Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1547 - Colin Quinn
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1547 - Colin Quinn' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2020-10-08. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #1547 - Colin Quinn

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Colin Quinn I had a move to Texas to get you on this podcast I tried forever to
get you in LA you
said no chance not true okay I every time we see each other we just yeah I was
always like I'll get
out there one of those days I'm glad I waited this long it's kind of I can savor
I can appreciate it
I'm savoring it right now if I was on one of the first podcast I'd be like yeah
I was on Joe's and
I was on this one this is like you know you're getting you're getting the
respect you deserve
now I see um what was it like in the lockdown for you you still live in New
York yeah I live in New
York is it weird yeah I mean it's I was telling everybody it's uh you know it's
it's very it's
not like people like I was like New York in the 70s now the 70s was a whole
different vibe and but
now it's all boarded up stores the store in my corner like the corner bodega
basically just closed
and it was uh you know it was around for a long time and you know it's it's
depressing like you're on
the subway there's only a few people on and it still smells it smells this bit
they've been cleaning it
every day and it still stinks it doesn't even smell better that's how ingrained
it is and um you know the
the pigeons are homeless because Antifa took down all the statues so they have
no place to live
and um yeah it's it's a very say it's a very uh weird place you can't say like
people that say it's
like the 70s like no the 70s it was like it was the 50s and the 60s and the 70s
like it didn't change
much it was seedy and weird and but it was always like that this is our drastic
change from six months
ago you can't say it's like the 70s because it's not it's like a something's
deteriorated there's a
collapse right and then there's all this weirdness that comes along with that
well the 70s was kind
of a collapse but it was a different type so like in the 70s all the stores at
night would be locked
up but they were open during the day so at night if anybody's out if denied at
night that was on them
but i mean but it was not like now it's just 24 you're walking down deserted
streets there's nobody
out you know what i mean have you always lived in new york depressing yeah yeah
so it so it was sketchy
in the 70s oh my god yeah i mean i did a whole i did a whole show about it
basically but i mean it was
basically like we in part one of the jokes for my own new york story was that
and it wasn't a joke
it was if you walk down your block because there's no cell phone so if you walk
down the block from
the train after nine at night people would lean out the window and be like
genuinely surprised like
good for you you made it home if you if you stayed out after nine like times
square people would go to
broadway shows by 11 o'clock it was deserted except for criminals because
people would leave
broadway show they wouldn't go out for a drink or dinner they would get in
their car and get out
immediately and giuliani's the one who cleaned all that up giuliani cleaned it
up yeah isn't that
amazing that guy gets no respect now no i know you know he went a little crazy
but he really he he
did what no politician has ever done in any in history which is he said i'm
gonna transform this and
he did he turned it around yeah he really did he really did maybe a little too
far like it may have
been a little too far time square became like a mall yes time square is very uh
uninspiring it
became like a big applebee's but that's yeah that's exactly that's exactly what
it's like and and
you know even though like now i look back and i'm like oh taxi driver new york
it was edgy it was fun
but at the time it was no joke people you know i glamorized it through rose
colored glasses but it was
serious yeah that's the thing about crime and crime ridden areas like people
always glamorize it after the
fact but if you're living there while it's going down it's terrible yeah yeah i
mean most people
loved new york once he took over in the 90s people forget that yeah that
everybody was just like oh i
can go out at night oh i can work i can you know i mean before that it was it
was crazy and i used to
bartend around times square and i mean the stuff you saw you know was just
brutal you know what i mean
well one of the things we're finding out from this lockdown is that it really
is important who your mayor is
yes it used to be important he didn't really care people didn't care who the
mayor of l.a was
half the people didn't even know that's right and now they're like who is this
motherfucker that's
keeping everything closed yeah yeah and the same thing with new york oh yeah
well de blasio from day
one a lot of people like and now everybody hates him but this is his second
term yes he got re-elected
oh he swept both elections that's hilarious you know and now we're finding out
yeah oh he's he's a
dipshit yeah just took it took something where it's a crisis where you realize
like this is not a leader
and everybody hated bloomberg for running a third term they they wish they had
him for a fifth now yeah
remember he's like oh he's forced himself to run for a third now but he misses
you know a guy like him
could he go back could he run again because he can't be president no one's not
gonna vote for president
but um i don't know he was so terrible in the debate it's so funny because
the thing about bloomberg that disappointed me as president was when he was
mayor when he first
got elected mayor i was uh daryl hammond had to bail on some show he's supposed
to do so at the last
minute they asked me to do a favor do a guest shot at the show which i go up
really didn't go that
well but it was you know i did what he was asked me to do what kind of show
what was a stand-up show
but it was a show for bloomberg yeah bloomberg was trying to get the uh the olympics
here or something
i think it was the olympics so he asked me to you know the daryl was supposed
to show and he had
something else so i ran over and i lived in midtown i ran over literally ran
over did the show in
front of the olympic committee or whatever the committee was i think it was olympics
and you know
30 people in this uncomfortable room and then afterwards bloomberg shook my
hand and i knew he was
already a billionaire and he goes i owe you one i go thanks thanks he goes no
no no i don't just say
that i always repay my debts i owe you one so i was kind of hoping to be
president and then i could call
in my chit because i never did the whole time he was mayor i realized he was
busy i let it slide but
he still owes you though huh yeah you got it on a ledge or somewhere no but i
just have my oral i i
believe in the or i have the oral history oh yeah i mean i thought it it came
right out didn't it
yeah yeah i got it oh yeah so maybe if he becomes can you become mayor again
how does that work
can't be president again can you be mayor again i guess you can yeah why not
there's probably no
lawyer well governor california that jerry brown guy he became governor again
that's right yeah so
if he can be governor you've got to be mayor like he was governor in like the
90s like the early 90s i
think i i think in the 80s because i think johnny cossey used to make those
jokes for smoking crack didn't
he win again in dc for being mayor yep yeah you're right yeah marion barry yeah
there you go i wonder
how many terms he did though like wonder if there's like a limit on how many
terms you could be it you're
more politically minded than i am like do you i don't know that kind of stuff
though no how many terms
can you be a mayor because someone like bloomberg has got to come back in and
clean new york city up
because it's you're not going to get there with this social justice warrior
attitude that de blasio has
it's just going to lead to more complete deterioration of that city yeah but it
may it may be too late you
never know too late you never know i mean nobody likes to think in new york
that way but it's like
a lot of people so many people moved that i was shocked moved to the suburbs
that i was like wow this
is serious like i didn't really believe it just because i'm so new york like i
just i don't even think
in terms of leaving new york even even though you know it's irrevocably changed
to me before any of
this happened but so many people moved out i was like this is getting serious
what did you think about
that uh altucher jerry seinfeld will feud about new york is dead you know it's
yeah yeah yeah yeah i
mean look you can argue either side of it and be right you know what i mean
like i don't want it to be
dead but at the same time i'm not going to pretend it's not in deep trouble
yeah so i mean i don't
just don't know how it gets out that's what my worry is i know unless covid
gets cured and then
ari shafir thinks artists are going to start moving in again but that's he's
one of those guys
right he's got that you know because you need to be gritty oh new york city
needs to be gritty
right and um yeah but never been mugged that's why never really had the beat
out of them
yeah you do need a couple of those in life you just need to know that it's
possible just need to be like
ow what does gritty mean to you let me tell you it ain't a it's not midnight
cowboy that's a movie
yeah real gritty is you get stabbed and then it gets infected yeah and then you're
in the hospital
for six months yeah you need to at least ever had had regretted laughing
because you're holding your
broken rib at least for six weeks in a row you're like is this ever going to
get better
yeah it's um that gritty is like boy yeah i i see what you're saying i kind of
get i know i know
yeah some places that are gritty they're fun yeah no it's it's fun and like i
said when i'm watching
taxi drive i'm like yeah i miss new york but i mean i would walk i remember
walking through times
square we don't have to ask what i was doing at 12 o'clock at night by myself
1980 81 and literally
they had like thieves dens above the porno theaters they had thieves dens so
like they you go through
they had a little turnstile i went in one once with this kid he was taking me
if i forget we were
trying to do something shady i'm sure and he went we went up and it was like 50
like thieves like like
like oliver only new york really like a gang of people with you know illegal
goods trading illegal
goods right above on 42nd street wow it was crazy so you see gangs running down
if if anybody was they
just swarm somebody take their stuff leave them on the ground and just keep
going the thing about it is
though the the disrespect to the police right now right it leads it to a very
difficult situation of
trying to bring it back it's like that didn't that wasn't the case in the 80s
and 90s people respected
the police like when they when giuliani brought it back there wasn't this
overall nationwide resentment
of the police force like we're having now which is pretty unprecedented well i
mean there sort of was
in new york actually at that time there's a couple of incidents where you know
but yes not like this
this is a different this is a a luxury that people are able to indulge
themselves by by putting all you
know lightning rod sort of you know what i mean like the police to me it's like
a proxy war you
know what i mean everybody knows cops everybody knows cops are nuts we all had
the friend that you
grew up with you like whatever happened to him he became a cop he became a cop
but but you know
no one denies that part even cops know that yeah about themselves but that
being said it's easy for
everybody to just go okay like i say proxy war so all the bottled up racial
resentment in the country
and it's like the people that have to actually go and say hey listen here's
what has to happen
they're going to be the they're going to be the fall guy for that and that's
you know what i mean
that's what this is in my opinion well you know what it is it's like social
media only captures the
things that are vir