Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1704 - C.K. Chin
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1704 - C.K. Chin' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-09-08. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #1704 - C.K. Chin

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Happy birthday, my friend.
Thank you.
I did not know it was your birthday when we scheduled this.
Yeah.
So it's exciting.
You know, my sister's birthday is today as well.
We're five years apart, exactly, to the day.
What?
Yeah.
How weird.
Yeah, my mom had great timing.
That's amazing timing.
And so, yeah, so forever, probably since I was, like, 10, it's been her
birthday.
That's crazy odds.
Yeah.
Like, what are the odds?
Like, five years apart on the same day.
Yeah.
I guess I thought about that before.
I mean, I guess the odds are just one out of 365.
I mean, at the end of the day, that doesn't matter.
Are they really?
Because 25 years apart, still, we only have 365 days a year, so it has to be
one of those days.
I guess.
Mathematically speaking, I think.
I feel like there's something missing in that equation.
Right.
You know what I mean?
It's like one of them trick problems.
Right, right, right, right.
Right.
It's way higher than that.
Yeah.
Probability is a little less than one in 500,000 of a family with two children
who aren't twins
that share the same birthday.
Really?
Ooh, see?
Maybe this is actually for two years.
Well, okay.
I think it's just that's what it was.
Sorry.
Yeah.
They're looking for two kids that were born two years apart on the same day.
Yeah.
That might actually, actually, I guess as you get closer, probably because
there's some
sort of rebound rate.
Like, you can't.
Yeah.
You know, you can't just five years apart.
It's like, all right.
It's still wild.
It is wild.
No, and she waited.
She was due in August, mid-August, and then she just chilled and hit the snooze
until
my birthday.
Yeah.
It was great.
I was saying the only thing I remember really of that whole situation was that
my mom missed
my fifth birthday party.
And I was like, where's mom?
They're like, well, she's having your sister.
And I'm like, well, why can't she be at my birthday party?
It doesn't have to do with anything.
It's kind of like.
That's hilarious.
And that's what you remember.
Yeah, I do remember that pretty clearly.
Pretty clearly.
But, you know, obviously I love her.
The young one, steal the thunder.
But it was really great.
You know, I think that it was, you know, she and I were very close, and it kind
of created
this kind of twin connection thing that I've always really kind of enjoyed.
It's like, it's a cool story.
It's a little thing that you can talk about and remember, and it's really, it's
great.
So you both have birthdays the same day?
Yeah, and we're always, it was kind of cool to always kind of, it was cool to
share it
in a way.
I've never been someone that I was very possessive on that kind of stuff, so it
was great to share
that with somebody.
I always felt sorry for kids that had like Christmas birthdays.
That's a totally different thing.
Yeah, I agree.
That's bullshit.
Then you get that, you get that Christmas slash birthday gift.
I would just lie to my kid.
I'd be like, dude, you were born in July.
Yeah.
Let's get the fuck out of here with this Christmas shit.
Yeah.
Because that's, that's bullshit for a kid because they look for that, you know,
that's
a big deal, your birthday for at least the first few years of your life.
I had a, you know, I have an interesting perspective also.
My mother was, you know, single mother raised me and my grandmother.
And I always thought that you should celebrate the parent for like the first 10
years or something.
That's a good call.
As a kid, it's kind of like, I mean, what'd you do in the beginning?
It's like, it's like your mother's like, happy birthday.
Congrats.
Good job on what you created.
And then we'll see if you, this kid is worth celebrating later on.
Give him a little time.
The thing is that that's the only birthdays that mean a fuck.
Like when I have a, see a grown man at a show going, it's my birthday.
Like, bitch, your birthday was 30 fucking years ago.
It is not today.
You're a grown man.
That's right.
You know, that's, that is some weak shit.
Yeah.
We all have birthdays.
People get all excited about having a birthday.
It's my birthday.
Yeah.
Especially like the people that come to the bars and ask for free stuff.
Oh, fuck off.
Right?
Yeah.
In the hospitality industry.
You turn to 21?
That's got to be annoying.
28?
I'm like, what the, you should have a job.
Yeah.
We shouldn't be asking for a free drink.
That's right.
Ever.
Ever.
But what do you have to do in those situations?
Do you have to go, do you have to like kind of accommodate them?
I mean, at the end of the day, for me, it's like, it's opportunity cost.
The amount of time that it would, like, why ruin this person's experience?
This person, you know, it's, we are, if you're truly in this, like, I'm in the
hospitality
industry for the purest reason, which I really enjoy taking care of people.
So if somebody hands you a roadmap on how to make them happy, use it.
Like, why, why, where's the goal?
And what do I win?
There's nobody taking, keeping score of some sort of, you know, global, you
know, scoreboard
that says that you were right and this customer's wrong.
You know, it's like, no, who cares?
Like, you gave me that opportunity to make you happy by giving you a drink and
you get
to tell your friends that I got a free drink and then go for it here.
That's a good attitude.
Worth the price of admission for me.
It's got to be hard though, because you are celebrating twats.
Yeah.
Well, it's, it's, it's, it's hard insofar as it depends on like the reasoning.
You know, I think that if there's some people out there that's maybe just
trying to get
one up on somebody and trying to get some free stuff and whatever like that,
you know,
they're just taking advantage of you, like, but how long have you been in the
restaurant
business?
I mean, I started bartending, you know, early 18, 19.
So, uh, four to 24 years.
So it was one of your first jobs ever.
I started college early.
I was 16 and then I, Mr.
Smarty pants.
I was because I was born in September and then my family wasn't like, well, you're
supposed
to wait another year.
And they're like, nope, we'll put you in a Montessori school.
We'll get you started now.
And then went into, went into school.
And, um, my last year in high school, they switched over to this block
scheduling thing.
So I ran out of classes and my family, um, also my mother, we put me in summer
school
every year because she heard about summer school and was like, yeah, go to
school, continue
going to school.
And I ran out of classes.
And so we were, I was able to take some college classes and then I got accepted
in college
and went that summer before I turned, you know, 17.
What was that like being around a bunch of fucking grown ass kids when you're
basically
16?
I was a, I was an old man.
I, I, I really, it's weird.
I have this kind of juxtaposition.
I feel like to also, all of my upbringing and everything like that.
I've always been kind of an old mindset.
I kind of walk and walk around and look at these kids.
Like, what do you, what do you, like, what are y'all doing?
How come?
I don't know.
And I think, but that's where the, the, the thing was, I think I was forced to
kind of
grow up a little bit faster with single parent and my grandmother raised me and
then having
to help, you know, with my sister and everything.
And so, but I'm also very childlike in that way because I think a lot of that
kind of got,
you know, taken away a little bit.
So I still, you know, I still enjoy cartoons and Marvel movies or whatever it
is.
And these types of things, these escapism stuff that I feel like I just never
really
kind of fully got out of the way.
And so it's like, you grew up fast and now it's like, you're making up for lost
time
and doing that kind of stuff.
I started embracing them again.
I thought they were foolish, like comic books and comic book movies and stuff
like that.
I thought they were foolish for a while.
And then I got, as I got older, I go, but wait a minute, I like those.
And then I started embracing them as I got in, I guess, into my thirties.
Yeah.
I think, I think you should have a better understanding.
And again, not to get so super deep on superhero movies, but I think there is
something that,
that really kind of shines a mirror on people to, if you have this blank canvas
and be able
to create something as to whatever you wanted, and then you can create this
person.
It's kind of interesting.
I remember, I forgot, there's an essay going around or something that's talking
about like
Superman, for instance, and like how there is some interesting psychology
behind it.
The idea that everyone on Krypton is Superman and his alter ego is actually a
human as opposed
to every other superhero.
His alter ego is their superhero, but he actually has to pretend to be normal
because he just
himself is, you know, whatever.
It's like this weird kind of thing.
And I remember reading that kind of stuff and thinking about that and thinking
about
how like, um, most recently I think Spider-Man, they finally cast a young,
young guy as opposed
to like a grown man.
And there was like, what kind of stuff would you go through as a teenager that
all of a
sudden discovered that you have all this stuff going on?
And they did a good job in the most recent movies about him going to high
school and telling
his best friend and getting caught about it and getting all this stuff.
I feel like there's like, as an adult watching it is not the same.
I think I really enjoy it in a different level, but it's cool.
Yeah.
Well, it's just superhero movies.
They're just fun.
That's all it is.
That's right.
It's just fun.
It's junk food.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Enjoy it.
Junk food for the mind.
Yeah.
I think that there's, there's a time, like when people would come by and say,
this didn't
have any, it's like, are you arguing the realism?
Like the people who pick it apart like that?
It's just kind of strange.
They can do whatever they want.
Like if that's what you want to do with a superhero movie, go back and do that
about
Bugs Bunny too, stupid.
That's right.
Exactly.
Exactly.
Oh, he got shot in the face.
He could totally not survive that.
Like, yeah, exactly.
He's a talking rabbit, bro.
Yeah, exactly.
None of it makes any sense.
You know what I watched the other day that I haven't seen in a long time?
The Watchmen.
Yes.
That's a fucked up movie.
Yeah.
But that's, there's, I mean, that is so well written.
Yeah.
And especially the new, have you said, do you watch the series?
The TV?
The one.
I was watching the series for a little, but Dr. Manhattan's bullshit.
Like Dr. Manhattan's supposed to be a glowing nuclear blue guy with a giant
dick and all
of a sudden he's a regular guy.
Right.
I was like, what is this nonsense?
Right.
That's like if the Hulk was just a guy who like went to CrossFit.
Wait, wait, wait.
In the, in the HBO series?
Yes.
Yeah.
I mean, I, I mean, so.
Bro, he's supposed to be super jacked with a giant dick.
That's true.
Okay.
That's the, that's, that's Dr. Manhattan.
That's right.
He's supposed to be able to like time travel and do whatever he wants.
Yeah.
Go to other planets and shit.
Yeah, he's a god.
Yeah, for sure.
He seems way too normal.
Yeah.
See, let me see what he looks like.
Pull up what he looks like.
Cause the one in the, in the Watchmen, the movie, like it looks like what you'd
expect
a god to look like.
That's right.
He's got the crazy white eyes.
He's almost like animated.
Whereas everybody else in this show is, you know, basically just a person with
superpowers.
For sure.
And some of them don't even have superpowers.
And I think that that's, that's, again, that's one of those things where living
in a world,
oh God, what is the, what is the.
Yeah.
Look at him.
Get the fuck out of here.
How is that Dr. Manhattan?
That's ridiculous.
The real Dr. Manhattan in the movie is like a perfect specimen.
He's like a god.
He glows.
And then this other one is jus