Joe Rogan Experience #2178 - Sam Morril

Sam Morril joins Joe Rogan for a loose, comedy-centric conversation that opens on Rogan's Austin comedy club and quickly ranges across the Trump rooftop shooting, JFK and other conspiracies, and the surveillance risks of consumer DNA testing. They spend a long stretch on the craft of stand-up: touring, hazing in clubs, opening jokes, writing on stage, and the economics of comedy clubs versus sitcoms. The two trade affectionate stories about comedy legends including Rodney Dangerfield, Norm Macdonald, Doug Stanhope, Patrice O'Neal, Damon Wayans, and Dave Attell. They also discuss aging and the necessity of lifting weights, Sam's stomach ulcer, cancel culture, cable-news 'poison,' free speech, and platform censorship before closing on Sam's tour, special, and his email list at punchup.live.

• Sam reveals he developed stomach ulcers and had to give up coffee, alcohol, acidic and spicy foods, eating plain chicken and rice on the road for two months.
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• Sam recounts witnessing a woman jump from a building and land ten feet in front of him in Manhattan when he was in sixth grade.
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• Sam explains he was banned from Hyena's comedy clubs after an agent was told to drop him as a client or never book anyone there again.
  01:08:29
• Sam reveals the person who tried to cancel him over a 2013 rape joke later transitioned, becoming material for his special titled You've Changed.
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• Joe describes being evacuated three times from wildfires, with two houses in front of his burning to the ground.
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• Sam tells the story of his combative Morning Joe appearance where producers fed the host his gun-and-babies joke setup.
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• Joe says he believes Patrice O'Neal would be the number one podcaster in the world if he were still alive.
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• Sam says he signed with Prime for his special partly because of how Amazon treats warehouse workers, then jokes about it.
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• Joe describes how a shadowy intelligence agency could recruit a troubled young person to carry out an assassination, then eliminate them.
  00:11:25
• Joe states that earning $34,000 in American dollars puts you in the top 1% of earners on Earth.
  00:29:06
• Sam recounts the Agassi book story of Andre's father betting his house and life savings on nine-year-old Andre beating Jim Brown at tennis.
  00:35:45
• They discuss Ted Kaczynski being deprived of physical contact as a sick infant for months, then later subjected to Harvard LSD humiliation studies.
  00:37:49
• Joe explains how sickle cell anemia is tied to ancestral malaria protection, framing how DNA could enable targeted bioweapons.
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• Sam recalls Rodney Dangerfield performing on stage at age 80-plus wearing only a bathrobe and slippers.
  01:00:42
• Joe says Damon Wayans films every set with a camera and has archived every performance since the 1990s.
  02:00:47
• They discuss Joe DiMaggio leaving Marilyn Monroe because she couldn't have children, yet leaving flowers on her grave for years.
  02:13:46
• They recall how cordial and friendly the 2012 Obama-Romney debates were compared to current politics.
  02:15:52
• Sam complains that social platforms bury jokes containing trigger words like 'Nazi' even when condemning them, citing ad-sales concerns.
  02:30:27

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