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Joe Rogan Experience #2187 - Adam Sandler

Adam Sandler is an actor, comedian, and producer known for his work in films like "Happy Gilmore," "Spaceman," and "Uncut Gems." Look for his new Netflix comedy special "Love You" on August 27. https://www.netflix.com/title/81757746 This episode is brought to you by ZipRecruiter. 4 out of 5 employers who post on ZipRecruiter get a quality candidate within the first day. Try ZipRecruiter FOR FREE at https://www.ziprecruiter.com/rogan?utm_source=radio.acq%7Cdglem%7Ccmp-youtube%7Cadg-yt_rogan%7Ccr-link

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Aug 13, 20242h 17mWatch on YouTube ↗

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  1. 0:00 – 1:56

    Reuniting in Austin and reminiscing about early comedy days

    1. AS

      (drum roll) Joe Rogan podcast, check it out.

    2. NA

      The Joe Rogan Experience.

    3. Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day. (energetic music plays) Hello, Alex. I'm with the Joe.

    4. JR

      Good to see you, buddy. What's going on?

    5. AS

      I'm happy to s-... I'm so happy to be here, buddy. Thanks for-

    6. JR

      I'm happy to have you here.

    7. AS

      I, uh, I was excited to see you. We know each other a long time. And, uh, and, um, I, I was ex- excited to come to Austin, of course.

    8. JR

      We were just talking about how Zookeeper was 14 years ago.

    9. AS

      I, I, it's shocking.

    10. JR

      Like, how?

    11. AS

      Yeah.

    12. JR

      How? (laughs)

    13. AS

      I, I know. I hate that.

    14. JR

      Time just fucking flies by, man. (laughs)

    15. AS

      It's terrible. It's terrible. It's, that, that was a fun time, though. That's k-

    16. JR

      Oh, yeah.

    17. AS

      KJ was so excited. That was a-

    18. JR

      It was very fun.

    19. AS

      Yeah.

    20. JR

      That was very fun.

    21. AS

      I re-

    22. JR

      Yeah.

    23. AS

      I, uh, um, you and KJ st-... With Sussie.

    24. JR

      Yeah.

    25. AS

      Right?

    26. JR

      Yeah.

    27. AS

      That's how you guys, that's, oh, you guys-

    28. JR

      I've known Kevin for 30 something years.

    29. AS

      Yeah.

    30. JR

      I've known him forever.

  2. 1:56 – 5:22

    Long Island clubs and the comics who were impossible to follow

    1. AS

      Uh, I, I, first, one of the first comedy clubs I watched, I think I saw Carol Leifer at the East Side Comedy Club, and my sister lived in Huntington. A- and, uh, she said, "Do you wanna go see a..." it wasn't my first, but it was like first couple, and she said, "Do you wanna see a comedian? Uh, there's a club around here." I said, "Yeah, yeah," and I sat in the back. I th- I think it, I think I might've been like 15 or something, 16.

    2. JR

      Wow.

    3. AS

      And I, and I saw, uh, Carol Leifer kill for like an hour, I think. That was exciting. That, that club was rocking.

    4. JR

      Yeah. It's gone though, right? There's, are there good clubs in Long Island now? Like, what's that-

    5. AS

      Oh, uh, jeez, man, I don't know what's happening.

    6. JR

      There was always Governor's.

    7. AS

      Governor's was great.

    8. JR

      That always existed.

    9. AS

      Yes. I remember there was a few bars that were comedy clubs that I used to do there, I just don't remember the names right now. But back in the day, when I was young, I would go out to the island. Governor's, I don't think I got on there much. Maybe a couple times when I was young. That was kind of a rocking club.

    10. JR

      Oh, yeah.

    11. AS

      Steve-O. Wasn't Steve... Do you remember Steve-O? For me-

    12. JR

      Steve... No.

    13. AS

      He was a-

    14. JR

      I know Steve-O, the Jackass guy.

    15. AS

      Yeah. You know Jackass. No, there was another guy, Steve-O, who was a funny comic. And, uh, John Mulrooney. You remember Mulrooney?

    16. JR

      Sure, yeah.

    17. AS

      I remember he was kinda huge out there.

    18. JR

      He used to be a cop, right?

    19. AS

      I think so.

    20. JR

      Yeah.

    21. AS

      I think so. He was a... I remember Mulrooney was by far, him and Kevin Meaney were the two guys you didn't want to go after. I remember Mulrooney would just destroy a room. He was so loose and would dominate the room and then they bring you up and you're like, "Oh, goodness gracious."

    22. JR

      I saw Kevin Meaney once at Catch a Rising Star in, uh, in Cambridge.

    23. AS

      Mm-hmm.

    24. JR

      And it was insanity. It was when he was at his peak, absolute peak. I wasn't even thinking about doing comedy then.

    25. AS

      Uh-huh.

    26. JR

      I was just a comedy fan.

    27. AS

      Right.

    28. JR

      And I went with a friend of mine from high school. I think we were both like 18. And we went and we saw him just fucking destroy for an hour, to the point-

    29. AS

      (laughs)

    30. JR

      ... where I, I got out of there, it was like I had an ab workout. I was in pain.

  3. 5:22 – 6:57

    Kevin Meaney’s peak, career changes, and what early encouragement can do

    1. AS

      I'll tell you, I d-... I, I did a Boston Clu- Comedy Connection when I was 17. I ate it. I came offstage-

    2. JR

      (laughs)

    3. AS

      I mean, I bombed and my dad was there watching.

    4. JR

      (laughs)

    5. AS

      It was a terrible feeling. And, uh, and, um, e- even the, uh, emcee, who I don't remember, when I came offstage (laughs) after eating it, I'm walking... You know that awful feeling of walking through the crowd-

    6. JR

      Oh, yeah.

    7. AS

      ... and they're all looking at you like, "Jesus, dude, what-"

    8. JR

      (laughs)

    9. AS

      And, and then the fucking emcee stopped me. He goes, "Adam, Adam." And I turn around and, you know, with your head spinning and shit, I go, y-... You know, I look at the guy, he goes, "Class clown?" And I go, I nod my head like, "Yes." He goes, "Maybe stick with that place." Pah!... ha, laughing there-

    10. JR

      Oof.

    11. AS

      ... as I go, "Okay." You know, I fucking walked off, and then I went into the dressing room, 'cause I was, wanted to hide.

    12. JR

      (laughs)

    13. AS

      And Meany, Meany, "You funny kid," blah, blah, blah. He said some nice shit to me I always remembered. Oh, that Kevin Meaney, fucking good dude, man, he, he was lifting me up.

    14. JR

      Yeah, some encouragement from a, a real comedian when you're just starting out can go a long way.

    15. AS

      Yeah, man.

    16. JR

      'Cause it's so, in the beginning, it's so shaky. You don't know-

    17. AS

      Sh-

    18. JR

      ... if it's gonna work out. Like-

    19. AS

      Yes, yes, yes.

    20. JR

      ... what am I doing?

    21. AS

      Oh, you feel, you go home at night head spinning.

    22. JR

      What am I doing to myself?

    23. AS

      Yes.

    24. JR

      Why am I doing this? (laughs)

    25. AS

      Yes, yes. It's fucking insane. It truly is the sickest feeling.

    26. JR

      Ugh.

    27. AS

      And then there's the days or nights you go on stage, and your shit's, you're not doing good. The cr- you're eating it, but you have a confidence, and you're like, "I'm pretty good at this. Even though I'm fucking eating it."

    28. JR

      Right.

    29. AS

      "I, I feel pretty good right now."

    30. JR

      (laughs) You feel like this is, "I'm gonna figure this out."

  4. 6:57 – 10:51

    Pandemic comfort movies, The Zohan sequel question, and aging into fitness reality

    1. JR

      Your movies kept my family sane through the beginning of the pandemic.

    2. AS

      That's-

    3. JR

      We, we went on an Adam Sandler run, where like we watched, uh, basically every, uh, we, the only one we didn't watch is Little Nicky.

    4. AS

      (laughs)

    5. JR

      We didn't, for whatever reason, we never got to that one.

    6. AS

      (laughs)

    7. JR

      'Cause we, we watched other ones like Tour... We, I watched The Zohan, I might've just seen The Zohan 20 times.

    8. AS

      Wow.

    9. JR

      I fucking love-

    10. AS

      Wow.

    11. JR

      ... that movie.

    12. AS

      Thank you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That was-

    13. JR

      Such a funny movie. Why didn't you ever do a second one?

    14. AS

      That's fucking, always talked about it. I mean-

    15. JR

      Dude-

    16. AS

      ... the, the-

    17. JR

      It's a no-brainer. It would-

    18. AS

      It'd be a little-

    19. JR

      ... blow out of a tough sale now.

    20. AS

      ... a, right now, right? (laughs)

    21. JR

      (laughs)

    22. AS

      We'd have to wait a minute.

    23. JR

      (laughs)

    24. AS

      (clears throat)

    25. JR

      Put that one on the shelf for a little bit. (laughs)

    26. AS

      Yeah. (laughs) Oh, we had to put that one on the shelf a bunch of times when we were about to do it, 'cause shit would go on. We'd be like-

    27. JR

      Oh.

    28. AS

      ... "Maybe it's a tough time to do it right now." And then we just, we got it, and we did it. We, we, we, the intention was good to try to say let's try to get some piece out there. Uh, but, y- um, and then another part of it is that I'll never fucking be in that shape again.

    29. JR

      Mm.

    30. AS

      I c- I don't think I could ever do that. And then, uh-

  5. 10:51 – 14:29

    Sustainable training and diet: cheat days, intermittent fasting, and ‘Skinny Cow’ math

    1. JR

      Well, she sounds like a good coach.

    2. AS

      She's good, yeah, she's, she's-

    3. JR

      Good motivator.

    4. AS

      ... saying the right shit to me.

    5. JR

      Saying the right thing. (laughs)

    6. AS

      Yeah, yeah, she-

    7. JR

      Staying the right stuff.

    8. AS

      She's right, everything she says, she's r- I, I have a, uh, a thought where I've s- I, it's, I don't promise her. I go, "Let me think about that. That's a good idea."

    9. JR

      The whole thing is just not overdoing it in the beginning. Starting slow where it's maintainable, and then-

    10. AS

      Uh-huh.

    11. JR

      ... slowly build up. That's the key.

    12. AS

      So you give yourself new goals? What, when, when you working on-

    13. JR

      Well, I never stop, but v- I mean, when you get started.

    14. AS

      Yeah.

    15. JR

      And the b- the thing is like people try to go too hard, like, "Oh my God, I'm outta shape. I'm gonna run fucking 10 miles, and I'm gonna lift weights, and then I'm gonna do-"

    16. AS

      Yeah.

    17. JR

      And then you're too tired.

    18. AS

      Yeah.

    19. JR

      And then you're so fucking sore in the morning, like, "I can't keep this up."

    20. AS

      Yeah.

    21. JR

      The whole-

    22. AS

      Yeah.

    23. JR

      ... key is just give your body enough where it's, it's pushing it...... but it's not exhausted. You're not breaking your body down.

    24. AS

      Right.

    25. JR

      You're just strengthening it slowly.

    26. AS

      That's good.

    27. JR

      You gotta get sick the same way... Or you gotta get better the same way you got sick.

    28. AS

      Uh-huh.

    29. JR

      Right? You got sick over time.

    30. AS

      Yeah.

  6. 14:29 – 16:52

    Basketball as cardio, martial arts curiosity, and the flexibility problem

    1. AS

      You don't, you don't hate that at all. That is the best fe-... I think that's the only thing I got that... Uh, you, you, you, you fight. That, that's fucking fun, right?

    2. JR

      Martial arts are fun, yeah.

    3. AS

      Martial arts are fun. K- KJ always f-... I never even th-... One time, KJ, we left a hotel, and he, I think he just came from fighting with one of the guys who were te- teaching him some shit. And he, uh, was so riled up from it, he put me in some fucking crazy hold ou-... outta nowhere.

    4. JR

      (laughs)

    5. AS

      We were walk-... Uh, we were going to dinner. All of a sudden, he came at me. I was like, "Holy shit." And he fucking grabbed me, twisted me around, had me in some weird hold.

    6. JR

      (laughs)

    7. AS

      I said, "Oh, okay. He's just letting me know he can destroy me."

    8. JR

      (laughs)

    9. AS

      But, uh... (laughs) But I remember just going, "Yeah that's, that's fucking something I should get into, man." But I just can't... I'm not flexible at all. You f-... You're very flexible, huh?

    10. JR

      Yeah.

    11. AS

      That helps.

    12. JR

      Well, I started stretching before I hit puberty.

    13. AS

      Mm-hmm.

    14. JR

      That's the big thing. Or during puberty, really. So it's like while your body's thickening, you know, you're, you're stretching-

    15. AS

      Keeping it loose.

    16. JR

      ... and that, that-

    17. AS

      Yeah.

    18. JR

      ... makes a giant difference.

    19. AS

      I never... I... By the way, KJ, with being flexible, is very odd. He can put the hands on.

    20. JR

      Yeah.

    21. AS

      He's fucking weirdly-

    22. JR

      He's a very athletic guy.

    23. AS

      Goodness, yeah.

    24. JR

      He just eats like a fucking army.

    25. AS

      (laughs)

    26. JR

      (laughs)

    27. AS

      He does get excited.

    28. JR

      Yeah.

    29. AS

      K-... He... I sometimes, when we were young, I'd say, "Tell me your, uh, McDonald's order." And he'd be like, "Okay. Three Quarter Pounders, three Big Macs." Like, whatever the fuck it, it was.

    30. JR

      Oh, he goes hard.

  7. 16:52 – 21:07

    Chris Farley’s physicality, NewsRadio memories, and Sandler’s brief kickboxing experiment

    1. AS

      You know who did that to me too? Farley. (clears throat) Farley, we were in the hallway on s- on, at Saturday Night Live. Outta nowhere... Oh no, we were at a fucking hotel. And he came at me real fast, put me, grabbed me, put me in some shit, pulled hard, and I felt every part of my body crack. And then, uh... Then Farley laughed. And just like with Kevin, they kinda looked at you like, "I could fuck you up if I," (laughs) "if I wanted to."

    2. JR

      (laughs) Farley was a big dude too.

    3. AS

      He was a big boy. He was like maybe 5'8", 5 s-... Not, not-

    4. JR

      But he was like 5'8" wide too.

    5. AS

      He was wide.

    6. JR

      Yeah.

    7. AS

      F- fucking athlete though, moved nice.

    8. JR

      Well, when he moved around on stage-

    9. AS

      Yes, yes.

    10. JR

      ... you know, when he moved around on SNL, he, he was-

    11. AS

      Yeah.

    12. JR

      ... fucking... That was part of the thing is he was so explosive.

    13. AS

      Oh yeah, man.

    14. JR

      Like part of the funny in him was this-

    15. AS

      Yes.

    16. JR

      ... "fucking insane!"

    17. AS

      Yes, yes, yeah.

    18. JR

      But he, he had this explosion inside-

    19. AS

      Absolutely.

    20. JR

      ... of him that could get out.

    21. AS

      Yeah.

    22. JR

      I only met him once.

    23. AS

      You did meet him?

    24. JR

      Yeah.

    25. AS

      When?

    26. JR

      I met him on the set of News Radio, and he was-

    27. AS

      Oh yeah.

    28. JR

      ... in the middle, the throes of addiction. So he was-

    29. AS

      Ah.

    30. JR

      He was gray like wet cardboard.

  8. 21:07 – 30:19

    Standup returns, building an hour, and Rogan’s live-special overpreparation

    1. GU

      So how was, uh, working on the special? I saw you in Vegas. I saw you stand up in Vegas.

    2. AS

      I know you did.

    3. GU

      It was very funny, man.

    4. AS

      Thank you, buddy.

    5. GU

      Very funny. I, I-

    6. AS

      I really enjoyed it.

    7. GU

      I appreciate it, man. I, I, I had, uh, I had a great time making the special. I had a great... I have a great time on the road. I can't believe it. You know, I fucking quit doing standup for, you know, like, 20 years or something.

    8. AS

      What made you want to get back?

    9. GU

      Uh, I think I was doing Grown Ups and, uh, Rock and Spade and Schneider and KJ were always talking about, "Uh, next weekend I'm going to Niagara Falls." And I'd be like, "These guys are all fucking having fun on the road." And, and I, and I, and then I think Apatow was doing Carnegie Hall, he was hosting something, and he said, "You want to, uh, do some standup again?" And I just go, "Yeah, yeah. Let me do that." And I, I did it just to make sure that I fucking put together 15 minutes of something. That got me back into it.

    10. AS

      And did you just piece it together by doing small sets or did you... How did you write it out?

    11. GU

      I was-

    12. AS

      ... out?

    13. GU

      ... I was... I think maybe I did couple of improvs or something. Like, the, uh... Maybe, maybe I went to the Improv a couple times. But mostly from doing Letterman. I used to do Letterman and do two segments. So I'd fucking sit down with my buddies, write jokes and just go out there with jokes and kind of trusted that, "Yeah, that's a good joke." And I think I started doing that with standup, too. Just going, "Ah, this is pretty good. Let me just do it."

    14. AS

      And then, like, when did you start booking gigs?

    15. GU

      I did the same shit. I called the guy, this, this, this great guy whose daughter was going to school with mine. He would talk about booking acts and shit. I said, "I'm, uh, I was thinking of doing standup again. You want to book me some shows?" And then he just booked, like, a 10-city tour for me. And I said, "All right. I better fucking put an hour together for this."

    16. AS

      Wow. So how did you... What... How'd you put the hour together? Did you go to the Improv? Did you go-

    17. GU

      Improv.

    18. AS

      ... to the Store? Where'd you go?

    19. GU

      A couple times at the Store, the Improv. Uh, I would drive out of town, you know, the Valley, uh, maybe an hour-

    20. AS

      Like the Ha Ha?

    21. GU

      That kind of shit. Yes, yes.

    22. AS

      Yeah.

    23. GU

      A- anybody-

    24. AS

      Flappers.

    25. GU

      ... my... Exactly, Flappers. Flapper's a good spot to-

    26. AS

      Good spot.

    27. GU

      ... try shit out.

    28. AS

      Yeah.

    29. GU

      Um, yeah. I just did a bunch of... Maybe I went down to the Comedy and Magic Club. Is that still around?

    30. AS

      Yeah.

  9. 30:19 – 33:12

    How Sandler’s movies start: premises, collaboration, and critics vs. audience love

    1. JR

      Yeah. When you do movies, d- do you just come up with a premise first? Like, when you d- decide to do a film-

    2. AS

      Yeah.

    3. JR

      ... like if you decide to do Happy Gilmore or-

    4. AS

      Yeah.

    5. JR

      How do you, how do you, like, make your movies? How do you start?

    6. AS

      That's... I mean, that was just lucky premise. Um, Billy Madison. I remember, I thought, "Oh, this could be great." A guy who... A grown-up who does elementary school again. And that's a great idea of being... I get to be goofy, get to bully these little kids, then all of a sudden connect with these kids and have fun growing up again. So, uh, but part of my head was like, "Well, Rodney did Back to School already, so I- everyone's gonna say I just ripped off Back to School. Rodney went back to college. How the fuck do we, kinda do it a l- step away from that?" And then I called my buddy, Herlihy, who I went to college with, and he writes all the movies with me. Or, or h- he's just a, he's just a great, funny man. And, uh, I've written almost everything with him. And, uh, if he goes, "Ooh, that's good," then we usually go from there and, and we try to fill it out after that. Same thing with Happy Gilmore, Wedding Singer, Bobby Boucher, all that shit. We were just like... Came up with a couple of lines of what we thought was a interesting idea, and then see if we can fill it out.

    7. JR

      It's f- so funny because your films get loved by the public and hated by critics. It's so hilarious.

    8. AS

      Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

    9. JR

      Like, you are the lead. Like, whatever the Rotten Tomatoes Critics score is-

    10. AS

      Yes, yes.

    11. JR

      ... for your films, means zero. It means nothing.

    12. AS

      Right.

    13. JR

      It's only the audience, is what counts.

    14. AS

      That's all we thought about, yeah, yeah.

    15. JR

      'Cause your films are all so fun and so silly. And so, uh, in my opinion, so underappreciated.

    16. AS

      Thank you, man.

    17. JR

      Because, like, this is one of the things I thought about during COVID. Like, we watched it every night. We w- we watched-

    18. AS

      That's cool.

    19. JR

      ... like, every film that you made while everything was locked down.

    20. AS

      Amazing, I love that. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah, my fucking... I don't know, man. We lucked out. We're, we, we, we worked our asses off like you're working your ass off now. Like this is, this is... Took it very serious.

    21. JR

      But you caught like a silly groove.

    22. AS

      Yes, yes.

    23. JR

      That I don't think anybody else has that silly groove like you do.

    24. AS

      I-

    25. JR

      Like you caught that groove with so many movies, man.

    26. AS

      Yeah, yeah, yeah. We d- uh, I mean, when I w- first started, Jim Carey was crushing, Stiller, Mike Meyers, uh, f- a lo- uh, uh, lot of, lot of goofy movies were getting made, and I certainly fucking loved doing 'em. And I love being on set, making those kind of movies. I love fucking editing that shit. M- making... Uh, thinking about kids laughing, I always love that. Thinking of college kids throwing, you know, throwing a tape in, sitting down, watching together. We, we... That, that was on our mind when we did it.

  10. 33:12 – 37:47

    Youthful delusion: faking confidence, terrible notebooks, and the early ‘spark’ problem

    1. JR

      When you first started out, did you wanna be a comic? Did you wanna be a stand-up comic? Or did you always think that you wanted to do films?

    2. AS

      I think that I wanted to get into the movies. I was fucking nuts, cocky as shit, in my own weird way. I think a big thing that happened to me was, I told my friends in high school I was gonna be fucking big. And, uh, I didn't-

    3. JR

      So you had to?

    4. AS

      I had to do it.

    5. JR

      (laughs)

    6. AS

      I told the boys. I was like, "Gonna be fucking great." And then when I would check in with them... I remember being on payphones, calling after even eating it as Catch a Rising Star. I'd call them up, "Fucking did good tonight, probably." "Yeah?" I go, "Yeah." They said, "What'd you say?" I said, "This joke, fucking killed." Meanwhile, I fucking ate it every time.

    7. JR

      (laughs) So you're faking it until you made it?

    8. AS

      I was li-... I, I... But I, I dug a hole for myself.

    9. JR

      (laughs)

    10. AS

      Like, "I'm doing great. Robin Williams said I was fantastic." Robin Williams, I remember, one night, saw me eat it, and I was just like, "Oh man, I ate it in front of Robin Williams?" But I changed the story over, like... "Yeah, he liked that shit." (laughs)

    11. JR

      (laughs)

    12. AS

      Yeah (laughs) .

    13. JR

      There's something that could be very valuable about being delusional and being young.

    14. AS

      Yes (laughs) , very delusional. So stupid, man.

    15. JR

      I, uh, did this, uh, thing once. Uh, do you know Owen Smith?

    16. AS

      Who the hell is he?

    17. JR

      Hilarious, hilarious comedian in LA.

    18. AS

      Mm-hmm.

    19. JR

      But he had this, uh... He's, uh, uh, one of the best comics alive, but he spends a lot of time writing and doing shows-

    20. AS

      I'm sure I know.

    21. JR

      ... unfortunately. Which I think he should be headlining arenas. He was just at my club a few months back. I saw-

    22. AS

      Oh, yeah.

    23. JR

      He's fucking... He's a monster.

    24. AS

      Okay.

    25. JR

      The point is, Owen had this show that he was doing for a while, where it would... You'd find your oldest notebooks.

    26. AS

      Uh-huh.

    27. JR

      And, uh, sit down with him and go over your oldest jokes.

    28. AS

      (laughs)

    29. JR

      And it was so bad. They were so... It was like a 1991 joke book. (laughs)

    30. AS

      Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

  11. 37:47 – 50:46

    Bombing stories, why corporate gigs are brutal, and building the right show lineup

    1. JR

      Oh, yeah.

    2. GU

      ... keep going and sh- keep trying out and keep doing something that, that-

    3. JR

      Mm-hmm.

    4. GU

      But some, some people break through. Uh, it's, yeah, it's interesting, man. I de- definitely had a, an amazing time as a young- youngster. I had a couple of people that I locked in with. We were buddies. We all had that same thing of like, "I'm good, I'm good," even though it wasn't that good yet.

    5. JR

      (laughs) Yeah. Yeah, I came up with Greg Fitzsimmons.

    6. GU

      Yeah, there you go.

    7. JR

      Greg and I were, we were both like confused-

    8. GU

      Uh-huh.

    9. JR

      ... and wondering if we're ever gonna make it, and just-

    10. GU

      Mm-hmm.

    11. JR

      You know, we'd do a lot of road gigs together.

    12. GU

      Yeah.

    13. JR

      And we were hoping-

    14. GU

      Happening.

    15. JR

      But it was, the, the whole idea was only just to like, one day you'd be a professional. That was the goal. Not really have any kind of a career, career, but just like-

    16. GU

      Yes.

    17. JR

      ... one day to make a living telling jokes. That was the dream.

    18. GU

      Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

    19. JR

      Like, you couldn't even ima- like almost, I would see guys that were actual pros-

    20. GU

      Yes.

    21. JR

      ... when I had a bunch of like day jobs, doing construction-

    22. GU

      Mm-hmm. Oh, you did?

    23. JR

      ... and driving limos. Oh, yeah, I did everything.

    24. GU

      Oh, oh, gotcha.

    25. JR

      And so then I would do these nighttime gigs and I'd meet the real pros-

    26. GU

      Yes.

    27. JR

      ... the guys who just made a living doing comedy. I'm like, "What must that be like?"

    28. GU

      Yes, they saunter in at nine o'clock at night.

    29. JR

      Oh my God, yeah, they've been playing golf all day-

    30. GU

      Yes, yes.

  12. 50:46 – 1:07:00

    Rock-star stamina and the music that shaped them: Stones, Van Halen, Aerosmith, Priest

    1. JR

      You know? That's why I admire bands that still ... Like, I saw Guns N' Roses in Greece-

    2. AS

      Yeah?

    3. JR

      ... and they do three hours.

    4. AS

      New shit? Or just-

    5. JR

      No.

    6. AS

      ... just-

    7. JR

      All the classics.

    8. AS

      Yeah, yeah, yeah.

    9. JR

      All the classics, you know?

    10. AS

      Yeah, yeah.

    11. JR

      Welcome to the Jungle, Sweet Child O' Mine.

    12. AS

      Can't fuck with them, yeah.

    13. JR

      But they fucking go hard for three hours.

    14. AS

      Yeah, yeah.

    15. JR

      Those guys are 100 years old.

    16. AS

      They're fucking, uh-

    17. JR

      They're still killing it.

    18. AS

      And they're singing three hours-

    19. JR

      Yeah.

    20. AS

      ... assholes ripping it for three hours? Shit.

    21. JR

      Yes. Same with The Stones. I saw The Stones a couple years ago at COTA, the Circuit of the Americas here in town.

    22. AS

      Yeah, yeah. Yeah.

    23. JR

      And it was insane.

    24. AS

      Yeah, yeah, yeah.

    25. JR

      Mick Jagger's a thousand years old.

    26. AS

      Yeah, and moving like a motherfucker.

    27. JR

      And he's still fucking moving 'em.

    28. AS

      Yeah, yeah.

    29. JR

      Button no lip, baby.

    30. AS

      Yeah, yeah, man.

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