Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1493 - Steve Schirripa & Michael Imperioli
Uploaded: 2020-06-17T19:00:05.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1493 - Steve Schirripa & Michael Imperioli' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2020-06-17. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1493 - Steve Schirripa & Michael Imperioli' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2020-06-17. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #1493 - Steve Schirripa & Michael Imperioli

one steve yes sir good to see you buddy good to see you brother my really good
pleasure to meet
you man thanks for having us yeah really thanks uh it's been a while i saw you
the last time i
saw you was at the old studio three years ago it looks exactly it's eerie yeah
i'm gonna i'm gonna
do it again the next place i move i'm gonna re rebuild this whole thing again
that's my move
just make it look like this make it uh comfortable you know you like what you
like it looks like the
same thing yeah that way you don't get confused yeah this is great good to see
you good to see you
too brother i'm bummed out though about your sauce yeah yeah the other day we
grew too fast but you
have two of the last ones left i don't know what to do that in existence do i
like like let it sit on
the shelf no no no listen the sauce was good uh it's all natural and organic it
was all good just
unfortunately uh it grew too fast and my partner uh you know we had enough he
lost a lot of money
but oh no not for lack of trying all the product no the products excellent let
me tell you the biggest
fucking thieves okay bigger than the mob bigger than any thief these stores
that you do business with
okay and the distributors and then you have all these people with their hand in
the pie so we buy the
sauce it's our recipe that guy makes it now we got to give it to a distributor
you can't go direct to
like whole foods and so there's other hands in the pie now you give them a bill
for 20 grand of sauce
that you gave them and they send you back a check for three grand and they go
well there was breakage
and there was this and there was that and you have to pay more money in the
store to have it in the front
and have it stacked oh really you are more you are just like a book you know i've
had books i don't
know if you have i have books out barnes and noble to say barnes and noble you
had a book out all right
you have a book out barnes and noble favorite you got to pay more for that to
have the book on the shelf
turned this way you got to pay more for that they nickel and dime you and they
kill you they are the
real mob i'm telling you are they worse than funeral homes though no one's
worse than funeral homes well
they they tug on your uh heartstrings yeah yeah come on he was a great guy aren't
you gonna have the
nice box did you start out doing this just through the internet though you know
we started in the stores
we didn't really you know we came to amazon later my partner trade shows joe scarp
joe scorpino great
guy he was here last time he my partner he put up the money he's a builder he
said we're gonna make 50
million we're gonna sell the company and he's got 50 million he doesn't need
another 50 and uh got a
little greedy no he wanted to go listen he's not a small-time guy it's all or
nothing so i i give him
credit for that it's such a good sauce though it kind of seems like you should
just do it online
maybe they'll make a comeback you know and like i said if we would have stayed
small delis you know
yeah it was doing great staten island you know the biggest italian area you
know the guinea gang
plank there all them italians ate jar sauce even they won't admit it they like
that sauce
right it's a good sauce it's natural it doesn't have that uh acidy thing that a
lot of jarred sauces
have you know and you know i did all the press we did all the i said if i would
instead of being a partner i should have made 20 an hour i would did well
so you guys are doing a podcast now we're doing a podcast re-watch yeah yes sussman
clued me into it
yeah it's we got approached by a bunch of different producers towards the end
of last year about it
wasn't our idea and uh we thought about it we had done a show like on stage in
conversation like inside
the actor's studio and we did all over the country did australia last year and
then a couple of producers
said you know do you want to do a podcast and uh we worked jeff was the best of
the producers so we
uh figured out a way to do it we were going to do it in the studio live like
this at the end of march
in new york and the covid hit everything hit so we weren't going to do it at
all we were going to
put it off because we were depressed and we were like who needs a podcast in
the midst of all this
stuff what is new york like right now you know uh i've been there i left i've
been here a month now
you know i have a place down in orange county and uh new york was all up and it's
all boarded up
and uh my my daughter's there i live downtown uh way downtown and uh i was
going out like an hour a day
you know that's it i just went out an hour a day i would take a walk and uh
there was the streets are
empty yeah streets were empty at night now after the looting they destroyed soho
yeah you know it's just
destroyed you know and the cops are very timid and and it's all up i mean it's
all up i i i don't
i don't know what happens there i mean i don't know i don't know how it
happened like seeing the
cops just standing around while they were looting the art galleries in soho
while they were smashing
fifth avenue i was like i don't know what the is this i i don't know it's like
the end of the world
yeah that's scary and de blasio is the worst i'm not a political guy at all joe
like not at all but
he's the worst human that maybe walks the face of the earth i kid you not and
you know i owned an
apartment in manhattan for like nine years and when he became the mayor within
a year you saw even six
months right you saw like these changes i'm going i'm out i'm selling my place
and i sold my place
what changes all kinds of the cops basically they have one hand tied behind
their back
he changed all these laws stopping frisk some needed to be changed some not uh
just the homeless is
everywhere all of a sudden the trains are impossible there's all kinds of going
on you know and i have
to blame the mayor i mean there's you know where i live downtown there's listen
i'm compassionate to
the homeless i don't know the answer which is why i'm not the mayor but they're
everywhere same thing
here you know yeah our our governor was the mayor of san francisco which is the
craziest
place you've ever seen in your life when it comes to homeless people yeah it's
a problem and now
after covid it's like ramped up 40 percent and the homeless situation there is
it doesn't even make
sense like you're seeing these beautiful homes and there's campsites in front
of them and these
people have to come out of their houses and you know tiptoe around needles and
broken bottles and
and people's this might get worse though right after covid with the economy you
know collapsing as
it did yeah well that's what that's what was happening with the covert too in
new york because
listen these guys standing on the corner they're panhandling there's no one
there was no one to
get money from i mean there was no one to panel the streets were completely
empty broadway
downtown you could shoot a cannon to it not a car yeah mark norman you know the
comic mark norman
hilarious guy filmed a bunch of with him just running around new york city with
empty streets
nobody around how weird it looked wall street is empty all these places that
are packed were empty
i don't know the answer uh and with the cops i i don't know i mean i i just don't
know i mean uh
it's all so bizarre and i think so many people are either going to resign from
the force but definitely
not join the force there's a lot of guys that are thinking about that's a tough
job man for for very
little pay and you're putting your life at stake and just public opinion of the
force is down so low
i don't get it listen i know uh if god forbid i had trouble i call a cop i'm
pro cop i'm pro cop as
well i play a cop now you know i've been on blue bloods for five years i play a
detective i'm pro cop
you play cops you're just for playing a detective played a homicide detective
yeah
we went from wise guys to detectives there's a fine line is there a fine line
there
but yeah but i agree uh new york is uh my daughter had just gone back and
it's really depressing man you know you haven't been right no i've been in california
since march
first i was in new york before that and uh so yeah i got couldn't go back
really but i live here
and there both places yeah it was a little easier here up in uh santa barbara
area i love it up there
yeah a lot easier to be quarantined there because you go outside and backyard
and stuff like that yeah the
beach it's like santa barbara is the perfect size but i i mean i was in new york
we they shut us down
march 13th uh with two and a half episodes to go we just got shut down and then
they you know then
you couldn't even go out of the house two days later i mean i wasn't aware of
anything i mean the
trains were packed i was taking the train and and and and i went to a concert a
few days before wow at
the beacon you know dave matthews and jackson brown there was a concert but
nobody said anything
you know and jackson brown got sick yeah yeah maybe at that concert you know
maybe but uh then it was
just i was there for two months and it was gloom and i'm in a building yeah so
you got to watch the
elevator the doorman the thing you know all the food in you know this is crap
makes you crazy wipe off the
package don't wipe off the package wear gloves don't wear gloves what the
nobody knows it's a very very
confusing time yeah nobody knows what the is going on so doing a podcast was a
good thing to do in the
midst of all this because we figured out a way to do it at home so we didn't
have to you know be in a
studio um set up a little studio in the house and you know figured out a way to
do it um he was in new
york and i was in california and we that's how we started yeah it can be done
you know it's and there's
so many people listening to now yeah the thing is consumer consumers are up in
terms of like watchers
viewers of shows listeners of podcasts it's all up because people were just
sitting around doing
nothing for months at a time right it was kind of particularly good timing for
us because the
sopranos was being binge watched in by people in quarantine like rediscovering
it young people who had never
seen it it was i think it was hbo's number two series and that includes all
their new stuff like game
of thrones and everything and soprano i think it was westworld and the sopranos
were their biggest
shows during quarantine the show's been off the air for 13 years well listen
this is one of the best
shows of all time it really is you know you guys were on without a doubt and
when the history is
written it is one of the best shows ever yeah no no you know what's amazing
neither one of us watched it in 20
years i mean i don't watch the show i mean i watched it one time when it came
out years ago and uh and we
weren't even we were kind of depressed and and we're going who the cares about
a tv show now because the
world was coming to an end especially at the beginning you know joe i mean and
we had gotten offered
and and jeff helped us we were giving jeff like contracts is this a good deal
is this a good deal
finally he said listen i'll help you we should tell him but jeff's my manager
yeah jeff susman so he
helped us and uh we started doing the rewatch which is obviously bittersweet
because of jim you know
you're watching jim and he's young and and i came on the second season you know
the second episode but
the show holds up every uh like it was shot yesterday besides the phones and
the computers
everything else is like it was done yesterday it's not dated at all the show
and we weren't gonna you
know we were gonna wait till things got back to normal so we could be in a
studio like this and be
face to face but we got so much uh communication from fans like on social media
saying hey we heard
you're doing a podcast where is it we're binge watching the show in quarantine
like tons of
you know tons of that so we figured out a way to do it so you know we we
watched the epi