Joe Rogan Experience #2320 - Tom Segura

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(laughs) What's wrong with you?

(laughs)

How? First of all, how did Netflix let you make this show?

Well, they wouldn't have-

(laughs)

... let me make it if I just pitched it to them. (laughs)

(laughs) What did you do?

I made a few- (laughs)

(laughs)

I made a few and showed it to them.

Oh my God.

'Cause I, I knew. I knew that I, like-

Dude.

... that if, like-

You can't give anybody, like, the script.

No.

No.

The script won't work. The script won't work.

(sighs)

I mean, that's just-

(laughs)

(laughs) That's the thing is, like-

That's very funny. Very funny.

Thanks, man. It's, um-

So ridiculous.

It's pretty ridiculous. You know, it was a few years ago that I made the, like, the initial one. It was, um, I was on that crazy tour, that real crazy tour-

Mm-hmm.

... where it was, like, you know, fucking 10 shows a week, and I had a break coming up. And so, I've always liked movies, like, features, right? But it's, it's a lot, it's a huge undertaking to get a feature made, but I liked short films 'cause it feels like you're making a movie, you know, like, a mini-movie, right?

Right.

And it feels much more accessible to do. So, I had written all these, like, short stories, short films, and I called my friend Rami Hashash, and I was like, "Hey, I have a break coming up on tour. Let's shoot a short film." 'Cause we'd done other things before. And when I sent him, I sent him, like, 10 different scripts. He was like, "What if we did three of these?" I was like, "How can we do three of them?" He's like, "We'll shoot, like, 11 days in a row, and we can do three of these stories." And even then, I wasn't thinking of, like, having a television series. I was just like, oh, it'll be fun to make these, these stories, you know? And so, after we shot those three, it was clear that we had, like, like, the, you know, the bones of a show. Like, what if we, what if we did a, a show that was based on short stories, you know? Like, short films, basically. And I don't know, I, I... there's, there was another, there's another few that were in the original, and when I sent them in to Netflix, they were like, "This is fucking insane, but, like, we'll make six episodes of this." (laughs)

(laughs)

And (laughs) yeah, they were just like, "This is crazy." But it's been, it's been the most fun I've ever had, dude.