Joe Rogan Experience #2188 - Adam Ray

1. 0:00 – 15:00

   (drum roll) Joe Rogan podcast,…

   1. JRJoe Rogan0:00

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

   2. NANarrator0:04

      The Joe Rogan Experience. Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day. (energetic music) Yep. Adam Wayne, what's up baby?

   3. ARAdam Ray0:14

      Joe Rogan.

   4. JRJoe Rogan0:15

      Good to see you, brother.

   5. ARAdam Ray0:15

      Dude, thanks for having me, man.

   6. JRJoe Rogan0:16

      My pleasure.

   7. ARAdam Ray0:17

      This is a fucking pleasure.

   8. JRJoe Rogan0:18

      How fun was this weekend, man? It was insane. (laughs)

   9. ARAdam Ray0:20

      It was, uh... Not since Cher was at the Garden has there been so much pandemonium.

   10. JRJoe Rogan0:24

       (laughs) Bro, when Brian Holtz was screaming about Billy Joel. (laughs)

   11. ARAdam Ray0:28

       I love that you're going right to that, 'cause I was like, "How long are we gonna wait until we talk about Holtzman isolating the room?"

   12. JRJoe Rogan0:34

       He was amazing! He was amazing. He, uh... Seeing him at The Comedy Store, which we've seen him many times- Yeah.

   13. ARAdam Ray0:39

       ... and then at The Mothership now, seeing him in, in an arena like that go full on Holtzman is a real treat.

   14. JRJoe Rogan0:46

       16,000 people-

   15. ARAdam Ray0:48

       Yeah.

   16. JRJoe Rogan0:48

       ... and he went just like he's in the OR.

   17. ARAdam Ray0:49

       He opened with, "Fuck Billy Joel." Yeah.

   18. JRJoe Rogan0:50

       (laughs)

   19. ARAdam Ray0:50

       And then he's like, "I don't care if you're famous here!"

   20. JRJoe Rogan0:53

       (laughs)

   21. ARAdam Ray0:53

       "It's your daughter! Fuck 'em! We get it! You play the fucking piano!"

   22. JRJoe Rogan0:56

       (laughs)

   23. ARAdam Ray0:56

       I mean, yeah. It was wild.

   24. JRJoe Rogan0:57

       He was amazing.

   25. ARAdam Ray0:58

       The surprises on that show, I wanna hear from your vantage point real quick, uh, from obviously doing arenas for a while now. A show like that, 'cause getting to see you for a moment before you walked out backstage and you were just like... It was cool to see you looking at it like, "What the fuck? This is wild."

   26. JRJoe Rogan1:14

       I was blown away. First of all, I have seen Kill Tony evolve from the very beginning.

   27. ARAdam Ray1:20

       Yeah.

   28. JRJoe Rogan1:21

       So, I saw some of the earliest episodes in the Belly Room.

   29. ARAdam Ray1:24

       But you were telling me, Tony came to you and was like, "Will you do my show? I got this new..." And you were just like, "Yeah, fucking... All right, help a buddy out."

   30. JRJoe Rogan1:30

       (laughs) Yeah.
2. 15:00 – 30:00

   (laughs) …

   1. JRJoe Rogan15:00

      I was thinking about that. I was like, I would, I, I remember when Opie and Anthony got s- they, they got taken off the air because they brought on a homeless guy who said some wild shit about Condoleezza Rice, like wanting to rape-

   2. ARAdam Ray15:15

      (laughs)

   3. JRJoe Rogan15:15

      ... rape her or something fucking awful.

   4. ARAdam Ray15:17

      I like that this guy was like-

   5. JRJoe Rogan15:17

      They had no idea.

   6. ARAdam Ray15:18

      ... at least in the know enough to know who was like-

   7. JRJoe Rogan15:21

      Yeah, but he was just a-

   8. ARAdam Ray15:22

      ... in the government.

   9. JRJoe Rogan15:22

      ... crazy, homeless guy.

   10. ARAdam Ray15:24

       Right.

   11. JRJoe Rogan15:24

       And Opie and Anthony was a wild show. I mean, those motherfuckers were, especially when they got on XM and they could say whatever the fuck they wanted. Oh, my God. Crazy.

   12. ARAdam Ray15:34

       Were they definitely at the, kind of the, the precipice of things kind of getting a little edgier?

   13. JRJoe Rogan15:38

       Yeah, but it-

   14. ARAdam Ray15:38

       Radio wise?

   15. JRJoe Rogan15:38

       They... So, an average gets 1,720,000 views.

   16. For Kimmel.

   17. That's for Jimmy Kimmel.

   18. Later this-

   19. Is the, the, so that-

   20. ARAdam Ray15:49

       Oh, Fallon's almost-

   21. JRJoe Rogan15:49

       So, he's number one.

   22. ARAdam Ray15:50

       1.5.

   23. JRJoe Rogan15:50

       Oh, okay. Fallon is 1.4. Oh.

   24. ARAdam Ray15:53

       Colbert's in the lead.

   25. JRJoe Rogan15:54

       Colbert is in the lead with 2.5 million.

   26. ARAdam Ray15:57

       Wow.

   27. JRJoe Rogan15:57

       So, out of those people, how many of them are tuning in because it's just on TV?

   28. ARAdam Ray16:03

       Sure.

   29. JRJoe Rogan16:04

       There's a thing that people do. It's 11 o'clock, what's on? You know, especially boomers. They're locked in. That's what they've done their whole fucking life.

   30. ARAdam Ray16:12

       Yeah.
3. 30:00 – 45:00

   Damn. …

   1. NANarrator30:00

      got something to say... (crowd cheering) Say it to my face.

   2. ARAdam Ray30:06

      Damn.

   3. JRJoe Rogan30:06

      Oh.

   4. ARAdam Ray30:06

      They knew it was coming. It's coming from my job.

   5. JRJoe Rogan30:07

      Oh, she nailed it.

   6. ARAdam Ray30:08

      Yeah, she nailed that.

   7. JRJoe Rogan30:09

      She nailed that.

   8. ARAdam Ray30:09

      How, do, do you think there's-

   9. JRJoe Rogan30:10

      So that's... That, that alone-

   10. ARAdam Ray30:12

       Yeah.

   11. JRJoe Rogan30:12

       ... can get you the president. This is, we're-

   12. ARAdam Ray30:14

       Oof.

   13. JRJoe Rogan30:14

       We're in idiocracy.... that alone, like she, that is-

   14. ARAdam Ray30:18

       Get a couple banger soundbites, right?

   15. JRJoe Rogan30:20

       ... very, lis- you can't say that's not outstanding.

   16. ARAdam Ray30:22

       Totally.

   17. JRJoe Rogan30:23

       She just crushed it. She crushed it.

   18. ARAdam Ray30:25

       Yeah.

   19. JRJoe Rogan30:25

       She had the big moment.

   20. ARAdam Ray30:26

       Oh, I'm tuning in. This is pay-per-view now.

   21. JRJoe Rogan30:27

       Y- she had the big moment and she crushed it.

   22. ARAdam Ray30:29

       Yeah.

   23. JRJoe Rogan30:29

       And she did it without any ums or stammers, no fucking missed words. She had a smile. The laugh made sense.

   24. ARAdam Ray30:37

       (laughs)

   25. JRJoe Rogan30:37

       It made sense there.

   26. ARAdam Ray30:38

       Yeah, yeah.

   27. JRJoe Rogan30:38

       For the first time.

   28. ARAdam Ray30:39

       It was in context, yeah.

   29. JRJoe Rogan30:39

       When she laughs-

   30. ARAdam Ray30:40

       Yeah.
4. 45:00 – 1:00:00

   No, it's amazing. …

   1. ARAdam Ray45:00

      going, you're so ... You're thinking, you know, yeah, about the show and making people laugh, and I'm present and I'm ... And afterwards chatting with people and taking it in. But those ... Now that we have this opportunity to receive messages like that or hear it live in the face like that is, uh ... It's wild. I've never-

   2. JRJoe Rogan45:15

      No, it's amazing.

   3. ARAdam Ray45:16

      Yeah.

   4. JRJoe Rogan45:16

      It really is amazing.

   5. ARAdam Ray45:17

      And it makes me so even more lucky to like be a part of it. And you look at something like Kill Tony, it's like ... And be- ... Having it be global. There's people in probably Beirut they're having a shit day that like saw (laughs) fucking Hans Kim and they're like-

   6. JRJoe Rogan45:27

      Right.

   7. ARAdam Ray45:27

      ... "Dude, I always wanted to see Hans Kim in the Garden," or whatever their dream was, you know?

   8. JRJoe Rogan45:30

      Well, yeah. It's- it's- it really is like a kind of medicine.

   9. ARAdam Ray45:33

      Yeah.

   10. JRJoe Rogan45:33

       It is for me, for sure. If someone makes me laugh, I feel way better.

   11. ARAdam Ray45:37

       When did you start getting like, uh, love like that in messages?

   12. JRJoe Rogan45:38

       What I wanted to say though-

   13. ARAdam Ray45:40

       Oh, yeah. I'm sorry.

   14. JRJoe Rogan45:40

       ... before I for- we got-

   15. ARAdam Ray45:41

       Yeah.

   16. JRJoe Rogan45:41

       ... because I was going ... So-

   17. ARAdam Ray45:43

       It's good weed.

   18. JRJoe Rogan45:44

       Dice- Dice is embraced now by this class of comedians.

   19. ARAdam Ray45:48

       Yeah. Oh, yeah.

   20. JRJoe Rogan45:48

       To this group of comedians that are coming out, Dice was one of my heroes. When I was 19 years old, I mean, I was laughing so hard at his c- ... I was in his- ... in my car in front of my house with this girl I was dating. I was 19. We were listening to Dice on a cassette. We're just sitting in the front seat of my car just laughing. Ah!

   21. ARAdam Ray46:07

       Oh my God.

   22. JRJoe Rogan46:07

       It was so funny. I couldn't believe how funny it was. And it was just listening to it-

   23. ARAdam Ray46:11

       Yeah.

   24. JRJoe Rogan46:11

       ... on a cassette.

   25. ARAdam Ray46:12

       Yeah.

   26. JRJoe Rogan46:13

       You know? And then as I became, you know, a comedian and a headliner and traveled and gone on TV, all this stuff, and I became friends with Dice and then I realized some comedians don't like Dice. I was like, "This is- this doesn't even make sense to me."

   27. ARAdam Ray46:26

       (laughs) Yeah.

   28. JRJoe Rogan46:26

       Like, "What are you guys talking about?" Like, the guy does legitimate performance art on the street. He does- ... For no money. He- he plans it out, he strategizes, and he makes these videos of him stumbling into people and-

   29. ARAdam Ray46:42

       (laughs)

   30. JRJoe Rogan46:42

       ... telling them, "You want- you wanted the picture?"
5. 1:00:00 – 1:03:10

   'Cause even that's a…

   1. JRJoe Rogan1:00:00

      where... I was really exhausted. It was my third fight of the night too.

   2. ARAdam Ray1:00:03

      'Cause even that's a crapshoot, right? Like, y- when you're getting kicked in the head and you go down, or what- whatever it is that knocks you out-

   3. JRJoe Rogan1:00:08

      Yeah.

   4. ARAdam Ray1:00:09

      ... it's still... Right? There's always the, oh, a couple centimeters to the left, and that would've actually-

   5. JRJoe Rogan1:00:13

      No, he c- this guy caught me perfect on the jaw, and I think I had my mouth open, 'cause I think I was tired. 'Cause it was, like I said, it was the third fight of the day. And I remember being exhausted, 'cause I, I would get sick a lot of times before fights 'cause I would get nervous. So I'd get real nervous, and then your immune system drops-

   6. ARAdam Ray1:00:28

      Wow.

   7. JRJoe Rogan1:00:28

      ... 'cause you're freaking out all the time.

   8. ARAdam Ray1:00:30

      Fuck.

   9. JRJoe Rogan1:00:30

      Yeah, and also you're cutting weight. I'd, I'd be cutting my calories down 'cause I was trying to compete at a different weight class.

   10. ARAdam Ray1:00:36

       But those nerves don't enter in the comedy. Like, before your, uh, live special, which I told you a couple days ago, but it was awesome.

   11. JRJoe Rogan1:00:41

       Thanks.

   12. ARAdam Ray1:00:42

       And congrats.

   13. JRJoe Rogan1:00:42

       Thank you.

   14. ARAdam Ray1:00:42

       And also, I'm just...... I love, uh, doing it different, man. When Harlan Williams did a fucking (laughs) special outdoors in front of animals, I was like, "Fuck yeah."

   15. JRJoe Rogan1:00:51

       (laughs)

   16. ARAdam Ray1:00:51

       You know what I'm saying? (laughs)

   17. JRJoe Rogan1:00:52

       (laughs)

   18. ARAdam Ray1:00:52

       Doing something different. But the live thing is so not guaranteed, man. You're prepped, you're ready, you've, you've done live. But, like, still, you're, you're still, eh, it's still a new, uh, challenge, right? I mean-

   19. JRJoe Rogan1:01:02

       Oh, it was, it... I said no to it at first.

   20. ARAdam Ray1:01:04

       Right.

   21. JRJoe Rogan1:01:04

       I was like, "I don't wanna do that. Fuck that." Because-

   22. ARAdam Ray1:01:06

       What put you over the top, and what... And what were the nerves like-

   23. JRJoe Rogan1:01:08

       'Cause I was-

   24. ARAdam Ray1:01:09

       ... that were-

   25. JRJoe Rogan1:01:09

       Well, what put me over the top was I was like, "Why are you scared, Buzzy?"

   26. ARAdam Ray1:01:12

       (laughs) Yeah.

   27. JRJoe Rogan1:01:12

       Like, this is like, "What do you like to do?"

   28. ARAdam Ray1:01:14

       Yeah, yeah.

   29. JRJoe Rogan1:01:14

       You like to do things that scare you.

   30. ARAdam Ray1:01:15

       Yeah, yeah.

Episode duration: 3:11:58