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Joe Rogan Experience #1695 - Andrew Schulz

Andrew Schulz is a standup comedian, actor, and co-host of the "Brilliant Idiots" and "Flagrant 2" podcasts.

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  1. 0:002:54

    Texas reunion, choke attempts, and why jiu-jitsu is addictive

    1. NA

      (drumming music plays) Joe Rogan podcast, check it out!

    2. The Joe Rogan Experience.

    3. JR

      Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day. (rock music plays) And, hello Andrew.

    4. AS

      Hello, Joe.

    5. JR

      Welcome to Texas.

    6. AS

      Aw, thank you so much.

    7. JR

      It was good running into you last night. It was funny.

    8. AS

      Ah, it was so much fun. Last night was great.

    9. JR

      It was, right?

    10. AS

      I choked you out, dude.

    11. JR

      How about that spot?

    12. AS

      Did-

    13. JR

      That golden tiger spot?

    14. AS

      Like, can we talk about me choking you out? Can we talk about my-

    15. JR

      You tried a couple of times. It was interesting.

    16. AS

      Yeah.

    17. JR

      You got a hold of my neck.

    18. AS

      But did you think I had power? Did you think I had like real choke power?

    19. JR

      Uh, you could develop it.

    20. AS

      (laughs)

    21. JR

      I think you can develop some real choke power.

    22. AS

      Oh, I got a shot immediately, dude. We're 30 seconds in.

    23. JR

      (laughs)

    24. AS

      I just got trashed immediately.

    25. JR

      You've got a good build for jiu-jitsu. You're a tall guy.

    26. AS

      Uh-huh.

    27. JR

      You got long limbs.

    28. AS

      Okay.

    29. JR

      That's really good for jiu-jitsu.

    30. AS

      Okay. Nah.

  2. 2:547:47

    Olympic karate controversy: knockouts, point fighting, and kata ‘dancing’ medals

    1. JR

      Did you see that karate in the Olympics?

    2. AS

      I co- I was about to bring it up. It was unbelievable.

    3. NA

      Yeah.

    4. JR

      The guy loses-

    5. AS

      It was unbelievable.

    6. NA

      You can ask him.

    7. JR

      ... by not... He wins-

    8. AS

      How do you feel proud?

    9. JR

      ... but he loses.

    10. AS

      He... How don't you feel proud? You get knocked out-

    11. JR

      Yeah.

    12. AS

      ... in the gold medal matchup, and you win the gold, and the other guy is disqualified?

    13. JR

      He's disqualified for hitting you too hard.

    14. AS

      Hitting you too hard. (laughs)

    15. JR

      (laughs)

    16. AS

      And he, and here's the thing that was fucked up.

    17. JR

      How dumb.

    18. AS

      It's like, it's not like he was standing there. He kinda leaned in to the kick.

    19. JR

      Yeah, yeah.

    20. AS

      Like, he bent over and the dude caught him, so it's kind of on you a little bit too.

    21. JR

      Yeah.

    22. AS

      Let's watch it.

    23. NA

      Yeah.

    24. JR

      Let's watch it because it's so dumb. And, uh, I didn't... A friend of mine sent that to me and, uh-

    25. AS

      Look at this.

    26. JR

      (clears throat) Here it is.

    27. AS

      Look at this. Look, he-

    28. JR

      He leans back, yeah.

    29. AS

      ... he bends over.

    30. JR

      Yeah.

  3. 7:4710:39

    Birthday gifts, Austin weirdness, and the ‘New York is doomed’ debate

    1. AS

      Uh, happy birthday. Jamie reminded me it was your birthday.

    2. JR

      Thank you. Thank you very much.

    3. AS

      I have a, I have a present for you.

    4. JR

      Oh, do you really?

    5. AS

      Yeah, yeah. I was waiting-

    6. JR

      Oh, okay.

    7. AS

      ... until the start to give it to you.

    8. JR

      Oh.

    9. AS

      Okay? Here's my present for you.

    10. JR

      Ooh.

    11. AS

      This is-

    12. JR

      Ooh.

    13. AS

      This is, this is a gift.

    14. JR

      Is it your shirt?

    15. NA

      (laughs)

    16. JR

      (laughs)

    17. AS

      No, this is for you. This is not mine at all.

    18. JR

      I mean, the shirt looks good. Do you want it?

    19. AS

      This is for you. Shouts to Pound 4 Pound for making it.

    20. NA

      Bohemia and Grove?

    21. JR

      (laughs)

    22. AS

      Shouts for Pound 4 Pound for making it for us. (laughs)

    23. NA

      (laughs)

    24. JR

      1999 Bohemia and Grove. It was amazing.

    25. AS

      It was a great year. It was a great year for the Grove, 1999.

    26. JR

      Look at the quality of this shirt. It's heavy.

    27. AS

      There we go. Pound 4 Pound is good stuff.

    28. JR

      I haven't seen that man.

    29. AS

      But I figured you would like this. Happy birthday.

    30. JR

      Look how heavy that shirt is, and also it's wet.

  4. 10:3918:54

    Cuomo scandal satire and ‘I’m Italian’ as a defense

    1. NA

      Did you see Kyle Dunnigan's take on it?

    2. AS

      No, what did he do?

    3. NA

      Oh, my God. Kyle Dunnigan-

    4. AS

      He's got great stuff. Shouts to Kyle, man. He's got great-

    5. NA

      Shout out to Kyle Dunnigan and, uh, Kurt Metzger, yeah.

    6. AS

      And Kurt too. Yeah.

    7. NA

      Yeah, yeah.

    8. JR

      Kurt, they're being killed.

    9. NA

      I'm having them both come on together.

    10. AS

      Oh, God bless 'em.

    11. NA

      They, they have one of the best shows that's ever existed.

    12. JR

      Yeah.

    13. NA

      First of all, they're doing, they're doing that Biden sitcom.

    14. JR

      Okay.

    15. NA

      Have you seen that?

    16. JR

      No, no. I haven't seen that.

    17. NA

      The Fresh Pres?

    18. JR

      No, no.

    19. NA

      Oh, my God. It's fucking amazing-

    20. JR

      Uh...

    21. NA

      ... 'cause it's all face swaps.

    22. JR

      Yeah, yeah, yeah.

    23. NA

      So it's got Biden and the face swaps.

    24. JR

      Yeah.

    25. NA

      And now he's got- (laughs)

    26. JR

      Oh, love it.

    27. NA

      ... it's Biden with Ben Shapiro on his left. (laughs)

    28. JR

      Oh, Ben. On look at AOC.

    29. NA

      He's doing AOC. Yeah, it's fucking amazing. But-

    30. JR

      Yeah.

  5. 18:5421:57

    Biden sniffing clips, cognitive decline, and power corrupting in politics

    1. AS

      That's fine. And I don't think it's ... And I think that's a lot of like the Biden thing, like you know like the Biden sniffing kid shit.

    2. JR

      Hmm. I don't like that.

    3. AS

      Bro, it's ... You wouldn't let him sniff your kid?

    4. JR

      That sniffing kid thing bo- that bothers me.

    5. AS

      I'd let him sniff my kids, bro.

    6. JR

      Really?

    7. AS

      100%.

    8. JR

      'Cause you don't have any kids. Once you have kids, you're like, "Why are you sniffing my kid?" Your, your father instincts would kick in.

    9. AS

      (sighs) Let me think.

    10. JR

      Plus I, I don't think you'd remember if it's a kid or not. I think you'd be confused.

    11. AS

      Just in the moment he's like, "This is a full-"

    12. JR

      Maybe think it's like a smaller person.

    13. AS

      That's it. Yeah. Ah, just sniffing midgets.

    14. JR

      A smaller adult. (laughs)

    15. AS

      Dude, that's, that's one of my favorite pastimes, dude. I'm a midget sniffer, dude. Uh, if I see a midget, I gotta smell them, dude. They smell so delicious.

    16. JR

      (sighs)

    17. AS

      I just don't think like ... I think that thing is, is way bigger a deal than it needs to be.

    18. JR

      The sniffing?

    19. AS

      Yeah. Like the cognitive ability is the thing that scares me, not sniffing kids.

    20. JR

      Right.

    21. AS

      Just keep the kids away from him.

    22. JR

      I think the sniffing kids in public is part of the cognitive decline. Like he doesn't recognize that people don't like that.

    23. AS

      But you don't think-

    24. JR

      Look at him.

    25. AS

      ... it's just him being 200? Look at him.

    26. JR

      Look at all these kids he's sniffing.

    27. AS

      Oh, that one on the side is fucked up at the bottom right.

    28. JR

      All of them are fucked up.

    29. AS

      I mean, it looks like he's like pulling ... Yeah.

    30. JR

      They're all fucked up.

  6. 21:5728:36

    Epstein aftermath: blackmail theory, Ghislaine’s role, and why people stop caring

    1. AS

      Yeah. I don't know. I just feel like people stop caring. Like it's weird. Like we only have like a certain tolerance for caring.

    2. JR

      Right.

    3. AS

      Like we really cared about the Epstein shit for a minute. Everybody was wearing T-shirts and hashtag this and that. Epstein isn't dead or whatever.

    4. JR

      Right. He didn't hang himself.

    5. AS

      He didn't hang hisself. Yeah. And like now we're like, "Okay." It's like the UFO thing. Like we were really all about it, and then the government was like, "Yeah, there might be some." And then we're like, "Okay. Give us what we need."

    6. JR

      It's actually pretty dangerous if you think about the fact that you got this guy who is a, a key witness in one of the most high profile sex trafficking things ever.

    7. AS

      Hmm.

    8. JR

      Like what ... If, if what he's ... What they accused him of is accurate-

    9. AS

      Yeah.

    10. JR

      ... and that he really did involve heads of state, politicians, scientists, celebrities-

    11. AS

      Yeah.

    12. JR

      ... and he brought them all to Fuck Island-

    13. AS

      Yes.

    14. JR

      ... and he's filmed them.

    15. AS

      Yes.

    16. JR

      If that's real (clears throat) if he really did have this giant fucking Rolodex of people that he could call-

    17. AS

      Hmm.

    18. JR

      ... and go, "Hey, you know, uh, I got this video."

    19. AS

      Yeah.

    20. JR

      "And uh, I don't want to release it, but-"

    21. AS

      Hmm.

    22. JR

      "... I also want $150 million."

    23. AS

      Yeah. He might need to cough that up.

    24. JR

      Who was that one guy who was the hedge fund guy that it turned out that they, they found that he had given Epstein $150 million?

    25. AS

      (sighs) Yeah. This is, uh, this is like the most recent one that came out. He's like a big, uh ... Ah, fuck. What is this guy's name?

    26. JR

      (clears throat)

    27. NA

      Leon Black.

    28. JR

      The super rich cat.

    29. NA

      And this guy is also in the news today.

    30. JR

      He's in the news today?

  7. 28:3637:18

    Comedy audiences, ‘woke’ pushback, and how to build jokes for hostile rooms

    1. AS

      I guess I'm so just like-

    2. JR

      Over it?

    3. AS

      I'm just out of the, I'm out of the loop, you know? Like, like it's, it's ... I don't know. It's weird. It's like one of these things, I remember I, when we moved back to New York, you know, I started doing shows again and it was like for the first time and like ... It was the first time in like four months that like I did shows for a crowd that like kind of groaned and had like pushback on like ideas or words.

    4. JR

      Yeah. 'Cause you've been in Miami. (laughs)

    5. AS

      And I've been in Miami. And we've been on the road and I've been performing for my guys, right?

    6. JR

      Yeah.

    7. AS

      So it's like they understand what they're coming into. And what's so interesting is I used to be so angry at that. I'd be so angry when audiences do that. Be like, "Why are you guys being fake? Why are you lying to yourselves? You're being hypocrites. You're laughing at this part of the joke, which is way worse than this part, but just this one wet bad word makes you feel uncomfortable." And then I realized like these people would all act the exact same way as the people at my shows if they were in that environment. This is just an unfamiliar environment for them. They're at the Comedy Cellar, but they're there with their coworkers. They might not want their coworkers to know that they find trans jokes funny, or homophobic jokes funny, or racist jokes funny. You're ... There's a level of discomfort-

    8. JR

      Do you think it's unique that because they're at, with their coworkers-

    9. AS

      I think when you're-

    10. JR

      ... that's unique to New York City?

    11. AS

      I think it's like you know how you should be, and you know how you should be in public, and you also know how you are. And I think the great thing, at least that I've been able to experience, is people get to be who they are at these shows, right? So like everybody knows that everybody could get it, any race, religion, anybody. If you're trans, you're gonna get it. Everybody's getting it at the shows.

    12. JR

      Right.

    13. AS

      So everybody submits to that when they walk in. They're okay. But when you're at the random show with people that they don't even know in the lineup, you know, everybody's doing 15-minute spots, you don't know what behavior you should have. So you go in there going, "Okay, I gotta be appropriate like I'm appropriate at work."... and it's up to us to either make the jokes funny enough so that they can kind of let loose a little bit. And that is on us, I'll take that, but also create a culture at the club where the club is like, "Hey, you're allowed to laugh. It's okay to laugh. It's okay."

    14. JR

      Mm-hmm.

    15. AS

      'Cause I guarantee every one of those people, if they came to one of my shows, would just fall in line. They'd just fall right the fuck in line.

    16. JR

      Because they would be there with your fans.

    17. AS

      They'd be there for their f- and they'd see, like-

    18. JR

      And people would understand it.

    19. AS

      Exactly. They-

    20. JR

      Yeah. But that's the one good thing about having your own show, where people know what to expect.

    21. AS

      Mm-hmm.

    22. JR

      But it's also the one good thing about being in a place like The Cellar or The Store-

    23. AS

      Mm-hmm.

    24. JR

      ... where you're dealing with 15 people a night, where you can't get away with that.

    25. AS

      Yep.

    26. JR

      And so you need to-

    27. AS

      You need the balance.

    28. JR

      You need to figure out how to finesse people that might not agree with your ideas-

    29. AS

      100%

    30. JR

      ... and, uh, it allows you to, like, structure your jokes in a way where you're, you know, you make 'em more palatable with the same ideas-

  8. 37:1844:21

    Schulz’s near-drowning surfing story and BJ Penn’s wave-pool nightmare

    1. AS

      Like, I try to go on vacation with, with, with my girl and we went to, after last time I came here.

    2. NA

      Mm-hmm.

    3. AS

      We went to Hawaii.

    4. NA

      Yeah?

    5. AS

      We went to Lanai.

    6. NA

      Yeah.

    7. AS

      And, uh, I almost died, by the way.

    8. NA

      What happened?

    9. AS

      I almost drowned.

    10. NA

      What?

    11. AS

      Yeah.

    12. NA

      For real?

    13. AS

      I did drown, actually. (laughs) Yeah.

    14. NA

      What do you mean?

    15. AS

      I was surfing. Uh, yeah, that was crazy.

    16. NA

      What happened?

    17. AS

      Uh, well, the whole time I was trying to surf. I grew up surfing, right? When I was here I went to Waco, I, to surf there.

    18. NA

      Yeah.

    19. AS

      Waco is an amazing place. Um, and I was trying to organize surfing on the island of Lanai. Lanai is the one island that's, like, blocked from northern swells, so there's no surf. The one island. I didn't realize this. I'm like, "We're going to Hawaii, there's going to be surf." Right? Of course. I go to the hotel, "Can I get a surfboard?" They're like, "No, we really don't recommend. This is only for, like, experts and that kind of stuff." And I'm like, "I've been surfing my whole life, I'll be okay." So I find a way, I asked a million different people. I finally find a way, contact this guy Lanai, who's from Lanai. He's a, a guy, he's a celebrity out there in Hawaii, and, uh, good friends with BJ Penn.

    20. NA

      Oh.

    21. AS

      Yeah, who, who has one of the most horrifying stories, by the way, of getting caught in a wave pool.

    22. NA

      Yeah, I heard about that.

    23. AS

      I mean, this was ... Jesus Christ. So, uh, I finally get a surfboard. They drop it off at the hotel and the hotel's like, "Please, you shouldn't surf." And I'm like, "Ah, it's gonna be fine." They have once in a decade waves while I'm there. This never happens. It's supposedly flat the whole time in winter. Once in a decade right outside of the hotel, okay?

    24. NA

      Hmm.

    25. AS

      I don't know how to relax. Like, I, I don't know how to just sit on a thing and relax. I can't do that, right? My girl learned that about me when we went there. So I'm like, "Let me just go surf." I surf the first day, fun. Surf the second day, fun. I go one more day I'll surf and then we'll just do activities for the rest of the time. I go out there, I catch a few waves. The waves are breaking off of this point, right? So that, that means that there's reef here and there's some rocks. And the rocks, the wave wraps around the rocks and the rocks starts to break and then they go. You take off on the wave really close to the rock, okay? And, uh, if you're, what I was basically doing is watching the, the locals take off. And I was just taking off a little bit further outside than them. I'm like, "If that's where they take off, I go a little outside, I'll be okay." I went out, it was only two of us. Every day there'd be like four of us. It was like nobody surfing. It was un- unbelievable the luck that I got. It's just me and another white dude from, like, North Carolina or some shit. So I don't know exactly where the takeoff is, so I'm a little bit deeper. Big one comes in. I'm like, "Okay, I got this." I go, paddle, pop up. I fall on the takeoff, right? Not a big deal. I fall on waves all the time. I'm getting thrashed around a little bit. It's like head high waves, nothing like that crazy. But, like, I get thrashed or whatever. I try to go to the surface and I can't. Like, what the fuck is going on here, right? I didn't even really care about my breath when I first went in because I'm not intending on being down for that long. You know what I'm saying?

    26. NA

      Right.

    27. AS

      Like, it's, it's, it's just a little tumble. I just went off the wave, nothing.

    28. NA

      Right.

    29. AS

      Try to go up, I can't. Try to go up, I can't. I try to pierce the, the, the, the surface and I exhale right before.

    30. NA

      (gasps)

  9. 44:2152:28

    North Korea debate: skepticism vs documented atrocities and propaganda

    1. AS

      Heavy shit. But, yeah, I g- I guess I need to keep doing things. See? Take that, North Korean lady. That's a real story about struggle.

    2. JR

      (laughs)

    3. AS

      (laughs) Yo, yo, yo. Yo, that was the most entertaining depressing fucking podcast, bro.

    4. JR

      (laughs)

    5. AS

      Oh, my god.

    6. JR

      Damn you.

    7. AS

      Do you think it's all real?

    8. JR

      Oh, it's 100% real.

    9. AS

      'Cause I was reading some shit-

    10. JR

      Bro, she's so small, she's so small from, from lack of food. Like, she's-

    11. AS

      Not all of her, Joe.

    12. JR

      Yeah, well I think that was after the fact.

    13. AS

      Not all of her.

    14. JR

      I think that was, uh, I think a doctor was involved.

    15. AS

      You think so?

    16. JR

      Yeah.

    17. AS

      'Cause I almost shaking-

    18. JR

      But shaking her hand?

    19. AS

      ... I almost started making my girl eat rats after I saw her, dude.

    20. JR

      (laughs)

    21. AS

      I saw her talk on that podcast, all they ate is rats. I was like, "Oh, did ya?" (laughs)

    22. JR

      (laughs) It was mostly, uh, grasshoppers, I think.

    23. AS

      Grasshoppers?

    24. JR

      Yeah.

    25. AS

      Whatever, fry 'em up, dude.

    26. JR

      Yeah, yeah, I get it.

    27. AS

      (laughs)

    28. JR

      (laughs)

    29. AS

      She came outta North Korea stacked.

    30. JR

      Yeah, she's... definitely. Um, she's, uh, like 80 pounds.

  10. 52:2855:52

    Miami ‘balling,’ Europe tour ideas, and building a traveling content crew

    1. AS

      Yeah, it just fell apart in Miami, and I just started doing all this stuff.

    2. JR

      Started balling.

    3. AS

      I started balling again.

    4. JR

      See, that's what I'm saying. You look like you're- you were balling a little down there.

    5. AS

      Ah, dude, that's-

    6. JR

      I thought you were gonna stay there.

    7. AS

      ... fuck.

    8. JR

      I was hoping you were gonna stay there.

    9. AS

      You wanted me to stay?

    10. JR

      Yeah, I did.

    11. AS

      You wanted me to stay?

    12. JR

      I liked what you were doing down there, and I felt-

    13. AS

      Ah, fuck.

    14. JR

      ... like you could change the comedy scene in Miami. Like-

    15. AS

      They ... It would've been good.

    16. JR

      ... you being down there, you would've- you would've invited other degenerates to move down there too.

    17. AS

      I know. I know.

    18. JR

      And they would all move down there and start wearing these Hawaiian shirts-

    19. AS

      (laughs)

    20. JR

      ... and big straw hats. (laughs)

    21. AS

      (knocks on desk) We leaned in, huh?

    22. JR

      (laughs)

    23. AS

      Look at this asshole. How many buttons are unbuttoned? Look at it.

    24. JR

      I love it. I love it.

    25. AS

      Look at it.

    26. JR

      I love it. I love it. You know where I think, uh, I think we're gonna go? This is what I wanna do. I really liked going there. I'm curious about your take on this. So, I was thinking of, like, doing, like, a European ... Some shows in Europe, right? Mm-hmm.

    27. AS

      And obviously, if things are open or whatever, come- maybe come next summer. So, I was like, "What if we spent, like, a- a month and a half in, like, Italy, and then did the shows on the weekends, and then podcasts and stuff during the week, so it was almost like a shorter version of what we did in Miami?"

    28. JR

      You definitely could do that. Um-

    29. AS

      Be fun, right?

    30. JR

      Yeah, you could do that anywhere you ... How big is your crew? How many people do you tr- travel with?

  11. 55:521:14:27

    Australia lockdowns, variants, vaccines, monoclonals, and ‘leaky’ protection

    1. JR

      Did you see the fucking... The, the latest?

    2. AS

      The articles?

    3. JR

      People are freaking out in Australia-

    4. AS

      Ugh, it's so funny.

    5. JR

      ... because he was talking shit about Australia. (laughs)

    6. AS

      It's so funny.

    7. JR

      He's like, "They used to be in lockdown." They like it 'cause they can just get drunk in their backyard.

    8. AS

      Yeah, yeah. (laughs)

    9. JR

      And people in Australia are like-

    10. AS

      How dare he? (laughs)

    11. JR

      ... "What is he saying? How dare he?" But here's the thing, man. They've had nine deaths since, like, last October.

    12. AS

      Right.

    13. JR

      Their, their lockdowns are fucking preposterous. And that's what happens when you take guns away from people.

    14. AS

      Yeah. Wait, wait, wait. Okay.

    15. JR

      You take guns away from citizens.

    16. AS

      Okay.

    17. JR

      They took all their guns in the '90s.

    18. AS

      Yeah.

    19. JR

      Look at this. American Comedian Jokes-

    20. AS

      This is hilarious.

    21. JR

      ... "Australians love lockdowns 'cause they're lazy descendants of criminals who," (laughs) "who, who don't want to work" and "restrictions aren't that bad-"

    22. AS

      It's amazing.

    23. JR

      "...'cause they just want to get hammered in their backyards." (laughs)

    24. AS

      I love it. I love it. Every time, like, they... Every time that they take him seriously and they print it in, like, a newspaper or an article...

    25. JR

      Look at this.

    26. AS

      Yeah.

    27. JR

      "Dillon has a point, as opinion polls consistently show overwhelming support for lockdown-happy premiers like Western Australia's Mark McGowan."

    28. AS

      Mark McGowan.

    29. JR

      "Even Daniel Andrews, at the heart of Victoria's five-month outbreak last year, approved of his ultra-harsh stage four lockdown." It's fucking dumb.

    30. AS

      Yeah.

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