Joe Rogan Experience #1604 - Jamar Neighbors

Jamar Neighbors 0:02 (drum roll) Joe Rogan podcast, check it out.

Joe Rogan 0:04 The Joe Rogan Experience.

Jamar Neighbors 0:06 Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night. All day. (rock music plays)

Joe Rogan 0:14 All right, we might ... Salute, my brother.

Jamar Neighbors 0:16 Yes, sir.

Joe Rogan 0:16 So good to see you.

Jamar Neighbors 0:17 Man, you too, bro.

Joe Rogan 0:19 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."

Jamar Neighbors 0:30 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 0:31 You know? We were so lucky. So lucky to be in that spot at that time in that moment in history. You know?

Jamar Neighbors 0:36 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.

Joe Rogan 0:56 That is weird.

Jamar Neighbors 0:58 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."

Joe Rogan 1:16 (laughs)

Jamar Neighbors 1:17 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 ...

Joe Rogan 1:26 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.

Jamar Neighbors 1:32 Hell, yeah.

Joe Rogan 1:32 You got the stamp.

Jamar Neighbors 1:33 Hell, yeah. And, and they wouldn't d- and they wouldn't, (laughs) they wouldn't pass me for the longest, dude.

Joe Rogan 1:37 How long?

Jamar Neighbors 1:38 Like ... Oh, man. So I started going there at 19, and, um-

Joe Rogan 1:44 When you were 19 years old?

Jamar Neighbors 1:46 Yeah. Yeah. I've been doing comedy for, like, 17 years.

Joe Rogan 1:48 What year was it when you got passed?

Jamar Neighbors 1:52 Probably, like, 2000 and f- ... When is ... I'm trying to do the math for this. Like, 2014 maybe. Yeah.

Joe Rogan 2:01 So that was, like, right when I was coming back.

Jamar Neighbors 2:03 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.

Joe Rogan 2:18 Yeah. Yeah.

Jamar Neighbors 2:18 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?"

Joe Rogan 2:47 (laughs)

Jamar Neighbors 2:47 I was like, I was like ... You know, before, before, before everybody's was doing th- that type of joke.

Joe Rogan 2:52 Go ahead.

Jamar Neighbors 2:52 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?

Joe Rogan 3:01 Oh, no.

Jamar Neighbors 3:02 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?

Joe Rogan 3:11 Yeah.

Jamar Neighbors 3:12 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)

Joe Rogan 3:30 (laughs)

Jamar Neighbors 3:30 (laughs) And I'm so ... And I was like ... (laughs)

Joe Rogan 3:33 "You went, you went dirty. It was only 6:00." Like, there's an hour-

Jamar Neighbors 3:36 I was like-

Joe Rogan 3:36 ... where you can tell non-dirty jokes.

Jamar Neighbors 3:38 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."

Joe Rogan 3:43 Ah.

Jamar Neighbors 3:43 Or like 9:00. No matter.

Joe Rogan 3:44 That's hilarious.

Jamar Neighbors 3:46 So I walked Mitzi, and that's why ... uh, that's one of the reason it took me forever to get passed.

Joe Rogan 3:49 (laughs)

Jamar Neighbors 3:49 'Cause they didn't trust my ass. (laughs)

Joe Rogan 3:51 (laughs)

Jamar Neighbors 3:51 I was like ... (laughs)

Joe Rogan 3:53 She, if she didn't like you, she got mad for a long time. She held a grudge. You had to, like, earn your spot back. You had to hang out there forever.

Jamar Neighbors 4:01 (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.

Joe Rogan 4:13 Mm-hmm.

Jamar Neighbors 4:14 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."

Joe Rogan 4:37 Yeah.

Jamar Neighbors 4:37 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."

Joe Rogan 4:48 (laughs)

Jamar Neighbors 4:48 I was like, "You passing me this week?"

Joe Rogan 4:50 (laughs)

Jamar Neighbors 4:51 And then he'd be, like, he'd be, like, he was just laughing in the back. And I'd be like, "Okay."

Joe Rogan 4:55 Oh.

Jamar Neighbors 4:55 And I was like, "I'll be back next week, and we'll do it again." Like ... (laughs)

Joe Rogan 4:58 Oh, man. When he had power over the store, that was a terrible position.

Jamar Neighbors 5:02 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 5:02 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.

Jamar Neighbors 5:09 Yeah, man. But-

Joe Rogan 5:11 (sighs) Those days.

Jamar Neighbors 5:12 But I ... But I appreciate, I actually appreciate how hard he made it for me, though. You know what I'm saying?

Joe Rogan 5:17 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 ...

Jamar Neighbors 5:24 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 5:24 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.

Jamar Neighbors 5:34 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 5:34 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)

Jamar Neighbors 5:56 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.

Joe Rogan 6:23 (laughs)

Jamar Neighbors 6:23 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-

Joe Rogan 6:38 (laughs)

Jamar Neighbors 6:38 ... "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-"

Joe Rogan 6:50 Explain a bringer show to people 'cause a lot of people don't know what a bringer show is.

Jamar Neighbors 6:53 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?

Joe Rogan 7:07 Was it that many?

Jamar Neighbors 7:08 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 7:08 Is it 20?

Jamar Neighbors 7:09 Sometimes it'd be 20, sometimes it'd be 15.

Joe Rogan 7:11 But the Belly Room only seats like 80.

Jamar Neighbors 7:13 Yeah. Yeah. And some people, it-

Joe Rogan 7:15 What's the matter, Jamie?

Guest 7:16 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.

Joe Rogan 7:22 What?

Jamar Neighbors 7:22 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 7:23 (laughs)

Guest 7:23 (laughs)

Jamar Neighbors 7:24 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-

Joe Rogan 7:39 (laughs)

Jamar Neighbors 7:39 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.

Joe Rogan 7:45 That's a crazy number. That's a crazy number. I'd, I, they didn't have that in Boston when I started out.

Jamar Neighbors 7:50 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 7:50 They just had open mic nights and people either came or they can't.

Jamar Neighbors 7:53 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-

Joe Rogan 8:01 What'd you do out there?

Jamar Neighbors 8:03 Uh, I did a, I did a show, uh-

Joe Rogan 8:05 Did you do Laugh Boston, that club?

Jamar Neighbors 8:07 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.

Joe Rogan 8:15 Oh, okay.

Jamar Neighbors 8:15 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.

Joe Rogan 8:22 Bringer shows, 20 people.

Jamar Neighbors 8:24 Oh, yeah, yeah.

Joe Rogan 8:25 Open mikers.

Jamar Neighbors 8:25 But out, um, but out here, um, out here it'd be, uh, our mics are just a gang of comics and shit like that. But out there it's like real people would go to you guys as like open mics and shit like that. Like we would, we would rarely get real people in our, in our, in our, um, in our little open mics and shit.

Joe Rogan 8:42 So you're basically practicing for the friends of other comedians?

Jamar Neighbors 8:45 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 8:45 Yeah. That's weird.

Jamar Neighbors 8:46 Yeah. And so that was our come up.

Joe Rogan 8:48 It stifles growth I think a little bit, those bringer shows, because you don't get a real audience.

Jamar Neighbors 8:53 Yeah. You get your grandma and, and you bring pe- you get, you bring friends who think that you're funny on the street, but, but like, they want to see you on the stage and they'll be like, "Yeah, well be funny now." You know what I'm saying? Now it's a different ...

Joe Rogan 9:05 Yeah.

Jamar Neighbors 9:05 You know, and, and you can't keep bringing them.

Joe Rogan 9:07 Right. And also, you know you're doing standup for your friends. So you're like, "They're right there. I'm seeing my friends. This is weird."

Jamar Neighbors 9:14 Yeah. It's like, I could do this shit in the fucking living room-

Joe Rogan 9:17 Yeah.

Jamar Neighbors 9:17 ... like, like we always do, but (laughs) it's so fucked up.

Joe Rogan 9:21 What are you doing out here?

Jamar Neighbors 9:22 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.

Joe Rogan 9:40 Why? You thinking about coming out here?

Jamar Neighbors 9:42 Wink, wink.

Joe Rogan 9:42 Wink, wink. (laughs)

Jamar Neighbors 9:43 Wink, wink.

Joe Rogan 9:43 Jamar.

Jamar Neighbors 9:44 Whoa, whoa, whoa. (laughs)

Joe Rogan 9:46 Come on.

Jamar Neighbors 9:46 Austin-

Joe Rogan 9:47 I'm bringing everybody out here. Let's do it.

Jamar Neighbors 9:49 Joe, you know good as hell well, we all following you. (laughs)

Joe Rogan 9:51 (laughs)

Jamar Neighbors 9:52 You know it. Right?

Joe Rogan 9:53 Listen, once I open the club, I'm gonna put the bat signal up.

Jamar Neighbors 9:56 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."

Joe Rogan 10:15 (laughs)

Jamar Neighbors 10:16 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.

Joe Rogan 10:29 Nice.

Jamar Neighbors 10:30 Yeah, man.

Joe Rogan 10:31 We've been doing shows at, uh, there's a place in town called Vulcan Gas Company. That's a great little spot.

Jamar Neighbors 10:35 I did that yesterday.

Joe Rogan 10:36 Oh, it's nice, right?

Jamar Neighbors 10:37 Yeah. I love it.

Joe Rogan 10:38 It's a great spot. A little weird people above you.

Jamar Neighbors 10:40 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Joe Rogan 10:40 A little weird, but-

Jamar Neighbors 10:41 The stage is kind of skinny too.

Joe Rogan 10:43 Yeah.

Jamar Neighbors 10:43 But-

Joe Rogan 10:43 But at least it's standup in a club.

Jamar Neighbors 10:46 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 10:46 Yeah. And then we'd, uh, on Mondays Kill Tony at Anton's. I did it just this past Monday, it was amazing.

Jamar Neighbors 10:52 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 10:53 There's some funny fucking people in this town, man.

Jamar Neighbors 10:55 Hell yeah.

Joe Rogan 10:55 Really good local comics. Really good.

Jamar Neighbors 10:57 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 10:57 We, we laughed hard and Tony was on fire. Oh my god.

Jamar Neighbors 11:01 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 11:01 Tony, Tony was killing it.

Jamar Neighbors 11:03 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Joe Rogan 11:03 It was good.

Jamar Neighbors 11:04 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.

Joe Rogan 11:11 Oh yeah.

Jamar Neighbors 11:11 (laughs) Like ...

Joe Rogan 11:13 It's ridiculous.

Jamar Neighbors 11:13 Like (laughs)

Joe Rogan 11:13 It's ridiculous. Doesn't even make any sense.

Jamar Neighbors 11:14 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-

Joe Rogan 11:24 Look at him. (laughs)

Jamar Neighbors 11:24 Yeah. (laughs)

Joe Rogan 11:25 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.

Jamar Neighbors 11:34 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 11:35 And him with the Undertaker's belt on it said, "You got to take your shirt off photo."

Jamar Neighbors 11:39 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 11:40 ... with the Undertaker's belt on. (laughs)

Guest 11:42 Yo.

Joe Rogan 11:43 Look at him.

Jamar Neighbors 11:44 Yeah. Fucking Tony Hinchcliffe.

Joe Rogan 11:46 (laughs)

Jamar Neighbors 11:47 And like, and like-

Joe Rogan 11:48 Best roaster in the fucking game.

Jamar Neighbors 11:50 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 11:50 That dude-

Jamar Neighbors 11:51 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Joe Rogan 11:52 ... he's so quick.

Jamar Neighbors 11:53 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?"

Joe Rogan 12:06 (laughs)

Jamar Neighbors 12:06 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)

Joe Rogan 12:14 Super confident. Well, you know, he drove... You know he bought that Corvette.

Jamar Neighbors 12:18 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 12:18 He started calling it Corvette Confidence.

Jamar Neighbors 12:20 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 12:20 "I've got Corvette Confidence."

Jamar Neighbors 12:24 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 12:24 (laughs)

Jamar Neighbors 12:24 Hey, I'm here... I'm here for it all, man. There's like, there's like a, there's like a, there's like a undercurrent of like this hardcore savagery about him that I'm just like-

Joe Rogan 12:33 Yes.

Jamar Neighbors 12:33 ... that I'm just like, I'm here for.

Joe Rogan 12:35 Yeah.

Jamar Neighbors 12:35 That I'm here for. Like, "Okay, I see you, Tony." (laughs)

Joe Rogan 12:38 Yeah. No. He's, he's a... A lot of people underestimate him because of his voice and his, his, uh, you know, his demeanor.

Jamar Neighbors 12:43 Don't be doing that.

Joe Rogan 12:44 He's a bad motherfucker, Tony Hinchcliffe.

Jamar Neighbors 12:45 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 12:45 He is a bad motherfucker and he's-

Jamar Neighbors 12:47 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 12:47 ... savage with the jokes.

Jamar Neighbors 12:49 Yeah. I, I respect the shit out of Tony Hinchcliffe.

Joe Rogan 12:50 He'll say shit on... And he writes all the time too.

Jamar Neighbors 12:53 Mm-hmm.

Joe Rogan 12:53 And he'll say shit on stage where I'm just like, "Oh, no, he didn't just say that." (laughs)

Jamar Neighbors 12:58 Yep, yep, yep, yep. And he knows he can get away with it because... (laughs)

Joe Rogan 13:02 It's part of... It's the way he looks. It's part of... I mean, he's just... He's a funny fucker.

Jamar Neighbors 13:06 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 13:06 And he was one of the first to jump in. I told him, "I'm here." I'm like, "We got plans." He's like, "I'm in."

Jamar Neighbors 13:11 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 13:12 He, he came out here before there was anything open. After Cap City had closed, he was out here.

Jamar Neighbors 13:16 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.

Joe Rogan 13:28 Out here?

Jamar Neighbors 13:28 Yeah, in front of my Airbnb, in the middle of me about to call a Uber.

Joe Rogan 13:34 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.

Jamar Neighbors 13:40 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 13:40 It probably going up a lot. A lot.

Jamar Neighbors 13:43 Do you think it's because, uh... Do you think it's because you can get away with it more 'cause everybody wearing masks?

Joe Rogan 13:49 I think there's that. I think there's also... When you have economic instability, when so many people lost their jobs-

Jamar Neighbors 13:57 Mm-hmm.

Joe Rogan 13:57 ... 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-

Jamar Neighbors 14:13 Mm-hmm.

Joe Rogan 14:14 ... in this, in this time-

Jamar Neighbors 14:15 Mm-hmm.

Joe Rogan 14:15 ... 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.

Jamar Neighbors 14:25 Yeah, yeah.

Joe Rogan 14:25 But then when that job is gone-

Jamar Neighbors 14:27 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 14:27 ... and then, and then there's no money coming in, people start plotting and scheming and it's just natural.

Jamar Neighbors 14:31 It's like-

Joe Rogan 14:31 They get desperate.

Jamar Neighbors 14:32 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-

Joe Rogan 14:38 I never saw that one.

Jamar Neighbors 14:39 Yeah, yeah. (laughs) Where they lost everything so they started going on like a crime spree and all that shit.

Joe Rogan 14:43 Oh, really?

Jamar Neighbors 14:43 Yeah, yeah.

Joe Rogan 14:43 Like a Bonnie and Clyde type deal?

Jamar Neighbors 14:45 (laughs) Yeah. So what happened... So what happened is that, like... Okay, so when, when COVID hit or whatever, everybody started getting unemployment, right?

Joe Rogan 14:52 Mm-hmm.

Jamar Neighbors 14:52 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."

Joe Rogan 15:21 (laughs)

Jamar Neighbors 15:23 And I was like, "Su- nigga, I'm on TV. I can't be..." (laughs)

Joe Rogan 15:30 (laughs)

Jamar Neighbors 15:30 "I can't be..." (laughs) I was up to like... I was like, "I do think that that's brilliant and if I was an... if I was another nigga, I, I would've..." (laughs) But people getting, people getting fucked up for that.

Joe Rogan 15:37 Yeah.

Jamar Neighbors 15:37 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 15:38 Yeah. Yeah. People getting... Well, the, the other thing was, that was happening with the unemployment was like there was a lot of people that if they went back to work, they'd be risking their life. But if they just said, "No, I'm too scared to go back to work," they still get that unemployment. And then you're not working for like long periods of time, you start to change the way you look at work.

Jamar Neighbors 15:55 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 15:56 You start to change the way you look at things.

Jamar Neighbors 15:58 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 15:58 Which you, you... And then you hear about stimulus checks. Like, where's these fucking stimulus checks?

Jamar Neighbors 16:02 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 16:02 You start thinking like, "We're just gonna get... start getting checks." That, that could be a dangerous thing if the government just starts paying everybody.

Jamar Neighbors 16:08 Why?

Joe Rogan 16:09 Because I just don't think they have the money for it. Where's it going to come from? It's go- they're gonna have to... Somehow or another they're going to have to take it from somewhere or they're going to have to start printing money. And then it, it just... Look, for sure people need money to get back on track. The problem is if, if the government starts doing this on a regular basis and then they keep shutting things down and they keep giving... We're going to be... This is going to be some George Orwell shit.

Jamar Neighbors 16:33 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Joe Rogan 16:33 Some 1984 shit.

Jamar Neighbors 16:34 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 16:34 We're gonna be fully dependent on the government to keep cities open-

Jamar Neighbors 16:38 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 16:38 ... to keep towns open and then they're going to be compliant to their ridiculous rules. Like you've heard the shit they're doing in LA. We were talking about it before the show today, that LA, they're gonna allow outdoor dining but you can't have a TV on. What the fuck does that mean?

Jamar Neighbors 16:54 It-

Joe Rogan 16:54 Who are you? Who the fuck are you to tell people they can't have a TV on? Like what... Do they have a... Jamie, is there an explanation for why?

Jamar Neighbors 17:02 Why does that matter?

Joe Rogan 17:03 'Cause it doesn't matter. They're fucking criminals. These fucking people think they can just tell you what to do. LA County says no TVs for outdoor diners at local restaurants. What? What?

Jamar Neighbors 17:13 Then why?

Joe Rogan 17:14 Yeah, why? Does it say why? "This provision is effective until further notice." They don't have to tell you.

Narrator 17:22 It doesn't say why.

Joe Rogan 17:22 They don't have to tell you shit. These fucking creeps.

Jamar Neighbors 17:25 Uh, I mean-I mean, it's like I said before. It's like, at least you don't gotta worry about them broadcasting the coronavirus.

Guest 17:33 It says sporting events, like we talked about.

Jamar Neighbors 17:34 The G-

Joe Rogan 17:34 Yeah.

Guest 17:35 But I don't know if that's-

Joe Rogan 17:35 This is what it says. It says, "The broadcast performing to patrons in an effort to keep restaurants from becoming overcrowded for sporting events, such as the upcoming Super Bowl." First of all, there's no evidence that this virus spreads outside. None, zero, zilch. There's- you can't find any evidence. There's no studies. If you look at all the... Like, when they have a- a pie chart of how the- the virus spreads, it spreads in supermarkets, it spreads a little bit in, you know, various indoor businesses, and- a- uh, you know, there's a very small percentage they show in restaurants but it's mostly people working in the kitchen that are catching it, you know? They're in tight quarters- Mm-hmm. There's no evidence that it spreads outside, none.

Jamar Neighbors 18:14 But-

Joe Rogan 18:14 So this idea about them being overcrowded, there's no evidence.

Jamar Neighbors 18:18 Aye, here's the thing, because I remember, uh, before LA shut down, I remember Saddle Ranch was like-

Joe Rogan 18:23 Oh, yeah.

Jamar Neighbors 18:23 ... wa- wa- was like packed and stuff. And, but it was outside, but they were like packed. And I was like, "That looks unhealthy too."

Joe Rogan 18:30 Yeah.

Jamar Neighbors 18:30 Like, that loo- like, I, that like, they're outside but they're still close together, it's like-

Joe Rogan 18:35 And we couldn't do shows right down the street.

Jamar Neighbors 18:37 And you know why? It's because they were about to start doing shows again, but then somebody called the health department on- on The Comedy Store and then that shit shut it down.

Joe Rogan 18:47 But- but why?

Jamar Neighbors 18:47 Because I- I think it was like a troll, I think it was like a troll or somebody who- who didn't like fuck with The Comedy Store like that, like, but that's what happened.

Joe Rogan 18:55 But what were they saying? Like what did they say that got it shut down?

Jamar Neighbors 18:58 Uh, they just said that, um, all- all I remember is that they said that it was a, um, that it was like a health problem and stuff like that, and so they, so they shut it down. Be- right when we were about to ... they- they was gonna start letting us perform in the parking lot.

Joe Rogan 19:10 Yeah, I remember that.

Jamar Neighbors 19:11 Like, bring back the best of The Comedy Store in the parking lot. And, um, and yeah, somebody got it shut down.

Joe Rogan 19:17 That doesn't make any sense.

Jamar Neighbors 19:18 That's fucked up. So- (laughs) did you ever see when we had to perform in the window?

Joe Rogan 19:22 Yeah, I did see that.

Jamar Neighbors 19:23 Yeah, that shit was ... That- that- that-

Joe Rogan 19:24 That didn't make any sense either.

Jamar Neighbors 19:25 ... that shit was hard. (laughs)

Joe Rogan 19:27 Yeah.

Jamar Neighbors 19:27 It was so hard.

Joe Rogan 19:27 And no- no connection.

Jamar Neighbors 19:28 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 19:28 No connection with people.

Jamar Neighbors 19:29 And I tried to beat the window so many times, I could never do it.

Joe Rogan 19:32 (laughs) Beat the window.

Jamar Neighbors 19:33 I saw Do- I saw Donnell beat the window. I was like, "Ah, he beat the window."

Joe Rogan 19:36 Donnell can beat the window.

Jamar Neighbors 19:38 (laughs) Right.

Joe Rogan 19:38 Donnell can beat bulletproof glass.

Jamar Neighbors 19:40 Like ... (laughs)

Joe Rogan 19:42 (laughs) He can beat prison glass.

Jamar Neighbors 19:43 No, he gonna get his. Ah, ooh.

Joe Rogan 19:45 Dude, we were doing these shows at, uh, the- at Stubb's Bar-B-Q in town with, uh, with Chappelle-

Jamar Neighbors 19:50 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 19:50 ... and Mo Amer and Michelle Wolf and Donnell, and, uh, this last one we did, we did one run with Tony Hinchcliffe, then this last run I did with Ron White, and Donnell's been opening up the shows. I mean, my God, he just comes out of there like a- like a bat out of hell.

Jamar Neighbors 20:06 Dude, he's unstoppable.

Joe Rogan 20:06 Like right out of the gate-

Jamar Neighbors 20:08 Like ... (laughs)

Joe Rogan 20:08 ... right outta the gate, so intense, so much energy.

Jamar Neighbors 20:11 Dude, he's unstoppable. (laughs) Like what he does, dog. I was like, "He beat the fucking wi- I ain't seen comedy."

Joe Rogan 20:18 He beat the window.

Jamar Neighbors 20:18 He beat the window.

Joe Rogan 20:18 (laughs)

Jamar Neighbors 20:19 You think you could beat the window, Joe?

Joe Rogan 20:20 I don't know. I don't wanna try.

Jamar Neighbors 20:20 You could beat the window. You could beat the window.

Joe Rogan 20:22 I don't ... Maybe.

Jamar Neighbors 20:23 People'd just be excited that- (laughs) that you're there.

Joe Rogan 20:25 I don't wanna try to beat the window.

Jamar Neighbors 20:27 Fuck.

Joe Rogan 20:27 Yeah, but D- Donnell doesn't give a fuck when he goes up, he doesn't give a fuck who he follows.

Jamar Neighbors 20:32 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 20:32 He doesn't give a fuck, he just goes out, just pow, pow, pow!

Jamar Neighbors 20:36 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 20:36 Guns blazing.

Jamar Neighbors 20:37 Yep.

Joe Rogan 20:37 Yeah, it was wild.

Jamar Neighbors 20:39 Yeah, dude.

Joe Rogan 20:39 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.

Jamar Neighbors 20:51 No?

Joe Rogan 20:52 I- I've done a few of them, but they're just not as good.

Jamar Neighbors 20:54 Like them festival shows?

Joe Rogan 20:55 Yeah.

Jamar Neighbors 20:55 Like Audible and shit?

Joe Rogan 20:56 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.

Jamar Neighbors 21:05 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 21:05 Like the main room is ideal.

Jamar Neighbors 21:07 Lit, yeah.

Joe Rogan 21:08 Packed main room, packed OR, uh, Comedy Works in Denver.

Jamar Neighbors 21:12 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 21:12 You know, uh, Cap City in Austin when it was open, that kinda shit. Low ceiling, pow!

Jamar Neighbors 21:16 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 21:17 The laughter rocks the fucking place.

Jamar Neighbors 21:19 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 21:19 Ah!

Jamar Neighbors 21:21 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 21:21 It's wild. That's what you want.

Jamar Neighbors 21:23 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.

Joe Rogan 21:37 Mm-hmm.

Jamar Neighbors 21:38 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?

Joe Rogan 21:47 Yes.

Jamar Neighbors 21:47 The guy that-

Joe Rogan 21:48 Yes. Yes.

Jamar Neighbors 21:48 ... New York Comic.

Joe Rogan 21:48 Very much so.

Jamar Neighbors 21:48 It reminded me of doing performances like that.

Joe Rogan 21:51 Yes.

Jamar Neighbors 21:51 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.

Joe Rogan 22:10 Yeah. (laughs)

Jamar Neighbors 22:11 (laughs) It was called the- it was called the Apartment Show Jammers, because- because this is wh-

Joe Rogan 22:15 Didn't Tony do it?

Jamar Neighbors 22:16 Yeah, he did do it.

Joe Rogan 22:17 (laughs)

Jamar Neighbors 22:19 You know, man-

Guest 22:19 How many people did you have in there?

Jamar Neighbors 22:20 Yo, man, it was, hey, yo, it was lit. It was like 20 people in that bitch.

Joe Rogan 22:23 (laughs)

Jamar Neighbors 22:23 Like super spreader, bro. Like ... (laughs)

Guest 22:26 No testing.

Jamar Neighbors 22:27 Hell no, hell no.

Guest 22:29 (laughs)

Jamar Neighbors 22:30 I full- I can't afford that goddamn COVID shit, like them damn tests.

Guest 22:33 I get it.

Jamar Neighbors 22:33 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."

Joe Rogan 23:02 (laughs)

Jamar Neighbors 23:03 (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.

Joe Rogan 23:08 (laughs)

Jamar Neighbors 23:08 And I was just like, "All right, for sure."

Joe Rogan 23:10 So how did you get the people in there?

Jamar Neighbors 23:11 Uh, (laughs) Instagram.

Joe Rogan 23:13 (laughs)

Jamar Neighbors 23:14 I was like-

Joe Rogan 23:14 Really?

Jamar Neighbors 23:15 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?"

Joe Rogan 23:22 (laughs)

Jamar Neighbors 23:23 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 ...

Joe Rogan 23:34 Nobody got sick?

Jamar Neighbors 23:35 No. And that's the thing about the sh- and-That's another thing is that no one's ever said that they caught anything from my, uh, uh, from the show. And I got a dirty-ass apartment, Joe.

Joe Rogan 23:50 (laughs)

Jamar Neighbors 23:51 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 23:51 Oh.

Jamar Neighbors 23:51 You know what I'm saying? And so, uh, and so, man, we did that joint. I brought ... I did, I did it on Monday for my birthday. I brought it out here, but I did it at a hostel.

Joe Rogan 24:00 Oh, really?

Jamar Neighbors 24:00 Yeah, it was called Native Hostel. I did it at a hostel, and, and we packed that motherfucker out, but it ain't the same as a fucking apartment, like-

Joe Rogan 24:07 Right.

Jamar Neighbors 24:08 ... in the apartment and shit, people was chilling on the motherfucking bed. People was chilling in the kitchen. That was like the green room. And like ... (laughs) I brought PBR for everybody, and we got it in.

Joe Rogan 24:17 That's aw- ... People have been doing shows in apartments for a while though, even before COVID.

Jamar Neighbors 24:22 Mm-hmm.

Joe Rogan 24:22 They were doing it for fun.

Jamar Neighbors 24:23 Mm-hmm.

Joe Rogan 24:23 Like, like, I, I know a lot of people were doing backyard shows. They had ... Like I, I got invited to a few backyard shows.

Jamar Neighbors 24:29 Mm-hmm.

Joe Rogan 24:29 And I was like, "What are you doing?" He's like, "I'd like you to perform in my backyard." I was like, "What are you talking about, man?" (laughs) "You doing a backyard show?"

Jamar Neighbors 24:36 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 24:36 But people had ... There was a lot of like ... You could see it on Facebook and Instagram, people that had, uh, shows in their apartment.

Jamar Neighbors 24:42 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 24:42 Like, it was just ... Because, look, it's hard to get stage time in LA. There's a lot of clubs, but there's a lot of comics.

Jamar Neighbors 24:48 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 24:48 And you gotta get past, and it's, it's, uh, it's a grind. It's a grind.

Jamar Neighbors 24:52 Yeah, dude. A- a- an- and it's like once you get past, once you get past like the, uh, uh, like the open mic levels, like, like, like, like I feel like stages, like stage time kinda ... You know how much stage time ... Like you know how many stages you can hit, like if you were like an open micer and stuff? It ain't, it ain't like that, like, like once you get past that level. It's like, man, you could probably ... In, in LA, it was like, man, you could probably hit like three spots: Improv, Laugh Factory, Comedy Store.

Joe Rogan 25:17 Comedy Store.

Jamar Neighbors 25:17 And that's about it.

Joe Rogan 25:17 Maybe Icehouse if you wanna drive.

Jamar Neighbors 25:19 Y- y- yeah, yeah, yeah.

Joe Rogan 25:20 Comedy Magic Club if you're really ambitious.

Jamar Neighbors 25:22 Yo. Right. Yeah.

Joe Rogan 25:24 Yeah, but if you're an open micer, you can do 30 of 'em.

Jamar Neighbors 25:26 Dog, I remember (laughs) , I remember doing nine open mics on a Sunday.

Joe Rogan 25:31 Nine on a Sunday?

Jamar Neighbors 25:32 I, like I wa- ... I just wanted to see like how many I could fucking hit, like, like, like ... And I pulled off nine.

Joe Rogan 25:38 Wow.

Jamar Neighbors 25:38 Yeah. (laughs)

Joe Rogan 25:39 Well, you gotta get in the community, right? Then once you're in the community, then people let you know where they're all at.

Jamar Neighbors 25:44 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 25:44 'Cause they're, they're spread out-

Jamar Neighbors 25:45 Mm-hmm.

Joe Rogan 25:46 ... in these weird little bars and comic book stores and-

Jamar Neighbors 25:49 Yep.

Joe Rogan 25:49 ... weird, strange places that have mics.

Jamar Neighbors 25:51 Where's the weirdest place you performed?

Joe Rogan 25:54 Well, I did, uh, bachelor parties with no microphone.

Jamar Neighbors 25:56 Hm.

Joe Rogan 25:57 That was rough.

Jamar Neighbors 25:58 Hm.

Joe Rogan 25:58 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.

Jamar Neighbors 26:05 Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

Joe Rogan 26:06 Hired a stripper to come.

Jamar Neighbors 26:07 And it wasn't no stripper there?

Joe Rogan 26:08 No, just me.

Jamar Neighbors 26:09 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 26:11 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.

Jamar Neighbors 26:26 Like a, a man and a female stripper?

Joe Rogan 26:28 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.

Jamar Neighbors 26:42 Right.

Joe Rogan 26:42 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.

Jamar Neighbors 26:59 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 26:59 There was nothing. It didn't even feel bad.

Jamar Neighbors 27:01 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 27:02 I was like, "What is this?"

Jamar Neighbors 27:03 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 27:04 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.

Jamar Neighbors 27:20 Uh-huh.

Joe Rogan 27:20 Like they were all, they were all real shady, like strange bars and ... You'd go to. And he'd always get paid.

Jamar Neighbors 27:27 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 27:27 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.

Jamar Neighbors 27:38 Wha- wh- what would they look like?

Joe Rogan 27:39 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.

Jamar Neighbors 27:47 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 27:47 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."

Jamar Neighbors 28:03 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 28:04 "And I saw this place and I came over." He was like, "What is this?" (laughs) The guy and the girl, both of 'em, they were not attractive.

Jamar Neighbors 28:10 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 28:10 At all. No.

Jamar Neighbors 28:11 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 28:12 They both looked like they'd been drinking and doing drugs their whole life. They looked sad, tired, and bad tattoos and ...

Jamar Neighbors 28:18 And where did you go up ... Where did you go up ... Did you go up in the middle of, of?

Joe Rogan 28:22 The beginning.

Jamar Neighbors 28:22 Oh.

Joe Rogan 28:22 I go up in the beginning, and then I would bring them up.

Jamar Neighbors 28:25 Call it open.

Joe Rogan 28:25 And then I would go up in the middle, in between them, and then I'd bring up the girl, and then I'd go up, up at the end and wrap up the show.

Jamar Neighbors 28:31 Oh, okay.

Joe Rogan 28:31 It was, it was, it was a nightmare.

Jamar Neighbors 28:33 You, you did crowd work?

Joe Rogan 28:35 I tried.

Jamar Neighbors 28:37 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 28:37 First of all, I was terrible.

Jamar Neighbors 28:38 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 28:38 Right? I'd been doing comedy, like I said, like a year and a half, maybe two years.

Jamar Neighbors 28:41 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 28:42 I don't re- really remember. But I wasn't good. And then on top of that, these people just were barely awake. It was in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, which is like a very ... It's a Portuguese section of Rhode Island. Rh- Rhode Island has a lot of Portuguese immigrants. For whatever reason, they came to the area.

Jamar Neighbors 28:56 Okay.

Joe Rogan 28:56 So these motherfuckers might not have even spoke that much English.

Jamar Neighbors 29:00 Yo.

Joe Rogan 29:01 I don't know. I don't ... I'm, I'm ... I'm telling you, dude, I didn't get any response.

Jamar Neighbors 29:04 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 29:05 You know? It was like, ba-dum-bum. Silence.

Jamar Neighbors 29:08 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 29:09 (laughs)

Jamar Neighbors 29:09 Fuck.

Joe Rogan 29:11 I remember that one. But that one didn't even make me feel bad.

Jamar Neighbors 29:14 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 29:14 I remember leaving that one just laughing, like, "What in the fuck?"

Jamar Neighbors 29:18 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 29:18 "What is that?"

Jamar Neighbors 29:20 Fuck. Yeah, that's crazy. Fuck, I can't even remember like the weirdest ... They, they doing 'em in back of trucks now.

Joe Rogan 29:27 I know. I saw that.

Jamar Neighbors 29:28 Yeah, yeah.

Joe Rogan 29:28 Bert did one of those.

Jamar Neighbors 29:29 Yeah. Those show- ... Those shows are actually lit. Like I, I have-

Joe Rogan 29:32 It's a good stage.

Jamar Neighbors 29:32 Yeah. Yeah. (laughs)

Joe Rogan 29:34 You know?

Jamar Neighbors 29:35 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 29:35 Pickup truck, flatbed. I mean-

Jamar Neighbors 29:37 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 29:37 ... it seems like a good stage.

Jamar Neighbors 29:38 Yeah. But, you know, that's, that's, that's where comedy is in LA right now.

Joe Rogan 29:42 Well, um, Eleanor's doing a show at the Magic Castle. Uh, they have shows in the parking lot.

Jamar Neighbors 29:46 Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Uh, yeah. Tami, Tami Jo runs that shit.

Joe Rogan 29:51 How are they allowed to do that?

Jamar Neighbors 29:52 In the parking lot?

Joe Rogan 29:53 Yeah. If you can't have outdoor shows.Are they just doing it?

Jamar Neighbors 29:58 I don't know, I don't know. I haven't even ... I, I haven't even went to, went, went to the Magic Castle, uh, show.

Joe Rogan 30:05 'Cause, uh, go ... Well, I don't wanna blow her up.

Guest 30:07 That's, I don't ... Maybe they're not still doing it.

Joe Rogan 30:09 Uh, Eleanor had it on her Instagram.

Guest 30:11 No. Yeah. No. Yep. They are. Yep.

Joe Rogan 30:12 Eleanor Kerrigan in the house. (clears throat) But, um, maybe they're just doing it and waiting for people to shut 'em down.

Guest 30:19 Yeah, I dunno.

Jamar Neighbors 30:19 Oh.

Joe Rogan 30:20 Bro, it's bad.

Jamar Neighbors 30:22 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 30:22 LA, LA is bad.

Jamar Neighbors 30:23 Yeah. And I'm like, I don't even know what I'm gonna do when I get ... Maybe I'll go, maybe I'll audition or something.

Joe Rogan 30:30 I don't know.

Guest 30:30 I, I think there's still their car.

Jamar Neighbors 30:31 (laughs) I don't know what to do when I get back there.

Guest 30:32 Well, that's why you gotta be in your car, so like a drive-in.

Jamar Neighbors 30:34 Oh, I don't like that shit.

Joe Rogan 30:35 I don't like that shit, too.

Guest 30:36 Charging for cars.

Jamar Neighbors 30:36 Drive-in standup shows?

Joe Rogan 30:38 When people honk when they wanna heckle.

Guest 30:39 (laughs)

Jamar Neighbors 30:39 Come on, man. Don't play with me. Like, I hate that shit. (laughs)

Joe Rogan 30:42 But I'll tell you what, Bert Kreischer's got that shit dialed in.

Jamar Neighbors 30:45 He has?

Joe Rogan 30:45 He's got it dialed in. Yeah. They set up a big stage and he'll do hundreds ... Like I asked him, "How many, how many, uh, people were in your crowd?" He goes, "700 cars."

Jamar Neighbors 30:53 What?

Joe Rogan 30:54 (laughs) But just, but just the fact that you're doing it by car-

Jamar Neighbors 30:56 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 30:57 ... it seems so bizarre.

Jamar Neighbors 30:58 Would you do some shit like that?

Joe Rogan 30:59 I would do that. I would do it with Bert.

Jamar Neighbors 31:00 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 31:00 I would do it with Bert. Yeah.

Jamar Neighbors 31:02 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 31:02 700 cars sounds like a good time. Um, I did a outdoor venue. I went to see a, uh, a show at an outdoor venue. Bert was in town.

Jamar Neighbors 31:11 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 31:12 What was that place again? The place where Bert was at? It's in, uh, Dripping Springs.

Guest 31:16 Was it Waller Creek?

Joe Rogan 31:18 I don't believe so.

Guest 31:18 There's a few of the amphitheaters in different areas around, so-

Joe Rogan 31:21 Yeah.

Guest 31:21 ... they pop up.

Joe Rogan 31:21 They have like these outdoor barbecue spots that have an amphitheater, so like people play music and eat food. And Bill was there. There was like 600 people in the crowd. It was literally like 40 degrees outside. We're s-

Guest 31:33 Nutty Brown. Nutty Brown.

Joe Rogan 31:34 Nutty Brown. And we're sitting there zipped up to t- I had a jacket on zipped up to my face, just sitting there shivering, laughing my ass off. But Bill murdered it, man. It was ... Uh, he's ... Seeing him seeing real standup-

Jamar Neighbors 31:45 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 31:45 ... like real, and current events shit, talking about all the stuff that's going on in the world right now, it was, it was so good. And he's been on a tear, man. He's been traveling all over the country, just-

Jamar Neighbors 31:56 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 31:56 ... just doing outdoor shows, and being careful, and wearing masks, and you know, he won't even shake your hand. Even me.

Jamar Neighbors 32:03 Really?

Joe Rogan 32:03 You know, I talk to him, "Dude, I get tested every day."

Jamar Neighbors 32:06 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 32:06 He's like, "I'll give you elbow. I'll give you elbow."

Jamar Neighbors 32:08 I was-

Joe Rogan 32:08 And then he came in here, we both got tested, then he gave me a hug. (laughs)

Jamar Neighbors 32:11 Right, that's funny. I tried to get him to come to my apartment show.

Joe Rogan 32:15 Well-

Jamar Neighbors 32:15 I tried. (laughs)

Joe Rogan 32:15 He wants to, you know, he's gotta be safe.

Jamar Neighbors 32:18 He was like, "No." He's like, "Absolutely not." (laughs)

Joe Rogan 32:20 (laughs) He needs to make the money off of standup, 'cause he doesn't ... I mean, he makes money off his podcast, you know, but I'm sure he's got a, you know, he's got a large nut and he was complaining on stage about his wife spending money, so I'm sure that's real too.

Jamar Neighbors 32:31 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 32:33 (laughs)

Jamar Neighbors 32:34 Fuck.

Joe Rogan 32:34 People, there's like so many people that didn't have a podcast that all of a sudden their income went away, and they thought, "Okay, it'll go away for a month, I'll be fine."

Jamar Neighbors 32:43 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 32:44 And then here we are 11 months later.

Jamar Neighbors 32:46 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 32:46 Like what in the fuck is going on?

Jamar Neighbors 32:48 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 32:49 Like when, when, when can we go back to work? Like, what is happening? Most people aren't ... I knew people that were like criticizing other people for going on the road, and now they're on the road.

Jamar Neighbors 32:58 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 32:59 Yeah, 'cause they realize, "Oh, this is ... You know, we gotta take this shit into our own hands."

Jamar Neighbors 33:03 Yeah. My, uh, my, uh, my mom was like, 'cause she ... My mom was like, uh, "Oh my God, wh- are you going to Austin? B- are you going to Austin?" Like, "Why are you traveling?" Da, da, da, da. I was like, "Bitch, I gotta work. You gon' give me rent money?" Like-

Joe Rogan 33:16 Yeah.

Jamar Neighbors 33:16 "Hey bitch, I gotta fucking work."

Joe Rogan 33:18 (laughs)

Jamar Neighbors 33:18 You know? And then she was like, "Hmm, I guess." (laughs) She ... Yeah.

Joe Rogan 33:21 Yeah. Well, Joey Diaz got mad at me at first. "Why you going to fucking Houston, Joe Rogan? What are you doing, Joe Rogan?" And he would be like, you know, the first time I did the improv. I was like, "Listen, man, I miss it. I wanna do it." He's like, "Stay home, stay home. Mind your business."

Jamar Neighbors 33:35 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 33:36 But he's doing standup now.

Jamar Neighbors 33:37 Yeah, yeah. Exactly. Like ... (laughs)

Joe Rogan 33:39 After a while, people just get ... They can't take it anymore.

Jamar Neighbors 33:41 He's like, "You know you need it." (laughs)

Joe Rogan 33:43 Yeah, they can't take it anymore. He's being careful. He's, you know, he lives in Jersey now, for now. I'm gonna have him come out here too. He has to come out here.

Jamar Neighbors 33:49 Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I miss seeing him, dude.

Joe Rogan 33:52 (sighs)

Jamar Neighbors 33:52 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 33:52 That's the glue. That's the glue that held the wildness together at the store, you know.

Jamar Neighbors 33:57 I don't ... I'm like, he don't give a fuck about nothing. (laughs)

Joe Rogan 34:00 He don't give a fuck. That's real too.

Jamar Neighbors 34:01 And I didn't ... Uh, since I wasn't, I wasn't like, um, I wasn't like familiar with, uh, with his personality and stuff. So I remember one time, I think you were there, like I got my, I got my keys stuck in my car o- uh, uh, in the parking lot. And then, uh, people couldn't get out of the s- The Comedy Store parking lot. And, uh, he couldn't get out. Uh, I think he got out, but like, um ... But whatever, so the next day I saw him, uh, at the parking lot. But he was like, "Hey, jerkoff." He was like, uh, (laughs) he was up there like, uh, uh, "Stop getting your fucking keys locked in your car."

Joe Rogan 34:32 (laughs)

Jamar Neighbors 34:32 He was like, "All right, you know Uncle Joey loves you."

Joe Rogan 34:35 (laughs)

Jamar Neighbors 34:35 And I was looking like, "I never even talked to this man in my life, but I love, I love how he just ... I love that."

Joe Rogan 34:39 (laughs)

Jamar Neighbors 34:40 I'm like, "I love him."

Joe Rogan 34:40 Well, you know, he's got that wild East Coast sense of communication, you know?

Jamar Neighbors 34:45 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Joe Rogan 34:46 Like insulting you is a sign of love.

Jamar Neighbors 34:48 Yeah, yeah.

Joe Rogan 34:48 It's like have fun. That was one thing that I noticed when I came from New York to LA is like New York comics are constantly shitting on each other.

Jamar Neighbors 34:55 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 34:56 And LA comics, at least in the '90s when I first moved to LA, they were all trying to get sitcoms, man.

Jamar Neighbors 35:01 Mm-hmm.

Joe Rogan 35:02 They weren't insulting anybody.

Jamar Neighbors 35:04 Mm-hmm.

Joe Rogan 35:04 That's all they were trying to do. They were trying to just make everybody their friend.

Jamar Neighbors 35:08 Out here, out here, I mean like, like nowadays like it got ... It like picked back up a little bit of, like a little bit in LA. But now they do it under, now they do it under Roast Battle. You know what I'm saying?

Joe Rogan 35:19 Yes. Yes.

Jamar Neighbors 35:19 Now it's like that. But, but like just outwardly and shit, like people don't like to step on toes, 'cause people are still trying to, you know.

Joe Rogan 35:25 They're trying to get ahead.

Jamar Neighbors 35:26 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Joe Rogan 35:28 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Well, that's part of the showbiz aspect of, of Hollywood. You know, it's like the- they all want to be cast in shows and they-

Jamar Neighbors 35:36 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 35:36 ... wanna make sure they don't say anything too crazy.

Jamar Neighbors 35:38 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 35:38 And I know a lot of comics that didn't wanna do certain jokes or certain topics even though they thought it was funny, because they were worried that a casting agent wouldn't put 'em in a show, or an executive would see it and they would think they'd be too d- ... I'm like, "Goddammit, man, you're a comic. First and foremost, you're a comic."

Jamar Neighbors 35:54 I figure, I ... This, this always been my strategy. I figure come out crazy, you know, like (laughs) like come out crazy and then let them see that, then scale it back, you know.

Joe Rogan 36:04 Yeah.

Jamar Neighbors 36:04 Like when you, like-

Joe Rogan 36:05 Control it.

Jamar Neighbors 36:06 Yeah, dude.

Joe Rogan 36:07 Yeah. No, 100%.

Jamar Neighbors 36:07 But like come out crazy so they know what the fuck they may be getting. (laughs) Like ...

Joe Rogan 36:10 Yeah. Well, listen, man, it's just, it's, they're ... These fucking people, they're all like led by-... whatever they think is the standard that they have to adhere to. It's not na- like, if you were alone with them, they would call people retards and they would say crazy shit and they would laugh at bad jokes and-

Jamar Neighbors 36:28 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 36:28 ... but, but, but when they're together under this, like, this, the guise of being a part of a network and, you know, it's like they have a career to protect-

Jamar Neighbors 36:37 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 36:37 ... and everyone's worried. The one thing that br- that's beautiful about live comedy is you add a few drinks, people are smoking weed, the place is dark, the spotlight comes on the comic, you say wild shit, everyone's laughing, then you find yourself laughing. It breaks down all these walls and you realize, you know, this is just fun, this is not what he really means about anything.

Jamar Neighbors 36:58 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 36:59 He's just being wild and it's fun to watch. It's fun.

Jamar Neighbors 37:02 Yeah. I, I remember, um, I remember a long time ago, like, coming up in, in a comic, like one of the best things I ever heard ... Oh, am I in the way?

Guest 37:10 You're good to go.

Joe Rogan 37:10 Oh, okay. Jamie's moving me over.

Guest 37:12 Trying to get a hand signal through.

Joe Rogan 37:13 I'm trying to see his eyes. Let me fix this shit for you. Ugh, there we go.

Jamar Neighbors 37:17 All right.

Joe Rogan 37:17 Can't see past your eyes.

Jamar Neighbors 37:18 One of the best ... Yeah. (laughs)

Joe Rogan 37:21 (laughs)

Jamar Neighbors 37:21 One of the best things that ever, uh, uh, that's a comic ever told me, even, like, earlier in life was like, "Yo, man, the audience comes to hear and see some crazy shit."

Joe Rogan 37:30 Yeah, well, especially at the Store.

Jamar Neighbors 37:32 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 37:32 You know?

Jamar Neighbors 37:33 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 37:33 But you gotta establish that. I remember in the Improv that wasn't the case.

Jamar Neighbors 37:37 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 37:37 Like the Improv, like, uh, the early days Joey used to go to the Improv and he'd be like, "Joe Rogan, I don't like that fucking place. There's too many fucking mutts. Too many white people." (laughs)

Jamar Neighbors 37:46 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 37:46 That's what he said. He's like, "Too many fucking mutts. I say some shit, they, they fucking get all, oh, they clutch their pearls."

Jamar Neighbors 37:53 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 37:54 He would... but eventually we started doing shows there.

Jamar Neighbors 37:57 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 37:57 And so when we started doing shows, like we did these Joe Rogan and Friends shows, then everybody knew.

Jamar Neighbors 38:01 Mm-hmm.

Joe Rogan 38:01 So it was like th- we were getting our people to come down there and then it was wild again. Then Joey loved it.

Jamar Neighbors 38:06 Dude, I remember getting, uh, I remember getting banned from the Improv. (laughs)

Joe Rogan 38:12 (laughs) I remember getting banned from the Improv because, uh, we had this thing called, um, it was me and like my, uh, the guys I was coming up with, and we all had a showcase. It was called like maybe like Be- Best of the Improv or New Faces of the Improv or something like that, or ... And, uh, all my friends were honored and stuff and, you know, everybody, you know, everybody was kind of like straight edge, kind of like, you know, clean and shit like that. And then I would have to go up last. And I was getting frustrated in the back and I was forgetting my jokes. And so when I, when I forget and I, I just say, "Fuck it." So I went up there, I think I talked about, um, I think I talked about like, like, you know, like h- I had a joke about like my grandma, uh, uh, making me, uh, uh, smell her pussy when I got bad grades or whatever. (laughs)

Guest 39:00 (laughs)

Jamar Neighbors 39:00 (laughs) It, it was so fucking absurd. Uh, (laughs) she goes, "What kind of grades you getting?" Dude, she was like, "Oh, an F. Come here."

Joe Rogan 39:10 (laughs)

Jamar Neighbors 39:10 "Smell this." (laughs) And I was like, "No."

Joe Rogan 39:13 That's such a ridiculous joke.

Jamar Neighbors 39:14 It's such an absurd joke, but like at, at that time, but at that time, you know Rita from the Improv?

Joe Rogan 39:19 Yeah, sure.

Jamar Neighbors 39:19 Like, she was up there like, um, so, uh, we had to do ... Oh, and by the way, I ended that set by saying, "Fuck y'all and good night." And I dropped the mic. I put it on.

Joe Rogan 39:28 (laughs)

Jamar Neighbors 39:29 I don't know what the fuck came over me, but I was like, "Oh bro, I think that that's just your spirit taking over. Like, that's just who the fuck ... That's just a preview of who you gonna be later on as a fucking comic or whatever."

Joe Rogan 39:39 Right, right.

Jamar Neighbors 39:39 So Rita-

Joe Rogan 39:40 How many years in were you?

Jamar Neighbors 39:42 Shit. I was like, um, I thought I was probably 22. So 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22. I was five years in. (laughs)

Joe Rogan 39:50 Oh, okay.

Jamar Neighbors 39:51 Yeah, I was- (laughs)

Joe Rogan 39:52 But you were only 22. Yeah.

Jamar Neighbors 39:54 Yeah. And so, um, and so the next day, Rita, Rita was, uh, she, she had everybody (laughs) ... Like, she never did this shit. Like, it was the next day was the open mic. She had everybody sitting down and I kind of come in a little late and she was just sitting on the stage talking, (laughs) like talking to all the comics.

Joe Rogan 40:11 Oh, no.

Jamar Neighbors 40:11 I ain't never seen this shit in my life. So ... (laughs)

Joe Rogan 40:14 Whoa.

Jamar Neighbors 40:14 She was giving people, uh, their reviews. She was like, they're like, "Oh, Jerrod, amazing. Angelo, amazing." She was like, they're like, "Oh, you could do this, but you did a great job." And then she was like, "Jamar, what in the fuck did you think you were doing?"

Joe Rogan 40:29 (laughs)

Jamar Neighbors 40:29 And I was just like, "Oh, I, I was, I, I, I was trying to be funny, Rita." And then she was like, "Smelling your grandmother's pussy?" And I was just like- (laughs)

Joe Rogan 40:37 I wish I was there. I'd have been like, "Rita, that shit is hilarious. Let him grow. Let him grow."

Jamar Neighbors 40:42 The audience was confused though too. They, I ain't gonna lie, they were like, "Uh."

Joe Rogan 40:48 (laughs)

Jamar Neighbors 40:48 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 40:48 Listen, you need to bring that joke back. Have you been doing that lately?

Jamar Neighbors 40:51 Hell no. That was like ... (laughs)

Joe Rogan 40:52 Oh my God, please, Jamar, bring that back. You can figure out a way to make that work.

Jamar Neighbors 40:57 Oh my God.

Joe Rogan 40:58 Today-

Jamar Neighbors 40:59 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 40:59 ... you, you can make that work.

Jamar Neighbors 41:00 Yeah, now.

Joe Rogan 41:01 Yes.

Jamar Neighbors 41:02 But back then ...

Joe Rogan 41:02 Right, but that's always the case in the beginning. Like, that's like what I would call like a black belt premise.

Jamar Neighbors 41:08 Right.

Joe Rogan 41:08 Like it's a complicated premise. It's not like a white belt premise. A white belt premise is like, oh, you know, it's easy. Set up punchline, it's obvious what you're talking about.

Jamar Neighbors 41:16 Right.

Joe Rogan 41:17 You're saying some wild shit. Like you gotta, the audience has to have trust in you for you to joke about your grandmother's smelly pussy, how you have to smell it if you have bad grades. (laughs)

Jamar Neighbors 41:27 That shit was retarded, dog. Like ... (laughs)

Joe Rogan 41:29 Yeah, but it's making me laugh right now.

Jamar Neighbors 41:31 And the fuck, the fuck part about that shit is that like if I'm in a joke, like if I'm in a joke, I don't care at what level of comedy I was ever at, if I'm in it, I'm gonna do the whole fucking thing whether I'm bombing or not. Like, the whole act out, like I'll put the whole story-

Joe Rogan 41:46 (laughs)

Jamar Neighbors 41:46 ... in that shit and everything. I don't give a fuck if it's quiet at the end, I'm like, "Well, no one in here has grandma's had a stinky pussy before, huh? No one in here has got an F? Okay." Like ... (laughs)

Joe Rogan 41:57 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-

Jamar Neighbors 42:08 And Willie.

Joe Rogan 42:08 ... 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.

Jamar Neighbors 42:20 Bro.

Joe Rogan 42:20 It made the show.

Jamar Neighbors 42:21 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-

Joe Rogan 42:30 No, you can't- see, you can't read those.

Jamar Neighbors 42:31 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?

Joe Rogan 42:42 Oh, yeah. It's a wild move.

Jamar Neighbors 42:43 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-

Joe Rogan 42:55 That's a good way to put it.

Jamar Neighbors 42:56 Yeah. S-

Joe Rogan 42:56 That's a very good way to put it.

Jamar Neighbors 42:58 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-

Joe Rogan 43:24 (laughs)

Jamar Neighbors 43:24 ... 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)

Joe Rogan 43:47 (laughs)

Jamar Neighbors 43:47 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-

Joe Rogan 43:58 Yeah.

Jamar Neighbors 43:58 ... and the whole thing or whatever. But that's how it started. And, um, yeah, man.

Joe Rogan 44:04 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?

Jamar Neighbors 44:14 So, um, okay, so, so we would get very, uh, so we would go prop shopping.

Joe Rogan 44:20 (laughs)

Jamar Neighbors 44:21 (laughs) Some of that shit didn't make sense. But like, we would go, we would go prop shopping and shit. But, um ...

Joe Rogan 44:26 Is there a video compliment- compilation of like the best of The Wave?

Jamar Neighbors 44:30 Yeah, it is. It is.

Joe Rogan 44:31 Oh, find that.

Jamar Neighbors 44:32 There is? Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Guest 44:33 I was gonna say, there shouldn't be if there isn't.

Joe Rogan 44:34 Yeah, there has to be.

Jamar Neighbors 44:36 Uh, so, so we would go, uh, we would go prop shopping and shit like that, right? And we w- would know who was battling or whatever. And so we were like, "Well, this person's fat, this person's a lesbian, this person's trans or whatever, so they're probably gonna say stuff like this. So let's get this rainbow flag, let's get some gasoline."

Joe Rogan 44:51 (laughs)

Jamar Neighbors 44:51 "So when somebody says something about this gay dude, we're gonna burn, we're gonna burn the, the rainbow flag."

Joe Rogan 44:57 (laughs)

Jamar Neighbors 44:57 "And, and like, like, you know, like..."

Joe Rogan 44:58 Did you guys actually burn a flag?

Jamar Neighbors 45:00 We burned a Confederate flag in, uh, in a, in, um, in, uh, where's Wa- in, from A- in Alabama.

Joe Rogan 45:06 Oh.

Jamar Neighbors 45:06 And the whole crowd went, and the whole crowd, like, gave us a standing ovation.

Joe Rogan 45:10 Really?

Jamar Neighbors 45:11 Yeah, that was like one of the bits.

Joe Rogan 45:12 Indoors, burning a flag is dangerous as fuck.

Jamar Neighbors 45:15 (laughs) But people, but that's the dope thing about The Wave is that people never ever knew what the fuck we were gonna do. So we would get away with shit like that because of the air of the, uh, of the air of unpredictability.

Joe Rogan 45:24 Right.

Jamar Neighbors 45:25 Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, um, so yeah, man.

Guest 45:27 It's a great name for the, the, the group of you two, The Wave.

Jamar Neighbors 45:31 (laughs) 'Cause, because, uh, before, before we did the Rose Battle, uh, we w- I would be in the OR and, um, and, um, when somebody would do something funny, I would, I would, I wa- I was always a over-laugher anyway or whatever. And, um, so one time somebody did something, I was just like, "Ha ha ha." And I was like, "Whoa," whatever, right?

Joe Rogan 45:52 (laughs)

Jamar Neighbors 45:52 And then so, uh, (laughs) and then so we started doing that, like, in the Rose Battle too. You know what I'm saying? I was just like, "Oh, man, we should just call ourselves The Wave or whatever," and this, this and that. "We're The Wave." You know? And then so every time, like, (laughs) they'd shout us out, we'd be like, "Whoa."

Joe Rogan 46:06 (laughs)

Jamar Neighbors 46:06 And like s- sometimes the whole crowd would fucking do it and shit. You know what I'm saying? 'Cause it's literally a wave of whatever the fuck's about to happen after this joke. You know what I'm saying?

Joe Rogan 46:16 Yes.

Jamar Neighbors 46:16 Like...

Joe Rogan 46:16 And you guys did it for... Like, I came to this door in 2014, and one of the things I came back to the store. One of the things that brought me back, the big thing that brought me back was Ari, 'cause Ari was filming a special there the next day and I had to go.

Jamar Neighbors 46:29 Mm-hmm.

Joe Rogan 46:29 I had to be there for that. Ari's one of my best friends.

Jamar Neighbors 46:31 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 46:31 And the other thing was, uh, I wanted to see Rose Battle.

Jamar Neighbors 46:35 Uh-huh.

Joe Rogan 46:35 'Cause everybody told me about it. And I remember being up there and sitting in that audience going, "Wow, this is special." Like, first of all, the jokes, the joke-writing was excellent.

Jamar Neighbors 46:45 Mm-hmm.

Joe Rogan 46:45 There's people that I didn't even know, they were crushing each other. And then you guys would run on stage and, and, and make chaos.

Jamar Neighbors 46:51 Mm-hmm.

Joe Rogan 46:51 And I was like, "This is a wild, creative fucking show."

Jamar Neighbors 46:54 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 46:54 But that was 2014.

Jamar Neighbors 46:56 Yeah. Yeah.

Joe Rogan 46:57 So we're talking about six, seven years w- seven without COVID. Six years-

Jamar Neighbors 47:01 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 47:02 ... of solid performances.

Jamar Neighbors 47:05 Yep, yep, yep. And it was so fucking fun. And the dope, the, one of the dopest things about that, it, and it made me, um, it made me really appreciate like what we get to do.

Joe Rogan 47:14 Yeah.

Jamar Neighbors 47:15 You know? Uh, is I remember a time we went to, uh, JFL to do it live. And, um, and I was sitting there and I was sitting there and I was getting kind of nervous about the show 'cause this was a live show. They were gonna do it live-

Joe Rogan 47:30 Mm-hmm.

Jamar Neighbors 47:30 ... for Comedy Central. And I was like, I was a little nervous about the show, like, in my hotel room. And I was just like, "Bro," I, I was telling myself, I was just like, "Man, you need to chill out." And I said, "What you need to do, get those red pants, get that wig, and go up there and dance like James Brown."

Joe Rogan 47:44 (laughs)

Jamar Neighbors 47:44 "You get to do that." And I was just like, "Oh, yeah. Huh?"

Joe Rogan 47:48 Da da da da da da dum.

Jamar Neighbors 47:48 Yeah. Get up. Yeah, yeah, and (laughs) s- so there, so, so an- and so, uh, there was a bit. N- I don't know whose battle it was, but like yo- y- I don't know if you ever got it or whatever, but it's me up there like dancing like James Brown-

Joe Rogan 48:01 (laughs)

Jamar Neighbors 48:01 ... and shit like that or whatever. Peop- uh, like, we were having a great time. Even though online may have not liked it. I mean, like some online may have not liked it, but if you were there...

Joe Rogan 48:11 Listen, man. Fuck the online.

Jamar Neighbors 48:13 Yeah, fuck them for real.

Joe Rogan 48:14 Fuck. Fuck that. They're just a bunch of malcontents.

Jamar Neighbors 48:17 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 48:20 You know? Who... This is what I always say. This, it's not like the people don't comment interesting shit on, on YouTube videos or Instagram. They do. There's some people that do. But the people that complain all the time, most of them-... 99% of 'em, I'm making that number up, are fucking losers.

Jamar Neighbors 48:36 Yeah, yeah. That's-

Joe Rogan 48:36 That's why they're complaining about shit all the time.

Jamar Neighbors 48:39 Well, I figure that's what th- that's what they, that's what the comments section is for anyway, 'cause I ain't gonna lie, I'ma troll my Goddamn self.

Joe Rogan 48:43 Yeah.

Jamar Neighbors 48:44 (laughs) I'm like ... So yeah, yeah, yeah. But, um, but all that mattered to us is that we were having fun and that we got to do this.

Joe Rogan 48:51 It's one of the best parts of the show.

Jamar Neighbors 48:52 Yeah, man. Thank you.

Joe Rogan 48:53 Anybody doesn't get that, it's one of the best parts. I remember there was, there was one where somebody got somebody. I forget what happened. But you guys came out with, what are those things that pop out of cans that look like worms and shit?

Jamar Neighbors 49:04 Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Little streamers comes through. Yeah.

Joe Rogan 49:06 Right. Yeah. You get, streamers were popping out.

Jamar Neighbors 49:08 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 49:08 You guys were rolling them like, "This is wild."

Jamar Neighbors 49:10 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 49:10 This, it ma- it like ... Because whoever it was got this person so good.

Jamar Neighbors 49:16 Uh-huh.

Joe Rogan 49:16 And then you, you guys all fell out on stage like, "Bah!"

Jamar Neighbors 49:19 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 49:20 And it was, it was amazing. It was amazing. And you could see in the audience, like the laughter was hard, and then they took it to another level. And then people were like, "This show is amazing."

Jamar Neighbors 49:30 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 49:30 That show was one of the best creations of the Store.

Jamar Neighbors 49:33 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 49:33 You know? And Moses is the perfect guy to host it.

Jamar Neighbors 49:36 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 49:36 'Cause he's so nice.

Jamar Neighbors 49:37 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 49:38 He's so funny and he's so nice, and then he makes everybody hug it out at the end.

Jamar Neighbors 49:42 Yeah, yeah.

Joe Rogan 49:42 You hug it out. Like you, he's just, there's no meanness coming from Moses. Like if, if Hinchcliffe was hosting it, it might go too dark.

Jamar Neighbors 49:49 Right, right, right.

Joe Rogan 49:49 You know what I mean?

Jamar Neighbors 49:50 Moses is like, Moses is like, "I'm, I- I don't have a side. I'm just-"

Joe Rogan 49:53 Yeah.

Jamar Neighbors 49:54 "Y- go ahead."

Joe Rogan 49:55 Yeah.

Jamar Neighbors 49:55 All right, break it up.

Joe Rogan 49:56 All right, hug.

Jamar Neighbors 49:56 But he's also fun and he's, you know, he's just a good dude.

Joe Rogan 50:00 Yeah.

Jamar Neighbors 50:01 So it's like that comes off when he's on stage.

Joe Rogan 50:03 Yeah.

Jamar Neighbors 50:03 And then when he would host it, it was just, man. (laughs)

Joe Rogan 50:07 I miss that show. I used to dr- drop in on Tuesday nights just to watch.

Jamar Neighbors 50:11 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 50:11 Just to see some chaos and just see some creativity and some young comics just getting after it.

Jamar Neighbors 50:16 Yeah, dude. And, and I, and I, I, fuck I used to get up like, I used to get up there and I used to fucking battle and all that shit. And, and then that was fun, but then I had to stop doing that 'cause I don't like the idea of thinking about somebody for two whole fucking weeks and stuff like that.

Joe Rogan 50:31 Writing jokes and yeah.

Jamar Neighbors 50:32 'Cause then I can get ... But, but it did help like my joke writing and all that stuff.

Joe Rogan 50:35 Oh, it's a great joke writing exercise.

Jamar Neighbors 50:37 Oh, absolutely. But um, but I think being in the Wave like really like developed me though as a, as a performer though too.

Joe Rogan 50:44 Oh, yeah.

Jamar Neighbors 50:44 Like that was doing some work on our shit too, you know?

Joe Rogan 50:47 Oh, yeah.

Jamar Neighbors 50:47 So, yeah.

Joe Rogan 50:47 You had to commit.

Jamar Neighbors 50:49 Mm-hmm.

Joe Rogan 50:49 You had to di- ... And the other thing is that that was a late night show.

Jamar Neighbors 50:52 Mm-hmm.

Joe Rogan 50:52 And it was always sold out.

Jamar Neighbors 50:54 It was perfect. It was perfect, yeah.

Joe Rogan 50:54 It was always sold out.

Jamar Neighbors 50:56 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 50:56 Like there was a line. I mean, what time would that thing start?

Jamar Neighbors 50:59 Okay, it would start at 10:30. They would do it-

Joe Rogan 51:01 Yeah.

Jamar Neighbors 51:01 They would do like, they would do like a mic or s- or like a little book spots ahead and then at tw- and then what, like, like, uh, then what at like 11:45-

Joe Rogan 51:09 That's when it would start.

Jamar Neighbors 51:10 ... about to go down. Yeah.

Joe Rogan 51:10 So really, the show started almost midnight-

Jamar Neighbors 51:13 Mm-hmm.

Joe Rogan 51:13 ... on a Tuesday night and it would be mobbed.

Jamar Neighbors 51:15 Yep.

Joe Rogan 51:16 Mobbed.

Jamar Neighbors 51:16 Yep.

Joe Rogan 51:16 I mean, it was supposed to have ... Listen, I'm not going back to the Store 'cause it's not going back.

Jamar Neighbors 51:21 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 51:22 It's not, it's not gonna be the Store again. I'll, I'll go back if it comes back, but I'm gonna be honest about the numbers.

Jamar Neighbors 51:26 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Joe Rogan 51:26 The fire department probably wanted about 80 people in there.

Jamar Neighbors 51:29 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Joe Rogan 51:29 There was probably about 150.

Jamar Neighbors 51:30 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Joe Rogan 51:31 It was-

Guest 51:32 Easy 200.

Jamar Neighbors 51:32 Ease, ease-

Guest 51:32 You couldn't wear good shoes up there.

Joe Rogan 51:33 ... stuffed.

Guest 51:33 You'd get fuck, your shoes would fuck up.

Joe Rogan 51:34 I was downstairs below it and I remember someone was crushing and you guys were jumping around and the ceiling was moving. I was like, "Oh my God."

Guest 51:42 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 51:42 I was like, "When was the last time anybody did like a structural assessment?"

Guest 51:45 Used to hang up in those back stairs just so you could hear. If you couldn't-

Joe Rogan 51:48 Yes.

Guest 51:48 ... get in, you'd be like, "I'm o- at least I can hear it."

Joe Rogan 51:49 Yes. Yes. Yes. But it was, there was some mo- motion at one time that the ceiling was moving. I was like, "Imagine if everybody just came piling into the-"

Jamar Neighbors 51:58 Mm-hmm.

Joe Rogan 51:58 "... fucking kitchen. If the ceiling collapsed."

Jamar Neighbors 52:01 Mm-hmm.

Joe Rogan 52:02 Fuck, man.

Jamar Neighbors 52:02 Oh, yeah, man. We used to turn that fucking belly room out, man.

Joe Rogan 52:06 We need to do that shit out here. We need to have Roast Battle in Austin.

Jamar Neighbors 52:08 They, he brought ... So uh, uh guy-

Joe Rogan 52:10 What's Jeff Ross doing? He ain't doing shit.

Jamar Neighbors 52:11 Je- (laughs) Yeah, man. Uh-

Joe Rogan 52:13 Come on out, Jeff Ross.

Jamar Neighbors 52:15 Some, some guy brought it up, somebody go- guy brought it up that he was, um, uh, that he was gonna start it back up out here and then he was like, "I would love for y- for, for you to do the Wave." And I was like, "I don't do the Wave anymore, kid."

Guest 52:26 (laughs)

Jamar Neighbors 52:27 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 52:27 (laughs)

Jamar Neighbors 52:27 "I'm past that." You know? I tried to big time him.

Joe Rogan 52:32 Well, you probably should be past that. You know?

Jamar Neighbors 52:34 Yeah, I mean, but that's what I'm saying. Like it was ... I, I would definitely do something with the Wa- with-

Joe Rogan 52:38 For fun.

Jamar Neighbors 52:38 ... my friends.

Joe Rogan 52:39 Yeah.

Jamar Neighbors 52:39 With the, with the Wave or whatever, but I don't wanna go on stage and-

Joe Rogan 52:42 Yeah.

Jamar Neighbors 52:43 ... you know.

Joe Rogan 52:43 No, I get it. I get it. You did it forever.

Jamar Neighbors 52:45 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 52:45 But y- but it was just ... I think things that are just wild like that are great for the soul of comedy.

Jamar Neighbors 52:52 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 52:52 That's what I felt when I was there in that audience. And again, this was the night before Ari filmed his special.

Jamar Neighbors 52:57 Mm-hmm.

Joe Rogan 52:58 I decided I had to go there a day earlier or I'd be overwhelmed, 'cause I knew I was gonna start crying. So I got there, I was like, "Okay, let me just, let me just see what the Store is like now." And then Jeff Ross introduced me to the crowd and it was, it was weird, man. It felt weird. It felt like, like ... Oh my God, it was crazy.

Jamar Neighbors 53:15 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 53:15 But the, the feeling of the room was like this is, this is not the same Comedy Store that I left seven years ago.

Jamar Neighbors 53:22 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 53:23 This is, this is a better place.

Jamar Neighbors 53:24 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 53:24 It's more creative, it's more wild.

Jamar Neighbors 53:26 Mm-hmm.

Joe Rogan 53:26 And to, to be there and that pa- that, that was, wasn't packed the same way. That was only like a legit like 90 people, but it was still ...

Jamar Neighbors 53:34 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 53:34 It was fun, man. It was crazy.

Jamar Neighbors 53:36 Yeah, man. We used to tear the roof off that place, man. And we were so like-

Joe Rogan 53:40 Oh my God.

Jamar Neighbors 53:40 Like I ... Because y- y- you know, we, you know, we, we'd work all week doing whatever job we had before. You know, maybe it was a writing job or somebody had, but every fucking Tuesday, you know, you know, every fucking Tuesday, like, like me, Jeremiah, and Willie would be ... Like we get like giddy. We'd be like, "Oh shit, is he gonna do that?"

Joe Rogan 53:57 Yeah.

Jamar Neighbors 53:57 "Okay, okay. Per, per, per, per."

Joe Rogan 53:59 Yeah.

Jamar Neighbors 53:59 I'm like, "All right, man, I'm gonna get Willie. All right, I'm gonna get Willie." 'Cause like some ... (laughs) I remember Dennis Rodman jumped in the Wave.

Joe Rogan 54:05 (laughs)

Jamar Neighbors 54:05 Dennis Rodman, big drunk ass, j- jumped in the fucking Wave. We were like, "Fuck it." I was like, "This is what kind of party it is."

Joe Rogan 54:11 (laughs)

Jamar Neighbors 54:12 Like Dennis Rodman, Bobby Brown jumped in the Wave.

Joe Rogan 54:14 Bobby Brown was there?

Jamar Neighbors 54:15 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 54:15 Bobby Brown was at the Store a bunch of times.

Jamar Neighbors 54:17 (laughs) Yeah.

Joe Rogan 54:18 Yeah, Bo- ... I met, I ran into Bobby Brown at a sushi place.

Jamar Neighbors 54:21 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 54:22 It was one of those weird things where like, you know, when I was a kid, <singing Every little step I take</s. You know, like, like-

Jamar Neighbors 54:28 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Joe Rogan 54:28 I knew Bobby ... Everybody knew Bobby Brown.

Jamar Neighbors 54:30 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 54:31 And so I run into Bobby Brown at a sushi place. He says hi to me. I was like, "What's up, Joe?" I was like, "Oh my God, Bobby Brown knows who I am."

Jamar Neighbors 54:36 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Joe Rogan 54:36 It was so strange. Shaking his hand, giving him a hug. I was like, "Wow, Bobby Brown."

Jamar Neighbors 54:40 Bobby Brown.

Joe Rogan 54:41 It's crazy.

Jamar Neighbors 54:43 I don't know, man.

Joe Rogan 54:44 Yeah.

Jamar Neighbors 54:44 It's fucking crazy.

Joe Rogan 54:45 That Comedy Store, this-... you know, that place was such a-

Jamar Neighbors 54:49 Look, look, look.

Narrator 54:50 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 54:50 Oh, look at you guys. Just the best of me.

Jamar Neighbors 54:53 He's in love with you.

Narrator 54:54 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 54:54 Dennis Rodman. Dennis Rodman's ... And Jeremiah is translating. (laughs)

Jamar Neighbors 54:58 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 54:58 Look at Moses.

Jamar Neighbors 55:00 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 55:00 Oh, my God, that's hilarious. It's amazing unroll. Wow. I'm telling ya.

Narrator 55:05 (laughs)

Jamar Neighbors 55:06 Dennis, Dennis, Dennis. We already know everything about you. There's nothing else. And WorldStar doesn't have subtitles. What the fuck is happening right now?

Narrator 55:16 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 55:16 God.

Jamar Neighbors 55:16 I'm taking a selfie with him.

Joe Rogan 55:17 (laughs) You know what? You know what's amazing about you and me?

Jamar Neighbors 55:19 Yes, sir.

Joe Rogan 55:20 That guy- Oh, that's so funny.

Jamar Neighbors 55:23 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 55:23 Well, there's a, there's a real value in a little club like that, a tiny spot.

Jamar Neighbors 55:27 Mm-hmm.

Joe Rogan 55:27 And that's one of the things that I wanna have out here. I-

Jamar Neighbors 55:29 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 55:29 ... I wanna have a small club too.

Jamar Neighbors 55:31 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 55:31 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.

Jamar Neighbors 55:35 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 55:35 I think you need a little laboratory.

Jamar Neighbors 55:38 Yep.

Joe Rogan 55:38 You know, just to fuck around, and-

Jamar Neighbors 55:39 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 55:40 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.

Jamar Neighbors 55:46 Yep, I remember that.

Joe Rogan 55:47 Yeah, like, you need a laboratory.

Jamar Neighbors 55:49 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 55:49 You need a place where you're just kind of fucking around. There's lower expectations.

Jamar Neighbors 55:53 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 55:53 It's more of a hang.

Jamar Neighbors 55:54 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 55:54 When you get to a large audience, everybody's like, "Wow, this place is packed. This is a big thing."

Jamar Neighbors 55:58 Yeah, like you do that-

Joe Rogan 55:59 This is a big deal.

Jamar Neighbors 55:59 ... small club to go do the big club.

Joe Rogan 56:00 Yes.

Jamar Neighbors 56:01 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Joe Rogan 56:01 Exactly.

Jamar Neighbors 56:02 Yep.

Joe Rogan 56:02 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.

Jamar Neighbors 56:09 Yep.

Joe Rogan 56:09 You, you need to do different shit.

Jamar Neighbors 56:10 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 56:11 You need to lift weights. You need cross-training.

Jamar Neighbors 56:13 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.

Joe Rogan 56:33 Six hours?

Jamar Neighbors 56:34 Yeah, bro.

Joe Rogan 56:34 What would you do for six hours?

Jamar Neighbors 56:36 Anything I could think of. (laughs) Like-

Joe Rogan 56:38 Really?

Jamar Neighbors 56:38 ... 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.

Joe Rogan 56:49 You learned boxing by yourself?

Jamar Neighbors 56:51 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-

Joe Rogan 56:56 What gym were you working out at?

Jamar Neighbors 56:58 Uh, Fortune Boxing Gym.

Joe Rogan 56:59 Oh, okay.

Jamar Neighbors 56:59 Justin Fortune.

Joe Rogan 57:00 Justin Fortune, yeah.

Jamar Neighbors 57:01 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Joe Rogan 57:01 He's legit.

Jamar Neighbors 57:02 Yeah, I love Justin.

Joe Rogan 57:03 Joey Diaz used to go there too.

Jamar Neighbors 57:04 Yeah, yeah, all the (clears throat) yeah, all, like, you see fucking Sylvester Stallone brother in that motherfucker.

Joe Rogan 57:10 Hey, yo.

Jamar Neighbors 57:10 Like-

Joe Rogan 57:10 Hey, yo.

Jamar Neighbors 57:11 And I-

Joe Rogan 57:12 I'm here to work out, yo.

Jamar Neighbors 57:13 Just to fucking mentally prepare myself for a fucking 15-minute set at the Comedy Store (laughs) like was fucking retarded.

Joe Rogan 57:20 That's good. So you just hit a fight, didn't you? Didn't you take a fight?

Jamar Neighbors 57:23 (laughs) Yeah, I did.

Joe Rogan 57:24 We talked about it before.

Jamar Neighbors 57:25 I, I was-

Joe Rogan 57:26 We talked about it. It was almost a year ago.

Jamar Neighbors 57:28 Yeah, right, right before COVID hit actually.

Joe Rogan 57:30 Yeah, you were telling me you were thinking about taking a fight. I was like, "Whoa, okay."

Jamar Neighbors 57:34 I, I said, uh, 'cause I was gonna go do Golden Gloves.

Joe Rogan 57:36 Yeah.

Jamar Neighbors 57:37 Uh, I was, I was, um, I was 34, so I was like, "Oh, man." And, and I was gonna do, um, I was gonna do the Golden Gloves because I was 34 and the la- and the cutoff to do it is 35. And one of the main reasons I wanted to do it 'cause I heard that, uh, (laughs) I heard that, I heard that, like, Eddie Murphy had done it. Like, I heard that-

Joe Rogan 57:54 Eddie Murphy fought in the Golden Gloves?

Jamar Neighbors 57:56 Or Silver Gloves or some shit like that.

Joe Rogan 57:57 Really?

Jamar Neighbors 57:57 Or like they used to box when they were younger and then Martin Lawrence would come-

Joe Rogan 58:00 Well, his brother, Charlie, was a bad motherfucker.

Jamar Neighbors 58:02 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 58:02 Legitimately.

Jamar Neighbors 58:03 Yeah, I heard.

Joe Rogan 58:04 Legitimately. Very good martial artist.

Jamar Neighbors 58:05 I hear stories. Yeah. (laughs)

Joe Rogan 58:06 Yeah, he was good. I was with Charlie Murphy, we were on tour and, uh, I was with Maury Smith, who was UFC heavyweight champion, and Ivan Salivari, who was one of the top fighters in the UFC. And we had done a show together and then all ... We, we ... You know, me and Charlie did a show together and then we all went out to eat. And these guys came out to see me. So afterwards, we're all eating dinner and I, I think Brian Redband had the photo of this, this conversation on his Instagram. And I think he sent it to me and I might've put it on my Instagram or my Twitter. But Charlie Murphy was holding court. You got UFC former heavyweight champ of the world, Maury Smith, you got Ivan Salivari, top flight UFC fighter, and you got me and a couple of my friends, and then Charlie Murphy's, uh, standing up talking about, "You motherfuckers don't know how to sho- throw the Chicago ridge hand."

Jamar Neighbors 58:55 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 58:55 Like he had like some strike called the Ch- ... That's it. That's it right there.

Jamar Neighbors 58:59 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 59:00 That's it right there. 19- ... (laughs) 2007. Look at Charlie.

Jamar Neighbors 59:04 I'm in court.

Joe Rogan 59:04 Look at, that's Ivan Salivari's the guy with the watch on the far right side. Maury Smith is the guy with the white T-shirt right next to him. Oh my God, dude, I'm telling you, Charlie Murphy was holding court and we were dying laughing.

Jamar Neighbors 59:17 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 59:17 And he was talking about ... Like, a ridge hand is a weird karate strike where you hit someone with like this side of your hand. You like throw it like this. I mean, it's got its place. Like, you know how sometimes dudes, like, in MMA they KO a guy and then they hammer fist the guy?

Jamar Neighbors 59:32 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Joe Rogan 59:33 Because it's really the best move in certain situations.

Jamar Neighbors 59:35 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 59:36 And then a ridge hand, Charlie Murphy was saying, "Y'all motherfuckers don't know about the ridge hand, Chicago ridge hand."

Jamar Neighbors 59:41 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 59:41 He had like this Chicago-style ridge hand. I don't know. I don't-

Jamar Neighbors 59:44 This shit feels soft. Like-

Joe Rogan 59:46 It's not the best way to hit somebody.

Jamar Neighbors 59:48 Yeah, I, I can-

Joe Rogan 59:48 But you could for sure, you could fuck somebody up. It's ... If you're, if you're hitting soft tissue in the face, like, I wouldn't recommend it for the top of the head. Like a ... Knuckles are better for sure.

Jamar Neighbors 1:00:00 Yeah, I would never Chicago ridge hand somebody unless maybe my little brother.

Joe Rogan 1:00:03 Is that Charlie boxing you?

Jamar Neighbors 1:00:04 No, no, no, no, that's me, that's me, that's me.

Joe Rogan 1:00:05 Oh, Jamar.

Jamar Neighbors 1:00:07 This motherfucker was so fat.

Joe Rogan 1:00:09 Oh, the guy you fought?

Jamar Neighbors 1:00:10 Look at this. Oh.

Joe Rogan 1:00:11 Oh, dude, look at you swinging wild.

Jamar Neighbors 1:00:13 I was fucking that nigga up. Look like I was like Deontay Wilder in that bitch.

Joe Rogan 1:00:15 Are you left-handed?

Jamar Neighbors 1:00:16 I am.

Joe Rogan 1:00:17 Oh, shit. No kidding. Oh, dude, Jamar. Look at you go.

Jamar Neighbors 1:00:22 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 1:00:22 And you get a drink of water when the guy's down.

Jamar Neighbors 1:00:24 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Joe Rogan 1:00:24 You're not supposed to do that. (laughs)

Jamar Neighbors 1:00:25 Yeah. (laughs) And I walked over to him and said-

Joe Rogan 1:00:28 That's over anyway, right? Isn't it over? Yeah.

Jamar Neighbors 1:00:29 Yeah, yeah.

Joe Rogan 1:00:30 He quit.

Jamar Neighbors 1:00:30 The only reason, the only re- ... And, and I don't, I don't (smacks lips) I don't take like crazy credit for it. I mean, but it'll ... A win is a win for sure. I mean, that guy was fat as fuck. Look at him.

Joe Rogan 1:00:39 So you had ... These guys are wearing masks. This was COVID.

Jamar Neighbors 1:00:42 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Joe Rogan 1:00:42 When did, when did this fight happen?

Jamar Neighbors 1:00:43 (laughs) Yeah, yeah, it was.

Joe Rogan 1:00:45 When did this happen?

Jamar Neighbors 1:00:46 Uh, this was like in October.

Joe Rogan 1:00:48 In October. So did they test you at all?

Jamar Neighbors 1:00:50 (laughs) No, man.

Joe Rogan 1:00:51 (laughs)

Jamar Neighbors 1:00:52 No. (laughs) They, they, they made us sign a release that says, "Hey, we're not responsible for anything that happens in there." (laughs)

Joe Rogan 1:00:57 Any diseases you might catch while you beat the shit out of each other?

Jamar Neighbors 1:01:00 Yeah, and I only did that 'cause I didn't get to do the Golden Gloves.

Joe Rogan 1:01:03 Wow. Yeah.

Jamar Neighbors 1:01:03 Remember I walked up to you and I was like, "Joe, I'm thinking about doing the Golden Gloves." You're like, "Have you ever-... fought. And I was like, "Eh, I mean, I spar every now and then." (laughs) If you like-

Joe Rogan 1:01:11 Yeah. Well, I, I knew you were in really good shape. You-

Jamar Neighbors 1:01:13 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 1:01:13 You throw, you were throwing a monkey wrench into this thing that I always disputed. There was a thing where people said you couldn't be funny if you were in great shape.

Jamar Neighbors 1:01:21 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 1:01:22 'Cause you would go on stage jacked with this full six pack-

Jamar Neighbors 1:01:25 I still do that shit. (laughs)

Joe Rogan 1:01:25 ... and killing it. Shirt off. And I was like, "It's possible. Look how funny Jamar is and he's up there with no shirt on and he's shredded."

Jamar Neighbors 1:01:32 You fucking, uh, well, yeah, yeah, yeah. I, uh, people think I do that shit just to show off my body and I swear to God I'm up there, I do it 'cause I think that shit is funny. Like-

Joe Rogan 1:01:41 It's kinda ridiculous.

Jamar Neighbors 1:01:42 Like, (laughs) it's like-

Joe Rogan 1:01:42 Yeah. I mean, just like the mohawk.

Jamar Neighbors 1:01:44 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Joe Rogan 1:01:44 You know? That's not even really yours.

Jamar Neighbors 1:01:46 Hell no it's not, man.

Joe Rogan 1:01:46 That shit's glued to his head.

Jamar Neighbors 1:01:48 Hey, Steve Harvey-

Joe Rogan 1:01:48 And you know this.

Jamar Neighbors 1:01:49 Steve Harvey did it for years. I could do it, like (laughs) .

Joe Rogan 1:01:51 (laughs)

Jamar Neighbors 1:01:51 I can do my little mohawk. (laughs) I mean...

Joe Rogan 1:01:55 I don't know why he did it, he's got a great head.

Jamar Neighbors 1:01:57 Yeah, but back then, uh, d-

Joe Rogan 1:01:59 Back then you couldn't be bald.

Jamar Neighbors 1:02:00 Yeah. (laughs)

Joe Rogan 1:02:01 Yeah.

Jamar Neighbors 1:02:01 That shit was too perfect. We ain't, we in the hood, we used to debate that shit. Like, "That is really it. How's it so perfect, then?"

Joe Rogan 1:02:07 It's perfect.

Jamar Neighbors 1:02:07 "People can have a perfect hairline, bro."

Joe Rogan 1:02:09 Some people can have a perfect hairline, it's just not a lot of people.

Jamar Neighbors 1:02:12 That shit, that shit looked like a microphone. He was destined to be a comic.

Joe Rogan 1:02:15 Listen, they did it right, they did a good job on it.

Jamar Neighbors 1:02:18 Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Joe Rogan 1:02:20 Steve Harvey wear a wig? That's que- (laughs)

Jamar Neighbors 1:02:23 And his shit was fucking... His shit was perfect.

Joe Rogan 1:02:24 The question-

Jamar Neighbors 1:02:24 His lineup, i- oh, God, it was great.

Joe Rogan 1:02:27 Well, you know, some dudes can pull it off. Yeah, that is a perfect line.

Jamar Neighbors 1:02:31 It's p- like, it's perfect.

Joe Rogan 1:02:33 God, this must get sweaty as fuck in there when you're on stage.

Jamar Neighbors 1:02:36 Uh.

Joe Rogan 1:02:37 You know?

Jamar Neighbors 1:02:38 But, yeah.

Joe Rogan 1:02:38 Killing it for an hour, sweating with this wig on top of your head.

Jamar Neighbors 1:02:42 And I be playing with this shit like it's my real hair and shit, too. Like, I be like, "Oh, can I..." (laughs)

Joe Rogan 1:02:47 How do you glue that thing on your head?

Jamar Neighbors 1:02:49 Uh, it's double-sided wig tape.

Joe Rogan 1:02:51 (laughs)

Jamar Neighbors 1:02:52 I bought this from a costume store 'cause I, um... I did a, uh... It's so fucked up how I started doing it. I, um, I was doing like this little, I was doing like this one-man show and I was like, and I had like these four different characters. And I was up there, "Okay, that guy..." I was r- I was like looking at the characters, I was like, "Okay, that guy's fine. That guy's fine." I just go, "This guy needs a wig."

Joe Rogan 1:03:12 (laughs)

Jamar Neighbors 1:03:13 And I was like (laughs) , I was like, "Yeah, this guy needs a wig." So I went to the costume store and I was try, I tried on a jheri curl wig and I was like, "Nah, man." I was like, "Something a little more..." And then I put