#2276 - Felipe Esparza

Joe Rogan (0:01)

Joe Rogan Podcast, check it out.

Felipe Esparza (0:03)

The Joe Rogan Experience.

Joe Rogan (0:06)

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

Felipe Esparza (0:12)

Good to see you, my friend. It's been too long.

SPEAKER_4 (0:14)

What's up, fool? Good to see you too.

Felipe Esparza (0:16)

When was the last time I saw you, brother?

SPEAKER_4 (0:17)

It was like five years ago or something. Five years ago? And I did the show here when you were in LA?

Felipe Esparza (0:24)

Yeah.

SPEAKER_4 (0:24)

At the warehouse?

Felipe Esparza (0:25)

Damn. That's what I miss most about the store is traveling dudes. We'd meet up at the home base.

SPEAKER_4 (0:36)

Yes. When I was a young comic, I would see older comics that I would see on television. They were just coming out at that bar or the patio.

Felipe Esparza (0:45)

Just get a refresh.

SPEAKER_4 (0:46)

Yeah. You pass by and you see, oh, that's-

Felipe Esparza (0:49)

Arsenio Hall. That's Elaine Boosler. Right.

SPEAKER_4 (0:52)

OG right there.

You're like, what? Right. I used to see her at Dodger Stadium when I were working at Dodger Stadium and I would ask her for advice. She was just like every comic back then, just keep writing.

Felipe Esparza (1:06)

She was a funny comic.

SPEAKER_4 (1:07)

Yeah.

Felipe Esparza (1:07)

She was a funny comic. Who's that lady that was on Curb Your Enthusiasm? She's very funny too. Old school comic.

Jamie (1:15)

God damn it.

Felipe Esparza (1:17)

I'm very embarrassed that I forgot her name. She hasn't done comedy in a long time. Look that up. Yes, Suzy Esman.

SPEAKER_4 (1:24)

Oh, Suzy Esman de Estandard?

Felipe Esparza (1:25)

Yes.

SPEAKER_4 (1:25)

Oh, she was great.

Felipe Esparza (1:26)

She was really funny. I middled for her once in like fucking 1989 or some shit way back in the day.

SPEAKER_4 (1:36)

Who you middled for? That lady?

Felipe Esparza (1:38)

Yeah. Yeah. Some place on Long Island. I can't might have been like governors or something like that. I do not remember, but I remember she was very nice. She was very funny, very nice, very encouraging, which is the best, man. When you get to work with some of the you see on television and you just like start now and then nice to you. That's so valuable.

SPEAKER_4 (1:57)

I can't believe it. Like when I want to- There she is.

Felipe Esparza (2:00)

Suzy Esman.

SPEAKER_4 (2:00)

There she is. Whoa. She looks like Elaine from Seinfeld.

Felipe Esparza (2:04)

Yeah. Similar.

SPEAKER_4 (2:06)

But that's the haircut back then, huh?

Felipe Esparza (2:09)

Yeah.

SPEAKER_4 (2:09)

Well, they all have crazy hair.

Felipe Esparza (2:11)

Everybody lost their mind in the 80s.

SPEAKER_4 (2:13)

Ali Lieberman.

Felipe Esparza (2:14)

Yeah. They all lost their mind back then. Because from the 70s to the 80s, nobody knew how to dress. They did crazy shit with their hair.

SPEAKER_4 (2:22)

She's going over her set. Yeah.

Felipe Esparza (2:25)

They would all tease their hair. It was crazy. There was like a big hair thing. I think it was when people started doing cocaine. That's what I think. I think is the 80s was Miami Vice and cocaine. Everybody lost their mind. They lost their fashion sense. People started to wear wacky clothes. Cars started looking like shit.

SPEAKER_4 (2:44)

Yeah, man. Like the Sabre. Pinto.

Felipe Esparza (2:48)

The cars just started looking like shit. I mean, if you want an objective analysis of what happens to a society when they remove marijuana and mushrooms and then they bring in cocaine, it's like...

SPEAKER_4 (3:00)

Yeah. Hey, you know what? Let's call it Ford Fiesta.

Felipe Esparza (3:03)

Yeah.

SPEAKER_4 (3:04)

Because we were Fiesta yesterday.

Felipe Esparza (3:07)

But cocaine brought us Sam Kinnison, too, though. You have to realize cocaine has done some good.

SPEAKER_4 (3:12)

You think it did a lot, a lot, a lot?

Felipe Esparza (3:14)

No, no. I think it's terrible for everybody who does it.

But I do think that there's moments of inspired creativity from all kinds of substances, especially that rock and roll cocaine that they used to get, where it was just real, pure cocaine, it wasn't stepped on, it had amphetamines and fentanyl in it, all kinds of other shit.

SPEAKER_4 (3:35)

Good shit. I like the stuff you buy like in Grand Rapids, Iowa.

Felipe Esparza (3:38)

And I should say this is a person who's never tried cocaine.

SPEAKER_4 (3:40)

Never?

Felipe Esparza (3:40)

Never. Never tried cocaine.

SPEAKER_4 (3:41)

Don't be lying.

Felipe Esparza (3:42)

No, I would not lie.

SPEAKER_4 (3:43)

Never?

Felipe Esparza (3:44)

No, never. No, I got real lucky. When I was in high school, I had a buddy of mine and his cousin started selling it, and he was a great guy. And I watched this dude kind of like shrink into himself, and he lost a ton of weight, and him and his girlfriend, they had this attic apartment, and they would just hang out and do coke and sell coke, and they would just like watch TV and do coke, and it was like they got bit by a vampire, man, and scared the shit out of me.