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(drum roll) Joe Rogan podcast,…
- NANarrator
(drum roll) Joe Rogan podcast, check it out.
- IEIan Edwards
The Joe Rogan Experience.
- NANarrator
Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day. (instrumental music) Joe Rogan: Ta da.
- JRJoe Rogan
What's up, son? (laughs) Joe Rogan: (laughs) How is it possible that you haven't been here in the five years I've been h- living here? Oh, shit. It's been five years? Joe Rogan: Yeah, man. It's been five years. That's pretty fucking crazy. Joe Rogan: That's crazy. Yeah. Joe Rogan: That doesn't make any sense. It doesn't. I like it, though. Joe Rogan: Thank you. It's like, uh, shit, it's got the sauna walls and shit. (laughs) Joe Rogan: (laughs) It's very close to what the old one was. Instead of brick, we went with wood, 'cause the- we were kinda faking it with the brick in the old place. It was fake brick? Joe Rogan: It wasn't fake brick. It was real brick, but what they do is they take, like, um, a mesh- Uh-huh. Joe Rogan: ... and then they take real bricks and they slice them thin, and then they put up the cement and they glue the real bricks in place. Oh, okay. Joe Rogan: But it's not really a brick wall. Right. Joe Rogan: It just looks like a brick wall. Uh-huh. Joe Rogan: I feel like a real brick wall should only be the- the only brick wall that you show. Right. Joe Rogan: You sh- y- like, I went to a pool hall the other day, and they had a plastic brick wall, and I got deeply disappointed. (laughs) Yeah. You touched it? Joe Rogan: Like, I touched it. I was like, "Oh, this is a fake brick wall." (laughs) Joe Rogan: "This is bullshit. This is plastic." Yeah. I mean, it's- it's a push to have, like, a f- half-fake brick wall. Joe Rogan: Yeah. But to have, like, a plastic brick wall? Joe Rogan: That's- that you're going too far. Did you just leave the pool hall? Like, "Fuck this place?" Joe Rogan: No. No, I didn't. No? Joe Rogan: No, I'm a junkie. (laughs) Joe Rogan: I stayed. But the- the- the brick used to bother me, that it was fake brick at the other studio. Right. Joe Rogan: I'm like, "We're kinda bullshitting here." Some people have, like, uh, some comedy clubs or somebody fake a comedy spot. Joe Rogan: Oh, yeah. They have the- it's just a sheet. Joe Rogan: Yeah. Uh, uh, like a- it's not a curtain, but... Joe Rogan: A brick sheet? A brick sheet. Joe Rogan: (laughs) They're like, "Bro, just what- what you got back there? Let's just show that." Joe Rogan: (laughs) "Just show whatever's back there." Yeah. Joe Rogan: It's weird how that became the backdrop for a comedy club, a brick wall. Why? Joe Rogan: It's a good question. I don't know when it start- maybe it started with Evening at the Improv. What was Evening at the Improv's backdrop? Was that a brick wall? It might've been that simple. All right. So- Joe Rogan: 'Cause back in the 1980s...
Yeah. Joe Rogan: Was it? Yep. Joe Rogan: Aha. Look at that. That's it.
It makes me wonder- Joe Rogan: Bro, was that Ellen? It makes me wonder if that wall is real. Joe Rogan: Bro, that's Ellen. Look at that picture of Ellen. That's crazy. And I know she had hair. Joe Rogan: That's crazy. Chris Rock, Adam Sandler. Joe Rogan: Wow. Wow. When I started, uh, doing comedy, I used to go to The Comic Strip, and they had a brick wall, too. And, uh, to get on stage at The Comic Strip, you had to come the first Friday of every month and try to pick a number. And if you got a number, they had, like, a lotto thing, so it was, like, all these open micers lined up down the street. Joe Rogan: Mm-hmm. And then I- Joe Rogan: This is the dreadlocks Ian's days. This is pre-dreadlocks, right? Joe Rogan: You didn't have dreadlocks? Nah. I might've had, like, twists and shit. (laughs) Joe Rogan: (laughs)
(laughs)
Please don't find none of those photos. Joe Rogan: Bro, how long have I known you? Like, 30 years or some shit. Joe Rogan: Yeah. We've known each other 30 years. That's crazy. Joe Rogan: Wow. We were little babies. Yeah. Joe Rogan: Little babies. D- doing the Boston. Joe Rogan: Yup. Yeah. I- it's crazy when I'm p- like, how... Not how, but we j- we just had no fucking idea. Joe Rogan: Yeah. Like, how all this shit would turn out. Joe Rogan: No idea. Yeah. Joe Rogan: We had no idea even how it all worked. (laughs) Right. Joe Rogan: You know? You're just taking chances on stage, trying to figure out what's funny. Mm-hmm. Joe Rogan: And then trying to get work. Trying to get work on the road. Mm-hmm. I just knew once I had the inclination to do it, the moment I had the inclination to do it, I was like, "Oh, I'm doing this for the rest of my life." Like, that- once that moment hit. So then all bets on everything else was off. Joe Rogan: Mm-hmm. And I just started just doing it. And just doing it locally in Long Island, and then I remember seeing A&E at the Improv and seeing Chappelle on there, and I noticed that all the comics on Long Island that used to, like, be ahead of me and host the shows that I was doing the mics on and headlined all week- (laughs) excuse me. All weekend in Long Island, none of those comics were on TV. So I was like, "I gotta get to Manhattan." Joe Rogan: (laughs) Like, all the comics- Joe Rogan: Yeah. ... that were on TV were in Manhattan, so. Joe Rogan: I felt the exact same way. Mm-hmm. Joe Rogan: Living in Boston, all these guys I knew, they were so funny, but none of them were on TV. Yeah. Joe Rogan: But the thing is, like, I knew that the people that are- were on TV, then they could go anywhere. Mm-hmm. Joe Rogan: Once you're on TV, then you could go to Kansas. Yeah. Joe Rogan: You could go to Miami. You can go anywhere. Mm-hmm. Joe Rogan: But if you weren't on TV, man, y- nobody was gonna come pay to see you. It was a risk. Yeah. Joe Rogan: You know, you're out with your wife. You got a date night. Like, "Should I take a chance on this motherfucker?" (laughs) Joe Rogan: "I don't know. Look at his face, his stupid fucking dreadlocks." Like... (laughs) Whoa, whoa, whoa. (laughs) I was on TV, fam. (laughs) Joe Rogan: (laughs) It's- well, it's weird, though, right? Like, nobody- Yeah. Joe Rogan: ... nobody knew. Nobody... I- I feel like we knew, though. Like, inside. Like, we had some type of blueprint, 'cause we'd seen, like, successful comics. Joe Rogan: Yes. But to go from, like... So, and I came here, moved to America f- when I was 17 from Jamaica, so I- when I started watching TV, I didn't know anybody on TV. Joe Rogan: Oh, wow. You know what I'm saying? I didn't know- Joe Rogan: What was that like? ... anybody on TV. Joe Rogan: So, like, would- do you remember the first shows you saw? Uh, first shows? Well, they have American shows on TV in Jamaica. We had- we had one channel back then. Joe Rogan: Uh-huh. Was it one or... We had one. And then, uh... So when I came here, I watched SNL 'cause Eddie Murphy was on that shit, so that was, uh, a requirement. I was always watching that. Joe Rogan: Now I finally can figure out how old you are. Mm-hmm.
(laughs) Joe Rogan: 'Cause you lying motherfucker.
What? Joe Rogan: You won't tell anybody how old you are. Yeah. (laughs)
(laughs)
I don't lie. Joe Rogan: You're setting- I just don't tell. There's two different things. There's two different things. (laughs)
(laughs)
I might run past the question. Joe Rogan: I tricked you. I tricked you with that Eddie Murphy line. Yeah. But- (laughs) Joe Rogan: He was only on for two seasons. I gotcha. That's hilarious. Yeah, but I was five years old. No, I'm just kidding. (laughs) Joe Rogan: Was- was this... Was, uh, was Eddie Murphy on for two seasons or one season? I think he was on for two seasons if I'm guessing.
- IEIan Edwards
Does it say?
- NANarrator
Oh, more, uh, four?
- JRJoe Rogan
Was it really? Oh, you got a little room for error.
- IEIan Edwards
Yeah, I got a little room for error, always.
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- IEIan Edwards
Always got a little room for error. Come on, man.
- JRJoe Rogan
So, that's three years.
- IEIan Edwards
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
So, he did the '84... Oh, you did the '81 and '84?
- IEIan Edwards
Yeah, '81-
- JRJoe Rogan
Oh, okay.
- IEIan Edwards
... was season '81.
- JRJoe Rogan
Okay.
- IEIan Edwards
'80, '81, '82 and '83.
- JRJoe Rogan
So, four seasons. So, he put in his time.
- IEIan Edwards
Mm-hmm.
- 15:00 – 30:00
Oh, God. …
- IEIan Edwards
all weekend. That's how it was.
- JRJoe Rogan
Oh, God.
- IEIan Edwards
But it was like that, that bitterness, that ... And I, and I-
- JRJoe Rogan
That's so crazy.
- IEIan Edwards
And I, and I feel ... Yeah, I f- I feel bad, but I like ... That's why I stay on stage. I be like, "I'm ... I am not gonna let that happen to me." You feel me?
- JRJoe Rogan
(smacks lips) Yeah, a lot of people slack off, man. They, they just ... They lose their enthusiasm. I think he had a lot of other problems too though, right?
- IEIan Edwards
Yeah. And he's also from the era where they don't write new material.
- JRJoe Rogan
Mm-hmm.
- IEIan Edwards
You know what I mean?
- JRJoe Rogan
And they do a lot of cocaine. (laughs)
- IEIan Edwards
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
(sings) There was an era where those dudes cooked their brains.
- IEIan Edwards
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
So, yeah. Yeah, things pass you by if you don't keep up.
- IEIan Edwards
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
Or you have to let them pass you by. If it's yeah, yeah, I'm good.
- IEIan Edwards
Right.
- JRJoe Rogan
I had a good time.
- IEIan Edwards
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
It was a lot of fun.
- IEIan Edwards
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
You can do that too.
- IEIan Edwards
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
But the thing is, like those guys that, that go and get regular jobs, maybe they're better off than the guy who's now middling for you.
- IEIan Edwards
Right, right.
- JRJoe Rogan
You know what I mean? 'Cause that guy has probably been phoning it in for a decade and a half. He might not have the juice left to like reignite what made him funny in the first place.
- IEIan Edwards
Yeah. That's when I feel, feel like I'll just leave. I still got like a competitive spirit. I feel like, uh, I haven't gotten to where I want to. And I also ... Like that space I was just talking about, like where you just stream of consciousness space.
- JRJoe Rogan
Mm-hmm.
- IEIan Edwards
Like, I'm kinda wanna get to that.
- JRJoe Rogan
(clicks tongue) Yeah.
- 30:00 – 45:00
Oh, okay. …
- JRJoe Rogan
with Ari Matty.
- IEIan Edwards
Oh, okay.
- JRJoe Rogan
Crazy enough. And Hinchcliffe and I did that like, phew, nine years ago I think. So, there's some comedy clubs. I'm sure there's some in Sydney, but-
- IEIan Edwards
I did one in Sydney.
- JRJoe Rogan
When you're traveling-
- IEIan Edwards
Mm-hmm.
- JRJoe Rogan
... you're doing like these, uh, these, these comedy tours.
- IEIan Edwards
Right.
- JRJoe Rogan
And so it's festival-based stuff. Like, there's a bunch of different festivals that people go to. And when they go to festivals... Like, that's one of the things about like, like Scotland. When they do that Edinburgh. Those guys, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Those guys, they create a new hour every year.
- IEIan Edwards
Yeah, that's great.
- JRJoe Rogan
And you gotta come back and talk about trauma or talk about-
- IEIan Edwards
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
... you know, what it's like to be whatever.
- IEIan Edwards
Right, right.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- IEIan Edwards
Whatever stage of life they're in.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- IEIan Edwards
Whatever stage of politics they're in.
- JRJoe Rogan
And that's what people expect, which is interesting, 'cause it's not really American-style standup the way you and I do it.
- IEIan Edwards
Mm-hmm.
- JRJoe Rogan
... or the way, you know, it's traditionally done. They're doing, like, story-based standup.
- IEIan Edwards
So is-
- JRJoe Rogan
Which is a, you know, it's great. It's not, um, it's not a knock on it.
- IEIan Edwards
Right.
- JRJoe Rogan
It's just a different thing. And if you try to do that in America, you'd probably get steamrolled.
- IEIan Edwards
Yeah, I've seen somewhere that they look kinda one-man-showy.
- JRJoe Rogan
Mm-hmm.
- IEIan Edwards
Or one-woman-showy.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- IEIan Edwards
So...
- 45:00 – 1:00:00
Yeah. Yeah, that gave…
- JRJoe Rogan
good fucking minute and you could just rock the house for one minute, you could change the course of your whole life.
- IEIan Edwards
Yeah. Yeah, that gave me chills, man, just 'cause I seen that.
- JRJoe Rogan
Mm-hmm.
- IEIan Edwards
I've seen that there on that show.
- JRJoe Rogan
Changes the course of your whole life, forever and ever. You wi- you, you're at that stage where you've been doing comedy five, six years, you don't know-
- IEIan Edwards
Mm-hmm.
- JRJoe Rogan
... if you could ... You know, you're living in Seattle, the scene's not that good, and you say, "Fuck it, I'm gonna go to Austin." You scratch up some fucking money you made as a waiter, you get in your car, you drive all the way to Texas, you put in for one minute, you don't get up. You stay there, "I'm gonna stay on Monday." You come back-
- IEIan Edwards
Mm-hmm.
- JRJoe Rogan
... next Monday, you don't get up. You're like, "Oh my god, I'm running out of money." You, you start thinking, "I'm, I should get a job."
- IEIan Edwards
Yeah. (laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
And then you, you get that one minute, and-
- IEIan Edwards
Uh-huh.
- JRJoe Rogan
... boom! You fucking kill. You fucking kill, and then you go home, you're like, "Oh my god, I'm doing it."
- IEIan Edwards
Uh-huh.
- JRJoe Rogan
"I'm doing it. It's actually happening."
- IEIan Edwards
Right.
- JRJoe Rogan
And then next thing you know, you're a professional comedian, you're touring all over the world.
- IEIan Edwards
It's pretty crazy.
- JRJoe Rogan
It's pretty crazy.
- IEIan Edwards
'Cause some people, they'll just come to town for that one night, or-
- JRJoe Rogan
They should.
- IEIan Edwards
... that one day.
- JRJoe Rogan
They should.
- IEIan Edwards
And-
- JRJoe Rogan
If they, if that's all they can do.
- IEIan Edwards
And, and do, and then see if they can get up, and if they don't get up, it's a drag.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- IEIan Edwards
I- If you do get up, if you just do mediocre ... (laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
That's not good either.
- IEIan Edwards
That's not good either.
- 1:00:00 – 1:09:47
And... But the big…
- IEIan Edwards
- JRJoe Rogan
And... But the big thing, man... Ooh, damn.
- IEIan Edwards
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
That was a beautiful combination.
- IEIan Edwards
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
You forget how good Ali was, even when three years off, dude.
- IEIan Edwards
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
He looked sweet. But now I want, I wanna, I wanna show you something different though, because we're seeing this Ali.
- IEIan Edwards
Mm-hmm.
- JRJoe Rogan
Look it, first of all, take care of those fucking... those strings.
- IEIan Edwards
Strings, yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
Hey, referee, tie that shit off.
- IEIan Edwards
Tape, tape that. Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
Tape that shit off.
- IEIan Edwards
And cut it.
- JRJoe Rogan
Um, w- show me Ali versus Cleveland Big, Big Cat Williams. This is my favorite fight to watch.
- IEIan Edwards
Oh, word?
- JRJoe Rogan
If anybody never saw Ali before, I say you gotta see Ali before they made him retire. And then you gotta realize, we lost three years of this Ali, who was different than anybody who had ever boxed before.
- IEIan Edwards
Right.
- JRJoe Rogan
Anybody. So this is prime Ali. Like look at the difference right away in the movement.
- IEIan Edwards
Mm-hmm.
- JRJoe Rogan
Right? The w- the one who fought Jerry Quarry was kind of standing in front of him more.
- IEIan Edwards
Right.
- JRJoe Rogan
You know? And he was boxing him, and m- looking good, but-
- IEIan Edwards
Uh-huh.
- JRJoe Rogan
... this Ali is like, good luck hitting him.
- IEIan Edwards
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
Good luck, dude. Look at this.
- IEIan Edwards
I'm looking at the guy. He's like, "This is awkward." Like, "How do I stop this thing from moving so I can hit it?"
- JRJoe Rogan
And this guy who he's fighting, Cleveland Big Cat Williams, was a killer.
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