#1935 - Kyle Kulinski

Joe Rogan (0:04)

The Joe Rogan Experience. Hi, Kyle.

Kyle Kulinski (0:13)

Hello, sir.

Good to see you too, man. That was a great set last night.

Joe Rogan (0:16)

Thank you, it was a lot of fun.

Kyle Kulinski (0:17)

Yeah, that was a lot of fun.

Joe Rogan (0:18)

That place crazy?

Kyle Kulinski (0:19)

That place is crazy, yeah.

Joe Rogan (0:20)

Used to be an EDM club, we turned it into a comedy club.

Kyle Kulinski (0:22)

That's hilarious, how long ago?

Joe Rogan (0:24)

Just by coming here, two years ago.

Kyle Kulinski (0:25)

Two years ago it was an EDM club?

Joe Rogan (0:26)

Two years ago it was like a bunch of dirty people that were doing MDMA and dancing around.

Kyle Kulinski (0:33)

Well, I feel like last year, it wasn't like, I don't think they had that cool projection of the alien on the back.

Joe Rogan (0:38)

Oh yeah, no.

Kyle Kulinski (0:40)

Yeah, it's like they've upgraded it in just a year.

Joe Rogan (0:41)

Yeah, well it's become a thing. We're there every week.

And then the club opens up within a couple of weeks, I'll show you that tomorrow.

Kyle Kulinski (0:50)

Yeah, and you got a lot of comedians who have joined you here, right?

Joe Rogan (0:54)

12 world class comedians moved here.

Kyle Kulinski (0:57)

And come on, they all just followed you, right? They saw what you did and they were like, all right, let's go there.

Joe Rogan (1:01)

Well, I kind of let them know, you don't have to be there. You don't have to be in Hollywood stuck in traffic, and you don't have to deal with, it was always in California, there was always the allure of Hollywood because they were going to give you work. You'd get on a sitcom and you would do talk shows, you'd do all these different things, but those aren't really a thing anymore.

And so what else are you going to be there for? Movies? How many movies are there? You can go in for movies.

What do you want to do? Everybody wants to do stand up. Stan Hobe said it once and I thought about it, I was like, dad, that's right. He's like, really what you're doing when you're doing a television show is it's an ad to get people to go see you do stand up. Like yeah, that's what it is.

Kyle Kulinski (1:43)

How many of your comedian friends still do TV, movies, stuff like that? A few of them. A few of them do?

Joe Rogan (1:50)

Yeah, they're trying to do more movies now, like Burt just did a big movie, The Machine, and it was a real problem because it got delayed because it's all about Russia. It's about him going to Russia. It's a true story about him.

The fucking trailer is hilarious. It looks great, but they held it for a long time, and then we released the trailer on the podcast we did recently, and so now they're gonna release the movie because the trailer got received so well, because they were worried. Like people were gonna say, you know, it's about Russia. You can't have a funny movie about Russia, but nobody really cares.

Kyle Kulinski (2:24)

So who was like pressuring them over it?

Joe Rogan (2:26)

It's not a pressure thing, it's a fear thing. They're like, oh, let's not release this, let's hang on to this.

Kyle Kulinski (2:31)

They did that with North Korea. You remember when, yeah, what was that? Who's the dude's name? I'll blank it on his name right now.

Yeah, James Franco.

Joe Rogan (2:38)

Seth Rogan.

Kyle Kulinski (2:39)

Yeah, and they were like, hey, we don't wanna cause any problems or whatever.

Which is like, well, it's hilarious to think that Kim Jong Un is somewhere like, what did James Franco say about me? How is he joking?

Joe Rogan (2:47)

Well, I'm sure they're pissed, but you know, whatever. These guys are pissed about everything, isn't he?

Kyle Kulinski (2:53)

Well, some of the propaganda that comes out of there is like world-class silly, you know? It's like they have effectively a state religion where, I mean, they said, famously, Kim Jong Il in his first round of golf, he shot like, I don't know, it was like, 1800 bars or something. Yeah, something ridiculous. Yeah, so they go top notch with their propaganda. They don't mess around.

Joe Rogan (3:14)

His first round of golf, imagine.

Kyle Kulinski (3:16)

Which is beyond impossible. I don't even think it might be impossible to shoot even par your first round of a golf.

Joe Rogan (3:22)

Yeah, how would be possible?