Joe Rogan Experience #2306 - Deric Poston
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In this episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, featuring Narrator and Narrator, Joe Rogan Experience #2306 - Deric Poston explores joe Rogan, Deric Poston Deconstruct Comedy, Fighting, Fame, And The Future Joe Rogan and comedian Deric Poston spend a long, freewheeling conversation talking about stand‑up comedy craft, work ethic, and how certain comics evolved into arena acts. They branch into MMA history, Rogan’s fighting past, and the mental toll and brain damage realities of combat sports. Midway, they explore social media, censorship, crime, immigration, and political overcorrections, often contrasting ideals like due process with public safety fears. Threaded throughout are stories about friendship, mentorship, addiction, discipline, and how obsessive personalities can either destroy themselves or build extraordinary careers.
Joe Rogan, Deric Poston Deconstruct Comedy, Fighting, Fame, And The Future
Joe Rogan and comedian Deric Poston spend a long, freewheeling conversation talking about stand‑up comedy craft, work ethic, and how certain comics evolved into arena acts. They branch into MMA history, Rogan’s fighting past, and the mental toll and brain damage realities of combat sports. Midway, they explore social media, censorship, crime, immigration, and political overcorrections, often contrasting ideals like due process with public safety fears. Threaded throughout are stories about friendship, mentorship, addiction, discipline, and how obsessive personalities can either destroy themselves or build extraordinary careers.
Key Takeaways
Surround yourself with friends who outwork you creatively.
Rogan and Poston note how being close to relentless writers like Hasan Minhaj (their friend Hasan) and Brian Simpson forces them to level up instead of coasting, emphasizing that your peer group’s standards become your de facto baseline.
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A distinct stage persona or physical choice can unlock your real voice.
Examples like Theo Von’s mullet, Bert Kreischer’s shirtless sets, and Andrew Schulz’s rapid-fire pandemic videos show that external changes often give comics the psychological freedom to fully become themselves onstage.
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Live stand-up has a ‘hypnosis’ quality that recordings can’t match.
Rogan argues that killer live sets feel like the audience’s mind locks in with the performer’s, creating an immersive, high-RPM experience that specials and movies rarely fully replicate.
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Build performance skills gradually; don’t chase ‘Navy SEAL’ workouts on day one.
They describe comics vomiting from over-the-top training sessions and contrast that with Rogan’s approach of slow escalation in kettlebells and conditioning—highlighting the importance of progressive overload instead of ego training.
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Obsessive ‘addict’ wiring can be an asset if pointed at the right target.
From BJ Penn’s jiu-jitsu, to Schulz’s marathon city research, to Rogan’s own martial arts teaching, the same trait that fuels drug or gambling addiction can produce elite mastery when it’s channeled into craft or training.
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Due process is essential, even when cracking down on real threats.
While criticizing lax border enforcement and gang activity, Rogan warns that reactionary policies like mass roundups without due process risk turning a society into what it’s fighting—citing Benjamin Franklin’s principle that it’s better for many guilty to go free than one innocent to suffer.
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Automation and AI will likely deepen the wealth gap unless rules change.
Self-driving cars, automated trucks, and AI-run industries threaten millions of jobs; Rogan suggests if global labor isn’t protected by similar ethical standards (pay, healthcare), we’re heading toward extreme ‘oligarch vs. ...
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Notable Quotes
“Sometimes you need something like that to make you feel different. Some dudes dress nice, Bert takes his shirt off. It just makes him feel free.”
— Joe Rogan
“When someone’s on stage and they’re killing, I think I’m locked in with their mind. It’s not just watching a show.”
— Joe Rogan
“The same thing that made him obsess on pool, that made him a world‑class player, is what got him addicted to pills. It’s the same brain wiring.”
— Joe Rogan
“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.”
— Joe Rogan
“If I wanted to destroy America, this is how I’d do it—open borders, bad DAs, defund the police, ramp up chaos, then offer more control as the solution.”
— Joe Rogan
Questions Answered in This Episode
How valid is Rogan’s framing of live stand-up as a kind of ‘hypnosis,’ and how might that change how we evaluate specials versus in-person shows?
Joe Rogan and comedian Deric Poston spend a long, freewheeling conversation talking about stand‑up comedy craft, work ethic, and how certain comics evolved into arena acts. ...
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To what extent do you agree that external changes (haircuts, stage costumes, rituals) can meaningfully unlock a performer’s authentic voice?
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Is Rogan right that overcorrections on crime and immigration could be as dangerous as the original policy failures, or is that overstated?
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How should societies prepare for the AI and automation wave so that it doesn’t simply entrench a tiny class of ‘oligarchs’ and a dependent majority?
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Where is the ethical line between channeling obsessive ‘addict’ energy into excellence and simply replacing one unhealthy compulsion with another?
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So we were just looking at Hasan in the security cameras in the fucking gym with his stupid haircut.
(laughs)
(laughs)
Why does he keep looking at ... (laughs) He looks so crazy.
Our friend Hasan, hilarious dude.
One of the best. One of the best.
He's fantastic.
Yeah.
And getting better, man.
Ugh.
All the s- all the time. He's, he's a guy who's always working.
Nobody writes more new stuff.
He writes a lot.
He, that guy-
Writes a lot.
... 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.
Yeah. That's important, 'cause if your friends are slacking, you're like, "All right."
Yeah.
"I'll slack off too."
Yeah. Or you feel like-
Yeah.
... "Oh man, I'm better than my friends." But when your friends are like, "Oh, f-"
Yeah.
Every time I see him I'm like, "Dude, I saw you yesterday. You have two new bits?" Like-
Yeah.
"And they're good?"
Yeah.
Like, "How the fuck?"
But his, one of his bits is his fucking hair. (laughs)
(laughs)
(laughs)
It's Hinchcliffe's fault. Hinchcliffe fucking keeps encouraging, like, "Keep it going. Keep it going."
(laughs) Look how, he does-
Dude.
... encourage it.
And I told you, he's getting mad pussy with the hair. It's just-
Shh. Don't say that.
Oh, he's single.
I was gonna say, it'll fuck up his pussy.
No. (laughs) You're right. You're right. You're right. (laughs)
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Okay.
(laughs)
"I heard you're with Faye."
(laughs)
"You're getting mad pussy."
(laughs)
"Really?"
(laughs)
"I thought it w- (laughs) I thought we were having a wonderful ..."
Shh.
There's nothing funnier than when your friends-
(laughs)
... um, pull you aside to complain about a girl that's, like, putting the cuffs on them.
It's the best.
"Why don't you do things? Why don't you ... I heard the haircut. Why don't you even, why don't you cut your hair better so you don't get mad pussy?"
(laughs) Yeah. You take comedy serious. He don't take me serious.
Look at him. Look at his hair.
Oh my God.
Ah. Ha.
He's the man. Look how smooth he looks, though. He looks dressed nice.
He does look smooth. He's headlining La Jolla this weekend with you, right?
Yeah, yeah. We're doing next week, next Thursday.
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