#2320 - Tom Segura

**Joe Rogan** (0:01)
Joe Rogan Podcast, check it out.

**Tom Segura** (0:03)
The Joe Rogan Experience.

**Joe Rogan** (0:06)
Shrain by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night, all day.

**SPEAKER_3** (0:13)
What's wrong with you?

**Tom Segura** (0:16)
How?

**Joe Rogan** (0:17)
First of all, how did Netflix let you make this show?

**Tom Segura** (0:20)
Well, they wouldn't have let me make it if I just pitched it to them.

**SPEAKER_3** (0:27)
What did you do?

**SPEAKER_6** (0:28)
I made a few. I made a few and showed it to them. Oh, my God.

**Tom Segura** (0:32)
Because I knew. I knew that if we...

**Joe Rogan** (0:35)
You can't give anybody like the script.

**Tom Segura** (0:37)
No. The script won't work. The script won't work. I mean, that's just... That's the thing is like...

**Joe Rogan** (0:44)
It's very funny.

**Tom Segura** (0:46)
Very funny.

**SPEAKER_7** (0:46)
Thanks, man.

**Tom Segura** (0:47)
It's...

**SPEAKER_7** (0:48)
So ridiculous.

**Tom Segura** (0:49)
It's pretty ridiculous. You know, it was a few years ago that I made the initial one. I was on that crazy tour, that real crazy tour where it was like, you know, fucking 10 shows a week. And I had a break coming up. And so I've always liked movies, like features, right? But it's a lot... It's a huge undertaking to get a feature made. But I liked short films because it feels like you're making a movie, you know, like a mini movie, right? And it feels much more accessible to do. So I had written all these like short stories, short films, and I called my friend, Rami Hashash, and I was like, hey, I have a break coming up on tour. Let's shoot a short film because we'd done other things before. And when I sent him, I sent him like 10 different scripts. He was like, what if we did three of these? I was like, how can we do three of them? He's like, we'll shoot like 11 days in a row. We can do three of these stories. And even then I wasn't thinking of like having a television series. I was just like, oh, it'll be fun to make these, these stories, you know? And so after we shot those three, it was clear that we had like the bones of a show. Like what if we did a show that was based on short stories, you know, like short films, basically. And I don't know, there was another, there's another few that were in the original. And when I sent them in to Netflix, they're like, this is fucking insane, but like we'll make six episodes of this.
And yeah, they were just like, this is crazy, but it's been the most fun I've ever had, dude. Really? Yeah, yeah. Because you know what, I was thinking about it like on my way in here today. I was like, sometimes you have to remind yourself like of what you're like, your dream, like your original dream, you know, and my dream when I moved to LA had nothing to do with stand up. I never thought of stand up. Not to say that I don't love doing stand up today.
I'm in love with stand up. But I moved to LA because I was like, I want to do movies. Like that was my whole thing. I want to do comedy movies. And I had like my own blueprint for how I would do it. I was like, I'll go to the Groundlings. SNL will definitely hire me from there. Like this is like my 21 year old brain. And then I'll do that for a couple of years and then I'll do movies. Like I thought that was a logical game plan to end up in movies. And it just, you know, I did do the Groundlings for a while, the school, but when I was supposed to do Writing Lab, which was like one of their levels, I had started stand up and I was just like, oh, this path is just better for me. Like I was getting traction, not like my career wasn't moving, but I'm saying like I could feel how much I loved it. And I was starting to get like 50 bucks here and there. And I was like, oh, it's not doing the Writing Lab thing. It's staying in the stand up path. You know, that's kind of like... Interesting. But the dream of doing something like movies, which is like, this feels like to me, like they sent me to film school and they were like, make your fucked up movies. That's what it felt like. That's been like, I was working like 16 hour days doing this thing. And I would come home and Christina would be like, I have never seen you so energized after working all goddamn day. She's like, you come home in the best mood. I was like, yeah, cause I'm having fun. Like I'm having so much fun doing this, you know.