Felipe Esparza
Appearances
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
You mentioned a plane crash because I was there when he did that joke. I was in the back of the comedy store. He said American Airlines is hiring him. And then he said, because I remember who survived that airline. And he said, fuck that. Everybody says, how come they don't build a plane out of the black box or sit me next to the black box? Sit me next to a fucking baby. Baby survived.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
Give me a hold of that baby, bitch. A baby survived? Yeah, a baby survived an airline, the flight one time. And he said, I want to hold that baby. I want to hold somebody's baby in an airplane. Just in case it goes down. Because if a baby survives, I'm going to survive.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
Yeah. I hung out with Brian Holtzman. I hung out with Brian Holzman and his mom in San Antonio, Texas.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
And he was the only non-Latino on the show, him and Darren Carter. And, bro, there was all Latinos, bro. Everybody was getting shit. Johnny Sanchez pronounced his name like an American. And somebody yelled out, it's Sanchez, fucker. How did they say it? I don't know. He said, hello, my name is Johnny Sanchez. And then somebody said, no, it's Sanchez with five A's. Sanchez. Oh, boy.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
There she is. Whoa. She looks like Elaine from Seinfeld.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
And Brian Holzman was up there. He said, um... He goes, this is not a comedy show. Close all the doors. I goes, Border Patrol is going to come in here and take everybody. But this is after we were doing this taping. Mencia shows up. There's a guest spot on our taping and goes crazy. Long, you know, really long. You know, like Jeff Valdez looking around.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
So then that's when Barry Holston goes up and murders it. He goes, man, I got to figure out this immigration problem, man. We got a bunch of U-Haul trucks, U-Haul trucks. We go around to every Home Depot. We got these people. Yeah, we're hiring, bro. There's lots of jobs. Muchos trabajos. Come on. Get in the trucks. We fucking take these trucks. We drop them off in Tijuana, Mexico. Yeah.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
What's up, fool? Good to see you, too. When was the last time I saw you, brother?
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
Weird advice sometimes, man. The managers give you the clubs. Terrible advice.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
I know, man. What good advice? I was bummed out one time because, you know, you have to go back and forth, back and forth until they make you a regular. And I was trying at the Laugh Factory. And one time, Jay Masada, he told me, I don't see you making it, man, for another six to eight years.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
And then when I finally got last coming standing, I looked at him and said, Jamie, your body was full of shit. It took fucking 12. It took 12, not six. But I was bummed out when he told me that. I was like bummed out. You know, you get bummed out. You realize you're putting all this work in. You can't be a regular here. So you got to go back to these other rooms. I talked to Brad Williams.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
And he said, fuck that advice, bro. You know what he told me? He said, he told me that I should get all the little people I can find in Hollywood. All of them, all the little midgets, all the little persons, and bring them to the Laugh Factory. And Jamie said, you can have the biggest little person show in all of Hollywood. That was his advice for Brad.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
So then I thought, I was not feeling so bad after that. Then I talked to Alonzo Bowden, and he told Alonzo Bowden that he should put on shoulder pads and be a football comic. So, Joe, after hearing that, I don't want to cry anymore. Oh, my God.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
I did heroin one time, but I didn't show it up. I just smoked it, but I was in Amsterdam.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
Yeah, man, gangsters own a lot of stuff that a lot of people wouldn't want to own, like a gay club.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
Like in LA, they own all the gay clubs. They were not rated because they were paying money.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
I read this. It's like crazy, right? My mom didn't like Elvis. She liked the Beatles, right? And I asked my mom, how come you don't like fucking Elvis? He's badass too. Oh, because Elvis said that I'd rather have kids a dog than a Mexican woman. And I said, when did he say that? And he goes, he said it. Then I found out later on when I went in a rabbit hole, it was a Colonel.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
Five years ago? And I did the show here when you were in L.A.? Yeah. At the warehouse? Damn.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
Because he wanted to keep him in America and not tour anywhere.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
I know, man. Imagine walking into a room and you just go, you want a kiss? And they kiss.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
It was too much. Did they cover it up the first time?
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
Badass. This is one video or picture of Elvis that I like besides the one you have here, the rested. Mm-hmm. When he's playing an outside event, and he's wearing all black, and he's fucking young as hell, and the purple door looking good, the blue eyes are shiny, and he's like, bro. And everybody's fainting.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
He was doing shitload of gigs, right? Like he'll leave, he'll do like a two-hour show and then leave, go do another two-hour show somewhere else.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
Bro, if you're a musician, though, like Elvis, it's great.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
I lose my mind being in the same place seven days a week, 14 shows a week.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
Good shit. None of the stuff you buy like in Grand Rapids, Iowa.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
You went to Vegas. Every day, probably like 50,000 people show up.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
Sometimes I wonder, man, like how would I handle that much success at that early age? Bro, you wouldn't. I know. That's what I'm saying.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
Mine was like the little mountain guy on The Price is Right. And then stopping along the way. Bunch of haters. Kiki, Kiki, Kiki, fighting with other comics. Coke here. Yeah. El Compadres is too long with Joey Diaz.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
We got a whole other channel? You had local channels, too, though, in your neighborhood?
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
Especially when Devin Williams and Devin and Greer were doing men on film. There's an episode where fucking the camera falls.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
Yeah, the camera falls on Damon Wayans, and he becomes heterosexual all of a sudden. And then David Languille starts touching him. He goes, make your life away from me, man. How about when he played Handyman? He played a mentally retarded... I love that one. Oh, my God. That's my favorite movie.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
It scared the shit out of me. I was afraid of cocaine, man. Because when I started stand-up, I started stand-up in 94, 93, at an open mic. And I was clean. I was sober. I was in rehab. and I wanted to be a comedian. So I went to a library to learn about writing, Jean Perrette, comedy writing, step-by-step. Another book called How to Write Funny, Be Funny, and Make Money Being Funny.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
I remember one time it happened to me, bro. I just looked at it and went, wow, that's a big-ass skin tag you got right there.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
I remember one time, bro, they told me to wear a suit, and I wore it, and I saw Joe Deere wearing a suit. I said, bro, we look ridiculous, huh? Joe Deere, he was wearing a beanie. I remember I called him the Coca-Cola bear he got, man.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
It really does. Do you feel like you're going to change your posture?
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
And that was a real great book, bro. I mean, it had comedy clubs locations in the back, and it had booker numbers to submit your comedy.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
So everything fits perfect. I mean, I don't want to make fun of the other guys, but you're announcing, you know, you're a big muscle guy, but it doesn't look like you're coming out of that suit when you wear it. It looks real good on you.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
And you go to Fox Sports, man. They're about to just come out. They don't look like fucking orangutans, bro. They don't look like Mr. Hyde.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
I was in an airplane at the Delta, and I saw Jason Momoa.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
And I said— A little too handsome for me. And I just said, what's up? No, I don't know how to meet people. I always tell weird people, I'll say, Jason! Just like that, Jason! Jason! What's up? And then I didn't know that. We were sitting almost close together on the airplane. Then he saw me again, bro. Then I said, what's up? Then I felt like I creeped him out again, man.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
And then my wife was recording him, bro, recording him. But I was on my phone. He thought I was recording him.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
If Quentin Tarantino might do it. Somebody should do it. It'll start with the ending. It'll be like the ending of the movie in the beginning and will confuse us.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
It'll be the first time that you'll see a Conan movie with everybody saying the N word over and over.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
That was a badass fucking movie, bro. You felt that movie, bro.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
I remember, bro, when I was looking for gigs in 2000, right? And I remember this comedian named Shang and Dante. Yeah, I remember those guys. Those guys had a list, like a five-page list of comedy bookers' names, NACA numbers to call. And the back of the page was shitty bookers to avoid. And they had to sign it to the comics for like 75 bucks.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
That one was hardcore, man. The Passion of the Christ. Yes.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
Kind of like the exorcist, man. Like if the exorcist, the devil, would have had like an Irish accent, it would have been a totally different movie. But the Latin accent, the whatever language, Latin language. Right, right, right.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
Fuck yeah. Exactly. You don't even know what the language is, but you're fucking scared, huh?
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
You're like you, bro. You're like one of those guys. You're like, to someone who doesn't know you personally, you're like, try me.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
I'm real nice. If I didn't know you and I saw you walking down the street and you're not Joe Rogan, I'd be like, okay, man, this guy's good fight. He's healthy. Stay away from him.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
But you've been friendly since day one, though. I was talking to your driver, Rebel, about when you gave me that SoloPipe. And then you said you stopped using it because of butane. Yeah. And I remember I was telling you that the reason it's called SoloPipe is because you're supposed to use it by yourself. But I remember I told everybody you gave it to me, and everybody wanted to hear it. Yeah.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
Oh, that's what that guy said. Guys in New York. Give me some ember.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
Oh, horrible. Because I remember lighting a match, and then you get the ugly-ass fuel. You know what's real bad? What? Scented candles.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
I hope all those candles that I've got in a massage parlor were safe.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
Yes. You know? And when I was a young comic, I would see older comics that I would see on television. They were just coming out at that bar or the patio.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
I'll let you burn them to make s'mores with a lighter and a fork. You know what's supposed to be really bad for you?
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
Oh, fuck that. Because people have done that. Idiots.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
I know, man. You wouldn't let your baby hold that. Why are you holding it?
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
Yeah, man. Don't carry a rake. I was outside over there going, I was holding that baseball, and I'm holding that baseball, and I'm looking at the werewolf, and I'm thinking, I'm looking at my wife, I bet you I could throw a knuckleball and make it right in the fucking werewolf mouth. You're going to fuck something up, sit down.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
That I still could throw a knuckleball. Were you a good baseball player?
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
No, I was good at playing streetball with a tennis ball. And I had a good jump on a tennis ball. And we would put over like a regular fastball. Yeah. And I used to make that shit. Man, that was good. Dude, we used to play stickball on the street.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
I don't get that game. I Wikipedia'd the other day to learn how to play because they're having like a stickball tournament in New York last week when I was there. Yeah, that's the video I saw.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
Yeah, they were having a tournament. Other veterans that used to play stickball in New York showed up to play. Oh, he slid on concrete, bro. But I never knew the game because in LA we play over the line. That's a good way to get a staph infection.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
Now they're all online. I used to play crazy games growing up, bro, that I'm pretty sure kids don't play that anymore. I used to play this game called huevos, which is called eggs. We used to put a bunch of holes on the floor. with your name on it, and then somebody will throw a tennis ball.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
And whoever the ball lands in that hole, that person has to grab that ball and fuck somebody up in the back before they make it to the wall. And that person you hit has to grab that ball and then hit people on the way back before they get to the other side of the wall. And if you miss everybody, you get an egg on your little hole.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
And once you get four of them, we all take turns fucking you up with a tennis ball while you're just standing there like this.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
Yeah, there was no cable back then. And we didn't want to join gangs.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
You ever play suicide, though? I don't remember. How's it go? It's a handball court, a wall, and you throw a ball. And there's five kids. And you catch it. But if you miss it, everybody starts fucking you up. So you make it to the wall. No, I never played that. Suicide. Never played that. Everybody stands by the wall and you throw the ball against the wall. You try to catch it.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
And if you miss, they fucking jump you till you get to the wall with the ball.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
You got videos of it, Jamie? Oh, my God. Oh, my God.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
There's always this asshole kid that didn't like that kid that was going to get hit, and he'll put that fucking ball in a shitload of water and mud.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
Also, remember, if that person that was supposed to get hit by the ball runs home, we'll fucking chase him home or beat him up in front of his mom.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
I know, man. I wonder if kids do a shoplift for fun.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
You don't do it now, right? No. You see opportunity.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
I know. But sometimes I'm walking around, and I see like a pack of donuts, but they're far from where the donuts are.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
Like they're by the shoe, and they're open. And I'm like, I'm all high looking at the donut. Like, damn, you're lost. Yeah.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
How you doing, brother? Swap. Swap. I saw him do that while he's talking to the guy and he put his knickers.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
I think that was a game, man, that road companies would do, bro, on the way to a gig who could shoplift the most shit out of the gas station.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
Hell yeah, man. You got to buy a grilled cheese there and put pork rinds in there from the package.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
Those were good, though. When you were hungry. Ramona's.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
Put that picture up again. Oh, my God. So there's a fake In-N-Out in Mexico, too. Oh, that's so funny, man. And there's a fake In-N-Out in California, too.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
Yeah, it's called Easy Takeout, and I think they used to be... Same uniforms, same stand, same burgers, but they just added a breakfast burger. It's called Easy Takeout in West Covina. Wow.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
He's talking about nuggets. The guys that were up there all coked out. Oh, yeah. Working the crowd.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
Yeah. But what's his name? This is Comedy Club and Tommy T's. He used to have the Lauren Hardy, the what you call it, the Lauren Hardy logos. Lauren Hardy. Yeah. Yeah. And for his comedy club. Oh, yeah. He got sued by Bowls of the Clown. He owned the copy.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
Yeah, the cartoon. Anything that you put cartoon on it was Laurel and Hardy's face.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
Yes. Who's on first? Who's on first? Eddie Cantor, bro. Who's Eddie Cantor? Eddie Cantor was the first comedian to do radio. Right. And he was, because I have a history for Fools podcast, so I learned about the history of stand-up comedy. Plus, I read that. I watched the documentary. But he was one of the first guys, but he was very clean, bro. He sang. Can we hear some of this?
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
He was the first red guy to have a radio comedy show. I'm trying to hear what he's saying. What is he saying?
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
He'll be on the radio, bro, talking, and then he'll pinch the chicks in their butts. Oh, God. Yeah, and then, like, they wouldn't say nothing. And then finally a woman says something, Mr. Cantor. And he had her fired.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
It's World War I, bro. Back then, for a stand-up comedian, like, what I found out was, imagine you do a gig. $200 back then, right? And the promoter says, the gangsters, I'm not going to pay you. And you don't get paid, and they go call the cops.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
You had three vagrants walking around downtown, and then your three comedians walking around town with no hotel, no pay, and they're going to pick you up for being a hobo now.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
But that was back then, bro. That was a hard time. Imagine from then to now.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
Yeah, I have a special right now on Netflix, Raging Fool. We shot it at the Crest Theater in Sacramento, two shows. My wife directed it and executive produced. She executive produced all my specials. But we shot it with our own money. We paid everybody, and then we sold it to Netflix. We made like a two-year deal. Oh, that's awesome. So you did great. I love the tracksuit.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
Yes, because of Raging Bull, because Raging Fool. Got it. Because of Raging Bull. I love the tracksuit. It's dope. Because I was watching that movie, Raging Bull.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
And I was thinking that when Jake LaMotta had nothing left to do in his life, he had nothing how to make money.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
He said, you know what? I'm going to be a comedian. So, and I felt like, wow. He had nothing else to do with his life, so he figured out, I'm gonna do stand-up comedy. Because that was the last thing, and for us, it's like the first thing.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
And he had like – you saw the movie, right, Raging Bull, when he's doing stand-up? And he's at a bar called Jimmy's Corner Bar, and that bar is still there.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
I like when he looks at his hands and he goes, he don't like his hands because they're not big, I guess. He goes, I can never be a heavyweight.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
Some of those gangsters that were in that movie were actually real people.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
The other place, you got to be from there to pronounce it right. Which one is that? The one that you did for a steak sauce. Oh, Worcester. Worcester. Yeah.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
Like that woman in that movie. I think you talked about it. The one that used to collect ears and put them in a jar. Yeah. Yeah. She was an actual real person. She had a bar where people would just have a jar full of pickled ears and noses from previous fights.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
And they would have fights in the back with a mongoose fighting a dog. Oh, my God.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
I always think about that man, like, when the... Jesus.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
She was Maggie. Hellcat Maggie. Jesus Christ. I think about when the Irish are coming in at the same time when that movie's happening, and they told them, you want a free meal? You want to fight for your country? And they give them a uniform, and their families go off to New York, and they go off to fight the South.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
In 2010, I was doing Last Comic Standing there, and I got there a day early, and I hung out with a Boston comic. I think his uncle is the guy they caught that was missing in action, the Irish gangster.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
Just imagine coming out of the boat and someone just hands you a gun and a piece of bread and goes, go fight for America. And I think about that, like, wow, some hardcore people right there, man.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
Different times, man. Desperate. Yeah, and then people look older then than they do now. Oh, yeah. They look old quick. Yeah, like you look at a person's photo and you go, how old is that kid? He looks like 70. Oh, that's a 25-year-old kid working the coal mine.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
Yeah, it was like a mile, bro, of coal, and it had no cover on it. That's crazy. And it was just falling off. They said that, well, I don't know how much coal flies. I don't know shit about coal, but I just know what the guy told me. There was a mile train of coal coming from Minnesota on that one line, and there was a boat. I could see the boat where it was going.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
Hey. Someone should check to see if maybe they know something we don't. I know, man. What are they producing with that coal? They're doing a lot.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
David Mosher is the comedian. Yeah, and he was, I said, yeah, man, were you performing Worcester, sir? And then he took the joint. He goes, no, bro, it's Worcester. Okay. Thank you for telling me, bro.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
Oh, no, man. I like the bigger phone. And the little pen. You like the pen. I love the pen.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
OG right there. Right, right, right. You're like, what? Right. I used to see her at Dodger Stadium when I was working at Dodger Stadium. And I would ask her for advice. And she was just, you know, like, every comeback back then, just keep writing. She was a funny comic, man.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
Only 1.5%. I take a picture of you, right, and then do that one screen, and then I circle it, and it'll find a sweater for me.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
That's what my wife always wanted. She wanted to have it where you're watching television, and you pause it with your finger and make a circle, It just ships to your house.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
Oh, the one that we could record now? Yeah, I've seen those.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
Wasn't there a movie like that? Yeah, there's been a bunch of movies like that. Roddy Piper was like that. Oh, they live. They live. They have the glasses. Yes. Right. That was Aliens. I think about that. Sometimes when you have a guest, they go, wait a minute, he's talking about those glasses from Roddy Piper?
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
Right there. Try that. Oh, it's... It's Anfu Nguyen.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
So it's An Phu Nguyen. Okay. I can see it. Little Dutch there.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
The whole screen is on there, but you've got to navigate all the way around to read everything?
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
That sounds like Larry Bubbles Brown from San Francisco. Yeah. He still has the flip phone.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
It's just hilarious. Do they both have the original phone numbers from when you first met them?
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
I think I still have my same phone number for the last 20 years.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
Eight is good. I tell you a story like, my bro, I get up at five every day.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
That's funny you said the verge of war. When you first started doing stand-up comedy, there's been a lot of verges of real wars, huh?
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
It just happened at night, right? We started watching the air raids.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
What did I fire for? Or tell you the truth, I kind of forgot myself. My favorite one is the unforgiving, man. When a guy is crying, could he kill somebody? He goes, that's what happens when you kill a man. You take away all he ever wanted and all he ever had.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
I like that line when he goes in there to get those people that killed Morgan Freeman. You just shot an unarmed man. He should have armed himself if he's going to decorate his place with a friend of mine.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
I had a first comedy album, the one he did with Roaring or something.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
That's what I think about now. When I watch those movies now, like Gangs of New York, I look towards somebody, man, it fucking stinks out there. People are ignoring the fucking stink. There's a rotting body right there.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
And the little napkin that they had on the big white wig people, they had a little canker shift. And they would just carry it, bro. And they would have perfume on it. They would put it in their nose so they wouldn't have to smell like the poor people.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
And throw in like shit water out of a... Look at this. That's all shit.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
Yeah. That was great. That's a great album. There was a place like that, a Boston place, but not in a documentary, but Will Durst, he's a San Francisco comedian. Sure. He had a room like that called the Comedy Zoo or the Zoo. Holy City Zoo, right? Holy City Zoo. Yeah.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
Oh, man, when I was at my grandma's house in Mexico, they still had an outhouse. They didn't have no plumbing.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
And you're in Italy reading books talking about the streets are made of gold.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
And there's a comedian that came out of there that's a killer comic and he's still alive and he opened for me and he opened for Rob Schneider and Papa and he opened for a lot of people. Larry Bubbles Brown. Oh, cool. And he's an old school guy. After every joke, he goes, mer. Mer. But he did Letterman in 1992. And then he did it again in 2006.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
Oh, man. I also think about... That's so nasty. And condoms back then were probably still sheep's wool, right? Sheep skin. Sheep skin? Yeah, like sheep intestines. I saw a movie where a woman, a guy, a woman, she was washing the contraceptive.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
Right after this white wig guy threw it at her face. Wow. So she's using the same one for every man. Oh, my God.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
So he has a record for doing Letterman between 30 years. Wow. But he's one of those comedians that never left San Francisco.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
Well, I want to be cremated, but if that's an option. You're just talking about it.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
No, they're making them to a soil, right? Oh, right, right, right.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
But then people start looking at that like they'd look at chicken. How are they raised? What kind of parents did he have?
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
If you ever get invited to a restaurant, they tell you you're just a human being, would you eat it?
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
Why would I eat a person? Or will they tell you after, man, you just ate a...
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
I saw one where a guy was called a microwave massacre.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
And this guy murdered his wife. In a microwave? No, he cuts off her pieces and microwaves the body and makes lunches and he takes them to work every day.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
It's a real movie called Microwave Massacre, but probably based on a real guy. And he would take food that he made from people he murdered, and they would eat it at work. And when they finally caught him, everybody at work was throwing up.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
If you have bad deer meat, can you cover it up with a bunch of good deer meat where that bad meat disappears? No. What do you mean? She said, like, because I remember myself cooking. And I had, like, I spilled, like, a shitload of garlic on my oatmeal. And I was making oatmeal for 15 motherfuckers in rehab. So I just started putting more oatmeal, more oatmeal, and more milk.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
To hide the garlic smell. But in the end, everybody was farting anyway, so they still got it. But that's what you're saying, that people do that with deer meat?
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
Like AIDS. I read that somewhere. They make all that shit in labs. Well... Wasn't it like part of like... Chemical warfare, right?
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
Like putting disease blankets on natives, you know, and... Well, they've done a bunch of fucking studies.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
You could just go anywhere. I used to see his face when I go to El Paso comic strip, and all the dudes you're talking about, they were all there.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
And they come over to- They're probably having sex with each other.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
So unhealthy. I know, man. Like, I think about that pirate... I don't know, one of the pirates. Blackbeard? Blackbeard, man. He was full of gonorrhea. Oh, that. And he would drop mercury on his penis to cure his diseases on his penis. Oh, my God. Because that's all they had.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
He probably was on a pirate ship somewhere, met a voodoo doctor and said, hey, man, mercury, put it in your dick.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
Somebody needs to do a movie about that guy. Imagine, man. He had the money to put Mercury in his dick. The rest of the crew probably didn't. So they're out there fucking everything, man. Fucking shut up.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
A lot of the clips that I watched are from other people sharing them.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
Wow, that's amazing to think of something like that and it still works.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
A hundred tons. How did Blackbeard find this shit? Well, that wasn't Blackbeard.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
How did he find mercury back then? That's the urethral device. Shiver me timbers.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
Man, you're probably drawing it in the map. Don't go over there, man. If you're going to go to this island, take lots of mercury.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
That's crazy how when they start hating the character, but not the person.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
I did a show at Lompoc State Penitentiary, and one of the guards told me that some guy made a vibrator out of seven handballs. You know, the void. Oh, my God. And he taped them all up. And then what happened? How do you guys know? Well, he didn't tie them up too good, and they were all stuck in there. I had to take them all out.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
Yeah, because he didn't put enough wrapping, I guess. Oh, no.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
Like five, whatever. How many balls make this? And you thought he was hiding a knife.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
Yeah, right? Just like the guy, they used to have that puppet in New York. Oh, Otto and George. Yeah. Greg Giraldo, when I opened for him back in the day, back in Addison Improv, he told me that he would say the nastiest shit, that puppet, and this lady threw shit at the puppet, but not at Otto.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
Wow. Yeah. That's how the dude died. One of the first books, you know, there used to be a lot of sex books when we were kids, and they were all nasty books about sex. Yeah. The first one I ever read was about people having sex with animals.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
But they were like, remember those penthouse stories or Playboy stories? Mm-hmm. But these were all with animals. And I remember the woman... Telling the whole story about having sex with a horse.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
Was that his first time or was he trying with ponies first?
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
But it's real, right? It's not like an urban legend like when people say I went to TJ and saw a donkey show.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
No, that's called bestiality when you have sex with an animal.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
And what's the one when you have sex with dead bodies? That is necrophilia.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
People have sex with animals, right? Like, since you want to talk about gangs in New York, how ugly it was. Right.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
Is the horse known for that, or did he just grab a random horse? Because he needs to know what he was doing, bro.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
You're not going to show that, right? No, no, no. We've had enough. Peter will come after us.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
I twisted my ankle, man. Now I want a moose to fuck me in the ass.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
been knocked out really bad. But that's crazy to get, like, get knocked out of the fuck out and you wake up and goes, is there a horse nearby? Because I'm really horny right now.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
But that goes back to your old joke, man. The old joke to say, hey, you take a break today.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
You know what I said when you had that joke about the Playboy Mansion, and you said that, what's his name, whatever, he would have, every once in a while, a gay will pop in. And then the punchline was, nah, man, you take a break.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
Take a break. You take a break. Yeah, relax. You get a little crazy. Yeah, you fucking 10 shakes a day. You're not for a guy. You take a break.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
Gary Busey was in a head injury, right? A bad one. I wonder what he's up to.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
He said, nah, I want a Seabiscuit. You could be a food blogger. Nah, ponies.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
Telephone why could we see his shoes through his mouth?
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
Some people say also that the CIA did it. Jimi Hendrix.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
Or a sharp bed spring, bro. Something, anything. Whatever you got that you polished down to a point. You ever watched the fabulous Ms. Measel? What's that? The Fabulous Mrs. Maisel is about a female comic growing up in the 50s on Amazon. No.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
I think they think you get to a certain age, 50, and they think you're gullible to these tricks now.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
They say to 22-year-olds, hey, man, you want to fix your home? Or do you have a home?
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
There was a guy in La Ale that was calling women at their jobs and telling them they had won something, and he convinced them to cut their heels off their shoes. And he would film it? No, he was just calling them out randomly. Hey, you just won, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. All you got to do is cut your heels off your shoes right now.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
And women were doing it, and he called a bunch of chicks, and they all just fucked up their shoes for nothing.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
I never had cowboy boots. I've had Doc Martin, but not cowboy boots.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
Is the lipstick, well, I don't know, the lipsticks, well, the native lipsticks, it's made out of smashed little bugs.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
Yeah, there was a woman back in, I don't know, 1800, 1900. She was the first woman to make a woman's magazine on clothing and home gardening, how to cook. She was first lady to put recipes in a magazine. Oh, yeah? Kind of like for a homemaker.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
And then... Yeah. There was a magazine back then. I don't know what the name of the magazine, but.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
Do you remember the ventriloquist that did a one-minute set on her show? Yeah.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
When I was a kid, my seventh grade teacher thought it was bad. Don't put on that makeup, young girl.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
Yeah, man. That's why a lot of comedians back then stopped blackfacing. Hey!
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
I wonder how money... Gotta wonder, right? How about the people that worked the news back then in the 450? They wore a shitload of makeup.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
That was probably all chemicals. Cake makeup, man. It was big. What the fuck did they make that stuff out of?
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
You guys don't wear makeup when you do the UFC fights?
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
I won't do it. So when they're speaking to you, like when you get a fighter that's real bloody, like you can... What's... Because you're really up close to these guys. What do you see in their eyes after a fight like when they're... And they're also bleeding, man. Do you see like... You see like their intensity, man. You see things like other people don't see when you're interviewing them.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
I'm sure you see something. You're there in a fight right in front of them.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
If you're going to go, go all the way or don't even try.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
If you're going to go, go all the way or don't even try. It could mean losing girlfriends. It could mean losing wives, relatives. It could be time spent in jail. Lonely nights in the dark. Lonely nights by yourself.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
But in the end, it's all worth it. I don't know the rest.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
They did two movies? The one with Matt Dillon called Factotum, too.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
That came out in 2000-something, and he plays him. There's Barfly and there's Factotum. Factotum, he plays him at that age. He's way too handsome.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
Yeah. Charles Bukowski is actually in Barfly. He's one of the drunks in the bar.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
Yeah, man. When I started reading, I wanted to read books about authors that were from Los Angeles, like in the 40s and 50s. And I said, I've got to find something that... that talks about Los Angeles, these streets that I live in. And there was Charles Bukowski. He writes about Los Angeles. And I found out that his inspiration was a guy named, oh, man, what's his name?
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
He writes just like Charles Bukowski. He wrote a book called Ask the Dust and The Adventures of Arturo Bandini. I'm lost here of his name, but John Fonte, yes, John Fonte. John Fonte wrote books in the style of Charles Bukowski, and Charles Bukowski, when he found out about him, He helped him publish all his books again.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
So that's why I know that John Fonte exists, because John Bukowski, he republished all his books for him when he was dying of diabetes. So after this, bro, he talks about Los Angeles during 1932, bro, when Los Angeles had a metro rail and the 1932 earthquake in Los Angeles. Wow. So it's all about, this guy's from Los Angeles. He talks about Armenians and... working the docks in 1920s. Wow.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
That's a great catch. And they're alcoholics, bro. This guy's an alcoholic, and so is Charlie Bukowski. These are dudes that worked jobs and still were authors.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
Exactly. Yeah, exactly. These guys actually had jobs during the day. Charlie Bukowski, he worked at the post office. He never quit. Yeah. And Antonio Bandini, well, what's his name? The other guy, he started writing for Hollywood and he just disappeared.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
Did you ever get hired to be a writer and then you said, this is not for me?
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
Yeah, why would you write your whole set list on a book?
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
Oh, my Netflix special is available right now. Raging Fool on Netflix. Go check it out. Directed by my wife, Lisa O'Daniel. And I want to give a shout out to my brother-in-law. who listens to you religiously with his daughters, Johnny O'Daniel. What's up, boo? Shout out to Johnny. In Dayton, Ohio. All right. Instagram, all that shit. What is it? My Instagram is Felipe Esparza.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
My website is felipesworld.com. I'll be in, I don't know when this airs, I'll be in Grand Rapids, Iowa, and Indianapolis, Helium. When are those dates? I don't know.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
Go to the website. April 5th, I'll be in San Diego with Paul Rodriguez. And April 25th, I'll be in San Diego with a bunch of comedians.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2276 - Felipe Esparza
All right. Felipe, always good to see you, my brother.