Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1585 - Michael Kosta
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Joe Rogan Experience #1585 - Michael Kosta

Joe Rogan podcast check it out the Joe Rogan experience train by day Joe Rogan
podcast by
night all day his unwillingness to make money off of it too unbelievable
interesting yeah yeah
signal is you know whenever someone new signs up at signal you get like this
notification I've
noticed that yeah and so it's like flooding with all these people that I know
that are now on signal
like wow it's it's gotten us me to re-evaluate privacy and everything you know
like what is on
my phone what what are these when you go to that thing on the iPhone it says
you can use my location
always or a while using it's crazy how many apps are just using your location
oh yeah well what's
gonna change uh by the way this is Michael Costa ladies and gentlemen we're
already rolling great
uh Michael Costa you might know him from The Daily Show he's also a fabulous
stand-up comedian I know
him from the Comedy Store please welcome Michael Costa hey thank you for having
me man my pleasure this
has been a exciting highlight for me to be sitting here with you and be on your
podcast I can't believe
what this thing has become man bizarre it must be crazier it's for you well
this is what's bizarre
about it it seems like it's just you and me talking yeah well it is just me and
you talking yeah but I
I mean how many years have you been doing the 15 11 11 years okay 11 started in
2009 it's uh
as a younger than you comic you know you look to the comics older than you and
you say who is doing
what I want or creating something special that's unique to them and that's what
I always I always
tried to just try to do and then this to see what you've made this is nuts oh
thank you it's nuts so
it's just dumb luck dumb luck and that's it that's a lot of it legitimately
tell everybody
dumb luck and persistence and just working at it you know it's just
conversations it there's a skill
to it it just doesn't it doesn't seem like there's a skill to it but there's a
skill to it you realize
after you do a lot of podcasts too how bad a lot of people are just regular
folks are at having
conversations so you see people just talking over each other you're like Jesus
well you let him finish
and then you let her finish like fucking you guys just talk you just just Clyde
some of the worst
conversations I've ever had in my life are at that front bar at the comedy
store because it's always
like the weirdest comics talking at you never listening to your thing right and
uh I would get so
frustrated growing up my mom would do this game called the tennis ball game
where we were very young
and she would ask us a question she would say hey Michael how was school today
and she would hand me
the ball or toss me the ball and then you had to answer and you couldn't give
her the ball back
until you asked her a question and this is like you know we're like six so I
would say today was good
and then I would try to hand the ball back and she'd say you can't hand me the
ball back you didn't ask
me anything and I'd say do you like the weather today and I'd hand it to her
and she would like
trained us like zoo animals to do this wow but it is funny because so much of
my life now what you
mentioned earlier no one knows how to talk no no I have a very uh good friend
and she's very smart
um but her and her husband just talk louder over each other and they don't
listen like and then one
of them will walk off into the kitchen you're like what in the fuck and if I
had tried to have a
conversation with them if I'm in the middle of saying well I wonder if what it
is they just start
talking like they don't let anybody talk they just talk at you was your home
like a long form
conversation home I don't know like why do you feel comfortable marijuana okay
definitely marijuana
long stoner conversations I don't know man you know I used to do morning radio
and I used to look
forward to it in some some markets you know I think morning radio is like eight
out of ten or they're
just cool people that happen to be on the morning radio but then there's like
the two out of ten are
people that wish they were comics oh my god you know those and they crush you
when you do morning
radio if you're not like killing they're like I'm better than that guy yeah yes
Dickie and they get
weird with you like they're not friendly they don't like I did this one and I
don't want to say where it
was but I the guy wouldn't even acknowledge that you were there right until he
did a bunch of other
stuff while you're just sitting there so you're just sitting there in the stage
and he's talking
about like some stupid stuff they're doing outside an Applebee's right you know
well we got five
different people to try it out and no one could do it and then finally oh so
then uh we got a
comedian is here uh he's playing at the blah blah it's Joe Rogan hi Joe how are
you and you're like
why have I been here for 20 minutes just staring at you and it's like a power
trip I feel like they're
jealous or angry that you're working the road even though it you know it's not
like the road comic is
making tons of money that week or whatever but for some reason morning radio
Johnny Danger bang bang
you know those guys seem mad about their life lots of times some of them yeah
and then there's a few
that are excellent yeah awesome some are just cool people that happen to be
doing that yeah most of
them are cool people that just happen to be doing that but there's enough of
those well it's just like
when someone is in that sort of a position where they're the one who's
promoting your show you need
them to promote your show so you get up you go there and they're the star and
everybody's like
getting them the pieces of paper the stuff they have to say and you know it's
like there's always some
super young person at least for me when i walk in the studio that has just googled
me right like i'm
on air now but they're literally like okay say say that you know they don't
even right uh and also
people forget normally you you woke up at 5 a.m the day before for the flight
you're waking up at 5
a.m the next day for morning radio and then you normally have a 5 a.m flight
the next sunday or
whatever so it's like i'm not saying being a stand-up comic is hard but the
stage time is this awesome
one hour whatever but all the other work is like 5 a.m 5 a.m 5 a.m yeah um well
it fucks up your
rhythm too because your brain rhythm is off when you get up early in the
morning a couple of days
in a row because you're used to doing sets till late at night if you do a late
night show you're
doing a 10 p.m show you're not out of there until 12 30 you get back to your
room you go to bed it's
like one o'clock two o'clock and then you have to get up at five to do radio it's
like you're just
be excellent and then wake up and try to get some sleep and usually drink
coffee to do radio and then
you try to get some sleep your rhythm's all up the moment i had to stop doing
radio the road became
infinitely better yeah that was a direct result of doing podcasts because once
i started doing podcasts
i was selling out without going there without having to do that i'm like oh
yeah but then they
would try to get you to do it anyway they would say we have a relationship with
the radio station
we would love it if you came right because you you would promote the date on
your pocket so you would
do what they were supposed to do for you you would yes right so then the club
would ask me to do radio
anyway right they really would like you to come in yeah i'm like i'm not
getting up at five in the
morning when i don't have to on a day where i have to do shows with a host that
probably is a little
pissed off at you for some reason yeah only the ones well there's some i had
relationships with that i
still did for a while just because they're nice i just wanted to come in and
say hi you know and i
still there's some i miss i miss you i just not getting up for you do some in
the afternoon you
know i would i would yeah exactly i would i talk yeah i i would welcome a
weekend on the road right
now to do morning radio here i am bitching about it but i'm i miss that yeah i
mean nothing seems to
be open i know texas has more things open but and i haven't done stand-up we
were talking earlier i
haven't done stand-up since the pandemic but i'm hoping to feel what you felt
when you first went
back up there because i have to reevaluate how much do i enjoy it if i've
really enjoyed kind of not
doing it right now i don't know if you had any of that i did enjoy not doing i
really enjoyed i enjoyed
learning how to cook i enjoyed dinner space yes space to do stuff yeah yeah you
enjoyed cooking
you know dinner always took on a different meaning for me when i had shows it
was it was get fuel so
you cannot be like passing out on stage and off lots of whether it was la or
new york lots of times it
was like crappy food get it fuel in you know but now there's time to really
think about dinner you know
do i want to grill do i want to make something and i enjoy i i think it's a
much healthier way to be
you know no one has ever mistaken this profession of stand-up comedy with
health no but uh i have
appreciated that the healthier part of that doing these uh shows with chapelle
has made me wonder
like i wonder how viable it is to actually do a residency in a town like austin
and continue to do
it for long stretches of time you know i don't know because i kind of think you
could put together
an act out here like we we kind of were doing a residency in la right at the
store yeah it's kind
of what we we did i mean they had this amazingly strong lineup every single
night and how often was
it tourists in the audience a lot so people were coming to la and it was
becoming a destination the
comedy store from other countries oh my gosh totally so you know of course
people and this is a great
city so of course you could do a residency and all i mean this is also isn't
that how las vegas works
you sign a residency deal for two years or whatever and now you're carrot top
at the luxor forever
so dave and i did this month and now we're going to do january and we're even
talking about doing
february so we're kind of doing that right now that's so cool yeah and while it's
happening i'm
like okay and i was talking to donnell about this and we're like we need a
workout club and i'm like
we do need a workout club so now i'm looking at small clubs and then i'm going
to look at larger clubs
too and the idea is get everything in in a row and then once the vaccines roll
out and once treatments
improve and they get to the point where there's it's not irresponsible to do an
indoor show on a regular basis
right now we're doing outdoor right it's an amphitheater everybody's tested
yeah yeah it's people but
people are still frustrated like you you're putting people at risk like right
you're putting people
at risk if you leave your house okay did you take a car to the yeah yeah when
when you were at the store
was that your workout spot yeah okay yeah because it's hard because it would be
packed and many people
there were fans of yours and i'm not at the stage where i have 400 fans in and
i'm like you can't
disappoint your fans but but i also you got to work your out you got to be able
to do both yeah yeah
it's tricky because you're gonna eat on a few attempts in front of your people
that are rooting for
you but i think they kind of understand what you're doing yeah yeah you know
one of the things that's
cool is that they would keep coming back i had a friend of mine who came to see
me multiple times
and he was like dude one of the funnest things is watch like a new bit and then
realize like oh one of
these days that bit's going to be good and then coming back six months later
and it's killer because
you get to see the baby legs you get to see like bambi on ice where it's like
it's there's no balance
you don't know where you're going with it but there's something there and if
you i found if i
just stick with it evolutio