Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1518 - David Choe
Uploaded: 2020-07-31T19:00:14.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1518 - David Choe' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2020-07-31. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1518 - David Choe' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2020-07-31. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #1518 - David Choe

hello David what's up buddy if I leave right now this will be the shortest yeah
one you've ever
done ever ever now you don't have to do this I know you were you're gonna say
some crazy shit
and you're going to torpedo your life now that you're a cult guru with
strawberry blonde hair
it's more strawberry blonde well I did it's a home job it's a beautiful
yourself so it's more
my therapist would always say lean into discomfort what you don't like and I
hate gingers so I said
why don't I just become one I'm like your therapist says lean into discomfort
yeah if there's something
that like I'm in a men's group also and they said and I told them I said I'm
gonna go back on the Joe
Rogan experience after four five six years I don't know when the last time I
was here five right I don't
know it's been a while and so they go lean into the discomfort oh start with
what you least want to
share oh and I go this is me trying to they don't know you that well that's
fucking terrible advice for
you so I sit there I'm driving over here and I go okay start with what I least
want to share
I pulled over on a Van Nuys Boulevard and I puked really yeah I puked wow I'm
uh I have a I don't get
nervous I you know I used to have my own podcast I've talked to you a million
times um and like I just had
like a visceral response and I was like and I just pulled over on Van Nuys and
I think someone took a picture
of me so if you're out there and uh I don't get nervous like these things like
I'm I'm able to
just uh almost disassociate it's like whatever and just go right and just go
into any situation
and I just felt you know and I was like oh maybe it was the breakfast I had I
had a hard-boiled egg
and uh chia pudding that's what I had for breakfast so that's it that's it and
I pull over and I was
like oh my god I'm fucking nervous I'm just gonna puke puke I look across the
street there's a guy
like fuck and then I get in the car and I'm like do I really want to share with
Joe that I tried on
like four different outfits uh last night um do I want to share with him that I
got caught yesterday
at um I was eating at there's a place called Johnny Pastrami's in Wes Adams
that just opened
it's an old restaurant that just reopened and I know the the guy that runs it
Danny and he said um
you know there's an outdoor I only eat in outdoor spots right now and I'm like
what the fuck I'm so
scared I'm gonna be canceled if I talk to Joe you're gonna be fine we're gonna
maneuver our way through
this but then I go I've been canceled so many times like I kind of like it
feels good you haven't been
canceled since the age of real canceling though the age of real canceling has
been since you were on the
podcast last that's when canceling has kicked up to new level because now the pylons
happen right
before there was just canceling like you'd get in trouble for things someone
would write an article
you'd be like oh my god what did David do he's crazy but now the pylon the
social media and the
effectiveness of the pylon has been established so now whenever someone
anything happens to someone
all the the the pylon people but but I like I like getting canceled like a lot
you enjoy it do you see
the Michael Jordan documentary I still haven't seen it all right I'm not gonna
ruin it for you but
it's I heard it's awesome it the the actual filmmaking is kind of amateurish
but the subject matter is so
dynamic that like you're in it and like the guy's a full-on gambling addict you
know and and it's 12
episodes it could have probably been like four and the story's the same it's
just this guy didn't give
me the best seat on the airplane this this guy overlooked me in high school it's
like all these
slights and he takes it and he uses it as fuel and so I sit here and I go I'm
driving to Joe Rogan's
right now I'm scared to be canceled and I sit here and I go every fucking
horrible thing that's
happened in my life physical abuse sexual abuse uh verbal abuse spiritual abuse
prison getting my
career taken away or this or you know anything has always led to bigger and
better so I'm like
kind of like it you know that's yeah but that's just because you're a real
person like you're not
you're not full of shit in any way shape or form you might be crazy but but you're
a lovable crazy
and and when people know who you actually are it's like you have these moments
where things
are uncomfortable and you know and you're confronted with you know bad a bad
scene
but then you rise above thank you I appreciate that what is your uh threshold
with receiving
compliments my threshold yeah what's your comfort level I haven't seen you in a
long time yeah it's
been a while can I give you can I give you okay five sure okay um you you're
you only look better as you
get older oh you have a beautifully shaped skull like as an artist as a sculptor
like I painted you
yeah I don't like the painting anymore I think I can do a better one now but
awesome it's an
awesome painting I'm like this guy like all artists and sculptors out there
listening paint this guy's
skull it's beautiful um you're unbelievably uh curious inspirational you give
me hope you're funny
you're entertaining and you're a leader just talk to all your guys right now
like you're leading this
charge to texas right now and uh you're a perfectly imperfect
unrepeatable miracle of the universe wow that's heavy you're great man well
that's very sweet of
you I appreciate you yeah thank you very much man that's very nice of you yeah
I I love you know I
haven't talked to you in a long time but I told you I just I I'm sure a lot of
people feel this way
you're just on all the time you're in on youtube or on a podcast or on someone
else's podcast so I
still I'm like fuck I think about you you're in my you're in my head can I give
you on air gift
sure um I was while I was trying on all my outfits last night I I was like I
want to see who Joe's
talking to so this mic smells like Post Malone
so I was uh I was painting last night and I made you this shirt oh my goodness
because you guys got
on a little thing I didn't listen to the whole episode yet because it's four
hours but um you
were talking about ghosts at the beach ghosts on the beach so there's uh ghosts
on the beach right
you made this well I didn't make the it's it's uh you see the ghosts on the
front yes it's fucking
awesome you can wear it you can give it away dude I'm gonna wear the shit out
of this thank you very
much yeah that's so cool you're welcome that's awesome man yeah ghosts on the
beach yeah you never
see ghosts on the beach all the ghost stories are always at night it's true
right yeah that was a good
point I felt like I made a good point that was a great point because like
everyone I mean if ghosts
were real like if they were really scary you'd see them in cool times like at
the pool you know in
Vegas drinking everybody's having fun fucking ghost shows up freaks everybody
out never so um I got all
the embarrassing stuff out of the way I think oh no so I was at this outdoor
restaurant eating at the
corner and not having a full-on panic panic attack but I have a nice beautiful
wonderful quiet life
now I'm not on the air I don't do podcasts I don't do interviews I'm not I'm
not like my life is amazing
like I completely changed my life since the last time I saw you and I go I I do
want to talk to
Joe but maybe you know maybe I'll just talk to you on the phone or go visit you
in Texas like
do I need to go on the air well I gave you that option I was like you don't
have to do this but
right but I'm a sick person but you're a fun guy you're fun people enjoy
listening to you so I had
this uh sculpture that I made and it was in my car and I just brought it out
and I sat next to it and
I said I'm just gonna prepare a little bit so I started preparing for the Joe
Rogan experience
and I start talking to this sculpture at the and I'm like looking I'm like you
know it's three o'clock
there was no one eating there and I got caught I got caught talking to a
sculpture I got caught
talking to sculpture I was talking to this thing I made and it wasn't a it wasn't
a friend but it was
a guy I knew and he's like Dave comes over and I'm like oh fuck dude and he's
like shame red face I'm
like oh hey and he's like are you talking to the thing right now and I was like
oh yeah I'm going on
this thing tomorrow I just wanted to prepare a little bit I'm a little bit
nervous I got my nerves
I'm because I talked to you what Thursday no I talked to you a few days ago and
we talked for a
while and I'm like this guy is a professional talker he's a commentator he's a
stand-up he has
this podcast that goes on for hours and hours thousands of hours it's an art
you're a painter you're a MMA
artist in in in my world I'm also an MMA artist mixed media artist right that's
uh the bisexual
of painting it's like you use everything everything anything goes so I go this
guy is so fucking good
at it because I got off the phone with you and I'm like he's so good at talking
he's so good at
talking he's just it's like it's like when you practice something so much that
you don't even know
how how how good you are at it you know and um even even even your podcast they
they go on for a few
hours which is against everything everyone's like oh kids they have no
attention span this these days
it's like 10 seconds 15 seconds it's fucking tiktoks or instagram and here's
this guy he's talking to
post malone for four hours and and and making it seem just seamless and effortless
and that's because
you're a master at it and I go I'm uh my confidence level as far as this art
form is low I don't talk
to people anymore I mean I talk to my friends but I don't talk as storytelling
or entertainment
um my memories shot to shit I can't I watched three seasons of Ozark and I can't
even tell you anyone's name
I go there's Jason Bateman and there's the kid and the kid with the drone and I
don't know the wife
I don't know anyone's names I can't recall anything um and and you have all
these scientists that are
brilliant you have comedians and everyone's like quick-witted and they're fast
and they're
and I go I'm dim-witted I'm like a human soft serve I'm like I can't comparing
yourself to the
other people you gotta let that go right now well you are who you are the other
people can't do what
you do um that's true yeah your abstract way of thinking like the way you are
as a person you're
so freely yourself that's what allows you to create such amazing art like you
just you're free some people
can't be themselves they're not good at it you're really good at being David
Cho thank you I'm horrible
at taking compliments by the way so thank you it's uncomfortable for everybody
I think unless you're
a real creep you did it great right now just you're fucking awesome hung in
there that was good could
I could have done more could I've given you like we're good you want to hear
something funny okay so the
reason why I kind of did that was I wake up every morning racked with anxiety
and nerves and it starts
immediately you're a piece of shit you're no good people don't like you this
and that and then like
what did I say when you showed me my painting from 2018 I immediately have to
self-depth that's not that
good I could do a better one so I um I talked to my therapist about it I say I
I don't have a self I
don't have a high self-opinion of myself and they go well an average human
living in society today from
morning till night will say thousands of horrible things about themselves like
thousands like not
good enough I'm fat I'm ugly this and that just and for you to say just a few
nice things I'm like
one of those is some fucking Stuart Smalley shit like and I'm good enough and I'm
pretty and they go
see you did it again you just went right into it like why can't you say you're
a good painter you
know you're a good painter why can't you say you're and so they go give me five
right now five what
say five fucking things about yo