The Joe Rogan Experience - #2557 - Yakov Smirnoff

Yakov Smirnoff, PhD, is a comedian, actor, visual artist, host of the "Comedy Couch" podcast, and owner of the Yakov Theatre in Branson, Missouri. He is currently touring the United States.www.youtube.com/@YakovSmirnoffwww.yakov.com Perplexity: Download the app or ask Perplexity anything at https://pplx.ai/rogan. Visit https://squarespace.com/ROGAN to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain. Try ZipRecruiter FOR FREE at https://ziprecruiter.com/rogan Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Duration: 2h 34m
Broadcast on: 23 Sep 2026
Audio Format: other

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(dramatic music) - Joe Rogan falling down, check it out. - The Joe Rogan, experience. - Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day. (dramatic music) - Let's go, Yakov, let's happen, baby, how are ya? - I'm too good to see ya. - Nice to see you. - I know, Jamie snuck it up on us. - Bam, just turn on. - Bam. - That way you don't have a chance to freak out. - Thank you. - What's in the bag? - Oh. - I got there. - Okay, so there are a couple of things. - Oh, a couple of things. - One, yeah, one is, it's a mural, piece of the mural that I painted at the ground zero, and I thought it would be interesting for you to have. - You painted a mural at ground zero? - Yeah. - Oh, well. - Yeah. So that was something, and I actually sand them up, whole Harvey D, the rest of the story about that, and I send them a video if they want it. - Yeah, I don't know if we can play that, unfortunately. I think it's got like a copyright to it. - Actually, I was-- - We were told, Jamie, isn't that what they said? - Maybe tough. - Yeah. - Right, and-- - So there's the mural, there's a photo of the mural. - Right, right. And it was, I was in touch with Paul Harvey Jr. asking if that would be okay, and they said it's fine, and they'll send-- - Yeah, but I don't think they own it, you know what I'm saying? - They own his voice, so. - Right, but it's probably, if it's on Paul Harvey's television show, right? - No, no, no. - A radio show. - Radio show, yeah. - Right, if it's on Paul Harvey's radio show, it's probably copy-written. Did we have a problem when we played the Taylor Sheridan one? Remember we played that whole thing? - It's just an issue, it's an issue. - It's an issue. - Don't sweat it.

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