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The Joe Rogan Experience

#1129 - Tom Papa

The Joe Rogan Experience

Joe Rogan

Comedy

4.6228.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2018

⏱️ 184 minutes

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Summary

Tom Papa is a comedian, actor, writer and television/radio host. His new book "Your Dad Stole My Rake: And Other Family Dilemmas" is available now on Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/Your-Dad-Stole-My-Rake/dp/1250144388 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Young James are in the launch.

0:02.0

Five, four, three, two, eight, one.

0:05.0

We can do it.

0:08.0

Tom Papa is a mother-fucking author.

0:11.0

I'm a man of letters now. You're an author. I'm an author. I'm a man of letters now. You're an author. I'm an author. I've always admired that and

0:17.7

secretly wished that I, not even so secretly wished that I had the discipline to write a book.

0:25.0

You do have a discipline, you just have to focus it on that.

0:28.1

You can do it.

0:29.1

How long did it take you to write this?

0:30.0

About two years?

0:31.5

That's too long. I don't got that kind of.

0:34.0

You can do it shorter.

0:39.0

Oh, okay, like a little pamphlet?

0:41.0

Yeah, just to a flyer. little did you think about writing the book? I've always kind of wanted to write a book.

0:54.9

Did you have a book deal? I know well yeah on this one. I had pitched doing a book I don't know like

1:01.5

six years ago pretty much the same concept and no one was into it.

1:06.0

And then a couple of years ago, two, three years ago, a publisher contacted my agent or whatever and they had interest so we made a book deal and

1:16.9

that changes everything because now someone's waiting for you yeah you know you've got

1:21.6

to turn stuff in and they make books and they probably smart

1:26.9

You don't want to seem like an idiot did you have an editor that like went over your stuff and said this is too long this is too short.

1:33.2

Yeah they were pretty great they were pretty they just left the material alone.

1:38.4

Oh. There was a couple little things where they're like you know you're repeating something or that but mostly it

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