Joe Rogan Walks Nikki Glaser Through His Writing Process

Anytime I've had to do a transcript, because I don't write anything down longhand, but when I've had to do a transcript for a Tonight Show, or like, just for laughs festival and see it, then you start writing new tags and you're like, all this took was for me to write it out. But then what do you do for Microsoft Word? Then you take it to... I take it to that Scrivener. And then what do you do there? I take the stuff from Microsoft Word and then I trim it down. And when I trim it down, I put it in Scrivener. And when I trim it down and put it in Scrivener, what I'm essentially doing is saying, okay, this is ready to play. And then... What does Scrivener do? Oh shit, I left my fucking notebook in the hotel room. God damn it. Oh damn. Someone's gonna freak out. So then from there, I write things out on an actual notebook. And the actual notebook is basically just to get my set list in order and to make sure I highlight all the different tags. So there's three stages. Okay. There's the Microsoft Word stage, which is basically just free form, free association, writing things down. There's no structure to it. Sometimes it comes out like a bit. Sometimes it's just nonsense that never goes anywhere. But you needed to get out anyway so you could get to other stuff. Yeah. Like purging. I don't know if you need it, but it's like there's a road that you get onto. And as you're on that road, all of a sudden you're like, oh look, I found a bag of gold. And you don't find that bag of gold if you stay home. You got to walk. You got to get out there. And that's what the writing does. What the writing does, it allows you to pick up these little bags of gold along the way. And then I take these little bags of gold and I pile them up and then I throw them into the fortress. And the fortress is like Scrivener. So then I can move those bits around. What is Scrivener? Why is that different than Microsoft Word? The reason why it's different is because it's set up in columns, right? So you see how, and it also has cork boards. See, Jamie's got it up on the big screen. So in the cork boards, see how it's set up right here? Like each one of these things, if you go to the left side here, each one of these categories, I can move and I can change. I can have that bit in the beginning. Oh, this is awesome. And then once I'm in the bit, I can also go to this and that sets me up with a cork board. So I can have like, I could set up little note, like little, uh, set lists. Well, like that, like up there, little notepad things. So I could write down these on these index cards. Like don't forget this, or this is important here, or this tagline is huge. Try switching this around. And it's just this constant. But do you, but are you already like this? Are you already this kind of an organized person? Have you always been this way? Or did you get this? No, this is a discipline.