Joe Rogan Experience #955 — Al Madrigal Transcript

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0:00 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 You took your phone, you shut that bitch off So if I get over a certain amount, I'm like I gotta fucking put this thing down. That's very smart Let me go check Instagram. things happen that allowed you to completely check out and go on this trip of yours i go you have no And then I took off. We talked about that before you did it. It's horrible.

2:50 because I don't have those three things. of civilization for three solid months at least right I think maybe more first And he loves it. Yeah, 6'4", 240 pounds. I know people associated with the Tom Cruise movie, I realized do you really yeah do you know that best character of all time yeah yeah 6 foot 4 yeah how is Tom Cruise anything about Jack Reacher

4:39 He's 10 steps ahead. He's a big numbers guy. This guy, Lee Child, created the perfect character. I have friends with a ton of comedians. And so I think that might have something to do with it. been. I love how it's had this resurgence. thing, like she didn't pass louis like That's within the last two years. Somebody told me the other night when I was in there,

7:32 Yeah. Again, happy to – I'm still the type of guy after shows I'll go out, say hello to everybody, talk, you know, and a bunch of hot spots there where you get and snatch a rabbit. They're just waiting. It's like fucking Christ. you're going to see an amazing show that could be But no, it's Yeah. I brought something. I said, I'll definitely start doing less shit.

10:30 Does he? Wow. He's got an older kid. The people are nice. and i want to be able to chill out i got kids on the back end of this thing where they're almost I know someone who's 36. There's no. about, you know, And they were poor growing up, lower middle class, and then went to the school. parents would abandon them let's get the fuck out of here account rep and then she became the head account rep then she became the vice president then she

14:23 in the family, just a brutal lady who's like, Fuck you. Remember? No work done at all. it's 1999 and at one point, and I'm like, oh shit. No. I'm like having a good set and look at just one dude fucking scowling at me When I met you, how long had you been doing stand-up? Went up in front of like half homeless people in San Francisco. Yeah. he put me with some you know there's some people that you think have potential and then they just

17:49 And then Eddie Bravo fucking came up. That was once they started moving to the new spot. He stopped doing stand-up dick around with that. He was such a nice guy And me and Kevin Christie sat in the balcony and I said, you know what? And then we came back the next night, and he did a bunch of this shit Just don't do that. and you have to stay relatable.

20:12 And it's like I don't think you can jump out like it's one of those things well So smart. remember watching it and it was really interesting. It was like the way he did it was like kind of you know, where he's selling out all over these places. Dude, if you see like two, I think Tom Segura and Christina are the ones that can pull it off too. Not good at all.

22:31 problems because that's what I did is like if you have a business or you work somewhere we'd employ And I just go up, and I go, hey, Twan, you know, jig is up. And so I go, Twan, you got two choices here. by my throat with the fucking stick in my face. You know, like in just like... So I had Russian nurses running from me and just crazy stories. that she tries to grab it.

24:58 and I go, and I say, somebody unlock it and she's in there and she's talking to her husband on the phone and she goes into a patient room and then she locks the door and then i get the door open i said somebody unlock and she's in there and she's talking to her husband on the The H-M-O-U-N-G? His name was Chip. Shit everywhere. So I was like, hey, Keith, Fook Lee, can you come here for a second?

26:49 So they were standing on the toilet seat. If they're not lucky, what, they hold it forever? Oh my God, so you become There was two comics who lived on my block. And he was on my block. Just the face pops out of the hole. I think he's a motivational speaker still up in the Bay Area. Yeah. came here to see me and and how many people came here to see comedy? Yeah. And he's like, music isn't like that.

29:45 he had a Showtime special that he did that I saw in the nineties. And I'm pretty sure other than And I'd never met him before. you go to the comedy magic club and then we had a long conversation about it afterwards which was super weird And then he did it again a year later. When the Abbott and Costello did Who's On First on TV, 20 other guys were pissed because they also did that exact same bit.

32:32 There were fucking 20 other duets doing that exact same fucking material. people coming through and not changing their act. With comics, I feel like they less want to see the hits more than anything. If you saw his last Netflix special. Yeah. So I lived in between Cobbs and the Punchline. Scott Thompson but then I started you know hacky comics up right they wouldn't get to play their sawyer wouldn't fucking work here

35:18 that, like what we were talking about. We don't need to name any guys that you can do to elicit laughter yeah you can memorize a huge string it's called yeah it's I just want to read Jack Reacher on my deck and fucking chill out. guy. But you're not. But I'm not. I go, what was that last applause break so much stand-up i was talking, I have this hour special coming out

37:35 they're not that special anymore. you go on Netflix And I walked in to the comedy club he's a great comic oh my god Yeah, Bisbee. Yeah. Every house that comes up, they're all like $30,000. Fuck, dude. Oh, yeah, yeah. he used to give out his address a bunch of RVs and our trucks and trailers and just going a bunch of guys. Cause also it's like, And they all have that in common.

40:50 I'm in. So, you know, I just wanted an excuse to buy one of those Airstreams. I'm looking at, there's a place called Off the Grid Rentals, and just to test out. I'm thinking I want a little bit more. There's an expedition vehicle that they take, and they take like a Ford F-250, the natural suspension or the suspension that comes with it and put a full-on dual solid axle

42:58 Oh, yeah, yeah, but you can see some of them. You do. I did his no reservations. Yeah. Well, it's called- What is it called now? Parts Unknown? Parts Unknown. Yeah. Where'd you go. What'd you do? I did his No Reservations. What'd you do with it? Yep. fucking wasted. super late and then we ate taquitos and by the time he got there i was just trashed i'm the

44:46 I can't speak. I don't know if it was. And he'd like chomp the head off. Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah, but you know that you have this thing and you're not doing anything What are you freaking? It's so huge. That's weird. You got to go, go, go. for all these comics. where you gotta make Ian Edwards has a podcast called Soccer Comic. And so I don't care about the numbers as much as I believe in the comics.

48:35 That's a good burn. And I'm hitting them all. I go, let's go to the improv. So I go up in between these sets, and I look at them, and I go, Fuck. This is a room full of, it's Asian night or something. Like, yeah. So I walk up and I proceed to just lay into him. This is the worst crowd I've ever fucking seen. Uncontrollable fucking burst of fucking telling people to fuck off.

51:22 Right. You go up there like sort of. Well, Willie's crazy. Right. I say crazy shit to people. When you feel slighted. Again, I want to just fucking sit on a chair. I just go after them 100%. Like, you can't be that handsome and fucking, like, started just tearing into him, like, Yeah. with his spare tire around his waist and He does. Especially in New York, same thing.

54:22 Well, you know what that is from? The belly room is so much more intimate and so much more intense because there's only 70 people in the room. belly room and interviewing people about that just to figure it out and that used to be it was called Like you're doing stand-up on stage. So I didn't really know him that well before. And that's what I was trying to tell Brendan.

56:27 And then he would do a few minutes on his own, just doing like kind of standup, like One of the bad things that people do is they only do their own crowd over and over and Well, not only that, but if you invite your friends out, and they're a significant part And we were talking about this. You don't understand. like i was like so-and-so stole this joke and stole that joke and i go i just got to come to

58:21 Does he still do it? Well, Skippy was doing stand-up. Skippy. But you know, the thing is like, it is your life calling. How come they can't do it somebody said this about carrot topot Top. Like, that fucker carried around, say what you will, but that fucker carried around that bag for a long fucking time. Rusty Dooley's fucking... you would have a prop comic on every other show.

1:00:29 And this is set in 1973, Yes, that's who it was. Many times. And he'd go, cunt. Hey, look at this fucking lady. He's a c can't believe you saying that and you go cunt Well, his act was ridiculous. show. It's like i'm rocking the biggest mustache for you i'll post a picture i'm just rocking the i think it's on How are your kids growing up? And I go...

1:03:13 I was crying. Well, you know what? Really have a campaign that says Dave Attell, Jim Gaffigan, Joe Rogan, like all these names You have Netflix. So anyway, I just burned that special. Okay? like those spots a bar brutal It was rough. 20 minutes long I did seafood revenge And And they bring out these trays that have Jello shot time. Just UFO trays of jello shots.

1:07:10 There's just a big push at the end of the night. Oh, my God. Yeah. Like, I go, it was just, it was horrible. No, zero. I don't know, man. I'd rather just go hang out at the store. Canadians are just great audiences I don't know what it is they're just it's One of the best sets I've ever had in my entire fucking life. Toronto. Vancouver is fun for me to go to.

1:09:33 That's my theory about Canada. Great spot. All these great places. you guys are doing coke, huh? And they're like, yeah. where i and it's sunday night after that set and i go after that weekend, it's the last Sunday, I'm hanging out two girls And they look over our shoulders. Weird. Totally. You know, I'm talking, my wife is very attractive. starts talking to us we're like were you guys at the show?

1:13:00 and have you been there no oh my god is it? They cast with headshots. A lot of pricks? Look at him. It's on the end of Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills. Good-looking ladies. Nothing! we went in Beverly Hills, and this guy pulled up in a million-dollar car. They have them registered in Saudi Arabia. and he was banging his maids And they were saying, why did you let this guy go?

1:15:55 But. But the money in that area, in Beverly Hills area, is just, it's catastrophic. When you get into oil money or people who who own oligarch money yeah yeah and even Where do they keep the black people? Really? in the head and fucking dead. Who were they shooting at? Not near the ice house. I saw there's this place called Villa Park where my son was playing soccer.

1:18:20 It's rough. Why? you look at all of the people coming in to work um they don't want any trouble. And with anything, That is a huge fucking problem Adderall and meth are closely related. It's, I took, Freddy Soto gave me an Ambien. Yeah. I needed to take a nap, and I was all wound up. That helps. Yeah. I'm a family goat. and then somebody will have half a chicken parmesan or something over on it

1:22:19 So I weigh more than I ever have weighed in my entire life right now. But yeah, I fucking one hundred ninety three pounds. when you're talking about immigration and like bad apples and stuff like that, I look They're not coming here because they want to start crime. And I've shot a lot of guns, especially for The Daily Show. You got to learn how to defend yourself.

1:23:41 .50 calibers are ridiculous. that I did that's a great idea We did it in Kansas City You need to just Do you own the idea? And I do it in San Francisco. I went to this place, OMB Guns, and I shot fucking machine guns, handguns. Whoa. I don't understand why you need to own that. arms and the skin I want the shotgun to defend my house when everything goes to hell.

1:26:24 Hammers. A hammer hammer i have a hammer No, no. Oh, one of them. Oh, yeah. and maybe you know people can write I don't want my kids. But the thing is, like, who should be able to decide who gets what? Like, if you're hunting, you would hunt with a suppressor on because you don't want to blow your fucking ears out, man. Kids. Their ears are a mess.

1:29:21 Shooting fucking shooting people in a college you could college. Yeah a community college. I was on KCRW and walking around the Santa Monica campus, nobody makes the correlation, the inescapable correlation between psychoactive drugs and mass shootings Right there. And I just feel like the root of the problem is not the tools that people are using.

1:31:20 He never came for the guns. They took away guns. Yeah, they just saw a thing. And it's in this giant ass fucking country. look, getting the guns support gun ownership. I really do. You take away all hammers? there being a screening process and seeing if you have a history of violence. There was a lot of weird shit that happened where people were put on lists because they pissed off the wrong people.

1:34:27 In Kansas City. You don't have to have a background check? Yeah. But she can. But hold on a second. But concealed weapons is, like, Huh. So they have to contact the FBI. many human issues where there's not stealing what he's got a gun so did you hear that bit like not a bit the video Jesus. Ojai's weird. Checking out. What about when you get out to

1:38:14 Beautiful view. I like to go up the coast. Right in the middle. I would say he counts Pauly with Chuck Liddell. That's Cambria. There's no one there. you know what happened he's just a he's a fucking dick to my son the dad was the dad was he was a I feel fucking bad. I don't want to do it, Is he still there, isn't he? New ones coming in, just chaos.

1:40:31 yeah yeah exactly you know And everyone has a career. The parents are inside drinking. yeah like do you understand i want to grab your neck and choke the life out of you i'm containing I get it out of my system. you know, that's the other thing. He was a big, giant dude. And the guy was pounding on his door saying, He goes, open this fucking door. and then wraps him up in something called an omoplata, which is a shoulder lock.

1:44:02 And the security guard goes, Joe Rogan? and he's like i'm sorry man my friend's piece of shit i'm sorry his friend picks his friend up the he comes back. If he comes back, he's cool this is not okay yeah parents don't watch their kids and then their kids are They didn't really plan it out. I mean literally he went back inside to drink the kid went back outside again

1:46:34 I saw him hit people. who just never raised a kid before hasn't really thought about it well has a big was just so infuriating. Talk to them. And that's when people create monsters He goes, he doesn't eat. You got food. We were on a flight, and saw these two parents sit in first class and then come back and check. They gave each of them iPads. Eight, maybe six, and four, three, just in a row.

1:49:51 And then we're sort of laughing at first. They fuck you up for days. Two days afterwards you're fucked. Yeah. Try to do fight after a while. Oh no. Nothing was said. like ignoring kids, and it's these career people. Because every single weekend we went on a little family trip. So after that happened, this is June, this is almost a year ago, just really try to trim back.

1:52:25 Too much time spent at work. Kids are in a house Where you gonna go? And two years ago, they go, no, no, that's you. Go back and forth. Also just be able to sit back and watch the ocean. Mm-hmm. And then just thinking about stuff nonstop. Right. It's massive. go back to Santa Barbara and then do nothing. I'm thinking, and this is certainly not something I'm doing right now.

1:57:06 Yeah. i drive off i don't appreciate it but when I came back from Alaska I really fucking appreciated it Like, I really want to just, and I'm overcomplicating my life. I got a development deal way back in the 90s. Because that's the real struggle. That's because, so I feel like this level right here, so I'm living in the house that I want to live in.

2:00:08 in your yard. Yeah, exactly. There's deer, Black bears, too. How weird. But once you fly in first class, it's difficult to go sit by the bathroom in between two other people. If you can be content with that, that's very peaceful and that's a great thing. I'm thinking about, like, I gotta use this stuff. What are you gonna make? There's a bunch of shit I like to do like that.

2:02:24 Is there a river there? I'm like, God, I want to go back and do that. He's in it all the time. But do you really want to do it, And me and my wife drove up into Altadena and heard about this hike that people do and took the dogs and went on this hike, and we had a blast. Yeah, I've got a ton of shit going on. All these things you should have already done.

2:05:02 I know it will. all of their own content. but as comedians we're starting everybody's starting all these podcasts and this is 2010 Felipe Esparza saw that no Latinos are doing podcasts. But then eventually we're going to start our own studio. While he was cooking. And we shot for an hour. But you did it a long time ago. And you just haven't edited it?

2:08:28 And then they gave us our podcast studio, two different offices, and then other meeting rooms as part of, like, an investment in us. Yeah, we got investors. Interesting. cooped and then you know the money is split interesting he'll just get access like burt will own that if there's if there's a tv show that gets made out of that and it becomes popular

2:09:49 This is an association of comics working together to promote each other. It's definitely something I'm looking at getting to a point and empowering other people have some other comics We can do, I can match Tom Papa up with a company so he can write their ad copy just to bring him extra side money. Like, we can do branded content, integrated marketing, and all that shit and have the comedians own the company that does that.

2:11:35 that distributes all that stuff? about like put getting a scripted show getting a this and a that. And he was like, I really think that, you know, there's something in podcasts. They're not doing anything for you. When you're a podcaster and your podcast becomes popular, vacation homes i love it i fucking love doing what I'm doing. It's like that's where I was when I was working for somebody else,

2:13:57 Like the people that we get to associate with and the people we get to meet and what happens when you do something you love, it all just sort of comes together. I'm totally aware of it. That was a long time ago. It's also you caring about comedy. What I've kind of done is form a network without having an actual network. Our contract came up and I go, I don't need a contract.

2:16:16 Been with him since I was an open miker. I really would die. Isn't that like the best part about this whole thing is that you get a chance to hang out with comics, parents family business and even knowing i wanted i knew i wanted to be a stand-up comic forever and it took me a while to figure it you know you've met life you've hung out with life you've been there you've you know you got

2:18:37 Everything else can go fuck itself. Yeah, yeah. And if you go through his interviews with Richard Jenny and Chris Rock and Jay Leno, because you're great at it. It's great living. Totally. glass is cool yeah my dad did it and then i started doing i was looking for a thing i volunteered with It's not a good feeling. And we all know that person. We all know that one person that's not a fun time. It's not a good feeling. And we all know that person. We all know that

2:21:35 time in this life, and then doing that thing that is actually interesting to your personality and I'm absolutely aware of the consequences. Waking up with the alarm clock getting your car driving to work meanwhile the entire time this is going on You're a finite life form on a planet in an infinite universe But I think it's also a matter of the human body.

2:23:57 your your body does not want to be like this overflowing battery of I just talked to a doctor about it for the first time. I know I'm an absolute mess. And close friends are. But when pushed and pushed and pushed, I fucking lose my mind. Well, this is a consequence of all your ambition. the next time I come back on this show, for? I'm going to go away for 10 days.

2:26:40 You'll get a call to do fear factor you're affecting all the ufc stuff like being a great comic has led to this you you're So while I was doing it, it made me realize, because they came with the money. And you start to hear about that. Yeah. Well, news radio went to syndication, Lou would wear a T-shirt that had the number that we were ranked for the week,

2:30:08 No, it's just you're working on all these shows and you're not doing ideally what you want. came back. Phoning it in. When you do one of those shows, those shows are just designed to keep grandma awake for another hour. a syndication deal. It's for, you know, over $10 million type of thing. they're asking me for more water or bread and it really took the air out of everything and made

2:33:27 And matched up with the showrunner showrunners. Oh, bro? To write and have my own Yeah. No, I really enjoy it. Like, I got to, yeah. That's awesome, then. Yeah. Yeah, you're going to love it so much. alright brother so this Friday or show.com forward I think I'm going to have another code for that. That's it. Back a new man Bye