Joe Rogan Experience Review podcast - A Review of 1231 Matt Braunger

Episode Date: February 1, 2019

Matt Braunger is an old friend of Joes and a stand up comedian. They get in to some very silly topics in this podcast and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Make sure to give it a listen. Enjoy my review folks! Please email me with any suggestions and questions for future Reviews: [e-mail]

Hello there, welcome to this episode of the JRE review where today I'm reviewing episode 1231 with Matt Browner, Brunger, B-R-A-U-N-G-R however you say that. A comedian, old friend of Rogan, he's had a lot of his old friends, comedy old friends on there recently recently and pretty interesting dude, pretty interesting dude. They get loaded up on some coffee and start the podcast with a fun fact that all coffee comes from Ethiopia. Didn't know that. Fascinating stuff. So anyway, let's start the review. Let's start the review. [♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪ OUTRO MUSIC [♪ OUTRO MUSIC [♪ OUTRO MUSIC [♪ OUTRO MUSIC [♪ OUTRO MUSIC [♪ OUTRO MUSIC [♪ OUTRO MUSIC [♪ OUTRO MUSIC [♪ OUTRO MUSIC [♪ OUTRO MUSIC [♪ OUTRO MUSIC [♪ OUTRO MUSIC [♪ OUTRO MUSIC [♪ OUTRO MUSIC [♪ OUTRO MUSIC [♪ OUTRO MUSIC [♪ OUTRO MUSIC [♪ OUTRO MUSIC [♪ OUTRO MUSIC OUTRO MUSIC OUTRO MUSIC OUTRO MUSIC [♪ OUTRO MUSIC [♪ OUTRO MUSIC [♪ OUTRO MUSIC [♪ OUTRO MUSIC OUTRO MUSIC [♪ OUTRO MUSIC OUTRO MUSIC OUTRO MUSIC [♪ OUTRO MUSIC OUTRO MUSIC OUTRO MUSIC OUTRO MUSIC OUTRO MUSIC OUTRO MUSIC OUTRO MUSIC OUTRO MUSIC OUTRO MUSIC OUTRO MUSIC OUTRO MUSIC OUTRO MUSIC OUTRO MUSIC OUTRO MUSIC OUTRO MUSIC OUTRO MUSIC So as with any podcast that has a comedian on, this one was a funny one. I enjoyed listening to Matt quite a lot, funny guy, great conversation with Joe and other

than starting off with Fun Facts About Coffee and where it came from and in the kind of its role in our society, they'd also talked about alcohol, how in the past people just mostly drank alcohol all the time because it was like a sterile version of water and Pretty much making people drunk all the time to some degree though as far as I understand that the drinks were less Strong it wasn't quite as alcoholic so you could drink more of them But they did talk about how in the middle ages people waged war drunk, you know And that would make sense.

If you had to go to war and fight to the death, I'd want to be a little bit drunk too. I mean, it kind of makes sense. I've heard stories in Joe talked about it at the Viking Berserkers, or had they used to do mushrooms before they went to war. And, uh, yeah, wow, I don't know if you guys have tried mushrooms before, but I would not recommend getting any sort of, well, I don't know if you guys have tried mushrooms before, but I would not recommend getting any sort of

physical battle on those. That doesn't seem like a very good idea. A lot of work there, but yeah, crazy times, I guess, calls call for crazier actions. One thing that they get into that I really enjoyed was their understanding of extreme winners. People that are super intense, they talk about LeBron James and other types of extreme winners just really honing their skills, focusing on what's important and what it takes to get really good at anything. And Joe then branches off to talk about the famous YouTubers these days. And these YouTubers gaining a lot of kind of followers and support.

And especially the comedy ones, you know, making funny videos. And then they're starting to decide that, hey, I'm going talk with this, do maybe some live shows, and without all the editing, they just can't do it, they really struggle. And it makes sense. I mean, you know, this is coming from two comedians in this conversation, both Matt and Joe, and they're saying, well, look,

you can't go from a heavily edited show, where, sure, it is funny, but it was scripted to this live event where you're in front of an audience, you're learning the timing, you're reading the audience, you're keeping the energy up. A lot of these guys, these YouTubers are bombing heavily. And that's quite interesting to think about. I've heard reports of this stuff too. I don't know if you guys have paid attention any of that, but it does make sense. You can't just jump

from one medium to another. I mean live performance is a lot different and that's it's gonna be a lot harder for sure. And it's tough, no matter who you are, to get out there and do a live performance, especially as a stand-up, one thing the Matt talks about is you've got to remember that the audience is rooting for you, I mean they showed up for you, but that's not enough, I mean you've got to be good, and yeah, it's very difficult. Joey even mentions it's even more difficult if you're a good looking woman to in stand up. It's hard because You know at least men are perceiving you one way, you know

They're not just a lot of times just sat there looking waiting for your comedy to come out that they're saying hey She's hard and then maybe women in the audience are a bit jealous because this person is good looking so for that comedian to be at a push past all of that and Make you laugh and get your attention. It takes a special sort of focus and Obviously Joe would know a lot about this because he has friends at the comedy store that are very successful comedians That are also pretty women and he probably gets to talk about that dynamic and hear that struggle. So fair play to him because that's very tough. He talked a lot about bombing, like the bombing portion of comedy.

Obviously, this podcast was a pretty stand up comedy focused podcast. It would make sense. But again, the bombing portion and even if you've never done stand up, you don't care to do stand up, but you do other things that you want to be very good at. Just look at the bombing portion as the failing is horribly as you could ever imagine. So if you want to learn anything, let's say you plan on joining the special forces, for example. Well, every time you go out there and you have a really shit training day, or you fuck up a bunch of stuff, or you ruin, you know, the kind of the pretend mission that you guys go on, that's bombing, right? So that's bombing in the sense of

of just failure for that time, but it doesn't mean you suck. It just means that you didn't do something well that day, and it's important to not, you know, to not do things well sometimes, so you can learn from it. If you always did things well, you would just get, you become more of a risk taker, you just get cockier and cockier, and you'd never really well, you would just get, you become more of a risk taker, you just get cockier and cockier and you'd never really reflect, you'd just be barreling ahead. So, when Joe constantly talks about how much you learn from bombing, in so many ways he's saying how much you learn from failure, and it's an important lesson, it's important to

fail. And people don't like to, they stay away from it. Something you should ask yourself, how much have I failed? You know, how much stuff have I fucked up this week? Oftentimes we think, wow, you don't wanna fuck things up, that means you're a loser, you messing it up. But maybe it doesn't.

Maybe it just means you're constantly in a state of learning. And I always like that. That always resonates with me on Joe's podcast. I do like that. Paul Shavitt. Matt, as the guest, started out as an actor, he said. And then later on, went in to stand up and then did some improv. And he said that what he really loves about stand up is that it's the truth. It is truth and honesty and it really keeps you in the moment. And that I found a really fascinating way of saying it. That was saying that he won't spoke to a lawyer that said to him not necessarily related to comedy at all, but just said that the truth sounds different. It has a different ring. Now obviously this lawyer is talking about

either like an interrogation or getting a story out of their client, but there's something that rings true about the truth. And that's why I think when comedians hit on something that's very truthful, very honest, it resonates with an audience and does something quite magical and this is what really pulls these guys in there. They talk again about how comedy classes don't really exist and basically they're useless. So again, if you're actually thinking of starting out as a stand-up, be warned. Comedy classes are not really the way forward. The way forward is just writing and doing open mics and struggling through like everyone else. You can get mentors, of course, they give the example of Neil Brennan, who worked on the Chappelle show with Dave Chappelle and

supposedly Neil Brennan is a pretty excellent mental type coach and writes a tonne just has a wealth of knowledge and experience and really it does like helping comics, newer comics, but they give him as an example. So getting a mentor and comedy is important. That's why you need to be around a lot of comics and good comics, people that do it all the time, but otherwise you can't do classes. And everything you do sounds terrible. So this is something Matt and Joe were talking about. Any jokes you're doing, you hate at that time and even like you

could never watch your own stand up special editing your own stand up is pretty awful because you know the jokes and it's just really tough like that it's very rare that a comedian will look at his own work and laugh a lot they did give a little bit of an anecdote in the story about Bobby Lee who was once on my TV how he used to watch his own material on laugh and that was kind of odd, you know, for them to say not many people do things like that, but then with Bobby, supposedly hasn't released comedy special for a long time and who knows, he might have some insecurities that come with it and maybe

that causes him to laugh. I think Bobby Lee is hilarious. I hope he releases comedy special. I've been watching him since Mad TV in the 90s. I mean yeah he was brilliant. He's always been great. And moving to the end of their conversation they talk about some things that I found quite funny indeed. They started out by talking about people that go to the gym that have their own speakers and they're just playing music over the gym music. That's super annoying. Nobody likes that. It's really rude and quite ridiculous. People do it in my gym too. I mean, they're doing it everywhere. There's always like one guy in there that thinks that that's okay. And the next thing that they brought up,

Joe talked to, he goes, look, you can't, don't be that guy. But you can't just fight that guy in today's okay. And the next thing that they brought up, Joe talked to, he goes, look, you can't don't be that guy, but you can't just fight that guy in today's world. So they talked about in the past how there was like, dools, you know, and people would get into dools and this and that. Well, nowadays, in some states in the US, they have this law called the mutual combat law. I don't know what states they do it in. I think they gave the example of Oregon. But it's basically a thing where if you want to get into a fight with someone, if both people agree and the cops see it and hear it, you can straight up have a fight that the cops just, I guess, sit, stand there and watch, and it's legal. I think that that's crazy in some ways but kind of cool in other ways.

I don't know what do you guys think. But anyway, I enjoyed this conversation. It's always good when Joe has his old friends on that are comedians. They're always very light-hearted and very funny and Matt was certainly a very funny dude. So check out the podcast. Thank you guys so much for listening. I really appreciate it. Take it easy. you