The IRS Came After the Boston Comics w/Don Gavin | Joe Rogan

Well, that was the thing that was also about, that was interesting about Boston comedy was that the partying, like they, you guys are a bunch of fucking savages. I mean, that's what I remember. Yeah, it was pretty widespread at that point. But again, we didn't know. And almost all of us get in trouble with the IRS because you get paid in cash. And then you just kind of forgot. That's what I said to him when I get called in. I hadn't paid taxes in seven years and I got called in. And I said to the guy, I thought it was numerous. I said, well, I forgot. And he didn't think that was that numerous at all. So that went on and on and on and on and on and on to finally get that cleared up. How did they catch you on something like that? Because I was on the cover of a calendar magazine in the Boston Globe. There was a group shot of about eight cannabis. And there was my picture. And this guy had the picture when he confronted me. He goes, how come we don't know anything about this? Did they pay for this? What do you do for the money? Used to be a teacher. Where's that money? So yeah. So that was how he got caught. So a little bit of infamy of fame I guess that they had is what they were. Pshh. Knock me down. Yeah, everybody got done in with the IRS. Wow. Donovan, he got done in. Oh, the whole crew. The whole crew. Everybody. How do you clear that up? Like, how do they decide how much you owe? Oh, that's certainly, that's a give and take type of situation. They have an appeasement thing. I mean, I had guys knocking on my door at 7 o'clock in the morning. And then you'd have to meet with this guy. And then that guy would get fired and would start all over again. And lawyers, yeah, it wasn't pretty. But it finally got cleared up. They took extra money. They knew that they weren't going to get the whole thing. So they took some of them. How many years did it take to clear it up? For me, it was quite about four or five years I think. Wow. Yeah. Jesus Christ. How much did they hit you for overall? At one point, I was a little behind. I think it was 128,000. And that was the figure that they came over. But 80% of that was in interest on the fact that they didn't pay them the $400. That $400 finally would go up to $1,500. So that's how the deal was. But somebody thought it was a goldmine to attack the entertainers. And that was us. Once they got one, they get another and another. And the dominoes kept falling. Did anybody skate? Did anybody wind up actually paying their taxes? Oh, almost all of us still. But did anybody not get in trouble? Oh, yeah. There were a few of them, intelligent people. Like who? Well, the ones that had families. Oh, OK. Yeah, the normal ones, I guess. That actually paid. Yeah, the ones that were not at those parties. Yeah.