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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #2468 - Luke Grimes' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2026-03-13. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #2468 - Luke Grimes

Joe Rogan Podcast, check it out.
The Joe Rogan Experience.
Train by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night, all day.
This is a real being mentioned.
Is it?
Yeah, I've been listening to the show for years.
Well, I've been watching your show for years.
Yeah.
Are we rolling, Jamie?
All right, beautiful.
I love your fucking show.
It's great.
Oh, thanks, man.
It's really awesome, man.
Well, I haven't watched Marshalls yet.
Is it out now?
It is.
When did it come out?
March 1st.
Oh, okay.
So they just had the second episode air.
I like to binge, man.
Yeah, yeah.
I like to wait a little bit.
Stay offline.
I like to sit down and binge them.
For sure.
Yeah, but Yellowstone's fucking awesome.
It's such a great show.
Did you have any idea it was going to be what it is?
Not, no.
I don't think anybody did.
I thought it would find an audience for sure.
I mean, Taylor was really, you know, hot at the time.
He'd been nominated for Oscars.
And I was kind of, like, surprised he was even writing a television show.
He was just, like, so hot in the film business.
How the fuck does that guy even sleep?
I don't know, man.
Where does he have the time?
Every time I look in the news or there's a new show that he's doing, a new
thing he's doing,
it's like, how are you doing all this?
It's impressive, you know?
It's insane.
There's a lot of people I've worked with where they do things that are
impressive, but his is impossible.
Right.
You know, like, someone would be like, could you direct a movie as good as Unforgiven?
I'm like, maybe.
Maybe if I tried real hard, but, like, could you write ten television shows
single-handedly?
No.
No way.
Not possible.
He directed Unforgiven?
No, I'm just saying, like, people that I look up to that I'm impressed by.
It's like, his is a different level.
Right.
His is, like, it's, like, impossible.
Who did direct Unforgiven?
Clint Eastwood.
That's the fucking greatest Western movie of all time.
It is.
It's the best.
It's, like, you know what it was like to me?
It was, like, he was making up for all the silly Westerns and was, like, let me
show you what it was probably really like.
Yeah.
What it was really like when a man was about to get shot?
What it was really like when a dude was a stone-cold killer?
Yeah.
What was it really, like, the hardships of living back then?
Yeah, and it's interesting, too, because he starts out kind of a loser.
Yeah.
Those first, you know, like, the first three quarters of the movie, he's this
sort of timid guy who's lost his power, you know?
And then he takes that one sip of whiskey, and it's all over for everybody else.
It's a crazy premise.
It's such a good movie, man.
It's such a good fucking movie, man.
But, yeah, Taylor is a real freak, and there's not a lot of humans like him.
And his background story is so interesting, you know?
Like, he was just kind of scrambling around until he was almost, like, 40.
Yeah, it's like a real-life Rocky story or something, like rags to riches, the
whole thing.
I know, man.
It's just, I just don't, I guess that's why he has so much ambition, because he
knows what it's like to be poor.
Right.
You know?
He knows what it's like to, like, barely make it.
Right.
Then all of a sudden, he's got a kid on the way, and he's like, oh, shit, I
gotta buckle down and really get moving.
And he kept his foot on the gas.
Absolutely.
Do you guys keep in touch?
Yeah.
His buddies?
Yeah, yeah, all the time.
I love Taylor, man.
I love him.
He's an awesome dude.
I just worry about him.
I'm like, you know, you do so much.
Like, don't have a fucking heart attack, man.
Don't go crazy.
You know what's weird is he does, he does, like, have a good time, too.
It's not like he doesn't hang out with his family or friends or, you know, that's
the craziest thing to me is, like, the guy has a really fun life and is able to
do all that.
I guess, like, the moral of the story is, you know, I guess, like, I guess,
like, the moral of the story is don't play golf.
That'll take up all your time.
No shit, man.
Tell that to Jamie.
If I can get out once a week, it's great.
Yeah, he's an addict.
Jamie's an addict.
He's got a simulator back there.
He's always whacking golf balls.
Yeah, all my friends are trying to get me to play.
I'm like, I'm not doing it, man.
That's a six-hour commitment.
Fuck off.
Oh, man.
The amount of time it takes to get good enough that it's not the worst thing
ever is too much time.
Right.
And my problem is I'm an addict.
Like, when I start doing things, I just start, like, okay, I need to play in
the PGA.
I start going crazy.
I'll start getting lessons.
Fuck that.
Yeah, don't do it.
We need your show, man.
We need you.
Well, I'm never doing it.
We can do both.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
We can try it.
We can try it.
Try it out.
No, I know.
All my friends who play fucking love it.
Ron White and Tony Hinchcliffe, they go out every day.
It's like, it's too much, man.
I can't do it.
Yeah.
Yeah, you can't play golf and do what Taylor's doing.
That's for damn sure.
No way.
No.
How the fuck is Trump doing it?
Like, he's in the middle of everything.
He's always playing golf.
But that's sort of the criticism, right?
Like, he's playing too much golf and not running the country enough.
But don't they say that about every president?
Yeah.
Like, I think it's almost like a prerequisite to be president.
You have to play golf.
Yeah.
You know, don't they all do it?
I guess so.
It's like one of those weird businessmen things.
Like, they make deals out there.
They have a couple of cocktails.
They talk a little shit.
Right.
Do a bump.
Not my thing.
Make some deals.
I just don't, I don't know.
Something about being on like a manicured lawn.
Yeah.
I don't, I don't know.
I don't want to be out in the middle of nowhere.
I'm sure I'd love it.
I'm sure.
Which is why I don't do it.
But I play pool.
And I'm addicted to pool.
Like, I play pool all the time.
It's a real problem.
When I lived in New York, I was playing like eight hours a day.
Yeah.
I was playing in tournaments.
I was traveling around.
It was like, I can't, I can't get another thing like that in my life.
Are you done playing pool?
No, I play all the time.
Oh, okay.
Yeah.
But you could play pool for like a couple of hours and stop.
Maybe I'll try that.
Pool's fun.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Like real pool, like tournament pool, you know, like competitive, like real
tournament pool.
It's legit.
But it's like, it's another thing.
It'll get in your blood.
And then you'll be thinking about it all the time and watching videos and
taking lessons.
I'm ready for something though.
Yeah?
Yeah.
Not golf.
Pool sounds like.
Well, you have music and you have acting.
Like you said, that's got to be kind of hard to manage.
Yeah.
It's proving pretty difficult.
And I have an 18 month old.
Oh, that's it.
In the mix.
Yeah.
So no sleep.
Yeah.
We're getting there.
I, you know, the music thing is sort of, it's kind of nice because there's not
a lot
of pressure on it.
You know, for me, I have a day job.
You know, I have this thing that supports my family.
And the music I can do to like my passion level, you know, and I, and I wouldn't
do it to
the point where I'm like away from my family too much, you know, so I can, I
like making
the music touring is kind of hard and it's, and it's also new for me.
So learning how to do that at 40 was a kind of interesting, you know, I feel
like in my twenties,
that would have been the most fun ever.
Yeah.
Sleeping on a bus with 12 dudes and just going from city to city and, you know,
drinking
backstage and playing country music.
That would have been a blast, but I'm, you know, too old for, to do that the
right way.
Yeah.
When you tour, do you go out or do you do like a weekend and then come back?
Or do you, when you're on a full blown tour, the, the, the way that it
financially works
the best is to just stay kind of going.
So you're doing like three shows like Thursday, Friday, Saturday, cause you've
got the bus rented,
you've got all the equipment rented, you got the guys, you know, on salary.
So you just have to keep going.
It's actually really hard to, for it to pencil out when you're just doing a
show here and
there.
Right.
Yeah.
That's standup comedy so much easier in that regard.
I've only done one standup comedy tour tour.
I did it with Charlie Murphy and John Heffron.
We, we did this Bud Light Maxim tour back in 2007 and we did like 22 dates in a
month.
And so it was like, I'd wake up and I wouldn't know where I was.
I'd look at the ceiling.
I'm like, where the fuck am I?
I don't, I would have to think, uh, Columbus, you know, I'd have to like go
through my head
and figure out where I am when I woke up.
Was there ever like a period of stage fright when you started doing standup?
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
The first day I was more afraid the first time I got on stage than I was the
first time
I fought.
It was nuts.
Yeah.
I was like, why am I so nervous?
I was like, I was thinking about chickening out.
I was thinking about not doing it.
I do that every time I play a music show.
I'm like, can I just call it off?
Do you still get stage fright right now?
Really bad.
Really?
Well, that's the thing, man.
I, I, I'd always played music and when I was playing in bands and playing out,
I was the
drummer.
Oh.
So, but I always wrote songs and stuff, but I never thought I had never had
ambition around
like, I want to be the guy in front of the microphone.
That was never, you know, the plan.
And then, you know, to be able to make an album, which I wanted to do, you have
to go stand
in front of the microphone.
And that's the hard part for me.
I love being in the studio.
I love writing the songs.
I love making the music, recording the music, but there's something about
knowing that all
these people have shown up and bought a ticket to see you.
And you're like, all of a sudden this thing starts happening in me where like,
they bought
a ticket, imposter syndrome.
You're not good enough for them to have spent their money.
And you know, it's just this whole thing.
And it's like, dude, shut up.
I know it's going to be okay, but it doesn't matter.
Every time I still get a little bit of the, you know.
I think everybody who's sane gets imposter syndrome.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
Everybody that I've talked to that's sane, it's like the really kooky ones.
Like, I don't think Kanye's ever gotten imposter syndrome.
You know what I'm saying?
It's like, I'm going to be, also, he's a genius.
But it's like the ones who were sane, it doesn't make any sense.
Like, none of it makes any sense.
Yeah.
Well, I get it in droves and way more for the music than the acting.
But it's, again, I've been acting in film and TV for over 20 years now.
When did you first get on stage to sing?
How old were you?
The very first show I played, I was 39.
Oh, my God.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Like, I had done karaoke before.
Right?
But, you know, it kind of came about in the weirdest way.
I literally was on set one day and get a call out of the blue from this manager,
this music
manager, Matt Graham, who's a great manager and a really good friend of mine.
But he called and said, hey, I know you don't know who I am, but I know that
you're a musician
and, you know, I love Yellowstone.
I love you in that show.
Is that something that you would want to take seriously?
And I was like, like, what does that mean?
He's like, I bet I could get you a record deal.
And I was like, no, man.
That's, no, I don't want to do that.
And we talked for two years.
And over the course of the two years, I really started to trust him.
He sort of, like, explained to me what, you know, what would be required.
And long story short, my father passed away somewhere in there.
And sort of one of the last things he sort of conveyed to me was like, if there's
anything
you want to do while you're here, do it, you know.
And something about that moment, I was like, I'm just going to fucking do it.
You know, I don't care.
What's the worst thing that can happen?
And I'm another actor who made a goofy album.