Name: Joe Rogan Experience #484 - Alexis Ohanian
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #484 - Alexis Ohanian' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2014-04-12. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #484 - Alexis Ohanian

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That's
it. Ohanian? How would you say it? A lot of Armenians are rejoicing. I just say
Ohanian.
Oh, because you want to be Americanized. Alexis Ohanian is here, ladies and
gentlemen. Cue
the music, Brian Redman. I don't know why we have to have the music, but we do.
I like
it. Otherwise, we've done it without the music several times. We just get
fucking crazy. And
we just go. We said, you know, let's do the least produced version of this
possible with
no professionalism attached to it. Anyway. Which would be hard. You guys run a
tight ship
pair. You got to go with your right name, dude. You got to go with it. Ohanian?
Yeah.
You got to go with that. Fuck all these silly people that can't say that. Learn
how to say
that. Ohanian. That's awesome. Well, I'll tell you. Well, I mean, my father, so
my father
was born in the States. Both of his parents had, were part of the generation
that came over.
So my dad pronounces it Ohanian as well. So, but I'll tell you this. I'll tell
you what
I own. See that first name? Alexis? You never call me Alex. Oh, okay. I like
that.
You grow up as a little pudgy kid named Alexis and you learn real quick to own
that name.
Oh, that's awesome. Because I was born in 83 and my father named me after a
boxer, Alexis
Arguello, this Nicaraguan fighter. I know exactly who he is. I got to see him
fight live.
Serious? Yeah. Yeah. I got to see him fight live a long time ago. Me and my
friend Jimmy
Lawless, we went down to, I think it was in Lowell, Massachusetts. We saw
Alexis Arguello live
and we saw Mickey Ward live before he became famous. You should have brought my
father. What
am I doing here? Oh, it was awesome. It was awesome. We're in Lowell. It was
fucking
great. Lowell, Massachusetts. Which is where Mickey Ward was from. So when he
went out there,
everybody went crazy. Yeah. I got to see him when he was an up and coming contender
live.
But CNR Grail, that's my pop. He showed me, he has an entire closet full of VHS
tapes of his
fights, which I keep telling him he needs to do something about. Digitize,
bitch.
But now I just go on YouTube and I got a quick query and he had a wonderful
mustache, an amazing
left jab, and that combination is brutal. Well, Alexis Arguello was awesome.
His straight
right hand was a work of art. And a gentleman. Yeah. A really, really good guy.
Like a real
man, a real man's man. So that was my namesake. He died young, right? He did.
It was a suicide.
It was a suicide. I've talked to Nicaraguans about this and he got very
involved politically
after his fighting days and there are a lot of people who believe there was
more to that
story. No way, man. That never happens. Nobody ever kills anybody and tries to
make it work
a suicide. It's never happened, bro. It's been snoped. Have you ever snoped it?
I love my
snopes too. Snopes ends a lot of stupid fucking arguments. I always thought it
was snoops.
Real quick. This is one of the advantages of the interwebs. Call it snoops. I
know what
you mean. Isn't it like they're snooping for the facts? No. No. And I think it's
snopes.
Like a snoop. Yeah. If it was snoops, it would have two O's. You could probably
check
snoops for this though. Non-English speaking motherfucker. If the English
language wasn't
so goofy and there wasn't any weird exceptions like that, it would be so easy
to shit on you
right now. But there's a lot of ones that don't make any sense. It's a pretty
fucked up
language. Yeah. This is very bizarre. And it's more bizarre when you're working
with, you
know, words like Ohanian. I know, man. You know, it's like it fits it or, you
know, that's
one of the reasons why you got to give Schwarzenegger his props. That's a bold
goddamn move. The
guy owns Schwarzenegger. Schwarzenegger. Arnold. Yeah. And Arnold too. Arnold
is fucking, that's
the kid from Different Strokes, you know what I mean? Oh. It's not the manliest,
most manly
bodybuilder ever. He made it though. Fuck yeah, dude. See, see Arnold, uh,
definitely, uh, definitely
a fighter. I, I know I'm not, I, I, I didn't fulfill my father's prophecy of me
being a boxer
instead. I guess I'm a, I'm a lover, not a fighter. Well, you figured your own
path out,
sir. Thank goodness. Thank God for computers. You don't have to be a fighter
like in the
physical form. Obviously you figured out a way to succeed. You figured out some
cool
shit. For sure. I mean, that's what everybody admired about Alexis Arguello was
the same
thing that anybody admires about anybody who is involved in the creation of
something cool.
And you're involved in the creation of the coolest fucking website on the
internet.
I certainly like to think so. You're involved in Reddit. Yeah.
You can't get a better hub of information. Like when new things, innovation, a
lot of gossipy
bullshit too, but that's people. That's what we do. That's what we do as people.
We like
to talk shit. But other than that, I mean, the, the, the resource, if anything
is going
down anywhere in the world at any time, you can pretty much find it at Reddit
and it gets
verified. The vote up system, like good posts rise to the top, bad posts fall
down. It's such
a smart, cool thing. And really the model, I think for like online discourse,
when it comes to like
message board type discourse, I think you guys are the model, you know, we, I
mean, it's, it's
amazing. Uh, when Steve, Steve Hoffman, my co-founder and I started this thing,
we were in a little
apartment in Medford, Massachusetts. I lived in Medford, Medford. We were on 72.
I feel bad for
whoever lives there now. Can I say that? No, don't say it. Definitely not. But
it's a,
no, I don't want to get in trouble. Yeah. It's on fucking, you know, whatever.
What's with the
questions? But the, uh, Medford, Medford. Yeah. And it was, it was a great, we
had just graduated
from college, just graduated at UVA, went up to Boston. We raised 12 grand from
Y Combinator,
which would go on to invest in like Dropbox, Airbnb and Reddit. Um, and with 12
grand in the
bank, we worked our asses off for three months in that little apartment and
built Reddit.
And it's to be a top of the website now, 150 million people a month. It's crazy.
It's
crazy. I love hearing shit like that. And that's so cool. That's the American
dream, man.
That is the American dream. A hundred percent. We were just some nerds with,
with, with 12
grand in the bank total. We just, we just worked with a couple of laptops, no
connections
and, and, and, you know, well, what's the American dream, right? I mean, the
American dream
where your parents somewhere in their past, they're either their parents or
their parents'
parents were, came from over from Armenia. Oh yeah. Yeah. My father's side fled
the genocide.
So what year was this? We're talking about the early 1900s. Yeah. So 1915 was
when it got
started. If you want to get really real. So my birthday is April 24th, which is
the remembrance
day of the genocide. So like I'm, so I'm half Armenian on my father's side. I'm
full on Armenian
on my mother's side. I'm full on German. She actually immigrated. She was a
fresh off the
boat from Deutschland. Wow. So it's a really interesting 20th century. Dude,
your DNA has gone through
some shit. Yeah. It's, it's, it's about those two. Yeah. And, uh, and I feel
like having, I mean,
right there, yeah, certainly from the Armenian side, you know, they came out of
survival