Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1431 - Owen Smith
Uploaded: 2020-02-25T20:00:00.000Z
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1431 - Owen Smith' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2020-02-25. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #1431 - Owen Smith

it is yeah three two one boom and we're live oh we're talking about yoga and
russell simmons yeah
russell simmons he moved to bali because he's worried about them extraditing i
don't know if
he's worried but i i it is all this i'm this is all conjecture this is what i've
heard but i i just
bought him up because uh he had a yoga studio here did he yeah and he gave me a
month free
a month free high-end yoga thing like you just show up in your clothes they
give you the mat
towels blocks everything and everybody was awesome and i went every day for a
month and did yoga next
to russell simmons wow and he was like amazing and yeah and i was like really
feeling it i felt great
and then uh all the stuff happened it's so easy to slide oh man so easy to
slide away yeah man i i love
that guy dear i have a funny story what do you think is more important than
stand-up uh to be polished
or to be raw there's no more important thing they're they're both very
important but joey diaz is not
polished at all and he's the funniest guy that i've ever seen yeah no one's
ever made me laugh harder
he's not polished he's raw as fuck but raw alone is not good because some guys
like jessel neck is very
polished and he's very funny you're very polished you're very funny yes it's no
there's no there's no
one thing you know it's like comedy is a it's an art it's an art it's an
expression of who you are if
you're a polished person and you try to come off raw it's gonna look corny so i
bought that up because
i am i don't know young 20s def jam is having auditions it just moved from new
york to la
and beverly hills is where the taping which was ironic in itself and uh but i
was raw you remember
those when you go hit it dj and you have music you like yeah so i auditioned
and uh bushwick bill
uh was one of the judges it was like a i auditioned at all jokes aside in chicago
and i got picked i was
one of the people to get picked to tape def jam first time i was ever flown out
anywhere first time
i ever came to was flown to los angeles i'd been here before stayed at the
hotel sofa tell whoa
but what happened is i got picked i was raw about three months went by i went
on a tour of north
dakota south dakota minneapolis where none of those def jam jokes worked so i
started like getting
polished a little bit right so when i went to tape def jam i did it and i got i
think seven applause
breaks but i didn't get the standing ovation and i remember when i got off
stage one comedian said
way to keep them seated and russell walked right past me like i just wanted him
to see me so i knew i
wasn't going to air right and i got that was wait a minute you got seven
applause and it wouldn't air
well i got a note i got i got my first rejection letter saying thank you so
much but you you won't
be airing they aired they aired rodman and they aired two other people and then
so i felt like
shit you know what i mean like i was just like damn am i black enough like the
whole black thing
like damn i'm not a part of death jam i want to be touring i can make those
audiences laugh
but what i auditioned with it was straight from maryland like straight just raw
like
all bravado i wasn't talking about anything and i went to these other cities
and it was kind of like
i was kind of like finding my style right how many years have you been doing it
at the time i was
probably doing i started at 19 but i you know that's that's the college start
and then you
but i think i started doing the full time at 22 and i was probably 26 so maybe
four years
uh arrogant though like you know if i was your feature act i i knew i always
kept a time clock
sometimes i would go long but i would but i was i was very proud of like if
they said do 12 i would
do 12 you know i mean that kind of thing and i was i was getting standing ovations
but i wasn't
talking about nothing and then i started like doing these other states and i
was like okay fine
don't get don't get it so my objection my i really needed russell simmons to
like me like you know
what i mean he meant so much to the culture and to and he just when he just
didn't see me i just was
like damn years go by and it the the pain of it like diminishes but it's still
kind of in there but
it's you know it's like a marvel villain like you're like i gotta yeah i must
uh but it kind of so
then russell has another show and um i didn't even think i was going to get
picked my only
goal was just to make him laugh because he was he was at the audition it was in
new york i was living
in new york he was there and stan latham was there and uh this is years later i
found i knew who i was
i knew what i was you know coming to say i didn't know if it was going to match
their show
and um and and what i'm saying is like def jam prided itself on raw like being
raw you know what i mean
and unlike you know a new voice and then i so i didn't fit like what they were
selling you know
uh so then when i saw russell was saying i do my act i see russell grab his
stomach and go over so i'm
i'm good if i get the show i get it if i don't get it i'm good i see stan latham
go i see them do the
whisper i i literally don't care if i get the show i did what i set out to do
right so all the other
comics are staying back to schmooze and hey man like i left i left i didn't i
ended up getting the
show and this is the show now when russell was sitting in the audience and
there are comics sitting
up there and i'm doing my act and i was i was talking about hbo hung that show
about white dude
with a big dick for real that's what we doing like that's who we had now and i
did like the stereotype
game and all this stuff and and i did one joke and i remember russell got up
and gave me a
gave me a pound in the middle of my set it was like a slow motion you could see
all the comics like and
i was like so it was like the full circle of 24 year old me yeah beat it and
then 32 34 year old me
maybe russell's like yo my man and then i would go uh you know then i was doing
yoga with him for a
little bit but it we we never hung post it was just like you know it was just
like i don't know it was
a full circle moment call you and say i'm giving you this month free yoga was
it a part of doing the
show how did that happen no he used to be at all deaf all he had he had all
deaf digital so he moved
here and um i think i went there to pitch him something he was like yo you do
yoga you do yoga
you just came here and he just gave me a month free and i was like i'm gonna
take it and so every
morning i would wake up and drive and i didn't always gonna be in his class
like usher raymond
would be in there he was flexible as hell really incredible yeah like all these
people would be in
there and i was i'm sure you can fight really have you ever seen him train no
usher has videos online
of him training at black house and he's legit wow like he's a legit skilled
fighter i believe it like
he's got like real good hands he can throw kicks everything yeah he is probably
the kobe of r&b
really i feel like he outworks everybody you know when i saw him in yoga class
i was like who else is
doing this like in your field you know what i mean like uh i don't know yoga is
something you don't
get any credit for doing no it's hard as but it seems like no big deal like if
you say i ran seven miles today people are like whoa yeah that's impressive i
did yoga today they're
stretching with some old ladies that's but it's real but i i i felt so good
when i was doing it
and i i i don't think i i didn't tell anybody i was doing it you know what i
mean like my wife knew i
was going yeah but it is it's a personal thing it's like golf right it's a
personal it's just you
against your body and russle you give me tips you know it's about breathing in
difficult situations he
would always say that i never forgot that you know it is about breathing yeah
yeah it's about breathing
that's what life is like life is going to give you difficult situations and if
you don't remember to
breathe fur you're fucked that's kind of like the whole the premise of it well
i feel like we operate
on a scale and the least difficulty you have in your life the more difficult it
is to encounter real
adversity so when you give yourself voluntary difficulty so i volunteer to work
out hard i volunteer to do
jujitsu i volunteer to do yoga i've pushed myself to do these things when
actual real life difficulties
come along like they're hard but there's never a time in life where it's as
hard as a 90-minute yoga
class wow you're sweating like crazy you barely can stand up you're trying your
feet are cramping
your legs tramping pouring sweat pouring down on the mats for i mean it's
temporary you know it's gonna
end in 40 50 seconds whatever the pose is but that to just hang in there is so
hard that i think it
prepares you for other things other than like the loss of a loved one or
something like that that's
impossible to prepare yourself for but just stress right just regular life
stress yoga class makes
that stuff look like nonsense if you're doing yoga on a regular basis yeah well
i i it was something
i'm consistently inconsistent you know what i mean but i'll go through a phase
so before the russell thing
i went to a hot big room yeah that's what i do so i went to a hot big room and
this is when i was
single so i was basically just following the asses like yeah i'm going to go
into there and
yeah i remember it was a big room and everything was chilling you know i i
literally had never done
this at all i was literally just you know i don't know why i don't know why and
i just remember they
closed all the windows and they stopped the fans and it started getting really
hot and i was doing the
poses and i was shaking and like you said i was sweating profusely and the only
thing i knew was
it was supposed to be a place of no judgment they kept going it's it's your
journey it's yoga practice
no judgment the lady had the little mic thing and she came over to me and she
covered it and she
whispered to me are you all right i'm feeling judged i'm like i'm really
feeling judged right now
that's how awful i must have looked like i couldn't and so i didn't really go
back after that my ego was
bruised a little bit and so i would do it at home sometimes preparing to go
back trying to practice
yoga son so i could so i could not get judged and when i left like she was like
the teacher was like on
the cover of the magazine in front i was like damn like she legit like yeah and
so but how she did it
it was so funny she was like are you all right i was like trying to show off
for these girls man and
it was terrible it's hard man and the reason why they ask you if you are right
because sometimes
people are not all right yeah like i've seen people almost black out where they
have to lay down oh yeah
because it's 105 degrees in there and if you're not used to that kind of
exercise in that kind of
temperature if you have you know a per if you're one of those people that just
that stuff gets to
you and you can handle it yeah you can legitimately pass out they don't need
that i remember did you
remember bally's gym yeah i remember yeah i used to live on on uh bally's at
the bottom of the hill and
i belong to bally's you know and uh i would go you know i went through a period
i'm going when it opens
and so i went i think it opened at six maybe damn you're a six o'clock in the
morning guy i i did that
for a minute get there it's a line i said how come we can't go in and this lady
somebody's dead in the
pool it was a dead body like floating in in the valleys whoa and then i never
forget this other
lady goes at least he got out his contract like not even not even gave him a
second like no moment of
silence uh because bally's was notorious for not letting you out yeah at least
he got out
his contract and then uh everybody's still waiting well 24-hour fitness is the
weirdest one they'll let
you sign up for like 10 years for like a dollar a week hilarious they don't
give a 