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April 5, 2012 - The Joe Rogan Experience
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Joe Rogan Experience #202 - Dom Irrera
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dom irrera
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joe rogan
So glad you're here, man.
dom irrera
Thank you.
Right back at you.
joe rogan
Oh, please.
I'm fucking pumped.
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dom irrera
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joe rogan
Do you have one?
dom irrera
Yes, I have a fleshlight that leads me to where I keep my fleshlights.
To a little case in my house.
joe rogan
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dom irrera
I don't need it.
You don't need it?
I've got plenty of them.
Hey, I make a good living.
joe rogan
It's not like it's prohibitively expensive.
dom irrera
Thank you.
joe rogan
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dom irrera
No, no.
brian redban
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joe rogan
No one used that.
We wouldn't do that to you.
He's done that to other people.
I would not allow him to do that to you.
dom irrera
Are you sure?
joe rogan
Come on, Dom.
You know I love you.
I love you like I love air.
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dom irrera
Yeah, but who wants to go through that?
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dom irrera
First of all, what does the supplement do for you?
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dom irrera
What were we just talking about?
joe rogan
I forgot.
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joe rogan
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dom irrera
Can you drink with them?
joe rogan
Oh yeah.
It's a vitamin.
dom irrera
That's why I always ask a doctor whenever he gives me something.
joe rogan
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unidentified
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joe rogan
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dom irrera
I like suppositories.
joe rogan
You like it up your ass?
dom irrera
Just for laughs.
unidentified
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dom irrera
Just for a story.
I like a sitz bath and a good suppositor.
I never did a suppositor.
But you know when I met Romanowski in Denver where the Broncos were training in Haley, Colorado?
joe rogan
Yeah.
dom irrera
And they told me, I wanted to interview them to have this show called Offsides.
joe rogan
That was on Comedy Central?
Yeah, I remember that.
dom irrera
And they said, you don't want to interview me, Bill.
And I said, no, I do.
So we go to lunch.
The whole place is filled.
There's a table for eight.
It's empty with just him sitting there.
That's how crazy he was.
Nobody wanted to eat lunch with him.
joe rogan
Wow.
dom irrera
But I've talked to him subsequently.
He sounds cool.
joe rogan
Well, you know what, man?
The dude had a ton of concussions.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
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And that was the reason why he created this Neurowana.
I watched a whole interview with him about it.
Fascinating stuff.
You know, the guy realized that he was having problems, and he tried to counteract that with nutrients.
And so that's, I was taught this by, or first exposed to his stuff by No Name.
Remember Sarah in No Name?
brian redban
He drank piss.
joe rogan
Yeah, he did.
I did too.
unidentified
For what?
joe rogan
It's just a joke.
brian redban
No, he didn't.
joe rogan
Just a great gag.
unidentified
Yeah, he did.
brian redban
Sanford Pisco.
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
No, I mean, I did it for a joke.
dom irrera
Who's Piss?
joe rogan
I drank my own.
I wasn't going to drink anybody else's.
dom irrera
Well, I thought maybe you're a dominatrix.
joe rogan
No.
How dare you?
Dom, you dirty boy.
dom irrera
Oh, I was bad last night.
joe rogan
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unidentified
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dom irrera
This is the guy that just had a pastrami sandwich.
joe rogan
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I put that shit away.
You know why?
Because I'm going to do kettlebells in two hours.
dom irrera
What's that?
brian redban
I had toothpaste.
joe rogan
I have these giant iron cannonballs that I swing around.
I gotta show it to you.
You'll love it.
It's the craziest exercise ever.
It's this Russian strength training where you're swinging around these fucking giant cannonballs.
So every movement is a compound movement that requires your whole body to work as one unit.
So it transfers very well athletically, like to jiu-jitsu or to football or even if you're a good basketball player, it would transfer even to that.
Kettlebell is one of the best exercises I've ever used, ever.
It's a great way to work out.
It's brutal.
You can get done in 20 minutes.
You can just blow it out in 20 minutes, and then you're fucking wrecked for two days.
It's amazing.
It's so good.
It's such a good exercise.
dom irrera
I was hoping maybe we'd just shoot a little pool.
joe rogan
We could do that too, buddy.
We're going to do that for sure.
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dom irrera
I chew cocoa leaves before I go into the Hollywood Hills.
joe rogan
It's a good move.
dom irrera
Because of the altitude.
joe rogan
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You know a guy?
dom irrera
Yeah, I know some guys.
I know some Bolivians.
joe rogan
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Can you grow it here if you have a greenhouse?
How does that work?
dom irrera
You can grow anything if you have a greenhouse.
joe rogan
Why the fuck?
unidentified
Why don't they have greenhouses full of coke?
dom irrera
I never saw a greenhouse.
joe rogan
Why is everybody growing coke in the third world when you just get a nice greenhouse?
brian redban
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joe rogan
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brian redban
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joe rogan
Should I not be talking about this?
brian redban
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Alright?
dom irrera
I have a question.
joe rogan
Trying to keep it on the level.
dom irrera
I have a question.
Is there a show with this commercial?
joe rogan
This is over.
The commercial is over and then we go on for like two hours just talking shit.
You ready?
dom irrera
Why do we have lunch together?
We talked about everything.
joe rogan
Let's relive our lunch.
What are you doing, Brian?
brian redban
Nothing.
joe rogan
What happened?
Did you slip?
brian redban
Sorry.
joe rogan
Are you a DJ now?
brian redban
I am a now.
joe rogan
Have you been hanging out with Russell Peters?
brian redban
I have been.
joe rogan
Alright, give me some Dr. Scratch.
unidentified
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joe rogan
Yeah, I don't think you should do that anymore.
I don't think that's entertaining.
I don't like that, okay?
I don't like that.
I want to hear Nick Diaz's voice.
Nick Diaz, a fighter, a UFC guy.
unidentified
Really?
joe rogan
It was the coolest thing ever.
He won a fight, and then after the fight he goes, Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night.
Oh, that's cool.
Oh, this is the greatest moment of my life.
unidentified
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Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night.
All day.
joe rogan
So, this guy likes fucking around with the speeds of things.
He's got some technological ADD going on.
unidentified
Me too.
joe rogan
Dom Herrera, welcome to the show, my friends.
unidentified
Show's a program.
dom irrera
Thank you, lad.
joe rogan
So happy to have you here.
Dom Herrera, just to all you folks out there in the cyber world, is a guy that I actually paid to see.
Before I got into comedy, I was a huge fan, and I just loved stand-up comedy.
I loved watching Evening at the Improv, and I took a date to Nick's Comedy Stop in Boston to watch Dom Aurea.
I think maybe I had done an open mic, like maybe once, maybe.
I might not have even.
It might have even been before, but I remember I watched it up there, and one of the things...
First of all, you were fucking killed.
And you were one of the few guys that could survive that crazy Boston gauntlet that they used to throw at all the national headlines.
dom irrera
They liked me.
They loved you.
joe rogan
Everybody loved you.
But it was a tricky situation, that Boston gauntlet they used to put people through.
They would take a guy like...
dom irrera
Follow this.
joe rogan
Yeah, Billy Crystal would come into town, right?
And they would make Billy Crystal...
They would purposely put up the best local guys.
unidentified
Steve Sweeney, Don Gavin, Kevin Knox, Kenny Rogerson.
dom irrera
Dennis Leary.
joe rogan
Everybody would go up with 15 minutes of fucking fury, too.
Everybody did short sets.
dom irrera
They were supposed to do 50 at the end.
joe rogan
Yeah, and then, you know, at the end, first of all, they've made everyone laugh with every local reference humanly possible.
And if there's anything people love in Boston, it's a Boston joke.
It's a problem.
I had, like, my first 20 minutes all revolved around Boston, because when you're fucking sinking out there and you're looking for something, you know that you can make fun of a girl from Revere, because she has big hair.
That's right there.
That's in my...
It's in my wheelhouse.
I could pull that out.
You could always go with local references.
dom irrera
Charleston, the Irish girls and all that.
joe rogan
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
There's always something like, well, and then you're in Mattapan after dark.
unidentified
Woohoo!
joe rogan
Speak Spanish.
You could do local jokes.
You survived.
You survived.
You're one of the few guys.
I saw a lot of guys eat a fat bag of dicks.
dom irrera
I heard Richard Lewis hit on the stage afterwards.
joe rogan
Oh, I heard he...
Well, I've heard that a few times with that guy.
He's apparently, if he doesn't get his crowd, he has a very specific crowd that comes up to see him.
Sometimes people maybe don't know what he's going to do before he does it.
If they do, they love it.
They love that character.
But if they don't, I think, from what I've heard, it can go bad.
dom irrera
I can imagine.
Remember Nick's?
Nick's was the place where you saw me.
joe rogan
Yes.
dom irrera
And that was really a tough club, especially the third show on Friday night.
So I asked Jonathan Katz to do the show with me.
You know how Jonathan is very nebbishy and kind of a little Jewish comedian.
joe rogan
He was the host of my first open mic.
dom irrera
Was he?
joe rogan
Yeah.
dom irrera
He was nice to you, right?
joe rogan
Greg.
Yeah.
dom irrera
And I said, John, do the show with me.
He goes, I can't.
I can't go in there.
I said, come on.
I'll protect you.
I'll watch your back.
So he goes up.
They actually started heckling the back of his bald head before he got to the stage.
They're fucking booing him for nothing.
He didn't even say anything.
And he goes up and he goes, precisely.
And just walks off the stage.
But they booed him before he talked.
I love that.
joe rogan
Boston was an interesting mix of college-educated people and savages.
I think it has the highest amount of colleges per capita in the country.
dom irrera
And I couldn't get in any of them.
I used to see street fights there when you didn't see them anymore.
You see guys, they didn't go home from work.
They had a tie, a white shirt hanging out, battling each other.
joe rogan
There's still fights in Boston.
Boston dudes will still fight.
It's one of the few places where you're probably not going to get shot.
dom irrera
No.
joe rogan
Dudes would actually want to duke it out with you.
dom irrera
Might get stomped, but no shot.
joe rogan
Well, you could get shot, though.
brian redban
Everyone has baseball bats, but no one plays baseball.
joe rogan
You run into the wrong kids from Southie, you could get shot.
Anybody could get shot there, too.
But you do definitely see more fistfights there.
dom irrera
Yeah, I always think of you as a New York act.
joe rogan
Well, I was born in Jersey, but I mean, I got better in New York.
I developed in Boston, but I was only there for four years doing stand-up.
You know, I moved to New York only four years into my act.
And I got a manager, so my manager, who's still my manager to this day, was selling me as a headliner.
But I wasn't really a headliner yet.
dom irrera
You didn't have the minutes.
You probably had the talent.
joe rogan
I had a good solid 15 that I would drag out to 40 if the crowd was right.
dom irrera
I remember the first time this guy Hiram Kasten got me a gig for $75 and I had to do 45 minutes.
I said, I only have 25. He goes, like Jesus with the fishes, he goes, go out there, do it, it will come.
It will come unto thee.
I don't know if it came or I just did already crowd work because I didn't have the time.
joe rogan
Yeah, those were silly days.
dom irrera
I couldn't believe people could do 20 minutes.
When I had five minutes, I go, how the fuck did I remember 20 minutes in a row?
joe rogan
What's the longest flat-out set of just stand-up you've ever done?
dom irrera
I'm not real good at real long sets.
Probably an hour and a half.
joe rogan
That's about all you should do, right?
dom irrera
I love a 45 minute set.
joe rogan
A crusher, right?
dom irrera
Just get off them wanting more instead of...
joe rogan
Yeah, I've done too long.
I used to do these Q&As at the end of my shows.
dom irrera
Yeah, but that's different.
It goes into something else.
joe rogan
Nah, it was getting too long.
dom irrera
People were falling asleep.
joe rogan
They were bored.
brian redban
Girlfriends are like...
joe rogan
You know, you can only talk...
No, but I don't care who...
Maybe it was Charlie Murphy that said this.
It might have been.
Oh, no.
It was Joey Diaz.
dom irrera
I've never heard Charlie Murphy quote him before.
unidentified
Oh, he said...
joe rogan
I quote him all the time.
Get to know Charlie Murphy.
He's a deep dude.
dom irrera
Does he really?
I don't know.
joe rogan
He's a deep dude.
He says some pretty interesting shit.
He's a great fucking storyteller, too.
brian redban
He's a good guy all around.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Charlie, you would like Charlie Murphy, Dom.
You would like...
dom irrera
I'm sure I would.
joe rogan
Yeah.
dom irrera
It's always weird for those guys whose brother is like Tony Rock.
unidentified
Yeah.
dom irrera
Chris Rock's brother.
joe rogan
Tony Rock is fucking good.
dom irrera
He's great.
Yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
He's fucking funny, man.
I hadn't seen him in years and I saw him at the improv and I had to go up to him afterwards.
I was like, dude, I haven't seen you in like a long time.
I go, God damn, you got good, man.
dom irrera
Yeah, he's got that glint in his eye that makes you laugh.
unidentified
Yeah.
dom irrera
There's just something goofy and funny and smart about him.
joe rogan
Really friendly on stage, too, like fun on stage.
Like you want to hang out with him.
Like you want to have fun with him.
You know, when you get to see a guy who's enjoying himself up there, it really makes you, you know, see when a guy's not anymore.
It's one of the saddest things about our business when you see a guy who's just, he doesn't even realize what he's got.
He's done the greatest job of all time.
dom irrera
I know.
The other night, I was late for work, and I worked 15 minutes, and it was at 10 o'clock at night.
I was taking a nap.
I was fucking late for work.
unidentified
How sad is that?
dom irrera
And you know what?
I'm such a half a fag that I was in the bathtub.
I'm so lazy.
I was shaving.
I took a bath so I didn't have to stand and shave.
Oh, my God.
They were calling me on the cell phone thinking I wasn't showing.
joe rogan
And you're right around the corner too.
dom irrera
Yeah, I'm a half a mile away.
joe rogan
And you're still late!
That's a real comic.
There's something about comedians.
brian redban
It's stripper time.
dom irrera
But I love it.
You know how people try and make it miserable?
Boy, that's got to be tough, huh?
Well, it ain't tough compared to working in a coma.
joe rogan
It must suck going on the road.
dom irrera
I'd hate to be on the road all the time.
Well, nobody's asking you.
Nobody's asking you, I hate to fly to Australia.
Nobody wants you in Australia.
What are you going to do when you get there?
You know what I mean?
You're non-act.
You ever get people to try and make your life miserable because they're trying to maybe make themselves feel better about themselves?
joe rogan
Yeah.
There's definitely people that will try to justify why they're happier than you and find the holes in your game.
But as a professional comedian...
As long as you stay funny, and the only way to stay funny is just keep doing what you're doing.
Don't ever become a crazy person.
Keep reading shit.
Keep writing shit.
Keep watching things.
Keep coming up with new jokes.
You're always going to keep doing it.
dom irrera
Yeah, but I see guys my age that are so bitter.
I'm thinking, why are you bitter?
You fucking got away with life being a comedian.
unidentified
I know.
dom irrera
It's like, I love it.
I want to get better.
joe rogan
Well, you're a real comic, though, Dom.
You've always been a real comic.
As long as I've known you...
You know, like I said, I paid to see you before I ever even did it, really.
You've always been just, like, that's what you are.
You're not like a guy who's trying to get a series, and if you got that series in, you'd abandon stand-up or a guy who wanted to be a movie.
You're always just Dom Irera, professional comedian from television.
You know, you would even introduce yourself like that.
dom irrera
Dom Irera from television, they can do it.
Well, you know, I was on Suzanne Somers' show when I came out here, and I really liked her.
The show was really bad.
It was called She's the Sheriff.
She's the Sheriff.
joe rogan
Oh, no.
unidentified
Yeah.
dom irrera
Ooh, beautiful blonde with big tits, and she's a sheriff.
How'd she get that gig?
And at the end of the night, they'd always want to go out.
I'd go, I've got to go to the comedy store.
And they'd go, well, why?
You already have a job.
I'd go, no, that's my job.
This is my side job.
You know what I mean?
Being in a sitcom was my side job.
My real job was being a stand-up.
And that's the way I take it.
Any times I got series or anything else, I love acting.
I love working with people, but stand-up's my favorite.
joe rogan
It's the most fun thing ever.
We used to talk about it when I was doing news radio.
I'd come back to the store, and you'd be like, Yeah, there's nothing.
It doesn't matter what you're doing.
You still want to go up there and kill.
dom irrera
I remember we talked about it.
I remember because you were getting these series, always practice stand-up.
Daniel Tosh that because he's on top with the Comedy Central thing, but he practices stand-up still.
What happens when we get fired from a series?
We still got our job.
How cool is that?
joe rogan
Yeah, the last thing you want to do...
I don't like being dependent on anything.
That's why I like doing...
dom irrera
Oh, it's so nice not having a boss, yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Well, the best boss I've ever had for sure is the UFC. Because there couldn't be better people to work for.
I mean, I've never had a single...
dom irrera
Joe, I've never seen you so happy.
I love it!
You're so good at that.
You're so fucking sharp.
And like I was telling you, you break it down.
You make me understand the fighting more.
joe rogan
Well, I try to explain it as if your smart friend is over that hasn't seen fighting before.
unidentified
Exactly.
joe rogan
And I want to make it exciting for him.
And I'm talking you through how I'm looking at it.
I'm looking at his path.
I'm like, this guy's got this path.
He's got to secure that arm.
He's got to get his hand connected.
And when you bring people in like that, what you're in is my mind.
I mean, that's what's going on in my head when I'm watching the fight.
I'm like, watch the mount, knee to the stomach, knee to the stomach.
Oh, he's got full mount!
unidentified
Oh!
joe rogan
I see it coming.
I see these paths.
And I want to just guide people through the path.
It's the most non-job job I've ever had.
dom irrera
Oh, I can see it.
You look like you're just floating through it.
joe rogan
I fucking love it.
dom irrera
The thing I realized about myself was that I love violence.
But it has to be real.
I don't like violent movies.
To see Joey Pesci, a 60-year-old guy, beating up some 20-year-old kid.
unidentified
Yeah, what the fuck?
dom irrera
Fucking bullshit.
When I was there that night, when you invited me to the pond, and I see these guys really getting fucking whacked, and you know when it really hits the reality is when you're sitting, like I told you, I was sitting behind the guy's mother and girlfriend when he got knocked out.
And the mother's like, Jimmy!
You know, like, real.
I love the pounding they take.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's...
unidentified
How about that kid?
dom irrera
Remember the kid, the Tasmanian Devil, that just ran up the thing and did, like, flips over?
Do you remember him talking about it?
It was kind of...
Maybe he was, like, maybe mulatto or maybe from an island or something.
He was kind of a light-skinned black kid.
And he was phenomenal.
joe rogan
Oh, I know.
dom irrera
He was leaping in the air, like, eight feet and...
You know what I'm talking about, Joe?
joe rogan
I do.
I can't believe I don't have his name on the top of my head.
Hold on.
dom irrera
It was like they sped the camera up when we were watching him.
He was the one that knocked the guy out.
joe rogan
Yeah, I have to find out what his name is right now because he's fucking brilliant and he's an up-and-coming kid.
So just give me a second.
dom irrera
While we're waiting, let's talk more about supplements.
brian redban
Hey, Dom, what was it like meeting Johnny Carson?
Do you have any stories of anything cool that happened?
dom irrera
Well, the thing about it is, that was like in 1986. So that's when The Tonight Show was still really big.
And it was not fun.
It was an experience.
It was like an imprimatur of comedy.
His name's John.
joe rogan
John.
John.
Shit!
Sorry, keep calling.
dom irrera
Johnny Shit.
But Carson, I looked in the hills in Burbank and I wanted to run away.
I wanted to run away and start a new life like in the hills because I was so fucking afraid of going on that stage.
Because Jim McCauley, the guy who booked it, comes and talks to you and then they pull it back and there it is.
joe rogan
John Dodson, sorry.
dom irrera
What's his name?
joe rogan
John Dodson.
dom irrera
That was the kid?
joe rogan
Yeah, he's amazing.
He's a fucking super athlete.
dom irrera
What an athlete.
joe rogan
He moves like a cartoon.
dom irrera
Yeah.
joe rogan
Flies through the air.
Yeah, he's a super talented kid.
dom irrera
When he was doing that flip, he was running up the walls.
joe rogan
Yeah, he's incredible.
Yeah, he's incredible.
He does cartoonish shit.
He's so gifted.
He's just got almost an acrobatic ability.
Go back to another story, whatever you're saying.
You were terrified.
brian redban
So you're terrified to go on this stage.
Oh, no, he's asking about the Tonight Show.
dom irrera
The curtain goes back and it's unreal that you hear Johnny Carson laughing and Ed McMahon.
And see, I had done a joke about Ed McMahon.
And when I saw him backstage, he pulled me towards him.
I think, oh, fucking Ed's going to slide me right before I go on.
And actually, I didn't know that he loved the joke.
But you remember the joke?
joe rogan
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
dom irrera
It was like, um...
joe rogan
You called him outposts?
unidentified
What do I call...
dom irrera
I said, I met Ed McMahon.
You know, he's been in show business for 35 years.
What do I go up to him and say?
Hi, Ed.
Do I call him Mr. Ed, Mr. E, Mr. Eddie McMahon, Mr. E, big, fat, lucky, talentless hump?
Kissing Johnny's ass for the last 30 years.
You Budweiser sucking, apple slinging, nothing.
What do you do?
I don't mean that in a bad way.
That was a joke, right?
You know, not a nice joke, but hopefully, you know, he took it in the spirit that he was a big success and I was a new comic, and that's the way he took it, you know.
brian redban
That's awesome.
I watched Johnny Carson every single day.
I never missed it, and I was a kid, and that was, there was no VCRs when I was a kid, but I would sit there and watch it every day.
I think I remembered you, uh, From that, when I first moved to LA, I met you at the Comedy Store, and I was like, from Johnny Carson!
joe rogan
I for sure saw you on Carson.
I saw a bunch of guys on Carson that wound up being great comedians.
I saw Jenny on Carson for the first time.
dom irrera
He was a great comedian.
joe rogan
He was a great comedian.
brian redban
Did Ed smell like Jack Daniels?
joe rogan
Isn't he one of the most underrated guys, don't you think?
If you go back...
dom irrera
Probably the people wouldn't know, but they'd know.
They'd go, yeah, that guy.
But yeah, as far as like...
joe rogan
Do you remember how good, how strong his act was in like the late 80s?
The late 80s, like 80s, like in the early 90s.
He would go, he went to Eastside Comedy Club and they said he did three different shows in a row.
Three complete different hours.
Completely different from beginning to end.
dom irrera
He was mad at me for like 10, 15 years because when he started out, he only had 25 minutes like a lot of us.
And I had the cover for him and me and this guy Mitch Walters.
We were in Florida at this place called The Comic Strip.
And he would squirrel his money in the daytime.
We would buy all the food for the place.
Then he'd buy drinks for chicks at night.
And so we started calling him Squirrel.
And, you know, it was just like normal ball busting, like very mild hazing, but he took it real seriously and he was hurt.
And he was mad for years.
I go, but Rich, we're just kidding.
But, you know, he was the kind of, I mean, I didn't know that he was so psychotic that he was in that kind of pain that he would shoot himself.
But, you know, I did see symptoms of incredible insecurity and incredible holding on to things, you know?
Right.
Isn't it?
joe rogan
That's so common with, like, really good comics, isn't it?
There's so many good comics that are just so fucking nutty, you know?
dom irrera
All of us are.
I mean, I... I straddle reality a lot.
I do.
I mean, if it wasn't for alcohol and Xanax, I mean, I wouldn't go out of the house half the time.
joe rogan
Really?
dom irrera
Yeah.
Yeah, definitely.
Or agoraphobic feelings.
I don't want to turn it into the Oprah thing, but...
joe rogan
When did that start happening?
dom irrera
Since I was a kid, since I was abandoned in Yellowstone National Park.
I was abandoned in the Grand Canyon, so I have a fear of widths.
I don't know.
unidentified
Wow.
dom irrera
I don't want to get too heavy, but yeah, I've always had...
You don't have any neurotic things?
joe rogan
You weren't really abandoned.
dom irrera
No, no.
joe rogan
That's just a joke.
dom irrera
It's not even a joke, because a joke would be funny.
joe rogan
That was kind of funny.
dom irrera
So it's just the same.
joe rogan
It was just shocking if it was true.
If you were on stage, I would start laughing, because I would go, clearly this isn't true.
brian redban
I thought you were underneath a tree, and I was thinking about little squirrels coming up and kissing you and stuff.
dom irrera
Yeah, yeah, try to wake me up.
joe rogan
I read this story recently about this guy who got killed by a bear real recently, and they had a track down the bear that did it.
It's happened twice in the last year in Yellowstone, and it hadn't happened before since the 1980s.
It's pretty uncommon.
But this one, unfortunately, wasn't just a kill.
They had eaten part of this dude.
So then you've got to kill that bear.
That's a bear that's discovered that human beings are a food source.
dom irrera
And delicious, by the way.
joe rogan
Yeah, and easy.
dom irrera
I remember eating Sophie out once.
joe rogan
Wah, wah, wah.
dom irrera
Come on.
Is this thing on?
unidentified
Hello.
Hello.
dom irrera
Where did I lose you, podcast fans?
brian redban
I licked Burt Kreischer's nuts once, so it's the same thing.
dom irrera
That don't make you gay, does it?
brian redban
No.
joe rogan
What the fuck are you talking about?
brian redban
I'm just kidding.
A bear.
He's a bear.
Never mind.
joe rogan
So they had to track this bear down and kill it.
dom irrera
They're all tagged anyway, aren't they?
joe rogan
I don't think so.
I think a lot of them are, but I don't think they've got them all.
I don't know how they deal with that.
It's kind of a weird thing.
There's this one wild area that people venture into, but there's these huge dog things that will occasionally fucking eat you.
Especially if they catch you with their cubs.
When they're with their cubs, they get crazy.
dom irrera
What were you telling me before about the guy that beat up and killed all those wolves?
joe rogan
It's a crazy story.
dom irrera
Talk about one significant night in your life.
joe rogan
Yeah.
dom irrera
You know, somebody says, I got a story.
You got a story.
I'll tell you this.
joe rogan
Yeah, I wanted to say the exact right number, but I think it was something on like 11 dead wolves.
And he had shot a bunch of them, and then he had apparently...
Run out of bullets, or his gun jammed, and then he beat a bunch of them to death with his butt.
So they found him and like 11 dead wolves, and then eventually the wolves got him.
The rest of the pack killed them.
dom irrera
Oh, they did get him?
joe rogan
Oh yeah, he's dead.
I believe I said Alaska, but I might have been wrong.
It might have been Canada.
dom irrera
How many wolves were in that pack?
joe rogan
I don't know, man.
They could be like a hundred.
dom irrera
I didn't know that.
I thought they were like five or six.
joe rogan
Sometimes they're like 30 and 50, but they've been super packs sighted recently in Russia that they're really getting scared of, that they're in the hundreds.
And what's nutty about that is they're all starving to death.
There's no fucking food out there.
So they're sneaking into these industrial areas or farming areas and just fucking up their cattle.
Just going in there.
I mean, you're talking about a hundred wolves just coming in in a mass swoop.
Could you imagine if you're living?
You're some poor fuck that's a sheep farmer in Siberia or wherever the fuck you are.
And you're just taking care of these sheep and it's freezing cold out and you hear them...
You hear that stupid shit every day, and then one day you look out the window, and there's 400 fucking wolves!
400 of them!
Could you imagine?
400 fucking wolves!
That feeling of being trapped in your house with 400 wolves out there, and they just start jacking shit!
They just start jacking shit!
Just tear them apart right in front of you.
dom irrera
Showing their teeth.
joe rogan
Oh, my God.
dom irrera
Well, Joe, I told you.
I made a confession to Joe this week that I didn't really...
You know, I finally told him why I didn't come over to his house because I was afraid of his pit bulls.
And, you know, I know that they...
All I pictured was the bull flying through the air and latching onto my juggler and Joe's screaming...
He never did this before.
He's really a sweet dog.
joe rogan
They were great with people.
Pimples are great with people.
It's not people you have to worry about.
dom irrera
He slid under the fence and was biting that other dog.
joe rogan
Yeah.
I had to have my fence welded.
I had to have a bar welded around the perimeter of the fence because he figured out that he could Get his head in and bend the bars just by sheer force.
Yeah.
brian redban
I don't want any animals like that.
dom irrera
They're crazy.
joe rogan
They're so crazy.
dom irrera
But the kids that you have, imagine your little girl inadvertently poking her in the eye and the dog, you know what I mean?
brian redban
I agree.
joe rogan
With kids, it's very dangerous, especially if they don't grow up with the kids, if they're not a baby with the kids.
dom irrera
Then they get jealous.
joe rogan
It's that.
They get jealous.
And also, they don't think of it necessarily as a human being.
It's small.
It's a different thing.
And they might bite it.
That is possible.
If it annoys them, they might bite it in a way that they would never bite a person, but they might bite a cat.
You know what I mean?
They're dangerous.
Any dog is dangerous.
If it's not trained properly, and especially dogs with a high prey drive.
brian redban
Except people.
joe rogan
But they're so fun to be around.
They're so friendly and loyal and energetic, and they're so happy to see you, and they're so smart.
They're such smart dogs.
But unfortunately, all that intelligence comes with a burden, and the burden is the way they...
They're ultra dogs.
And the way they became ultra dogs is they raised them from fighting each other and they killed all the ones that weren't superior.
They really just kept the strong bloodlines.
So if you get a dog that's like a real fighting dog, those are some of the smartest dogs you'll ever have.
Brian Callan used to have this pit bull, and it was like a direct fighting dog.
We bought it from a dude who fought dogs.
I was there with him.
And this dude, they would gamble on dog fighting.
And the guy was explaining to us that the dogs don't die.
And he's like, you don't let your dog get killed.
And he goes, it's all about gambling, and it's all about breeding the pit bulls.
To them, he had been doing this for generation upon generation, apparently.
dom irrera
Well, that's what Michael Vick was saying, that it was a cultural thing.
joe rogan
Yeah, I don't buy that, man.
unidentified
He killed a lot of them by electrocuting them and all that.
joe rogan
Come on, man.
The dark side of it is that they take these animals after they let them fuck each other up, and then they shoot one of them or kill one of them, the one that quit.
They don't even want them to breed.
If you got scared and turned away from the other dog, they don't even want them to breed.
They want them to just fight mercilessly.
Fight until somebody pulls them off.
It's just a fucked up thing to breed into a dog.
It's a fucked up behavior trait to breed in.
brian redban
There's this old frail lady in Burbank that walks her pit bulls Two of them.
Every day.
And every time I see it, I'm like, that's not cool.
You have to at least be able to, like, if something happens, take care of it and not slap it with a white glove and shit.
joe rogan
Not every pit bull will freak out and fuck other dogs up.
Some pit bulls are very well, you know, like, socialized and well-trained and, you know, they're exercised well so they're, you know, they get tired out and That's an important thing with dogs.
Dogs are just like people, man.
You've got to throw the ball for the dog.
You've got to give the dog some space.
My dogs have a big yard to run around in.
It's great.
They need that, man.
Dogs need to be able to blow off some steam.
Otherwise, they're tense.
A dog that's in the house all the time, it doesn't get to get out.
Those dogs will bark and jump up in the air.
They're freaking out.
They're like, Jesus Christ, you're keeping me locked down in a box all day.
I'm a dog.
I'm supposed to be out running around.
You know, so if you have two pit bulls, man, you better make sure that you put those fuckers through a good little workout routine.
brian redban
I need to start bringing my dog here every time I do this podcast.
My poor dog just sits there just like, oh.
dom irrera
I have a dog who's in love with me.
He's gay.
The dog, he actually, when he sees me, he goes, oh.
You know, like, who is that fucking guy again?
I love this guy.
But I mean, really, like, you know, I don't do dog bits like that, you know, that in my act, but I mean, it really is amazing how his reacts to me, whatever it is.
joe rogan
Yeah, dogs are beautiful like that.
That's why people like having them as pets.
When people talk about having, like, a pet bird or something, like, what are you talking about, stupid?
dom irrera
Yeah, the snake.
brian redban
I almost bought a parrot, I admit.
I went through a parrot phase for a while.
I just saw, I met a really cool parrot, and I was like, that's so beautiful.
I want that in my, like, The bedroom.
I think they're cool.
joe rogan
Look, you know, I had a pair once, climbed up on my shoulder, and I had a baseball hat on, and he bit the little top button off the top of the hat.
I was like, ah, that'd be fun to have around.
No.
unidentified
I didn't buy it when I found out they could live to be 120 years old.
joe rogan
Stupid flying shithead.
Claws.
I don't trust anything with claws.
Get the fuck out of here.
You know?
Fuck that.
What kind of creepy thing you got in your life?
That's a...
dom irrera
A falcon?
joe rogan
Did you hear about this new one that they just discovered?
The newest fossil that they've uncovered of the biggest bird that ever lived.
It was 30 feet long.
It weighed 3,000 pounds.
brian redban
Wow.
joe rogan
This giant fucking predatory monster lizard bird thing.
dom irrera
It was the gray goose of birds.
brian redban
So that's a dragon, right?
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
brian redban
If it's 30 feet long, that's a dragon.
That's not a bird.
dom irrera
That's amazing.
joe rogan
Well, it's covered in feathers.
It's really fucked.
brian redban
So are dragons, aren't they?
I don't know.
Maybe they were scales and we just suck at feather detections.
joe rogan
You know what I saw last night?
Speaking of dragons, I saw the Wrath of the Titans.
Is that what it's called?
The newest one?
unidentified
Oh, is it good?
brian redban
Is it better than the last one?
joe rogan
Oh my god, is it bad.
brian redban
Oh, God, not again.
joe rogan
Oh, my God, is it bad.
unidentified
That sucks.
joe rogan
It's so bad.
It's so bad that you're almost like, did you even write this out?
Did you laugh at it?
dom irrera
Was it that bad?
joe rogan
No, it was stunning.
It was stunning.
First of all, the CGI is fucking incredible.
It seems like they just put the entire budget on making it look badass.
I don't usually even like 3D movies, but this is a...
Really well done 3D movie.
dom irrera
Was it a kid's movie?
joe rogan
No.
Well, yeah, sort of.
I mean, it's like PG or something like that.
Maybe it's PG-13 for violence.
brian redban
So good 3D, good graphics.
joe rogan
Sword fighting and shit.
A lot of the monsters were incredible.
They had this fucking dragon thing.
This two-headed dragon.
Holy shit, was it cool.
Like, really fucking cool.
brian redban
So there's good things about this movie.
joe rogan
Yeah, the monsters.
It's like a CGI... Video game.
Monster porn film where the talking in between the fucking is way too long.
dom irrera
Oh yeah, I hate that.
Get to it.
joe rogan
Especially if you're in a hotel room and you can't fast forward it.
You gotta just sit and watch these dummies act out.
dom irrera
I think she likes you.
Kiss her.
brian redban
I don't want to kiss her.
joe rogan
I don't want to get rejected, man.
After Cindy left me, I just don't have that kind of confidence anymore.
dom irrera
Yeah, I don't know.
What could I do to give you more confidence?
I like the lesbian ones.
They make me laugh.
joe rogan
Lesbian porns?
dom irrera
Yeah, especially like the mother-daughter ones.
How sick is that?
joe rogan
Yeah, that's fucked up.
dom irrera
Mother-daughter exchange club, where these mothers take their daughters over to Switch.
Oh my god.
They both go with older women, but the daughter...
You ever see that one?
joe rogan
No.
dom irrera
Neither did I, but I heard about it.
I would never watch something like that.
It's sick.
brian redban
I have it on my phone.
joe rogan
Yeah, I saw one of them where a mother and daughter were sharing a dick.
dom irrera
Oh yeah, I've seen that.
joe rogan
The mother was stuffing it in the daughter's mouth.
And it was the daughter's mouth.
The girl looked like her.
brian redban
I thought it was the son's dick.
joe rogan
I bet there's a video like that.
brian redban
Oh no, there is.
There must be.
joe rogan
For real.
dom irrera
There's one for everything.
joe rogan
If we've thought it up, somebody's already like...
dom irrera
Come on my glasses.
brian redban
Oh yeah.
dom irrera
That's what I saw.
Fetishes.
Yeah.
joe rogan
There's foot cum fetishes.
Where dudes only want to come on girls' feet.
brian redban
There's fetishes where people put fingers in guys' penis holes.
And guys like it.
And guys like it.
And then there's the other way around where guys fuck girls' pee holes and fit the whole dick inside their pee holes.
joe rogan
How is it possible to get a dick inside of a pee hole?
brian redban
There's videos.
Look at it.
It's fucked up.
It's actually people like it.
unidentified
It's fucked up.
dom irrera
I look at them every day.
brian redban
I saw a paparazzi thing happen last night.
This is the craziest thing ever.
Okay, we were at the Improv for Comedy Juice, and there was a big gang of, you know, comics outside of the Improv, you know, and just hanging out smoking cigarettes and shit.
And across the street, there's, like, this Mexican tequila bar.
And this celebrity was coming out, and the valet put their car there, and it was, like, Lindsay Lohan-style paparazzis everywhere, like, fucking flashbulbs and fucking jumping on top of their car, like, around their cars, you know, like, just, like, surrounding them, fucking flashbulbs and fucking jumping on top of their car, like, around And so they're in the car, and they're taking photos of photos.
And so all the comics were just screaming stupid shit across the street.
Nothing, like, really bad.
Like, ones that's, like, don't Princess Diana her, and, like, is that Lindsay Lohan?
And just stupid shit.
unidentified
Right.
brian redban
And so the car takes out, and it's some girl from, I think, Fast and Furious 2.
I can't remember her name.
Maybe Eva Menendez.
Menendez or something like that.
I don't even know if that was her.
dom irrera
Spanish is not your first language.
brian redban
And so she drove by, and she's smiling at us, like, ha-ha, you guys were funny while this whole thing happened.
So it was cool, because all the comics are like, yeah, mission accomplished.
But then, the second they left, all the paparazzis, this big gang, just fucking slowly started walking into traffic, the cars honking the horns, like, slamming on their brakes, and they didn't give a shit, and they were just walking across the street, and then getting up into all the comics' faces and going, you got a fucking problem, man?
dom irrera
Paparazzi were doing that?
brian redban
Yeah, and they were all about to like fucking just start beating the shit out of all these fat improv comic guys.
dom irrera
Aggressive paparazzi?
brian redban
Yeah, it was crazy.
Really?
And then I pulled out my iPhone and I started recording it because that's what I thought I would do.
But unfortunately, the FaceTime was facing me, but I didn't notice it.
So it's just my face going...
dom irrera
You got your reaction.
brian redban
But then halfway through it, I look over, and I'm like, oh, fuck.
And I turn it over, and then I show them all walking away, gang-style, walking through the street, like a fucking gang fight, right?
It was fucking crazy.
So then once they all take off, and suddenly one of the paparazzis came back on this motorcycle going down the wrong way of Melrose.
It's like...
Like, in and out of cars.
Like, scary.
It was scary.
Slams on drugs across the street, talks to the valets, points over to us, and then fucking just takes off and blows through, like, two red lights.
And I was just like, what the fuck are these paparazzi gang members?
It was scary, dude.
It was like, I was just sitting there going, what the fuck?
joe rogan
Well, you gotta think who these people are.
They're people, they're stalkers.
They're professional stalkers.
brian redban
They're terrifying.
Those guys are terrifying.
joe rogan
Well, they also, I think they have to fortify, because a lot of people, like, lash out at them.
Yeah.
A lot of people don't like that.
brian redban
Can you imagine being Lindsay Lohan, though, or somebody like that and just having that shit happen to them?
That's scary.
joe rogan
I bet it is, man.
I bet it is.
brian redban
What would you do?
That's why I think the AIDS blood thing I was talking about.
You had AIDS blood and just started, like, winging it around?
joe rogan
Really, honestly, I don't think it should be legal to have a gang of people just standing out there with a camera and photographing someone like that and freaking people out.
Especially when they're walking into traffic like that.
That should be something you should be able to get in trouble for.
It seems like if you want to go bust pot chops, pot chops aren't hurting anybody.
These guys are walking in traffic and big giant groups freaking out some chick.
unidentified
Unless!
joe rogan
And here's the big unless.
And this is the real unless.
Unless she set it all up.
brian redban
And that's exactly what I was thinking too.
Because it was like, why is there 25 people and none of us know who this girl is?
joe rogan
I think that's what they do.
brian redban
Yeah.
joe rogan
Look, everybody's got to grind out a living.
I don't hate a guy trying to make a living.
The way you can make a living is taking pictures of Eva Mendes or whoever the fuck it is.
As long as they're not really harassing people, and I don't think they are for the most part.
I think a lot of it, there's a few that'll, I mean, like, clearly when Britney Spears was going bonkers and shaving her head and running around and beating cars with an umbrella, clearly they were just following her.
There was no agreements there.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
They were like, let's follow this crazy bitch all day.
She's bound to do something nutty.
This is easy pickings.
But I know for a fact that people set up fake situations Where they tell someone A publicist will set it up with the paparazzi So the paparazzi waits for them So they make it look like it's a big deal They're everywhere I go What am I going to do?
Meanwhile they're fucking asking for it They're setting it up It's part of the whole let's be famous thing It was scary, though.
brian redban
To me, if that was me that had that happen to me, like, with all the...
Because those people were trying to pull out in their car, and there was just, like, 20 people around their car.
They were like, come on, get the fuck out away from my car, you know?
And they're just, like, touching your car and shit, and that would...
That's...
Fucked up.
And there's so much flashes.
How are you even being able to see when you're trying to pull out in the traffic?
The flashes alone.
Those people, any flashbulbs going off, all those people should be like tickets.
That's like trying to distract somebody.
Fuck texting.
Imagine flashbulbs in your fucking face.
joe rogan
Well, it's definitely just the giant mass of people that you say are blocking the traffic.
You shouldn't be able to do that.
brian redban
Would you ever want Lindsay Lohan on a podcast?
joe rogan
Why?
brian redban
I think it would be interesting to talk to her.
dom irrera
I think she's hot, man.
joe rogan
You like her?
dom irrera
I like that skanky blonde look.
I mean, because she's got a beautiful face.
brian redban
She's redhead again.
dom irrera
She's so hot now.
She's so hot now.
brian redban
She needs to stay redhead.
joe rogan
She might be the hottest.
dom irrera
She's so hot.
brian redban
She's so hot.
dom irrera
My contention about a lot of celebrities, when Michael Jordan was at his peak...
And I really believe that they find people annoying, but if they weren't recognized, they'd feel insecure.
Hey, I'm Michael Jordan.
I'm over here.
Don't bother me.
Don't you think about a lot of these guys?
joe rogan
Some people, they definitely, it's like being recognized is a big part for them.
It gives them a charge when they go somewhere and they get recognized.
You know Everlast from the House of Pain?
He was on the other day.
He's the exact opposite.
He likes being able to sneak in.
brian redban
Favorite podcast of all time, by the way.
201's my favorite.
dom irrera
Thanks a lot.
joe rogan
It's pretty goddamn good.
This is 202. Try harder, Tom.
I feel like we're close.
I feel like we're real close.
brian redban
No, the reason why I like it is because he played live acoustic songs.
Me and Joe pretty much got our own concert, right?
It was fucking awesome.
joe rogan
And the songs were like new songs we had not heard before, and they were really good, man.
He's a good fucking singer.
brian redban
I was having heart palpitation.
dom irrera
Anybody that can do what you can't do that you love seems so impossible.
Because when people go, stand-up comedy is so hard, and I'm thinking, you're playing a 12-string guitar.
Like this neurosurgeon friend of mine.
That's hilarious.
I know people laugh.
We can't have a neurosurgeon friend because we're like joke monkeys.
joe rogan
That's not what I meant.
Just go ahead, because I know what you're going to say.
unidentified
Go ahead.
dom irrera
Well, he says, I can never do what you do.
joe rogan
Exactly.
I mean, while he's in neurosurgery, I mean, that's hilarious.
dom irrera
He said, but he said, I can never do what you do.
I said, but at least you can kid around a little.
You can kid around with your family, make people...
I can't do a little neurosurgery.
Yeah, that's funny.
It's true, though.
You can't pop into the ORE. Guess who's getting their head cracked open?
joe rogan
Well, there's a lot of people that wish they were funny.
There's a lot of really staid...
dom irrera
A lot of people think they're funny, too.
joe rogan
Some people think they're funny, but there's a lot of people that wish they were.
And just for whatever reason, they can't figure out how to do that.
What is that?
Do they take themselves too seriously?
dom irrera
I think they're deluded a lot of times that...
There was a guy, he said, you know, I'd like to be a comedian.
He goes, but I'm not funny.
I go, well, you know, I'd like to be a fucking trapeze artist, but I'm not very acrobatic.
You know what I mean?
Like, if you're not funny, how can you be a comedian?
And we know a lot of comedians that aren't funny, but they're successful because they know some of the tricks and they're good looking or they're good at marketing themselves, you know.
joe rogan
Yeah, there's a lot of that.
There's a lot of people that get to a certain level and you're like, wow.
Really?
You got that far.
That's amazing.
dom irrera
Yeah.
joe rogan
With that, you know?
But they like piece together and act based on what they think is relevant right now.
unidentified
Right.
dom irrera
Well, there's certain key things you can always say and get applauses.
joe rogan
Yeah.
dom irrera
Especially like if you're doing like a specific ethnic culture thing.
Say like you're doing like a Latino.
Oh, brother.
Boom.
You know, you say a couple Spanish words and you get like a big thing.
You know what I mean?
You see it with any kind.
I see it with Italians.
I see it with blacks.
joe rogan
Right.
dom irrera
You know, what's up with that?
What's up, you know?
Man, and the white guy.
joe rogan
Dom, that's a really good black person.
That's really good.
dom irrera
Are you serious, Joe?
joe rogan
Yeah, it's pretty good.
I thought it was a black guy in the room with me for a second.
dom irrera
You close your eyes.
joe rogan
Go ahead.
unidentified
What's up with that?
What's up with people who say what's up?
brian redban
Holy cow.
dom irrera
Yeah.
joe rogan
Dom was the host of one of the first TV shows I was over on, too.
Remember we did that thing in Montreal?
Was it Comedy from the Danger Zone or something like that?
dom irrera
Oh, yeah, yeah.
unidentified
Right, right.
joe rogan
That was fun.
dom irrera
Yeah.
I remember bringing you up.
joe rogan
Yeah, that was fun.
Montreal.
That was one of the best festivals ever.
That was a fun festival.
dom irrera
I love that city.
joe rogan
It's a great city.
dom irrera
Talk about fucking hot girls.
joe rogan
Oh lord.
My goodness.
dom irrera
Even the ugly sister is beautiful.
joe rogan
There's a lot of pretty, pretty girls up there.
My goodness.
It's amazing too.
dom irrera
Selfie was pretty, wasn't she?
My selfie?
joe rogan
Very pretty.
What's amazing is that right below that is monsters.
It's fucking Maine.
It's monsters.
unidentified
Really?
dom irrera
Isn't that weird?
joe rogan
Monsters.
dom irrera
I know, you know.
joe rogan
Not all monsters.
Ladies.
Don't get mad.
I met some pretty girls in Maine.
Don't get me wrong.
dom irrera
Look, when I go home, after living in Hollywood, and you see the staff at a Laugh Factory.
You haven't been there a while.
Our staff could be like girls at a Laugh Factory.
They're so beautiful.
unidentified
Wow.
dom irrera
Right?
I don't know who's hiring them, but it's either a woman who's not jealous of other women or a man, because they're beautiful.
And I go back to where I'm from.
Look at me.
It's not like I'm so hot.
I'm kind of cute in a way.
But people look like extras from The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
unidentified
You know what I mean?
dom irrera
Like they're shuffling around and shit.
You get used to this level of beauty that's out here.
joe rogan
It's a weird level of beauty, too.
It's like a...
Really hard to maintain level.
dom irrera
Oh, yeah.
You know Katana?
Katana, the Japanese restaurant?
joe rogan
Next to the store?
dom irrera
Is that the place next to the store?
We were in Jones one night, me and my friend.
And he says, man, she's hot, huh?
I go, yeah, she's really hot, but she ain't Katana hot.
You know what I mean?
Like, there's all levels.
You go in there, and it's like the international beauties.
There's a black chick.
There's an American Indian.
There's an Indian Indian.
There's a white girl.
joe rogan
Ridiculously hot Asian girl with a star tattoo over her eyebrow or something.
You're like, whoa.
Am I in a real movie?
unidentified
If I ever date another girl, I'm going way low.
I'm going way low, like Olive Garden Ugly.
brian redban
Like, I'm not getting katana hot.
I think it's just, I think I just need to be taken care of for a while.
unidentified
What?
brian redban
You know, like I did all these girls where I'm like having to like be a certain person and I do like a bunch of shit, like a lot of maintenance involved with dating hot girls.
joe rogan
What kind of shit are you having to do?
brian redban
You know, like, just, I don't know, try harder.
What?
Try harder?
joe rogan
What does that mean?
brian redban
I'm just tired of trying so hard.
If I ever break up with my girl or whatever, and then like, I think the next girl on my day is going to be a girl like in a wheelchair or something.
dom irrera
Wait a minute, do you have a girl now?
unidentified
Huh?
brian redban
Yeah, sure.
dom irrera
You do?
joe rogan
Do you?
brian redban
Yeah, a little here and there.
joe rogan
It's complicated.
It's complicated.
So I don't understand what you're saying.
What are you saying?
You just want to be taken care of?
You don't want to try?
You don't want to move so much?
brian redban
I'm dating people way out of my league, and so I think I need to go back to the minor leagues.
joe rogan
Well, what is wrong with...
What's going wrong with dating people out of your league?
Besides the disbelief while you're fucking them.
What the hell is wrong with this person?
brian redban
Yeah, I don't know.
joe rogan
It's allowing me to fuck you.
brian redban
Yeah.
joe rogan
What is it besides that?
unidentified
It's...
joe rogan
Besides reality.
brian redban
You let things slide more, I guess.
joe rogan
Oh, you let things slide with them.
Like they get shitty with you and you take it because they're hot as fuck.
brian redban
Yeah, and I'm not talking about my current situation at all.
joe rogan
I know what you're saying.
brian redban
I'm just saying in general...
I've been thinking about it a lot lately.
joe rogan
Someone has to appreciate you as much as you appreciate them.
If there's any sort of an imbalance like that, like if someone feels like they can shit on you because you won't do anything because they have the upper hand in the relationship because you'll never break up with them.
There's a lot of people that get in those kind of relationships and it's fucking stupid.
That's a shit way to live your life.
It's a cowardly way to live your life.
And that's why a lot of damaged girls will date guys that are way under them.
And they do it on purpose to make sure that guy's not going anywhere.
And a lot of times they'll meet some other dude and fuck him on the side.
That's what happens.
dom irrera
I'm looking for a damaged girl.
I really am.
I need somebody flawed because at my age, I can't go out with women my age.
I'm going to go, come on, Grandma, flip over.
You know?
So I'm attracted to girls in their 20s.
I'm a lot older, obviously.
brian redban
So it never stops.
dom irrera
No, but I mean what I'm saying is I need somebody with issues.
I need somebody with daddy issues or flawed in some way or is so enamored by my talent they don't look at me like the Mongolian look that I am.
You know what I mean?
joe rogan
You got an Inuit thing going on.
dom irrera
I do.
Joe, look how I thought my face got from eating and drinking.
joe rogan
But I see you're actually trying to watch your diet now.
I mean, you had the chorizo and eggs.
dom irrera
Yeah, for one meal.
joe rogan
You asked for egg whites.
dom irrera
I know.
joe rogan
It's hilarious.
You asked for egg whites.
That's going to counteract the chorizo.
brian redban
Yeah, I did the same thing.
dom irrera
Egg whites and sausage.
joe rogan
Jerry's Deli is so delicious, though.
It's hard, you know?
You're going to have a cheat meal every now and then.
That's a good place to do it.
brian redban
That's how Norm's is for me, man.
It's so close to the comedy store.
It's open 24 hours a day.
Fucking strawberry waffles, egg whites.
joe rogan
The best place on Sunset is the standard.
They still have the same kind of food.
brian redban
I don't like it anymore.
joe rogan
No, it's changed.
brian redban
You know what?
They add the tip to it, your food.
And I just looked at it the other day and I'm like, wait, how long have they been doing this?
Did they just kind of put the tip into your total?
So I've been double tipping for like a year.
unidentified
Good.
joe rogan
Good.
You did well.
Good job.
brian redban
I just don't like people that do that.
joe rogan
Yeah, well, they probably had to do it because so many fucking drunks come out of that bar.
dom irrera
Well, also people, Europeans and French Canadians.
joe rogan
Yeah, and that is sort of an international sort of a joint.
brian redban
Now that makes sense.
dom irrera
They know everything about our culture, and then all of a sudden they don't know about tipping.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's an alien to them.
It's a funny thing how that's alien.
dom irrera
They know.
A lot of them know and they use it as an excuse.
joe rogan
Yeah, but it's weird.
You've been to England and Ireland?
dom irrera
Of course, many times.
joe rogan
When you tip over there, they look at you like, what the fuck are you doing, lad?
dom irrera
I had an American.
You know, remember Rich Hall?
joe rogan
Yes.
dom irrera
He said to me, I tipped in Scotland.
He goes, don't tip these people.
You're going to ruin it for all of us.
unidentified
Yeah.
brian redban
Japan, you don't tip in Japan.
dom irrera
Oh, no?
brian redban
Yeah.
You get mad.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's weird.
It's weird.
Wow.
I don't know why.
Who else does it besides Americans?
Do the French tip?
No, right?
dom irrera
10% maybe.
joe rogan
10%?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Oh, French is different.
dom irrera
Well, I mean, there's a thing there on there for a tip in a lot of the credit cards.
joe rogan
Well, even Canadians are different because Canadians don't tip as much as Americans.
Because, you know, waitress...
dom irrera
Nobody tips as much as Americans.
joe rogan
Waitress told me that that was her nickname for black people was Canadians because they didn't tip just like Canadians.
unidentified
Oh, right.
dom irrera
Yeah, that's an interesting phenomenon that the black culture does not tip.
joe rogan
It's not the black culture, but it is a portion of it, for sure.
dom irrera
No, I mean, generally, of course, all black.
I mean, I've been out with Charles Barkley to be a name dropper, and he's ridiculous, ridiculously generous.
unidentified
Yeah, he's a very generous guy.
dom irrera
This kid was late with the food.
Did you ever hear this story?
No.
The kid was late with the food.
It took him a long time.
Charles gave him a Rolex.
He goes, here, maybe this will help you keep time.
joe rogan
Wow.
unidentified
Wow.
That's pretty cool.
dom irrera
He's a cool dude.
joe rogan
Yeah.
It is, unfortunately, a stereotype, though, that fits.
There's a video online of this girl who gets back from a restaurant.
I think it's called, like, Why I Got a Tip.
Have you ever seen it?
It's got millions of hits.
And the fucking comments was a race war.
The goddamn comments were a race war.
And she's just being an ignorant dumbass and just flaunting it on camera like, wow, I got a tip.
Who says I got a tip?
And someone came out and ran out and met her in the parking lot and said, hey, you know, you shouldn't be stiffing us.
And it's like, have you ever seen it?
Pull it up.
Pull it up.
Because you want to hear it.
Look up why I got a tip.
Look up why I got a tip on YouTube.
dom irrera
Joe, the waitresses tell me how, like a lot of times, the black girls are mean to them.
When they're in the audience.
joe rogan
Yeah.
dom irrera
And my theory on that, tell me what you think, is that black women get stiffed a lot culturally and by a lot of black men because part of like a success in some eyes of some black men is to have a white chick.
Do you know what I mean?
unidentified
Right.
dom irrera
So like they're part of the culture until they become a celebrity or something and then they got this tall Nordic blonde with them.
joe rogan
On some...
Does it say why I got a tip?
brian redban
Why I got a tip.
joe rogan
Why the fuck I got a tip.
I think it's that one.
No, that's re-why the fuck I got a tip.
Look up whatever she's referring to.
That's the one it is.
Why the fuck I got a tip.
I like how it's expressed.
You know, it's unfortunate that any culture would have an inclination towards being stingy.
You know?
dom irrera
Yeah.
joe rogan
That's unfortunate.
I think, you know...
The best thing that could ever happen to people in the black community that get accused of this is for it to become embarrassing.
For it to become ridiculous.
Before it's like everybody should realize that the only way to prosperity is through generosity.
If you're not a generous person, you're probably not going to get anywhere.
And that you're really holding yourself back by not being kind and not being generous to other people.
You know?
dom irrera
Yeah.
joe rogan
It's a shitty aspect of any culture.
But this one chick, do you find it?
unidentified
Why the fuck?
joe rogan
You see, those are all re's.
R-E's.
Why the fuck I got a tip?
You just gotta do a search for why the fuck I got a tip.
dom irrera
Jay, you gotta get rid of this kid.
joe rogan
He doesn't even have a goddamn laptop.
He's got this silly iPad thingy.
He thinks he's slick.
brian redban
It might just be not on.
joe rogan
I don't even need it anymore.
It's on, man.
brian redban
It might not be on YouTube anymore.
It might have been on something else.
joe rogan
Oh, you mean you think she pulled it down?
brian redban
See, I think it's called Why the Fuck I Gotta Talk.
joe rogan
Yeah, those are all re's.
You think somebody pulled it down?
Well, people were so mad at her, she probably did pull it down.
Anyway, whatever.
It's unfortunate.
And then, you know, I'll say this on the podcast, and I'll get a bunch of things on Twitter.
Why did you say that, man?
People angry at me.
A lot of black people, too.
dom irrera
Of course they do.
joe rogan
Of course they do.
unidentified
You tell me that a lot of them don't?
joe rogan
Yes.
A lot of them don't, too.
dom irrera
Well, that's our experience from living in clubs for the last 20 years.
unidentified
Yeah.
dom irrera
I mean, it's also true of the British and the Canadians.
Italians are generous, I've got to say, being Italian.
joe rogan
They want to make sure people are looking, though.
dom irrera
Yeah, I got it.
I'm over here.
joe rogan
Yeah, we'll wrestle for a fucking check, you and I. So I'm in Hilarities next week.
Where's that?
dom irrera
Cleveland.
You never went there?
joe rogan
Hilarities in Cleveland.
No.
What did I do?
I did the improv once in Cleveland.
dom irrera
You'd love Hilarities.
joe rogan
Yeah?
Good place?
dom irrera
Beautiful.
joe rogan
I rarely get to Cleveland.
I've only been there once with Charlie Murphy and Hefron.
We were touring across the country together.
dom irrera
Oh, I like Hefron.
joe rogan
Great guy.
dom irrera
Yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah.
You would like Charlie Murphy too.
dom irrera
Yeah, I never met Charlie.
I'd like to meet him.
joe rogan
Yeah, he's got an interesting story.
Here's a guy, you want to have fucking balls?
He got on the Chappelle Show when he was in his 40s.
Okay, he had no success up to that, really, you know, a little bit here and there, but really was struggling.
Got on the Chappelle Show and all of a sudden started doing stand-up and started headlining, like, within a couple of months.
dom irrera
Oh, my God, that's impossible.
joe rogan
Oh, Jesus Christ.
brian redban
Sure it's not this one?
joe rogan
Uh, nope.
It's a black check.
That's a white check.
brian redban
Yeah, because they even want to do it.
joe rogan
Well, maybe it doesn't exist anymore.
Maybe she pulled it down.
brian redban
Yeah.
joe rogan
Doesn't matter.
Whatever.
brian redban
Yeah, she did.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
Okay.
Well, the point is, it's unfortunate when people are shitheads.
You know?
And what was your theory about the black girls?
Do they get shafted in life?
dom irrera
No, I think sometimes they get bitter because they find that a lot of the black men become successful.
This is not a generalization.
I mean, this is a generalization, obviously, but sometimes they find getting a white woman is an armpiece and a sign of success.
You know what I mean?
joe rogan
Yeah, that's a weird thing, isn't it?
Or maybe they just like the way it looks.
Or maybe they just want to fuck it to the man.
Maybe they just think of it as some white dude who suppressed them's daughter.
Right, right.
dom irrera
All that fantasy going on.
joe rogan
Daddy pounding it.
Do you think that's it, Brian?
You keep nodding.
brian redban
I'm just trying to think of something right now.
joe rogan
How big your next girlfriend's going to be?
brian redban
No.
joe rogan
$1.70, $1.80?
dom irrera
I love him going back to an average girl.
I've got to get myself an average or less than average girl.
joe rogan
So I'm dating porn stars.
brian redban
The girl that I lost my virginity to added me on Facebook today.
dom irrera
What fucking funny is porn star, the term, when you figure they could suck two cocks for the first time, never star.
Imagine the rest of show business is that easy.
I don't remember being called a comedy star when I did The Tonight Show.
You know what I mean?
I had done HBO specials, all this shit.
They didn't call me a comedy star.
They called me a comedian.
brian redban
You were a comedy star.
joe rogan
Yeah, that is interesting.
It's like we're so uncomfortable with sex that when we throw the word porn around, we have to have something nice about it.
Star.
Porn star.
Rock it like a porn star.
You know?
Oh, he's a rock star.
dom irrera
Do you still watch a lot of porn?
joe rogan
No, I try not to.
brian redban
It's all about camming nowadays.
joe rogan
What about you?
dom irrera
No, but it's...
joe rogan
I try not to, but there was a worm that came out.
A Trojan.
dom irrera
Oh yeah, you were telling me.
joe rogan
Half a million.
brian redban
Yeah, you freaked me the fuck out last night.
joe rogan
You should get freaked out.
Turn your java off, son.
dom irrera
You know what helped me was blood pressure medication.
joe rogan
Yeah?
dom irrera
Because with blood pressure medication, it lowers your libido.
So now I feel just like I'm kind of Irish.
unidentified
You know what I mean?
dom irrera
Just like I'm healthy sexually, but not like a fucking monkey who has to fuck everything all the time.
joe rogan
Italian genetics.
dom irrera
Yeah, I mean literally.
joe rogan
We both have those wonky Sicilian genetics.
dom irrera
Yeah, we have that like after you get done fucking, you go home and jerk off thinking about what you just did.
That's how much fucking sex.
I remember Sophie turning to me going, how much do you need?
Can you just play with my ass while I'm asleep?
joe rogan
Wow, is that what she said?
Ew.
Getting a little too comfortable with you, Dom.
brian redban
Is it because of the Alfredo?
joe rogan
Chicken Alfredo?
brian redban
Just all the Alfredo sauce?
joe rogan
Yeah, that's what Italians are known for.
Alfredo sauce.
It's caveman genetics.
That's what it is.
It's very simple.
We look like trolls.
We're short, wide people.
That's Sicilian look.
Wide, fathead people.
dom irrera
We want to fuck a lot.
Remember Christy?
Remember Christy, the redhead?
joe rogan
Yes.
dom irrera
She had a great body.
Oh my god.
joe rogan
We're going to the Wayback Machine with Don Rivera's penis.
brian redban
Boners from the past.
dom irrera
Get out of my way.
joe rogan
Back when I got hard-ons.
unidentified
I remembered the boner of 95. Back in the dizzy.
brian redban
I just got silk sheets.
Have your own silk sheets?
joe rogan
No, because I'm a man.
brian redban
What's one of those things is like, why have I ever done this before?
It is amazing.
Why would you ever have regular sheets?
It's like you're laying there.
It's like laying in a silky vagina.
dom irrera
Are you alone doing this?
brian redban
Yeah.
It's nice though.
dom irrera
I like to get it out of my head.
joe rogan
You're lying alone, naked.
Do you take your underwear off?
unidentified
Remember those blankets that have the silkies on the end?
brian redban
Remember the blankets that have the silkies on the end?
You used to put it against your cheek when you were a baby and all that stuff.
Imagine a whole blanket made out of that silky and you're laying in it.
joe rogan
That stuff was real silk.
dom irrera
I can't even imagine it.
brian redban
It's so amazing.
It's only like $40 on Amazon.
I highly recommend it.
Just buy some silk sheets.
You'll never buy regular sheets again, I don't think.
joe rogan
Look at you, Brian.
Do you do it all naked?
brian redban
I do it all the time.
dom irrera
Who goes and buys sheets?
Can you imagine Joe going out and buying sheets?
brian redban
You have to buy something.
joe rogan
Can you rub yourself to orgasm just with your penis on the sheets?
brian redban
Probably could, yeah.
I mean, it's really soft.
dom irrera
So where do you get these?
brian redban
Amazon.
Amazon.
They're satin sheets.
unidentified
Picture Dom naked.
joe rogan
Just arms flopping back and forth.
dom irrera
Like a seal.
unidentified
Will you come for me?
dom irrera
I always love when they always say, will you come for me?
You know what that means?
I'm getting tired of jerking you off.
joe rogan
Get off me, you fucking freak.
Crazy asshole.
brian redban
I hope next week South Park's all about this.
joe rogan
Oh, that's funny.
brian redban
Paparazzi gang and silk sheets.
Come on, Trey.
joe rogan
You don't think people are really listening?
brian redban
I hope so.
I think that would be so cool.
joe rogan
It would be hilarious.
brian redban
Because the week before...
joe rogan
I think anybody who watches it, no one knows what we're talking about.
We talked about this Bigfoot show, and then they talked about it on South Park, and someone on our message board said, oh, someone from South Park probably heard you guys talking about it.
I'm like, but hold on, but anybody who watches that Bigfoot show is going to get the same jokes.
brian redban
Yeah, but you're only missing half of it, though.
joe rogan
What?
brian redban
Well, also in that episode, supposedly, I haven't seen this episode...
But supposedly there was a part where he's like, don't just eat your buttholes all day or something like that, Cartman says.
And then the week before, I have this whole thing at Death Squad where I take a piece of bread and I take the cat bread where I tell my fans to send me photos of them taking a piece of bread, taking a hole out of the middle of the bread and then putting their cat head through it.
joe rogan
Right.
brian redban
And I've been doing it for about a month or so.
And then that last week's episode was all about like fucking cap redding and shit like that.
joe rogan
About doing that?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Wait a minute, you invented that?
brian redban
No, I didn't invent it, but it was definitely a lot of people, like a really small niche of the internet, you know?
joe rogan
But they're on the internet too.
brian redban
Oh, no, no.
I'm just saying that it's kind of funny that that's something that I've been doing like a lot lately on Twitter.
joe rogan
I'm not clear though.
Are you accusing them of watching you and then copy?
brian redban
No, no, no.
Here's what I'm saying.
Last week's episode, it was really weird watching it, because for the last month, that's what I've been doing on Twitter nonstop.
So it was kind of cool to see that.
And then this week, I heard that they were talking about Bigfoot and itching assholes, and I'm like, this is getting cool.
I hope everything that we talk about becomes a South Park episode.
joe rogan
Well, now, what they're going to do is an episode about a retard radio host who can't get his facts straight and blames Cartman for something he didn't really do.
brian redban
Olive Garden Bubble.
dom irrera
Did you say cat breading?
brian redban
Cat breading.
It's so fun.
dom irrera
Are you talking about breeding?
brian redban
Breading.
No, you take the crust of a bread and you make a hole in it and then put your cat's head through it and you take a photo.
joe rogan
He's a grown man.
Isn't that strange?
They don't make people like him in Philly, do they?
brian redban
No, no, no.
dom irrera
Where are you from?
joe rogan
Mid-West.
brian redban
Ohio.
dom irrera
Where?
brian redban
Columbus.
dom irrera
I love Columbus.
brian redban
I love Columbus, too.
Growing up, I only knew one Italian.
It was my dad's best friend, and he lives in, I think, Pittsburgh.
And the only time I'd ever go to Pittsburgh, back and forth, once a year, we'd go and they'd have this huge party where he just invites all his families.
It was like the coolest thing ever.
That's how I know Italians for my first time, was that they would just have these huge parties with hundreds of family members once a year.
And we were invited to that all the time.
It was so cool.
That's my first introduction to Italians.
unidentified
I don't know why I just brought that up.
dom irrera
The Italian-American Society comes to see me every year at Columbus at the Funny Bone.
joe rogan
Really?
dom irrera
And so they invite me to dinner the day I come in, which is Wednesday.
And it's always fun.
Do you know Dino?
Do you know who hosts one of the shows?
You've done the Funny Bone, haven't you?
joe rogan
Yes.
dom irrera
Anyway, so I go to this thing, and it's an Italian club, and long story short, a fight fucking breaks out at a club.
But they're all club members.
It wasn't like a club, like a club opening to the public.
They're having a vote for...
The president gets up and starts talking, and this one guy goes, you know...
It escalated so quickly, like one of those, what the fuck are you looking at?
Nothing.
Who are you calling nothing?
Fuck you!
You know, that kind of like, you know what I mean?
I'm like, we're real close to it.
It was like, you know what you were saying about how you've seen things, like how unflappable you are, like you've seen things right next to you and it doesn't even faze you?
Like the violence?
joe rogan
Oh yeah, I've seen so many fights.
dom irrera
Well, that's what happened here, but it was such an unlikely place because it was like everybody's cheering each other.
They're either Italian or have to have some connection to Italy, you know, whatever.
And a real fight broke out.
I couldn't believe it.
Do you want a piece of this?
joe rogan
I always thought that was one of the more unfortunate aspects of our culture.
Italian-Americans are very prone to violence.
Very prone to fist fights.
dom irrera
Italians and Irish.
joe rogan
Yeah, Italians and Irish.
dom irrera
You got some Irish in you, right?
joe rogan
Yeah, I got the best of both worlds.
Three quarters Italian, one quarter Irish.
Yeah, they're always like, what the fuck are you looking at?
There's always a lot of that.
Especially the East Coast.
All those scruffy immigrants raised kids that carried a lot of those same mentalities.
The East Coast is definitely more hostile.
dom irrera
Do people ever ask you about the mob like you know it because you're part of it?
Do they ever ask you?
joe rogan
No.
dom irrera
I get it all the time.
unidentified
Really?
dom irrera
Well, because of where I'm from and like, you know, like, I lived in a poor black neighborhood in West Philadelphia.
We moved from an Italian neighborhood.
I mean, like, we were really connected to the mob.
Yeah, we're undercover, you know, that's why we're in this row home in a black neighborhood.
But, because we were the oppressed whites, you know, which was a very interesting perspective of life because people don't ever think about what about the white kids that were let back In a tough black neighborhood.
I was lucky because I played ball and they were all my friends.
But you couldn't walk through there, just like a black kid couldn't walk through the Italian neighborhood.
unidentified
Wow.
joe rogan
Isn't that fucked up?
dom irrera
Yeah, it's fucked up.
joe rogan
When are we going to move past that?
dom irrera
And when you know the people, you like them.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Oh yeah, of course.
It's like any other community.
It's all about deciding who's going to be nice to who.
You decide that these are the people you're going to be nice to, and you're not going to be nice to those assholes over there.
We were talking about how we were in Kentucky.
We were in Louisville, and Louisville was playing Louisville and Kentucky.
dom irrera
Oh yeah, how did that go when they were playing?
joe rogan
Crazy.
They started a riot and Oh yeah, what the fuck is that about?
Lit cars on fire and shit.
But the crazy thing is, it's Louisville versus Kentucky.
It's like you assholes.
It's ridiculous.
You're in the same goddamn state.
It's a fucking civil war.
This is the most preposterous thing ever.
dom irrera
Yeah, well, like the same thing with Auburn and Alabama.
It took a tornado to blow through Tuscaloosa for those people to get in touch with each other.
They're all the same people.
joe rogan
It's crazy.
They're so prone to hate the neighbor or hate the Hatfields and the McCoys.
dom irrera
I know.
I mean, I said on stage about Michigan.
Columbus is in the Ohio State's home.
brian redban
Screw Blue, man.
Why are you even talking about that?
joe rogan
Yeah, I've had people from Columbus shit on people from Cincinnati.
dom irrera
Yeah, yeah.
Fuck Michigan.
joe rogan
What are you talking about?
dom irrera
Why do you hate them?
I don't know.
Just hate them.
joe rogan
Meanwhile, we're all supposed to be Americans.
It's all preposterous.
All these stupid fucking states.
dom irrera
You see Little Leaguer's mother's banging out.
joe rogan
Preposterous.
unidentified
I said it.
brian redban
You did say it.
joe rogan
I can't help myself.
brian redban
You must be a Michigan guy.
dom irrera
He has a very prodigious vocabulary.
joe rogan
It's preposterous has been the word of the month.
dom irrera
Oh, is it?
joe rogan
Yeah, I've been blasting it out every time it comes into my stupid head.
brian redban
It's preposterous.
joe rogan
It gets into a groove where you can't stop saying it.
brian redban
You go through words, though, definitely, because I remember we used to say powerful, and we used to say something else, like carrots or something.
dom irrera
Joe was the first one I ever heard say whatever.
brian redban
Bananas.
dom irrera
Instead of whatever.
You were the first one that made that inflection, and it spread all over the valley.
joe rogan
Whatever.
dom irrera
You did.
You were the first one.
Are you being serious?
joe rogan
I thought you were joking.
dom irrera
You're the first one I ever heard say it.
And then everybody started saying it, and then you didn't say it as much.
unidentified
Really?
joe rogan
What did I say?
I don't understand what you're saying.
dom irrera
You know, you'd be talking about something that would piss you off, and you know, whatever.
Instead of saying whatever, you made that beat.
joe rogan
Whatever.
And then I didn't know I did that.
dom irrera
Yeah.
joe rogan
I really have no idea.
dom irrera
Joe, I know you so much better.
joe rogan
You did know me very well, my friend.
We've known each other a long time.
brian redban
Tell me more, tell me more.
joe rogan
We've known each other since the 90s, the early 90s.
I think we met in like 93. Back in the day.
When I was living in New York.
Remember we met at Caroline's or at Amsterdam Billiards once, too.
We just ran into each other.
Dom and Rara can shoot a hell of a game of pool, I'll tell you that.
brian redban
I'm going to start saying that, Joe.
unidentified
That's hilarious.
brian redban
Whatever.
Whatever.
joe rogan
Dude, it's the pause that makes it so uniquely mine.
That pause in the middle of whatever, that's where all the brilliance lies.
dom irrera
You know, you used to crack me up when people would go to me, like, whatever, like, you know, like, you're going to take credit for like that, and you were the first one I heard, but like, people would say to me, doesn't it bother you that the Sopranos do bada boom, bada bing?
I go, no.
They go, but you did it before them.
I go, because I was around before the show started.
I didn't make up acting Italian.
I didn't make up forget about it.
Well, I was the first one that said forget about it.
brian redban
I had the nastiest thing happen to me last night.
I dropped my iPhone in my beer.
And so I pulled it out real fast.
And then I just did the first thing I thought of.
I'll suck all the beer out of the iPhone.
unidentified
So I'm sucking the holes as hard as I could.
brian redban
And shit was coming in my mouth.
But then like something, like a slime thing flew my mouth.
I'm like, was that earwax or what the fuck was it?
So I don't know if it was orange for my Hefeweizen or if it was...
dom irrera
Battery acid.
brian redban
Earwax.
joe rogan
You had a Hefeweizen, dude.
Stop it.
It was a piece of orange.
brian redban
No, but I was like...
joe rogan
Yeah, you got your beer.
It's simple.
Orange.
I'm going to be your Columbo on this one.
dom irrera
Joe, what's wrong with this one?
joe rogan
I got your case solved.
dom irrera
What's wrong with him?
joe rogan
Exactly.
He doesn't think there's anything wrong with him.
I've been working with this fucking asshole for a decade.
He doesn't think there's anything wrong with him.
He thinks it's me.
He's like, you know, you're just tense.
You're from the East Coast.
You're crazy with all that karate.
dom irrera
See, the interesting thing is the word retarded can be misused.
But there is something, in all due respect, there's something retard-esque about you.
Even that vacant look that he has.
brian redban
Yeah, it's my age difference.
dom irrera
You think so?
joe rogan
Yeah.
dom irrera
You mean everybody your age acts like that?
joe rogan
A lot of 37-year-olds are rocking it like that.
unidentified
Are you 37?
brian redban
Yeah, I'm 37 and I rock it like a 22-year-old, which is different.
dom irrera
You rock what?
What do you rock?
brian redban
I'm rocking a Nintendo shirt right now.
Do you think I want to...
joe rogan
He's a man-child.
You know what a man-child is?
A lot of them work in the computer game industry, a lot of man-child in the comic book world.
brian redban
You need to know what your target market is.
dom irrera
How did you get this gig?
I mean, of all the people Joe knows, what the fuck are you doing over there?
brian redban
I'm ones and zeros.
By the way, I remember I started dropping a one or a zero in normal conversation just to put code into actually communication.
joe rogan
Well, do you know what you're saying, though?
What if you have the fucking...
brian redban
One or zero.
joe rogan
What's the blueprints for a nuclear bomb?
What if, at the end of the time, when someone deciphers all your fucking sentences for the month, they figure out a nuclear bomb?
brian redban
Seven.
unidentified
One.
joe rogan
Stop.
It's not seven, dummy.
It's one or zero.
You can't say seven.
You fucked up your own code.
brian redban
You're a sloppy code writer.
joe rogan
You're a sloppy code writer.
brian redban
Seven's the new shit.
joe rogan
Yeah.
This is what I deal with, Don.
brian redban
Don, I'm sorry.
dom irrera
You could do better.
brian redban
Oh!
dom irrera
No, no, you're good.
joe rogan
You think I could do better?
dom irrera
I think he needs some work.
joe rogan
What do you think I should do with him?
dom irrera
I would cut his hours down.
joe rogan
Cut his air time down?
dom irrera
And so that he, when he comes in, he's more focused.
brian redban
That's podcasting.
unidentified
You do understand we smoke a shitload of weed before we do this.
brian redban
This is Joe Rogan weed, so you get to see it.
dom irrera
Do you have a medical thing for that, Joe?
joe rogan
That's what's important.
brian redban
We both do.
dom irrera
What do you have to say that your ailment is?
How do you get medical...
joe rogan
Look at them.
brian redban
Entertainment.
joe rogan
What's right with them?
brian redban
I'm not...
I need to be...
joe rogan
What's fine?
dom irrera
What's yours, Joe?
Anxiety?
joe rogan
What's good?
brian redban
Mine's anxiety.
joe rogan
Yeah, yeah.
brian redban
I sleep in the whole world.
dom irrera
Does that help?
joe rogan
No.
No, it doesn't help me.
I don't have anxiety.
I do have...
It definitely helps me go to sleep.
It makes food taste better.
dom irrera
Do the lights just blink or do I pass it out?
joe rogan
I think the lights just blinked.
Oh, good.
Do I pass it out?
It helps if you've got injuries.
If you're achy, it makes you feel a little bit better.
It relaxes you.
I find it relaxes my muscles.
dom irrera
I like Xanax.
joe rogan
You don't like the weed?
dom irrera
No, I don't like smoke.
joe rogan
Really?
You can eat it, you know.
dom irrera
You can eat it too, Joe.
unidentified
Whoa!
dom irrera
No need to attack me.
What are you getting so aggressive for?
unidentified
What did I do?
brian redban
You said you haven't smoked weed, though, for a very long time, though.
joe rogan
Since the Beatles were out.
brian redban
And if you take so much Xanax, you might just take a hit once just to see if it does anything for you.
Any of the new stuff.
unidentified
Any of the devils?
brian redban
No, I mean, because this is a cheaper alternative that will probably...
dom irrera
I drink a lot, though.
joe rogan
No, I'm doing good.
I drink a lot.
The way you said it was like, I drink my vitamins.
brian redban
Do you drink every day?
unidentified
Yeah.
brian redban
Like Ed McMahon style?
dom irrera
I do.
And I'm hungover every day, which is really a testament to my comedy because it's great.
That's the great thing about being a comedian.
You can actually function.
I'm way more, Joe, than when we hung out a lot.
I'm way more alcoholic than I was.
Because I graduated to hard liquor.
joe rogan
Oh.
Is this because of a girl?
dom irrera
I don't know where to go from here.
No, because my girl, my sister died, a couple other things.
But I find it to be a really fun habit.
I don't like to hang over, but I time it.
I go, well, if I go to sleep, take a half of Xanax, in six hours I'll be alright.
I'm a little dizzy from the combination of the tranquilizer and the alcohol, but I do feel better.
joe rogan
Are you supposed to take those two together?
dom irrera
No.
joe rogan
How bad is it for you?
dom irrera
Well, it could stop your heart.
joe rogan
And you're like, wow, it's worth it?
dom irrera
No, that's why I keep the time in between them.
Like six to eight hours.
I made that up.
I totally made it up.
I'm thinking that's what it should be.
The alcohol metabolizes it about that much.
If I'm drunk, I don't take anything.
If I feel drunk, I wait until I feel...
joe rogan
But if you take the Xanax and you're under the effects of it, sometimes you'll have a couple drinks?
dom irrera
No.
joe rogan
No?
dom irrera
Not usually.
I mean, not usually.
joe rogan
So it's one or the other.
dom irrera
On a plane, maybe.
Yeah, it's one or the other.
joe rogan
Hoping there's a doctor on board?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
What are the odds?
dom irrera
Yeah.
brian redban
You shouldn't do that.
You should switch to weed.
dom irrera
Get off my back, will you?
You didn't even know me, man.
joe rogan
What is the main reason why you're doing this?
What is the main reason for Xanax?
Xanax is for anxiety.
dom irrera
Anxiety, yeah.
joe rogan
What kind of anxiety?
dom irrera
You know, just like panic attacks.
joe rogan
When did these start?
dom irrera
When I was four.
joe rogan
For real?
This is a lifelong thing?
dom irrera
I was being raped by my entire family.
They passed me around the room.
And they plugged me.
joe rogan
Like a joint.
brian redban
You're a fleshlight.
dom irrera
Like a joint.
They just start pumping on me.
I always had anxiety.
I went to a psychiatrist when I was in seventh grade.
joe rogan
Really?
dom irrera
I did not know any of this.
Well, that's why I'm here, to reveal myself.
I'll be at Hilarity's next week.
And you can see me at Captain Brian's the following, two weeks from there.
brian redban
It's on my show.
joe rogan
You went to a psychiatrist?
dom irrera
Yeah, my mother sent me a psychiatrist.
joe rogan
And what was it for?
dom irrera
I was in love with him.
No, I'm kidding.
It was for anxiety, panic attacks.
joe rogan
Wow.
brian redban
I have all the same things.
I went to the hospital about a year and a half ago.
I had to pull over and call 911 on myself because of an anxiety attack.
dom irrera
Really?
brian redban
Yeah.
It cost me a lot of money.
dom irrera
See, now I feel bad.
I hope you know I was kidding you.
joe rogan
He was high as fuck.
brian redban
Yeah, you've actually started something.
It's already starting to hit me.
joe rogan
Yeah, but you were high as fuck when you pulled over.
brian redban
No, I wasn't.
I just didn't eat all day.
joe rogan
But didn't you get high?
dom irrera
Did you hallucinate?
brian redban
Yeah, I was.
I was starting to see trails and stuff.
I felt like I was having a heart attack the whole time.
dom irrera
Yeah, that's a typical symptom of that.
brian redban
Like, and I was like holding my neck and I could feel my heartbeat.
But the thing that I didn't like is I called the ambulance and they were like, yeah, there's something wrong.
And I'm like, oh, now looking back, I'm like, well, how do they know?
joe rogan
You might have had a heart attack.
I mean, they didn't know you were having a panic attack.
dom irrera
I love these people that think they have heart attacks.
They don't have chest pains.
They don't even know what a fucking heart attack is.
joe rogan
Right.
dom irrera
You gotta have chest pains to have a heart attack.
brian redban
I get those too.
joe rogan
Yeah, you would think so.
dom irrera
I would, I'm pretty sure.
brian redban
As a smoker, I get those too sometimes, you know.
joe rogan
He's a smoker too.
dom irrera
Oh, you smoke cigarettes?
brian redban
Yeah, a lot.
joe rogan
Do you work out?
brian redban
Oh, no, I don't know.
I'm pretty much like you.
I have a hangover every day.
dom irrera
No, I work out though.
joe rogan
I work out.
dom irrera
I work out.
I domercize.
You know what that is?
joe rogan
What does that mean?
dom irrera
It's very low impact.
You can actually eat while you're doing it.
It's a form of...
I watch myself on a video just exercising and I exercise to that.
joe rogan
Oh, dom.
brian redban
I consider masturbation working out though.
dom irrera
Is this a bit?
No bit?
joe rogan
I think you might want to throw that one out.
dom irrera
It's never been in.
unidentified
I thought you...
joe rogan
What'd you say about working out?
brian redban
If you fuck pillows, that's like working out.
joe rogan
For you.
brian redban
That's a concern.
It's like push-ups, kind of.
joe rogan
Any movement you do adds minutes to your life on this planet.
dom irrera
Is that true?
joe rogan
Especially for him, yeah.
Sure, he's one step on a grave, one banana peel.
brian redban
Yep.
Dead man.
Dead man walking.
joe rogan
Look at him.
Dead man walking.
He's not taking care of this vehicle.
unidentified
Nope.
joe rogan
He's just riding it and stuffing Cheetos into it.
dom irrera
He's a little pill.
brian redban
I said beer and pussy juice.
joe rogan
The cigarettes are the real issue.
It's fucking unbelievably bad for you.
dom irrera
Yeah.
brian redban
Yeah, they are really bad.
joe rogan
You never get that, right?
dom irrera
Cigarettes, sixth grade.
joe rogan
I quit.
How long did you do it for?
dom irrera
You know, I used to get my grandfather would get samples, and I would smoke cigarettes one after another, and I'd go, fucking, that'd be so dizzy.
It was like, yeah.
Because I thought, you know, you get high by smoking just like one after another.
unidentified
You do.
dom irrera
That's what I did.
But it's not a fun high.
You're dizzy, like you're lightheaded, you know.
joe rogan
You throw up.
dom irrera
I never threw up, but it is nauseating.
joe rogan
I threw up from chewing tobacco once.
unidentified
That shit's so gross.
dom irrera
You know what's so gross?
The baseball players spit that shit, but it's on a rug.
joe rogan
Yeah.
dom irrera
It's a rug.
It's not like grass where it gets absorbed into the ground.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
What is that?
Are they allowed to spit it on the astroturf?
dom irrera
They do.
You'll see them...
joe rogan
Oh, yeah, that's fucking nasty.
dom irrera
Remember that scene from Naked Gun or something where they all start spitting?
brian redban
Yeah.
dom irrera
Yeah, they're just hilarious.
joe rogan
Whoever fucking figured out how to do that?
Isn't it funny that that's legal?
Chewing tobacco but cocoa leaves aren't legal.
Right.
Which is probably better for you.
Matter of fact, it's definitely better for you.
I don't think people are chewing cocoa leaves and getting cancer.
Have you ever seen these new cancer commercials they have?
dom irrera
Oh my god.
joe rogan
They're scaring the fuck out of you.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Have you seen that one, Brian?
brian redban
Yeah, they're pretty bad.
They all suck.
Especially when they have holes in their throats.
joe rogan
That doesn't make you want to quit smoking?
brian redban
Black guys looking out of windows.
dom irrera
How long have you been smoking?
Since I was 15. But the idea of starting now, after all we've seen, that's really crazy.
joe rogan
Yeah.
dom irrera
I mean, I should talk.
I'm drinking every day.
Like, I don't know if alcohol is bad for you.
But the idea of, like, thinking, you know, I think I'll start this.
I think I'll start this habit that I don't have yet.
Just, you know.
joe rogan
What made you start?
Because you're saying you're way more of an alcoholic now than you were now.
dom irrera
Well, it's a progressive disease, you know?
That's the fun thing about it.
You get better at it.
joe rogan
Do you ever decide to do anything about it?
Do you ever decide to slow down?
Yeah, yeah.
dom irrera
Whenever I'm hungover, I quit until that night.
We had a funny thing.
I was on a tour bus.
Remember when I was opening for Cher?
joe rogan
Yeah.
dom irrera
We had a funny thing.
I kidded this waitress at the Laugh Factory about it the other night.
Me and my friend Ollie, we never slept on the bus.
And we're drinking all night, and we gotta quit drinking.
Okay, this is it.
It's stupid.
It's fucking killing our bodies.
And so in about an hour, we're sobering up and we go, you know, we haven't been drinking for a while.
It's great being sober.
What do you say we celebrate our sobriety with the drink?
So that was, you know, this girl the other night at the Lab Factory, we did something like, she goes, I'm not drinking tonight.
I said, me neither.
All right, we'll have one as a reward for not drinking.
You don't drink, huh?
joe rogan
I drink.
I don't drink a lot.
brian redban
But when he does, he does.
joe rogan
I can throw it out.
brian redban
You're a shot man.
joe rogan
I can do shots.
dom irrera
Yeah.
joe rogan
I like to try to keep as balanced as possible.
You can get addicted to just getting fucked up all the time and going on stage.
dom irrera
I don't like to go on stage fucked up.
brian redban
I do this new thing that's really cool.
dom irrera
I really lose it.
brian redban
Do you?
dom irrera
Quickness, yeah.
joe rogan
How many times have you gone on stage fucked up accidentally though?
dom irrera
Maybe 10. Maybe 20. 50. That's the most.
You know what's bad is getting drunk if you're going to do an hour because you've got to pee.
You've got to really watch that.
joe rogan
That's true, yeah.
dom irrera
But I'm not better as a drunk because I'm not nervous doing stand-up.
So alcohol does me no good.
joe rogan
Right.
dom irrera
It just dulls me and it slows the quickness down, the reaction a little bit.
joe rogan
Right.
It throws your timing off.
dom irrera
I'm much better on coffee than I am on booze.
joe rogan
Yeah.
dom irrera
Because I don't have any fear of the stage.
I don't have any fear of...
joe rogan
I'm going to get you some of this Alpha Brain stuff.
For real.
Take it before you go on stage.
Take it like an hour before you go on stage.
dom irrera
What is it?
joe rogan
It's the stuff we're selling at Honest.
dom irrera
Oh, really?
joe rogan
Yeah, I got bottles of it.
brian redban
I did something the other day that I started doing where I'll order vodka and Diet Coke, and then I'll tell the guy every three of them, make them just Diet Cokes.
So I don't even know when I'm doing it or not.
I felt drunk at the end of the night, and I was like, how many have I had?
And he's like, you've only had two, and you've been here for six hours, so you're fine.
joe rogan
Whoa.
So you couldn't have been drunk.
You're psychosomatic.
brian redban
But it wasn't even like, I was like, am I drunk?
I don't even know if I'm drunk or not.
I was confused.
joe rogan
Is he retarded?
Tell me.
This is the first time you're hanging out with him.
brian redban
No, like if you don't know if you're drinking alcohol, are you like, am I drunk?
joe rogan
No, I know.
I understand.
dom irrera
You know what he's like?
This is a contradiction in terms.
He's like a really bright retard.
You know?
That's what I mean.
I don't know how else to put it.
unidentified
That's exactly how my Facebook is.
brian redban
That's my motto.
joe rogan
That should be your new thing on your message board.
dom irrera
He doesn't have the happiness of a retarded kid, the joy that they have, the smile.
joe rogan
He's a pretty happy guy.
I can't hang out with him more.
He's hanging out with all his porn star friends.
dom irrera
You really fucking porn stars?
unidentified
Fuck yeah!
dom irrera
Doesn't that you skeeve that they've been there?
joe rogan
Well, they're not the girl-girl porn stars.
brian redban
They're only girl-girl porn stars.
dom irrera
They're girl-girl?
joe rogan
They only do this.
unidentified
Oh.
joe rogan
And this.
unidentified
Yeah.
dom irrera
Yeah, yeah.
You don't really have to do that for me, Joe.
I know what it looks like.
joe rogan
I'm getting a kick out of doing that.
Yeah, it's a weird world.
It's uncomfortable getting to know that world.
dom irrera
It's normal to them, too, which is very strange.
joe rogan
Well, it's so stereotypical.
The weird thing about that world is a lot of them are very nice, and you get to meet them, and you're like, wow, this is just some nice girl who just...
Somehow or another, she found herself in some situation where she has this almost insatiable desire for sexual attention, and a lot of that is because they were molested.
And then when you find that out, it's a buzzkill.
dom irrera
Yeah, yeah, then you start feeling bad.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's a massive buzzkill.
dom irrera
And you humanize them.
If you humanize them, you're going to lose all your fantasies.
joe rogan
You lose your boner, for sure.
When you talk to some of them, I mean, some of them say that nothing's ever happened to them, and I believe them.
I think it's possible that some of them just love them.
dom irrera
Yeah, because they can need attention for other reasons.
joe rogan
Yeah, more, I don't know, maybe they just rationalize it.
I don't know.
Or maybe that's just their reality and they don't have a problem with it.
I'm not saying there's anything wrong with it.
I'm saying when you delve into that world...
dom irrera
There's got to be something wrong.
joe rogan
Yeah, well, a lot of times there is.
dom irrera
Strippers, I never met a stripper who was...
A lot of times there is.
And they're not really working their way through law school.
joe rogan
Very rare.
Some of them do.
brian redban
It's like a Mike Young joke.
joe rogan
Yeah.
We have a bunch of genius trippers.
dom irrera
I never heard that.
brian redban
I saw him last night.
joe rogan
Yeah, same jokes?
brian redban
No, I didn't watch the show.
I just talked to him.
But would you ever like him at Ice House?
Would that be okay?
unidentified
Sure.
brian redban
Cool.
joe rogan
Why'd you bring that up in the air?
brian redban
I don't know.
unidentified
How embarrassing would it be for Mike if Joe said no?
brian redban
Oh, that's true.
joe rogan
We talk business off the air!
What is all this with this fucking guy?
brian redban
Well, we've talked about Mike Young so many times on the podcast, but we've never had him on anything.
dom irrera
He got his ass kicked one time.
joe rogan
Yeah, remember that?
dom irrera
That was brutal.
joe rogan
He's got an interesting story about that.
Yeah, I mean, I wouldn't want to tell.
Is that him?
brian redban
I don't know.
joe rogan
It's not my phone, is it?
Not my phone.
Tom, is it your phone?
It must be your phone, bro.
brian redban
I don't even know where my phone is.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's because it's fucking ringing, you crazy bitch.
You just had it.
You were sucking on it.
Yeah, remember?
The whole thing?
You sucked on it and you stuffed it under your ass.
I work with him on a regular basis, Tom.
dom irrera
Do you do stand-up?
brian redban
Yes.
I'm about to go on the road with Joey Diaz.
unidentified
Yeah, I know.
dom irrera
You told me.
unidentified
You don't believe he does stand up?
joe rogan
Well, you find it shocking.
dom irrera
I find it a little uncomfortable to talk about.
brian redban
What's blackened on top of a stairway?
dom irrera
What?
brian redban
Christopher Reeves after a fire.
That was really good like five years ago.
unidentified
It's good to hear a good crisp new Christopher Reeves.
joe rogan
Now you're just wasting time.
Now, you wonder why you get hate mail.
You wonder why people...
I banned a couple people from talking shit about you on the message board.
brian redban
Oh, by the way, did you watch the Modcast?
Your message board now has a podcast that Mute, Jason and Voodoo and Johnny Rotten did.
joe rogan
They're doing it themselves.
brian redban
Yeah, they might fly up one day and go on.
joe rogan
Yeah, I want to do it too.
We should do a gig up there.
brian redban
That'd be awesome.
joe rogan
Do a gig in Seattle and then do the podcast.
Definitely.
dom irrera
You know what's a joke that I love?
Tell me what you think it is.
Maybe you heard it.
Guy goes to a psychiatrist.
Psychiatrist says, what's the problem?
He goes, I don't know, Doc.
I just can't seem to keep any friends, you fat fuck.
joe rogan
You said you went to a psychiatrist when you were 17. No, 13. Oh, 13?
unidentified
Really?
dom irrera
12, 13, yeah.
joe rogan
Wow.
Have you been as an adult?
dom irrera
Not a psychiatrist, psychologist.
joe rogan
That's the kind that don't prescribe drugs, right?
dom irrera
Right.
joe rogan
Huh.
You want to talk about that?
unidentified
No.
Oh, Joe.
joe rogan
I'm telling you, Dom, I think you would like pot.
The Xanax stuff, what does it do?
It kills anxiety, makes you relax?
Is that what it does?
dom irrera
Yeah.
It's great.
It makes you feel like you're a normal person.
joe rogan
What I've heard, though, is that if you take it and then you get off it, the anxiety actually increases.
dom irrera
Well, I wouldn't get off it.
joe rogan
So it's a daily thing?
dom irrera
Every day.
joe rogan
I had just heard from someone, we were just talking about this, and he goes, I couldn't fucking imagine taking Xanax every day.
He just said this to me.
dom irrera
Because it makes you sleepy.
joe rogan
I don't know.
I don't know what it does to you.
Do you want to try one?
No.
brian redban
I'll have one.
dom irrera
Well, why don't we...
When we get in the car, I'll give you one.
joe rogan
I don't think it's for me.
brian redban
I've actually tried it.
dom irrera
No, I'm glad that you do pot.
I'm glad...
I mean, I'm telling you, like I was telling you before, you seem so much more at peace with yourself.
joe rogan
I had a bunch of...
dom irrera
Calm down a lot.
joe rogan
I think it definitely helped.
I had a bunch of life experiences, a bunch of psychedelic experiences, too.
A bunch of...
dom irrera
I'd be so afraid to do that shit.
joe rogan
Yeah?
Why?
dom irrera
Well, because I'm a pussy.
I'm registered.
unidentified
I'm a registered pussy.
joe rogan
Yeah, the psychedelics change me a lot, for sure.
It's hard to gain a perspective on life while you're in.
dom irrera
So you do mushrooms and stuff?
joe rogan
I've done them, yeah, I'm sure, several times.
It's all about basalts.
Don't even say that, Brian.
brian redban
Just kidding.
Basalts are fucking stupid.
joe rogan
Somebody might hear that.
dom irrera
What did he say?
brian redban
Basalts.
joe rogan
It's some new fucked up drug they're selling.
It's like a cousin to crystal meth and they can sell it as basalts.
brian redban
You know what's even worse?
It's that fake weed.
I've been reading all this shit lately about that fake weed.
joe rogan
Synthetic weed.
brian redban
The synthetic weed.
How bad it is for you.
joe rogan
That's not good.
dom irrera
You know what's good about the pot that you get is that you're getting it from an illegal place, which means hopefully it's not tainted in anything.
I don't know why anybody would go to a really shady neighborhood and buy shit off a drug dealer who may never see them again.
Why would you trust that guy?
joe rogan
You gotta do what you gotta do.
unidentified
You gotta get the cheapest prices.
joe rogan
You gotta do what you gotta do.
unidentified
Why would I pay double the amount?
joe rogan
When you're in Rome, you gotta dance.
dom irrera
That's one of those sayings that you can't argue with.
You gotta do what you gotta do.
It is what it is.
It is what it is.
What else could it be than what it is?
joe rogan
What else could it be?
You could be looking at it in a distorted way because saying it is what it is is you might be looking at it in some sort of a fucked up way to justify your position.
dom irrera
I never expected an answer to that question.
It was a rhetorical question.
I appreciate the answer.
joe rogan
Well, I'm one of those guys.
I don't let them all float out there.
If you whack around a rhetorical one that needs to be addressed in a very literal sense, I'm ready.
dom irrera
I was laughing about something last night about you.
I was telling Eleanor about...
I would...
You know, he's so good at pull, Joe, that it's really tough to beat him, even a nine ball, which can involve a lot of luck.
And I would start talking about Carlos Mencia.
This was years ago.
Just to aggravate him, and his fucking stick would pop.
You know, like he would get aggravated.
Just looking for any kind of edge.
brian redban
At the comedy store the other day, I was there.
Somebody tore down Carlos and Mencia's picture and threw it in the trash.
Everyone thought I did it.
I was like, fucking assholes.
joe rogan
Someone trying to impress you, probably.
Somebody wants you to be your boyfriend.
dom irrera
Did you do stand-up at the comedy store?
brian redban
I'm only allowed on friends and family.
If there's a host I know, they'll let me do the...
joe rogan
You do the belly room?
brian redban
No, the main room.
Or no, OR. But it's like a three to five minute spot.
joe rogan
What a great club.
What a great all-time club.
Dominic.
What's your favorite club in the country?
dom irrera
Probably that one in Columbus as far as a neutral club.
I mean, you know, I love Wildwood.
When I do the Wildwood gig, it's really special to me because I'm from Philly and Wildwood's like the suburb of Philly.
joe rogan
Do you do Helium?
dom irrera
Yeah.
Great club.
joe rogan
That's another all-time classic.
dom irrera
I'm doing, do you ever do Captain Brian's?
Did I ask you that?
joe rogan
No, it's my ship.
dom irrera
It's in Marco Island, so it's beautiful.
It's a great gig.
It looks like a B room, but they pay like an A room, and it's just fun.
I mean, being on, you know, that kind of environment.
brian redban
That Columbus, Ohio, by the way, Funny Bone, that's my home club.
That's where I started stand-up.
dom irrera
Stroop's a great guy.
I also like Tampa and the Hollywood Improv.
joe rogan
How many weeks are you on the road a year?
dom irrera
I don't know, Joe.
It's awkward if I'm doing TV or not.
Like when I was doing that Judge show, I was less...
I would say...
At least half the time.
joe rogan
What was that judge show?
dom irrera
It was called Supreme Court of Comedy.
It's actually coming back.
It was on DirecTV and it was fun.
I'd love you to do it.
What did you do?
I'm the judge and it's real small claims cases.
People sign a contract that says they can't sue again in a real small claims court that I make the final decision.
joe rogan
Right.
dom irrera
And I just told them.
I said, you know, I don't really know much about the law.
I said, I'm not fair.
If it's a hot chick, you're going to win something.
And, you know, that's the way life is.
joe rogan
You know, I did something exactly like that a long time ago.
Really?
Merv Griffin tried to do it.
It's called Rogan's Law.
Same thing.
unidentified
Are you serious?
joe rogan
He did a pilot for it before I ever did Fear Factor.
Yeah, they didn't do it, though.
dom irrera
Did you have comedians as lawyers?
joe rogan
Yeah, yeah.
No, not as lawyers.
There's no comedians as lawyers, but there's a...
God, I wish I could remember their names.
One of the comics, I see him around the improv.
I'm sorry, I'm blanking on his name.
He was the bailiff, and there was another comic.
dom irrera
No, we had hot chicks as the bailiff.
Oh, really?
joe rogan
That's why your show worked, and mine didn't even go past pilot.
dom irrera
We did three years.
joe rogan
Didn't Mooney do something like that, too?
dom irrera
Well, he was on my show a lot.
Oh, okay.
joe rogan
Yeah.
dom irrera
And I've got to say, he really gave good energy.
He really did.
joe rogan
He's a pro.
dom irrera
He really went out 100%.
It was fun.
The guy who was fucking hilarious was Andy Kindler.
joe rogan
Kindler's very funny.
unidentified
Oh, my God.
dom irrera
He had me crying laughing.
This little nebbishy Jewish guy.
He was walking around.
He's almost like this Woody Allen look.
He was funny.
And it's interesting to see because you can tell which comedians have improv chops and which guys are only funny behind their act right away.
joe rogan
Yeah, sure.
dom irrera
And I'll tell you who was really prepared to the point where he was like a lawyer who was Lovitz.
unidentified
Really?
dom irrera
Oh, he went up against Kevin Pollack.
Poor Kevin Pollack.
He was doing Adam Arkin impressions.
Alan Arkin?
Alan Arkin.
Yeah, Alan Arkin.
And he was doing impressions.
And these kids, I said, we got like 17-year-old kids in here.
They don't know what you're doing.
You know, it's like Joe Piscopo did The Three Stooges.
Now they're going to know them again because of the movie.
But then I go, first of all, you're not even doing, like, at least do Shemp updated from Curly.
You know, he's doing Curly.
You understand what our audience is?
joe rogan
So Kevin Pollack does Alan Arkin and what did Lovitz do?
dom irrera
Lovitz was just fucking hilarious and he was really prepared.
And he was going, Kevin would go to say something and he would go, Silence!
Silence, you impudent...
Get queer.
You know, you're an alcoholic faggot.
He was doing all this shit, you know.
joe rogan
You called him a faggot?
dom irrera
Yeah, you know, they bleeped that out.
But, you know, just like anything he could think of, you know, to put him down.
It was funny, though.
joe rogan
So you did that for three years?
dom irrera
Yeah.
joe rogan
And it's only on DirecTV?
dom irrera
It was, yeah.
joe rogan
Did it get on the internet at all?
Does anybody think to put it on the website?
unidentified
I don't know.
dom irrera
I don't know.
I don't know, but we're going to do a podcast, I told you, from the Laugh Factory.
joe rogan
Who are you going to do it with?
dom irrera
Myself.
joe rogan
Just you?
dom irrera
Yeah, well, unless anybody else is available.
joe rogan
Brian?
You want to be in business with Brian?
Brian actually does a whole string of podcasts in Pasadena.
brian redban
Yeah, Pasadena Ice House.
I have a studio at the Ice House.
dom irrera
Did I do it with you once?
brian redban
Yeah, you were at my Ice House Chronicles.
dom irrera
Oh, that's where I know your face, right?
joe rogan
I already explained that.
That Xanax is a motherfucker.
dom irrera
Yeah, I remember.
Was that today?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Earlier today?
brian redban
Yeah, it was this morning when we did the podcast.
joe rogan
How many of those...
You take one half a day?
Is that what you do?
dom irrera
No, I take three halves.
joe rogan
Three halves in a day?
dom irrera
Yeah.
joe rogan
How long have you been doing that?
dom irrera
I don't know.
Five years?
joe rogan
Wow.
dom irrera
Ever since you left me, you son of a bitch.
joe rogan
Does it make a big difference?
dom irrera
I don't know.
I don't know what it's like not to take it.
joe rogan
Do you want to?
Do you ever say, you know what, tomorrow I'm going to become a vegan, start doing yoga, drink spring water, go for your morning jogs?
unidentified
Or why don't I just jump out a fucking window and stare?
dom irrera
No, I don't.
joe rogan
I mean, when you get ideas in your head of moderation.
What is the, you know, you just go, this probably can't be good for me.
Let me just kick back a little, stick around a little longer.
What are you thinking of when you go in moderation?
dom irrera
I only think that way when I'm hungover.
And then when I'm normal, I feel invincible.
unidentified
You know what I mean?
joe rogan
What a normal!
What a normal!
dom irrera
No, I mean, I just feel like I could drink.
joe rogan
So a little bit of booze and a little bit of Xanax just makes you feel great.
You just feel on top of the world.
dom irrera
Well, yeah, a little bit does.
A lot of booze.
I was talking to an emergency room doctor, and she told me that the Xanax that I take, at the level I take it, is probably a placebo at this point.
joe rogan
Really?
dom irrera
Well, she said because I never upped the dosage because I'm not that stupid.
I don't want to get to a point.
I never got high on Xanax.
joe rogan
Well, is that what you're supposed to do?
You're supposed to continue to up the dosage?
dom irrera
No, but I think if I were an addict in the sense of being really addicted to the drug and the feeling of it, it would be normal to try and get higher.
I think it's just a psychological thing that I think I needed to go back to sleep and all.
joe rogan
Well, when you hear about guys like Rush Limbaugh, and he starts doing Oxys, and you hear about him doing 99 a day, and you know you want to do that Xanax every day and have a drink every day, do you ever see that and go, fuck, how far away is that from what I'm doing?
unidentified
No.
joe rogan
You're maintaining in a very specific dose.
dom irrera
I worry more about the booze.
I mean, I'm not into painkillers.
Do you remember when I had that operation on my balls?
joe rogan
What did you have done to your balls?
dom irrera
I had a plastic surgery to have them reshaped.
No, I had to make them look yummy.
I had them dipped in chocolate.
No, I had this thing called a spermatocel.
And it's a rupture of the sperm duct.
So your ball starts getting bigger.
joe rogan
Oh, that's right.
Yeah, I do remember that.
Yeah, you were in a lot of fucking pain.
dom irrera
Yeah, but the thing that was interesting was I never took painkillers because if you moved, it really hurt.
But what I did was I'd have Sophie and I would split wine, a bottle of wine.
I'd rather get high on alcohol than take Vicodin or something.
I'm not really like a drug addict except for one drug.
I'm not like a guy that just pops pills and fucking drinks wildly.
unidentified
Wow.
dom irrera
I'm a very conservative addict.
joe rogan
But you feel dependent on this experience, like having this experience every day, being in that state.
dom irrera
Yeah.
joe rogan
Wow.
dom irrera
But I don't feel bad about it.
joe rogan
Yeah, I mean, I don't feel the need to correct you or give you any advice.
You seem like pretty resigned to it.
brian redban
I'm too scared to.
joe rogan
You're scared of his wit?
brian redban
His comedy.
dom irrera
Scared of what?
brian redban
Scared of your comedy.
joe rogan
Scared of your comedy and your wit.
brian redban
I don't want to say anything.
dom irrera
My rapier-like wit?
joe rogan
Why are you turning on him?
dom irrera
Did I go after you too hard?
joe rogan
Nah, he needed it.
brian redban
He did a good job.
joe rogan
You did what you needed to do.
Considering the circumstances, how he was behaving.
dom irrera
Look at the way he looks around.
joe rogan
He goes over the top for this show.
And a lot of people don't understand that.
It's like half of his fun is to play a fucking head wound victim.
It's like him being silly.
He plays a character.
brian redban
It's not that I'm playing a character, I'm just, I don't filter myself.
dom irrera
Why do you gotta disagree with Joe?
What do you get a kick out of disagreeing with the boss?
joe rogan
He's not quite like that when the camera's off.
brian redban
Right, I filter myself, act polite.
joe rogan
And sometimes he goes a little over the top.
He's just trying.
It's all coming from a good place.
He's trying to get better at when to go over the top and not to go over the top.
dom irrera
How's his stand-up?
brian redban
It's not bad.
It's not bad.
joe rogan
He's got some good jokes.
He's got some good jokes.
If he wanted to and he dedicated himself to it, he could be a real professional.
Problem is, he's a lazy bitch.
brian redban
Do you want to hear my Bob Hope joke?
dom irrera
No.
joe rogan
It's actually not a bad joke.
brian redban
Alright.
Did you hear Bob Hope died today?
dom irrera
Oh, really?
brian redban
Yeah.
Do you think they flew out his body to Iraq to entertain all the dead troops?
dom irrera
I'm not sure.
Where's the joke?
joe rogan
That's the old joke.
brian redban
That was six years ago at Columbus, Ohio, Funny Boat, and I got booed in his, and then I quit comedy for five years because of it.
dom irrera
What a relief.
brian redban
Damn it.
dom irrera
You know what's really hard to fathom is, and this is not to depress you, you're 37. No matter what you do, no matter how much you work, you'll never be as good as Joe or myself.
unidentified
I know.
dom irrera
Isn't that sad in a way?
You can put your whole heart in so you can get writers and you'll just never have that natural gift.
brian redban
It's not sad because I don't want that.
unidentified
Well, it's easy to say you don't want it because you don't have a choice.
No, no.
brian redban
I mean, I do comedy for a different reason.
I do comedy because I think it's fun once in a while, but I don't obsess about it.
Like, I do it once a week.
I'm good.
I don't care.
It's just kind of...
Because I do so much podcasting, I consider this like a different kind of comedy where instead of doing like 15 people at a comedy club, I'm doing...
500,000 people on podcasts.
joe rogan
Yeah, it is a kind of form of comedy.
I've heard people say that about posting on message boards.
They're like internet comedians.
Just like text-based internet comedians.
unidentified
I'm using somebody that hides in the corner underneath a hat.
brian redban
So being on stage to me, it doesn't do anything for me.
I don't get a boner about it.
But I do like to be funny and silly.
joe rogan
Tom's old school.
He doesn't silly men in their late 30s.
He's like, come on with this.
unidentified
Come on with this.
dom irrera
Old school.
joe rogan
But he is funny.
He could be funny.
dom irrera
I know he's funny.
joe rogan
He's got the man-boy market covered.
Sweet.
It's a market.
It's out there.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
Bill Burr attacked it recently.
brian redban
Yeah, he was really upset about it.
And I totally understand what he's saying, but I don't get what alternative comedy is to me.
Because if you go to the biggest alternative website, aspecialthing.com, they're talking about Patton Oswalt, Sarah Silverman.
Patton Oswalt is one of the best joke writers that I know.
That guy is fucking hilarious.
joe rogan
Alternative comedy is simply a way of saying comedy for us.
dom irrera
They're the people who couldn't get on at the regular places.
joe rogan
Even the people that could, that they worship, like Patton Oswalt, who's, like you said, great comedians.
It's like, it's just comedy, man.
You know, the idea is that, what Burr said that was so hilarious was that they took the fear out of comedy, and they made it so everyone's ultra-supportive, and you go there, and you can be, like, really awkward.
dom irrera
Yeah, yeah, you can tell stories.
joe rogan
And he goes, meanwhile, we had to go through fucking bars, you know, the places that we did stand-up, we were starting out, and getting booed at, and screamed by drunks.
brian redban
Yeah, but do you believe if you're either funny or you're not?
dom irrera
Yeah.
joe rogan
Do I believe that?
brian redban
Yeah.
joe rogan
I used to believe that, but then I see people that were fucking terrible, and they stuck with it, and they figured it out.
Yeah, but they learn.
dom irrera
You can get to a certain point on hard work, but there's a certain point you can't get to without talent.
joe rogan
Yes.
Maybe.
I don't know.
I would say yes, but goddammit, I've seen people that I thought just absolutely sucked, and they figured out how to be funny.
They weren't bad.
dom irrera
Who's the best untalented comedian you've ever seen?
brian redban
I don't want to say.
I have one, but I don't want to say.
joe rogan
I don't want to say.
I don't want to hurt anybody's feelings.
dom irrera
Name me your three top comedians, us excluded, that you see working right now.
joe rogan
Working today, Doug Stanhope's my favorite.
After that...
dom irrera
Doug Stanhope, the only thing about Doug, is he like angry about something?
Can't tell.
joe rogan
Are you kidding?
dom irrera
Yeah, of course I'm kidding.
joe rogan
How dare you.
Who else?
Louie, for sheer prolific amount of work.
dom irrera
Amazing, yeah.
joe rogan
He puts out a new hour every year.
His stuff's great.
brian redban
I definitely have people I like to see that don't do really necessarily stand-up, though.
Maybe alternative.
Like Don Barris.
There's only three people that I watch at the Comedy Story.
dom irrera
Yeah, he is funny.
brian redban
And everyone else I really don't watch is Don Barris, Brody Stevens, Dave Taylor.
joe rogan
I saw Norton do a headline set in Austin last year when I was there for a UFC and I didn't book a gig.
I went to see him at the Cap City.
He was fucking great, man.
He was really funny.
Norton killed.
It was so dirty that sometimes I feel like I have too many dick jokes when I act.
I'm like, what is wrong with you, fucking pervert?
And then I saw Norton.
It was an hour solid of dick jokes.
dom irrera
People shitting on people.
joe rogan
Yeah, an hour solid of his cock whining in someone's mouth.
unidentified
Then I laughed the entire time.
He's great.
joe rogan
DePaulo's great.
There's a lot of great comedians out there right now, man.
This is a great time.
dom irrera
Robert Kelly's funny.
I love Burr, Tosh.
joe rogan
Burr's great.
brian redban
Burr's awesome.
dom irrera
Tosh is a natural.
joe rogan
And Burr is really prolific, too.
He's constantly coming up with new shit.
Yeah, there's a lot of great guys now.
It's a great time for comedy.
Comedy comes in waves.
dom irrera
It does, doesn't it?
Because there was such a dearth of talent at the store.
joe rogan
For a long time.
dom irrera
Yeah.
And your group started up and...
joe rogan
Yeah, when we came there in the 90s, remember how bad it was?
You'd have these fucking guys go up and they were terrible.
There were people that would sing songs and they wouldn't even have a joke in it.
It would just be like a really, like, like a fucking famous hit song and they would just sing it.
dom irrera
Right, right.
joe rogan
And then end.
Yeah.
Oh, you remember fucking, what's his name, Barry Diamond?
He used to, walking in, what is it?
dom irrera
Walking in Memphis.
joe rogan
Walking in Memphis.
He would go on stage singing, and really singing it, and everybody would be waiting for it to be a joke.
dom irrera
I told you he threatened to kill me once, because he said I was stealing his act, because some bartender in San Francisco said I was doing his act.
I brought him in one night to see me.
I said, did you see anything?
He goes, no.
Because he had asked me to help him out.
He badmouthed me to the guys in Atlanta.
And I got no beef with Barry.
And he said, well, if Dom and Eric can headline, why can't I? And these guys are friends of mine.
So they called me up and go, who is this fucking guy?
I said, Barry, why would you badmouth me when you don't know who's friends with who?
He said, well, I'm sorry, can you try and get me the gig now?
I go, no, I'm not going to help you now.
joe rogan
Comedians are so screwy.
brian redban
I saw Barry Diamond the other day.
I actually talked to him.
unidentified
Really?
brian redban
I saw him do stand-up at the comedy store.
joe rogan
How was it?
brian redban
It's good.
Barry Diamond's a good comedy.
dom irrera
I saw a girl.
A girl, chick, woman.
joe rogan
Did he try to touch you or anything?
brian redban
Kissed me on the lips a little.
joe rogan
We saw a girl?
dom irrera
Mary Lynn Rice Cobb?
Yeah, she was funny.
joe rogan
That's Duncan's old girlfriend.
unidentified
Oh, that's right.
brian redban
She kicked him.
joe rogan
She kicked him out and he had to live with me.
Are you serious?
unidentified
Yeah.
dom irrera
He lived here?
joe rogan
Yeah.
dom irrera
Lucky bastard.
Nicest place he ever had.
Did his puppet stay outside?
joe rogan
No, I kept the puppet in my room.
I said, I keep the puppet.
That's part of the deal.
I want him to watch me.
Duncan's doing great.
He's fucking killing him, man.
We went on the road.
We did Louisville together.
He got a standing ovation every time he went on stage.
unidentified
Did he really?
joe rogan
It's crazy.
It's because of this podcast.
dom irrera
Oh, that's great.
joe rogan
Yeah, if you do great on the podcast, you know, it's fucking awesome for you.
Unfortunately, because of this episode, your Twitter numbers are probably going to drop.
dom irrera
Really?
Yeah.
joe rogan
People are going to unfollow you.
dom irrera
I shouldn't have gone into the Xanax thing.
People are going to feel bad for me.
joe rogan
No, you're being honest.
I think the way you're explaining it and describing it is, you know, you're pretty logical about it.
unidentified
I can't imagine not doing it.
joe rogan
Really?
dom irrera
I'm in love with it.
joe rogan
Without it, what was the feeling?
What is when you describe anxiety?
How would you categorize it?
dom irrera
Like an emotional tap dance.
Just like, you know, jittery and...
joe rogan
Always?
dom irrera
Well, I never wait for the moment because I always take the pills.
joe rogan
So when did it start?
dom irrera
I'm fine on stage.
Please don't not come because of this.
joe rogan
Yeah, why is that?
Because on stage you're super calm and smooth.
dom irrera
That's because of where I feel at home.
joe rogan
Oh, that's crazy.
dom irrera
I don't feel at home.
joe rogan
Imagine that for most people.
Getting on stage and public speaking is one of the most terrifying things.
dom irrera
Joe, honestly, I think my pulse goes down when I'm on stage.
The only time in the last 15 years I was ever like a little bit anxious was Madison Square Garden with Cher because I was worried about the sound system and the people in the back not hearing me because I heard it was a little screwy.
And my sister got a little panicky about me going on.
She goes, I can't believe you're going to go up in front of all these people.
And that kind of got into my head.
And I didn't want to look up at the banners and stuff of the Knicks and Rangers and the history and the garden and thinking Ali Frazier and Sinatra was there and the Beatles were there or whatever.
joe rogan
Did you lock up?
dom irrera
I was fine, but I mean, I did have a glass of wine, and I didn't...
I wanted the set to be over, the first one.
We did it two nights.
The second...
It's so funny how relative it is, because the next night, after the second set, we were at the Pepsi Center in Denver, which is bigger than the garden, and I thought, oh, it's good to be out of there.
I'm so relaxed.
I'm so relieved.
joe rogan
Just the history of the garden fucked with you?
dom irrera
Well, that's what it did, yeah.
I started letting it creep into my head.
joe rogan
You opened for Whitney Houston, too, huh?
dom irrera
Yeah, that was not fun.
joe rogan
It wasn't fun?
dom irrera
No.
She never talked to me.
She had bouncers around her, and they'd say a prayer.
And I thought, geez, I don't know if Jesus had 300-pound bouncers.
I think they were mostly like fishermen who were kind of thin, wafey-like.
And her father was a great guy, and he says, I'd like you to work with my daughter again.
This is really going well.
I says, well, thank you.
I'm thinking, no way.
I'm working with her again.
And she would come in late.
She was with Bobby Brown already.
One night I'm on stage for 45 minutes at the Sands.
Killing!
And I told the audience, I said, look, I gotta tell you something.
She's not here.
I don't want you to think because you're a good critic.
Because I'm from Philly.
And it was Atlantic City.
And a lot of them knew me already.
And I said, she's not here.
I don't want to leave you in the dark.
That's why I'm staying on stage.
I'm not being self-indulgent.
And they start cheering, knowing I was really doing it for them.
joe rogan
Oh, that's hilarious.
dom irrera
Yeah, and then she finally came.
joe rogan
How long did you stay on stage?
dom irrera
40, 50 minutes.
brian redban
Oh my god.
Did you do a lot of crowd work?
dom irrera
No, I didn't do any.
joe rogan
Well, I was lucky that it was Philly, though.
I mean, if there's any place where you could do that, it's Philly.
dom irrera
Well, I mean, the thing is, if they were upset, you know, I would have gotten off.
I mean, the only time I had trouble with a big crowd was in Dayton, Ohio, because they really fucking hated me.
They hated me so much, they came to Cleveland to boo me.
brian redban
Are you serious?
dom irrera
Yeah.
But they couldn't get...
I said, look, you're still here, but you still can't get good seats.
They were in the back booing me.
joe rogan
Really?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
They hated you so bad they came to another place?
dom irrera
Here's what happened.
Well, I mean, there were probably Sheriff fans coming to see her.
And generally, her crowd was so eclectic That it was easy to do stand-up for because she doesn't get like a rock and roll crowd.
It's not like Quiet Riot or something.
It's like, you know, she's got people that, because she won Academy Awards, you've got grandmothers with their granddaughters and transvestites.
joe rogan
Yeah, people forget she won an Academy Award.
dom irrera
Yeah, and she's, you know, also an Emmy Award.
Yeah, she's a badass bitch.
Great career, yeah.
So I'm up on stage and this girl starts screaming.
And the crowd was really good.
This girl starts screaming, Cher!
joe rogan
Cher!
dom irrera
I go, you know, she'll be out in a little while.
Cher!
And then finally I lost my patient.
I go...
I said, first of all, she's not even here yet.
She hasn't even put her first eyelash on.
She's, you know, I said, there's a break.
I said, who do you think I am?
Like a friend of the owner of the building?
I said, I'm a comedian.
I got to do...
Cher!
I go, listen, you stupid son of a bitch.
You think I'm going to lift up the curtain?
She's going to come out and sing for you?
You fucking idiot.
And then I went after her, and I just started, you know, boom, one after another.
And then the crowd started booing.
And they got upset with me.
And I go, hey, I'm sorry, but she's fucking annoying.
And that was my only really bad experience.
And it's pretty tough when you lose an arena.
unidentified
Whoa!
dom irrera
It ain't like losing 300 people at a comedy club and getting them back when you lose an arena.
unidentified
Well, it's a real problem when no one wants to see you.
joe rogan
Then they're there to see something else.
dom irrera
But see, she put me on the bill, which really made it classy.
It wasn't like, you know, special guests or anything.
It was like...
joe rogan
Opening act.
brian redban
That's what happened to Kurt Fox recently with Charlie Sheen.
Remember that?
unidentified
No!
joe rogan
Watch the video.
They gave him a chance.
He ate dick up there.
They gave him a chance.
No, I disagree.
I watched that.
brian redban
They weren't really there to see him.
joe rogan
They were down.
They gave him a chance.
They gave him a chance and he didn't come with any jokes.
That's not what happened in that situation.
I think Kurt himself will admit to that.
It just didn't work well.
brian redban
The my god I sort of an ironic sense of humor and he's a he's got a good delivery, but I think he requires an attentive audience Yeah, but he also said on the podcast we had at death squad that when he came out that the people didn't know what to Of course expect and so he came out and just started to come in people immediately when you came out start going That's a big difference.
Yeah, well that's him being a rookie He's yeah, but these Yeah, but these people paid money to see Charlie Sheen and some dude's just sitting there talking.
That's what you were saying.
joe rogan
Again, that's him being a rookie.
You have to address that.
If you're hired as a comedian to go on stage in front of Charlie Sheen and no one knows what the fuck is going on, this is the first show you guys have done.
brian redban
Yeah.
joe rogan
And that's what happened.
You've got to go on stage and you go, you've got to set him up.
I don't know what the fuck Charlie's going to do tonight.
brian redban
I think there was more...
joe rogan
Think about how, like, Kennison would have handled that or something like that.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah.
dom irrera
But it's really...
unidentified
Pacing the stage, who's here to see Charlie Sheen?
dom irrera
I mean, it's really bad if you're not on the bill.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's terrible.
dom irrera
It's very classy.
I mean, Cher was classy, you know.
joe rogan
Classy.
dom irrera
Well, Cher, the dame had classy.
brian redban
And I think there was something else that, like, they were waiting for a long time and it was really late.
dom irrera
Well, they were waiting for Charlie to write an act.
joe rogan
Yeah, I'm sure.
I'm sure there's a lot of that.
But, you know, you've got to learn how to...
If you're going to open for a guy like that, you have to have some fucking rock-solid material.
dom irrera
What did he think was going to happen, Joe?
What did Charlie Sheen think was going to happen?
He was going to write an act that quickly?
joe rogan
Well, that's what he wound up doing.
What he wound up doing is bringing comedians with him.
I know Russell Peters did a couple of them.
He did Toronto with him and a few other places, I think, as well.
And they would go up on stage and Russell would sit down with them and Charlie would interview, you know, Russell would interview Charlie and talk to him and then crack a bunch of jokes along the way.
And, you know, Russell's great at that shit.
dom irrera
Russell's so fucking funny.
joe rogan
He's a great guy, too.
dom irrera
Great guy.
And he's, you know, it's so funny.
Every time I sit next to an Asian person I'm talking about Asia, from Cambodia to Pakistan.
I always ask them if they know Russell Peters.
If we get into a talk, if they ask me what I do, and they all know him.
Talk about one continent to pick to watch your back, Asia.
joe rogan
He sold out the O2 Arena, I think it was two nights in a row, in London.
That's what he did to the UFC. He did the UFC there.
brian redban
You know the coolest thing about him is that he constantly surprises me.
There's this guy named Pauly.
He's this big Twitter guy.
And he just gave him a chance.
Like, hey, why don't you come out to Arizona and you'll open up for me.
And then he did the same thing to a door guy, Jesus, over at a comedy store.
Just grabbed him and was like, hey, he was one of the guys that came to Deadmau5's studio that night.
He opened for him in Irvine.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
He brings Mike Young on the road with him too.
brian redban
Yeah, he just grabs people and he gives them chances a lot.
Like just random guys and it's really neat.
joe rogan
Yeah, Russell's a real good dude.
He's a real good dude.
There's a lot of good people in comedy.
It's an interesting thing about comedians and becoming friends with a bunch of them.
unidentified
It's like you get the greatest people to communicate with.
dom irrera
Yeah.
I think he's great.
I go, what do you think?
I think I carry comedy on my back?
How dare you insult me by liking another comedian?
It'd be a lot of pressure.
joe rogan
Dom, you've always been a supporter of comedians.
You were always great.
You gave me great advice when I was first coming up at the store.
You always...
When someone had a good set, you would always be really complimentary and talk to them about what you really liked.
Some comedians don't do that shit.
Some comedians, they never go up to a young guy and give them props.
dom irrera
I mean, I love to fucking laugh.
Me too.
When you did that, Joe, your face, when you did New Rules.
joe rogan
Oh, and Nicole Smith, Joe?
dom irrera
One of the funniest.
I swear to God, your neck got longer.
joe rogan
That was a bit that would work and not work and Eat it and kill.
That was a bit that took a long time.
dom irrera
I remember coming up and telling you that because it was a new line to me.
I was fucking crying.
No rules!
The 90-year-old bit.
joe rogan
I worked on that bit for a fucking year.
That was one of those bits that I just kept tweaking it.
I could never get it right.
I knew there was something in this.
dom irrera
It's like my Dahmer-sized bit.
unidentified
Shit!
joe rogan
Dom, you only opened up with it today.
I think you're going to be fine.
What do you got there, fella?
Oh yeah, one of the energy drinks?
Yeah, we're going to wrap this thing up soon.
It's almost two hours in.
So where are you going to be next, Dom?
dom irrera
I'll be at Hilarious next week, and then in two weeks I'll be, what is it, 25th, I think?
Captain Brian's, 25th, no, 26th, 27th, 28th.
joe rogan
And you're on Twitter, Dom Irera, I-R-E-R-R-A. On Twitter.
dom irrera
Joe, it was really nice meeting you.
joe rogan
Dom, we already knew each other.
You mean it was nice hanging out with you.
dom irrera
Oh, okay.
Does anybody have any more Xanax before we go?
joe rogan
Do you feel weird about revealing that to the world?
dom irrera
No, I don't care.
unidentified
No?
joe rogan
You don't care?
dom irrera
I don't care what the fuck I mean.
The only reason I would like to be gay is just to come out.
unidentified
Just to make the news.
joe rogan
Just to say you don't give a fuck.
dom irrera
But I mean, I'm not gay because I like women so much, but it would be like, I was thinking about it, even at this point, the way I look now, and this is what's great about show business, is that I couldn't be gay if I wanted to, because I could never get guys as good looking as the girls I could get, because guys are more superficial, but you can get girls because they like talent and money.
You know, so...
Anyway, the guy who got thrown back into the closet.
We don't need you out here.
joe rogan
That's funny.
I would like to be gay just so I could come out.
That'd be a great party.
unidentified
It's a news thing.
joe rogan
Just so you can say you don't give a fuck.
Were you surprised when Kevin Meany came out?
It was like in his 50s.
dom irrera
Joe, there's only a certain amount of show tunes you can sing and not be gay.
brian redban
I was surprised with Todd Glass.
I didn't see that coming.
joe rogan
I was as well.
You weren't surprised?
dom irrera
No, but I have a thing on my phone of Todd Glass talking to me that I'll let you hear afterwards.
brian redban
Was he drunk?
dom irrera
No, no, no.
I offended him and he called to reconcile it.
The Florida radio station called me to bust his balls.
And I didn't realize what I was saying was, and I like Todd.
I really would never want to hurt him.
But I was saying, he says, you never thought I was funny, did you?
I said, Todd, I always thought you were funny.
I mean, not like laugh out loud funny, but, you know, amusing.
Like, you're never going to go and see a Todd glass and go, my stomach hurts.
But, you know, you were funny.
I mean, you're like the Tuesday, Wednesday, and Sunday headliner, you know?
And I didn't know it, but that's what he was doing that weekend.
unidentified
Oh.
dom irrera
And I was crushing him.
He's a very sensitive guy, and if he hears this, I love him.
But, yeah, I was just joking around, and I didn't know I was hitting on some sore points, you know?
joe rogan
Todd Glass called me up after them and see a thing.
Somehow or another, we got on the phone together.
And he was one of, like, you know, a lot of comedians were happy after that went down.
But Todd and I really didn't know each other very well.
And he was so enthusiastic and happy.
And he just said, thank you.
Thank you.
Just thank you for doing this.
dom irrera
Then he dropped to his knees and started sucking his heart.
joe rogan
No, I'm glad now, in retrospect, that I didn't give him a big, long hug.
brian redban
Both of my parents are retarded, by the way.
joe rogan
Let him go crazy.
Both of my parents are gay.
How dare he?
dom irrera
They're gay retards.
joe rogan
But, you know, there was a few people that were fascinated by it, but he was, like, super thankful.
And I talked to, you know, Kindler and I briefly said, you know, we're like, maybe there should be some sort of a fucking comedian's union.
You know, should there be a union or something?
dom irrera
They tried it.
They tried it in New York.
joe rogan
But that was about pay at the clubs, right?
Is that what it was about?
dom irrera
No, no.
It was past that.
It was about health insurance and trying to unionize.
But it's tough when everybody's in competition with each other for jobs.
joe rogan
I think the only place it would work is when you have to get rid of thieves.
That is when having comedians together...
People don't understand the issue behind thievery, and that's why there was a lot of people that thought that what I did was really douchey when we released that Carlos video.
But when you have someone who is being unchecked and they're doing well...
And they're just running through the comedy world.
People don't understand what that's like.
It's like you're working with someone who just might steal your car and no one else that you work with is going to do shit about it.
The guy's just going to steal your car.
I mean, really, that's what it's like.
A joke is actually worth more than a car.
dom irrera
Fucking jokes are hard.
joe rogan
Hey, how about this?
As you can tell by your Bob Hope joke.
We're at the Jerry's Deli today eating lunch and a chick came over and quoted one of your jokes.
I mean, think about that joke.
That's a fucking 15, 20-year-old joke, right?
I mean, think about how much that's worth.
That's worth more than a car.
So somebody could just gank that.
brian redban
That's awesome.
That happened?
joe rogan
Yes, what we were eating.
So someone could just gank that.
They could just steal that right in front of you.
And we had a real problem.
We've had a problem with a couple of guys at the store when you watch that shit happen.
And we've all seen it happen.
You know, several times throughout our career, a guy who comes along is just a fucking buccaneer who's just grabbing him from all over the place.
And nobody wants to do anything about him.
That's the time where I think something like a comedy union would help.
You know, we could all get together and just all of us unanimously say, ladies and gentlemen of the audience, you people out there that pay to see stand-up comedy, this guy's a fucking thief.
dom irrera
Yeah.
joe rogan
And this is just what it is.
Signed, Dom Irera, Tim Allen, blah, blah, blah, you know.
Why did I say Tim Allen?
unidentified
I don't know.
joe rogan
I never hang up with that guy.
unidentified
That's an obscure reference to pull out of all the people.
dom irrera
I never even heard you mention Tim Allen.
joe rogan
I never have.
I met him once.
He was a nice guy.
dom irrera
Yeah, you're a very nice guy.
joe rogan
Went on stage at the comic store.
I was doing a joke about his Ferrari breaking down.
dom irrera
Yeah, I know.
That's something everybody can relate to, huh?
joe rogan
Yeah.
dom irrera
It pissed me off because I had to drive my Maserati that day.
And I hate that.
unidentified
He was sticking it in your face, Dom.
joe rogan
Dom had a Cadillac once where he put a vinyl roof on it.
You know, when you get one of those nice, smushy roofs.
It might have been one of the last ones made in America.
Like, you had the Cadillac, and then you had the roof put on.
I remember, you were like, Joe, I think I'm going to get a nice soft roof on that.
dom irrera
Did I really?
joe rogan
You don't remember?
No.
It's such a fucking awesome guinea move.
And I embrace so many things guinea that I thought it was hilarious that you were doing that.
I was like, yeah, yeah, go for it.
I want to get a pinky ring too.
unidentified
Fuck it.
dom irrera
I'll goomba it up a little.
joe rogan
We're trying to out-goomba each other.
And you went and you got it done.
You had a nice Cadillac.
And you had the back end.
You had a nice vinyl roof put on.
You're like, what do you think?
It just looks classier.
brian redban
Remember when cars had those bras in the front that used to be really big?
I used to have them on my Supra.
I used that really cool Supra leather bra.
joe rogan
A friend of mine had a Mazda RX-7.
One of the fucking cool years.
With the flip-up headlights and shit.
And he had a bra on it.
I was like, that might be the dopest car of all time.
Mazda had a hell of a car in that RX-7.
One of the last models.
Right around the time where Acura came out with the NSX. And Toyota came out with the Supra.
You're not into cars.
John Marrera doesn't even have a navigation system.
How about that?
Well, I tell John...
dom irrera
Because I wouldn't be able to figure it out anyway.
brian redban
You're burring it up.
joe rogan
That's so ridiculous.
Burring has a Prius.
He has a navigation system.
brian redban
Oh, now I do.
joe rogan
Then he used to.
dom irrera
I don't have cars like you have.
I mean, my God, they're incredible.
You fucking terrorized me with driving around you.
You go from point A to point B in 60 miles.
It scares me.
Unbelievable.
And I was getting like G's from getting thrown back, but I tried to act normal.
My head's hitting the thing.
But the most cathartic thing about this whole experience was I finally got to tell you I was afraid of the pit bulls.
Because, I mean, I told you.
joe rogan
Without reason.
dom irrera
I never wanted you to think, and I never had the heart to tell you that I didn't want to come to your house.
joe rogan
It's all right.
I'm not a pushy person.
dom irrera
No, but I mean, you know, it was always like, you're coming into Hollywood shooting pool with me there.
It was nice to get that off my chest, just to finally admit it, that even that day we were shooting, and those dogs were just walking around, just solid muscle and teeth, fucking jaws of death.
joe rogan
They're sweeties.
dom irrera
I believe that, but there's always that one time.
joe rogan
Yep, I know what you mean.
Well, wait till you meet Johnny Cash.
Johnny Cash is my Mastiff.
He's a sweetheart.
dom irrera
Oh, he's outside?
joe rogan
Yeah, he's a nice dog.
He's way bigger than the pit bulls, though.
dom irrera
Maybe I'll meet him another time.
joe rogan
He's fucking huge.
That's a big dog.
dom irrera
I'll meet him another time.
joe rogan
He's so strong, it's ridiculous.
I've never had a dog that's as strong as him.
It's a dog where if he lunges for something, I've got to drop down and dig in with both my feet and hang on like it's a horse.
dom irrera
See, here's the problem.
He's going to know I'm afraid of him.
joe rogan
No, he's a sweetheart.
dom irrera
No, but he knows.
They sense it.
joe rogan
Yeah, but trust me, he's a nice dog.
The thing about Mastiffs is they're very confident because they're not worried about you at all.
Mastiffs are never worried about a person beating their ass.
dom irrera
Christy had Mastiffs.
joe rogan
Because they're so confident, they're so big and so strong, they're very nice.
They're not insecure.
There's certain dogs that feel like they have to establish dominance over a person or scare a person.
Mastiffs, they're not like that.
If they're barking at you, it's real.
If a mastiff is angry at you and barking, you better realize you got a fucking real problem.
Because a dog that's that big, you're talking about a 150 to 200 pound dog.
Do you know how strong that fucking thing is?
dom irrera
And you let those dogs in with the kids?
Of course.
joe rogan
They play with the kids.
You have to have them around kids.
If you can't trust a dog around kids, you can't have that dog.
My dogs exhibit no aggression at all.
dom irrera
You have two masters?
joe rogan
No, the other one's a bulldog mix.
He's a very lazy dog, but he's a sweetheart too.
They're both real nice dogs, man.
brian redban
Joe, do you know anything about the Honda CR-Z? Is that that hybrid thing?
The hybrid?
I saw one the other day.
And it was amazing.
It looked like a spaceship.
joe rogan
Have you seen what they're doing now in a car?
They're putting Stitcher in a gang of cars.
It's going to be in BMWs now?
brian redban
Yeah, BMWs.
It's Ford.
It's all the big guys.
And now they also have 3Gs on here.
And like I said the other day, this new iPad has the 4G Lite on it, Verizon.
It's faster than my business class charter at my studio.
joe rogan
That's incredible.
I've got a 4G card that I put in my laptop.
I'm pretty happy with it when you actually get a 4G connection.
On the road, it's a little sketchy, though.
But it's always better than the shit that's in the hotel rooms.
If you've seen...
Well, first of all, let's talk about that fucking virus that we both thought we got.
If you don't know, it's the flashback virus.
If you're using a Mac and you think that you can't get a Trojan, it's not really a virus.
It's a Trojan.
It's an exploit through Java.
And I guess it only works if you don't have your Java updated to the latest and greatest.
brian redban
Yeah, if you're one of those people that keep your shit updated, you're really not going to have to worry about it.
joe rogan
I wouldn't say that, though.
I wouldn't say that.
brian redban
Also, it's only if you go to some really sketchy websites.
joe rogan
Which we do.
brian redban
The more I read about it.
And also there's a way to test it to see if you have it.
And I tested mine.
And I go to the filthiest fucking places in the world and I didn't have it.
I mean, I look at torrent websites.
joe rogan
What do you have to do to test?
brian redban
You open up Terminal and you have to cut and paste a couple different lines of code in it.
The easiest way to actually figure it out, if you go to 925.com...
Mac9to5.com.
What is that website, right?
Anyways, if you just Google MacVirus, it will come up with a couple pages, and there's links to the code that you cut and paste into your browser.
joe rogan
Okay.
brian redban
And it's 9to5mac.com is the one that I saw it on.
And it's pretty much, you just type in these codes, and it tells you what to look for and what not to look for to tell you if you have it.
But, you know, honestly, the only thing you really have to do is just open up your little app on the left-hand corner, hit it, and then go to System Update.
And there's a Java update in that that will patch it.
And if it's not in there already, I mean, check to make sure you have it.
Then you must have already done it.
joe rogan
Some people say you shouldn't have Java on your browser.
You shouldn't enable Java.
brian redban
The problem is, when you first get your laptop, when you first get your Mac, that's one of the first things that comes up.
It's like, would you like to install Java?
It's not a part of the operating system.
It's not a part of Windows.
It's a third-party thing that you add to your browsers, pretty much.
So it's a plug-in.
Like, I just had it turned off on this laptop over here, and I tried to go to that Honda website, and it didn't work.
The Honda website didn't work because I didn't have Java enabled.
So I enabled it, and now it works.
I checked, though, this laptop and this iMac.
You updated it last night, so everything's cool.
And if you go to 9to5mac.com and you look at the map that who's infected, there is a lot of people infected, but we're talking about worldwide.
joe rogan
World.
Didn't Don Barris say that he had someone hacked into his computer?
brian redban
Don Barris had a meltdown last night on stage because he had his Facebook hacked and his Gmail hacked.
So then he went in there and changed all the shit and then they hacked it again and He pretty much on stage was like, you know what I give up.
I I'm not putting my I'm not doing that any more podcast anymore I'm not I'm done with this ding-dong shit like it really freaked him out that people are Why is it that easy to freak him out?
joe rogan
Dom, you got a Xanax for him?
brian redban
Well, it's the point that, I mean, like we were talking about this the other day, if a girlfriend finds your cell phone and looks through your cell phone, that's scary sometimes.
Like, you don't know what you fucking say to your friends, or like, you know, like, dude, you see that chick's tits?
joe rogan
Come over and suck my cock!
Just kidding, lol.
Maybe not.
brian redban
Yeah.
LOL. It's like if I ever die and my parents find my fucking laptop and they have to go through it and sort things, that's the most scariest shit ever.
My mom's going to be like, what's wrong with Brian?
And then I can't be like, Mom, no, I downloaded those for Photoshop so I could put Joe's face on it and it sent it on his message board.
You know what I mean?
It's joke pictures.
joe rogan
Not really into black dicks.
brian redban
Yeah, exactly.
dom irrera
I think of that when I'm jerking off on the couch and there's porns left out.
If I died, who would walk in and see how perverted they are?
brian redban
Yeah, exactly.
So now imagine the whole internet being able to do that to your computer.
Not your mom.
Not your fucking girlfriend looking at your phone.
Now imagine the whole internet being able to access your computer.
That's fucking terrifying.
Don't you think?
joe rogan
It is terrifying.
dom irrera
It terrifies me.
joe rogan
It's going to happen...
I really think that what we talked about with Everlast the other day, where secrets are on the way out.
At a certain point in time, everything you do online, someone's going to be able to read it.
unidentified
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
Someone's going to be able to listen to your phone calls.
They're going to be able to access...
brian redban
That's what I said last night.
I was like, Joe, you know there's at least seven people in New Zealand right now listening to this phone call that are ahead of us in technology.
joe rogan
It's probably boring.
dom irrera
Look at Tiger Woods, a great example.
When I was a kid, baseball players, they all cheated on their wives.
But even the sportswriters knew it.
They didn't rat them out.
But today's world, you know, they trace down everything.
joe rogan
Yeah.
dom irrera
You know, and he wouldn't even have been in trouble 25 years ago.
joe rogan
Well, look at what Michael Jordan probably did, you know, double that.
I mean, Michael Jordan in his prime.
dom irrera
Oh, he did, yeah.
joe rogan
Goddamn tornadoes.
dom irrera
I'm sure he did.
joe rogan
Sweeping white women through the air like semis.
Did you see that video footage of Dallas?
The fucking tornado hitting Dallas and semis were flying through the air.
Like paper, Dom.
18-wheelers.
Full 18-wheelers.
30, 40, 50 feet in the air just spinning in circles.
It's fucking crazy.
dom irrera
Yeah, it's crazy.
joe rogan
It's really weird to watch, man.
brian redban
I would highly recommend, though, this is something that I'm personally going to start doing, is to take your fucking computer and empty it all out onto external hard drives and then unplug those external hard drives from your computer and only use them when you need to.
Or make him...
joe rogan
Jesus, that's a lot of work.
brian redban
Yeah, but, I mean, it only takes...
Like, if people are hacking Macs and people are doing this shit, nowadays with, like, WikiLeaks and all this fucking crazy shit, if you really want to fucking protect yourself...
unidentified
WikiLeaks?
joe rogan
What are you, the government?
brian redban
Well, I mean...
I think hackers are way above what we know that they are.
You know, I think people are downloading fucking large amounts of information about anyone.
I think there's fucking message boards that people probably go, alright, who should we look at their computer today?
Oh, let's go to see Steven Seagal's.
joe rogan
Well, have you seen this new thing on the cover of Wired, this month's Wired, about the NSA? Building the most incredible security spying computer system ever where they're going to be able to literally keep a data record of every phone call you make, every text you send, every phone call that gets in and out.
dom irrera
Sounds like a sting song.
joe rogan
I mean, could you just stop and imagine that?
The ability to record every single phone call that gets made throughout the entire country all the time.
dom irrera
Well, doesn't, like, when we, on Dell, is it Dell?
There's this big computer somewhere that has all this information on it for years, and then finally it gets thrown out.
Like, everything we did, everything we did on the computer is stored somewhere.
joe rogan
Yeah?
dom irrera
That's what I've heard.
unidentified
Pfft!
dom irrera
I have no backup for that.
I was hoping you guys would agree with me.
joe rogan
Are you looking at new cars, Brian?
You're getting so bored with this podcast?
brian redban
No, no, no.
dom irrera
Oh, by the way, now I'm doing Cleveland.
I'm not saying it's long.
I'm doing Cleveland this week.
joe rogan
Oh, this week.
dom irrera
No, I'm kidding.
brian redban
I think they're cheap, too.
joe rogan
I'm not saying it's long.
I get it.
That was a joke.
dom irrera
Yeah.
joe rogan
Dom.
dom irrera
Joe.
Come on.
joe rogan
Love you.
Love you, buddy.
dom irrera
Right back at you, big boy.
joe rogan
This guy's fucking buying cars online over here.
I'm going to price it.
unidentified
No, I just wanted to know how much I saw today and it really was cool.
joe rogan
Impulsive little child.
Can't stay off a website.
I'm trying to keep this goddamn podcast together.
This guy's on Xanax.
You're on marijuana.
I'm on marijuana.
And coconut water.
dom irrera
It is delicious, by the way.
joe rogan
It is, right?
Isn't it?
dom irrera
Is this one of your sponsors?
joe rogan
No, not really.
They're our friends, though.
C2O is the best.
The reason why C2O coconut water is so delicious is because it comes from Thailand, and they have a very specific, like, it's a small boutique company, a very specific type of coconut.
It's a small tree, too, apparently.
dom irrera
Joe, can you go over your sponsors with me one more time?
joe rogan
Yes, I can.
But before that, I will tell you, Atlanta, 420, the tabernacle.
I'm recording my fucking special, bitches.
First show, sold out.
dom irrera
Is it really?
joe rogan
Yeah, second show, almost sold out.
dom irrera
Cool.
joe rogan
Good luck with that.
Well, there's a couple hundred seats.
I'm not going to lie to you.
There's a couple hundred seats left.
It's a huge place, but there's plenty of tickets.
Go get them.
Jump on it.
dom irrera
Go see Joe.
He's terrific live.
joe rogan
It's the best shit I've ever done.
dom irrera
You know how good I am with numbers?
It's amazing.
Like, for instance, Cleveland Hilarities, their number.
joe rogan
Right.
dom irrera
In my head, 216-736-4242.
joe rogan
You had it written down, you motherfucker.
dom irrera
No, I didn't.
I didn't.
I wasn't looking.
I was depressed.
joe rogan
I'm looking at your paper.
You lied to me, you bastard.
unidentified
Son of a bitch.
Smart as a whip.
joe rogan
You can sneak a plug in, Dom.
What exact days are you there?
dom irrera
Next Wednesday, the 12th?
joe rogan
Meanwhile, he gave out the phone number.
Where's the goddamn website?
This is 2012. What's on my website?
What is their website?
dom irrera
Oh, hilarities?
I don't know.
But I know mine, domerera.com.
joe rogan
Domerera.
brian redban
I-R-E-R-R-A. I-R-R-E-R-A. R-R-E-R-R-A. And I'll be with Joey Diaz May 17th in Columbus, Ohio.
unidentified
May 18th in Cleveland.
brian redban
May 19th in Pittsburgh.
If you go to desktop.com.
joe rogan
I-R-R-E-R-R-A. There's two R's at the beginning.
dom irrera
No, two at the beginning, yeah.
joe rogan
I-R-R-E-R-A. I-R-R-E-R-A. I-R-R-E-R-A. That's it.
Next week, Florida.
Improv.
April...
What is it?
13th?
dom irrera
Which one, Joe?
joe rogan
Fort Lauderdale.
dom irrera
Oh, I love that club.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's great.
dom irrera
I'll be there in September.
joe rogan
I'm tightening up for this Tabernacle show, which is the following week.
So I'm two weeks out.
So next Friday, Saturday, and Sunday...
Stop that, Ryan.
Next Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, I'll be in Fort Lauderdale with Duncan Trussell.
And that's the power push up until the final week.
And that would be the week of the 20th.
April 20th, Atlanta, at the Tabernacle.
I'm going to film it.
Edit it.
Release it all online myself.
dom irrera
Oh, man.
joe rogan
Got a whole new website coming.
I'm ready to rock and roll with this thing.
I'm very excited.
It's the best shit I've ever done, too.
And I could have done a special about a year ago.
So this is, I think, is my best stuff ever because it's real tight.
And it's been more than two years since my last one.
So I'm coming out.
Guns blazes, bitches.
So check us in the Fort Lauderdale Improv.
That's next week.
The 13th, 14th, and 15th.
Me and Duncan Trussell.
And then the week after that, The Tabernacle in Atlanta.
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Brian, podcast, Friday.
brian redban
Yes, Ice House.
We've got Doug Benson, Freddie Lockhart, Jason Tebow, Joey Diaz.
joe rogan
A show at the Ice House with Doug Benson, Joe Diaz, Jason Tebow, me.
brian redban
Joey Diaz.
joe rogan
Joey Diaz.
brian redban
I said that, didn't I? Freddie Lockhart, Jason Tebow.
joe rogan
Did I say Joey Diaz?
brian redban
Doug Benson.
joe rogan
Doug Benson?
I might have said it.
Look, it's going to be a hell of a goddamn show.
And it sells out quick because it's only 85 seats.
brian redban
Oh, Iko Tanaka is awesome.
joe rogan
Oh, are you doing the other room?
When are we going to do that other room again?
That was fun.
brian redban
Oh, the main room?
unidentified
Yeah.
brian redban
We'll try to do that again.
That's hard to get, though.
joe rogan
Yeah, that was good.
We've got to get that shit.
We'll book it in advance.
dom irrera
What's hard to get?
brian redban
Last minute main room at Ice House.
joe rogan
Yeah, they booked that shit in advance.
You do the Ice House, right?
dom irrera
Yeah, it's a great club.
joe rogan
I love that club.
We do the podcast there, often, on a regular basis.
You were there, Dom.
I wasn't.
dom irrera
I'd like to stop in when you're there, man.
joe rogan
Come on down, sir!
Are you there Friday?
What are you doing this Friday?
dom irrera
Friday, I... No, I already got two spots Friday.
joe rogan
Where?
What time?
dom irrera
Laugh Factory and the store.
joe rogan
What time are your spots?
dom irrera
10 and 11 something.
joe rogan
Oh, wow.
Throwing you up late.
dom irrera
Well, no, I put in for late so I could watch the games.
joe rogan
Sleep in?
unidentified
Yeah, sleep in till 9. All right, so that's it.
dom irrera
My cousin John Wagner, they're doing a scholarship thing for him in Philly on the 21st of April.
So look on my Twitter and I'll post it.
joe rogan
Your tweeter?
Your Twitter.
dom irrera
Twitter.
unidentified
I-R-R-E-R-A. I'm so fucking retarded.
joe rogan
Dom, I rarely just shut up.
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All right, you dirty freaks.
We'll see you tomorrow with Jim Jeffries.
dom irrera
I love Jim Jeffries.
joe rogan
Yeah, me too.
We'll be starting around 5 p.m.
Pacific Coast time because Jim has a show out this away.
He's going to be at the Canyon Club tomorrow night.
If you don't know and you live in Agoura Hills, go check out one of the top stand-ups in the country right now, Jim Jeffries, the Australian lad, and he's going to be here tomorrow.
He'll tell you all about it.
So don't miss tomorrow.
We love you, and we'll see you soon.
Bye bye now.
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