Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1345 - Steve Aoki
Uploaded: 2019-09-05T05:09:28.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1345 - Steve Aoki' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2019-09-05. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1345 - Steve Aoki' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2019-09-05. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #1345 - Steve Aoki

these are pretty cool and we're live hello steve yeah that's the kanye one that's
that's the most
recent that's uh this guy plastic cell fong tran he uh creates all these he
hand paints each one
yeah he sculpts it and then he makes uh like a mold and then he's got a bunch
of dope ones
it's all on his line and you got a book bro i do color of noise blue the color
of noise yeah
what's this about it's my memoir it's um uh talks about the beginnings um it
goes through
my process it goes through a lot of different things i mean at the end of the
day it's been more so
it's more about it's less about what's happening now and more about like how i
i got there you know
the story and different piecemeal stories that that are thematic and you know
with this overarching
idea of blue which is like the different shades of blue of my life it's my
favorite color and
actually my last name is means blue tree really yeah yeah so it's like there's
a lot of synergy with
the color so when i was coming up with the idea to name the book you know i had
to think of like you
know something that relates throughout my whole life so there's so many
different shades emotions
feelings that are represented in all these different stories have you always
been a writer
um i'm like a yeah i guess like a piecemeal writer you know i i needed help
finishing this book
there's no doubt about it i had so much it's like you know because i'm still
like you know of
the pen and paper still you know like i grew up before before computers and all
that stuff i was
when i was writing uh lyrics for my bands i was always like a notepad so i had
just so many different
stories i didn't know how to put it all together um i started the inception of
writing you know these
different stories of my life six years ago and then i shot a documentary for
netflix and uh we dropped it
called it's called i'll sleep and i'm dead we dropped it three years ago four
years ago
for 2015 2016 i think and i and i after i saw the reception on and how people
responded to the doc
then i knew that like you know this is really going to take shape this is going
to be front
centers finishing and and writing a proper memoir so the the idea of writing a
memoir is only the idea of
writing and writing about yourself is only to write this memoir it's not like
you you write on a regular basis no no
no no no i mean you know like i am actually coming up with some new ideas for
the next
you know conception of what i would put out there in book form because it's a
different process for me
that's quite exciting just to like the challenge to do something like this
because i'm my natural way
to express myself is through music and um and i love being able to step outside
my comfort zones
i think at the end of the day when you do that enough you just you just get
better as a human
being yes and try you know if you always do the same thing over and over again
you're never really
learning so it's uh it's it's been like a great learning process you know
putting out this memoir and uh
uh and and and and like actually opening up this is vulnerable side to who i am
that i i don't
necessarily i don't talk about really you know like for people that know me
like my fans or my music
fans or anyone else that knows steve aoki they don't really know what's in this
book you know they might
have a glimpse of it from my documentary which i did because i i talk really
deeply about my relationship
with my father and and like this drive that i have as a kid to make it and uh
and it shows you enough
where it's okay now i have a little bit more than my live shows and what's
already out there but this
goes you know obviously a lot deeper because it's a book and we're going
through emotions and the
vulnerability and and um and i i want to tell stories of the hardships and at
the end of the day i want to
speak to young kids out there young people out there even older people that are
trying to figure their
own thing out and and because the documentary related in so many ways on the
personal level
that i shared there this is how i wanted to share that through my own words do
you find that writing
these things down and just thinking about your life and and trying to express
it in a way that's gonna
resonate with people that this helps you think about it and helps you sort of
uh
categorize it and put it all in your head and because do you know eddie wong do
you know who that
is yeah yeah famous chef yeah yeah yeah definitely yeah a friend of mine great
guy and writes every
day and i asked him why i'm like why are you writing because he's written books
but he's he writes to
sort of collect his own thoughts yes yeah 100 it's like once you that's the
trigger for me because
even when i read i write right after like what i gain from it almost like it's
like my note my uh
homework yeah for retention on on what i gather it took away from what i'm
reading so i'm always like
reading and writing or writing a scribbling in my in my book or or like writing
off the side in a
notepad or like now like you know i like a tablet or something but it's like
you need to gather your
your your head space so you have retention yeah you write to understand right
yeah and then you write
to express it so that other people can understand yeah and in that process you
can understand yourself
better right and that's that's how sort of eddie described it and when he said
it to me i was like
god damn it i don't write enough like that i write more comedy stuff like
trying to write material and
essays on things and pull jokes out of them right but like i think there's
probably a great benefit for
anybody to just sort of write about your thoughts yeah your diary you know you
know i mean there's
something to that because in that time i mean you could speak to this because
you've written a book
on yourself but in that time of writing about yourself and reflecting upon your
life you probably
learn a little bit about who you are and why you're the way you are yeah and
you know thinking
about this i never really thought about it to this point or found the the
parallel here but when i
started seeing a therapist to go into my past and try to break down what like
why i make the decisions
i do or like why i spiral out here or do something that i am not comfortable
with or i want to change
a lot of that i'm able like after these sessions i go and start writing you
know and then a lot of that
you know eventually makes it in the book do you write longhand or do you write
on a keyboard i would
do both now i do both but like i have scribbles of stuff everywhere you know
but then i made it like
at the end of the day for organizational purposes it's just got to go in like i
gotta put it in the
computer yeah you know but um yeah this is a very this is my own therapy you
know as you could say it's like
it is putting all these stories and these memories and the feelings and the
emotions and the
the hardships or whatever it might be you know it's like i think the hardest
part is like picking
the right ones you know at the end of the day when you've put all this stuff
together and you spend so
much time on this do you find that the process of that in any way enhances your
music yes it does because
i mean when i think about first of all i think about the process of making
music i think about it
uh very simple similar to what you're doing when you're when you write for your
comedy skits and
you're efficient you're like okay this is going to work because i'm going to be
able to
share it this way you're not just writing your thoughts down right so like when
i'm in the studio
i'm very efficient you know i'm like i'm going and going i'm going to make a
club banger just for the
festival so the crowds go crazy and it's less about the emotional message you
know what with this being
able to talk about that side that's that adds that other layer that that um i'm
seeing now more than
ever in the last like three four years when i started making songs with lyrics
that actually you know
i've you know i've seen the fans come out and drove saying how much it's gotten
them gotten them through
hard times because the lyrics were able to speak to them a certain way so it's
and that's the essence
of collaboration at the end of the day you know working with songwriters and
singers and and being
able to be pulled in that direction is incredible as an artist you know instead
of just having like
all right we're making this record to make everyone go crazy even though
essentially electronic dance
music is all about the music yeah it's not about you know the touching lyrics
they might be like the
flavoring on top but the the foundation is all about the beat you know but now
it's like about mixing
both worlds as much as possible you know because at the end of the day when you
think about my shows
it's a very full-on experience like when i when i put on a show i'm trying to
like i'm trying to
compound all the senses you know i want to be entertaining as hell i want it to
be fun engaging
um i want you to leave knowing that you saw steve aoki show so that's why i try
to do different
unique things like like you know i cake people i don't know if you know this
but i cake people at my
shows cake them like you hit them in the head with cakes yeah i would say the
head but yeah but this
is all consensual by the way so i'll give you a little story of this so you
know i think as you are
on the stage all the time you want to make your skits you want to make your
everything that you do
unique to joe rogan you know like you don't want to be like oh yeah he's a copy
of this person no
one wants to be that you know so i'm thinking like what am i going to do that's
going to be unique
and different engaging um hey ho you know like everyone's doing that everyone
sit down everyone
jump so you know i'm like you know your brain's always thinking so i got an
idea after a song
uh that i released on my label i have my own label and we we released this
artist where the video was
cakes exploding in people's faces super slow motion high def really beautiful
and then i was like you know
what i'm gonna go to a bakery i'm gonna buy a cake scribble like the song on
the top of the cake and
let's just see what happens it'll be a funny little thing you know and i
brought the kisses 2011
mind you so this is seven years or however long ago that was you know a long
time ago i didn't do
the math anyway so it was a long time ago and i walked around the front of the
stage and one of the
one of the kids in the front one of the guys up front was just like why is he
walking around the
front like am i supposed to like grab it and then he just starts pointing at
his face and then all
his friends around him are pointing at him and the whole place was just staring
and waiting and
watching and wondering what the hell is going to happen so i caked him we
filmed it before this is
pre-instagram put up on youtube it's like i gotta do this every show this is
incredible and then six months
later people started coming out with cake me signs six years later look at this
okay here we go
so six years later like i think i've caked over 15 000 people now you know oh
my god jeez look at
her go crazy you had it right in the mug too dude perfect shot i'll tell you i
mean you know it's just
practice makes perfect you know yeah you've thrown 15 000 cakes i guess you
gotta you get a feel for
it look at her she's dancing yeah wiping it up let me see one more time this is
like uh that was ultra
oh my goodness we have a cake rider we have very specific cakes that are you
know uh at our show you
have this it's like a special aoki cake what is in it the strange thing is
there's there's like not as
much cake as you would think it's just like frosting it's just so it just
explodes everywhere so it's
less bread yes just so like less carbs more sugar well if you're diabetic just
get out of the front
row please what a crazy thing for people to enjoy too 