#2110 - Fahim Anwar

Fahim Anwar (0:03)

The Joe Rogan Experience. All day.

Joe Rogan (0:12)

My man.

Fahim Anwar (0:13)

How are you?

Joe Rogan (0:13)

Good to see you, brother.

Fahim Anwar (0:14)

Good to be back, thank you for having me. I miss you, too.

Joe Rogan (0:16)

I used to get to see you every week.

Fahim Anwar (0:18)

I thought about that the other day, like, yeah. You forget that that's like a period of time, and it's not going to be forever sometimes, you know?

Joe Rogan (0:25)

Yeah, well, it almost was. You were one of the first people to take the trip out here.

Fahim Anwar (0:29)

I was. It was clear as day when I first came out. I'm like, why wouldn't you be out here? Because I remember I had this writing job, right? And so I was just like on Zoom every day, and life kind of sucked because you couldn't go out. So I was just trapped in my house.

And then in between a lunch break, I'm on Instagram, and I see Tony, you know, Tony Hinchcliffe's post. This is like in the infancy of him coming out here, you know? He's like, sold out Antons. You know what I mean? It seemed like this bizarro universe where like life is still happening. And I love stand-up so much.

And I was just kind of miserable. And I'm like, if this is happening out there, I can do stand-up. So then I started asking questions. I hit up the EPs. I'm like, yo, because we're on Zoom, could I just write from Austin? Zoom by day and then do stand-up out here with like all you guys at night.

And they're like, we don't see why not.

So it was awesome. I got an apartment out here. I would zoom by day. I would just be doing awesome shows at Vulcan and stuff at night. It felt like a life hack.

Joe Rogan (1:27)

It was a life hack.

Fahim Anwar (1:28)

Yeah, it was great. I'm so glad I did that.

Joe Rogan (1:31)

Have you been to the mothership yet?

Fahim Anwar (1:32)

Of course, dude. Yeah, it's amazing. I got to do, I think you're on vacation. Then Adam had me do where you normally do in the middle of the week, the Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday.

So I got to do like six shows in that beautiful big room. Both rooms are great, you know. I like that small one for working on stuff. It's kind of like the belly.

Joe Rogan (1:53)

It's very much like, the small room is a combination of the belly and the OR.

It's a little bit bigger than the belly room and a little more locked in in the belly room. And then the big room is like a combination of the OR and the main room.

Fahim Anwar (2:07)

That's what I tell everybody, because they go, what's it like? And it's like if those rooms had babies.

They're in the middle of all three of those rooms.

Joe Rogan (2:15)

They're both perfect.

Fahim Anwar (2:16)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (2:16)

They're the perfect size.

Fahim Anwar (2:17)

You know, it's kind of funny. I think the store has started to get a facelift because of what you've done at Mothership. Because so many comics would come back and be like, yo, they just give you all your sets.

You know what I mean? The sound's amazing. Like, because it's so state of the art.

Joe Rogan (2:32)

Well, there's also the screens in the green room that show you what's going on on stage and the time.

Fahim Anwar (2:36)

You can't miss your spot.

Joe Rogan (2:37)

Yeah, you can't miss your spot. And there's lights everywhere.

Fahim Anwar (2:40)

Yeah, so...

Joe Rogan (2:41)

To let you know there's two sets of lights in the hallway, one in the beginning of the hallway, one at the top of the stairs. You always know when the guy's got the light.

Fahim Anwar (2:48)

Yeah, so I think...

Joe Rogan (2:50)

And if you have any suggestions, by the way, just throw them out. We'll use them.

Half of the club is built on suggestions.

Fahim Anwar (2:58)

Well, you can tell, you know?

Joe Rogan (2:59)

I think it was Tony's idea to have the lights in the green room.

It might have been Tony's idea also to have the monitors in the green room. It was Louis' idea to lower the ceiling. It was Louis' idea to change the size of the stage in the little room and lower the ceiling in the little room, too.

Fahim Anwar (3:14)

How big was the stage before Louis suggested the change?