Joe Rogan Experience #2354 - Joe DeRosa

1. 0:00 – 15:00

   (drum roll) Joe Rogan podcast,…

   1. NANarrator0:00

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

   2. JRJoe Rogan0:06

      Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day. (instrumental music plays) Dun, dun, dun. Joe DeRosa taking notes. Look at you, scholarly young man.

   3. JDJoe DeRosa0:17

      There's so many-

   4. JRJoe Rogan0:17

      What are you writing down?

   5. JDJoe DeRosa0:18

      There's so many things I wanna talk to you about.

   6. JRJoe Rogan0:22

      Yeah?

   7. JDJoe DeRosa0:23

      Yeah, this is like a really ... This is really interesting, like, like, to, to sit with you one-on-one like this.

   8. JRJoe Rogan0:29

      Hmm.

   9. JDJoe DeRosa0:30

      It really is, because ... And I say that outside of who you are to the world, which is obviously impressive. I say it to you just as a comic that knows you and has been friendly with you for many years. We don't get a l- you know, usually when I see you, it's at The Mothership.

   10. JRJoe Rogan0:46

       Green room, 50 people around.

   11. JDJoe DeRosa0:48

       50 people.

   12. JRJoe Rogan0:49

       Yeah.

   13. JDJoe DeRosa0:49

       It's your place.

   14. JRJoe Rogan0:50

       Right.

   15. JDJoe DeRosa0:50

       There's a lot going on. And, uh, I was like, "Man, it's gonna be interesting to get to sit, like, across from Joe and just talk to him, like-"

   16. JRJoe Rogan0:58

       Yeah.

   17. JDJoe DeRosa0:58

       "... and have a conversation with."

   18. JRJoe Rogan0:59

       What did you write down?

   19. JDJoe DeRosa1:00

       I wrote sober.

   20. JRJoe Rogan1:02

       Sober.

   21. JDJoe DeRosa1:03

       Uh, which I'll explain.

   22. JRJoe Rogan1:04

       Okay.

   23. JDJoe DeRosa1:04

       But family was the first thing I wrote, which-

   24. JRJoe Rogan1:07

       Okay.

   25. JDJoe DeRosa1:07

       ... or the second thing I wrote, but the first thing I wanted to say, was, um ... It's incredible, man, 'cause I was in there last night, my special came out yesterday, and I was in the club last night, I just dropped in real quick to say hi to Tony and, and Ari was around for his last night before he-

   26. JRJoe Rogan1:23

       Yeah, what is he doing? He's going on a walkabout?

   27. JDJoe DeRosa1:25

       Some secret. (laughs)

   28. NANarrator1:26

       (laughs)

   29. JRJoe Rogan1:26

       He just sent, sent me some text message, it s- it said, "This weekend was perfect for my send-off from standup comedy." And I go, "What does that mean, my send-off?"

   30. JDJoe DeRosa1:35

       Um ...
2. 15:00 – 30:00

   Everybody's sitting there like...…

   1. JRJoe Rogan15:00

      God. And now everybody's revealed.

   2. JDJoe DeRosa15:02

      Everybody's sitting there like... Yeah. And they're like, "Well, sorry about that." He's like, "No, there's no turning back from this," you know?

   3. JRJoe Rogan15:07

      Yeah.

   4. JDJoe DeRosa15:08

      But that's what it is. It's people get so desperate, it's survival. And as, as long as they feel that fear, that threat, that my weekly paycheck might be cut off for me, and that starts the chain of dominoes to my children starving or whatever it is-

   5. JRJoe Rogan15:23

      Yep.

   6. JDJoe DeRosa15:25

      ... people will do some really foul fucking shit, man.

   7. JRJoe Rogan15:28

      Oh, yeah.

   8. JDJoe DeRosa15:28

      You know? Some really foul fucking shit. You know? I feel very lucky that we're, in several different ways, you know, we're all operating sort of at different levels of this crazy industry we're in. But all of us in this circle that we now all exist in, in comedy, it's like we all get to, we all get to be independently employed, independently sufficient. And I think that allows you to potentially live a better life, you know?

   9. JRJoe Rogan15:58

      It's just a better way of life for sure. Well, at least for us. But the thing is, some people, they genuinely like coding. (laughs)

   10. JDJoe DeRosa16:05

       (snorts)

   11. JRJoe Rogan16:05

       You know what I mean?

   12. JDJoe DeRosa16:06

       Right. (laughs)

   13. JRJoe Rogan16:06

       So it's like, unless you can get a job offsite where they let you... They don't even d- let you do that anymore. Now they're making people go back to work, which is so interesting.

   14. JDJoe DeRosa16:14

       Yeah.

   15. JRJoe Rogan16:14

       'Cause there was a few people that fucked it up for everybody else probably. It was like a bunch of lazy people who fucked off and didn't really do their work and kind of like half-assed everything-

   16. JDJoe DeRosa16:23

       Yeah.

   17. JRJoe Rogan16:23

       ... 'cause they were at home in their fucking pajamas-

   18. JDJoe DeRosa16:25

       Yeah.

   19. JRJoe Rogan16:25

       ... and they didn't wanna go back to work.

   20. JDJoe DeRosa16:26

       Yeah. Yeah. There are guys out there that are like, "I love being a janitor. What do you want me to do?" (laughs) "I gotta go, I gotta go work somewhere." (laughs)

   21. JRJoe Rogan16:33

       It's just people saying they don't wanna go back to the office, that to me is a wild one. Like, yo, everyone always had to work in an office. There was a reason. You go there, that's work.

   22. JDJoe DeRosa16:43

       Mm-hmm. Right.

   23. JRJoe Rogan16:43

       When you're at home, you could just be staring at your phone, you could be jerking off. How many reporters got caught jerking off, like to Zoom calls? (laughs)

   24. JDJoe DeRosa16:51

       Insane. (laughs) Insane.

   25. JRJoe Rogan16:52

       You can't just leave people alone.

   26. JDJoe DeRosa16:54

       Insane.

   27. JRJoe Rogan16:54

       They'll pretend they're doing as good a job. They're not. They gotta go to the office. That's why like the, all the people that are like super ambitious, like psycho Elon Musk type characters, you gotta go to the fucking office.

   28. JDJoe DeRosa17:06

       You know, dude, I... Yeah, and it's, it... I have mixed feelings about the office thing because I, I worked in offices at one point. I understand somebody saying, "Dude, it was soul deadening."

   29. JRJoe Rogan17:17

       Yeah. Oh, yeah.

   30. JDJoe DeRosa17:17

       "The overhead lights, the, the cu- the gray cubicles, whatever." Right?
3. 30:00 – 45:00

   The, the, the label…

   1. JRJoe Rogan30:01

   2. JDJoe DeRosa30:01

      The, the, the label was camouflage, the cheapest looking camouflage g- design ever, and it said camo in like the Army stamp. It was a $1.50 a 40, and it was 8.9% alcohol.

   3. JRJoe Rogan30:13

      Oh my God. (laughs)

   4. JDJoe DeRosa30:14

      So college, it's perfect.

   5. JRJoe Rogan30:15

      That's so strong.

   6. JDJoe DeRosa30:15

      There it is, baby. (laughs)

   7. JRJoe Rogan30:17

      I remember Olde English. I remember Olde English, and, um, I remember, um ... God there was a bunch of 'em. There was a bunch of those, like, giant malt liquors that everybody... What were the big name ones? They were always in rap songs.

   8. JDJoe DeRosa30:32

      Oh dude, uh, O.E.

   9. JRJoe Rogan30:34

      Yeah.

   10. JDJoe DeRosa30:34

       Uh-

   11. JRJoe Rogan30:34

       Olde English is a big one.

   12. JDJoe DeRosa30:35

       Uh, 8 Ball was, um-

   13. JRJoe Rogan30:37

       Colt 45.

   14. JDJoe DeRosa30:38

       Colt 45.

   15. JRJoe Rogan30:39

       Colt 45.

   16. JDJoe DeRosa30:39

       Colt 45.

   17. JRJoe Rogan30:39

       That's right. Yeah. King Cobra.

   18. JDJoe DeRosa30:42

       Yeah. Hurricane.

   19. JRJoe Rogan30:43

       Olde English 800 is, that was the classic, the Olde English 800.

   20. JDJoe DeRosa30:46

       St. Ides. Yeah, Olde English 800 was 8 Ball.

   21. JRJoe Rogan30:49

       Mm-hmm.

   22. JDJoe DeRosa30:49

       That was the Easy-E song 8 Ball-

   23. JRJoe Rogan30:51

       Right.

   24. JDJoe DeRosa30:51

       ... if you remember.

   25. JRJoe Rogan30:51

       Bro, you, you drink that stuff, you will get fucked up.

   26. JDJoe DeRosa30:55

       Yeah.

   27. JRJoe Rogan30:55

       Like that's a weird gray area between liquor and, and beer. You know what I mean?

   28. JDJoe DeRosa31:02

       It tastes like shit.

   29. JRJoe Rogan31:03

       Ugh.

   30. JDJoe DeRosa31:03

       It tastes like you, it tastes like you took bad beer-
4. 45:00 – 1:00:00

   How long were you…

   1. JRJoe Rogan45:00

      21. I didn't have anything to say. I've n- I had n- nothing to say.

   2. JDJoe DeRosa45:04

      How long were you in New York? You were outta New York way before I came to New York, but how long were you there for?

   3. JRJoe Rogan45:10

      I left New York when I was 25.

   4. JDJoe DeRosa45:12

      Okay.

   5. JRJoe Rogan45:12

      20 ... Almost 26, I guess. No, I had to be 26. No, I was 26. Um, and then I came to California initially for this Fox show that I did with Jim Breuer. Jim Breuer was the, um, he was the mascot for the other team, and the ... It w- it was a baseball team (clears throat) called, uh, it was called Hardball.

   6. JDJoe DeRosa45:32

      It was a sitcom?

   7. JRJoe Rogan45:33

      Yeah.

   8. JDJoe DeRosa45:33

      Okay.

   9. JRJoe Rogan45:33

      Terrible show. Terrible show.

   10. JDJoe DeRosa45:34

       Okay.

   11. JRJoe Rogan45:34

       So, I moved out here for that, and then that got canceled.

   12. JDJoe DeRosa45:37

       You know what's funny, dude? Uh, I was saying this to all the boys out in the, in the, uh, outside area here. Um, I go, "I gotta tell Joe this, 'cause I keep forgetting to tell him." 'Cause I k- and 'cause I always forget, "Oh, he was on that show." I f- I, you know ... News radio during COVID saved my fucking life, dude.

   13. JRJoe Rogan45:57

       (laughs)

   14. JDJoe DeRosa45:57

       (laughs) I swear to you.

   15. JRJoe Rogan45:59

       Did you just ... Did you binge it?

   16. JDJoe DeRosa46:00

       I was so ... I was living in an apartment that only-

   17. JRJoe Rogan46:03

       (clears throat)

   18. JDJoe DeRosa46:03

       ... had windows in the bedroom, so I had no light in my apartment.

   19. JRJoe Rogan46:07

       Oh, no.

   20. JDJoe DeRosa46:08

       It was a tenement building. The hallway, I was telling the guys outside, I was like, "The hallway-"

   21. JRJoe Rogan46:11

       You were trapped in a place with no light at all?

   22. JDJoe DeRosa46:14

       Yeah. The hallway in this building was ... The hallway looked like the alley behind the Wuhan lab.

   23. JRJoe Rogan46:19

       (laughs)

   24. JDJoe DeRosa46:19

       I was like, I was like, "I'm gonna get COVID from the fucking railing."

   25. JRJoe Rogan46:23

       (laughs)

   26. JDJoe DeRosa46:23

       It w- (laughs) I was like ... (laughs) It was so gross. E- everybody was so freaked out. Nobody knew what was going on, like, in the beginning. And, um, and, uh, I was like, "Dude, I'm trapped. I, I, I'm alone." Like, "This is the worst thing ever." And my buddy Pat Walsh, who I do my We'll See You In Hell podcast with, he said, "Listen, man, have you seen News Radio?" And I said, "No, I've never seen it. I d- I missed it when it was on." And he goes, "Look, Amazon's got the whole series right now for 20 bucks. Just buy it and watch it." And I bought it, and I watched it. And you, fucking Dave Foley, the best, uh, uh, Phil Hartman. I was just like-

   27. JRJoe Rogan47:02

       Steve Root, Andy Dick.

   28. JDJoe DeRosa47:03

       Steve ... Oh my God.

   29. JRJoe Rogan47:04

       Vicki Lewis.

   30. JDJoe DeRosa47:05

       It just-
5. 1:00:00 – 1:10:49

   Mm-hmm. …

   1. JRJoe Rogan1:00:00

   2. JDJoe DeRosa1:00:00

      Mm-hmm.

   3. JRJoe Rogan1:00:00

      ... as a place where like the best pool players in New York City would go and gamble. So, I'd go there 2:00, 3:00 in the morning, any given night-

   4. JDJoe DeRosa1:00:08

      Wow.

   5. JRJoe Rogan1:00:08

      ... and you would find some of the best players in the world matching up, playing pool for money.

   6. JDJoe DeRosa1:00:13

      Wow.

   7. JRJoe Rogan1:00:13

      Oh, it was amazing. And it was just 24/7. It was open all the time. So there's people, like guys who were street hustlers, who were pool hustlers, who would sleep under the tables. There was a bunch of people there that were like really talented pool players, but they were basically homeless, and they would just run around and... My friend that I was telling you about that smoked crack, he... That's how I knew him.

   8. JDJoe DeRosa1:00:30

      (laughs)

   9. JRJoe Rogan1:00:31

      He, he was, he was basically a homeless crackhead who was a genius pool player. Yeah.

   10. JDJoe DeRosa1:00:35

       Did you ever get to play against any of the, like, big guys? Like...

   11. JRJoe Rogan1:00:39

       Yeah, I got my ass kicked. I played at a bunch of tournaments. I wasn't f- nearly good enough back then to play against those guys. I was just learning pool-

   12. JDJoe DeRosa1:00:46

       Mm-hmm.

   13. JRJoe Rogan1:00:46

       ... but I was fascinated by it. But it was just the place... New Yo- the kind of thing that you'd have in New York City, there was all these different places we could go, we could go to like 10, 15 places that were pool halls in New York City. There were... 24 hours.

   14. JDJoe DeRosa1:00:58

       Wow.

   15. JRJoe Rogan1:00:59

       And you would go there, and this one was a complete Chinese-owned place. You would go there and... Like some of them you would go to. Not Chelsea, but some of them you would go to, they were off the beaten path. You'd go there, everyone spoke Chinese, they had Chinese on the wall. They did speak a little bit of English.

   16. JDJoe DeRosa1:01:13

       Mm-hmm.

   17. JRJoe Rogan1:01:14

       You could pay them for table time, you could go and play, and you'd watch these dudes gambling there too.

   18. JDJoe DeRosa1:01:17

       It's, it's one of, one of my... That, that version of New York, I think, is probably, I would think, extinct.

   19. JRJoe Rogan1:01:24

       It's not-

   20. JDJoe DeRosa1:01:24

       You know?

   21. JRJoe Rogan1:01:25

       It's not worth enough money.

   22. JDJoe DeRosa1:01:26

       Right.

   23. JRJoe Rogan1:01:26

       See, the thing is like if you could put some Louis Vuitton store-

   24. JDJoe DeRosa1:01:30

       Yeah.

   25. JRJoe Rogan1:01:30

       ... in the place where that used to be-

   26. JDJoe DeRosa1:01:31

       Yeah.

   27. JRJoe Rogan1:01:31

       ... that's gonna make a lot more money-

   28. JDJoe DeRosa1:01:32

       Of course.

   29. JRJoe Rogan1:01:33

       ... than this seedy 24-hour pool hall that charges 20 bucks an hour for table time.

   30. JDJoe DeRosa1:01:37

       Of course. Yeah.

Episode duration: 3:09:12