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Joe Rogan Experience #2306 - Deric Poston

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  1. 0:001:44

    Hasan’s haircut, comedy friendships, and work ethic pressure

    1. NA

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

    2. The Joe Rogan Experience. (energetic music)

    3. Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day.

    4. JR

      So we were just looking at Hasan in the security cameras in the fucking gym with his stupid haircut.

    5. NA

      (laughs)

    6. DP

      (laughs)

    7. NA

      Why does he keep looking at ... (laughs) He looks so crazy.

    8. JR

      Our friend Hasan, hilarious dude.

    9. DP

      One of the best. One of the best.

    10. JR

      He's fantastic.

    11. DP

      Yeah.

    12. JR

      And getting better, man.

    13. DP

      Ugh.

    14. JR

      All the s- all the time. He's, he's a guy who's always working.

    15. DP

      Nobody writes more new stuff.

    16. JR

      He writes a lot.

    17. DP

      He, that guy-

    18. JR

      Writes a lot.

    19. DP

      ... puts me on my ass, 'cause I always ... You know, we've been, we've been best friends for the last 12 years, so I've been watching him this whole time. And since we met, him and Brian Simpson, they put you to work.

    20. JR

      Yeah. That's important, 'cause if your friends are slacking, you're like, "All right."

    21. DP

      Yeah.

    22. JR

      "I'll slack off too."

    23. DP

      Yeah. Or you feel like-

    24. JR

      Yeah.

    25. DP

      ... "Oh man, I'm better than my friends." But when your friends are like, "Oh, f-"

    26. JR

      Yeah.

    27. DP

      Every time I see him I'm like, "Dude, I saw you yesterday. You have two new bits?" Like-

    28. JR

      Yeah.

    29. DP

      "And they're good?"

    30. JR

      Yeah.

  2. 1:442:23

    La Jolla, the Belly Room, and “the kill box” effect of great rooms

    1. JR

      He does look smooth. He's headlining La Jolla this weekend with you, right?

    2. DP

      Yeah, yeah. We're doing next week, next Thursday.

    3. JR

      Yeah. Oh, next week then.

    4. DP

      Next Thursday, yeah.

    5. JR

      Yeah.

    6. DP

      We're going back.

    7. JR

      Nice.

    8. DP

      And then we're doing the Belly Room too, headlining the Belly Room-

    9. JR

      Stop.

    10. DP

      ... the next night.

    11. JR

      Nice.

    12. DP

      Oh, yeah.

    13. JR

      Fucking La Jolla's one of the best rooms in the world.

    14. DP

      Yeah.

    15. JR

      That La Jolla room is fire.

    16. DP

      If you get it crushing in there-

    17. JR

      Oh.

    18. DP

      ... it's-

    19. JR

      It's popping.

    20. DP

      ... it's a box. It's a literal box.

    21. JR

      Yeah.

    22. DP

      It's a kill box.

    23. JR

      And he's cheating with his hair.

    24. DP

      He's cheating, dude.

    25. JR

      He's cheating. The, those, he's ... I wanna say the jokes, but these, these hair jokes are just too good.

    26. DP

      Well, they go cr- ... People lose their mi-

    27. JR

      They lose their mind.

    28. DP

      I mean, uh-

    29. JR

      It's, it's unfortunate because they think he's looks way better with his head shaved.

    30. DP

      He's a good-looking guy.

  3. 2:233:56

    Gym culture, cold plunge resistance, and easing into hard training

    1. JR

      I love when I come here and you two guys are in the gym. And you're, you're by yourselves.

    2. DP

      Connectors.

    3. JR

      No one's pushing you. I love it. I love it.

    4. DP

      The only thing I ... 'Cause I ... We do every single thing that, that we did back when we were working out, but other than some days that c- we look at that cold plunge. We're like, "Joe, you're a fucking psycho."

    5. JR

      (laughs)

    6. DP

      "Get the fuck outta here, dude." (laughs) Not getting in cold water for you today.

    7. JR

      For real. I'm down to work out tomorrow if you guys wanna do it.

    8. DP

      Of course.

    9. JR

      All right. Let's do it.

    10. DP

      Hell yeah. We'll get a-

    11. JR

      Yeah.

    12. DP

      ... good old school winning.

    13. JR

      Yeah. We'll get a old school win.

    14. DP

      I'll get in the cold plunge. If you're, if we're, if we're all doing it, that's, I need the, we all to be doing it.

    15. JR

      So my friend Sean, who, uh, trained Alex Jones, is now training Shane. He's gonna start training Shane.

    16. DP

      I heard about, he puts him through gauntlets.

    17. JR

      I told Sh- I told Shane, I said, "Don't let him kill you."

    18. DP

      (laughs)

    19. JR

      "Don't let him kill you."

    20. DP

      (laughs)

    21. JR

      So it makes you back him off a little in the beginning. (laughs)

    22. DP

      (laughs)

    23. JR

      These fucking psychopaths.

    24. DP

      Yeah. I remember when Hasan did it with him the first time, Sean ... He got him to do it. I couldn't ... I was out of town with Schultz, and Hasan called me and goes, "Bro, I threw up twice."

    25. JR

      (laughs)

    26. DP

      And I go, "At the end?" He goes, "No, at the beginning." (laughs)

    27. JR

      (laughs)

    28. DP

      I was like, "Bro, get the fuck outta here."

    29. JR

      You gotta build up to that kinda stuff. That's the thing, like, Sean's in great shape. You know, and some peo- ... You know, if you're, if you're used to, like, coaching Navy Seals, and you're like, "Come on, pussy. We gotta go." You know, like, "Carry the fucking log."

    30. DP

      Yeah.

  4. 3:567:36

    The ‘hair’ brand: Theo Von’s mullet and becoming yourself on stage

    1. DP

      Oh, dude. I'm excited for tomorrow. Yeah. But, uh, y- ... I was gonna tell you this about Hasan's hair.

    2. NA

      (laughs)

    3. JR

      (laughs)

    4. DP

      That's back to it. We're seeing him with a security camera going, "What the fuck are you doing, bro?"

    5. NA

      (laughs)

    6. JR

      I literally, I could just, I was like, "He looks like a fucking psycho." (laughs)

    7. DP

      (laughs)

    8. JR

      "I can't believe it." And people love it. They love it.

    9. DP

      But when h- ... He ... I will never forget this. One night, I'm working the back door of the Comedy Store, and this is when Theo Von had just ... He went from, he went from a guy we all knew to he's now Theo Von.

    10. JR

      Mm.

    11. DP

      And I'm sitting back there, and he pulled in, and we're just kinda hanging at the back door. And he goes, "Derek, let me tell you something, man."

    12. JR

      (laughs)

    13. NA

      (laughs)

    14. DP

      (laughs) Thank you. He goes, "I was getting 2,000 a weekend before this hair. Since this mullet, I get about 40K a weekend." And walked off. (laughs) And I was like, "Man, what the f-"

    15. JR

      Whoa. What was he gonna say?

    16. DP

      Am I supposed to get a m- ... Yeah. Am I ... I literally was like, "I don't know what I'm supposed to do." (laughs)

    17. JR

      You know what, though? It's true, but it's not true. So it's true that when the haircut came, he got more money on the weekend. But it's also like the haircut freed him to be Theo Von.

    18. DP

      I agree.

    19. JR

      Like, do you remember when Theo ... I remember very clearly the first time I ever saw Theo and he was doing a bit about being a ... Not even a bit. He was telling a story, a true story, about when he was his, when he was young, his father was really old. Like his father had him when he was, like, 70.

    20. DP

      Uh, yes.

    21. JR

      Yeah. Something crazy. And he said he remembers being on acid lying next to his father while ... And realize his father's just dying.

    22. DP

      (laughs)

    23. JR

      You know what I mean?

    24. DP

      That's funny.

    25. JR

      It's like if you've ever been around someone who's, like-

    26. DP

      Really dying.

    27. JR

      ... 100 years old.

    28. DP

      Oh, yeah.

    29. JR

      They feel like there's no life force in them.

    30. DP

      Yeah.

  5. 7:3612:12

    Mastery and persona: Bill Burr, Dave Attell, Colin Quinn, and the “assassins”

    1. DP

      I heard Bill Burr say something, but he's just one of the greatest to ever do it, but it always made me go, "Damn," 'cause I always felt that way, like, no, I wouldn't eat before a meal, uh, eat before a show.

    2. JR

      Mm-hmm.

    3. DP

      I wouldn't eat, and then I heard him say once, he was like, "Oh, I used to not eat before shows, and then I got older and I'd fucking have a Thanksgiving dinner before a show and go up and talk the whole set about how I had a Thanksgiving dinner and how fucking fat I am and how gross we all are in America." And it was just, like, that freedom of, like, "Wow, he really doesn't give a fuck, this guy."

    4. JR

      He- well, he- Bill is also amazing at being Bill. Like, you know- like, he has, he has his opinions, his- what he thinks is stupid about something, and he's just, like, locked in.

    5. DP

      Yeah.

    6. JR

      You know what I mean? Like, there's no- like, some comics, like, you'll see one of their hours and it's kind of, like, one kind of energy, and then the other th- hour, it's, like, kind of a different kind of energy. With Bill Burr, it's Bill Burr. I'm Bill Burr.

    7. DP

      That's a great point.

    8. JR

      I'm Bill Burr. He knows how to be Bill Burr. He's professionally Bill Burr.

    9. DP

      That's a great point.

    10. JR

      You know what I mean? Like, a lot of people couldn't even do his material. It would just, like- wouldn't work.

    11. DP

      No, and it'd- it would sound-

    12. JR

      Horrible.

    13. DP

      Like hateful.

    14. JR

      Yeah. (laughs)

    15. DP

      Like this guy fucking hates the world, dude.

    16. JR

      But that's just the magic of becoming, you know, you, right? Like, there's a few- like, a Attell is the absolute best at it.

    17. DP

      Yeah.

    18. JR

      Attell has a timing and a presence, and then the material, the way it's written, like, a lot of it on paper you'd be like, "What is this?"

    19. DP

      Yeah.

    20. JR

      "I don't understand how this would be funny." But you see him do it in real life, you're like, "Oh my God." You're just crying.

    21. DP

      Yeah. And when the crowd is more raucous, he- he's better.

    22. JR

      He's in on the corniness of some of the stuff, too, which makes it even more fun. It's, like, there's many layers to it, and, you know, some of it is just, like, just brilliant observations on things. Some of them, it is com- completely ridiculous, you know. It's like-

    23. DP

      Yeah.

    24. JR

      ... it's just all, but it's woven into Dave Attell. You know what I mean?

    25. DP

      And he'll pull out a re- fucking recorder.

    26. JR

      Yeah, yeah, yeah.

    27. DP

      (laughs)

    28. JR

      He starts playing the flute. (laughs)

    29. DP

      Yeah. (laughs) It's crazy.

    30. JR

      Bro, when we saw him live, I was so-

  6. 12:1220:34

    Live standup as hypnosis—and Schulz’s improv engine and pandemic innovation

    1. JR

      Yeah, he could kill. There's some- there's some magic to that thing. I think that's hypnosis. I've always thought that. I've been th- like, for a long time, at least. I- I'm like, "What is happening to me when someone's on stage and they're killing?" You know, like when Shane-

    2. DP

      Yeah.

    3. JR

      ... when Shane's on fire. What is happening to me? I think I'm, like, locked in with their mind. I don't think it's as simple as I'm watching a show or something like that because ...... I l- love, like, watching a funny movie, you know, Tropic Thunder or something like that.

    4. DP

      Yeah.

    5. JR

      I love laughing watching a funny movie. But I don't feel the same way I feel when a guy is in front of me on stage doing standup. And I think as great as specials are, they're never ... They're like 60 to 70% of being there live.

    6. DP

      Yes.

    7. JR

      Always.

    8. DP

      Every time.

    9. JR

      'Cause I think there's something about being there live that's like ... It's hypnosis. There's something going on where that, that person's making me think the way they think.

    10. DP

      Yeah. Yeah, when someone brings you into their world-

    11. JR

      Yeah.

    12. DP

      And like you said, you're just living in it, and you're not even thinking about you're, you're just like, "I'm living in this guy's-

    13. JR

      Exactly.

    14. DP

      ... essence right now."

    15. JR

      Exactly. You're, you're living in this person's imagination and this person's work, right? 'Cause they, like they set this set up.

    16. DP

      Yeah.

    17. JR

      And they danced it around in their head and they wrote it down on paper. That's the other interesting thing about what we do is like no one has a, there's no like one way to do it. I always say my way to do it, but you know, I don't think Bill writes shit down. I think he keeps it all in his head.

    18. DP

      (exhales)

    19. JR

      Yeah. Dave mostly keeps it all in his head too.

    20. DP

      Schultz does that too.

    21. JR

      Yeah. The, uh-

    22. DP

      It's insane wh-

    23. JR

      Like that's the Jay-Z thing too, right?

    24. DP

      Yeah. Yeah.

    25. JR

      Jay-Z kept it all in his head.

    26. DP

      Lil Wayne, they didn't, they just, it was just-

    27. JR

      Yeah.

    28. DP

      I mean, it's insane. They're releasing ... It's not like they're releasing one album.

    29. JR

      But who's the best writer? Nas.

    30. DP

      (exhales)

  7. 20:3423:09

    Finding your groove and loving the job—plus Damon Wayans and ‘memory joke theft’

    1. JR

      It's sort of like, um, y- y- when you have a muscle to do something, and you do that thing all the time, then you just get better and better and better at doing that thing. And then you get in the groove, like you... like we were talking about like Attell, like Theo, like when someone gets in the groove of who they are, you know?

    2. DP

      Yeah.

    3. JR

      Like, like Tony is on Kill Tony, perfect example.

    4. DP

      That's it. Unrealistic.

    5. JR

      He's locked in. He's in the groove. He's been doing it so long. He knows when to dance and when to pause and-

    6. DP

      Mm-hmm. When to ask a serious question, when to get goofy, when to let the, the c- these are... the panel know. It's pretty impressive, man.

    7. JR

      If you can find something like that to do in your life, you'll have a much better life than if you just get a job. And I know that's not for... Not everybody can, but if you can, you definitely should.

    8. DP

      Yeah, dude.

    9. JR

      Yeah. You definitely should do that.

    10. DP

      Being excited for every day and nervous and a- anxious and, and always just b- That feeling, I mean, I... To not have it, I can't believe people go... I don't... I get having... You gotta go to work, you gotta make money, but the idea of like, man, never that feeling of anxiety and looking forward to something and... And, and it not going the way you planned.

    11. JR

      Right.

    12. DP

      And so you gotta go the next day and figure out what went wrong.

    13. JR

      Yeah.

    14. DP

      And like, I love that. That's what I love about standup, the figuring it out, the math of it all.

    15. JR

      Yeah. Yeah. It's, it's a great job, man. We're so fucking lucky.

    16. DP

      Yeah, dude.

    17. JR

      We're so lucky.

    18. DP

      God, you've been in it long enough to see everybody. Did you see this thing Damon Wayans said about you?

    19. JR

      Yeah. He said I stole one of my jokes. (laughs)

    20. DP

      Yeah. (laughs) I was gonna talk to you about that. But the way he said it, I've never seen someone say I stole a joke, and I... He was like, "Man, I... I got..." He said, "I saw it, and then I ac- realized I stole Joe's joke, and I was like, oh, I gotta stop watching motherfuckers."

    21. JR

      Yeah.

    22. DP

      It just stuck in the back of his head. But I know you give him his flowers, so I was like, oh, no, the guy's not a joke thief. Like...

    23. JR

      No, no, no, no. That happens, man. Sometimes you, you think you came up with it, but somebody else did, and you heard it, and you forgot. That can definitely... Especially if it's a subject that you never cover and time has passed, and then th- the subject comes up, like something comes up and you, you're like... And it almost... Like, David tells the best at that. He'll call you up, because you have to check sometimes. Like, "Hey, have you heard this?" (exhales) You know, like you have... He's the best at that. Dave does that all the time. Like, you gotta check every now and then. Like, this one seems too easy, because the memory is weird. You know, memory is weird.

    24. DP

      Yeah.

    25. JR

      You ever go back to like your old neighborhood where you grew up and you're like, "This house is way smaller than I thought it was."

    26. DP

      It was a mansion. (laughs)

    27. JR

      This house is different.

    28. DP

      (laughs) Yeah.

    29. JR

      The driveway is different. Everything's different. Looks weird. You know, your memory is shitty. It's good. I mean, it, it keeps you from fucking picking up the wrong spider.

    30. DP

      (laughs)

  8. 23:0949:56

    Comedy history: In Living Color, Super Bowl halftime, arena acts, and social media fame gaps

    1. JR

      Yeah. Seen too many bits. Yeah. So you can... And then, you know, there's parallel thinking. There's a lot. But you know when someone's a thief and Damon's not a thief. I always said that Damon may... He might be one of the most underappreciated comics ever.

    2. DP

      Yeah, dude.

    3. JR

      Because like when he was in his prime, you gotta realize, he was like... You know, if you're looking at today, he was like Chappelle. He was like in this... That same level of recognition as being like one of the best guys alive.

    4. DP

      Wow. Yeah.

    5. JR

      But then they got him with those TV shows, man.

    6. DP

      And movies. He wanted to be a movie star.

    7. JR

      Yeah. He was Last Boy Scout. He was gonna be a movie star.

    8. DP

      Yeah.

    9. JR

      He did that big Bruce Willis movie.

    10. DP

      Bruce Willis. Yeah.

    11. JR

      And it was a good movie.

    12. DP

      Yeah.

    13. JR

      And then it looked like he was gonna be a movie star after that.

    14. DP

      I mean, he had some great... Like Blankman where he's a retarded superhero.

    15. JR

      Oh, my God. That was so ridiculous.

    16. DP

      (laughs)

    17. JR

      Try doing that today.

    18. DP

      You couldn't do... They're so good.

    19. JR

      Bro, how do you when he, when he used to do handyman on In Living Color. (laughs)

    20. DP

      (laughs) Yeah.

    21. JR

      Oh, my God.

    22. DP

      They might be one of the greatest-

    23. JR

      No.

    24. DP

      ... families of the... The Wayans family.

    25. JR

      Oh, for sure.

    26. DP

      Uh, who's...

    27. JR

      Who's number two? They're number one.

    28. DP

      They might be one and two, Joe. I, I don't know who...

    29. JR

      Ah. Like what other families are there that are like big show... Not in comedy.

    30. DP

      The... But-

  9. 49:561:00:54

    Health detours: quitting drinking, fake honey, ‘mad honey,’ and mushrooms as social glue

    1. NA

      They're so good.

    2. DP

      Oh my God. And then just, like, 'cause you stopped, you told me the other day you haven't been drinking again. You stopped drinking, right?

    3. JR

      That's been, yeah, been more than a month now.

    4. DP

      Yeah.

    5. JR

      A month and some weeks.

    6. DP

      You walked in and you were like, "Three weeks off, boys." I was like, "Jesus fuck, dude."

    7. JR

      (laughs)

    8. DP

      This is incredible.

    9. JR

      Bro, all, I had all this fucking side fat and belly fat that just went away. But most importantly, I just feel better. Like I never have days where I'm recovering from being drunk. Like I sound like shit now because I have allergies, which is hilarious 'cause I always made fun of people. I was like, they're like, "Yeah, in three to five years, you'll get allergies." I'm like, "Shut up, pussy."

    10. DP

      (laughs)

    11. JR

      I'm not getting these fucking bitch ass allergies you guys get. Now, here I am. (sniffs) Ugh.

    12. DP

      Yeah. See you wiping your eyes. (laughs)

    13. JR

      Yeah. It's so annoying. It's so annoying f- for everybody to be right. (laughs)

    14. DP

      (laughs) Oh, yeah. My wife gets me on that honey, natural. If you get honey from a local honey-

    15. JR

      Mm-hmm.

    16. DP

      ... it gets rid of your allergies.

    17. JR

      I've heard that too, but, uh, the lady that we had in here that was a beekeeper says it's bullshit.

    18. DP

      Fuck.

    19. JR

      Yeah. Not only that, she said most honey that, like, not most. She said a lot of honey that you buy in the store is not really honey. Yeah, they, they fuck you. They put, like, corn syrup and some fucking this and that and yeah, they've, they've, they have fake honey.

    20. DP

      Fuck, man.

    21. JR

      Isn't that crazy?

    22. DP

      Is anything real?

    23. JR

      Isn't that crazy?

    24. DP

      Why would they do that?

    25. JR

      China.

    26. DP

      (laughs)

    27. JR

      They're getting us.

    28. DP

      (laughs)

    29. JR

      They're like, "These dummies, they're not gonna check." (laughs)

    30. DP

      They're not gonna check. (laughs) Because it's like-

  10. 1:00:541:06:03

    Rock stars vs comedians, and the ‘Brown Sugar’ lyric shock

    1. DP

      I love just showing up eight o'clock.

    2. JR

      (laughs)

    3. DP

      Oh man. Get up four or five times in a night. Oh, there's nothing... I love it, dude. I mean, the idea of doing some stuff seems fun, but the... to make it my... I saw Seinfeld say that. He was like, "Man, this is..." It's one of the... We have one of the few jobs where people want this job.

    4. JR

      Yeah.

    5. DP

      How many... Like, very rarely do I see a... I don't know if there's a... There's no job where I'm like, "Oh, I'd like to... really like to be that."

    6. JR

      Yeah.

    7. DP

      This is the job.

    8. JR

      It's one of them. That's for sure. Rock star is probably the big one, right?

    9. DP

      Rock star's probably the biggest.

    10. JR

      Yeah.

    11. DP

      But I don't... I at least-

    12. JR

      See, the rock star thing, they could sing the same ass song every night forever.

    13. DP

      Yeah.

    14. JR

      Like if you're The Rolling Stones, you could still sing Brown Sugar. Nope. Can't sing it anymore.

    15. DP

      (laughs)

    16. JR

      Can't sing that one.

    17. DP

      No, wait a minute.

    18. JR

      They don't sing Brown Sugar anymore.

    19. DP

      No. Come on.

    20. JR

      Bro, you ever listen- see the lyrics to Brown Sugar?

    21. DP

      What are the actual lyrics?

    22. JR

      Oh.

    23. DP

      What is it, Joseph? (laughs)

    24. JR

      There's a reason why they don't sing it anymore. It's a great song, don't get me wrong. It's still on my Spotify playlist.

    25. DP

      (laughs)

    26. JR

      But if you... I think it... I might've pulled it out. I might've got scared.... wait till you see the lyrics.

    27. DP

      That playlist is crazy long.

    28. JR

      It's great. Yeah, the playlist is-

    29. DP

      Oh, we get, we get turnt up in there.

    30. JR

      I, we do. I think that playlist is, like, 35 hours long now. Let me see.

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