#1977 - Dave Smith

Joe Rogan (0:04)

The Joe Rogan Experience.

Joe Rogan (0:16)

Oh, we're live. Hello, Dave Smith.

Dave Smith (0:19)

Hello, sir.

Joe Rogan (0:20)

Good to see you, my brother.

Dave Smith (0:21)

Yeah, it's great to be back.

Joe Rogan (0:22)

Fun times last night.

Dave Smith (0:23)

Unbelievable, man.

Joe Rogan (0:24)

Yeah, that was your first voyage aboard the mothership.

Dave Smith (0:28)

Yes, it sure was. It sure was.

If you're gonna get abducted by aliens at a comedy club, it's the one to be at.

Joe Rogan (0:34)

Yeah, imagine. Imagine if they showed up there.

Dave Smith (0:37)

I imagine if they were gonna pick a comedy club to start abducting people, it would be yours.

Joe Rogan (0:42)

Well, they would know that we'd be open.

Dave Smith (0:44)

That's true.

Joe Rogan (0:45)

The improvs would probably like charge them.

Dave Smith (0:50)

Whereas you would welcome them in.

Joe Rogan (0:52)

Yeah, put them on the guest list.

Dave Smith (0:53)

It is. I know I just, I feel like I'm just saying the same thing everyone does, but the club is really amazing, man. You did an incredible job.

Joe Rogan (0:59)

It's pretty dope. Well, it wasn't me. I mean, it was, sort of, but it was a lot of people. And a lot of it, Richard Weiss, the architect and designer, he's the fucking man.

He did an incredible job. The whole thing's just very bizarre, you know? If it wasn't mine, I'd really be able to appreciate it.

Dave Smith (1:18)

But it's cool to see something, you know, like there's something cool about having a concept in your head and then seeing it manifest into reality.

Joe Rogan (1:25)

Yeah.

Dave Smith (1:25)

Because I remember, you know, you talking about this over the last couple of years, like we're gonna do this and it's gonna be like this. And then like, it's cool to see it materialize.

Joe Rogan (1:32)

I've never done anything like this before, obviously.

But I mean, to have an idea and to just like go all in on this idea and just really try to cut in zero corners and just do the best version of it. And there was a lot of delays because, you know, we said, okay, let's change this, let's change that, let's do this, let's do that. And when I had an idea, you know, an idea to change things, it's just like, you have to kind of follow through with it. You just, you know, it's like, you have one chance to do it right and you don't want to go back and close for two weeks so you can do new construction and fix something. And so we just, you know, took a long ass fucking time. You know, there's a lot of people saying, when you ever, you're not opening or closing bullshit. It's all bullshit. They just didn't, I knew once it got, I'm like, talk all that shit because once this thing gets open, they're all gonna want to come.

And the ones who can't, a lot of FOMO.

Dave Smith (2:35)

Dude, I thought, do you remember this is like, was it like a month ago or something like that?

You texted me, or I texted you congratulating you that for the club opening, it was like right around when it opened, and you texted me back, I can wait for you to come see it. I think you meant to say, I can't wait.

Joe Rogan (2:53)

For you to come see it.

Dave Smith (2:54)

But I thought there was something so funny about just texting me, like if that was your way of telling me, you don't want me at the club, you're like, I can wait. I can wait for you to see it, actually.

Joe Rogan (3:03)

Oh, that's hilarious. It has been a problem, though, because there's a lot of people want to come. And some of them are just, you know.

People are weird, like, that want a headline, and you know that they know, like, you know that you're not really a headliner. Like, what are you talking about?

Dave Smith (3:20)

No, I'm in the position where I was talking to Adam about it, because I'm trying to find a, he's trying to find me a weekend. And then he was like, I was like, oh, I'm free this weekend. And he's like, you know, I offered that to Schultz, but let me see. And then I have to be like, you know, you don't want to book Andrew Schultz, man. He harasses the staff and stuff. So like, you know, I just have to lie about my friends. You're like, he's actually gotten really into drugs, man. He's been assaulting people. You don't want to have him here.