Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1629 - Lara Beitz
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1629 - Lara Beitz' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-04-03. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #1629 - Lara Beitz

- Joe Rogan Podcast, check it out!
- The Joe Rogan Experience.
- Train by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night, all day.
- Hello.
- Hello.
- Welcome.
- Thank you.
- What's happening?
- Thank you for having me.
- So you said you're in town working at,
it's called the Sunset's Trip Comedy Club?
- Yeah.
- Is this the first weekend?
- Yes.
- That it's open?
- Yeah.
- Whoa, that's awesome.
How'd you hear about it?
- They hit me up.
- So they just started?
- Yeah.
- Where's it at?
- This is opening weekend, I don't know.
- Oh wow, you don't even know where you're going.
- No.
- Did you just get here today?
- I got here yesterday.
- Did you walk around?
- I walked a little bit.
- Did you get any brisket?
- Not yet.
That's tonight.
- What did you do when you got here?
- I went and got halal, and then I went swimming.
- Oh, okay.
- Yeah.
- Check it out.
- Yeah.
- Wander around.
Who are you working with?
- Fahim, Anwar, and Amir Kay.
And I can't remember the rest of the lineup.
But yeah, that's it.
- Yeah, Fahim did some shows with me and Chappelle
at Stubbs too.
There it is.
Is this the place?
- Yep.
- And where's it at, Jamie?
- Downtown, 3rd Street.
- Okay.
- East side, I think.
This is East 3rd Street.
- Nice.
Does it say how many people it seats?
- It does not.
- Nice.
- Yeah, the guys who run it have been really great.
They've been really nice.
- That's fucking awesome.
I'm excited.
- And they love you.
- What does Tim Dillon have to do with that?
Tim Dillon's on their page there.
Is he talking shit about them?
What is he saying?
- I think he's talking about the Austin scene.
- Yeah.
He's out here too.
Are you gonna move here, Laura?
- Not today, you know?
- Are you thinking about it?
- We'll see.
Never say never.
- Never say never?
Are you considering it?
- I mean, before this year, I would have said that I never wanted to leave LA,
but I also
couldn't have imagined them shutting Hollywood down until further notice.
So I don't know what is gonna happen next.
- The district attorney, I think that's who it is, killed the gang task force
too.
That's the new thing.
Because apparently there's not enough crime.
He's like, how do we make it worse?
- Yeah.
- Oh, that's good.
- Let's kill the gang task force.
- Is that the same task force that was the dirty one?
The rampart one?
- Oh, I don't think so.
- Okay.
- I think that's a different one.
Maybe.
I don't think so, though.
Maybe it was dirty.
Maybe I'm looking into it the wrong way.
- I'm just wondering.
- You might be right.
I might be looking at it the wrong way.
- I mean, if no one can leave their apartments anyway, what difference does it
really make,
you know?
- It does.
My friend Eddie almost got jumped at a gas station two nights ago.
- Damn.
- Yeah.
He's pulled into a gas station and he got out of his car and some guy started
walking backwards
towards his car with hoodies on.
And he was like, what is going on here?
And then he's like, I'm getting back in my fucking car.
And then they just ran up to his car and he locked the car and took off.
- Damn.
I've been making people walk me to my car after shows because I accidentally
caught a preview
for the local news.
And it was like a woman being put down on her face on the sidewalk while two
dudes robbed
her.
And I was like, well, I can't forget that I've seen that image now.
So I guess I don't go places by myself anymore.
- Yeah.
That's the thing that happens when you shut down the economy is like crime.
Just not only did they shut down the economy, but they also like handicap the
police officers.
Like they, you know, cops are terrified to arrest anybody.
I was talking to a friend who's got a friend that's a fireman who's friends
with cops and
they were all discussing this apparently that they just don't know what to do.
Like they have, they're scared to arrest people because they're scared that
they're going to
do something that's going to be abusive and they're going to get filmed and
then, you know,
or considered abusive or if someone's resisting arrest and they're just in this
weird position
where a lot of people hate the police now.
- Yeah.
- So cops, they don't want to be bothered with shit.
Like Sunset is like a drag strip now.
Have you seen people flying down Sunset going 150 miles an hour racing?
- Yeah.
- You have?
- I've seen that.
- Fucking weird, right?
- Yeah.
I'm laughing because I was with Dylan Sullivan last night and we walked to get
food and there
were like a bunch of junkies around and they kept just like appearing and I was
getting
really nervous.
And then we saw a cop car across the street and we're like, let's go be by the
cop.
And we walked over to stand by the cop.
And, um, I was like, this is not very, this is, that's not a very popular
mindset right
now.
- To go and be near the cops.
- Yeah.
And I pictured someone spray painting, like fuck the police and me like doing a
carrot
mark and saying, fuck yeah.
The police.
Cause we got so excited to see them.
We're like, Oh, thank God.
The cops are here.
- Where were you at?
- Um, sixth and a different street.
- Yeah.
There's that area around where the Vulcan gas company is.
That's a homeless shelter.
- That's where we were.
- Yeah.
- We were parked right outside of Vulcan gas company.
- Yeah.
Yeah.
One of the guys there tried to steal one of my security guy's car.
- Damn.
- The whole place down there is so weird.
It's, it's funky.
And, uh, even though it's kind of, I mean, it's like semi dangerous, but their
version of
danger is just so different than the LA danger.
It's kind of cute danger.
You know, it's like just crazy homeless people.
- It didn't feel cute.
And with all due respect, you're a lot more muscular than I am.
I don't think that people will fuck with you as fast as they'll fuck with me.
- Well, you never know.
It's easy to get a gun here.
It's a different animal.
- Yeah.
We were parked before an alley and people just started like coming out of the
alleys.
And I was like, we gotta go somewhere else.
- Yeah.
Well, COVID fucked everything up.
The pandemic fucked everything up.
It did not fuck up Austin.
It just fucked up Austin less than, I mean, it fucked LA up.
LA is fucked.
- Yeah.
- Like it's not just fucked.
Like I tell people about it and they're like, come on, you're exaggerating.
And then they go and then they call me and go, holy shit, dude.
Like it's unrecognizable.
- Well, and it's fucked because if you're going to shut everything down, you
have to give
us like a lot of money because rent is so obscene there that I think it's unimaginable
for anyone who lives anywhere else in the country.
I mean, it's so expensive.
I've been on unemployment for a year, which I've never applied for unemployment
before in
my entire life.
Like, you know how hard I work.
I'm not a handout person, but if you're going to shut all the comedy clubs,
like, and I was
applying for jobs that I didn't even want on indeed just to try to make some
money.
Cause my unemployment covers less than half of my rent.
And I'm just like, what do you expect me to do?
And if I'm in a position where I, every month I'm like, am I going to be, how
am I going
to not be homeless?
I just can't imagine people who have it so much worse than I do.
Yeah.
And that there are a lot of people like that.
And there's also like, it incentivizes people to do crime.
It really does.
Cause they're like, I, I need to fucking get by.
I got to figure this out.
And so people that were maybe on the cusp of trying to be a good person and
maybe fell
back into a life of crime.
It's just, it's not good.
It's just the problem is when you have mayors and governors and these people
that don't,
they don't have a vested interest in the economy booming.
Like it doesn't matter to them.
Like they, they get paid regardless, you know?
You know, so if their paycheck was dependent upon the economy of like, say, if
like the
governor and the mayor got paid a percentage of the gross revenues for the
state, like,
you know, 0.001% or whatever the fuck it is.
Like, this is how you make your living.
Like everybody has to do well.
And if you develop policies and you enact laws and legislations and rules,
especially
during this pandemic that cripple businesses, like there's a way to keep
businesses open
and still keep people safe.
They've done it.
They've done it in other places.
Right.
But California for what, like, if you look at Florida is the crazy one, right?
We always look at Florida.
Like those people are out of their mind.
They're crazy.
They're the fucking alligators and hanging out in the streets.
But Florida has like less COVID cases per capita.
They have less deaths per capita and they're wide open.
Well, and we're not at the it's not last April anymore.
Exactly.
25% of Americans have received at least one shot of the vaccine.
The most vulnerable populations got the vaccine first, which doesn't make sense
to me.
But I'm not a doctor or a virologist.
Like it makes sense on one level.
And then it's very confusing to me on another level.
I'm like, I would think we would want to try it on healthy people first.
But that's neither here nor there.
So like they tested it on people before they tried it on the old folks.
The idea is the old folks are less likely to survive it if they get it.
Yeah.
You know, but they this was like the finish line.
I thought I thought like when the vaccines out, we're going to pop shit back
open.
So what?
That's what they did here.
And that's what they do in a lot of states.
I did in Arizona.
The problem is California is like they've been feeding off that fear porn for
like a full year
and they don't want to let it go.
I mean, they almost want the virus to be completely eradicated.
And the real fear is that what happens when the flu comes around?
What happens when a less dangerous virus comes around?
Are you going to reenact the same rules?
Are you going to just keep the economy crippled?
It's going to be Mad Max.
Yeah.
That fucking place is going to be all tents and guns and fucking dogs.
And it's going to be chaos.
It's really gnarly.
And it's interesting to me how little people allow for like incorporating new
information
and changing your mind about stuff, especially at this point.
Right.
Because there are people who still are like comics shouldn't be doing shows in
LA.
You know what?
Those people all don't do shows.
You ever notice that?
Yeah.
You shouldn't do shows.
You motherfuckers never did shows.
Yeah.
Those are all people that their career sucked and they weren't that good.
And they're there.
They want people to stay home because part of them didn't like the fact that
people were
doing so many shows and doing so well.
There's not a lot of like really good successful comics that are saying people
shouldn't be doing
shows.
It's generally scrubs.
Yeah, for sure.
It's people who did it as a hobby.
And I don't think that you weren't successful to have that opinion.
If you're not a professional comedian, like what are you doing?
Unless you also are talking that way to all of your friends who have been
working in offices.
And unless you have a better idea for someone than doing shows.
Like, I don't know how you can expect people not to feel differently about this
when we have more information.
Yes.
We know more about this disease.
We know more about how it's transmitted.
We know more about how deadly it is.
Yeah.
And it's interesting because there's so much misinformation that is being given
to us.
Like, we know that you don't have to be six feet apart and wear masks and be
outside.
Like, if you're outside, you're probably not going to give it to other people.
At all.
Yeah.
And if you're inside, you can wear masks.
You can do it and be safe.
They've been doing shows all across the country.
And they haven't had these mass outbreaks that come out of these shows.
It hasn't happened.
Yeah.
Absolutely.
I mean, I did Vegas and I wore my mask when I wasn't on stage and I didn't get
sick.
And so it's kind of like the more stuff I did and didn't get it