Name: Joe Rogan Experience #398 - Sam Tripoli
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #398 - Sam Tripoli' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2013-09-27. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #398 - Sam Tripoli

Oh, wait a minute, we didn't even like this, are we live, hear the sound ladies
and gentlemen?
This is the sound of freedom, that's freedom as it exhales your body, as mother
nature,
as mother Gaia enters into your system through a series of cannabinoid
receptors.
I'm good, dude.
Starting a new non-political party, Sammy.
I don't think anybody should be in a political party anymore.
I agree.
But out of respect for the great Hunter S. Thompson, I'm going to call it the
Freak Party.
I'm in, dude.
I feel like a freak, I don't feel like I'm represented.
I will never vote for any of the two major parties ever again.
Even libertarians, they fucking freak me out.
Bunch of weirdos, bunch of preppers.
Not all of you, not all of you, don't get crazy, don't get picky.
Save the hate mail, save the hate mail.
I will only vote for someone if I don't know who they are.
That doesn't help.
Yeah, because, well, yeah, it does.
I don't know who they are and there's some fucking freak NSA underground secret
infiltrator agent type character, Sam.
Okay.
That could go, if my vote ruins society, I understand that.
But I just vote for anybody who can't afford to campaign.
That's pretty much.
Well, that might be better than what we're doing already, but it might not be,
too.
That's possible as well.
You know what we need to do, Sam?
We need to educate the people.
Is that possible?
There's a way to do it.
One of the ways is audible.com.
Oh, really?
Oh, yes.
I'd love to hear about it.
Well, audible.com is the number one source of audio entertainment and education
on the internet.
More than 100,000 different titles.
You can't possibly read 100,000 fucking things, but you might be able to put a
good dent into it
if you got in your car or if you were on a train or on a plane and listened to
audio books or at the gym or jogging.
If you're one of those nature at the park type characters that's not worried
about muggers and you run around with a fucking thing on,
not worried about getting clipped over the head by someone who's sneaking up
behind you and you don't see them coming,
or maybe you're just fucking that confident in your foot speed.
You're just like, this motherfucking mugger.
Try to catch me, bitch.
Yeah.
Try to catch me.
My cardio is off the charts.
Go to audible.com forward slash Joe.
You will get one free audio book and 30 free days of audible service.
And Audible has a gigantic selection of fiction, nonfiction.
They have the Opie and Anthony radio shows.
They have stand-up comedy.
You can get my shit on Audible.
You can get so many different books.
There's an amazing pile of awesome titles in every single category.
I recommend Steven Pressfield's The War of Art.
This is a book that I've been recommending to everybody.
It's such a good book as far as motivation to get your shit together that I
bought stacks of them,
and I used to hand them out to people all the time.
Then I got tired of it.
And I was like, get your shit together, bitch.
What am I doing?
I'm trying to fucking motivate other people.
I listen to Audible.
I actually use it.
Do you?
Yeah.
It's very good.
I love it.
A book that I love to listen to was Behold a Pale Horse.
That was a good thing.
I had read it, but it was fun to hear back.
That is some ridiculous shit.
It's fun to listen to, man.
Especially when you look back at what he's saying then and what's going on now.
You're like, whoa.
Well, his book is like-
I can't recommend it enough.
Some of it-
You can't recommend it enough?
I love it, dude.
You got to smoke a fat joint before you read that, and then just shut it off
and walk away.
There's some really interesting stuff in there and some complete nonsense.
It's really like, if you wanted to pick a book where you were worried or
curious whether or not there was some disinformation afoot,
whether they were trying to connect really actual, factual ideas with fucking
UFO bases at Walmart, this is the book.
So you're saying there's a little truth, but there's also a lot of
misinformation.
I'm sure there's some truth in that.
Well, even crazy people can count.
Right.
Even if you're completely out of your mind, you make a bunch of shit up, you
might know how to turn on a laptop.
A broken clock is right twice a day.
That's so true, Sam Tripoli.
I'm so glad when people say that shit.
Anyway, go to audible.com forward slash Joe.
Steve Martin's book's good, too.
Yes, it is.
Right?
Yeah.
What is it?
Born Standing?
Is that what it is?
Steve Martin's awesome.
And he actually reads his book.
Or you could, that guy from fucking, what's it called?
The Beard Guy?
Psy?
The one that Joey Diaz likes?
From that Duck Dynasty?
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Joey loves that guy.
He really loves that guy.
He's not, no bullshit.
He loves that guy.
That show's crushing it.
Fuck yeah, it is.
That show kicked my show's ass.
Really?
Yeah, it stomped it.
Yeah, you're up against a family, though.
Yeah, in Dennis Miller vernacular, like a narc at a biker rally.
Anyway, audible.com forward slash Joe, and get a free audio book.
It's worth it.
You'll love it.
And it's a great way to entertain yourself.
And it's basically just like podcasting.
I'm essentially cutting out my own hamstrings telling you about this.
It is, it is.
We're also brought to you by Lumosity.
Lumosity is one of our newest sponsors.
And Lumosity is a new service.
It's a website that's designed to improve your mental health.
It's really interesting.
It's like workouts for your mind.
And they're like fun games.
And I've been doing it.
I don't know if I'm any smarter yet.
But it's easy.
It's enjoyable.
And you can personalize it for your different performance goals as far as your
brain.
Does it have a little sound effect on it?
Well, that's chalk one against Lumosity, okay?
Let me tell you something.
Nobody wants fucking sound effects on their website.
We're tired of that.
This is the worst thing when you go to someone's website and a song plays.
Oh, right.
And it's gross.
That's why I hate about MySpace.
Like back in the day, you couldn't look at other girls' website pages because
some song
would jump up.
Your girlfriend's like, what are you listening to?
You're like, close, close, close.
And it would make you, it would crush your website, your browser every time.
Someone always had some wacky thing running in the background.
Oh, it was too much.
And you get to, and it's like, what is this?
Especially the Asian chicks could really go off on their pages.
Sparkle tags.
That's what we learned about, the world learned about sparkle tags.
Yep.
You can play online at work.
I wouldn't recommend playing at work because then you're not working.
And I think if you're going to do something, you should fucking do it.
Unless your job really sucks a fat dick and you're looking to get out and you're
listening
to this podcast during work right now.
And I would say, keep doing what you're doing, follow your instincts, go
towards the light.
Do you have a black belt in this yet?
Yes, I've got a black belt in Lumosity.
My God, my friend.
Play online at work, at home, even from an iPhone or an iPad with the Lumosity
app.
It doesn't say anything about Android.
I guess they're haters.
With Lumosity, you can track your progress online while seeing the actual
improvements
in your everyday life.
And when you go to Lumosity, just tell them that I sent you.
I think it's a reference box.
Oh, how'd you find out about Lumosity?
Joe Rogan, bitch.
And you can say that too.
Joe Rogan, bitch.
I probably won't even get credit for it, but it'd be funnier.
So go ahead.
Say Joe Rogan, bitch.
I'm like, well, Joe Rogan, it seems that no one from your show went to Lumosity,
but
everybody from Joe Rogan, bitch went there.
Joe Rogan, bitch.
Would that get past its filter?
Dot, dot, dot, bitch.
What I like about it, what I think is interesting is you can personalize your
goals, which is
kind of odd when you first start doing it because you're like, wait a minute,
why wouldn't it
be better to click everything?
I guess maybe it would be too difficult.
But as you're doing it, like, it gives you, like, memory.
It gives you a bunch of options.
Recalling the location of objects, remembering the names after first
introduction, which I
suck a fat one at.
Are you good at remembering people's names right after you meet them?
No.
I'm horrible at it.
People always think my memory is really good because I remember fights.
Like, if you ask me about MMA, I can pull MMA, I can pull a Keith Hackney fight,
Keith
Hackney versus Joe Son, you know, from 93, 94.
I'll tell you what happened in that fight.
I'll talk to you about ball punches.
You're great at detail.
I remember some things.
Yeah.
I remember some things.
But my memory's not the best, if I don't care.
You rock those Russian and European names at the weigh-ins.
I'm always impressed by that.
They have to go over those with me several times before I go out there.
I fucked up Omi Lonchek, though.
Omi Lonchek was a guy that fought this last weekend in Toronto.
It was so hard.
Omi Lonchek.
It's weird the way it's written.
Tough guy, though.
You can keep track of several ideas at the same time.
Allegedly.
I'm a little skeptical, Sam Tripoli.
Right.
You know, how are you going to fix my broken brain, son?
How are you going to fix it?
If yours is broken, mine must be...
All brains are broken.
In the heap.
They're flawed.
You know what helps it?
Alpha Brain.
Take some right now.
While I'm on the podcast.
Oh, Alpha Brains, Fred.
Yay, Alpha Brains.
I wonder if it improves the score.
What is the word on that?
The nomosity.
The word's on what?
On Alpha Brain.
It's delicious.
It's nutritious.
It's good for the whole family.
It's good for your dome.
Attention.
Maintain focus on important tasks.
For those who have been asking about Alpha Brain, we'll talk about that next.
But the studies on Alpha Brain will finally be published, allegedly, in
February.
It takes a long time to get into a scientific journal about stuff.
So people have been asking about the results of the double-blind placebo test.
We did what's called a pilot test.
And then we're going to do a big fat test after this.
But it's because the pilot test is very encouraging.
I guess that would help you if you took lumosity.
I think the idea behind something like lumosity is that your brain, much like
everything else,
grows in strength with repetition and focus.
It seems to work as far as my brain when it comes to stand-up comedy.
The more I'm doing stand-up, the more I'm in that stand-up comedy vibe,
it seems like a mental shape.
Like you get in comedy shape.
Don't you feel like that?
Yeah.
You ever take like two weeks off from stand-up?
Dude, I took a few months off.
And you go back to it.
You're like, whoa.
It's like you think you're just going to step right into it and start running.
And you're like, your timing's a little off.
You're like, what was that line there?
You know what I figured out, though?
How to stop that from happening?
Record yourself.
Really?
Yeah, it's big.
It's huge.
What do you do?
Do you just play it back or do you upload it to something?
Well, play it back and take notes.
Listen and take notes.
I've got to do that, dude.
It's hard to do because it's work.
It's work.
You don't want to listen to yourself.
You're gross.
I do hate listening to myself.
I've got to edit this CD and I just can't listen to myself.
Jim Norton told me that when he was editing his special,
which was very funny, by the way,
he wanted to hang himself.
He put a fucking belt up on the coat hanger in the closet.
He goes, I wasn't going to do it, but I just put it up there.
I just wanted to let myself know I fucking suck.
Yeah.
You were thinking about hanging yourself?
What?
He goes, I wasn't actually going to go through with it.
It was like, whoa.
I like to keep it on the table.
That's how bad comedians hate listening to themselves.
If you talk to a comedian who loves listening to himself,
he's a douchebag.
There are people who like to play back their stuff over and