Joe Rogan Experience #2145 - Colin Quinn

1. 0:00 – 15:00

   (drumming music) Joe Rogan podcast,…

   1. JRJoe Rogan0:00

      (drumming music) Joe Rogan podcast, check it out.

   2. NANarrator0:04

      The Joe Rogan Experience.

   3. CQColin Quinn0:06

      Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day. (rock music) Hello, Hello, Joe. Joe, that was fun last night. Let me just start by saying what a fun time at the club. Um, the green room and everything else. And here's what I was, I was talking to the head of security at the club, here's what I love about the club. I worked the club. I had a great weekend b- about a couple of months ago, is they keep the audience in line. Nobody's heckling without getting booted. Is that not the most important thing in comedy that nobody talks about?

   4. JRJoe Rogan0:41

      It's very important.

   5. CQColin Quinn0:43

      It's unbelievable.

   6. JRJoe Rogan0:44

      And unfortunately, there's so many crowd work, uh, clips that get put out on Instagram-

   7. CQColin Quinn0:50

      Right.

   8. JRJoe Rogan0:50

      ... and like people are now thinking that they wanna be a part of the show.

   9. CQColin Quinn0:55

      Yeah.

   10. JRJoe Rogan0:55

       And so I see people much more often chiming in and yelling things out, and they think they're gonna be a part of things.

   11. CQColin Quinn1:02

       Yeah. And even when you go, when you try to be nice on the first line, you go, "That was okay, sir." Then they try again, you're like, "Listen, you pi- oh my god."

   12. JRJoe Rogan1:10

       Yeah.

   13. CQColin Quinn1:10

       But that's what I love about your club. Everybody there just has the energy like, "We're gonna tell you right now. Another word, you're out." That's how it should be.

   14. JRJoe Rogan1:18

       Yeah.

   15. CQColin Quinn1:18

       'Cause as you know, there's no, nobody heckles once.

   16. JRJoe Rogan1:22

       Right.

   17. CQColin Quinn1:23

       Nobody's ever heckled once.

   18. JRJoe Rogan1:24

       Nobody heckles sober either.

   19. CQColin Quinn1:26

       And nobody heckles sober.

   20. JRJoe Rogan1:27

       (laughs)

   21. CQColin Quinn1:27

       And they just like to start trouble. And the green room was fun, and even though I didn't go on, it was a, I also didn't go on because you have to understand the language where I was like, you're like, "You wanna go on?" I go, "Um, I don't really wanna go on." They go, "Oh, that's cool." But really then you're supposed to say, "The crowd really wants you to go on." And I'm like, "Joe, I don't wanna bump anybody." "No, you wouldn't be bumping anybody. We'll just cut Tony's time down." "Joe, I don't wanna be that guy." You're like, "Don't be ridiculous."

   22. JRJoe Rogan1:52

       Oh, I have to dance with you.

   23. CQColin Quinn1:53

       Go on. (laughs)

   24. JRJoe Rogan1:54

       I didn't know you wanted to dance.

   25. CQColin Quinn1:55

       Yeah. (laughs)

   26. JRJoe Rogan1:56

       If you, you wanna dance tonight?

   27. CQColin Quinn1:57

       No, I gotta leave, um, go to Seattle tonight.

   28. JRJoe Rogan1:59

       What the fuck?

   29. CQColin Quinn2:00

       I gotta go. (laughs) I would love to, yeah.

   30. JRJoe Rogan2:02

       Are you, are you performing tonight in Seattle?
2. 15:00 – 30:00

   (laughs) …

   1. CQColin Quinn15:00

      on- But I've used teleprompters on shows when I did like one-man shows in New York and, uh, and you can't memorize with a teleprompter. You get lazy, mentally lazy. You can't... Then you go on the road and you're like, "Uh, uh..." You have to-

   2. JRJoe Rogan15:14

      (laughs)

   3. CQColin Quinn15:14

      You think you'd say it every night, you memorize it, you can't. It's an interesting psychological, uh, thing.

   4. JRJoe Rogan15:18

      I know some guys who, uh, lay out sheets of paper on the floor-

   5. CQColin Quinn15:23

      Yeah.

   6. JRJoe Rogan15:23

      ... on the stage with like bullet points.

   7. CQColin Quinn15:26

      I've tried that, yeah.

   8. JRJoe Rogan15:26

      Yeah?

   9. CQColin Quinn15:27

      It doesn't really work that well.

   10. JRJoe Rogan15:28

       It's weird, you got to leave them on the ground.

   11. CQColin Quinn15:29

       The lights are weird.

   12. JRJoe Rogan15:30

       Mm-hmm.

   13. CQColin Quinn15:30

       Yeah, but you can't even see them.

   14. JRJoe Rogan15:32

       Mm. Do you go on stage with glasses on?

   15. CQColin Quinn15:35

       No.

   16. JRJoe Rogan15:36

       That-

   17. CQColin Quinn15:36

       This is-

   18. JRJoe Rogan15:36

       That would help.

   19. CQColin Quinn15:37

       This is one of the first times I've been in glasses in public, so.

   20. JRJoe Rogan15:40

       Really?

   21. CQColin Quinn15:41

       I hope the crow- Well, I wanted people to take me seriously during the interview.

   22. JRJoe Rogan15:44

       (laughs)

   23. CQColin Quinn15:44

       And it's kind of a vibe. You know what I mean?

   24. JRJoe Rogan15:46

       It's a vibe. It's hot on chicks. I don't know why.

   25. CQColin Quinn15:50

       Yes, I agree.

   26. JRJoe Rogan15:51

       A girl who doesn't see that good for whatever reason (laughs) ...

   27. CQColin Quinn15:55

       (laughs) For whatever reason.

   28. JRJoe Rogan15:56

       ... they just seem smarter. (laughs)

   29. CQColin Quinn15:57

       Hey, for whatever reason. Yeah, there's something intense. That only became in the '70s. That became like a thing.

   30. JRJoe Rogan16:02

       Really?
3. 30:00 – 45:00

   Good move. …

   1. CQColin Quinn30:00

      legs splayed like this and stand and read my karate magazine.

   2. JRJoe Rogan30:04

      Good move.

   3. CQColin Quinn30:05

      Who's gonna read a karate magazine unless there's a karate... Then I ran into Owen... Do you know Owen Smith? He's a comedian.

   4. JRJoe Rogan30:11

      Yes.

   5. CQColin Quinn30:12

      From Baltimore. I t- I somehow mentioned that story one night to him, and he goes-... he goes, "I took you one better." He goes, "I bought (laughs) a karate trophy, and I used to walk around the streets holding my karate trophy."

   6. JRJoe Rogan30:28

      (laughs) That's hilarious.

   7. CQColin Quinn30:30

      So while you were studying martial arts, seriously, just remember there was a whole bunch of lazy pricks that bought magazines and trophies just so, we were like, stolen valor of martial arts.

   8. JRJoe Rogan30:40

      You gotta, pe- people find a workaround.

   9. CQColin Quinn30:42

      You know? (laughs)

   10. JRJoe Rogan30:42

       There was, a lot of dudes walked around with, uh, kung fu outfits on.

   11. CQColin Quinn30:45

       Yeah. Yes.

   12. JRJoe Rogan30:47

       With the slippers, the whole, uh, black kung fu outfit with the white collar.

   13. CQColin Quinn30:52

       Abso- absolutely.

   14. JRJoe Rogan30:53

       Yep. Yeah.

   15. CQColin Quinn30:53

       To this day, they still do. And to this day I'm still like, "Oh, I don't want to fuck with that guy." (laughs)

   16. JRJoe Rogan30:58

       Yeah. I- I used to go watch them practice in the park and they were faking martial arts. They, like, it was made up stuff.

   17. CQColin Quinn31:04

       (laughs)

   18. JRJoe Rogan31:04

       They were doing made up things.

   19. CQColin Quinn31:05

       What do you mean?

   20. JRJoe Rogan31:06

       They were doing, the moves were nonsense. It was made up.

   21. CQColin Quinn31:08

       (laughs) And you knew they were made up?

   22. JRJoe Rogan31:10

       100%. Yeah, 100%. They were doing stuff that just, there's no history of this.

   23. CQColin Quinn31:16

       It's crazy.

   24. JRJoe Rogan31:17

       Like, I, like I don't study kung fu, but I n- understand it.

   25. CQColin Quinn31:20

       Right.

   26. JRJoe Rogan31:20

       I know it. I know what it looks like. I've watched it. Thousands of videos on it. I've seen classes. I know, I know what kung fu is.

   27. CQColin Quinn31:27

       Right.

   28. JRJoe Rogan31:27

       You're not doing kung fu. You're f-

   29. CQColin Quinn31:28

       Yeah.

   30. JRJoe Rogan31:28

       ... you're fucking, you're doing some shit you think looks like kung fu and you're telling people that you're a master and you're practicing in the park and you got a bunch of other dumb people that are following you, and there's a lot of that out there.
4. 45:00 – 1:00:00

   Yep. …

   1. JRJoe Rogan45:00

      seedy and there was just junkies on the street.

   2. CQColin Quinn45:03

      Yep.

   3. JRJoe Rogan45:03

      And people with, like, long coats and people yelling at people, and you're like-

   4. CQColin Quinn45:07

      Yep.

   5. JRJoe Rogan45:07

      ... "Yo, this place is nuts." Times Square was a place that everybody avoided.

   6. CQColin Quinn45:11

      That's right.

   7. JRJoe Rogan45:12

      Somehow or another, Times Square became a tourist trap.

   8. CQColin Quinn45:15

      Well, because of Giuliani. Giuliani cleaned up the peep show. There was a law, I guess, where you couldn't have... You had to have, like, 30% legitimate in your peep show.

   9. JRJoe Rogan45:24

      Hmm.

   10. CQColin Quinn45:24

       There was some law that happened where they got rid of all the peep shows.

   11. JRJoe Rogan45:26

       30% legitimate? What does that mean?

   12. CQColin Quinn45:28

       Well, no. 30%, like, of a regular store. Like, you couldn't just have all porn.

   13. JRJoe Rogan45:33

       Oh. (laughs)

   14. CQColin Quinn45:33

       Some obscure law. I don't know what it was.

   15. JRJoe Rogan45:34

       Yeah, sell, sell Joe DeRosa sandwiches.

   16. CQColin Quinn45:36

       But that's basically what they did do. They had to have a legitimate thing and then the porn in the back or something like that.

   17. JRJoe Rogan45:41

       Oh, God.

   18. CQColin Quinn45:42

       And that was in the mid-'90s, and then it got cleaned.

   19. JRJoe Rogan45:44

       Well, they used to have the triple X movie theaters.

   20. CQColin Quinn45:47

       That's right.

   21. JRJoe Rogan45:48

       Where... Do you know? You wanna talk about the lowest class of human being that you could possibly encounter in public?

   22. CQColin Quinn45:53

       Yeah.

   23. JRJoe Rogan45:53

       Guys going to jerk off in a room with other guys jerking off, watching a movie.

   24. CQColin Quinn45:58

       Yeah.

   25. JRJoe Rogan45:59

       (laughs)

   26. CQColin Quinn46:00

       Of course.

   27. JRJoe Rogan46:01

       Just the most degenerate humans available.

   28. CQColin Quinn46:04

       Yes.

   29. JRJoe Rogan46:04

       And this was in Times Square, too.

   30. CQColin Quinn46:06

       Well, it was all over the place.
5. 1:00:00 – 1:05:44

   Wow. That's wild. …

   1. JRJoe Rogan1:00:01

      I don't know. Uh, probably 20 times.

   2. CQColin Quinn1:00:04

      Wow. That's wild.

   3. JRJoe Rogan1:00:04

      I had to get it fixed.

   4. CQColin Quinn1:00:05

      Wow.

   5. JRJoe Rogan1:00:06

      I had to get the inside of it all cleaned up, and it all calcified like a wrestler's ear.

   6. CQColin Quinn1:00:10

      ... wow.

   7. JRJoe Rogan1:00:11

      You know how wrestlers get cal- the calcium?

   8. CQColin Quinn1:00:12

      Yeah, of course.

   9. JRJoe Rogan1:00:13

      You get smashed in the nose enough, what happens is the inside of your nose, all that tissue, swells up and bleeds, and then it gets broken and your septum gets twisted and blocks off-

   10. CQColin Quinn1:00:23

       Yeah.

   11. JRJoe Rogan1:00:23

       ... and then you get, like, calcium deposits inside your nose.

   12. CQColin Quinn1:00:26

       Sure.

   13. JRJoe Rogan1:00:27

       Just like you get in your ears.

   14. CQColin Quinn1:00:28

       Like a cave.

   15. JRJoe Rogan1:00:29

       Like a little, like rocks.

   16. CQColin Quinn1:00:30

       Stalagtites.

   17. JRJoe Rogan1:00:30

       Yeah. Whoa, it was horrible. I couldn't breathe at all.

   18. CQColin Quinn1:00:33

       Wow.

   19. JRJoe Rogan1:00:33

       I had a very nasal voice for a long time until I got it fixed. I, I was like 40 when I got it fixed.

   20. CQColin Quinn1:00:39

       Wow.

   21. JRJoe Rogan1:00:40

       Because I kept breaking it.

   22. CQColin Quinn1:00:41

       Yeah.

   23. JRJoe Rogan1:00:41

       'Cause I was like, "I'm just gonna keep breaking it." It's like, w- what am I gonna do? Like, I br- I broke it, like, three times while I was on NewsRadio.

   24. CQColin Quinn1:00:47

       You did?

   25. JRJoe Rogan1:00:48

       Yeah.

   26. CQColin Quinn1:00:48

       Fighting?

   27. JRJoe Rogan1:00:49

       I was always breaking it. S- sparring or d- just rolling.

   28. CQColin Quinn1:00:52

       Oh.

   29. JRJoe Rogan1:00:52

       You accidentally get a knee to your face.

   30. CQColin Quinn1:00:54

       Yeah.

Episode duration: 2:29:08