Joe Rogan Looks Back at His First TV Show

Hello freak bitches. You know I was thinking about my brother the other day. I was driving. I was thinking about News Radio. You so crazy. You motherfucking hired, not Horschach. Epstein. Epstein to play your brother. Nick DePaulo. Epstein, Nick DePaulo and Brian Callan. Oh my god. Where did you pull up Epstein from? Well they hired Epstein, but Nick DePaulo and Brian Callan I brought in. Okay. I thought that you hired Epstein too. Yeah, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I didn't meet him until he was on the set. He was a real nice guy though. Did he pass away? Oh, thanks. Yeah, yeah, I think. Check it. I feel like he did. You know what's really fucking sick bro? Your buddy. The one guy you introduced me to from that baseball show you were on? The Spanish guy that was on there with your nice guy. Spanish guy. Yeah, you were on a baseball show. You came from Spiderman. Louie Lombardi. Mike Starr. Mike Starr. The Spanish guy that came to visit you at the store a few times. He's sick. The American guy, yeah. I just donated to his GoFundMe or something. There's a dude from Star Trek. Remember that dude that's in Star Trek all the time? Fucking, what is his name? God damn it. But he was the older pitcher and I was the young asshole ball player. Was that Betty White? Yeah, she was in it. Not Betty. Was it Betty White? No. The other lady from, what's the cast? Some, God damn it. I don't remember her name. See if you can find the cast. Yeah, but you don't want images. No, that wasn't true. You want actual text. Don't go to images. Sometimes it pops up. Well, see, yeah, Ben... Rose Marie. Yeah, Rose Marie. Ben Greenwood, Mike Starr. Keep going, scrolling left. Yeah, Ben Greenwood. He's in a bunch of movies now. Dan Florik. He was in... Law and Order. Law and Order. But go the other way. That dude... And Allie Wentworth. She was hilarious. She's been in a bunch of shit. Chris Browning, he was on... He's been in a bunch of things. Son Zanicki recently. Was he? Mike, fuck this stuff. It's weird, man. What year was that? What year does it say it was? 94. 94. 94. Jesus. That's when I had to move to California. I was miserable. I was shooting this the first couple of weeks. Look at me. I was like 26 there. That's so weird. You know what, man? When it first started out, it was fun. And then what happened was... With TV shows, a lot of times you have these really funny writers. And these guys who wrote it originally were really good. But they had written for Married with Children and The Simpsons. And the network had decided for some reason that they weren't strong enough to run the show. And that they were only writers. They weren't like a real showrunner. So they brought in this guy who was a showrunner. He was terrible. And I didn't get along with him at all. And they were actually close to firing me or him. There was a real impasse between the two of us. Because the guy's writing was dog shit. I was crazy back then, dude. I didn't give a fuck. I had zero filter. I never thought I was going to be an actor in the first place. I couldn't believe I'm on the set. And so they would try to get me to do stuff. And I would be like, what? And they would give me the script. Like, well, we made revisions to the script. And I would read it. I'd go, this is fucking terrible. And they would get pissed at me. And people would be pissed. I would tell me how this is funny. Explain to me how this is funny. And then, you know, like, executives are going, you know, they were talking to my agent. This guy, you know, he's very arrogant. And, you know, he's causing problems on the set. And I'm like, I'm not causing problems on the set. I go, they took the writer's stuff. They rewrote it. And they turned it into dog shit. Show me how it's not. And I was like very close to, like, killing my sitcom career completely. Just by having no filter. And then they realized it. They read it. And then they came and watched some of the run-throughs. And the network fired him. But it was close. He wanted me out. But I was one of the stars of the show. It was me and that Ben Greenwood guy. But, and then, I mean, it was an ensemble show. But I played the star player. It was about a baseball team, a fucked up baseball team. And I was the guy who was always causing trouble and wrecking his car and going crazy. And so they were having a real problem with me. But it was because these guys that had originally wrote it, these guys were genius. They were really, really funny. And they took their words and just butchered it and turned it into some hackneyed, fucked up sitcom. Which is what they usually do. Well, Jim Brewer was in the pilot with me. Jim Brewer, that was me. I looked like a baby. So weird. So Jim Brewer was in the pilot with me. He played the mascot for the team. Fuck, he was funny, man. And Jim and I were buddies from New York. There's Jim. That's Jim Brewer. No, Jim Brewer played the pioneer who, he had like the, I feel like he got in a fight. Jeff Curran and Kevin Martin. Back that up right there. Where you see the line on the screen? Yeah. Where you see the words like right there. Kevin Curran rather and Jeff Martin. Sorry, I fucked their names up. Kevin Curran and Jeff Martin were the guys who wrote it. And they were really, really nice guys. Really funny guys. But they were writers. And this was something that they had created. And then the network just butchered it. And then it wound up getting canceled. And then I was ready to move back to New York but I fucked up and I had already got a lease on an apartment. I got an apartment on Moorpark in Studio City. It was actually North Hollywood. And I was like fuck, I already got this apartment. Like what do I do? And so I'm like God, I got to stay here because I got a lease. And I was like shit, I want to move back to New York. I hated it out here.