Name: Joe Rogan Experience #2175 - Sam Tallent
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #2175 - Sam Tallent' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-07-11. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #2175 - Sam Tallent

Joe Rogan podcast, check it out.
The Joe Rogan Experience.
Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day.
And they up.
Oh, yeah, okay.
Let's go.
They have a real, like, uh...
Estonia?
Yeah, so, like, the comics there.
It's called Humor Clibby, I think.
And every show done in Estonia is only produced by these comics.
So no one gets a piece of it besides comedians.
Oh.
Yeah, so they've, like, totally collectivized
comedy in Estonia.
Oh, so they've sort of developed their own scene,
just the comics.
So there was no comedy club that was available,
and they kind of created something?
Well, Estonia's been a country since, like, 1994.
Yeah.
You know, so it's, like, all brand new.
And I think free speech was just legalized, like,
you know, last year or whatever,
and they brought me over.
But the crowds, bro.
I did a show in the college town there,
and I was like...
I watched the first two comics.
Ari, very funny, not getting big laughs.
So I went out there and tried to, like,
attack all this crowd.
And at one point, I was like,
where do you work, ma'am?
And she went, no!
That was the amount that they wanted to connect.
And, like, they don't laugh audibly.
But afterwards, I'm out there selling merch,
and they're all like,
that was a pleasure.
It was the time of my life.
Thank you.
It's like, okay, well,
in America, typically, we smile, at least,
if we're having the time of our life.
It was like someone's going to throw a rock at them
if they made any noise.
Wow.
Yeah.
They're probably shell-shocked.
Oh, for sure.
Yeah.
Oh, you've got to imagine.
Look, Ari's like...
Ari Matty, who we were talking about,
who is very, very funny,
is such a joyful guy.
Silly.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Like, how did he come out of there?
Well, I think he's just happy to be out of there.
Like, he just turned him into who he is now.
Yeah.
It's like in The Great Escape,
when he sees sunlight,
and all he can do is smile.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's interesting when you see someone
who's really talented
that comes out of a place
that doesn't have any history of it.
Yeah.
You know?
Well, they're going to create
their own culture there.
So they've got to figure out
how to do stand-up.
And I think that Ari can do stand-up
in, like, three different languages.
Wow.
Yeah.
So, what is Estonian?
What do they speak?
I think Estonian.
Oh, they have their own language?
I think so.
But they've only been a country since 94.
Right.
Well, so they were a country,
and then Russia came in,
and they weren't a country,
and then Russia left,
and then they were a country,
and then Russia came back, I think,
and then they were a country after that.
So they just have this, like,
history of having a boot on their neck
for years and years.
So I think he can do Estonian,
and then I think he can do Russian
and English.
Wow.
Yeah.
That's crazy.
And he can, like,
kill you with his bare hands.
He looks great with his shirt off.
Yeah.
He was an MMA fighter.
Yeah.
He had three fights.
And he's fighting Estonians.
They're just scary people.
That's how you go 0 and 3.
Yeah.
I'm like, you're too nice.
You're too nice to be in that game.
Yeah, quit doing act-outs.
Yeah, he was with a legit gym, too.
Legit gym.
It was a straight-blast gym.
That's Conor McGregor's gym.
Whoa.
He's an affiliate of that.
Yeah, he's legit.
Yeah.
I'm happy for him.
I signed his, like, visa letter.
Oh, yeah?
Him and James McCann.
I'm both on them.
So if either of them fuck up,
I'm going to be in big trouble.
I don't know McCann.
James McCann is Shane's boy from Australia.
Oh, I do.
That's right.
I'm sorry.
No, I do know him.
That's right.
There's so many fucking names now.
I've met more people in the last year and a half
since the club's been open
than I have probably ever in my life.
I try to keep an eye and pay attention
to all these new faces and new comics.
Oh, yeah.
You know, but it's pretty amazing.
Well, you make yourself available to them, too,
which is cool.
I admire that about you
because you could just, like, be a man in a tower
and, like, you know, do this thing.
But, no, you're, like, out there.
No, I'm one of us.
Yeah.
You know, that's the only reason why the club works.
Oh, for sure.
Yeah, you can't.
That would be gross.
I don't have very little say in how things even go on.
Yeah.
I hired good people, and I said,
let's just make sure that we have some core tenants,
you know, in terms of, like, the pay structure.
It's, like, entirely, you know, opposite of most clubs.
Yeah.
The money goes to the comics.
Yes.
Which it should.
Uh-huh.
Like, if you're a comic and you don't have it set up like that,
what the fuck are you doing?
I don't know.
We always knew we were getting robbed.
Right.
Right?
And now I'm.
And we were like, hey, thank you for robbing me.
Thank you for the opportunity.
I'm a club owner now, so I'm like,
I know we were getting robbed,
so I'm not going to do that.
Yeah.
I'm not going to have it this.
But it's funny how many club owners get mad at it.
Oh, dude.
I mean, I'm finally selling tickets now.
After, like, you know, fighting it out for, like, 20 years.
And the independent clubs will give you every penny that they can give to you.
Yeah.
Whereas, like, the corporate-owned clubs are, like, you know,
they have the exact spreadsheet to the dollar.
Oh, they're brutal, dude.
Yeah.
They're so brutal.
They're so brutal.
I, um, this is, like, I don't want to say who it was.
Oh, my God.
I just got a hot sauce in my eye.
Oh, no.
I fucked up.
I was eating something with ghost peppers today,
and I forgot I had it on my hand, and I just wiped my eye.
At least you didn't touch your dick.
Wow.
Ah, I did touch my dick.
That's the worst.
Yeah, it's not that bad.
I've done it.
It's not as bad as the eye.
Oh, I did a jalapeno, and then I touched my dick,
and then my wife came home, and I had the tip of my penis in a saucer of milk.
She was like, what are you up to?
I'm just, like, crying with my dick and cream.
That's like that old Eddie Murphy bit about putting an aftershave on his balls.
Oh, yeah.
I have a clear eyes if you think that'll help at all.
Uh, yeah, throw that over here.
Oh, God damn it.
Capsaicin's a hell of a drug, man.
Ghost pepper, baby.
Oh, my God.
It's like those smelling salts you have in the green room.
Oh, yeah.
I fucked around.
Dude, I dipped my toes into those waters.
The ones we have at the green room are bullshit compared to these.
Hey, I'll take your word for it.
Oh, come on, bro.
You gotta take one.
I'll blast one.
One blast.
Chuck that sucker this way.
Maybe that'll clear up my eyes.
It's gonna clear up something.
Oh!
You psycho.
Definitely gonna forget about your eyes.
Oh, my God.
What a glowing endorsement of this product.
Oh, my God.
Oh, dude.
I think you went too deep there.
Yeah, I went too deep, too.
Oh, I felt it in my lungs.
It gets...
Oh, man.
It really hits, like, the reptile part of your brain.
Yeah, exactly.
God, I can't believe I did that.
Let's podcast.
Let's fucking go.
I'm gonna go fight Bruce.
I'll be right back.
Oh, God.
I did it to impress Ron White in the green room, and he just laughed.
He's like, you idiot.
You idiot.
Ron's done it.
He's full of shit.
He's done it, too.
Ron's taking quite a few hits, but none of these guys know about that one.
That's the real one.
Yeah.
That's Jujumufu.
He's his bodybuilder dude.
He's got this brand that sells them.
It's called Ah.
That's the real one.
That one is above and beyond anything I've ever tried.
It's, like, multiple magnitudes.
Are there individual, like, capsules in here you're supposed to break?
What the fuck's in here?
Oh, my God.
This looks like crystal meth.
Yeah, it's just rocks and ammonia.
My right nostril's still on fire.
Do the left one.
No, we're good.
That's what Joey did.
He said, I gotta clean up my left one.
He went in with the left one, too.
He's had a lot of stuff up that nose.
Yeah, I'm amazed he could smell anything.
I'm amazed he doesn't have holes in that thing.
Whew.
Yeah.
Well, yeah, thank you for having me back.
My pleasure, brother.
My pleasure.
So what's the road been like?
You're all over the place, man.
I follow you on Instagram.
You're in all these crazy countries.
And did you just decide to, like, see the world?
Like, is that what the plan was?
Stand-up's a pretty good cheat code to travel
and experience the authentic version of a place
because you get to hang out with people from that place
while you're there that weekend.
Right.
So, yeah.
I did, like, every state in America by the time I was, like, 30.
And then was like, well, maybe I'll go abroad.
Stand-up's so new in the rest of the world
that it's, like, you feel like you're in the ground floor of, like,
all I can really approximate it to is, like,
the early days of, like, hardcore, like punk rock,
when, like, Black Flag and Minutemen were out there.
Right.
And I feel like I'm doing shows like that
when I go to Estonia or Bratislava.
Right.
And everyone's so happy to have you.
Was there any place that, like, was really fun
where, like, they laughed really loud and they got the jokes?
Or was it every place, like, a little disjointed?
It's different because some of those – the more East you go into Europe,
the more they watch it like theater.
Oh.
But I remember I was in Hungary in Budapest
and that show was awesome.
And it shouldn't have been.
Like, the host went up and ate it
and he was getting all sweaty up there
and he had to, like, take off his sweatshirt
because he was bombing so hard.
God bless him, you know.
But he comes off stage and he brings me on
and he's like, it's hot up there, bro.
And then I went out there and I was, you know,
just made fun of him and the crowd was, like, very good, you know.
And then I killed over there, man.
Really?
Yeah.
And I didn't think it was going to be good
because they were all stern-faced Europeans.
You don't walk out there and, like, see, like,
people who look like they've smiled before, but I got them.
I took Hinchcliffe to Stockholm once.
Yeah, Stockholm's fun.
I had a great time, but he had never been to Europe before
and I had performed in Ireland, I had performed in England,
I had performed in a bunch of different places.
And we did two shows, and the first show, he's like,
dude, they did not like me.
I go, you got laughs.
He goes, yeah, but then they died off.
I go, no, no, that's what they do here.
Yeah.
They pay attention.
Mm-hmm.
Like, they pay attention in between each joke.
Yeah.
Like, they don't just keep laughing and talking and making noise.
They're also not eating hot wings.
Right.
You know?
Yeah.
No one's, like, arguing about splitting the check or anything.
That was another thing that I made sure with the club.
No food.
Yeah.
It is food.
We're connected to two restaurants.
Right.
Pizza place to the left.
Maximum place to the right.
Yeah.
We're good.
Everyone's fine.
Yeah.
You don't have to eat.
You can take an hour and a half or two hours out of your day and not eat.
You guys also don't have to worry about being, like, in Applebee's where there's
occasionally
comedy.
Right.
Which is a lot of these clubs out there.
Not a lot of them, but they still exist.
That model of, like, hey, the host, by the way, when you do everyone's
birthdays, after that,
make sure you plug the, you know, the queso dip.
Yeah.
Try the wings.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I did a lot of those.
Oh, me too.
But those are important for learning how to captivate someone's attention span.
Yeah.
You know, for a comic, it's like learning how to run uphill.
And if you can't compete with a quesadilla, you know, you should probably hang
it up.
It's just, you know, it's a good way to maximize profit, but it's not a good
way to put on a
show.
No.
When I see comedy clubs and they have food, I'm like, why do you have food?
This is a dumb thing.
Also, when we got the Ritz, when we first looked at the place, it had a kitchen.
Mitzi's Bar used to be a kitchen for the Alamo Drafthouse.
Yeah.
So we went in, there's fucking roaches, like cell phones running around there.
Jesus.
And I was like, okay,