Comedian and actor Joe Rogan joins Jemele to discuss his new Netflix comedy-drama series, and how he went from a stand-up comic to a writer-producer-director-writer-director.
00:01:03.000And so, I've always liked movies, like features, right?
00:01:07.000But it's a huge undertaking to get a feature made, but I liked short films, because it feels like you're making a movie, you know, like a mini-movie, right?
00:01:16.000And it feels much more accessible to do.
00:03:00.000And I had my own blueprint for how I would do it.
00:03:03.000I was like, I'll go to the Groundlings.
00:03:06.000SNL will definitely hire me from there.
00:03:09.000Like, this is, like, my 21-year-old brain.
00:03:11.000And then I'll do that for a couple years, and then I'll do movies.
00:03:14.000Like, I thought that was a logical game plan to end up in movies.
00:03:19.000And it just, you know, I did do the Groundlings for a while, the school.
00:03:23.000But when I was supposed to do Writing Lab, which was, like, one of their levels, I had started stand-up, and I was just like, oh, this path is just better for me.
00:03:45.000You know, that's kind of like interesting.
00:03:47.000But the dream of like of doing something like movies, which is like this feels like to me like they sent me to film school and they were like, make your fucked up movies.
00:09:28.000But that's also, I realize that after years of that, it's like, well, if I'm always touring, I'm just never going to be able to do something else.
00:09:51.000Yeah, film some stuff and then I'll still do like what I do, which is like go into your club or book some club weekends, which are kind of like...
00:10:01.000Low, you know, stress kind of things where you go like, hey, I'm just going to go work out.
00:10:05.000So I'll try to keep the muscle fresh, but I won't book like a tour.
00:10:26.000So, like, I just talk about what I want to talk about, and I write about what I want to write about, instead of going, I gotta put an hour together, because I have a tour in three months.
00:10:34.000Like, I have to make sure this hour's tight, I have to...
00:10:37.000You just kind of take your time with it.
00:10:38.000And I think there's something to be said for taking breaks, with stand-up in particular, because, like, you don't want to just have tools that you use to do a job.
00:24:03.000It was Taylor Sheridan and his wife, my wife was there, Bert and his wife, David Goggins and his wife, and then a bunch of my professional pool player friends.
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00:40:08.000And you've got to try not to lose too much weight too quick.
00:40:11.000Because a lot of people with losing weight, like, a lot of people become food addicts, and then addicts act like addicts, and you start thinking, I've got to lose it all right now!
00:40:20.000And so you starve yourself, and you just work out eight hours a day, and, well, you're going to lose all your muscle, too.
00:41:41.000And then, yeah, you just order whatever to eat.
00:41:43.000So you just feel it slowly come apart.
00:41:45.000But I feel like I'm also at a place where I know if I dial in my diet and make sure I stay on top of the training, I can shed this 10 pretty...
00:48:22.000And then you get all this inflammation in your body.
00:48:25.000And, you know, we've sort of genetically modified a bunch of things so we could feed a bunch of people, so we could have large numbers of people.
00:49:10.000And then you have lack of understanding of nutrition, which is they think, oh, you're some fuckhead doctor that tells you, just have to eat a balanced diet.
00:50:31.000Well, also, you get it in their head that they're fucked because the debt that they're getting involved in with student loans is the only debt we have that you can't get rid of.
00:50:53.000So they made it to death and they owe money to the government for loans that did them no good at all because they're living off Social Security.
00:51:00.000So the government gets to steal more money from your Social Security.
00:52:09.000And then you're never getting out of the hole.
00:52:10.000I mean, I think this is why some doctors and lawyers become sociopaths, because you are dealing with so much debt and you realize no one gives a fuck about you, so you don't give a fuck about anybody else either.
00:53:27.000It's the same reason, like, you have a conversation with somebody who's that age, and you're like, oh, you realize that our brains are different, right?
00:59:20.000And he's like how they don't respect IP at all.
00:59:23.000So he's like, they'll just come in and they'll get a, you know, a spy to give them, let's say the IP of some, whatever industry, wind energy, they'll just take it and be like, we have it now.
01:04:50.000Month journey that this dude has been on that I've been watching all the videos.
01:04:55.000Whenever he has a new video, I watch it.
01:04:56.000He does a lot of dope shit, but this is a guy that like really loves cars and he's super smart and when he's talking about cars, it's fascinating because like he's also a fan of the original M5, which I've thought about getting one of those.
01:05:11.000Not very fast, but apparently like super engaging driving experience.
01:05:16.000The original M5, which I think was like I want to say it was like 280 horsepower.
01:09:19.000It's a weird design, like having the engine out back like that.
01:09:22.000This thing also happens in everybody's mind who hasn't, who is not, it's literally something you have to be trained, which is that when something, when you're in a car and you're at a certain rate of speed and you're Yep.
01:10:27.000And also, it's like, is that really the best way to do it?
01:10:29.000Because, you know, everybody always said that the Cayman is the better car if they just gave it the same sort of love that they give the Porsche.
01:18:19.000But there's a bunch of people that just think about their problems all the time.
01:18:23.000It's an obsession and what it does is it carries you through time without having to deal with the problem because you just talk about the problem.
01:21:49.000But if an office, if, like, someone, like, takes a fork home, like, if you have a kitchen in your office, we use a bunch of forks for the staff.
01:24:08.000And she was like, you promised, so you lied to me.
01:24:11.000And I'm like, mom, I can't be like, hey, don't air the first one.
01:24:16.000She's like, well, that means you lied to me, so I'm never coming to a show again, and I'm never going to do anything related to any of your stuff.
01:26:14.000I do think it's like, when, first of all, I think people are kind of done asking him questions, because most of the shit he puts out is, like, self-release kind of commentary or thoughts.
01:26:24.000Because he's saying just fucking, you know.
01:26:27.000It's the craziest thing I've ever seen.
01:26:29.000But there is a thing where that song is like, what are you doing, dude?
01:28:43.000And then it becomes more popular, and then it kind of supports what he says, which is that there's this concerted effort if you talk about...
01:28:51.000Jewish people, that they're going to remove you from everything, remove you from banking, which is what he's saying.
01:36:51.000I want stuff that's forged inside of a sun.
01:36:54.000How many women out there do you think to rock something that they're so proud of that if they go to get it assessed, it has to happen all the time.
01:38:00.000If you go to a party, if you're a woman and you have this beautiful, big-ass fucking rock and you walk in and everybody's like, oh, look at her ring.
01:38:57.000It's just unstoppable belief in yourself, which, listen, he's such a great athlete that if he did compete in MMA, he probably would be a world champion.
01:39:05.000Because he's got that, like if Michael Jordan decided he was going to, if MMA existed when Michael Jordan was alive, he'd probably be the light heavyweight champion of the world.
01:39:14.000He'd probably figure out a way to fuck everybody else up.
01:39:16.000And also like this drive, this championship mindset.
01:39:20.000It's just rare humans that choose to focus on Football, or soccer, or basketball, or whatever it is.
01:39:29.000But if they put the same amount of energy from the same amount, at an early enough age, there's certain barriers that cannot be overcome, and one of them is physical maturity.
01:39:40.000Once you're 36 years old, if you start boxing at 36 years old, I don't care what, you're not going to be a world champion.
01:40:18.000But he just thinks, but if, you know, you put him in there with a guy, like a Dreckus Duplessis or something like that, he'd get fucking mauled.
01:40:26.000No, he's thinking, yeah, because he was a fucking precision route runner.
01:47:12.000And so there was always a bunch of poker players that would play pool, and they were kind of okay at pool, but they would get insane spots.
01:47:20.000Like, say, I knew this guy that was playing one pocket for like $100,000 a set.
01:47:27.000And one pocket is a weird game where a pool table has six pockets.
01:50:06.000You have to risk reward because, say, you might have a long spot in your hole, and if you make it, you have all these balls and you can run out the game.
01:50:17.000But if you miss, you're selling out, and this guy only has to make six balls, and he might be able to make six balls.
01:50:24.000It's just, any ball just has to be in your hole in any order.
01:50:28.000It's not a thing like, it's not like a rotation game, like one through nine or eight ball where you're like, I got stripes, you got solids.
01:53:34.000And it's so funny, too, because the NBA, there's probably, like, in football, there's this thing that happens where, like, every single down you could call holding if you wanted to.
01:53:43.000Holding just happens in every play, right?
01:53:48.000Tend to call are egregious holds, meaning that the guy who's the defender is going past you, and you see the offensive guy's arm extended, pulling the jersey.
01:54:00.000Basketball, it is so ticky-tack what can be called and what can be ignored and what is ignored and what is called, and it's just like ref to ref.
01:54:14.000Traveling charges like you see it sometimes like what was that like right fingertips like graze the guys aren't and they fucking call the foul and then somebody gets hacked no foul right and it's just you kind of go well it's just like in the moment of the game and like if that guy wants to be dirty like the one was mm-hmm You can make some money.
01:58:03.000And, you know, there's been a few decisions like that in boxing where you're like, how is this?
01:58:07.000What was the one, because I watched a video on this, I think recently too, where I was like, oh, what was the explanation where it was Kennedy, Tim, right?
01:59:07.000Yeah, and so then your brain starts and then you get out of your Fight mindset which has to be Zen because he's get you're getting into the injustice mindset Yeah, isn't anybody fucking yes, yes, yes, yes, and there was That was just like an oversight.
02:00:45.000Everybody said, like, Robert Whittaker, who beat him twice, who was the middleweight champion, he's like, every time you hit him, it hurt you.
02:01:16.000It's like you don't want to discourage that in a fighter because that's the thing that gets them to a championship level in the first place is this belief that they're just different than everybody.
02:02:52.000Well, because our society is infested with bitches.
02:02:55.000Like an apartment filled with roaches, our society is infested with bitches.
02:02:59.000And there's always going to be people that don't do their best, that don't go for things, that don't try real hard, that never put themselves out there.
02:03:07.000And so when someone does and fails, they're like, ha, ha, ha.
02:03:11.000And they want to troll them on social media.
02:03:15.000I tell so many fighters, you've got to stay offline.
02:03:18.000Because I've talked to fighters, like, when they're arguing with people online, and I'll meet them, I'll see them, and I'll go, "Hey man, listen to me.
02:03:23.000I know you think you're doing, like, you're shutting these people up.
02:03:28.000If you ever see you, I'll fucking smack you." Dude, I'm telling you, right now, you've got to stop doing this.
02:03:33.000You've got to stop engaging and stop reading these things.
02:04:52.000It's kind of vague to me, but he was getting totally mercilessly trolled and attacked by someone, and it turned out to be one of his friends.
02:07:26.000Like, you know, that's why people that break through from that model, like Oliver Anthony or, you know, Tyler, the creator is a great example, like just makes his own stuff, puts it all in.
02:08:45.000I mean, it says he bought his dad a Cadillac, but this is years later, though.
02:08:49.000Right, but the thing is, like, he might have, like, bought him money when the money was flowing in, and then after a while, you know, that's the other thing that happens with artists.
02:08:58.000Like, artists are impulsive, so they spend all their money, and then they don't really...
02:09:02.000Like, how many artists get given, like, a Mercedes-Benz by, you know, the head of a label, and they think, like, oh, shit, I'm killing it.
02:10:57.000So all you need is a photograph, and especially if you chose to have effects in it, like some sort of psychedelic fucking weird things where things morph and change, it all could be done with AI now.
02:16:41.000The real mind fuck is if they can eventually create an artificial reality that's indiscernible, how do you know whether or not you're already in it?
02:17:08.000Quantum entanglement, quantum particles being in superposition, the fact that at a subatomic level everything is kind of magic, like nothing makes any sense.
02:19:15.000It's like winning fights in front of the whole world.
02:19:18.000I mean, I would only imagine that, like, becoming a UFC champion and they, you know, put that belt on your waist and the whole crowd's like, yeah!
02:19:25.000And people at home are like, fuck yeah!
02:21:06.000So, like, imagine if you had a fight, and now, like, you were a big-time fighter, and you hurt yourself playing basketball with Burt Kreischer.
02:21:14.000And then you've got to build yourself back up to fight again, but you kind of know that your left arm is kind of still fucked a little bit.
02:22:55.000He fought like, you know, Ryan Garcia fucked him up in the last fight, dropped him a bunch of times, and this fight, like, it looks like he's done.
02:23:03.000Like, he's moving around, just like, it was just constantly moving.
02:23:42.000Yeah, and I think he's also getting sued because, you know, Devin Haney claimed that he won because he was on steroids and that's a bad look.
02:23:49.000But you could tell that, like, mine fucked Devin Haney.
02:23:52.000And a lot of people, like, totally are writing off Devin Haney now.
02:25:17.000Turkey Alashik, the guy from Saudi Arabia, his excellency is the guy who's dumping incredible amounts of money into boxing so that he can get these guys to fight each other.
02:25:25.000So he's like, what do you need for the fight?
02:25:50.000Like, you need a guy who's willing to risk it all to really fucking go for it.
02:25:56.000And these guys aren't willing to do that.
02:25:58.000And I think the Devin Haney thing, it's one of those things where you see a guy who is an unbelievably skilled fighter but loses one fight and they're just not the same again.
02:28:59.000He's an unappreciative fucking idiot who you gotta listen to him because he's responsible for your paycheck and he knows it so he gets to act like a douchebag and you can't go, hey man, fuck you.
02:31:27.000Which is why this whole free will versus determinism thing drives me crazy.
02:31:34.000Because these people that want to believe there is no such thing as free will, like, yeah, you can do that cute little thing, but you know that free will's real because you know that you decide to get up in the morning.
02:31:54.000You're 400 plus pounds, you're fat as fuck, you're drinking and partying every night, and then one day you put your foot down and go, that's it.
02:32:06.000You're telling me, determinism forced him into a position at 39 years old where he's all of a sudden going to decide to lose all this weight and it has nothing to do with his free will?
02:32:31.000But then there is also a certain amount of determinism.
02:32:35.000If you grow up in a terribly abusive household and you're around drug addicts and violence and then you go and commit that, it's almost like you have no other examples.
02:33:17.000Yeah, but it's just the choices that you make in this life are, you don't know if it's the right choice while you're doing it, while you're making that choice.
02:33:27.000Well, I'm about to find out whether making this TV show was the right choice.