Name: Joe Rogan Experience #955 - Al Madrigal
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #955 - Al Madrigal' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2017-05-04. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #955 - Al Madrigal

five four three two one for sure live yeah magical all right you're a fucking
responsible
guest i just want to give you props for that you took your phone you shut that
bitch off and you
put it aside well it's a big thing for me also just as a comedian in comedy
clubs like you start
seeing the comedy store become popular and i started noticing a bunch of chicks
in there just
looking at their phones non-stop and i even put this thing on my phone it's an
app called moment
that tracks how long i'm using it and what i'm using so if i get over a certain
amount i'm like
i gotta fucking put this thing down that's very smart we're all monkeys yeah
fucking looking down
at this thing it's fascinating the dopamines i mean uh yeah i have a 15 year
old son and non-stop yeah
whitney cummings is explaining all the like the actual chemical responses that
go on like you
literally do become addicted to that phone sure and there's a lot of good shit
on there
yes that's the problem yeah but i mean how many times do you find yourself like
about to go to bed
and just like hitting refresh checking twitter feeds maybe some interesting
news stories coming up maybe
there's something i missed let me go check instagram maybe there's a crazy
picture that i didn't see
it's okay to miss it it is okay to miss it it's totally okay to miss it like i
admire what ari did
he stepped away from the whole fucking smartphone completely just had a full
conversation with him
about it yesterday because i said you had three things happen that allowed you
to completely check
out and go on this trip of yours i go you have no kids you have no kids you
have no wife you have no
family no dog no dog no fucking nothing you wouldn't he moved to new york i
sold him i sort of gave him
all of my furniture because he was moving to new york when i was leaving new york
so i'm like dude
have all this shit oh that's right you were there for the daily show there for
the daily show and then
i took off i was commuting back and forth because i left my family in la and i
took the gig so on
monday tuesday wednesday thursday i'd work in new york and then i'd fucking fly
back oh jesus
it was a horrible mistake trust me we talked about that before you did it and i
was like man i don't
believe you're doing this i killed myself my back is all fucked up i was
telling calen like
said like and i told i was a cashew shaped and oh you're humping forward oh my
god it's horrible
like if i crack my my whole back when you're in an airline seat constantly and
you're just constantly
all stressed out and your sleep is all fucked up it's not good so i got cast in
another show i got
the fuck out of there and i gave ari all my things so but ari has like you said
no fish nothing
and then he has financial freedom because he's got the you know the the show on
comedy central he's got
a great podcast he's got all this kind of shit going on and then he also has
this attitude that
allows him to do something like that because i don't have those three things i
need the financial
freedom i got but i have these three dependents i have two dogs and i have i
don't have the attitude
like if i'm not working non-stop i feel crazy you should tell people what you're
talking about
because a lot of people that are tuning into this podcast probably don't
realize that ari our good
friend checked out of civilization for three solid months at least right i
think maybe more first of
all he's rocking a flip phone he won't he doesn't have any apps so he doesn't
um he he has no smartphone
but then he just decides to go away and check out he no one's communicated with
him you know we're sort
of in business together on this all things comedy thing and he's on our board
of directors and i need
to tell him about shit and didn't even bother like he we did a skype and he's
like i'm gone
and then people on his show the comedy central show um they're trying to get a
hold of him nobody can
get fucking a hold of bar and he loves it and me if i seriously i had to buy
books like you know uh
i read a lot of jack reacher i read a lot do you really yeah do you know that
like best character
of all time yeah yeah six foot four 240 pounds i know tom people associated
with the tom cruise movie
but it's like this guy is the most badass he's a military cop yeah how is tom
cruise a little tiny
dude he just optioned the movies like that's how it happened my uncle skip tarantino
came up to me
i didn't even know anything about jack reacher and my brother's wedding and he
walks up and he goes
can you believe they made tom cruise jack reacher and i go what are you talking
about that's a problem
and he broke the whole thing down he goes let me tell you something about jack
reacher jack reacher
six foot four jack reacher is like this total badass he's he's he's an expert
marksman he's uh 10
steps ahead he's a big numbers guy this guy lee child created the perfect
character but so i read
all those books but i have to force myself to read those books so i can chill
the fuck out because
again and this is something that um people of other comics have pointed out i
can't be alone
with my own thoughts why is that i don't know uh because i've had some crazy
shit happen lately
um dad passed away um a lot of comics have passed away i have friends with a
ton of comedians that have
freddie soto was one of my good good buddies he's gone but dude i started
comedy with passed away
early on so um you and freddie soto passed me you know got me sponsored at the
comedy store
yeah and um i was very close to him like me and sebastian were his openers and
so i think that might
have something to do with it it's like i'm trying to it's a lot of great stuff
happening but i feel
like i distract myself with work so i just keep busy as fuck do you enjoy work
i love it i love the
satisfaction of um i don't know like uh making stuff and having people you know
enjoy it so
you feel like i mean it seems like you love doing stand-up when i see you at
the store and you're
going up looks like you're having a great time oh i just have a great time
hanging out with other
comics i love the comedy store i love what the comedy store is i love what it
always has been i love
how it's had this resurgence i love the fact that they don't let everybody in
there yeah yeah isn't
that great it is great there's a lot of people that are trying to get in there
and they're like
yeah we're good yeah and there's a lot of comics that you think or great com
mitzi had a weird thing
like she didn't pass louie like that's that's crazy and then there was gatekeeper
tommy there for a
while who wouldn't pass like was holding a torch for mitzi and what her you
know when he had a weird
thing with black guys like he's like he was not the best dude but now this adam
egan is coming i'm
being so polite yeah so but then i love the fact that like me and you got to
hang out at that back
bar like that they made that for us yeah it was really fucking that's within
the last two years
they made this if you guys don't know what we're talking about they they made
this video room that
was just a room in the back behind the kitchen and they said the comics love
hanging out here let's
create a special little back bar for just for the comedians and their friends
and uh we get to have
conversations in there and you had some weird thing somebody told me the other
night when i was in
there like fucking some chick was in here taking pictures no she was filming oh
yeah she's filming
to uh um santino and i having a conversation and brian redband caught her
filming yeah you can't do
that see that's the place where you can't do that but it's a private bar yeah
like you're not even
supposed to be back there unless you're a comic or a friend of a comic exactly
so and that's great
for us because you know not we like i i enjoy talking to people as much but
sometimes it just
gets overwhelming and then also i want to have a conversation with you or any
of my friends a real
one yeah normal conversation where you can talk at length to somebody and you
can't do that and it's
like you're getting interrupted non-stop uh just again happy to i'm still the
type of guy after
shows i'll go out say hello to everybody talk you know and uh but when all my
friends are around
that's one of the great parts about the comedy store and again another part
about the comedy store
is that you have to get past you have to be a paid regular yeah yeah yeah yeah
it is also there's
like there's a bunch of hot spots there where you you get stuck like if you're
trying to do your set
and you're leaving the back bar and you're trying to get to the or and you're
going through that
hallway you'll just get stuck by people with cameras they just want to take
pictures they just
wait they're just waiting like owls ready to swoop down and snatch a rabbit
they're just waiting
waiting waiting there's alzheimer and just al can i get a picture can i get a
picture al and you're
like i gotta do my set and you like literally walk on say just real quick just
real quick
like walking to the stairs i've seen it yeah it's like fucking christ but it
really is well it's the
the comedy cellar in new york and the comedy store in los angeles are the best
comedy clubs in the
country and if you're a comedy fan listening to this and you you are got to
make the trip you really do
because it's worth it on tuesday night wednesday night thursday night you're
gonna see an amazing show
yeah it could be in a stadium yeah oh yeah for sure yeah i mean some of the
show some of the lineups
like you guys have a show there next wednesday all things comedy it's um you
burr kreischer who else
is on no i'm actually not even on excited to go to mexico but uh okay no it's
it's burt and bill
and then you know a couple other atc comics that you can see but the last one
we did you did
and then sarah silverman was on it and it was so it was you sarah silverman eddie
pepitone like this
great mix i think burr was on that one yeah yeah they're insane yeah it's uh it's
it's it's a great
great place to hang out and so i love that and i love doing stand-up and i love
like hanging out with
my friends and that's a huge part but you feel like you're distracting yourself
with work i brought
something you made a great point the other night because i we were talking
about having an assistant
and you go i don't want to be busy enough to have an assistant yeah i don't
want to be that busy when
i get to assistant level and i start thinking about assistant you take it down
well that's my manager
they came up to me and they said we think you should get an assistant i said i'll
i'll definitely
start doing less shit i go let's just stop doing whatever i'm doing that i'm
doing too much that i
need an assistant just stop and they're like well sometimes it's hard to get a
hold of you i go well
that's on purpose yeah like do you understand that like bill murray has a 1-800
number because
does he yeah if you want to get a hold of bill murray you you get the 1-800
number and then
maybe he'll call you back really yep so people leave messages on the 1-800
number or something
yeah wow if you're i mean if you're calling about him being in a major motion
picture that's how you
get a hold of bill murray well bill murray apparently checked out of
relationships a few years ago he said
no more relationships i don't want a girlfriend i don't want a wife i'm done he
has a kid i guess
apparently he's got an older kid yeah checked out and he moved to like north
carolina or south
carolina like one of those fucking places and uh anthony bourdain interviewed
him on his show you
know he had him on the show and he's like what are you doing down here and he's
like i love it it's
great the people are nice yeah and he also for a while was living in upstate
new york like up the
hudson he would live up there same sort of deal just just i'm done like i'm
just gonna live in weird
spots and uh by myself so that's another reason why i'