Joe Rogan Reflects on the Carlos Mencia Incident

Did you, I'm sure you've talked about this a million times, did you ever stop going there for a chunk of time? I stopped for seven years. Oh, okay. I stopped for seven years after I had that dispute with Carlos Mancilla. Yeah, that was when he was way more popular than me. Like especially as a comic, the comedy star took his side. And I was like, alright, fuck you guys. And I took off. It wasn't really the comedy star either. It was this one guy who was the manager. Because Mitzi, actually I called Mitzi and gave her the whole rundown of what was going on. I told her. And she's like, well, you can just stay away from him. And then she gave me a spot that night. And then they called me up two hours later to tell me that I was banned. So I said, wait a minute. I just talked to Mitzi. Like she gave me a spot. She told me when to go up. So if she's not running the store, like who's deciding I'm banned? You are? Like what are you doing? Like do you guys understand what this is? I mean, this is like a little, you're having a little battle for like whether or not you're going to let people profit off of crime. Like this is really what's happening. You have thought crime. You have intellectual crime. You have plagiarism. And you're allowing one person, knowingly allowing them to profit off it. And no one's doing anything about it. So when one of us does something about it, then you're going to punish that person. You're basically highlighting everything that everyone was afraid of. That's a good point. What is like, what were the, what was the reason for your being banned because you were on their end of it? Because we had made a video with me and Carlos arguing on stage and then we put it on line. Oh right. Okay. So they decided that this was, you know, somehow another in violation that should have been kept inside the club. And I'm like, you don't get it. You weren't protecting us. No one was protecting us. My fucking agent snumped me. Over that? Oh yeah. Over that. Yeah. I was with Gersh. They dropped me. Holy shit. We had to call me up to tell me. They essentially, in this long roundabout way, were trying to say that I either had to apologize or they couldn't work with me anymore. That was the gist of it. And I had to make them spell it out. Okay. Let me say this really clear. You tell me if this is what you're saying. You're saying you want me to apologize or you can't work with me anymore. Well, we're done. You know, there's no apology and we're never going to work together. I appreciate everything you've done for me. And I was really nice to the guy who was, it wasn't his idea, my agent. So you're a great guy. I see I'm giving you a hug. But you guys have to understand that you're making a choice that's going to affect the rest of your life. This isn't just a small thing. You only have a few. How many years do you have in this life? Well, this year is going to be highlighted by this decision. This is going to be a big. Why did the agent take that stand? Did they represent him as well? Yes. Oh, okay. All right. So they needed to make nice. Well, that made way more money than me. So it was he was way more valuable to them. And so I'm like, you got to make this is you sell art. That's all you guys do. Okay. You're not making anything. You're just if Mary Lynn comes up with the show, if this guy has a tour, if she's doing a this or he's writing a book, you make money off art. That's who you make money off. Now here, you know, a guy stealing other people's art. Your answer to that is we got to stop people that are exposing it. Did he ever change or not that it even matters? I hope he did. He's got to find Jesus. Did he ever acknowledge it? Then he did it sort of. Yeah, sort of. And then he kind of took it back. It's hard to admit. You know, I think he's a good guy. I think he's a good guy. I think he's a good guy. I think he's a good guy. I think he's a good guy. I think he's a good guy. I think he's a good guy. I think he's a good guy. I think he's a good guy. I think he's a good guy. I think he's a good guy. I think he's a good guy. I think he's a good guy. I think he's a good guy. I think he's a good guy. I think he's a good guy. I think he's a good guy. I think he's a good guy. I think he's a good guy. I think he's a good guy. I think he's a good guy. I think he's a good guy.