#2042 - Joe List

Joe List (0:21)

Smoking Joe's That's us dude.

Joe Rogan (0:24)

Last night was fun as fuck, it's been fun having you, two nights in a row.

Joe List (0:27)

Yeah, thanks, three nights, I was ere for, well, I don't know if I'm irling to say, yeah, I was ere Monday.

But yeah, it's been awesome. I mean, obviously, everyone tells you, everyone says it, it's one of those things, I wanted to be the guy that was like, nah, I don't know, it's not so great. But no, it's fucking awesome.

Joe Rogan (0:43)

We did it right.

Joe List (0:44)

What an atmosphere. Great green room, I mean, that's the only green room you can smoke cigars in.

That's not true, there's some, I was just in Nashville at Zany's, and the manager was very nice, and he was like, you can smoke a cigar if you want.

Joe Rogan (0:54)

Oh yeah, Zany's is great.

Joe List (0:56)

But I was like, I don't think I'm doing smoke a cigar in the green room numbers.

You know what I mean? I'm like, you gotta add a couple shows before you're lighting a fucking stick in the green room, I think.

Joe Rogan (1:06)

I think when we were in England, they told us that if you smoke inside, it's like a severe fine, like something like really crazy. So you can't even smoke in the green room in England if you do like shows.

Joe List (1:18)

Right, yeah, mostly I don't like smoking indoors because it just, you fucking stink, and the secondhand smoke can bother me, but your green room is like really well ventilated also.

Joe Rogan (1:29)

Yeah, you see this big vents in the ceiling in that place when you go in there. We set it up on purpose so that people could smoke in there.

Joe List (1:36)

No, I like when you can just watch the smoke just go straight out. You're like, this is nice.

Joe Rogan (1:39)

Yeah, because some of the comics smoke cigarettes and you know, oh, they're so, so, so, so hot.

And you know, you want to suck the air out. You don't want everybody to be subject to it.

Joe List (1:49)

It's a wet dream in there. Have you had anyone get too fucked up where you're like, dude, you gotta, because all I think about when I was drinking, if you just had whiskey and booze with like, help yourself, there's gotta be a few people that are gonna be problematic at some point.

Joe Rogan (2:02)

Everybody's been keeping it together so far.

Joe List (2:04)

Okay.

Joe Rogan (2:05)

We'll see. We'll see as the crowd grows.

Joe List (2:07)

I'm interested. It feels like a kind of thing. I come back in a year and it's like, there's a safe with all the booze in it, and they're like, yeah, fucking so-and-so came in and ruined everybody.

Joe Rogan (2:15)

Nah, I don't think there's that many of those super off-the-rail guys left.

Joe List (2:21)

I think that's a good point. My wife and I talk about this a lot, but I think maybe because we're older, though.

I'm sure there's a bunch of comics in their 20s that really get after it.

Joe Rogan (2:29)

Yeah, I bet that's true.

Yeah, we just probably don't know them. I'm thinking like established comics, because there was like established comics when I was coming up that were like national headliners that you just knew were off the rails.

Joe List (2:44)

Yeah, I actually think it's very difficult to sustain boozing that hard and be successful.

Joe Rogan (2:51)

Most of it was Coke was what I, when someone was like an off the rails guy, like completely out of control, it was booze, but it was a lot of Coke.

Joe List (2:59)

Right, were you ever a Coke guy?

Joe Rogan (3:00)

No.

Joe List (3:00)

No, me either.

SPEAKER_4 (3:01)

Yeah, that's how it was.

Joe List (3:03)

I was too afraid of snorting a thing. And then no one ever said good things about Coke to me. Until later, I heard every once in a while, but mostly people were like, oh, don't do Coke, it makes you crazy, your heart's gonna explode. Like people didn't sell cocaine to me.

Joe Rogan (3:16)

Well, it just didn't seem like the people that I saw doing Coke are going anywhere. It seemed like it was tripping up their life pretty bad.

Joe List (3:23)

Right, right.

Joe Rogan (3:24)

I was very fortunate that when I was in high school, my friend, his cousin was selling it, and his cousin got addicted to it. And I watched this guy go from being like a normal guy to being this like person who just like hung out in this attic apartment and lost all this weight and just like, they just did Coke and watched TV and sold Coke. And it's like you got bit by a vampire.