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The Joe Rogan Experience

#190 - Greg Fitzsimmons

The Joe Rogan Experience

Joe Rogan

Comedy

4.6228.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 February 2012

⏱️ 175 minutes

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Joe sits down with Greg Fitzsimmons. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

So Rogan, experience.

0:02.0

Shrain my day, Joe Rogan Podcast, my night, all day.

0:05.0

You snob.

0:08.0

See that's how you have to have a musical opening. It's very important.

0:15.0

For real.

0:16.0

Greg and I started out probably within like a week of each other.

0:20.0

Right? Yeah. Back in Boston. The old Boston Stitches comedy community, you know, and dude, you and I have gone through some fucking, we went to some crazy gigs in the beginning, man. We went through together, we went through

0:33.3

together we went through like the darkest time for stand-ups

0:36.8

Well the early days yeah we went through our personal darkest days but at the lightest time in comedy.

0:43.8

We fought the wave.

0:45.8

You know, I mean, we were, I see young comics today and my heart breaks because

0:50.2

they got a scrounge up stage time.

0:52.2

You and I, you know, I would say what less than a year into doing stand-up.

0:56.4

We were driving out and making 50 bucks cash five six nights a week.

1:00.7

It was for me it was exactly one year.

1:03.0

I first got paid by Norm Lafour to open up for Warren McDonald.

1:08.2

Pete King Garden?

1:09.2

I don't know where it was.

1:10.2

It was some bar.

1:11.2

I was on a like an apple box. literally like standing on an apple box doing comedy

1:15.5

you can't fucking move and you know I had a good time and then the next time I

1:20.3

lurked for Lenny Clark there's a two times in a row.

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