TCB Infomercial: Joe List

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TCB Infomercial: Joe List | EP#778:

Comedian Joe List joins Bryan and Krissy for a candid and hilarious conversation that dives into everything from bombing in Boston, surviving yearly mouse arrivals to and touring with Louis C.K. Joe opens up about his decade-long sobriety journey, the inner chaos that fuels his comedy, and why anxiety is the least funny thing to experience—but maybe the funniest to talk about. From Tuesdays with Stories to Fourth of July, Joe shares behind-the-scenes stories, the secret to surviving the road, and how not drinking makes everything (including bombing) a little more vivid.

It’s awkward, honest, and absurd—in other words, classic TCB!

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Speaker 2 I think I'm a good dad. I kept having a, I felt like the universe was testing me leading up to being a father.
I kept having run-ins with other people's children, which is always awkward.

Speaker 2 Last year, I was in a hotel, like a really nice hotel, like a high-rise hotel, and I got on an elevator, and it was me and a dad and his little boy, who's probably two or three.

Speaker 2 And then the doors closed. We were going down.
We stopped at a floor. The doors opened.
Nobody got off or on. Then the doors closed.
And so I said, hey, it must have been a ghost.

Speaker 2 Classic elevator humor. That's not my joke.
I didn't write that. That's just an old elevator gag.

Speaker 2 You guys didn't really laugh. They did not laugh at all.
They the kids started crying immediately. Just,

Speaker 2 I was like, hey, it must have been a ghost. The kid was like, what?

Speaker 2 And I felt bad for the kid, but then the dad goes, hey, come on.

Speaker 2 And I was like, pal, your kid is a little bitch. I'm sorry.
This is not my fault.

Speaker 2 You're raising a dork who's afraid of ghosts. It was a joke.

Speaker 2 On this episode of the Commercial Break.

Speaker 2 So I

Speaker 2 my wife and I in our old apartment, we live in a nicer place now. We haven't had a mouse yet, but our old apartment, we would get like an annual mouse visit.

Speaker 2 We'd have a single mouse once every 18 months or something.

Speaker 2 And

Speaker 2 the way we got it, the first time I caught one in a humane trap, which is like the tube with the holes. And then you go and let it out.
But I did not realize you have to go a mile from your house.

Speaker 2 Yes. So I just went outside and let him go, and he just shot directly back into my house.
Like he was home before I was. And it was raining out that night.
So it felt like Shawshank Redemption.

Speaker 2 Like, I just gave him a shower. I basically just rinsed him off.

Speaker 2 And so then it took me a while to find him again. And I took him, I finally went a mile and released him really close to a friend of mine's apartment.
And they're like, maybe he can live there.

Speaker 2 The next episode of the Commercial Break starts now.

Speaker 2 Yeah,

Speaker 2 boy.

Speaker 2 Oh, yeah, Captain Kittens. Welcome back to the commercial break.
I'm Brian Green. This is my dear friend, Chris and Joyhole.
Best of you, Chrissy. Bestie, Brian.
Dear friend and co-host.

Speaker 2 And best to you out there in the podcast universe. Forgot that part.
Best of you out there in the podcast universe.

Speaker 2 Thanks for joining us on the TCP Infomercial Show Tuesday with podcaster and comedian Joe List.

Speaker 2 Joe List is here.

Speaker 2 Ah, we love ourselves a little Joe List, don't we, Chrissy? Yes, we do. Joe List is on his fourth hour-long special in five years.

Speaker 2 Congratulations to him.

Speaker 2 That's prolific. Honestly,

Speaker 2 that's a lot of comedy to write in just a short amount of time. That special is out on YouTube now.
So I'm going to put links in the show notes. Please go watch it.
Also, he does the

Speaker 2 Tuesdays with Stories. I keep on forgetting the name of this podcast, even though I've seen it.
So instead of like Tuesdays with Maury's. Yeah,

Speaker 2 that's right.

Speaker 2 Tuesdays with with stories instead of tuesdays with morrie yeah um and every time i want to call it something completely different anyway with mark norman also a very popular and funny comedian they have been doing this podcast since 2013 chrissy say what almost as long as uh you know mark marin the other guy that's leaving podcasting let's hope this one keeps up you can find that podcast links in the show notes also and i had to write a list down because he's on so many podcasts Ready?

Speaker 2 Mindful Metal Jacket podcast. And the Joe and Renan Talk Movies podcast with Renan Hirschbergs.
He's also a regular on Robert Kelly's podcast. You know what, dude?

Speaker 2 So this guy's on five different podcasts. And I think I saw him on Howie.

Speaker 2 He was on Howie Mandela. I watched that part of that episode.
And wow, Howie is out there, man. Howie is a wacky motherfucker.
I want to ask him about that. I want to ask Howie to be on his podcast.

Speaker 2 I think I'd have fun. I couldn't touch him or be near him, but you know, he's like, you know, he's like a, he's OCD germ of folks, and when he touches people, he gets all upset about it.

Speaker 2 Um, apparently, that's what that's the thing that he says. That's his whole, that's his whole thing.
Anyway, he was also a touring comic with Luis C.K.

Speaker 2 when Luis was doing his thing before he was doing his thing, you know what I'm saying?

Speaker 2 Before Luis C.K. became kind of uh persona non-grada for certain indiscretions, let's put it that way.
Um, But, you know, whatever happened to Luis C.K. and all that jazz, he's back.
He's touring.

Speaker 2 He's back. I think I saw he's doing a special.
So, anyway,

Speaker 2 also another prolific comic of our time at the height of his fame. And Joe was part of that whole not.
Let me be clear about this. Let me separate those two in your mind.

Speaker 2 Joe List went on tour with Luis C.K. during Luis's heyday, Louis's heyday.
Luis. Luis.

Speaker 2 I like to say it that that way i know that's so much fun luis ck uh louis ck's heyday joe by all accounts was no part of lewis's heyday if you know what i mean

Speaker 2 yeah i think he was maybe along for the ride but not not actually not riding along he was along for the ride but not actually riding along if you know what we're saying without saying it

Speaker 2 I like Joe and I don't want to get pissed at us. So therefore, I will not ask him anything about that because that has nothing to do with him.
And he probably hates that fucking question, I bet.

Speaker 2 Or maybe, I don't know, maybe he's addressed it, but not on this show. That's 10 years ago at this point.
Who fucking cares anyway? All right. So let's do this, Chrissy.
Let's take a break.

Speaker 2 And when we get back through the magic of telepodcasting, we're going to make this a quick, quick hit today. We'll have Joe list all of the information in the show notes.

Speaker 2 In case you want to follow up, please do watch his brand new special available on YouTube now. Just go down, just open your phone, scroll down.
There's a blue little link.

Speaker 2 And directly after you listen to this show, click on that and listen to his new special. We'll be back.

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Speaker 2 And Joe's here with us now. Hey, Joe, thank you so much for joining us today, Mr.
List.

Speaker 2 Yeah, thanks so much for having me. You guys look great.
You look very tan, both of you. Well, I look tan because I go to the tanning bed.

Speaker 2 Chrissy looks tanned because that's the lighting we set up for her.

Speaker 2 I've been at sports events for my nephews. So yeah, we get a lot of sun down here in Atlanta all the time.

Speaker 2 And

Speaker 2 I have small children, and we just happen to have a pool, also known as a death trap, in the back of our house. And so every day I get to spend an hour and a half out there

Speaker 2 desperately trying to save them from dying in my death trap in the back of the house.

Speaker 2 Joe, I saw on your Instagram, were you on the Howie Mandel podcast? I was. I just was there a couple of weeks ago.
Yeah, I had a great time.

Speaker 2 I'm so fascinated by Howie Mandel and his podcast and his thing. He's like, you know, a germaphobe, but then he like loves to play pranks and get dirty and get involved.

Speaker 2 What was your experience on the Howie Mendel podcast? It's a big podcast, too. Yeah, I had a great time.
I mean, he has like,

Speaker 2 he's like a big business entrepreneur guy. Like he has a huge space.
It's massive. It's similar to like Joe Rogan's thing.
And he's got, he's invested in these, I don't even know what you call them.

Speaker 2 I shouldn't know because he told me, but it's like, what do you call it? That Tupac when they did,

Speaker 2 you know what I mean? The hologram, those big hologram things. Yeah, he's got like 20 of those.
And you can just talk to people, like celebrities and stuff. It's really insane.
It's like an AI.

Speaker 2 It felt like I went into the future.

Speaker 2 yeah that was wild howie mandel has a hologram like museum essentially where you walk in you're talking to different celebrities in their 3d version yes it's crazy holy it's like

Speaker 2 and he had somebody oh my god i can't think of who like roasted me it was oh god damn it i should remember it was like some celebrity person oh it was adam ray that's who it was it was adam ray the comedian uh as dr phil and he was like hey joe listen is here and then adam as dr phil was like like, hey, nice shirt, you idiot.

Speaker 2 You look stupid. It was crazy.

Speaker 2 And he's got a full band and like all kinds of toys and stuff. Yeah, it was awesome.
Yeah,

Speaker 2 he's taken his podcast. And I've only seen a number of episodes, but he's taken his podcast kind of to like a new zany level.

Speaker 2 I saw the one where he had Billy Corgan and Bill Burr, where there has been a rumor that the two of them are related. They're brothers.
And they like confronted each other.

Speaker 2 And it was the most uncomfortable thing I've ever seen them. I I don't know if they were mugging for the camera or whatever, but it was the most uncomfortable thing that I have seen on podcasting.

Speaker 2 And how he's there for it, he really is.

Speaker 2 Joe,

Speaker 2 how long have you been doing comedy for those who may not know Joe List yet?

Speaker 2 Yeah, a lot of people don't know me.

Speaker 2 Same here. Same here, Joe.

Speaker 2 Yeah. So I've been doing comedy for 25 years.
Holy shit.

Speaker 2 Weird to say. Yeah, I started right out of high school.
And yeah, it's been a long, long time. And you traveled around.
You were doing quite a bit with Louis C.K., is that correct?

Speaker 2 I did, yeah, back in 2016, 2017. I did his whole world tour.
It was crazy. That was when he was still doing like massive arenas, which he still does sometimes.
But yeah, it's crazy.

Speaker 2 What is that experience for you? Like this massive comedian says, hey, let's do this together. Let's go around the world and

Speaker 2 you warm me up.

Speaker 2 It was insane. I mean, first of all, at that time,

Speaker 2 before I met Louie, he was like my favorite comedian. He was the biggest thing.
He was on the cover of Rolling Stone and

Speaker 2 appearing at the Oscars and the TV show and all that stuff. So

Speaker 2 he was like something I idolized. And then we became friendly and then close friends.
And at that time, he was flying around in a private jet, like a private jet with a waitress on it.

Speaker 2 And we were staying at like the four seasons and the Ritz.

Speaker 2 It was nuts. You are kidding me.
No, it was crazy. It was the craziest experience of my life.
We went all over Europe. We went to like Israel, Paris, Vienna,

Speaker 2 I can't even remember, Dublin, London, and had like a lady with a little, you know, rectangle hat on the flight bringing us drinks and steaks.

Speaker 2 It was wild. It was like the most unbelievable experience of my life.
That is insane to be like a young comic.

Speaker 2 You know, I'm sure this is the dream of every comic, is to literally land, you know, in the lap of luxury with the world's biggest comic.

Speaker 2 I don't think there's too many comics that fly around on private, none that have been here at the commercial break, that fly around on private jets and have a waitress

Speaker 2 inside of the airplane and get to do the world tour. Do you,

Speaker 2 when you have that experience, when you're like, oh my God, we're staying at the four seasons, we're flying around the world, we're doing all these experiences, and then you have to kind of fall back to then going and doing the on-your-own journeyman type thing, I bet that's kind of

Speaker 2 a kick in the balls. It's definitely weird.
I mean, one time I opened for him at Madison Square Garden, three times I did actually.

Speaker 2 And then you just get on the subway and you're on like the C-train in New York. And nobody has any idea that you've just, you know, performed at Madison Square Garden.
So it was weird.

Speaker 2 And I do remember doing Madison Square Garden and then doing a bar show.

Speaker 2 like in a basement bar, like two blocks from Madison Square Garden the next night. It was called Mustang Sally's.

Speaker 2 It was like a crappy bar gig and just in the middle of it being like, like, I was at MSG a couple days ago.

Speaker 2 So it's, but it's fun. It like adds to the romanticism of comedy, I guess.

Speaker 2 Yeah, it's, it's kind of puts some lure to the history of what you're doing, but that does have to be a strange sensation to be in front of, what is it, 20,000, 25,000 people.

Speaker 2 And then 15 minutes later, no one knows who you are. You're like, I just played Maradaska Square Garden and I'm sitting next to the homeless guy that smells like booze.
Yeah, literally.

Speaker 2 it's uh it's definitely a weird thing but uh it was it was an awesome experience i loved it where'd you grow up i grew up in whitman massachusetts which is about uh 40 minutes south of boston and is where the chocolate chip cookie was invented oh no shit

Speaker 2 yeah good good true story yeah do tell about the chocolate chip cookie i'm interested i i mean i had nothing to do with it supposedly the story is it was a mistake a woman was making something and spilled it's like the classic like you know whoopsie yeah

Speaker 2 and pulled out chocolate chips and a cookie, but I am obsessed with chocolate chip cookies. That's where it's from.
And I don't know. I think I might be the most famous person from Whitman.

Speaker 2 I'm not 100% sure, but

Speaker 2 I've never heard of another person from Whitman, but the chocolate chip cookie is, you know, takes the cake as far as fame is concerned, but it's not a person.

Speaker 2 So you might be the most famous person from Whitman, Massachusetts, and then spent your entire life up there. Are you still living up in that region? No, I'm in New York.

Speaker 2 I've lived in New York City for 18 years. So I lived in Whitman for until I was like, I think, I don't know, 22.
And then I moved into Boston for a couple of years.

Speaker 2 And then I've been living in New York for 18 years now. Are you always on the road? Is that something that's just part of your life?

Speaker 2 Yeah, I mean, I'm not as on. I have a baby myself now at 18.
Congratulations. Thank you.
19 months old.

Speaker 2 So I'm trying to be on a little less, but I try to do it like every other week.

Speaker 2 So now I'm on the road, I don't know, 30 weeks a year, where I used to be more like 45 weeks a year or something like that.

Speaker 2 It's like Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and I come home for four days. But with the baby, it's tougher because he's the best and I want to be with him.

Speaker 2 Yeah, you know, I think to myself sometimes, and like our agent has said, you know, oh, go out there and, you know, do some shows and do some stand-up. First of all, I'm not a stand-up.

Speaker 2 I sit behind a microphone. This is way easier than anything a stand-up ever does.
But the other thing that I always think about is my children.

Speaker 2 And I've often said this on the show is I'm afraid one of two things is going to happen.

Speaker 2 Either I'm going to be terribly depressed because I'm not around the kids who, while they're a pain in the ass, really do make me happy. Or number two, I'm going to start to like it.

Speaker 2 I'm going to be like, I really like being away from the kids.

Speaker 2 And it makes me a little bit nervous. But at 18 months old, that's a precious age.
It's hard to leave an 18-month-old. Yeah, no, he's the sweetest and he's very attached.
He's very intimate.

Speaker 2 No one's ever loved me as much. I always joke.
I'm like, I wish my wife loved me as much as the baby. I leave.
He's like sobbing.

Speaker 2 He has to be consoled.

Speaker 2 So it is tough. But, you know,

Speaker 2 it is nice to sleep in and

Speaker 2 not carry a baby around for a couple of days. But

Speaker 2 so it's hard to, it's hard to balance, but I love, yeah, I love being home.

Speaker 2 Yeah, for sure. You,

Speaker 2 when

Speaker 2 you talked about recently on your, I don't know if this is recent or if you pinned it or whatever, you talked about having a mouse in your house.

Speaker 2 And I really relate to that because I also had a mouse in my house. Yeah, you did.
Did you get a cat or did you get an electric trap? Is the question. Which one did you get?

Speaker 2 No, I mean, that clip, that's the first time I've ever heard of an electric trap. I do, yeah.
So, I've

Speaker 2 my wife and I in our old apartment, we live in a nicer place now. We haven't had a mouse yet, but our old apartment, we would get like an annual mouse visit.

Speaker 2 We'd have a single mouse once every 18 months or something.

Speaker 2 And

Speaker 2 the way we got it, the first time time I caught one in a humane trap, which is like the tube with the holes. And then you go and let it out.

Speaker 2 But I did not realize you have to go a mile from your house. Yes.
So I just went outside and let him go. And he just shot directly back into my house.
Like he was home before I was.

Speaker 2 And it was, it was raining out that night. So it felt like Shawshank Redemption.
Like, I just gave him a shower. I basically just rinsed him off.

Speaker 2 And so then it took me a while to find him again. And I took him.

Speaker 2 I finally went a mile and released him really close to a friend of mine's apartment and they're like maybe you can live there you know go try this place it reminds me of my pet rat when i was a kid and i had to go release it down the street yeah i got an idea when i was a kid that i'm a teenager there was a lot of people in my like this hippie circle of friends that i had they all started getting pet rats like you know the kind you buy at a store that save them from the snake or whatever and the rat would sit on my shoulder and i had them for like i don't know three months but my dad abhorred everything about it he was like you're not bringing a rat into the house.

Speaker 2 There's no way they carry diseases. And he said, If that rat gets into the house just once, if I see that rat in the house,

Speaker 2 that rat is no more. I'm going to kill it myself.
And so one night the rat got into the house. I let it into the house.
That's how it got in the house, but it got away from me.

Speaker 2 And so my dad says, You have to do something with that rat. It cannot be anywhere around this house anymore.

Speaker 2 And in the middle of the night, I had to walk it down the street and I released it into the sewards. And I'm pretty sure that it didn't last 10 minutes because it was a domesticated rat.

Speaker 2 It was used to being fed. What did it know? It probably got eaten by the other more mean rats.
I always think about that, Joe. I've heard that rats are actually nicer than mice.

Speaker 2 This thing I've heard. This thing was very sweet.
I mean,

Speaker 2 I hate to say, like, I don't want to disnify my relationship with the rat and give it a personality, but it felt to me like we had a connection. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Because when I would come around, it would run to me and then it would jump up on my shoulder. It would just sit there and I'd feed it.

Speaker 2 And, you know, I think it was just used to being fed, quite frankly, but it never bit anybody, never attacked it, never did anything like that. We had a mouse

Speaker 2 attacked to the rat never attacked me. That's good.
Yeah, it didn't turn into a teenage mutant ninja turtle or anything like that, but we had a rat one time, a mouse here at our house.

Speaker 2 And here's how I know is because my wife kept waking up and there'd be fruit. on the floor of our kitchen.

Speaker 2 Like it'd take from the fruit bowl and then it'd throw it on the ground, I guess, trying to get it or whatever

Speaker 2 and at the time we had two dogs that were not playing nice with each other so i put one of the dogs in the kitchen like gated it in the kitchen at night to sleep and i put a camera in there to see if i could catch the mouse and what i caught was the most unbelievable scene i had ever witnessed with my own two eyes and that was the rat the mouse was literally taunting the dog it was like coming up to the dog sniffing the dog the dog would wake up would raise its head the dog never once barked never tried to get it never tried never moved wow a mouse just owned his it was like listen here little doggie I'm gonna take your fruit wow well mice are smart right I mean they got bendy bones and they're smart or something I don't know anything about animals yeah I don't know anything about animals either Another time I had a mouse and I killed it by just, this is bad, earmuffs if you're very sensitive, but he was running up my hall.

Speaker 2 I lived at the end of like a long hallway in an apartment building and he was running directly towards me, and I just reacted and kicked it.

Speaker 2 And it like skidded across the thing and was just dead. I just punted him to death.
Oh, God. But he was trying to get in my house.
Yeah. My wife was like,

Speaker 2 he was going to try to make love to my wife. I can't have that.
So I just, I kicked him like, you know, Ray Finkel, and he just went flying. Oh, my God.
That's too funny.

Speaker 2 I read that you met your wife through a roast battle. Is that right?

Speaker 2 No, we didn't meet through a roast battle, but we met through, but we did roast each other and it was pretty uh yeah it was pretty spicy it was great i mean people see it and they're like oh my god you guys are gonna get divorced did you guys have a huge fight but we wrote the jokes together with a friend of ours like we both knew what the other was gonna say

Speaker 2 because you don't the thing about a roast that's nerve-wracking is you don't want to learn something about yourself at a roast yeah You don't want your wife to say, yeah, because this guy, you know, snores or whatever the hell it is.

Speaker 2 And then you're like, wait, what? I didn't know you felt that way. So we we worked on the jokes together.
And so it ended up being really, really fun. She won.

Speaker 2 I let her win. Maybe that's

Speaker 2 what we do our roasts. I told you.

Speaker 2 Do you know Brian Moses, the roast battle? Yeah, I know Brian Moses. So Brian came on and then he says, he comes up with an idea during the interview.
He's like, you guys should roast each other.

Speaker 2 Come on out. You know, we'll put you up.
We'll give you a couple minutes and we'll help you write the roast battle jokes together. And so I was all about it.
Chrissy said, no, I don't want to do that.

Speaker 2 I don't want to be mean. You know, I don't, I don't want us to get into like some kind of discourse because of the roast battle.
And I said, but we get to write them and choose them.

Speaker 2 Like, it's not like, it's not like we're just going to blindside each other with a bunch of insults. We're going to talk this out before we go on.

Speaker 2 So, see, I think I don't think that happens in every roast battle. I think it happens when two people know each other real well.

Speaker 2 And, like you said, you don't want to be known as the two-pump, like, you don't want your wife to come up and say, You're a two-pump chump.

Speaker 2 And then you're like, Did you have to say that in front of me? Right. Exactly.
Yeah. So we went over them together.

Speaker 2 And because I went, one time I was on a roast years and years ago, and there was like eight comics on the day. It wasn't a roast battle, it was just a regular roast.

Speaker 2 And there was one guy, and everybody did a joke about how his breath smelled horrible.

Speaker 2 And he was like,

Speaker 2 we did it individually. It's like we got together.
Like, let's all talk about this. We all just, that's what we came up with.
And he was like, I had no idea I had a breath problem.

Speaker 2 So that's like the worst thing that can happen on a roast today. Yeah.
Yeah. Roasts are, it's a certain flavor of comedy.

Speaker 2 I find some, I find some of it funny, but then I, sometimes I watch some of those roasts and I wonder just how emotionally stable that person is after the roast because, you know, you take it like a tough guy, but everybody, something's, there's some soft in everybody, right?

Speaker 2 There's a soft middle in everybody. And I bet sometimes people get off and they're like, wow, I didn't know you felt that way about me.
Oh, for sure. Yeah, no, it can be a little dicey.

Speaker 2 I do think it is best to roast people you're close with, which is the way roast used to be.

Speaker 2 And then like the Comedy Central Roast, it kind of got to a weird place where we just had comedians come on and roast people they don't really know. And that can be.
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 2 There were a few of those that looked rather uncomfortable. Yeah, but

Speaker 2 interesting, we're talking about like kind of like roasting people and emotional stability. You have been kind of outspoken about mental health.

Speaker 2 I actually just saw the trailer a couple of days ago on your Instagram trailer for this movie that you were in about anxiety. Can you share more about that?

Speaker 2 Yeah, so my friend Wendy Lobel, she made this film about comedians with anxiety that's been in the works for a long, long time.

Speaker 2 It's actually painful to see the footage because yeah, it's from like 2020, right? Yeah, yeah, I look insane. To me, I look insane.

Speaker 2 Yeah, so she made this movie and it follows me and Mark Normand and Baron Vaughn and then another woman who I don't know and I forget her name who's actually in it the most and I feel like an idiot for not remembering her name.

Speaker 2 but so she filmed it over years and got like tons and tons of footage of these comedians and I went and meditated with Tara Brock who's a famous meditation teacher who I love and

Speaker 2 it's been a long project and she got it together and now it's like going it's doing great it's on the festival circuit and stuff and it's a really great movie like I said it's painful to watch myself but you guys probably don't carry the same pain watching me that others

Speaker 2 I think you're a pleasant looking guy Joe yeah But I also understand the struggle of looking in the mirror and not always feeling.

Speaker 2 I think that piggybacks nicely off the conversation about anxiety is that we all have anxieties. And like as mentioned in the trailer of the film, and is,

Speaker 2 you know, most people, if they think about it for a second, will probably understand that anxiety is really your brain making up fear of something that may or may not happen, right?

Speaker 2 Anxiety is fear of the future, and stress is, you know, the pain of the past, or trauma is pain of the past. And that can be really debilitating to people.
And I think we all have it to some degree.

Speaker 2 I know I have it to some degree.

Speaker 2 I guess meditation is one of the ways that you deal with this, with your own anxieties. Yeah.
So I've come a long, long way,

Speaker 2 especially since then and before then.

Speaker 2 I'm a big meditator and therapy. I love therapy.
I'd go to therapy every day if I could. I just think it's the best.

Speaker 2 But I go,

Speaker 2 I go, yeah, once a week, and then I'm a big meditation. And then I'm always reading like some kind of psychology book or philosophy book or listening to them and all that stuff.

Speaker 2 What kind of meditation are you into?

Speaker 2 I listen to the Waking Up app, which is Sam Harris's meditation app, and it's kind of,

Speaker 2 I always forget the name, Terra Vada or some other Vada.

Speaker 2 Ayurveda. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Yeah. It's like body scanning.
Is that what it is? It's some of that, but a lot of, yeah, like

Speaker 2 seeing through the ego and that there's nothing there, nothingness, emptiness, all that kind of stuff. Yeah, I'm with you.

Speaker 2 So meditation and therapy are two of the ways that I deal with my own anxieties. And I think it's a really important subject.
And I applaud you for being open and transparent about it.

Speaker 2 And I do think that comedy is one of the ways that we comedians oftentimes will share their own neuroses or their own struggles with mental health or their own questions about their own existence or whatever it is, right?

Speaker 2 Their anxieties out there in a funny way that it's hard to not be open when you're laughing. And then that message kind of gets through.
Oh, he recognizes what I'm feeling or he has the same thing.

Speaker 2 And I think comedy in a way can be therapeutic like that, or at least opens the mind sometimes.

Speaker 2 I don't want to say it's some grand exploration, but I do believe that comedians sometimes can be on the forefront of opening our

Speaker 2 minds to conversations that maybe we otherwise didn't have. Did I read this correctly, Joe, that you've been sober for 10 years, 12 years?

Speaker 2 Yeah, about 12 and a half years, yeah, which is another thing that has really helped my stress and anxiety.

Speaker 2 Yeah, congratulations. Thank you.
Yeah, I have not been drinking now for almost a decade, drinking, you know, free from the drinking and most drugs except for prescription medications. But

Speaker 2 how has that changed your life?

Speaker 2 Oh,

Speaker 2 I mean, I can't even imagine, right? Yeah, yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Yeah, immeasurably. I mean, like, I mean, I drank a lot, obviously.

Speaker 2 And

Speaker 2 comedy, it's like it's free drinks, open bar everywhere and all that stuff. So just, I spent spent so much time.
I would get off stage. I would drink before the show, during the show, after the show.

Speaker 2 And so, and having a baby, it's been like so helpful to not be drinking. My wife and I always talk about she's sober too, like having to do this hungover, I cannot imagine.

Speaker 2 And then just not being present for your kid's life and all that stuff. And basically, I mean, when I hit 30, that's when I quit drinking.
My hangovers were insane.

Speaker 2 Like when I was 22, I would get blackout drunk, throw up in a shoe, shit on the floor, wake up and play basketball the next day.

Speaker 2 Like I would be like, oh, 10 a.m. basketball game, here we go.
And then at 30, I would just want to die.

Speaker 2 So it definitely made me much more prolific in comedy, much a happier person, a much more physically fit person. And not that I'm not exactly the fittest, but

Speaker 2 I'm not throwing up or, you know, shitting my pants. So just every, my, every aspect of my life improved in every way, countless ways.
I

Speaker 2 share some of the same revelations about sobriety. I didn't get sober because I went to jail or I ended up on the street or there was some big financial collapse.
I got sober because,

Speaker 2 well, first of all, I was smoking cigarettes at the time and I could not for the life of me stop smoking cigarettes. The second I put alcohol to my lips, I needed to smoke a cigarette.

Speaker 2 And I hated the fact that I was smoking cigarettes at my age. I'm like, fuck this.
You're going to die. Like, clearly, this is terrible for your health.
You got to stop.

Speaker 2 So I said, why don't you stop drinking for three months? That'll get you over the hump.

Speaker 2 And within a couple of weeks of not drinking,

Speaker 2 life started to change in ways that were very unexpected. Nothing I was looking for, but all of a sudden started to happening.

Speaker 2 clarity, some perspective, some understanding. And like you said, my hangovers were getting worse.
My drunks were getting more kind of sloppy. Right.

Speaker 2 And I just felt like after a couple of months, after I stopped smoking cigarettes, and then after a couple of months, I was like, wow, I don't want to be the old guy at the bar sitting at the corner, drunk like an idiot, sloppy as I can be, because that's just not a good look.

Speaker 2 But then that guy doesn't have, I mean, there, I'm sure there are some people who drink alcohol well into their existence and are very smart and self-aware and all that.

Speaker 2 But, you know, I haven't met too many of them, right? They're always just kind of, they can be a little sloppy sometimes. So I said to myself, wow.
And then years into it, I had children.

Speaker 2 And I cannot imagine for the life of me being hungover with small children. Can't even imagine it.
No, it's crazy.

Speaker 2 And it's hard enough being tired all the time and all that stuff and running around chasing them

Speaker 2 dead, sober, healthy. So I just, I just can't imagine.

Speaker 2 And yeah, and that's the other thing is like in comedy, at least, I think most fields, there's not a lot of people that are like really, really successful who are blacking out at night.

Speaker 2 There's a couple.

Speaker 2 That's true. A A couple.
We know them. We don't have to name, you know, we don't need to say names.
We know them. They're just alcohol and

Speaker 2 comedy go hand in hand for them.

Speaker 2 And some of them are really funny, by the way. Some of them are really funny.
Some of them we've had on the show. They're really funny.

Speaker 2 Did you, was that a crutch for you when you would go on stage? Did that help you? Was that like bravery juice? I would have to do it.

Speaker 2 I mean, it's, I was never uncomfortable doing comedy sober, but I definitely, it was fun. It was funner to be a little bit loose and have a little uninhibited.

Speaker 2 But

Speaker 2 you definitely, there was a lot more getting off stage and being like, what did I say? Right. Why did I flip out? Did I say F word 700 times? Whatever it is, you know.

Speaker 2 So there was definitely a lot more. That was the other thing, too, when I was drinking.
I was a big drunk texter and caller. I would wake up and send 40 texts to people being like, I love you.

Speaker 2 You love me. Whatever it was.
And I'm like, oh, my God.

Speaker 2 or Facebook Messenger, and I'm like, I messaged that person,

Speaker 2 Jesus.

Speaker 2 Oh, Joe, it sounds like we live the same life. I was the

Speaker 2 same way. Yeah, it was terrible.
I was one of those guys. I was always either telling people that they loved me or that they hated me.
That was my big thing. I'd be like, you hate me.

Speaker 2 Why do you hate me? Or I would be like, you fucking love me. What are you doing?

Speaker 2 You know you love me.

Speaker 2 You know you love me. Send me a titpic.
Come on, let's do it. Yeah, there was a lot of that too.

Speaker 2 Tell us about your new special coming out.

Speaker 2 Or actually, by the time this airs, it will have been out. So tell us about your new special.
Oh, great. Yeah, it's out.
It's doing great.

Speaker 2 It's

Speaker 2 in the YouTube charts. It's called Small Ball.
It's my fourth hour special that I've done the last, I think, five and a half years, six years. Jeez, Joe.

Speaker 2 In the last five years, you put out four separate hours? Yeah, yeah. Wow.

Speaker 2 It's been going well. So I don't know how I've done it.
I try not to think about it, but they're all good, I think. But

Speaker 2 i think this one's better than the last one i'm really happy about it i shot it in chicago back in october at zany's comedy club i actually shot it in two different clubs there's a zany's downtown there's one in rosemont which is kind of the suburbs yeah and we shot them and uh we kind of cut them together but not in a you know um

Speaker 2 weird way jarring way it's like just a few cuts so there's a lot of footage from both and um I'm really happy with it. I'm excited about it.

Speaker 2 And we tried to sell it to Netflix and they said, lose our number, rip up my number, don't ever call that again. This is terrible.

Speaker 2 No, they're backed up or whatever. But so we're putting it on YouTube.
And I actually love YouTube. It gives you the freedom.
I own it. And all the specials are in one place.

Speaker 2 You can collect all four. They're all right there.
We've talked to a few people that have done the YouTube and said how much they loved it. We've talked to a lot of people.

Speaker 2 800 Pound Gorilla has been supportive of a lot of people. They, of course, have the YouTube channel.
I think they also sell on streaming too.

Speaker 2 But there's a lot of comedians that come on here noted comedians people who have been on netflix and then they go you know what i'm doing this one on youtube for whatever reason i'm sure there's a myriad of them and and to netflix credit they i think they have been pretty supportive of the they've been doing a lot of comedy a lot of comedy um but you you know if you put out a special you want people to see it and you don't want them to wait five years or till you've finished negotiating with netflix um or whatever is that difficult to navigate that i mean my personal opinion and this is why i like podcasting it's multi-platform I'm not stuck to, I'm not stuck to just Apple or Spotify, Castbox, whatever.

Speaker 2 If one goes down or one changes the way they do things, we still have others that are out there. I don't rely on them.

Speaker 2 It's disparate in nature, and I control what I put out there and what I don't put out there. And I can do it instantly.
I don't have to wait

Speaker 2 for somebody else to distribute it.

Speaker 2 So I understand the allure of just putting it out there on YouTube on your own and self-distribution.

Speaker 2 But is it difficult sometimes trying to navigate the world of streaming and streamers and OTT and all that other shit? Yeah, it's weird. And none of this was around when I started.

Speaker 2 I didn't know this was going to be part of my career. It's so crazy.

Speaker 2 I always laugh about like when I started now 25 years ago, I used to always say for years, I'm like, if you put in an hour of work a day, you're ahead of most comedians because comedians are lazy by nature.

Speaker 2 And now it's like we all have nine to fives. You got to cut clips, you got to post, you got to tweet, you got to have a podcast and a web series and all this this shit.

Speaker 2 So it is tricky kind of managing all of it, but at the same time, it's awesome because there's less gatekeepers and you can make something with your phone.

Speaker 2 We all have television studios in our pocket. Yeah.
And then you can just upload it to YouTube. Even I know how to do that.
And I'm an idiot. So it is great.

Speaker 2 And it's like we all have our own TV channel, which has its plus and minuses, obviously.

Speaker 2 But it's definitely been challenging having to learn these things because a lot of this stuff is stuff I didn't want to do. That's why I wanted to be a comedian.

Speaker 2 I didn't want to have a job or work or think about stuff other than dick jokes. But

Speaker 2 ultimately, it's great. It's like the best thing that ever happened in my career.

Speaker 2 At what point in

Speaker 2 your evolution, did you jump on board with that kind of, I need to be a multifaceted content creator and not just a stand-up comedian?

Speaker 2 Were you late to the game?

Speaker 2 Because you said, I didn't want to do it. I hear you, Joe.
That's exactly how we feel.

Speaker 2 Yeah, We hate it. It is.
I like the podcast. That's what I like to do.
I was definitely late. Twitter and Instagram and stuff.
I was just like, I'm not doing that crap.

Speaker 2 I mean, it's crazy how late I got into social media stuff and YouTube. I just didn't build a channel or really try to do any of that.

Speaker 2 I just always thought like, I'll just do stand up on the road and they'll give me a movie or something. I don't know why.
It was stupid.

Speaker 2 And Instagram, when people started doing clips and crowdwork stuff, I was still posting because I love, I'm like an amateur photographer. So I was still posting sunsets and like buildings.
I love it.

Speaker 2 Like, like guys were doing like bus tours, like theater tours because of their clips. And I was like, get out of here.
Instagram's for photos. And so I actually had to start a new Instagram account.

Speaker 2 I have a Joe List photography Instagram in addition to Joe List Comedy. I did see that.
And I take some great photos. But I just, I've been so resistant and reluctant to all this stuff.

Speaker 2 But now I'm coming around. I'm doing better.
Yeah, I think it is a double-edged sword. It keeps you busy.
I mean, we are so late to the game, too.

Speaker 2 I think, like, two months ago, we said, okay, we should pay attention to this Instagram thing five years into the podcast. You know, hey, we should put out some videos since everything is now video.

Speaker 2 But it is tough because it adds so much more work.

Speaker 2 And if it's not your sweet spot, if it's not your lane, then you either have to find somebody who can help you with that or you have to learn a whole new way of looking at and thinking about your own content.

Speaker 2 And like you said, there's comedians who are out there who are just putting clips of crowd work and they're doing entire tours.

Speaker 2 You know, they're making millions of dollars because they did these clips with crowd work. Well,

Speaker 2 some of them, I would argue, not all of them, but some of them, that's what they, that's all they do. It's just crowd work.
Like they just do clips of crowd work, right?

Speaker 2 It's not stand-up comedy in the classic sense. It's just, let's go out there and talk to the crowd.

Speaker 2 And I guess that's a form of art too, but it's very interesting if you go like you for 25 years have been honing your craft as a stand-up comedian, you know, set up punchline, set up, punchline, storytell, punchline.

Speaker 2 And then you have to learn this whole new way of being.

Speaker 2 It's hard. It's like, you know, teaching an old dog new tricks.
Yeah, no, it's weird.

Speaker 2 And then I started doing these sort of ironic crowd work videos where I would just ask people where they were from and then be like, cool. And then name some things.
So I thought that would be funny.

Speaker 2 And then I posted so many of those, people were like, this guy sucks at crowd work. I'm like, no, I know.
That's the bit. Yeah.

Speaker 2 So that, you know, you just, it's hard to control what people are going to, how people are going to perceive things.

Speaker 2 You do a podcast? I do, yeah. I do a podcast called Tuesdays with Stories with Mark Norman, which we've been doing for, I guess I was early in podcasts because we've been doing it for 12 years now.

Speaker 2 12? Yeah. Yeah,

Speaker 2 it's a great show. I've seen it.
I like Mark. I think he's really funny.
I think you guys are funny together.

Speaker 2 Thank you. You're welcome.
So his new special is out now. We're going to put links in the show notes, Chrissy, if you don't mind.
And we'll remind you all week to go watch Joe's special on YouTube.

Speaker 2 There's four of them available. You can listen to his podcast with Mark Norman, who is also a very funny comedian himself.
And

Speaker 2 he's a booze aficionado. Am I right?

Speaker 2 He's got a booze company with

Speaker 2 doesn't he have Sam Murrill? Sam Murrill, who was just on the show a couple months ago. Yeah.
Bodega Cat. Yeah, it's a whiskey.

Speaker 2 Do you get a lot of Bodega Cat when you're doing a podcast with Mark?

Speaker 2 No, I mean, I know. Oh, you don't because you don't drink.
Yeah, I don't don't drink, and I always want to be like, it's awesome, guys, you gotta get it.

Speaker 2 But I'm like, I have no idea, it might suck, I don't really know. I assume it's good,

Speaker 2 uh, but yeah, I know. So, they have a whiskey company together, and now I'm seeing it more and more, so I think it's doing well.

Speaker 2 I see ads all over uh social media, and I don't know, they were at Madison Square Garden doing something. It was so congratulations to both of them.

Speaker 2 Um, okay, so Joe, you can find all his information down in the show notes. Please follow him on social media for clips and all that good jazz.
Joe, it was very nice to meet you.

Speaker 2 You are welcome back anytime. Yeah, thank you.
Next time you're here in Atlanta, please contact us because we will, this is not our only studio.

Speaker 2 We have another studio we would love to have you in and you can sit with us and we'll have a conversation and drink some tea. I would love that.
Yeah, that's my favorite thing to do.

Speaker 2 We'll drink the tea and we'll spill the tea. Yeah, so make sure you contact us next time you're in Atlanta.
Appreciate you guys.

Speaker 2 Thanks, Joe. You make this rather snappy, won't you? Somebody can be thinking to do it before 10 o'clock.

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