#785 - Dom Irrera

Dom Irrera (0:07)

Joseph McGee, Joseph Rogan.

Joe Rogan (0:09)

How are you, brother?

Dom Irrera (0:10)

For fuck's sake, good, man, how you doing? Great to see you, as always, my friend Dominic. Sorry, man, my pool game wasn't up to snuff.

Joe Rogan (0:15)

Mine wasn't either, we both sucked. Oh, I smoked a cigar before this podcast, during the last one, and I'm all jittery now.

Dom Irrera (0:23)

Really?

Joe Rogan (0:24)

Yeah, yeah, definitely, everything's firing.

Dom Irrera (0:26)

Well, that nicotine, did you inhale it?

Joe Rogan (0:28)

No, but just having it in your mouth and smoking it and sucking on it, you get a nicotine high.

Dom Irrera (0:33)

I feel like I'm left out of a certain club, those guys who think it's really cool to relax with cigar smoke and all. It makes me nauseous.

Joe Rogan (0:39)

Yeah, it doesn't make me relax.

It's fun, I like to do it, but it's a high. They're lying to themselves. That's a high, it's a nicotine high.

Dom Irrera (0:50)

Of course, Letterman and those guys were into that.

Joe Rogan (0:53)

Yeah, they're doing drugs.

Dom Irrera (0:54)

Drugs, that's crazy, that's illegal, isn't it?

Joe Rogan (0:56)

It's a goddamn drug den.

Dom Irrera (0:57)

They're hept up on something, Joe, I tell you.

Joe Rogan (1:00)

But it's one of those things that's so common, and it's so a part of the culture, that we look at that as being less ridiculous and more reserved and intelligent than if someone got together in a little shack there, like a smoke shop, and they were smoking pot together. Those people, I guess...

Dom Irrera (1:20)

I get more of a buzz from coffee than I do from Xanax.

You do? Oh, fuck yeah, because Xanax just makes me feel like what I think a normal person feels like, you know, without the terrifying anxiety...

SPEAKER_3 (1:30)

Have you always had that?

Joe Rogan (1:31)

We talked about this before, but when did you start getting anxiety?

Dom Irrera (1:35)

Uh, second grade.

SPEAKER_3 (1:37)

Really? Yeah.

Joe Rogan (1:39)

Second grade.

Dom Irrera (1:40)

But I'm really doing better. My doctor says in ten years I should be out of it.

You never had anxiety?

Joe Rogan (1:49)

I've definitely had anxiety, yeah.

Dom Irrera (1:51)

But about a specific thing, the worst thing is just anxiety that you don't even know what it's from.

Joe Rogan (1:56)

Oh, yeah.

Dom Irrera (1:57)

From the core of your being.

Joe Rogan (1:58)

So it's some sort of a firing error or something in your brain.

Dom Irrera (2:02)

Yeah, it's definitely a chemical thing.

Joe Rogan (2:04)

Hmm.

And does anything else help it? Does like exercise help it?

Dom Irrera (2:09)

Alcohol. Alcohol helps it? But the thing about alcohol is the rebound is worse than the high.

Like if you have three hours of a buzz for alcohol, you'll have a twelve hour hangover.

Joe Rogan (2:20)

Yeah, especially as you get older. Yeah, the hangovers get rougher and rougher for me pretty much every year.

Dom Irrera (2:25)

Well, I never drank when I was young, so this is all new to me the last few years.

Joe Rogan (2:29)

Like how many years?

Dom Irrera (2:32)

Eight.

Joe Rogan (2:33)

And I know you stopped for a while.

We talked about it. You stopped for a while.

Dom Irrera (2:37)

It felt so good. I couldn't believe how good it feels not to have a hangover.

Joe Rogan (2:40)

Yeah.

Dom Irrera (2:40)

Holy shit, this is it.

Joe Rogan (2:42)

But you like it.

Dom Irrera (2:44)

Well, I like the whole, you know how they used to talk about the ambiance of the scar and the puffing and laughing and raising it up like you made a big point. I like that with alcohol, that whole, you know, social thing.

Joe Rogan (2:55)

I like to have a drink with you, too, because it's like we're announcing festivities.

Dom Irrera (2:59)

Yeah. Like what the moment in time.

Joe Rogan (3:01)

Fun festivities.

Dom Irrera (3:02)

Cheers.

Joe Rogan (3:02)

Cheers, my friend. And we, you know, we both sort of agree that we're off on an alcohol-filled fun romp of chit chat and laughter.

Dom Irrera (3:11)

But no DUIs.

Joe Rogan (3:14)

Yeah, no DUIs. That's where Uber came in. Uber changed the game.

Dom Irrera (3:17)

Joe, I can't take it with the fucking Uber anymore.

Joe Rogan (3:19)

You can't?

Dom Irrera (3:20)

Everybody's trying to convince me like there's something wrong with me. You got to take Uber. I go, I don't want to take Uber. I don't want to get in a car with a strange guy. I don't want to get in his own car. I want to either get a car service or take a cab.