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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #2034 - Jeremy Jones' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-09-13. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #2034 - Jeremy Jones

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The Joe Rogan experience.
Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day.
Jeremy Jones, what's happening, baby?
Not much, not much.
We finally did this.
Yeah, trying to run out.
Yeah, man, playing you is a very humbling experience.
I should tell everybody that Jeremy Jones, professional pool player,
the team captain of the Moscone Cup,
which is the most prestigious international team tournament.
And all the world of pool.
But what I really enjoyed about talking with you for the last couple of days
is you're a very smart guy, very interesting guy,
who has a lot of interest in all kinds of different things.
You're a very fascinating guy.
That's why you're so good at commentary.
Yeah, I guess so.
Maybe just growing up watching all that stuff.
And I think my parents, they had pretty vast interest,
even though maybe didn't afford it all the time to be able to kind of go with
it.
But, yeah, number five of six kids, you learn a lot of stuff.
Well, it's just always been fascinating to me.
The people that are really good at pool are some of the fucking smartest people
I've ever met in my life.
They just got that bug.
They got that bug to chase this one thing,
geometry and pockets and balls and collisions.
They got that bug to chase it.
But some of the best players that I've talked to,
they're some of the smartest people I've ever met.
Oh, absolutely.
I mean, that just tells you about the game, right?
Yeah.
How much there is to it.
And, yeah, I mean, it's just it grabs you.
And, you know, if you're watching, paying attention to what goes on,
it's like hardly ever the same thing.
Yeah.
You know, you don't realize how much control you have.
I thought pool was kind of like a game he played
waiting on a bowling alley lane, you know, prior to playing it.
Right.
I didn't know you could play it well.
I didn't know you could play it for a living.
You know, there's movies out there and stuff,
but, I mean, it just didn't seem real.
When you – how old were you when you first started playing?
Really playing 17.
I was 17 years old.
Yeah, I started late.
I started really late.
I was 25, I think.
Somewhere around 24.
24 or 25.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, I worked two jobs.
And one of them, we'd, you know, have a few beers on the weekends
at a pizza restaurant and play poker with our money, our tip money.
And one of the guys would go to the game room and play pool.
And he took me down there one day and kind of hustled me a little bit.
You know, we kind of knew each other like that.
And the only thing I wanted to do was be able to beat him, Joe.
Like, that's what I wanted to do.
Yeah.
And that's – so I quit one of the jobs.
I quit the pizza restaurant and went and got a job at the game room
so I could play for free.
And, you know, kind of the rest is history from there.
Wow.
It's a game that just sucks you in.
I remember I used to go and play with my friend John and we would go to this
place,
Executive Billiards and White Plains.
And when we got there, you know, it was an interesting time because there was a
lot of gambling going on in that place.
And the guy – the owner was a wild man.
The owner of the pool hall was this really eccentric musician.
Yeah.
His name was Guy Azariti, but he would use the name Guy Hamilton when he
performed.
He was this musician, like a piano player.
Like, really good musician.
And he had some money from, you know, his career as a piano player.
And he was really in a pool.
He loved the culture of it.
And so he was the owner of this joint.
And we were all just hanging out with him, having fun.
And I would go there and it would be filled with people gambling.
And I was like, this place is wild.
And then I was watching, like, really good players play when I was, you know,
just starting out.
Didn't know what I was doing.
And I was like, that looks so different than anybody else I've ever seen play
pool.
Like, the way they hit the ball is so soft.
And they're in such control.
And you're watching the ball spin off the cushions to get perfect on the next
ball.
And everybody's, like, shaking their head, wow.
I'm like, that got me hooked.
Yeah, absolutely.
That's what got me.
Yeah, I think the culture of it is a big, big part of it.
I mean, just being able to gamble and not take it personal.
Right.
You know, like, you hate the casino when you go lose, right?
Right.
I mean, they're, like, cussing the casino.
They're cheating.
They're doing this, right?
But, I mean, where I was at, we could gamble.
And then we could hang out.
Yeah.
You know what I mean?
And then we're on teams the next day.
And we're not on.
You know, so that, to me, was pretty fascinating overall, you know?
There's a culture that encourages more gambling.
And the best way to encourage more gambling is not have fisticuffs every time
somebody loses.
Like, some guys just get too personal.
Like, it's a natural feeling.
The guy just beat you.
You feel bad.
You're angry at him.
But, really, you should be angry at yourself.
Yeah, absolutely.
Yeah.
And it's just, that's what you're both trying to do.
It's an agreement.
Like, figure it out.
Yeah.
I mean, you know, you beat a guy, you don't bust his chops too often, right?
You let him cool off, and then it all is good.
But, uh...
Everybody goes back to, like, McCready's character in The Color of Money, which
is, apparently,
from what everybody tells me from those days, really, McCready was probably,
like, wilder than that.
No, I think I've sweated it 100%.
Really?
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, I, uh...
I, uh, was in with a player playing Keith, and I think they played something
like four days
or five days with, like, an eight-hour break or ten-hour break in the middle.
Wow.
You know, and if you say, stay there and sweat that kind of pool with those
guys, you see stuff that you're just not gonna see, you know what I mean?
They get a little rum-dum, they get a little agitated, then they're hugging,
you know, an hour later.
Oh, yeah, it's crazy, yeah.
But Keith would definitely, uh, talk a little bit, you know?
He liked a little banner.
Those are the craziest legendary sessions when guys just gambled for three
straight days in a row, and people think it's bullshit.
But that was, that's part of the thing about pool and gambling, is nobody wants
to quit.
Oh, no, no, you're trying, I mean, if you're...
You don't quit when you're up, and if you're down, and you still got some fight
left in you, this guy might get tired.
Or money.
You know, you might, you know, I've seen him go through three or four steakhorses
in a night.
Yeah.
You know, but I mean, I think you and I were talking about it earlier, it's so
much different these days.
When I went to the pool room, I was fully rested, like, ten, twelve hours,
because I knew I'm there to beat four or five guys, I'm gonna be there 20, 30
hours.
Wow.
Yeah, I mean, you know, that's what you want.
You want to put the parley on them, you know, like that, you want to take a,
you know, somewhat small bankroll and try to run it through somebody, so.
That's a fascinating way to live your life.
It really is.
I've always, I mean, that, if, out of all of the things, if you talk about,
like, American folklore, just like American culture, all the poetic characters,
the professional pool player is one of the most interesting,
because it is the least guaranteed job that has ever existed.
Yeah, there's lots of sayings.
I think it's the, you know, hard way to make an easy living, easy living is one
of them, right?
But, but I mean, you know, if I was lucky, I was around some of the old school
ones as well.
And the charisma is true, you know, like if you see genuine charisma, I mean,
it's a real thing.
Yeah.
And that's what the old guys had.
The other young guys have it too, but it's just a little different.
Well, everyone seems, it's interesting, because it seems like pool is just like
every other thing, in that the guys today are as good, if not better, than
anybody that's ever existed.
Oh, absolutely.
There's more of them.
That's the problem.
There's so many of them.
Yeah, exactly.
And more common.
I'm so impressed.
I mean, Europe, Asia, you know, guys from Taiwan, guys from China, guys from
Japan, guys from Spain.
It's like, whoa.
Killers.
It's the most global sport there is, I think.
It's amazing how much talent there is out there.
Like, I'm just so impressed with what the level is now.
Because if you, like, no disrespect to anybody who played back in the day, but
if you go back and you watch a tournament from like the 80s versus you watch
how these guys are playing now, it's almost like it's a completely different
game.
Yeah.
Different style, rather.
Yeah, I think the equipment allows for that too, you know what I mean?
And so, and the training, I mean, these guys, you know, you had Federer Gorst.
I'm sure you all talked about his regimen, right?
He's my perfect example.
He's almost playing like a totally different style of pool.
Like, his style of pool is like, it's so perfect.
Like, his position, the way he stands with his body, how rigid it is.
It's like, people that don't understand that are just seeing a guy just make
something look easy.
But people that do understand, it's like, that's like a work of art.
Like, look what he's doing.
Oh, absolutely.
It's like artwork.
Yeah.
He's kind of like, you know, back in the day, you'd kind of, you know, I used
to say to a lot of guys that go on the road, hey, if they don't beat me in the
first couple hours, we're all right.
You know what I mean?
Because I'd get better and better and better.
And he kind of doesn't even look for that.
You know, he doesn't even want a gear.
He just has, it's just steady gear.
You know what I mean?
And it's just like, he's not looking for that rhythm, even though it's there, I
guess, a little bit.
But he's just a different machine, you know?
Well, he's so well trained in terms of his fundamentals, and it's all so repeatable.
And I think that that exists in martial arts.
It exists in archery, and it really exists in pool.
If you have really good fundamentals, like, that's why a lot of those snooker
guys really excel when they try to learn pool.
They're fundamentals.
Like, they're stroke fundamentals.
They're so perfect.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, they learn some things as they come over.
I mean, they hate when you say snooker, though, right?
Don't they give you a hard time?
Snooker.
Snooker.
Yeah.
Or the, you know, I still don't know why a bank is called a double in snooker.
Just a one-rail bank is called a double.
So, I mean, there's a few of them that I'm not really sure about.
But, you know.
That's an interesting game, too.
Oh, it's a great game.
Yeah.
I mean, I think, you know, I think nine ball's a little better looking for
today's people.
You know what I mean?
Like, snooker's done really well.
And it's got a great following, and it should.
But I don't know.
There's nothing like breaking and running now.
Yeah, the different balls.
You know, you feel a little more aggression, I think.
Yeah.
You know, which in sports, you usually want to feel that aggression, right?
And if you fuck up and leave the nine in front of the hole, it's an easy
victory for your opponent.
There's something beautiful about luck, the luck aspect in nine ball.
Balls bounce all over the place.
And when you're down, and then all of a sudden, boom, the guy shits a nine ball
in.
You're like, God damn it.
And you can change it around.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
You can turn things around.
It's such an exciting game, and it never stops being exciting.
When it's played at a good level, it just never stops being exciting.
It's like it's one of the most engaging physical games that I've ever
participated in.
Yeah.
And you would think for a non-contact sport, the adrenaline gets way up there.
I know.
I mean, it's pretty intense.
They've done heart rate monitors on guys, right?
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
What's like the highest anybody got jacked?
Oh, my God.
You know, a guy you know, a couple years ago, Ma