Joe Rogan Experience #733 — Judah Friedlander Transcript

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0:00 There's no levels, Judah Freelander. We don't give a fuck about levels. Now, is that a real weathered hat, or did you prematurely weather it? for sure is you could sell those like the ones that you've worn for like a long time and people Yeah, I like it. this book is is basically a spoof of people who think they're great at it but are horrendous at

2:08 Yeah, that's a big issue. And I do like lying nipples also. I've heard people say something like, oh, man, I don't like when they have small nipples But it's like, you know, whenever I hear people complaining about, like, especially like, you know, it's like you're already getting laid. He had all these physical problems. their feet like he would like freak out about feet like he would get like almost angry like

4:09 And what does he smell like? Way more. Way more. The sex worker thing is a real, or cut people's hair, In a sense, they're athletes. I mean, at a certain point in time, it becomes stupid. active, whose body works, So here's someone that's openly and honestly selling it, and then yet they get discriminated against. He was talking to some girl in front of a club in New York.

6:25 He got pulled in for that. No, years ago. Yeah, I'd probably talk to her. His is different than mine. So that's why you might lock it ten times. Sometimes you think, okay, something bad's got to And then if it gets on a negative thought, it just, you know, spirals and spirals and spirals. like because it's actually the most relaxing thing i do it's like being up on stage for whatever

9:35 She's really fucking funny. Oh, she's got this Oprah bit. and you have to work at it Oh, yeah, yeah. Seeing people have a great great time it's the most fun thing i do so it's what i would most It's like. I mean, in New York City, you don't. or the store Yeah. just by playing by yourself all day at guitar. But stand up you have to go on stage otherwise you're not doing stand-up yeah

11:53 That's your sheets? Why? I'll usually have a thought or like a sentence or maybe it'll be like a one how do I extend this and take it in another direction and get another laugh? I am to remember shit. That's good. But, yeah, I always forget stuff. and it seems like he works almost And people that don't write offstage, I'm always like, man, you're missing out.

14:19 to late 90s but it's it's changed the persona has changed so much over the years but it's it's such And theoretically, I'm still undefeated, so I still got the title. Really? Yeah. The Guinness Book is a fat book. I think they both had it at various times. Yeah. Who wants to stay up for 28 hours straight? And that guy has massive nerve damage in his shoulder.

17:15 a lot of one-liners and it was always very, uh, you know, always did a lot of crowd work. And then at some point, it sort of morphed, and it became not a guy who was bragging. It became like an actual real-life superhero who really is this amazing athlete and sexual creature that is just better than everyone. Lois is a weird name for a chick. And then the past few years, it's morphed some more where the world champion is,

19:25 But then if you step out, then you can like a couple years later, you're like, what the step away from the way you've been living, and physically be farther away. So I sort of just started seeing some of the hypocrisies and the ridiculousness of, you know, just the culture and how uncomfortable the audience gets. like if you're preaching the choir i never find that interesting or challenging you know i like

21:49 And then they're realizing, wow, the fact that we're arguing over this is really absurd, you know. So they have something in common. But, you know, I take that, you know, that knowledge beforehand that these people actually agree more than they disagree. It's already good guys versus bad guys. It's like you can't, it's like you'll never be the same.

23:42 Yeah. Yeah, I go here's Judah's actual perspective on this right, but instead again, for lack of a better term, are standing up for the underdog there's the color it's because a black lung is a polluted lung that is not healthy i understand yeah yeah What do they say? Dictatorial. Yeah. It's not about like you just said something wrong. But I don't know.

28:03 Kick first. Ask questions? Never. You'd start shaming people for shit that's not even shameful. And then I'll say, I said, I'd like to apologize for wearing a hat. She kind of fights against or studies that are not real What did you just say before that? Jesus Christ. Because they think clapping will trigger people that have been beaten before So that was the initial thing why the Beatniks did it.

30:55 because she had it restored and put together i mean it's like a lamp from like 1921 or something A lot of people move to Mexico that well at all. Yeah, I took photos of it and put it up on my Instagram. when you land you're like whoa like the and apparently they say the pollution is way better And someone got this special camera that can see gas, and it's still going everywhere in Porter Ranch.

33:15 moving out wow good for them the government is the last person you should ever listen to they're So if people are breathing, they're not dropping dead on the spot. Look at her. and this guy who identifies as a six-year-old girl. And this sort of, you know, people don't want to admit this but this sort of is what's going on with a lot of folks when it comes to this whole transgender thing the idea that you identify with

35:30 Well, what do we do about Bruce and that's something we're going to have to come to grips with Yeah, yeah seven yeah, I went out with a girl once oh, yeah, how old how old she was? I'm like, well, you have to know what CNN is. You grew up in New York City and you don't know what CNN is? I didn't. yeah to herself you know you know she's like talking to herself she's crazy yeah yeah and

38:08 like a little girl was she hot yeah she's very good looking she hung out with her fuck it who Yeah, he has a mold. Yeah, he's really good. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I remember thinking, whoa, that was all a bunch of masks. The special effects were incredible. Because when I watch it, I just love it. But I was watching the special effects. You know, that suspension of disbelief was, but now, like, you know, Interstellar or something

40:40 so i still i just i kind of lose believability with that stuff. I even like the 1976 one with Jeff Bridges and Jessica Lange. That's awesome. called Harryhausen's. And so I was explaining to them But see, you've got to get a video of it. Look how stupid it looks. And then they went to this thing. Like, people couldn't believe it. They're just everyone's just walking around with a blank face. Yeah, you know here. They really overdid it

43:36 you used to have to project. silent movie i think in the teens yeah silent i think in the teens i think it was the 1800s So that's incredible. Yeah. Oh, I didn't think of it that way. were like yeah that's interesting they might have been i think they were pretty savage yeah i don't And even today, if that was happening, they wouldn't actually show it.

46:07 movie ever made. Really? amazing. But they're so violent. He's grabbing her and she's screaming. He's pulling It's like, Jesus Christ. I guess. They're not supposed to play dodgeball anymore. Yeah. Just let that kid out the door. Well, New York is interesting in that way that you get to see It's really becoming a boring kind of city. and it's like it's like it's turning that way like everywhere it's like it's become such a wealthy

49:45 it's like the only people i know doctors in new york city who live in jersey because they can't But those finance guys, they make money. for themselves. Yeah. Giant chunks that became stock market guys. I'm a stockbroker. And allowed them to set up the whole subprime mortgage loan crisis thing. You know, they get marketed as they're so different, but they're really not that different.

52:20 Unless you have your own money where you can finance your own campaign. the biggest reason they just show the whole fucking speech for an hour. 30 seconds of their campaign speech. Like, when he said he wants to ban Muslims coming into America, I'm like, what are you Yeah. But you're going to ban all the Muslims that are coming? He goes, just until we figure out what the hell is going on.

54:48 Yeah, and political, you know, arena, you know, it's just, because, yeah, the news media Donald Trump is entertaining. What? Really? I think so. That's just because someone told me that recently. The girls that they have on that entertainment and not news. What? Really? Yeah, I think so. It's about getting viewers. I mean, how many brown kids get killed every day and nothing yeah one little cute white girl with pigtails gets scooped

56:33 Yeah, if you want to get real news, you really have You can go online and watch news from other countries and see how they report. We had Giuliani for eight years, And he got voted to be allowed to go a third term. So, you know, he was good and bad. room and you want to put on a comedy show uh or something and someone's dancing in a or a sketch That was a law they, yeah, that was a law they, so, so.

59:15 Because that used to be the only place you could fucking watch one. i think guys were thinking they were still like i'm i was wondering like do they think they're So you have, like, you know, expensive apartments you know, I'd never felt more safe How bizarre. I think it was physical space. Most of them just I just love that yeah but almost it's almost like like

1:03:00 And I'm just like, what the fuck, you know? hardly any of the people that live there are actually from New York anymore. So I'm going to go to LA and try. and try to become an actor or an actress. anyone like here in LA. Everyone I meet is doing something in arts or entertainment or trying to, in New York in the late 80s and early 90s, It's going to be hard to reverse.

1:05:38 and some and some canada is very hot very hot so so they um uh so like it used to be like it was always close you And, you know, you don't even see a lot of interesting fashion walking around the streets of New York. Right. It's interesting. You know, they usually kind of heckle themselves, you know, say they're boring, they work at a good job or whatever, you know.

1:07:37 That's incredible. That's crazy. It's an apartment. You can buy and that's just going out the window. I think for, well, you know, my folks and my brother, they're in Maryland and D.C., living in la yeah i'm like really it's like people are recognizing that there's like a weird shift that's going on. That means they know stage. night it just you know once in a while you can do that but you're gonna go fucking crazy if you do

1:10:52 $40 to $50 to $60 a night. it's crazy i mean adam's done uh you know he's the best he's the best job i fucking love that She's an animal, that chick. to making them middle acts, making them headliners. or do something entertainment. People find each other. Right. Now, you can find cool shit and then with everything Stand-up comedy, They're both excellent.

1:14:12 It does. I mean, these are big generalizations, but in general, a little more physical. Oh, it isn't? The store and the improv are killing it right now. Oh, really? I didn't know that. That show that he has on comedy central is a genuine hard work success story. Maybe there'll be some jokes right maybe those would be some something that I could mine. That's cool

1:15:57 growing, you know? Putting it together, comics would come the story like about new york comics they'd move out here and they basically Like New York, you're constantly, I'm not talking as a comic, just as a person. You can relax. But I really like – and the audiences are a little different between New York and here. Not full-time comedy clubs. I'm going 50.

1:18:24 They have a new one now? It's perfectly set up. So I got to check that out. It's like a different company club. I was like, wow, this place is fucking hopping. And you were doing like a long set, right? It was really good. You haven't been? Hell of a show god damn it. Yeah, the Ice House is the oldest comedy club in the world. It was a legitimate ice house, like where you would get ice back when people didn't

1:20:35 That's awesome. guy and it's like it's just just you look at the lineup and it's like 13 murderers yeah yeah no it's They're like, fuck you. I'm like, this is amazing, especially at night. At Soho. There's fucking buildings stacked on top of buildings. time and it made her kind of feel weird about her own relationship because this couple they were I would have stopped watching a long time ago.

1:23:33 And they'd taken the body out. But yes, I see what you're saying is she I don't think she is I think she's just looking at her world look I'd depress the fuck out of you, I think, because in the end, the dude dies. I got to get out of here. but that sounds awesome. You don't look out at those people? Hey, what show are you from again, man? We got to fix that, Jamie.

1:25:42 Stacked on top of everybody. Get here. Right, right. Yeah. Yes, exactly. Because it's getting too crowded now, you know. And that's the thing that are from there are like, fuck, stop telling people about it. Yes, exactly. Right, right. Yeah, no, there's a-minded, the most diverse. Right, right. I haven't had one. Cap City? because it's just too difficult too much politically correct attitude yeah i don't

1:28:13 No, that's a... I'm like, what the fuck does that mean? You know didn't go i need specifics like i go can i say fuck Italian restaurant, an Orthodox Jewish, schmeckle don't don't say sex don't mention sex you know all these fucking things you know i'm You know, what can I say? So I'm like, I need specifics on subject matter and words. What have you passed on?

1:30:48 At home? That needs to be displayed. be so many things in my stand-up act that I have Right, exactly. I'm not doing any censorship with my stand-up. I did a show at Princeton a few years ago. And then a nasty letter saying, oh, you did all these things. I usually find a way. than a 19-year-old Harvard student. Because usually when people get to college, they kind of think they know everything.

1:34:18 fun of that shit you know so that shit is important to make fun of that's a that's a goddamn cancer just saying them constantly doesn't even know what it means so sometimes when when people are My opinions change on things over the years, super pro-gun and they both work for the biggest online gun seller in the country and it was just of issues. I just did a gig in Buffalo

1:36:43 you're only allowed to have three bullets in there. I forget what they're called, like the little daggers that go along the side. There's lead ammo versus copper ammo, but really the impact is environmental. because I think what people are really concerned about when it comes to gun control If you have 10,000 guns within 30 yards. If you have 10,000 guns, you know, within 30 yards,

1:38:37 that really have their heart in the right place, I mean, with Trump and some of the things he's saying, it's like some of these things are— There's a lot going on with human interaction. So we have these issues. Because the mental health issue is as big an issue as anything else. are lower than they were 10 or 20 years ago, but mass shootings are up.

1:41:07 But mass shootings, there's more of them. Yeah. Trending. Judah world champion. rape case nobody does All sides. They said, through the roof. It's very rare that you have these mass shootings. You know, is it like when you get your driver's test at 15 or 16? That's a problem. It's a real problem. There's more restrictions on Sudafed than there are on gun. Well, especially ammo. There's more restrictions on Sudafed than there are

1:44:00 In the 80s, you just go buy Sudafed. Yeah, the internet has recipes for how to make meth from cold syrup. If you want to be a successful touring comedian, you have tweet you have to facebook you have to i do three things Go places. When you're on the road, do you bring your own openers? Just didn't do it? And they're selling T-shirts. Yeah, well, that's...

1:46:44 And I wasn't looking for one. And then with the sort of constant sleep deprivation of traveling and, you know, morning radio and morning TV shows, out, you know, really never, you know, album with it because I still have never put one out. Really, never? I turned them down because of their censorship stuff. added three new lines to it you know they

1:48:59 Yeah, you should do that. Do you trust me? but that's okay. It's got to be a representation of what you're doing right now. Maybe I should have edited that out and that part was flat. shit on it. And then, because you know, So I never used to give a shit what people like I got a lot of anxiety, i've had reviews where people like like just completely shit on me and and it's all none of

1:52:04 And then 30 minutes into the date, she starts talking about her boyfriend. Like, is he out of town? Or you guys have an open relationship? She's like, no, he's here. I'm like, like, are you, like, are you cheating on your boyfriend? Are you not into him anymore? Like, is he out of town? What the fuck are you doing over here with me? i don't have the exact answers i'm just thinking out loud but i think that's maybe sort of around

1:53:24 Yeah. Yeah. I never didcha. And he started drugging them. Then he started raping them. Yeah. No, that's interesting. and I'd like to go on a date Yeah, yeah, yeah. And she's like, yeah, my boyfriend's waiting for me. Yeah. It was something like. And you're like, oh, I'm fucking in. And why would I want to fucking do that? yeah I don't know always with authority figures I've never gotten along pretty much

1:55:56 Yeah. one girl was taking her shirt off, No, I'm not going to fucking do that. That's deep. If I wasn't trying to promote my shows What's the point? I don't think I would. Like, I know some people, and they just follow, It's almost like everyone has their own show, basically. So if a girl sometimes... No, no, no. All right. I went with the guy from 30 Rock.

1:59:09 What? I don't know that they all They're just using you as a target for their angst. Look, I'm here with him, the guy from the thing. And then my boyfriend says, and then my boyfriend says, And what'd she say? How'd you guys end the night? You know, I don't remember how it happened. they're doing something or saying something very specifically to get a reaction.

2:01:09 It's a less pervasive method of doing it. agree with you and I disagree, because I think I remember doing a stand-up set on a show years ago in L.A. this joke for two years they've never laughed at that point and then i get to the punch line You don't have to do anything. Is that all you got? Really? It becomes something different now because everyone's aware of the camera.

2:04:00 I'm a big fan of Hunter Thompson. I forget which one it was. He was an incredibly perceptive person, man. Fuck yeah. If you don't have flaws, you're not human. Yeah, that's the kind of thing. We've got two of them here. I've been shipping his $3.99. And then your Twitter is judoworldchamp? Anytime, man. Big kiss.