Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1011 - Tom Papa
Uploaded: 2017-09-14T22:57:23.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1011 - Tom Papa' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2017-09-14. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1011 - Tom Papa' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2017-09-14. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #1011 - Tom Papa

we're gonna go live five four three two one tom papa is obviously some sort of
a nicotine junkie
he's using a knife made out of a nail to scratch open the box so he can get at
these cigars i feel
like ben franklin used this knife to open up wine once well no that that's from
the pygmies oh really
yeah they made it for me look at their little handle my good friend justin wren
who's been on
the podcast a few times right he's this amazing guy that does he makes wells
for the pygmies he's
he was a former ufc fighter now he fights for bellator uh uh he's in their
heavyweight division
this big teddy bear of a guy like the fucking nicest guy you ever want to meet
oh yeah and he goes to
the congo and and builds wells and we've we've helped him out we got some
people that donate bitcoin
which by the way is worth more money now so what i'm gonna do is take whatever
it's worth now and
just give it to the congo people we gotta wait this week i gotta wait jp morgan
guy screwed it up he
fucked up i don't understand the bitcoin i can just make it go up and down fast
um oh how's it look
they look good this is beautiful they look luscious how many people this is
what this is what you
offered somebody right before you screw them joe have a cigar but isn't this
strange stop and think
about this yeah when you are buying a cigar like let's think about the kind of
people that you think of
smoking cigars i think of like a jay-z type character on a yacht right yeah
just looking out over the oh
the beautiful ocean going i did it i fucking did it i mean there's no denying i'm
here yeah you know
jay-z's got a fat gold rope around his neck right yeah and he's puffed on a
cigar he's got some champagne
or maybe a nice martini or something like a gentleman yeah and sitting there
just going what the what the
fuck yeah it doesn't get any better this is it i did it yeah there it is yeah i
mean come on man
a cigar absolutely wins yeah he wins so hard and that's yours that's the beauty
of the cigar is you
could be in your little crappy yard smoking a cigar you feel like that but here's
my thought when we
associate the cigar with that guy think about who makes a cigar you're talking
about people who live in
tiny villages that get paid almost nothing that are rolling these things
together god bless them
how much are they getting paid i mean i know there's some there's some places
in miami where
you can actually go and you can actually watch them make cigars they'll roll up
cigars it's
pretty badass impressive um but like who is who is profiting from this like
yeah the big whoever owns
the big giant tobacco company right but they need those people that roll those
things yeah you do but
you know the little guy who's rolling the things he he's you know just making a
little living doing
his little thing he can't build the whole tobacco company this is corporate tom
tom yeah what it's
essentially like he's a little worker you need the person to be and you need
the queen bee right but
isn't that person a lot like what we were talking about with stand-up like the
the comedian is the
one who actually makes the product right yes the comedy clubs were getting all
the money right and you
were in poverty and the comedy club was balling out of control yeah wouldn't
you feel like like this is
bullshit yes and no because in new york as you remember there was a big riot uh
big everyone was
like these clubs are paying us 20 bucks a spot they've been paying us that
forever screw them they make
money blah blah blah blah and i had a hard time with it because i felt like
what they're giving us in a place
to go and do stand-up every night and have an audience there right the value i
was getting for
my act was so much more valuable than the 20 i was getting paid i didn't care
about the 20 i wanted
them to give me a place where i could go work on my act and then take that to
some other city or some
other bigger gig and that's where i would make my money so you know what i mean
it was it wasn't purely
like screw the man the man's giving me a comedy club and has run this place for
30 years so i
can roll in on a wednesday and have 200 people there well there's certainly i
think a different
field that you have for places that are like you're say if you were an ice
house comedian you essentially
have like a partnership with the ice house like i feel like i have a bit of a
partnership with
the ice house yes well you do you you sell it out yeah and i love that place
and i love bob the guy
who owns it and i don't mean a partnership like i have an ownership in it but i
feel like there's
i have a bit of an obligation i think we all do to perform at the great clubs
just like to just to
keep them floating and to keep everybody happy and and to because you can and
because it's good for
you and it's good for me and it's good for everybody instead of a partnership
maybe maybe that's not the
best word but there's some sort of uh inexorable relationship you cannot
separate them for sure
like there's some cities you know like uh hilarity is in cleveland right i love
that club i love the
owner amazing place nick's the greatest guy great food too they're also they're
like family it literally
is great people i have no interest of going to cleveland and playing a theater
because if i if
everybody comes up and jumps on nick right then i'd rather draw spend a couple
days i'll make the
same money pretty much i like that is a relationship like we've had a
relationship throughout the years
for me to jump and then seems weird it does right but there's some other places
that uh you don't feel
like that i mean you know also your thing with the ice house it's like you say
you're playing the ice
house now and by tonight it's sold out and before tonight and he's got a really
good business going
there you know it's also i've been able to get guys like you in there on stage
and burr comes in a lot
now yeah it's like you get people to realize like this is an amazing place to
practice yeah and the people
are so cool it's like the best there's a difference in um like the feel of the
audience like la it's like wow
we're at the comedy store can you believe it we're in an ice house it's like
wow we're out to see a
show it's like there really is like yeah there's a different feel totally
different yeah you feel
like you're uh almost a little on the road yeah you know what's like that too
oxnard oxnard you
ever done that place no oh the new levity no no no amazing club and now we're
outside of la
and you're on the road uh comedy magic same kind of thing same thing you know
any place where when you
wake up in the morning you're like oh i gotta drive there then you know you're
a little on the road
but you know those gigs man they're so fucking important because you have to
have those shitty
gigs to appreciate to appreciate the nice ones oh absolutely oh every gig is
good yeah even the
worst ones but back to your uh cigar thing you know there are these little
workers that are probably
making two dollars a day that's the point rolling the stuff i mean i'm just
guessing i don't really
know maybe we're dead off and maybe these people are like highly compensated
skilled labor well it's
probably layers of it there's probably a guy who's really good at it you know
who runs everybody
who's been there for 30 years yes watch him roll and this motherfucker could
just right you know dudes
who could just roll joints yeah you ever meet those guys so impressive like a
cigarette they slide it
out their mouth i have no skill i i am a fucking ape-fingered retard when it
comes to rolling joints i used
to be good at it but i watch some people like tony hinchcliffe can roll a fat
joint really yeah jamie
vernon rolls a goddamn good joint i used to be good at it you know what the
problem with me man i got
one of those roller things those little a little roll machine roll with the
fingers the best ones are
with the fingers there's one that i have that you could go like that you just
you put the rolling paper
in you put the uh the weed in and then you know you lick the paper and then you
just go like that
boom bump and it does it all really all by itself yeah it rolls it up it's so
advanced yeah it's so
but i've been it's so good i'm like i'm not rolling this by my hand what am i
an
asshole when you're smoking by yourself fire with sticks and shit yeah when you're
by yourself do you
roll or do you just take like a one i'm already rolled oh you buy them already
rolled from l.a speed
weed for all your delivery services oh that's very nice when you buy them
already rolled like you don't
have to think about it i don't want to think about shit yeah but some people
have the ritual but the
ritual of that i used to love the do you do it on an album i used to when they
had albums
what is what has replaced the album for rolling weed on and then it went to cd
cover you would do it
on a cd cover and now some people use those uh actual weed theme trays that
seems kind of corny to me
yeah i feel like you should steal some shit from a cafeteria right yeah have
like a pirates of the
caribbean like ornates little tray you know what you should have man you should
get one of them
aluminum ones from prison because you're in a prison of your own mind man
that would be actually kind of badass a real like standard issue aluminum
prison tray for weed
yeah comes with fake mashed potatoes you're in a prison of your own mind man
man you gotta free your
mind do you have a cutter i do not oh yeah no i do i could chew it off when i
think about the cigar
though i don't think of uh jay-z so much as uh like it's a wonderful life like
the banker and it's
a wonderful life we had a box with the cat cutter in it and some other did i
bring that in i could bite
it off is that over there don't if you bite it off though i feel like it's one
of those things when i
started um out of school i worked in advertising for a little while and i used
to go to this nursing
home we did it was small advertising and we would go to a nursing home and we
would do all the ad
campaign for this guy who owned like five nursing homes he was a really rich
guy and he looked a
little like a frog he was like an older guy he came up in the war and he used
to you know first
he started with trucks now he owns nursing homes and he was just like an old
school guy big glasses
right and he always had a cigar all day long he'd walk around with a cigar in
his mouth just chomping
on it not lit he would just chomp it chomp it chomp it and it would be like
kind of scuzzy at the
end but then eventually no cutter at the end he'd been chewing it so long he
just spit it out and then
light it up hmm yeah what a weirdo can't find it don't worry about jamie it
might be in the other
i can bite it off don't worry about it's in the kitchen i'm doing it already
yeah we'll just bite
it off just go old school yeah yeah old school bugsy shingle type we do feel
like a big shot with a
cigar why is that i don't know why do you feel like a big shot i don't know i
feel gross spitting it out
too i know here's a tissue gang weed in there son
yeah but jamie can we find out whether or not cigar rollers are um abused and
underpaid
cigar industry is going to be pissed at us now i'm sure it's a weird thing
right it's like a cigar is
like a a thing it's affluent right but it's also like a like a guy thing or yes
chick who can hang
thing bro she smokes cigars i mean come on you know you see a girl with like an
open blouse like
wearing glasses like smoking a cigar with like a men's rolex hat on yeah like a
fucking dodgers hat on
yes you know screaming facts about the broncos yeah with like those cheerleader
type socks
go all the way up to her knees no shoes on that girl's fun to hang with one
night but you don't
want to you don't want that girl for the long haul well she's a sprinter right
yeah you want to you
want to date a marathon runner yeah yeah you want to date an ultra marathon
runner someone who'