#2188 - Adam Ray

Adam Ray (0:03)

The Joe Rogan Experience.

SPEAKER_3 (0:06)

Train by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night, all day.

Joe Rogan (0:13)

What's up, baby?

Adam Ray (0:14)

Joe Rogan.

SPEAKER_6 (0:14)

Good to see you, brother.

Adam Ray (0:15)

Dude, thanks for having me, man.

Joe Rogan (0:16)

My pleasure.

Adam Ray (0:17)

This is a fucking pleasure.

Joe Rogan (0:18)

How fun was this weekend, man? It was insane.

Adam Ray (0:20)

It was not since Cher was at the Garden. Has there been so much pain pneumonia?

Joe Rogan (0:24)

Bro, when Brian Holtz was screaming about Billy Joel.

Adam Ray (0:28)

We were going right to that, because I was like, how long are we going to wait until we talk about Holtzman isolating the room?

SPEAKER_6 (0:33)

He was amazing.

Joe Rogan (0:34)

He was amazing.

Adam Ray (0:37)

Seeing him at the comedy store, which we've seen him many times, and then at the mothership now, seeing him in an arena like that go full on Holtzman is a real treat.

Joe Rogan (0:46)

16,000 people and he went just like he's in the OR.

Adam Ray (0:49)

He opened with Billy Joel. Yeah. And then he's like, I don't care if you're famous here. It's your daughter. Fuck him. We get it. You play the fucking piano.

I mean, yeah, it was wild.

Joe Rogan (0:57)

It was amazing.

Adam Ray (0:58)

The surprises on that show. I want to hear from your vantage point real quick. From obviously doing arenas for a while now. A show like that, because getting to see you for a moment before you walked out backstage and you were just like, it was cool to see you looking at it like, what the fuck? This is wild.

Joe Rogan (1:14)

I was blown away. First of all, I have seen Kill Tony evolve from the very beginning.

Adam Ray (1:20)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (1:21)

So I saw some of the earliest episodes in the belly room.

Adam Ray (1:24)

But you were telling me, Tony came to you and was like, will you do my show? I got this new. And you were just like, yeah, fucking all right, help a buddy out. And then you have no idea what it was.

Joe Rogan (1:31)

No, when I first did it, I was like, okay, let's have some fun. I think I first did it, he brought up, I might have first did it at the Ice House. They used to do it at the Ice House in the little room. So that was probably one of the first ones that I did. And I did a bunch in the belly room. And then it moved to the main room. And then it moved to Texas when everything shut down. They were trying to do it in the main room for a while with no audience. They did quite a few episodes with zero audience. It's just a story of persistence.

Adam Ray (1:59)

That's what I keep telling you on Comix. The consistency is so overlooked in this business. And Tony just believed in it. And also kept finding ways to evolve it. And the more people you guys come on, and then like you'd see Saget come on, and like more and more people started to go, oh, something different to fuck around with, right?

Joe Rogan (2:17)

Yeah, and he just got better at it too.

Adam Ray (2:19)

Yeah, that's a good point.

Joe Rogan (2:20)

I mean, he's a wizard at hosting that show. He's got, he's managing all these moving parts, he knows when to bring people in, and when to, you know, he knows like how to work the panel, he knows how to like let you go, let somebody else go, he's like, it's a dance man, and the dude is the best at it. He's the fucking best at it. So for me, walking out there and seeing that crowd, I was like, this is insane. And to see the black keys on stage, I was like, this is, and Jelly Roll, Jelly Roll singing New York, like what the fuck is happening, man? This is crazy.

Adam Ray (2:57)

Yeah, the pops that everybody got, like all the surprises were so cool.

Joe Rogan (3:01)

Oh my God, when Joey Diaz went on stage, it was the loudest I've ever heard an audience cheer for any human being ever in my life.

Adam Ray (3:06)

I thought he was gonna be so taken aback by the roar that he was legit going to run for president. Because he came out, he was like, you cock suckers back here, I came to the circus. By the way, he came in so hot, and rode that high, and got in like three or four bangers. And I saw Tony at the airport last night, and he was like, I didn't even hear what he said. And I go, dude, he said something about like, I played it, I was on Quail Oats, they put me in the handicap section, and then I fucking came to the circus. It was the different circus where there was no net, the clowns fell, they just fucking swept them out of the way.