Joe Rogan Experience #1984 - Brian Redban

Brian Redban is a stand-up comic, producer, co-host of the podcast and live-streaming YouTube show "Kill Tony," founder of the Deathsquad podcast network, and a co-owner of the Sunset Strip Comedy Club in Austin. www.deathsquad.tv www.sunsetstripatx.com

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0:00 – 0:37
Spacesuits, sweating, and becoming unexpected comedy club owners
1. BRBrian Redban
  (drumbeats) Joe Rogan podcast, check it out.
2. NANarrator
  The Joe Rogan Experience.
3. JRJoe Rogan
  Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day.
4. BRBrian Redban
  (instrumental music) Hello, Joe.
5. JRJoe Rogan
  Hello, Joe. What's going on?
6. BRBrian Redban
  How you doing?
7. JRJoe Rogan
  I'm good.
8. BRBrian Redban
  You have a nice sh- nice spacesuit.
9. JRJoe Rogan
  You have a nice spacesuit as well. (laughs)
10. BRBrian Redban
  (laughs) Whoa, cool.
11. JRJoe Rogan
  Why'd you choose blue?
12. BRBrian Redban
  I don't know.
13. JRJoe Rogan
  The silver one's a little intense.
14. BRBrian Redban
  Yeah, it, it's a sweat box.
15. JRJoe Rogan
  It's weird how warm they get.
16. BRBrian Redban
  Yeah.
17. JRJoe Rogan
  It's like one of them, um, emergency blankets. You ever seen them? Those little thin, silver ones?
18. BRBrian Redban
  Yeah. (laughs)
19. JRJoe Rogan
  Like, how can that help you?
20. BRBrian Redban
  Yeah.
21. JRJoe Rogan
  But I guess it does somehow. Maintains heat?
22. BRBrian Redban
  Mm-hmm.
23. JRJoe Rogan
  Hmm.
24. BRBrian Redban
  Hmm.
0:37 – 2:06
Austin’s comedy ecosystem: multiple rooms, multiple clubs, one street
1. JRJoe Rogan
  So what is it like being a club owner?
2. BRBrian Redban
  What's it like to be a club owner f-
3. JRJoe Rogan
  (laughs)
4. BRBrian Redban
  ... to you, sir? (laughs)
5. JRJoe Rogan
  It's weird. Who would have ever thought?
6. BRBrian Redban
  I know, that makes no sense.
7. JRJoe Rogan
  When we started doing this podcast, that one day we'd both be club owners. (laughs)
8. BRBrian Redban
  Right next door to each other. (laughs)
9. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah. That's what's hilarious.
10. BRBrian Redban
  (laughs) Yeah.
11. JRJoe Rogan
  And people are like, "Do you, does it bother you that Red Band opened up a club three doors down?"
12. BRBrian Redban
  (laughs)
13. JRJoe Rogan
  I'm like, "No, it's great."
14. BRBrian Redban
  (laughs) It's great, because it, uh, (glasses clink) it, you know what it's like? Uh, you, you have two rooms, uh, with, like, you have your beautiful big boy, or whatever, uh, but that, to me, is the main room.
15. JRJoe Rogan
  Fat Man, yeah.
16. BRBrian Redban
  Yeah, Fat Man's the main room.
17. JRJoe Rogan
  Fat Man's the main room.
18. BRBrian Redban
  And then your other one, I think, is the OR, and I feel like mine's kind of like the belly room, because it has the same, like, you know, the same kind of shows that are in the belly room. The same kind of like, the comics are experimenting with new things over there, so-
19. JRJoe Rogan
  Mm-hmm. Yeah.
20. BRBrian Redban
  ... it's, it's kind of like the main three now. I always, I think that's kind of cool.
21. JRJoe Rogan
  Well, we have so many good spots just on that one street.
22. BRBrian Redban
  Yeah.
23. JRJoe Rogan
  I mean, Vulcan is just a few doors down.
24. BRBrian Redban
  Mm-hmm.
25. JRJoe Rogan
  Creek and the Cave is just a block away. It's crazy.
26. BRBrian Redban
  Mm-hmm.
27. JRJoe Rogan
  It's like y- y- and when you're in town, when, uh, different comics are in town. Like Vos was at the Vulcan, and then he came by and did my club, and then-
28. BRBrian Redban
  Mm-hmm.
29. JRJoe Rogan
  ... th- th- you know, all these different people are doing that, just going back and forth, and it's great.
30. BRBrian Redban
  Yeah.
2:06 – 3:15
A musician robbed on tour, and why thievery feels especially disgusting
1. JRJoe Rogan
  That was established by people going to see music. I mean, there's so much fucking... Ellis Bullard got ripped off.
2. GNGuest (secondary, unknown name)
  Oh.
3. BRBrian Redban
  Did you see that shit?
4. GNGuest (secondary, unknown name)
  They were in South Carolina, I think.
5. BRBrian Redban
  Fucking cunts.
6. JRJoe Rogan
  What happened?
7. BRBrian Redban
  Dirty thieves.
8. JRJoe Rogan
  Broke into his trailer?
9. BRBrian Redban
  They stole, yeah, they broke into his trailer, stole his guitars, his amps, everything.
10. JRJoe Rogan
  Wow.
11. GNGuest (secondary, unknown name)
  Holy shit.
12. BRBrian Redban
  Now he's got three more shows, and no equipment.
13. JRJoe Rogan
  I saw that.
14. BRBrian Redban
  So, uh, is it Ellis Bullard Music on Instagram?
15. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah, Ellis Bullard, right.
16. BRBrian Redban
  I think he's gonna put up a, uh, GoFundMe.
17. JRJoe Rogan
  Kickstarted
18. NANarrator
  GoFundMe, yeah.
19. BRBrian Redban
  He's gotta go out and buy guitars now.
20. JRJoe Rogan
  Ah, look at that.
21. GNGuest (secondary, unknown name)
  Oh, shit.
22. BRBrian Redban
  Oh, look at that guitar, too. Fuck
23. JRJoe Rogan
  Fuck.
24. GNGuest (secondary, unknown name)
  Fuck.
25. BRBrian Redban
  What kind... You know, that's the kind of guitar, though, that when somebody tries to sell it, it'll probably get back to them, they gotta...
26. JRJoe Rogan
  Well, hopefully, because of this, we'll tell everybody, but it's, uh, he's g- what is it, a 1979 guitar? Is that what it said? A Dobro?
27. GNGuest (secondary, unknown name)
  Uh.
28. BRBrian Redban
  Yeah.
29. GNGuest (secondary, unknown name)
  He's selling an Eastman Tendy, Dobro, two Telecasters, and a custom.
30. JRJoe Rogan
  (clicks tongue) Fucking scumbags.
3:15 – 6:54
Driving trust, distracted drivers, and Tesla design mistakes
1. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah, thievery is just so gross. It's amazing how little there is, though. You know, I was thinking about the, the other day about car accidents. People suck at driving, but God, it's amazing how few car accidents there are.
2. BRBrian Redban
  Mm-hmm.
3. JRJoe Rogan
  Most people, every day just moving around, no car accident.
4. BRBrian Redban
  It is weird. And you always, you have to have trust in everybody, too.
5. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah.
6. BRBrian Redban
  Like, there's sometimes when you're driving by this semi and you're like, "Okay, I hope you, hope you see me."
7. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah.
8. BRBrian Redban
  (laughs)
9. JRJoe Rogan
  Bro, it's all phones. People need that Apple CarPlay. It's the shit. It ch- ch- you don't, you can do anything that you need to do without ever touching the phone. You just say, "Hey Siri, call Red Van." Bam.
10. BRBrian Redban
  Mm-hmm.
11. JRJoe Rogan
  "Hey Siri, text my mom." "What do you want to say?" And then you just say it. It's like, you can, you could say, "Hey Siri, navigate to," and you go wherever the fuck you need to go. You don't have to touch anything. It's the best.
12. BRBrian Redban
  It's a real, it's a real bummer that Tesla, uh, won't do that. You know, do-
13. JRJoe Rogan
  Why won't it do that?
14. BRBrian Redban
  Because they said that theirs is better than Apple CarPlay. (laughs) It's not.
15. JRJoe Rogan
  It's not.
16. BRBrian Redban
  It's one of the worst things I've ever used.
17. JRJoe Rogan
  They, they get some things right, and some things really wrong. Really wrong is the fob, the, what is it called? It's not called a fob. What is it called? Uh, the fucking...
18. BRBrian Redban
  The car key thing? Is it?
19. JRJoe Rogan
  The, the stupid-
20. BRBrian Redban
  Oh.
21. JRJoe Rogan
  ... handle.
22. BRBrian Redban
  The yoke.
23. JRJoe Rogan
  The yoke.
24. GNGuest (secondary, unknown name)
  The yoke.
25. JRJoe Rogan
  Oh, it's so dumb.
26. BRBrian Redban
  Yeah.
27. JRJoe Rogan
  It's just, no. No with the yoke. Give me a goddamn steering wheel.
28. BRBrian Redban
  Well, now you can, now you can. Now they give you the option. (laughs) You could probably get yours retrofitted with, with it back on now.
29. JRJoe Rogan
  Really?
30. BRBrian Redban
  Because they, now, a- a- it's an option when you order a car now.
6:54 – 9:27
Physical buttons vs. touchscreens: the slow return of sensible interfaces
1. JRJoe Rogan
  In doing everything on the screen, it, to make things simple, they make things way more complicated.
2. BRBrian Redban
  Yep.
3. JRJoe Rogan
  Like, if you have to adjust your mirrors?
4. BRBrian Redban
  Mm-hmm.
5. JRJoe Rogan
  Jesus Christ.
6. BRBrian Redban
  Right.
7. JRJoe Rogan
  You gotta get in there and duh, duh, and then lift for the left and lift for the right. Uh, ugh.
8. BRBrian Redban
  Ugh.
9. JRJoe Rogan
  Stop. You're making me think too much. When in my car, I don't even have to look at it.
10. BRBrian Redban
  Yeah.
11. JRJoe Rogan
  I just reach over, I press the button, and I can adjust it.
12. BRBrian Redban
  Mm-hmm.
13. JRJoe Rogan
  I just do it real quick, easy. It's better. Physical buttons are better.
14. BRBrian Redban
  Always.
15. JRJoe Rogan
  Always.
16. BRBrian Redban
  S- slide to reverse. The worst is when the car has their v- volume knob and adjustments o- on the screen.
17. JRJoe Rogan
  Ugh. Terrible.
18. BRBrian Redban
  You're like, "H- h- am I touching up, volume?"
19. JRJoe Rogan
  You wanna be able to do it where you can s- s- keep looking at the road.
20. BRBrian Redban
  Yeah.
21. JRJoe Rogan
  Just reach over, grab the knob, turn it to the left, turn it to the right.
22. BRBrian Redban
  Mm-hmm.
23. JRJoe Rogan
  You know? Volume, we know how to do it. Temperature, easy, button.
24. BRBrian Redban
  Yeah.
25. JRJoe Rogan
  Button go high, button go low. Come on.
26. BRBrian Redban
  Just make the buttons look sexier-
27. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah.
28. BRBrian Redban
  ... or prettier.
29. JRJoe Rogan
  Porsche knows how to do it.
30. BRBrian Redban
  Yeah.
9:27 – 12:54
iPhone vs Android tribalism, compressed group chats, and the ‘fake moon’ scandal
1. JRJoe Rogan
  Look at this top comment, "I will never use an iPhone."
2. BRBrian Redban
  (laughs)
3. NANarrator
  (laughs)
4. JRJoe Rogan
  Android people are hilarious. They are so in a cult.
5. NANarrator
  (laughs)
6. JRJoe Rogan
  They really don't... And they're like, they're, uh, "We're against the machine, man."
7. BRBrian Redban
  (laughs)
8. JRJoe Rogan
  Literally, your phone is used by more humans than any other phone on Earth.
9. BRBrian Redban
  I sent them photos to a group chat last night, and half his second group chat without the Android person so they can get the photos uncompressed and they look good. 'Cause in that group chat, they're all fucked. They can't see the photos. I don't know if you know that.
10. JRJoe Rogan
  Oh.
11. BRBrian Redban
  If you have an Android person in your iPhone group chat-
12. JRJoe Rogan
  Uh-huh.
13. BRBrian Redban
  ... and they get the photos good, that Android will get them.
14. JRJoe Rogan
  Uh-huh.
15. BRBrian Redban
  But everybody el- every other iPhone will not get them good.
16. JRJoe Rogan
  Why? Oh, because it compress it because of the test.
17. BRBrian Redban
  Because it has to go, like, to that SMS, and then it goes to everybody else.
18. JRJoe Rogan
  Hmm.
19. NANarrator
  Oh.
20. BRBrian Redban
  You have to, like, leave them out, make a new group chat, be like, "Sorry," but now you get the messages. Is that why it always says, like, uh, "Message failed to send."
21. JRJoe Rogan
  Yep, yep.
22. BRBrian Redban
  And then I'll, I'll send it, like, 10 more times, and people are like, "Why is sending me this 10 times?" 'Cause it keeps on saying it failed.
23. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah. So it's like if you text message from an iPhone, it's inferior, w- if you text message an image, which texts?
24. BRBrian Redban
  Yes.
25. JRJoe Rogan
  Not with the SMS.
26. BRBrian Redban
  I, I don't... Not trying to talk shit on the Androids, but that's what I... They'll see it perfectly fine and be like, "What are you talking about? I see... It looks great on my phone. Look, I'll send you photos. They look great."
27. JRJoe Rogan
  But it gets compressed to the iPhones.
28. BRBrian Redban
  But yeah, when it goes from that Android to the m- network again,-
29. NANarrator
  (laughs)
30. BRBrian Redban
  ... it'll, it'll be dogshit on those fucking Androids, or on the iPhones, I'm sorry.
12:54 – 15:56
Bud Light boycott, bar fights, and drinking preferences (tequila wins)
1. JRJoe Rogan
  Dude, has there ever been a business, ever, in the history of businesses, that got hit with a boycott like Bud Light did? Who fucking saw that coming? Who saw that coming?
2. BRBrian Redban
  I mean, they fired two CEOs, right? Or something.
3. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah.
4. BRBrian Redban
  Like, that's crazy. Off a image.
5. JRJoe Rogan
  Well, they're down something like 21%.
6. BRBrian Redban
  Mm-hmm.
7. JRJoe Rogan
  Which is wild. That's so much, man. Like, there's bars that refuse to sell it.
8. BRBrian Redban
  That's ridiculous.
9. JRJoe Rogan
  There's bars that refuse to sell it because it's causing fights, because if people drink it, guys will fuck with them.
10. BRBrian Redban
  Totally.
11. JRJoe Rogan
  Which you totally could see. Some moron in a bar, "Bro, drinking a Bud Light? You wearing a fucking skirt, bro?"
12. BRBrian Redban
  (laughs)
13. JRJoe Rogan
  "You support Dylan Mulvaney, huh?"
14. BRBrian Redban
  Yeah, I could see a lot of fights.
15. JRJoe Rogan
  100%.
16. GNGuest (secondary, unknown name)
  (laughs)
17. BRBrian Redban
  (laughs)
18. JRJoe Rogan
  I can see that happening. That's-
19. BRBrian Redban
  Yeah.
20. JRJoe Rogan
  ... that's a surefire scenario, in some moron bar.
21. BRBrian Redban
  Yeah.
22. JRJoe Rogan
  "You drinking a Bud Light?"
23. BRBrian Redban
  Miller Lite and all the other beers need to, like, jump on this hard, and just have, like, bikini beer commercials, like, nonstop right now. (laughs)
24. JRJoe Rogan
  Right. Guns.
25. BRBrian Redban
  Guns. Yeah, with guns.
26. JRJoe Rogan
  Just tits and guns.
27. BRBrian Redban
  Hunting and... (laughs)
28. JRJoe Rogan
  (gun firing sound effect) Yeah. The problem is, like, light beer is true alcoholic's beer, 'cause it's- that's- that's something you could drink all day long.
29. BRBrian Redban
  Yeah.
30. JRJoe Rogan
  That's like a guy who just likes to work on transmissions, he's just back in the backyard just drinking Bud Light.
15:56 – 22:17
Hydration products, sodium panic, and mistrust of regulators
1. JRJoe Rogan
  Well, that hydration market, all of a sudden everyone's realizing they're not hydrated.
2. BRBrian Redban
  Yeah. (laughs)
3. JRJoe Rogan
  (laughs)
4. GNGuest (secondary, unknown name)
  (laughs)
5. JRJoe Rogan
  There's so many hydration products out now.
6. BRBrian Redban
  And all those hydration products, uh, the sodium content in those are out of control. I don't know if you ever looked at, like, just like a, one of the hydration products' sodium levels.
7. JRJoe Rogan
  Oh.
8. BRBrian Redban
  'Cause I've been drinking, like, two or three of these thinking I'm drinking water, like, doing good for my body. But then you look at the sodium level, it's like 1,000 milligrams or... (laughs)
9. JRJoe Rogan
  I don't necessarily think sodium in and of itself is bad for you.
10. BRBrian Redban
  No?
11. JRJoe Rogan
  No.
12. GNGuest (secondary, unknown name)
  I think that's the electrolytes and stuff they're adding in there.
13. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah.
14. GNGuest (secondary, unknown name)
  Some of that you want.
15. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah, you want some.
16. BRBrian Redban
  Right.
17. JRJoe Rogan
  Particularly if you're exercising. Like, if that's an athletic drink, then you definitely want some sodium. You want all kinds of stuff.
18. BRBrian Redban
  This only has 10, so that's not bad at all.
19. JRJoe Rogan
  It, I don't think sodium... I think that's one of those things where there's, like, a lot of common misconceptions. Like salt, so, like, people worried about salt, bad for you. Salt's an essential mineral. Like, you actually need salt. Like, it's... I don't necessarily think salt's bad for you. I think we've got a lot of wives' tales floating around, and people ha- you know, had some information at one point in time that seemed to link sodium to certain diseases. But now I don't think they think that anymore.
20. GNGuest (secondary, unknown name)
  Hmm.
21. JRJoe Rogan
  Let's- let's find, like, is sodium bad for you?
22. GNGuest (secondary, unknown name)
  Yeah, I'm like, like sodium in sports drinks and stuff.
23. BRBrian Redban
  Yeah, I mean, Joey Diaz used to always say...
24. JRJoe Rogan
  Sodium. (laughs)
25. BRBrian Redban
  (laughs)
26. GNGuest (secondary, unknown name)
  Yeah, but that's just Joey. Monosodium glutamate.
27. BRBrian Redban
  (laughs) I heard that there was a salt that was bad for you. This is another one of those tales. Like, Himalayan salt or pink salt is...
28. JRJoe Rogan
  Really?
29. BRBrian Redban
  They found out there's something bad in it now.
30. JRJoe Rogan
  Really?
22:17 – 25:15
MSG myths, imitation crab ingredients, and ‘meat glue’ food science
1. BRBrian Redban
  They used to think MSG was like this horrible monster. And people still-
2. JRJoe Rogan
  I don't think they think it's bad anymore.
3. BRBrian Redban
  Huh?
4. JRJoe Rogan
  I don't think they think it's bad anymore.
5. BRBrian Redban
  Right. It's not bad anymore.
6. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah. Monosodium glutamate used to be the devil.
7. BRBrian Redban
  Right.
8. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah.
9. BRBrian Redban
  And it w- there was a reason for it and it was something really stupid. It was like legal- like legalization of marijuana is stupid. Like-
10. JRJoe Rogan
  Really?
11. BRBrian Redban
  ... it was never bad for you. I forget what it was.
12. JRJoe Rogan
  Wow.
13. BRBrian Redban
  It's the salt industry or something.
14. JRJoe Rogan
  Bourdain always told me it wasn't bad for you.
15. BRBrian Redban
  Yeah.
16. JRJoe Rogan
  He's like, "No, it's, it's essential. It makes food taste way better."
17. BRBrian Redban
  Mm-hmm.
18. JRJoe Rogan
  Especially like that kind of old school East Coast Chinese food with monosodium glutamate, it was the best.
19. BRBrian Redban
  Yeah.
20. JRJoe Rogan
  The best.
21. BRBrian Redban
  It's delicious.
22. JRJoe Rogan
  The best. Put in more MSG.
23. BRBrian Redban
  Mm-hmm.
24. JRJoe Rogan
  Just don't eat it every day.
25. BRBrian Redban
  I'm for i- imitation crab. Do you know imitation crab is actually really good? (laughs) Like, have you ever seen those imitation crab legs at the grocery store and they look-
26. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah.
27. BRBrian Redban
  ... real but it says imitation? It's, it tastes exactly like crab legs.
28. JRJoe Rogan
  Well, what's in there?
29. BRBrian Redban
  It's just fish.
30. JRJoe Rogan
  Yoga mats.
25:15 – 35:13
Fast food nostalgia and Austin’s ongoing quest for great pizza
1. BRBrian Redban
  Uh, I found this place that's up, uh, where I live, and it's called Taco Casa. And, uh, I went to it once, and it was like, "Holy shit, this is the best white shitty tacos I've ever seen." You know, like white people tacos-
2. JRJoe Rogan
  Right.
3. BRBrian Redban
  ... like your parents used to make? Found out that back in the '60s, this guy was friends with the, the creator of Taco Bell, and he had a couple franchises. And then that guy that owned Taco Bell sold the company to Pepsi in like the '80s or so. And the guy that had like all... uh, that was friends with him had all these, uh, his own Taco Bell restaurants and he's like, "Fuck Pepsi, you know, I'm just gonna rename my, uh, uh, franchises to Taco Casa, but keep the exact same menu that Taco Bell has, and all the ingredients." Pepsi then changed all the in-, uh, the recipes for Taco Bell, and that's why Taco Bell when you, when you were a kid seemed like it tasted better and everything was better, is because they changed all their meats, and they changed all their ingredients. Taco Casa is Taco Bell from the '60s, '70s, with the original, uh, menu items. It even has the color scheme as the old advertising of Taco Bell.
4. JRJoe Rogan
  Really?
5. BRBrian Redban
  Yeah. And you go in there, and you're like, "Holy shit, this is the best tacos ever," and it's just Taco Bell from the '60s. And it is amazing.
6. JRJoe Rogan
  Wow.
7. BRBrian Redban
  Highly recommend it. And they're fans of you, uh, they, uh... uh, 'cause I always Instagram and tag them and stuff, places.
8. JRJoe Rogan
  That's crazy.
9. BRBrian Redban
  Yeah. It's weird.
10. JRJoe Rogan
  That's kind of cool. Like if there was a McDonald's you could go to that was a real McDonald's from the '50s, where they cooked all their fries in beef fat.
11. BRBrian Redban
  Exactly. Yep. Exactly the same.
12. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah.
13. GNGuest (secondary, unknown name)
  I just got it ag- for the first time recently, maybe three years, McDonald's. The Big Mac was so fucking small.
14. BRBrian Redban
  Yeah. Oh, they're all small now.
15. GNGuest (secondary, unknown name)
  It was tiny. It was the sma- it was like a regular burger size almost.
16. JRJoe Rogan
  Small?
17. BRBrian Redban
  Everything's smaller now, yeah. The, uh, the Quarter Pounder's the only good meat at McDonald's also, 'cause that's the only one that's not frozen. So, if you want a Big Mac, you ask for a Big Mac with Quarter Pounder meat.
18. GNGuest (secondary, unknown name)
  Ah, huh.
19. BRBrian Redban
  That's the way to do it.
20. JRJoe Rogan
  Mm.
21. GNGuest (secondary, unknown name)
  Oh, yeah, I guess they, well, they did do this, but it's still, it was so small, like they made a bigger Mac at one point. But it was a fucki- it was so tiny.
22. JRJoe Rogan
  Really?
23. GNGuest (secondary, unknown name)
  Yeah. It wasn't filling at all. It was like five bites and then the whole fucking thing was gone.
24. BRBrian Redban
  Well, Whopper also, I don't know if you've had a Whopper lately.
25. JRJoe Rogan
  They're smaller?
26. BRBrian Redban
  It's, it's just bullshit. It's like it doesn't even have that, that, you know how it used to taste like smoke and everything? And-
27. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah, flame broiled.
28. BRBrian Redban
  It doesn't have that anymore. And, uh-
29. JRJoe Rogan
  Really?
30. BRBrian Redban
  I guess Burger King just, uh, announced they're closing like t- like 250 stores! Like they're on the way out, I think.
35:13 – 1:03:31
Old-school institutions and the comedy club as a ‘home base’
1. JRJoe Rogan
  When we were in New York, we stopped at Katz's Deli. Three o'clock in the morning, had a Reuben. Oh my God, it was sensational.
2. BRBrian Redban
  Yeah.
3. JRJoe Rogan
  It's that high. It's just oozing with sauerkraut and sauce.
4. BRBrian Redban
  Da- don't you think that's unnecessary though?
5. JRJoe Rogan
  It's perfect.
6. GNGuest (secondary, unknown name)
  (laughs)
7. BRBrian Redban
  Like you don't have to have it that high.
8. JRJoe Rogan
  Shut the fuck up, you communist.
9. GNGuest (secondary, unknown name)
  (laughs)
10. BRBrian Redban
  (laughs) Yeah, that's just crazy.
11. JRJoe Rogan
  It's amazing. Look, it was so good, dude.
12. BRBrian Redban
  Wow.
13. JRJoe Rogan
  It was so good. And it's just the fact that it's the same place every time you go back. This guy that we've been going to, every time we go to this one meat cutter, like the way, uh, Canter's works, or excuse me, the way Katz's works. Canter's is my favorite spot in LA.
14. GNGuest (secondary, unknown name)
  Me too.
15. JRJoe Rogan
  The way Katz's works, you get a ticket when you walk in. And then you get a bunch of things punched on the ticket, then you pay on the way out the door. Well, when you walk up to the, the meat cutter, the m- you give the guy your ticket, tell him what you want, he writes it down on the ticket. He gives you a little slice of, uh, pastrami to try, and this guy's been the same guy we've been going to for a decade. And finally we had a conversation with him. And he goes, "I'm celebrating 33 years here." I'm like, "33 years?" Like he started there when he was a kid.
16. BRBrian Redban
  Wow.
17. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah.
18. BRBrian Redban
  What a life. (laughs) Can you imagine your whole life working at the same-
19. JRJoe Rogan
  ... like, a weird-
20. BRBrian Redban
  Like, some food place?
21. JRJoe Rogan
  Probably long-ass hours, too. That's the place.
22. BRBrian Redban
  Wow.
23. NANarrator
  That place is-
24. BRBrian Redban
  So crazy.
25. JRJoe Rogan
  It's classic.
26. NANarrator
  It's nice.
27. JRJoe Rogan
  It's so classic. And it's been the same interior since, like, you know, the fucking early 1900s. It's just an amazing place. It's a real, like, New York staple. And all those guys that are working behind the counter, the, the meat cutters, if you see the meat cutters in there?
28. NANarrator
  Yeah, I was trying to find a picture of that.
29. JRJoe Rogan
  Those guys are all, like, classic New York characters.
30. BRBrian Redban
  Yeah. I can already s- imagine what they look like.
1:03:31 – 1:08:10
Austin nightlife secrets, wild animals, and AI’s approaching reality-break
1. BRBrian Redban
  There's a speakeasy right below it, which is so weird. You know, it, there's this light in the alley, and if the light's on that means it's open. And it, if you go down her back stairs, you'll just see this door and then it's like, "What's in that door?" You open that door and it's just this sh- underground bar that's like, looks like it's in the '80s, and it's really trippy.
2. JRJoe Rogan
  Hmm.
3. BRBrian Redban
  And it's so (laughs) interesting that there's-
4. JRJoe Rogan
  Really?
5. BRBrian Redban
  Yeah, and I thi-
6. JRJoe Rogan
  How big is it?
7. BRBrian Redban
  I, I, it's pretty decent. It's about the size of like a, you know, like a Subway sandwich place or something. (laughs) You know what I mean? It's like-
8. JRJoe Rogan
  Oh.
9. BRBrian Redban
  Yeah, it's interesting though. There, the speakeasy, uh, business in this town is very int- there's a lot of secret bars.
10. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah.
11. BRBrian Redban
  Like there's-
12. JRJoe Rogan
  But how does that work? It's like they're private clubs, so they can get away-
13. BRBrian Redban
  Yeah.
14. JRJoe Rogan
  ... with staying openly?
15. BRBrian Redban
  Right.
16. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah.
17. BRBrian Redban
  There's one down the street from us called like VCR Repair or something like that. You know what I'm talking-
18. GNGuest (secondary, unknown name)
  Floppy disk repair.
19. BRBrian Redban
  Floppy disk repair. And it's, it looks like a-
20. JRJoe Rogan
  Oh.
21. BRBrian Redban
  ... computer store or something like floppy disk repair.
22. GNGuest (secondary, unknown name)
  You gotta get the code to get in every day they change it.
23. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah.
24. BRBrian Redban
  Really?
25. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah.
26. GNGuest (secondary, unknown name)
  And if you like go into a different bar, I think it's like the garage bar, which is in a parking garage, it's like a, you're like, "What's in, why is there a bar in the middle of this fucking parking garage?"
27. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah. (laughs)
28. GNGuest (secondary, unknown name)
  Or whatever. And you go inside, you're like, "Hey, what's the code to the other bar, like-"
29. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah.
30. GNGuest (secondary, unknown name)
  ... they might tell you, they might not. There's another way to get into it, I read, but like I, I don't, I've never been inside.