#2178 - Sam Morril

Joe Rogan (0:00)

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Sam Morril (0:49)

Awesome to be at the club last night.

Joe Rogan (0:51)

Yeah, it was fun having you. Last night was fun, it was a good night.

Sam Morril (0:54)

Really fun.

Joe Rogan (0:54)

Yeah, it's a fun place, man.

Sam Morril (0:56)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (0:56)

Little Disneyland.

Sam Morril (0:58)

Yeah, it also is like a throwback. I'm like, I left Kill Tony on Monday. I was like, I haven't had my shirt smell like cigarettes in a while.

Joe Rogan (1:04)

Yeah, all those guys in the green room are smoking cigarettes.

Sam Morril (1:06)

I had one, I don't smoke.

It's fricking contagious. But I was like, I was like, oh, I have one, what the hell?

Joe Rogan (1:11)

What the hell? Yeah, that's a what the hell room.

Sam Morril (1:14)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (1:14)

This is, I mean, it's one of those things, like you create something with like this intention, and you kind of hope that it'll work out good, but that place almost sort of made itself into what it is. It's like, it's got an energy to it. I think it's also because of that building. Now, the building was made in 1927, and everybody's performed there. Willie Nelson performed there, Stevie Ray Vaughan. Like you look in the wall, Black Flag, all the walls inside the green room, all those posters, those are all bands, the misfits, all bands that performed there.

Because it was a rock club for a long time, and then it-

Sam Morril (1:49)

The whole thing, it was like all, but it's a big venue though.

Joe Rogan (1:52)

I don't know if it was two different rooms. I think at one point in time, it was just one room. And then I think with the Alamo Draft House, they turned it into two rooms. Then it was a movie theater for like 10 years.

And then when they went under, we had the two rooms. Then we just adjusted everything and changed a lot of stuff and turned it into a comedy club.

Sam Morril (2:11)

Yeah, it's cool as fuck.

Joe Rogan (2:12)

But it's got, that building's alive, man. Like you walk in the building and you're like, this fucking building's alive.

Sam Morril (2:18)

It feels like everyone's a comedy fan too, when you walk in, it's pretty cool.

Joe Rogan (2:22)

Yeah, you build it, they will come. It's like the field of dreams.

Sam Morril (2:25)

Yeah, not for everybody. For you it is, but not for everybody.

Joe Rogan (2:29)

What do you mean?

Sam Morril (2:30)

Well, I mean, a lot of people are building comedy clubs, they don't come.

Joe Rogan (2:33)

Yeah, but they don't do it that way.

Sam Morril (2:35)

You did it right.

Joe Rogan (2:36)

But we did it, I swear to God. I mean, it sounds stupid. I don't believe in fate necessarily. I don't not believe in fate, but I'm not like one of those people that's like preaching it.

If I wanted to believe in fate though, I would believe in fate because of this. Because it's like every, it's like, you ever drive and you just hit every green light for whatever reason?

Sam Morril (2:55)

I can't drive.

Joe Rogan (2:55)

You don't drive?

Sam Morril (2:56)

I have a license, but I'm dog shit. It hurt me as a young comic because Joe List would always shit on me because we did a rogue gig like, I wanna say like almost 15 years ago together, where I got us the gig, it was co-headlining, but it was a casino run and the thing was like, you have to split the driving.

It was like 30 hours of driving total. So he's like, can you split the drive with me? I said, of course.

And we got, I already fucked up because we flew into the wrong city on the wrong day because of me, I was such a fucking young idiot.

So we flew into like Michigan, we were supposed to start in Wisconsin and he was like, we're pro rated. I was like, I fucked us, we're pro rated. And then he was already mad at me. And then he's like, all right, it's your turn to drive. And I started driving, he was like, what the fuck is happening? This is horrible. And he always quotes me as saying, no, I'm not a bad driver, I just can't turn well. And he was like, yeah, that's a bad driver, you fucking idiot. So he tells this story about me all the time, being like a city, he calls me a city hick. That's like he started calling me that. But yeah, I can't really, I have a license, I passed the test, but I'm dog shit.