Joe List on Doing Stand-up in Iraq | Joe Rogan

I mean I love drinking. I mean I drank. I mean I still I joke about it like I love my sobriety but like one and a half Vicodin and three beer was like the best I've ever felt in my entire life. Yeah and like a cigar. I went to Baghdad. I did like a USO thing with Nate Barghetsi. And we had like we bought Cubans and I had some Vicodin. I took like a Vicodin. I don't know if he did. I don't want to. I don't think he did. But I had like a Vicodin. We had a couple beers and a cigar. We're at Saddam Hussein's palace. And in the moment I was like this is the best I've ever felt. Did you do stand up over there? Yeah. What is it like doing stand up for the troops over there? It was fun. It was the most grateful audience. They were like so nice and kind. It was really cool. I mean some of it sucked because some of it was like two in the afternoon. And there's like 12 guys. It's fucking 100 degrees. They're holding rifles being like what the fuck is this? That was the show? A couple of them. Yeah. Some of them were like the ones in Kuwait were better because that was like not a war zone. And you're on a base and they'd be like 100 people. But some of them were like just in the middle of like 11 o'clock in the morning. In the middle of fucking Baghdad. Wow. But it was pretty amazing. Like we got to fly on these Blackhawks and we were in Baghdad. We went by the those cross swords and stuff where the statue was pulled down and shit. What did you do when you were in Saddam Hussein's palace? That became like an American base. We stayed there. Wow. Yeah it's kind of fucking. You stayed in Saddam Hussein's palace. Yeah yeah it's pretty crazy. I don't think I did. I think Nate and I shared a room. Oh. And I asked and he said no. I would have to. I think I'd feel compelled. I'd be like bro you're gonna have to leave the room. I gotta I gotta goal. I gotta check something off the list. It's a bizarre feeling because you know we like it was like you know we took over and then just made this palace into a base and there's like a driving range. You can like hit into like his prayer pond or whatever whatever the fucking is like reflection pool. He's got a prayer pond filled with golf balls. Yeah. That's hilarious. And they sell Cubans and like the lobby. America. Yeah we're some. We're pretty cool. We are fucking something. Yeah. But no it was amazing. It was awesome. One time we were on the Blackhawk helicopter and they shoot flares out for whatever. I can't remember why on every flight but they didn't tell us that. So all of a sudden you just hear like and you feel the heat and I thought we were in a fucking battle. I almost shit my like it felt like you know when you don't have to shit and all of a sudden you're like there's a shit I could shit right now. Yeah. It was that feeling. Your body tries to evacuate anything in there because it thinks it's in danger. Yeah so like we want to be able to run. Let's get on. Yeah yeah yeah. When you get really nervous like that you immediately have to piss and shit. Yeah I just took a huge shit right before this show. Did you use the little buttons on the toilet to shoot water up your asshole? It wasn't here. I was afraid you'd beat me up if I shit. So is that the Starbucks?