The Joe Rogan Experience - #1844 - Tom Segura

Tom Segura is a stand-up comedian, author, and podcaster. He is the co-host of two podcasts, "Your Mom's House" with Christina Pazsitzky, and "2 Bears, 1 Cave" with Bert Kreischer," and host of his own Spanish language podcast, "Tom Segura en Español." His new book, "I'd Like to Play Alone, Please: Essays," is available now. www.tomsegura.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Duration: 3h 17m
Broadcast on: 14 Jul 2022
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The Joe Rogan experience Train my day Joe Rogan podcast my night all day Time you're fucking awesome not only you an author, but you are a New York Times best-selling author pretty crazy, man That's pretty crazy. Yeah, that's pretty crazy. I know I really didn't think that would happen to be honest It's wild. You got a wild following now Cal. I know it's just um, I remember there, you know That's the whole thing this once you once you have like everything in they start talking about the sales Obviously, like first is the work of writing the book, right? Which is its own Thing and everybody's like don't do it. At least comics are they're like don't fucking do it, you know Everybody know it's done. It said exactly you said it's a grind. Yeah. Yeah, it is it what it is too is that for somebody that's out of School work for so long as to this the thing that feels like going back to school the most because you you have deadlines and we know we don't write debt you don't have deadlines and stand up, you know, it's like And you send it and you get notes back and they're like Blood all over the pages right like you're like And they're like this doesn't even make how you connect these two and you're like, I don't I don't know and they're like Well, that's what you have to do now. You're writing it. You're like fuck. Okay, so it's just like it feels like you're back to work You know you're back to doing work again. How's your typing? It in that it was rough with that arm with the hand. Oh, right, right. So I actually I started writing this book. I Got the deal for it in that when the pandemic was like just had to when they was clear everything was shut down So everything started in March and then it was like April May I feel like in that window is when I got the deal to do this and I was like, yeah I'm not gonna do any touring like they were like remember touring is like done go write a book I Send in like I don't know. I said in 10,000 words and then a little while later I sent in 20,000 more and I remember that I I gave it to the publisher and She took her time with it, you know like to do the to do her notes It's that's you know, I don't know how many pages that is but it's let's say like a hundred pages or something So it took a while So I'm just like waiting to get notes back and then when they come back It's like right before I get injured so I think I I'm then in the hospital And I have an arm that doesn't work for a while and they go. How's the how's the notes coming? I'm like I'm not doing them. I can't write right now because I was yeah, and When I finally did get to them It took a while like some some chapters you get notes on Say things like, you know, just add something here and there and Just this works great, you know, make this more clear And you're like, oh, that's not bad at all and you flip the page and the next thing is like just We don't know what the fuck this story is about and it's just like lines all over the place lose this add this add humor At you like I had humor at humor. Yeah, that's definitely one where they go this story is a good story But you need to add humor to it. You're like, why do you have to add humor to a story because you're a comedian? Yeah, but you're also a podcaster. Mm-hmm. Okay. Mm-hmm. Isn't it the best thing about podcasting? Mm-hmm because like you don't have to like hit a very specific note. You can kind of talk about anything serious goofy and You get comfortable It's weird because most comedians you see it are so uncomfortable with moments without laughter sometimes Mark Norman and comedy No, he just get help himself with the one-liner. Yeah. Yeah, he just sings It's kind of like he's got like a file in his head. They just come flying out. It does it comes flying out

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