Joe Rogan Experience #2090 - Bobby Lee

Bobby Lee is a stand-up comic, actor, and podcaster. He's the co-host of "TigerBelly," with Khaylyla Kuhn, and "Bad Friends," with Andrew Santino. www.bobbylee.live

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0:00 – 2:41
Bobby finally makes it to JRE: booking myths, production crews, and podcast logistics
1. JRJoe Rogan
  (drum roll) Joe Rogan podcast, check it out.
2. NANarrator
  The Joe Rogan Experience. (energetic music) Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day.
3. BLBobby Lee
  Is there a theme song or what happens?
4. JRJoe Rogan
  No, just go.
5. BLBobby Lee
  (laughs) I made it. I'm here, and it's just like, what a blessing.
6. JRJoe Rogan
  (laughs)
7. BLBobby Lee
  No, no, no, no, no, just let me, let me finish this.
8. JRJoe Rogan
  (laughs)
9. BLBobby Lee
  What a blessing. Over the years, people are on the internet were like, "Why don't you do Rogan?" And I was like, "I don't really know how." And I'm here now, and I just feel so present, and I feel mindful. It's gonna be a great one.
10. JRJoe Rogan
  I'm s-
11. BLBobby Lee
  Anyways, thanks for having me.
12. JRJoe Rogan
  ... I'm so happy you're here.
13. BLBobby Lee
  You too, man.
14. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah, we talked about doing it fucking a thousand times.
15. BLBobby Lee
  A thousand times.
16. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah, and it never happened. And people-
17. BLBobby Lee
  And can we-
18. JRJoe Rogan
  ... thought that like, we had a problem with each other or something.
19. BLBobby Lee
  No, we know. In fact, here's the deal, Joe.
20. JRJoe Rogan
  Okay, Bobby.
21. BLBobby Lee
  Not only do we not have a problem with each other, right?
22. JRJoe Rogan
  Right.
23. BLBobby Lee
  You've been a very, ve- really big asset to me over the years on the phone. Like when I'm in trouble, you call, and you're so helpful, and you've got me through a lot of like difficult situations.
24. JRJoe Rogan
  I love you, Bobby.
25. BLBobby Lee
  So we're the opposite of trouble. We're in a gr- like family.
26. JRJoe Rogan
  Yes.
27. BLBobby Lee
  You know?
28. JRJoe Rogan
  That's how I feel.
29. BLBobby Lee
  Yeah. But, you know, people are, but I just didn't know how to do it.
30. JRJoe Rogan
  Well, I always said anytime you wanna do it, you were like, "Okay." And that would be like, yeah, the conversation-
2:41 – 6:14
Nicotine pouches, quitting cigarettes, and Bobby’s relapse story after long sobriety
1. JRJoe Rogan
  What are, what are those?
2. BLBobby Lee
  These are pouches. They're called Copenhagen.
3. JRJoe Rogan
  Oh, okay.
4. BLBobby Lee
  And they're my fave-
5. JRJoe Rogan
  I got these little Rogues. I like these.
6. BLBobby Lee
  Is it, is it tobacco?
7. JRJoe Rogan
  It's just nicotine. It's not tobacco.
8. BLBobby Lee
  Oh, it's the pou- yeah, it's the pou-
9. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah.
10. BLBobby Lee
  ... it's a pouch.
11. JRJoe Rogan
  Those are tobacco.
12. BLBobby Lee
  Yeah, they are tobacco.
13. JRJoe Rogan
  So you have to spit.
14. BLBobby Lee
  Yeah.
15. JRJoe Rogan
  Okay.
16. BLBobby Lee
  And, and when I, when I get blisters, I stop.
17. JRJoe Rogan
  Oh. Okay, when it, but it burns-
18. BLBobby Lee
  Yeah, so-
19. JRJoe Rogan
  ... through your cheeks? (laughs)
20. BLBobby Lee
  (laughs) Yeah, yeah, yeah.
21. JRJoe Rogan
  I heard Buddy Guy was telling me that.
22. BLBobby Lee
  No, yeah, yeah, yeah.
23. JRJoe Rogan
  It ju- made his gums recede-
24. BLBobby Lee
  Yeah, yeah (laughs) .
25. JRJoe Rogan
  ... from chewing.
26. BLBobby Lee
  Yeah, but then when you take a break, they grow back. It's like-
27. JRJoe Rogan
  Oh, nice.
28. BLBobby Lee
  ... it's like a plant. Your gums.
29. JRJoe Rogan
  Oh, like a little plant.
30. BLBobby Lee
  (laughs) Yeah, yeah.
6:14 – 12:31
Disease fear and biolab anxiety: Ebola vaccine news to COVID lab-origin discussion
1. JRJoe Rogan
  No. I mean, if you thought you had like some crazy disease, like you bo-... Oh, my God, did you see these ladies in, in Denver today? They took a live Ebola vaccine. There's not even Ebola cases here. It's not like, like-
2. BLBobby Lee
  It's in Africa, right?
3. JRJoe Rogan
  But this doctor was, uh, encouraging people to take this E- Ebola vaccine just in case Ebola hits. Why does everybody wanna freak me out?
4. BLBobby Lee
  I know.
5. JRJoe Rogan
  Why does this lady wanna freak me out by taking this thing? Like who knows what the fuck is gonna happen to you now? And why does everybody wanna freak me out at the fucking possibility of some new disease coming along and killing everybody?
6. BLBobby Lee
  But, o- but, uh, Ebola's h- uh, old school.
7. JRJoe Rogan
  It's a scary one.
8. BLBobby Lee
  Hot zone.
9. JRJoe Rogan
  Bad one.
10. BLBobby Lee
  It li- liquefies your organs, right?
11. JRJoe Rogan
  Denver health medical team receives Ebola vaccine. The team became some of the first people to receive the live Ebola vaccine for preventative measures in case of a future outbreak. The first people? Wait a minute.
12. BLBobby Lee
  Oh, my God.
13. JRJoe Rogan
  Wait a minute. Is it a new... Is the Ebola vaccine new? Did they not have a vaccine before and now they do? (sighs)
14. BLBobby Lee
  I don't th- I don't know.
15. JRJoe Rogan
  What the fuck, people?
16. BLBobby Lee
  But back in the day when they had it, they just bomb a village, right, or...
17. JRJoe Rogan
  That's a good question. What did they do?
18. BLBobby Lee
  What, what did they do? I don't know what they did.
19. JRJoe Rogan
  I don't think it's that easy to spread. I think Ebola has to be spread by bodily fluids, if I remember.
20. BLBobby Lee
  It's not airborne.
21. JRJoe Rogan
  Right.
22. BLBobby Lee
  Yeah, yeah.
23. JRJoe Rogan
  But they could fix that.
24. BLBobby Lee
  (laughs) You think the, you think the Chinese-
25. JRJoe Rogan
  Get 'em at, get 'em at lab and... Ugh.
26. BLBobby Lee
  (laughs) The Wuhan Chinese guys?
27. JRJoe Rogan
  (laughs) .
28. BLBobby Lee
  "A little bit of this."
29. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
30. BLBobby Lee
  "A little bit of that. And look, now it flies through the air." Oh, man, if, if it was like COVID, like that easy-
12:31 – 16:54
Dark humor, accents, and where comedy ends: Asian hate vs backstage banter
1. JRJoe Rogan
  (laughs) I've always said that, like, Asian people take jokes better than anybody. You know why?
2. BLBobby Lee
  Why?
3. JRJoe Rogan
  All emojis are yellow. No one complains.
4. BLBobby Lee
  (laughs)
5. JRJoe Rogan
  (laughs)
6. BLBobby Lee
  It's true.
7. JRJoe Rogan
  They don't complain.
8. BLBobby Lee
  Yeah.
9. JRJoe Rogan
  Yellow thumbs up, yellow smiley face guy-
10. BLBobby Lee
  Yeah.
11. JRJoe Rogan
  ... yellow girl. Everyone's yellow, no one, no one complains.
12. BLBobby Lee
  Let me kinda ask you, so people get mad at me because I le- I allow comics to do Asian accents in front of me. And I laugh at it because I think it's funny, but then people think that I'm like a, you know, um, you know, like an Uncle Chang. You know what I mean?
13. JRJoe Rogan
  Right, right, right.
14. BLBobby Lee
  But they s- they go-
15. JRJoe Rogan
  No. Listen-
16. BLBobby Lee
  Yeah.
17. JRJoe Rogan
  ... first of all, those people are all your friends. And friends mock each other all the time.
18. BLBobby Lee
  Yeah.
19. JRJoe Rogan
  My fri- my friends mock me for being short, they mock me for being bald, they mock me for being old. It's fun. It's fun. And if they mock me from be- see, the thing is, mocking me for being Italian, it doesn't work. Like, no one cares.
20. BLBobby Lee
  Yeah.
21. JRJoe Rogan
  It's not a bad one.
22. BLBobby Lee
  Yeah.
23. JRJoe Rogan
  That's why you can call Italians Guineas.
24. BLBobby Lee
  Mm.
25. JRJoe Rogan
  And nobody gives a shit. They, they'll call each other Guineas, you can call them Guineas, no one cares, 'cause people don't really hate Italians.
26. BLBobby Lee
  Yeah.
27. JRJoe Rogan
  They find them annoying, like, the-
28. BLBobby Lee
  A little.
29. JRJoe Rogan
  ... gold chain ones.
30. BLBobby Lee
  (laughs) Yeah, yeah, yeah.
16:54 – 20:53
Opium dens to opioids: addiction stories, MADtv Vicodin dependence, and detox disasters
1. BLBobby Lee
  And, and, like, the Chinese, right?
2. JRJoe Rogan
  Oh, yeah.
3. BLBobby Lee
  Back, back in the... They had three options, "I could do laundry," right? "Dynamite detail railroad," right?
4. JRJoe Rogan
  Right.
5. BLBobby Lee
  "Opium den."
6. JRJoe Rogan
  Restaurant.
7. BLBobby Lee
  Oh, restaurant. I'm opium den.
8. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah.
9. BLBobby Lee
  Back in the day.
10. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah, you would be the cool opium den-
11. BLBobby Lee
  I would have the best one day.
12. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah, you'd be like-
13. BLBobby Lee
  Right? With Rainey's or Bobby Lee's.
14. JRJoe Rogan
  ... with a little dance. Right? I'd lay them down on a nice, like, you know what I mean, felt mattress. Oh, you'd have cool lighting.
15. BLBobby Lee
  Yeah, you'll... You had a great lighting? Yeah, yeah.
16. JRJoe Rogan
  Ride the dragon. (laughs)
17. BLBobby Lee
  (laughs) Right.
18. JRJoe Rogan
  Ride the dragon.
19. BLBobby Lee
  I would stick it in their mouth-
20. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah.
21. BLBobby Lee
  ... light it for them.
22. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah.
23. BLBobby Lee
  Right?
24. JRJoe Rogan
  And then touch their head as they're going like this.
25. BLBobby Lee
  (laughs) Right.
26. JRJoe Rogan
  Just like, "Mmm."
27. BLBobby Lee
  Right, right.
28. JRJoe Rogan
  Whoa.
29. BLBobby Lee
  Whoa. Yeah.
30. JRJoe Rogan
  Ooh.
20:53 – 25:30
Star Trek debate and sci‑fi nostalgia: Next Generation’s ‘Inner Light’ vs the corny original
1. BLBobby Lee
  Next Generation?
2. JRJoe Rogan
  I love it. No, first one.
3. BLBobby Lee
  No.
4. JRJoe Rogan
  The real one.
5. BLBobby Lee
  No.
6. JRJoe Rogan
  The old one.
7. BLBobby Lee
  I'm sorry. I, I, I, I, I'm s- I'll back up. I'm sorry, you're wrong.
8. JRJoe Rogan
  I'm not wrong.
9. BLBobby Lee
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. Uh, c- uh, c- can I just say something?
10. JRJoe Rogan
  I can't be wrong for liking something.
11. BLBobby Lee
  I understand that. I think that you're misinformed.
12. JRJoe Rogan
  How so?
13. BLBobby Lee
  Because, ch- and, and do me a favor, season five?
14. JRJoe Rogan
  No.
15. BLBobby Lee
  I c- all right, could I just-
16. JRJoe Rogan
  As of right now, no.
17. BLBobby Lee
  (laughs) I know, but could I just... Just open your heart.
18. JRJoe Rogan
  It's open.
19. BLBobby Lee
  Okay, 'cause may I say what I'm gonna say?
20. JRJoe Rogan
  Right.
21. BLBobby Lee
  May I?
22. JRJoe Rogan
  Yes, please.
23. BLBobby Lee
  All right. Season five.
24. JRJoe Rogan
  Okay.
25. BLBobby Lee
  Second to the last episode.
26. JRJoe Rogan
  Okay.
27. BLBobby Lee
  The episode's called Inner Light.
28. JRJoe Rogan
  I'm not gonna watch it.
29. BLBobby Lee
  I, I, I'm, I'm not asking you to.
30. JRJoe Rogan
  (laughs)
25:30 – 27:43
Sex, aging, and dating after a long relationship: performance anxiety and ‘fake finishing’
1. BLBobby Lee
  Yeah. But I'm 52, Joe, and I, I can't, I can't, I can't cum.
2. JRJoe Rogan
  You can't cum?
3. BLBobby Lee
  I cum every other time.
4. JRJoe Rogan
  Every other time?
5. BLBobby Lee
  Yeah.
6. JRJoe Rogan
  That's good. That's good enough.
7. BLBobby Lee
  But you know what? I like, I like edging.
8. JRJoe Rogan
  But how much are you fucking? Are you trying to fuck every day or jerk off every day? Maybe you're running out of jizz. Maybe you just have a small factory, you know, and you're just demanding too much output.
9. BLBobby Lee
  No, my factory's pretty big, dude.
10. JRJoe Rogan
  Your balls are big?
11. BLBobby Lee
  For my size? Yeah.
12. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah, but like for normal humans when you hit 52, like how often are you cumming?
13. BLBobby Lee
  Every other day.
14. JRJoe Rogan
  That's reasonable.
15. BLBobby Lee
  That's reasonable.
16. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah.
17. BLBobby Lee
  But when I'm in the sack with a woman-
18. JRJoe Rogan
  Oh.
19. BLBobby Lee
  ... psychologically, I can't do it.
20. JRJoe Rogan
  So do you just fake it?
21. BLBobby Lee
  I, I pull out-
22. JRJoe Rogan
  Just spit on her?
23. BLBobby Lee
  No.
24. JRJoe Rogan
  Oh. Twat.
25. BLBobby Lee
  I make... I dim the lights-
26. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah.
27. BLBobby Lee
  ... and I do it back. I go back.
28. JRJoe Rogan
  You go back.
29. BLBobby Lee
  So does... We have.
30. JRJoe Rogan
  Okay.
27:43 – 35:14
Comedy Store lore: bumping culture, legendary long sets, and the ‘Dark Ages’ era
1. BLBobby Lee
  We've had... We've had moments where I even recall that you probably don't even remember. Like one time, you and I were at The Comedy Store. We were on the patio and Eddie Griffin bumped us.
2. JRJoe Rogan
  Oh.
3. BLBobby Lee
  Right? And we were talking shit.
4. JRJoe Rogan
  So this must be early days.
5. BLBobby Lee
  Early days. Back-
6. JRJoe Rogan
  God.
7. BLBobby Lee
  ... in the day.
8. JRJoe Rogan
  90s, right?
9. BLBobby Lee
  90s, right?
10. JRJoe Rogan
  Wow.
11. BLBobby Lee
  And then I remember there was a Black guy near us listening and he told Eddie Griffin that we were talking shit about him.
12. JRJoe Rogan
  Ugh.
13. BLBobby Lee
  And he confronted us.
14. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah.
15. BLBobby Lee
  I remember that. And we were like, "Fuck off." You know what I mean? But it was like... 'Cause you remem- he used to do hours.
16. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah. Well, he would do three hours. He would go on at 9:00 and your spot would be at 9:15 and he would do three hours.
17. BLBobby Lee
  It was him, Dice would do it sometimes. Mencia-
18. JRJoe Rogan
  Very rarely. Very rarely.
19. BLBobby Lee
  Mencia would do it all the ti-
20. JRJoe Rogan
  Mencia did it all the time.
21. BLBobby Lee
  Oh, my god. Oh, my god.
22. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah, but it was a... The thing is there was kind of the culture of The Comedy Store, in Eddie's defense, is that if you reached a certain level of fame, and at the time Eddie was definitely more famous than us, and he was... When... I- I'd still to this day maintain that Eddie Griffin's set on Def Jam was one of the best fucking, I don't know, was it 10 minutes, 15 minutes, whatever he did? It was one of the best sets I've ever seen. He had shorts on.
23. BLBobby Lee
  (laughs)
24. JRJoe Rogan
  Remember?
25. BLBobby Lee
  Yeah, yeah, yeah.
26. JRJoe Rogan
  And he had so much energy, man. I remember wa-... I- I'm pretty sure I was in New York at the time when I watched it. I was like, "Goddamn, this fucking dude is talented."
27. BLBobby Lee
  Yeah, I'm not questioning his skillset.
28. JRJoe Rogan
  But it's, uh, the culture thing. This is what I was gonna say.
29. BLBobby Lee
  Yeah.
30. JRJoe Rogan
  There was a thing at the Store when you reached a certain level of prominence, you were allowed to just do whatever the fuck you wanted. And people would show up, and apparently Kenison used to do that, a lot of guys used to do that.
35:14 – 44:35
Origin story at a strip club: gang tension, teardrop tattoos, and Joe ‘saving’ Bobby
1. JRJoe Rogan
  Do you remember when we first met? Remember when we first met at the strip club in San Diego?
2. BLBobby Lee
  (laughs)
3. JRJoe Rogan
  (laughs)
4. BLBobby Lee
  Uh, uh, you know... Can I say... (laughs) Can I say, say something?
5. JRJoe Rogan
  (laughs)
6. BLBobby Lee
  All right, all right. Wait, can I just say something about it?
7. JRJoe Rogan
  Yes.
8. BLBobby Lee
  Yeah.
9. JRJoe Rogan
  Yes.
10. BLBobby Lee
  I think I might be wrong the way you're saying it maybe.
11. JRJoe Rogan
  How so?
12. BLBobby Lee
  Well, I don't... Let's, let's go b- back. So-
13. JRJoe Rogan
  Okay.
14. BLBobby Lee
  I, I met... You were headlining La Jolla.
15. JRJoe Rogan
  Yes.
16. BLBobby Lee
  I was a doorman.
17. JRJoe Rogan
  Yes.
18. BLBobby Lee
  Right? And I think Diaz was... Diaz was there.
19. JRJoe Rogan
  I believe so.
20. BLBobby Lee
  Yeah, I think he was there, right?
21. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah.
22. BLBobby Lee
  I knew Diaz.
23. JRJoe Rogan
  Right.
24. BLBobby Lee
  So he goes, "Hey, let's go to the strip club with Joe."... and I, I was tr- like, I was trying to be a host.
25. JRJoe Rogan
  Was this '95?
26. BLBobby Lee
  Yeah, '95, '96.
27. JRJoe Rogan
  Okay.
28. BLBobby Lee
  Right?
29. JRJoe Rogan
  Wow.
30. BLBobby Lee
  And I was a kid.
44:35 – 1:06:02
Austin vs LA and the ‘blue bubble’: comedy freedom, culture wars, and algorithm-driven polarization
1. BLBobby Lee
  He lives here now, right?
2. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah, Dunk- Duncan lives here.
3. BLBobby Lee
  Everyone's-
4. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah.
5. BLBobby Lee
  ... asking me to come.
6. JRJoe Rogan
  You should come. I know you're talking shit about moving to Austin, but listen-
7. BLBobby Lee
  No, I didn't.
8. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah, you did. I watched a video.
9. BLBobby Lee
  No, I didn't.
10. JRJoe Rogan
  Don't lie. You di- you did. Well, they said- "I'm not gonna fucking move to Austin. I don't leave my neighborhood. I don't go to Compton. I stay right here."
11. BLBobby Lee
  Could I say something?
12. JRJoe Rogan
  What?
13. BLBobby Lee
  You know what, man?
14. JRJoe Rogan
  (laughs)
15. BLBobby Lee
  No, no, you know (laughs)
16. JRJoe Rogan
  (laughs)
17. BLBobby Lee
  You know what, man? You, no, you know what, man?
18. JRJoe Rogan
  What?
19. BLBobby Lee
  Listen.
20. JRJoe Rogan
  What?
21. BLBobby Lee
  You have to understand what you guys did.
22. JRJoe Rogan
  What did we do?
23. BLBobby Lee
  You guys took half of the talent out.
24. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah.
25. BLBobby Lee
  So I was just butt hurt.
26. JRJoe Rogan
  We brought another bunch in too. Like, Shane Gillis lives here.
27. BLBobby Lee
  I know. I know he does now.
28. JRJoe Rogan
  We're doing great.
29. BLBobby Lee
  I know you guys are killing it. We're having-
30. JRJoe Rogan
  I went to the club-

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Bobby finally makes it to JRE: booking myths, production crews, and podcast logistics

Nicotine pouches, quitting cigarettes, and Bobby’s relapse story after long sobriety

Disease fear and biolab anxiety: Ebola vaccine news to COVID lab-origin discussion

Dark humor, accents, and where comedy ends: Asian hate vs backstage banter

Opium dens to opioids: addiction stories, MADtv Vicodin dependence, and detox disasters

Star Trek debate and sci‑fi nostalgia: Next Generation’s ‘Inner Light’ vs the corny original

Sex, aging, and dating after a long relationship: performance anxiety and ‘fake finishing’

Comedy Store lore: bumping culture, legendary long sets, and the ‘Dark Ages’ era

Origin story at a strip club: gang tension, teardrop tattoos, and Joe ‘saving’ Bobby

Austin vs LA and the ‘blue bubble’: comedy freedom, culture wars, and algorithm-driven polarization

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