Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1174 - Vinnie Paz
Uploaded: 2018-09-27T00:24:32.000Z
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1174 - Vinnie Paz' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2018-09-27. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #1174 - Vinnie Paz

If they don't fuck up, I don't trust them.
My father used to say, if someone doesn't say the word fuck or if their name is
an initial, don't trust them.
Yeah, that's a creepy one.
Initials are creepy.
Yeah.
But you never know.
It's not a hard, fast rule.
No, I give everyone the fair shake, but I'm looking.
Yeah, hmm.
Yeah.
If they frickin', if they're all the time, it's frickin' this and frickin'.
Or Mickey Fickey.
Yeah.
I heard that one time.
Oh, I never heard that one.
Yeah, someone said Mickey Fickey.
Said a motherfucker.
Yeah, I wasn't happy about it.
Shut the front door is one like moms like to do around their kids.
Yes.
Yes.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Hmm.
Yeah.
I come from a WAP South Philly family, so it's like a fuckin' Richard Pryor,
you know, the Seven
Fishers on Christmas Eve is like him on the Sunset Strip.
You know who surprisingly doesn't swear?
Teddy Atlas.
I know Teddy doesn't.
I've seen, you know, animated he, I don't have to tell you, he's just on his
show.
Very animated.
Very animated, but yeah, he doesn't really.
Yeah, it's like frickin' this and frickin' that.
Yeah.
What the frick?
He says, what the frick?
It's nuts.
Yeah.
You know who also doesn't swear?
Henry Rollins.
Rollins does not.
Does not swear.
Yeah, but.
And he makes note of it.
Note that I don't swear.
I mean, I feel like that happened in the second half of his life because Black
Flag records,
not so much.
Yeah, I think he's trying to get, I don't want to say more people to listen to
him like trying
to be more mainstream, but he's trying to eliminate the noise.
Sure.
And what he's doing.
Sure.
Yeah.
He's a brilliant mind.
He is.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Unlike me.
I mean, you're really, Rogan, you've hit a little snag here.
Teddy Atlas, Jordan Peterson, Shapiro, Henry Rollins, then this.
No, dude.
I love your music.
Thank you, man.
Fuck out of here.
No.
We were saying, you were saying, you know, about fuck-ups before the show.
I was saying, I don't know anybody who's an artist who doesn't fuck things up.
Like, if you're really creative.
There's something about being, like, legitimately creative.
There has to be something wrong with you.
Well, you're wired differently.
Yeah.
So, what we perceive as, what people perceive as fucking up isn't to us.
Yeah.
So, technically, it's a fuck-up, but in reality, to us, it's just behavioral.
It's just how it works, I think.
It's just traits.
Yeah, sure.
If you were working in an office in human resources, there's no way.
I'd be gone in, like, three hours.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But before that, I'd probably put a bullet through my head if I was in a cubicle.
Just give up at that point.
Some people can do it, though.
Some people, it's not a problem.
No.
They're just wired that way.
But I knew from such an early age, now I'm not wired this way.
You know what I'm saying?
Yeah, me too.
Yeah, I was terrified of getting a job when I was a child.
Yeah, it's fearful.
But what you've done, though, man, it's, I've told you how much of a fan I am,
but I'm such
a fan of how punk rock, you've built all of this outside of what you were
expected to
do.
This show is a fuck you, really.
It's just what it is, you know what I mean?
This is what happens when you don't calculate.
Yeah.
When there's no, you just do what you want to do.
Yeah.
This is what happens.
But people don't have the balls to do that.
It's a little bit balls.
It's a little bit, Fear Factor gave me a lot of financial freedom.
Sure.
That helped, too.
Sure.
News Radio?
Yeah.
News Radio did a little bit, but Fear Factor did way more.
It just gave me enough money so I go, okay, the money part I got.
Yeah.
So now, let's just have some fun.
Sure.
But look what it's become.
Yeah.
It changed people's lives, man.
It's weird.
That's the weird part.
That wasn't anticipated.
It wasn't a part of the plan.
Yeah.
It was just supposed to be smoking weed and having a good time.
Well, you're not aware until you're aware.
Until people say, yo, you've helped me through tough times.
This show has got, you know, people tell me about your show.
Yo, that guy gets me through tough times, you know, and that's, what's more
important than
that?
Well, people need friends, you know, and they need community.
And one of the things that this show has shown by having all my friends on all
the time is
like, this is a tight group of people that love each other and care about each
other and want
to promote that way of thinking and being.
You can do that.
You can get through life and all support each other.
Like, this backstabby bullshit that people get involved in, that is so
detrimental to
you, to them, to everyone, to the sense of community that you create around
each other.
You can do that.
And that clip of yours went viral of you talking about just get the fuck, keep
negative people
the fuck away from me.
And I had that around me and it was draining my spirit.
It's one of the worst things.
But when you're living a certain way and everything's fast, it's the same with
comedy and you're
on the road and you're grinding it out, you can't always analyze, you can't
always step
back and say, this is why things are fucked up.
Because everything's moving so fast.
Right.
You know?
And it wasn't until I took that time and said, there's cancers in my life.
They're basically, they're emotional barnacles.
Yeah.
You know what I mean?
And once you cut the cancer out, you see how different things become.
And it's kind of, I didn't realize it was that easy.
Yeah.
You can do it.
You can do it.
But to them too, it's a good lesson for them to be cast aside.
And for them, if they're smart or if they have some awareness or some objectivity,
they're
going to look at themselves and say, you know what?
I'm a fucking mess.
Yeah.
Like, I'm negative all the time and people don't want to be around me.
I was real negative when I was younger.
So was I.
Yeah.
It's not something that's insurmountable.
You can get over it.
Yeah.
And it's whatever hands you've been dealt, you have to realize the reality of
the situation,
bro.
There's people living in mud huts and places that are smiling.
Yeah.
And I have the balls to be complaining about-
Your tour.
Right.
Right.
And not getting enough sleep.
Right.
Or I don't like to travel.
Right.
You just really have to assess that and say, this isn't the way I should be
thinking or
processing information because we're blessed to do what we do.
You know what I mean?
You make people laugh, bro, for a living.
I know.
There's also, there's a balance that you can achieve between discipline and the
creative
people, like we were talking about, like yourself, who are just off, you know,
hand
tattoos, wacky.
Sure.
There's something about, you know, people see you, they're like, what the fuck
is this
guy doing?
They'll follow you when you're walking through a store.
Sure.
There's a balance between that and then real disciplined people, like, you know,
fucking
Navy SEAL type cats.
Yeah.
You learn from them, you learn from them too.
Sure.
And you go, well, you can incorporate some of that into your life as well.
Absolutely.
And it helps balance out all the wacky creative aspects of it.
And it makes you a little bit more productive, a little bit happier, a little
bit, you know, Dead
Presence had a, they had a song, Discipline Makes Things Easier.
Yes.
It's a great fucking song.
It is.
It is.
It's a great song.
It is.
Because it's real.
It really does.
Discipline makes things easier.
It is real.
Organize your life.
Like, for me, when I feel most happy, of course, you know, because of how you
live, but your
body feeds into your, how your mind works too.
When you feel, when I'm, when I was talking about that, those horrible negative
years, it
was also dictated by terrible diet, terrible, you know, not that I'm in great
shape or anything
now, but I've changed things and I felt it up here.
Yeah.
You know what I mean?
That's what people don't think.
You feel it in your brain.
I feel like a different person, man.
After I, after I spar a little bit or whatever it is, I feel different.
I, I, I, I get more energy where you would think logic would dictate you would
get tired.
Right.
I'm like, now I'm ready to write.
Now I'm ready.
I know.
Crazy, right?
You know what I mean?
It's counterintuitive.
It is.
It's, but, but it's, but again, like you said, it's discipline.
You know, it's, you know, my mother's making gravy and meatballs.
It's, it's hard to say, mom.
I know.
Settle down.
You got, you can eat that once a week.
Sure.
Once a week, you go, just go whole hog.
You know?
Right, right.
Gravy.
That's such an East Coast Italian word.
I know.
That was my grandparents in New Jersey.
It was gravy.
Everything was gravy.
I apologize to everyone that's not in New York, Philly and Jersey right now.
It's barely New York.
It's like, it's not Manhattan.
They'll fight, nah, they'll fight you.
They'll say, it's sauce.
Yeah.
Listen, man, it's fucking gravy, man.
Let's not do this.
Yeah.
Gravy's New Jersey.
New Jersey, like old school Italian soprano style.
Yes.
That's, that's gravy.
Yeah.
Philly's gravy.
Yes.
Then you go south of Philly, it becomes sauce again.
Yes.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's fucking good no matter what.
It is good.
Yeah.
This is only, it's weird how, like if you go to, have you been to Italy?
Yes.
Yeah.
My, most, a lot of my family's still over there.
The food is fucking fantastic.
Next level.
But it's a different kind of food.
It's, what Italian Americans did.
Yeah.
Is, is a totally different cuisine.
Yeah.
It's interesting, right?
It is.
The meatballs, the lasagna.
Yes.
They will put some shit in front of you that you, you don't know what it is.
Yeah.
But, all right, let's have at it.
Yeah, the Italian food in Italy is lighter.
Yes.
You know, it's a lot more fish.
And then you have the regions.
If you're north, if you're south, if you're in Sigi, if you're, you know, it's,
it's, it's,
yeah, it's, it is odd.
It's, it was culture shock just to think of what I've been eating for my mother's
food and grandparents.
And, you know what I mean?
And then it's like, it's just different.
My grandmother was fresh off the boat and she used to cook everything from
scratch.
Tomato sauce from scratch.
Everything.
The pasta.
She would roll the pasta herself.
She would everything.
She would make her own bread.
She would do everything.
Everything from scratch.
The bread wasn't, there was, the bread was occasional because a lot of the
times there was a, when
they lived in New Jersey, there was a store that they would go to a bread place
that you
would go and buy fresh bread basically every couple days.
Sure.
And it would go bad, like within hours.
Because it was real bread.
And without 8,000 preservatives.
Yeah.
Dude, I had a piece of bread the other day and it was sitting on the kitchen
table for like
a few hours.
I left.
I went back.
It was still soft as fuck because it's all filled with chemicals.
Of course, man.
Everything is.
Yeah.
Everything is.
It's like when you realize that there's fluoride in our drinking water and
people are just all
right with that.
Yeah.
I'm not sure that that should be there.
I've read that.
I've read about Floyd and the drinking water, like the pros and cons.
The pros don't make any sense to me.
Not to me.
Like brush your fucking teeth, bitch.
Yeah, man.
Like use toothpaste.
Yeah.
I mean, you know, I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed, but I don't think it
should be
in our drinking water.
Well, it's, you know, and then you get into all the conspiracy theories.
That's when you got to wade through all the bullshit.
Like, okay, it was a Nazi plot to soften minds and, oh, it wasn't.
Or is it just like, I feel like somebody's just got a lot of fluoride they're
trying to
sell and they got some sort of a deal with the government to dump it into the
water.
That's probably more logical.
But the thing is, with all that conspiracy shit, you have to sift through shit
because
there are kernels in there.
That's the problem.
Right.
But they like that.
Yeah.
The more ridiculous, the more ridiculous th