Name: Joe Rogan Experience #982 - Honey Honey
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Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #982 - Honey Honey' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2017-07-04. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #982 - Honey Honey' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2017-07-04. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #982 - Honey Honey

Rosé because then we won't get shit-faced. No, I told Joe and also it occurred
to me
There's Joe probably has all this other shit. He's not gonna have rosé. So we
should show up with rosé. I definitely wouldn't have rosé. We're live.
Rosé is not my thing, but I'm not an anti-rosé person. I'll drink a fucking
peanut colada after the moment presents itself. How did it go in there?
You just enjoyed it, right? Yeah, it was good. I like your rosé. It's lovely.
It's a good summertime beverage. Would everybody like some Jack Daniels?
It's single malt. Hold on, let me chug this rosé first. What does that even
mean?
It's just in one of those barrels. It's in one barrel. One barrel at a time. As
opposed to what? You move it around a bunch of barrels? Double barrel. Yeah,
you re-barrel that shit. Like a fucking shotgun?
Oh my gosh. I've listened to the Jimi Hendrix live
Machine Gun. You know that song?
Yep. Machine Gun. God damn. That's one of those songs where sometimes you hear
it and you just go,
Oh, wow. Like I've maybe been missing out on how good this fucking song is.
Yeah, he's conjuring shit up.
It's just so good.
Is it off that Band of Gypsies record?
Exactly. Yeah, it's all live.
Fuck. Yes.
I almost just stopped myself from saying fuck and then I realized where we were.
Yeah. Thank God.
Wow, that's so sweet.
You're not on a regular radio show.
Have we ever fucked that one up on the real radio? On the censored radio?
I don't know. But there's this song called The Power of Love. Sorry, I just
want to keep talking about Jimi Hendrix.
It's the fourth track that's fucking insane.
I mean, all this stuff's insane, but there's this tone that he hits that just
like carves a piece out of your soul.
When I used to work with Phil Hartman, he told me a story about when he was at
the Whiskey.
And I think he was a teenager still. I think Phil was like 18 or 19 or
something.
And he was working as like a stagehand. And his job was to hold up the speaker
while Jimi Hendrix was on stage because the stage was so small and the speaker
was kind of rocking.
So he had to stand there, stand there and hold up the speaker.
And he said, Jimi Hendrix was five feet in front of me.
He said it was fucking incredible.
Jesus. When Hendrix was just sort of becoming Hendrix.
So early.
I don't know.
That'd be like 1966.
We could go back over when he died and when, you know, he would have been like
18 or 19, but I don't remember the exact age.
He died in the 70s.
He died in 1970.
Okay. Really?
Yeah, pretty sure. Yeah.
Damn, look at you, encyclopedia Ben.
I love Jimi Hendrix.
Ben Tannica?
Hartman died in like, I think, 98.
So whatever that was, those 20 years before that, so it would have been like in
the early 70s, I guess.
Yeah.
That doesn't make sense, actually.
I wish we could go back in time and experience music like in the 60s and 70s
when it was just like everything was new.
You'd never heard anything like that before.
Yeah, right?
That was the first time they got real drugs.
Wait, what were the demonic chords been?
We were talking about this the other day.
That was a long time ago.
Like, is this like Renaissance time?
That was like the 1600s.
There was chords they thought to be demonic?
Yeah, they were evil.
Like, if they heard the shit we played today, it would be like, you'd be burned
at the stake.
Well, I think it was just mind-blowing.
Oh, yeah.
Fuck that.
He would have been toast.
Well, just the beginning of Voodoo Child.
Right.
You know?
No.
You hear that?
I never get sick of that.
But that's kind of...
Well, you really stop and think about it.
Like, there was a clear evolution, right?
There was a bunch of shit going on.
There was Chuck Berry, and there was Little Richard, and then there was Elvis,
and there was all these rock and roll guys.
And then, all of a sudden, there's this eruption out of that, and it's Led Zeppelin.
Yeah.
And it's The Who, and it's Hendrix, and it's, like, people that were just on a
completely different level.
Queen?
Yeah.
Queen in their prime?
But it's interesting.
Like, they all were driven...
Like, well, Zeppelin was all blues music.
They just...
They kind of stole a lot of shit, huh?
They stole a lot of shit.
Oh, yeah.
That's fucked up, isn't it?
No, I mean, yes...
But that's kind of part of the...
It's fucked up that they are dicks about him, but it's not out of the ordinary,
because all those dudes are just playing each other's songs anyway.
That is a giant problem.
If you're the guy who created the opening riff to Stairway to Heaven, it's
about your song, and then you try to do it...
Well, the other side of that spectrum is really fucked up, though, too, because
now you're in this game where, like, if you play anything remotely sounds like
that, you'll get sued.
Right.
And every...
At this point, like...
I mean, I don't rip off songs from other people, and we don't do that, but,
like, you could make a...
You could write a song and then not know that it had a similar thing...
Right.
Similar melody, and somebody could come after you, and that fucking blows.
We were just talking about that Bittersweet Symphony song from The Verve, and
how they gave all their money to the Rolling Stones.
Yeah.
Because the opening riff was too similar, which is crazy.
Well, they took...
It's a sample, isn't it?
It might be, isn't it?
It's not this...
Yeah, this guy named Andrew Lou Oldham produced the Stones and did all his
orchestrations for them, and they just...
Oh, they just sampled it.
Yeah.
Now, how does that work, though?
That seems kind of crazy that you give it all the money.
I don't...
I don't mind you giving them money.
I'm sure they didn't give all of it.
I mean, they had publishing on their actual song, right?
Is that different?
I don't know the facts.
Is it different, like, as a musician?
Do you feel like that feels different if someone just uses, like...
Like, if someone heard Ice Ice Baby, they knew it was under pressure, right?
Right?
I mean, it's almost like it's not hurting the original song.
Well, it's almost like a collaboration at that point, because your song was
inspired by another song,
and obviously there's credit due for that, but it's just an interesting way
that the pie gets cut up.
Right.
And the way people just tenaciously hold on to their piece in this way that...
I don't know.
It really bums me out, to be honest.
I mean, obviously you need to get paid and make a living, but inspirationally
speaking, it just...
The barometer is just so...
Like, people just go so far off the course in order to get credit and money for
things that...
It's just bullshit.
But I think it's so difficult...
You were just talking about that in there.
It's so difficult to have a career that keeps paying you...
Right.
That if anybody has something that's close to the sun, you're just like...
That's it.
Because that's the only way I'm going to be able to fucking afford this house.
The music business in particular, or the...
I shouldn't say the music business, because I never really say the comedy
business.
I would say the comedy world.
Because I think you guys are, like, the closest to big business in the way,
like, your contracts are.
You always hear, like, these nightmare contracts where you're like, Jesus.
Like, for us, we've never made money doing anything but performing.
So no one ever, like, got a grip of the other stuff.
Right.
Right.
Like, with musicians, you guys all made a lot of money selling actual albums
back in the day.
We don't, but...
But, I mean, musicians that...
It could have...
Well, but comedy artists too, right?
But I guess they always went through record labels.
Yeah, but there was no money in it.
There was no...
I mean, I should say, like, a few guys made money.
Like, Dane Cook probably made a ton of money.
Right.
Because he had the biggest selling comedy album of all time.
Right.
His was, like...
It was at least platinum.
It might have went double platinum.
Do you get paid as an actor at that point?
Or is it...
No, he must have had a deal with the record company unless he released it
himself.
Some people can release their stuff themselves, but I don't know how that works.
Oh, this is audio, you mean?
This isn't, like, a live DVD?
Okay.
No, but as soon as it gets to be a live DVD, there's two options.
One is you could pay for it all yourself, pay for the filming, and then sell it
to whatever organization,
whether it's Netflix or what have you, or Comedy Central.
You could do it that way.
Okay.
What is this?
Here we go.
Both of them went platinum.
The first two.
They both went platinum.
Oh, wow.
Yeah.
See, that's huge sales.
$1,215,000 and $1,264,000 for the second one.
That's incredible.
Like, for a stand-up comedian to sell that many albums, he was a real
phenomenon.
If people actually bought them, you had to pay for that.
Oh, yeah.
That's funny.
I wonder what was number one.
I don't know.
It's a good question.
2003?
Siri, what was number one?
U.S. Comedy, number one and two.
Would that have been Dave Chappelle?
He's number one and two.
Look, he's right there, number one.
Yeah, but at the time, 2003.
The second one.
Yeah, that's 2003.
That's the highest it ever got was number two.
Oh.
So someone out-peaked old Dave chart positions.
Did Dave Chappelle do live audio?
He didn't have records.
So that was number one on the comedy charts or was number one, period?
Oh, okay.
What the fuck would be number two if his was number one?
This one made it number four in the whole U.S. chart overall.
Wow.
That's crazy.
That's huge.
That's giant.
So that's it.
Like, I didn't make shit.
I mean, I made some money.
I had a record on Warner Brothers in 1999.
Good year.
It was a good year.
Is it like a space monkey thing?
No, that was called I'm Gonna Be Dead Someday.
That was my first thing.
And then the next one was Shiny Happy Jihad.
That was...
Woo!
And then Talking Monkeys in Space.
That was the one I was thinking.
We need to get our collection for the road travels.
I'll hook you guys up.
Hook that shit up, man.
Get it on the Spotify.
How many albums you guys have now?
Trace albums.
Trace.
But we're releasing solo records this year.
So it's been a really interesting...
Like, we're working together and separately.
It's crazy.
You guys keeping it together?
You get weird with each other.
All the time.
All the time.
Both, yeah.
Both.
Yeah.
Both.
It was intense.
But that is the way it has always been.
It's always...
And possibly always will be.
Yeah.
Do you think that is...
I feel like as long as everyone's kind, it's unavoidable, and it's like part of
the process
of dealing with people.
Well, we...
It's like people get on each other's nerves.
We definitely act like shitheads, and then we have these moments of great
communication.
Well, that's the end goal.
But I think I can say that our relationship has made my other relationships in
my life
so much better because you have to administer patience and listen and really
just have, you
know...
It's hard for people, right?
Yeah.
Well, you got to learn how to be wrong, you know, and say you're sorry when you
fuck up.
Like, I'm sorry.
I was wrong.
That was stupid of me.
I shouldn't have said that.
It's also there's a balancing act that some people never achieve of listening
to someone
and thinking about what they're saying and then responding because of that or
just saying
what's on your mind.
Like, there's like this balancing act.
Like, sometimes you just want to say what's on your mind.
And sometimes you have to, like, absorb what this person is saying to you, and
then you
have to respect it and address it and try to figure out how, as a person that
cares
about them, what's the best way to get out what you're thinking.
Sometimes you don't do that.
And then you have to deal with emotions happening at the same goddamn time,
which completely changed
the way you could speak and move and, you know, I mean...
Something that...
Just crack this open.
Yeah, I got a great therapist.
I love her so much.
And she, you know, accepting people is 