Joe Rogan Experience #2305 - Rich Vos

1. 0:00 – 2:17

   Diamonds, new cars, and trying to buy away emptiness

   1. NANarrator0:00

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

   2. RVRich Vos0:04

      The Joe Rogan Experience.

   3. NANarrator0:06

      Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day. (instrumental music)

   4. JRJoe Rogan0:12

      Let's go. (laughs) How are you, fella? Good to see you.

   5. RVRich Vos0:16

      Wow.

   6. JRJoe Rogan0:16

      Dude, you're fucking dripping with diamonds, sir. What's going on? The road's been good to you. Look at you.

   7. RVRich Vos0:21

      I'm just so empty inside.

   8. JRJoe Rogan0:22

      (laughs)

   9. RVRich Vos0:23

      This fill- this fills the hole for, like- (laughs)

   10. JRJoe Rogan0:26

       (laughs)

   11. RVRich Vos0:26

       Like, it's like, you know, you go by it, like, oh, and then you get home, you go, "I hate my life. I hate my insides." And-

   12. JRJoe Rogan0:32

       (laughs)

   13. RVRich Vos0:32

       ... no spirituality, but I get to look at my just emptiness on, you know, I just-

   14. JRJoe Rogan0:38

       Driving with rapper diamonds.

   15. RVRich Vos0:39

       I ran out of, I ran out of shit to buy, so (laughs) like there's nothing that-

   16. JRJoe Rogan0:46

       What kind of car you driving?

   17. RVRich Vos0:47

       A Lexus IS350.

   18. JRJoe Rogan0:49

       Oh, those are fun.

   19. RVRich Vos0:50

       It's nice.

   20. JRJoe Rogan0:50

       That's a good car.

   21. RVRich Vos0:51

       Yeah.

   22. JRJoe Rogan0:51

       Bulletproof, never, never gonna break.

   23. RVRich Vos0:54

       And it's so fast.

   24. JRJoe Rogan0:55

       Yeah.

   25. RVRich Vos0:55

       And it's, you know, it's... But this is how fucked it... Okay, so the two... Okay, I had the, uh, Lexus 350, right?

   26. JRJoe Rogan1:03

       Right.

   27. RVRich Vos1:03

       Or whatever. I went, and I had it for seven months maybe. I went in to get it serviced, and I was kinda depressed, so I bought a different car, actually.

   28. JRJoe Rogan1:15

       (laughs)

   29. RVRich Vos1:16

       I go, this is not, this is fucked up. So I bought the IS350. I had the other car for seven fucking months. I go, "You know what? That one looks cool." So I bought that, and then I went in to get it, uh, that service, and it was the exact same car a year later, but I liked the newer color, the newer gray.

   30. JRJoe Rogan1:37

       Oh.
2. 2:17 – 4:28

   Career dissatisfaction: 'I have enough… but it’s not enough'

   1. RVRich Vos2:17

      And it's cause of, you know, in life, in life, really, like, I see some of my friends doing arenas, doing this, doing that, but I have enough. I really have enough, but it's not enough.

   2. JRJoe Rogan2:35

      Ugh.

   3. RVRich Vos2:35

      Do you know what I'm saying?

   4. JRJoe Rogan2:36

      Right.

   5. RVRich Vos2:36

      Does that make sense?

   6. JRJoe Rogan2:37

      Yeah.

   7. RVRich Vos2:38

      I, I, one w- I think for my caree- not for my personal life, my personal life, I got three fucking great daughters. Ch- uh, three grandkids, another one on the way. My 17 year old is gonna go to college, has pick of all kinds of schools, you know, good schools. I fucking, in 11th grade, I raised my hand to go to the bathroom, and I never came back.

   8. JRJoe Rogan3:02

      (laughs)

   9. RVRich Vos3:02

      I just walked out, like I'm a fucking idiot, you know, uh, my past. And my kids all grew up. Okay, the older one married a Black guy, but he's light skinned.

   10. JRJoe Rogan3:11

       (laughs)

   11. RVRich Vos3:11

       But anyhow, the prettiest baby on the planet. So I have enough, but when it comes to career, as a comic, and you know, there's, I, one more fucking thing.

   12. JRJoe Rogan3:26

       Mm.

   13. RVRich Vos3:26

       J- j- j- just one more thing. You know what I'm saying?

   14. JRJoe Rogan3:29

       I do know what you're saying.

   15. RVRich Vos3:31

       Uh, I don't know, I don't know what it is, you know? I've had specials, not Netflix, but it's always the, it's like I'm always doing the other club.

   16. JRJoe Rogan3:40

       Right.

   17. RVRich Vos3:41

       You know what I'm saying?

   18. JRJoe Rogan3:42

       I see what you're saying.

   19. RVRich Vos3:42

       I'm always... And I'm very blessed, and I, and I love what I've achieved in this business, but it seems like it's always like, uh, okay, I got a special on Amazon now, but it's not... It wasn't... Amazon didn't buy it. We placed it on Am- you know what I'm saying?

   20. JRJoe Rogan4:04

       Mm-hmm.

   21. RVRich Vos4:04

       So it's always, there's always one little thing. When every pilot my wife and I have had together, or I've had, gets this close to getting picked up. You know?

   22. JRJoe Rogan4:14

       Hmm.

   23. RVRich Vos4:14

       Like, I've heard... Some of the nos I've heard, they almost sounded like yeses. They were such good nos. I walked out and go, "That was the best no today."

   24. JRJoe Rogan4:23

       (laughs)

   25. RVRich Vos4:23

       That fucking no almost felt like a yes. So in this business...

3. 4:28 – 7:10

   Mindset, comfort with discomfort, and the ‘energy’ you put out

   1. JRJoe Rogan4:28

      Do you think you put something in your mind to make all these things kinda fall short? Have you ever thought of that?

   2. RVRich Vos4:34

      Yeah, well, that's what my wife says.

   3. JRJoe Rogan4:36

      Yeah, do you ever-

   4. RVRich Vos4:37

      But-

   5. JRJoe Rogan4:37

      ... you ever thought that, like, maybe the way you interface with the world is like your expectations are tempered, like in a way where you almost wanna fail because it's more comforting that it happened again rather than this new thing of success, which is gonna force you to really focus and work harder to get more success? And it's a lot of pressure. And then you think about all the times you fucked up before, and you don't wanna hear, you don't wanna hear no again. You don't wanna hear it, but you feel like it's coming, and you almost make it come.

   6. RVRich Vos5:10

      Well, I get that... In life, growing up, from my childhood through drug addiction, I became comfortable being uncomfortable. That was my life.

   7. JRJoe Rogan5:22

      Right.

   8. RVRich Vos5:22

      Comf-

   9. JRJoe Rogan5:23

      Comfortable being the skids.

   10. RVRich Vos5:25

       Being un- yeah, this was what I was used to.

   11. JRJoe Rogan5:28

       Yeah.

   12. RVRich Vos5:28

       In this business, I don't, I don't really ever set myself up for failure. I mean, I produce. I come out with albums. I, on stage, I'm always coming up with new material.

   13. JRJoe Rogan5:41

       Mm-hmm.

   14. RVRich Vos5:42

       And I got seven albums. I'll, I'll probably make an eighth album, which is a pretty, it's a lot for a career, I would imagine.

   15. JRJoe Rogan5:48

       Sure. Yeah, that's great.

   16. RVRich Vos5:49

       Uh, I don't go into clubs and drink. I don't, uh, hit on waitresses. You know, so I don't know, but my wife says the exact same thing you're saying. My wife said to me once-... she said it, 'cause I had this power of thinking, like, when I think really hard it comes to me. Shit, right?

   17. JRJoe Rogan6:11

       Mm-hmm.

   18. RVRich Vos6:11

       And my wife goes, "If you think you, uh, deserve a million dollars..." This is what she... "You'll get a million dollars." And I said, "God gives you what you need, not what you want." And then she said, "Do you think Chelsea Handler needed a TV show?" So she kinda, like, debunked my whole need, you know, and want thing. Uh, I... (sighs) I- (sighs) if you believe in some kinda p- power greater than you or spiritual... I'm not religious by any fucking... But I, I... Shit comes to me. I don't think I, uh, fucking, uh, screw things up. I don't screw things up, like, you know, in meetings or when we do pilots or whatever. I, I do what I'm supposed to do, so I don't know. I mean, in comedy, yeah, for years I might've been a little aggressive on stage or-

   19. JRJoe Rogan7:10

       (laughs)

4. 7:10 – 15:23

   Old comedy road lore: Bill Hicks chaos and early career stories

   1. RVRich Vos7:10

      ... you know, a little (laughs) whatever. You know? Uh, uh, I think everything now, well, especially now with clubs or whatever, it's all numbers. They don't give a fuck if you light the wait staff on fire. If you sold out the room, they... Oh, great. You were fabulous, you know? I was, I was working Catch years ago, I was at Catch, and Bill Hicks go... Okay, so David Brenner's on stage and this is... And they love David Brenner. He's killing, killing. He was during the peak of David Brenner. He gets off. Bill wal- Bill Hicks goes up and he says, "Growing up as a kid I would see Robert Klein and David Brenner, and I figure if they could do it, I could do it."

   2. JRJoe Rogan7:56

      Ugh.

   3. RVRich Vos7:56

      Right? That was his opening show. So (clears throat) now he's doing his bit about Nancy Reagan, skinny, whatever, and calling her the anti-Christ. I mean, people are running out the door.

   4. JRJoe Rogan8:08

      Ugh.

   5. RVRich Vos8:08

      They're running out the door. And then he gets off stage and he, he says to me, he goes, "What went wrong?"

   6. JRJoe Rogan8:15

      (laughs)

   7. RVRich Vos8:16

      But (laughs) but I swear to God he goes, "What went wrong?"

   8. JRJoe Rogan8:18

      (laughs) Was he serious?

   9. RVRich Vos8:19

      Yes.

   10. JRJoe Rogan8:19

       Or was he joking around?

   11. RVRich Vos8:20

       No, he was s- he, he was Bill... Whatever, he was Bill Hi-... I don't know.

   12. JRJoe Rogan8:24

       It's hard to tell with him.

   13. RVRich Vos8:25

       Yeah. But anyhow, the, the manager or booker... Now after the... Said to him, "You can come do a spot here anytime you want."

   14. JRJoe Rogan8:35

       (laughs)

   15. RVRich Vos8:35

       Because he was Bill Hicks.

   16. JRJoe Rogan8:37

       Yeah.

   17. RVRich Vos8:37

       You see what I'm saying? He was Bill Hicks. You know, I worked with him in Texas. This is when I first started, uh, and I'm watching him, you know. Uh, and we'll get back on track, I'm sorry, to go off on these things, but...

   18. JRJoe Rogan8:51

       No, go wherever you wanna go.

   19. RVRich Vos8:52

       So we're working in Texas. He, he just breaks up... His girlfriend breaks up with him at the time. This is a true story. So he goes, "Uh, where can you get a hooker, a prostitute?" And the cab driver-

   20. JRJoe Rogan9:06

       I like how you had to clarify (laughs) .

   21. RVRich Vos9:07

       Yeah, I know. That's, uh... You know, there's a lot of these young kids now that listen, okay?

   22. JRJoe Rogan9:12

       (laughs)

   23. RVRich Vos9:13

       A hooker's (laughs) a prostitute, okay? Uh (laughs) , so, so the cab driver takes him to one house 'cause they would take you to the... And, and I go with him, he goes, "Take a ride." So then we go to one house, he knocks on her door, and she opens her door and goes, "You're a cop." And slammed the door on him.

   24. JRJoe Rogan9:33

       (laughs) Slammed the door (laughs)

   25. RVRich Vos9:34

       When he was young, slammed the door in his face.

   26. JRJoe Rogan9:36

       (laughs) Right. He looks like a cop.

   27. RVRich Vos9:39

       Yeah (laughs) . Then he went... But he also... The next place the cab driver took him, she opened the door and goes, "You're too young." And slammed the door on him.

   28. JRJoe Rogan9:47

       Oh my God.

   29. RVRich Vos9:48

       The next night, he did 10 minutes or whatever on how he can't get, can't pick up a prostitute in Lubbock, Texas.

   30. JRJoe Rogan9:57

       (laughs)
5. 15:23 – 20:08

   Club owners, ticket numbers, and the business side of stand-up

   1. RVRich Vos15:23

      Okay? You can only hold a white man down so long. So ... And, and, like ... I think, in life, I'm more about respect than accomplishment.

   2. JRJoe Rogan15:37

      Okay, right.

   3. RVRich Vos15:38

      You see what I'm saying?

   4. JRJoe Rogan15:38

      So you, you're more about the respect from your peers.

   5. RVRich Vos15:40

      Not only my peers, the industry too though. The industry doesn't know. Like, say some club owner. Let's say a club owner.

   6. JRJoe Rogan15:48

      Mm-hmm.

   7. RVRich Vos15:48

      They're not sitting in the room watching your shows. Ev- all they care about are the fucking numbers that come in. They don't ... I had a club owner once, I said to him ... And you're lucky, you're way out of that, but I'm still, I'm in that. So I said to a club owner once, he goes ... I said, "Look, I'm as funny as I've ever been right now in life." He goes, "That doesn't fucking matter. What does that matter?" And it's all a quick fix. You know?

   8. JRJoe Rogan16:11

      Right, they just wanna sell tickets.

   9. RVRich Vos16:13

      Sell ticket- ... And I get it. They gotta keep their doors open, but-

   10. JRJoe Rogan16:15

       Well, that's the weird marriage between, uh, the club owner and the comic, you know?

   11. RVRich Vos16:19

       Yeah.

   12. JRJoe Rogan16:19

       I used to tell comics, you know, "We're not ..." Every comic feels like they're battling it with club owners. Like, the club owner's never given them enough money. The club owner's fucking them over, lied about it being sold out.

   13. RVRich Vos16:32

       Yeah.

   14. JRJoe Rogan16:32

       "It was definitely sold out. I want my bonus." That kinda shit.

   15. RVRich Vos16:34

       Yeah.

   16. JRJoe Rogan16:35

       You don't wanna be a club owner. You don't. You don't. I mean, I, I, I give that advice, then I became one.

   17. RVRich Vos16:41

       Yeah.

   18. JRJoe Rogan16:41

       But just by necessity. But I was like, "You, this is an important relationship." Like, you gotta be nice to them, and so they respect you.

   19. RVRich Vos16:47

       Yeah.

   20. JRJoe Rogan16:47

       And you should- 'Cause everybody in the beginning, you feel like you're ignored by them. But that's- it's a weird thing, because they're just in the business of comedy.

   21. RVRich Vos16:58

       Yes.

   22. JRJoe Rogan16:58

       Unless you get, like, like Brian Dorfman and Zanies, he really loves comedy, you know?

   23. RVRich Vos17:02

       There, there's a few of them.

   24. JRJoe Rogan17:03

       There's someone. Wendy from, from Comedy Works in Denver.

   25. RVRich Vos17:05

       Uh, I'll tell you my Wendy story, and if you think it's funny-

   26. JRJoe Rogan17:06

       I love Wendy.

   27. RVRich Vos17:07

       ... I don't know.

   28. JRJoe Rogan17:07

       Better be a good story. So-

   29. RVRich Vos17:08

       It's a- You'll like it.

   30. JRJoe Rogan17:09

       (laughs) Okay.
6. 20:08 – 23:45

   Ads, then sobriety rules: cigars, addiction, and ‘a little more’ mindset

   1. JRJoe Rogan20:08

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   2. RVRich Vos21:43

      God, when I quit cigarettes, I quit cigars 'cause I was-

   3. JRJoe Rogan21:46

      Good for you.

   4. RVRich Vos21:46

      ... scared I was gonna start smoking.

   5. JRJoe Rogan21:47

      You probably would.

   6. RVRich Vos21:49

      I probably would.

   7. JRJoe Rogan21:49

      Yeah.

   8. RVRich Vos21:49

      'Cause it would lead, you know ...

   9. JRJoe Rogan21:51

      Yeah, you're puffing on tobacco.

   10. RVRich Vos21:52

       Yeah.

   11. JRJoe Rogan21:52

       And you don't want to inhale it.

   12. RVRich Vos21:53

       That's why, you know, I can't even put a cig in my mouth, 'cause I'm scared.

   13. JRJoe Rogan21:57

       I understand.

   14. RVRich Vos21:57

       You know that. So, uh, uh, you know, she has different outlets as, as a standup. I'm just a standup. I'm a club comic. I lo- you know, I do theaters, I do whatever. But I love doing, uh, I really like doing clubs. It's just-

   15. JRJoe Rogan22:14

       So it sounds like you're doing exactly what you want to do.

   16. RVRich Vos22:15

       Yes. I'm doing-

   17. JRJoe Rogan22:16

       So what the fuck's the problem?

   18. RVRich Vos22:17

       I don't think there is a problem, but it's ... I said just one more thing to put it over the top. Do you know what I mean?

   19. JRJoe Rogan22:23

       Mm-hmm.

   20. RVRich Vos22:23

       One more, uh ...

   21. JRJoe Rogan22:25

       You're never totally satisfied, Rich Vos.

   22. RVRich Vos22:26

       Well, that's a good point, yes. I'm a, I'm a addict, you know?

   23. JRJoe Rogan22:31

       Yeah, maybe that's it.

   24. RVRich Vos22:31

       So look, here's, here's my fucking ... Here's how fucked up I am.

   25. JRJoe Rogan22:36

       How fucked up are you?

   26. RVRich Vos22:36

       I'm gonna tell you right now something.

   27. JRJoe Rogan22:38

       (laughs) As you glitter in diamonds.

   28. RVRich Vos22:40

       Right. (laughs) Here's ... And this is not in the ... In the morning, I drink my coffee. I sit at the table.

   29. JRJoe Rogan22:47

       Sounds like me.

   30. RVRich Vos22:48

       And I put a bird feeder, and I watch the birds feed, and it's very relaxing.
7. 23:45 – 27:14

   Gambling highs, phone slots, and the dopamine loop

   1. RVRich Vos23:45

      No, I have got gambling to fall back on.

   2. JRJoe Rogan23:47

      (laughs)

   3. RVRich Vos23:47

      I, uh ... (laughs)

   4. JRJoe Rogan23:49

      What are you gambling on?

   5. RVRich Vos23:50

      What do I gamble? (laughs)

   6. JRJoe Rogan23:51

      Yeah.

   7. RVRich Vos23:52

      Well, I mean, once in a while, I'll play on my phone at night. Uh, slots.

   8. JRJoe Rogan23:59

      Oh, boy.

   9. RVRich Vos24:00

      Yeah, I did real well. Uh-

   10. JRJoe Rogan24:02

       You made money?

   11. RVRich Vos24:03

       One ... Yeah, last year.

   12. JRJoe Rogan24:04

       That's ... I, I gotta say. Slots on your phone-

   13. RVRich Vos24:06

       What?

   14. JRJoe Rogan24:07

       ... sounds like the dumbest fucking idea, because there is no way-

   15. RVRich Vos24:10

       I-

   16. JRJoe Rogan24:10

       ... it's not fixed.

   17. RVRich Vos24:12

       Yeah. Well, you know, it-

   18. JRJoe Rogan24:12

       At least a slot machine-

   19. RVRich Vos24:14

       (laughs) No, this is-

   20. JRJoe Rogan24:14

       ... is random.

   21. RVRich Vos24:15

       Well, slots in the casino is the biggest sucker bet on the planet.

   22. JRJoe Rogan24:18

       The biggest sucker bet.

   23. RVRich Vos24:19

       I'll play craps. If I'm gonna play-... if I'm gonna gamble on a machine, I'm gonna play craps like a man.

   24. JRJoe Rogan24:24

       But- You know what drives me fucking crazy when I hear that?

   25. RVRich Vos24:27

       Say it.

   26. JRJoe Rogan24:27

       Someone hits the slots and then they won't give out. They won't give the money, 'cause there's always, "Oh, there was an error with the machine."

   27. RVRich Vos24:32

       Oh, that's bullshit. Yeah.

   28. JRJoe Rogan24:33

       I've heard that many times. Like, fuck your error.

   29. RVRich Vos24:36

       This, this-

   30. JRJoe Rogan24:36

       Give that guy his money.
8. 27:14 – 35:56

   Comics dating comics, the New York crew, and early Joe/Rich history

   1. JRJoe Rogan27:14

      You guys are one of the funniest couples of all time, though.

   2. RVRich Vos27:15

      Thank you.

   3. JRJoe Rogan27:16

      There's like a few, like Christina Pazsitzky and Tom Segura, uh, Natasha Leggaro, Moshe Kasher.

   4. RVRich Vos27:22

      Oh, yeah.

   5. JRJoe Rogan27:22

      There's a few like, you know, people say like, "Comics shouldn't date comics." Well, fuck... (wails)

   6. RVRich Vos27:26

      Who else?

   7. JRJoe Rogan27:27

      I don't know about that, 'cause sometimes it fucking works really well.

   8. RVRich Vos27:30

      What am I gonna do? Come home to a dentist? You know, and for me-

   9. JRJoe Rogan27:34

      Right. Right.

   10. RVRich Vos27:34

       You know? We, you know, we really come together when we find the same enemy and the same person we could trash.

   11. JRJoe Rogan27:42

       Yeah.

   12. RVRich Vos27:42

       Uh, you know, or we talk comedy, we make each other laugh. Yeah, we fight and have all the fucking... You know, we're, we're-

   13. JRJoe Rogan27:49

       Of course.

   14. RVRich Vos27:49

       ... a married couple.

   15. JRJoe Rogan27:50

       And your comics.

   16. RVRich Vos27:51

       Yeah, and we're com- we're... So to be a-

   17. JRJoe Rogan27:53

       So you're talking shit. (laughs)

   18. RVRich Vos27:54

       Well, to be, to be a male comic, you gotta be fucked up. To be a female comic, that's a whole nother level of fucking up, because you know, they go on the road, they gotta worry about everything.

   19. JRJoe Rogan28:07

       They gotta worry about fans.

   20. RVRich Vos28:07

       They're females.

   21. JRJoe Rogan28:08

       Yeah. They gotta worry about fans attacking them.

   22. RVRich Vos28:10

       Where they're, where they're staying-

   23. JRJoe Rogan28:12

       Right, right, right, right.

   24. RVRich Vos28:12

       ... what it's like. It's tough.

   25. JRJoe Rogan28:13

       Getting stalked. Oh, yeah.

   26. RVRich Vos28:14

       Yeah.

   27. JRJoe Rogan28:14

       It's horrible.

   28. RVRich Vos28:15

       And thank you for saying we're funny. Yeah, we work together.

   29. JRJoe Rogan28:17

       You guys are very funny.

   30. RVRich Vos28:18

       Thank you.
9. 35:56 – 43:12

   Drug bottom and rehab: the Boston trip that ended it

   1. RVRich Vos35:56

      I did, I did a, there was a contest at Rascals, and I think the winner got to do comedy on a plane.

   2. JRJoe Rogan36:09

      (laughs)

   3. RVRich Vos36:09

      (laughs) Right?

   4. JRJoe Rogan36:10

      That was back when they smoked on planes.

   5. RVRich Vos36:12

      Yeah, yeah, and I think Jon Stewart was one of the contestants. Like, I remember doing-

   6. JRJoe Rogan36:17

      Wow.

   7. RVRich Vos36:18

      ... I remember doing s- or else it was a Johnny Walker competition. I was there. It was like me, Jon Stewart, Jim Gaffigan, you know-... to do some Johnny Walker tour. I don't fucking know, whatever the contest was, but it was all these contests. But you would see... Look, I worked fucking clubs. Here, I, I was working one club once (laughs) and after the show, it was in Scranton, PA at a Holiday Inn, me and another comic. After the show, the owner brings us in the back room and pulls out a gigantic bag of coke and says, "Do you want coke or money?"

   8. JRJoe Rogan36:58

      (laughs)

   9. RVRich Vos36:58

      And I took the coke. And the guy who took the money is Adam Sandler.

   10. JRJoe Rogan37:03

       (laughs)

   11. RVRich Vos37:03

       And look where he is-

   12. JRJoe Rogan37:05

       (laughs)

   13. RVRich Vos37:05

       ... and look where I am. (laughs) Adam Sandler took the money, an old fucking... He opened up. He was a guitar comic, and he opened up. That was a-

   14. JRJoe Rogan37:13

       That was Nick's Comedy Stop thing, Coke or Money?

   15. RVRich Vos37:15

       Oh yeah, I worked there.

   16. JRJoe Rogan37:17

       In Boston? Did they offer you coke or money back then?

   17. RVRich Vos37:18

       Uh, I don't... And I was getting high, because when I first started comedy, somehow they, uh, uh, what was his name? Uh, Dominic and Jackie Getman-

   18. JRJoe Rogan37:28

       Yes. Yes.

   19. RVRich Vos37:28

       ... or something, they liked me for some reason.

   20. JRJoe Rogan37:30

       Yeah.

   21. RVRich Vos37:30

       And I stunk, but they would give me spots at Nick's, and I would get either money or... But I would buy coke from Mike, the drug dealer that the Columbians killed. He was their coke dealer up there. I would stay behind a connection at the Milnor Hotel, which was all prostitutes and drug addicts, right? And, you know, I would go up there, and Nick's was giving me shows upstairs, downstairs. So the one time, the last time I was up in Boston, I did S- Springfield, Mass and Westfield, Mass, 252 Elm and some other Norm Lafoe shit, and then I-

   22. JRJoe Rogan38:08

       (laughs) Norm Lafoe of western Massachusetts.

   23. RVRich Vos38:10

       Yes. Yes.

   24. JRJoe Rogan38:11

       Yeah.

   25. RVRich Vos38:11

       So then I went to Nick's. I go, "I'm not spending my money on drugs."

   26. JRJoe Rogan38:15

       (laughs)

   27. RVRich Vos38:15

       "I'm not... This, I'm coming home with fucking money," right? So I'm working this place called Plum's in Worcester, and this waitress, oh, fucking smoking hot. After the show, uh, because I did some coke bits, she goes, "You do coke?" I go, "Yeah."

   28. JRJoe Rogan38:34

       (laughs)

   29. RVRich Vos38:34

       I go, I go, I go, I go- (laughs)

   30. JRJoe Rogan38:38

       (laughs)
10. 43:12 – 47:22

    Arguing in your head, purpose, and the turn to antisemitism & bots

    1. JRJoe Rogan43:12

       You're fighting with people who aren't even here.

    2. RVRich Vos43:14

       I know, (laughs) I'm just telling you how... (laughs)

    3. JRJoe Rogan43:16

       This is strange.

    4. RVRich Vos43:20

       (laughs)

    5. JRJoe Rogan43:20

       (laughs)

    6. RVRich Vos43:20

       I'm just... I'm having...

    7. JRJoe Rogan43:20

       You're in the shower arguing with these guys, "Fuck you!"

    8. RVRich Vos43:23

       Oh, do you know how many fucking arguments I've had?

    9. JRJoe Rogan43:25

       Oh, yeah.

    10. RVRich Vos43:26

        I thought you were gonna bring in your whole pro-Palestinian crew that I was gonna fight today.

    11. JRJoe Rogan43:30

        (laughs) Yeah.

    12. RVRich Vos43:31

        Which I have stuff printed out we'll read later.

    13. JRJoe Rogan43:33

        (splurging noises)

    14. RVRich Vos43:35

        (laughs) Uh... We'll read later. But... Yeah, it's so funny you're having fights with... You don't ever lay in bed or argue with, have arguments with people that...

    15. JRJoe Rogan43:45

        No.

    16. RVRich Vos43:45

        You've never had...

    17. JRJoe Rogan43:47

        I did when I was young. Yeah, I figured that out when I was younger, this is stupid. And when the impulse comes, which it does-

    18. RVRich Vos43:54

        Yeah.

    19. JRJoe Rogan43:54

        ... I just, I go, "This is stupid." I talk to myself.

    20. RVRich Vos43:57

        Yeah.

    21. JRJoe Rogan43:57

        I just coach myself.

    22. RVRich Vos43:58

        Yeah.

    23. JRJoe Rogan44:00

        Gotta have like a, another voice in your head.

    24. RVRich Vos44:02

        Yeah, but I...

    25. JRJoe Rogan44:03

        Most people have one voice in their head, and that voice is like-

    26. RVRich Vos44:05

        Yeah.

    27. JRJoe Rogan44:05

        ... "We should go get high," or, "We should do this, we should do that."

    28. RVRich Vos44:07

        Yeah.

    29. JRJoe Rogan44:08

        You have to have a second voice, and the second voice is like, "What advice would I give me?" And the advice I'd give me is like, "You're wasting your time arguing in the shower with someone who doesn't even... They don't even know you're arguing with them."

    30. RVRich Vos44:19

        I know, it's true.
11. 47:22 – 1:01:40

    Campus protests, masks, and Rich’s printed maps on Israel

    1. RVRich Vos47:22

       ... whethe- whatever side you're on, Israel, Palestine, whatever. Why are college campuses letting this happen on campus where Jews can't go to class, where they're being harassed, where they feel threatened?

    2. NANarrator47:42

       Jewish students-

    3. JRJoe Rogan47:43

       Well, a lot of that stuff is funded.

    4. RVRich Vos47:45

       Yeah, it's funded by Qatar or whatever.

    5. JRJoe Rogan47:48

       Or whatever. Whoever's-

    6. RVRich Vos47:49

       Whoever's funded it.

    7. JRJoe Rogan47:49

       ... whoever's doing it. There's- there's most certainly there's funding and organization involved. These aren't organic protests-

    8. RVRich Vos47:55

       Yeah.

    9. JRJoe Rogan47:55

       ... that just pop up.

    10. RVRich Vos47:56

        No, of course.

    11. JRJoe Rogan47:57

        Everybody wants to think they are because some people join-

    12. RVRich Vos47:59

        No.

    13. JRJoe Rogan47:59

        ... organically, they hop in, but it's not.

    14. RVRich Vos48:02

        No, it's paid.

    15. JRJoe Rogan48:02

        These are all being organized.

    16. RVRich Vos48:04

        Of course.

    17. JRJoe Rogan48:04

        Including the anti-Elon protests, including like, you know, the, the, uh, end to oligarchy rallies that they have with AOC and Bernie Sanders.

    18. RVRich Vos48:13

        Yes.

    19. JRJoe Rogan48:13

        All this shit is getting, it's all getting funded and AstroTurfed and they're busing people in. They're manufacturing a movement.

    20. RVRich Vos48:20

        Of course, and I mean listen, they didn't all go out and buy the same tents.

    21. JRJoe Rogan48:25

        Right.

    22. RVRich Vos48:25

        You know, they, you know it's... And there's... I don't know how many that are getting funded and then they-... bring in, you know, it's just like-

    23. JRJoe Rogan48:35

        The tents are crazy.

    24. RVRich Vos48:36

        It's just, it's just-

    25. JRJoe Rogan48:36

        We're gonna camp out for Palestine, okay?

    26. RVRich Vos48:38

        Yeah, it, it's just like, you know, (sighs) I don't wanna get into the '80s and foreclosures on, on farms, you know-

    27. JRJoe Rogan48:48

        Farm Aid?

    28. RVRich Vos48:49

        Well, the, when banks were foreclosing on farms, Jews were going, "Look, the Jews are f- foreclosing on our farm," the Jewish bankers, and they weren't even the bankers doing it. It was the WASP bankers. Jews barely worked at Chase Manhattan in the early '80s or '70s, so-

    29. JRJoe Rogan49:06

        But they blamed the Jews-

    30. RVRich Vos49:07

        But they blamed-
12. 1:01:40 – 1:17:13

    Middle East history detour: Iran before 1979, Arafat, and origin timelines

    1. JRJoe Rogan1:01:40

       You know what's really fucked? Before Iran became a religious state, women were like wearing miniskirts.

    2. RVRich Vos1:01:48

       Yes.

    3. JRJoe Rogan1:01:49

       They were hot. The, the, it was like there was freedom everywhere. People were like chilling. It seemed almost-

    4. RVRich Vos1:01:54

       Yes.

    5. JRJoe Rogan1:01:54

       ... like in like Europe.

    6. RVRich Vos1:01:56

       Probably like a, a like a resort vacation. Like, they were beautiful.

    7. JRJoe Rogan1:02:00

       Oh, they were gorgeous women. The Iran, that Persian women have incredible genes. It's like you, you, you look at these photos from like... See if you can find some photos of Iran like early 1970s. I was, I was seeing some things on it this morning actually, on the way over here. Or before I left, uh, my house, I was seeing this... It's, it's so hard to imagine that a place that was, that had a democratically elected leader, you know, was, uh, you know, was kind of almost European. And then now, now it's just a full religious state.

    8. RVRich Vos1:02:34

       Yes.

    9. JRJoe Rogan1:02:34

       And anybody who, anybody who protests against the government gets assassinated. Like they, they, they assassinated an Olympic gold medalist wrestler because he was perceived to be protesting. I don't even know if he actually protested. It was like some things that you post online. Like if women take off their headscarves, they can get killed.

    10. RVRich Vos1:02:51

        But why... I don't get-

    11. JRJoe Rogan1:02:52

        It's crazy that a country can fall like that.

    12. RVRich Vos1:02:56

        I don't get where gays or women or whatever are backing... They're basically back, backing Hamas.

    13. JRJoe Rogan1:03:04

        Yeah.

    14. RVRich Vos1:03:05

        I don't get-

    15. JRJoe Rogan1:03:06

        They're retarded, that's why.

    16. RVRich Vos1:03:07

        I don't get it.

    17. JRJoe Rogan1:03:08

        Because they just do the new thing. What's the new thing? Is it-

    18. RVRich Vos1:03:10

        Yeah.

    19. JRJoe Rogan1:03:10

        ... climate change? Why am I yelling? Climate change? Okay. Climate change! Is it this-

    20. RVRich Vos1:03:14

        Yeah.

    21. JRJoe Rogan1:03:14

        ... Black Lives Matter? Okay. Black Lives Matter! It's all it is. There's a lot of people out there that are just retarded, and those are the people that you see getting bused into these rallies and there's just a lot of dopes that you can get to agree with almost anything.

    22. RVRich Vos1:03:27

        Uh-huh.

    23. JRJoe Rogan1:03:27

        And there's gay people for Hamas, believe it or not. Trans people for Hamas.

    24. RVRich Vos1:03:32

        It's fucking... (laughs)

    25. JRJoe Rogan1:03:35

        I know.

    26. RVRich Vos1:03:36

        Blacks for the Klan. I don't fucking-

    27. JRJoe Rogan1:03:37

        It's hard to tell how many of them are real because there's a few people that troll online and they'll pretend-

    28. RVRich Vos1:03:42

        Uh-huh.

    29. JRJoe Rogan1:03:42

        "I'm a tr- you know, I'm a trans woman."

    30. RVRich Vos1:03:44

        Yes.
13. 1:17:13 – 1:21:02

    Media distrust and ‘where can comics be funny on TV?’

    1. RVRich Vos1:17:13

       I didn't see it. I only read what (sighs) these reporters and journalists, what she said on 60 Minutes. Do you think the hostages didn't feed you because they ran out of food?

    2. JRJoe Rogan1:17:26

       Oh, that Hamas didn't feed the hostages 'cause there wasn't enough food?

    3. RVRich Vos1:17:28

       Yeah. Lesley Stahl said that in an interview.

    4. JRJoe Rogan1:17:29

       Did she really say that?

    5. RVRich Vos1:17:30

       In an interview. Look it up. She said that to one of the hostages, "Do you think they didn't..." And don't quote me 'cause this is what I read. I don't want to get sued by Lesley whoever. Uh, but I think she said-

    6. JRJoe Rogan1:17:41

       (coughs)

    7. RVRich Vos1:17:41

       ... what I read, "Do you think the h- uh, the captors didn't feed you 'cause they ran out of food?"

    8. JRJoe Rogan1:17:47

       That's a crazy thing to say to someone who's a hostage.

    9. RVRich Vos1:17:50

       Yeah. I mean, she's-

    10. JRJoe Rogan1:17:51

        That's crazy.

    11. RVRich Vos1:17:51

        On fucking 60 Minutes, a journal. How do you say something like that-

    12. JRJoe Rogan1:17:55

        Yeah.

    13. RVRich Vos1:17:56

        ... to a-

    14. JRJoe Rogan1:17:56

        That's a crazy thing to say. But they're bad. The, the problem with the 60 Minutes journalists is the same problem with what they did with the Kamala Harris interview where they-

    15. RVRich Vos1:18:05

        Yeah.

    16. JRJoe Rogan1:18:05

        ... took a bumbling answer and edited it out and put an answer to she gave to something else in its place to make it look like she gave succinct, clear-cut answers. It's, it's, that's not really journalism. They're not-

    17. RVRich Vos1:18:18

        No.

    18. JRJoe Rogan1:18:18

        They're not doing journal... That's not a question you say to a hostage. You, you-

    19. RVRich Vos1:18:21

        Yeah.

    20. JRJoe Rogan1:18:21

        When you're talking to a hostage, you want to find out what the experience was like in, in as compassionate a way as you can to talk to this person who's been through hell. You, you don't ask them, "Do you ever think that maybe they didn't feed you because they didn't have any food themselves?"

    21. RVRich Vos1:18:40

        (laughs) Which-

    22. JRJoe Rogan1:18:41

        Well, here you go. Look at what their face looks like and look at the sunken in faces-

    23. RVRich Vos1:18:45

        Yeah.

    24. JRJoe Rogan1:18:45

        ... of the starving-to-death hostages. Well, obviously, they didn't, they didn't give them any food, so shut up.

    25. RVRich Vos1:18:51

        I- i- it's, you can't watch the news.... you can't 'cause you're gonna go-

Episode duration: 2:55:36