
Joe Rogan Experience #1063 - Tom Segura
Tom Segura (guest), Joe Rogan (host), Narrator, Narrator, Narrator, Narrator, Narrator
In this episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, featuring Tom Segura and Joe Rogan, Joe Rogan Experience #1063 - Tom Segura explores comedy, wealth, parenting, and culture collide in unfiltered Rogan chat This episode is a sprawling, funny, and surprisingly introspective conversation between Joe Rogan and Tom Segura that bounces from comedy war stories to billionaires, parenting, transgender athletics, and technology’s impact on live performance. They recount travel and gambling-style excess around a college football championship and dissect the strange economics of sports, from Jeff Bezos-level wealth to exploited college athletes. A big chunk explores how to raise motivated kids amid success, how comics handle fear, laziness, and self-sabotage, and how different personality types approach discipline and pain. The latter third dives into hot-button cultural issues—trans athletes, language policing, and social media—before landing back on standup craft, Carlin and Chappelle’s processes, and why they’re moving to phone-free shows and constantly forcing themselves to write new hours.
Comedy, wealth, parenting, and culture collide in unfiltered Rogan chat
This episode is a sprawling, funny, and surprisingly introspective conversation between Joe Rogan and Tom Segura that bounces from comedy war stories to billionaires, parenting, transgender athletics, and technology’s impact on live performance. They recount travel and gambling-style excess around a college football championship and dissect the strange economics of sports, from Jeff Bezos-level wealth to exploited college athletes. A big chunk explores how to raise motivated kids amid success, how comics handle fear, laziness, and self-sabotage, and how different personality types approach discipline and pain. The latter third dives into hot-button cultural issues—trans athletes, language policing, and social media—before landing back on standup craft, Carlin and Chappelle’s processes, and why they’re moving to phone-free shows and constantly forcing themselves to write new hours.
Key Takeaways
Experiences matter more than status purchases—even for people with money.
Stories about insane ticket prices, luxury boxes, and travel all circle back to the shared memory and adventure with friends, not the flex itself. ...
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Unstructured wealth can quietly destroy drive—especially in kids.
They describe wealthy friends whose children are paralyzed by guaranteed trust-fund payouts, contrasting them with families who force kids to work, drive used cars, and earn their own way. ...
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Fear of failure often hides behind cynicism and self-sabotage.
Rogan and Segura talk about comics who insist “this will never work” or drink away opportunities, noting that it’s easier to pre‑declare defeat than confront the possibility of trying and being exposed as not good enough. ...
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Consistent, even uncomfortable, repetition reveals you’re capable of far more than you think.
Rogan’s nine straight days of 90‑minute hot yoga and Segura’s brutal bike sprints show how the body and mind adapt when you remove the option of quitting. ...
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Creative output scales with deliberate focus, not just “writing on stage.”
They critique the romanticized idea of only writing on stage, arguing that bullet points, longhand writing, and actively reorganizing material greatly increase the volume and quality of jokes. ...
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Technology-free live experiences are becoming a competitive advantage.
After countless shows ruined by glowing screens, they plan to use Yondr pouches to lock up phones at gigs. ...
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Nuance gets crushed when cultural debates become purity tests.
Their discussion of trans athletes, pronouns, and campus culture argues that rigid ideological policing can override basic fairness (e. ...
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Notable Quotes
““You wanna get rich enough so that you don’t have to worry about your bills and you don’t have to worry about how much things cost at a restaurant. Everything else is bullshit.””
— Joe Rogan (quoting Bryan Callen)
““Some of that drive has to come from within, no matter what your socioeconomic level is.””
— Tom Segura
““If you just don’t give yourself a day off, your body starts to adapt to not having a day off. You can accomplish way more than you think you can.””
— Joe Rogan
““I give myself five hours of writing a week. That’s totally reasonable. It’s light work.””
— Tom Segura
““We’re gonna look back on these days and it’s gonna be an astounding observation on what happens when people are scared of expressing themselves honestly because of the culture.””
— Joe Rogan
Questions Answered in This Episode
How should society balance inclusivity for transgender athletes with fairness and safety for biological women in competitive sports?
This episode is a sprawling, funny, and surprisingly introspective conversation between Joe Rogan and Tom Segura that bounces from comedy war stories to billionaires, parenting, transgender athletics, and technology’s impact on live performance. ...
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What practical steps can successful parents take to ensure their kids develop drive instead of entitlement?
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To what extent should comedians (or artists generally) feel obligated to retire material once it’s publicly released on platforms like Netflix?
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Is a phone-free policy at live events an overreach, or a necessary correction to preserve attention and shared experience?
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Where is the ethical line between holding people accountable for past behavior and allowing for growth and change over decades?
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Transcript Preview
... this talk?
(makes sound) We're good?
Yeah.
All right. We're live, sort of.
Sort of live.
Hold on. We're, we're rolling. We're rolling.
We're roll- we're rolling.
We're rolling, dog.
(clears throat)
So, uh, so we were talking about the game.
Yeah.
We stopped-
(clears throat)
... because, uh, we figured this would probably be good for the podcast.
Right.
So Ari finally paid off the bet. Finally.
Ari paid it off in a big way, man.
Big way.
In a big way. Um, (smacks lips) so if you remember, I- when, when we were doing the weight loss challenge, (smacks lips) it was like, "Whoever wins, decides-
Yeah.
... the sporting event." It- we're all sports fans basically, you know? And, (smacks lips) and I said at the time, I was like, "Let's go see Barcelona." I think I wanted to see Barcelona play Paris in the, you know, some tournament cup, some channel- uh, uh, tournament that they were playing in. And I was like, you know, "Two of the premier teams," and it would be fun to go to Europe and make Ari pay for it, you know?
Yeah.
So, so I told him that, and he was like, "I'm going to like," (deepens voice) "fucking, uh, Malaysia," and then he just left.
(laughs)
So (laughs) never heard from him again, and then four months later... You, you know how it all, it all played out, and so when he got back, he was getting fucking slammed by people because he was supposed to pay up this bet, you know?
Right.
And people were destroying him. H- you know that, I mean, online. They were just like, "Welch, you're a piece of shit."
(laughs)
Probably worse than that. (laughs)
(laughs)
But, um, anyways, once we got, we got to like hanging out... Oh, once we did the Sober October thing, um, he was just like... R- right before that actually, I think he was like, (mumbles) which means like, "What do you want to do?" Right? And I go, "Well, how about-" (laughs)
(laughs)
I go, uh, he's like, you know, "You pick the event." I go, "I'm a big college football fan. Let's go to the national championship game." And I remember, uh, in 20- at the end of the 2013 season, 2014, FSU and Auburn played in the Rose Bowl out here, and Bert's an FSU alum, I'm a big FSU fan. I was like, "Let's go to the game." And I remember that we met, uh, it was like... We got a- somebody who had stu- because they, uh, both- always in the national championship, they allow students to go to the game for pretty expensive, much less than the general public can go for. In other words, they're... 'Cause you want students to have the ability to go to see their school play. So we got like student tickets for, I think they were 350 each. And that's pretty expensive, you know, especially for a student, but I remember Bert treated me, he, he bought the ticket for me, and we went to that, to that game and he left at fucking halftime of the national championship game.
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