#814 - Ari Shaffir

Joe Rogan (0:05)

You said you were in Seattle last night?

Jamie (0:06)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (0:07)

What were you doing? Well, standup comedy?

Ari Shaffir (0:09)

Yeah, Crocodile. Kirk Cobain and Nirvana played.

Joe Rogan (0:12)

Whoa!

Ari Shaffir (0:13)

What was that like? He wasn't there, you know?

Joe Rogan (0:17)

I know, but it's cool 当得, I mean, saying that doing 여기, a lot of 这家ール Benjamin Mein 演梦, is like a functional 场所。 Yeah, some of them, 绘漫, so I felt more 又感受比较快。 Yeah, the Fillmore. The Fillmore, for sure.

Ari Shaffir (0:28)

Yeah, with all those pictures in there?

Joe Rogan (0:29)

Dude, I took a bunch of film of the, we were in the dressing room. Apparently, that's like one of the first places that the Led Zeppelin, the Led Zeppelin, you know those?

That Led Zeppelin played. Really, in America? When they first came to America. Yeah.

Ari Shaffir (0:43)

That's cool.

Joe Rogan (0:44)

I don't know if the first or one of the first, but yeah, man, I mean, that is like as museum-like as you can get.

Ari Shaffir (0:52)

It's floor to ceiling, too, with the pictures.

Joe Rogan (0:56)

Yeah, it's a big ass place, man. So like, I mean, as far as like, it's not that big, it's like 450 people, but I mean, as far as like what it stands for.

Ari Shaffir (1:04)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (1:04)

Like there's a few places like that.

The Chicago Theater is definitely like that. Just walking around that place like, whoa.

Ari Shaffir (1:11)

You had to look at it.

Jamie (1:12)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (1:13)

There's a bunch of them that are like just so old that it's kind of weird that they let people just fucking run around on stage and tell dick jokes in them.

Jamie (1:21)

Close, this is their first tour.

Ari Shaffir (1:24)

First tour, that makes sense.

Joe Rogan (1:26)

See, everybody's like-

Ari Shaffir (1:27)

The first place is in Denver?

Jamie (1:28)

Yeah, fuck yeah.

Ari Shaffir (1:29)

First, they went straight to Denver?

Joe Rogan (1:30)

They knew.

Ari Shaffir (1:31)

Not west, not east coast?

Joe Rogan (1:32)

They knew, that's the spot. Why fuck around?

Ari Shaffir (1:37)

How long till they went to New York?

Joe Rogan (1:40)

That's a good question.

Jamie (1:42)

Six years Eve.

Joe Rogan (1:43)

Oh, damn.

Jamie (1:45)

1969

Joe Rogan (1:46)

Do you know that their lawsuit is going on right now for stealing the stairway to heaven?

Ari Shaffir (1:52)

Against who? Who's who they steal it from?

Joe Rogan (1:54)

There was a band. Bill Burr was the one who turned me on to this shit. Bill Burr called me up, he goes, you're not gonna fucking believe it. They were all fucking thieves. They stole, they stole.

He calls me up and he sends me this YouTube video to listen to and I go, holy shit. Like, dude, I couldn't be a bigger Led Zeppelin fan. Yeah, for sure. I love Led Zeppelin. I mean, they're like, like a whole lot of love is like my get high and sit back with headphone song, you know?

Ari Shaffir (2:22)

Old black people like it too.

Joe Rogan (2:23)

Oh yeah.

Ari Shaffir (2:24)

Because before they played hip hop on the radio.

Joe Rogan (2:25)

That's right.

Ari Shaffir (2:26)

Close as they had, I guess, was Led Zeppelin.

Joe Rogan (2:27)

That's all they had.

SPEAKER_4 (2:28)

That's all they had.

Joe Rogan (2:29)

Bullshit white people music. They were hiding Robert Johnson, stealing all his music.

Led Zeppelin singer claims foggy memory in Stairway to Heaven lawsuit.

Ari Shaffir (2:38)

Well, I mean, that's fair. It's 50 years ago.

Joe Rogan (2:40)

Yeah, I mean, that's, boy. Boy, I can barely remember shit 10 years ago.

How's this guy supposed to remember shit 50 years ago?

Ari Shaffir (2:49)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (2:50)

But.

Ari Shaffir (2:50)

There's no way.

Joe Rogan (2:51)

If I stole Stairway to Heaven, I bet I'd fucking remember that.

Ari Shaffir (2:53)

Let me hear the both. Can we hear both of them?

Joe Rogan (2:55)

We can't do it.

Ari Shaffir (2:56)

Why?

Joe Rogan (2:56)

Can we play it for us and not have it on the YouTube or what'll just get us pulled from the YouTube?

Jamie (3:02)

I can keep it off YouTube. Yeah, I can keep it off YouTube.

Joe Rogan (3:06)

So we'll listen to it and we'll be able to talk to you.

Jamie (3:09)

Do you want first the original or do you want the stairway?

Joe Rogan (3:12)

Side by side.

Ari Shaffir (3:13)

I've already heard the stairway.