Joe Rogan is a comedian, podcaster, writer, and podcaster. He started his career as a radio host on SiriusXM in the early 90's, and went on to become one of the most successful radio personalities of all time. Joe also built a studio in his basement to record his radio show, and now runs it with his good friend Anthony Cumia, who is also a podcaster and writer. Joe and Joe talk about how they met, and how they got into radio, and what it's like to be in a marriage with a woman who doesn't have kids, who's not married, and who has a lot of disposable income. They also talk about why it's a good idea to have a man cave in your basement, and why you should have one in your home. Joe Rogan's basement is a place where you can do whatever you want, as long as it's not in your living room or living room. It's a playground for you and your friends to have fun in your own space, and you don't have to be told what to do with your time and money. Joe also talks about how he started his own studio and how he built it in the basement, which he calls his "man cave" and why he thinks it's the perfect place for a guy to have his own man cave. He also explains why he doesn't need a wife to do anything in his living room, because he's not allowed to have sex in his own living room because it's just one room, and he's okay with that. And he also explains how he's fine with having one room in his house. Enjoy this episode and don't forget to share it with your friends and family. If you like it, tweet me and let them know what you think of it! or tell a friend about it. Timestamps: 5:00 - What do you think about it? 6:30 - What would you do in your man cave? 7:00 8:20 - How do you feel about Joe Rogans' basement? 9:15 - How much money does it take? 11:40 - What are you allowed to spend in your house? 12:30 13:15 14:40 15:00 | What is a woman's place in your life? 16:30 | How much do you need to get sex?
00:00:44.000But it's like, guys who don't have kids, who are not married, don't have kids, don't have anybody telling them what to do, and they also have disposable income.
00:00:52.000Then you get to see what guys really want to do.
00:00:54.000They want to sing karaoke with a machine gun in front of a green screen.
00:00:57.000Yeah, it was crazy gun guy karaoke, so I could do that.
00:01:02.000If I was married, I would have a wife that would lose her mind at my living room.
00:01:07.000Like, my living room table that you're supposed to have a candle on and little tchotchkes and stuff is a widescreen computer monitor and a gaming system right next to the table.
00:01:19.000I have a gaming computer that's just unbelievable.
00:01:22.000And I sit there and just play video games.
00:01:24.000So the table itself is a gaming monitor?
00:01:38.000Yeah, the table's this big heavy metal thing, but it's just everything.
00:01:41.000There's VR goggles up on the console by the TV. It's just sensors around the room for the VR. It's a playground, and you're absolutely right.
00:01:51.000Guys will spend their money on having fun, if allowed to.
00:02:47.000The only thing that got me through as many years as I was married, because I was married nine years, and I don't remember one happy year out of those nine.
00:02:58.000But I had gotten into radio pretty early on in that marriage.
00:09:37.000Yeah, you'd sit there just waiting for the tits.
00:09:39.000It's like a 3D printer is faster now than it was downloading photos on a 14K modem.
00:09:45.000It's insane to think of the technology end of it because you got thumb drives with more memory than entire computers had just a few years ago.
00:10:32.000And to think of those floppy disks you used to get games on, it would have been a pallet stacked up like six feet high of those disks to load it on a computer.
00:11:57.000You know, that easily could happen to us, and then we'd be starting from scratch again.
00:12:00.000Yeah, when it takes some form of electricity to get to all this information, you're really dependent on that there's going to be power, that type of power, forever.
00:12:15.000And even if we figure out how to reboot electricity, say someday in the future, what if we have a massive coronal mass ejection and it fucking nukes the whole The whole grid and all the satellites go down and we have to start from scratch.
00:12:28.000So it's a decade, two decades before people start rebuilding computers again that actually work.
00:12:34.000Well, they're going to have to decipher all this information.
00:12:37.000They're going to have to figure out those codecs.
00:12:39.000They're going to have to figure out...
00:12:40.000Yeah, they're going to get drivers to make all this stuff work and you're going to miss a lot of it.
00:12:45.000Yeah, all the info is literally ones and zeros and has to be decoded and put back together again.
00:12:51.000And some important stuff, if it's on a drive somewhere, it could just get nuked.
00:15:22.000It's kind of left-wing tactics she was using.
00:15:25.000Because conservatives, the right, Republicans, whatever you want to call it, are pretty mellow when it comes to—they don't demonstrate, really.
00:15:33.000They like to just get in there and do their shit, whatever it is.
00:15:37.000But liberals really like getting out there and marching and yelling and bullhorns and stuff like that.
00:15:44.000So it was weird to see that on the other end.
00:15:47.000But she's just screaming and I guess they unhooked her and arrested ourselves.
00:15:55.000What did they kick her off of Twitter for?
00:15:58.000They kicked her off for talking about Islam and talking about how Twitter was celebrating Women's Day, whatever that was on a certain day, by focusing, like the picture was one of those Islamic women that got elected to office up in,
00:16:20.000So she said how hypocritical that was because, you know, Islam is for female genital mutilation and against women's rights and they kill gay people.
00:16:49.000So, you know, while her heart was in the right place, I guess, it did come off a little wacky.
00:16:55.000She also had a Star of David, a Yellow Star of David on her shirt as she was chained to Twitter, and people got upset with that.
00:17:04.000I just thought, to tell you the truth, I thought it was a good strategic move because you're going to buy time with that because the police do not want that optic.
00:17:58.000It sounds ridiculous because, like I said, I got kicked off, and I'm a little bummed about it, but it's odd.
00:18:10.000It's not just a private company anymore that can do what they want.
00:18:15.000I'm not for government regulation, so I don't know how you fix this, but Twitter is now a thing where the president's on it, We're good to go.
00:19:06.000This is the craziest use of Twitter ever.
00:19:09.000And I think Jack's position was that it's more beneficial to have him on.
00:19:16.000And it's really, we are getting to see his personality in a way we've never seen any president's personality.
00:19:23.000I mean, the most ridiculous petty shit that he does, like attacking Michelle Wolfe because of her White House correspondence, calling people losers, making fun of the girl on Joe Scarborough, the girl he married, saying that she had fucked up plastic surgery and she was bleeding.
00:24:25.000You know, when Trump won, it turned everything upside down and ripped the cover off of, I think, not only politics in Washington, but Hollywood, the mainstream media, the news media.
00:24:39.000Everything had the covers ripped off and everyone's now got to peek inside and realize how fucked up Everything is, you know?
00:24:48.000You used to assume Washington, at least, the people had some kind of control.
00:24:52.000Like, they were adults doing the job that needed to be.
00:24:55.000And then you realize, oh my god, everyone's just a piece of shit.
00:24:59.000Do you remember, here's a story that disappeared from years ago.
00:25:02.000Do you remember the Washington madam that suicided herself?
00:25:39.000Over the course of decades upon decades, every year that goes by, we seem to get a little more knowledge and a little less confident in the government.
00:25:50.000I mean, I watched some shit from the 50s, you know.
00:25:53.000There's plenty of things on YouTube and even industrial films, just this thing of how a family, how to raise your family, how to be a good wife, all that stuff.
00:26:03.000And it was all this weird propaganda of what America was.
00:26:08.000And then as years go by, you realize, oh, it was all bullshit.
00:26:12.000Like, politicians were always getting rich.
00:28:43.000So it's a throwback to a different time of rowdiness.
00:28:47.000And when he was in front of that screen, and doing this thing with his suit on and his tie, and everything was really well written, and he had these precise points.
00:28:58.000And I don't understand what the red-blue in the background was either.
00:29:02.000It seemed like something that someone had set up not as good as your compound media in the basement.
00:30:05.000To get a pardon from Trump, or that Mueller, as I've also reported here, has succeeded in finding a way around Trump's pardon power.
00:30:15.000And either of these near-certainties spell Trump's doom.
00:30:19.000So that's the most obvious of the seven ways for Trump to go now.
00:30:24.000Mueller really will get him on Russia.
00:30:26.000It will be ugly, and it will tear this country nearly apart, but it will be necessary.
00:30:30.000The second way is, as I have also repeatedly suggested here, that Mueller doesn't really need to prove anything about Trump and Russian sabotage of the election.
00:30:39.000There seems to be so much obstruction of justice, from the firing of James Comey to the lies about Trump Jr.'s meetings with the Russians, that it's hard to pick out a key player in the Trump inner circle who could not be guilty of it.
00:32:06.000I mean, there was a video the other day of Donald that they just played on CNN, of Donald talking about how many times he's actually been to Rush, Donald Jr. And, you know, he had said that he hadn't been.
00:32:16.000But then there's another video of him from years ago saying, yeah, I've been there many times.
00:32:21.0002005, 6, 7, 8, talking about business.
00:32:24.000The problem with the people that are going after Trump that they don't seem to understand, the guy, right up until he became President of the United States, was just a private citizen businessman.
00:32:37.000So he had a lot of dealings around the world with his real estate and buildings and golf courses.
00:32:44.000All this shit happened when he was just a citizen doing business.
00:32:49.000Now, whether it was ethical or not, that could definitely be brought into question.
00:32:55.000Whether it's legal or not, I'm sure that's what they're looking into also.
00:33:00.000But he wasn't beholden to the people as a public servant.
00:33:06.000There wasn't a conflict of interest because he was a lifelong politician and using the power of his office to make deals.
00:33:14.000And that also goes hand in hand with him just fucking around.
00:33:18.000Like, if he went from a selectman in his hometown, and then years and years go by, and then you're the president, and you built that career up, at any point in there, they could call you out on being a horrible human being, because you fuck girls, or you're this, or you had a shady business dealing.
00:33:35.000But up until two years ago, he was just Donald fucking Trump.
00:33:39.000So it's hard to call him out on even dealing with Russia because there's plenty of businessmen that deal with Russia and China.
00:33:45.000I think the question is whether or not he colluded with Russia to get information about Hillary and also to put out all that propaganda against Hillary and also saying that they're going to make a deal to do the Trump Tower in Moscow.
00:34:01.000This was all while he was running for president.
00:34:48.000But I don't see, in and of itself, him going over there being that big a problem.
00:34:52.000And the fact that the Clinton campaign and the DNC... They had a lot of shady deals going on with Russia also, and that crazy dossier, and an English spy, and a Russian...
00:35:05.000And that just never seems to get any traction.
00:36:17.000Growing up there, man, it fucking flavored me, it flavored burr.
00:36:22.000There's a million guys like that, that Patrice, that fucking comedy, a lot of it came out of that part of the world, because that part of the world's different.
00:42:36.000But those fucking pussies didn't want to go to jail.
00:42:38.000Isn't that something like the old school guys would be offered, you know, you could walk, or you could get a really easy sentence, just talk.
00:47:00.000Because they get themselves in these positions where maybe there's this thin little alcove, and they put their hands against one side, their feet against the other.
00:48:54.000Handstands and all that jazz on the ground.
00:48:55.000Mark out three inches and try to stay on it with your hands.
00:48:59.000Or mark it up enough so that you, like, put pads under me, right, and then give it so I could jump up and grab it and hang, and see how much of that I could do.
00:49:49.000You go to the hardware store, and you buy a 2x4, and you lay it down on the floor, and then the game is, you put the VR goggles on, and you're walking on this 2x4 over, like, in between two skyscrapers.
00:52:27.000There's a few other ideas that they're working on that should be available pretty relatively soon where the system maps your house, like the room you're in, off of your headset and will superimpose things over the couch.
00:53:35.000You get a real workout when you're doing this, so you get out of breath.
00:53:38.000I've watched my girl play that, and it's hilarious.
00:53:42.000It's funny to watch people do VR, especially stuff like that, because they're ducking.
00:53:46.000There's another shooter game that she was playing, and it's hilarious, because she's like screaming and ducking down, and your hand is up, like pulling a trigger on a fake gun over something that isn't even there.
00:54:10.000I'll tell you, there are some games or experiences where you're walking through kind of a haunted house thing that are genuinely fucking alarming.
00:55:45.000She's the head general, and then Carrie Fisher's the other head general, and they're telling these men to shut up, and this all makes sense to you?
00:57:15.000And then I think it was like the first movie where the spaceship was kind of a truck and it was just dirty and just regular guys concerned about getting paid and shit like that.
00:58:55.000They're putting out too many Star Wars movies to have that mystique and that kind of atmosphere that it was like to go to one of them years ago.
00:59:44.000And I didn't know Star Wars from a hole in the wall.
00:59:46.000I remember the trailer playing on TV, and I was like, alright, that seems kind of cool.
00:59:50.000And then we sit down, and that opening scene with the giant ship just does a flyover, and I was just, from that point on, I was just mesmerized with this.
01:00:01.000The illusion of size that they got in the ship.
01:01:54.000My mom and my dad took me, my brother, and my sister when I was seven years old to go see Bonnie and Clyde with Warren Beatty and what's her name there?
01:02:34.000They robbed banks and stuff, but, you know, they'd make jokes and they were cool and you got to know them as a person.
01:02:40.000So as a seven-year-old, I was like, oh, these people are cool.
01:02:45.000So then the end of the movie comes, and they're out there, and you hear the birds fly away, and Clyde looks at Bonnie with the one lens missing from his glasses, and it's really quiet, and then all hell breaks loose.
01:02:59.000It's just five guys shooting Thompsons at both of them, and they're being riddled with bullet holes.
01:03:06.000And the scene goes on, and they're falling down against the car.
01:07:10.000They're ripping the guts out, and yanking on the guts, and this thing is making these weird noises, like, and they're just pulling chunks of its guts out, yanking on it.
01:08:13.000People, I don't know, people don't seem to be shocked that much anymore.
01:08:18.000I know, you know, trying to keep it from your kids and things like that obviously makes sense, but it's almost impossible to keep some really horrific shit from people.
01:08:28.000Well, especially if you give your kid a phone.
01:08:50.000And I think the only real stuff was...
01:08:53.000Like news footage of airline disasters and accidents and stuff.
01:08:58.000Well, there was one that was real where these guys somewhere in the Middle East tied this guy's arms to one car and his legs to another one and they pulled him apart.
01:10:16.000Like they made it in the game so you could do that on purpose.
01:10:19.000And once it became viral, people started going up to her in the game and doing even more terrible things.
01:10:25.000There's one where a guy ropes her, hog ties her, throws her on the back of the horse, rides her to a swamp, and throws her to an alligator, which then eats her in the swamp.
01:10:35.000That is so crazy that you can do that.
01:10:50.000Does it always happen the exact same way, or do you throw in different spots in the water, and the alligator has a different way of eating?
01:10:58.000Yeah, there are different animations for the same thing.
01:11:02.000Actually, there was one, you'll be riding next to a guy that you're supposed to ride somewhere with, and the guy says something like, all right, we're almost there, or something.
01:11:13.000And if you're far away from the guy, he yells it.
01:11:34.000You're there for days and days and days reading every single variation of a head kick to an arm bar to a takedown to a ground and pound to TKO stoppage to kicking someone in the nuts.
01:14:40.000There are some weird parts in it where they're very misogynistic, because it's supposed to be like 1899 or something, and it's very misogynistic, and then there's some race references that they make that are kind of like, oof, oof, wow, that's bold.
01:16:14.000He records all the sound, but he's involved in every aspect of all those games from the beginning of Grand Theft Auto, the first Red Dead, Red Dead 2, and it's amazing.
01:16:25.000I've been to Rockstar in New York and took a tour of the place, and it's just a bunch of...
01:19:11.000I'll order something, or Missy will make something.
01:19:15.000She's playing video games too, though.
01:19:17.000Like, I'll be playing on the computer that's in front of me on the table I was talking about in the living room, and then on the big screen TV, which is in front of me on the wall, she's sitting in like a folding chair with a TV tray playing Red Dead Redemption on the Xbox.
01:19:37.000There's a video, a funny video of a couple engaging in virtual reality and they're having sex and the girl's blowing the guy and in the video Joey Diaz comes in the room and starts talking to the guy's dick.
01:25:32.000But that Flat Earth one, I realized I was arguing with Flat Earthers on Twitter, and that's when I really started going like, what am I doing?
01:25:51.000I was arguing with somebody and then I had my show to do and Neil deGrasse Tyson was taping his show in my studio before I came on.
01:26:00.000So he was in the lobby when I was in our green room when I was on and I start talking about it and I go, you know, let's get someone in here maybe that might have a...
01:26:30.000Explain that to people who don't know.
01:26:32.000Free bleeding is a woman's rights thing, and instead of using a tampon during their period or a pad, they just bleed through their pants and show it proudly, that they will walk around bleeding.
01:30:05.000It was like this parody of a men's club.
01:30:08.000And so over the top that it was like, I think part of the way to get beaten into this gang, this club, was that you had to recite five breakfast cereals while the other members punched you.
01:30:21.000And they would keep punching you until you spit out.
01:30:58.000And because it was presented as a chauvinistic club, like girls are allowed, minorities are allowed, it doesn't matter who we are, but in essence it is a guy thing and we will talk shit about girls and we're gonna drink and get laid and it's just a men thing.
01:31:16.000So they started getting together at bars, you know, in the area in Manhattan.
01:32:58.000They're fucking violent, a violent group of people that are there to hit people they don't agree with and silence people that want to speak.
01:33:05.000And that's exactly what happened with Gavin and Coulter and Milo Yiannopoulos.
01:33:12.000Ben Shapiro, a lot of these conservative people can't go to these venues and speak.
01:33:17.000They get shut down because of a violent group of people called Antifa.
01:33:21.000So Proud Boys were kind of the answer to that so Gavin could go around and actually speak.
01:33:28.000Well, when that happened, more people came on board because they kind of liked to beat people up.
01:33:34.000When you have a gang, a group of people, and one of their missions is now to beat up people you don't agree with politically?
01:34:38.000The other problem being that the Antifa people are a lot of skinny dudes and chicks with masks on and they are not really that adept at fighting.
01:34:50.000There's a horrible video of this one Antifa guy tries to hit someone with what looks like some kind of a stick or a pipe and the guy catches it and fucking blasts him on the chin.
01:35:22.000These people have this idea that they're going to go places, they're going to shut everybody down, and because they're in a group, they're going to scream and yell and hit people with bike locks and all this stuff that we've all seen.
01:35:33.000The weird thing is that that's from the left.
01:36:30.000And I don't know how it got distinguished where Proud Boys became this evil...
01:36:36.000It's a good group of people, and Antifa is the good group of people.
01:36:40.000Now, I understand that Proud Boys were infiltrated by white nationalists, Nazi, white supremacists, whatever it is, but those were constantly being disavowed by Gavin.
01:36:51.000Gavin never wanted any of that happening.
01:37:19.000So if you have a group where anybody can join and you have a million people in that group, you're gonna have a hundred thousand fucking idiots.
01:37:33.000I think this is also a symptom of the social media era today, especially with Twitter, because you can't express yourself and explain things in 140 or 280 characters.
01:38:27.000And it never was supposed to get to that point.
01:38:30.000And regardless of how these people act...
01:38:34.000It now reflects on Gavin, even though he wanted to hang out in a bar with a few people, do his public speaking without being hassled, and that's it.
01:38:44.000And I see the way the media manipulates things.
01:38:57.000There's one picture of Gavin that I was petrified by.
01:38:59.000He's got his arms folded, he's got a scowl on his face, that hair, you know, the short on the side, long on the top, and he's looking like he's angry.
01:42:36.000Which, in essence, by accident, he did.
01:42:40.000Between the hipsters and then this, he's one of those guys like, Gavin, why didn't you start a cult where you get to fuck the people's wives?
01:42:55.000Where he would trick these leftists into sitting down with him in interviews, and then along the way, they were having this conversation, it would be exposed that he didn't agree with them at all, and they were trapped.
01:43:08.000Like, this hardcore feminist got trapped with him, and a couple other people got trapped in this room with him, and they realized, like, some of the line of questioning and the way he's approaching things, like, oh my god, like, He's an interesting guy.
01:44:10.000Interspersed with, again, parody and sarcasm.
01:44:13.000But in his mind, this is something you can talk about where it was in the public's eye, particularly during the Caitlyn Jenner whole thing, people had decided that transgender was amazing.
01:45:32.000And then unfortunately for women, especially when you're a teenager and you're going through puberty and you take hormones, you literally start developing male features.
01:45:41.000Your face gets harder and thicker and wider.
01:46:41.000We're really good friends, and I love the guy.
01:46:44.000Why didn't you guys wind up doing a show together when Opie and Anthony crashed?
01:46:49.000I think, look, I can't blame anybody because...
01:46:54.000I think having the security of a steady paycheck, as opposed to the guy that just got thrown off of everything, starting his own thing, it probably wasn't all that appealing to Jimmy, who, you know, he just bought a new place in the city and everything.
01:48:16.000Oh, he wanted us to, he wrote, he wrote like a, almost a play, but it's all just kissing Chip's ass and how wonderful Chip is and how thankful we are to be there.
01:49:22.000Well, this guy wrote a tribute song to her, and another one of these self-centered assholes that thought he was going to go viral by making a tribute song.
01:49:29.000And we started changing the words to the song to make it just horrible, involving seaweed and things like that.
01:49:37.000But me and Jim are literally crying, laughing, and Obie's just kind of sitting there, like, not really...
01:50:27.000I did heating and air conditioning installation, and it was freezing cold in the winter and boiling hot in the summer.
01:50:33.000When I got that first gig in radio, because of Opie, and I'll always thank him for that, I knew what it was like to work, and I didn't want to fuck that up.
01:50:42.000So I plastered a smile on my face at every turn and did the show.
01:52:03.000I'm not gonna shit on the guy, but there were definitely personality quirks that I guess we both had.
01:52:11.000But there was something like, if I... I would party all the time, and I had to be there at 6 a.m., and I'm driving from Roslyn, Long Island, to New York City.
01:52:22.000It's 25, 30 miles of just fucked traffic every day.
01:52:27.000How long did it take you to get there?
01:56:14.000But at one point, because he has to use a body double, the actual magician has to drop below the stage, and the body double comes out and gets all the applause.
01:56:26.000The real guy that did the whole act is under the stage, and he shuts his eyes and puts his arms out, trying to enjoy the adulation from the fans, but it's not even him getting it.
01:56:37.000And I think that kind of mindset was there.
01:56:42.000And then resentment starts bubbling up, and you start doing things like saying, Anthony just got in, and You hold things over people's heads.
01:56:55.000The contract negotiations were a nightmare every time.
01:56:59.000And Opie always wanted a one-year deal.
01:57:02.000I'm like, what the fuck are you doing?
01:57:45.000We had a contest where people had to go around New York City and have sex at various famous locations, like the Hard Rock Cafe and Empire State Building, things like that.
01:57:54.000We had spotters who were comics or people that worked for the show follow them around, and they would call us on the show and go, all right, we're here at the Empire State Building, and he's doing it.
01:59:11.000There was another guy in a locked room down the hall that had a button to dump out of because we were constantly doing shit that would have gotten FCC complaints.
01:59:17.000So the boss installed these buttons everywhere.
01:59:20.000Well, we both had our finger on it going like...
02:00:04.0002004, I think it was, we had to sit out two fucking years out of our contract, not working.
02:00:11.000They didn't want us to go to mornings, because Clear Channel Radio, which was another radio company, and CBS were kind of fighting for us.
02:00:21.000Clear Channel wanted us to do mornings against Howard Stern, who was on CBS. We worked for CBS at the time doing afternoons.
02:00:28.000So we were put in a position where they were both just throwing huge amounts of money at us and CBS was like, we can't let them go to mornings.
02:00:39.000It would be impossible to beat Howard.
02:00:41.000But we would take enough listeners away where you might not be number one anymore.
02:02:30.000I went to Atlantis for a couple of weeks in the Bahamas and I was pulling my luggage to leave at the desk and I go to my chick and I go, why are we going home?
02:05:24.000Yeah, it was supposed to be commercial-free.
02:05:28.000They all talk about commercial-free, and then it ends up, oh, if you're listening to 70s on 7, I guess you won't have to listen to a commercial.
02:05:34.000Yeah, but even then, I think they have commercials on everything.
02:05:36.000Yeah, they started throwing commercials on everything, so...
02:07:33.000Regular radio, especially AM. Man, I remember as a kid, my dad having the AM, like music on the AM radio.
02:07:41.000Sounded like it was coming out of a tin can, static and shit, and that was kind of all you had.
02:07:47.000I drove home like a year ago, and just on a goof, I decided to put on AM radio.
02:07:53.000And I was listening to an AM radio show.
02:07:55.000And I had a big smile on my face all the way home, because it was like I was listening to the past.
02:07:59.000Yeah, yeah, it's like a time machine, right?
02:08:01.000Yeah, it was some weird, one of the local talk shows, a weird local talk show in L.A. where they were talking about traffic and the Dodgers game and this and that.
02:11:34.000Like, Matt Lauer, it was in the news or anything, but where was the mic being shoved in Matt Lauer's face as he's trying to fucking go home or something?
02:12:13.000It's so crazy because he's got some access issues.
02:12:16.000Like the people that want to get to certain parts of the public land, they have to go through his ranch.
02:12:23.000So there's like an access issue, like some sort of easement where these people are supposed to be able to drive through and they're fighting it off.
02:12:30.000He should just sit at his desk with that button that opens the door, but it lifts a gate up so they can get through.
02:12:36.000That button, there's a misconception about that button.
02:12:56.000Yeah, well, the media grabbed onto that and like, oh my god, he had a button to lock it.
02:12:59.000Like, he's sitting there, when I fuck, I don't want to be interrupted.
02:13:03.000I don't want to fuck, I want to hit that button and just start fucking- Some nervous girl just hears that click behind her and she goes, oh fuck, he hit the button.
02:13:13.000There was a lot of that that was accentuated.
02:13:16.000There was one guest that brought in a bunch of sex toys and he gave him a bag and he kept it in his office.
02:13:22.000And he was like, oh, he keeps a bag of sex toys in his office.
02:13:59.000And I think a lot of what else happened, all the details of it, it seems to me that all of it is very blown out of proportion.
02:14:08.000I don't like that that's happening because everyone is being lumped into the Harvey Weinstein category, which is the tip of the fucking pyramid right there.
02:15:50.000You're like, good, that's why I stick my dick in your mouth.
02:15:52.000And that hazy, like a few of them just hazily regain consciousness for a minute and just remember seeing old Bill pounding away with that fucking flounder eye.
02:16:35.000And that was the thing, that Whitey Bulger, all throughout his time of running the Irish mob, was ratting people out to the FBI. That's what was really crazy.
02:16:43.000He was another guy, just like we were talking about, what the fuck's his name, the Italian guy.
02:20:32.000But is it challenging to like, I mean, you have a bunch of people, like when I was there, other folks were coming in, and they had their shows in the studio as well, and you change your green screen, you know, you change your image in the background.
02:20:44.000Yeah, yeah, it was the most convenient way to kind of, instead of having a different set for every show, it's a green screen, and then we just...
02:20:55.000I did a reading last week of part of my book, and we went to an establishing shot of a cabin, and I moved to a chair behind the green screen, and it's just me by a little fire burning, and I, oh, oh, welcome!
02:21:32.000Keith, though, is the guy I've delegated a lot of the responsibility as to the tech end of everything and finding the people we need to run equipment and stuff over the course of the years.
02:24:36.000We went with subscriber based because when I got the boot from Sirius years ago, I couldn't imagine people wanted me to be hawking their products in the first place.
02:24:50.000And I didn't want to be beholden to sponsors.
02:24:55.000I can't have anyone telling me what I can and can't say anymore.
02:25:00.000But is there an issue trying to get people, like, I had a friend who was on radio, and they left and went to do a podcast, and they had a subscription podcast.
02:25:14.000And you gotta keep them happy, and they would do things to engage with them, and they would do, like, little events where they'd go to a bar.
02:25:20.000Meet everybody and do a show from there.
02:25:22.000He said, but it's really hard to grow because people don't want to pay when there's all these different shows they could just get for free.
02:25:28.000Yeah, that's always a challenge, but there's also the commodity that people can't get anywhere else is entertaining shows.
02:25:37.000Like, you could have a free show that sucks, and there's plenty of those out there.
02:25:45.000But if you're good at what you do, and you already have an audience, because I say it all the time, Carolla had the greatest line once he was being interviewed, and someone said, how do you make a successful podcast?
02:25:58.000He goes, oh, okay, rule number one, be famous!
02:26:04.000So I figured if we get up and running in a month, me and Keith figured it out, that we could hold on to a lot of the ONA audience that would come over and subscribe.
02:27:17.000Because it's a balancing act of bringing new people in, and like you said, keeping the people that are there already, but bringing new people in with some free content.
02:27:25.000So maybe a tiered subscription thing where there is a free level with sponsors, but then a tiered premium level with...
02:27:36.000Material that we've already had, maybe past shows or something, or extra content.
02:27:41.000So we're always trying to think of what might be a good option.
02:27:46.000When I first fired this thing up, we had no fucking clue.
02:27:52.000Usually you would kind of do some kind of a research testing or whatever, marketing analysis of day parts and shit like that, and I just was like, I could be here by 4 p.m., How long is the show gonna be?
02:30:04.000And I don't know, maybe I'm paranoid because of my past that sponsors might get pissed at what I'm saying, but when I look at the shows, especially the shows I've been doing in the past year or so, they're not as harsh as they were.
02:33:17.000He's one of the funniest motherfuckers, especially on a mic like that.
02:33:21.000Who would think that when Jackie Martling left the Stern show, they'd be able to replace him with somebody that was just funny as fuck and have legendary shows with Artie on.
02:33:35.000He definitely earned a place in broadcast history, but after eight months, it got a little too crazy, unpredictable, and you need some predictability.
02:34:18.000And then we picked up Dave Landau, who's a young comic out of Detroit.
02:34:22.000He filled in a couple of times when...
02:34:24.000We had him as a guest on the show, and then he filled in a couple of times during Artie's few sabbaticals that he was away for a week or so.
02:35:49.000I love that you're doing something different, and you basically got put into a corner, and you said, all right, I'm going to figure my way out of this.
02:37:14.000It was like, because you need their legion of skanks with them.
02:37:18.000Part of their show is that live audience.
02:37:20.000So I'd have people coming into my backyard that I didn't know from a hole in the wall that had driven out to Roslyn Long Island to sit on folding chairs in front of the guys.
02:37:30.000And I'm walking around my basement like...
02:41:20.000Think about how addictive it is to play video games.
02:41:23.000Now think about competing against another bowhunter, and you're talking shit to each other, playing this game when the deer are walking out in the field.
02:41:30.000It's really great practice for actual bowhunting.
02:43:16.000And have a version of the news is just with comics.
02:43:19.000I've actually, after doing that at the Comedy Store and watching that and talking to a couple friends, I've actually thought about doing that.
02:43:28.000Or a morning news show or just a show where one hour of the day is just like you get the AP feed for all the news feed and you've got video to go with it and you do a stoned out or drunk news show.
02:44:23.000Yeah, so, but that's, shit like that is great.
02:44:26.000We did an election show during the presidential election a couple of years ago, and Gavin was on that one, and we had all the big American flag waving in the background on the green screen and everything, and we were calling it like a sporting event.
02:44:40.000DiPaolo was there, and it really turned into like a football game.
02:44:44.000You're just going, oh my god, we just got Florida!
02:47:11.000Freedom of speech is about the government and this.
02:47:14.000It's like, yeah, but are you okay with that?
02:47:16.000Are you okay with a faceless corporation deciding what you can watch and see and hear and who can speak based on nothing but this arbitrary ideology that comes out of a building?
02:48:04.000But then, I mean, how about, look, it works that way on the left as well.
02:48:09.000Like, how about that guy that just got kicked off of CNN because he was talking about the Jewish policies against Palestine, and that he's for Palestinian liberation, and they were like, fuck you, you're done.
02:48:20.000Like, this decision or the thought process that's involved in the decisions that they make is not based on rational thinking and objective reasoning.
02:49:06.000I mean, just all that ridiculous left-wing woke nonsense, you know, that you're allowed to be completely racist against white people, massive generalizations against white men in particular.
02:52:25.000And now you see this, that Avenatti guy, that lawyer, just hilarious.
02:52:31.000He, the whole believe all women, and then, like a fucking movie script, it spins around and bites him right in the ass, where he's like, I didn't do that!
02:53:13.000I don't think you think it is either, but the law is the law, and the fact that it came out, and that it came out that Bourdain had paid this kid off, and during the whole time they're all just believe all women, and like, don't believe that one.
02:53:32.000And the fact that all that went down, you know, I mean, it's just...
02:53:36.000When these things play out like this, it almost makes you wonder.
02:53:40.000God, I don't really believe we're living in a simulation, but if we were living in something that's designed to almost It instills this lack of appreciation for reality.
02:53:57.000It all seems so bizarre and ludicrous.
02:54:02.000When Anthony Weiner got in trouble for pulling his dick out, I swear to God, there was part of me that was going, this doesn't even make sense.
02:57:17.000Isn't it odd, though, that the President is a guy that's so, like, insecure that forever, for decades, he has to fucking do a fucking Dairy Queen ice cream fucking move on his head every day?
02:57:48.000He looks in the mirror and sees Elvis, like young, leather-clad Elvis.
02:57:53.000Yeah, he's got this weird thing where he doesn't believe in exercise because he feels like the body is like a battery, and if you put any energy...
02:58:03.000Well, the motherfucker is up at all hours.
02:58:06.000During the campaign for the midterms, he was doing three rallies a day, flying all over the country, and he never seemed to be like he was falling asleep or losing energy, so I don't know what he's doing.
02:58:42.000And there's a prescription that they...
02:58:44.000I mean, he actually even cited the exact Dwayne Reed pharmacy where he was supposed to take this for like a little while and he wound up taking it for years.
02:58:52.000He's taking some form of amphetamines.
02:59:29.000You know, the difference between methamphetamine and amphetamines, the difference between meth and what you're getting when you get Adderall is so goddamn close.
03:00:00.000What he says here about being on a treadmill and going on a diet.
03:00:03.000I was on a treadmill for the first time, actually in quite a while, and it was a very steep angle, and I was there for a very long time, he said.
03:02:01.000He would swing, and he would slip, and he would fall, and he'd fuck his knee up, and Trump would kick him in the face like a soccer ball.
03:02:07.000He would get lucky, and he would walk away, and Biden would be holding his teeth and blood coming out of his mouth, and he'd be like, I told you, I'm the best, the best ever, and he'd get away with it.
03:02:16.000Just like he gets away with a lot of things.
03:02:18.000And there would be a lot of people that would want to kick Trump's ass and get back at him, but it would never come to play.
03:02:25.000It's like where people thought Stormy Daniels was going to take him down, and then it turns out Stormy Daniels beat some chick up on a porn set.
03:02:32.000And now she's after Avenatti also, because he apparently isn't giving her an accounting of where all the money that she raised online was going to, and...
03:02:42.000He apparently filed, she said, he filed that lawsuit against Trump against her wishes.
03:04:03.000One of the things about diet pills, they were putting about amphetamines, and they were reading down in this article all of the side effects of amphetamines.
03:06:13.000Do we go back to the, you know, this guy, the whole, and what we need to do, because guaranteed in 2020, that's going to be the pitch against Trump.
03:06:22.000We need to return to some semblance of society.
03:06:26.000It's going to be a young, democratic, socialist type character that says a lot of things that the young people want to hear.
03:11:39.000When the remake came out, I think it was the Peter Jackson remake came out, Patrice went off on it and did a whole thing about what the movie represents and what the chick and the gorilla represents and it was fucking brilliant, only as Patrice could have done it.
03:12:41.000With something like Disney, you have this board, and you probably, in California, you have to have a certain amount of women on the board, right?
03:12:48.000Can you imagine what that must be like?
03:12:54.000Everyone's super concerned about diversity.
03:12:56.000Adam Frederick pitched a show, and when they walked in there, the first question they said, he pitched the show, they go, okay, where's the diversity?
03:13:28.000You have to watch something that diversity is just forced in there because you notice it and now you're distracted and you can't really enjoy the thing.
03:15:55.000If everybody got accepted for qualifications, that would be Asian Harvard.
03:16:02.000But it is amazing that people that are rallying against racial discrimination don't look at that, because that is absolute racial discrimination, but on the other end of the spectrum.
03:16:10.000You're taking these people that are a minority, they're a small percentage of the population, and they vastly outperform most other groups.
03:16:20.000And because of that, Harvard has made it more difficult for them to get in.
03:16:23.000And now there's a giant class action lawsuit against one of the most liberal and progressive institutes of higher learning ever.
03:16:55.000Look, I just like bringing shit up that I notice.
03:16:59.000And if I notice that they're squeezing diversity into something that doesn't need it, I think it looks, like I said, distracting and it's out of place.
03:17:07.000And then other things, like the other day, I noticed, and you probably shouldn't even say it, that the Mars probe that just landed on Mars, and they showed the control room at Jet Propulsion Laboratories, and they're all applauding.
03:17:22.000Could possibly be the least diverse room I've ever seen in my life.
03:17:36.000There were a couple of them in there, but for the most part, it was every nerdy guy grown up and landing a fucking speck A billion miles away on fucking Mars.
03:17:50.000It's insane because when a push comes to shove, you need the people that can get the job done.
03:17:57.000And if it's that room of people, it's that room of people.
03:18:01.000You can't artificially diversify something just for the optic and get the job done.
03:18:08.000They had everyone in that room had a reason to be there.
03:18:11.000And I assume it's based on qualifications.
03:18:13.000But if you notice that or mention it, I'm sure I'll be called a fucking racist for that, but don't ever notice things.
03:19:46.000Whether you have an opinion about something, just voicing an opinion about something that involves race or sexuality or whatever it is, and literally calling for violence against people.
03:19:59.000It's all in the same category when it's ridiculous.
03:20:02.000You could have your personal opinion on anything that is sensitive these days.
03:20:07.000Like I said, race or sexuality or what have you.
03:20:09.000It doesn't mean anything unless you use...
03:20:42.000But it's like, let's say you have somebody that has a low opinion of black people.
03:20:48.000And you go into a bar, you sit down, there's a black dude sitting there and you're watching the Yankee game or something and he goes, hey, look at that, the Yankees are winning.
03:20:59.000Is the guy going to turn around and go, fuck you, dropping M-bombs?
03:21:03.000Or is he going to go, yeah, I guess so?
03:27:28.000It's not going to be used if I'm speeding and getting into an accident for them to go, yeah, we're not paying your fucking thing because obviously we read that you were speeding and didn't stop.
03:27:37.000Like, it's all presented as a convenience.
03:27:41.000Alexa, you literally, your TVs, they all rat you out!
03:27:46.000Alexa isn't this magic thing that everything happens internally.
03:27:50.000That shit sends everything you say out, records it somewhere, and then sends whatever answer it's supposed to give back, back to it, and that's what it is.
03:30:45.000The whole world's going to be on the grid.
03:30:47.000Yeah, the whole world, that's what they're targeting.
03:30:49.000As they continue to expand these satellite imagery things for internet, they're doing that as well, where they're going to have satellite internet available everywhere, all over the world.
03:31:49.000Yeah, it was like some weird antenna that had to go up there that they used to have to have to pick up the GPS. How come the satellites aren't any different, but the receivers can be a lot smaller?
03:32:50.000It's something that you just think nothing of.
03:32:52.000In New York, we had the hurricane a few years ago, like five or six years ago, I guess it was, and the one that took out Jersey and Long Island and stuff.
03:33:00.000And we went nine days without power in the house on Long Island.
03:33:07.000And you could see it fraying around the edges, man.
03:35:39.000We trust too much that the power's just going to be on, that the water's going to run, that the food's going to be at the supermarket or whatever the fuck it is.
03:35:46.000You've got a great advantage being able to hunt.
03:35:51.000Do you know what American refugees would look like?
03:35:54.000The fat fucking mess crossing some border to Canada to be saved from some cataclysm that happened down here?
03:36:01.000What a bunch of fucking just weak, soft, know-nothing, every convenience they've used for years, just not trained in the feeding yourself outside in the wild.