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the jurogan experience and there's no like predicting who's going to get it and who's not like there are people who go in and out of recovery and then one day it clicks my dad was like quitting stuff for my whole life and and and eventually got sober in jail when i was 12 and was sober for the rest of my life he was sober for the next 12 years until he died when i was 24 and i don't think that anyone ever really expected him to stop drinking you know so it's like worth having hope for people but also my mom didn't argue him into finally quitting drinking i didn't beg him into finally quitting drinking nobody convinced him except for like his own misery of like losing his family and then being in jail you know you you used to party hard yeah yeah yeah what made you um do you think it's a genetic thing yeah i do i think it's a genetic thing i think that there also can be an environmental component you know i i know that some things that i liked about it were it made me feel comfortable talking to people um crowds have always been kind of draining for me large crowds especially if it's like people i don't know um and i felt like i could talk to guys for the first time when i started drinking but then i couldn't stop drinking once i started drinking so i would be like laid out on a bathroom floor with the guys i liked like stepping over me to pay to pee you know it just got real that's how it always went i'd feel there'd be like a moment in the night where i was like oh yeah i'm [ __ ] hot and then i'd have like throw up in my ear and be [ __ ] pissing someone's futon so it just was always real rough and there was a period of time for like years where i woke up and started drinking and drank all day and was a blackout drinker every night and then i actually had a boyfriend
and i quit drinking for him and then i started again and it just was always like it always went back to the same place like i tried quitting i tried quitting every year since i started i started drinking pretty much daily when i was 17 and then got sober when i was 29 and haven't had a drink or a drug since but my bottom wasn't when i stopped when i stopped was just when i was done it's an interesting thing but my last drink was actually just like a couple sips of a friend's beer and then i just was like i just something clicked and i knew i couldn't do it by myself and i was willing to accept help i was willing to do anything i was willing to do whatever it took and so um i did i got help it was free what year was this around uh january 21st 2014. wow you know it by the day yeah that's great i don't have like a other than the birth of my children in my head like that i have like that's the day i started comedy day i was married that kind of [ __ ] yeah but that's a big one i don't know when i started comedy and i don't know when you got married but that's my that's my date yeah i started commie august 27 1988 and i think back to that day all the time because i almost pussied out wow yeah me too do you almost post it out yeah what happened to you i um called yeah i had you had to call the comedy club ahead of time to ask for a spot the comedy cafe in milwaukee i don't think it's with us any longer i think it has passed away but um yeah you you called ahead of time to get a spot on the open mic and then you could do a set for five to seven minutes and so i like typed my set out word for word on the computer practiced it in front of a full-length mirror a million times um and wanted to cancel but i would have had to like cancel to cancel and i'm not a [ __ ] so i did it and you were
drinking back then yeah oh yeah oh yeah oh yeah oh yeah they yeah um yeah i used to go on stage blackout drunk it i would not have any of the success that i have right now if i hadn't stopped drinking because i would black out um and yeah i i went on and i told my jokes and some of them hit and some of them didn't but i got that i got the fix i got that feeling of like telling a joke to a room full of people and having them laugh at it and i've been hooked ever since how did you remember your material if you're black out drunk i wasn't blackout drunk at that moment oh other times i don't know and sometimes i didn't i mean i [ __ ] up a lot you know there were times where i like went on stage and i would repeat my jokes that i had just said um i would ask my friends like how my second they'd be like you are shit-faced you know [Laughter] like you're drunk it looked like you were really drunk you know i knew generally if i couldn't remember it that it probably wasn't that good um generally yeah generally i'm like well but i mean that's like the difference between then and now it's like what you were talking about now if you have an opportunity you make the most of it now if i have an opportunity i make the most of it i show up early i'm polite and professional and like nobody wets their pants and i maybe get another shot of the thing later you know you get to move on to like the next level on to the next step back then i remember in milwaukee there was a headliner who thought i was funny and wanted to see if he wanted to bring me on the road and so he got me a feature set at a show a one-nighter and um i went and did it and got blackout drunk and don't remember anything he said to me on the ride home but i do know he never brought me on the road with him
you know like i know i'm not on tour with him right now is he on tour i don't know oh i don't know i don't think i i don't think i've spoken to him since maybe he'll see this and maybe he will his name was james irvin barry all right james urban barry he was very nice i was very drunk it was not his fault it's a weird thing that genetic propensity for alcoholism because i've seen it in people where their parents are drunks and they just can't [ __ ] help it i've seen it and some people like to think that it's all willpower but i'm not so sure i don't have that thing i can have a drink or two and i can not drink for a month it doesn't bother me but i've seen it where like one drink and then they get [ __ ] shark eyes it's like plink they flip over and they like you know gerbils you ever looking at gerbils eyes no i never looked at a gerbil's eyes look in their eyes they're dead they're dead eyes like like some people their eyes just go they black out they get glazed over and they're not there anymore oh charles not here anymore yeah charles is gone now this [ __ ] shark boy because their eyes just glass over yeah i mean i was never there when it happened but that's exactly how my friends describe me they'd be like i looked at you last night and you weren't there that's exactly how they described me it's what it seems like when someone's blacked out drunk catch new episodes of the joe rogan experience for free only on spotify watch back catalog jre videos on spotify including clips easily seamlessly switch between video and audio experience on spotify you can listen to the jre in the background while using other apps and can download episodes to save on data cost all for free spotify is absolutely free you don't have to have a premium account to watch new jre episodes you just need to search for the jre on your spotify app go to spotify now to get this full episode of the joe rogan experience