Joe Rogan Experience #1273 — Ron Funches Transcript

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0:00 That's what the last thing people want to see, you know, it's the thing of difference I'm learning between when I do comedy and acting is that like the last thing people really want to see from your own stage is you really get emotional. Right at the end of that. On stage Louis Black. And there's usually an absurdity about the thing they're mad at.

1:21 And people just don't want to hear it. yeah how can you tell like how can you tell it's fake how can you tell it's fake anger yeah that's One of, this is going to get, I mean, you're a weird guy, so it doesn't matter. and hear these jokes maybe you can see someone said multiple time but they're really good Or some people remember shit you don't remember anymore.

4:06 Like, 2014. Yes, yes. They're just starting to catch their groove and figure out what it is. I wanted to just make something and put something out. joke punchline joke punchline when people can see like oh you set this up you did this right Do you write with a typewriter? little bowls of like with um post-it notes for me whenever i an idea comes i make sure i catch it

7:48 quickly i think the comedy story has been the best for me that just being like um having to like but when it comes to that, That's the thing. Yeah, that didn't work. In the 90s That's when I started I'm like, man, you guys don't get it. No no no it was a twitter user It's a weird tweet though because there's a space in there. She was a ridiculous lady.

11:20 the first comments were like either you're yours two stones you're not doing i was like no i just Because you had to do it all in cash. Yes. given what we know about prohibition like how bad it was for alcohol and how it popped up the extra um life-threatening situations and you're also penalizing people for their own life choices instead of propping up organized crime or as well as rather propping up organized crime

14:19 Says who? They still use it legally Like who says And he's got this new documentary called Screwball. He's a guy. Oh, okay. they either were murdered or they were arrested for corruption. It's great, man. What did they do? They had this thing where they're interviewing police officers. When you get to Ice-T's body count, when he was doing that hard metal shit,

18:16 were dealing with, you know, I murdered all these people. But like, today was a good day. there's lyrics and then there's Nas. He was young 20s when he wrote that. things yeah like hamilton i didn't see hamilton did you see it Eminem. Yeah. They were fun Call himself more of a musician it he's a shit but like um war porn industries that's right war porn industries that's preposterous what a crazy name how high do you have to be to come up with that name action bronson oh yeah oh

22:32 Fuck That's Delicious show. Sometimes, yeah. Just that he's Sell it for a billion dollars near the ski lodges and shit and on the wall he had this painting and i said i go did this kid make this and they go no that's a you know some You know what I mean? I mean, it's crazy. He's got a sword. He was when i was a kid you know when i was a young boy this seems like what you would like

25:52 of throny in a lot of ways the original shit like no one to this day has really captured the books and killed everyone and just smashed his way through the world. whoa, man, this is wild. The guy's making out with the girl, Sure. What is this about? Is this the blow pop thing? Wait a minute, Look at this beached great white shark. It can't bite you.

28:52 Things like that are just roaming around. It was cool. You can tell yourself a lot of things, right? That was a big part of it. so but you're you do it a lot yeah yeah yeah do you um do you find it has a uh an effect on your I do a lot of voiceovers and other little things. And I had to put her down. pack it's like a backpack frame and but at the back of it is like one of those weight

32:53 My knees shouldn't be hurting. and I still don't even really know what I'm doing. Yeah. dogs on them and you know i don't want that anymore yeah right yeah it gets like you get i feel like dog shit i feel terrible it hits me i'm like oh and then you gotta realize hey man this is how a lot of There's nothing wrong with an ice cream or something like that every now and again or some sort of a dessert.

36:18 You're just eating stuff that doesn't have enough nutrients, and your body just starts love mouth pleasure like you know but to the point where people are poisoning their bodies to get mouth and some asshole next to you has got kale with shaved pecans It doesn't matter. And, you know, there's food everywhere, crafts everywhere. Like, it's hard for me when I get out of shape.

39:41 someone i know one of my friends are 50 or older and they're like hey you need to i think you'd figure it out pretty quickly it's it's it's a very unusual thing because um you are obsessed with uh anything else whether it's music or uh video games or they become obsessed have and the stronger your use of those words are particularly the basic words the better your

42:20 So in that sense, it is kind of similar. Huh. My instructor is John Jock Machado it's just a total different world and a lot of that is his deep knowledge and understanding mean they're it's they're hitting each other for sure they're doing things to each other and slamming Well, they will. But those guys get beat the fuck up. grappling like i feel like real grappling for like if i was going to tell a person like what

45:43 your fucking head and the repeated impacts of those. Yeah. Those getting that all the time yeah all the time yeah no i go back Oh, my God. And they follow through. arms together and let them have an mma fight what it was an mma fight slash arm wrestling competition They can't even move away. just how crazy people can get i love it dude but that's real and how this is the other one

48:54 You win this part. it looks like the fight was first yeah they were sweating by the way night to rook two probably champion chess player and this kid would come by and play pool this really young kid like like 15 interesting to me too because as a very young man i think i was like 23 or 24 i i got to see how And 10 o'clock rolls around, and he yells out,

51:37 I grew up in this place called Newton like real quiet quaint little community And one of them who became my best friend, this guy named Johnny. And you got to see the excitement of these. there was some sort of either um a professional gambler or they had like some one of the guys was wants you to think that their way of living life is the way you should go about it it's real tricky

54:40 People love to hear that. Yeah. most people i know like if you tell someone that hey i want to go try comedy you know if you go There's a lot of that i'd be like god i wish i thought of that bit or god he's doing so good shit now i have to follow Well, I always, not that I've always, I'm on a similar journey. I want to see all these different types of styles. I think, I mean, the fact that me and you are in this room together and we both respect each other's comedy and our comedy's worlds apart and different, you know, just two completely different styles.

58:14 a as an art form as this um structure based you know like you you structure things you know how and then they go on stage a lot, and then they work those ideas out when they're on stage, You know, it's like, fuck, man. And don't do that. One of the things I really get out of L.A. is on any given night I can go to a store and watch someone murder all the time.

1:01:01 i mean it's one of the weirdest places ever in terms of a hive of comedy. like me at all people who like you say you i see jokes every day where i go oh fuck like how like that was in the He's great. It's just such a different thing now. Such a rich comic. Do comedy club for a goof i need to uh do more comedy clubs uh it's just such a different thing such a rich comic do a club as a goof well it's like you make a decision whether you want to make a lot of money or have a lot of fun yeah true truly yeah yeah and um it's

1:03:02 That's what I'm trying to do. too american and i'll be like oh okay right and it'll just then it'll inform my writing and i'll It's like one of the nicest people ever. It's a weird culture. This is great. It's like the very first high destination. Like people would gonna go to amsterdam get high i like going just for the There was certain people that just get too high.

1:06:01 But right now you're okay. guilty because then you have to go what happened what happened what happened did he bribe somebody or did some new evidence come But just knowing Chicago in general, I mean, my guess is maybe the way they were going off the investigation wasn't really above board. So fun. And the music. So does he get his own show? What was the scene in the movie?

1:09:23 Yeah. There are hardier people than people that grow up like in San Diego. you're gonna yeah you're gonna get tougher i had to unprogram that for myself when I moved from Chicago to Oregon. about that is that it's very hard for people to get over that hump it's very hard for people to you wouldn't hear anything it was one of some of my favorite times i live in boston or newton where

1:12:28 feel like yeah this is nice as long as you have food as long as you know it's going to go away everywhere and ice had made the power lines fall down they had uh you know like frozen rain had That's what I think about. almost just happened that one that you were uh you pulled up the other day that happened in december Does it bother you But also, I'm pretty present.

1:15:29 buildings right next to the goddamn ocean the ocean's rising you know it's there's a real This moment seems very permanent this moment seems very permanent learned very young that like what's cool is very relative to wherever you are. So I learned very quickly to just be like, motivated and being happy and just being again just being present you know

1:17:58 And I just get to these parts where I'm like, man, that's like, time with him you know yeah your your life as a comic you know it oftentimes i find that guys go through I went through periods of years where I didn't write anything, where I was really lazy and I had the same sex. approach it where everybody was competing against each other and then you kind of like you have

1:20:36 being not because it used to be either like i am the hot girl or like i'm just a dude like you a star well there's definitely something to that you I remember the Martin Lawrence days when he was on top only wear if you were doing stand-up leather and you know it was very powerful it was very bold which was like his comedy you know it All right. Have an extra one for the road, too, sir.

1:22:58 Nice. and I ask them about it and about setting goals and stuff. and stuff like that when he had that. You know? got a lot of money you're doing okay everything you have seen you like you accomplish so many things so what what makes I'll have bad sets. it might have just been a Portland thing. gives you a nice boost like you feel great about it and uh one time uh i was at the store and it

1:27:35 you're a real comic. there's always just so much to learn that's what i've been learning to um get out of like every set I still haven't seen it. want to just get into it i want to you know unless it's like i got 10 minutes and i have things i it some people they would go on stage and they just hammer with a first joke and from there it's it's a crazy gig man it's a crazy gig when you started out in chicago what club were you at

1:31:07 moved i moved to los angeles and um now just i have my son here and she's been me and him and Everybody was talking about those triple runs. Not me. oh, okay, well, I i'm not gonna get idaho shows No, they got a good little comedy scene building over there. Yeah, that's true. you know but now i'm in charge the stress of paying my bills the stress of taking care of my

1:34:56 if it seems like if you could make things this is like one of a good time to be on your own because it's not i mean there's people that just aren't creative and they're not interested in it but You're not even thinking about that. I see that all the time, especially even with my weight loss and stuff. yeah it sucked because then they made me clean it up and i'm like part of the gig yeah it really was

1:37:22 That's a great thing. dude what is happening here is this our new life yeah yeah no that was pretty much that you can you nailed it And then when I got under 250, and then now, like now I'm about 220. And it's helped me as far as my comedy or dealing with executives and stuff Because shit can be really not good. you wake up every morning like, oh, I guess everything's okay.

1:41:17 able to do that it's a lot of weight to lose how long did that take you um about about two and a half years that's a no matter what that's an they see you do it they watch it happen you know i mean it's one of the cooler things about it like and then all of a sudden he loses all that weight, you're like, what? people do yeah yeah of what's capable right so when a guy like you loses all that weight it changes people's

1:44:11 give advice or things or i'm not even really advised just trying to be positive people go prepare if if he does if he needs help i have to prepare for all these things and it really not necessarily comedy in those directions one of the beautiful things about stand-up Come on in. with satan going what the fuck am i doing with my life i don't want to be here you know i'm writing

1:46:41 All you got to do is find this shit that's funny, work on it, make the people laugh. can quit that gig in a short period of time because nobody ever does yeah right trap jobs So a lot of people end up trapped there. I remember when I was a kid, I was at this uh place called newport creamery it was an ice cream store like they sold ice cream and hamburgers

1:49:09 person right you have to be you would have to be a crazy person where no one knows you're pregnant yeah that was a sheltered ass place that's beautiful i want to do that i want to make Especially in 1978 or whatever the fuck it was. I'm going to be cool as fuck. because she doesn't care like my mom sexually harassed justin timberlake once it was great

1:52:20 you're dealing with three months of straight gray, you know? It's the rain. Even the ocean looks tired. But the water is so beautiful. what the fuck is this like how the how am i finding this like you don't have anybody like fish called the bonefish see if you could pull a picture of it I don't know why we're talking It's a crazy-looking fish, man.

1:55:25 Yeah, it sounds exciting. I knew that it was supposed to be horrific. Like, this is huge. Probably a different video, but yeah. It's crazy. know still in like sort of the prototype stage but it's going to have these machines or this Guaranteed. You know? plastic yeah BPAs you know listen man even if it takes 10 years if they could figure out a way their first actual pulling of the garbage.

1:58:38 it's ocean genocide i mean it's fucking chaotic man they don't have real i mean they don't have you've been very conscious about what you eat i should be more conscious about sustainability but sometimes it feels like um what is this what that's a crazy bundle of these ocean creatures and how often does this happen a day is it all day i bet it is i bet this is all day

2:01:00 crazy i mean this is not a person supposed to be able to catch a fish or two fish or three fish and then you eat it. You know, I feel awful about this. It just seems like it's bad either way. dreams of sushi remember when those gentlemen were at the fish market and they were talking But it seems like that it wouldn't be that hard those yellow tails in hawaii there was a storm the storm wrecked their little enclosure and they got

2:03:53 Maybe it should be a program that all the people who buy sushi fund into that just takes You helping out? and there's going to be terrible things, but it's going to keep getting better and better, And they're more public because of things like social media. be reasonable and try to talk to each other so i think that everybody could learn something or even religion and be completely calm about it

2:06:57 But I think now so many things get wrapped up in politics that people do forget to be civilized and do forget that we've why i want to know what you're thinking like what what is what's pushing you in this direction what them or tell them that that's bad for them or tell them they can't live that way then then you've of constant through all those things where you're like that's something i can take from you but to

2:09:59 about i was like you know five or something like that i was like wait a minute wait a minute wait I can't believe this. know who's right we know who makes better movies yes yeah the jews do an excellent job making it's it's interesting how it goes in these waves you know yeah for whatever country is not doing A lot less rowdy, a lot less boisterous, just people listening.

2:12:47 Yes. that have scenes, from Sweden, do you? It was hard to find someone who was really good at teaching it. styles 100 and everyone is like there's a really And Twitter and YouTube or twitter was just starting oh, don't worry about this time don't worry Ron Funches.