#918 - Frank Castillo

Frank Castillo (0:16)

Shhh, you guys hear that? You hear that shit?

Joe Rogan (0:19)

That's the rain. That's how hard it's raining here. All these pussies telling you don't mow your lawn, don't water the lawn, don't fill the pool. We're running out of water. We're running out of water here in California. Not anymore, motherfucker. They're evacuating people, Jamie. What did it say on your phone? Evacuate, Sacramento's fucked.

The dam is blowing, Frank Castillo, the dam.

I usually don't introduce guests, but this gentleman across me here is, I'm really proud of you.

Frank Castillo (0:55)

Thank you.

Joe Rogan (0:58)

Frank Castillo, if you go to his Instagram page, let me just tell everybody, he just won Roast Battle on Comedy Central, which with stand-up comedians, that's a huge deal. I mean, that is, that's a big deal. That show's a big deal.

It's a big deal for comedy, but it's a big deal you won. And if you go to your Instagram page, dude, it's so inspirational. You do the shittiest fucking shows.

SPEAKER_3 (1:21)

You're out there doing bowling alleys.

Joe Rogan (1:23)

You're out there doing like bars with three people in them, and you're doing three, four a night. You're just always hammering it. I love it. And then to see you do that, and to see you working at the store, like many other people before, like Duncan's done, like Ari's done, like Renazizi's done, like so many people have gone from working at the store. Bobby Lee, I think, worked at the store.

So many people have gone from working at the store to making it as a comic. So to see you go from working at the store, grinding every night, and then winning Roast Battle, show these motherfuckers the trophy here.

Dude.

Frank Castillo (1:59)

It's fucking heavy, feel it.

Joe Rogan (2:00)

That's legit as fuck. Damn.

Frank Castillo (2:03)

Now I get why they don't want people to hand those out. Like the second I got it, I was like, I get why they, I get it now. They shouldn't just hand these out to kids. It's so powerful.

Joe Rogan (2:10)

Yeah, you can't just give a kid a trophy for nothing. You gotta win.

You gotta win. You gotta do it. And this show, Roast Battle, is one of the reasons why I came back to the comedy store. When I went to see, Ari was doing his special, and he had decided to film his first Comedy Central special at the store.

And I hadn't been in the store in seven years. I hadn't even stepped foot inside the place. And I was like, well, there's no way I'm missing this.

So, I had to bite the bullet, I had to go in there. And I said, let me just go the night before. And Jeff Ross asked me to be one of the judges at Roast Battle. And so I was sitting up there, and I was going, wow, this is crazy. This is a totally different thing. Like, this was never here seven years ago. There was nothing, anything like it. It was like really creative writing, really like nasty jokes, but then everybody's hugging afterwards. You know, like that's one of the rules, is like after you do it, you gotta hug it out.

SPEAKER_3 (3:04)

It was fucking great.

Joe Rogan (3:06)

And I was like creatively, this is so inspiring and it's so, there's so much life to it. That and then Ari Specialized said, fuck it, I'm back.

Frank Castillo (3:15)

It was, it's a crazy thing, man. I mean, it was just also just having you show up and just be a part of that. That was one of those things where like everyone knew, like all the younger comics, all the open micers, cause it started as an open mic.

So when we saw you come in, everyone was just like, oh, this is different. Like that's when everyone kind of was like, oh, things are changing.

Joe Rogan (3:33)

Yeah, man, things have changed since then at the store. The store is a crazy place now.

Frank Castillo (3:38)

It's insane.

Joe Rogan (3:39)

Like I've been there, I started there in 94

And it was kind of like there's something that happened before I got there, like a bomb had gone off. And like these are the survivors that just moved back to the city. It was weird. It was like the age of Kinnison had died, and then there was really no one after him. So like I came in the early 90s and Kinnison was like 80, you know, like the early 80s to like 86, 88 And then I believe he died in like, what did he die in like 1992 or something like that?