#1981 - Pauly Shore

Joe Rogan (0:14)

Bert crashed his head twice, he wears them. He can adjust it, too.

Pauly Shore (0:18)

I feel like I'm going up to the mothership with these things.

Joe Rogan (0:21)

Dude, you fucking killed it, the mothership. That was the funniest I've ever seen. You were so loose and so silly.

It was fun to see, man. First of all, you could tell you've been doing stand up. You looked super comfortable, but you were so loose.

Pauly Shore (0:38)

It's stand up, as you know, as a rhythm, and you just kind of figure it out when you're on stage, and you never know what the fuck's going to happen.

Yeah. Yeah. That night was just David was nice enough to let me on his show, and after I put my finger under his boob sweat, I went like this, I like to do that a lot. And then he's got sweaty brows, and I just like that, and it got me excited.

SPEAKER_4 (1:04)

Firm bones.

Pauly Shore (1:05)

Yeah, yeah. And then I went and then I saw Montgomery, and he had his flip his hair over, and then I punched Hans in the stomach, and then I got on stage, it was all happening.

SPEAKER_4 (1:15)

Perfect sequence of events.

Pauly Shore (1:18)

So no, it's, you know, what you said up there, it's, you know, it's in my veins. It's really in my veins. Like just the second I walked in that room, I just felt this focus.

And that's what I said to you. I just really feel like there's a focus there.

Joe Rogan (1:34)

Well, that club was a rock and roll club. I mean, you see the picture that's in the tunnel when you walk onto the stage?

Pauly Shore (1:42)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (1:43)

We see the big picture of Steve Ray Vaughan. That's him performing on that stage in 1983

Pauly Shore (1:47)

Yeah, that's the old Alamo Drafthouse.

Joe Rogan (1:50)

It was only the Alamo Drafthouse from the two, I think it was like 2007 on.

Before that, it had been a bunch of things. It was a pool hall at one point in time. It was a nudie movie theater at one point in time. It was a punk rock club. Like all the posters that you see that are in the green room, those are all posters of people performing at the Ritz. It's all like the Misfits.

Pauly Shore (2:11)

So it was the Ritz before the Alamo.

Joe Rogan (2:14)

Yes. It's been the Ritz since 1927 It has to stay the Ritz. No matter what it is, that sign, the Ritz, always exists because it's a historical landmark.

Pauly Shore (2:28)

Right. Well, you gutted it out, though. I mean, you allowed to say how much money you spent on it?

Joe Rogan (2:33)

Well, I'm allowed to say it.

Pauly Shore (2:34)

Oh, you don't say it?

Okay. Well, you spent a lot of money on it. Yeah, you had to spend money. And those two stages were...

Joe Rogan (2:40)

You have to pay construction people.

Pauly Shore (2:41)

Yeah. No, I get it.

Joe Rogan (2:43)

Yeah, they did a great job. They fucking nailed it.

Pauly Shore (2:46)

Were there two stages before?

Joe Rogan (2:48)

Oh, wow. They had converted it when they converted it to the movie theater. I think that's when they turned it into two rooms.

Pauly Shore (2:54)

Huh.

Joe Rogan (2:55)

Yeah. I don't know how they did it, but we have the same architect, fortunately, so he knew exactly all the bones in the building.

Pauly Shore (3:01)

The beams and all that stuff.

Joe Rogan (3:02)

Yeah, yeah, all that stuff.

Pauly Shore (3:03)

Where are the electricals? Yeah, so there's this thing that's happening, and obviously I've been in it my whole life since I was four, and first of all, I'm so proud of you. I see you sometimes, and we give each other hugs. I say, I love you, but I don't get to say how proud I am of you. I've seen you my whole, for years, and on behalf of my mom, too, because I know how much you love her, and I know how much she means to you, and I know how far you've come.

I know how far you've come, because I remember when you first stepped at the store, and I remember seeing you in Boston, and I remember, because we're the same age, and we came up at the same time.

And I'm so proud of you, dude. And when I saw you on that stage at MGM, when you worked with Chappelle, I was like, this guy's fucking funny. Really funny, dude. And I'm not just saying that, because you become this massive business, and you're just this...