Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1380 - Pete Dominick
Uploaded: 2019-11-08T20:00:05.000Z
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1380 - Pete Dominick' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2019-11-08. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #1380 - Pete Dominick

three two uh uh hello pete domic how are you buddy hey joe rogui good to see
you man good to see you
psyched to be here psyched to be in california psyched to be sitting across
from you psyched to
have you you're you're a free man now i'm uh you've escaped yourself from the
the shackles of uh
satellite radio the shackles of corporate media yeah man that's see that's the
thing about
dedicating so much time to a company like that they can just get rid of you and
then you don't
have a connection to all those fans you have to re-establish a connection it's
been an amazing
experience in the last what four weeks since it happened to try to first of all
i watched my funeral
play out publicly because i had a huge community of listeners for 12 years that
i created but i was
trying to respond to all of them and i you know you can't say i still can't
share like certain details
right how much time did they give you before the show was ended the the show
basically they told me
after the show that that was the last show and then they let me have like a uh
they said i could do a
last show but instead i was like let me just record a message i don't want to i
don't know you didn't
know until the day of i had a pretty good idea i had a pretty good idea do they
have ratings like
i don't think so if they did i think i'd probably be in pretty good shape i
mean like it's a long story
but the show i was doing was pretty special like it's really helping people and
we were enlightening is
kind of like what you do here i mean that's why i love what you do here people
learn they they get
enlightened they get entertained that you make people a better better people
through this show
the the contribution that you make that's what i was doing we were three hours
every day talking
about issues talking about uh struggles that people are having and it was
rewarding and
challenging and satisfying and i had total editorial control so you know i can't
i really can't
complain 12 years do they know though how many people are listening to any
given show not that i
ever know not that i ever know that it was ever shown to me and see that is a
weird thing that's
the thing that you have with netflix as well you know like if you do a special
with netflix and they
go we really like it it's great but they don't share it with you yeah you go
well how are the ratings
they go we're really happy what does that mean we're really really happy that's
like that's like when you
first started doing comedy and and you came off stage and your friends were
like you looked confident
no it's worse than that because you don't you like business decisions can be
made based on what kind
of downloads you're getting right if you people if netflix says hey you know
four million people
downloaded your right your comedy special they've really loved it we're really
happy let's do it doesn't
make any sense for the company to have the information and the host not to have
the information why
wouldn't you share it so that everybody has they don't want you to bargain with
them well they don't
want you to negotiate yeah well i mean the best thing about being fired is you
don't have to worry
about being fired yes and so you can do your own thing and increasingly i think
people are taking
advantage of that like you if you're a network you have to have a million
people listening or watching
to keep the ratings up to sell advertising you're only making just so much
money if you launch your own
thing the way you have and so many other people have you're gambling with
everything which is what
i'm doing now with with podcasting which is really an original thing to do and
a very difficult way
to make money but if you do if you're good then you control it all yeah you can
do it it's like if
you've done a serious show and you developed an audience and that's something
you definitely did do
three hours live every day you can you can definitely do the same thing on a
podcast you just have
right no you can it's like my family's relying on well you have comedy too yeah
but it's you absolutely
can do it and it's just one of those things where i see people doing the
corporate route and i'm like
man i get how you needed to do that 15 years ago you don't need to do that now
that's that's a bad
decision now where it was a good decision like hey you got a serious gig 15
years ago like wow that's
awesome i think you're absolutely right it's just it's terrifying you know it's
always there's always
pros and cons you work for a company no matter what you do you're working for
somebody you have
a place to go they control all of the in our case in media's case the the
promotion the marketing the
legal they hire producers to work for you and so on and so there's a certain
level of comfort there
but at the same time you got to answer to these people you got to deal with
these people and frankly
you know you're more talented than a lot of the people that you're working with
and you have all
these ideas and these inspirations and you know they're either going to say yes
or no to them and when
you're on your own you just put the wheels on them and go yeah well i remember
last time i went to
serious offices went to the you know the studios i was upstairs and i was like
there's too much money
here this is this cost too much money like there's too many people here this
you see these people
wearing suits like what does that guy do i guarantee you he doesn't do all that
guy doesn't have anything
to do with whether or not this show is any good and all you have to do is press
a button and get it
out there so there's all these people making decisions about well we got
marketing and this
and that and i'm going to make sure we hit the right demographic i feel like
that's the way i've
worked at cnn i worked at msnbc i worked at fox i feel like that's corporate
media or corporate america
where you you have to wonder how much work and how much value each person is
bringing to whatever their
job is it's i always want to know but it's they're goofy serious is very goofy
they offered me a great deal
zero money really zero i feel like you might have told me that before zero zero
money it's the most
hilarious deal ever we'll put your show on the air and we'll give you zero like
oh that sounds good
i don't even know i don't even when was that i mean at that point recently
really yeah yeah
yeah they're hilarious how did you what did you do i didn't do anything i don't
talk to anybody i mean
it's all done through managers and agents and i say no to everything so i was
like it was easy to
say no to i always did everything directly myself i could never terrible idea i
could never allow
somebody i never felt like anybody could sell me the way i could sell myself oh
dude then you have to
think about selling yourself and you can't it takes any the way this is i mean
for people listening to
this podcast regularly i'm sorry i apologize for repeating myself but the way i
look at everything
and this is something i've done over the last really cultivated over the last
10 years but really
specifically focused on over the last couple is i look at thinking as bandwidth
i only have say if you
have a hundred units of thinking whatever the you have to what you're involved
in to have this
negotiation or sell yourself to this and sell yourself to that and talk about
this and you know
and pitch your ideas to this person that person that's taking away time that
you could be working on your
other creating i don't yeah i don't have any time for that i have zero time i
allocate zero bandwidth
for selling myself zero bandwidth for doing other but have you always have you
always done that did
you were you that way at the start because i mean you're you're so big now i
can and anybody can
understand that you can do that i never sold myself i always had an agent and a
manager really
i've had the same manager since i was an open miker really yeah who jeff sussman
oh wow i know jeff
sussman yeah wow huh that's awesome that's you're a loyal guy too well he's
awesome and you know he's
family and we've been together since 91 1990 yeah i feel that way about my
agent too but i just like
conan smith he's a like one of the few guys i met in this business that i
really always liked and he
didn't seem like he's part of this business but he'd always be like what's next
and i'd always say
tomorrow's show because every three hour live show we talked about everything
from tax policy to
depression to environmentalism to anything politics parenting and so it was
really challenging to do
that and to prepare for all these interviews with these smart people and then i
wanted to go home
and be with my girls like i had an amazing work-life balance and i feel like so
most people never
find that they never understand it i found it and i kept it for a really long
time which is what's
scary to not have that i've been working my ass off since the day i left siriusxm
went right into a meeting
and have been on the phone ever since reached out to you and everybody i know i
said hey
you know what what can i do but it's not it's not balance you know i haven't
seen my girls i haven't
seen my garden so i'm excited to hopefully get back to that to some semblance
of that but most people
don't have that and i think i think finding because you get you get so
ambitious especially as a guy i feel
like if you're a breadwinner especially it's just work work work support your
family if you've got a family
there's ego there's money and you just keep going but then you realize there's
got to be there's got
to be enough you have to in my opinion you have to have an idea of enough and i
got there and that's
when i you know i just would work and then i would shut that down i would still
doing as much comedy as
i could but that that definitely fell by the wayside because the show it was up
at 4 30 in the morning
i was you know done by two and then it was i turned it off well the good thing
is you can do your show
if you do a podcast you could do it from wherever you live right you can do it
close by you can either
rent an office space or you could do it in your garage you can do it anywhere
especially when your
kids are at school you could do it yeah you do it on your terms you know you
could bank a couple of
them do two three in a day yeah and then take days off yeah but the most
important thing i think is that
you stay independent we were just talking about that out there because there's
going to be a bunch
of bozos that want you to join their network oh they're calling yeah they take
a big chunk i don't
know what what the offers are i don't know what the deals are but it's like why
why i have i just
started doing this podcast you've already been through what that is i've got a
like a a great community
of of of listeners who are like family to me they're all they've all been so
supportive you're like
let me just try to test that out definitely test that out how active are you on
social media
i'm trying i try to be as active as i can i'm not great at it well that's
important though that
you have some sort of engagement so you could tell people where you're going
yeah definitely doing
that but i mean you don't want to be too wrapped up in it because again
bandwidth it's going to suck
up a lot of your time and right you know for a lot of people it's a giant
distraction yeah i don't i
don't that's why i when i say i'm not that good at it it's because i feel like
it's a distraction it
seems like a very as a creative person it's interesting it's an interesting
outlet and there's a lot of
creative people who are great on twitter but i don't think in terms of what's a
great tweet or i
should tweet right now or put this up on facebook you know comics artists do
this because they love
to create they love to perform they don't love to promote what they're doing
nobody really likes
that some people do and some people are great at it but it's usually not why
you get into it at
the s