E54 Jordan Rubin
Nervous Rex
Kast Media
4.8 • 921 Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2020
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Jordan Rubin is a writer/director who is based in Los Angeles. His first film, Zombeavers, premiered at The Tribeca Film Festival. Jordan got his start writing for Jimmy Kimmel. He then went on to write the opening film for the 2011 Academy Awards. He was awarded YouTube's "DoGooder Award" for a short charity film that he wrote and directed for Judd Apatow.
Jordan's own half-hour standup special, "Comedy Central Presents: Jordan Rubin" is currently running on the channel. He was a staff writer on Comedy Central's "Crank Yankers," "The Man Show" and "Pretend Time with Nick Swardson."
He was the Head Writer of both The MTV Movie Awards and the European Music Awards for 4 years. Recently Jordan directed the films “Critters: A New Binge” and “The Drone”.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, what's up baby? Simon Rex, you're listening to nervous Rex, duh, you clicked on it, you know that. |
| 0:07.0 | Hang on, I think I gotta fart. |
| 0:09.0 | Uh, so I live off-grid. So I live off-so I live off-so I live off-grid now and shit's crazy. This is, I don't know what day it is in the quarantine but I |
| 0:25.9 | coincidentally bought an off-grid house like a couple weeks before the shit |
| 0:29.9 | hit the fan that's that was a gnar one. And that was so gnarly. And I live off grid. |
| 0:37.0 | Oh God, it's so stupid. I'm 45 years old and that shit still makes me laugh. |
| 0:45.4 | And you know it's funny, he's my guest today is Jordan Rubin. |
| 0:48.4 | He's a comedian, former stand-up comedian, director, writer, we know, writes for a bunch of TV shows and films in |
| 0:56.0 | Hollywood and you'll hear us talk about it. |
| 0:58.4 | He actually said this to me, which is true. |
| 0:59.8 | He goes, you know why farts are funny? |
| 1:01.8 | Because even the person farting doesn't know what it's going to sound like so it's a mystery to even the person farting which is why I'm laughing right now because I didn't know it's going to sound like a train flew off a cliff in |
| 1:11.0 | fucking Jerusalem. Anyway, I'm living off grid now and it's a whole different lifestyle. I just dove in head first to this desert house and I got solar power septic tank and a water well which means I'm |
| 1:26.9 | completely self-reliant out here I don't need this fucking system of you know |
| 1:31.2 | PG&E or the you know water company nothing I'm so I'm about to build a |
| 1:36.0 | greenhouse so I could have my own produce I'm doing everything minus hunting shit's |
| 1:40.0 | so crazy like I'm basically a city boy I lived in San Francisco, New York in |
| 1:46.2 | L.A. my whole life I'm used to just you know fucking living in an apartment or a |
| 1:50.3 | house and just having everything right there at the ready and this is a whole different lifestyle like I got a fucking I don't have an AC or a heater I got a fireplace I got to go collect wood for the fire it's fucking rad like your life just becomes about the simplest |
| 2:04.4 | things like you know I don't have a washing machine so when I do laundry at my friend's house |
| 2:10.0 | or I go back into LA once in a while and do laundry. It's like a big deal like oh my God laundry dude's so crazy |
| 2:17.0 | There was a storm out here for a few days so the solar power there was no sun didn't come out for a couple of days. I had no power so I was candle light |
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