Tom Segura Talks Getting His Start In Stand Up, Netflix Specials, Joe Rogan, BLM, and Mental Health

People's Party with Talib Kweli

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4.4 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2021

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Tom Segura has his own podcast and multiple Netflix specials. So you might think you know him and what he stands for. But this conversation with Talib Kweli — who he met while opening for Dave Chappelle — brings a new side out of the comic. In this sprawling conversation, Segura, Kweli, and Jasmin Leigh explore issues of race, dive deep on the angst of quarantine, and tell classic stories from their collective years in show business. It’s a funny, thoughtful episode sure to delight Segura and People’s Party fans alike.

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0:00.0	Hey guys, this is Jasmine Lee co-host of People's Party with Talib Kuali
0:04.5	You're about to hear an excerpt of our show to hear the full combo in all of our past episodes
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0:18.0	When we met in Vegas you were going on before Dave should pound Joe Rogan. Yeah now Joe Rogan and Dave should pound a very good friends
0:23.8	Yeah, Joe Rogan is one and most if one of the most important
0:27.9	podcast voices and comedic voices of a generation. Yeah, and my estimation Joe Rogan underestimates his
0:35.4	his reach and his power to
0:38.6	Influence and impact the culture
0:40.6	I'm somebody who Joe Rogan has had jokes that I didn't find funny and I try not to be offended by comedy
0:49.2	Yeah, but he just had some jokes back in the days and some things that he said on his podcast and as Joe Rogan has said in his comedy
0:56.2	You know he's he's done so many so many podcast so many episodes of Joe Rogan. Yeah, you know you're you're you're smoking weed
1:03.7	You drink your talk of shit with your friends. You're there's no filter. Yeah, right and
1:08.3	So sometimes I don't know is like okay, is this a joke or is this how you really feel or and that stuff becomes funny for me
1:14.4	So I didn't want to be and I never met Joe Rogan. Yeah, and I didn't want to be like
1:19.2	The boat guy in the room sure when Dave should Pell is trying to hang out with his friends sure
1:23.4	So when they first started to do the Austin thing I didn't go
1:27.1	Cuz I was like let me let that thing be a Dave Joe thing right instead of it being like the Tyler quality energy here sure
1:33.3	And I know that a lot of my fans don't fuck with Joe Rogan. A lot of Joe Rogan fans don't fuck with me
1:38.4	I know this because they tell me they come to Instagram and when I used to be in Twitter and they come and tell me like
1:44.4	You I love Joe Rogan and I hate you like a lot. Yeah, like I'm a large part because of my politics and how yeah
1:51.0	I'm spoke I was spoken I am yeah, there's things I say that a
1:55.1	pockets of his fan base disagree with sure
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