#2351 - James McCann

Joe Rogan (0:01)

Joe Rogan Podcast, check it out.

James McCann (0:03)

The Joe Rogan Experience.

Joe Rogan (0:06)

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

James McCann (0:14)

Hey, thank you for having me here.

James McCann (0:15)

My pleasure.

James McCann (0:16)

It's a joy.

James McCann (0:17)

It's a joy to have you, sir. I've been having a good time hanging out with you at the club, so...

James McCann (0:21)

It's been great.

James McCann (0:22)

I feel like we gotta do this.

James McCann (0:23)

This is very... Ah, man, I'm trying not to spin out. I have watched this on a phone before. This is great.

James McCann (0:30)

Well, it's weird for me that it's weird for people, because to me, it's still the same thing. It's just sitting down and talking to people. I've gotten so used to it, even when it's like Trump or Elon or some fucking huge cultural figure. It's still just like...

James McCann (0:44)

You must have spun out at least one time.

James McCann (0:46)

I spun out a bunch of times in the early days. I still spin out every now and then, like, you know, like Mel Gibson's on the podcast. It's like, oh, that's really Mel Gibson. Mike Tyson, that's another one.

James McCann (0:59)

Yeah, was this where he said he became a wrecked when he wanted to beat people up?

James McCann (1:04)

That was in California.

James McCann (1:06)

Okay.

James McCann (1:06)

That was...

James McCann (1:07)

It's a classic, it's a classic, all-time great moment.

James McCann (1:13)

He was scaring the shit out of me.

James McCann (1:16)

Man, I spin out... When I first got to the club, I was going... It was every week I would...

James McCann (1:20)

It's weird, right?

James McCann (1:21)

When I first met Adam Eaget, I went...

SPEAKER_5 (1:24)

I said, no, it's...

James McCann (1:25)

Oh, Mr. Eaget, I've seen you. You deny the Holocaust.

James McCann (1:31)

Not really, we should be real clear.

James McCann (1:33)

No, he was just a John McDonnell... Punks under a bridge.

James McCann (1:35)

He was a Norm MacDonald bit.

James McCann (1:37)

He features in that book a lot.

James McCann (1:39)

Well, Adam's an amazing guy.

James McCann (1:41)

Yeah.

James McCann (1:41)

He's the reason, he's one of the reasons why I went back to the store. When I was banned from the store for seven years, Adam came to visit.

James McCann (1:48)

You got seven years?

James McCann (1:49)

Yeah. Well, I banned myself for seven years. They banned me, they were gonna ban me for like a few weeks. I'm like, fuck you, like, nay.

James McCann (1:57)

What did you do?

James McCann (1:57)

There's the whole Carlos Mencia thing.

James McCann (1:59)

They banned you for that?

SPEAKER_6 (2:00)

Yes.

James McCann (2:01)

You won the court of public opinion on that.

James McCann (2:03)

Well, not only did I not really get banned, the guy who banned me was eventually fired. He was the manager there. But Mitzi gave me a spot that night. It's like before they called me to tell me I was banned. Mitzi was going through a lot of health problems, right? And you know, Mitzi was, I was very close with her. So I called her when the whole Mitzi thing happened. And I said, listen, this guy's been a problem. It's a real issue. People are worried about doing material in front of them. It's like, this is a giant problem. And you know, I told her the whole thing with the video and she's like, all right, well, just keep away from them. What time do you want to go up tonight? And I said, when do you want me to go up? And she said, how about 10.3 or whatever it was? And I said, thank you. Okay, I love you. Bye. We said bye.

And then like fucking hour, two hours later, I get a call from this manager telling me that I'm banned from the store for two weeks. And I was like, what? I go, for two weeks, I go, listen to me right now. I'm not coming back. I go, I'm not coming back. And you're making a decision that's going to fuck this club up, because you're choosing to take the side of plagiarism.

James McCann (3:15)

Yes.

James McCann (3:15)

Over someone who's exposing it, like the agents won't expose it. They're making a shit ton of money. And if the comedy store is not going to side with the artists, I'm like, listen, this is the same conversation I had with my agent. I lost my agent too, for that.