#1078 - Jimmy Dore

Joe Rogan (0:01)

Three, two...

Jamie with the quick count. Jimmy Dore, we're live.

Jimmy Dore (0:07)

Oh, fantastic.

Joe Rogan (0:07)

Do you use headsets or no?

Jimmy Dore (0:09)

Oh, should I wear headsets? I'll wear headsets.

Joe Rogan (0:11)

It's up to you, I just feel lonely if I'm the only guy with headsets.

Jimmy Dore (0:13)

Oh, okay. Is that better?

Joe Rogan (0:14)

Oh, I guess that's better.

Jimmy Dore (0:15)

Like, I got the privacy girl, and hey, what time is it? It's 1101, one minute after 11 59 minutes from the top of 12 hours.

Joe Rogan (0:21)

Did you ever do that? Did you ever do a regular radio show?

Jimmy Dore (0:23)

I had, in college, I had a radio show, but it wasn't real. It was just broadcast to no one, actually, it turned out.

Joe Rogan (0:29)

To the campus?

Jimmy Dore (0:32)

It was supposed to be going out to the campus, and then we found out about three months in, it wasn't going out to anybody.

Joe Rogan (0:37)

I always had dreams of doing a radio show, but I always knew that I would fuck it up. You know, I'm like, I'd get fired or something. And I never thought anybody would hire me.

Jimmy Dore (0:45)

I got in trouble at that station for playing the same song three times in a row.

Joe Rogan (0:51)

Because it was so good?

Jimmy Dore (0:52)

Yeah, I liked it.

Joe Rogan (0:52)

What was the song?

Jimmy Dore (0:53)

I don't even remember. It was like some off-brand, I never heard of them, like the Rabbini Brothers. I was like, that's a fun song.

Joe Rogan (0:58)

They fired you from a college station for that?

Jimmy Dore (1:00)

They didn't fire me. They came in and they yelled at me. And I was like, this isn't even going out to anyone.

And if it was a nice day, and I had to do my radio shift, I would just come in and simulcast with the FM, because I was on AM, and simulcast with the FM station, because I wanted to go out in the choir. I want to sit in that studio. It was a nice day.

Joe Rogan (1:18)

I wonder if anybody has done this. I mean, I don't think you could do it and put ads on it, but you could do it as just a fun project, have your own radio show on a podcast where you just play songs.

Could you do that, Jamie?

Jimmy Dore (1:32)

No, I think because you can't give people, if you give people a download of a song, that's illegal.

Joe Rogan (1:37)

Right, okay.

Jimmy Dore (1:38)

Yeah, that's why, yeah.

Joe Rogan (1:40)

So you could stream it though, maybe, like stream it on YouTube?

Jimmy Dore (1:43)

Maybe.

Joe Rogan (1:43)

Maybe, but not.

Jimmy Dore (1:44)

But you'd still have to pay some kind of royalties for those songs. I don't know what.

Joe Rogan (1:49)

Even if you weren't making any money off of it, you'd have to pay?

Jimmy Dore (1:52)

I think so. If someone's streaming your jokes, they have to pay.

Joe Rogan (1:56)

Yeah, but the thing is, nobody wants to hear your jokes more than once. That's the problem with jokes.

Jimmy Dore (2:00)

That's not true, Joe.

Joe Rogan (2:01)

Really?

Jimmy Dore (2:03)

All right, first of all, let me blow smoke up your ass a little bit. I'm not actually as sincere. So I've seen you do comedy before. I saw you, we did the 2004, I think it was the Aspen Festival, we were on the opening night show at the Wheeler Opera House, and then I saw you do sets at the Improv. And I always thought you were funny, you know, but I never remembered any of your jokes.

And then I saw you at the Comedy Store a couple weeks ago, and I've been doing your act ever since.

I've been telling your jokes everywhere I go to anybody who will listen, and everybody falls down laughing. Those jokes that you have, first of all, the joke about Weinstein is just so goddamn funny. And then the joke about the wrestling, god damn it. And it's hard for me to not say them right in your face right now. I know that would be not good if I did your jokes right to you, but I can't not do. Those are some of the funniest jokes I've heard in a long time. And I know people are going to be saying, oh, he's such a kiss ass. I'm not kidding. I love comedy, and I love jokes, and I can remember jokes that I like.