Joe Rogan Experience #2146 - Deric Poston

1. 0:00 – 1:21

   Dreaming up a late-night studio near the Comedy Mothership

   1. NANarrator0:00

      (drum roll) Joe Rogan podcast, check it out. The Joe Rogan Experience. Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night. All day. (rock music)

   2. JRJoe Rogan0:12

      Joe Rogan!

   3. DPDeric Poston0:13

      My brother.

   4. JRJoe Rogan0:14

      That's my man. What's happening?

   5. DPDeric Poston0:15

      Let's get it. (laughs)

   6. JRJoe Rogan0:16

      Let's go.

   7. DPDeric Poston0:16

      Joe Rogan.

   8. JRJoe Rogan0:17

      Bro, we've had a million conversations like this, uh, in the green room.

   9. DPDeric Poston0:21

      Yeah.

   10. JRJoe Rogan0:21

       We've already done like a thousand podcasts.

   11. DPDeric Poston0:23

       Th- This is my every night right here.

   12. JRJoe Rogan0:24

       We need a fucking studio in that club. You know? We need to put a podcast studio in that club. I've been thinking about it, but like, we don't have the space for it.

   13. DPDeric Poston0:32

       Yeah, where would it go?

   14. JRJoe Rogan0:33

       It wouldn't go anywhere. There's no place. There's no ... We have ... We used ... It's like very efficient. We have all the space. I don't know. (dishes clanking)

   15. DPDeric Poston0:40

       Yeah, but you gotta put-

   16. JRJoe Rogan0:41

       I think what we need is a apartment. We need an apartment close, (plate clanks) so we can just go right over.

   17. DPDeric Poston0:47

       Go right over.

   18. JRJoe Rogan0:48

       Like, go ... A apartment that's just set up as a studio. When you get in there it's just all studio.

   19. DPDeric Poston0:53

       That would be nice, Joe.

   20. JRJoe Rogan0:54

       Yeah. 'Cause there's so many apartments that are available in that area, right?

   21. NANarrator0:57

       I just got one.

   22. JRJoe Rogan0:58

       Yeah, Jamie just got one.

   23. DPDeric Poston0:59

       (laughs)

   24. NANarrator1:00

       ... get next door so I don't have a neighbor.

   25. JRJoe Rogan1:02

       Oh, that's not a bad idea.

   26. NANarrator1:04

       Yeah.

   27. JRJoe Rogan1:04

       How far away are you from my club?

   28. NANarrator1:05

       Two blocks.

   29. JRJoe Rogan1:06

       Ooh, let's go. Is the nextdoor neighbor open?

   30. NANarrator1:10

       I think they all are.
2. 1:21 – 2:46

   LA vs Austin vibes—downtown LA feels like a survival movie

   1. JRJoe Rogan1:21

      ... see the city. I want as ... I was gonna do that in downtown LA.

   2. DPDeric Poston1:25

      Really?

   3. JRJoe Rogan1:25

      Yeah, but then I went to downtown LA.

   4. DPDeric Poston1:27

      (laughs)

   5. JRJoe Rogan1:27

      I'm like, "Oh my God." And I brought my family, and I brought my daughters when they were young, and I was like, "Oh my God, am I gonna have to kill somebody?" Like, this is c- It was crazy. And this is pre-pandemic, man.

   6. DPDeric Poston1:39

      Yeah.

   7. JRJoe Rogan1:39

      This is before the shit hit the fan. I'm like, people were just pissing all over the place.

   8. DPDeric Poston1:43

      (laughs)

   9. JRJoe Rogan1:43

      It smelled terrible. There was a ... There's some really good donut place that's in downtown LA. So we were like, "Let's go get some donuts. Let's get crazy."

   10. DPDeric Poston1:53

       Yeah.

   11. JRJoe Rogan1:53

       "Let's just go find ..." So, uh, we would up going to the one in Pasadena, 'cause there's a ... Or Glendale? There's one, there's one somewhere else. There's one somewhere else that's also like that. And, uh, we wound up with ... Silverlake? Might be Silv- It was a lot of hippies.

   12. DPDeric Poston2:06

       (laughs)

   13. JRJoe Rogan2:06

       Probably Silv- It was like the, uh, total opposite. I'm, "I'll take hippies all day."

   14. DPDeric Poston2:11

       (laughs)

   15. JRJoe Rogan2:11

       I'll take, like, you know, woke people with fucking green hair all day that are homeless.

   16. DPDeric Poston2:15

       All day over I Am Legend? (laughs)

   17. JRJoe Rogan2:17

       Bro, full on I Am Legend.

   18. DPDeric Poston2:18

       I Am Legend?

   19. JRJoe Rogan2:19

       Full on I Am Legend, yeah. Yeah.

   20. DPDeric Poston2:22

       To go down there and get a donut though is ... It's worth it. LA donuts are the best. It's not even fucking close.

   21. JRJoe Rogan2:26

       Really?

   22. DPDeric Poston2:26

       I think so. Kind of like a New York bagel. There's something about certain breads, I feel like, in certain places that hit different.

   23. JRJoe Rogan2:32

       Bro, when Krispy Kreme's coming outta the do- right outta the oven, it is hard to fuck with anything else.

   24. DPDeric Poston2:36

       Nothing.

   25. JRJoe Rogan2:37

       L- Those glazed ones, the maple glazed, when they're coming right out.

   26. DPDeric Poston2:41

       Maple.

   27. JRJoe Rogan2:41

       Oh ...

   28. DPDeric Poston2:42

       Oh, Joe.

   29. JRJoe Rogan2:43

       So good, so good.

3. 2:46 – 4:28

   Carnivore aftermath: donuts, bread, Hot Cheetos, and snack cravings

   1. DPDeric Poston2:46

      You fucked me up though. I haven't had bread, Joe ... I haven't really had bread, probably maybe twice since we did the carnivore.

   2. JRJoe Rogan2:51

      Good.

   3. DPDeric Poston2:51

      Maybe twice.

   4. JRJoe Rogan2:52

      Good.

   5. DPDeric Poston2:53

      You fucked it up.

   6. JRJoe Rogan2:53

      Every now and then it's okay. Every now and then it's okay. The real problem is when it becomes a part of your diet, when it's a normal part of your diet. When I eat a piece of pizza my body's like, "Yo, what are you doing? Like, relax. We're having a drink. Have a pizza, come on." And then I, I don't eat for a while.

   7. DPDeric Poston3:09

      Yeah.

   8. JRJoe Rogan3:10

      Let it clear out of my system. Then I go back to eating clean. But if you have that as a normal part of your life, it's just like all these things compound, right?

   9. DPDeric Poston3:18

      Yeah.

   10. JRJoe Rogan3:18

       You know, you smoke too many blunts, that compounds. You, you know, eat too much bad food, that can ... Look at that, right out of the oven.

   11. DPDeric Poston3:28

       (gasps)

   12. JRJoe Rogan3:28

       Jamie, what are you doing?

   13. NANarrator3:30

       (laughs)

   14. JRJoe Rogan3:30

       Did you post this?

   15. NANarrator3:31

       Yeah, a long time ago.

   16. JRJoe Rogan3:31

       Oh my God.

   17. DPDeric Poston3:32

       Look at that.

   18. JRJoe Rogan3:33

       Look at that.

   19. NANarrator3:34

       Look at that. At the time of creation.

   20. JRJoe Rogan3:34

       That is just diabetes in food form.

   21. DPDeric Poston3:37

       (laughs)

   22. JRJoe Rogan3:38

       It just makes me want to feel sick. And, like, I'll take that temporary mouth pleasure for hours of feeling like dog shit.

   23. DPDeric Poston3:44

       Yeah. (laughs)

   24. JRJoe Rogan3:46

       (laughs)

   25. NANarrator3:46

       (laughs)

   26. DPDeric Poston3:47

       Yeah, Joe. Oh, it feels so good. Yeah, I ... The bread thing ... Joe, this was the first time in my life I hadn't had Hot Cheetos every day.

   27. JRJoe Rogan3:57

       (laughs) Would you prefer Hot Cheetos over Takis? 'Cause I know a lot of people are very-

   28. DPDeric Poston4:00

       Yeah, love Takis. I'm a, I'm a, uh ... That's the Black in me I think, 'cause I'm a Hot Cheeto. Mexicans love the Takis.

   29. JRJoe Rogan4:05

       Cheetos Takis.

   30. DPDeric Poston4:05

       They love the Takis.
4. 4:28 – 8:52

   Fritos as a firestarter and Joe’s “wolf” appetite vs discipline

   1. JRJoe Rogan4:28

      That's ridiculous. That's ridiculous. You shouldn't be eating that. You know Fritos, those little corn chips?

   2. DPDeric Poston4:33

      Yeah.

   3. JRJoe Rogan4:34

      We used those to start a fire in Alaska.

   4. DPDeric Poston4:37

      (laughs)

   5. JRJoe Rogan4:38

      When we were camping.

   6. DPDeric Poston4:40

      Wait, what?

   7. JRJoe Rogan4:41

      Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Um, one of the dudes that works for my friend Steve Rinella told us that they're very flammable. And I'm like, "Really?" And so we used that to start a fire. We were in, uh, Prince Edwards Island, which is, um ... Prince of Wales Island? Which one? Prince Edwards? Which one, which one's the one in Alaska? Prince Edwards.

   8. NANarrator5:01

      Prince Edwards Island.

   9. JRJoe Rogan5:01

      Prince of Wales, what is that? I don't even know if that's a real place. Prince Edwards, right?

   10. NANarrator5:05

       Prince Edward Island is a Canadian province.

   11. JRJoe Rogan5:07

       Oh. What's the one in Alaska?

   12. NANarrator5:10

       Might be right next to Alaska though. No, it's not. That's the, like, complete opposite side.

   13. JRJoe Rogan5:16

       What is the one that's in Alaska?

   14. NANarrator5:18

       What was the other one you said?

   15. JRJoe Rogan5:19

       It's not Prince Edwards Island?

   16. NANarrator5:20

       No, that one's near Maine.

   17. JRJoe Rogan5:22

       Really?

   18. NANarrator5:22

       That's what the map said.

   19. JRJoe Rogan5:23

       Fuck. I can't remember the island. Anyway, um, the island in Ala- well, s- g- Google, 'cause it's-

   20. NANarrator5:28

       Yeah.

   21. JRJoe Rogan5:28

       ... one of the most rainy places on Earth. B- Bryan Callen and I did a TV show from there, with, uh, with, with Meat Eater, but it rained for seven, eight days, whatever the fuck we were there for.

   22. DPDeric Poston5:39

       Damn.

   23. JRJoe Rogan5:39

       It rained every day.

   24. NANarrator5:40

       Prince of Wales Island.

   25. JRJoe Rogan5:41

       All day.

   26. NANarrator5:41

       What's a Prince of Wales?

   27. JRJoe Rogan5:42

       What's a ... Prince of Wales. Okay, it is Prince of Wales. It rained every day. And one day it didn't rain for, like, 10 hours, and we're like, "Dude, we're gonna start a fucking fire. We're gonna figure out how to start a fire." And so we got, like, sticks and shit, like, that's under everything else.

   28. DPDeric Poston5:57

       Uh-huh.

   29. JRJoe Rogan5:57

       So everything got rained on. Oh, is there video of it?

   30. NANarrator6:01

       Not you guys, but-
5. 8:52 – 12:34

   Green room joy and celebrating killer comedy bits

   1. DPDeric Poston8:52

      Yeah, you can go, bro. We start ... That's my favorite Joe. When Joe starts-

   2. JRJoe Rogan8:55

      Ah.

   3. DPDeric Poston8:55

      ... drinking in the greenroom.

   4. JRJoe Rogan8:56

      (laughs)

   5. DPDeric Poston8:56

      When Joe starts drinking, nigga. Oh, you get going, baby.

   6. JRJoe Rogan9:00

      We start talking shit.

   7. DPDeric Poston9:01

      Oh, it's the best. You start dancing. Oh, bro, it's over.

   8. JRJoe Rogan9:03

      Bro, who has, who has more fun than us? Who has more fun than us?

   9. DPDeric Poston9:06

      Nobody, bro. Oh, come on.

   10. JRJoe Rogan9:07

       Bro, we're in there dancing. We're dancing, like, all the time.

   11. DPDeric Poston9:10

       (sighs)

   12. JRJoe Rogan9:11

       No, no self-consciousness.

   13. DPDeric Poston9:12

       No.

   14. JRJoe Rogan9:12

       Everybody's just having a good time.

   15. DPDeric Poston9:14

       Oh, it's my favorite.

   16. JRJoe Rogan9:15

       God, it's the best place in the world.

   17. DPDeric Poston9:16

       Oh, the music's going.

   18. JRJoe Rogan9:17

       Yeah.

   19. DPDeric Poston9:18

       Oh, the tunes are going, and everybody's going up. It's just ... And you're coming-

   20. JRJoe Rogan9:21

       Yeah.

   21. DPDeric Poston9:21

       ... in from a set, and like ... And then you're coming and everybody's already dancing and, and shitting on, you know, Brian for saying something crazy.

   22. JRJoe Rogan9:26

       (laughs)

   23. DPDeric Poston9:27

       (laughs) And Tony's just roasting them. And you're dying and you're like, "This is the best night of my life, bro."

   24. JRJoe Rogan9:32

       I love when Brian comes offstage and he walks in the room and he goes, "Woo."

   25. DPDeric Poston9:36

       (laughs)

   26. JRJoe Rogan9:36

       'Cause you know we just laid it down.

   27. DPDeric Poston9:38

       Oh, my God.

   28. JRJoe Rogan9:38

       Woo. Bro, when he was doing that WAP bit, when he was ... when he really tightened up that bit, when it was just a ... That bit was just assassination.

   29. DPDeric Poston9:47

       Yeah.

   30. JRJoe Rogan9:48

       That was a bit ... That bit was one of those bits where I would go out there and just sit and watch it. I watched it like ... Shit, I watched that bit 50 times.
6. 12:34 – 14:10

   Moving to Austin during COVID—why comics bet against LA

   1. DPDeric Poston12:34

      Yeah, bro. Also, we feel so like, we were here... The, the just... That we were here, we all came-

   2. JRJoe Rogan12:39

      Yeah.

   3. DPDeric Poston12:39

      ... before it opened. We were here to feel that.

   4. JRJoe Rogan12:42

      Bro, you were an early adopter.

   5. DPDeric Poston12:44

      (laughs) Yo, Joe. I came... I came out-

   6. JRJoe Rogan12:46

      Derek came out here when I wasn't even sure.

   7. DPDeric Poston12:48

      (laughs)

   8. JRJoe Rogan12:48

      I was like, "Damn, Derek just moved here?"

   9. DPDeric Poston12:49

      (laughs)

   10. JRJoe Rogan12:50

       Now, I... There was a lot... I felt like one thing though about this, it's like that's one of the reasons why I felt like I had to do this, 'cause I knew the, all you guys had come out. You guys were coming out here when we were at Vulcan during the lockdown.

   11. DPDeric Poston13:03

       Yep. Thank God for my wife, bro. That was her, her call, dawg. (laughs)

   12. JRJoe Rogan13:06

       Really? That's amazing.

   13. DPDeric Poston13:07

       That was my wife's call. She was look... She saw you guys there. It hadn't even crossed my mind yet. Joe... I was still in pandemic mind of like-

   14. JRJoe Rogan13:13

       Right.

   15. DPDeric Poston13:13

       ... "We're just here."

   16. JRJoe Rogan13:14

       Yeah.

   17. DPDeric Poston13:14

       "This is what it is."

   18. JRJoe Rogan13:14

       That's it.

   19. DPDeric Poston13:14

       And then she said it, she was like, "We're going to Austin, Texas." And I was like, "What?" She's like, "J-... They're up. Everybody's getting up." And I'm like, "Oh." And it right in my... I was like, "What the fuck am I doing?"

   20. JRJoe Rogan13:25

       Yeah.

   21. DPDeric Poston13:25

       "I'm going to Austin, Texas." And moved March 2021.

   22. JRJoe Rogan13:28

       It was crazy because so many people were mad at us. They were mad at us for doing shows. I was like, "Are you out of your fucking mind? Are you gonna just not do shows anymore? You're gonna not talk to people?" Like, what are we doing? Like, how long does this go on? How m... How long does this go on? And in LA, the answer was a year and a half.

   23. DPDeric Poston13:43

       Year and a half, Joe.

   24. JRJoe Rogan13:44

       Out here it was six weeks.

   25. DPDeric Poston13:45

       (laughs)

   26. JRJoe Rogan13:47

       (laughs) They started just shooting guns in the air. "Shut the fuck up." (laughs)

   27. DPDeric Poston13:52

       (laughs)

   28. JRJoe Rogan13:52

       Peop... I saw old people with no masks on out here early on.

   29. DPDeric Poston13:56

       Oh, you could feel it.

   30. JRJoe Rogan13:56

       They were like, "Shut the fuck up."
7. 14:10 – 21:56

   LA crime surge and pandemic tribalism—how fear reshaped behavior

   1. JRJoe Rogan14:10

      Well, I knew it. I felt something. I, I didn't know if they were gonna lock it down for a year, but I knew LA was never gonna be the same, because there was a new attitude about law enforcement that happened after George Floyd.

   2. DPDeric Poston14:21

      Yeah.

   3. JRJoe Rogan14:21

      I'm like, "Oh, this place is in trouble." 'Cause r... when they had those cop cars lit up on fire on the...

   4. DPDeric Poston14:25

      Yeah.

   5. JRJoe Rogan14:25

      Was it on the 110? Is that what it was?

   6. DPDeric Poston14:27

      Yeah, and they were like on fire and like c- cinder blocks and shit.

   7. JRJoe Rogan14:30

      Yeah.

   8. DPDeric Poston14:30

      Yeah.

   9. JRJoe Rogan14:30

      Spray-painted, on fire, smashed everything. They were doing smash-and-grabs everywhere and they were just letting them do it. Like in Beverly Hills-

   10. DPDeric Poston14:38

       Yeah.

   11. JRJoe Rogan14:38

       ... all they were doing was not letting people shop when it was dark out.

   12. DPDeric Poston14:43

       (laughs)

   13. JRJoe Rogan14:43

       That was it. So during the day or at nighttime, everybody just smash-and-grabbed. It was like, there's... The smash-and-grabs on Beverly Hills were insane.

   14. DPDeric Poston14:51

       Yeah.

   15. JRJoe Rogan14:51

       It was everywhere.

   16. DPDeric Poston14:52

       That shit was crazy, bro.

   17. JRJoe Rogan14:53

       Crazy. Crazy. It was also people waiting for people after they were shopping, they were just stealing from them after they would go shopping at the mall in Beverly Hills.

   18. DPDeric Poston15:02

       Yeah.

   19. JRJoe Rogan15:03

       Like nice places in Beverly Hills, nice stores.

   20. DPDeric Poston15:05

       Yeah. West Hollywood people were getting robbed, bro. It was crazy.

   21. JRJoe Rogan15:07

       Bro.

   22. DPDeric Poston15:08

       I was there. I saw it. There's people getting robbed.

   23. JRJoe Rogan15:10

       I saw it. There was a car full of dudes that was parked in front of this gated community and they had no license plate on their car and I was driving in and I remember looking at these dudes and them looking at me. I'm like, "These are not dudes that are up to anything good."

   24. DPDeric Poston15:24

       Yeah.

   25. JRJoe Rogan15:25

       And they have a car with no license plate on and they're outside of this gated community, and they could've been just waiting for the, the thing to go up so they could sneak in behind it, you know?

   26. DPDeric Poston15:35

       Yeah.

   27. JRJoe Rogan15:35

       I don't know what they were doing, but I remember thinking like, "This is going to escalate. You're gonna get more of this." Then I saw a bu... I saw a w... I was passing by this clothing store and I saw these dudes smash the window and run inside. Crazy. In Woodland Hills. In Woodland Hills, it's like the sleepiest, most boring-ass fucking neighborhood.

   28. DPDeric Poston15:55

       That's the... Yeah, that's like where the, the rich... It, it's supposed-

   29. JRJoe Rogan15:57

       Yeah.

   30. DPDeric Poston15:57

       ... to be the nicest.
8. 21:56 – 26:58

   Vaccines, injuries, and media narrative shifts

   1. JRJoe Rogan21:56

      You know when it gets... When it gets 'em is when they get vaccine injured. Chris Cuomo just came out and said he's got a vaccine injury. That guy was pushing that shit on TV forever, and he said he got it (coughs) with his first dose and then he got it again with his second dose. Ladies and gentlemen, I apologize for that cough.

   2. DPDeric Poston22:15

      (laughs)

   3. JRJoe Rogan22:15

      I could have reached for that button, I got lazy.

   4. DPDeric Poston22:17

      (laughs)

   5. JRJoe Rogan22:17

      I could have just reached for that button. I could have just pressed that button.

   6. DPDeric Poston22:20

      Wait, what's a vaccine injury?

   7. JRJoe Rogan22:22

      (sighs) Something happens when you get the COVID shot, you know? And it's not just the COVID shot. There, there's... People have adverse reactions to all kinds of medications, right? But particularly to this one, this is one... The, the first time they ever l- rolled something out to billions of people worldwide, and some people had terrible reactions. And one of 'em apparently was Chris Cuomo.

   8. DPDeric Poston22:46

      Interesting.

   9. JRJoe Rogan22:46

      (smacks lips) Yeah, people get, uh, heart palpitations, bad blood work, they get clots. Like there's, there's a bunch of different confirmed side effects that happen. Myocarditis is some. Also, there's a thing about... You're, you're supposed to... When you inject them, you're supposed to aspirate, which means when you inject it into the muscle, 'cause it's intramuscular, you're supposed to pull back the syringe to make sure that you're not hitting a blood vessel, and they never do that. Even on the president. If you watch the president get vaccinated on TV... And I don't think he got vaccinated on TV.

   10. DPDeric Poston23:19

       What do you mean, Joe? (laughs)

   11. JRJoe Rogan23:19

       I don't think they took that chance. I think there was salt water in that thing.

   12. DPDeric Poston23:23

       Joe, don't say that.

   13. JRJoe Rogan23:23

       Yeah, I thi- I don't think they-

   14. DPDeric Poston23:24

       I took that shit for real. (laughs)

   15. JRJoe Rogan23:26

       Well, I'm not s- I'm just saying on TV. I'm sure they probably vaccinated him.

   16. DPDeric Poston23:30

       Yeah.

   17. JRJoe Rogan23:30

       Did you have a side effect?

   18. DPDeric Poston23:32

       Oh, I was sick as a dog.

   19. JRJoe Rogan23:33

       Yeah?

   20. DPDeric Poston23:33

       Wife was fine. I was a... I was fucked up.

   21. JRJoe Rogan23:35

       What did it do to you?

   22. DPDeric Poston23:36

       Just, it felt like I got into a car wreck or something. I was just completely sore, really sick. I remember being crazy tired.

   23. JRJoe Rogan23:41

       Hmm.

   24. DPDeric Poston23:42

       Just tired.

   25. JRJoe Rogan23:42

       For how long?

   26. DPDeric Poston23:43

       Like two days.

   27. JRJoe Rogan23:44

       Hmm, that's not bad.

   28. DPDeric Poston23:45

       And then it bounced right back, you know. But it, but it felt like... Where it was like, "Oh man, Derek, you're sick," like...

   29. JRJoe Rogan23:50

       That's the-

   30. DPDeric Poston23:50

       ... "Holy shit."
9. 26:58 – 47:47

   Austin comedy as a destination: Kill Tony, touring stars, and meritocracy

   1. DPDeric Poston26:58

      Shows are nowhere near as hot. I've been ar- there's no... They are not as close to as hot as these shows in Austin, Texas.

   2. JRJoe Rogan27:04

      No.

   3. DPDeric Poston27:04

      Anywhere you go, Joe, you can... In a three-block span, I can get up six times.

   4. JRJoe Rogan27:08

      Yeah.

   5. DPDeric Poston27:09

      Sold out shows, all hot. Great lineups. Um, i- m- y- that i- that iron sharpens iron feeling-

   6. JRJoe Rogan27:15

      Oh, my God.

   7. DPDeric Poston27:15

      ... of watching, when I got to watch when I was at the store parking cars and-

   8. JRJoe Rogan27:18

      Yeah.

   9. DPDeric Poston27:18

      ... door guy-ing, and I got to see that.

   10. JRJoe Rogan27:20

       Yeah.

   11. DPDeric Poston27:20

       So that's how I know that, oh, this is happening here.

   12. JRJoe Rogan27:22

       Yeah. We set up a destination. It's a destination. For comics, it's like they're gonna go visit Disneyland. And everybody's welcome, so they come all the time.

   13. DPDeric Poston27:29

       Yep.

   14. JRJoe Rogan27:29

       And so, you know, like last week, we had Colin Quinn and Chris Distefano, and Shane's in there all the time, and Schultz when he comes by.

   15. DPDeric Poston27:37

       Yep.

   16. JRJoe Rogan27:37

       And Dave when he's in town, and it's like-

   17. DPDeric Poston27:39

       And then surprised with, like-

   18. JRJoe Rogan27:40

       Ugh.

   19. DPDeric Poston27:40

       ... Howie Mandel or some shit.

   20. JRJoe Rogan27:41

       Yeah.

   21. DPDeric Poston27:41

       You're like, "What the fuck?" Howie doing here?

   22. JRJoe Rogan27:43

       Yeah, yeah, yeah. Ron White's there all the time.

   23. DPDeric Poston27:45

       (sighs)

   24. JRJoe Rogan27:45

       It's amazing. It's amazing. We're lucky as shit, man. But it's almost like the universe wanted this to happen, 'cause all the things that had to be in place for this to, to, to happen-

   25. DPDeric Poston27:55

       Yeah.

   26. JRJoe Rogan27:55

       ... they're all just sorta, like, ev- you know how when you're driving and you just keep hitting green lights?

   27. DPDeric Poston27:59

       (laughs)

   28. JRJoe Rogan27:59

       Like, the, uh, light's red, but as you're pulling up, like, "Do I have to slow down?" No, green light.

   29. DPDeric Poston28:03

       (laughs)

   30. JRJoe Rogan28:03

       Bam, let's go.
10. 47:47 – 58:02

    Building the Mothership: history of the venue and a club run for comics

    1. JRJoe Rogan47:47

       So when everybody was out here early, you know, I, I had gone through this thing where I had the first club and the, the, the, the deal fell apart, the Cult House.

    2. DPDeric Poston47:57

       The Cult House.

    3. JRJoe Rogan47:57

       Yeah. Goddamn, I'm glad we didn't get that one. That would have ruined everything.

    4. DPDeric Poston48:01

       Yeah, that would not have been as...

    5. JRJoe Rogan48:03

       No.

    6. DPDeric Poston48:03

       'Cause the placement of this one.

    7. JRJoe Rogan48:05

       It's perfect. The fact that it's on that maniac street.

    8. DPDeric Poston48:08

       Yeah.

    9. JRJoe Rogan48:09

       Yeah, that street's alive, dude.

    10. DPDeric Poston48:10

        Yeah.

    11. JRJoe Rogan48:11

        That street's alive.

    12. DPDeric Poston48:11

        When you... Right, I like that, 'cause as an audience member, when you get there-

    13. JRJoe Rogan48:14

        Mm-hmm.

    14. DPDeric Poston48:14

        ... you're like-

    15. JRJoe Rogan48:15

        Yeah.

    16. DPDeric Poston48:15

        ... you're now awake. You don't get to wander in. Like it's not in a mall or some shit. It's like, "No, you're awake now."

    17. JRJoe Rogan48:20

        But when the deal fell through with the Cult place and then we walked into that movie theater, when it was a movie theater still-

    18. DPDeric Poston48:25

        Mm-hmm.

    19. JRJoe Rogan48:25

        ... I remember walking in there going, "Oh, shit." Like, "Okay, so this is it." It was so clear. It was like you hear a sound in the distance of the direction you're supposed to go to. You hear boom. Like, "Okay, here we go." That's how it felt. It really felt like that. It felt like, "Goddamn, man, this place is alive." This place has like... It's got memories baked into it.

    20. DPDeric Poston48:49

        Yes. Stevie Ray Vaughan.

    21. JRJoe Rogan48:51

        Stevie Ray Vaughan. Steve Ray Vaughan was on that stage. Willie Nelson was on that stage.

    22. DPDeric Poston48:54

        S- Willie Nelson was on that stage?

    23. JRJoe Rogan48:55

        Yeah, man. All those dudes in the green room, all those posters are in the green room.

    24. DPDeric Poston48:58

        Yeah.

    25. JRJoe Rogan48:59

        Those are all real shows from the Ritz.... yeah.

    26. DPDeric Poston49:02

        I did not know that.

    27. JRJoe Rogan49:03

        Yeah, man. A lot, a lot of bands played there, a lot of bands. Yeah.

    28. DPDeric Poston49:08

        So you could feel it in the walls.

    29. JRJoe Rogan49:09

        There's a lot of things happen in that place. It used to be a pool hall, it used to be a nudie movie theater at one point in time.

    30. DPDeric Poston49:15

        Oh, there's jizz in there, bro.
11. 58:02 – 1:24:17

    Crafting stand-up: writing through bombs, studying tape, and the “belts” system

    1. JRJoe Rogan58:02

       Having Kill Tony in a town changes the town, because now all that... There's all these temptations to go down the road of fuckery when you're first on stage.

    2. DPDeric Poston58:11

       Mm-hmm.

    3. JRJoe Rogan58:11

       You wanna try to, like, make yourself out to be something you wish you were. You want people to think you're smart. You want people to think you're cool. And if you have five minutes, sometimes five minutes is too much in the beginning. You really don't deserve five minutes.

    4. DPDeric Poston58:24

       (laughs)

    5. JRJoe Rogan58:24

       You deserve a minute.

    6. DPDeric Poston58:25

       (laughs) Just think-

    7. JRJoe Rogan58:26

       You deserve one minute. There should be a bunch of people doing one minute. And then it should be like belts. Like, you're a white belt. You just started out. Okay, you've been doing comedy six months, eight months, maybe you're ready for your blue belt. Depends on how much you're getting on stage. And then a couple years after that, now you're a purple belt. Now you're opening up for really good comics-

    8. DPDeric Poston58:43

       Mm-hmm.

    9. JRJoe Rogan58:43

       ... when they're on the road. You know, this guy's in town, you're gonna open for him.

    10. DPDeric Poston58:46

        Yep.

    11. JRJoe Rogan58:46

        Colin Quinn wants you to open for him. Oh, shit, now you're purple belt. Now you start going on the road as a middle act. Now you're a brown belt. You know, now you might have 20 murderous minutes, you know? A min- you might be doing stand-up six, seven years. You're a brown belt now. And then eventually, you move into headlining, and then you get your black belt. And then you realize like, "Oh, people are coming to see me. Okay. (exhales) I gotta go to work."

    12. DPDeric Poston59:10

        (laughs)

    13. JRJoe Rogan59:10

        "You know, they're coming to see me."

    14. DPDeric Poston59:11

        That's a different thing.

    15. JRJoe Rogan59:12

        You have to be like, "Sit down." You know? Like, i- it has to take pre-... Like, I will run away from a conversation if I get an idea, 'cause I know they're slippery. They're slippery.

    16. DPDeric Poston59:21

        Yeah.

    17. JRJoe Rogan59:21

        They slip through your fingers sometimes. Sometimes you just have a great idea, you're like, "Ah. Uh..." Like, my family gets it. My wife gets it. I go, "Hang on, I got an idea. I have an idea." I just have to say, "I have an idea," and everybody leaves me room, and I just run away. I run away so no one can talk to me, and then I grab my phone, and I just start either talking into it, which is best because then I can keep it quicker, or I start writing it.

    18. DPDeric Poston59:41

        That's beautiful, bro.

    19. JRJoe Rogan59:42

        Yeah.

    20. DPDeric Poston59:42

        I've seen you do that, where you're just completely... (whoosh)

    21. JRJoe Rogan59:44

        You know what Neal Brennan said to me once? He said, "I think of, uh, my notebook as like a net that I catch my ideas in." I was like, "Ooh."

    22. DPDeric Poston59:53

        Wow.

    23. JRJoe Rogan59:53

        Ooh, Neal Brennan's a smart motherfucker. That's a great, that's a great quote.

    24. DPDeric Poston59:58

        That is, 'cause it's-

    25. JRJoe Rogan59:58

        'Cause it's exactly what it is. It's a net.

    26. DPDeric Poston1:00:00

        The moment you do the thing where you're like, "Oh," you think of something and are like, "I'm gonna write it down later."

    27. JRJoe Rogan1:00:03

        Yeah.

    28. DPDeric Poston1:00:04

        It's gone.

    29. JRJoe Rogan1:00:04

        Bro, you know why I've been thinking about going to Android? 'Cause Samsung phones, when you, um... if you record your sets-

    30. DPDeric Poston1:00:11

        Yeah.

Episode duration: 3:02:33