Name: Joe Rogan Experience #2110 - Fahim Anwar
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #2110 - Fahim Anwar' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-02-28. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #2110 - Fahim Anwar

Joe Rogan Podcast, check it out.
The Joe Rogan Experience.
Train by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night, all day.
My man.
How are you?
Good to see you, brother.
Good to be back.
Thank you for having me.
I miss you too.
I used to get to see you every week.
I thought about that the other day.
Like, yeah.
Yeah.
You forget that that's like a period of time and it's not going to be forever
sometimes,
you know?
Yeah.
Well, it almost was.
You were one of the first people to take the trip out here.
I was.
It was clear as day when I first came out.
I'm like, why wouldn't you be out here?
Because I remember I had this writing job, right?
And so I was just like on Zoom every day and life kind of sucked because you
couldn't go
out.
So I was just trapped in my house.
Right.
And then in between a lunch break, I'm on Instagram and I see Tony, you know,
Tony Hinchcliffe's
post.
He's, this is like in the infancy of him, him coming out here, you know?
He's like sold out Antons.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
It seemed like this bizarro universe where like life is still happening and I
love standup
so much and I was just kind of miserable.
And I'm like, if this is happening out there, I can do standup.
So then I started asking questions.
I hit up the EPs.
I'm like, yo, cause we're on Zoom.
Could I, could I just write from Austin?
Just Zoom by day and then do standup out here with like all you guys at night?
And they were like, we don't see why not.
So it was awesome.
I got an apartment out here.
I would Zoom by day.
I would just be doing awesome shows at Vulcan and stuff at night.
It was, it felt like a life hack.
It was a life hack.
Yeah.
It was great.
I'm so glad I did that.
Have you been to the mothership yet?
Of course, dude.
Yeah.
It's amazing.
I got to do, um, I think you were on vacation.
Then Adam had me do what you normally do in the middle of the week.
Oh yeah.
The Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday.
So I got to do like six shows in that beautiful big room.
Both rooms are great.
You know, I like that small one for, uh, working on stuff.
It's kind of like the belly.
It's very much like it.
The small room is a combination of the belly and the OR.
It's a little bit bigger than the belly room and a little more locked in in the
belly room.
And then the big room is like a combination of the OR and the main room.
That's what I tell everybody.
Cause they go, what's it like?
And it is, it's like if those rooms had babies, like they're in the, they're in
the middle
of both those, of all three of those rooms.
They're both perfect.
Yeah.
They're the perfect size.
You know, it's kind of funny.
I think the store has started to like get a facelift because of what you've
done at mothership.
Cause so many comics would come back and be like, yo, they just give you all
your sets.
You know what I mean?
The sound's amazing.
Like, cause it's so state of the art.
Well, there's also the screens in the green room that show you what's going on
on stage and
the time.
You can't miss your spot.
Yeah.
You can't miss your spot and there's lights everywhere.
Yeah.
So let you know there's lights and there's two sets of lights in the hallway.
One in the beginning of the hallway, one at the top of the stairs.
You always know when the guy's got the light.
Yeah.
So I think.
And if you have any suggestions, by the way, just throw them out.
We'll use them.
Okay.
Half of the club is built on suggestions.
Well, you can tell, you know, like this, I think it was Tony's idea to have the
lights
in the green room.
It might've been Tony's idea also to have the monitors in the green room.
It was Louie's idea to lower the ceiling.
It was Louie's idea to change the size of the stage in the little room and
lower the ceiling
in the little room too.
How big was the stage before Louie suggested the change?
It was like four feet more on each side.
Too big?
Yeah, it was too big.
It was too big.
He was right.
Yeah.
He's like, why do you have all this extra stage?
You don't really, it's an intimate room.
Like, yeah, you're right.
But it was just, you know, we just kind of like walked into this empty space
when it
was just a movie theater.
So when it was a movie theater, it was, we had to change everything, right?
So we changed the way the stairs are.
So in a movie theater, the stairs slant way down at a steep angle, right?
So you could all watch the big screen.
We raised the floor up.
So we had to build a concrete, like a rebar and concrete floor.
So it's a totally different floor.
Yeah, it's crazy.
So we raised it up till, and then Louis wanted me to lower the ceiling even
more.
So I did that as well.
After the fact, when it was all said and done?
No, it wasn't all said and done.
We were in the middle of everything.
Luckily, we did have to recut the stage in the small room because we, it was,
but the
concrete hadn't been poured yet.
So they just had to recut the steel and put it all.
But it's very interesting.
It's very interesting.
I've never been a part of building anything like that before.
Yeah.
You could tell though, because you're a standup of several years, you could
tell it was designed
by a comedian.
It's all done with comics.
Yeah.
Comics input.
And also Richard, the architect, who was amazing.
Shout out to Richard Weiss.
He's the man.
He's the man.
He's so good.
I'll have him on the podcast someday.
He's a really interesting guy.
And he also came up with the idea of making the tunnel.
Oh, the tunnel's awesome.
The tunnel's the shit.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's such a cool hangout.
The whole thing's just such, it's all just set up just for a hang.
You know, everybody feels good.
The most valuable asset to comedians, especially nowadays, is getting that
footage, dude.
The footage is big.
It's...
Yeah, we'll film you.
And then also, it's like really high quality.
Yes.
It's 8K.
Yeah.
Sounds great.
So, I've been pushing for that at the store.
And I think they're starting to.
It's just a process, but...
You also have to put people's phones in bags so they pay attention.
People are so goddamn distracted, me included.
It's so hard to just sit there.
It's one of the things that I love about podcasts is that for three hours, I'm
not going to see
what's going on in the world.
You're locked in.
I'm locked in.
I don't have to think about other things.
And I'm really lucky.
I think it's a form of therapy in a weird way, in this bizarre, digitally sort
of intertwined
world.
You can't escape it.
I can never escape it.
It's so hard to get away from emails and text messages.
It's just...
I cannot keep up.
I have 185 unanswered text messages.
Are you good about clearing them?
Or do you have all that red?
Who has time to clear things?
I have to clear them.
I have this OCD thing where I need to have a clean...
I can't have red.
Okay, it's 183.
183 unanswered texts.
All right.
How?
How do I do that?
Well, you're a popular guy, dude.
No, no.
How do you keep up?
You can't.
You literally can't keep up.
It's hard for you.
I can keep up.
I can keep...
I'm always surprised for how busy you are and what a figure you are, how
quickly you respond
still.
But I love you.
Well, thank you.
You're my friend.
Thank you.
But I have friends and people who are much lower than you in the pantheon of
things who
take so much longer.
Well, sometimes I do take long, though, if I'm out doing something.
Yeah.
There's times when I'll come home and there's 60 text messages and there's not
a chance in
hell that I can just bang all those out.
Right.
Otherwise, I'll go insane.
That's what I'm saying.
It's just like...
It's not that I have too many people contacting me.
It's not...
That's not what it is.
It's...
You find a fucking excuse to use that thing.
Oh, the phone?
The phone.
You find excuse...
It's cool to be in contact with people.
It's fun.
I like that.
I love the text messages I have between friends, sending each other memes,
talking shit.
It's fun.
It's silly.
It's silly fun.
It's a nice relief.
When Ari sends me a funny thing or says something funny, it's a nice little
relief.
The text thread you're in, they're great.
You live for the text thread.
Yes.
Yeah.
I got a few of those text threads going on between me and comics, and it's the
most fun thing,
man.
Ari...
The fucking phone runs your goddamn life, dude.
It does.
And it's like, it's made it so, especially if you're a person who, like, if you're
booking
shows, you have to, you know, you'll be in contact with your agent, you have to
be in contact
with the opening acts, you gotta, you know...
It's a tool for everything.
It's like, I gotta docusign something.
I have to edit a video.
I have to post it on TikTok.
I have to post it on Facebook.
I have to post it on...
It's literally a computer.
It's like work never ends.
You know what the most hilarious thing to me is?
When you have to sign things online.
Like, it's such bullshit.
It's an exercise in everyone believing.
It's a fake signature.
It's not even my real signature.
It's a fake signature.
Like a docusign?
Yeah.
And you just agree that you're gonna accept that as your signature.
You say, okay.
Right.
And you click it, and then it's your signature.
It's just Joe Rogan in text.
I guess that's a signature.
There's one way around that.
It's, um, if you have, uh, like a Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra, their new phone,
it, uh, it has a stylus that's built into the phone, and you could use it to
sign PDFs.
Does somebody care enough to be buying that phone just to sign documents?
No, but you can sign all kinds of stuff.
Like, you can write on it, like a notepad.
It's really fascinating.
It's a very fascinating piece of tech.
We're going back to Palm Pilot.
We've gone full circle.
A little bit, but it also allows you to take photographs.
So you could use it as a shutter.
So you could, like, stand across the room and take a photo of yourself or a
video, and you
press that button, and it starts recording, and it starts to take a picture.
You could be like an old-timey photographer.
Yeah, old-timey.
Could you just put a blanket over you?
Yeah, old-timey.
Do they still do that?
Do they have, like, enthusiasts who do old-timey?
I bet there's some kid in Silver Lake who's like, yo, pose, everybody, at some
cool bar,
and he has to flash.
Yo, I used to get fascinated by this one dude who would make old-timey wooden
farm tools.
This guy would make, like, old-timey, uh, what are those things?
Planes?
He would make old-timey planes and old-timey, like, uh...
Like Wright Brothers planes?
No, no, planes.
Like, where you're planing wood.
Oh, okay.
He was, like, a woodshop guy, but it was all handmade.
He made all of his tools.
Who's the market for that?
Me.
I watched that show.
I couldn't stop watching it.
But, like, when he makes the tools, is there a market to buy those, or is it
novelty?
Oh, I'm sure.
I think it's novelty, I bet, at the time.
This was pre-internet, or maybe, like, the internet was just starting.
But this guy had a cool show, and I used to watch it all the time.
I love when people love things.
That's what I figured out about me.
It doesn't even have to be something that I love.
Yeah.
But I love when people love things.
And that's when I really got into Bourdain's show.
Because I was like, God damn, this dude loves food.
He loves cooking.
He loves cuisine.
Is that me or you that just ding?
I think it's you.
I'm an airplane, man.
I respect the format.
I usually do, bro.
This guy, I used to follow on Instagram, makes the photos that way with a truck.
He turned a whole truck into a camera, essentially.
Oh, that's cool.
And the process of it is crazy.
So, like, it could be a myth sometimes because of how much work he's doing.
Imagine trying to convince these women it's a camera and not some creepy...
Oh, yeah.
I'd be like, you are a psycho.
Just come into the woods and pose for me.
So, he turned his truck into a camera.
Yeah.
Like, he built his own camera.
And, like, the whole thing is, like, the darkroom, you know, everything.
And then he does the chemical process.
It makes really cool photos o