rogan46:16

       ... his body.

   16. LGLuis J. Gomez46:16

       Yeah.

   17. JRJoe Rogan46:16

       Destroyed his body.

   18. LGLuis J. Gomez46:17

       Keep going.

   19. JRJoe Rogan46:17

       He was an animal. And he was just a des- he was just a, uh, unstoppable wrestler in his prime.

   20. LGLuis J. Gomez46:23

       Yeah.

   21. JRJoe Rogan46:23

       But that was part of it. It was that, that mental strength that those guys have at, at the highest level.

   22. LGLuis J. Gomez46:27

       And a lot of those guys don't jump into it later, though. It's, it's also, as we're talking about-

   23. JRJoe Rogan46:31

       Mm-hmm.

   24. LGLuis J. Gomez46:31

       ... beating your f- you know, kids-

   25. JRJoe Rogan46:33

       Oh, yeah, man.

   26. LGLuis J. Gomez46:33

       ... and turning them into pieces of shit. There's the other side of it as well where you have like ... It's, it's in their family.

   27. JRJoe Rogan46:37

       Mm-hmm.

   28. LGLuis J. Gomez46:37

       It's their dad. They're doing it since they were four. Since they can, you know-

   29. JRJoe Rogan46:39

       Sure.

   30. LGLuis J. Gomez46:39

       ... crawl, they can ... They're, they're practicing takedowns. And that side of it, if you're, you know, in those formative years, if that's built into you, that toughness-
5. 1:00:00 – 1:01:06

   Right. …

   1. LGLuis J. Gomez1:00:00

      have a victim mentality when they look at stupid shit that they've done in their youth.

   2. JRJoe Rogan1:00:04

      Right.

   3. LGLuis J. Gomez1:00:04

      I think most people go like, "Ah, I was a fucking idiot. I shouldn't have done that. There's a lot of shit I shouldn't have done."

   4. JRJoe Rogan1:00:08

      There's both things, right? There's... Some people don't have a victim mentality, and then there's also some people who just became victims back then, and they just didn't have a way to express it like they do now.

   5. LGLuis J. Gomez1:00:23

      Yeah.

   6. JRJoe Rogan1:00:23

      There's a different... Like-It's, it was a completely different world 20, 30 years ago.

   7. LGLuis J. Gomez1:00:28

      Yeah, how would you even start to get the message out that you were a Me Too in 1981? (laughs)

   8. JRJoe Rogan1:00:33

      Yeah. I mean, what-

   9. LGLuis J. Gomez1:00:34

      Are you gonna write a letter to a publicist?

   10. JRJoe Rogan1:00:35

       Right, what would you do? What would you do if you got ... if someone sexually assaulted you in 1981, what would you do? I mean-

   11. LGLuis J. Gomez1:00:43

       Go to the cops.

   12. JRJoe Rogan1:00:43

       Yeah. You'd have to go to the cops.

   13. LGLuis J. Gomez1:00:44

       Try to call a newspaper, maybe?

   14. JRJoe Rogan1:00:46

       They would... You know, if, if the, the guy was a rich guy, turn his lawyers on you. Yeah, different world. It's all ... It's ... I mean, I'm, uh, of the Steven Pinker view of, uh, progress that I, I think that although the world is not perfect, I think it's just way better than it's ever been before.

   15. LGLuis J. Gomez1:01:05

       It is way better.

Episode duration: 2:56:04