Joe Rogan Experience #1604 - Jamar Neighbors

1. 0:02 – 1:33

   Reuniting over Comedy Store memories and the meaning of getting your name on the wall

   1. JNJamar Neighbors0:02

      (drum roll) Joe Rogan podcast, check it out.

   2. JRJoe Rogan0:04

      The Joe Rogan Experience.

   3. JNJamar Neighbors0:06

      Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night. All day. (rock music plays)

   4. JRJoe Rogan0:14

      All right, we might ... Salute, my brother.

   5. JNJamar Neighbors0:16

      Yes, sir.

   6. JRJoe Rogan0:16

      So good to see you.

   7. JNJamar Neighbors0:17

      Man, you too, bro.

   8. JRJoe Rogan0:19

      Dawg, brings me back to The Comedy Store. Ugh. Ugh, the days. I'm gonna be- I'm gonna be, one day I'm gonna be looking back on those days and just going, "What a, what a lucky time we had there."

   9. JNJamar Neighbors0:30

      Yeah.

   10. JRJoe Rogan0:31

       You know? We were so lucky. So lucky to be in that spot at that time in that moment in history. You know?

   11. JNJamar Neighbors0:36

       Yeah. Dude, I, um, n- ... Some guy wanted me to write something about, like, s- a haunted comedy club, so, like, one of their last days that I was out there before I came out here. So I walked all the way down the street, and then I walked all the way to the, um, to The Comedy Store. And it was closed, it was shut down and it's abandoned.

   12. JRJoe Rogan0:56

       That is weird.

   13. JNJamar Neighbors0:58

       It is. And I was just looking at, I was just looking at the whole place, taking it in. And I was just like, "Damn." I was like ... And I just walked off. (laughs) Like, God, I, I looked at my name, and I was up there like, "Damn, man, I worked so hard to get that shit on there."

   14. JRJoe Rogan1:16

       (laughs)

   15. JNJamar Neighbors1:17

       And I just walked off. I took nothing, like, like, nothing, (laughs) like, back to go write about. And I was just like, "Damn, I worked so hard to get that. All right." (laughs) You know, like ...

   16. JRJoe Rogan1:26

       Yeah, getting your name up on the wall of that place is like (blows out air through teeth) ... I mean, for a comedian, it's like the, that's the stamp.

   17. JNJamar Neighbors1:32

       Hell, yeah.

   18. JRJoe Rogan1:32

       You got the stamp.

2. 1:33 – 4:01

   Why it took Jamar so long to get passed: Mitzi, showcases, and “going dirty too early”

   1. JNJamar Neighbors1:33

      Hell, yeah. And, and they wouldn't d- and they wouldn't, (laughs) they wouldn't pass me for the longest, dude.

   2. JRJoe Rogan1:37

      How long?

   3. JNJamar Neighbors1:38

      Like ... Oh, man. So I started going there at 19, and, um-

   4. JRJoe Rogan1:44

      When you were 19 years old?

   5. JNJamar Neighbors1:46

      Yeah. Yeah. I've been doing comedy for, like, 17 years.

   6. JRJoe Rogan1:48

      What year was it when you got passed?

   7. JNJamar Neighbors1:52

      Probably, like, 2000 and f- ... When is ... I'm trying to do the math for this. Like, 2014 maybe. Yeah.

   8. JRJoe Rogan2:01

      So that was, like, right when I was coming back.

   9. JNJamar Neighbors2:03

      Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And they would, they, they would never pass ... I remember, I remember doing a showcase in front of Mitzi. (laughs) I did a showcase in front of Mitzi. This is when Mitzi came in and she was all, like, you know, much respect, but, like, the crap hit him, like, really light.

   10. JRJoe Rogan2:18

       Yeah. Yeah.

   11. JNJamar Neighbors2:18

       And they sat her in the back, and everybody was like, "Oh my God, it's Mitzi. Oh my God, it's Mitzi. Oh my God, it's Mitzi." We all went up, and we all did our sets. Like, it was me, it was, uh, it was, it was Jerrod, it was Angelo Bowers, it was Josh Adame. It was, like, all of us. And then, so we all go up and do our sets and shit. And mind you, like, this is a open mic, so, um, I go up, and, um, the first joke I said, I was up there like, I was just like, "Yeah, man." I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, "Michael Jackson could, could fuck anybody he want to. You know what I'm saying?"

   12. JRJoe Rogan2:47

       (laughs)

   13. JNJamar Neighbors2:47

       I was like, I was like ... You know, before, before, before everybody's was doing th- that type of joke.

   14. JRJoe Rogan2:52

       Go ahead.

   15. JNJamar Neighbors2:52

       I, I was really like, I was really like, "Michael Jackson could do whatever the fuck he want to do. Da-da-da-da-da-da-da." And then, um, and then, uh, Mitzi gets up (laughs) and walks out. Right?

   16. JRJoe Rogan3:01

       Oh, no.

   17. JNJamar Neighbors3:02

       She just walks out. And then, um, I thought that my friend in back, I mean, that my friend, uh, Angelo walked her, because he went up after me. And then, uh, the next day, remember Tommy?

   18. JRJoe Rogan3:11

       Yeah.

   19. JNJamar Neighbors3:12

       The next day, uh, Tommy was at the, like, "What in the fuck did you think you were doing?" And I was like, "Me?" He was ... I was like, um, uh, I was like, "I was j- I was doing my standup." I was like, "I rocked that shit." And I was at, like, "It was only four people in here." He was at the, like, "You went dirty, bro. It was only 6:00. Mitzi called you a pig." (laughs)

   20. JRJoe Rogan3:30

       (laughs)

   21. JNJamar Neighbors3:30

       (laughs) And I'm so ... And I was like ... (laughs)

   22. JRJoe Rogan3:33

       "You went, you went dirty. It was only 6:00." Like, there's an hour-

   23. JNJamar Neighbors3:36

       I was like-

   24. JRJoe Rogan3:36

       ... where you can tell non-dirty jokes.

   25. JNJamar Neighbors3:38

       It's fucked up 'cause I was like, "I talk like this all the time." I was like, "3:00 if we're in the morning."

   26. JRJoe Rogan3:43

       Ah.

   27. JNJamar Neighbors3:43

       Or like 9:00. No matter.

   28. JRJoe Rogan3:44

       That's hilarious.

   29. JNJamar Neighbors3:46

       So I walked Mitzi, and that's why ... uh, that's one of the reason it took me forever to get passed.

   30. JRJoe Rogan3:49

       (laughs)
3. 4:01 – 6:23

   Jealousy, development spots, and forcing stage time by any means

   1. JNJamar Neighbors4:01

      (sighs) So, yeah. So, uh, th- then, then, then my friends started getting passed. Uh, uh, Willy Hunter and, uh, and Jerrod got passed. And I was still, I was still in the development, like, in the Belly Room. They still passed me to the Belly Room.

   2. JRJoe Rogan4:13

      Mm-hmm.

   3. JNJamar Neighbors4:14

      And then, so I would work in there and stuff like that. And then, um ... And then, uh, uh, I, I would go up. Like, like, I would start coming back, and I, I went up and everything like that. And I would kill every fucking time, like, during the open mic and during, like, the, the friends and family part. And, um, a- ... I got frustrated because all my friends ... I ain't gonna lie, I got frustrated 'cause all my friends were getting passed, and I was at the, like, "Man, I'm, I'm funny as fuck too."

   4. JRJoe Rogan4:37

      Yeah.

   5. JNJamar Neighbors4:37

      You know, like, like, "What the fuck?" So every time after I would, I would kill at the store, I would reach out to ... I would look at Tommy in the booth, and I'd be like, "Yo, Tommy." And I was like, "You see what I just did in here."

   6. JRJoe Rogan4:48

      (laughs)

   7. JNJamar Neighbors4:48

      I was like, "You passing me this week?"

   8. JRJoe Rogan4:50

      (laughs)

   9. JNJamar Neighbors4:51

      And then he'd be, like, he'd be, like, he was just laughing in the back. And I'd be like, "Okay."

   10. JRJoe Rogan4:55

       Oh.

   11. JNJamar Neighbors4:55

       And I was like, "I'll be back next week, and we'll do it again." Like ... (laughs)

   12. JRJoe Rogan4:58

       Oh, man. When he had power over the store, that was a terrible position.

   13. JNJamar Neighbors5:02

       Yeah.

   14. JRJoe Rogan5:02

       Terrible po- ... To have a, um, a insane person in charge of running the c- the greatest comedy club in the world's ever known.

   15. JNJamar Neighbors5:09

       Yeah, man. But-

   16. JRJoe Rogan5:11

       (sighs) Those days.

   17. JNJamar Neighbors5:12

       But I ... But I appreciate, I actually appreciate how hard he made it for me, though. You know what I'm saying?

   18. JRJoe Rogan5:17

       It just... Yeah. It, adversity makes you stronger if you do stick it out. But when you're a young comic and your friends are doing well and you're not ...

   19. JNJamar Neighbors5:24

       Yeah.

   20. JRJoe Rogan5:24

       Like, I remember when I was an open mic-er, I was dirty. And, uh, the other guys that were clean started to get work as hosts in town. And I could only get, like, road gigs.

   21. JNJamar Neighbors5:34

       Yeah.

   22. JRJoe Rogan5:34

       And I remember feeling so jealous. Like, "God."... why can't I get in the ... I got to go to see them, like I'd be, I'd be hanging out with them, I'd go to see them at a club and they would, they would host in front of like 300 super polite people at a really nice club. Everyone was seated and laughing at everything. And I would go to these dirty bars in New Hampshire. Yeah. And I was like- Yeah. ... "Oh my god- Yeah. ... I've taken a bad path." (laughs)

   23. JNJamar Neighbors5:56

       Like, like, like my friends, uh, like my friends would, um, like my friends would get like shows and stuff. But like, and like, um, he was like, um ... It was like Jerrod, it was like Angelo Bowers and like all these guys 'cause they, they, like, they came, like they came on the scene, those guys came on the scene already knowing who they were. Like I, I was, I was more of like a I was still figuring it out kinda sorta and all this stuff. I like, I, I'm a lot to figure out for myself too.

   24. JRJoe Rogan6:23

       (laughs)

4. 6:23 – 9:21

   Bringer shows explained: the pay-to-play trap and why it stunts growth

   1. JNJamar Neighbors6:23

      You know what I'm saying? So I'm like, um, so I was like, "Damn man, nobody would book me." I'm like, "Man, fuck." So what I would do is I would go on Craigslist and I would, um, I would, um, I would book bringer shows, but I would never bring anybody. And that's how I would get my shows. They'd be like-

   2. JRJoe Rogan6:38

      (laughs)

   3. JNJamar Neighbors6:38

      ... "Oh, are you gonna bring 15 people?" I'm like, "Yeah, I'm gonna bring 15 people." And I show up and I bring nobody, but they would still let me go up. And I was like, "All right, well this is what's gonna happen. You're not gonna bring anybody, but what you're gonna do is you're gonna go up there-"

   4. JRJoe Rogan6:50

      Explain a bringer show to people 'cause a lot of people don't know what a bringer show is.

   5. JNJamar Neighbors6:53

      So bringer show is like when you're like a younger comic and you wanna do shows and stuff, there are promoters who are like, "Hey, you can do, you can do, um, you can do a show here in the Belly Room, but you have to bring 20 people." Right?

   6. JRJoe Rogan7:07

      Was it that many?

   7. JNJamar Neighbors7:08

      Yeah.

   8. JRJoe Rogan7:08

      Is it 20?

   9. JNJamar Neighbors7:09

      Sometimes it'd be 20, sometimes it'd be 15.

   10. JRJoe Rogan7:11

       But the Belly Room only seats like 80.

   11. JNJamar Neighbors7:13

       Yeah. Yeah. And some people, it-

   12. JRJoe Rogan7:15

       What's the matter, Jamie?

   13. GUGuest7:16

       When I was doing music coming up very just like this, the place we used to play would make us sell 100 tickets to play.

   14. JRJoe Rogan7:22

       What?

   15. JNJamar Neighbors7:22

       Yeah.

   16. JRJoe Rogan7:23

       (laughs)

   17. GUGuest7:23

       (laughs)

   18. JNJamar Neighbors7:24

       And they, and, and, and, and here's how, and here's, and here's what they used to do. They used to say shit like, uh, they used to say shit like, "Listen," he was like, eh, eh, "this is comedy. Every show's a bringer show." You know what I'm saying? He was like, "You're gonna be, have to bring people for the rest of your life." You know what I'm saying? So-

   19. JRJoe Rogan7:39

       (laughs)

   20. JNJamar Neighbors7:39

       And I was up there like, "Nigga, my grandma is not going to come out to every single fucking show." (laughs) Like I don't know 20 people.

   21. JRJoe Rogan7:45

       That's a crazy number. That's a crazy number. I'd, I, they didn't have that in Boston when I started out.

   22. JNJamar Neighbors7:50

       Yeah.

   23. JRJoe Rogan7:50

       They just had open mic nights and people either came or they can't.

   24. JNJamar Neighbors7:53

       Yeah. See, see, over there, uh, I don't, I, I haven't done, no I've done Boston like one time, but I haven't done like their scene. And, um-

   25. JRJoe Rogan8:01

       What'd you do out there?

   26. JNJamar Neighbors8:03

       Uh, I did a, I did a show, uh-

   27. JRJoe Rogan8:05

       Did you do Laugh Boston, that club?

   28. JNJamar Neighbors8:07

       I think it was an independent show that like Black Thought was running or some... No, no, no, no, no, that's Philly. No, no. Okay. I've never done Boston.

   29. JRJoe Rogan8:15

       Oh, okay.

   30. JNJamar Neighbors8:15

       I was in Philly and Boston. All right. Yeah. But I, um, but out ... Oh fuck, I forgot what the fuck I was gonna say.
5. 9:21 – 11:04

   Austin scouting trip: shows, Vulcan, Kill Tony, and the gravity shift from LA

   1. JRJoe Rogan9:21

      What are you doing out here?

   2. JNJamar Neighbors9:22

      Uh, so I- I'm doing shows all week. I've been doing shows all week. I, I told myself earlier I was here from the 28th through the first in December, and, uh, uh, from the 28th, December 21st, uh, to the first. And, uh, just to get a little taste of Austin.

   3. JRJoe Rogan9:40

      Why? You thinking about coming out here?

   4. JNJamar Neighbors9:42

      Wink, wink.

   5. JRJoe Rogan9:42

      Wink, wink. (laughs)

   6. JNJamar Neighbors9:43

      Wink, wink.

   7. JRJoe Rogan9:43

      Jamar.

   8. JNJamar Neighbors9:44

      Whoa, whoa, whoa. (laughs)

   9. JRJoe Rogan9:46

      Come on.

   10. JNJamar Neighbors9:46

       Austin-

   11. JRJoe Rogan9:47

       I'm bringing everybody out here. Let's do it.

   12. JNJamar Neighbors9:49

       Joe, you know good as hell well, we all following you. (laughs)

   13. JRJoe Rogan9:51

       (laughs)

   14. JNJamar Neighbors9:52

       You know it. Right?

   15. JRJoe Rogan9:53

       Listen, once I open the club, I'm gonna put the bat signal up.

   16. JNJamar Neighbors9:56

       Yo. Yo. And then so, uh, so I said, "All right." My, my, uh, my birthday was January 25th, you know? And then so I said, "Well, you know, what are you ..." I always think at the beginning of the year, like, "What are you gonna do for your birthday?" You know? And I'm like, "Mm." I'm like, "All right. You can either go hang out with your family. Uh, you can go fuck some hoes at Jeff Ross' house."

   17. JRJoe Rogan10:15

       (laughs)

   18. JNJamar Neighbors10:16

       Or, uh, or, or you could take care of your little career and uh, and uh, go to Austin and do shows for a week." And I was at the like, "All right. Well, I've done all except for one, so I'm gonna go to Austin and do shows for a week." And I just booked it and I came out here.

   19. JRJoe Rogan10:29

       Nice.

   20. JNJamar Neighbors10:30

       Yeah, man.

   21. JRJoe Rogan10:31

       We've been doing shows at, uh, there's a place in town called Vulcan Gas Company. That's a great little spot.

   22. JNJamar Neighbors10:35

       I did that yesterday.

   23. JRJoe Rogan10:36

       Oh, it's nice, right?

   24. JNJamar Neighbors10:37

       Yeah. I love it.

   25. JRJoe Rogan10:38

       It's a great spot. A little weird people above you.

   26. JNJamar Neighbors10:40

       Yeah, yeah, yeah.

   27. JRJoe Rogan10:40

       A little weird, but-

   28. JNJamar Neighbors10:41

       The stage is kind of skinny too.

   29. JRJoe Rogan10:43

       Yeah.

   30. JNJamar Neighbors10:43

       But-
6. 11:04 – 13:16

   Tony Hinchcliffe’s “Corvette Confidence” and what makes a killer roaster

   1. JNJamar Neighbors11:04

      I lo- I love Tony. I like his, uh, like I lo- I lo- I think he, I think he's such a funny person, but I like his confidence.

   2. JRJoe Rogan11:11

      Oh yeah.

   3. JNJamar Neighbors11:11

      (laughs) Like ...

   4. JRJoe Rogan11:13

      It's ridiculous.

   5. JNJamar Neighbors11:13

      Like (laughs)

   6. JRJoe Rogan11:13

      It's ridiculous. Doesn't even make any sense.

   7. JNJamar Neighbors11:14

      So he had that, he had that confidence like d- when we'd do the, the open mic at the Improv, like when we were like little dudes and he'd be like-

   8. JRJoe Rogan11:24

      Look at him. (laughs)

   9. JNJamar Neighbors11:24

      Yeah. (laughs)

   10. JRJoe Rogan11:25

       Look at him with the ... That's the Undertaker's championship belt that he gave me. And of course I have to, I had to give it to Tony. Like there's no way I couldn't. Like Tony needed that in his life.

   11. JNJamar Neighbors11:34

       Yeah.

   12. JRJoe Rogan11:35

       And him with the Undertaker's belt on it said, "You got to take your shirt off photo."

   13. JNJamar Neighbors11:39

       (laughs)

   14. JRJoe Rogan11:40

       ... with the Undertaker's belt on. (laughs)

   15. GUGuest11:42

       Yo.

   16. JRJoe Rogan11:43

       Look at him.

   17. JNJamar Neighbors11:44

       Yeah. Fucking Tony Hinchcliffe.

   18. JRJoe Rogan11:46

       (laughs)

   19. JNJamar Neighbors11:47

       And like, and like-

   20. JRJoe Rogan11:48

       Best roaster in the fucking game.

   21. JNJamar Neighbors11:50

       Yeah.

   22. JRJoe Rogan11:50

       That dude-

   23. JNJamar Neighbors11:51

       Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

   24. JRJoe Rogan11:52

       ... he's so quick.

   25. JNJamar Neighbors11:53

       Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's fucking... Yeah, it's fucking the truth, dude. He, um... But yet, he had that confidence in an open mic and then so, people, like when we were coming up, people would be like, people like, "Damn." Like, "How... Why... How does... How is he even feeling like that?"

   26. JRJoe Rogan12:06

       (laughs)

   27. JNJamar Neighbors12:06

       Like, like, he... Like, like, "How does he even feel like that? Like, we don't even know our next joke and he's just up there like-" (laughs)

   28. JRJoe Rogan12:14

       Super confident. Well, you know, he drove... You know he bought that Corvette.

   29. JNJamar Neighbors12:18

       Yeah.

   30. JRJoe Rogan12:18

       He started calling it Corvette Confidence.
7. 13:16 – 20:39

   Pandemic-era violence and LA’s confusing restrictions (including ‘no TVs outside’)

   1. JNJamar Neighbors13:16

      Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, man. I fucking... Yeah. So thinking about moving out here, but, uh, I was telling them outside, somebody got shot outside of my Airbnb a day ago.

   2. JRJoe Rogan13:28

      Out here?

   3. JNJamar Neighbors13:28

      Yeah, in front of my Airbnb, in the middle of me about to call a Uber.

   4. JRJoe Rogan13:34

      I wonder what like the numbers are in the country in terms of like when the pandemic started to now, like how much violence has gone up.

   5. JNJamar Neighbors13:40

      Yeah.

   6. JRJoe Rogan13:40

      It probably going up a lot. A lot.

   7. JNJamar Neighbors13:43

      Do you think it's because, uh... Do you think it's because you can get away with it more 'cause everybody wearing masks?

   8. JRJoe Rogan13:49

      I think there's that. I think there's also... When you have economic instability, when so many people lost their jobs-

   9. JNJamar Neighbors13:57

      Mm-hmm.

   10. JRJoe Rogan13:57

       ... and so many pe- they don't know where they're going to make money, people get desperate, and then people get angry, they get evicted, they get forced out of their homes, they get l- they lose their jobs, they lose their car, their car gets repossessed, and they don't... You know, you... There's people that are being almost forced into crime-

   11. JNJamar Neighbors14:13

       Mm-hmm.

   12. JRJoe Rogan14:14

       ... in this, in this time-

   13. JNJamar Neighbors14:15

       Mm-hmm.

   14. JRJoe Rogan14:15

       ... that haven't been in their whole life. Like there's people that are like, you know, they're kind of maybe would be slightly inclined to do something shady, but they got a good job and they're gonna, like, keep, keep on keeping on.

   15. JNJamar Neighbors14:25

       Yeah, yeah.

   16. JRJoe Rogan14:25

       But then when that job is gone-

   17. JNJamar Neighbors14:27

       Yeah.

   18. JRJoe Rogan14:27

       ... and then, and then there's no money coming in, people start plotting and scheming and it's just natural.

   19. JNJamar Neighbors14:31

       It's like-

   20. JRJoe Rogan14:31

       They get desperate.

   21. JNJamar Neighbors14:32

       It's like that movie, uh... What's that Jim Carrey movie? The, uh, Fun with Dick and Jane where, uh, where they lost everything and then started-

   22. JRJoe Rogan14:38

       I never saw that one.

   23. JNJamar Neighbors14:39

       Yeah, yeah. (laughs) Where they lost everything so they started going on like a crime spree and all that shit.

   24. JRJoe Rogan14:43

       Oh, really?

   25. JNJamar Neighbors14:43

       Yeah, yeah.

   26. JRJoe Rogan14:43

       Like a Bonnie and Clyde type deal?

   27. JNJamar Neighbors14:45

       (laughs) Yeah. So what happened... So what happened is that, like... Okay, so when, when COVID hit or whatever, everybody started getting unemployment, right?

   28. JRJoe Rogan14:52

       Mm-hmm.

   29. JNJamar Neighbors14:52

       So, uh, so you're talking about like scheming and all this shit. So, um, (laughs) I went over my aunt's house and my big brother was over there and he was up to like, uh, he was up to like, "Yeah, man." He was up to like, "So, uh, so what you gonna do?" And I was like, "Uh, you know, man. I mean, you know, I might... may draw and do some art and sell that and stuff." He was up to like, "Or..." And my little brother is in prison so he's like, "Or we can get that nigga Chase social security number in there and get... and then, and then, and then, and then type that in and get his, uh, and get his unemployment."

   30. JRJoe Rogan15:21

       (laughs)
8. 20:39 – 21:51

   Outdoor comedy experiments: window sets, amphitheaters, and why clubs matter

   1. JRJoe Rogan20:39

      These, uh, outdoor shows are different too. It's, uh, it's weird doing an outdoor show. Like, the- the comedy, the- the laughter is great, it's fun, people are all excited, but there's an echo. You know, I never liked outdoor amphitheater shows.

   2. JNJamar Neighbors20:51

      No?

   3. JRJoe Rogan20:52

      I- I've done a few of them, but they're just not as good.

   4. JNJamar Neighbors20:54

      Like them festival shows?

   5. JRJoe Rogan20:55

      Yeah.

   6. JNJamar Neighbors20:55

      Like Audible and shit?

   7. JRJoe Rogan20:56

      They're not as good. They're not as good. What you really wanna do is you wanna w- uh, the- the best shit is like less than f- you know, less than 500 people's really ideal.

   8. JNJamar Neighbors21:05

      Yeah.

   9. JRJoe Rogan21:05

      Like the main room is ideal.

   10. JNJamar Neighbors21:07

       Lit, yeah.

   11. JRJoe Rogan21:08

       Packed main room, packed OR, uh, Comedy Works in Denver.

   12. JNJamar Neighbors21:12

       Yeah.

   13. JRJoe Rogan21:12

       You know, uh, Cap City in Austin when it was open, that kinda shit. Low ceiling, pow!

   14. JNJamar Neighbors21:16

       Yeah.

   15. JRJoe Rogan21:17

       The laughter rocks the fucking place.

   16. JNJamar Neighbors21:19

       Yeah.

   17. JRJoe Rogan21:19

       Ah!

   18. JNJamar Neighbors21:21

       Yeah.

   19. JRJoe Rogan21:21

       It's wild. That's what you want.

   20. JNJamar Neighbors21:23

       Outdoor shows, like we were doing this, uh, we were doing this one at- at a- at an amphitheater in, um, uh, off of ... Fuck, what is that? The- it's like off of 3rd Street in like, uh, in Beverly. I mean, like 3rd Street in Beverly run. Uh, like Beverly, uh, what is it? Pan Pacific Park.

   21. JRJoe Rogan21:37

       Mm-hmm.

   22. JNJamar Neighbors21:38

       And, uh, they have an amphitheater out there and we were doing shows out there. People would roll up on their bikes and shit and just sit down in the amphitheater. And it was dope, you know, it reminded me of, uh, remember Charlie Barnett?

   23. JRJoe Rogan21:47

       Yes.

   24. JNJamar Neighbors21:47

       The guy that-

   25. JRJoe Rogan21:48

       Yes. Yes.

   26. JNJamar Neighbors21:48

       ... New York Comic.

   27. JRJoe Rogan21:48

       Very much so.

   28. JNJamar Neighbors21:48

       It reminded me of doing performances like that.

   29. JRJoe Rogan21:51

       Yes.

9. 21:51 – 25:51

   Apartment Show Jammers: building a DIY ‘club’ at home during lockdown

   1. JNJamar Neighbors21:51

      Like, where it's like ... You know, like, like, uh, so it had that vibes, you know? Or at least that, or at least that was- that was what I tried to bring to it. But, um, but it's uh ... So they weren't bad. I, for a- I, for a second was the only person doing indoor shows, like I- I- I think Tony told you I was running this show outta my apartment.

   2. JRJoe Rogan22:10

      Yeah. (laughs)

   3. JNJamar Neighbors22:11

      (laughs) It was called the- it was called the Apartment Show Jammers, because- because this is wh-

   4. JRJoe Rogan22:15

      Didn't Tony do it?

   5. JNJamar Neighbors22:16

      Yeah, he did do it.

   6. JRJoe Rogan22:17

      (laughs)

   7. JNJamar Neighbors22:19

      You know, man-

   8. GUGuest22:19

      How many people did you have in there?

   9. JNJamar Neighbors22:20

      Yo, man, it was, hey, yo, it was lit. It was like 20 people in that bitch.

   10. JRJoe Rogan22:23

       (laughs)

   11. JNJamar Neighbors22:23

       Like super spreader, bro. Like ... (laughs)

   12. GUGuest22:26

       No testing.

   13. JNJamar Neighbors22:27

       Hell no, hell no.

   14. GUGuest22:29

       (laughs)

   15. JNJamar Neighbors22:30

       I full- I can't afford that goddamn COVID shit, like them damn tests.

   16. GUGuest22:33

       I get it.

   17. JNJamar Neighbors22:33

       And all that stuff, so I was- I was giving people hand sanitizer and I provided a mask and ... 'Cause what was happening was I started it in, uh, last- last June. Like right when, um, like right when COVID hit and comics were like going crazy because we, you know, we didn't have our passion to, you know, f- fuck with or whatever. And I was like, "Damn." And I said, "You know what I'm about to do?" I said, "Fuck it." I said, uh, I said, "I'm about to go buy a, um, I'm about to go buy a stereo, I'm about to go buy a microphone and, um, I'm gonna start a comedy club in my house."

   18. JRJoe Rogan23:02

       (laughs)

   19. JNJamar Neighbors23:03

       (laughs) And my sister was up there like, my sister was like, "Yeah, yeah." She was like, "I'll work the door," and this, this, and that.

   20. JRJoe Rogan23:08

       (laughs)

   21. JNJamar Neighbors23:08

       And I was just like, "All right, for sure."

   22. JRJoe Rogan23:10

       So how did you get the people in there?

   23. JNJamar Neighbors23:11

       Uh, (laughs) Instagram.

   24. JRJoe Rogan23:13

       (laughs)

   25. JNJamar Neighbors23:14

       I was like-

   26. JRJoe Rogan23:14

       Really?

   27. JNJamar Neighbors23:15

       I- I- I'd f- I put out feelers, so I was like, I was like, "All right, y'all, I'm thinking about throwing an apartment show in my house. How do I get people here?"

   28. JRJoe Rogan23:22

       (laughs)

   29. JNJamar Neighbors23:23

       And then people were like, "I'll come, I'll come." People were Dming me and shit like that, and I hit up my comic friends and I was like, "Y'all trying to do some comedy?" And we did it, it was like 20 people up in that motherfucker, like ...

   30. JRJoe Rogan23:34

       Nobody got sick?
10. 25:51 – 41:57

    The weirdest gigs: bachelor parties, strip clubs, and bombing in silence

    1. JNJamar Neighbors25:51

       Where's the weirdest place you performed?

    2. JRJoe Rogan25:54

       Well, I did, uh, bachelor parties with no microphone.

    3. JNJamar Neighbors25:56

       Hm.

    4. JRJoe Rogan25:57

       That was rough.

    5. JNJamar Neighbors25:58

       Hm.

    6. JRJoe Rogan25:58

       That was rough. Just a bunch of drunk dudes and, you know, obviously they don't have any money otherwi- ... They woulda, woulda bought a stripper.

    7. JNJamar Neighbors26:05

       Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

    8. JRJoe Rogan26:06

       Hired a stripper to come.

    9. JNJamar Neighbors26:07

       And it wasn't no stripper there?

    10. JRJoe Rogan26:08

        No, just me.

    11. JNJamar Neighbors26:09

        (laughs)

    12. JRJoe Rogan26:11

        Those were the roughest ones. I did a Jack and Jill strip club in Rhode Island. That was the weirdest one, 'cause a Jack and Jill strip club is like ... They ... There was a time where they tried to have strip clubs where a man performs and a woman performs and couples would go.

    13. JNJamar Neighbors26:26

        Like a, a man and a female stripper?

    14. JRJoe Rogan26:28

        Like a man would strip and then a female would strip, and the couple would sit there and watch both of 'em. It was so strange. And the people that went up, they looked like the type of people you would expect at this kinda place.

    15. JNJamar Neighbors26:42

        Right.

    16. JRJoe Rogan26:42

        And, y- you know, and the audience, there was maybe six people in the audience. And, you know, you know how sometimes you bomb, and it's like, you know, you just ... It just feels terrible? This is ... I wa- ... I was bombing, and it felt like I was performing in front of people that didn't understand a word I was saying. I didn't get any noise.

    17. JNJamar Neighbors26:59

        Yeah.

    18. JRJoe Rogan26:59

        There was nothing. It didn't even feel bad.

    19. JNJamar Neighbors27:01

        Yeah.

    20. JRJoe Rogan27:02

        I was like, "What is this?"

    21. JNJamar Neighbors27:03

        (laughs)

    22. JRJoe Rogan27:04

        I mean, I was, you know, young in the game anyway. I was only probably doing comedy a year and a half or so. It was ... 'Cause it was, it was a terrible gig. It was for this dude, um ... Oh, man. I'm trying to remember the guy, the booking agent's name. But he had a bunch of these weird fucking gigs in Rhode Island.

    23. JNJamar Neighbors27:20

        Uh-huh.

    24. JRJoe Rogan27:20

        Like they were all, they were all real shady, like strange bars and ... You'd go to. And he'd always get paid.

    25. JNJamar Neighbors27:27

        Yeah.

    26. JRJoe Rogan27:27

        But they were always very weird. And this one, there was, you know, like I said, like six people in the audience, and the type of people that you would see in an audience that would come to see a guy strip and a girl strip were very strange.

    27. JNJamar Neighbors27:38

        Wha- wh- what would they look like?

    28. JRJoe Rogan27:39

        Just like older people that just didn't have any hope and just sitting there, just, just looked confused as to why they were even there.

    29. JNJamar Neighbors27:47

        Yeah.

    30. JRJoe Rogan27:47

        And again, there was only six of 'em in the whole audience. And the ... But there was one dude who was ... There was a pool table in the back. There was one dude playing pool. And I came over to talk to him, and he was just a regular dude from New Jersey. And he's like, "Man, what the fuck is this place?" I go, "What are you doing here?" And he goes, "I'm in town visiting my family. I had to get out of the fucking house."
11. 41:57 – 55:23

    Roast Battle + The Wave: controlled chaos as the ‘palate cleanser’ for dark jokes

    1. JRJoe Rogan41:57

       How did you get involved in doing the roast battle shit? Because when you guys would do ... when it, when it was you and, and Jeremiah and-

    2. JNJamar Neighbors42:08

       And Willie.

    3. JRJoe Rogan42:08

       ... and Willie, and you guys would act out and when it would someone would kill somebody with a roast, you guys would pile onto the stage and act out various scenarios and it made the show.

    4. JNJamar Neighbors42:20

       Bro.

    5. JRJoe Rogan42:20

       It made the show.

    6. JNJamar Neighbors42:21

       Thank you. I really appreciate that because people online was eating us up. They was up there like, "Who in the fuck are these idiots?"... keep- but I, uh-

    7. JRJoe Rogan42:30

       No, you can't- see, you can't read those.

    8. JNJamar Neighbors42:31

       But, but a- s- but it wasn't about that for us. Like, we was just trying to have fun. So in the beginning stages of, uh, uh, of the Rose Battle, and shout out to Jeff for letting us do that. You know what I'm saying?

    9. JRJoe Rogan42:42

       Oh, yeah. It's a wild move.

    10. JNJamar Neighbors42:43

        Yeah, it is. Um, but you, but I feel like a show like that, where you, where you're constantly spouting, like, these insults and shit like that, and a lot of them are really fucking dark, you need a palate cleanser. It don't matter. Like-

    11. JRJoe Rogan42:55

        That's a good way to put it.

    12. JNJamar Neighbors42:56

        Yeah. S-

    13. JRJoe Rogan42:56

        That's a very good way to put it.

    14. JNJamar Neighbors42:58

        Yeah. So, uh, so at the beginning, like, when it first started, like, the origins of it and shit, when it first started, like, me, Willie, and Jeremiah, we'd be sitting, like, just watching these motherfuckers, like, just talk shit about each other. And, oh, I, I naturally have a big laugh and whatever. It's, uh, damn near over-exaggerated and shit. And then so Jeremiah and we, we all, like, would start watching it or whatever. And then I would laugh and I would do, like, different shit. I would, like, get, like, I would, like, start dancing and shit on stage-

    15. JRJoe Rogan43:24

        (laughs)

    16. JNJamar Neighbors43:24

        ... and shit like that or whatever. And then, uh, Jeremiah and them start coming in and all this stuff. And then so that shit escalated. So one time, one time, like, one week, we were like, "Hey, man, let's go to Goodwill." And, and every time, uh, and every time somebody says something funny, I was just like, "Uh, we just go up there and like, and like what, like, these different props and shit, right?" And then so, uh, yeah. (laughs)

    17. JRJoe Rogan43:47

        (laughs)

    18. JNJamar Neighbors43:47

        And, and so, so then it would get, like, really fucking elaborate. We would do, like, costumes and shit like that. But it all started from just over-laughing and just, like, trying to just fuck around and kind of troll the fucking battlers kind of, sort of-

    19. JRJoe Rogan43:58

        Yeah.

    20. JNJamar Neighbors43:58

        ... and the whole thing or whatever. But that's how it started. And, um, yeah, man.

    21. JRJoe Rogan44:04

        Did you guys get together and plan out, like, various little things that could possibly be happening if someone kills somebody? And if, and how did you know when to bring out which one?

    22. JNJamar Neighbors44:14

        So, um, okay, so, so we would get very, uh, so we would go prop shopping.

    23. JRJoe Rogan44:20

        (laughs)

    24. JNJamar Neighbors44:21

        (laughs) Some of that shit didn't make sense. But like, we would go, we would go prop shopping and shit. But, um ...

    25. JRJoe Rogan44:26

        Is there a video compliment- compilation of like the best of The Wave?

    26. JNJamar Neighbors44:30

        Yeah, it is. It is.

    27. JRJoe Rogan44:31

        Oh, find that.

    28. JNJamar Neighbors44:32

        There is? Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

    29. GUGuest44:33

        I was gonna say, there shouldn't be if there isn't.

    30. JRJoe Rogan44:34

        Yeah, there has to be.
12. 55:23 – 56:13

    Rebuilding the magic in Austin: Joe’s vision for a comic-run club with a ‘laboratory’ room

    1. JRJoe Rogan55:23

       Well, there's a, there's a real value in a little club like that, a tiny spot.

    2. JNJamar Neighbors55:27

       Mm-hmm.

    3. JRJoe Rogan55:27

       And that's one of the things that I wanna have out here. I-

    4. JNJamar Neighbors55:29

       Yeah.

    5. JRJoe Rogan55:29

       ... I wanna have a small club too.

    6. JNJamar Neighbors55:31

       Yeah.

    7. JRJoe Rogan55:31

       I, I don't think you just, you should just have a big club like the Main Room. I think you need a Belly Room.

    8. JNJamar Neighbors55:35

       Yeah.

    9. JRJoe Rogan55:35

       I think you need a little laboratory.

    10. JNJamar Neighbors55:38

        Yep.

    11. JRJoe Rogan55:38

        You know, just to fuck around, and-

    12. JNJamar Neighbors55:39

        Yeah.

    13. JRJoe Rogan55:40

        Like, it would be really hard to create a show like that or like a lot of other ... Like, Kill Tony started out in the Belly Room too.

    14. JNJamar Neighbors55:46

        Yep, I remember that.

    15. JRJoe Rogan55:47

        Yeah, like, you need a laboratory.

    16. JNJamar Neighbors55:49

        Yeah.

    17. JRJoe Rogan55:49

        You need a place where you're just kind of fucking around. There's lower expectations.

    18. JNJamar Neighbors55:53

        Yeah.

    19. JRJoe Rogan55:53

        It's more of a hang.

    20. JNJamar Neighbors55:54

        Yeah.

    21. JRJoe Rogan55:54

        When you get to a large audience, everybody's like, "Wow, this place is packed. This is a big thing."

    22. JNJamar Neighbors55:58

        Yeah, like you do that-

    23. JRJoe Rogan55:59

        This is a big deal.

    24. JNJamar Neighbors55:59

        ... small club to go do the big club.

    25. JRJoe Rogan56:00

        Yes.

    26. JNJamar Neighbors56:01

        Yeah, yeah, yeah.

    27. JRJoe Rogan56:01

        Exactly.

    28. JNJamar Neighbors56:02

        Yep.

    29. JRJoe Rogan56:02

        But (clears throat) I feel like it's like, like training. Like, you need to do running, and then you also need to hit the bag.

    30. JNJamar Neighbors56:09

        Yep.
13. 56:13 – 1:11:11

    Fitness as comedy prep: boxing fights, training extremes, and the mohawk wig origin story

    1. JNJamar Neighbors56:13

       Yep. It's so funny. I remember, um, I remember, I still do, but like I, I would, um ... You speak about training and stuff like that, like, I would go to the gym for fucking, for fucking six hours, Joe, six hours every motherfucking day, bro. Uh, uh, just to mentally prepare myself for doing comedy.

    2. JRJoe Rogan56:33

       Six hours?

    3. JNJamar Neighbors56:34

       Yeah, bro.

    4. JRJoe Rogan56:34

       What would you do for six hours?

    5. JNJamar Neighbors56:36

       Anything I could think of. (laughs) Like-

    6. JRJoe Rogan56:38

       Really?

    7. JNJamar Neighbors56:38

       ... anything I could fucking ... I accidentally learned how to box just by being in, in the gym for six hours. Like, like, like, for like, like, every fucking, um, like, every fucking day.

    8. JRJoe Rogan56:49

       You learned boxing by yourself?

    9. JNJamar Neighbors56:51

       Yeah, yeah. I would take, I would take little ... I would take little ... I would see people in the gym and stuff like that. I would take-

    10. JRJoe Rogan56:56

        What gym were you working out at?

    11. JNJamar Neighbors56:58

        Uh, Fortune Boxing Gym.

    12. JRJoe Rogan56:59

        Oh, okay.

    13. JNJamar Neighbors56:59

        Justin Fortune.

    14. JRJoe Rogan57:00

        Justin Fortune, yeah.

    15. JNJamar Neighbors57:01

        Yeah, yeah, yeah.

    16. JRJoe Rogan57:01

        He's legit.

    17. JNJamar Neighbors57:02

        Yeah, I love Justin.

    18. JRJoe Rogan57:03

        Joey Diaz used to go there too.

    19. JNJamar Neighbors57:04

        Yeah, yeah, all the (clears throat) yeah, all, like, you see fucking Sylvester Stallone brother in that motherfucker.

    20. JRJoe Rogan57:10

        Hey, yo.

    21. JNJamar Neighbors57:10

        Like-

    22. JRJoe Rogan57:10

        Hey, yo.

    23. JNJamar Neighbors57:11

        And I-

    24. JRJoe Rogan57:12

        I'm here to work out, yo.

    25. JNJamar Neighbors57:13

        Just to fucking mentally prepare myself for a fucking 15-minute set at the Comedy Store (laughs) like was fucking retarded.

    26. JRJoe Rogan57:20

        That's good. So you just hit a fight, didn't you? Didn't you take a fight?

    27. JNJamar Neighbors57:23

        (laughs) Yeah, I did.

    28. JRJoe Rogan57:24

        We talked about it before.

    29. JNJamar Neighbors57:25

        I, I was-

    30. JRJoe Rogan57:26

        We talked about it. It was almost a year ago.

Episode duration: 2:47:00