Joe Rogan Experience Review podcast - JRE Review of 1296 with Joe List

Episode Date: May 25, 2019

Joe List is a very funny comedian and has the best story I've ever heard on Rogan about shitting in someones shoe. It's a must listen.   Enjoy my review folks!   Please email me with any suggestions and questions for future shows :   [e-mail]

Hey guys and welcome to another episode of the JRE Review. Today I'm reviewing episode 1296 with Joe List, a very funny comedian. He has some really hilarious stories and his conversation with Joe honestly was quite fantastic. Probably one of the funniest stories I've ever heard on Rogan unleashed in this episode and definitely worth a check. So, anyway, he's got a new special out. Let's start this review. Welcome to the Joe Rogan Experience Review! Where each week I review every single episode of the Joe Rogan Experience Room View! Where each week I review every single episode of the Joe Rogan Experience. What more do you want?

Your list is a comedian I didn't know a great deal about before he was on the podcast, but after listening to him I really like to style a lot. I found him very funny and that's enough for me to like Google someone and want to learn a little bit more about their comedy and what they're up to. He's a very funny dude. First off, the story of him shedding in some girl's shoe is fantastic. If you haven't heard the podcast yet, you gotta listen to it just for that one. It was fucking brilliant. Everything about it. The fact that that was a true story is quite honestly just unbelievable. Being the both these guys are comedians and they know a lot of the paths of other comedians

and writers and stand-ups and so on, they talk a little bit about writing for comedy shows. Now, if you've been struggling as a comedian, a stand-up for some time and not getting, you know, you're doing some shitty job probably. Maybe you're making a little bit of money here and there with stand-up, but it's not a lot for most comedians, you know, probably 99% of them maybe. And then you get a writer's gig, you know, you start writing for a show. It, I'm sure for a lot of them, seems amazing. You get medical, you know, you get pro-401 K, it's, you know, corporate a lot of times, so it's just stable and you're able to help your family on it and all the rest of it. So, you know, I can understand the appeal to do it. But Rogan talks about, and so does your list, that you can get stuck in that trap to where you're not able to do stand up as much,

maybe do it on the road at all because you have the obligation, you have to go into this company. So you lose a lot of your stand up and then there's great comedians out there that have been in this trap and they haven't been able to really build up the audience like Rogan has or Bert Kreyscher or any of those other people It's it's an interesting thing to hear because you could imagine the push pull of that position and it just brings up that question of like

Not necessarily selling out. I don't think that that's what it is But just like really prioritizing what you want to do and I think that that is an important message for a lot of people that are really doing anything. Are you selling out? Are you compromising too much on what is really going to make you happy? Because what I'm hearing from the way these guys talk about this and gals, is that they got stuck doing that and it just didn't bring them the kind of happiness and joy that they wanted. Maybe it gave them a bit of space, they could pay some bills, you know, they got some experience in some areas, but they lose that stand-up edge and that's really what they wanted to do in the first place. It's just one of those messages that really resonates with me when I hear

because I think it's so important to really focus on the most important thing that you want to do. We all have to make compromises, of course. We all do. In different areas, I have a different job that I don't care about so much, but I got to do it because I don't get paid to do this. And I don't get paid to do anything else that I really enjoy doing. So you got to do a little bit of that. But the hope is that you stay focused on your task and then you really get to fill, I guess your potential. You've got to have the

discipline to do that. Joe Liss talks about how when he went into Joe's studio, Joe was playing Quake. That game Quake, Joe is really getting into. Obviously, if you're a Joe Rogan fan, you know that he played a lot of Quake in the past. Who plays this game? Is it good? Is it that good? I want to know. I kind of want to get into it too. It seems, hey, if it's that fun, you know, I want to do it. I haven't played Quake. I feel like an old man. I need to play some Quake. Joe talks about giving his kids an hour of screen time every day, right? That's all they can get. Kids today, they have so much access to all these, you know, devices, iPads, phones, whatever

that I think limiting them is probably not a bad thing, right? I mean, they can still get to do it, but they get a bit of space there. So Joe says he does the same thing. And even though he's running a business and he's that busy, I think that that is a really cool sign of discipline. I don't know how much screen time I get a day, but it's probably more than that. And it wouldn't hurt, I don't think,

for anybody to think about limiting that kind of time. When it comes to comedians, they really get into some some great things on this podcast. They talk about comedy sometimes is all about killing, right? If you're a stand up because you just you feel like you're not good unless you're killing, nobody at book you unless you're killing, but at the same time that can put so much pressure on you that can lead you to maybe stealing some other people's jokes and really in a fucked up way, it's almost more about bombing. You learn more about bombing when you're doing something like that and that's how you

learn, but in a lot of ways, that's how all of us learn everything. If you think about it, it's the failures that allow you to learn. Problem is, if you're failing all the time, it feels fucking awful. So you've got to have a bit of a balance. And when you're failing as a stand-up, it probably feels worse than anything you can possibly imagine. So of course, they start talking about Ari. Ari Shaffir, one of the greats.

You know it. He's a legend, right? He has a great podcast. If you guys don't listen to that, you've got to. It's so interesting. It's very different than a lot of other podcasts. He can just talk away on his own, and it's so fascinating, and it really is, I mean, it inspires me every time I listen to it. I'm like, this guy, the way that his brain thinks is unbelievable Joe says he's figured it out right he figured out who he is and he doesn't compromise right He doesn't at all. He's a he's a fucking legend if he doesn't like the way something goes

That's it. I don't know all the ins and outs are how he lost the show on Comedy Central But I'm sure it's probably something similar to that. He was like, you know what, fuck that, I don't care. Right? And he's a nice guy, super nice. Similar to Joe, he takes care of people. If you go on the road with him, like Joe List, I guess did a show with him and Erie took care of everything. Like he really takes care of people. And that's something that's important. Taking care of people, people around you, people's important. Taking care of people, people around you, people that have added benefit to your life, it never hurts. You know, I don't feel like there's a price on what you can give them. I like that a lot. That's a lesson

that I take away from it. Joe Liss was talking about being pretty anxious coming on the Rogan podcast. I'm sure a lot of people do and it's something that you don't really think about when you listen to it. You just think, oh, that they're either a famous person or a professional person, they're the kind of person that knows what they're talking about and they're all prepared. But when you think of the magnitude of this show and even though Joe really does put you at ease and there's not this huge production team that's like, okay, you're on in five, come out, come through the curtain at this time, stand here and shake his hand and then sit on the couch.

It's not any of that pressure, but it's still millions, millions of people listening to you. And that must be pretty scary, you know, for a lot of the guests that are coming on. Especially the ones really trying to make a name for themselves and represent themselves well, it must be difficult. Lastly, they talk about Joe List opening up for Louis CK, opens up for Louis CK, right? And both Joe's have a lot of good things to say about Louis. People have a lot of different opinions about Louis and what he's been up to but the big question there is like You know and Joe Rogan talks about it. He's like when when is enough enough?

When is enough time passed for someone to be forgiven? You know and you have to think about what he did and what it is and I and I didn't even want to say what the crime was because it wasn't a crime. He didn't break the law, right? He upset some people and did something that's awkward and uncomfortable. And I don't know how everybody felt about what happened, right? Some people spoke out about it, so they weren't all happy about it. I mean, some people were upset. And that's fair enough.

They're allowed to be. And people are protesting at a show. And they have the all happy about it. I mean some people were upset and that's fair enough they're allowed to be. People are protesting at a show and they have the right to do it. This America, right? Do it. If you're upset, do it. But at the same time, it's like with all this controversy and in Louis being a really pretty controversial comedian anyway, I think it's making it a little bit harder for him to come back. And he took some time out, he chilled, they released that audio of his set before he had a chance to really perfect it, and he took a lot of criticism over that.

But, you know, Rogan talks about, he thinks he's gonna come back with a solid hour, and he's gonna crush, and I think he's going to do that too I think he's going to address this and Rogan brought up another point that I really like that maybe Maybe Louie could come out and talk about everything that's happened in more detail and put himself out there and and and really take ownership for what what it was and and then people can get past it. But no matter what, we need to, with all this accusation bullshit that's going on and everyone, you know,

trying to just take everyone else out, we, there needs to be a road for redemption. Like, people make mistakes, people do some weird things and if it's not a crime, if it's not super heinous and it's just like a mistake and some silly things and people can grow and change and learn, we need to have a dialogue, we need to have a way back, you know, a sincere way back. I don't know. Anyway, that's my two cents. I don't know what the

fuck I'm talking about. Thank you guys as always for downloading, I really appreciate it. And as always again, you know, send messages. Let me know what you're thinking and love you guys. Peace. you