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Feb. 8, 2022 - The Joe Rogan Experience
03:21:05
Joe Rogan Experience #1773 - Akaash Singh
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akaash singh
01:26:06
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joe rogan
01:45:32
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colter wall
01:30
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jamie vernon
01:32
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tim dillon
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unidentified
Hey buddy, how are you?
I'm good.
akaash singh
You're good?
unidentified
You seem good.
joe rogan
If you stay offline, it's just real life.
akaash singh
Yeah.
joe rogan
You just have to stay offline.
akaash singh
And real life is people who know you and you're a great guy.
joe rogan
Yeah, you just life goes on as normal.
In a lot of ways, all this is a relief, because that video had always been out there.
It's like, this is a political hit job, and so they're taking all this stuff that I've ever said that's wrong and smooshing it all together.
But it's good, because it makes me address some shit that I really wish wasn't out there.
akaash singh
And you know why I'm proud of you?
Because I think comedians have for years done this immature thing where it's like, we don't apologize.
We say whatever we want.
You can apologize if you say some wild shit.
And we've all said some wild shit.
And you apologize and own that it's wrong.
Good for you.
joe rogan
You should apologize if you regret something.
akaash singh
Yes.
joe rogan
This idea that you should never apologize.
Yes.
Like if you regret something, I don't think there's anything wrong with apologizing, but I do think you have to be very careful to not apologize for nonsense.
akaash singh
Correct.
joe rogan
Like you see Awkwafina, she defended, I guess she didn't apologize, she sort of defended the way she talks.
akaash singh
Yes.
joe rogan
And they were saying that it was a black scent.
akaash singh
Yeah.
joe rogan
Which is, you know, come on, man.
akaash singh
Which, I probably have one of those, but it's...
Can I tell you the tricky thing about not being black or white in this country, and we're not victims, but it is tricky because there is a way to quote-unquote act black, not that it's good or bad, but there's a black identity and a white identity in America, and the rest of us just kind of have to pick a side.
So there's no way for me growing up to act Indian.
People used to ask me, why do you always act so black?
And I'd be like, buddy, if you can tell me how to act Indian, I'll do it.
I swear to God, I was pre-med.
I tried.
Didn't work out.
What else can I do?
joe rogan
Well, it's like hip-hop culture.
akaash singh
Yes.
joe rogan
You know, it's like sneakers and rap music and a lot of young kids talk in that sort of jargon.
akaash singh
Yeah, and usually we identify with that because it's like, well, we're told I grew up in a white school and they were like, hey, you're not like us.
So I was like, okay, well, I must be like these other guys.
And that's why I fell into hip hop and sneakers and all these other things.
joe rogan
Well, it's just, it's weird that there's like ways you're allowed to talk.
Yeah, it is weird that there's like if you talk in a certain way like you can't meet like here's a good one This is a neutral one.
You can't have a fake southern accent Like if I moved from California to Texas and all sudden I started putting on a southern accent I'd be like what the fuck are you doing man?
You can't do that.
akaash singh
Can I ask you a question?
joe rogan
Yes.
akaash singh
When are you gonna move to Texas?
joe rogan
Texas, Texas?
akaash singh
Texas.
You're not in Texas What's the Texas, Texas?
You're in Austin.
Austin's great, but people wear cowboy boots, ironically.
This is not Texas.
You know what I mean?
joe rogan
But I love it here.
akaash singh
Oh, you love it, but it's just not Texas.
joe rogan
But why do I have to live in Texas, Texas?
akaash singh
Because you're a Texan, Joe.
In your heart, I know you're a Texan.
Oh, you know where you belong?
Fort Worth.
joe rogan
Oh, Jesus.
akaash singh
Fort Worth.
I'm telling you, it's got the fucking rodeo.
It's Texan.
joe rogan
My wife was just there.
akaash singh
And she loved it, didn't she?
joe rogan
She sent me pictures.
She's like, holy shit, is this Texas?
akaash singh
And you felt the calling.
joe rogan
No, not really.
No, but I am doing an arena there and I sold it out in like an hour.
akaash singh
I saw that, yeah, because they know.
joe rogan
They know.
akaash singh
Our guy's coming home.
It's like your hudge, Joe.
That's your hudge is you going to Fort Worth.
joe rogan
Texas is wild people, man.
It's an interesting place to be because they're really different.
They really are different.
They're like fiercely independent here.
akaash singh
Yeah, I identify as Texan almost more than American.
joe rogan
Really?
akaash singh
It's probably Indian and Texan and then American.
joe rogan
What part did you grow up in?
akaash singh
I grew up in Dallas.
I've lived in Houston as well.
I went to college like an hour north in a small town in Dallas, but I feel like Texas is like your identity.
joe rogan
Well, I love it.
akaash singh
Yeah, it's a great place.
joe rogan
I've been here like a year and a half.
akaash singh
Well, you've been near Texas.
unidentified
You've been near Texas for a year and a half.
joe rogan
What is Austin?
What would you think it is?
akaash singh
Dude, it is San Francisco South.
That's what it is.
It's Portland migrated.
joe rogan
Yeah, but it's a better San Francisco because San Francisco's a fat mess right now.
akaash singh
San Francisco's a fat mess, but Austin's, you know, it's not that much better.
It's better because it's Texas anchoring it.
joe rogan
Michael Schellenberger is a gentleman I've had on the podcast before who wrote a book called San Francisco.
akaash singh
Yep.
joe rogan
And he was actually just tweeting about this, that the mayor had decided, like, enough is enough.
She's going to, like, start cleaning up the city and going after crime.
But then he was complaining today that she's made it even worse.
akaash singh
Yeah.
It's tough.
You can't...
Because the voter base...
And that's the thing.
And I don't want to be critical of Awkwafina.
I know her.
She's a great girl.
I think she's talented.
But, like, when your base is...
Whatever your base is, you have to appease them.
The woke base?
Whether woke base or extreme conservative base.
Whenever they feel betrayed, if you built on that base, then you can't.
You gotta walk it back.
joe rogan
I think you just have to be yourself.
I really do.
And all this nonsense of worrying about what your base is is crazy.
It's like, who are you?
You're you.
If you start thinking, I have to be who these other people want me to be because they're the ones who make me popular, you're fucked.
akaash singh
You're fucked.
joe rogan
You're fucked.
And she doesn't need that.
That lady's talented.
She's talented as fuck.
akaash singh
She absolutely is talented.
joe rogan
She was awesome in Jumanji.
It was really funny when she played Danny DeVito.
She played...
akaash singh
Yeah, yeah, in Jumanji 2, I believe, right?
joe rogan
Yes, yes.
She's really good.
She's fucking talented.
akaash singh
She's absolutely talented.
joe rogan
But everybody feels like they do.
And that world of acting is so...
It's so hard to be free.
akaash singh
Yeah.
joe rogan
Because you're always worried about your next gig.
If you get canceled, you're fucked.
Because if there's anything that's remotely controversial about you...
akaash singh
Yes.
joe rogan
They'll go with someone else if they're casting a major film because they don't want any if, ands, or buts.
akaash singh
Yes, and that's the beauty of what we do is we get to try to be our most authentic selves.
Like a comedian, you're trying to be the funniest you can, but you have to peel away every layer to find who the real me is.
I was a completely different person 15 years ago because I just started comedy.
I was this fake version of me.
And I'm not the most authentic me yet, but I'm peeling and getting there year by year.
joe rogan
That's a good way to put it.
That really is what happens, right?
In the beginning, you're just kind of like, you're an imitator.
You're pretending to be a comedian.
akaash singh
Here's what a comedian acts like.
joe rogan
I remember when I first went on stage, I had a blazer on with like the pulled up sleeves.
And I had like a I was Chris Rock in a small Indian body.
akaash singh
Like, I was walking the stage the same and squinting my eyes probably.
Who knows?
joe rogan
Yeah, well, you find yourself imitating the people that, I mean, there's no shame in that.
Like, I always talk about that.
Like, I caught myself on stage, I guess I was like a year in a comedy, and I was basically imitating Richard Jennings.
Like, I realized while I was doing it, I was like, oh my god, I'm completely copying him.
Like, this is not authentic at all.
This is just me doing my material in a Richard Jennings voice and style.
100%.
akaash singh
I had to stop watching Andrew at a certain point.
Because he was so funny so fast that I would watch him and then on stage I'd be like, dude, I sound like Andrew.
What the hell is going on?
And we sound a little bit similar, I'm sure, because we're so close.
But I stopped watching him for years.
I just couldn't do it.
joe rogan
That's a big problem with, like Patrice used to call it his babies.
akaash singh
Yeah.
joe rogan
He would say, yeah, I got a lot of babies out there.
akaash singh
Yeah, 100%.
joe rogan
Dudes would just copy his style.
And there were quite a few of those guys out there.
akaash singh
Yeah.
joe rogan
There was a kid who had developed a big following on YouTube.
akaash singh
Doing Patrice Bits verbatim.
joe rogan
And people didn't realize it was Patrice Bits.
akaash singh
Yes.
joe rogan
And then it came out.
And then he was trying to say that this is an homage.
akaash singh
Did he go away?
Yeah, he's done.
He can't keep doing that.
Because we're like, it's not an homage if it's word for word and you didn't give credit.
joe rogan
Yeah, and the points are too good.
You don't have those points.
Those are Patrice's points.
Patrice had a perspective.
akaash singh
No two people can have those points.
Those are such brilliant points.
Only one human being can have them.
joe rogan
I mean, maybe another dude might, but it ain't you.
Patrice, he just had a way of cutting through the bullshit.
Do you remember when there was a time where he was on, I think it was Fox News, and there was a lady that was saying, you can never joke about certain things.
akaash singh
And he's making the camera guys laugh off screen?
Oh, it's such a good clip.
joe rogan
And he went right into it, right in front of her.
akaash singh
100%.
joe rogan
And she did not know what to do, because she was stuck with a master comedian, cracking jokes, It's brilliant.
akaash singh
I remember Bill Burr had a list of his five favorite comedians alive, I think.
And Patrice, or maybe Patrice was of all time, but he said Patrice, his favorite thing was watching people try to intellectually debate him.
Because they'd always think, oh, this big fat black guy's an idiot.
And then he would fucking destroy them with no effort whatsoever.
And it was the funniest thing to watch.
And that's what that interview was.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's exactly what it was.
But it's also like he was defending comedy.
And one of the things that he said that I always repeat to people, like this is an important quote of Patrice.
He said, if someone has a joke and it's terrible or it offends you or someone has a joke and it kills, it all comes from the same place.
They're just trying to be funny.
akaash singh
100%.
joe rogan
And it doesn't always work out.
Like, sometimes you swing and you miss.
akaash singh
We've all swung and missed.
joe rogan
All the time, Matt.
akaash singh
All the time.
And that's the thing, especially on a podcast where you're talking for hours on end.
joe rogan
Yes.
akaash singh
I have said shit about every demographic of human beings possible, and I regret every one that was like, fuck, dude, that was not funny.
joe rogan
Yeah, but you don't know until you try.
akaash singh
You don't know.
And the punishment is, everybody hears that I'm an asshole.
So, like, I can apologize to you, but I can't stop shooting.
I can't stop swinging.
joe rogan
No.
akaash singh
I have to pursue the craft.
joe rogan
It's what we do.
akaash singh
Yes.
joe rogan
And it's also fun for people.
And the thing that you find over time is that people understand you.
Like, they'll watch your podcast with Andrew, and they've seen you guys for hundreds of hours.
akaash singh
Yes.
joe rogan
They know you.
akaash singh
Right.
joe rogan
So like when you're talking, if you say something, if you misstep or, you know, if you say something that doesn't turn out to be that funny, they know what you're trying to do.
They know you're not a vicious person.
You're just trying to be funny.
akaash singh
And you're never going to be perfect.
This is the biggest opportunity in my life.
I'm going to walk out of here being like, I wish I said that one thing differently.
joe rogan
Of course.
Did you take any shit?
Like you have this defensive Apu, which is a fucking hilarious bit.
akaash singh
Thank you so much, man.
Thank you.
joe rogan
It's so dead on, too.
unidentified
I appreciate it.
joe rogan
It's like, why is that offensive?
Why is that guy offensive?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
But does anybody give you a hard time about that?
akaash singh
I'm getting some comments.
joe rogan
Yeah?
akaash singh
And what I want to...
Dillionate, I think is the word?
Like, differentiate?
unidentified
Delineate, yeah.
akaash singh
Delineate.
Thank you.
I'm not as smart as I should be.
But, what I want to differentiate is the difference between your hurt feelings and being oppressed.
Your hurt feelings are valid.
And if kids...
Kids made fun of me for it.
That's valid.
That hurt.
I can go talk to a therapist.
But you're not fucking oppressed.
And that's what I thought canceling Apu was.
It was, we think we're oppressed and we're not at all with that shit.
joe rogan
Well, there was a lot of things going on, right?
Like, first of all, there's a white guy doing The Voice.
akaash singh
Yeah.
joe rogan
What's that dude's name?
akaash singh
Henry Azaria, the fucking goat dude.
joe rogan
Hank Azaria, right.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
akaash singh
That's my guy, bruh.
joe rogan
He was on, uh, what else was he on?
akaash singh
Oh, he's done accent.
He's in everything.
joe rogan
Been a bunch on TV shows, right?
akaash singh
He does a hilarious French accent in Along Came Polly that's so over the top and so ridiculous, but it's so funny.
He's a guy that just does accents well.
joe rogan
You're allowed to do French people, though.
akaash singh
Yeah.
joe rogan
Because it's like they don't have extra melanin.
akaash singh
They don't have extra melanin, and I see how it's worse, but I also...
joe rogan
What?
jamie vernon
This guy.
The voice.
akaash singh
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Dude, that's so fucking funny.
unidentified
Are you for scuba?
akaash singh
Are you for scuba?
Yes, dude.
It's so funny.
Lubin!
joe rogan
What is that movie in?
akaash singh
Along Came Polly.
It's a movie most people hate but I love.
It's one of those romantic comedies.
Jennifer Aniston, Ben Stiller.
joe rogan
But wasn't he in a sitcom?
akaash singh
He's in...
jamie vernon
Oh, for sure.
akaash singh
Probably.
He's in everything.
I just thought, I understand the context with which The Simpsons was created.
It was a show that came out in the late 80s.
I didn't know any Indian actors, much less voiceover actors, to do that voice.
So he did it, and then he brought it to life.
And I looked at The Simpsons, and I said, this is the most three-dimensional supporting character on that entire show.
Everybody else is a static.
Chief Wiggum is static.
Mo is completely static.
Barney's a drunk loser all the time.
Apu is like three-dimensional, and he evolves more than every character on that show, including The Simpsons.
He gets married, he loses a business, gains a business, has kids, becomes a father.
So like, I love that story.
That's a beautiful story.
He's the American dream on that show.
joe rogan
Have they completely removed him from the show?
akaash singh
He's gone from the show.
And I think it's fucked.
Because, dude, Apu, if it was voiced by a brown person, Apu is so many of our parents.
And I don't mean that, I mean that in the most respectful way.
Like, I used to always hear, back in the heyday, people would say, the Simpsons represents every level of society.
That's why the politician is a sleazebag, and the billionaire is a corrupt fuck.
And Apu, I really thought, whether they meant to or not, represented the American dream.
He came to this country in search of a better life, he worked hard, he was mostly honorable, and he built a fucking life.
And that is our parents, and we should all be so proud of our parents, and it sucks that a white guy was doing the voice, but at the time I don't think they had an option.
He's doing 12 voices, they just threw him one extra.
They didn't have a budget, and then he made it something.
So I would say some of the jokes were a little hacky, you can evolve those, but you don't get rid of the guy completely.
It was an overcorrection.
joe rogan
It is funny that like people now get offended if you, like as an actor, you're supposed to play a part.
But if you play a part that should go to a marginalized group...
There's some egregious examples of it.
Have you ever seen the old...
If you go back to...
What was the detective?
He wasn't Chinese, but they would play a Chinese detective.
It was like famous old black and white shit.
He was a Chinese detective that would always like, you know, solve crimes and murders and shit, but it was a white guy with like the worst makeup.
akaash singh
Yeah, that's crazy.
joe rogan
Fuck, what was his name?
I can't believe I can't remember his name, because we've talked about this before.
akaash singh
If you are a living human being putting on makeup to look like a different race, that's probably past the line.
joe rogan
It's so bad, too.
It looks so clunky.
akaash singh
I'm sure it does.
joe rogan
What was it?
It was from the 1950s.
He was a detective.
akaash singh
I remember Pink Panther from the 80s, which my dad thought was hilarious, and there were some anti-Asian jokes in there, for sure.
The guy talking about slanted eyes and shit like that, and that's rough to rewatch.
But, like, it's gonna be tricky.
We're gonna get some things right and some things wrong.
I just think Apu was an overcorrection.
That's it.
joe rogan
That's it.
unidentified
Charlie Chan.
akaash singh
Holy shit, dude.
joe rogan
Yeah.
So...
Chinese-American detective Charlie Chan was called in to help solve baffling cases, aided by his number one son.
So this is J. Carol Nash.
akaash singh
Yeah.
joe rogan
That's the guy.
But show me some pictures of him.
Because Charlie Chan, the guy who played Charlie Chan was white as fuck.
It doesn't even look remotely Chinese.
akaash singh
But this is also 60 years ago.
joe rogan
The reality was maybe they didn't have anybody.
akaash singh
They might have not had anybody.
They probably more likely didn't care in the 60s when they didn't even let black people drink from the same water fountain or go to the same schools.
joe rogan
Look at that picture right next to the color one.
The one in the middle.
Up top in the middle.
Up top in the...
Right there, yeah.
Click on that.
akaash singh
Yeah, that's...
joe rogan
Like, look at that.
akaash singh
That's a white guy, for sure.
Even the Asian guy's looking at him like, what the fuck is he doing?
joe rogan
How did you get this job, bitch?
akaash singh
So they had Asian actors.
joe rogan
They had an Asian guy, but the Asian guy could only be the sidekick.
akaash singh
Yeah, of course.
joe rogan
Couldn't be the main dude.
akaash singh
Of course.
And that's fucked.
But we have come a long way in the last 50, 60 years.
And I think we're acting like it's that.
Apu is not that.
joe rogan
Well, here's a more offensive one.
John Wayne played Genghis Khan.
akaash singh
That's so funny.
unidentified
Have you ever seen that?
akaash singh
Especially knowing who John Wayne is.
joe rogan
Yeah, he's like the whitest of white guys ever.
akaash singh
He's the proudest of white guys.
joe rogan
And he played it talking like this.
You want to hear it?
akaash singh
We have to.
joe rogan
John Wayne is Genghis Khan.
Genghis Khan, the greatest conqueror the world has ever known.
akaash singh
Ever.
joe rogan
A man who literally killed 10% of the population on Earth while he was alive.
akaash singh
My dad tells me he used to slaughter one village so bad when they conquered it that his goal was the next village would just surrender because they heard about what happened.
joe rogan
Yeah.
akaash singh
That's fucking crazy.
joe rogan
I mean, he would put bodies on catapults and light them on fire and launch them over the walls.
akaash singh
He's like Ramsay Bolton from Game of Thrones.
joe rogan
Have you never listened to Dan Carlin?
You ever listen to Hardcore History?
akaash singh
I don't know anything.
I don't listen to anything.
I don't learn much of anything.
I'm just living.
joe rogan
This is worth listening to, though.
unidentified
Okay.
joe rogan
Dan Carlin has a Hardcore History podcast.
It's fucking amazing.
It's literally the best podcast out there.
What I do should not be called a podcast because he and I are not doing the same thing.
akaash singh
See, this is the problem.
You're too smart and people start taking you seriously.
If you're just dumber, then people will be like, oh, this guy's a comedian just talking.
joe rogan
Yeah, but that's what I'm doing, too.
akaash singh
Yeah, that's true.
joe rogan
But anyway, his...
So this is John Wayne now.
It's Genghis Khan.
Find me a video, Jamie.
unidentified
I tried.
jamie vernon
One got taken down on YouTube.
joe rogan
I want to hear him.
Talk as Genghis Khan.
We're gonna take over these Mongol herds.
It's like it's so fake.
Here's the trailer.
Give me some volume.
It's so corny.
The Conqueror.
unidentified
Dun-da-da!
joe rogan
Starring John Wayne.
You had to have John Wayne.
akaash singh
Susan Hayward is the mistress of the movie?
joe rogan
That was back when those ladies didn't work out and they were hot as fuck for like 15 years.
They had about a 15 year lifespan.
20 to 35 and then it was a wrap because nobody exercised.
akaash singh
Because you age like shit also.
There's no vitamins in anything.
joe rogan
Yeah, no vitamins.
No vitamins.
Everyone's smoking cigarettes.
Whoa, we took clothes off.
akaash singh
That's kind of fire actually.
She's like, She's into it.
They were always into it back then.
unidentified
Oh, the Unconquered Woman.
Bro, it's so bad.
Your hatred...
joe rogan
We'll kindle it to love.
I mean, look how crazy this is.
A white guy and a white lady.
unidentified
Oh, bitch slapped her.
This is fucking crazy, dude.
joe rogan
They used to bitch slap people in previews.
They'll let you know.
akaash singh
They're bitch slapping bitches.
joe rogan
Who's this guy?
unidentified
I refuse the favor you seek.
akaash singh
I don't know, but not John Wayne.
joe rogan
But just the music.
akaash singh
Oh, everything.
joe rogan
Like, everybody was confused.
akaash singh
It's a cowboy movie, but they couldn't make a cowboy movie.
So they had to do...
And this is where I will say, wokeness has served some kind of purpose.
Like, we look at that now and we're like, yo, this is fucked.
joe rogan
Yes.
akaash singh
Like he takes what he wants when he wants it with a girl on the screen.
Yo, that's fucking crazy.
joe rogan
But it is historically accurate.
akaash singh
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's true.
unidentified
That's true.
akaash singh
That's true.
I just don't need to see it quite like that.
joe rogan
There's actually a good movie about Genghis Khan that was years later.
Is it called Temujin?
There's a Genghis Khan movie that was years later that was, when I say good, it's just good.
It's not great, but it's good.
akaash singh
Good for the time?
joe rogan
It represents what he was like.
It might just be called Mongol.
Is it called Mongol?
akaash singh
Jesus Christ.
jamie vernon
2007, yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's it.
akaash singh
Yeah.
joe rogan
And it's more in line with the actual story.
akaash singh
Yeah.
Okay, that's all you can ask for.
And then, again, I say that to say I just think we've overcorrected on certain things.
And I don't know that we're going to find a balance anytime soon.
But yeah, certain things are fucked and certain things are not.
And I think a lot of the shit that we're apologizing for is not fucked.
joe rogan
Well, these certain things, it's like...
All the wokeness, and this is where I agree with you, it's moving in a good direction.
akaash singh
Yes.
joe rogan
And that direction is, like, everybody should be treated equally.
akaash singh
Yes.
joe rogan
We should treat people like they're just human beings.
akaash singh
Yes.
joe rogan
And if there's any sort of thing that you apply to, like, one person that you don't apply to other groups of people, like, why?
Why is that?
Why do you think of this group that way?
Like, what is that?
akaash singh
Yeah.
What's behind the mentality?
joe rogan
Yeah.
And I think that we're...
You know, with everything.
With gay people, trans people, black people, white people, Asian people.
We're, like, moving in this general direction of it never being acceptable anymore to discriminate.
akaash singh
Yeah.
Which is great.
Yeah, and that's great.
And I also will say this.
Before you get offended by jokes, find out the mentality underneath the joke.
Like, if you're trying to be funny, you're going to make jokes that are fucked up.
If I regret it, I'll apologize, like you said.
But it's more disturbing to me if the mentality is fucked up.
If the joke is fucked and then I don't think you're...
Fucked up person, you don't say fucked up things.
Okay, that's a fucked up joke.
You missed.
You shot an air ball.
You're Steph Curry, you shot an air ball.
joe rogan
Going out with Ari Shafir, the motherfucker shoots a lot of air balls.
akaash singh
The motherfucker shoots a lot of air balls, dog.
He needs to sit on the bench sometimes.
joe rogan
Why are you friends with Ari?
I'm like, he's the best.
akaash singh
That guy got to sit on the bench every once in a while.
joe rogan
Every now and then he's got to be benched.
akaash singh
Yes.
joe rogan
Because he hit some bricks.
akaash singh
He's Draymond.
You don't let him shoot too much.
You play defense for your teammates.
joe rogan
But he's swinging.
And every now and then he cracks a home run.
Yes.
You know, comedy is not a thing you do with a net.
It's a dangerous art form.
akaash singh
100%.
You have to take the risk.
And you have to, as a society, I think a nice medium is, look, if I say something I regret, you put it perfectly, I'll apologize, but then you let me keep moving forward and you let me keep trying.
I have to keep trying.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's where you separate the difference between people that don't really care.
They just want to win this thing or shut you down.
akaash singh
Yeah.
joe rogan
Versus people that have...
Understanding and compassion.
People that are genuinely just a good person who wants everybody to be a good person.
That's available.
There's a lot of people like that.
And people that are charitable.
They see you fucked up and you're like, ah, he's a good guy.
akaash singh
Yes, 100%.
joe rogan
And they'll let you go.
And there's other people that won't.
But that's good too because then you get to find out who those judgmental, unforgiving fucks are.
That's a terrible way to live.
akaash singh
Yeah.
joe rogan
It's a terrible way to live to be an unforgiving person.
akaash singh
They're miserable.
joe rogan
Yes.
akaash singh
Those people are miserable.
And I can say this about you.
I meant to say this earlier.
You are probably the nicest guy I've ever met.
I remember I met you twice before this and both times I was like, what a fucking friendly guy.
Just warm to everybody.
I saw you treat people of all different races very well, and it wasn't phony or gross or inauthentic.
It was like, yo, this guy's just happy.
And those people tend to win.
The people who are canceling and looking for misery and taking joy in other people's failure, they tend to lose.
joe rogan
Well, I mean, obviously we're talking about this.
This is a political hit job with me, but...
There's other people that do do a thing like independent people that will attack people all the time and they want to like cancel a person because they think that that person is foul or they want to like they want to be able to do it because it is kind of a game like if you can cancel someone and get them in trouble there's a lot of people that like go dig up old things that you said yeah those people are living in studio apartments by themselves in fucking studio city they're definitely it's not productive If you're spending all your time trying to attack a person versus trying to better yourself,
you're not going to do as well.
akaash singh
100%.
joe rogan
You're wasting time.
I don't have the time to do that.
How do you have the time to do that?
akaash singh
They don't.
joe rogan
They don't.
That's why they're not successful.
It's literally poison for yourself.
akaash singh
Yes.
joe rogan
What is that expression about jealousy?
How does that expression go?
Jealousy is the only poison that taints the vessel it's contained in.
akaash singh
Yeah, something like that.
Jealousy only hurts you and doesn't hurt.
It's a poison for you and not the other person.
joe rogan
Yeah, it hurts you if you feel it towards another person.
What is it?
Anger.
Oh, here.
Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it's stored than to anything on which it's poured.
Mark Twain.
jamie vernon
It also comes up for jealousy, too.
It comes up for jealousy, too.
That's what I Googled, but I clicked on that in anger.
akaash singh
Einstein stole this guy's COVID, I bet, and awarded that shit for anger.
joe rogan
Maybe it's Ravikant Dubey.
Who was first?
akaash singh
Probably this guy, because he got the more ethnic name.
joe rogan
Ravikant.
akaash singh
I'm just guessing.
joe rogan
Why did they spell his first name in lowercase?
unidentified
Lowercase.
akaash singh
That's throwing me off.
I'm trying to figure out where this guy's from.
joe rogan
Is there a culture where you spell the first name in lowercase?
akaash singh
I truly wish I knew, but Joe, I don't know things.
joe rogan
That's an interesting thing, right?
Because that would be a weird choice.
akaash singh
No, it's a weird choice.
But to say what you were saying, I think the most successful people I've ever met have always been eyes on their own paper.
joe rogan
You have to have.
akaash singh
I'm focused on me.
Everybody else, I'm not worried about it.
I'm worried about me.
joe rogan
I have eyes on my own paper and the focus that I put on other people is to elevate.
akaash singh
Yes, exactly.
That's what Better said.
That's the second part.
joe rogan
The focus, look, especially as a comedian, I feel like I'm a fan of the art form and I have an obligation to promote the art form.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
So, like, when someone's funny and I know someone's good, like, I want them to do well.
I want to help them do well.
akaash singh
100%.
joe rogan
Because I like comedy.
I want more great jokes out there, more great bits out there, more funny sets, more, you know, audiences filled in a club having a great time.
akaash singh
More people push this art forward.
joe rogan
Yeah, and it's like, this shit ain't easy to do.
It's weird.
akaash singh
Yeah.
joe rogan
To go from, like, I was hanging out with this lady at Vulcan last night who's an open-miker and she works jobs and she's trying to, like, make it as a comic and And I'm just thinking while I was talking to her last night what it's like to be that person where you don't know if it's going to work out.
Like she's got some jokes that hit and she's got some jokes that are kind of like so-so.
akaash singh
You don't remember that time?
That time was like three years ago for me.
Recent.
joe rogan
Well, I've been doing comedy for 33 years.
akaash singh
Yeah, that's true, but you also...
It's a long ass time.
I mean, news radio is what, 96 or something like that?
joe rogan
94, no, 90, yeah, 94?
akaash singh
I knew I was close.
joe rogan
94, yeah, 94 to 99, yeah.
akaash singh
So, yeah, you haven't had that moment, I assume, in a while.
joe rogan
It's been a long time, and I was unreasonably successful very early.
Totally unfair.
Like, I was on television six years into comedy.
I was on a network sitcom.
akaash singh
How did you do that?
White privilege.
joe rogan
Purely white privilege.
akaash singh
There you go.
No, I get that.
No, that makes sense.
There's privilege.
joe rogan
That's white privilege.
akaash singh
Yeah, 100%.
But yeah, I remember seeing you, and I was like, dude, this guy just had fucking longevity.
joe rogan
Yeah, well, I think I just got real lucky in the beginning that I got on MTV, and I had a really good set on MTV. I did the MTV Half Hour Comedy Hour.
And that was back in the day where they were giving people development deals because they wanted everybody to be the next Seinfeld or the next Roseanne.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
So they figured if I can get this Akash guy and give him a sitcom, oh my god, we're going to all get paid.
Those people that did those sitcoms where it's like Tim Allen and Home Improvement, they made hundreds of millions of dollars.
akaash singh
Yeah, I'm sure.
joe rogan
And so the networks would see a guy like you and they'd go, we've got to get this guy a fucking development deal.
And so I got a development deal.
And then I wound up doing this baseball show for Fox.
The first two shows I auditioned for, I got.
It's the craziest, dumbest luck of all time.
akaash singh
So crazy.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
And then, you know, so I did, that was this Fox show that was Hardball, and then News Radio.
I did that for, both of those for years, and then I did Fear Factor.
So it's just like it kept going, more things just kept happening.
But it was just complete dumb luck.
I never had any desire to be an actor.
akaash singh
Were you always a pretty positive guy?
Because I always try to trace it back to like, do we project something?
Kind of like The Secret, but I don't want to admit it because that sounds too gay.
So is it like you were a very positive person and these things just kind of kept coming to you?
Or was it easier to be positive when you nail your first two auditions and get sitcom rules?
joe rogan
It's easier to be positive if you nail your first one.
But it's also, it's like the first one was totally designed for me.
It's like I was a baseball player.
It was like, it made sense.
I was like an athlete on a team who's a dick.
Who's funny.
Who crashes Lamborghini and try to fuck everybody.
It was just a wild dude.
unidentified
That was you.
akaash singh
That was you in the 90s.
joe rogan
So I was like, this is easy to play.
And then news radio, it was like, I was just playing a dummy who's a conspiracy theory who works as an electrician at a station.
I was like, I can fucking do that.
akaash singh
All I remember about that show is your character hated Andy Dick's character.
That's literally the only thing I remember about that show.
But I thought he always wanted to be friends with you or there was an episode where he wanted to be friends with you and you were just like, no.
joe rogan
Well, I think it was always we had this weird dynamic together.
akaash singh
There we go.
Something.
joe rogan
We had a weird dynamic working.
Andy was one of the hardest guys to ever work with because he's so fucking funny.
unidentified
So funny.
joe rogan
That we would do these scenes together and I could not keep a straight face.
unidentified
Oh, dude.
joe rogan
I'd have to confront him with something.
I'm like, hey man, why'd you do that?
And then he'd give me this look and I'd be like, fuck!
And I'd have to turn away.
We'd have like seven, eight takes sometimes.
akaash singh
He has the best reality premise show I've ever heard.
No offense to Fear Factor.
But he's an MTV show where he's auditioning people to be his assistant and it's all Oh, yes!
And he's having them do the most ruthless shit, like cut his lawn with scissors.
He lost a contact in a swimming pool and made one of them find it.
He's blown up.
unidentified
So funny.
joe rogan
Dude, he was a legend.
That was on MTV, right?
Yeah.
akaash singh
So funny.
joe rogan
He's a wild dude.
He's so crazy.
Yeah.
But he's very talented.
akaash singh
His son is doing stand-up, right?
Lucas?
I know Lucas from when he started.
I just haven't seen him in a while.
joe rogan
Yeah, he was doing stand-up at the comedy store.
Shout out to Lucas if he's listening.
It's...
So my path into things was easier.
It was just pretty easy.
To me it was not easy.
Acting is complicated.
Auditions are stressful.
But also I'd come from fighting.
So I'd come from the world of martial arts tournaments, and then I went from that into auditioning and stand-up.
I was like, this is scary, but it's not as scary.
It's a different kind of scary.
akaash singh
The stakes feel low, probably.
joe rogan
Yeah, I'm used to scary.
I gravitate towards scary because I felt like there was more opportunities than scary, because everybody was scared of it.
So they didn't want any of that scary.
I was like, I think I can do it.
So I would gravitate towards things that had low percentage outcomes of success.
So when I first started doing stand-up, my mom had just gotten used to me fighting.
It had been years and years of me doing that, and then all of a sudden I was going to do something else that had a low potential for success.
She's like, what the fuck is wrong with you?
You want to be a loser?
akaash singh
Dude, my dad still says to me, I would rather you be a doctor.
Still to this day, he's like, I know it's stupid.
I would rather you be a doctor.
joe rogan
That's hilarious.
Do you know Fahim?
akaash singh
Yes.
I love Fahim.
joe rogan
Fahim's awesome.
Fahim Anwar, his dad, he was an engineer.
He's a legitimate engineer.
Fahim's a brilliant guy.
akaash singh
Yeah, that makes sense.
joe rogan
And his dad wanted him to keep that job.
And he had eventually gotten to a point where he had enough success where he could quit the job.
But he had to break it to his family.
They had to come see him.
akaash singh
Dude, it's easy.
It's easier to tell your family you're gay than to tell them, I don't want to be a doctor or an engineer.
joe rogan
Well, for some families, they want to have a son who's a lawyer.
They want to have a son who's a successful businessman.
They want you to be someone like, hey, how's Mike doing?
Mike's doing great.
He's in his third year of his own practice.
Everybody wants to say that about their kid.
akaash singh
And I think for at least Indian parents, when they come over here, they don't know all these alternative routes to income.
They know safe.
And they came here for safe, steady money.
And this idea that you could be a millionaire comic, especially our parents, they had never seen any of them in American film or TV. Right.
So it's like, what are you, fucking crazy?
Are you on drugs?
Dude, no.
Be a doctor.
I know plenty of Indian doctors.
I've seen that happen.
joe rogan
But your parents, did they know about Russell?
akaash singh
They did after, and then they were like, be friends with him.
unidentified
Ah!
akaash singh
My mom tried really hard.
joe rogan
To get you to be friends with Russell Peters?
akaash singh
Yeah, my mom tried really hard.
And Russell's the fucking goat, dude.
I love Russell.
He's the best guy.
joe rogan
You know, I wear a watch for every comedy special that Russell gave me.
akaash singh
Really?
What kind of watch?
joe rogan
It's a Breitling.
And this is Russell.
We were at a casino in Vegas, and we're there for the fights.
And Russell...
I forget if he was in town, if he was in town working, and we were in the same place at the same time, we were all hanging out together.
But I just go, oh, that's a dope watch.
And he just goes...
Here, it's yours.
akaash singh
Unbelievable, man.
joe rogan
Just took it off and gave me this $5,000 watch.
akaash singh
I've heard that story with multiple people.
joe rogan
Yeah.
akaash singh
I was looking at a watch, I just said, hey, that's a cool watch, and he just bought it for me.
joe rogan
Dude, he's the most generous, sweet, kind guy.
He's so solid.
akaash singh
So loyal.
joe rogan
If anybody doesn't like Russell, if Russell doesn't like anybody- I trust their instinct.
If Russell doesn't like you, I write you off immediately.
I was like, there's no way.
Like, for some people, it's like, ah, he has problems with people.
He's always starting problems.
You know, he's like, has disputes.
akaash singh
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
But Russell doesn't have disputes.
akaash singh
No.
That guy is fucking solid through and through.
joe rogan
He's the best.
unidentified
He's the best.
joe rogan
Yeah.
You know, Sagar, Sagar and Jetty.
akaash singh
Love Sagar.
joe rogan
He said that Russell was the first indie he saw on TV that wasn't a doctor.
akaash singh
Dude, yeah.
unidentified
Yeah.
akaash singh
Sagar was in his hometown and I got to I texted Russell because I'd open for him and I was like hey this kid is a huge fan he wants to meet you and Sagar was over the fucking I've never seen him smile so hard in his life is his picture with Russell.
joe rogan
It's unbelievable.
Their show, that show Breaking Points that he does with Crystal Ball.
unidentified
It's the best.
joe rogan
That's an amazing show.
akaash singh
It's what news should be.
joe rogan
It is what news should be it's and it's also two very strong opinions on different sides of the political spectrum that are respectful and objective They argue things rationally, and they have great conversations, and they lay out uncomfortable truths about world politics, about economics, about motivations behind political moves, and why people are doing certain things.
It's really an amazing, amazing show, and so important.
Because it's fucking squirrely out there, man.
If you want to pay attention to one side or the other, the right or the left on mainstream news, you're getting fucked sideways and behind.
It's just like, ugh, what's real?
akaash singh
Yeah, I just don't worry about it.
I just say, you know what, it's all bullshit, and then I just live.
joe rogan
Well, that's good until you have kids.
And then you start wondering, like, hey, what am I leaving behind?
I've got to pay attention to this shit.
What are these monsters doing to the world?
akaash singh
I just want to leave them behind, Manny.
unidentified
Ah!
akaash singh
And then you guys figure it out.
joe rogan
That's not enough.
akaash singh
You sure?
I feel like money could buy you some, you know what I mean?
joe rogan
Money helps.
akaash singh
I can show you how to be a man.
Not like a real man who, like you, like hunts and shit like that, but a man like a guy with values and ethics and this is how you treat people and I very much intend on showing my son or daughter this is how a man acts.
But that and money and then, you know, the truth.
joe rogan
To develop character though is a difficult one.
It's very difficult for a rich kid to develop character.
akaash singh
Dude, I worry about that.
I work so hard.
I want to have fuck you money.
Yeah, you know what it is.
And then I worry, how do I give my kids...
There's a line, this is crazy, but there's a line from the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air I think about all the time, where the Aunt Vivian says to Uncle Phil, she says, sometimes I think we work so hard to give our kids what we didn't have, we forget to give them what we did.
And she means struggle.
joe rogan
That's a great line.
That's a great line.
akaash singh
I think about that all the time.
joe rogan
Well, all my favorite people came from fucked up childhoods.
akaash singh
Everybody.
joe rogan
All my favorite people.
akaash singh
Who are you thinking?
joe rogan
All of them.
Everybody that I know.
All my friends.
Whether it's Ari or Joey Diaz or Duncan.
All my friends.
Eddie Bravo.
All my friends.
They came from fucked up childhoods.
akaash singh
It is a common thread amongst most comics.
joe rogan
They develop their character through adversity.
akaash singh
Yes.
And that's where you get tested.
That's where you get put through the fire.
joe rogan
Yeah, you develop resilience.
akaash singh
Yeah.
That's what makes Andrew more annoying is he's so good and he hasn't really been through that much.
I fucking hate it.
joe rogan
Well, he's driven.
akaash singh
It's Kobe-like.
joe rogan
Yeah, he's got a drive to be great.
akaash singh
Yeah.
joe rogan
And it's awesome.
All that stuff's good, too.
It's good to see people that didn't come from a rough childhood but just have a vision and focus and discipline and are becoming very successful.
What Andrew did that's amazing is carve his own path.
They wouldn't put him on these shows and Netflix and what have you, so he went and put a YouTube video out.
akaash singh
I saw the whole thing.
I was right there.
I helped him write the first note of, and I'm not taking credit.
It's all him.
I'm just saying, like, I watched my brother go through this, and we were both getting overlooked, but he had that fucking sixth gear that was like, I will not be stopped.
joe rogan
Yeah.
akaash singh
And it was really, even him on this special, he helped me so much.
Dude, he told me one day, he's low-key the reason it was late, but one day he was like, hey, from 12 p.m.
to 4 p.m., I'll help you with your special.
He stayed from 12 p.m.
to 4 a.m.
And was just poring over things.
And then I learned so much on like, oh, this is how you can elevate a special.
And I saw how fucking focused he was on every single detail.
And that's the kind of stuff about Andrew that most people don't know that I want people to know about him.
He's such a fucking good guy, loyal guy.
But, like, then I just spent the next two days doing everything he taught me for 48 straight hours after those 16, and he elevated every aspect of the special.
joe rogan
That's awesome.
akaash singh
It's really awesome to have a friend like that that you can just fucking learn from.
joe rogan
Well, he also...
He has a tribe, which is...
I think that's very important for comedians.
Like, he's...
He's a guy that has a tribe of friends and he's very close to that.
There's a bond between him and you guys and all the people that he does stand-up with and interacts with and works with on the Netflix special and all the different things that he does, the social media stuff.
It's a bond.
akaash singh
We are family.
joe rogan
Yeah, you feel it.
When you guys were in Austin when he was filming a special and I went there to watch, you feel it.
akaash singh
Yeah, I flew in just to watch.
There's no way I'm missing this.
I just want to see him do it.
I want to be there.
There's no way I'm missing it.
joe rogan
Yeah, that was the first time I just went and sat in the audience and watched a whole show in a long fucking time.
Just sat down.
akaash singh
Yeah, as comics, you hate doing that, but I'll do it for a guy doing it at that level.
joe rogan
Yeah, I don't hate it.
I don't hate it.
I think it's actually good for you because it's good.
It's like sometimes you can get lost or so caught up in the process of what you do, the way you do it, and you're doing your thing.
Sometimes it's good to just remove yourself from that and just watch someone else do it.
Just sit down like an audience member.
akaash singh
At the highest levels or at any level?
Because at the highest levels, I agree.
I'll watch you.
I'll watch Burr.
I'll watch Russell.
Love it.
Watch Andrew.
Love it.
But if I'm watching a guy that's like...
There's a lot of guys that I'm like, dude, there's no time longer than comedy time.
A 15-minute set can feel like a fucking 15-hour set.
joe rogan
If someone's bombing, yeah.
akaash singh
Even if they're just pretty good.
joe rogan
Yeah, the frustration of watching someone eat shit.
Or the watching someone make poor choices on stage in terms of too many words or the premise is not that clear.
akaash singh
The easy premise drives me the craziest.
The agreeable, super agreeable, claptor premise...
I'm like, what are you fucking doing here, man?
Challenge these people.
Otherwise, get off stage.
I'm not saying actually you have no place in comedy, but I'm not going to fuck with it.
Because it's not challenging anything.
People should walk away being like, I never thought of it that way.
Laugh first and foremost.
But second, son, I never thought of it that way.
That's crazy.
joe rogan
I think a lot of people are just, they just want it to work.
The way I always talked about comedy is there's a beginning of your comedy career where all you're trying to do is get laughs.
And you will say things you don't agree with.
You say things that you're just trying.
You don't even really think it's funny.
You just think it's going to work on a crowd.
So you're using a tool.
Then after that, then you start figuring out a way to make it something that you would laugh at.
akaash singh
Yeah, that's the most painful part of comedy.
I bombed for three years straight figuring that out.
And I went, I got over the first stage kind of quickly.
I was like, I don't believe any of this.
I'm better than this.
And then I wasn't.
I bombed for about three years straight.
I got worse and worse and worse for three years straight.
joe rogan
Well, how'd you get out of it?
akaash singh
Work.
And you know what?
That's another thing.
We were doing like an interview for some NYU paper and Andrew was talking about how hard he worked at comedy.
And I did the standard things.
Listen to, you know, do your set, listen to it, take notes.
And then he was talking about just how hard he worked on every aspect of it.
And I talked to him afterward and he said, buddy, you have no idea.
I watched, I think it was Patrice O'Neill's entire HBO half hour.
Maybe it was Chappelle or somebody.
And he said, I literally studied every moment when they got laughs, why they got laughs, and tried to figure out how funny works.
So I went through, and I studied the first ten minutes of two Chappelle specials, two rock specials, ten minutes of Patrice, I think Aziz, Louis, comics, I don't even love as much, but I wrote down every word, every facial expression, every hand gesture, and every time they got a laugh, I tried to figure out why they got a laugh.
And I think that's part of why we can do crowd work so comfortably, is one, we came up in a place where you had to do it, but two, you start to kind of put together like, oh, okay, here's how you can make this thing work.
Here's how the formula of comedy works.
And then you can just put it together in the moment.
But it was fucking, I did that for months, and that was when I turned the corner.
joe rogan
That's interesting, you know, so you just started really doing work.
akaash singh
Dude, I studied it like, this is, I'm going to make this scientific.
And I'm not a science kid, even though I was pre-med, that's why I'm not a doctor, but I'm going to find the science of this, because I will die for this.
joe rogan
It's...
That's the thing that most of us don't do, right?
We don't study the comedy.
akaash singh
No, no.
And I think it's more important for a guy like you or a guy like me who I think has a decent personality, probably funny offstage, funny with our friends, at least they think we're funny.
So you get onstage, that part comes easily.
The part you need to work on more than getting onstage, I think, is really fucking studying this shit.
And why is it funny and how does funny work and how do I make that apply to what I want to say?
joe rogan
There's some guys who don't like watching other comics because they don't want it to influence them.
Like Jim Norton's like that.
I talked to him about it.
He goes, I don't like watching other comics because I don't ever want it to influence me.
akaash singh
Yeah, I'm an impressionable human being.
If I hang around friends, I start talking like them.
So I try to also limit those outside influences for that reason.
But yeah, at the end of the day, you still need to study it.
joe rogan
Yeah.
akaash singh
Like if you're studying it, it's not going to rub off as much because you're pressing pause every five seconds and handwrite.
I was handwriting every fucking word.
Yeah.
I have pages and pages, journals of notes.
joe rogan
Also, if you get a good variety, like you watch one Chris Rock special and then one George Carlin special, you know, mix it up.
A little bit of Louis C.K., a little bit of Jim Gaffigan.
akaash singh
I try to go across all styles.
I started with the guys I loved and then I got to guys that I was like, meh.
joe rogan
Yeah.
akaash singh
But still, I need to learn.
If they're successful, what are they doing that I can apply?
joe rogan
Right.
akaash singh
And I remember learning from Patrice.
There's times where I'll pause and I'll just make like a face.
And I realized from Patrice, he used, aside from everything, he used every bit of real estate possible.
Like there were times where he won't say a word He'll just go And he'll get a laugh Right And there's times where you can just get a laugh right here Also watching Chris Tucker in Money Talks I remembered watching that recently And I was like dude He made every single part of himself funny He would make his eyes funny Eyes, his face, everything Every single ounce of real estate you have You have to use Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah.
You can learn a lot from watching a variety of different comics.
akaash singh
Yes, 100%.
joe rogan
And that's a thing that, like, no one can teach you how to do comedy, but it's kind of amazing that it's such a popular art form in terms of, like, people want to go pay to see it.
They love to watch it on Netflix.
But...
There's no classes in it.
akaash singh
No.
You have to do it on your own.
joe rogan
It's crazy.
There's no art form like that.
They can teach you how to play guitar.
They can teach you how to sing.
They can teach you so many different kinds of performance art.
There's acting classes.
There's mime school.
You can learn how to be a mime.
akaash singh
I think Maz Jobrani, and I find Maz very funny, so it's not a shot, but I think Maz Jobrani took a comedy class from that lady who wrote the Comedy Bible, because I remember she quoted him in that book.
So there are classes, and there are successful funny comedians from those classes.
joe rogan
But that's just because they got on stage.
akaash singh
Yeah, and they're the outliers.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's not that the class made them funny.
The class gave them an opportunity to get on stage.
akaash singh
Yeah.
joe rogan
And then they have to figure it out.
akaash singh
I guess it's because art, like drawing art, you can do that alone.
unidentified
Yeah.
akaash singh
You teach me the fundamentals and then I go do this on my own over and over and over.
Comedy, you can teach me the fundamentals.
You can teach me what a setup is, what an act out is, all that stuff.
But I have to get out in public and do this over and over and over.
joe rogan
That's the only way.
akaash singh
So yeah, even I guess if you take an art class, you still have to do offstage, out of class work.
But it's in private and you get that luxury of failure in private.
joe rogan
Right, but that is the thing that they do do on some comedy classes is like you'll have some stuff, you workshop in front of everybody and then everyone will do a show.
akaash singh
Yeah, one show.
joe rogan
You know, one show.
akaash singh
At the end of the entire class.
joe rogan
Some legit comics have done that because it's sort of like at least gets them to get their feet wet.
akaash singh
Sure, but then after that, that's like.0001% of the work.
joe rogan
But think about what you did, and that would be a great service if that was taught somewhere.
If comedians put together a course where you could analyze comedy and see why is this irreverent?
Why is this relatable?
What about this kind of honesty makes it funny?
akaash singh
Yeah, and I'd be curious to revisit it because I kept stumbling upon the same lesson, which is just how everybody packaged everything.
Like, I used to think, and this is why I was bombing, I would just say things that were too harsh, and I would just say them bluntly.
And I'd be like, that's what Patrice does?
No, it's not.
If you watch Patrice, like, I remember watching Elephant in the Room, and he has that joke about, you can tell how beautiful a white woman is by how long they would look for her if she was missing.
Such a funny premise.
And he says, that's a high-level white woman.
And he points at a girl and he immediately calls her beautiful because then he's saying, all right, I'm not racist.
I see that this white girl is beautiful and I acknowledge her as beautiful.
And she's not overtly beautiful, but he says she's beautiful because he's more likable that way.
Then he says to a black girl, look, you think the cops would look for you if you were missing?
unidentified
Boom.
akaash singh
Which is crazy.
And then he goes, I would look for you, but they're not gonna.
So now he's removing himself from the ass.
Dude, the society's fucked up.
I care.
I would look for you.
But society's fucked up.
And it's so much more palatable than just sitting on that premise.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's so much better.
And also, there's a sort of an underlying thing where he's not really gonna look for you.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
He's saying he's not looking for anybody.
Like we were talking about Patrice ain't going in the woods.
akaash singh
Patrice ain't swimming.
unidentified
He's not going looking for you, but he's saying, I would look for you!
joe rogan
And like he's just, you know, it's part of the comedy is you knowing that he's not really going to look for you.
akaash singh
Yeah, 100%.
I didn't even think about that, but that's where it's cool if I revisit it, I might pick up even more stuff.
joe rogan
Did you ever get a chance to see Joey Diaz live?
akaash singh
I did not.
I need to.
Andrew swears by it.
I need to see him live.
joe rogan
Dude, I'm telling you, man.
Yeah.
He hasn't done comedy since the pandemic.
He did it a little bit in Jersey.
He was doing some regular gigs, but I talked to him about it yesterday, actually.
I said, are you going to start doing stand-up again?
And he goes, when you open up your club, I'm coming down, for sure.
I've been thinking about coming down.
I already had a show in New York.
I was going to go down there, but I heard everybody getting stabbed.
It's like some neighborhood where Ari is doing his show that apparently is rough at night.
akaash singh
Oh, fuck.
joe rogan
But Joey was...
I'd never seen anybody funnier than him.
akaash singh
Yeah, Andrew says...
joe rogan
Everybody would walk out of there shaking their head.
akaash singh
He said it's just so authentic.
It's just so authentic that you can't deny it.
That's what he says about Joey.
joe rogan
And just explosive.
akaash singh
Yeah.
joe rogan
It's just fireworks.
unidentified
Boom, boom.
joe rogan
When he hits these high notes, you're like, holy fuck.
akaash singh
Yeah, I need to see it.
joe rogan
Yeah, but it's like those guys that are free on stage, they let guys like us, like whether it's Patrice or Joey or anybody that's just like free on stage, they let you see the value and that sort of authenticity and that just being you.
akaash singh
Yeah, they push it forward more than anybody.
Because at the end of the day, that's what we all want to be, is just authentic.
And when you see those guys doing it, it frees up you to be that much more authentic.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's like everybody's got their own contribution like we were talking about Gaffigan earlier like his contribution is like he He doesn't get animated But he knows where the funny is in every bit and it's all squeaky So clean.
akaash singh
So funny.
joe rogan
And he sets it up.
And you get into his mind.
unidentified
Yes.
joe rogan
You get into his rhythm of thinking.
akaash singh
100%.
joe rogan
And he's...
That guy could write bits to the end of days.
Like, he'll never run out of material.
akaash singh
I mean, the guy does a classic...
joe rogan
He could do jokes about tables.
akaash singh
Yeah, he has a classic Hot Pockets bit.
I saw him do a bit about vinegar.
And how, like, English food sucks because they use vinegar to make it taste good, and that's the same thing you use to clean windows.
And I was like, dude, who's doing vinegar bits and making them funny?
joe rogan
And it's, how many bits do you have about food?
akaash singh
Oh, my God.
It's all food-related.
joe rogan
So there's guys like him, and then there's, like, Attell, who's, like, one of the very best, like, non-sequitur joke writers, performers ever.
akaash singh
So good.
joe rogan
Everyone elevates the craft in their own little way.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
All those, like, super high performers, they elevate the craft in their own little way.
unidentified
Yeah.
akaash singh
And that's what I hope to do as I evolve is, like, let's find my contribution.
I don't know what it is yet, but I just want to get there.
joe rogan
Yeah.
akaash singh
Let's strive for that.
joe rogan
It's...
It's such a beautiful art form.
I've been doing it forever, and I still love it.
akaash singh
Oh, and I was watching you, your physicality was fucking incredible on stage.
And I think that's a beautiful thing.
I think so many comics get, they think this idea of comedy is, I have to hold the, put my elbow on the mic stand like Bill Burr, who, I'm fucking goat, I'm not at all, but like, they think that's what it is.
And then when I see a guy like you being free with his body and moving and climbing on a fucking bar stool and mounting, they're like, oh, that can be comedy too.
And we can explore these different avenues of physicality and different parts of real estate and all that.
And I think that's a beautiful contribution you have.
joe rogan
Thank you.
There's a lot of guys who are real physical.
We were talking last night about Eddie Griffin when he was first on Def Jam.
And I remember I was living...
I think I was living in New York at the time.
And Eddie Griffin went on Def Jam and he had a hat on and shorts.
unidentified
And he murdered so hard...
akaash singh
I haven't seen his death yet.
joe rogan
And he was moving around.
That was Eddie Griffin in his prime.
akaash singh
Yeah.
joe rogan
And I remember thinking when I watched him, fuck, I'll never be that funny.
He was so powerful.
It was so strong.
That set was just dynamite, man.
akaash singh
Yeah.
unidentified
Boom!
Yeah.
akaash singh
I didn't watch it, but I watched a recent special of his, and I was like, yo, this guy's still got it, dude.
joe rogan
Oh, he's got it.
Eddie's always going to be funny, but he's crazy.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
He's gonna be there and not there.
It's gonna hit and miss.
But when he nails it, he has one of the best jokes ever about Thomas Edison.
No, Alexander Graham Bell.
He's the one who made the phone, right?
akaash singh
Yes.
joe rogan
Yeah, he goes, how much cocaine was that motherfucker on?
He goes, you got to be high.
I want to talk to someone who's not even there.
unidentified
Oh, man.
Just seeing him say, I want to talk to someone who's not even here.
joe rogan
That's such a great line!
But it's such a cocaine thought, too.
akaash singh
That's great.
joe rogan
The art form is amazing because there's so many different ways to do it.
There's no right way.
akaash singh
It's the best.
It's the toughest, but it's the best.
I love it so much.
joe rogan
How many years have you been doing it now?
akaash singh
Fifteen, I think.
joe rogan
So this is your first special?
akaash singh
This is my first special, yeah.
joe rogan
That's good.
That's like a good amount of time to wait, so you're solid and like a real pro.
akaash singh
Yeah, well, it wasn't by choice, you know what I mean?
I wasn't getting any looks from anywhere, and then I didn't even really start headlining weekends until corona, like during corona, basically.
I did a few weekends before, and then I felt the growth.
When I started doing 45 minutes at a time, I was like, oh, now I am seeing the comic that I always knew I could be.
joe rogan
Oh, were you doing mostly city spots?
akaash singh
City spots, 15 minutes.
And I would do the road gig here and there, but that's like a fucking exhausting lifestyle.
And you're doing 45 minutes for the middle of nowhere, and then you get off stage, and it's like audiences are hit and miss.
But club, 45 minute back to back to back, that's a different thing.
joe rogan
You grow.
akaash singh
You grow.
I grew so much, I felt like.
I felt like it was a whole different comic.
joe rogan
Yeah, when I was in New York, I didn't do the city that much.
Because I was like, this is only 15 minutes and you get paid like 20 bucks or whatever the fuck it was.
akaash singh
Yeah, I wish I knew that.
joe rogan
I was like, this doesn't make any sense.
I could drive to Connecticut and I'd make 150 bucks.
akaash singh
Yeah, I didn't know.
I just thought, well, 45, yeah, it's longer than 15, but I was doing like 20 because we were at the Village Lantern and I would host, or it would be my show, so I'd do like 20, 30. But 45, back to back to back, it's just a different fucking thing altogether.
joe rogan
Yeah, it is.
akaash singh
You can dig into a whole different level of yourself.
You get deeper in ideas.
With the audience, your whole relationship is different.
It's the best.
It's the most powerful thing you can do as a comic.
joe rogan
Yeah, it just stacks hours and reps.
akaash singh
Yes.
joe rogan
It's hours and reps, time on the mic.
Time on the mic is everything.
Those guys that do stand-up every night, they have a certain smoothness to them.
Because it's just massive time.
Like a tell.
Massive time on the mic.
Right.
That's so important.
And the problem with those city spots is you can get a lot of spots in a night.
There's a benefit to that.
But there's also a benefit to a long spot where you settle into your ideas and then the audience takes you, you take this audience on a ride with you.
akaash singh
Now, you had an agent sending you out for weekends or whatever?
joe rogan
Yeah, I used to do all that shit.
akaash singh
See, I didn't have an agent, so I was just like, I guess I could go do this $300 bar spot for 45 minutes.
joe rogan
How did you not get a manager or an agent?
akaash singh
I don't know, and I don't want to sit here and be super critical of the industry, because that's kind of what we're all doing, and I don't begrudge them, but for whatever reason, they just never looked at me as a viable option.
unidentified
That's crazy.
akaash singh
I remember I had a holding deal with ABC. And God bless ABC. They tried to put me in a pilot.
Pilot didn't go.
But everybody told me when the pilot is done, you're going to have every agent talking to you because you're free now.
After the holding deal was done, every agency was like, we don't know what to do with you.
I think my comedy was not...
There's a way to do comedy for the industry as a minority, and it kind of plays on white guilt a lot.
And it's like, hey, everybody feel sorry for me.
And I just never felt like South Asians are oppressed.
We go through some shit, but we're not oppressed in this country.
joe rogan
Is that really the only way to do it?
akaash singh
I don't know.
joe rogan
Because Russell doesn't do that.
akaash singh
Russell doesn't do that, but Russell's not an industry guy.
He's not an industry darling.
Matter of fact, the industry still doesn't really get Russell in how big he is.
joe rogan
He doesn't give a fuck.
He's not a person alive that gives less of a fuck than Russell.
akaash singh
I was telling him, I was like, I hope that doesn't bother you because you are in the best position a human being can be in.
You're worth eight figures and you don't owe anybody anything.
joe rogan
What did he say?
akaash singh
He was like, yeah, you're right.
I'm starting to see it that way, I think is what he said, which is good.
I want Russell to understand how fucking amazing he is and how amazing he has it.
joe rogan
Well, he got fucked during COVID because his whole income base was reliant upon live performances.
So he started a podcast.
He's like, Joe, I finally took your advice.
I started a podcast.
I'm like, Jesus Christ, dude.
I mean, it's a little late.
akaash singh
Yeah, I'm going to try to do it when I'm in LA if we can line it up.
joe rogan
He's here this weekend.
He's going to be here this weekend.
akaash singh
Shit, I'm flying out tomorrow morning, I think.
joe rogan
Is he here this weekend?
No, next weekend.
Sorry, he's here next weekend.
He's the best.
He's such an unusual person.
akaash singh
The loyalty is where I'm like, if you're super loyal, I fuck with you.
And when he posted that thing about you, and he told me anytime anybody gets in some controversy, he basically has told me story after story.
He's like, yeah, I reach out to the guy, see how he's doing.
We don't get along, but I know it sucks to go through that.
And I'm like, Doug, that's dope of you to do that.
joe rogan
He's super solid.
akaash singh
Yeah.
joe rogan
He's always been that way, too.
But he's a guy that he'll go overseas and sell out stadiums.
akaash singh
I mean, he's the biggest comic in the world for years.
joe rogan
Yeah, for years.
People don't understand.
I mean, he does well in America, obviously, but when he goes to other countries...
Dude, they go crazy.
akaash singh
Yeah.
joe rogan
I have friends who've opened for him, and they sent me photos of the audiences on the road.
I'm like, holy shit.
Are you at a palace?
akaash singh
Yeah, dude.
Prince of Jordan.
The Prince of Jordan's like, come perform for me.
It's fucking bananas.
joe rogan
What?
akaash singh
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's dangerous, man.
akaash singh
Yeah, that's crazy levels of fame.
I don't even know if I want to get there, but he got there without the industry.
joe rogan
You can't misstep.
akaash singh
You cannot at all.
Your son will stick a fucking tiger on you.
Are you crazy?
joe rogan
You can't fuck around at all.
You can't even remotely offend.
akaash singh
Yes.
joe rogan
You gotta be so careful.
akaash singh
Yeah, and especially like a Muslim country, you gotta be super careful.
Just keep that shit all anti-women.
joe rogan
One of the things, the first thing the Taliban did when they took over Afghanistan is murder an Afghani comedian.
akaash singh
Really?
joe rogan
Yeah.
unidentified
Fuck.
joe rogan
Yeah, there was an Afghani, so you can find that.
There was an Afghani comedian who was critical of the Taliban.
One of the first things they did when the United States left, they killed that dude.
akaash singh
That's wild.
joe rogan
Yeah.
He was like one of the first guys they went after.
akaash singh
But you know that censorship is not only Afghanistan.
India jailed a Muslim comedian for allegedly making an anti-Hindu joke.
Allegedly.
There's no evidence that it happened.
You can look this up, Jamie, if you're down.
Munawur Faruqi is M-U-N-A-W-A-R. And then Faruqi is F-A-R-U-Q-U-I. He allegedly made a joke about Sitama, who's a Hindu goddess.
There's no evidence of it whatsoever.
But just the hearsay was enough that he spent a month in jail.
Oh my god.
Like active suppression of freedom of speech over there.
joe rogan
So someone claimed they heard it at a club?
akaash singh
Someone claimed they heard it at a club and then they, at a different show, like followed him to that spot and then arrested him when he got out and they wouldn't let him out.
joe rogan
Oh my god.
akaash singh
For a month.
And the only reason he got let out is because it became a big controversy and they relented to pressure.
joe rogan
Oh my god.
akaash singh
So that's where I'm talking to, like, the people here, the South Asians who are doing the woke shit about, like, Apu.
It's like, yo, where are you on this?
You don't have to be an activist.
I'm not an activist, but if you're going to be an activist, Apu ain't shit.
Go free this guy.
joe rogan
That's dangerous, though.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
That's the difference, right?
akaash singh
Well, yeah, I mean, I guarantee you I'll get death threats just for bringing this up, and people will say, I don't know.
There's a Time.com article also on this BBC. That's fine, too.
joe rogan
How do you say this gentleman's name?
akaash singh
Manawar Faruqi.
joe rogan
Manawar Faruqi.
akaash singh
Yeah, and he...
joe rogan
He's dangerous to crack a joke in India.
So did he admit to the joke?
unidentified
No.
akaash singh
He says, look, he spent a month in prison for jokes he didn't crack.
He says he didn't make the joke.
I believe him.
But there's enough anti-Islam sentiment in India right now and enough censorship in India right now that everything has to be pro-Hindu.
And I'm Hindu, proudly, but like, come on, Doug.
I'm also pro-comic.
You've got to be able to say jokes.
joe rogan
So what was the joke supposedly?
akaash singh
I don't even know.
I don't, because I don't really care.
Like, just the idea.
joe rogan
The joke hinted, what does it say?
Does it say?
No, that just says...
akaash singh
I think it said he called her a bitch or something like that.
Like, I got tweets about it when I tweeted, like, this is fucking crazy or whatever.
I got responses like, he called Sitama a bitch or something like that.
I don't think Sitama cares.
I don't think God cares.
joe rogan
Who is Sitama?
akaash singh
She's a goddess.
We used to always read this epic or like watch the movies if you were me because you're not educated.
But Ramayan and his wife was Sita.
And Sita Mama means like mom.
So Ramayan and Sita was his wife.
And he made jokes about Sita.
I don't think she cares.
I don't think Ram cares.
I don't.
I don't think either one of them is really sitting there like how dare this guy crack this joke.
joe rogan
And so what are the laws in India in terms of are there any sort of protections of free speech?
akaash singh
It's supposed to be a democracy.
It's supposed to be freedom of speech.
It's supposed to be freedom of religion.
It's supposed to be freedom of protest.
But there is a lot of government suppression happening right now.
And I'm not going to sit here and pretend I'm the biggest activist.
I'm not the woke guy.
I'm not the soapbox guy.
But I do think there's a lot of people, South Asians in the industry, who are strangely silent on this.
But if it can benefit their career to bring up...
Some shit like a poo, they're gonna raise all kinds of hell about this.
And this is what's happening where we're from, where there's active suppression.
And then we're, you know, undercutting our own free speech in this country, which I just think is wild.
joe rogan
It's pretty crazy.
akaash singh
Like, if you're gonna be for our people, be for our people, you know what I mean?
joe rogan
Yeah, so here's what they're saying.
They said the...
Okay.
Accused a stand-up who is Muslim of hurting Hindu sentiments.
The intruder was referring not to a joke...
akaash singh
Oh, it's about a song.
That's right.
joe rogan
...Faruki had made, but one he'd uploaded on YouTube in April of 2020. It referenced Rama, a wildly worship Hindu deity, and his wife Sita.
Oh Lord, my beloved has come home.
Faruki starts dropping lyrics from an enormously popular Bollywood song, which a woman celebrates the return of her lover.
Then comes the punchline.
Ramji don't give a fuck about your beloved.
The audience erupts.
He says, I myself haven't returned home for 14 years.
akaash singh
I think, yeah, I think the song is saying, he's calling his beloved, I think he's comparing his beloved to Sita.
And he's like, I'm like, well, Rom, whatever.
And he's like, Rom, you don't care about your wife, dude.
I think that's the point of the joke.
Rom don't give a fuck about your wife.
joe rogan
Imagine going to jail for that.
akaash singh
Dude, it's crazy.
And I don't even, I don't even know if the joke is there anymore.
But yeah, he went to jail for a month.
joe rogan
It's been deleted from YouTube, but pointed out that he's been punished already.
Online commentators had sent him death threats.
Two police complaints were filed against him.
akaash singh
Yeah, dude, that's a thing.
And I don't have a solution to it.
I'm not gonna act like I'm the most informed person.
I just think of, we're all gonna be activists over here in this business.
Y'all are probably smarter than me.
Y'all could get on that, right?
As opposed to this other shit.
joe rogan
That's real.
That's real.
That's crazy.
akaash singh
Yes.
joe rogan
And it's dangerous.
akaash singh
It's not a microaggression.
It's a macroaggression.
joe rogan
And this is just a joke about religion.
akaash singh
It's a joke.
joe rogan
That's all it is.
It's not even that offensive.
akaash singh
I think it's more a joke about a song.
joe rogan
Yeah.
akaash singh
And a joke about religion.
I grew up in the South.
People take that badly in Texas, in real Texas.
joe rogan
Real Texas.
akaash singh
Austin, they love it.
Real Texas, they take it badly.
But you're not going to jail.
joe rogan
No.
akaash singh
They're just offended.
That's it.
Go home.
Get off the stage.
joe rogan
Did you find the one about the Afghani comedian that got murdered by the Taliban?
akaash singh
Yeah.
Sorry, Jim.
I interrupted that.
joe rogan
No, no.
It's good.
I need to know about that story.
There it is.
Yeah, so here's Taliban admit killing comic who is beaten hands tied in viral video.
akaash singh
Jesus Christ.
joe rogan
Yeah, Fazal Muhammad, popularly referred to as Kasha Zwan, was stationed in southern Kandahar province, was taken away by the Taliban after returning home about two weeks ago, according to an officer serving with him.
akaash singh
That's fucking crazy.
I might have...
I have a friend who's an Afghani journalist named Ali.
He might have told me about this.
joe rogan
Scroll back up, please.
At the beginning of the article.
It said the Taliban said they had killed an Afghan police officer.
So he was a cop.
Better known for posting humorous videos online after clips emerged on social media showing him being beaten and his dead body.
Fuck.
akaash singh
That's so crazy.
joe rogan
Yeah, there's real problems in the world.
akaash singh
Yeah.
joe rogan
Real problems.
akaash singh
100%.
And apparently there's, like, he'll send me, this journalist Ali Latifi will send me videos of, like, white women saying, like, the Taliban really helped me out.
And he's like, do you have any idea how much damage you're doing to our country by putting these videos out?
joe rogan
Girls are saying the Taliban helped them out.
akaash singh
He's like, white liberal women are like, hey, I was trapped in Afghanistan, the Taliban helped me get out.
And I haven't, I've been so fucking, I feel bad, I've been so busy editing this special that I haven't had time to watch the full video yet, but it just seems crazy that this is, it just, dude, there's real misinformation out there.
There's real misinformation out there.
joe rogan
That's just such foolishness, too.
There's this weird foolishness where this rush to accept other cultures and to, like, pretend that human rights violations don't exist if a person's of a certain minority or if a person, if they live in a certain part of the world, like, it's okay.
akaash singh
Yes.
Right is right and wrong is wrong.
And there's gray areas sometimes, but sometimes there's not.
This is one where there's not.
joe rogan
It's just wild that that's still going on in the same time as we're living here in fake Texas.
akaash singh
Yeah, dude.
You're just in the lap of luxury in fake Texas.
joe rogan
It's all fake Texas.
Everything's free and easy and everyone's nice to you.
Vegan Texas.
Vegan Texas.
akaash singh
Friendly.
joe rogan
I went to a vegan food truck the other day by accident.
These motherfuckers were advertising like chicken sandwiches and burgers.
akaash singh
With apostrophes?
joe rogan
But it's like, it says plant-based and it says, what is happening here?
Plant-based chicken?
And then I realized like, oh my God, this whole truck's vegan.
We got to get out of here.
akaash singh
Yeah, dude, come on.
joe rogan
It's like, no.
akaash singh
Yeah, you're an enemy of the state at that truck.
joe rogan
You don't have chicken here.
unidentified
This is not chicken.
It's C-H-I-K apostrophe N. But bro, they weren't even like saying.
joe rogan
Like the sign, like the placard was like chicken.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Chicken sandwich.
akaash singh
Is spelled the real way?
joe rogan
Yes.
unidentified
Wow.
akaash singh
That's false advertising.
joe rogan
What are you guys talking about?
akaash singh
But that's what they think chicken is in Austin.
That's why you belong in Fort Worth, dawg.
joe rogan
Come on, man.
I'll take you to Terry Black's Barbecue to show you what's up.
akaash singh
I'm trying to eat.
I'm trying to take my guys, Kevin and Thushar, out for a celebratory meal tonight.
Where should we go?
joe rogan
Oh, Terry Black's is a good spot.
akaash singh
Terry Black's?
joe rogan
If you want barbecue, but there's so many good spots.
C.W. Smokehouse.
akaash singh
All right, I'm going to hit you up.
joe rogan
Yeah.
akaash singh
Maybe sushi spot or something.
joe rogan
Oh, there's a lot of good sushi spots.
akaash singh
Okay.
joe rogan
Yeah, I don't want to say too many of them on the air because I ruined them.
akaash singh
Okay.
I'll text you after.
joe rogan
But there's a lot of good spots.
akaash singh
All right.
If you guys want to roll, you know.
joe rogan
As far as places to eat here, it's amazing.
It's like places to eat and places to see live music.
Like, fuck, there's so much good live music here, man.
unidentified
Is there?
joe rogan
Oh, there is, man.
akaash singh
I see a lot of lonely-ass musicians in bars at 2 p.m.
joe rogan
Yeah, there's a lot of that, too.
But there's something about that that's kind of romantic.
Like, we went to...
akaash singh
You got rich too fast, Joe.
joe rogan
You think so?
akaash singh
Because you look at that like that's romantic.
I look at that like that sucks.
I've been there recently.
joe rogan
Yeah, but there's something about going to a bar at midnight with some friends.
Like, hey, let's go have a drink.
Like, Tony took us all out after a show one night.
And he took us to, what is that place called?
The White Horse?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
The White Horse.
And we watched this cat.
I got a video of it.
Find that video, Jamie, on my Instagram.
But this dude, it was, you know, one o'clock in the morning, somewhere around there.
Ellis Ballard, this dude.
Give me some volume.
So, like, we just show up.
There's maybe, like, ten fucking people in this bar.
akaash singh
Yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
And this fucking band is hot.
akaash singh
Yeah.
joe rogan
They're great.
akaash singh
They're great.
joe rogan
And then people start dancing, people start like moving out to the dance floor, and I mean, there's fucking no one there.
akaash singh
I hate them, Joe.
I hate these guys.
joe rogan
You hate this kind of music?
akaash singh
I'm not saying they're not good.
No, I don't hate the music, but I know they're wearing that ironically.
And that, as even as a Texan, that bothers me.
joe rogan
Doesn't bother me at all.
akaash singh
I know.
joe rogan
That's why I live in fake Texas.
Fake Texas, it fits like a glove.
That sound is not so good for that video, but that guy's really good.
He's got an album coming out in April.
We had a great fucking time, and they were cool as fuck.
We took pictures with them.
akaash singh
No, they seem talented.
Just, you know, we're your normal fucking vans.
joe rogan
That's how you like such a dress.
akaash singh
That's how he likes to dress on stage.
joe rogan
That's how he likes to dress.
Like one guy's wearing a suit, the other guy's wearing like a whole overall thing, like coveralls.
akaash singh
It's a costume party for them.
That's cultural appropriation.
They're appropriating Texas culture.
joe rogan
Interesting.
Is that okay?
akaash singh
No, not from Austin.
Not from Austin.
I'll take it from Portland.
But you're in Texas.
You know what I mean?
Don't look your nose down on it.
That's my only issue.
Because I feel like Austin, and this is my main insecurity, is whenever I would leave Texas, people would always say, I hate Texas, but I love Austin.
And then I started to really be like, you know what?
Fuck that place.
That's where all this comes from, if we're being honest.
joe rogan
Well, that's like liberals.
akaash singh
Yes.
joe rogan
Liberals can say, I hate Texas, but I love Austin because you can just be...
You get all the juice out of Texas.
You get the barbecue and you can have a gun.
akaash singh
And you don't have to feel Republican or whatever.
unidentified
Right.
akaash singh
It's the equivalent of, I like all music except country.
Why?
Have you heard country?
joe rogan
Right.
akaash singh
I don't know a ton, but there's some good shit out there.
unidentified
That's Jamie.
joe rogan
That's Jamie over there.
akaash singh
Phil Vassar, Just Another Day in Paradise.
That's a fantastic song.
I don't know that song at all.
Make you feel better about life.
joe rogan
Phil Vassar, Just Another Day in Paradise.
akaash singh
I grew up in college.
I was friends with a kid who had a farm in Whitesboro, and he'd take me out there, and then I'd listen to some country-ass songs.
joe rogan
If you listen to it, listen to it on Spotify.
unidentified
Hey, they're not taking their music off, these guys.
joe rogan
They're going to put extra on.
They're going to make a song about this.
akaash singh
The whole point of this song is like he doesn't have any money.
He's in like a trailer or whatever, but every day is paradise because he's with his kids and his wife.
You know what I mean?
That's some beautiful ass songs.
Pack of bills overdue.
joe rogan
This is the kind of music you like?
akaash singh
I don't seek this out, but I like it.
You know what I mean?
Most music, if you hear it enough, you like it.
unidentified
But this is, you listen to this, you're like, that's a beautiful song, man.
akaash singh
This guy's got perspective.
joe rogan
Now I'm going deep into the Akash mindset.
I'm trying to find out what's happening inside that head.
This song is confusing shit out of me.
unidentified
Where the fuck is there a beach like that in Texas?
joe rogan
The ocean is in Texas.
jamie vernon
Yeah, but it ain't like that.
They made that in Malibu, it looks like.
unidentified
It's the same spot they made the Blink of Day 2 video.
joe rogan
You love that, huh?
unidentified
Look at you.
akaash singh
Love it, dude.
unidentified
Look at it.
jamie vernon
It's Point of Doom.
joe rogan
You know who Coulter Wall is?
akaash singh
No.
joe rogan
Okay.
This is real country music.
I'm going to set you hip to Coulter Wall.
Coulter Wall is a...
When he made this song, put Kate McKinnon on.
This dude was 21 years old when he wrote this song.
akaash singh
I probably won't appreciate this.
It's going to upset you.
joe rogan
Wait.
Just wait.
akaash singh
I'm going to be open-minded.
joe rogan
No, no, no, no.
jamie vernon
The music video?
joe rogan
No.
Don't play it live.
jamie vernon
No, no.
That one.
joe rogan
No, no, no.
No, that's not the...
Give me the one where it's the one, the recording from the album.
Because the thing about the live one is it's different.
akaash singh
Is this his real name?
joe rogan
Listen to this.
akaash singh
No, no, I like this.
joe rogan
Listen to this.
colter wall
Raven is a wicked bird.
His wings are black as sin.
unidentified
It's true.
colter wall
And he floats outside my prison window, marking lows within.
akaash singh
This is good.
joe rogan
Yeah, wait, give it a second.
colter wall
And he sings to me real low He's held to where you go For you didn't murder Kate McKinnon It's a song all about a guy murdering his girlfriend because he caught it with another man.
joe rogan
He was in love with her and he came home and caught her with another man and murdered her and he's in prison singing this.
akaash singh
They got some fucking writers.
joe rogan
This guy writes shit.
He writes all his shit.
He's 21. Listen to this voice.
akaash singh
Yeah.
No, I fuck with this.
joe rogan
Bro, this is haunting.
akaash singh
And if I heard this in a car, loudspeakers, I'd be real into it.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
It's an amazing song, man.
I mean, because it's like the lyrics and the soul of his voice.
And even this fucking video.
unidentified
Yeah.
akaash singh
Look at that handsome son of a bitch.
joe rogan
Look at that guy.
Beautiful.
Perfect hair.
akaash singh
Honestly, he looks better than her.
How dare she cheat on him?
unidentified
I see.
joe rogan
Well, the problem is, man, wild bitches are gonna be wild.
And if you get a wild bitch and you think you're gonna calm her down, then she's gonna get bored, man.
No.
You gotta know.
Like, as a man, you have to know when you got a wild one.
akaash singh
Yeah.
joe rogan
You know?
akaash singh
I don't know if you know, but my wife and I are each other's first.
unidentified
Wow.
akaash singh
Yeah.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
That's crazy.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Keep it going.
unidentified
Give me some background.
akaash singh
It's a nice background over this song about killing your girlfriend.
joe rogan
How old were you?
akaash singh
I was 31 when I met my wife.
I mean, we didn't wait till marriage, but I was like, I've waited long enough.
But I was like, I'm going to try to not until I meet.
And then I met my wife and I was like, no, this is the right person.
joe rogan
So you didn't have any sex until you were 31?
31. Whoa.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
That's a commitment.
akaash singh
I know.
joe rogan
I feel like that wasn't your choice.
akaash singh
Are you looking at me, Joe?
Son, I'm a sex machine.
joe rogan
It's just the amount of time that's passed.
I'm like, hmm, I think other people might have had some decisions.
akaash singh
Joe, look at me.
I'm pure sex, Joe.
unidentified
I'm dripping sex.
So this is the part.
colter wall
My darling angel's not inside So I made for the creek Where she and I did meet Home And I found her with some other lover Nah, fuck with this.
joe rogan
Yeah, dude, this is...
akaash singh
This got real.
joe rogan
Listen to this.
unidentified
Ah.
colter wall
Three rounds in the cake mechanic.
akaash singh
Dude, that's haunting.
That's haunting.
joe rogan
Fuck all that happy bullshit.
That's real country.
akaash singh
You could do both, Joe.
unidentified
You could do both.
akaash singh
You could do both.
You know what I mean?
You don't gotta be this guy all the time.
joe rogan
But right now I'm just gonna argue for fuck all that happy bullshit.
I like this.
akaash singh
You're like a Johnny Cash guy.
joe rogan
Fuck yeah.
I had a dog named Johnny Cash.
akaash singh
Really?
joe rogan
Yeah.
akaash singh
I went to the Johnny Cash Museum in Nashville.
Over the Hall of Fame.
The Country Music Hall of Fame.
joe rogan
Dude, Johnny Cash was the shit.
akaash singh
I didn't know enough.
I wanted to learn.
joe rogan
Oh my god.
akaash singh
Again, I don't seek out country.
I'm a hip-hop and Bollywood kid, frankly.
But then if country gets brought to me, I'll never say no.
That's a weird take.
Everything except country, that's a hecky take.
joe rogan
It's a silly take.
akaash singh
Jamie, you're better than that.
joe rogan
No, Jamie's not.
Jamie turned me on to Colder Wall.
I'm just joking around about Jamie.
Jamie's open-minded when it comes to music.
But there's a bunch of shit he does not like that I like.
Yeah, it's a lot.
jamie vernon
A lot.
joe rogan
Yeah, there's a lot.
It's just, you know.
akaash singh
You like Rascal Flatts?
joe rogan
Um, I'm not really familiar.
akaash singh
You get familiar, dude.
It's a fun time.
It's a fun time.
joe rogan
Okay.
akaash singh
Yeah, it's great.
joe rogan
I could see Akash with a fucking cowboy hat out here.
akaash singh
I'm a Texan, Joe.
joe rogan
I understand, but I could see you with, like, the boots.
akaash singh
I mean, I know I would look ridiculous with boots, so I won't do it.
joe rogan
I think you could pull it off.
akaash singh
Think?
unidentified
All right.
joe rogan
Have you seen Tony on stage now?
akaash singh
Yeah.
joe rogan
He wears boots and the cowboy hat everywhere.
He do it in arenas.
He goes on stage with a cowboy hat.
akaash singh
I mean, it's Austin.
He can do it in Austin.
joe rogan
No, he does it everywhere.
unidentified
Really?
joe rogan
Yeah, everywhere.
unidentified
Yeah.
akaash singh
Wow, he's leaning in.
joe rogan
After he got canceled, he decided to only go on stage with cowboy boots and a big belt buckle.
He wears, like, Western shirts and a cowboy hat.
He's got, like, an outfit he wears now.
unidentified
Yeah, I've seen it.
akaash singh
I've seen him doing that.
unidentified
It's amazing.
akaash singh
I thought it was a bit.
joe rogan
Oh, no, no.
He leans into it.
unidentified
Oh, wow.
akaash singh
Good for him.
joe rogan
He loves it.
He goes, there's something about the way I dress now.
I just feel it when I'm on stage.
akaash singh
Isn't he from Ohio, Jamie?
joe rogan
Yes, he's from Youngstown.
akaash singh
Oh, well.
He's committed.
He's committed.
I'm not going to hate on it.
joe rogan
I'm telling you, man.
Look, I've known Tony forever, but over the last year, he just has fallen into this cowboy outfit.
akaash singh
Yeah.
joe rogan
And he wears it every day.
Makes sense.
akaash singh
I think Tony's in a dark place then.
No, he's fine.
I'm seeing him tonight.
It killed Tony.
I'm gonna talk to him.
joe rogan
When I see him, if I see him without his cowboy outfit, I'm like, what's wrong?
Why are you dressed like a normal person?
Why aren't you wearing your period costume?
You know?
You're fucking...
He's giant-ass belt buckles.
He's like, look, I got a new one.
He's got these phone iPhones for belt buckles.
He's giant-ass belt buckles.
akaash singh
Oh, you're back to the iPhone.
I remember listening to your Andrew episode.
I re-listened to it recently, and you're back to your iPhone.
joe rogan
I have both.
akaash singh
Oh, you have both?
joe rogan
Yeah, I have a Samsung phone, too.
I have both.
akaash singh
You're rich enough.
Just get a flip phone.
joe rogan
Should I? Get rid of all of it.
akaash singh
You still doing your own booking?
When I got a text from you, I was like, what's happening?
This is crazy.
joe rogan
Yeah, I do it all myself.
akaash singh
Yeah, dude.
joe rogan
But I mean, I have someone who reaches out to certain people, but like, I put it all on my phone.
akaash singh
Buddy, get a flip phone.
Disconnect from the world.
You're worth too much.
Jerry Jones has a flip phone.
joe rogan
Yeah, but I don't pay attention.
This works better than a flip phone.
I can make videos with this.
I'm not stupid.
I'm just disciplined.
akaash singh
Oh, you're disciplined.
Okay, I'm not.
joe rogan
But that's what it is.
I just avoid all the distractions and all the bullshit.
akaash singh
I just deleted Twitter like 20 minutes ago.
Ted Cruz retweeted my video, my bring back a poo thing, and I was like this.
joe rogan
With a thing, like with that emoji.
akaash singh
Yeah.
joe rogan
Where you're touching your face.
akaash singh
Which I was trying to figure out, does that mean he agrees with the bit or disagrees with the part about, like, you know, overpriced products for unwitting white people?
And then I asked my friend, who's smarter than me, and he was like, he's a guy that's waiting to see how it gets received, and then he'll lean one way or the other.
joe rogan
Interesting.
akaash singh
Yeah.
joe rogan
Interesting.
akaash singh
I've shit on Ted Cruz a lot.
joe rogan
Did ya?
akaash singh
Yo, dude, him going to Cancun as a Texan...
That pissed me off so much.
Because the whole ethos of Texas is to stay and fight.
That's the Alamo.
So when he ran, I was like, that's the least Texan shit ever.
Fuck that.
joe rogan
But what are you supposed to do when your power's out and you have the money to go to Cancun for a week with your family?
akaash singh
If you could go to Cancun!
joe rogan
I can go to Cancun.
akaash singh
Jamie could go to Cancun.
unidentified
Yeah.
akaash singh
You're not politicians.
unidentified
That's right.
akaash singh
You're not fucking whatever he is.
Senator, whatever he is.
Help people.
unidentified
Yeah.
akaash singh
Stay there.
Fight.
Help people.
joe rogan
I see what you're saying, but I also see like you're not going to do any good.
akaash singh
You wouldn't leave your dog.
joe rogan
Oh, that's true.
akaash singh
He left his dog.
joe rogan
Oh, that's a big question.
akaash singh
That's a shitty thing to do, bruh.
joe rogan
Yeah, I can't.
akaash singh
Hey, Ted.
Let your fucking dog get your house.
Dying.
joe rogan
But is someone watching his dog?
akaash singh
Probably not.
He's looking out the window, starving to death.
joe rogan
Just left a big bowl of food.
akaash singh
Fucking unbelievable.
joe rogan
Garbage pail full of food.
akaash singh
Unbelievable.
joe rogan
Figure it out, bitch.
I'll see you in five days.
akaash singh
But then as soon as he retweeted, I was like, delete Twitter.
Nothing good is going to come from whatever happens.
joe rogan
From Ted Cruz retweeting you.
Is there any politicians that you would want retweeting you?
akaash singh
Barack would be fire.
joe rogan
Oh, that would be interesting.
akaash singh
That'd be fire.
joe rogan
He's a former politician, right?
Are you ever a former politician?
akaash singh
No, I don't think you can't be.
joe rogan
He's like a Marine.
akaash singh
Especially president.
I think he'd be a former congressman.
joe rogan
Right.
akaash singh
Former president, no chance.
joe rogan
Right.
Like Al Franken is a former politician.
akaash singh
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Disgraced politician.
joe rogan
Yeah.
But not even for anything.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Like the most minor of shit.
akaash singh
Dude, yeah.
joe rogan
That guy could have been president.
unidentified
Yeah.
akaash singh
He was charismatic enough, funny enough.
joe rogan
They took him out for nothing.
akaash singh
Yeah.
joe rogan
It was nothing.
akaash singh
They really cannibalized him.
joe rogan
Yeah.
akaash singh
And they need somebody now.
joe rogan
Well, they need someone like him, too.
He's a genuinely patriotic guy with a deep knowledge of politics.
unidentified
Yeah.
akaash singh
Yeah, and they got...
joe rogan
You know, he could draw the whole country, like, by hand.
Like, all the states in the perfect shape and size.
Wow.
Yeah, see if you can find that.
akaash singh
No, you don't need to find that.
joe rogan
No, you should just see it, because it's kind of crazy.
Al Franken drawing the country.
Like, do you know how much you have to study the United States to draw all 50 states?
akaash singh
Is he just autistic?
joe rogan
By mind.
Like, look at this.
He's doing this while he's talking to people about it.
So this is a time lapse of it.
But I mean, this motherfucker is like literally making a perfect map.
akaash singh
He knows where all this- Yeah, he's actually killing it.
joe rogan
It's wild, dude.
Who the fuck can do this?
I mean, you have to know a lot about the country to be able to draw the Great Lakes in the perfect size.
Look, he's got where Michigan is and- Yeah.
Look how he's doing this.
akaash singh
I should respect this more than I do.
joe rogan
You don't at all?
akaash singh
I don't, not at all.
But I just, you know, he's just got Asperger's to me.
joe rogan
You think so?
akaash singh
No, but it's easier for me to write off than to actually be impressed.
This is my I don't want to give in to happy music moment.
You know when you didn't want to give in to the happy country?
This is my dig-in moment.
joe rogan
Yeah, I'm not saying that I would want this.
Look how he nails Texas.
He nails the whole thing.
akaash singh
Oh, it's alright.
joe rogan
Come on, man.
akaash singh
Texas is his least accurate one in the eyes.
unidentified
Pretty good.
akaash singh
Pretty good.
It's a hard state to draw.
joe rogan
Look at this.
He's going to go into California there.
Look at that, bro.
That's impressive as fuck.
akaash singh
You got Alaska.
Okay, alright.
joe rogan
Get in there with Hawaii.
unidentified
Look at that.
akaash singh
Come on, son.
Hawaii, he fucking bodied.
joe rogan
He bodied Hawaii.
akaash singh
Hawaii's perfect.
joe rogan
It's amazing.
Yeah.
That's very impressive.
Without even tracing anything, he's just not a picture to look at.
He's doing it off the top of his head.
akaash singh
And I hear a point.
In 2024, I don't know who the Democrats have.
They could use him.
joe rogan
They're trying to beg on Gavin Newsom.
They're trying to make it so he's okay.
You see what Garcetti, they got busted taking photos with no mask on.
Garcetti said he held his breath.
akaash singh
That's so stupid.
It's so stupid.
What are you doing, dude?
joe rogan
He held his breath!
Oh, you fucking child.
He goes, whenever I take my mask off, I hold my breath.
There's zero chance of transmission.
akaash singh
That's so stupid.
joe rogan
Are you positive?
First of all, are you sick?
Like, what are you talking about?
akaash singh
It's just such a lie.
It's just such a lie.
unidentified
It's so dumb.
akaash singh
It's so see-through.
Don't be so see-through.
joe rogan
If you're not sick, you're not going to get someone sick, you fuck.
You don't need to have a mask on if you're not sick.
unidentified
This is crazy.
akaash singh
Look, I agree with you.
I agree with you on that.
Now, I'm more pro-vaccine than you, but I also think you shouldn't have to take the vaccine.
My problem is fat anti-vaxxers.
joe rogan
Yes.
Well, that's the thing.
I encourage everyone vulnerable to get vaccinated.
But I also encourage them to lose weight.
akaash singh
Yeah.
joe rogan
I encourage them to start being healthy.
Take care of yourself.
akaash singh
It's like now you care about your health, you fat fuck?
joe rogan
Well, if you had a year and a half of the pandemic, now it's like two years, right?
That's so much time to lose weight.
And we know that that has a major effect on health outcomes.
akaash singh
Yes.
joe rogan
Not just with COVID, but with basically everything in your life.
When you're obese...
You have the higher risk for cancer, high blood pressure, strokes, heart attacks, everything goes up with obesity.
It's a terrible disease and it's one of the most avoidable in terms of like, there's physical things you can do like exercise, That can mitigate it.
There's dietary choices you can do that can mitigate it.
You can change the way you eat.
You can start supplementing with vitamins and nutrients.
These are not super expensive things you have to do.
In fact, you're going to eat less.
akaash singh
Yes.
joe rogan
You're going to eat less.
You don't have to do CrossFit workouts of the day.
You can just do some push-ups and sit-ups and walk around.
There was a guy, I forget who was telling me this story.
It was pretty recently.
There was a DJ. And he lost a fuckload of weight.
And what he would do was, every time he put a song on, he would leave his booth, like a song was like a three minute song, and he would walk around the office, like go around the studio, and then go in towards the end of the song, and then change the song, next song, and then do it again.
And this guy did that for a year, and he lost like 60 pounds.
akaash singh
Dude, before Jared started fucking children, he just walked and ate some Subway.
joe rogan
Jared.
How crazy was that one?
Is he still in jail?
akaash singh
Must be, right?
There's a quote.
You can look this up, Jamie.
It was a couple weeks ago.
He was like, something like, I made some bad decisions or something like that.
It's like, buddy, you fucked kids.
What are you talking about bad decisions?
Bad decision is getting a Big Mac instead of your subway normally.
You fucked children.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
How old were they?
akaash singh
I think 15, 16, something like that.
Oh, I royally screwed up.
There it is.
joe rogan
He speaks for first time from prison.
akaash singh
Hey, you don't say, huh?
You royally screwed up.
joe rogan
What do you think is up with a guy that does something like that?
Do you think that like when they were a teenager, like something is frozen in their emotional development and so they- They only identify with other teenagers.
Maybe they're, like, so socially backwards that, like, anyone their age doesn't want to have anything to do with them, and they feel like young, young people are the only ones that they could convince to like them.
akaash singh
I'm playing real pop psychiatrist here, so this is probably wrong.
But you know what it could be with a guy like that?
It was a time period where he probably really wanted a lot of girls, which was his teenage years, and they probably really were, like, they treated him like shit, rejected him.
Then when he lost weight, he was like, oh, I could get those girls.
Like, he probably never lost that...
It's the same way, like, I've heard my cousin's psychiatrist, he said, some people get stuck in a developmental stage, like, if they don't get, like, acceptance from their father or whatever, they get stuck in, like, a certain teenage stage and they just kind of stay there.
It could be something like that, where, like, those are the girls that rejected me at my most vulnerable time, so maybe that's the girls they're still drawn to, because those are the ones that rejected him and it hurt him the most.
joe rogan
That totally makes sense.
akaash singh
I'm just talking out of my ass, but it makes a little sense.
joe rogan
Both goofy psychologists here.
akaash singh
Yes, 100%.
joe rogan
But what's crazy is the guy was successful.
He was doing really good, and yet he was still trying to date high school kids.
akaash singh
Yeah, to date real women, hot women.
joe rogan
And also wanted them to keep their mouth shut.
You're asking a 14-year-old to keep a secret.
akaash singh
Yo, you don't think she's tweeting about this, buddy?
joe rogan
It's totally illegal.
akaash singh
Yeah.
joe rogan
You're like, you're banking your whole future on a teenage kid keeping a secret.
akaash singh
A child.
A teenage girl.
The gabbiest girls on the planet.
joe rogan
Who just fucked the subway guy.
How could she not tell people?
akaash singh
Dude, to her, that's a hit!
That's a rockstar!
joe rogan
Do you know how many girls I've talked to that had sex with grown men while they were in high school?
I've talked to so many girls, especially girls my age, that when they were 15, 16 years old, they had affairs with 30-year-old guys.
akaash singh
That's so crazy, dude.
I'm watching this show.
I don't know how accurate it is, but do you watch Euphoria?
joe rogan
No.
akaash singh
I watch Euphoria, and there's multiple scenes of women having sex with dudes who are, like, grown men, and they're in high school.
And I was wondering how accurate the show was, and I was like, is that some shit that happens a lot?
Because that's crazy.
And then hearing you say that, almost confirmed, like, dude, that's crazy.
joe rogan
Yeah, when I was in high school, my friend, she had, like, a relationship with one of the teachers.
And she was 17, and the teacher was, like, 30. Yeah, we had two teachers that went to jail, I think, for that.
akaash singh
Or like one, I think, might have got away with it and then got fired later and then one went to jail.
joe rogan
I mean, the police wrote a song about it.
Don't Stand So Close to Me.
akaash singh
I heard about that.
joe rogan
Young teacher.
unidentified
Yeah.
The subject of schoolgirl fantasy.
akaash singh
I heard there was a bunch of songs that were talking about like 14 year old girls.
Like Mick Jagger, I think.
Oh, yeah.
It's crazy.
joe rogan
How about Kiss?
akaash singh
Gene Simmons had a song called Christine 16. I mean, it's wild that we don't, we're like retroactively canceling all kinds of shit and these guys are like, yeah, but you know.
joe rogan
What is this?
Don't stand so close to me.
Yeah.
Yeah.
akaash singh
Oh, wow.
That's rough, huh?
Fuck me.
That's rough.
joe rogan
Well, if you're a guy and you're, you know, living in the time where they wrote these songs and you're a 30-year-old guy and someone's like almost legal.
It's like they'll be legal in a year, but not now.
akaash singh
Yeah.
joe rogan
And there's like this weird tension and the girl's flirting with him and he doesn't know what to do.
It's a different era.
akaash singh
Yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
And they would write these songs about that, whereas no one would write a song about that today.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
He was like, wait a minute, are you saying you want to fuck kids?
Is that your song?
akaash singh
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
Hey!
No!
I'm not gonna.
I'm just saying don't stand so close to me.
akaash singh
I'm saying I'm trying to be patient.
It's her fault.
joe rogan
Don't stand so close to me because my dick is hard as a rock.
I'm trying to be a good person.
akaash singh
I'm the good guy here.
She's the one that's the temptress.
joe rogan
Yeah, goddamn siren.
Dragging me into the rocks.
But the crazy thing is, if it's the opposite, literally no one gives a fuck.
If it's a 15-year-old boy and a 30-year-old lady, who had the best joke?
Galifianakis had a joke.
And he goes, did you hear about it?
This boy died because he was having an affair with his high school teacher.
Yeah, his friends high-fived him to death.
unidentified
That's great.
akaash singh
I don't feel anything.
joe rogan
Don't feel bad at all!
akaash singh
No.
joe rogan
No, you don't feel bad at all.
akaash singh
There's an age at which it's going to fuck the kid for sure.
Like 13, 12, 11. That kid's fucked.
joe rogan
15, 16. He's fine.
Even 13. He's going to be fine if he's got a good dad.
You're going to be fine, kid.
Keep moving.
Walk it off.
Listen, you found out about something awesome early.
But it depends on what the woman looks like.
If she looks like a cafeteria lady, if she's a giant football player looking lady.
akaash singh
But then it's only up from there.
joe rogan
Yeah, but that's gross.
If someone's gross, then it's not good.
Then it's like, what do they do to my fucking kid?
akaash singh
That's a crime.
joe rogan
But if she's like Sofia Vergara, then you're like, you son of a bitch.
akaash singh
You're right.
But then you're set up for disappointment for the rest of your life.
Who else is going to do that?
joe rogan
Maybe the kid's off to the races.
akaash singh
Mary Kay Letourneau, not bad looking.
We want to be honest about it.
unidentified
Isn't that bad?
akaash singh
We want to be honest about it.
joe rogan
Yeah, and also crazy.
And that's the thing we're talking about, like the Coulter Wall song.
akaash singh
Yeah.
joe rogan
Wild bitches.
akaash singh
You can't tame a wild bitch.
joe rogan
Can't tame them.
You can't, like, yeah, I mean, if you meet a girl and the first time you meet her, she fucks all of your friends.
Yeah.
That's not gonna be your wife.
akaash singh
No, that's not it.
That's not the one.
joe rogan
If you're all doing coke together and she fucks everyone you know, you can't think like, hey, let's go for coffee and then have a normal relationship.
She's crazy.
akaash singh
Yeah, it's done.
joe rogan
You can't try to change that.
Appreciate her for who she is.
akaash singh
She's the wild bitch.
joe rogan
But don't try to cuff that one out.
akaash singh
No, 100%.
Hey, that's your country song.
Don't tame a wild bitch.
joe rogan
You gotta let people be wild.
There's wild people out there, man.
akaash singh
Yeah, can't tame the wild spirits.
joe rogan
There's certain people that, like, the world needs variety.
akaash singh
Yes.
joe rogan
You need all kinds of different people.
akaash singh
Yes.
joe rogan
And you can't tame the wild ones.
akaash singh
No.
You let her live single.
Let her roam free.
joe rogan
Yeah, you have to.
You don't have options.
You just gotta just like, that's what it is.
akaash singh
She gonna force it.
If you try to force your way in, she gonna force her way out.
joe rogan
You can't take a wolf and make it sit.
They don't sit.
They don't listen.
akaash singh
There you go.
joe rogan
Tell a wolf to sit.
He'll be like, fuck you.
akaash singh
Yeah, that's true.
joe rogan
He'll be like, sit, lie down.
He'll be like, uh-uh, not lying down.
Fuck you talking about?
That's a wild animal.
She's a wild bitch.
akaash singh
She's an untamable horse, too.
She's an untamable stallion.
joe rogan
She's a woman of power and purpose, and she likes to fuck a lot of people.
And that's what she wants.
You gotta let her be her.
akaash singh
Yeah, let her live, man.
joe rogan
But in this society, frowned upon.
akaash singh
No, no, we don't slut shame anymore.
joe rogan
No, it's over?
akaash singh
Now it's celebrated.
Oh, slut celebrated.
joe rogan
You live in New York.
unidentified
Yes.
joe rogan
They're all so confused there, they don't know what to do.
Crime's free, everything's legal.
akaash singh
Dude, I don't like New York.
Andrew moved us back there and I hate him for it.
joe rogan
Why didn't you stay in Miami?
akaash singh
This idiot wanted to be better at comedy, loser.
joe rogan
He thinks that being in New York makes you better at comedy?
akaash singh
No, here's actual reasoning, and it made sense to me.
He was like, I need to be around the overreactors.
To be to draw material from whereas in Miami everybody's so disconnected and so kind of happy in their own bubble You're not you don't have anything to react against in New York Everybody's reacting to all this dumb shit and then you can always you can react to them reacting and that's where you can draw material yeah At that, in this time in my life, I'm doing so much stuff about being married and relationships, my first relationship, so like, to me it was whatever.
And I'll, you know, but for him it's like, nah, I need to be in New York.
And I still hate him for it.
I would much rather be, but I do think New York is gonna clean up crime-wise.
I got faith in this Mayor Eric Adams.
unidentified
Do you?
akaash singh
Because he don't give a fuck, dude.
Did you see this controversy he got in where he was like, we need to get back to businesses being open because my low-skill employees, the guys who work at Dunkin' Donuts, the guys who work at McDonald's, they don't have the skills to work in office jobs.
They need these jobs open.
And everybody was saying that was a mean thing for him to say and they got pissed at him.
I love that he said that.
He's telling the truth.
Low-skill employees, yeah, they can't work in a...
You think a fucking Starbucks barista could be the CEO of Pfizer?
Eat my ass, dude, no!
He's honest, he don't give a fuck, and I like him for it.
joe rogan
Yeah, isn't that interesting that that's a controversial thing to say?
That there are low-skill employees Yeah.
akaash singh
It's just the stupidest.
I think AOC tried to high horse it and was like, I was a bartender and it's way harder than being a politician.
That's because politicians aren't real jobs.
joe rogan
Yeah.
akaash singh
You just kiss everybody's ass for a living.
You have the lowest skill job.
But you couldn't be a doctor as a bartender.
I promise a doctor's harder.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's way harder.
akaash singh
So there are high skill jobs.
There are low skill jobs.
Comedy, not a high skill job.
It's hard.
joe rogan
Oh, it's a high skill job.
akaash singh
It's a high-skilled job, but anybody could do it.
You just do it.
joe rogan
No, not everybody could do it.
There's a very small percentage of people that could do it.
akaash singh
You think so?
joe rogan
Yeah.
akaash singh
I think if you just train, you could do it.
I think there's jobs that, like, no matter how much training you do, you're probably not smart enough to pull it off.
joe rogan
It depends on where you're starting from.
It's because some people have a personality that lends itself to comedy.
And some people have a view of things that, like, they can see things that other people don't see, and they like to point them out.
akaash singh
Okay, that's fair.
joe rogan
But some people, they don't have that at all.
akaash singh
I think that's the comics we like.
We're drawn to those.
And those are the great comics.
But if you just want to be proficient at comedy, you can be the fucking Clapter comic.
You can be the zany comic.
I don't know.
joe rogan
I think it's harder than that.
I think we're lucky because we have whatever the gene is that lets you do comedy.
But there's some people that don't have it.
Like, you've seen some people that are unfixable.
You see them on stage.
akaash singh
Yeah, I've seen a small handful that it's like, you will never be good at this.
joe rogan
They just can't.
There's a disconnect between the way they see the world and what the world really is, and they can't do it.
akaash singh
Have you never seen a comic that you thought was going to be terrible, and then you come back and see them later, and you're like, oh shit, you got this.
I feel like I see that more than the guy who just stays shitty.
I can think of one guy in my mind who's sucked for 15 years.
And I obviously won't say his name, but I'm like, wow.
joe rogan
Say it.
akaash singh
No, no.
joe rogan
I'm just kidding.
akaash singh
No.
The guy doesn't like me, so I could, but yeah.
joe rogan
Why doesn't he like you?
akaash singh
I don't know.
He told, he thinks, so my parents used to own it.
My parents have like had money, lost money, had money, lost money.
And he tells, for some reason this matters to him.
He says, I pretend I'm, my parents are poor and they're really not or something like that.
joe rogan
You do that?
akaash singh
Well, I would say we didn't have money.
We didn't have money.
We had a failing restaurant that was, you know, we would feed people.
joe rogan
Why does he give a fuck?
akaash singh
I don't know, dude.
It's such a weird lie for me to tell.
And also, why would you care if I lied about it?
joe rogan
That's probably why he's not funny.
Probably.
Because he thinks about stupid shit.
akaash singh
Probably.
And like it was really fixated on it, like telling a bunch of people and it really bothered me for a while.
And then I was like, oh, that's the loser mentality.
joe rogan
That is the loser mentality.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Because it's wasted resources trying to diminish someone.
And he probably sees you climbing up and doing well and getting respect and killing and he doesn't like it.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
It's angry.
akaash singh
Yeah.
joe rogan
So he starts hating on your past.
akaash singh
But that's the only guy that's not funny and never will be funny.
joe rogan
Oh, there's a lot of those guys.
I know a lot of those guys.
akaash singh
Outside of homeless people?
There's homeless people doing comedy in LA for 20 years.
joe rogan
That's true, too.
Yeah, there's a few of those.
akaash singh
That's who you are.
joe rogan
But there's a guy, there's a homeless guy that used to do comedy in LA that was really funny.
akaash singh
Boone!
joe rogan
He was just Robert William Approvita.
Yeah, boom shakalaka.
Yeah, he's funny.
akaash singh
Yeah.
joe rogan
But he's just, he was always like selling records and shit at the store.
He'd come by with t-shirts.
unidentified
He's so funny.
joe rogan
He always had something to sell.
akaash singh
That's so funny.
joe rogan
He's nice though.
He was always nice to me.
akaash singh
Nice guy.
joe rogan
Yeah.
But, um, no, Robert William Appervire was a, he was a lawyer that went crazy.
And, uh, or was crazy always.
And, uh, would do only weed comedy.
Like, would do weed comedy, wear the same suit every time.
And would always be there at the end of the open mic nights.
He couldn't shake his hand, but he was very friendly.
He just had this distance thing with people, but he was funny.
He had some good jokes, made me laugh.
akaash singh
Why homeless then?
joe rogan
Because he was crazy.
akaash singh
Ah, there you go.
joe rogan
Or he is crazy.
I hope he's still okay.
But there's something there.
It's like a schizophrenia or something.
Something legit.
akaash singh
Got you.
joe rogan
A legit issue.
akaash singh
Yeah.
joe rogan
Disconnect.
akaash singh
Something.
joe rogan
Yeah.
I mean, have you ever known someone that was pretty normal and then they lost it?
akaash singh
Not yet, knock on wood.
That, like, I saw someone lose it.
No.
joe rogan
I know a couple people like that, that were pretty functional.
akaash singh
Yeah.
joe rogan
Pretty functional.
And then life just threw them a couple of curveballs, and Joey Diaz threw them a couple of edibles.
That's a real one, man.
If you know anybody that's got, like, schizophrenic tendencies, don't let them eat weed.
akaash singh
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's big.
joe rogan
It's big.
akaash singh
Any mental health tendencies, just stay off, stay sober, stay everything.
joe rogan
Uh-huh.
For sure, stay away from edibles.
akaash singh
Yeah.
joe rogan
There's...
I don't know what it is about edibles in some people, but it's almost like the barrier that keeps the crazy out is very porous.
akaash singh
Right.
joe rogan
And the edibles open holes in that barrier, and they can never close it back up again.
akaash singh
Dude, edibles are...
I don't smoke weed.
I had a Delta...
I'll do CBD. I had a Delta 8 gummy.
From Wex.
You know Charlemagne's guy, Wex?
And it was like however many milligrams.
I ate half.
I didn't feel anything.
The next day I ate a whole one.
I felt fine until I went to sleep.
I woke up.
The fucking room was spinning, dude.
For the next 20 hours, I was on a plane.
I thought we were crashing every five minutes.
It was wild.
Edibles are wild.
I'll smoke and I'll just be like, yeah, it's relaxing, CBD, whatever.
Edibles are wild.
joe rogan
It's a totally different drug.
akaash singh
And it's so, it's like a fucking, you gotta be so exact with the amount.
joe rogan
Yeah, and they're not made by scientists.
They're fucking bathtub gin makers, these assholes.
akaash singh
Prohibition bootleggers, dude.
joe rogan
Yeah, they're making it some kitchen in some fucking weird apartment somewhere.
akaash singh
Yeah, man.
I wish, though, because that combines two great things, food and feeling high.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's a different high.
See, when you smoke marijuana, you get THC, but when you eat it, it's processed by your liver, and it produces something called 11-hydroxymetabolite.
It's four times more psychoactive than THC. I had a whole bit about it because I ate pot and I talked to dolphins on a boat once.
akaash singh
What were they saying?
joe rogan
I had this communication.
Well, they were playing with the boat and I realized these are like water people.
It's not as simple as an animal.
Dolphins literally try to play with you when you have a boat.
There's something about them that's crazy intelligent.
akaash singh
Yeah.
joe rogan
But because I was so high, I was like, I'd make eye contact with them when they were jumping through the water and they'd look at you and I was like tripping out that this intelligent, playful, thoughtful creature is like looking at me.
akaash singh
Also a rapist.
Isn't that wild?
joe rogan
Not just a rapist, infanticide.
They kill babies to force the female to breed again.
akaash singh
That's wild.
joe rogan
It's wild.
And it's one of the reasons why female dolphins are sluts.
Female dolphins fuck as many male dolphins as they can so that when the male dolphin sees them with their offspring, the male dolphin's like, I remember I fucked her.
akaash singh
Oh, wow.
joe rogan
Because she won't breed.
I think it's for like six years while she's raising the dolphin cub.
akaash singh
Oh, Jesus.
joe rogan
And so the males used to just kill the dolphin cubs to force the female to breed again.
akaash singh
Yeah.
joe rogan
But when the female has sex with a bunch of males, then the male will see her and see the kid and go, oh, that might be my kid.
akaash singh
That might be my kid.
joe rogan
Yeah.
akaash singh
Dude, that's an evolutionary staple.
I remember when I was pre-med, they made you take an evolution class, and the fundamental principle always stuck with me is there's two things you got to know.
Genetic investment, meaning our sperm is very cheap, so that's why we try to fuck everything.
And women's eggs are very rare and valuable, so that's why they hold on to them.
joe rogan
Yep.
akaash singh
And also mama's baby, papa's maybe.
So a male looks at offspring and never knows if it's his.
In any species except humans like 20 years ago with blood tests.
So you never know if that kid is yours or not.
So I'm going to fuck everything.
And when I see kids, hopefully they're mine.
And the woman knows it's mine.
I don't have to worry about it.
So that drives all of evolution.
That was stuck with me this whole time.
joe rogan
And then I think that got subverted or confused when birth control came along.
Because then, all of a sudden, two things were happening.
One, women were taking these hormones that tricked their body into thinking Trick their body into...
unidentified
I gotta start.
joe rogan
This Laird coffee is so good, but the problem is it coats my fucking throat with this...
akaash singh
You got some NeuroGum, buddy?
joe rogan
Turmeric and...
I got you.
akaash singh
You want that?
joe rogan
Thank you.
I do love that stuff.
akaash singh
What was I saying?
Evolution and birth control.
joe rogan
Oh, that women with birth control, it tricks your body into thinking you're pregnant all the time.
Right.
It's really kind of crazy that women go through that.
akaash singh
Yeah.
joe rogan
Because you're putting your body in a state where it thinks it's already pregnant, so you jack it up, you fuck up your hormone profile, and then by doing that, it also confuses a woman like her choices in life, it changes the way you behave and think about relationships with other people.
akaash singh
Yeah, what I don't understand though, some women have to take birth control to regulate their hormones.
Some women's hormones are out of whack, so they need to take birth control to regulate it.
Like if you have PCOS or anything like that.
What is PCOS? Polycystic ovarian syndrome.
unidentified
Oh.
akaash singh
And I know it's prevalent in the South Asian community.
That's why I know what it is.
I don't know much about it, but I know they often have to take birth control to level out their hormones.
joe rogan
I've heard of women taking it also for acne.
People have acne problems, they put them on birth control.
akaash singh
I've heard of one called spironolactone.
joe rogan
Spironolactone is a DHT inhibitor.
akaash singh
Yeah, and I think that helps with acne also.
I don't know if it's just for that, but that also helps with similar stuff.
Usually it's taken for PCOS as well.
joe rogan
I think spironolactone is the stuff they use to stop hair loss.
I think that's a DHT inhibitor.
Is that true?
akaash singh
Spironolactone?
Yeah, I think it's also used to stop hair growth.
jamie vernon
I came up for both when I was Googling it.
joe rogan
Okay, so it's probably both things.
So it's like for a woman to rely on a man to take birth control, that's not, that's too risky.
Dude's going to lie.
akaash singh
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah, I'm on the pill.
akaash singh
Yeah, yeah, 100%.
joe rogan
Shoot it in there, make you pregnant.
That would be annoying.
akaash singh
Pulling out is a tough game.
That's a tough game.
joe rogan
It's a tough game.
akaash singh
Yeah.
joe rogan
It's a tough game.
And then there's also like, there's a birth control pill that they've come up with for men, but I think it murders your testosterone.
I think that's how it works.
unidentified
Oh, that's fucked.
akaash singh
Dude, I don't have any testosterone to spare.
I can't do that shit.
joe rogan
I think it kills your boys, but it also kills the factory.
unidentified
Yeah.
akaash singh
It kills the men.
joe rogan
It kills everybody.
akaash singh
Yeah, dog.
joe rogan
It kills everybody.
You're just a drone.
But that's like the future of men anyway.
The future of men.
If the wokesters have their way, everyone will be built like a popsicle stick.
akaash singh
They're not going to have their way, dude.
I'm telling you, we're just finding equilibrium.
And they're going to overcorrect it.
But nobody really respects these people.
Like the overwoke people.
And that's the beauty of the internet.
And this is the beauty of what I think Andrew did opening up YouTube for our generation.
It's like...
The industry didn't really want to give me anything.
I put this thing out and in two days it got 400,000 views.
joe rogan
That's wild.
akaash singh
And there's, you know, other stuff about how Apu is hurtful.
I don't think 400,000 people saw that in two days.
There's think pieces about it, sure.
But Views from the Cis is a comedy special about views from a cis white male, which is supposed to be the least popular thing on earth.
I think it got six million views.
Find me a comedy special that got six million views about any of the woke stuff.
unidentified
Right.
Right.
akaash singh
So I think I'm not as worried about it.
It's almost good they exist because it gives us something to rail against.
joe rogan
Oh, it does.
akaash singh
Without them, what are we?
joe rogan
It's fuel.
akaash singh
Yeah.
joe rogan
The wokesters are fantastic fuel for comedy.
Also, it's like their comedy sucks.
unidentified
Yes.
joe rogan
It just doesn't have any heat to it.
akaash singh
Because comedy without her feelings isn't funny.
unidentified
It's just not.
joe rogan
Comedy without victims.
akaash singh
Comedy without victims cannot...
And they'll still watch a fictitious show where, like, Steve Carell is a fucking autistic person running around managing an office in the office.
And that's funny, but it's funny because he's always an asshole.
unidentified
Yeah.
akaash singh
And he's always hurting people's feelings or getting his feelings hurt.
But you laugh at that because it's fictitious.
We're not being fully real.
We're not being fully literal.
We're playing with reality.
joe rogan
Right.
akaash singh
So that's...
We're just applying the same principles.
You just feel like it's more real, so it hurts you.
joe rogan
And the woke people are condemned to claptor.
akaash singh
Yes.
joe rogan
They're condemned to the kind of humor that only works with people that have, like, rabidly subscribed to that ideology.
So when you say it, they're like, yes, yes, oh my god, this is so funny, but they're not really laughing.
akaash singh
Never laughing.
joe rogan
They're not crying laughing.
akaash singh
That sucks on a primal level.
You have to feel that as a comic.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah.
akaash singh
The feeling when an audience fucking, there's a, especially mostly with like relationship stuff, when I say certain things, I'll feel the men laugh and the women laugh in a way that's like, dude, I hit them on a fucking deep level.
Like I hit a thing that happens to them every single day and you feel that with them and you don't get that with this.
joe rogan
True.
Yeah, you don't get that.
But some people love that clap shit.
I think those are people without podcasts.
They love to make a point.
What we really need to do is stop carrying water for all the blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
unidentified
Blah!
joe rogan
Yay!
akaash singh
Or they have podcasts that suck.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
akaash singh
There's a lot of people who have podcasts that suck and they've never said anything offensive and that's why no one listens to your podcast.
joe rogan
That's the most confusing thing ever, is how many podcasts there are.
akaash singh
Yeah, I mean, everybody thinks they have something to say.
joe rogan
There's so many.
akaash singh
That's the downside of the internet and Twitter and social media.
Everybody thinks their opinion matters.
I think Patrice had an old bit about this.
You have to earn an opinion.
You shouldn't just be given an opinion in public.
Comics aren't that shit.
We go on stage, even if we don't agree with what they say, the claptor guys, they're going on stage and saying it.
joe rogan
How many podcasts are there now?
Let's take a guess.
akaash singh
I would guess hundreds of thousands.
joe rogan
What are you talking about?
It was millions before.
akaash singh
Oh, really?
joe rogan
It's way more than that.
akaash singh
In America.
joe rogan
Yeah.
No, worldwide.
I don't know if they have it in America.
I'm going to say it's probably close to three million now.
Because it was like two million six months ago.
jamie vernon
I can't find anything more updated than that original stat we found a couple years ago.
joe rogan
I'm grabbing a cigar.
jamie vernon
Two million.
akaash singh
Do it.
What is the number?
jamie vernon
It says there's two million, but then now I'm seeing like there are just under a million active podcasts, so there could have been up to two, almost three, it says 2.7 million.
akaash singh
That means a million people wised up.
jamie vernon
Yeah, then they stopped doing it.
akaash singh
Good for them.
jamie vernon
They did three episodes and tuned out.
joe rogan
There's a lot of that.
akaash singh
Dude, I wish I liked cigars.
That is some man shit.
joe rogan
It's man shit.
You can grow to like it.
akaash singh
I just hate the taste, bro.
joe rogan
Just take a smell.
I have my own cigars.
akaash singh
I know, that's fire.
I saw that too.
joe rogan
Come on, son.
You want to try it?
akaash singh
No, I've tried it.
I can't do it.
joe rogan
Can't do it at all?
akaash singh
Can't.
I just hate the taste.
I'll do the thing where I just leave it in my mouth and I'm like, I can't fucking do it.
Dude, I'm a square.
I should be a woke comic, Joe.
joe rogan
No.
akaash singh
It's not my heart, but it is my body.
joe rogan
That's hilarious.
But it's not your personality.
akaash singh
No, not at all.
joe rogan
You can't be woke.
akaash singh
I can't.
It's not my spirit.
joe rogan
You're too funny.
akaash singh
No, thank you.
I appreciate that.
joe rogan
You have to give up on funny if you want to be woke.
akaash singh
Yeah, I can't do it.
joe rogan
Has anybody ever been woke and given up on it and become good?
That's a good question.
akaash singh
I am curious.
And there's got to be a good woke comic.
There's got to be one I can't fucking think of off the top of my head.
But I'm sure if I watch some, I'm like, nah, they're skilled at this thing.
joe rogan
Some of them get burned.
They start out woke, and then they get burned.
And then they realize, like, oh my god, I can't be woke.
This is bullshit.
akaash singh
Yeah, it's too much to get cannibal.
joe rogan
They came for me.
akaash singh
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
We've seen that with some big comics who really tried to be woke kings.
And then you made one mistake, and they fucking destroyed you.
And now, all of a sudden, they're reasonable.
Hey, why can't we be reasonable?
You've made your bed, now lie in that bitch.
joe rogan
Yeah, you got some apologizing to do, son.
akaash singh
Yeah, tell us.
joe rogan
You turn your back on the one group of humans that you associate with.
akaash singh
Yes.
joe rogan
There's not that many of us.
unidentified
Yeah.
akaash singh
Dude, Andrew always says, ape shall not kill ape.
And I... I think there's a lot of truth to that.
I haven't been as good at that about him.
I'll criticize some comics here and there or whatever, but like, yeah, but it's a small number of us, man.
We got to protect each other.
joe rogan
There's maybe a thousand of us on earth.
akaash singh
Yeah.
joe rogan
Professional, real, legitimate comics making a living doing stand-up.
unidentified
Yes.
joe rogan
Maybe a thousand on earth, which is crazy because there's a million doctors just in the United States.
akaash singh
Yeah, yeah, so we are the smallest percentage.
We can't sit here and cannibalize each other.
joe rogan
No, it's so dumb.
akaash singh
Especially publicly tweeting or being like, yo, this is fucked up.
That's fucking, come on.
joe rogan
The people that are doing that are all failures.
If they're not, it's true.
They're either failures or they're like half-assed.
Like they kind of like, they're lazy.
They don't, they didn't really fully invest.
Their specials are, they're all right.
akaash singh
Yeah, and I think there's an insecure, like when I was a much more insecure person, Like, I've worked on myself a lot.
Therapy five years and figuring out, like, where's my self-worth and what is, you know.
Usually when I had the lowest self-worth, that's when I criticize other people the most.
joe rogan
Right.
akaash singh
Because I don't like this, but I don't want to deal with that.
So this guy sucks and that guy sucks and that guy sucks.
And here's why his ex sucks.
Because if I have to deal with this, like, I don't like myself in a deep way.
unidentified
Right.
akaash singh
So if I have to deal with that, that's painful.
So let's just push it all out there.
joe rogan
Yeah.
unidentified
Yeah.
akaash singh
That's what a lot of the critical shit is.
joe rogan
Yeah, I used to do that, too, when I first started out.
I was always criticizing other people's act, and I realized it was just insecurity.
akaash singh
Well, 100%, dude.
joe rogan
Yeah, just scared of my own shortcomings and failures and lack of talent.
akaash singh
Yeah, and owning that shit is the first step to growing as a human and as a comic.
joe rogan
Yeah.
And you know, though, another step that's really important is learning how to laugh at comedy again.
Because we all started out as fans, and then you start getting competitive as you start coming along.
Instead of laughing at other people, you go, God, I wish I came up with that joke.
akaash singh
Yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
That's pretty good, but I don't like what he, you know.
akaash singh
Yeah, I did the, that's funny.
And then now I fucking, dude, I watched Russell at the Beacon.
I was dying laughing.
So many moments I was like, that's great!
Hysterically laughing.
joe rogan
That's beautiful.
akaash singh
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah, you got to be a fan still.
akaash singh
I think you get back to that.
joe rogan
Yeah.
akaash singh
Because I think you just kind of let go of a lot of the insecurity, and then it's just, oh, this is funny, I can laugh.
joe rogan
Hopefully, and then also hopefully, you are friends with enough comics that you get to hang out together and appreciate each other.
There's a bunch of comics that I call islands.
akaash singh
Yeah.
joe rogan
Because they're not really connected to the other comics.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Like, they make it, and then they have guys work for them, but the guys who work for them, they maybe don't even fly with them.
They don't hang out with them.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
And they don't have, like, real friends that are their peers.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
And they're islands.
akaash singh
Yes.
joe rogan
There are these guys who are just out there drifting.
akaash singh
Yeah.
joe rogan
They're not connected.
akaash singh
Again, I learned that from Andrew.
Treat the people on your team as well as you can.
I got a couple guys I worked on this special with, and I try to make sure they do as much of the same shit as I can.
joe rogan
Yeah.
It's like family.
There's a bond.
There's a tribe.
And that's a thing that, for whatever reason, those guys that are their own little islands, they miss out on.
Those guys go crazy because they never have the real camaraderie of other comics.
And they stop doing clubs because they're always touring and doing theaters or whatever.
They're on the road.
It becomes very weird.
You're disconnected from the one group of people that's not going to understand you.
akaash singh
Yeah, and then just how do you live on the road like that?
Like, I can't imagine the road alone all the time.
joe rogan
So lonely.
akaash singh
I would get in way more trouble.
Like, it's so easy for me to stay out of trouble with my homies right by my side who I count on and I trust and like, dude, we're just gonna, I'm not gonna party, but we're just gonna go get food and talk shit and laugh and I'm gonna have the most fun.
joe rogan
Yeah.
akaash singh
But if I'm alone for week after week after week after month after month after month, God knows what trouble I could get into.
joe rogan
Yeah.
You also go crazy.
akaash singh
Yeah.
joe rogan
Like, you're just lost out there on your own with no one to hang with.
When I used to go on the road and I would just work with a local middle act or a local opener, right?
I'd get booked for Pittsburgh Improv or whatever, and you'd get in there, and then they'd use their guys to open for it.
And sometimes it's great.
You get to meet a funny comic, and you become friends with them.
But five out of ten times, it was a dog show.
And you're hanging out with this guy who's hacky, and they step on your material, and it's like, ugh.
akaash singh
And I don't even, this is, like, I want to save every ounce of everything for the stage, so I don't even want to take the time to get to knowing you.
This is fucked up, but I don't even want to take, use the energy to get to know you before I go on stage.
So I, like, insist on bringing my guys.
joe rogan
Yeah.
akaash singh
Because I don't want to meet a new person.
That's energy I don't want to use.
I want to save it all for right there.
joe rogan
It's also the risk of it being bad.
Like, there's a positive risk.
Like, you might risk meeting someone really cool.
Like, there's a benefit to it.
akaash singh
Yep.
joe rogan
But there's also the risk of like if you're on the road with a bad comedian And you can't even watch their act.
You gotta hide.
Because if you hear someone who's terrible, you don't think anything's funny.
You're like, oh my god, nothing's funny.
Oh, buddy.
akaash singh
Headphones.
Headphones, and you listen to that Carlo whatever the fuck song, and then you just don't listen to anything until...
What was that?
joe rogan
Kate McKinnon?
akaash singh
Kate McKinnon.
joe rogan
Colter Wall.
akaash singh
Dead Bitch song.
Wild Bitch.
You listen to Wild Bitch, and then you'd wait until they say he got the light, and then you take your headphones off.
And then you just go up.
joe rogan
That's good.
That's good.
It's just, uh, you're missing out on the fun part.
The fun is like hanging.
akaash singh
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
The hang is half the fun.
akaash singh
The hang is half the fun, but if you're hanging with somebody you can't hang with, you gotta block it out.
joe rogan
Some guys go hard, like, for long, like, Burt Kreischer goes hard for long stretches of time.
We have a tour bus, and they all hang out in the bus together.
akaash singh
Love that.
That's the best.
unidentified
Yeah.
akaash singh
That's the way to do it.
joe rogan
Yeah.
akaash singh
Yeah, a tour bus.
I hate flying.
I would love to have a tour bus.
Me and my homies just hanging out.
It'd be the best.
joe rogan
It's because it really is like a living room that rolls around.
akaash singh
Yes, and you're just talking shit and having fun.
You're not dealing with fucking TSA and all that.
Just go.
unidentified
Yeah.
akaash singh
Just drive overnight.
joe rogan
Yeah, but you've got to trust that driver.
akaash singh
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
Not fall asleep.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah.
akaash singh
That's a big one.
Didn't I- Tracy Morgan.
joe rogan
Oh, but that was different.
That was using a limo, right?
akaash singh
I thought they were on a tour bus.
joe rogan
Was it a tour bus?
akaash singh
I thought the Walmart driver fell asleep and they were on a tour bus.
So it's not on the driver.
joe rogan
He got badly fucked up by that, right?
akaash singh
I think the driver might have passed away, maybe.
jamie vernon
I saw him on an interview recently jokingly saying he's looking for another one.
joe rogan
He's looking for another accident?
Because he wants more money?
Oh my god, he said that?
jamie vernon
Jimmy's 100% joking.
joe rogan
Of course, but that's Tracy Morgan.
jamie vernon
That's hilarious.
That's how he talks.
joe rogan
How much did he make off of that?
akaash singh
I don't think they disclosed the email.
jamie vernon
Yeah, I think it was undisclosed, but...
Probably a lot, you know, like in the tens, not a hundred, but like tens of millions of dollars.
akaash singh
I'm guessing easy eight figures.
unidentified
Easy.
joe rogan
Yeah.
akaash singh
I mean, this guy almost killed you.
I think he killed the driver, poor guy.
joe rogan
One of the comics died, didn't they?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Didn't someone with him?
akaash singh
One of the openers, I think, died.
I know already Fuqua was on that bus.
jamie vernon
Estimated 90 million.
joe rogan
90 million?
jamie vernon
Yeah, estimated.
I mean, I don't think it's been...
joe rogan
But the way Tracy Morgan lives, that might be gone.
akaash singh
Yeah.
joe rogan
He's a wild fella.
jamie vernon
It's just a lawyer denies that it's 90 million, but...
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
jamie vernon
Sure.
Whatever.
joe rogan
Lawyer denies it.
akaash singh
Yeah.
joe rogan
What does that mean?
akaash singh
Yeah, nothing.
joe rogan
Yeah.
akaash singh
But, yeah, that tour bus outside of the overnight driving, it'd be great.
joe rogan
How long have you and Andrew been doing that podcast together?
akaash singh
Started in 2017. Really?
Yeah, and I remember he did Brilliant Idiots first, and I told him this.
I've always been so happy for him, everything he got, but when he told me he's doing a podcast with Charlamagne, I said to him, I said, this is the first time I've ever been jealous of you, because in my mind, I didn't have anything.
So I couldn't say, don't do that, but in my mind, I was like, dude, I think if we did a podcast, it would be really fucking good.
But that podcast is going to be so good, you have to do it.
And it never crossed my mind you could do two podcasts at the time.
Really?
Yeah.
Then we brought in a third guy a guy Kaz and that you know, we all went our separate ways and God bless him I love him and everything worked out but like we just formed this thing mark came on Alex came on and just became this like Awesome thing where we just go in there and just we're just friends for you know four hours a week or whatever I thought it was great when you guys moved to Miami and he started dressing like he's from Miami.
Oh, it was the best, dude.
It was the best.
It was the happiest time.
Why the fuck are we back in New York?
joe rogan
I told him he should be king of Miami.
akaash singh
I said the same.
joe rogan
You could revitalize the whole comedy scene down there, man.
akaash singh
100%.
joe rogan
Have fun.
He was telling me how much he loved it.
But I think it's got to be not just his decision.
I guarantee the Mrs. Schultz probably has a say.
akaash singh
100%.
And they should have a say.
But damn it, I wish he would say, let's go back to Miami.
You know what I mean?
joe rogan
Well, who knows?
Maybe New York will keep falling apart.
akaash singh
Yo, hey.
joe rogan
I heard he's been, like, he was telling me that he's having trouble with woke audiences.
akaash singh
Yeah, I was hearing that.
And I don't...
I'm not at the cellar, but New York Comedy Club, I find great.
I think New York...
Shouts to Emilio Savon.
It's my favorite club.
Like, they fucking...
Audiences are great.
They're New Yorkers, like, for real, for real.
joe rogan
That's the thing.
As Ari said, the wokesters aren't really from New York.
akaash singh
No.
joe rogan
Because they're from Maine.
akaash singh
Yes.
joe rogan
And they come to New York to be woke.
akaash singh
Yes.
joe rogan
And they, like, embody, like, the full, progressive, urban, woke person.
unidentified
Yes.
akaash singh
They are Austin.
joe rogan
They are the city...
unidentified
No.
No.
joe rogan
Hey, man, that's where I live.
akaash singh
Your club, I want to see your club.
Because there's a lot of clubs here where you're just performing for like vegan retards.
And I want to see your club because I think you'll have real audiences.
You'll have the New York Comedy Club of Austin.
joe rogan
I will show you what we're doing.
It's going to be wild.
akaash singh
Yeah, I can't wait.
joe rogan
We bought a place that's in the heart of everything.
It's in the middle of being done right now.
akaash singh
I can't wait.
joe rogan
I'm very excited.
akaash singh
That's the only place I'm going to perform in Austin after this.
joe rogan
It's going to be the shit.
It'll have two rooms.
I'll have a smaller room and a big room.
akaash singh
Dude, God bless you for hope.
That's what a good guy you are.
You're opening a comedy club, and comedy clubs are notoriously terrible investments.
joe rogan
Yeah, but I'm not doing it for an investment.
akaash singh
Oh, I know.
joe rogan
I'm doing it to break even.
My hope is to break even.
akaash singh
Yeah, so that's what I'm saying.
Good for you.
That's a good guy move.
joe rogan
I want it to be a place where it's like a hub.
Like, you can go there...
And you're protected.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Like the comics can go there and be with other comics.
We have like a safe zone, a home base, where you...
It's run by comics, so it's free, but it's also...
My idea is to have everybody feel good about working there, like with...
Health benefits for all the comics and insurance and everything.
I want everybody to be more protected and safe there than at any other place.
akaash singh
Health benefits?
joe rogan
Yeah, comics need health insurance.
You know how many fucking comics I've had to pay for their surgeries?
akaash singh
Oh, dude, I don't have health insurance.
If it wasn't for my wife being at school, she's getting a master's in business and journalism, that's the only reason I have health insurance.
joe rogan
Well, I would imagine you should get it if you didn't have that.
akaash singh
Buddy, I swear to God, my real mentality is I'm Indian.
I know enough doctors.
I swear to God, for like 12 years, I was like, I'll be fine.
I make a phone call.
I get whatever I need.
joe rogan
Well, that's good.
You got a good resource there.
akaash singh
Yeah.
joe rogan
But what if you need surgery, like major surgery?
akaash singh
I'm flying to Louisiana where my uncle's a doctor.
We're good.
I've done this.
joe rogan
Have you really?
akaash singh
Yeah.
Well, I went to the hospital one time and it was luckily like the six months I had insurance through SAG, but luckily I was in Dallas and then we just drove to Louisiana and my uncle did all the other tests and it was, you know, whatever.
joe rogan
Oh, just so people don't think I have cancer.
This is ingrown hair.
akaash singh
Yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
What's that lump on your face, man?
akaash singh
I can make a phone call and get that diagnosed if you want right now.
joe rogan
Well, I've already been diagnosed.
unidentified
Oh, okay.
joe rogan
It's hopefully going to go down, but I shaved and then it blew up.
akaash singh
Dude, I think you should have a little beard.
joe rogan
I've had beards before.
akaash singh
They look great.
You and Bert.
joe rogan
There's a friend of mine died years ago and all of us online decided to grow our beards out for him.
He's this guy, Evan Tanner, who was a UFC fighter who was a very, very interesting cat.
And he went on a walkabout in Death Valley and got...
Confused and couldn't find his water and wound up dying.
He was one of the people that died from heat exposure in Death Valley.
Because he had water, but when you get dehydrated and disoriented and you go into heat stroke, you can't make good decisions.
And I think he was one of those guys that was always pushing himself and pushing his mind and trying to find himself.
And when he did that, we all found out that he died like that.
We all decided to grow a beard, and I had like a crazy mountain man beard.
It goes all the way up to the top of my cheeks.
akaash singh
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
I had a full ass fucking crazy beard, but it's not the best for comedy.
akaash singh
No, it's not, but a nice light, you know what I mean?
One of those light beards?
joe rogan
That was me.
akaash singh
Oh, that looks solid.
joe rogan
You like that?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
I only had a couple gray hairs there back in the day because I was 39 at the time, I believe.
39 or 40?
akaash singh
How old are you now?
54. You look great, buddy.
joe rogan
Thank you.
akaash singh
It's just a little light, I'm telling you.
joe rogan
It'd be all gray, though.
It'd be mostly gray.
Like, my hair is like half gray.
It'd be salt and pepper.
akaash singh
I think that would look good, too.
Salt and pepper.
unidentified
Wise.
joe rogan
I'm a wise man.
akaash singh
Yeah, exactly.
I'm getting a little pepper, and I'm just gonna have to live with it.
joe rogan
Yeah, I don't like it when dudes dye their beard.
When I see you get that reddish fake dye color to your beard, like, hey man.
akaash singh
It's rough.
But the first few grays are real ugly.
Like, they just stick out real hard.
joe rogan
Well, you start thinking about it, like, oh my god, I'm dying.
akaash singh
Yeah, and well, if it's a nice healthy mix, I think it looks solid, but when it's a couple just sticking out, it's like, whoa.
joe rogan
Some dudes go gray real young.
It's weird.
Like, I had a buddy in his 20s, he was going gray.
akaash singh
Yeah, that's rough.
That's rough.
joe rogan
Yeah, like, late 20s.
It's like fucking all his hair's going gray.
akaash singh
Did you have any of those kids balding in, like, high school?
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
akaash singh
That's the roughest.
joe rogan
There was one kid that we were friends with.
We were 16, he started going bald.
akaash singh
Fucking unbelievable.
That's the roughest fate.
joe rogan
It was brutal.
And he wasn't a good-looking fella anyway.
akaash singh
It's the baby dick of hair.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
And there's not a goddamn thing they can do about it.
akaash singh
No, nothing.
Especially back then.
Now, maybe, you know, Propecia, whatever.
But back then, nothing.
joe rogan
Nothing.
Nothing.
Good luck.
akaash singh
Yeah.
joe rogan
There's a thing that girls can do.
Girls can do so many things to look better.
akaash singh
They're magicians.
joe rogan
You can get fake tits.
akaash singh
Yeah.
joe rogan
You wear makeup.
akaash singh
100%.
joe rogan
Fake lashes.
akaash singh
All of it.
joe rogan
Fake nails.
akaash singh
Done.
joe rogan
Lips are not that color.
akaash singh
No.
Nothing about it is real.
joe rogan
Yeah.
There's so many different things they can do.
Guys can't do shit.
akaash singh
No.
The beard.
That's the one thing we can do.
That's our makeup.
joe rogan
You know, some guys get beard transplants.
Have you seen that now?
unidentified
No.
jamie vernon
Have you seen the micropigmentation?
No.
joe rogan
Oh, they do your head?
jamie vernon
Well, they do it on their beard, too.
unidentified
No.
Oh, wow.
jamie vernon
Yeah, for sure, because some people, it's not full in.
Yeah, I'll show you.
joe rogan
Oh, my God.
The problem with that is, it's like, tattoos, like, if you look at this tattoo, it still looks good, but it was sharper.
akaash singh
Oh, it dulls out over time.
joe rogan
Fifteen years ago when I got it.
akaash singh
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
That's micropigmentation.
akaash singh
That don't look bad.
Good for you.
joe rogan
Also, but the thing is, like, that's going to turn blue.
That over time...
See, because guys...
Oh, so he got this scar on his face covered.
Just deal with your scars, son.
Don't be scared of scars.
But when...
Oh, that's interesting.
So that's all like dots.
But the thing is, like, tattoo ink doesn't stay in the exact same sharpness forever.
Like, if you look at scalp micropigmentation fails...
Look at that.
Bad results.
Scalp micropigmentation.
I don't know.
Maybe they're doing a different ink or maybe they just got too much exposure to sun.
But I saw a dude.
See, that's some of them.
Like that one right there, the upper right corner that you have.
That one, the big one.
The big one.
No, the upper right corner where you just work.
Yeah, make it bigger.
Like that looks like shit.
akaash singh
Does it?
I feel like it looks acceptable.
I can't tell.
joe rogan
I think in that photo it looks like he's just got his head is just painted.
akaash singh
Okay, maybe you're right.
Maybe I'm just not observant.
But I have more sympathy for this because I know if I shave my beard, like right now I'm so handsome, it's crazy.
Like I'm pure sex, Joe.
unidentified
You are.
akaash singh
But if I shave this beard, it's not like that.
joe rogan
Look at that one.
akaash singh
Oh, that's hilarious.
joe rogan
See, that's the thing.
akaash singh
That's Carlos Boozer.
Carlos Boozer has one of those.
It looks so funny.
joe rogan
Who's Carlos Boozer?
akaash singh
He was an NBA player and he used spray paint on his head.
And he told us a story about it.
He was on our podcast and he said he knew he fucked up but it was too late to do anything about it or something.
And it looked like There it is.
unidentified
Oh my god.
akaash singh
It looked crazy.
joe rogan
That's wild.
akaash singh
It looked crazy.
joe rogan
That's like a superhero.
akaash singh
Yeah, he looked like a Jordan 11. Like, if you look at the Jordan 11, Jamie, the patent leather that you probably have, that's that right there.
joe rogan
That's crazy.
Is that real?
unidentified
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
akaash singh
Yeah, it looks like shoe polish.
joe rogan
See, but, oh my god, that's wild.
Why wouldn't he just shave his head?
akaash singh
I think he realized he fucked up, but it was too late.
joe rogan
That is wild looking.
akaash singh
Yeah, it looks terrible.
And he owned it with us.
He was like, yeah, that was a big mistake.
unidentified
Wow.
joe rogan
Wow.
Yeah.
akaash singh
But yeah, you gotta be wary of all that stuff.
But I have more sympathy for it, again, because I know my beard.
Without it, it's a real problem.
joe rogan
If you couldn't grow a beard, would you be upset?
akaash singh
Probably, because I had a...
joe rogan
When was the last time you shaved it off?
akaash singh
I shaved it off like six years ago for some bullshit roll on something that didn't even go anywhere.
joe rogan
Did you hate it?
akaash singh
I hated it.
And then a lady who, like, the sweetest lady, she said, she goes to Marcy Phillips at ABC. She's very real with me.
She's like, you don't look like a cancer patient, but you look like you just beat cancer.
joe rogan
Oh, God.
akaash singh
Yeah.
joe rogan
That's horrible.
akaash singh
Yeah, so ever since then, I've kept a beard.
My wife has never seen me with no beard.
joe rogan
Wow.
akaash singh
Yeah, you're not gonna.
Never.
joe rogan
That's your shit.
akaash singh
Yeah.
joe rogan
Do you think you'd ever rock, like, a mustache alone?
akaash singh
I could do that.
You know what I mean?
Traditional Indian shit.
joe rogan
Just a mustache.
akaash singh
I could do that, I think.
joe rogan
Big, thick cop style.
akaash singh
Big, thick Indian.
joe rogan
Yeah.
akaash singh
There's a saying they told me in India the first time, like, 30 years ago.
They said, That means if you have, the guy who doesn't have a mustache has nothing.
If you don't have a mustache, you have nothing.
unidentified
What?
akaash singh
That's what they told me.
It was some country-ass shit probably.
joe rogan
That's an Indian phrase?
akaash singh
I mean, the first time I was like 98, so I don't know if they still believe that at all, but that was a saying back then.
joe rogan
If you don't have a mustache, you have nothing.
akaash singh
Yeah.
joe rogan
Oh my God, that's hilarious.
akaash singh
Yeah.
That's some man shit out there.
joe rogan
That's hilarious.
But there's something like the mustache by itself.
akaash singh
It's pure testosterone, Doug.
joe rogan
Yeah.
akaash singh
You know what I mean?
You're doing it.
joe rogan
There's a few fighters like Don Fry, Don the Predator Fry, he always rocked a mustache.
He was like a man from a different era.
akaash singh
Yeah, I think if you're a fighter doing it, it's like...
I had a friend who used to wear the most flamboyant shorts playing basketball, and I'd ask him why, and he would go, imagine getting beat by somebody wearing these.
It would just fucking destroy you.
joe rogan
Yeah.
akaash singh
And that's probably what just a mustache is.
joe rogan
There's a lot of guys who do that with their rash guards, jujitsu guys.
They wear rash guards that have like rainbows on them and elves and fairies.
That's so good.
akaash singh
God bless those guys.
joe rogan
They strangled people.
akaash singh
Yeah.
God bless those guys.
joe rogan
No, he didn't just tap me with rainbow spats on.
akaash singh
And that's actually why boxing, the idea is very romantic to me, of a boxer on the street, is like, that guy looks scrawny as shit, but he could fucking destroy you.
And UFC jiu-jitsu guy's probably the same, but I always remember thinking that of a, like, I saw this, like, feather, like, bantamweight boxer just walking, and I wasn't starting to fight with him or anything, but somebody was like, yo, that guy's, like, a really good boxer.
And I was like, that's so funny, because everybody probably thinks this guy's a nobody, and he will fucking destroy you.
joe rogan
Well, a lot of the really elite jujitsu guys look so unassuming outside of jujitsu.
Like, you look at them, and you're like, this guy's like an accountant.
He looks like a nerd.
akaash singh
I want to learn jujitsu, Joe, and I want to take steroids.
These are two things I want to do, and maybe you know people.
I don't know.
joe rogan
Yeah, I know people.
akaash singh
I was supposed to take steroids.
unidentified
For what?
akaash singh
In Miami.
Anavar.
I was supposed to take, I think.
joe rogan
Who's going to give you Anavar?
Some guy?
akaash singh
Some guy.
unidentified
A guy.
joe rogan
She's got it from a doctor.
If you're going to do steroids, first of all, if you're going to do anything, you should get a whole blood panel done.
akaash singh
Okay.
unidentified
Talk to me.
joe rogan
Get your blood lipids done.
akaash singh
Talk to me.
joe rogan
But also, you should start to manipulate your body with nutrition and exercise first.
Do you lift weights?
akaash singh
Yes.
joe rogan
A lot?
akaash singh
A few times a week.
joe rogan
If you want to get stronger and bigger, you're going to have to do heavy weight-bearing exercises.
You're going to have to do deadlifts and squats.
Those are the big ones because they force your body to thicken up.
akaash singh
There's a guy that's great actually, the muscle dog, Jordan Shallow.
He trained us in Miami.
Loved that guy.
And then his guy Lou trains me in New York.
And they said, what do you want?
I said, first and foremost, I want to not be old and walk with all these imbalances and shit like that.
I don't want to, like, my mom is in bad shape.
Can't, like, walk up right.
And I'm like, I don't want any of these issues.
Then I want to work on, and then we worked on raw strength, too.
I think Jordan got me from, I couldn't even squat.
Like, I couldn't even do a squat.
He got me to, like, 155 or something within, like, three, four months.
unidentified
That's great.
akaash singh
So we did that.
But then I was like, let's work on imbalanced shit.
But I want, yeah.
So I live with these guys, and they're very, like, they know biomechanics very well.
But then I just want to look better with no clothes on at the end of the day.
joe rogan
You gotta talk to your boy, Camille.
He went to Dr. Feelgood.
akaash singh
He went too much, though.
The face...
unidentified
He called Dr. Feelgood.
akaash singh
The face has gotten too much.
joe rogan
It's interesting because he's still loved by the progressive, but he's entered into a dark world of looking jacked.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
And they're like, hey.
akaash singh
We're just not talking about it.
joe rogan
We used to like you when you were kind of fat and kind of like skinny fat.
Like, why are you like, look at him, bro.
akaash singh
He's a stud.
joe rogan
He's a stud.
Like, you can't tell me he doesn't look way better.
akaash singh
Oh, this was his peak right here.
joe rogan
Yeah.
akaash singh
If you asked me, that was it.
Now it's getting too far on the other side.
joe rogan
Shut the fuck up.
Let him keep going.
unidentified
See you.
joe rogan
He was in the Eternals, right?
akaash singh
Yes.
joe rogan
That's why he got jacked.
akaash singh
Yes.
joe rogan
Look at that one right there with the mask on.
Shut the fuck up, son.
Guns on that motherfucker.
Anybody would think that that doesn't look good.
You're lying to yourself.
You're lying to everybody.
akaash singh
I'm not saying it doesn't look good.
joe rogan
You do want to be that way.
If I could give you a pill and you could look like that, you would take it.
akaash singh
I'm just saying I prefer my men a little leaner, Joe.
That's all.
You like more masculine men.
unidentified
Whoa.
akaash singh
I like a little leanness, you know?
joe rogan
You like them thin?
akaash singh
Not thin.
joe rogan
What do you like?
akaash singh
That guy right there.
Kumail, that was a hot bod he had right there.
joe rogan
So you want the one where before he got super jacked.
akaash singh
Yeah, not super jacked.
joe rogan
How about that?
That's good.
akaash singh
Yeah, yeah, that's decent.
That's decent.
joe rogan
That's nice.
akaash singh
Yeah, that's a nice...
joe rogan
Men's health.
akaash singh
That's health right there.
joe rogan
But the crazy thing is when you go before and after.
You look at like the before, like right there.
akaash singh
Yeah, that's wild, dude.
That guy looks like my uncle on the left.
joe rogan
Holy shit.
That is like...
That guy was going to meet his ex-girlfriend.
And he hadn't seen her in five years.
And he showed up in a tight-fitted, nice Italian t-shirt.
She would be like, what the fuck are you doing?
Who are you?
Is this really you or are you the brother?
That's what he used to look like.
I mean, what the fuck, man?
Everything changed.
akaash singh
Look at the facial structure on the- you see the picture with the- Yeah.
That's what I don't want.
joe rogan
Shut the fuck up.
He looks great.
akaash singh
The face?
Look how the face looks all different.
joe rogan
Looks perfect.
I love it.
akaash singh
It's not bigger?
joe rogan
Looks like a real man.
Because he's got muscles.
akaash singh
That's not face muscles, Joe!
joe rogan
Well, here's the thing that happens.
You have jaw muscles.
akaash singh
Yeah.
joe rogan
And one of the things that happens when you're lifting, right?
If you're doing like deadlifts and shit, you fucking- Yeah.
Like, all this shit gets exercised and it gets thicker and stronger.
Plus, for sure, there's some exogenous testosterone involved in this process, too.
akaash singh
That's what I'm saying.
I'm wary of.
joe rogan
Bones are getting denser because you're lifting weights, so you have all this weight that you're carrying around, so everything gets thicker and denser.
akaash singh
Yeah.
joe rogan
Looks great.
akaash singh
Yeah.
joe rogan
Talk to that guy.
He probably wouldn't even answer you.
akaash singh
No.
unidentified
I don't think he knows who I am.
joe rogan
Probably knows now.
akaash singh
He'll find us soon, but I don't think he knows yet.
joe rogan
Ah, come on.
Comics know who's coming up.
unidentified
Don't you think?
akaash singh
Yeah, I guess.
I just look at him more as an actor now, and I don't mean that as a shot.
I just mean, like, the guy blew up so much in acting.
What else could he...
Like, you have to do that.
joe rogan
That's a trap.
akaash singh
It's tough.
If you love comedy, it's tough.
It's like golden handcuffs, almost.
joe rogan
The only wise male to pull that off, like, completely unscathed is Burr.
Unscathed.
He hasn't changed his act at all.
akaash singh
Unbelievable.
joe rogan
And he does a gang of movies.
He does The Mandalorian.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
He did that.
unidentified
He's great.
joe rogan
The Staten Island movie, whatever that movie was.
akaash singh
Yeah, he was great in that.
joe rogan
He's great.
He's great.
But he'll dance in that world, but he doesn't give a fuck.
He'll do those talk shows.
He'll do Conan and those kind of shows.
But he's still as pure a comic as you can be.
And you ask him, that fucking dude, he don't read shit about himself or social media.
akaash singh
It's heroic.
joe rogan
He's fucking completely...
He put out a special, and we're talking about bits that are controversial.
He goes, eh, I just fucking stay offline for a couple weeks.
And that's what he does.
akaash singh
He got it figured out, man.
joe rogan
Yeah, it just crushes everybody, stays offline for a couple weeks, the storm dies down, and he comes back, yeah, and another thing.
akaash singh
I think he is, from afar, it seems like he's a testament to blowing up later.
joe rogan
Yes.
akaash singh
Like, it took him so long to get the recognition he deserved that when he got it, he was so fucking undeniable.
unidentified
Polished.
akaash singh
And now you can't tell him nothing.
joe rogan
And he's got money.
akaash singh
Yeah.
joe rogan
That's the other thing.
Once you have money and an audience, like Bill Burr's audience will follow him to the end of the earth.
akaash singh
Yes.
joe rogan
He's got an audience and he's got money.
He doesn't have to listen to you.
And he also is a self-made man.
akaash singh
Yes.
joe rogan
Right?
So all these people that have opinions on what he should do or shouldn't do or should say or shouldn't say, he's like, I know what the fuck I'm doing.
akaash singh
Yeah.
joe rogan
I've been doing this forever.
Fuck off.
akaash singh
And he didn't get his audience too early.
I think you can get your audience too early and then you just get stuck in, my audience loves me no matter what, so I don't have to grow.
joe rogan
He also has this brilliant distinction that he has this podcast where it's just him ranting.
akaash singh
It's so good.
joe rogan
It's the most unusual podcast.
He is just constantly flexing his material muscle.
He's always coming up with new material.
Because always has like new things to talk about and he's literally just ranting.
Like he probably has an idea of like what his take on something is and then he's just ranting.
akaash singh
Yeah.
joe rogan
And so like he's every year he's got new bits that are rock solid.
akaash singh
It's incredible.
joe rogan
Tim Dillon same way.
akaash singh
Yeah.
joe rogan
Tim Dillon has even got a better situation because he's got Ben, who's his producer, who's like a one-person audience member.
akaash singh
Yes.
joe rogan
So he's just ranting to him.
akaash singh
And if he gets a laugh, maybe I got something.
joe rogan
He went on this thing about how he could get canceled.
Like, why can't he get canceled?
Why can't I get canceled?
akaash singh
It's such a funny clip, dude.
joe rogan
It's such a great bit.
akaash singh
He's a mega-talent, this kid.
joe rogan
It's so funny.
See if you can find it.
It's so funny.
jamie vernon
The thing you just put out?
joe rogan
Yeah, about like, why...
akaash singh
I'm doing everything.
What do I have to say to get canceled?
I'll say anything.
joe rogan
But it's a brilliant response to people canceling me.
Yeah.
And he's just got this way of making fun of shit.
Give me some volume.
tim dillon
I am so incredibly jealous of this man and his ability to continually be in the news.
unidentified
I mean, I have chased my whole entire shit career.
tim dillon
The type of attention that he is getting right now.
unidentified
And it's impossible for someone like me to get.
They won't even let me get big enough to be hated and attacked.
It's the one thing I've always wanted.
To be threatened by the White House press secretary.
To be deplatformed.
tim dillon
To have Roxane Gay pull her podcast off Spotify because of me.
unidentified
And I can't, it doesn't happen.
akaash singh
It's so good.
And I'm watching Ben.
unidentified
I want Jair Bolsonaro tweeting that I'm doing the right thing.
akaash singh
I'm so good.
unidentified
What should I do?
I'll go out and say cancer's not real.
Tell me what to do to get this level of publicity.
I'll say AIDS was good.
Tell me what to do.
I'll say being gay is a choice.
I'll say abortion, people that have them should be hung in a public square.
What can I do?
I don't even think it's that fucking controversial to say that the vaccines didn't work that well.
But that seems, that's I guess the ticket.
That's what draws you the ire of all of civilization.
Everybody gets mad and they only want to talk about you.
They only want to talk about him now.
It's all about him!
What about me?
Where is our shitstorm?
akaash singh
Dude, Ben is a perfect foil for him, too.
unidentified
Perfect.
Yeah.
Perfect.
akaash singh
Because I'm watching him to see what is he picking up on.
unidentified
Yeah.
akaash singh
Because as a comic, you're like, what are you giving him that he's being like, nah, I got it.
Let's go.
joe rogan
Well, Tim is one of those guys, too, that like when you're with him, you have a smile that just you're waiting for him.
akaash singh
100%.
joe rogan
To say something fucked up.
You have this smile and everything is tongue in cheek.
akaash singh
Yeah.
joe rogan
So even when he has a good point, it will be followed by something preposterous.
akaash singh
Yes.
joe rogan
He'll make a good point about economics or government.
akaash singh
And that's the genius.
joe rogan
And it'll be followed by madness.
akaash singh
And that's the genius.
And that's why you stay tuned in.
That's the brilliance of him.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Well, he's also a guy who's found his way during the pandemic and found his way completely outside of the channels of mainstream.
Like, he didn't need a television show.
He didn't need anything sanctioned.
unidentified
No.
joe rogan
Everything he did was all online.
akaash singh
No.
joe rogan
And everything he did was all undeniable.
And now he's selling out theaters everywhere.
akaash singh
And that's what I'm saying.
The woke shit is like, yo, y'all can have that.
And the industry, we'll bank on that for a while.
I think at some point they'll realize it's not really working out.
But we have this and we have the people and the people will carry you everywhere.
joe rogan
Yeah.
akaash singh
And then you don't have to deal with nearly as much bullshit because your people will support you.
joe rogan
Before there was Woke, though, there was Alt.
There was Alt comedy, and it was kind of the same thing.
akaash singh
I thought Woke was just like the next evolution of Alt.
joe rogan
Yeah, but Alt didn't have extreme social dynamics and a rigid ideology to subscribe to.
Alt was just like, they got upset if you were too loud, or if you put too much effort, you tried too hard.
They just wanted to talk like this and do their comedy like this.
akaash singh
They hated me when I first moved to New York because I was animated as a comic.
joe rogan
Isn't that amazing?
akaash singh
I didn't understand it.
I was like, New York sucks.
And then I found out that was just the one scene that was doing all these open mics.
And then I found guys like Andrew and I was like, oh, okay, this comedy exists here.
joe rogan
Imagine being upset because someone's trying to be entertaining.
akaash singh
Yeah, I don't understand.
I don't understand any of it.
I don't understand.
But it's weird because it all comes from a well-meaning place.
Like, the idea of alt was like, yo, comedy doesn't have to be this one thing.
And they're fighting back against hacky club acts.
Not good club acts.
So you had alt guys who would crush.
Like, I heard Maren would crush.
And he was an alt guy.
And Maria Bamford would crush.
And she was an alt girl.
And then it just morphed into this thing.
And alt comedy probably started from a well-meaning place.
Like, I'm sure if we watched, like...
If comics in the 70s who weren't amazing, like not the Dangerfields and not the whoever's, you'd be like, yo, some of this shit is brutal, dude.
And so woke comedy probably started as like, well, we don't need to do all that.
And now it's morphed into this thing that you're like, what the fuck is happening?
joe rogan
Yeah.
Well, it's just like everything else.
People try that stuff on.
My friend Bridget Phetasy and I were talking about this.
She said she read one of the pieces that she wrote when she was in her 20s, and she's like, Jesus Christ, I sound like AOC. Yes.
But now she's older, and she's kind of like center...
She's more of a centrist, and she has some takes that people that are heavy left-leaning would almost think are conservative.
She's not conservative, but she's...
She's more of a centrist, and she sees the folly and the bullshit of these ideological traps that a lot of people fall into.
Because once you're in these groupthink environments, you kind of have to follow the way they think.
You can't deviate.
You can't go, well, I don't think there's anything wrong with this.
I don't think she's doing anything wrong, or I don't think what he said was that bad.
I think what he's trying to say is this.
One thing about comedy comedy, like outside of woke comedy, there's no traps like that.
Comedy comedy is just like, is it funny?
akaash singh
And I need you to question everything as a comic.
joe rogan
Exactly.
akaash singh
If you're not questioning the loudest people around...
I realize...
This is so whatever.
This might sound corny or whatever, but I feel like I was born a comic because I was always annoyed by the loudest voice around me.
When I grew up in Texas, I was annoyed by extreme conservatives.
And I was fairly liberal just as a reaction to them.
Then I moved to New York in like 08. And I was like, oh, y'all are just...
Extreme liberals are just as dumb as them.
And that pushed my comedy more to the right.
And I think a comic has to always react to the loudest voices around him.
And if you're not doing that, you're probably not doing a service to...
Not the art form, but to the audience, even.
joe rogan
Yeah, you gotta react to what's annoying.
akaash singh
Yes, and the loudest voices are always annoying, because they're always wrong.
That's why they're loud, because they're not secure in their opinions.
joe rogan
But we need them, right?
Where would we be if the world was enlightened?
akaash singh
No, 100%.
We need both extremes.
joe rogan
Oh, speaking of which, I wanted to bring this up, because I saw this, and I couldn't even fucking believe that it's a real quote.
There is a proposition that this one guy had put out.
Let me find this, Jamie.
He was essentially saying that they were talking about medicating the water supply to make people less crazy.
And I remember reading this going, this cannot be real.
akaash singh
No, that's fire.
joe rogan
You think that's good?
akaash singh
No, but that's a comic in me that has to find a way that is good.
You know what I mean?
joe rogan
I know I made a screenshot.
I'm trying to find it here.
Because I made a screenshot going, what the fuck am I reading?
Is this real?
akaash singh
See, that's the problem with reading, Joe.
joe rogan
Is that the problem with reading?
unidentified
It's too much.
akaash singh
Dude, it's too much.
What are you doing?
joe rogan
I don't know.
What am I doing right now?
Now I'm wasting time on a podcast trying to find the answer to this thing.
akaash singh
Well, you know, I'm sure I could force out a pee right now while you find this thing.
joe rogan
Do you have to pee?
akaash singh
I don't have to, but I'm going to soon.
joe rogan
Go ahead.
Go pee.
unidentified
Perfect time.
joe rogan
We'll pause this right here.
akaash singh
Perfect.
joe rogan
We'll be right back, ladies and gentlemen.
And we're back, ladies and gentlemen, with the number one podcast that's canceled in the world.
Yeah.
Show me the original one.
What I sent you.
The image.
So this was someone's idea for a morality pill.
akaash singh
Okay.
joe rogan
So, listen to this.
As the SARS-CoV-2 virus continues to kill thousands of Americans each week, bioethicist Parker Crutchfield has suggested a controversial approach to battling the pandemic.
Namely, a morality pill.
Specifically, he suggests that widespread administration of psychoactive drugs could provide, in quotes, moral enhancement that would make people more likely to adhere to social norms, such as wearing masks and adhering to social distancing guidelines.
The idea that you have to give someone a fucking pill, a psychoactive pill that will make them more compliant and make them follow the guidelines of masks and distancing.
akaash singh
What if you could just give it to your wife and kids, though?
Wouldn't that make your life easier?
You know what I mean?
joe rogan
Make your wife and kids wear masks and stay away from you?
akaash singh
Yeah, just compliant to you.
You know what I mean?
joe rogan
You don't want that, man.
You don't want a compliant wife.
That's the last thing.
You will be so bored.
akaash singh
Are you sure?
Aren't there times?
joe rogan
Yeah, I'm positive.
No, I don't want that.
You don't want that.
It's the easy way.
It's definitely the easy way, but don't do it.
You want a wife that goes, what the fuck are you talking about, bitch?
akaash singh
I got one of those.
joe rogan
Good.
akaash singh
Congratulations.
I got one of those, Spike.
joe rogan
You have to have one of those.
If you don't have one of those, you're doomed.
It's like if you're a comic and you have a wife that's compliant with everything you say, like, ugh.
akaash singh
The number of times I try to say a premise and she just goes, uh, what the fuck are you talking about?
It's astronomical.
joe rogan
That's great.
akaash singh
Yeah.
joe rogan
That's great.
That's important.
akaash singh
Yeah.
joe rogan
You want that.
The last thing you want is someone just like, whatever you say, dear.
Oh my God, you go crazy to be so bored.
akaash singh
I don't know, Joe.
It sounds tempting.
joe rogan
Does it sound good?
akaash singh
It sounds tempting.
joe rogan
Really?
akaash singh
I don't know if it sounds good in the long term, but it sounds tempting.
joe rogan
Right, like a little break.
akaash singh
Yeah, you know, just a little break.
You know, just a little compliance here and there.
joe rogan
So they changed that article because so many people were complaining.
And Jamie pulled up the new version of it.
And the new version of it, look what they say.
No, don't use a morality pill to stop the COVID-19 pandemic.
akaash singh
Oh, there you go.
joe rogan
So it says...
Authors note, I've updated the headline to more closely state my position, as opposed to the position being discussed.
But the position being discussed is what's important.
The original headline, could a morality pill stop the COVID-19 pandemic?
First of all, that's not going to stop a virus that's respiratory, that's transmitted through the air.
There's too many opportunities for transmission.
It's too contagious.
So this is a stupid premise.
That masks and distancing...
When they're talking about, like, distancing in a room, too, I was reading this thing where they're saying, like, you could, like, viruses can be, like, 60 feet of spread.
akaash singh
Yeah, I also don't...
I understood all this early on.
Like, we didn't know what we were dealing with.
It was super deadly relative to most viruses.
Now that we got a vaccine, if you die, you die.
I don't.
If you don't want to get the vaccine and you die, you didn't want to get the vaccine.
You made that choice.
joe rogan
There's other things you can do.
Here's a big one.
Monoclonal antibodies, which they restricted the use of.
akaash singh
I tried to get those the second time I got COVID. I couldn't get access.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's a problem.
I don't know why they're denying people access, but the governor of Florida has gone crazy about this.
I took monoclonal antibodies.
They work immediately.
They work within 24 hours.
You feel great.
And I think that's the problem.
I think for some people, they don't want there to be any other options.
And also, there's no fucking discussion.
There's no education at all from any of these people.
About healthy lifestyle choices.
About all these things.
Because one of the things they've found with COVID in particular is it hits fat people way harder.
Of course.
It affects something about being overweight.
It affects the fat.
It attacks the fat.
akaash singh
I remember I took a public health class when I was in college.
That's like 15, 16 years ago now.
But they said 95% of all illnesses are behaviorally caused.
Wow.
Lifestyle choices.
Yes.
It's lifestyle choices.
Behavioral lifestyle choices.
joe rogan
Yeah.
akaash singh
And I think COVID can be a little bit of both.
And you can get it.
I got it trying to be healthy before the vaccine and all that.
Gave it to Andrew before his Netflix special.
My bad.
joe rogan
Whoopsies.
akaash singh
Yeah, but I was living a healthy lifestyle and I was fine after a week or so.
And I was taking the vitamin D and I think that helped a lot.
joe rogan
Well, I think that also when you're dealing with a person like you who's young and thin, it's a different animal than if you're an older, obese person.
It's like this one-size-fits-all approach to everybody.
It's annoying.
akaash singh
And healthcare is not supposed to be one-size-fits-all.
joe rogan
It's not.
akaash singh
And again, I'm a guy who believes the vaccine works, and you probably could take it just to be safe.
I'm not going to force anybody, but like, yeah, I'm relatively pro-vaccine.
joe rogan
They've got another one that they're coming out with that's not based on mRNA technology that they've developed that apparently is going to be effective on all strains.
It'll be more of a traditional style vaccine.
akaash singh
Yeah, I saw this military one, I think.
joe rogan
Yeah, and when that comes out, that's going to get a lot of people on board.
akaash singh
Yes.
joe rogan
And then...
akaash singh
And the pill that...
Yeah, the Pfizer.
I think Pfizer's coming out with the pill.
And as soon as the pill comes out, if there's still vaccine mandates, you're out of your mind.
joe rogan
Yeah.
akaash singh
And I'm with you, even though I'm relatively pro-vaccine.
That's why it bothers me people can't see nuance in this.
So many are one side or the other.
I don't want my kids to take a vaccine for something that's not going to kill them.
joe rogan
Right.
akaash singh
You don't need to take a vaccine.
joe rogan
It's relatively safe for children.
akaash singh
I don't care.
I don't want you to take a shot to protect some old fuck.
joe rogan
That's not what I'm saying.
I'm saying the virus.
akaash singh
The virus, yeah.
So you don't need a vaccine.
I'm with you on that.
That's crazy, a mandate that your kid has to get it.
You can give it to your kids, I guess, if you want, but I wouldn't want to.
joe rogan
If you said to people just five years ago that there's going to be a virus that has a very small percentage of the people that catch it die, But it's going to be an upheaval of the entire country.
Everything's going to be fucked.
The social classes, the way people are after each other, on each other's necks, it's going to change the way we communicate with each other.
It's going to close at gigantic percentages of restaurants and businesses.
You'd be like, what?
unidentified
Yeah.
akaash singh
I would say if you heard it was 600,000 or whatever the number is, you'd be like, fuck, that many people?
joe rogan
But it's not 600,000.
600,000 people died with COVID. If you look at the numbers that the CDC gives out, and at one point in time, they were saying that 95% of the people had four comorbidities.
So 95% of the people that died had four things that were killing them.
I don't know what they're saying now.
I think they might have changed that now.
But it's just...
akaash singh
Don't a lot of people have comorbidities, though?
And you've read a thousand times more than me, so I'm just pushing back as a guy who's listening and feels like I have to push back.
Don't a lot of people have some comorbidities?
joe rogan
Yes, they do.
akaash singh
Four is probably on the much less healthy side, but I would say most people in America have at least one comorbidities.
I have asthma.
That's a comorbidity.
joe rogan
Yeah.
akaash singh
So you would say to me, hey, this is potentially fatal for you.
That was another reason I got the vaccine.
joe rogan
Well, asthma is a rough one, right?
Because it's a respiratory illness, right?
But the ones that you can have control over are the most frustrating ones.
akaash singh
Yes.
joe rogan
And that's the obesity is the big one.
akaash singh
That's the big one.
And that's, you know, fat people, that's why I won their anti-vax.
I have a bit that I enjoy doing because it's like...
unidentified
Yeah, I heard the bit.
akaash singh
Yeah, you're just suddenly picking and choosing.
Like, what is this?
unidentified
Well, it's just food is so good.
joe rogan
It's so hard to not get fat.
akaash singh
I love food.
joe rogan
I just got off of, I did the carnivore diet for the whole month of January.
akaash singh
Oh, how was that?
joe rogan
It was great.
I lost a shitload of weight.
Really?
Yeah, I lost like six pounds.
Last time I did, I lost 12 pounds.
This time, I ate fruit, too.
I ate all meat and fruit.
akaash singh
That's great.
joe rogan
I feel great when I do it.
akaash singh
Yeah, I bet.
joe rogan
I feel lighter.
When I get lighter, I feel lighter.
That's the crazy thing.
If you lose 10 pounds, it seems like, well, that's kind of a lot.
akaash singh
No, you feel it.
joe rogan
You feel lighter.
akaash singh
Yeah.
joe rogan
Because it's like if you're carrying around a 10-pound weight on your back and then you take it off, you'd be like, oh.
akaash singh
Yeah.
joe rogan
If you had a 10-pound jacket on, that shit would be annoying.
akaash singh
Yeah.
joe rogan
Or a backpack with a 10-pound weight in it.
unidentified
Yeah.
akaash singh
Yeah.
joe rogan
It's annoying.
akaash singh
Yeah.
joe rogan
Now, people that lose like 40, 50, 60 pounds, like, my God, you're a different human.
akaash singh
Dude, my brother has lost, God bless him, I'm so proud of him, he's lost 80 pounds.
joe rogan
Holy shit.
akaash singh
Yeah, he struggled with weight, but he's fucking focused.
He's locked in.
He's lost 80 pounds.
I'm so proud of him.
joe rogan
What did he eat?
akaash singh
He's on a very specific diet program.
I forget the name.
I wish I could shout him out because I'd probably get him the shit for free.
But, oh, it's called Soda, state of the art.
And it's based in Dallas.
And it's like a very specific, hey, you eat this at this time and this at this time.
And he's been on it.
He's been, he fucked up a little bit here and there, but he's been super dedicated.
Lost 80 pounds.
And I'm sure he's, I've asked him, he's like, I don't know yet, because he's just been locked in with COVID and all that and like, you know, trying to do his business and he's, whatever.
But he's like, I'm sure once I start living my life normally, I'm gonna feel way better.
I mean, 80 pounds, that's a child.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's a massive amount of weight to carry around.
Carrying around an 80 pound kettlebell everywhere you go.
akaash singh
Yeah, and I saw him recently.
I was like, dude, you look so fucking good, man.
I'm so proud of you.
joe rogan
Is he exercising too?
akaash singh
He hasn't even started exercising yet.
Pure diet.
joe rogan
Really?
akaash singh
Pure diet.
And then once he starts exercising, he's going to like, God willing, shape up, like fucking, you know what I mean?
Look great.
joe rogan
Is he done losing weight?
Has he got to his target weight?
akaash singh
No, he's not where he wants to be.
He has a target weight, and I don't remember exactly what it is, but I have faith he'll get there and then hopefully start working out too and really just fucking look way better than me.
unidentified
That'd be great.
joe rogan
So as he's losing weight, you gotta get jacked.
akaash singh
I have to.
I need Anivar.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Why Anivar?
Why that one?
akaash singh
Sounds good to you?
I heard that was the one that's not super intense, like a light dose, light side effects.
Just a nice touch.
I don't want this androgenic effect or whatever that's called.
joe rogan
Androgenic, yeah.
akaash singh
It's the one that I'm getting acne and all that shit.
Well, that's wild stuff.
joe rogan
That's wild stuff.
akaash singh
Yeah, I don't need all that.
joe rogan
Yeah, I've never taken anything like that.
No.
But I know people who have, and I've seen it.
And they get zits all over their back, and they get ferocious.
akaash singh
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Come on.
Can you imagine me ferocious, starting fights in the street, getting pummeled while I'm on steroids?
I don't need that.
joe rogan
Well, the wild thing is girls, when girls get on it.
akaash singh
No, no, no.
I can't.
I can't.
unidentified
No, no, no.
akaash singh
No, no, no.
What are you talking here?
What are you doing?
joe rogan
All I do is testosterone, like testosterone replacement.
akaash singh
Oh, that's light work, Joe.
joe rogan
It's very light.
I do testosterone.
I do peptides that enhance my body's ability to grow growth hormone and heal and recover from injuries and stuff.
And most of it is just, other than that, it's just nutrients.
Just making sure my nutrient levels are balanced out and consistent work.
Like consistent weight-bearing workouts, kettlebell workouts.
And then on top of that, the big thing I do for recovery that I think is giant is sauna.
I do sauna almost every day.
akaash singh
I love a sauna.
joe rogan
It's great.
It's good for...
It helps you maintain muscle mass.
It helps you maintain cardiovascular output.
And they did a study from Finland that showed a decrease in all-cause mortality if you did the sauna four days a week for 20 minutes at a time.
And it's like at 170-something degrees.
And they showed...
Decrease, 40% decrease in heart attack, stroke, cancer.
akaash singh
Increased life expectancy.
I heard a study that was crazy.
Decreased blood pressure, every positive health benefit possible.
I heard 30 minutes a day, but I heard the same thing.
We have an infrared sauna.
joe rogan
Maybe 30 minutes if you have a lower temperature, maybe.
akaash singh
Yeah, my gym has an infrared sauna.
I don't know if that's different or whatever.
joe rogan
Yeah, I mean, it's definitely better than nothing, but the idea is just to get your body hot.
The thing about those infrared saunas, I guess they kind of do it from the inside, something, which I don't understand.
But when I've talked to experts like Laird Hamilton, you know, he's into the dry, hot saunas.
He said that all the studies have been done.
On dry hot saunas.
It's not like discounting infrareds.
And he actually had a problem with infrareds.
I think he did one.
He had like a skin reaction.
But that might be just him.
I do cold punch too.
I do a lot of that.
akaash singh
I've heard they're kind of recanting the science on the ice baths and all that.
joe rogan
No, they're not recanting.
There's no recanting the science.
It's just you're not supposed to do it right after lifting weights because it affects hypertrophy.
Why does it sound so?
I know, but I've said that a million times.
You never now and then a word sits in your mouth and you're like, that ain't right.
akaash singh
You ever look at a word that you're spelling and it's a normal word and you're like, what?
joe rogan
Exactly.
akaash singh
That's how you spell Texas?
What the fuck is that?
That's weird.
joe rogan
It affects your body's ability to get bigger and stronger.
So if you lift weights, you're not supposed to.
Because part of the reaction is your body's supposed to react to the fact that you broke all that tissue down and it needs time.
So what I like to do if I have a weightlifting session, I don't do the cold plunge until late at night.
akaash singh
Right, okay.
joe rogan
I do it late at night.
akaash singh
Okay.
joe rogan
But if I do a cardio session...
What I like to do is I do a long sauna session and then I do a cold plunge and then another sauna session to reheat back up.
So my body goes through this up and down and it just feels great.
akaash singh
Yeah.
I'll do half that workload with double the steroids.
How will I do?
joe rogan
Get on the Camille stack.
You just gotta talk to the doctor.
akaash singh
The eternal stack.
joe rogan
You just gotta be an Indian doctor with a neck like my waist who's out there somewhere who knows the right stack.
akaash singh
They exist.
They exist.
joe rogan
Call your cousin.
akaash singh
Yeah.
Somebody will hit me up after this, I'm sure.
joe rogan
There's probably some meatheads right now.
Listen, I'm telling you, brother, I can make you bigger.
No problem at all, man.
We're gonna fucking adjust your nutrients.
akaash singh
One guy told me, he's a WWE wrestler, he said, don't do it.
Even Anivar, whatever you do, as soon as you get off, you'll lose all of it.
And you might even be weaker than you were before.
joe rogan
Well, that's not true.
akaash singh
See, that's what I needed to hear.
unidentified
That's not true at all.
akaash singh
You're not going to be weaker than you were before.
joe rogan
That doesn't make any sense.
You maintain some of the gains that you make if you get off steroids.
But steroids are dangerous because they shut down your endocrine system, right?
So if you're thinking about having children- Oh, I am.
akaash singh
I want kids real bad.
joe rogan
So don't fuck with it.
Don't fuck with anything.
unidentified
Oh, fuck it.
joe rogan
Yeah, you gotta wait.
Because if you're thinking about having children, when you're introducing exogenous testosterone into your system, it reduces the amount of testosterone that your body naturally creates.
So it reduces your sperm count.
akaash singh
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I gotta knock up my wife a couple times and then...
joe rogan
That's right.
akaash singh
Then I'm getting all of it.
joe rogan
Fire some of them live boys in there.
unidentified
Oh, God.
joe rogan
But there's stuff that you can do to naturally increase your testosterone that's legit.
And there's different herbs you can take.
There's a guy named Andrew Huberman.
He's a brilliant guy.
I've had him on my podcast multiple times.
But he is a professor at Stanford, and he's done a lot of work studying the various compounds that actually do naturally increase your testosterone.
Icing your balls, for some strange reason, increases your testosterone.
akaash singh
Alright, I'm in.
joe rogan
You're in?
akaash singh
I'm in.
I got it.
joe rogan
Find out if that's still true.
Please.
Please.
It's like, nope.
Well, the science has been reversed.
It's gone the way of the morality pill.
You don't ice your balls anymore.
Is that what they used to say?
They do say that icing your balls like...
jamie vernon
Yeah, do cold showers increase testosterone?
The idea is that cold showers lower the scrotal temperature, allowing the testicles to produce a maximum amount of sperm and testosterone, but I'm trying to find out.
joe rogan
Yeah, I've heard of guys icing their balls to increase their sperm count so they can knock their wife up.
akaash singh
I'm in.
I want kids, man.
joe rogan
Do you?
akaash singh
I love kids.
joe rogan
How old are you now?
akaash singh
They're the best.
joe rogan
I'm 37. How old do you want to be when you have kids?
akaash singh
37. Right now?
You ready to go?
This sounds so corny.
I've been ready to have kids since I was like 20. I don't know if ready, ready, but I've been excited to be a dad since I was like 20. Is the missus down with the program?
I think she's talking in the next year.
She's 28, so she had a little bit of time, but I think in the next year she's ready.
joe rogan
Thing is, like, when women get into their 30s and into their late 30s, it becomes increasingly more difficult to get pregnant.
I know quite a few friends that have tried to get pregnant, like, late.
akaash singh
Yeah.
joe rogan
And it's hard.
akaash singh
It's a struggle.
And that's why we're thinking, like, 29, we start trying, and then maybe, you know, 31, 32, we have another if we have another.
joe rogan
Fire them boys up.
akaash singh
I'm ready to.
joe rogan
Big bags of ice.
akaash singh
You got girls, right?
jamie vernon
Yeah, it seems to be.
Ice?
No evidence.
joe rogan
No evidence?
unidentified
Thank God.
Goddammit.
jamie vernon
There's a bunch of studies that say it helps with some sort of production with DNA and other things, but tying it all together to say it actually is going to raise testosterone or...
joe rogan
The cold plunge thing is controversial, but one thing that's not controversial is whether or not...
Excuse me.
Sorry about this.
I keep...
One thing that's not controversial is that the heat shock proteins and cold shock proteins that you get from saunas or from ice bath, they show like you can follow with blood work, the inflammatory markers in the blood.
So they know that these heat shock proteins and cold shock proteins That what it's doing is reducing inflammation and it's creating this environment where it helps your body battle inflammation better, which is just one of the biggest causes of disease is inflammation.
akaash singh
That's one of the biggest aging things, right?
joe rogan
Yeah.
akaash singh
Isn't that Tom Brady's whole thing?
joe rogan
He has a low-inflammation diet.
akaash singh
I think he's big on anti-inflammation stuff.
That's why he doesn't eat nightshades and shit like that.
joe rogan
Yeah, isn't that crazy?
Tomatoes are bad for you?
I've been reading about that lately, where these nutritionists are saying nightshades, which I love, like eggplant, tomato.
akaash singh
They're all great.
I love nightshades.
joe rogan
Why are they bad for you?
akaash singh
I guess the inflammation, if you're an athlete, they're bad for you.
But probably for a lifestyle, or probably for a lifespan, probably not bad for you.
joe rogan
Google, really?
akaash singh
I would assume.
joe rogan
Why would you assume that?
akaash singh
Because, you know, tomatoes got lycopene or whatever the fuck else they got.
Eggplants got, I'm sure they got vitamins.
joe rogan
But if it's causing inflammation as well, like maybe it fucks up that balance.
Well, let's Google this.
Why are nightshades bad for you?
Because I was watching this guy on Instagram, Paul Saladino, he was talking about nightshades.
What's the deal with nightshade vegetables?
Some diets shun them, but research hasn't concluded that they're harmful.
akaash singh
Yeah.
joe rogan
The problem is like food research, it's real tricky.
akaash singh
Most science is tricky.
jamie vernon
Some people maybe need to avoid them.
akaash singh
Can we be honest?
Most science is misinformation.
joe rogan
What?
akaash singh
Most science, did we just be backtracking on everything?
joe rogan
No, not most science.
akaash singh
Every study that comes out gets debunked by something.
joe rogan
Some science?
This is what it says.
For most people, there's no need to avoid nightshades as studies haven't linked them to negative health consequences.
These foods are incredibly healthy and offer more health benefits than costs.
However, just like any food, it is possible to be intolerant to them.
Well, I do know that when I eat tomatoes, like I have a lot of tomato sauce, I have like a funny feeling in my stomach.
akaash singh
That's acidity, probably.
joe rogan
Yeah, probably.
Something.
Whatever it is.
akaash singh
Yeah, tomatoes are acidic.
joe rogan
It makes it feel like a little, ugh.
akaash singh
Acidity, alkalinity, that's something I try to, I assume.
I don't try to really limit acidity, but I believe alkaline foods are probably better.
joe rogan
I think it's with diet, it's all in like, find the thing that makes your body operate the best, and then also moderation.
Like, have some pizza every now and then.
Just reward yourself.
Nothing wrong with that.
akaash singh
Yeah.
joe rogan
If you can do that, like some people can't.
Some people eat like one slice of pizza and then they're off to the races.
akaash singh
I'm one of them.
joe rogan
Are you?
akaash singh
I have a very indulgent personality.
That's part of the reason I don't smoke, drink, all of that.
It's just too much.
Like I get too into it.
joe rogan
So you just kept yourself like disciplined.
akaash singh
Yeah, I just said, I can't imbibe in any of this, so I'm not, because I think I'm going to get too into all of it, so I'm not going to do it.
joe rogan
Did you figure this out early in life?
akaash singh
Yeah, I also grew up with, like, I saw alcoholism a lot growing up, and I learned about myself.
I can get really into things.
I get very obsessed with comedy.
I'm so fucking obsessed with comedy, and that's not just dessert.
If I have a bite, I'm having the whole thing.
So I learned that, and I learned to get where I want to go, I probably can't do any of this stuff, because I think it's going to take me too far off the track.
Some people can do moderation very well.
My wife is great at a bite of dessert, a half a glass of wine, and nothing else.
She feels great.
Me, I'm not that guy.
joe rogan
You start doing blow.
akaash singh
Dude, I'm sucking dick for cocaine so fast.
So I just said I'm not doing any of it.
joe rogan
Yeah.
It's interesting how different people have different amounts of self-control.
akaash singh
Yes.
joe rogan
Some people have unbelievable self-control and discipline.
Some people have almost none.
akaash singh
And I think moderation self-control is harder than my self-control, which is I'm just not doing any of it.
Like, I just say no.
unidentified
Like, you have rules.
akaash singh
I never taste it, so I don't know.
joe rogan
Right.
You have a flat rule of what not to ruin your life with.
akaash singh
100%.
And also, a secondary reason, this is part of what I always thought about having kids.
I want to tell my kids, like, look, you don't have to live how I lived, but I want you to know it's possible.
joe rogan
Right.
akaash singh
Because everybody else is going to tell you, you have to do this, you have to do that, you have to, oh, you should, you have to fuck everybody, you have to try all the drugs.
And I want to be like, look, you can, but you don't have to, to get anywhere.
You can live like this and be fine.
joe rogan
That's the thing, right?
It's like, get anywhere.
Everyone is trying to make it, you know, air quotes.
They're trying to get somewhere.
And you don't want to be a loser, and you look at other people that have been successful, other people that are happy, like, what do I have to do to be like them?
What do I have to do to make it?
What do I have to do to be successful?
When you're a kid, you've got to model yourself off of other successful people.
It's so hard to be a maverick and be a 10-year-old, you know?
akaash singh
Yeah.
joe rogan
You don't have enough data.
akaash singh
Yeah, those kids are the rarest kids.
joe rogan
They're so rare.
And usually they come from horrible households where they're forced to grow up early.
akaash singh
Probably.
joe rogan
Yeah.
akaash singh
Yeah, but I want, like, I remember even entering this industry.
People would be like, we're going to have to start drinking and go to these parties.
You're going to have to do this, you're going to have to do that, and you're going to have to take these roles.
And it was just like, I don't want to.
I don't want to have to do that.
And I want to set the example that you don't have to.
I don't know.
We just have this idea that you have to fit in to this idea that we have of whatever fitting it in is.
And to me, fitting in is just being a person that can have a conversation.
joe rogan
Yeah.
akaash singh
I can fit in with you.
You're smoking a cigar.
I'm not fitting in because I'm not smoking.
We're just talking.
You're smoking.
I don't give a fuck.
joe rogan
Have you ever had a glass of wine?
akaash singh
I have been buzzed a couple of times in my life.
Once I had a couple glasses of wine and I was a little buzzed.
unidentified
Crazy.
joe rogan
Was it a crazy night?
No, no, no.
akaash singh
There's nothing.
I was just like, I talked a little bit.
I had two shots of Jack once.
That was the last time I drank.
I was 19. Two shots of Jack, back to back.
And then I was pretty fucking obnoxious.
joe rogan
Two shots is all it took?
akaash singh
Oh, yeah.
It was like, I mean, I was 19. I never really drank.
I just bang, bang.
And I remember being like, I'm even louder than normal right now.
joe rogan
That's hilarious.
akaash singh
But then I also remember later that night, I was sober, and that was the most fun part of the night for me.
So I was like, okay, I can be without it.
I'm not saying I'll have more fun with it.
I don't want to be like a fucking after-school program.
But I was like, oh, I can still have fun if I'm sober.
So let me not even walk down this path of potentially being like the alcoholics I know in my life.
joe rogan
How do you write material?
Do you sit at home and write?
Do you ever sit in front of a notebook?
akaash singh
I can't do it, dude.
I have to write on stage.
I have to write on stage.
I'm working out a premise that I've been working out, and I thought it out, stayed show after show.
I started, I was like, why do I hate white women so much?
And then I didn't have anything after that.
And then the next time I was like, oh, I actually think I only hate liberal white women.
Conservative white women are great.
And then I didn't know why.
And then the next one I was like, oh, you know what?
Conservative white women, the worst thing they'll ever say to you is, bless your heart.
That's not bad.
There's nothing wrong with that.
I grew up in Texas.
They say that to you.
The second worst thing is, I'll pray for you.
And it's like, hey, thanks, bitch.
It's nice to know you got my back.
In case my God is wrong, you're watching my six.
And that was over the weekend I started working on this bit.
So now hopefully next time I go on stage, I'll have more and more and more.
And I'll keep thinking on it.
joe rogan
Why don't you sit down and write though?
akaash singh
It doesn't come to me as easily.
I tried the Seinfeld sit.
Upright for an hour a day and I'm writing.
That's, you know, I love Seinfeld, but that's why you're writing bits about fucking alarm clocks or whatever.
Because that's what's around you.
And that's not something I'm naturally good at writing about or talking about.
joe rogan
If I could suggest.
akaash singh
Yes, please.
joe rogan
Just write an essay on a subject.
It doesn't have to be funny.
unidentified
Interesting.
joe rogan
You'll find the funny in it.
See, like, comedy is...
I think Neil Brennan said this to me once.
He thinks of his notebook as like a net.
And his notebook is like catching ideas.
Like, his ideas are coming by like a fish in a river.
It's a good way of looking at it.
Like, you're catching ideas with your notebook.
But I think that what you can do is just sit down and explore a subject with no...
Like, I used to try to write jokes in joke form.
Like the other day, I saw this guy and I would try to write it out and it would feel corny.
akaash singh
Yes, it feels stale.
joe rogan
Instead now, if I'm talking about something like whatever it is, pollution, I'll just start talking about, I'll write about pollution.
I'll start writing about straws in the ocean and I'll start writing about birds dying from- Do you write from a point of view or do you just write?
I write my thoughts.
I write my thoughts on it, and I expand, and then I'd go over it, and I'd try to find something that I might be able to pick out.
And sometimes, like, because when you're just in the flow of writing, you'll get, like, oh, there's something here, and then you take that, and then I'll bring it to a whole new note.
Like, I'll start a whole new page.
And so in this new page then I'll copy and paste that and then I'll expand upon this one little nugget that I might have extracted from that and then I'll take that and I'll try to bring it on stage.
akaash singh
Right.
Yeah.
No, I want to try that.
And the only thing that I'm struggling with as I say it is It has to come from the feeling, right, for me.
So do I write like, you know, why does pollution bother me?
And then just write it out like that, write out thoughts.
joe rogan
Yeah, you don't have to, like, no one's going to read it.
akaash singh
Yeah.
joe rogan
Right?
So it's like, it's a free ride.
Like, if you looked at my notes, you'd be like, what is this idiot saying?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Like, a lot of times it's just rambling nonsense, because I'm just trying to get ideas out, printed, and then try to find something, and it's like you're trying to get into a trance.
But if you think about all the time that you said that you researched comedy and you watched comedy and you took notes on how people did things, think of how much more comedy you would have if you took that same kind of approach to creating material.
akaash singh
Yeah.
joe rogan
And a lot of people say this.
This is a thing and this is not a criticism of you.
I'll take it.
This is a thing with comics.
They say, I write on stage.
I'm like, bitch, I do too.
I write on stage too, but I write.
I write right.
And I think both is good.
I don't think you have to just write on stage, and I don't think you have to just write in a computer or a notebook, but I don't think there's anything lost in writing writing.
akaash singh
Absolutely.
I would love to.
It always felt like when I tried the writing, and this is an interesting idea because when I tried the writing, it never felt authentic.
It never felt like it was me speaking from my voice.
On stage, it was like, oh, here I am in my element.
joe rogan
It doesn't have to be because you don't have to write what you're going to say.
You just have to write about ideas and then figure out how to say those ideas on stage.
It's amazing.
It's like the resource.
It's so valuable of being able to just tap into the mind and tap into your creativity with no...
No one around.
Comedy comes alive in front of an audience, for sure.
You need other people's reactions.
But there's thoughts you have in your head that can become material if you just sit at home and type.
akaash singh
Yeah.
joe rogan
There's real benefit to that.
akaash singh
No, I will absolutely try that.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's like a lot of people don't do it.
akaash singh
Yeah.
joe rogan
And they always want to say that.
Like, oh, right on stage.
akaash singh
We probably love the idea that we only write it.
It sounds so romantic.
joe rogan
Yeah, I've had arguments with comedians about it.
I go, I do too.
It's not stopping you.
How often do you review your set?
How often do you listen to a recording and watch a video?
You should be doing that too.
This is the way I put it.
Every time you do a set on stage, that's 100% of a set.
You did one set, right?
But every time you listen to a set, I think that's like 40% of a set.
I think that's like you're doing more reps.
You're getting more reps.
And if you write and listen, I think it adds to it.
akaash singh
Yeah, 100%.
The content game is tough in that sense.
You're always turning shit over now.
joe rogan
Do you try to do anything to increase your experiences or to experience life specifically so you have something to talk about?
akaash singh
I wonder about that a lot.
And that's something I'm trying to figure out right now.
Because I had this...
You put out your first thing, and it's only 20 minutes of material, but it was 20 minutes that would, like, really prop up an hour.
I still had an hour.
I can still do an hour without it.
But there were these jokes that I would pepper in, and I wouldn't do those 20 minutes every time, but I'd put in these one or two that are like, oh, these are fucking strong.
I know those elevate the whole set.
Now I'm like, oh, I understand...
When you put out the hour, then you have to have a new hour, and you have to have a new hour.
So how do you constantly turn over material?
And I'm trying to figure out, is it just different experiences?
Is it going to be, I go fucking skydiving?
Is it going to be, I smoke weed once and see how that goes?
Like, what is the process of generating that new hour?
joe rogan
I think a big part of it is writing.
akaash singh
Yeah.
joe rogan
A big part of it is just sitting down thinking about things.
Because you might not get it in a day, you might not get it in a week, but if you keep doing it consistently, you're going to come up with ideas that could eventually be like the seeds that lead to the growth of an eventual bit.
akaash singh
And even, like, I was thinking, I remember during the pandemic at first, I was doing these, like, vlog things, and they weren't good.
But they ended up just being writing sessions.
And I would have to, every three times a week, four times a week, take a story and then do something about it.
And sometimes these end up being premises.
One of them is the special about how the Native American's mascot isn't racist enough, and it should be more racist.
That started from a vlog that sucked.
But then I was able to be like, oh, this is funny ideas.
I could take that to the stage.
joe rogan
But that's like what Bill Burr and Tim Dillon were talking about.
The two guys are the best at that kind of ranting.
akaash singh
Yeah.
joe rogan
That ranting is tough because when someone's bad at it, there's a few people out there that are bad at it.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
And it's like, oh.
akaash singh
If I did that, I wouldn't even put it out.
I would just listen back to it and be like, did I say anything useful?
joe rogan
Yeah.
akaash singh
I'm not putting that up.
Bill Burr, I remember listening when I had some job that I hated, and he would have moments that I would just fucking cackle at.
And I'd be like, how's he doing this?
It'd be long periods where I wouldn't laugh or whatever, but then every 30 minutes or so, I would howl in an office.
joe rogan
It's intense, real-life frustration and anger.
akaash singh
Yes, and he's so tapped into that feeling.
joe rogan
Yes, he's so tapped in.
akaash singh
And being tapped in is so powerful.
joe rogan
Yeah.
akaash singh
There's a few people that I look at and I'm like, yo, they're so in touch with how they're funny.
unidentified
Mm-hmm.
akaash singh
Bill Burr is like, and there's a comic Canadian guy named Nathan McIntosh who lives here.
Poor guy gets compared to Bill Burr all the time just because he's redheaded and kind of angry.
joe rogan
He lives in Austin?
akaash singh
No, he lives in New York.
unidentified
Oh.
akaash singh
But he's another guy.
joe rogan
Well, that's not here, bitch.
This is Texas.
akaash singh
This is not Texas.
This is vegan Texas.
This is Texas.
Tesla, Texas.
joe rogan
What does that mean?
akaash singh
I mean, Texas is oil and gas.
You guys are Tesla actively killing oil and gas.
joe rogan
Oh, it's not killing oil and gas.
It takes oil and gas to make a Tesla.
akaash singh
Yeah, but not enough, Joe.
joe rogan
It takes plenty.
akaash singh
Not enough.
These oil and gas stocks are going to fucking crater.
joe rogan
You think so?
unidentified
Probably.
akaash singh
I'm talking.
joe rogan
There's not enough batteries for all the people to have electric cars.
akaash singh
There will be soon.
joe rogan
No, I'm looking into this.
I've been researching this because I've been researching climate change lately.
akaash singh
Mm-hmm.
unidentified
Is it as dire as everybody says?
joe rogan
I don't know.
I don't think it's good.
But I don't believe...
The idea that people wouldn't be alarmists about this subject is silly.
They're alarmists about everything.
Everything is exaggerated.
Everything is grossly exaggerated.
The dangers and the benefits, right?
akaash singh
Right.
joe rogan
So, I don't think it's going to be as bad as everybody says, because they keep having to change their ideas.
Like, you used to go to visit this part of the, was it the Antarctic or the South Pole, that was saying that by 2020, you know, so much of this will be gone, and they had to change that.
They had to change the sign, because 2020 came and went, and it's like, hey, everything's still here.
I don't think it's that easy to predict.
I do think that human beings, without a doubt, are having a detrimental effect on our environment.
The question is how much of an effect, what can be done to mitigate it, and what are the costs of turning it around?
I'm in the middle of this book right now.
I have a guest coming up, and it's heavy duty, man.
Because it's like, I have to be paying attention because a lot of it is about statistics and there's all these different things that they're covering in terms of like how many days have been the hottest days ever over the past 10 years.
And you follow those, you're like, "Wow, we have so many days of the hottest days ever." And then you go, "Yeah, but also look how many days are the coldest days ever." And then you go, "Oh, okay, this is complex." Wouldn't that be climate change, though, and not global warming?
Yeah, but the thing about this concept of climate change, it's like, I don't think it's specifically known exactly how we're affecting We're definitely affecting it in a bad way.
But I think there becomes an industry on people capitalizing on people's fear of climate change, and then there's also regulations and rules that can be passed, and then there's also subsidies that can be granted.
There's a bunch of shenanigans that go along with any social cause.
Any climate, any environmental cause.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
Even though it's an important thing to pursue.
It's like, we definitely should be trying to figure out how to do less in terms of pollution and waste.
But it's a complex issue that a lot of people just have a perspective on that they adopt and don't research.
And then they just start espousing all these.
They'll tell you, like, in 20 years, Miami's going to be underwater.
akaash singh
Yeah.
joe rogan
Okay.
unidentified
Yeah.
akaash singh
That's where I'm gonna live.
I don't want that.
joe rogan
You should go back.
akaash singh
I want...
I want to move in the next year.
joe rogan
I liked him being there.
I was like, you should be the king of Miami.
akaash singh
Dude, he had a tan.
joe rogan
I want to go to Miami and fucking bring you gifts as the king of Miami.
akaash singh
If you came to Miami, you came to Flagrant 2. It was the thing.
We had fucking Alex Jones coming through.
unidentified
Twice.
akaash singh
Twice.
Well, once it was in New York.
joe rogan
Oh, was it?
akaash singh
We had him coming through.
Guy won me over.
joe rogan
Why is it Flagrant 2?
akaash singh
That is, it started as a sports podcast because the idea was sports is one thing that's not politicized very often, so you can kind of sneak in the stuff you want to say.
And flagrant two is the basketball foul that is like you're intentionally trying to hurt that person, you get thrown out of the game.
So it's a flagrant two.
So that's why we called it flagrant two.
And we kind of knew we would talk about sports less and less.
Now we barely talk about it, if at all, but the idea was still like sports is something that people don't get too up in arms about ever.
Sports fans tend to be pretty cool about all this shit.
joe rogan
Were you nervous having Alex Jones on?
akaash singh
I was uneasy, yeah.
I wasn't even uneasy about getting canceled.
I didn't understand him.
Like, I was, you know, I heard what I heard.
I didn't listen to him.
This guy won me the fuck over, man.
This guy was a charming son of a bitch, dude.
joe rogan
I wish that that Sandy Hook thing had never happened.
Because if it wasn't for that, the guy's a different cultural figure.
akaash singh
Yeah, I didn't.
What I think though, when I sat down with him, I had only heard that and I was like, you're gonna have this guy on a fucking podcast?
What are we talking about?
I didn't know.
I wasn't listening to InfoWars.
You see little snippets.
He's yelling.
It's like this a lot.
And then I'm talking to him on Flagrant and I'm like, oh, you're a stand-up.
joe rogan
He's kind of a stand-up.
akaash singh
You're a stand-up.
You're just a stand-up who says crazy shit and you make it work.
joe rogan
But he does constantly research things.
akaash singh
Constantly.
joe rogan
Like when something's going on, like Davos or something like that, I can call him up and go, hey man, what is this?
akaash singh
Yes.
joe rogan
And he'll send me some articles like, here it is, the Associated Press.
They know for sure what's going on.
This is what they're trying to do.
They're trying to instigate this program to try to get people to comply.
Don't do it.
Give in.
Keep your humanity.
unidentified
I gotta go.
akaash singh
That is a really fucking good Alex Jones.
joe rogan
I've known him for 23 years.
24 years.
akaash singh
I know a lot of people will probably get pissed if I say this.
A lot of the shit he said, I'm like, I don't believe it just because it's too exhausting for me to believe it.
So I'd just be dismissing it.
But I was like, this guy's funny, man.
He's a stand-up.
joe rogan
He's very funny.
akaash singh
And because of Sandy Hook, he's toxic and radioactive and you can't have him on any platform.
And that's why I'm kind of glad we brought him on in the end because he really...
He showed me...
I saw who he was, but also like...
Alright, we brought on the guy that's supposed to be toxic and radioactive, and they should have a place.
joe rogan
Yeah.
I'm glad you brought him on.
I was happy when that happened.
Andrew's got balls.
I love that about him.
I love that he'll take that kind of a chance and have a guy on that's in many circles.
That's one of the number one criticized guests I've ever had.
akaash singh
Oh, it's by far my most...
I have friends who are still like, I can't fucking believe you did that.
unidentified
Mm-hmm.
akaash singh
And I have to stand...
All right, buddy.
You do fucking shows on CBS. You think they don't have racist views or whatever the fuck you think they have?
You think these guys are heroes on these network executives?
You know what I mean?
You can't do a show for...
CBS and think, oh, these guys are super open-minded and wonderful people and Alex Jones is a piece of shit.
joe rogan
But it's who they put on, though.
It's like if you do a show for CBS, they would never let Alex Jones on.
No one who's incredibly controversial would ever be able to get on.
akaash singh
Yeah, but I'm saying you still work for an asshole.
You know what I mean?
joe rogan
Yeah, probably.
Less and less likely now.
They've weeded out a lot of assholes.
It's hard to survive as an asshole in those businesses now.
akaash singh
I'm just saying we all compromise our morality at a certain point.
And I met this guy and I was like, hey, actually, I like the guy.
unidentified
He's a good dude.
akaash singh
I like the guy.
And you're not supposed to say it, but I like the guy.
joe rogan
Yeah, well, I say it.
akaash singh
I don't agree with him on most things, but I like the guy.
joe rogan
What don't you agree with him on?
akaash singh
A lot of stuff he was saying, again, it was just a lot of information, and I was thinking, as a guy who's just a skeptic in general, and like stuff you'll say here, I'll just naturally question it.
On both sides, I just ask everybody questions.
I was like, I feel like you're just saying a lot of shit, hoping I don't ask you follow-up questions, because you know I haven't read.
joe rogan
Oh, but if you ask him follow-up questions, he's got answers.
No, Alex is a savant when it comes to that shit.
When we had him on the last time on the podcast, people got annoyed that I was fact-checking him, apparently.
But I wanted everyone to know that he actually does research.
Like, when I'm asking, I'm like, wait, is that true?
And then he'll pull up the article, Associated Press, right here.
Bill Gates giving him polio.
Like, he'll show you the articles.
And you're like, what?
Yeah.
And you see the article that's like a mainstream news publication.
akaash singh
I'm sure there's also just times where I'm like, look, I don't want to believe this because I'm happier this way.
joe rogan
It's exhausting.
akaash singh
It's exhausting.
And this conspiracy theory thing, it's like, to what end?
Like, oh, you end up being right.
Okay.
Hey, good for you.
joe rogan
Alex has had some legitimate psychotic breaks in the past, too, where he's been...
Drinking really heavily and he gets real depressed like getting into all these conspiracies like he goes so deep into this dark circle It's a dark hole to go down.
akaash singh
That's why I'm like Ignorance is bliss and I'm cool being ignorant.
You guys can have the truth I want a happy family.
You know what I mean?
joe rogan
I want to be a father with happy kids But if you want to be a father and want to be happy, you're going to have to eventually embrace the fact there's real problems.
And your voice, especially as you're doing your show with Andrew and your own show and your stand-up, your voice is going to continue to get more and more prominent.
And as that happens and more people respect your opinions and your perspective on things, it's going to be more important for you to express yourself.
And it's going to be more important for you to pay attention to what's happening so that you can have an opinion.
akaash singh
All right, let me try to poke a hole in what you said.
joe rogan
Come on, you're smart as fuck, bro.
akaash singh
Let me try to poke a hole in what you said.
Can't I just tell people, like, yo, here's how we can act on a human-to-human level?
joe rogan
Sure.
akaash singh
Can't I be that guy?
I'm comfortable being that guy.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's good, too.
akaash singh
The truth seekers?
unidentified
Very important.
akaash singh
You guys have that.
That's a lot.
That's the thing that I'm, like, exhausted by.
joe rogan
Truth seekers sounds like you have a bad American flag tattoo somewhere.
You know?
If you're a true seeker.
akaash singh
Yes, dude, yes.
joe rogan
It's like fucked up stars and shit.
akaash singh
I don't want to be that guy.
It's, again, every conspiracy theorist I know is miserable.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
akaash singh
It's a fucking dark life.
joe rogan
Well, when I first got into conspiracies, really, the first conspiracy I got into was the JFK assassination.
And I got into it when I was working in Philly.
I was doing a gig and I had a book that this buddy of mine in a band had given me.
He's like, you've got to read this book.
It's called Best Evidence by this guy, David Lifton.
It's all about the Kennedy assassination.
And I read it all day and then went on stage and bombed.
akaash singh
Oh yeah, of course, dude.
joe rogan
Like the first show, I told them, I was like, I'm sorry, I read this book, it was a real bummer.
And they're like, you're supposed to be funny.
I go, next show I'll be way better.
The next show I was good, and they're like, don't do that again.
I'm like, I won't do that again.
akaash singh
Dude, how do you find the fun?
joe rogan
It wasn't fun, because I was like, oh my god, they murdered the president.
And this was 1990-something?
akaash singh
I listen to a radio show from Dallas, Real Texas, every day still, and there's one guy on there who's a big, not conspiracy theorist Kennedy guy.
He's like a, no, Lee Harvey Oswald did it.
I'm super researched.
I'll go toe-to-toe with any conspiracy theorist.
I want to see y'all go at it.
joe rogan
You don't want me.
You want Oliver Stone.
Oliver Stone will eat that guy alive.
akaash singh
Oh, I would love that.
joe rogan
I had Oliver Stone on the podcast.
akaash singh
I heard a little bit of it, yeah.
joe rogan
He just has a new one that's on Showtime, a documentary on the JFK assassination.
It's genius.
It's so good.
It's so detailed.
And it's so fact-based that as you get deeper into it, as he unveils layer after layer after layer, it's very hard to imagine that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.
Obviously, I don't know.
akaash singh
Right.
joe rogan
I don't think he acted alone, no.
akaash singh
Yeah.
Let's get that debate going.
joe rogan
I push all my chips.
All my chips into more than one person was involved.
And most likely, it had nothing to do with Lee Harvey Oswald was some kind of a patsy.
They set him up.
And they had apparently tried to kill Kennedy at other opportunities, and they had other patsies that were lined up that they set up as well.
They get a lot of these people that are just like what they would call useful idiots.
They're dorks and they can get them to do things and they can throw the blame on them.
And when they arrested him and he's like, I didn't do it, I'm a patsy.
He does not seem like a guy who just shot the president.
He seems like a guy who's like, I can't believe they're fucking doing this to me.
He's going to get his lawyer and then Jack Ruby kills him.
akaash singh
Yeah.
joe rogan
And we can go deeper and deeper because it's going to get weirder and weirder the more we talk about it.
Because Jack Ruby was connected to this guy named Jolly West who worked for the CIA. He was a part of their mind control experiments.
MK Ultra shit.
And they had a thing called Operation Midnight Climax where they used to give LSD to Johns in brothels.
So these guys would go into a brothel, think they were going to get laid, and the CIA would give them acid.
And then they'd watch them through a two-way mirror.
akaash singh
I don't know.
I checked out so long ago.
I don't care, Joe.
Hey, I'm sorry.
unidentified
It's not bad.
joe rogan
Hey, there's nothing bad.
You don't have to care.
Limited amount of time and resources in a day, right?
akaash singh
Right.
joe rogan
Why pay attention to shit that happened in the 1960s with guys trying to get their dick sucked and acid?
akaash singh
Yeah, dude.
All right, JFK. Don't make his head close up.
You know what I mean?
You don't bring them back.
joe rogan
If you could go back in time and find out if one thing, one conspiracy, one mystery, would that be the one?
akaash singh
That would be the one.
But I don't care enough to research it.
I just want to know and be done.
unidentified
Wow.
akaash singh
I just want to know and be done.
Let's cut out all the fucking research, you know?
joe rogan
So, when you put out your specials, so you just put out the special, how much time do you have outside of that special that you're ready to tour with?
akaash singh
I have another hour ready to go.
unidentified
Really?
akaash singh
Yeah.
Now, it needs to be elevated.
joe rogan
Of course.
akaash singh
But I have the hour and I'm working on bits and it's different and there's certain, those were more like, this was purely like a societal, like, special.
All the points are kind of societal points.
Right now I have a lot of relationship points.
I have a couple of society points.
I want more of those to balance things out.
So I have an hour that I'm not proud of.
I wouldn't say this is ready to go.
joe rogan
It's a framework.
akaash singh
But I have the framework of an hour, and usually some of the time it's crowd work or whatever, but I also want to find a way to showcase some of the crowd work in the same way Andrew did, because he and I both came up doing shows for three people at the Village Lantern, so your crowd work had to get sharp.
Because I can't just do jokes for these guys.
They're going to be like, is this guy a fucking loser doing jokes to three people?
So you had to do the crowd work and then find your bit and weave it in.
joe rogan
What is that club?
The Lantern?
akaash singh
It's called the Village Lantern.
What is that?
It's on Bleecker Street across, like around the corner from the cellar.
And that's where I like became a comic.
The comic I wanted to be.
And it was downstairs.
They closed the downstairs.
They do shows upstairs.
It's not the same.
Downstairs was a fucking dungeon.
You would stand out on the street and bark people in.
And then you'd have to convince them.
Because it's not even a comedy club.
It's a fucking cellar of a bar.
unidentified
Oh.
akaash singh
So you'd have to convince them there's a real comedy show that happens, and the comics are funny.
And then you would do a show for five people, and then once you started, you would keep trying to get people in.
unidentified
Wow.
akaash singh
And hopefully you could get 15 people at a show.
And that's where, like, the crowd work just- 15 was a big one.
Yeah, 15 was a big one.
And the crowd work had to get so sharp.
joe rogan
What was the capacity?
akaash singh
70 maybe.
70 was cracking.
70 was hot.
joe rogan
So it's smaller than the belly room at the store.
akaash singh
Probably, yeah.
Smaller than the belly room because there's no side section.
It's just that front section at the store.
joe rogan
That's nice.
akaash singh
Yeah, it was nice and it was fucking, it was raw, dude.
And every comic that came out of there was raw.
You had to be to survive.
I think we also cultivated that because we wanted comedy that was like, you know.
joe rogan
Yeah.
akaash singh
Even, like, I have a friend, Michael Blaustein, very silly comedian, but when it came to the crowd work sheet, he could still go, because you had to.
And just every drunk asshole off the street in the West Village is coming in.
Like, you gotta be ready to go.
My most viewed clip, hopefully before this, is a heckler clip.
And it's at that place, but I'm just...
Able to walk this line with this girl because I'm so trained at it.
It's like a ten-year-old clip, and I'm just so ready for everything because that muscle was so strong back then.
joe rogan
You're just so used to doing it.
akaash singh
So used to dealing with assholes.
joe rogan
And where do you work at most of the time in New York now?
akaash singh
Now, mainly New York Comedy Club, the stand a little bit.
I'm going to try to get into the cellar after this, the special and all that.
But New York Comedy Club is like, I fucking love that place.
joe rogan
Did you ever do Dangerfields when it was open?
akaash singh
It was like performing in Dracula's fucking tomb, man.
Rodney Dangerfield is rolling over in his grave looking at that place.
joe rogan
They used to have great cheeseburgers.
akaash singh
I never ate there, dude.
I wouldn't trust a single fucking thing at that place.
joe rogan
Solid cheeseburgers.
akaash singh
What was the last time you performed there?
I was there like two, three years ago.
joe rogan
1992?
akaash singh
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I was there two, three years ago and it was like, what the fuck is happening here, man?
joe rogan
The COVID killed them, right?
akaash singh
It went under during COVID. No, I went there before COVID and it should have been dead years ago.
This place should have died in 2001 at the latest.
joe rogan
But I mean, COVID did kill it though.
akaash singh
I hope so.
Thank God.
Put it out of its misery.
joe rogan
Bro, I love that place.
akaash singh
You love it because you were there in 92, Joe.
joe rogan
It was great.
akaash singh
Son, you were there in the fucking third season of Seinfeld.
joe rogan
Yes.
akaash singh
Think about how long ago that was.
joe rogan
It might not have even been the third season.
It might have been before the first season.
akaash singh
Yeah, dude, Friends hadn't even premiered.
You were at the fucking, that was the last time you were at Dangerfield.
It's a, now it's, you walk in there and you truly feel bad.
Like, what is this?
There's a few comedy clubs in New York that I truly hope COVID ended.
joe rogan
Really?
akaash singh
Yeah.
joe rogan
And that's one of them?
akaash singh
That was one of them.
joe rogan
But that's where Sam Kinison first got on stage on HBO on the Roddy Dangerfield special.
akaash singh
You know what?
joe rogan
That's where Dice Clay and Bill Hicks.
akaash singh
Turn it into a fucking museum, man.
unidentified
Wow.
akaash singh
That's what you do with those places.
You turn them into a museum.
You are heartless.
That's the heart.
Dude, if you perform there, you would say, I guarantee you.
Obviously, if you say you're performing there, everybody would have packed it out.
But if you just went there on a drop-in, you would be like, yo, what happened to this place?
joe rogan
Joey Diaz was going there.
akaash singh
It was deader than Dangerfield.
joe rogan
He first moved to New Jersey.
What?
Oh, how dare you?
akaash singh
What?
joe rogan
Son of a bitch.
akaash singh
What?
I love Dangerfield.
It's got my favorite joke ever.
joe rogan
Do you do clubs in Jersey?
Like, do you do Stress Factory?
akaash singh
I did Stress Factory.
One of the special, like, a few jokes from the special are at Stress Factory.
I love that club.
joe rogan
It's a great club.
akaash singh
Great club.
The laughs fucking boom in there.
joe rogan
I was there by accident recently.
akaash singh
Really?
joe rogan
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I went down there for the UFC and me and my friend Tommy and Tony Hinchcliffe, we went to eat the day before the UFC at the steakhouse.
And we were eating there and the chef came over to say hi and he goes, are you here to see Brewer?
Oh, shit.
I go, I thought he moved to Florida.
And he goes, no, he did, but he's doing stand-up across the street.
I go, what?
So I didn't even realize that the steakhouse we're eating at was across the street from the Stress Factory.
akaash singh
Dude, I performed there and the guy told me he was a fan and he goes, Rogan was right here like a week ago or two weeks ago or whatever.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's exactly what it was.
It's a great steakhouse, too, right?
unidentified
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
What is it called?
Steak 85?
akaash singh
I don't remember.
Steak 85, something like that, yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
Something like that.
akaash singh
I went there for happy hour.
joe rogan
So I walked across the street and it was just in between shows where everybody was letting out from the first show and I got to hang out with Brewer for a while.
unidentified
Ah, dude.
joe rogan
He's a shit.
akaash singh
Yeah, he seems like such a nice guy.
joe rogan
Oh my God, he's the best.
akaash singh
I just love him because I half-baked when I was growing up.
I was like the funniest shit in the world.
joe rogan
He's so genuine.
I don't have very many friends that are as genuine.
Well, that's not true.
I have a lot of genuine friends.
But there's not a lot of people out there, I should say, that are as genuine as Jim Brewer.
He doesn't give a fuck about fame.
Once he got off of Saturday Night Live, he was like, fuck this.
Fuck this way of life and this living.
akaash singh
That's great.
joe rogan
He's just like, I'm fucking doing my own thing.
I'm just going to do stand-up.
And he's probably...
There's a few super underrated comics out there, and I think Jim is at the top of that list.
That guy murders.
But his fans know it.
He sells out everywhere.
akaash singh
Really?
joe rogan
Everywhere.
akaash singh
That's all you need.
joe rogan
He's always killing.
You're better off that way.
Just have your fans.
Kill it on the road.
akaash singh
Under the radar.
You don't have to deal with the bullshit of fame.
joe rogan
Yeah, you don't want to do what I'm doing.
akaash singh
The pressure you have on you is hell.
joe rogan
Is it?
akaash singh
It seems like a lot.
joe rogan
I'm okay.
akaash singh
Okay.
joe rogan
Just gotta know how to manage it.
akaash singh
Alright, fair enough.
joe rogan
Like last night I went on stage.
It was like my first set since the most major of cancellations.
akaash singh
Yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
But luckily I have a whole bit on it.
akaash singh
Oh, okay.
joe rogan
And it was like, it was fun.
It's charged.
People want to have a good time.
People together, like when you're all together, people like one-on-one and in crowds are great.
The problem is when they're alone in front of a computer, when they're disconnected with you and they're communicating online.
It's not real.
There's not real human beings.
I mean, they are real humans, but it's not a real human interaction.
akaash singh
Yeah.
joe rogan
It's just bizarre.
akaash singh
And they don't know you.
joe rogan
And they want to pretend you're something that you're not, which is disingenuous.
But it doesn't work when you have a podcast if the people know you from the podcast because they've seen you, they've heard you for so long.
They know your flaws.
If you hear a person talk for fucking hundreds of hours, you know who they are.
akaash singh
Yeah.
Somebody said, I don't remember who it was, but he said, that's the closest you can get to being inside someone's brain, is they're listening to you talk in ear, a lot of times earbuds, for hours a day, four days a week.
Yeah.
You're right there, just you talking.
So they really know you.
You're like in there.
joe rogan
Especially people that go on like long runs while they're listening to you, because it's, I think a long run is kind of a meditative thing anyway.
And then while you go on these long runs, then you're listening to you, you know, or they're listening to you in their head talking.
akaash singh
Yeah.
Yeah, buddy.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
How often do you guys do Flagrant?
akaash singh
We do two episodes a week.
Maybe we'll do three down the road.
I don't know.
But right now it's two episodes of one public, one Patreon.
Patreon is the wilder episode.
The idea is like, if you're trying to be funny, let's go.
Just try to be funny.
And if you fail, fine.
Try again.
But the jokes are good.
joe rogan
Have you guys been fucked with at all, like by YouTube or anything?
akaash singh
We had the Alex Jones episode taken down the first time because of vaccine misinformation.
joe rogan
What did he say?
akaash singh
I think he said the vaccine causes cancer or something like that.
joe rogan
Vaccines give you magnets.
akaash singh
Yeah, I think so.
And it was such a good episode, dude.
joe rogan
Can you just edit that part out and re-upload it?
akaash singh
We tried.
Oh, no, we tried, but we didn't have the episode backed up because we're dumbasses.
joe rogan
Oh no, so you just lost it?
akaash singh
So that and the Michael Irvin episode were the best episodes we've ever done of the podcast.
joe rogan
Michael Irvin's wild.
akaash singh
Dude, he's the best.
You have to have him on this.
joe rogan
I would love to.
akaash singh
He's my favorite athlete of all time.
I'm a cowboy fan.
joe rogan
I shared a flight with him once, just randomly.
He was going to Australia for some football clinic thing, and I was going there for UFC. And so we're on this 16-hour flight.
And we got to talking, and he's a brilliant guy, and he was talking to me about- So smart, so wise.
Very wise.
But he was talking to me about children that grow up in violent households, is that when there's domestic abuse, when the mother's pregnant, and then when the family is around violence- There's actually a reaction that happens to the child in the womb.
So the children come out and they're more likely to be violent.
They're more likely to snap quicker.
And you see this a lot in professional athletes, football players, fighters.
I mean, you think about it, man.
In fucking Arkansas, and you're living in some trailer, and your dad beats the fuck out of your mom, and your mom's pregnant.
Your mom is constantly in this state of, you come out, you're like, those wild country fucks that grow up like that, why are they so wild?
Because they have to be to survive.
Your brain is geared up to deal with a certain amount of violence and chaos.
As a baby while you're in the womb.
akaash singh
Yeah, it's just programmed with a high level of stress already.
joe rogan
Yeah, but he was explaining it to me from a legitimate scientific perspective.
He had researched it and he really knew what the gene expressions were and everything.
akaash singh
Oh.
joe rogan
But then you see him on your show and he's...
Wild!
akaash singh
Dude, I don't know.
I've seen so many interviews of that guy.
I had never seen that side of him.
joe rogan
Me neither.
akaash singh
And it was so funny.
joe rogan
Schultz called me up.
He goes, bro, you got to have him on.
You got to have him on.
akaash singh
And Schultz didn't really know Michael Irvin.
He knew him, but he didn't know all the antics and all this shit.
And I'm a fan, so I've researched and whatever.
But man, he just came in.
I think he might have heard of us and been prepared for what it was.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
We showed up with a suit and sunglasses on.
akaash singh
He came in straight from ESPN, left his sunglasses on, complained about our studio being in Brooklyn, took a shit in the bathroom as soon as he got there, and then was just complaining about the public bathroom, and then he just sat down and went, dude.
Unbelievable.
He is another guy that could have done stand-up, no fucking problem.
Eddie Griffin level showmanship.
unidentified
Wow.
Wow.
akaash singh
Yeah, beast, dude.
unidentified
Wow.
akaash singh
Pure beast.
Let's get him on here.
joe rogan
I'd love to.
akaash singh
100%, that's gonna happen.
joe rogan
But listen, man, I'm glad I got you on here.
akaash singh
Thank you so much for having me, man.
joe rogan
My pleasure.
akaash singh
It was an honor.
joe rogan
My honor.
So, your special is out right now.
I watched it today on YouTube.
It's, what is it called?
akaash singh
Bring Back Apu.
joe rogan
Bring Back Apu.
akaash singh
Yeah.
joe rogan
And it's available for free.
akaash singh
Check it out.
joe rogan
It's already got a half a million views.
Look at that.
akaash singh
Yep, yep.
That's it right there.
Look at that.
joe rogan
Interesting choice in shirt.
akaash singh
Handsome son of a bitch.
joe rogan
Look at that.
akaash singh
Look at that.
Two days, 439,000 views.
We're doing all right.
joe rogan
Pretty fucking nice for two days.
akaash singh
Yeah.
joe rogan
That's beautiful.
akaash singh
Thank you to everybody who helped with it.
Thank you to Andrew.
joe rogan
Congratulations.
Best of luck.
akaash singh
Thank you so much, man.
joe rogan
Let's do it again.
akaash singh
Absolutely.
joe rogan
Let's do it again.
akaash singh
Thank you, man.
joe rogan
And Flagrant 2 is available on YouTube.
It's available on Patreon.
akaash singh
Yes.
joe rogan
Is it on iTunes?
akaash singh
It's on everywhere podcasts are found.
unidentified
Okay.
joe rogan
Beautiful.
unidentified
All right.
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