#1483 - Jesus Trejo

Joe Rogan (0:01)

Jesus, my man. What's up, man? What's up, brother? Good to see you.

Jesus Trejo (0:04)

Good to see you, man. Thank you so much for this amazing opportunity. I couldn't sleep last night.

Yeah, no, I was excited. I laid down my outfit and ironed it. I'm like, you know what I got? Yeah, lint roller.

Joe Rogan (0:17)

That's so crazy.

Dude, you and I have been friends for years. You gotta relax.

Jesus Trejo (0:21)

But this is a big deal. I mean, you're...

Joe Rogan (0:23)

Try to get that shit out of your head. Try to get that big deal out of your head.

Just clean it, clean it. You got a big deal. Tomorrow night, Showtime. Well, when this airs, it'll be tonight.

Jesus Trejo (0:34)

Yeah, it'll be tonight.

Joe Rogan (0:35)

Showtime.

Jesus Trejo (0:36)

My first one hour special.

Joe Rogan (0:37)

That's amazing. I'm excited for you. I've seen you working it out. It's hilarious shit. And I know you've been really grinding up until this pandemic, but luckily you filmed it.

You got under the wire, right? How many months out were you?

Jesus Trejo (0:49)

I filmed it November 2nd.

Joe Rogan (0:51)

Oh, okay, so you missed it by a couple months.

Jesus Trejo (0:53)

Yeah, November 2nd, I filmed it. And people think I named the special Stay At Home Son because of what was going on, but I landed on the title in the summer.

Joe Rogan (1:02)

It's called Stay At Home?

Jesus Trejo (1:03)

Yeah, Stay At Home Son.

Joe Rogan (1:04)

Okay.

Jesus Trejo (1:05)

And I, you know, if I would have named it now, I would have put a comma right before the sun. You know, really drove the point. But yeah, I was excited. And yeah, my first one hour special, it's like one of those things where you like, you dream about it as a kid and here it is. And it's like, ooh.

Joe Rogan (1:19)

How many years have you been doing standup now?

Jesus Trejo (1:21)

13

Joe Rogan (1:22)

Oh, that's good.

Jesus Trejo (1:22)

I started when I was 20 and I'm 33 now.

Joe Rogan (1:25)

There's a thing that they say, I don't know who they are, but I say it too.

Jesus Trejo (1:29)

Who are they?

Joe Rogan (1:30)

Who are they? 10 years, takes 10 years to become a real comic.

That's what they always say. I don't know why they say that.

Jesus Trejo (1:38)

Is it like the black belt is like, it takes 10 years to more or less to get a black belt then the learning begins?

Joe Rogan (1:44)

Well, you're always learning. I think that learning begins stuff is kind of, it's a weird way to say it cause you're always learning. I understand what they're saying that there's so you, once you understand, it's like there's an expression, I think it was either Dennis or Terrence McKenna said that when the bonfire of knowledge increases, the surface area of ignorance is exposed.

So the idea is that the more you know, the more you realize the possibilities and the less you really think you ever knew anything. When you're young, your knowledge is so limited and your world is so small that you get cocky and you think, also your brain's not fully formed.

You think, you're way smarter than you really are. But as you get older, the older I get and the more I understand, I'm like, oh, this is all madness. Like this whole thing is like tied together with bubble gum and fucking shoestrings. They could fall apart and fly off into the universe. Like this, as I get older, I'm less confident in everything. I'm more puzzled by everything. And I think I know way less. The more I know, like I know way more than I knew when I was 18, but I'm way less confident.

Jesus Trejo (2:55)

Yeah, that's absolutely true. The older I get, I seem to just even doubt myself more because I'm like, what do I know? It's like, I guess, even in standup, when you first start out and you have those first few minutes, you're like, oh no, this is funny. And then you, with time, you're like, that was not funny at all. So it's like you hold things less dear. Yeah. It's not like, your first five minutes, you're like, oh man, this is late night show. Well, here we come. And then just like, you're looking back, I couldn't believe I was doing that.

But that's how I tricked myself into doing new material. It's like, I imagine that this is day one of standup for me, and this is the only material I got, and I think it's hilarious. And I go up there and I try to do it, as if I'm starting out and I think this is, that's the only material I have.