Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1841 - Brian Redban
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1841 - Brian Redban' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-07-07. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #1841 - Brian Redban

- Joe Rogan Podcast, check it out!
- The Joe Rogan Experience.
- Showing by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night, all day.
- "Kill Tony" is the best fucking show in comedy.
- It's great. - It is.
You guys have the best show in comedy.
- We broke a-- - Are we up?
- Oh, never mind. - Hold on a second.
- I don't want to say this. - We're running?
- Yeah. - Yeah, we're running.
Yeah. No, you have the best show in comedy.
"Kill Tony" is the best live stand-up show
that's ever existed.
It's the best. - It's fun.
- It's the best. - Yeah.
And it has such a great, you know,
like we learn about new comics in it, you know?
- Yeah. - And that's great for all of us,
knowing who's good, who's bad, you know?
- Think about all the people that came from it.
Hans, William, you know,
all these fucking people from the past.
Preacher Lawson. - Yeah.
- You know, I mean, how many guys came from "Kill Tony"?
- Tons. - Right?
- Mm-hmm.
- It's fucking, it's such a great show, dude.
You guys, it's awesome.
It's so, and you guys have it so down now.
You know, like with the band behind you
and like everyone's in sync and it's so good.
Tony is so fucking good at hosting too.
Yeah.
It's insane.
And he's gotten so much better, you know?
Yeah.
Like just in the last couple of years,
you could just, he's like so professional now,
like how he does it.
Because it used to be where I'd be like,
"Okay, now we have to do ads," you know?
And stuff and I had to kind of like help him.
Now he just, he has it.
Nah, he's got it down.
But like off the cuff, that kid is fucking insane.
It's so good.
It's such a great thing to have for comedy too,
to have like this opportunity for young up and coming people
or even old up and coming people.
You could be old.
You've had a few old people.
Who's the oldest one you've ever had on your show?
Like a guest or?
Yeah.
Uh, I don't know.
No, not a guest.
No, I mean someone we found.
Yeah, someone doing one minute.
Oh, we've had old, old, old people.
Like when we, when we, like on the road,
we'll find these guys that, you know, did comedy in the 80s
and they still do it in like Jersey somewhere.
And they, you know, and yeah, we've had some old people.
I can't really think of anyone off, like their names or anything off them.
We've been doing almost 10 years.
It's insane how long we've been doing that.
That's wild.
Every single Monday.
Sometimes we're doing Monday and then Friday, two shows,
Saturday, two shows.
When we're on the road, it's just insane how many we've been doing.
And the show runs itself now.
Me and Tony could literally just, me and him in an iPad,
go anywhere and then like have a show.
It's pretty ridiculous how it works, you know?
And does the iPad hook up to the sound system in the club?
Yeah.
How do they do that for you?
So I, I have like a studio on the go type, type thing where I plug,
everything plugged into my, my shit.
And so I, it records each mic on a different, like, you know, you know, sound
file.
And then I have a splitter that runs to their house sound.
So they can turn up and turn down like their own house sound.
And for me, it just stays the same.
So, yeah.
So it's pretty plug and play.
It's very plug and play.
And it's cool because when we're on the road, you know, like a place like,
Hey ma'am, this is just a hotel banquet room.
Yeah.
I don't know what you're, how you're going to do this.
And I'm like, I just need one XLR cable.
Cause I just, all I need, I could just plug in like using an XLR cable and
controlled
like nine different mics.
Oh wow.
So it's, yeah, it's pretty fun.
Fucking technology, son.
So much easier nowadays.
It's so crazy.
Well, also do, do people make a podcast kits?
Does anybody make a kit?
They do.
And I've seen them before.
You know, like you go to a website and they'll sell you a podcast kit and it's
just mediocre
equipment and stuff like that.
But people ask me all the time, you know, what you recommend and zoom.
I think you've heard of zoom before.
They make all the good shit.
They have like, they have these things where you just plug them right in and
records different
tracks.
It even like records so well.
Like if you could scream in it, it won't distort.
It's called a float recording.
There's 3 million podcasts now.
Yeah.
When we started it, how many do you think there was?
In the hundreds at least, like hundreds, 200.
I wonder how many there were.
I don't know.
It's ridiculous.
I wish someone knew.
How many podcasts were available in 2009?
Find that out.
I didn't know.
Adam Curry had that thing.
He had an archive.
That's how it started, right?
So there had to be a list.
Well, he's number one.
Adam Curry is the podfather.
Right.
And then there was all those-
All respect to Adam Curry.
There was all those people, like the tech guys, like Leo Laporte.
Remember that guy?
Sure.
I love that guy.
That guy's awesome.
I think he still does it too.
Yeah.
And Dvorak, who does it with Adam.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So that podcast, Curry's podcast, the first one was like, was it 2004 or
something like that?
It was like five years before us, I think.
I think somewhere along those lines.
But like when we started in 2009, what was the number of podcasts?
I bet there's a log of that.
Let's guess.
I don't know.
Give me a real guess.
I would say, I could tell you how many there are currently.
Give me, give me how many they are currently.
Wow.
Oh my God.
It's now 4 million.
Jesus.
Holy shit, dude.
So it jumped up a million.
I wonder though, is this podcast or podcast show?
That's what, so in the last three days there's been 100,000 episodes published.
Shows published.
So I would imagine that that means-
Total podcasts in the index, 4 million, 79,717.
Holy fuck.
That's crazy.
Yeah, I would say it was-
4 million is like, dude, it was just 3 million a couple of months ago, Jamie.
Do you remember?
I mean, it makes it easier.
Wasn't that long ago.
Make it easier to upload, more people, you know.
But that's wild, man.
That's wild.
I think there was still, when we started, there was podcasts though.
For sure.
There was probably a couple hundred.
Had to be.
Yeah.
Well, there was Adam-
At least.
Adam Carolla.
Right?
Adam Curry.
Marc Maron, was he doing it?
He was before us.
He was before us.
I think by like, at least, at least months, if not a year.
I don't know.
But he was before us.
Who else?
Who else?
Carolla.
Not a lot of other people, man.
Yeah.
Oh, Kevin Smith.
Kevin Smith, that's right.
Kevin Smith always had Smogcast.
Smogcast.
We did that once.
Yeah, we did that at that theater.
Jim Norton.
That was fun.
Yeah.
Yeah, he had them out before anybody.
He was one of the early, early birds.
Yeah.
But how am I like, overall?
I wonder if you can go to like, the internet archive and just look at podcasts,
rankings,
and maybe it would show it there.
Maybe I could look at that same site.
I'm digging through some Adam Curry info to find that original archive he had.
Like 2005 is what I'm reading right now.
Is when that RSS feed thing they gave to Apple to build their database off of.
So that was his first, 2005.
So he was number one.
So it goes from Adam Curry and there's probably a few other tech guys probably
got involved
around then and started doing some.
And now everything.
Now TV shows, like just Kinko's locations, you know, like have podcasts.
I was watching.
Really?
Yeah.
I was watching, you know, when you see a movie and before the movie starts and
before the
previews, they have just like little trivia games, you know, and they have like
a host.
And it's like just tons of commercials.
Right.
They go, and you could join us on our new podcast.
I was like, who is sitting there watching that, that enjoys that part of the
movie enough
where they're going to subscribe to a podcast about that.
You probably don't know what I'm talking about.
I don't.
But if you go to a movie early before the movie trailers comes on, it's just
like this generic
stuff where it's just a ton of commercials and people giving you like movie
trivia.
Like, hi, it's kind of like E! Entertainment Tonight, but it's just cheesy shit.
But they have a podcast.
How many like restaurants and bars have their own podcasts?
Exactly.
That must be a thing now, right?
Oh, totally.
Totally.
Yeah.
There's always probably funny people at bars, right?
It's probably not a bad idea.
And you've met people that never did stand-up that were really hilarious, right?
Oh yeah, tons.
Yeah, absolutely.
Like some guys would be like, God, if I was like a tenth as funny as that guy.
Right.
Yeah.
The only reason that you can have it at a bar is probably for insurance reasons.
Like, you know, oh, here's proof that they just got drunk before they killed a
bunch of
people after this podcast.
Yeah.
I don't know.
Yeah, we all met people that were like really funny that just never did it.
You know?
Yeah.
You know, Eddie Bravo's doing stand-up now and I always told him to do stand-up,
like
way back in the day.
I'm like, dude, you're funny.
You have funny fucking stories, man.
I remember you tried it once and something happened like he didn't have a good
set and
then he stopped for a while.
He had a couple of rough sets.
Right.
But that was before he was teaching.
When he started teaching, he got very comfortable like addressing people
because he was doing
a lot of seminars.
So he would fly in and explain jujitsu in seminars and one of the things he
would do was tell funny
stories.
So he'd tell funny stories while he is like teaching jujitsu.
And, you know, he was like, dude, I'm killing in front of my class.
And I started laughing and then he started doing it again.
And again, he gave it another, but it was like a nine year break where he wasn't
doing it.
Like, at least, maybe nine's wrong, but many years.
I forget how many.
But he's funny, man.
I saw him at the comedy store and he was doing the tinfoil hat show with Sam
Tripoli.
Right.
I'm like, dude, he's fucking funny.
Yeah.
He's got some funny ass stories.
He always had funny stories.
I remember about like the cranberry juice.
Like you would give a girl cranberry juice or something like that because she
had a urinary
track.
Anyways, like all those stories he would always tell us about like dates.
He went on and stuff like that.
Oh, he had crazy stories.
Yeah.
They're very funny.
But he's just figured out how to do stand up now.
It's interesting to watch, you know.
I had this guy that I worked for that was a private investigator.
And he was one of the funniest guys I've ever met.
His name is Dave Dolan.
I don't know if you ever met him.
He died a few years back though.
You might have met him.
And one of the times we went back to Boston because I always saw him whenever I
was in town.
But he was my employee, my employer when I was 21.
When I was just starting to do stand up.
He needed a driver.
So he put in an ad for a newspaper.
Wanted a private investigator's assistant.
And I was like, oh, that'd be a dope job to do while I'm doing stand up.
I'll be a private investigator's assistant.
But it was really just, I had to drive him because he lost his license from
drinking and driving.
Wow.
Dude, he was hilarious.
He was one of the funniest people I ever met.
Working with him, I would come home and there was this girl I was dating.
And we would have these conversations about it.
I was like, he's so funny.
It's like confusing.
I'm like, why aren't you doing comedy?
I'm like, we were, I was crying laughing all day with this guy.
Sometimes it probably doesn't transfer well though.
You know, cause it's...
He would have.
You think?
100%.
100%.
100%.
He could have 100% been a comedian.
He didn't give a fuck though.
He didn't want to do it.
He had his, uh, and he had an in.
His cousin was the, one of the owners of the comedy connection.
It was Bill Downs.
Bill Downs and Paul.
Fuck.
I forgot his last name.
I can't.
I got, we gotta edit the part out.
Paul Barkley.
I got it.
I'll say it again.
It was Bill Downs and Paul Barkley.
They were the owners of the comedy connection.
And my fr