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Joe Rogan Experience #2161 - Tony Hinchcliffe

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What's it like to be the king of the world, Tony Hitchboe?
I got to talk some shit.
You're killing it, man.
It's exciting.
It's an exciting time for you.
Yeah.
I hope you're enjoying it.
Oh, I'm having a blast.
Is it weird?
Does it feel weird?
Kind of, because I wasn't expecting a big moment or a different boom, a
different outside thing,
because I'm just content here, chilling.
I had my Kill Tony stuff and all of our stuff.
But yeah, it's awesome.
It's so interesting to watch.
It was funny that Brian Simpson said that he's with you at the store,
and he goes, I watched Tony Hinchcliffe become real famous in real time.
Yeah.
Like, you could see, like, with the first show, when you're warming up, getting
ready for the roast, then after the roast.
Yeah.
People just going crazy.
Yeah.
It was weird.
I got bumped by another comedian my first night at the store, and then I was
the special guest, super treat the rest of the week.
Like, it was like I was the secret weapon, kind of.
So, I was unbumpable.
We should be bumped anyway.
Right.
Bumping is horse shit.
Yeah.
Bumping is a thing that was around the store back in the old days, and they
should have got rid of it a long time ago.
You know, it's one thing if, like, some superstar Dave Chappelle-type Chris
Rock character wants to pop in, Louis C.K.'s in town, and they want to do 15
minutes, you know?
That's all great, but what used to happen at the store is you would get these
comedians that were just doing it for an ego flex.
They were just doing it because they wanted to be able to bump other folks on
the roster, and then they would do, like, a fucking 45-minute set and ruin the
timeline of the show.
Everybody's supposed to do 15 minutes.
There's, like, fucking 16 people on the show.
It's a long-ass show.
How many people are on?
16.
Is it 16?
I don't know if it still is.
It might be 14 or 12 or something.
It's a lot of fucking people, dude.
It's crazy that some people will sit there from show open.
They will sit there from 8 p.m., and they will be there until 2 a.m.
I've seen it.
Oh, yeah.
I've seen it many a times.
Some people are just, like, especially those tourists, comedy tourists.
Yeah.
They'd come there from Australia and Ireland and shit.
Yeah, they don't want to miss anything.
We're getting a lot of those at the mothership, man.
There's a lot of people from other countries that are telling me they're flying
in for this.
All the time.
It's wild.
They come in, they do, like, a weekend, then they go do Kill Tony, and then
they'll do, like, one of our shows.
It's fucking crazy.
Yeah, I always ask now during the commercial break where I get to talk directly
to the Kill Tony audience,
and I ask how many of you live in Austin, Texas, make some noise.
How many of you flew in just for this, and it's always a bigger pop?
Isn't that wild?
Yeah.
It's like the city's become, like, a vacation destination for stand-up.
Mm-hmm.
For the arts, I think.
I think you can come here and listen to live music, the best, and live comedy,
and get to see a lot of fucking freaks.
Yeah, it's just fucking, what a time we're in, man.
Yeah.
Boy, did we get lucky.
Mm-hmm.
I mean, we just keep getting lucky, dude.
Having Shane here is a death blow to the other cities.
Took him out on his first boat trip on Sunday, and we drank.
Of course.
If you were Shane, you're drinking.
Did you drink Bud Lights or did you drink real alcohol?
I drank whiskey Cokes.
He drank Bud Lights.
We always fucking meet.
Yeah, that dude can put them away.
Do not fuck around with Shane Gillis.
Do not try to drink with Shane Gillis.
We had so much fun.
He's the best.
Cracking up, man.
Listening to Drake on the river.
That's awesome.
He's the best.
Yeah.
It's so nice having him here, and it's so nice having Joey here all the time
now.
Joey's coming again in a week.
Unbelievable.
Yeah.
I was just with him in New Jersey.
Yeah.
He was so hilarious.
He was so hilarious at the fights.
He was out of his mind.
That's what I was telling Louis is, like, even the few people that we, you know,
really want that haven't moved here are coming here all the time.
Like it's a Vegas residency or something like that.
Yeah, Theo was there, too, at the fights, and he's coming in July.
Yeah.
So we'll do more stuff with him, too.
Yeah, it's just we're lucky shit, dude.
I mean, I say it all the time, but it's almost like the universe wanted this to
happen this way.
It just seems like every light just turned green right when we got up to it.
Unbelievable.
It didn't make sense.
It's like, this isn't going to work.
Green light.
This isn't going to work.
Green light.
This is my work.
Green light.
Oh, shit, it's happening.
Green light.
It's wild.
Yeah.
And it's a special fucking place, man.
Yeah.
I love this city with all my heart.
I never thought I would leave L.A.
And then when the shit hit the fan and riots and governments and you realize
taxes are absolutely insane for what we were getting.
And I feel more at home here than I ever did there.
And I feel more at home here than I ever did there.
And I was there for almost 20 years.
Yeah.
But when the plane's landing and you look out the right side and you see
downtown Austin instead of downtown L.A.
It feels more like, oh, yeah.
It's a better place for comedy, too, in terms of, like, you don't have the
traffic.
It's not a grind.
It's the middle of the country.
So if you want to travel to other cities, it's easy to get to.
The club situation is amazing.
There's so many clubs.
There's Cab City.
There's Creek in the Cave.
There's the Vulcan.
There's a Sunset Strip.
There's the Mothership.
There's what else?
The Black Rabbit.
Black Rabbit.
The Vita Room.
Shakespeare's.
It's crazy.
It's crazy.
It's an amazing situation.
It's like, you know, and you realize, like, you don't have to live like that.
You don't have to be stuck in this crazy city of insane traffic and crime.
Right.
I can see five comedy clubs from my windows and where I live, and I don't even
think anybody
in New York has that.
I don't think you can look down and see five comedy clubs from where you're at
at any given
point.
Look, New York has more clubs and more people, and New York's awesome.
It's not a contest.
Right.
You know, it's not a contest.
It's like that whole, like, New York is the best.
I don't know.
If you like it, it's the best.
Like, it's whatever's the great, whatever's great for you.
Right.
But this is a crazy place right now.
And, you know, LA used to be crazy.
And now LA's just a fucking steaming pile.
It's on fire.
It's just fucked.
Speaking of fire, do you see this guy?
You know what that is?
Uh-uh.
In Mexico.
Oh, we need to Google this, too.
Because Mexico has a new president.
And I heard that 30-plus presidential candidates were assassinated.
Oh.
That might be just a TikTok meme.
So, I have to find out.
So, let's find out in real time.
But the sky, the reason why the sky is so cloudy looking, that's smoke from
wildfires in Mexico.
Oh, wow.
Yeah, they did a controlled burn, and they go, whoops.
Oh, boy.
They whoopsied.
Whoops.
Let's look.
37.
Excuse me.
Claudia Scheinbaum was elected the country's first female president after a
bloody election campaign that saw 37 candidates assassinated.
And that's our neighbor.
We live next to a fucking crack house.
That's on fire.
A crack house on fire run by a Jew.
A lady.
First lady.
More than three dozen candidates were assassinated, including a local
government candidate in Central Puebla State who was killed on Friday,
increasing the total number of those killed to 37.
Who the fuck would want to run for office in Mexico?
Dude.
That is so crazy.
That is so crazy.
And look how few people.
Look.
20,000 positions to fill and 70,000 candidates.
If you have 20,000 positions in America, how many candidates do you have?
Probably a lot more, because nobody's getting assassinated.
That would be one way to start fitting the herd.
Yeah.
Taking them out.
I mean, how far away?
I mean, it sounds crazy, right?
This is Mexico.
It's not America.
How far away are we from, like, seeing another JFK-type situation?
Man.
I mean, Jesus.
Fuck.
Could be close.
Seems like there's a candidate that the government really doesn't want to.
There's one guy.
What's his name?
One guy who went to the UFC this weekend and got, like, a 30-second standing ovation.
Yep.
Almost as big as Dave in Ohio, but not quite.
Right.
Not quite.
They're changing the tone on this.
I mean, like, you know, they're doing it.
They want to try to make him look like a bad guy, but people just aren't stupid
anymore.
I mean, there's obviously still, like, half the country doesn't get it, but.
Yo, so many rappers.
So many rappers are showing support for Trump now.
It's crazy.
Yeah.
Because now he's got a felony.
Right.
Right.
I mean, like, now they realize also he's getting trapped by the system, just
like everybody's
been rapping about.
Right.
Being trapped by this system, this bullshit system.
And you watch it happen with him.
Exactly.
Yeah, I was just talking about this.
It's like, I don't think they were counting on the black voter being like, hey,
they just
fucked that guy.
That's what they do to us.
Yeah.
That's what they do to everybody.
And they pretend they're there for you while they're letting in immigrants.
And you know what, man?
Here's the problem.
Here's the real problem.
Republicans won't be the solution either, kids.
The problem is people in a position of power.
The Republicans seem like they are your solution, but it's just because the
people in power right
now are the Democrats.
Whenever the Democrats are out and the Republicans are in, everybody is dying
for a Democrat.
I remember when Bush was president after the second term, everyone was like,
good Lord,
can we get a fucking reasonable Democrat in here before this country goes
Christian nationalist
and fucking, and goes crazy and starts every war?
Yeah.
And then Obama comes in like, oh, things are going to be great.
But it kind of seems like kind of the same, you know?
And the whistleblower protection that he promised, eh, actually probably like
one of the worst
on whistleblowers ever.
Drone strikes, eh, kind of a shitload of drone strikes.
The whole thing was bonkers.
It's just the same structure with a different face.
It's Bill Hicks's joke.
Bill Hicks's joke about, uh, I think the puppet on the left is to my liking.
Why more align with the puppet on the right?
Hey, there's one guy and he's holding both puppets.
That's, that's what we're dealing with.
We're dealing with money.
We're dealing with money and power and it does, you know, if you think that,
that's where
a person like a Trump character does make a difference though, because he truly
does not give
a fuck.
And especially now, after all they've done to him, just all the things he
survived.
Yeah.
I think this guy was beloved, beloved until he's about 70 years old.
Yeah.
And that's when he starts running for president.
Actually, he was a little bit mocked before that while Obama was in office
because he was
one of those people that was a birther.
Yeah.
You know, he was a, I'm one of those people that I don't give a fuck where you
were born
as long as you're not actually a undercover terrorist, you know, if you're like
clearly
like a regular person that just happened to be born in Nigeria or happened to
be born
in Saudi Arabia, but now you're here.
You went to school here, you got friends here, you got family here, you love it
here.
America's the shit.
You can be president.
Like, I don't really think that you have to be born on a certain patch of dirt
to run it.
That seems like Viking shit.
It seems like, that seems so old.
Yeah.
It seems so dumb.
What about the 35 thing?
Is that the age?
Yeah, that's a good age.
Up until I was 50, I was retarded.
So, I don't think, I don't think, I don't think.
That's a bad thing.
I think 35 is good just for humans.
I think you