Joe Rogan Experience #1981 - Pauly Shore

Pauly Shore is a stand-up comic, actor, filmmaker, and musician. www.paulyshore.com

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0:00 – 1:34
Pauly’s Mothership set: being loose, silly, and riding the room
1. NANarrator
  (drum roll) Joe Rogan podcast, check it out.
2. The Joe Rogan Experience.
3. JRJoe Rogan
  Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day. (energetic music) No, you're fine, dude.
4. PSPauly Shore
  It's okay. (laughs)
5. JRJoe Rogan
  Come on, man. You don't have a tie... Burke crashes heads twice the size of yours-
6. PSPauly Shore
  Oh, my God.
7. JRJoe Rogan
  ... he wears them.
8. PSPauly Shore
  Okay.
9. JRJoe Rogan
  He can adjust it too, you poor little thing.
10. PSPauly Shore
  I feel like I'm going o- up to the mothership with these things.
11. NANarrator
  (singing)
12. JRJoe Rogan
  Dude, you fucking killed at the mo- mothership.
13. PSPauly Shore
  Oh, yeah.
14. JRJoe Rogan
  That was the funniest I've ever seen. You were so loose-
15. PSPauly Shore
  Mm.
16. JRJoe Rogan
  ... and so silly.
17. PSPauly Shore
  Mm.
18. JRJoe Rogan
  It was fun to see, man. It was... First of all, you could tell you were... you've been doing standup.
19. PSPauly Shore
  Mm.
20. JRJoe Rogan
  You looked super comfortable.
21. PSPauly Shore
  Mm.
22. JRJoe Rogan
  But you were, you were so loose.
23. PSPauly Shore
  Mm. It's, you know, it's... Standup, as you know, is a rhythm, you know? And you just kind of figure it out when you're on stage, and you never know what the fuck's gonna happen.
24. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah.
25. PSPauly Shore
  Yeah. You just, you... That night was just, um, you know, uh, David was nice enough to let me on his show. And, um, after I s- you know, put my finger under his boob sweat-
26. JRJoe Rogan
  (laughs)
27. PSPauly Shore
  ... I went like this. I like to do that a lot.
28. JRJoe Rogan
  (laughs)
29. PSPauly Shore
  And then he's got sweaty brows and I did like that, and it got me excited.
30. JRJoe Rogan
  Pheromones.
1:34 – 4:45
The building’s history: from the Ritz era to the Mothership renovation
1. JRJoe Rogan
  Well, that club was a rock and roll club.
2. PSPauly Shore
  Yeah.
3. JRJoe Rogan
  I mean, that, that... You see the picture that's, uh, in the tunnel when you m- walk onto the stage?
4. PSPauly Shore
  Yeah.
5. JRJoe Rogan
  When you see the big picture of Stevie Ray Vaughan?
6. PSPauly Shore
  Yes.
7. JRJoe Rogan
  That's him performing-
8. PSPauly Shore
  Wow.
9. JRJoe Rogan
  ... on that stage in 1983.
10. PSPauly Shore
  Yeah.
11. JRJoe Rogan
  That's where it comes from.
12. PSPauly Shore
  That's the Ala- old Alamo Drafthouse.
13. JRJoe Rogan
  It was only the Alamo Drafthouse from the two-
14. PSPauly Shore
  Ah.
15. JRJoe Rogan
  I think it was like 2007 on.
16. PSPauly Shore
  Okay.
17. JRJoe Rogan
  Before that it had been a bunch of things. It was a pool hall at one point in time.
18. PSPauly Shore
  Mm-hmm.
19. JRJoe Rogan
  It was a, a nudie movie theater at one point in time.
20. PSPauly Shore
  Yeah.
21. JRJoe Rogan
  It was a punk rock club.
22. PSPauly Shore
  Yeah.
23. JRJoe Rogan
  Like all the posters that you see that are in the green room-
24. PSPauly Shore
  Mm-hmm.
25. JRJoe Rogan
  ... that are in the... Those are all posters of people performing at the Ritz.
26. PSPauly Shore
  Mm.
27. JRJoe Rogan
  It's all like the Misfits-
28. PSPauly Shore
  Oh, so it was the Ritz before the-
29. JRJoe Rogan
  Yes.
30. PSPauly Shore
  ... before the Alamo.
4:45 – 6:57
Austin’s comedy ecosystem: reps, stage time, and phone-free rooms
1. JRJoe Rogan
  Been doing a lot of sets. And moving out to here-
2. PSPauly Shore
  Mm-hmm.
3. JRJoe Rogan
  ... it, it kind of changed everything-
4. PSPauly Shore
  Mm-hmm.
5. JRJoe Rogan
  ... because I... first of all, I realized how important the store was.
6. PSPauly Shore
  Mm.
7. JRJoe Rogan
  Like, I knew I was gonna live out here, but that, uh, having a community-
8. PSPauly Shore
  Mm.
9. JRJoe Rogan
  ... and having a place where you get to see people do sets all the time, and you w- you work with killers, like all the time... On the road, the thing is you don't really work with other people that much. You work with the two people that you bring with you or one person they bring with you, and you're not like g- in the mix-
10. PSPauly Shore
  Mm.
11. JRJoe Rogan
  ... with all the killers. And I think that that's very critical to what we do.
12. PSPauly Shore
  Well, that's what you've done out here, you know, seeing-
13. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah, that was, that was the thing to do. It was like the thing to do. It was like it w- there were so many comics that had decided to move here-
14. PSPauly Shore
  Mm.
15. JRJoe Rogan
  ... and a lot of them knew that I, uh, I tried to do it at another place and it didn't work out. And so that was like a big delay-
16. PSPauly Shore
  Mm-hmm.
17. JRJoe Rogan
  ... that, that took like an extra year.
18. PSPauly Shore
  Yeah.
19. JRJoe Rogan
  It took a long ass time.
20. PSPauly Shore
  Yeah, I mean, um, Hans, Montgomery, David Lucas, these, these... you know, working with Tony and just seeing these guys grow and now they're fucking headlining shows.
21. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah.
22. PSPauly Shore
  I mean it's fucking, it's dope.
23. JRJoe Rogan
  Derek Poston.
24. PSPauly Shore
  D- Derek-
25. JRJoe Rogan
  You've seen Derek-
26. PSPauly Shore
  ... Derrick-
27. JRJoe Rogan
  ... and Hasan Ahmad.
28. PSPauly Shore
  Yeah.
29. JRJoe Rogan
  Those guys are killing it.
30. PSPauly Shore
  Yeah.
6:57 – 10:11
Phone addiction, Pauly’s therapy work, and reframing trauma
1. JRJoe Rogan
  One of the things I've learned from doing this podcast (clears throat) is that it's really the only time during the day where I get to sit for a few hours and not look at my phone.
2. PSPauly Shore
  Mm. Yeah.
3. JRJoe Rogan
  Where I'm not- I'm always just checking my email, checking my text message, responding to text message I haven't responded to yet, trying to keep up with email.
4. PSPauly Shore
  Yeah. Yeah, I just did-
5. JRJoe Rogan
  It's like- it's-
6. PSPauly Shore
  Yeah, I-
7. JRJoe Rogan
  ... overwhelming.
8. PSPauly Shore
  Yeah, I just did a five-day pretty intense group therapy that I've been involved with since I was 19 years old, and, uh, deals with a lot of, um, trauma, different things like that. And I'm actually a- a staff that kinda help people out with the stuff they- they go through. In- in- in return, when you help people out, you get help too.
9. JRJoe Rogan
  Mm.
10. PSPauly Shore
  Like for instance, for me, um, you know, I've been doing it since I was 19. Um, and it's a five-day program, and it just helped me deal with the trauma, you know, my parents- my parents passing and, um, you know, just different things that have happened personally in my life. Because, you know, um, I know when I was on here last time, I was talking about the career and this and that, and all these different things. And, you know, a lot of those things that, you know, happen to us as people and people listening aren't who we are. It's kinda w- it's- it's circumst- things that have happened to us that we become angry or become sad, or we become depressed. But it's not who we are, because who we are are- are we start off with i- as innocent babies. You know, we go into the world and all these fucked up things kind of happen to us. And, you know, the- the- the stuff with my family and the store and my mom, you know, I- I'm not just a whatever guy. I'm not Donald Trump. You know what I mean? Even though probably underneath it, he's probably fucked up. But I don't ha-
11. JRJoe Rogan
  (laughs)
12. PSPauly Shore
  But, you know, but as far as being-
13. JRJoe Rogan
  You're the turtle shell. Yeah.
14. PSPauly Shore
  Yeah.
15. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah.
16. PSPauly Shore
  I have this emotion, I got that from my mom and my dad. Um, and, um, and it's hard.
17. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah.
18. PSPauly Shore
  You know what I mean? It's hard. Um, but so I'm- I'm- I'm- I feel pretty good, and, um, man, it's- it's difficult. But, you know, I wanna look- I wanna look into the future my next 30 years, and I just wanna try to be joyful. And, you know, and- and m- my thing is ha- half full. You know, a lot of us in life, we always look at other people, and we're always like going, you know, oh, like I can look at Adam Sandler. I can look at all these guys that are just, you know... Or I can, you know, look at the fact of what I have.
19. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah.
20. PSPauly Shore
  You know?
21. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah.
22. PSPauly Shore
  And- and it's- and- and I'm not the only one. I think everyone should, you know, think about that, because especially like you said, with social media, everyone compares themself, how many people are watching-
23. JRJoe Rogan
  Right.
24. PSPauly Shore
  ... how many people like us and all that shit. And it's just-
25. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah, that's so fucked up for kids, 'cause they're- they're just constantly comparing each other's likes and, you know, who, you know, who's got more followers, and they're all competing against each other. Then you- then- then you hear about these kids-
26. PSPauly Shore
  Mm.
27. JRJoe Rogan
  ... that are like YouTube stars, that are 14, 15 years old.
28. PSPauly Shore
  Mm-hmm.
29. JRJoe Rogan
  And they've got millions of followers. Like what's the youngest YouTube star that has like a giant following? Those kids are essentially getting like-
30. PSPauly Shore
  In a TikTok.
10:11 – 15:15
Booking the show, podcast origins, and interviewing as a craft
1. PSPauly Shore
  Yeah. But what about- what about you? I mean, you're- you're- you've really like, I mean, you've, I mean, you know, I've seen it. Everyone has seen it. You've just really... I mean, you've- how do people- how do people get to you? It's difficult, right?
2. JRJoe Rogan
  (laughs)
3. PSPauly Shore
  No, but you know what I'm saying?
4. NANarrator
  Yeah, yeah.
5. PSPauly Shore
  Like how do you... Like for instance, like you don't have a booker on this show.
6. JRJoe Rogan
  Well, I do. But- but-
7. PSPauly Shore
  Oh, you do?
8. JRJoe Rogan
  ... I don't, like, I choose.
9. PSPauly Shore
  Yeah, you're the booker, right?
10. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah. But it's not like someone like picks the line up-
11. PSPauly Shore
  Yeah.
12. JRJoe Rogan
  ... and then I go over it with them. No.
13. PSPauly Shore
  So like for instance, like Nicolas Cage is my next-door neighbor in Las Vegas. Like he's a friend. I've known him for many years. Like how would he get to you if he wanted to be on the show?
14. JRJoe Rogan
  Oh, love to have him on. I love that guy.
15. PSPauly Shore
  Yeah.
16. JRJoe Rogan
  He's awesome.
17. PSPauly Shore
  He's like-
18. JRJoe Rogan
  I saw a video they did about his house in Vegas with this lady.
19. PSPauly Shore
  Oh yeah, 60 Minutes, right?
20. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah, yeah.
21. PSPauly Shore
  Yeah.
22. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah, yeah. He's awesome. I love that guy. I met him once a long time ago at a boxing gym.
23. PSPauly Shore
  Yeah.
24. JRJoe Rogan
  He was there with his son.
25. PSPauly Shore
  Yeah.
26. JRJoe Rogan
  His son was taking lessons at this, uh, boxing gym-
27. PSPauly Shore
  Right.
28. JRJoe Rogan
  ... that I used to work out in Hollywood.
29. PSPauly Shore
  Yeah.
30. JRJoe Rogan
  Super nice guy.
15:15 – 17:23
Politics and cities: ‘not red,’ ideology backlash, and the LA homeless crisis
1. PSPauly Shore
  Yeah, and then as far as, um, as far as living out here now, um, being in, um, in Austin. Austin is very... I don't wanna s- use the word liberal, but there's a lot of hipsters and people with skinny jeans.
2. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah.
3. PSPauly Shore
  And that stuff.
4. JRJoe Rogan
  It's a-
5. PSPauly Shore
  Is it weird being... 'Cause I don't wanna say you're red or you're not red 'cause I don't fucking know.
6. JRJoe Rogan
  (laughs)
7. PSPauly Shore
  Most people think you're red.
8. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah.
9. PSPauly Shore
  Is it like you're, you're r- wait. You're red living in a blue city in a red state.
10. JRJoe Rogan
  Th- that is, uh, this is a blue city.
11. PSPauly Shore
  Incorrect.
12. JRJoe Rogan
  But I'm not really red.
13. PSPauly Shore
  That's what I don't think either.
14. JRJoe Rogan
  I'm just... No, no.
15. PSPauly Shore
  Yeah.
16. JRJoe Rogan
  I've, I've never voted Republican in my life.
17. PSPauly Shore
  Right.
18. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah, I think that the both systems suck, and I think, um, that what, what I'm pushing back against is the crazy ideologies. It has nothing to do with universal basic income. It has nothing to do with welfare. It has nothing to do with, um, funding community programs and cleaning up cities. Like, I'm all for all that stuff. I'm even for higher taxes if I believe the government was competent with your money.
19. PSPauly Shore
  Hmm.
20. JRJoe Rogan
  And it's not... I'm not.
21. PSPauly Shore
  Yeah.
22. JRJoe Rogan
  Like, uh, higher... If, if, if it's higher taxes and it, and it proves that we have less crime and the world's a safer place, that would be great. But that doesn't seem like they know how to do that. It doe-... What it seems like when you give a lot of money to the government, they create a lot of government jobs, and those government jobs make those people a lot of money. When we looked into the, the homeless sis- uh, situation in LA.
23. PSPauly Shore
  Hmm.
24. JRJoe Rogan
  And it's... My, my friend, Kolian Noir told me about this because he's a lawyer, and he went to San Francisco. When he was in San Francisco, he was talking to someone. He's like, "Why haven't they fixed the homeless thing? Is it, like, a funding issue?" And the guy was like, "No, it's the opposite."
25. PSPauly Shore
  Yeah.
26. JRJoe Rogan
  "They make so much money." The people that are m- w- in charge of dealing with the homeless situation, some of them are making more than $200,000 a year.
27. PSPauly Shore
  Hmm.
28. JRJoe Rogan
  Like, $240,000 a year, and the homeless thing just keeps getting worse.
29. PSPauly Shore
  So what do you... What do you think it is?
30. JRJoe Rogan
  It's a-
17:23 – 23:30
Solutions: mental health institutions, AA analogies, and psychedelic therapy (ibogaine)
1. JRJoe Rogan
  You know, it all started during, during the Reagan administration-
2. PSPauly Shore
  Hmm.
3. JRJoe Rogan
  ... I believe. Check if this is true. I think during the Reagan administration, they changed what, like, they can do in terms of, like, mental health institutes. They decided to, like, let people out.
4. PSPauly Shore
  Hmm.
5. JRJoe Rogan
  Instead of... Like, there's certain people that just... They have to be cared for, you know?
6. PSPauly Shore
  Yeah.
7. JRJoe Rogan
  They're so compromised that in a, a, a good, just society-
8. PSPauly Shore
  Yeah.
9. JRJoe Rogan
  ... you would care for those people, and there would be a dedicated place, just like there's a dedicated piece- place for people who have bad knees.
10. PSPauly Shore
  Hmm.
11. JRJoe Rogan
  You go and you get surgery.
12. PSPauly Shore
  Hmm.
13. JRJoe Rogan
  You know, they don't go, "F- fucking walk it off, pussy."
14. PSPauly Shore
  Yeah.
15. JRJoe Rogan
  "Hobble around."
16. PSPauly Shore
  Yeah.
17. JRJoe Rogan
  No, they, they have a place that's dedicated.
18. PSPauly Shore
  Yeah. No, it's similar to AA, right?
19. JRJoe Rogan
  Hmm.
20. PSPauly Shore
  I mean, AA is pretty much a, a place, you know, for... We all have friends that are in AA.
21. JRJoe Rogan
  Mm-hmm.
22. PSPauly Shore
  And they go there, and they ha- they have... What is it, the 10-step rules? Uh-
23. JRJoe Rogan
  12. Yeah, 12 steps.
24. PSPauly Shore
  Or 12 steps how... What not-
25. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah.
26. PSPauly Shore
  ... to do when you physically walk in a bar.
27. JRJoe Rogan
  So here it is. 1981, President Ronald Reagan, who had made major efforts during his governorship, governorship to reduce funding and en- enlistment for California mental institutions.... pushed a political effort through the US Congress to repeal most of MHSA. The MHSA was considered landmark legislation in mental health care policy. So, I think what happened was when that MHSA Act got passed in 1980, what, what happened was they just started letting people out in the streets.
28. PSPauly Shore
  Mm.
29. JRJoe Rogan
  When I was a boy, I remember-
30. PSPauly Shore
  Mm.
23:30 – 26:55
Mitzi Shore’s Parkinson’s, stem cells, and ‘medical tourism’ stories
1. PSPauly Shore
  Yeah. My mom, um, when she started to get sick with, uh, Parkinson's, we took her to, uh, to, um... It was at the Bahamas and she got, uh, fetal cells injected in her. Uh-
2. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah.
3. PSPauly Shore
  And that was something that she was, um, you know, she was, uh, very sh- she believed very strongly that, you know, putting ba- she was like, "Put some baby cells in me."
4. JRJoe Rogan
  (laughs)
5. PSPauly Shore
  (laughs) You know, "Put s- put some fetu-" Dude, it was fucking insane.
6. JRJoe Rogan
  Ugh.
7. PSPauly Shore
  It was like me and Bob Wheeler, The Comedy Store, uh, accountant over there, we flew down to the Bahamas 'cause you couldn't do it here.
8. JRJoe Rogan
  Where did they get the baby tissue?
9. PSPauly Shore
  I don't know, dude. It was... We, but we... I remember it like it was yesterday. So we drove in a... You know, the, the, the doctor and my mom paid like 20 grand or 10 or 15, whatever it was.
10. JRJoe Rogan
  Right.
11. PSPauly Shore
  And they... You know, within that y- the package deal is, is the, the, the flight, the hotel, and then the baby fetuses.
12. JRJoe Rogan
  (laughs)
13. PSPauly Shore
  So, um, we went down there-
14. JRJoe Rogan
  Oh, my God.
15. PSPauly Shore
  ... and, um, and a car picked us up. It had a sign, Mitzi Shore. And, uh, and, and w- we went in there and we went, and then we drove her the next morning, and we put her in a room with a doctor, and they injected her with fetal cells. But I personally... 'cause she had Parkinson's for a while. I personally think it actually helped her. You know, I think it prolonged... You know, because if you put the, the, the, the, um, the baby cells in there, they're obviously baby cells.
16. JRJoe Rogan
  (laughs)
17. PSPauly Shore
  Sh- Why is that so funny? You don't-
18. JRJoe Rogan
  It's just so fucked up to think of. But that, uh, uh...
19. PSPauly Shore
  She did it a couple times.
20. JRJoe Rogan
  They, there has... They've been shown with stem cells, just, uh, all kinds of stem cells, that, um, there's-
21. PSPauly Shore
  Put the baby in me. What are you doing? Put it... Stop fucking around.
22. JRJoe Rogan
  Is that what she said?
23. PSPauly Shore
  Put it in me. Let's go.
24. JRJoe Rogan
  (laughs)
25. PSPauly Shore
  You know what I mean?
26. JRJoe Rogan
  That's such your mom.
27. PSPauly Shore
  It's so funny.
28. JRJoe Rogan
  Oh, your mom was the best.
29. PSPauly Shore
  Yeah.
30. JRJoe Rogan
  I tell everybody that your mom was the number one-
26:55 – 32:49
Urology detour: Rezūm procedure, catheters, and bodily comedy
1. PSPauly Shore
  You know what I did have? I did have a, uh, bladder surgery.
2. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah?
3. PSPauly Shore
  Yeah, I did.
4. JRJoe Rogan
  What happened to your bladder?
5. PSPauly Shore
  I was just peeing a lot.
6. JRJoe Rogan
  Was it leaky or something?
7. PSPauly Shore
  No, it wasn't leaky. What happened was, I would go pee at night, and then my bladder wouldn't, um, it wouldn't empty.
8. JRJoe Rogan
  Hmm.
9. PSPauly Shore
  So I'd go pee, and then I lied back down. I'm like, "Fuck, I still have more pee." And I would do that four or five times in the middle of the night. And then I finally went, um, I went and got a, uh, um... I went to my doctor, and he sent me up with a urologist in the, uh, at Cedars, and he was this gay dude. And imagine that, a gay urologist, and this isn't a joke. This is real. And, um, he's like, "Let me see your dick."
10. JRJoe Rogan
  (laughs)
11. PSPauly Shore
  I'm like, "Dude, that's not fucking cool." "Come on, let me see it!"
12. JRJoe Rogan
  (laughs)
13. PSPauly Shore
  The fuck?
14. JRJoe Rogan
  (laughs)
15. PSPauly Shore
  And so I showed him my dick. He's like, "Ooh."
16. JRJoe Rogan
  (laughs)
17. PSPauly Shore
  I'm like, "What the fuck?" No.
18. JRJoe Rogan
  (laughs)
19. PSPauly Shore
  So, so I did a, uh, a, a procedure called Rezum. So, if you don't believe me, uh, it's... You can-
20. JRJoe Rogan
  Why would I not believe you?
21. PSPauly Shore
  Well, I'm just saying-
22. JRJoe Rogan
  (laughs)
23. PSPauly Shore
  ... 'cause it doesn't sound-
24. JRJoe Rogan
  Doesn't sound real.
25. PSPauly Shore
  Doesn't sound real.
26. JRJoe Rogan
  ... like you met an alien. (laughs)
27. PSPauly Shore
  It doesn't... (laughs) But it's Rezum. I said, I said, I go, "What does this do?" He goes, "Well, once you do the procedure, then you resume how you used to pee before you had a pee problem." So, uh, you wake up in the m- Uh, they, they steam your prostate, and-
28. JRJoe Rogan
  Steam it.
29. PSPauly Shore
  They steam it. Yeah.
30. JRJoe Rogan
  Press it.
32:49 – 40:23
Building a comedy capital: club ownership, operations, and dialing in the rooms
1. JRJoe Rogan
  Thank you. Well, that was the whole ... I mean, it worked out better than I thought it could.
2. PSPauly Shore
  It's-
3. JRJoe Rogan
  But that was kind of the idea.
4. PSPauly Shore
  And I think it was kinda cool that ... I mean, not kinda cool, but I think just ... Obviously everything is up to the sky, upstairs, but I think the two year kind of building up to it got your guys better, got everyone better working at the Vulcan.
5. JRJoe Rogan
  Mm-hmm.
6. PSPauly Shore
  And, and working around town, and you know, it was this-
7. JRJoe Rogan
  For sure.
8. PSPauly Shore
  It was this pimple that everyone's developing and developing and then finally, boom, the Mothership came, and then, boom, everyone's like, boom, and now it's just ba-ba-ba-ba-boom.
9. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah.
10. PSPauly Shore
  And it's this thing, yeah.
11. JRJoe Rogan
  Well, and also that everybody had kinda shared my sentiments about getting out, like Tom Segura-
12. PSPauly Shore
  Mm-hmm.
13. JRJoe Rogan
  ... was one of the first. Tony Hinchcliffe was one of the first.
14. PSPauly Shore
  Mm-hmm.
15. JRJoe Rogan
  I think Tony came out first. Ron White was actually already here before the pandemic and it was also one of the reasons why I loved it 'cause he was always telling me, he's like, "It's the best fucking city."
16. PSPauly Shore
  Mm.
17. JRJoe Rogan
  "You ain't gotta deal with all the bullshit you deal with in Hollywood."
18. PSPauly Shore
  Mm-hmm.
19. JRJoe Rogan
  And, you know, he would always talk so great about this town.
20. PSPauly Shore
  Well, I think what you're doing for comedy is great. I mean, you're creating a, this emerald city for New York and LA and, and people to come out here, and, and you got all these stages, and it's great. And then also, uh, Red Band started a club too.
21. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah, right down the street.
22. PSPauly Shore
  That's cool.
23. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah. Well-
24. PSPauly Shore
  Yeah.
25. JRJoe Rogan
  ... it was this club that already exists-
26. PSPauly Shore
  Mm-hmm.
27. JRJoe Rogan
  ... and he, he bought into it as an investor and, um, they're, um ... They have a really nice room that's like ... I think it's like 500 seats right down the street.
28. PSPauly Shore
  Yeah. And I think it's great because I remember coming back, um, coming to Austin in the '90s when I was touring and, and everyone remembers Austin 6th Street music.
29. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah.
30. PSPauly Shore
  Austin 6th Street music, and now it's slowly starting to be comedy is the first thing and then music is the second thing, and it's great. I think, you know, I think-
40:23 – 1:13:23
Comedy Store origin stories: Kinison, Westwood chaos, and Pauly’s upbringing
1. JRJoe Rogan
  Dude, you, you're, you got babysitted (laughs) by Sam Kinison. It's one of the funniest stories of all time. (laughs) Like, what a crazy thing your mom did.
2. PSPauly Shore
  It was, yeah.
3. JRJoe Rogan
  She left you as a little child as one of the most maniacal comedians that's ever existed. (laughs)
4. PSPauly Shore
  Well, it wasn't, it wasn't exactly like that. It was more-
5. JRJoe Rogan
  What was it like?
6. PSPauly Shore
  Well, it was more like Sam was... I was 14 years old. I was a short order cook at The Comedy Store in Westwood. My mom would put Sam on last 'cause all he would do is scream and then he would literally... You know, there'd be six people left in the room in Westwood and he'd throw the stools, he'd throw the... his stool at the audience members, they'd scamper off, he'd smoke weed in the parking lot, and then he would, um... You know, I'd feed him hamburgers. So I kind of just... I was always taking care of comedians. And-
7. JRJoe Rogan
  What year was this?
8. PSPauly Shore
  This was, uh, probably '84, eightif- '84, '85. I was in high school. Yeah.
9. JRJoe Rogan
  So he really hit in '86.
10. PSPauly Shore
  Yes.
11. JRJoe Rogan
  That's when he really hit.
12. PSPauly Shore
  Yeah. Yeah. So-
13. JRJoe Rogan
  Did, did I ever tell you my story how I found out about him?
14. PSPauly Shore
  It's probably Boston with Parenteau or something.
15. JRJoe Rogan
  No. A girl that I worked with at the Boston Athletic Club.
16. PSPauly Shore
  Mm-hmm.
17. JRJoe Rogan
  Gosh, g- still to this day I can't remember her fucking name. She was really cool though. She was this big volleyball player girl. Like, just-
18. PSPauly Shore
  Mm-hmm.
19. JRJoe Rogan
  ... big athletic girl. And, uh, s- she goes to me, she goes, "Have you seen Sam Kinisman? Sam Kinison?" Whatever his name was. Um, I go, "No, I haven't." And so she acts out in the parking lot-
20. PSPauly Shore
  Oh, wow.
21. JRJoe Rogan
  ... the whole bit about him, uh, like-
22. PSPauly Shore
  Ethiopia or something.
23. JRJoe Rogan
  No, no, no. The, the, uh-
24. PSPauly Shore
  Homosexual necrophilia.
25. JRJoe Rogan
  Homosexual necrophiliacs-
26. PSPauly Shore
  Yeah. Oh, God. Oh, oh, God.
27. JRJoe Rogan
  ... having sex with him. Yeah.
28. PSPauly Shore
  Yeah, yeah.
29. JRJoe Rogan
  She acted it out-
30. PSPauly Shore
  Right.