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The Joe Rogan Experience and to feel that energy of of people wanting you to succeed wanting you to do good you know people that were there for for the ride back at the Ice House you know 20 some odd years ago look at all those people yeah that is insane that's insane it was it was a beautiful moment I was choked up in the first 30 seconds walking out there because they just kept cheering like like you know and then I said we did it and it was just it was over after that so it was a big emotional you know show for me um on Netflix it was an hour and almost two hours but the actual night I was on stage for over three wow and they could not get me off that stage because then I broke up broke out a bottle of tequila and then I turned it into a big Quinceaneras what I did at the end and uh I got fined by Dodger Stadium for going over the time if you run the light of the club it's yeah all right come on maybe you mess up how much do they find you well you don't have to say it was over a hundred oh Jesus Christ Dodger still come on guys stop being [ __ ] is that like operating costs like what is that well you got to figure all the costs that go into like you know the uh the union the staff I mean there's so many people that weren't worth it though yes I do it all over again it was the greatest night of my life and so happy to pay the fine that's amazing that's when I saw Bill Burr do Fenway Park a similar sort of situation you know like holy [ __ ] and to do it in your hometown yeah that's the best part I think it's always harder to get love at home you know that's why you go out on the road and you do your thing and I think that getting that love at home like I never got to perform at a comedy club at home until I became successful on the road I didn't get the laugh factories of the comedy stores or the improvs until I went out and did that doesn't make sense though why why would that be were you hanging around you got to figure 20 some odd years ago um you know maybe they had a Latino night you know you had to really know somebody somebody had to really vouch for you or you you just it was weird most of my shows were at bars so what year did you start I started in 97 97. so most of those years you're hopping around doing bars
one-nighters and stuff like that oh so-and-so has a room so-and-so has a room you know ideas took me to a lot of those places oh yeah Joey Diaz would tell you come on [ __ ] you want to go to the real place he would take you to some Chinese restaurant in the middle of nowhere it's run by Mexican people it was amazing Joey you want to say basketball would spend his weekends he would go to all these [ __ ] crazy shows but he had a philosophy behind him he was like you know I want to go everywhere I want to go everywhere I want to get in front of these [ __ ] Momos I want to go down to the east side and rock those [ __ ] he was just like he wanted to do all kinds of different shows like just to like feel it out you know and I think he's right they're like those dingy bar shows there's something about those shows that teach it's a little extra mumbling yeah the cool part was is that I was used to performing in places like that before I actually got an audience that was willing to just be quiet and listen yes so I felt like oh wow that was hard you know because you have to come out the gate swinging to get people in a bar people that are focused on the game focused on trying to hook up having a drink trying to wait you know waiting for somebody there's all kinds of different things happening and so the fact that you know to be able to go out there and get their attention yeah you know that that that was like a uh like it was school yeah it was school it is cool it's a school that no one is going to give you a lesson plan you got to kind of do it all yourself and you got to learn from the other people that are doing it like Joey but it's like I did the same thing in Boston we mostly we got Road gigs because those are the ones that you know they would pay you to drive for two hours into some you know 40 minutes in front of a bunch of crazy people and you were excited to do it oh my God yeah it was amazing just the fact that you were making money doing comedy was amazing and you're learning how to do it you're learning how to do it the hard way in restaurants and bars and pubs and just yeah weird little outdoor venues and there was no on social media back then no YouTube no Tick Tock video clips no nothing that you could post you just had to go out and but honestly
that's great because that that gave you this chance to first of all know you really wanted it because if you were really going to grind it out every night going all these weird shitty places for no money for years for years you're not making any money you got to be committed to that because a lot of people they got half one foot in one foot out they have one good set and they're like yeah maybe I'll give comedy a try but guys like you and guys like me we're out there every [ __ ] night every night I knew that with time money would come as long as I I stuck it out you know I was in a very cushed position when I started doing stand-up so it was it was a little you know challenging to say goodbye to security you know I had I had a great gig selling cell phones I was making about 5k a month you know and in 1997 you know working in sales making that I had never had insurance I had uh you know a nice little PPO plan couldn't you work there during the day I did for how long I did I lasted about a year because I found out that I couldn't just do my job and then go do shows at night and then go home you couldn't go home you had to stay out we had to wind up at a Denny's you had to wind up at some freaking taco shop or whatever at two three o'clock in the morning talking to other Comics because that was the only other way you were going to find out about another show you couldn't send a tweet you couldn't send a text because you didn't have that as an option you had to talk to people right so-and-so has a room oh really what's a okay give me that number and you had to learn the right numbers and save numbers and information and learn how to follow up hey what do you think about you know and then yeah yeah can you vouch for me that meant a lot back then someone calling on your behalf hey so-and-so's got a tight 10. yeah it's huge you know that's huge so staying out late at night uh coming home at four or five in the morning and then having to be up at seven to go do my nine to five it fortunately I was young and I was able to hang for about a year and then I just couldn't I was falling asleep sleep at work and I got caught I got caught you know I was working inside of a little uh kiosk selling cell phones and one time I just kind of let me do some
inventory here on the floor and then I guess I was snoring and somebody oh my God oh my God that's a beautiful story though yeah that's an American dream and I thought that because I had done a couple of um television shows and I saw the money that I could make doing stand-up at that time I said oh well and you start doing the math the the delusional math well if I get one of these a month and I do this and this and this I don't need this much to pay my rent this much to pay my car note I'll be I'm gonna be fine and I quit my day job and I got um evicted from my apartment because I ran out of money so fast um they came after my car the repo guy was looking for the car I got evicted I went to go sleep on my uh sister's couch it was it was one of those