Name: Joe Rogan Experience #2354 - Joe DeRosa
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #2354 - Joe DeRosa' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-07-23. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #2354 - Joe DeRosa

Joe Rogan podcast, check it out.
The Joe Rogan experience.
Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day.
Joe DeRosa taking notes.
Look at you, scholarly young man.
What are you writing down?
There's so many things I want to talk to you about.
Yeah?
Yeah, this is like a really, this is really interesting.
Like, to sit with you one-on-one like this.
It really is.
Because, and I say that outside of who you are to the world, which is obviously
impressive.
I say it to you just as a comic that knows you and has been friendly with you
for many years.
We don't get a, you know, usually when I see you, it's at the mothership.
Green room, 50 people around.
50 people.
It's your place.
There's a lot going on.
And I was like, man, it's going to be interesting to get to sit like across
from Joe and just talk to him.
Like, and have a conversation.
What did you write down?
I wrote sober.
Sober.
Which I'll explain.
But family was the first thing I wrote.
Okay.
Or the second thing I wrote, but the first thing I wanted to say was, um, it's
incredible, man, because I was in there last night.
My special came out yesterday.
And I was in the club last night.
I just dropped in real quick to say hi to Tony.
And Ari was around for his last night before he...
Yeah, what is he doing?
He's going on a walkabout?
Some secret.
He just sent me some text message.
He said this weekend was perfect for my send-off from stand-up comedy.
And they go, what does that mean, my send-off?
Um...
What are you doing?
Fucking weirdo.
He's going...
He always has to fucking throw his life into a turmoil every couple of years.
He's the weirdest man I've ever met.
Oh, he's so weird.
He's awesome, though.
I love him.
He's amazing.
He's one of my best friends.
He's a unique, very unique individual.
That's a one of one.
Yes.
And he's done some stuff.
He's a polarizing individual.
Oh, without a doubt.
Without a doubt.
He took his shit on stage with a note inside of it during a Skank Fest show.
He shit on the plastic and then pulled out the note and read it.
The...
Yeah, I remember that happening.
Yeah, don't do that.
He...
I talked to him about it.
Yeah.
And he goes, I go...
I go, Ari, I love you.
Why do you make it so hard for yourself?
And he goes...
He got mad.
We were sitting in the green room at Mother's...
It was just me and him.
And he got mad.
And he's sitting there.
He goes, oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
And censor jokes.
And then I go, no, no, no.
I'm not into censoring jokes.
I'm saying you shouldn't bloody shit on a stage.
And he kept going.
And I look him in the eye.
I go, Brian, you did the only thing I've ever seen shake Brian Holtzman.
Or Ari, sorry.
I go, Ari, you've done the only thing I've seen shake Brian Holtzman.
I saw Brian after you did that.
And then Holtzman was like, I don't know.
But that's what he wants.
That's what Ari wants.
Mission accomplished.
Oh, my God.
Yeah, he's like, you know, he's the real deal.
He really fucking throws it all into the fire.
He runs right into the wood chipper.
Let's see.
Yes.
Yeah.
He...
But I like it like he thinks he's thinking about like creatively you hit like
dips and you
don't know what to talk about anymore.
And sometimes you need to go on a walkabout.
Yeah.
I think I see him and I admire it greatly because it's so opposite of how I'm
wired.
But yeah, it's not me either.
I don't dig it.
But he goes like months at a time with nothing but like a burner phone.
Yeah.
No text message.
No emails.
No nothing.
I said to him yesterday.
I go, I'm going to miss you, dude.
He's like, I'm going to miss you too.
And I go, please stay in touch.
He goes, I go, please stay in touch.
He goes, I'll hit you up in a couple months with a number from another...
I was like...
Yeah.
He likes to do that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But it works for him.
Like it's like he's not faking it.
He genuinely enjoys doing it.
Yeah.
Genuinely.
He's smart.
You know, he's like, I got to throw my brain into a totally different
environment every now
and again and see what's really going on.
I think he likes the challenge that life can be.
Like I think he likes the idea of he's one of those guys where if he says that
scares
the shit out of me, he's first in line to do it.
Like it's, it's all about like, if you don't face it, what's the point, you
know?
Right.
So I think he creates these incredible, it's so funny, you know, when you
discuss what he's
about to do with certain people, some people go, that's insane.
What?
And other people go, oh my God, I admire it so much.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
Like it's sort of like the guy that killed the United healthcare CEO.
Depending upon your perspective, it was either so fucking awesome or, oh my God,
they're
going to start killing CEOs.
Luigi Shaffir.
And he's so handsome.
Yes.
He is.
The thing about Luigi though, is Luigi picked the right person to kill.
Not, not like meaning that guy.
I mean, a healthcare executive.
You're going to get the least amount of sympathy.
Oh yeah.
You know what I mean?
Not that individual one.
Look, you shouldn't kill anybody.
I can't believe I have to say this, but yeah, don't go shooting people.
I agree.
But also like when you realize how, you know, Ben Askren, I don't know who his
healthcare
provider was, but Ben Askren, he developed some kind of crazy pneumonia and
then it became
necrotic.
So it like eight holes in his lungs.
Okay.
He's 40 years old.
So former UFC fighter, former Bellator champion, elite athlete, fantastic
wrestler, had to
get a double lung surgery, double lung replacement surgery at 40 and insurance
didn't want to
cover it.
It's insane.
It's insane.
What are you talking about?
He's going to die.
Like he doesn't have lungs anymore.
He was on a fucking ventilator for months.
He didn't have lungs anymore.
I can't even fathom.
I just had, I just had a bunch of water damage.
My dishwasher leaked while I was away and I had a bunch of water damage in my
condo that
I had to get obviously were fixed.
There was rotted wood and caught its mold and all this stuff.
And for my insurance company gave me sort of what I needed to cover it.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
And I was furious.
I can't fucking imagine if you're in a situation like that where it's your
health
or if it's your home, like with the people with the fires.
Oh yeah.
I can't even imagine the fucking rage.
Like it's, it's, it's undefinable and they wouldn't cover.
So, so that's such a weird game.
They're playing their businesses pay you as little as possible and get you to
give them
money every month.
So that maybe if something happens, they'll pay for it.
Maybe, but maybe not.
I have a friend.
Maybe not.
Maybe, maybe not.
Maybe you need a double lug transplant and they're like, nope, we're not going
to cover
that.
That's too much money.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Come to court.
Yeah.
Or figure it out.
Insurance has become buying the protection plan at Best Buy.
You know, where it's...
But no, Best Buy's protection plan's way better.
It's way better.
If you buy like a new Samsung Galaxy phone, you buy the protection plan at Best
Buy and
then it fucks up on you.
They give you a fucking brand new one.
They just have you fill out a little paperwork, you show your receipt, they
shake your hand.
Thank you.
You say thank you to them and you leave.
It's fucking great.
Insurance gamble's the craziest gamble ever.
I'm going to pay you every month and hopefully you'll be kind enough to cover
my insurance
if something goes wrong.
It is fucking wild.
Dude, I have a friend who's a lawyer who has to often rep insurance companies
in cases.
Oh my God.
And I said to him, I said, dude, with all due respect, I'm not coming at you.
I go, how do you sleep at night?
You know, it's a tough position to be in.
And he said, he goes, here's how I justify it.
If I get the insurance company off or I save them some money, that does trickle
down to
the users with their premiums making insurance continually as affordable as
possible.
He goes, the second I lose for my client, they turn around and fuck everybody
even more.
So he's like, that's the one little silver lining with it, like, I guess, you
know,
but that's a very sad.
That's a weird silver lining.
Yeah.
That sounds like someone trying to cope.
Doesn't it?
It totally sounds like, I have to kill some people.
There's an overpopulation problem, Joe DeRosa.
So we're going to have to go around and kill people.
That's what that sounds like to me.
It's like, what?
It'll make it better for everybody else.
There'll be less resources being depleted by the people we kill.
Like, what?
Do you think that there's...
His is more job injury stuff.
I know, but it's so gaslighty.
It's so gaslighty.
If we fuck these people over, it'll be better for everybody else.
Because then you could feed the demons.
The demons would be appeased.
God, you know, I'd never thought of it that way.
And I had a feeling as I was saying that you were going to flip it into a thing
that was
going to leave me disturbed.
And it has.
If there's anything demonic, like, people don't want to think about demonic.
Like, they don't want to think like, oh, there's like a devil with a pitchfork
and a fucking
tail with a pointy end to it.
But like, what is demonic behavior?
Like, if you know that someone's going to die, but you can deny them coverage
because you
just can make some sort of a subjective decision whether or not this person
should get coverage.
And then you know they're going to die.
And they've been paying for insurance for years.
How do you do that?
That's kind of, that's like a pact with it.
Like, you could just sign here and then they're covered.
And then they get this operation.
You do everything you can to help them.
And then everybody loves your company.
Or you could say, I just want the money now.
It's dark.
It's dark.
It's dark.
It's just, there's no pitchforks.
There's no brimstone.
So you don't think, you know, you don't think it's demonic.
The thing that leaves me without hope, and I am not a very hope-filled
individual,
but the thing that leaves me without, with even less hope every day is I feel
like the culture,
and people in all positions, you know, but yours is, we're talking a very macro
example of the thing.
I find that more and more people every day put themselves, they position
themselves in a way where they say, I will not be accountable.
And I will force you to be the one that has accountability to hold me to
something.
And until you hold me to something where I cannot squirm or pivot in any way,
at that point I will then be accountable.
And I feel that more and more people operate like that, obviously on a
corporate level, but also an individualistic level.
It makes me very, very sad.
It's like having so many people that you encounter in your life, sometimes it's
friends, and you're sitting there going, really?
I have to be the adult?
I have to sit you down as a 48-year-old man and say to you, what you're acting
like right now is fucked up.
Why do I have to do that with you?
Because you're not going to do it, so I guess I have to.
And the more that you try to hold yourself to accountability, and I'm not patting
myself on the back in any way,
but I find that burden grows and grows and grows, and you just start to get to
this place where you're like, what the fuck is going on?
It's like an epidemic of ethics at a certain point.
Especially if you get indoctrinated into a real cutthroat corporate environment,
those guys can justify a lot of stuff, because that's in the culture.
Our culture is talking shit to each other.
The way we talk shit to each other, there's a lot of people in a lot of other
jobs that would have a giant problem with what you and I think is awesome.
If you cracked on me and it was fucking awesome, and we're all howling, I could
get you in real trouble if we were accountants.
If we were accountants, that'd be a giant problem.
So we're used to fucking with each other, and we're used to laughing about
stuff, and we're used to saying ridiculous shit that we don't really mea