Joe Rogan Experience #1431 - Owen Smith

1. 0:00 – 15:00

   It is? …

   1. JRJoe Rogan0:00

      It is?

   2. OSOwen Smith0:00

      Yeah.

   3. JRJoe Rogan0:01

      Three, two-

   4. OSOwen Smith0:02

      D-

   5. JRJoe Rogan0:02

      ... one, boom. And we're live.

   6. OSOwen Smith0:04

      Oh.

   7. JRJoe Rogan0:04

      We're talking about yoga and-

   8. OSOwen Smith0:05

      Yeah.

   9. JRJoe Rogan0:05

      ... Russell Simmons?

   10. OSOwen Smith0:06

       Yeah.

   11. JRJoe Rogan0:06

       Russell Simmons, he moved to Bali because he's worried about them extraditing him?

   12. OSOwen Smith0:10

       I don't know if he's worried, but I, I, and this is all-

   13. JRJoe Rogan0:12

       Really?

   14. OSOwen Smith0:13

       ... this is, I'm, this is all conjecture. This is what I've heard.

   15. JRJoe Rogan0:15

       Right.

   16. OSOwen Smith0:15

       But I, I, I just brought him up because, um, we, we had a yoga studio here.

   17. JRJoe Rogan0:20

       Did he?

   18. OSOwen Smith0:21

       Yeah, and he gave me a month free. A month free, high-end yoga thing, like you just show up in your clothes. They give you the mat, towels-

   19. JRJoe Rogan0:31

       Really?

   20. OSOwen Smith0:32

       ... blocks, everything, and everybody was awesome. And I went every day for a month and did yoga next to Russell Simmons.

   21. JRJoe Rogan0:39

       Wow.

   22. OSOwen Smith0:40

       And he was, like, amazing. And, uh, and I was, like, really feeling it. I felt great. And then, uh, all the stuff happened. (laughs)

   23. JRJoe Rogan0:51

       (laughs) It's so easy to slide.

   24. OSOwen Smith0:53

       Oh, man. Oh, man.

   25. JRJoe Rogan0:54

       It's so easy to slide away.

   26. OSOwen Smith0:55

       Yeah, man, I, I, I love that guy dearly. I have a funny story. What do you think is more important in standup, uh, to be polished or to be raw?

   27. JRJoe Rogan1:06

       There's no more important thing. They're-

   28. OSOwen Smith1:09

       Mm-hmm.

   29. JRJoe Rogan1:09

       They're both very important, but Joey Diaz is not polished at all-

   30. OSOwen Smith1:13

       Mm-hmm.
2. 15:00 – 30:00

   Mm-hmm. …

   1. OSOwen Smith15:00

      at the time (laughs) was there and, uh, I had a rah-rah section, you know? We were the home team and Grant Hill, uh, comes in and my coach had me check him. And I, I never, um... And I, I guarantee you he won't remember this, but, um, it's this thing called a crossover, right? And most people, if you cross over, I'm, I'm still in front of you. Grant was so long when he did... Put the ball from this hand to this hand, I (laughs) I had to literally slide two steps and then when he'd move back, I had to slide back two steps. And when he went up here, there was no way I could get up there.

   2. JRJoe Rogan15:36

      Mm-hmm.

   3. OSOwen Smith15:36

      And so I told my girlfriend, "Yo, go home."

   4. JRJoe Rogan15:38

      (laughs)

   5. OSOwen Smith15:38

      Like, "Y'all don't need to see this." He scored like 60 points. (laughs)

   6. JRJoe Rogan15:43

      (laughs)

   7. OSOwen Smith15:43

      He was shooting from half court, like he just looked at us like... I was like, "I, I'ma, uh, do well in school."

   8. JRJoe Rogan15:50

      That's a fascinating thing when you see someone who's a world-class athlete-

   9. OSOwen Smith15:54

      World class.

   10. JRJoe Rogan15:54

       ... at the beginning of their journey, you know. This is in high school?

   11. OSOwen Smith15:57

       High school.

   12. JRJoe Rogan15:58

       Yeah.

   13. OSOwen Smith15:58

       High school.

   14. JRJoe Rogan15:58

       Beginning of their journey.

   15. OSOwen Smith16:00

       Yeah.

   16. JRJoe Rogan16:00

       Right? 'Cause he's really just getting-

   17. OSOwen Smith16:02

       Really just getting started.

   18. JRJoe Rogan16:02

       ... becoming a man.

   19. OSOwen Smith16:03

       Yep, yeah.

   20. JRJoe Rogan16:03

       He's not even really a man yet.

   21. OSOwen Smith16:05

       Nope.

   22. JRJoe Rogan16:06

       And but you see-

   23. OSOwen Smith16:07

       See.

   24. JRJoe Rogan16:07

       ... already-

   25. OSOwen Smith16:07

       Yeah.

   26. JRJoe Rogan16:07

       ... like they have that jump. I'm sure Jordan was like that. I'm sure... Well, isn't, wasn't Jordan, like, didn't make his high school team?

   27. OSOwen Smith16:13

       Yeah.

   28. JRJoe Rogan16:14

       Isn't that crazy?

   29. OSOwen Smith16:14

       Yeah. Who cut him?

   30. JRJoe Rogan16:16

       God.
3. 30:00 – 45:00

   Yeah. …

   1. JRJoe Rogan30:00

      you know, you're a great writer, there's no question about it.

   2. OSOwen Smith30:02

      Yeah.

   3. JRJoe Rogan30:02

      But you're a world-class standup.

   4. OSOwen Smith30:05

      Thank you, man. Thank you. Thank you, thank you, everybody.

   5. JRJoe Rogan30:07

      It's true.

   6. OSOwen Smith30:07

      Go to textowen.com.

   7. JRJoe Rogan30:08

      (laughs)

   8. OSOwen Smith30:08

      We gotta get this going. 'Cause I'm serious, man, because it's like, I... You know how the business changed-

   9. JRJoe Rogan30:13

      Mm-hmm.

   10. OSOwen Smith30:13

       ... and, you know, I thought that if you just had quality work that, you know-

   11. JRJoe Rogan30:16

       Yeah.

   12. OSOwen Smith30:17

       ... it would... And then, it, it's, it's, it's, it's just changed to something that I-

   13. JRJoe Rogan30:20

       The TV shit all went away.

   14. OSOwen Smith30:21

       It all went away.

   15. JRJoe Rogan30:22

       Yeah.

   16. OSOwen Smith30:22

       And so, um... So we'll see. We'll see.

   17. JRJoe Rogan30:25

       Yeah.

   18. OSOwen Smith30:25

       I'm, I'm putting myself out there. (laughs)

   19. JRJoe Rogan30:28

       Well, you gotta get a special. That's all it's gonna take for you.

   20. OSOwen Smith30:30

       Yeah, yeah.

   21. JRJoe Rogan30:31

       You know? Amazon or something.

   22. OSOwen Smith30:32

       On a platform that people watch. Yeah.

   23. JRJoe Rogan30:33

       Yeah.

   24. OSOwen Smith30:33

       Netflix, if they would...

   25. JRJoe Rogan30:33

       Netflix, someone's gonna step up.

   26. OSOwen Smith30:35

       Yeah, that would be great. You know? Um...And so, we'll, we'll see. But I just wanted... I wanted to thank you, and-

   27. JRJoe Rogan30:41

       (clears throat) Oh, my pleasure.

   28. OSOwen Smith30:42

       ...we'll see what happens. Hopefully... Yeah. Break my phone, y'all. I wanna, I wanna-

   29. JRJoe Rogan30:44

       (laughs)

   30. OSOwen Smith30:44

       ...I wanna experience that. Right, right. (laughs) Right. Right.
4. 45:00 – 1:00:00

   That is so crazy-…

   1. OSOwen Smith45:00

      why I shot my first special. I took all my college money, shot, did all that instead (laughs) of just calling this woman like, "Hey, uh, something, eh, weird." And so that's how I ended up, like, shooting the, the first special anonymous.

   2. JRJoe Rogan45:13

      That is so crazy-

   3. OSOwen Smith45:14

      Ain't that crazy?

   4. JRJoe Rogan45:14

      ... that she said she didn't even know you.

   5. OSOwen Smith45:16

      She says she never, never heard of him.

   6. JRJoe Rogan45:17

      But meanwhile, you had her card.

   7. OSOwen Smith45:18

      Had it and didn't use it. That's why it's like-

   8. JRJoe Rogan45:21

      Oh.

   9. OSOwen Smith45:21

      ... it's not, it's not ... I don't feel like it's shade on her. It's like, I'm, I'm talking about ... And, and if it's any comments dis- like, "Yo, call 'em." Like, you know what I mean? Like, I'm just-

   10. JRJoe Rogan45:30

       Sometimes it's part of that world of not-

   11. OSOwen Smith45:33

       Yeah.

   12. JRJoe Rogan45:33

       ... being all in standup and being-

   13. OSOwen Smith45:35

       Yeah.

   14. JRJoe Rogan45:35

       ... in that writing world.

   15. OSOwen Smith45:36

       Yeah. That's true. Yeah, I didn't-

   16. JRJoe Rogan45:37

       That's Ian too.

   17. OSOwen Smith45:39

       Yeah.

   18. JRJoe Rogan45:39

       Ian Edwards, I've been say- saying the same shit to him forever.

   19. OSOwen Smith45:42

       Yeah, that's real.

   20. JRJoe Rogan45:42

       I'm like, "You gotta stop taking those jobs, man. You're too good. You're too good."

   21. OSOwen Smith45:46

       Yeah. Yeah, man. Yeah.

   22. JRJoe Rogan45:47

       And Ian Edwards and I, we started out together, man.

   23. OSOwen Smith45:50

       Oh, wow.

   24. JRJoe Rogan45:50

       I've known Ian for 20, 27, 28 years. I've known him forever.

   25. OSOwen Smith45:56

       Wow.

   26. JRJoe Rogan45:56

       Dude, forever. Ian and I used to do Boston Comedy in New York City in the Village.

   27. OSOwen Smith46:01

       Yeah. Yeah. I remember that dreadlock Ian.

   28. JRJoe Rogan46:02

       Back in the day. Dreadlock Ian.

   29. OSOwen Smith46:04

       Yeah, I remember when I-

   30. JRJoe Rogan46:04

       Yeah.
5. 1:00:00 – 1:05:48

   Yeah. …

   1. OSOwen Smith1:00:00

      like, he was, he was trying to figure it out still, so he didn't have the little, the, the, the... And so it's all those little things. And so sometimes I could be too hard on myself trying to get it, like, technically, technically right. And when I just fig- remember to play, this shit is so fun, you know what I mean?

   2. JRJoe Rogan1:00:15

      Yeah.

   3. OSOwen Smith1:00:15

      It's about creating moments, and you forget all of that. But for me, I'm always trying to... I'm always... I don't know, man, like, I'll hear shit, I'll see shit, and I'm like, "What is that?" Like, like, so, m- like, so for right now, it's Black History Month, all this stuff about Martin Luther King. But my head went to, "Yo, this dude, the FBI, uh, bugged, like, they listened to all of his stuff." And so I'm just, now I'm thinking about the guys listening to MLK, like, "You couldn't all be civil rights. Like, they... I wonder if he turned to any of them, you know?"

   4. JRJoe Rogan1:00:50

      (laughs)

   5. OSOwen Smith1:00:51

      Like, "They listening," like...

   6. JRJoe Rogan1:00:53

      "That's kinda good point." (laughs)

   7. OSOwen Smith1:00:54

      Right. (laughs) Right, right. "You know, I kinda agree with this mother-" You know?

   8. JRJoe Rogan1:00:57

      Yeah.

   9. OSOwen Smith1:00:57

      Or, or they be like, "Huh, so that's how you make potato salad." You know what I mean? Like-

   10. JRJoe Rogan1:01:01

       (laughs)

   11. OSOwen Smith1:01:01

       Like, just listening to whatever...

   12. JRJoe Rogan1:01:03

       How many people you think were assigned to listen to him?

   13. OSOwen Smith1:01:05

       That, I'm fascinated with that.

   14. JRJoe Rogan1:01:07

       That's what's crazy.

   15. OSOwen Smith1:01:07

       And, like, I wonder, like-

   16. JRJoe Rogan1:01:07

       That's a weird relationship.

   17. OSOwen Smith1:01:08

       It's a weird relationship, and you're getting, like... You're getting a peek into the world of somebody you're told is this one thing, and what if you, you know, you hear something and you just don't agree? Like, I'm fascinated with stuff like that, so I try to, like, figure out if it's-

   18. JRJoe Rogan1:01:24

       Yeah.

   19. OSOwen Smith1:01:24

       If you can make that funny.

   20. JRJoe Rogan1:01:26

       Sure.

   21. OSOwen Smith1:01:26

       Uh...

   22. JRJoe Rogan1:01:26

       And then that's where great bits come from.

   23. OSOwen Smith1:01:28

       Yeah.

   24. JRJoe Rogan1:01:28

       And they come from that uncertainty, like, "Okay, where is it?"

   25. OSOwen Smith1:01:30

       Where is it?

   26. JRJoe Rogan1:01:31

       "I know there's something in that."

   27. OSOwen Smith1:01:32

       Yeah.

   28. JRJoe Rogan1:01:32

       There is something in some FBI, some square FBI dude-

   29. OSOwen Smith1:01:36

       Yep, yep, that-

   30. JRJoe Rogan1:01:37

       ... listening to Martin Luther King.

Episode duration: 2:33:57