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July 11, 2011 - The Joe Rogan Experience
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Joe Rogan Experience #121 - Bryan Callen
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joe rogan
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What's going on with this fucking...
To you?
What's going on?
We were both doing it.
No, I was silent.
brian redban
No, we were both...
joe rogan
I was silent, but you were on, then I took myself on.
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bryan callen
I haven't used mine yet.
joe rogan
Use it?
You haven't used it yet?
That's ridiculous.
Let's make the music so it's official.
Hit it!
Doesn't feel like a podcast.
Oh, the black guy.
unidentified
I want to be riding a horse when I hear that music.
Yeah.
bryan callen
The wind in my hair.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's how it starts, baby.
bryan callen
Smile on my face.
joe rogan
Wild times.
I could live in the wild times.
bryan callen
Let's get on our horses and just ride.
That's what I want to say once.
joe rogan
Be out there on that prairie and I can survive not talking to anybody.
bryan callen
Damn right.
All I need is a match, a bowie knife, and my dick.
joe rogan
It's always that character, that Charles Bronson dude who wants to live in the woods by himself and doesn't bother anybody, but the government has to go out there and fuck with them and he winds up killing everybody.
What is it that we admire about that guy who doesn't need anybody?
unidentified
That's the American way.
bryan callen
Self-sufficiency, man.
I don't need anybody but myself.
I'm self-reliant.
joe rogan
Yeah, but with a lot of guys, the loner would be kind of creepy, but Charles Bronson had a way of pulling it off that was admirable.
There was nothing Ted Kaczynski about him.
bryan callen
No, Charles Bronson was a badass, and God help you if you were a fan and tried to come up to him.
This guy I know, Adam West, you know Batman?
joe rogan
Yeah.
bryan callen
He told me a story 16 years ago about how Charles Bronson was reading a book in a bookstore, and this guy comes up and goes, Excuse me, Mr. Bronson, I'm a huge fan.
And Charles Bronson goes, Fuck off.
joe rogan
It's hard to know how much of that is the truth.
Goddammit, people are so full of shit.
bryan callen
He was notorious for being just not friendly.
He was a tough guy, actually.
joe rogan
You know, when he did Hard Times, if you've never seen Hard Times, Youngsters, please.
It's one of the goddamn all-time classics.
bryan callen
It's a beautiful movie.
joe rogan
And it's really like the first underground cage-fighting movie.
They actually fought in a cage.
Bronson was in his 50s when he shot that.
bryan callen
Was he in his 50s?
Because you see his body, it's ridiculous.
He had a lot of Native American in him, and I think he used to be like an acrobat or something.
joe rogan
Something along those lines, yeah.
bryan callen
He was in a circus, I think.
joe rogan
Even with Wikipedia, we're just bullshitting through this.
bryan callen
He was in the circus.
joe rogan
Yeah, yeah.
bryan callen
He was in the circus.
He did capoeira in Brazil.
joe rogan
In Brazil, he did capoeira.
bryan callen
That's always my favorite stuff when people go, no, this guy I know, this guy, there wasn't UFC, dude.
He fought in the underground in Burma.
He has 17 confirmed kills under his belt.
joe rogan
There was a lot of guys who just made up a bunch of shit like that in the 70s.
bryan callen
Greatest.
joe rogan
Remember the guy who did the movie Kickbox?
No, not Kickbox.
bryan callen
No, no, Bloodsport.
joe rogan
Bloodsport, yeah.
Frank Dux.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah, he's a ninjutsu guy who went out there to the Kumite and just fucked everybody up.
bryan callen
Damn right.
joe rogan
Supposedly, he had a story.
bryan callen
Remember Dim Muck, which was Death Touch?
joe rogan
There was a guy named Raphael Torrey, and I've talked about this guy before, because this guy snuck through my crazy radar, and I realized that there was something wrong, and then it turned out he was a killer.
I didn't know.
I was around this guy.
He was a friend of a friend.
He was a friend of Eddie's.
And I was around this guy a couple times, and normally my crazy radars are really good, but this guy snuck right through it.
And he was such a pathological liar.
This is one of the things that he did.
He was a fake black belt.
One of the things he did was he had a friend drive him to this spot, and he said, I'm going into the woods.
You can't come any further.
I'm going to go to this kumite, and I'll be back in two days.
So his friend drives him into the woods, and then he sees him walk around and hide behind a tree.
And it's like, what the fuck is he doing, right?
So he kind of hangs back to watch, and the dude starts walking back down the road where he came from.
So the guy drives off, right?
He goes like, I don't know what the fuck his deal was, but he wanted to be dropped off in the woods.
The guy comes back two days later with a trophy.
He comes out of the woods, and he has a story about, well, I had to fight 50 men, all bare knuckle.
Some guys chose to have glass on their hands, some guys not.
Just had just crazy, nutty, fake cage fighting stories.
bryan callen
Meanwhile, it was probably just a guy fuckfest.
I gotta put this handkerchief in my pants.
Don't worry about it.
It's just a signal.
joe rogan
It was nothing.
Nothing happened.
He made up the whole thing.
There was no kumite out there.
bryan callen
He just came alive and dies.
Yeah, same thing.
I had the guy in a headlock, then I fucked him.
joe rogan
Well, he wound up killing a guy by choking him to death.
bryan callen
Oh, really?
joe rogan
Yeah, that's the story, is that this guy was just this crazy pathological liar, and he wound up hooking up with this girl, and the girl was married, and he choked the husband to death.
Oh.
bryan callen
Nice guy.
brian redban
So, in real life, when you choke somebody to death, instead of just choking them jujitsu style, you have to continue to choke them when they're already passed out.
bryan callen
You have to hold it for a while.
joe rogan
Yeah, you just hold it.
brian redban
Because in the movies, it's like, and then they pass out, and they're like, ah, he's dead.
But in real life, you have to do it for a while.
joe rogan
Some people would die from it.
bryan callen
In Glorious Bastards, when he chokes with his hands, that's really hard to do.
joe rogan
Really hard to do.
unidentified
You know?
joe rogan
Even put a guy out by choking him.
It hurts, but it's all a matter of how much you can tolerate.
It cuts your breathing off because it crushes your windpipe if the guy's got good thumbs.
But it probably won't put you unconscious.
It's hard.
It's hard.
You can't do it.
bryan callen
It's not something I practice.
joe rogan
But some guys will tap to that.
Like kickboxers, when they first start fighting in MMA, they tap to like forearms across the neck.
Like a guy will just stack them and get a forearm on their neck and they just can't deal with it.
bryan callen
Well, they don't know how to react to it probably.
joe rogan
Yeah, I've seen it a few times.
Like high-level kickboxers like Tom Erickson.
I think Tom Erickson did actually tap a guy with a rape choke.
He actually grabbed his neck like this.
unidentified
Wow.
joe rogan
What we would call a rape choke.
bryan callen
Wow.
joe rogan
Yeah, and he tapped the guy.
bryan callen
Some dudes have inhumanly strong hands though.
joe rogan
Tom Erickson was 300 pounds.
bryan callen
Yeah.
joe rogan
All-American wrestler, gorilla.
bryan callen
You're going to tap.
joe rogan
There was one point in time when Tom Erickson was the scariest guy on the planet.
And he kind of missed both boats as far as like fame.
And a lot of people don't know about Erickson because of that.
But if you go back to when Erickson fought Kevin Randall and smashed him and knocked him unconscious, he was fucking really close to 300 pounds, corn-fed, just one of those big, crazy white boys, and a powerful wrestler, just a real good wrestler.
bryan callen
I'd love to have rape choke strength with other guys.
Just grab a guy and go, you're going out.
joe rogan
But Erickson, he was getting famous right at the time where the UFC was falling apart.
And so he went to fight over in Japan.
The peak of his athletic talent and the peak of his possibilities, they didn't collide together correctly.
bryan callen
One of the things I was thinking about is just for MMA, if you're tennis players, MMA seems to stay on top.
say, Anderson Silva or GSP has, is so extraordinarily difficult because there are so many good guys now coming up.
And more importantly, it looks to me like a lot of these guys are really learning how to box because they're coming out of boxing gyms.
When you learn how to box and you can punch now, instead of punching like a wrestler, they're punching like boxers.
When you don't have gloves, you make one mistake.
You're going to sleep.
joe rogan
There's this guy, Fabio Maldonado, that's been fighting out of Brazil, and he just fought recently.
And this fucking kid is, he's got nasty hands, dude.
And he fought Kyle Kingsbury, who's like a serious athlete, 205. And Kyle Kingsbury was grabbing in the Muay Thai clinch, and he was just ripping hooks to his body.
And Kingsbury had to let it go, which is rare.
Most of the times when a guy gets you in the Muay Thai clinch and you punch his body, the guys can take it.
But he turns his punches over so good and he's so loose with them that just, bam, bam!
Like, there were just vicious body punches.
You see the difference between a guy who could really punch.
Like, if you got a guy like Manny Pacquiao and you gave him those little gloves...
bryan callen
Forget it.
joe rogan
Let me tell you something, man.
If you don't take Manny Pacquiao down the first 5-10 seconds of that fight, you're getting fucked up, man.
bryan callen
Did you see what happened to the back of Ricky Hatton's head when he hit him with that hook?
I thought he was dead.
unidentified
Dude.
bryan callen
I was like, I've never been like, oh my god, he got shut off.
joe rogan
The thing about Pacquiao is he's a little guy.
He's only 147, 150 pounds, but he hits fucking hard for a little guy, dude.
I've watched him physically hit the pads.
Freddie Roach was holding pads for him.
I watched it.
And dude, first of all, the punches come so fast and all of them are hard.
So maybe there's a guy who could punch We're good to go.
Well, he got hurt by Mosley before that.
Mosley beat him up.
But he was psychologically fucked because they caught him with plaster in his gloves.
bryan callen
Yeah, that's right.
I remember that.
joe rogan
And they made him fight anyway.
That's crazy shit.
He knew he was going to be suspended.
He was going to be vilified.
bryan callen
He's such an assassin.
And to see Manny Pacquiao take a bigger man like that and do whatever he wants.
joe rogan
Oh, he's a monster.
Pacquiao's one of the, if not the greatest of all time, top two.
I mean, I would think he's number one.
And people will argue with it, but goddammit, he's won world titles in eight different weight classes.
Who the fuck has ever done that?
bryan callen
I would love to have seen him fight Duran.
joe rogan
Yeah, oh my god.
Oh my god.
Duran at 147, the Duran that beat Sugar Ray in the first fight.
And that really wasn't his best weight class.
Duran's best weight class was 135. 135 is one of the greatest lightweights of all time.
If you watch his fight with Ken Buchanan when he won the title, he was fucking violent.
Vicious Panama street kid.
bryan callen
Unbelievable.
joe rogan
Just an animal, man.
bryan callen
He was a born fighter.
You see these documentaries on that guy.
It's like a pit bull.
It's like a game-bred dog.
joe rogan
They went to interview him.
They went to interview him in Panama when he was a kid, when he was a contender, when he was coming up.
And they're following him in the streets, asking him about boxing, where'd you learn how to box?
And in front of these reporters, he grabs a cat by the tail and throws it into a brick wall.
bryan callen
Oh my God.
joe rogan
Yeah, in front of him.
bryan callen
You know, I remember when they There was an old interview, and you could probably YouTube it, where he's being asked by Brent Musburger or someone about his fight with Hector Macho Camacho.
He had some fight.
It was later on in his career.
and and you'd hear him say some stuff in like Spanish and and well I then interpreter would say because because Brent Mars but do you feel like you're fighting in an outside It's going to be hot?
Is the heat going to affect you?
Or do you think you're used to that against someone like Macho who moves around so much in a ring?
He's referring to Mr. Camacho as a homosexual person.
joe rogan
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
bryan callen
So Mossberger will be like, well, yeah.
But do you think that you're fighting now with 10-ounce gloves as opposed to 12-ounce gloves now, and you are a harder hitter, and a lot of people say, do you think that's going to favor you in the fight?
Are you going to go to the body, you think, more than the chin?
He's still referring to Mr. Macho as a homosexual.
And then finally, I think it was the third time, whoever it was, he's still calling him a homosexual.
Well, anyway, that's Roberto Duran.
I guess we're not going to get anything out of him.
He was impossible, man.
He was just like a guy, a true fighter.
joe rogan
Also, he grew up in Panama, man.
I think if you grow up in a tough country, you grow up in a spot like that, you grow up poor.
bryan callen
Noriega, they say Noriega, and he were friends.
Noriega liked him a lot.
I bet everybody would like him.
joe rogan
He's Roberto Duran.
bryan callen
You can't not love a true fighter.
joe rogan
A true fighter representing your country.
They had other guys.
Eusebio Pedroza, wasn't he from Panama as well?
bryan callen
I thought he was from Cuba.
joe rogan
Was he?
bryan callen
I don't know.
joe rogan
I don't remember.
I thought he was from Panama.
But Duran was one of my favorite fighters of all time.
And the guy couldn't even speak English.
It didn't matter.
He was just such a savage.
bryan callen
It's going to be interesting to see guys like Nick Diaz who are coming out of Andre Ward's camp and these guys who are really studying boxing.
And even though you have to know everything in MMA, which is what I love about it, you are going to get some guys who are going to become incredible boxers.
And I think that it's going to be an issue about you're going to have fights that last.
You can't have very good punchers.
You can't slip when you don't have gloves.
When guys can punch that hard, I think something's going to have to give there.
joe rogan
You can't make as many mistakes.
bryan callen
Yeah, I mean, Cain Velasquez is great, right?
We know how great he is.
Now, he has to fight Junior Santos, and Santos can hit, so somebody's going to catch somebody in that fight.
And it doesn't necessarily mean it's the better fighter.
It might mean that you just got caught.
joe rogan
Or your game plan was a little too hasty.
Yeah, you've got to be very careful.
You saw the Czech-Congo-Pat Barry fight.
bryan callen
Yes, I did.
joe rogan
Which is the craziest ending in any fight ever.
I mean, that's a perfect example of why you have to be so careful in MMA. It's unbelievable.
bryan callen
And Pat Barry is expensive.
unidentified
Explosive!
bryan callen
Oh my god!
joe rogan
And he went after him, man.
He decided that he was getting criticized for his fights and he was kind of boring and people were saying he doesn't take enough chances.
Well, he showed why he doesn't take enough chances because, look, when you take chances, you can get knocked the fuck out.
And it was a fight he was winning easily.
If he just fought at a disciplined pace, that probably would have never happened.
bryan callen
Right, and that's experience.
joe rogan
Yeah.
bryan callen
Yes.
joe rogan
Experience, but it's also he chose to fight in an exciting style on purpose.
He wanted to throw caution to the wind and just go, you know, kill or die.
Kill or be killed.
And I think he did that.
He did exactly what he wanted to do.
But some guys never do that.
bryan callen
And by the way, Shea Congo taking those shots.
God!
I've never seen a body like that.
It's the most ridiculous thing.
He's a superhero.
joe rogan
He's a superhero.
He's an extreme mesomorph.
That's what that guy is.
He's just super muscular, perfect athletic frame.
He's not the best heavyweight athlete though, which is weird.
I mean, Cain Velasquez is a way better heavyweight athlete, which is weird because if you saw the two of them together...
I mean, the average person looks at Chek Kongo and Cain Velasquez, and you go, get the fuck out of here.
That black guy's going to kill him.
bryan callen
Yeah, but you know, that's like wrestling.
Like, you know, you roll in jiu-jitsu, and some guy comes in, and he's got this beautiful body, and somehow you can move and manipulate him.
Then a guy shows up, and he looks like a plumber with a bit of a belly, and he's just, like, immovable.
I think it's how your body's balanced.
joe rogan
But Kongo is always dangerous to anybody because he's got some pop in those hands, dude.
He's the only guy to really hurt Velasquez, too.
And he's also very hard to hurt, right?
He's tough as shit.
He went three full rounds with Kane, and Kane beat the fuck out of him in that fight.
He's obviously durable, because Kongo caught him with some big punches.
Mir put him to sleep, but Mir got him in a guillotine.
Mir's guillotine's nasty, and he did it so perfect.
If you watch the way he locked it up, he cinches it up, he blocks off the neck with his left arm and squeezing with his right.
Mir is one of those guys, man, if he catches you, especially in the early part of the fight where he's not even a little bit tired, And you give up an arm or a choke or something like that, he's going to break your neck, man.
bryan callen
He's going to squeeze you off.
I can't wait to see my boy, Mayhem Miller, who's become a good friend.
I just love that guy.
I want to see him fight Michael Bisping.
joe rogan
It's going to be great.
bryan callen
I love Mayhem.
I just love watching him.
I love his whole attitude.
He never stops moving.
He will never stop moving.
I wish people could see what he did, but I was in Vegas and we were laughing and talking and he kept moving around and we were joking around.
And then finally he got so excited, he walked out in the hallway and he went, nobody was watching.
He just kind of punched the air and ran down the hallway for no reason.
I was like, he just spazzed out the hallway!
He got so excited, and then he came back in.
brian redban
He beats up air.
joe rogan
He knows he's got some extra energy.
He's got to get rid of it.
bryan callen
Smart guy, by the way.
joe rogan
Yeah, he's supposed to be doing what he's doing.
brian redban
You know what's crazy is you can look at him and see, like, that guy, like, I'm not going to fight that guy.
That guy's scary.
But, like, last night, Jake was in the audience at one of your shows.
What's his name?
Jake, right?
joe rogan
Jake Ellenberger.
brian redban
Yeah, yeah.
And he sat in my seat, and I'm like, who's this guy sitting in my seat?
And I'm walking up, and I look at his ears.
I'm like, I'm out of here.
bryan callen
Jake was there.
He came to my show in Vegas with Mayhem.
joe rogan
Jake Ellenberger's got a fire hydrant on his shoulders.
It's like, dang!
bryan callen
He looks like somebody took clay, and they were a bad sculptor.
They chipped out his head.
Nah, this is good enough.
joe rogan
That dude's a tank.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
And he's scary as fuck.
He's going to fight Jake Shields.
That's going to be a very interesting fight.
bryan callen
He's a very good striker.
joe rogan
Yes.
I think he's a better striker than Jake.
unidentified
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
Oh, he's a lot better striker than Shields.
But Shields has got some wicked takedowns and his top jiu-jitsu.
Like, if he gets on top of you, oof, you're fucked.
Jake Shields is one of the best in the world at finishing guys in MMA and jiu-jitsu.
Yeah.
His jiu-jitsu is real simple.
He's always used no gi.
He's not a gi guy, so he doesn't have any gi habits at all.
If he gets on top of you, he's a wrestler, so he's got awesome positioning and control, and he's strong as fuck.
He'll squeeze off arm triangles on you all day.
If he catches you...
If Jake Shields gets on top of you and he gets you in a bad position, you're fucked, man.
Because it's like a level...
It's a really high, high level of jiu-jitsu that that guy brings.
If he gets you in a checkmate position, the odds are that you're going to squirm out of it.
Like, look, he got Paul Daly in Elite XC. In Elite XC, they were fucking him by...
The fight goes to the ground for more than 15 seconds.
They stand you up.
Like, literally, they told the referees to stand fights up, even if they're active.
Like, Roy Nelson got stood up when he was in fucking side control working on a Kimura and Andre Arlovsky.
unidentified
Oh, my God.
joe rogan
And they stood him up.
It was completely ridiculous.
Well, Jake Shields' jiu-jitsu is so tight, he caught Paul Daly with an arm bar even under those rules.
He doesn't need much time, dude.
He gets a guy like Daly on the ground.
unidentified
He's like, give me that, bitch!
bryan callen
Crazy.
joe rogan
It's just that high-level stuff.
bryan callen
It's nuts.
joe rogan
But he's got to get it to the ground.
That's where Ellenberger throws bombs.
bryan callen
And if you can defend the takedown, Yeah.
That's a huge part of it.
joe rogan
And Ellenberger moves good on his feet, too.
That's the other thing.
He's not a dude who just stands there like a robot, like some guys who just kind of wade in.
He moves.
He moves on his feet, he moves on his toes.
That's a tough fight.
That's an excellent fight.
bryan callen
What's your call in the Bisping-Miller fight?
joe rogan
I can't wait to see the series because the series is going to be hilarious because Mayhem is never going to stop fucking with him.
And I've already heard some shit that's gone down.
I can't divulge any information and give you any previews, but there's already been some crazy shit going down and Mayhem is having a blast.
bryan callen
He's a true entertainer.
joe rogan
He loves it too.
bryan callen
I'm around comics all the time.
That dude's hilarious.
He's a true personality.
He's got bigger than life personality.
He's so entertaining.
I love hanging out with the guy because it's just always fun.
joe rogan
If you want to get some insight into him, read his articles.
bryan callen
He's smart.
joe rogan
Yeah.
He's a good writer, man.
He's a good writer.
bryan callen
I have no doubt.
He's a really smart guy.
You look at him, he's got dyed hair.
Smart.
Very smart.
joe rogan
He's got a great take on things and a very thought out take on things.
And if you read his blogs, he's very proud of them.
He's a very good writer.
And he could fucking easily write a book.
And it would be a great book.
bryan callen
Because there's a guy who's lived some crazy Well, my buddy Anthony Tambacis, who's a novelist, actually was talking to him about his novel.
He said, you should write a book, and I think he's going to call it Total Mayhem or something.
joe rogan
Yeah.
bryan callen
It's great.
joe rogan
Yeah, why not?
Just tell his story, man.
His fucking stories of getting in fights with his dad and just growing up, getting in fights on his block.
bryan callen
Well, I said, the first time I met him, we were in Vegas, and I walked up and I said, dude, you know, I've got to just be honest.
In a t-shirt, you don't look that tough.
I mean, besides the nose and the ears, but you look at his back, and he's a big guy, but it's kind of lanky.
I mean, if he said, I'm a tennis pro, I'd be like, that makes sense.
You're a tennis pro.
He doesn't look like an MMA fighter.
He's not like Jake.
You look at his ears and his neck, you're like, wow.
But Mayhem, from behind, looks somewhat slender.
joe rogan
This is a gay conversation.
bryan callen
Yeah, exactly.
brian redban
This is how stoned I am.
I've been listening to you guys as if you guys were all gay guys talking about other guys.
joe rogan
You're talking so much louder than everybody else.
bryan callen
But in the steam of the shower, what I'm trying to say is that he tends to...
Just the way the water rivlets off his body...
joe rogan
My man's holding me down.
I can't believe you're butt-fucking me.
bryan callen
This is so weird.
joe rogan
I can't believe you've got that kind of top game.
bryan callen
Just don't smile at me, because then it makes it really gay.
brian redban
For the last five minutes, I've been thinking about that.
And you're like, you know, like you said, beautiful body.
You said you should see his, if he gets a hold of you on top, you know, you're, like, you just replay the whole thing, what you're saying, and act like you were talking about other guys, like gossiping.
It's one of the funniest things.
bryan callen
And by the way, you're probably right.
The psychiatrists have a field day.
First of all, you know what?
joe rogan
Also, I just would have a field day talking about jiu-jitsu.
It seems so good.
bryan callen
Two guys in their 40s.
Yeah, two guys in their 40s passionately talking about fighting.
joe rogan
One guy has a very, very manly beard.
The other one just shaved his off, and he's got a backwards baseball hat, and he's pushing 50. Cut to us in hour one.
bryan callen
No shirts, no shirts.
unidentified
I'm hot.
bryan callen
I'm not going to wear these pants.
joe rogan
I got this new lotion I'm using on my chest.
I don't know if it's the right choice.
bryan callen
Let me see.
joe rogan
How does it feel like flowers, bro?
bryan callen
Man, you feel as slippery as a slime.
brian redban
I finally found the secret of listening to MMA talk.
Now I would not have eyes glazed over anymore.
I'll be giggling like a motherfucker.
joe rogan
You just pretend it's talking about gay sex?
bryan callen
Cuts me wearing a bandana for no reason.
joe rogan
A lot of people still don't know that Brian was the one...
I had a thing called Getting Pumped that Howard Stern used to play a bunch of times.
It was on my first CD, I'm Gonna Be Dead Someday.
And it's me and this other dude working out in a basement.
It's me and Brian.
Fuck, that was fun.
And Kelly Kirsten.
Kelly Kirsten played my mom.
bryan callen
I remember when we laid that down.
joe rogan
Yeah, that was fun, dude.
That was very fun.
bryan callen
Anyway, if you ever meet Mayhem, ask him to tell you the story about when he was in Florida and he ended up ninja-ing like six guys because he was dancing with a girl and the guy's like, are you trying to disrespect me?
He was like, no, I'm not disrespecting.
The guy's like, and he throws a punch and Mayhem basically goes, hey, get!
With an elbow, get!
And knocks him out.
He goes, I gotta get out of here.
He goes out there and like six guys come out.
He's like, uh-oh, here it goes.
They had no idea what they were getting into.
It's like...
It's like a bunch of, you know, coyotes coming in on a pit bull or something.
And they're like, ah, let's get him.
He's like, knock you out.
There was a pile of bodies around him.
joe rogan
Wow.
bryan callen
Yeah, I mean, you want to fight him?
You've thrown a couple punches in your life?
You took some karate in high school?
Go have fun.
Have fun with Mayhem Miller.
joe rogan
Well, what people don't understand the difference between a professional fighter and a regular human being is this is something they're doing every day, all day, for hours.
And mayhem doesn't take time off.
He doesn't get fat.
If mayhem doesn't have a fight going on, he's still training.
He's still doing jujitsu.
He's still doing his boxing.
He's still doing everything.
It's literally like trying to have an argument with a guy and all you have is a book on the language and he's fluent in it.
It's going to tie you in knots.
bryan callen
That's exactly what it is.
joe rogan
It's what it's like.
Fighting is like a language.
And everybody's like, I got a fucking haymaker, bro.
Let me tell you something about this hay.
He sees it coming before you do it.
A mile away, he's going to kick your knees out from you.
bryan callen
And giggle while he's doing it.
joe rogan
Yeah, and laugh.
And then you're going to realize he doesn't get tired because he's fucking doing it for six hours a day.
bryan callen
I remember getting drunk with Eve Edwards and Nate Marquardt.
We were shooting this movie in Pittsburgh, and Eve started just practicing.
joe rogan
This is Warrior, right?
This comes out in September?
bryan callen
In September, yeah.
And it's been testing through the roof.
joe rogan
This is where you play me.
bryan callen
I play you.
I remember I called you and I said, I'm playing you in a movie.
I called you.
I go, I'm playing you in a movie.
Can you give me some advice?
He goes, I just try to take myself completely out of the equation.
And that really helped.
I just would call the fights.
But they wrote some funny stuff for me.
I'm a smart ass, you know, in the movie.
Nice.
It was a good time.
But I remember rolling around.
joe rogan
What is your name in the movie?
bryan callen
Brian Callen.
brian redban
Is it really?
bryan callen
Yes.
That's beautiful.
brian redban
I don't know why more actors just don't do that.
bryan callen
No, because the way I got the part is I put the writer and the director together.
joe rogan
Imagine that.
Tom Hanks stars as Tom Hanks.
brian redban
They should do that.
bryan callen
Danny DeVito as Danny DeVito.
joe rogan
A short twin of Arnold Schwarzenegger, played by Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Do you think Schwarzenegger is ever going to bounce back?
Do you think anybody will ever take the guy seriously again?
bryan callen
I don't think so, mainly because it depends on how he reacts to it.
But if you're older now, first of all, nobody wants to see him as an action hero.
Number two, you know, look, I understand infidelity.
I can understand as a man, you may stray.
Let's all be respectful.
Let's all be forgiving, etc.
Okay?
Not that I've ever had thoughts like that, but the point is that if you're going to funk the housekeeper, first of all, that's outrageous, but I'll give it to you.
unidentified
I don't know.
bryan callen
Maybe she had big tits.
She was ovulating.
She smelled like something.
You were bored.
I get it.
You're the king of the world.
How about We're not pulling out or wearing a condom.
I don't know.
How about not giving her a baby?
joe rogan
I think the whole thing is the wild thing.
The whole thing of doing it is you're not even supposed to be doing this and she's sucking your raw cock and you just look at that fucking housekeeper pussy.
This is my house.
I fuck everybody in my house.
And you just think about it.
Should I pull out?
Conan doesn't pull out.
Just shoot a load into it like Conan should.
bryan callen
Yeah.
When you're the king of the world, why not?
joe rogan
He's the king of his world, man.
The guy's living in this $20 million mansion.
Apparently, right after this happened, they put the house up for sale.
And he didn't own it.
He sold it to someone else.
But this is the house where all the affairs took place.
And he sold it to some professional golfer or something like that.
And that guy put it up right away.
unidentified
Wow.
joe rogan
And he might have put it up right away because people started hassling him because people wanted to go see.
bryan callen
Or the overwhelming stench, the dried spooge everywhere.
Hey, wait, this house smells like cum!
And infidelity.
This is weird.
joe rogan
You hear it echoing in the walls like a mass murder in a haunted building.
That building's haunted with him cumming.
Cumming all the time.
Cumming.
bryan callen
Cumming.
I'm cumming.
joe rogan
And he fucked her for ten years, man.
unidentified
He did?
joe rogan
He was fucking her for ten years.
bryan callen
You were so excited!
I thought it was a one-off!
joe rogan
Oh, no, no, no.
Oh, my God!
No, no, he was banging her in the bed.
bryan callen
That's outrageous!
joe rogan
He was banging her in the bathroom.
He was banging her everywhere.
brian redban
Unless you think of it as a tool for masturbation type thing.
Like, she was just like a fleshlight.
bryan callen
Okay, you obviously have a problem with women.
joe rogan
Yeah, what are you talking about, dude?
That's a human being.
brian redban
Yeah, but it's also his maid.
I saw her.
bryan callen
She actually has a face that looks a little bit like Mayhem Miller's.
And I'm not attracted to that, but I guess he is.
She was a big...
Who knows what she looked like when she was younger.
brian redban
I think he could make a comeback if he does a movie like Copland.
I don't know if you remember that movie.
unidentified
You know what she looks like?
bryan callen
I don't mean to make fun of...
joe rogan
She looks like the Mexican female version of KRS-One.
bryan callen
Listen, she has a daughter, that's all.
joe rogan
She's a pretty lady, that's what I'm saying.
I'm a big KRS-One fan.
bryan callen
As am I, as am I. Boop, boop!
joe rogan
That's the sound of the police!
bryan callen
Look, good for her, man.
She was doing what she was.
No woman can say no to Arnold Schwarzenegger.
unidentified
I've dated girls and my cock is out.
brian redban
Do you ever see Copland, though?
That was kind of a weird movie for Sylvester Stallone, where it was kind of like he played a little chubby.
I think if Arnold does a movie like that, where he plays a character that's kind of down on his luck, coming back, kind of like a dirty cop or something like that, I think he could do it.
bryan callen
There's a stench of I want to see a good actor do that.
I don't know how good an actor he is.
I don't go to the movies to see Arnold Schwarzenegger do dramatic acting.
brian redban
But you also thought that of Sylvester Stallone when he got caught on it.
joe rogan
No, no, no, no, because Sylvester Stallone did Rocky.
Okay, you got to remember, he did some shitty ass movies, but Sylvester Stallone did fucking Rocky.
bryan callen
And acted in it.
It was one of the best movies ever.
joe rogan
And hung in there because they wanted to give that movie to someone else.
They wanted to give that movie to some other stars.
And he said, no, this is my movie.
And when he wrote this and did this, in the end of the movie, he doesn't even win.
That's what a lot of people don't even realize.
He loses in that movie.
It was inspired by a losing performance by Chuck Wepner when Chuck Wepner fought Muhammad Ali.
So he wrote all this shit out, did it himself, and acted as fucking actors.
He became a goof kind of later, and I love him.
I mean, when I say a goof, I'm saying a guy who does these big, crazy, cartoonish movies.
bryan callen
Don't forget how great those movies were.
When you were a young man and I saw First Blood, it was one of the best movies I'd ever seen.
I loved it.
joe rogan
It was great for who you were at the time.
Came out, you know, being 14 or whatever.
But Rocky's still a badass fucking movie.
brian redban
Yeah, but I mean, if you take away the fighting, I haven't seen Rocky maybe 10 years.
joe rogan
Oh, the fighting is not good.
brian redban
No, I know, but is the acting actually good?
joe rogan
It's unbelievable.
bryan callen
I actually just watched it three days ago.
And I'll tell you something right now.
That movie holds the test of time.
It is still one of the great movies.
And one of the most moving movies.
When he's down, he's going, stay down, Rocky.
Remember Burgess Meredith, when he comes, that actor who comes, and he says, I want to be a manager.
I'm 76 years old.
I want to be a manager.
It stinks!
It's my place!
And he does that whole thing, and then he comes running out.
It was such a beautiful...
joe rogan
It was brilliant.
bryan callen
It was one of the greatest character pieces ever written, in my opinion.
joe rogan
Yeah, when he's angry and he's like, this is all he's got in his house and Bert's around there and he's yelling and screaming, that was so fucking real!
bryan callen
And then he was so moving when he looks at Adrian and he goes, remember when I said that stuff they said about me on TV didn't hurt?
And he walks away.
Your heart breaks for him, man.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's like when he gets his shit together and got up and starts drinking raw eggs, you're fucking, you start moving in your seat and you get goosebumps.
bryan callen
A lot of people credit that movie for ushering in the fitness craze in America that happened shortly after that.
joe rogan
Dude, I was, whatever I was when it came out, 11 or something like that, I drank raw eggs and ran around my block.
I almost threw up.
brian redban
I remember doing that too, but I just don't remember the acting of him.
joe rogan
Dude, he was a bad motherfucker.
And it's a weird thing.
It's like, how does a guy, I guess he just gives up on good movies and says, let's just make something crazy and explode and have a good time.
Let's have a good time, everybody.
bryan callen
Yeah, that might be it.
But I also think what happens is, like with Arnold or anybody, when you surround yourself, and it's almost impossible to avoid, when you surround yourself with an army of people that make their living off you, What happens, I think, is that, like anything, a politician who's been in power too long, you lose self-awareness because everybody's telling you you're perfect, you're great.
They laugh at your jokes and everything.
You're the emperor.
And I think that the biggest trapping of that kind of fame is that you start to drink the Kool-Aid.
joe rogan
Right.
bryan callen
And you lose perspective.
You lose self-awareness.
You keep playing the same note over and over again because people keep telling you it's great.
And instead of like actually putting yourself back in the real arena, which is competing with what's really going on and having people really give you real critiques.
You know, I was in an acting class and Burt Reynolds showed up and he did some scenes in class.
brian redban
That's badass.
bryan callen
And I thought to myself, Burt Reynolds at 70, whatever, is still not only doing scenes in class, but kind of failing in front of people and having a teacher critique his performance.
joe rogan
And was he getting a lot of white pussy because of this?
Young white actress pussy?
bryan callen
I didn't see that, but that's probably why anybody would be in an acting class, by the way.
brian redban
Was he Burt Reynolds from Boogie Nights?
bryan callen
He was so good and so hilarious.
You know, he did a scene from Carnal Knowledge with...
joe rogan
Well, he's another guy, right?
Go back to Deliverance.
Burt Reynolds was a bad motherfucker.
bryan callen
Yes, he was.
joe rogan
He was a bad motherfucker.
bryan callen
And then he got vain.
joe rogan
And then he got weird.
bryan callen
You start wearing a wig and you get plastic surgery.
joe rogan
I don't think so.
There's something about him in those Smokey and the Bandit movies where you really wanted him to succeed.
bryan callen
He was a great movie star.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Dude, he was a good-looking guy who was always happy.
He always had a smile on his face.
He had a silly mustache.
And he was always getting the girl, and you wanted him to.
bryan callen
He was a fucking man.
joe rogan
You wanted him to get away from the law.
unidentified
He was a man's man.
joe rogan
Yeah.
bryan callen
And by the way, he made a fucking mustache work.
joe rogan
He fucking rocked that mustache, son.
bryan callen
I grew a mustache.
I did this thing for a Californication.
I had a mustache.
I look like I should work in a deli.
joe rogan
Yeah.
bryan callen
That's as sexy as I get.
Like, I should be making sandwiches.
He looks like a fucking, you know, a leading man.
joe rogan
I look like an ape.
bryan callen
Very hard to pull off a mustache.
joe rogan
I go human, this is why I got human here, and then I go to ape, and then I shave it down to human.
I went with a mustache once just to goof, and Mrs. Rogan was like, what the fuck is that on your face?
unidentified
Terrible, right?
joe rogan
You look like a caterpillar.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Like a big, fat, thick bug.
bryan callen
I look like an aggressive gay man who makes sandwiches.
Ah!
I fuck guys and I make sandwiches in my deli.
brian redban
You know who works on Brian Jarvis?
You know that comedian Brian Jarvis at all?
Brian Jarvis has a Tom Selleck mustache and if you know his comedy and you know his face, it's just perfect.
joe rogan
When you say aggressive gay man, for a while I never knew that crystal meth was so popular in the gay community.
I had no idea that meth and amphetamines and speed and And amyl nitrates and a bunch of like really crazy chemicals were so prevalent in the gay community.
So I would occasionally run into dudes that were gay, especially around West Hollywood, near the comedy store, that had this crazy fucking look in their eye.
They were like really obviously gay.
I didn't know they were hopped up on drugs.
So in my silly 25 year old just moving to LA mind, I was like, wow, there's a certain look that some of these gay guys get when they're really crazy.
I didn't realize that there's fucking...
I'm in the hub of gay meth use in the country.
bryan callen
That's it.
brian redban
You thought it was a sexual look?
Like, oh my god, he really wants my dick.
joe rogan
I just thought that's what they looked like.
bryan callen
You have amazing radar for anything off-kilter.
It's like an animal of prey that sees, like if you put a cow in a, not an animal of prey, not that a cow is an animal of prey, but like if you put an animal of flight in like a stall and there's a piece of like a string hanging that it hasn't seen, they won't go in that stall.
And you have a very good eye for something that's like that sharp F, like there's music and all of a sudden somebody comes in with a horn like, you know, you're like, that's something weird.
You pick up on that stuff better than anybody I know.
joe rogan
I grew up without anybody protecting me.
unidentified
Oh.
joe rogan
So I grew up in some weird situations.
We lived in a bunch of places where I didn't have any friends.
And I was forced at a very early age to try to get an objective sense of the world around me without listening to other people's opinions of it.
Without taking for granted that everyone else is paying attention and that they've got a grip on reality.
To me, no one had a grip on reality.
So I'm always, like, scanning everything.
And I'm an honest person.
So when I see someone, there's something off.
When I see something off, it's literally like it smells to me.
And I always use two examples.
One, I use the one with the girl, with you.
And this is a true story.
bryan callen
Two seconds.
She's crazy, dude.
You've got to get out of here right now.
She's crazy.
joe rogan
I wasn't just saying that this is maybe a crazy girl.
I was, like, emphatic about it.
I was trying to gab a mouth.
bryan callen
And I didn't know it.
She was doing meth.
But I chose to move her into my house.
unidentified
Anyway.
joe rogan
But that's where it comes from.
And the other one was this guy that turned out to be a child molester.
My friend, Jan, was on the podcast a couple weeks ago.
We talked about it.
I met the guy right away.
They're hanging out with this guy.
He's their friend, their buddy.
And right away, I'm like, what the fuck is this guy doing here?
Everything was like...
All these alarms are going off.
He calls me up a couple weeks later and goes, you're not going to believe who just got arrested.
And he says that guy's name, and I go, he was a child molester, right?
And he goes, yeah.
He goes, how the fuck did you know?
I go, dude, I don't know.
I don't know how I knew, but that was number one guess.
bryan callen
You mean when you were younger, you met this guy?
unidentified
No, no, no.
joe rogan
This was just a few years ago.
But those are my two best examples of being able to pick up.
Right away, I saw him, and right away, I was like, what the fuck?
And I even said to the guy, what's up with that guy?
bryan callen
What was it?
joe rogan
I don't know, man.
It was everything.
Smells, the way he's moving, the way he's interacting with other people.
brian redban
Smell like a young kid's penis?
joe rogan
Well, when you say smell...
unidentified
Stop it, Brian.
joe rogan
When you say smell, that's a thing that they believe about psychosis, about some psychotic behavior may actually be triggered by pheromones.
And literally, you put out a certain smell, and this is all theoretical, and they really don't exactly know what causes some people's psychotic episodes.
But they think you put out a certain smell and then people smell this and they're put off by you.
And so people are acting weird with you.
So you think, am I weird?
And it starts this chain reaction that literally can make a person slowly go crazy.
We know the worst thing you can do to a person in prison is to put them in solitary confinement and leave them alone with their own thoughts without interacting with people.
bryan callen
That's when psychosis actually forms.
Yeah.
joe rogan
There's something that we need when we interact with people.
And when we get it wrong, like if you literally smell off, and I'm using the word smell.
bryan callen
No, I understand.
joe rogan
Because there's a smell like that pheromones are like, you don't really smell them, right?
bryan callen
I think people vibrate at the wrong frequency sometimes.
Sometimes.
They're jerking differently.
And your body, there's a book, I mean, Malcolm Gladwell wrote that book, Blink, about that, where a human eye can pick up a massive amount of information.
Did you ever hear, did you ever read that book?
He uses an amazing example of, there was this, the Getty Museum paid a fortune.
A fortune for a statue that was a young Greek boy.
It was called a Kouros.
And they found the statue in Greece, fully formed.
And they were like, whoa, this statue is like, I mean, they had never found something.
And it was worth a fortune.
And the Getty was going to pay something like $300 million, some crazy amount, $30 million, whatever it is.
And it was a lot of money.
But the thing is, the Getty kept running these tests on it.
And this guy, the guy who was the creator, the first thing that came to his mind, he said, when I saw it, there was something off.
I said, what was it?
He said, the first word that came to mind was fresh.
When I saw it, it looked fresh.
He said, and if something's been in the ground for 5,000 years, it shouldn't come out looking fresh.
So they ran all these tests.
They dug into the marble really, really deep.
They took the mold on the actual marble to see how old it was.
And they did all these tests.
I mean, literally spent a year testing it before they bought it.
Okay?
So now, they buy it.
And they put it on display.
I believe they brought it to Italy.
It was a traveling exhibit.
And the minute they were setting it up to show, as they pulled it off, I believe, if you guys are listening and you read the book, it's been a while since I read the book, but for the story's sake, the curator of that museum, the guy who's the expert, they lifted the veil to show how they were going to present it.
And after all these tests, he stopped and he went, he goes, Did you guys pay for this already?
And I go, yeah, what are you talking about?
Oh, no, no, can you get your money back?
No, no, this is a fake.
This is a fake.
And I go, what are you talking about?
And he picked up on it.
He picked up on what everybody else picked up on it, but they were so excited that they actually found this thing that they didn't want to believe it.
And he said, if you have to test for a year on the authenticity of something, All of you guys, all of your experienced minds were telling you right away, there's something wrong here.
joe rogan
We wanted that mystery shit.
bryan callen
He uses so many classic examples.
Watch this.
They had people come to his office, to a psychiatrist's office, and when they mentioned the words orange, Florida, and raisin, People left the office much slower than they did otherwise.
Why?
Because when you mentioned orange, Florida, and raisin, people thought of old people, retirees.
And so young people would actually leave the office, they would walk down the hallway leaving the office much slowly, a lot slower than they did when they didn't hear those words.
So what you hear What is suggested to you has a profound effect on your physiology, not just your mind.
And he uses so many incredible examples of this, I can't even tell you.
It's incredible.
So if you guys are listening, the book is called Blink, and it's outstanding.
All of Malcolm Gladwell's books are great.
joe rogan
Literally a blink of an eye saw this statue and knew.
bryan callen
Immediately.
joe rogan
He felt it.
bryan callen
And the human eye, you can glance at something and pick up on everything.
joe rogan
Right.
bryan callen
Much more information than you can even imagine.
And we have learned how to do that.
He calls it slicing.
I think broad slicing or something where you just pick up.
joe rogan
I've always felt like there's more senses than we can totally define because there's a sense when someone's lying.
There's a sense that it's very difficult to describe deceptive language because if you looked at it on a computer, the timing seems to be pretty similar.
I mean, if someone's good at it, their timing is pretty similar to someone who's being honest.
bryan callen
Yeah, but what does a lie detector do?
It measures in a very minute detail your breathing, your respiratory, all these things, the heat of your skin and all that.
And that changes when you're not telling the truth.
joe rogan
Unless you're a sociopath.
I've always wondered if that goes off, though, if you're nervous.
Because you've ever been innocent of something, but someone thinks you're guilty, and when you're describing what actually happened, it sounds ridiculous.
unidentified
It does.
joe rogan
And you feel like you're guilty, but you're not guilty.
bryan callen
It does, but a guy who knows how to operate a lie detector will take that into account.
And that's why when you do that, they ask you very simple questions first.
They ask you, what's your name?
Where'd you grow up?
And then they'll start getting into it slowly.
And then they take that into account.
Now, a lot of guys say you can throw off a lot of tech tests by getting your body tight to begin with.
And so you fool it.
joe rogan
What if you were high as fuck?
bryan callen
I don't know.
joe rogan
I bet you could go in there on LSD and just blaze through that bitch.
bryan callen
With sociopaths, apparently it doesn't work because they don't care if they lie or not.
joe rogan
Because they don't care.
bryan callen
There's no guilt.
brian redban
You would think, though, you could easily throw it off by just, like, every time he asks a question, you just think of something like, my dog dying or something like that.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's it.
They can force you out of that.
There's, like, they know that people do that, so there's tactics in order to, like, to trip you up with questions that kind of will fuck with your emotions.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Because you don't know what the question's going to be beforehand.
brian redban
Yeah.
joe rogan
So, yeah, I know what you're saying, though.
I would think that, too.
Think about Spider-Man.
Every time, you know, they ask you, have you ever stole money from this bank?
Yeah.
You think about Spider-Man.
brian redban
Or just put, like, razor blades in your ass, and it hurts so bad the whole time you're thinking about the razor blades.
bryan callen
Did somebody say razor blades in their ass?
joe rogan
Oh, Brian.
There's a thing that I wanted to talk about this when you were talking about that statue being a fraud.
There's a thing called the Voynich Manuscript.
I don't know if you ever heard about this, but it was a book that was thought to have been written in the early 15th century.
And it's in a language that no one could decipher.
And they sent this to all the top coders and the experts and the people that decoded the Nazi signals in the 40s and the top coders in the world.
And people have gone over it for decades.
Nobody can figure out how to fucking decode it.
They have no idea what this language is.
It's all illustrated with all these beautiful pictures.
But nobody wanted to admit that since they had been working on this for so long, it might just be bullshit.
And that's what it turns out of this.
It turns out that this is a guy, they think the guy that sold it initially to this Voynich fellow was a con man.
And that he knew that Voynich loved old manuscripts, so he concocted this really elaborate old manuscript.
complete with detailed pictures of plants and all these different things.
So it makes it look like there's all sorts of knowledge in this book, but it's 100% horseshit A fake language.
And he wrote a 240-page fake language book.
And people have been studying it.
Shit.
Since fucking...
When did he get it?
1912. Incredible.
1912. So for a hundred fucking years, assholes have been going over this guy's fake book.
And people suspected it early on.
people are like, well, what if it's a fake?
unidentified
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
joe rogan
And the more time goes on, the more they don't want to even think about the possibility that Yeah.
brian redban
It's kind of like...
bryan callen
That's very human.
That's very human.
brian redban
Yeah.
bryan callen
And this story, in the beginning of the book, is just incredible.
You just say, wow, the Getty got duped by a comment.
You know what they found?
The mold on the...
Because it was taken from a type of marble that can only be found in a rock bed in Thessaloniki.
So they came from there and the mold, they had these tests to test the mold and how old it was.
There's a type of mold that grows on a potato that you can grow on marble.
So whoever did this knew exactly what they were doing with.
unidentified
Wow.
bryan callen
And they just got away with 30, 40, whatever million dollars at the getty.
joe rogan
And then do they just disappear?
bryan callen
Some people are such badasses.
Like, talk about just going all the way.
Like, yeah, found the statue.
You guys want to buy it?
Even coming up with that, like, hey guys, I got an idea.
Let's carve a statue out of marble in the rock bed of Thessaloniki and we'll grow a potato mold on it and sell it for 40 million.
Get the Get the fuck out of my office, what?
joe rogan
Somebody must have really known a lot about art to pull that off.
bryan callen
Yeah, that's what blows my mind.
There are people out there that are just so good at stuff like that and that's how they do it.
They just hang the cup and they go, I'm gonna rip off a museum.
That's like some movie shit.
Indiana Jones.
joe rogan
That's movie shit.
It's like, you heard about that Lee Murray heist?
bryan callen
No.
Oh yeah, the fighter.
joe rogan
The MMA fighter from England.
bryan callen
$83 million or something.
joe rogan
Yeah, something like that.
It was in pounds.
I don't know how it translates.
bryan callen
I want to be a fighter and a bank robber.
unidentified
I suck.
joe rogan
It was like the biggest heist in history.
bryan callen
They should let him out.
Come on, he's awesome!
joe rogan
They wore masks and guns and they literally planned it all out and timed it all out to the alarms.
They did it like a goddamn movie.
unidentified
Phew.
joe rogan
And he's in a jail in Morocco now, and Morocco won't send him back over.
unidentified
Really?
joe rogan
Yeah, Morocco is pretty loked out.
Like, if you're a Moroccan citizen, they protect you.
So there's been a few fighters that got in trouble and just bolted to Morocco, like Badr Hari.
Padahari got in a bit of trouble, bolted to Morocco.
Once you're in Morocco, man, they care of their own.
That's not bad.
And they love fighters in Morocco.
unidentified
Do they?
joe rogan
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But Lee Murray, man, he just fucked up too large.
They had to come after him, even in Morocco.
And when he was in Morocco, by the way, on the lam, he beat a guy up and kidnapped him.
bryan callen
Oh, my God.
unidentified
He's a rough guy.
It's like he wasn't slowing down once he got to Morocco.
bryan callen
I got a feeling he runs that prison yard.
joe rogan
He's an animal.
Yeah, that guy was, he's quite a character.
That guy got almost stabbed to death.
He got stabbed like some insane amount of times.
His heart stopped a couple times.
They had to restart him on the fucking operating table.
And he had a video online of him six to eight weeks, I think, after open heart surgery hitting the pads.
Then Lee Murray's back and chose Lee Murray.
They're bobbing and weaving and throwing combinations in the pads.
Six fucking weeks after open heart surgery.
bryan callen
I take a three hour flight and I'm like, I gotta take a nap.
I'm tired.
joe rogan
I wish I knew the exact amount of weeks it was.
It might not have been six, it might have been twelve.
Whatever it was, it was fucking ridiculous.
This guy just had open heart surgery and now all of a sudden he's hitting the pads.
And he's getting ready to fuck people up.
That's what he's saying.
He's like, I'm back you fucking bitches.
And he's throwing punches in the pads.
bryan callen
You can snap my heart with a knife and I'll still kick your ass.
joe rogan
He's a legit gangster.
That guy was legit.
bryan callen
He's originally from England, though.
joe rogan
Well, he lived in England.
He lived and fought out of England.
Fought some tough guys, too, man.
Fought Anderson Silva.
Went the distance with him.
unidentified
Wow.
joe rogan
And Anderson was really coming into his own.
bryan callen
Does anybody get away with bank robber?
Does anybody pull off huge heists?
joe rogan
That's a very good question, man.
A guy just pulled off a fucking Picasso heist in San Francisco.
bryan callen
Picasso's different, though, because art is a really good thing to get into.
Because, first of all, a jury's considered a victim of crime, so a lot of times you don't do a lot of time.
Really?
Yeah.
And also, there's just people that you can unload it with.
joe rogan
It's an interesting story, though.
This one, this guy walked into a gallery, picked it up off the wall, walked out, got in a cab, took off.
Nobody noticed him taking this Picasso sketch off a wall.
unidentified
Wow.
joe rogan
It's worth like 200 grand.
He just grabs it and leaves.
bryan callen
Yeah.
joe rogan
But the thing is, good luck selling it.
How are you going to sell that thing?
bryan callen
That's the issue.
joe rogan
Everyone knows what it is.
Yeah, but you can sell it.
unidentified
I'll tell you the stuff.
brian redban
There's private sellers.
bryan callen
Yeah, you sell it to some really rich Chinese tycoon who lives like, you know...
In Manchuria and wants it on his wall.
joe rogan
Yeah, you would have to know exactly who that guy is.
That's like a tricky situation.
bryan callen
But they usually do.
They usually go, I got a Picasso for sale.
Give me $100,000.
brian redban
That's how usually they get caught, though, too.
They sell it to...
joe rogan
Well, you've got to let the guy who's selling it make a big piece of the pie.
That's what you've got to do.
If you got something like that and stolen and you're smart, what you would do is you would go to someone and say, listen, man, we both know this thing's worth $200,000.
Give me $100,000.
bryan callen
You know what's funny?
joe rogan
And then you take a hundred grand off of it and then the guy's like, okay, well I just made a good fucking chunk of money.
Now this is worth my risk and I can insure both of our safeties.
bryan callen
But I don't think criminals, I don't think criminals like that.
joe rogan
I'm like a gentleman criminal.
bryan callen
Yeah, exactly.
I don't think criminals like that do it for the money.
I think criminals do it for the juice.
I think that, you know, we all have, some people have to get drunk, some people have to get, you know, they have to do blow, other people just have to do crime.
It's the same kind of game.
joe rogan
I recommend jiu-jitsu, my friend.
bryan callen
Jiu-jitsu?
joe rogan
Get in there and get your freak on.
bryan callen
I gotta start rolling.
joe rogan
Get back in there, buddy.
bryan callen
I need to go to Javier Verdum's place.
joe rogan
Who?
bryan callen
Javier Verdum is half a mile away.
joe rogan
You mean Fabrizio?
unidentified
Fabrizio.
bryan callen
Javier's his brother.
I'm going to go in there and go, hey, is Javier here?
joe rogan
Javier's his brother that's like, you know, Fabrizio's not that big a deal, man.
I'm telling you.
I haven't got the real deal.
bryan callen
I gave him an award at the MMA Awards, Fabrizio.
He is such a giant.
joe rogan
He's a huge dude.
bryan callen
He's just a huge guy.
joe rogan
He's a badass jiu-jitsu guy.
If this was just jiu-jitsu, if MMA was just jiu-jitsu, like, see, he's one of those guys that really became an MMA fighter as a jiu-jitsu champion and had to learn everything else from scratch.
And, like, when he first, like, first fought Olofsky, like, you look at that fight, he, like, had no striking.
Even when he fought Alistar the first time, had very little striking.
He just wanted to get guys to the ground, and when he got Alistar to the ground back then, he submitted them.
It's a shame that there's not, like, professional jiu-jitsu and professional wrestling.
bryan callen
Well, it's a Mundial's, right?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah, but there's not real money in it.
You know what I mean?
And wrestling as well, man.
Real professional wrestling.
It should be a goddamn sport.
bryan callen
You need to be.
That's a very small audience who understands it.
joe rogan
You say that, but fucking golf is on TV, man.
And that's boring as fuck.
You could watch real high-level wrestlers going at it and pinning each other.
unidentified
I agree.
I love it.
joe rogan
Dude, you can't tell me that if you didn't get someone to explain it correctly, you get some really passionate wrestling champion guy to explain it correctly.
bryan callen
I almost think that people who watch wrestling did wrestle, so they know the difference.
joe rogan
I don't know about that, man.
I think people could watch it just like, I swear to God I could watch golf.
I know it's boring as fuck, but I can watch it.
There's a conclusion.
I know what the conclusion is.
This guy's going to hit that thing, and if it goes in there, then he's happy.
And if it doesn't go in there, oh, he's fucked.
You know what I mean?
So in that simple little, I don't play golf, and I don't know what strokes are and par.
bryan callen
You should never pick up golf because you'll become crazy.
joe rogan
Yeah, I'm not going to touch it.
bryan callen
Because you're so obsessive.
brian redban
It's pool outside.
You'll love it.
joe rogan
I can't do it.
Well, I wouldn't do it.
Well, that's what I always think about.
Why would you play pool if it was outside?
Wouldn't you make it all inside?
It would be ridiculous because then you could play in the rain.
Like golf, you can't play in the rain.
Especially on the East Coast.
bryan callen
I know.
joe rogan
When you get an addiction, you don't want to have to take the time off in the winter.
I played pool all through the winter.
You can always play pool.
brian redban
You can still play in the rain, and that's what kind of makes it different than pool is that your environment is always changing.
So it's not like the same flat surface every time.
You're like, hey, now the pool table is in a mountain and there's an ocean in the middle of it.
joe rogan
That is cool.
And it also is cool that you have to adjust for like the wind and shit like that.
Think about like you're playing against nature a little bit.
bryan callen
Golf is, you know, it's that saying, it's like the longest distance is that one, the distance between your ears, you know, it's all mental.
joe rogan
So as is pool.
Pool is what you're doing with pool is you have a slippery surface of a fast Simonis 860 cloth, right?
It's not even like felt.
People think of it as felt.
But it's a cloth, and the balls roll very nice and smooth and even on that.
And the balls are all waxed and cleaned, and they all weigh the perfect amount of weight.
They all weigh the same exact weight.
And these balls, you're colliding one ball into another, trying to send it into a very small space.
You know, usually in pro tournaments, it's four and a half inch pockets.
So you have very little room for error.
And you're calculating the exact distance, the amount of rotations that ball is going to make on this slippery cloth to get your ball in the perfect position for the next shot.
And it becomes this weird zen thing.
bryan callen
You know, on that, speaking of balls colliding into each other, you know what that collider actually, that super collider in Switzerland actually does?
joe rogan
Hadron?
bryan callen
You know what it actually does?
You know what they're trying to figure out?
joe rogan
The Higgs-Boson particle.
Yeah, the God particle.
bryan callen
Well, actually, they're trying to prove that.
The string theory, this notion that there are other dimensions where matter goes, right?
And so when they collide these things together, within this chamber, when these two atoms, I guess, or is that what they're going to hit them at?
When they collide, they give off debris.
They give off energy.
If that energy If part of that energy isn't there anymore, that would prove that those tiny particles that are actually smaller than quarks are going somewhere else, and that's how they're trying to prove that there are other dimensions.
brian redban
Yeah, but does that even make sense?
What if those particles just burn out?
I know they said that energy can never die or whatever, and if those particles go into another dimension, but what if those particles just died?
What if we were just wrong about that?
unidentified
I don't know.
bryan callen
I don't know.
joe rogan
Here's why.
Because particles can...
Two things can happen.
It's energy.
There's a lot of confusion when it comes to subatomic particles and when it comes to...
Any kind of quantum theory, because it sort of gets kind of culty and weirdy, and a lot of it is theoretical.
But here's what they do know.
They do know that particles can exist and not exist at the same time.
They can be in two different places at the same time, and they're the same particle.
And they can disappear and reappear, and we don't know where they're going.
But they do go somewhere.
And that seems to indicate a level of evidence at at least some infinitesimal subatomic level.
That there is some sort of a passageway where things go from one place and come back.
bryan callen
And string theory is based on this notion that at the end of it, the very smallest particles are all these sort of vibrating circles of light.
And those are so small that they can fit into different, I guess, dimensions of where...
And the idea behind string theory is that you have Newtonian reality, which is the reality you and I live in, which is gravity and everything else.
And then you have the subatomic reality, which is whenever you get into the subatomic world, a lot of times the very laws that govern us are, in fact, the opposite.
Light bends, gravity collapses on itself, all these things that I don't know about, but I mean, they'll talk about.
String theory is what Einstein called this unification theory, this one thing that brings all of it together so that you have one theory that can explain how the world really works.
joe rogan
But there's still a lot of controversy with it.
unidentified
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
Still.
bryan callen
It's all imagination.
But they are proving with math.
There's a very good lecture on it in TED, but they can prove with math that there are other dimensions.
joe rogan
Eleven dimensions, right?
bryan callen
Yeah, eleven dimensions.
joe rogan
I have no idea how the fuck they prove it.
When someone says that, I just repeat it.
Oh, they proved it with math.
bryan callen
What was the answer?
That question they were coming up with, the answer was 357 pages long, all numbers.
Hey, this looks like fun reading!
unidentified
Jesus Christ.
bryan callen
What are you talking about?
joe rogan
It's like anything else, man.
It's like what we discussed when we were talking about fighting an MMA fighter is literally like trying to get in an argument with someone and all you have is a language book for the average person.
bryan callen
Yeah, they speak a different language.
joe rogan
They speak the language of mathematics and they've been speaking this language for decades and decades and they go deep, deep, deep into the rabbit hole.
bryan callen
It's all, well, because mathematical theory, which is where you go, is all imagination.
You know, you see these guys sometimes, and they're actually really like, you know, this one dude's working on the particle collider, he gave this lecture at Ted, young, really good-looking kid, like, dressed, like, with these awesome clothes, and just kind of like, jeez, you don't get laid, do you?
And yet he's this brilliant physicist, like, brilliant physicist.
joe rogan
Well, physicists sort of have a history of being skirt chasers.
If you go back to Feynman, that was like one of Feynman's, there was like a bubble chart that would be like, are girls around?
If no girls around, you know, work on physics.
bryan callen
Here's what's great about that is that I'm not that smart and I have nothing to talk to girls about for the most part.
joe rogan
And I wonder what Well, Feynman was just such a genius.
I mean, he was such a good talker, too.
And he had, like, kind of a cool accent, too.
Because even though he was a genius, he had a very sort of an ethnic East Coast accent, which is really odd.
bryan callen
Well, this guy I'm talking about, he's from Manchester, and she talks like that, you know?
And he's unbelievable.
He's got long black hair and he wears this gray sort of, you know, vest.
I'm like, dude, your accent, you got hair like Johnny Depp and you helped build that collider.
You're one of the leading minds and you're 28. You know who my favorite guy is?
joe rogan
Aubrey de Grey.
Do you know who he is?
He's the guy who's trying to make people live forever and he has this incredible mane.
bryan callen
Oh, I know exactly who that awesome guy is.
joe rogan
He drinks beer every day.
bryan callen
Oh, he's awesome.
joe rogan
Amazing.
bryan callen
He's amazing.
Ray Kurzweil now has Transcendent Man.
He came out with a documentary.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
We've talked about it a hundred times.
bryan callen
Really, really good.
I love that guy with that long beard.
joe rogan
That guy's awesome.
bryan callen
People can live forever.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Well, he's fucking on the cusp.
I mean, that guy is at the head of...
All the creative ideas about genetic engineering and redoing organs.
They created a windpipe recently with stem cells.
Did you see that?
bryan callen
An artificial windpipe?
I think what they did is they took a cadaver's windpipe and sprayed it with stem cells and it grew over the cartilage.
It's incredible.
joe rogan
And then they installed it in the guy's neck, and now he can breathe.
bryan callen
Yep, and they did the same thing with bladders.
joe rogan
We are just at the beginning of some muddy, live forever shit.
bryan callen
It's like the really smart guy, I can't remember his name, and he went, we've not invented anything.
I tell people that, and they don't understand.
Nothing's been invented yet.
Just wait for the next 40 years.
If you're around for the next century, it's gonna fucking, everything you know, out the window.
joe rogan
I put up something on my Twitter yesterday about a 3D printer.
And it was on a television show.
There was a video of it on LiveLeak and this 3D printer, this guy takes a wrench and they put the wrench into a copier and the copier looks at the wrench and figures out how the wrench is built and then makes it out of resin.
Makes it out of this incredibly hard resin where you can actually use it as a fucking wrench.
So this thing literally physically made this wrench with moving parts and prints it all in one piece.
It's so genius.
You know how a wrench has that thing in the middle where you have to screw it with your thumb to adjust it?
Well, it made that all in one printing.
And it made that part that screws with your thumb a different color.
So the adjustment wheel was a different color.
It was red and the rest of the thing was gray.
And it printed it in one 3D form.
It's fucking incredible.
brian redban
You just tweeted that video?
unidentified
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
bryan callen
Just yesterday.
That's why, you know, you can talk about magic.
Technology is way more incredible than any kind of magic you can think up.
joe rogan
It is magic.
I mean, that's probably what magic is.
All these stories of magicians, it's probably just they came upon some fucking idiots that didn't have fire yet.
You know, they came upon some dummies who didn't have guns, and they had bang sticks, and they fucking just dominated shit.
bryan callen
That's it.
joe rogan
Yeah, I mean, look...
What fucking magic?
Everybody forgot it?
They remember everything else?
bryan callen
I like that.
In Transcendent Man, what they were talking about, basically, that we are going to mesh with machines, there's no question, and our biology is going to die off.
As you make eyes that work better, as you make skin that can heat up, as you make, you know, your body is going to start meshing with biocompatible components that mimic and are, in fact, better than the very...
Material you currently live in.
And it's going to be a world where people are going to decide to go that way or other people are going to decide, you know what, I'm going to die with my old biological self.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's going to be interesting.
It's going to be interesting to figure out what people choose.
brian redban
My favorite part about that movie is just the story about him and his father.
Weird, right?
bryan callen
Yeah, man.
joe rogan
You know what?
bryan callen
That was about a guy who really misses his father and doesn't accept death.
That's an ambitious thing.
I don't accept that people die.
Fuck it.
I'm going to defend something where they don't.
joe rogan
Well, it was obviously to him, it really defined him as a human.
bryan callen
Loved his father.
joe rogan
Yeah, loved his father.
And that's the same story with that guy, Ronald Mallet, the professor out of the University of Connecticut, that's the leading theorist on time travel.
His father died when he was a kid, and it freaked him out so bad that he dedicated his life to developing a time machine because he wants to go back in time and save his old man.
Jesus!
That doesn't make you want to fucking cry.
bryan callen
I know.
joe rogan
And this guy's like, no, he's in his 50s, and he's like the leading...
And not only that, he's figured out, at least theoretically, through his studies, that that would actually be impossible.
And that what's going to happen with the time machine, the current theory is that when a time machine is invented, What the issue becomes is then all time ceases to become linear because everyone from the invention of that time machine on to the end of time can come back to that moment in time and any moment in between and any time they choose.
So time loses all of its linear quality but only the moment the door is opened.
That's when it happens.
So literally the idea is that the way they describe it is you can't travel where there are no roads.
Once the road has been created from that moment in time on, time ceases to become what we define as time today.
bryan callen
You know, I had Einstein's theory of gravity and explained to me, like, well, for example, the Sun is 93 million miles away from the Earth.
Why does it have an effect?
Why does its gravity affect the Earth?
And so on and so forth.
Why does the moons have the same relationship with the Earth?
And the way Einstein described it is really interesting.
He said time and space bends.
It bends according to whatever object is essentially in it.
So if you look at time and space as a blanket, a tight blanket, and you drop a pool ball on it, what happens to the blanket is there's an indentation.
So that's essentially what it's doing to time and space.
It's bent that plane of time and space.
joe rogan
That's a wild way of looking at it.
bryan callen
And now it's spinning.
Now take another ball.
The smaller ball is rotating within, around that, because it's created an indentation there in its own orbit.
So that little ball is now going around the perimeter of where that one ball is sitting.
It creates a vortex.
And that's how Einstein described gravity to a four-year-old.
He said, this is how gravity and time works.
And of course, the farther away you get from that, the less you spin or the longer it takes to complete one revolution, which means then that you get, as you go farther away, you don't age as quickly.
joe rogan
Time goes by much slower.
bryan callen
That's right.
It takes longer to revolve around whatever is exerting gravity on you.
joe rogan
But isn't that a crazy thought that you could escape gravity and live longer?
Technically, you would live longer.
bryan callen
That's right.
joe rogan
And when you would come back...
bryan callen
But you would have to go out to...
joe rogan
But would it be relative?
Like, for you.
Like, what I'm saying is, if you went out and you were 30 years at the speed of light, and then you came back and everyone was dead, and, you know, the people that were children were old people, you would be the same age, but...
You would feel like you had only lived 30 years or whatever the fuck it was.
You wouldn't feel like you've gone through...
bryan callen
No, you would probably...
Those 30 years would be real for you, I guess, in...
joe rogan
In your time, in 30 years' time.
bryan callen
In your time, sure.
joe rogan
Well, how does that fucking work?
bryan callen
That's what's so crazy about it.
joe rogan
Are you moving slower?
Like, what's going on?
bryan callen
No, you're actually...
See, because as you...
Take the sheet...
And then take the ball that's in the middle of the sheet.
As you rotate around that ball, if you're close to that ball, it's a smaller circle, isn't it?
As you get out farther, it's like a record player.
Take a record player.
If I put you on the first line, it's going to take you a much shorter time to make a complete revolution.
I put you at the end of the record player, it's going to take you a long time to go all the way around.
That's time.
And as you go further out, it takes you much longer to complete a year.
It's a really wild concept, but that is where time and space bends.
joe rogan
See, that's where my feeble brain loses it.
brian redban
It starts short-circuiting.
joe rogan
Because the reason why I'm losing it is because why does it take more time when you're out further when in Earth time is going faster?
I understand that there's revolutions, but why are you not aging and feeling the same thing as those people on Earth?
The idea of alternate versions of time and space and traveling at a speed, it's too much.
bryan callen
What's amazing, though, is that it's been proven with subatomic...
When Einstein came up with these theories, we didn't have atomic clocks and things.
We didn't have the actual tools to prove it.
And it wasn't until later on when we actually came up with the technology and the math to prove it, especially the instruments to measure it.
And when we came up with the instruments to measure it later on, say 30, 40 years later, it turned out the guy was right.
You know, that's when you know you're really smart.
When you're like, I got a theory.
You guys don't actually even have the machines to measure this, but here's how it goes.
Imagine being the first guy to be like, if I shoot you way out, time and space bends like a blanket.
Let me show you with this pool ball and a blanket.
You'd be like, what the, this guy's, what's with the gray-haired guy?
All I'm thinking about is banging girls.
joe rogan
Well, that's what he was in it, too.
Einstein was kind of a pimp.
bryan callen
Picasso said, a man does everything for women.
He fights bulls.
He does it all.
He paints.
Fuck it.
He goes to war for women so he can look good and come back with a bunch of medals on his chest.
I'm not saying that's the case with everybody.
joe rogan
It's amazing how guys like Einstein and guys like Nikola Tesla, they live amongst you and I. But they literally couldn't be any further from the type of person, especially you and I. You and I are like mirror images of each other.
We always have been our whole lives.
When I first met Brian, I was on MADtv with his cup he's got right there.
And I was like, who's this fucking guy who's just like me?
You know?
Immediately it was like, we were the same age.
We were both ridiculous.
We were both like, I can't believe I'm in fucking Hollywood.
I'm on a TV show.
I'm like, I can't.
I can't believe I'm on a fucking TV show either.
Where are you from?
bryan callen
You know who I got along with really well?
I just did a show of his and I really liked it was Jay Moore.
Jay Moore and I hit it off right away.
He loves you.
joe rogan
He's a great guy.
He's an East Coast smartass.
bryan callen
I felt so comfortable with the guy.
He looked in my ears and goes, did you wrestle?
I go, yeah.
He used to wrestle.
I didn't know that.
joe rogan
Oh, really?
bryan callen
Yeah, he was a wrestler.
He's funny, man.
He kills me.
joe rogan
He's a funny guy, man.
Silly goose?
Yeah, he's sort of a guy's guy, sort of a comedian.
bryan callen
Yeah, he loves you.
joe rogan
A lot of comics don't like him because of that.
They don't like that jockey sense of humor.
bryan callen
Fuck that, he's a great guy.
joe rogan
Yeah, he gets shit for that.
I've heard that about him.
They don't like that whole Jay Moore style.
bryan callen
They should lift weights and take some testosterone.
Stop being fucking un-American, because Jay Moore's a good American.
unidentified
Un-American.
brian redban
Joe, have you been following this marijuana thing that you just released the reports on the medical...
joe rogan
Yeah, the federal government has declared there's no medical, no, I forget the wording, but no valid medical use for marijuana, which is just fucking ridiculous.
We have a friend that has a brother that has, he's on the autism spectrum.
I mean, he communicates with you.
He's, you know, he's right there.
He's present.
But he's very, very shy.
And you give this kid pot, and you can noticeably see him relax.
And it's been known to alleviate a lot of the social anxiety and the weirdness that autistic people have in communicating.
bryan callen
I've seen it with my own eyes.
I've seen that very same example of somebody who is a high-functioning autistic who would smoke weed and would literally become lucid.
joe rogan
Yeah.
bryan callen
And so, you know, you can say what you want.
It's a chemical that's going to affect your brain.
Maybe some people it affects them negatively, other people it's going to affect them positively, you know.
If you're going to tell me that if you look at the amount of damage just in money terms, and by the way in lives, that alcohol does versus weed, one of the funniest and craziest things that make no sense is that weed's illegal but alcohol is?
I don't know.
Okay.
joe rogan
It's crazy.
bryan callen
It's terrible for your body.
I'm not the first person to talk about this, but yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah, exactly.
bryan callen
But I mean, it's an example of how slowly, in some ways, things change.
joe rogan
Yeah.
bryan callen
They change very slowly because when people get ideas...
Ideas have...
Ideas are really what move and change everything in the world.
And this goes back to these guys like Tesla.
When you think about people who are thinking of truly seminal ideas, like some people sit around and they fucking just sit around and think like up new constructs.
They change everything for the next hundred years.
What a privilege.
What an amazing accomplishment.
Like, what an amazing accomplishment.
I'm going to come up with, I'm going to change everybody in the world's paradigm.
I'm going to change how you live the rest of your life.
That's what it is.
joe rogan
Well, what these guys at the Large Hadron Collider are doing are literally changing our interface with reality.
I mean, they have a new kind of matter.
You know this quark gluon plasma shit that they came up with?
One sugar cube is like 40 billion tons.
I mean, they're doing things that people have only theorized for the longest time, and it's never going to stop.
This is what I tell people, and I joke around about this on stage, that we're here to make the Big Bang.
And this is like a whole bit about the Large Hadron Collider that might be like the destiny of human beings to reset the universe.
We will never stop.
Whatever we learn from the Large Hadron Collider, we will apply to the next greater thing.
And it's going to keep going on.
And if we survive a hundred years, the exponential increase of technology...
bryan callen
It's all exponential.
You just used the word.
It's exponential.
It's exponential development.
joe rogan
It'll be beyond our imagination.
We cannot fathom a reality that will be so far removed from the one that we currently experience.
bryan callen
That's right.
brian redban
From what I understand with that marijuana thing, this is actually the third time this has happened where the US government has said, no, there's nothing good with this shit.
But it's good for us because now we can take it to the courts or whatever, the federal court, and go against everything they say.
So if they say, no, this doesn't help headaches, we can put the proof up like, no, it does.
Here's 5,000 scientists.
So this is actually a good thing that they did this.
joe rogan
It's very obvious that the system is rigged.
The only reason why people would be going after marijuana in this day and age, wasting any resources on something that kills nobody, is they're getting paid to do it.
It's really simple.
You have to follow the money.
There's no money.
bryan callen
Anytime you pass any kind of law, a cottage industry grows up around it.
joe rogan
Oh yeah.
That's all it is.
bryan callen
There was an article, there was a big debate about ethanol today and there's an ethanol lobby and ethanol is The problem with ethanol, you got to grow a lot of corn and it's not that efficient.
It's not that economical.
It's proven to be not.
We got only 10 million cars on the road that actually are flex fuel compatible, which means basically 5% of the cars on the road right now in the United States.
And yet you have a lobby, an ethanol lobby.
You have 30 plants.
Try getting rid of ethanol.
Go ahead.
Good luck.
joe rogan
The whole lobby thing, man, has always freaked me the fuck out that that's legal and that no one ever says anything about it.
bryan callen
It's constitutional under this.
The reason you have lobbyists, and you always have had lobbyists, is because in the Constitution you have the right to petition your government.
The reason lobbying has become such a force and the reason politicians essentially are beholden to the NRA and these kinds of people is essentially because whenever you create, as the government becomes bigger and has more influence, which is what it's going to do as it grows, regardless of what side, right, left, it's not a right-left argument.
If something like this gets bigger, you are going to have industry that is going to find a way to influence that power structure.
How do you do it?
You hire people who have contacts with the government.
Either they work for the administration, whatever it might be.
But that's what happens.
So now you have a county, like Potomac, In Maryland, which is one of the richest, I think it's probably the third richest county in the world.
Do you think they manufacture anything?
No.
You know what they are?
They're all government lobbyists.
Isn't that amazing?
And when you try to go from Potomac to Washington DC to the capital, you'll be in the car for about two hours and it's about 20 miles away or whatever it is.
It's a parking lot.
Why?
Because they're producing anything?
Are they producing things you and I can use?
Nah.
You know what they're doing?
It's a machine.
It is a group of people from all different kinds of industries that live there 24-7 and do whatever they can to influence their congressman in their state.
That's how it works, baby.
And so when you start talking about government, understand, I've said this before, I always say it, regardless of what side of the aisle you're on, Government has two functions, to pass laws and to tax.
Do you need laws and taxes?
Absolutely.
The question is always in political philosophy, how much do you need?
And it seems to me that we're headed to a point where government's going to be 42% of GDP. Government is taking over so much.
So many people in this country are dependent on a government paycheck.
That's not the American way.
And I'll tell you something.
It means you're a bureaucrat.
Some people are doing good things.
They're doing good things.
But for the most part...
A country grows when it produces things you and I need, whether it's intellectual ideas, physical products, and we export those things.
And we need to stay the leader of innovation.
Innovation and ideas is what it is.
But when you have Potomac being that rich because they basically rely on the U.S. government, there's something fucking very wrong.
joe rogan
Very creepy that it just keeps going on and never even gets mentioned.
bryan callen
Because it's very hard to stop.
joe rogan
To me, it's one of the two great things about politics that have always fascinated me.
That's one.
And two is cigarettes.
The fact that no one ever brings up cigarettes.
There's never a president that says, we have to stop something that's killing literally almost a half a million Americans every year.
bryan callen
You know what I love about that example you just used?
In Health and Human Resources, there's a building in Washington where you can go down one floor and it's Health and Human Resources or the Department of Health.
And the Department of Health has a huge campaign to get people to stop smoking, and it's a good, noble program.
You go up three flights from there, or whatever it is, but it's in the same building, and you have essentially the Department of Agriculture.
You know what the Department of Agriculture does?
It pays farmers to produce tobacco because it's called a subsidy.
Interesting, isn't it?
So you got one floor that's paying farmers to grow tobacco because they have a strong lobby.
And then if you go down three floors, you've got the Department of Health, which is trying to get people to stop smoking.
You find me one business in the world that behaves that way.
But guess what?
It's the US government, baby.
And that's how we work.
And that's where your taxes go.
Your taxes go to stopping people from smoking with big, big programs.
And they go to getting farmers to grow more tobacco.
Fuck!
That's what it's called.
So it's called fucking madness.
joe rogan
It is madness.
bryan callen
And that's why if you don't educate yourself on how the government works and what the history of expansive government is, you're going to pay a price for it out of your pocketbook and with your freedom.
joe rogan
And doesn't it seem like as the economy corrodes and they start trying to add more and more government jobs, people don't want to resist this because it does provide some sort of a tangible boost in the economy.
They've created two million jobs, but they don't tell you that these two million jobs are all census people.
Useless jobs, things that we don't need.
Exactly.
bryan callen
Pay attention when you hear a politician talk.
Pay attention to what they're really asking for.
It's a very, very interesting thing.
All of us would be guilty of this.
The nature of human beings, in my opinion, you look at history, is to try to control other people.
I try to do it.
I try to do it with people I love.
I try to help them.
I'm trying to control them.
I tell them how to eat.
It's my nature.
I care about people.
So what am I going to do?
I'm going to try to get in there, and I'm going to try to educate you according to my paradigm.
Well, that's just my nature.
I'll never be any different.
The problem, the founding fathers knew that was part of human nature, and that's why they created...
Checks and balances.
That's why they created the nation.
This nation was founded on the idea that you are self-reliant, that if you're going to create alliances and stuff, they should be voluntary alliances, not government-mandated alliances, etc.
And we're headed to a point where people are trying to solve problems, and that means I'm going to pass a government mandate.
I'm going to make you do this.
joe rogan
Do you know how the tobacco lobby thing works?
Do you know how they pay the farmers?
The farmers get paid for their tobacco, plus they get paid to grow it.
Is that how it goes?
bryan callen
They get paid to...
Look.
Yes.
Look.
joe rogan
It's just to make sure that there's...
unidentified
But that's like every farm.
bryan callen
Let me give you another example.
Do you think we need as much corn as we do?
You think we need all that corn syrup?
In fact, why don't we grow sugar anymore?
Because the corn lobby, I think it's Archer Daniel Midlands, etc., have a very strong lobbying group.
So they said, we want to grow corn.
We have a lot of people that will be out of work if you don't subsidize our industry.
You know how much money we give?
We give alpaca farmers Money every year.
You ever worn anything with alpaca in it?
joe rogan
What's alpaca?
bryan callen
Is that an animal?
Yeah, it's an animal.
And what happened was during the Korean War, we decided to make uniforms out of alpaca and alpaca blend because they would be warmer because Korea is very fucking cold.
But guess what?
Those farmers, they're still getting paid to grow alpacas.
To herd alpacas, and you pay for it.
Now, it might be 0.1% out of your paycheck, but that's what goes on with the government.
That's what farming subsidies are about.
We pay people to produce butter.
We have a lot of food.
joe rogan
What was that?
You just went...
brian redban
No, I said yeah.
I'm just saying if you have a farm, you get money.
joe rogan
Is it every crop?
Do they subsidize every crop the way they subsidize tobacco?
bryan callen
I don't know all the details, but Fareed Zakaria wrote a really good book about all this stuff.
You should read him.
He's smart.
joe rogan
What's it called?
bryan callen
I believe it's called The History of Freedom.
I read some excerpts of it.
It was unbelievable.
joe rogan
There's no way to stop the lobby system at this point, though, is there?
I mean, no one's going to accept.
unidentified
Well, there is.
bryan callen
There absolutely is.
In fact, I would argue that there's a huge movement to bring government, on both sides of the aisle, to bring government into a manageable, you know, to make it smaller.
joe rogan
Yeah, but that's like the Ron Paul dogma, but nobody sort of takes it seriously.
bryan callen
Actually, every time you hear a politician now who wants to get re-elected, they all have to justify their spending.
And let me tell you something.
We are in dire...
I mean, a lot of government programs are being cut.
The whole Tea Party movement, which is a formidable movement in some ways, and Michelle Bachman and these guys, their platform is basically like, no matter what you say...
The government's too big.
Now, I have some issues with those guys, but I'm just saying that at the end of the day, they gained that much traction because they said, what the hell's going on here?
joe rogan
Michelle Bachman is one of two things.
Either she's the bringer of the apocalypse or she's someone hired by the Democrats to completely discredit the Republicans.
Because she's at the helm right now.
She's at the front of the movement.
bryan callen
I did a little research on her.
joe rogan
How about her gay husband?
bryan callen
I don't know anything about it.
joe rogan
Gay as fuck.
bryan callen
Really?
joe rogan
Dave Foley turned me on to it.
Oh, you gotta watch the guy talk.
It's fantastic.
She's been married 35 years ago.
We've talked about him on the podcast.
He's one of those guys that cures people being gay.
bryan callen
Oh, no.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
unidentified
Oh, no.
joe rogan
Oh, he's gay as fuck.
unidentified
Oh, boy.
joe rogan
You just hear him talk and you can't hold the gay back.
bryan callen
See, I have a huge problem with that.
joe rogan
You ever, like, call a customer service somewhere and you know you're talking to a black guy?
Yeah.
That's how gay he is.
You know?
And I'm not saying that every black guy talks like that, but there are certain black guys that, man, you call the guy up on the phone, and I'm not saying there's anything wrong with it, but you know you're talking to a black guy.
This guy's one of those guys, you hear him talking, you go, that's a gay guy.
There's no doubt about it.
And he talks about barbarians and gay people being barbarians.
bryan callen
Really?
joe rogan
And we need to tell them that this kind of behavior is just not acceptable.
bryan callen
What an asshole.
What an asshole.
joe rogan
Suckin' cock at prayer retreats and just can't wait.
bryan callen
Self-loathing.
He's got self-loathing.
joe rogan
And he's married.
bryan callen
I can't stand hypocrites.
I can't stand people like that.
joe rogan
She wants to get rid of all porn too, which is hilarious, because then the rapes would go through the fucking roof.
It's one thing they've realized and one thing they actually believe could help child pornography, could actually help child molesters not have sex with children.
It's a terrible idea.
brian redban
I'd like to see that test study on that.
joe rogan
Scientifically, though, they're proposing that this actually could be a possibility because it's a terrible idea.
But you obviously could never do it because those kids in those videos are victims.
But regular pornography has been shown to curb rape.
Regular pornography in other countries is accepted, in Japan especially, that pornography and even violent things actually keep people from acting out.
bryan callen
There have been a lot of psychological studies about the fact that, you know, movies like Saw and stuff, there are less maniacs out there actually doing it because they can simulate, they can see it being done and get off on it.
joe rogan
Well, yeah.
And I think they believe this about pornography as well.
Pornography actually curbs rape.
bryan callen
I hope so.
joe rogan
It totally makes sense.
bryan callen
I hope it does.
joe rogan
Yeah.
I mean, look, there's got to be some reason for it.
And that doesn't make sense.
I mean, there doesn't have to be some reason for it.
But I think the way the world moves...
bryan callen
You know, you're trying to outlaw pornography.
I want to make my own choices.
I'm a fucking adult.
The Nazis were very good at totalitarianism, at controlling the total person too.
That's tyranny.
It's a form of tyranny when people start talking that way.
joe rogan
You want to cure gay people?
bryan callen
You want to cure gay people?
Fucking worry about your own kitchen, asshole.
I never had a gay person come in and fuck up my whole...
Are they fucking up my family unit with their presence?
Is that how weak my family unit bond is?
Are they tempting me with their cocks?
Shut up.
Yeah, they are, actually.
Sorry, I just popped out.
I'm high.
joe rogan
Yeah, dude, I'm with you.
I'm with you on the whole rant.
There's a bunch of people in this country, though, that don't think that way.
That's one of the things about this world, is that, you know, there's people in this life that are at various stages of awakening.
And I'm not claiming to be any enlightened being, but there's people that have the benefit of having more free time, more open-minded friends, live in a better geographic environment where people think a little clearer.
bryan callen
I'm very open-minded.
joe rogan
There's a lot of people, though, in certain spots of this country alone, and forget about the rest of the world, but certain spots of this country, they were just in some fucked spot.
The spot they're at is just filled with dummies.
bryan callen
I just think...
I also think that there's a lot of social pressure to stay the course.
I think it goes back to kind of keeping the breeding instinct.
I was thinking about this.
I was trying to write...
joe rogan
Stay the course, you say, you mean as far as Christian values?
bryan callen
Have you ever noticed how if a guy in a working-class neighborhood of Boston walks in...
With bangles and earrings and eye shadow.
He gets beaten up.
joe rogan
Why?
bryan callen
Why is that though?
Why?
I have a theory about it.
joe rogan
Because he's a queer.
bryan callen
Yeah, but why?
unidentified
Or a monkey.
bryan callen
Remember like Dov Davidoff used this thing when he was in Jersey and he'd go to school and his mom would pack pita bread and he'd get the shit kicked out of him because he's eating pita bread.
He's like, hey mom!
Give me white bread, because I know pita's good for me, but it's not good for me when I get my fucking teeth knocked in for being a communist, because I'm eating pita bread, right?
joe rogan
It's hilarious.
bryan callen
But why?
And I have a theory on it.
Men, if you look at how men develop, men are really good in groups.
They delineate authority very quickly.
They work well.
They're very organized.
They like hierarchy.
They don't talk a lot.
If they have a job to do, they get it done.
Think about when you're hunting.
It goes back to hunting.
When you've got to hunt a deer, you're using hand signals.
You're not talking.
You'll scare the deer away.
So you get into this whole sort of very organized.
You become one unit, a machine.
Women don't bond that way.
They tend to talk and they bond verbally.
Men actually don't.
Men bond.
If you take boys and you take a ball and throw it in the middle of a bunch of boys who don't know each other, they'll become friends around that ball.
Because they start playing a game and they break up into teams and they compete.
They have to rely on each other and they get very good and they do it right away.
It's how you get boys to be friends.
Girls don't make friends that way.
Girls have to make friends over a period of time through experience.
joe rogan
They have to talk shit about some other girl.
bryan callen
That's exactly right.
That's why when you adopt a child, if she's a girl and she's a little older, and you put her in a new school, she has a much harder time making friends than a boy does when he's just around...
Balls.
Yeah, when he's around fucking balls.
joe rogan
Yeah, boys can make friends with boys quicker than probably girls can make friends with girls.
You think that?
I wouldn't think that, though, because girls are friendlier.
bryan callen
No, but boys...
joe rogan
Boys try to beat your ass when you move into town.
bryan callen
Yeah, but I think the reason that somebody gets beaten up when they show up with all this decoration is because you can't go hunting with somebody with jewelry on it.
It makes too much fucking noise.
If he's walking along with his bangles like clang-clang, my fucking deer are gone.
If you're shiny and you've got glitter on, why don't guys wear glitter and shiny shit?
joe rogan
Well, what if he's just got a tight shirt and a bow tie and skinny jeans?
You're still going to want to beat him up.
And that's pretty sleek for the woods.
bryan callen
I think that might also be this.
That might also be you're trying to get the girls.
You're not working with us.
You're fucking showing off your tits and ass.
And you didn't get permission from us, motherfucker.
You can't walk in like the King Peacock.
Because then guys are going to be like, that guy's a fucking peacock, and I guess he thinks he's a tough guy because he's showing me his muscles, which is an affront to me.
You're preening.
joe rogan
But what if he's really skinny and he's got no muscles?
If he can play the guitar, he's fine.
If a guy like you wears a tank top, of course it's imposing.
bryan callen
Thank you.
joe rogan
But if some guys wear tank tops, like a real skinny guy.
Chris Rock wears a tank top.
You know, it's not scary.
bryan callen
Well, I don't think that's the guy that gets beaten up at a bar.
I think the guy that wears a tank top and he's all rocked out and he walks in.
There are a lot of guys.
Like, do that with Mayhem when he's got a couple drinks.
I'm sure Mayhem would be like, hey, this guy, I'm going to start grabbing him.
joe rogan
He would just hold on to you for 15 seconds until you're out of breath.
That's all it would take.
Especially for some juice head.
You just gotta hang on.
It's a ride.
You got a 15 second ride.
And at the end of that ride, it's...
And then he can't push you off.
bryan callen
Remember my buddy Bob Williams at Austin?
That strong man who's a fucking maniac?
And he's so fucking strong.
He's so weird strong.
He'd always go up to the guys in Gold's and he'd be like, What's up Needles?
How you doing?
Guy would be like, excuse me?
Ah, needles!
Needles!
Call him needles.
And he just wanted a little, just a little like, let me just squeeze you until you die.
joe rogan
Well, he was a wrestler, right?
bryan callen
Yeah, since he was seven.
joe rogan
Yeah.
bryan callen
With chimpanzees.
I call him the human chimp.
joe rogan
He had one of the best lines ever.
Tell the story about the guy who was fucking with him while he was surfing.
bryan callen
Yeah, it's the best.
He's on a surfboard and his buddy's with him.
And these fucking dudes come up, these local, these Malibu locals with like tattoos on their neck, rough guys.
And they look at Bob and they go, Hey, bro, get the fuck off our wave right now.
And Bob goes, what?
And he does this thing where you have to know him.
He's got, like, kind of an eye loose.
He's like, huh?
And he looks like JFK Jr. He's got, like, the really thick hair in his eyes, like a real good-looking guy.
And they go, get the fuck off our wave.
We'll kick your fucking ass.
And so Bob's like, you got to know, he's, like, really loose.
He never gets afraid of anything.
unidentified
He goes like this.
bryan callen
He goes, yeah.
Hey, how long can you hold your breath?
The guy goes, what?
He goes, how long can you hold your breath?
Because I can hold my breath for over four minutes.
So I could jump off this board.
I grab you by the hair.
I bring you to the bottom.
We take a little nap and you just fucking die.
And then I come for you.
And they were like...
Fuck this.
And he's got these huge hands.
And when he takes his shirt off...
joe rogan
You can't really do anything about that either.
They couldn't help him.
bryan callen
Oh, dude.
joe rogan
They would have to pull him off.
They would be underwater.
They would probably panic.
bryan callen
No, you look into his eyes.
It's like they had a great white sighting out in Malibu.
And he's like, I'm going surfing.
They go, dude, they have the great white is out there.
They had a seal in its mouth.
He's like, shut the fuck up.
Fuck up.
I'll punch a great white in his fucking face.
He literally, he's like, they won't eat me.
I go, what do you mean they won't eat me?
He goes, they smell it on me.
They're not going to eat me.
joe rogan
Get the fuck out of here.
unidentified
That's what he says.
joe rogan
Well, that's a good way to lose your life.
bryan callen
I know.
He's a fucking maniac.
joe rogan
He's just been lucky.
When did they spot a great white in Malibu?
Was that recently?
bryan callen
Oh, yeah.
There was a great white 200 feet off the shore with a seal in its mouth.
Holy shit.
And the fucking shark expert was like, hey guys, they've always been out there.
They're always swimming under you.
That's their breeding ground.
They eat seal.
They're there all the fucking time.
So all you guys who think there are no sharks in that water, there are great whites swimming under you all the time.
But you're just not food to them.
They'd rather eat a seal.
joe rogan
Oh, you're so lucky.
bryan callen
Fucking David Blaine.
David Blaine came to my house and he and I said he wanted to cross the ocean in a bottle.
Oh shit, I hope.
Fuck.
David, sorry if I... I don't think he can do it.
It's magic, man.
joe rogan
He's standing on ice forever.
bryan callen
Literally, he wanted to do that.
But I said, aren't you afraid of sharks?
They were talking about how whales, orcas, if you're in a glass boat, sometimes they'll crash through it and they don't know why.
And a guy died that way.
So he was like, yeah, that's the problem.
And I said, aren't you afraid of fucking sharks like great whites?
And he goes, oh, you didn't see my video.
I go, no.
He goes, oh, dude, I'm not afraid of them at all.
So I go, what?
On his iPhone, he's got, he's in a, fuck, I don't know if I can say this, though, because it might be part of his.
unidentified
Too late.
joe rogan
Say it.
Fuck him.
Fuck David Blaine.
bryan callen
I wouldn't do it.
joe rogan
Say it.
bryan callen
No, because I don't want to screw up his special butt.
joe rogan
Listen, you don't want to screw up this Ustream show with 2,000 people watching.
bryan callen
Yeah, yeah, you fuckers.
joe rogan
2,659.
bryan callen
I got to get permission from him.
Anyway, the point is he's swimming with great whites.
And all I can say, I don't want to ruin anything, but he's basically, without any protection at all, slowing his heart rate down and just in the middle of the ocean with a weight belt on, floating.
No oxygen, no nothing.
Holding his breath while huge great whites go by him and all he can see is shadows.
What?
Yeah, that's David Blaine.
He's not afraid of shit.
joe rogan
That's not magical, though.
bryan callen
No, it's not.
joe rogan
Not magical.
He's a weird guy.
bryan callen
Yeah, I've known him since he was seven.
joe rogan
I think he's very fascinating in that he's made this living doing these endurance things.
bryan callen
You know why?
His mother was Jewish, so he was always obsessed with the Holocaust, but also his mother died very, very painfully and slowly of cancer.
When I met him, she was going through this terrible time.
It was very hard for him.
And he always, he became obsessed with suffering and with how to suffer with dignity, how to overcome, in my opinion, I'm speaking for him, but we've talked a little bit about it.
But Dave has read so much about the Holocaust and so much about "Man's Search for Meaning" by Viktor Frankl and those kind of guys.
He's obsessed with the notion of how one deals with all the suffering in the world.
joe rogan
He's got a huge heart that's happening. - So his facet, Fascination has led him into dealing with adverse situations, like really bizarre situations, like standing in that ice cube.
bryan callen
Yeah, you know, he broke the world record for holding his breath.
That's true.
He did a TED lecture on it.
He goes, you know, he's trying to figure out a way to do the trick where he holds his breath.
And he goes, the craziest thing is if I actually did it.
And he fucking did it.
He held his breath on Oprah for 17 minutes.
joe rogan
What?
bryan callen
17 fucking minutes.
He's got the world record.
What?
joe rogan
17 minutes?
bryan callen
17 minutes.
He really did.
joe rogan
I've never even heard of that before.
bryan callen
He held his breath for seven.
He can slow his heart rate down.
He's amazing.
joe rogan
Holy shit.
bryan callen
That dude's no joke.
I can't believe you don't know him.
He's a very special guy.
joe rogan
That's incredible.
brian redban
I always thought that he edited his magic shit.
joe rogan
I think he's using you with Chris Angel.
bryan callen
Let me tell you something.
He's so far from Chris Angel.
unidentified
It's crazy.
joe rogan
Yeah, Criss Angel's annoying.
He's a big silly face.
bryan callen
Look, David's been offered more money than you can fucking imagine to do shit, and he just won't do it.
When he did that thing for Target, he was making no money for his magic tricks because he wouldn't let anybody sponsor him.
And so when he did that thing for Target, he said, I'll do this, but you guys have to...
I'll do this magic trick if you want to sponsor me, but forget money from me.
You guys have to...
I want you to do...
You have to let really poor children have a total shopping spree in all your stores.
Yeah.
So he's like a really, he's really somebody who cares a lot.
joe rogan
Why do so many people hate him?
bryan callen
Because they don't know him.
joe rogan
Is that what it is?
bryan callen
Because he's a stud.
David Blaine?
brian redban
I don't think people hate David Blaine.
I think people hate Chris Angel.
I hate Chris Angel.
joe rogan
People definitely hate Chris Angel as well.
bryan callen
Because people don't like to be fooled.
joe rogan
No, but there's no fooling them, though, because he's just doing these endurance stunts.
He's a weird guy in that he's known as David Blaine the magician, but everything he does is just this weird physical feat.
He's like a Houdini-type character.
bryan callen
When I knew him when he was 17, he was obsessed with Houdini.
He's always been obsessed with it.
joe rogan
Yeah, but it's kind of a shame that he's a magician.
Because they are like world events when he does something nutty.
I mean, it really is.
Like it or not, they are world events.
What did he do in London where he lived on a platform or some shit?
What the fuck did he do?
bryan callen
Yeah, in a box suspended in a bridge.
But he's always been obsessed with this notion that how can I deal with...
If you put me...
You shave my head and throw me in a...
In a corner with a bowl of gruel in a concentration camp.
Can I suffer with dignity?
Would I be the best sufferer?
How would I deal with that?
joe rogan
What did he do to go to the bathroom when he was up in that box?
brian redban
I don't know.
bryan callen
Well, first of all, he was drinking and eating very little, but I think he had a thing that he would go to the bathroom in, I guess.
joe rogan
Like a bucket?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
You have to do it when everybody's asleep?
bryan callen
Yeah, I guess.
joe rogan
You're only allowed to pee at night.
bryan callen
I guess so, huh?
But although it was a clear plastic box and he was just sitting there.
joe rogan
There should be some YouTube video of him pooping then, right?
brian redban
If I remember, I think they did.
I think they put like a towel around it when he had to go to the bathroom.
joe rogan
Oh, right, right.
brian redban
If I remember, that's how they did it.
joe rogan
How long was he in that box for?
bryan callen
I don't know, like 18 days.
brian redban
Have you ever been to the Magic Castle?
joe rogan
Never.
I've got a friend who I do jiu-jitsu with, too.
He's a magician.
brian redban
Really?
joe rogan
Yeah, he's always inviting me, but you've got to wear a jacket.
brian redban
You do?
bryan callen
I know.
I heard it's cool.
joe rogan
I'm wearing a jacket.
Get out of here with your stupid fucking outfit I have to wear.
You seem so dorky.
Why can't I just wear a nice shirt?
I have to wear a jacket, really?
bryan callen
I like what you wear for the UFC. You always just kind of put on a black shirt.
joe rogan
Well, Affliction pays me to wear their shirts, so I wear a black Affliction shirt every time.
This is Jiu Jitsu, my friend.
This is Elio Grace.
Elio Grace.
This is the godfather.
You don't know, brother.
Brian needs some Jiu Jitsu in your life, doesn't he?
bryan callen
I really do.
joe rogan
There's a man who's screaming out for Jiu Jitsu.
This Brian.
bryan callen
You gotta do a little rolling.
You gotta actually kind of build for it.
You got some shoulders, aren't you?
joe rogan
He doesn't want to do it.
It's not that guy.
You're that guy, though, aren't you?
Yes.
bryan callen
I miss wrestling.
joe rogan
Why don't you go back in?
bryan callen
I'm going to.
joe rogan
You had a bad concussion, right?
Tell that story.
That's a pretty crazy story.
bryan callen
I just had this war with this kid, Pascal, and Boom Boom Mancini was watching me, and I wasn't going to give up.
And we wrestled at Street Sports, Renato Magno School, which is a great school.
He's a great guy.
We rolled and rolled and rolled.
It was probably 40 minutes and nobody won.
It was like to a draw.
The next day, I felt like my hands, I felt like I was holding a hot snowball in my hands and I couldn't see very well.
My perception was all messed up.
And I went to the doctor and I did a CAT scan and the guy said, you just got a concussion.
But for about six months after that, I would have these weird sensations in my hands.
Because I neurologically did something because I'd hit my head.
It was such a fight.
You don't want to lose and you go a little too crazy.
joe rogan
Concussions are scary things, man.
People take that shit real lightly.
I have friends, like I got a friend who got hit in the head by a golf ball.
He said he was not the same person for six months.
bryan callen
No.
In college, I got kicked by four guys on the ground.
And I remember just being truly cloudy for five days.
It was just so cloudy.
I just got my head kicked in.
If you ever had that done to you, man, it's really weird because it's exactly what your sock feels like in a dryer.
I couldn't do anything.
joe rogan
You know about Bill Romanowski, the football player?
You know that he had over 20 concussions and he created a bunch of brain supplements.
He's got this stuff called Neuro One.
I've taken it before.
It's pretty fucking strong shit.
It's really good for concentration and shit like that.
It's basically caffeine and a bunch of different brain stimulants.
bryan callen
Omanowski was a monster, man.
joe rogan
He's tried very hard to try to balance out all the impacts that he's had.
bryan callen
Very tough, though, that kind of trauma.
joe rogan
20 concussions, man.
bryan callen
Because it creates pugilistic dementia.
Those guys, their brains shrink.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's amazing they're just realizing this over the last few decades, too.
Everybody knew that football players got beat up and nobody ever kind of...
bryan callen
Football is so beyond rough.
The injury rate is 100%.
It's not 95. It's 100%.
You play with pain in the NFL. That's why people talk about, oh, this guy's really tough.
They're great athletes.
Play football.
Go run a fucking football back in the NFL. Good luck.
joe rogan
Yeah, those are the super athletes, man.
Those are the elite of the elite.
bryan callen
Freaks!
joe rogan
What's really crazy is that I've read that something, some ridiculous number, like after two years of retirement, 80% of NFL players file for bankruptcy and 60% of NBA players.
bryan callen
We talked about that last time.
How fucking incredible is that?
Within five years of leaving the NFL, 60% of football players file for bankruptcy.
Because nobody's there to tell them, hey dude, football's different, don't spend your money.
joe rogan
Nobody's ever told them that and the fact that they've been compromised by all these impacts.
It's got to make them more impulsive, affect their judgment, affect how they behave.
bryan callen
I think you're already dealing with a high testosterone, fun-loving, kind of rough, forward-tilted group.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
bryan callen
These guys are the wolves.
They're the alpha dogs.
They come in and everybody else is a fucking hen with those guys.
You ever see a team of real football players?
joe rogan
They're savages.
bryan callen
It's like being when I was in Afghanistan and I caught a group of guys who walked by me with beards and long hair and I was like, who are those guys?
Oh, the really muscular guys?
The guys who are not saying anything with no badges?
That's the dark side.
That's who that is.
I was like, oh, those are the real elites.
That's why I smell gunmetal and death on them.
joe rogan
Are they like mercenaries?
bryan callen
No, just Delta guys.
joe rogan
Oh, right.
bryan callen
Those real elite, like SEAL Team 6, you know, whoever they were, they weren't talking to me.
joe rogan
Yeah, what a strange way to go and live your life, to commit to being one of the most disciplined, hardened, well-trained, fighting, killing machines in the world.
bryan callen
My buddy hangs with those guys in Afghanistan, and he works with them, and I said, what delineates a Delta Force guy from a SEAL team or a regular guy?
And he said, their exact...
And I was like, what do you mean?
He goes, they're just exact.
They're amazing shots.
They're good at everything.
But they're just really good at everything.
Exactly well-rounded.
joe rogan
Well, there's a place for everybody in this world.
And there's a place for someone to be a guy who makes pottery.
And there's a place for Picasso.
And there's a place for fucking killers, man.
bryan callen
That's right.
joe rogan
I mean, as long as we're allowing war, as war seems to be legal, the president seemed to, I believe, celebrate that we had just murdered a bad guy.
unidentified
That's right.
joe rogan
I mean, that's what the whole Osama Bin Laden thing is.
bryan callen
I love that they came in, the guy shot him above the eye, and then took a picture and sent it back to their computer, the facial recognition program.
unidentified
Ready?
bryan callen
Your girl's coming at me.
In the leg.
Get out of the way.
Like that.
In the head.
In case you got a suicide belt.
unidentified
Oh, hold on.
bryan callen
Let me take out my Polaroid.
And now let me just fax it.
Let me scan this and send it back to the White House.
Here you go, guys.
Let's take this picture.
Let's run it through the facial recognition there.
Yeah, it's him.
It's him.
joe rogan
Do you 100% believe this story, though?
bryan callen
Yes, I do.
You know why?
There were 70 people involved.
I have to pee.
joe rogan
70?
bryan callen
Yeah, 70 Commandos and a dog.
joe rogan
So good luck trying to cover that up.
In the meantime, I'll talk about Jessica Lynch where they tried to pretend there was a gun shootout and she was actually just in the hospital.
Go make your pee-pee, bro.
We're going to talk about Pat Tillman, too.
No conspiracies.
Brian's not buying them.
Brian is my most Fox News-like friend.
brian redban
Did you see the new footage of, I think it was World Trade Center footage?
joe rogan
Oh yeah, I did see from the one reporter's perspective.
brian redban
Yeah, that shows a completely different...
I mean, that shit looked like it was just sitting there fucking melting.
joe rogan
What, the building?
brian redban
The building, the noises it was making.
joe rogan
Yeah, totally, totally.
It did.
Look, I've always said that that Tower 7 looks ridiculous.
It looks like a controlled demolition, but what the fuck do I know?
I'm not an engineer.
It might have looked like controlled demolition just because of the very bizarre way in which it was injured, that it was injured on the bottom floors, and that's what gave in first, and everything pancaked down.
It's very possible.
What the fuck do I know?
But it does look like a controlled demolition.
But that video, what I thought was most fascinating was all the buildings or the cars outside that had been blown up and on fire.
I didn't realize that that had happened.
I kind of thought that, of course, everything fell and collapsed, but I thought there was probably just this massive pile of debris.
I didn't realize that all these cars had been lit on fire.
brian redban
Jet fuel and everything just kind of fell down into the streets.
joe rogan
Is that what it was?
brian redban
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
When the airplane hit, it just fucking...
joe rogan
Oh, when Brian comes back, he's got a crazy fucking story of his buddy that was an actual Wall Street guy.
He was a stockbroker.
And he was there while it all happened.
And he heard sounds that sounded like car accidents.
Just BAM! BAM! And then he realized, tell the story about your friend who had heard those sounds.
He was at September 11th, heard those sounds that sounded like car accidents, and then realized what they were.
bryan callen
Yeah, well, that's what...
There was this...
In fact, there's a documentary that captured it, by the way.
But yeah, he just started hearing like these...
Like two cars ramming into each other 40 miles an hour, 50 miles an hour.
And it turned out it was the bodies hitting the pavement, hitting the ground.
joe rogan
How many people do you think jumped?
bryan callen
They probably have that figure, but a lot.
Because what happened was it got so hot, and rather than burn, you jumped.
And some people held hands.
Some people formed rings.
joe rogan
Yeah, I saw that.
I saw that.
Holy shit, what a way to go, huh?
bryan callen
It's a way to go, man.
It's quick.
Yeah, I don't know.
You fall for a long time.
joe rogan
God damn, that has to be horrifying.
bryan callen
Yeah, I'm afraid of heights, so I parachute once and it sucked.
joe rogan
Saying you're afraid of heights, that is beyond afraid of heights.
bryan callen
Well, you know, it's like, you know, Jimmy Burke knows a certain somebody who was terrified of flying.
She was seeing a therapist for it.
And she finally worked up the courage to get on a plane and fly.
And the plane broke in half in the middle of the air.
It broke in half on takeoff.
So she fell backwards.
In a half a plane.
And you're probably alive for a little while when your plane breaks in half.
That's not fun.
Wow.
joe rogan
What if the secret is real and she manifested that, man?
unidentified
Hello.
joe rogan
Or maybe she was a psychic and she predicted her own demise.
unidentified
Perhaps.
joe rogan
Maybe she knew her timeline was troubled.
bryan callen
But it raises a question.
What's the way you'd want to die?
joe rogan
I'd want to die with a mask on and an orgy.
bryan callen
I'm glad you brought that up because it reminds me of a story I experienced.
joe rogan
It's a story that Brian was telling me yesterday that was so good.
I said, stop talking.
Stop talking and tell me this tomorrow.
You can't tell the names involved.
bryan callen
I can't tell the names.
There was a celebrity involved.
joe rogan
A very significant celebrity.
When we were growing up, this celebrity was a big star.
bryan callen
And I'll tell you, it's funny.
joe rogan
Can you say whether or not they were a part of a...
bryan callen
No, we cannot.
We cannot say anything else.
brian redban
Kelly Savalas?
bryan callen
No, no, no.
joe rogan
A handsome young man.
Can you say whether he was a music star, a movie star?
bryan callen
I'm not allowed to say anything, but he was a celebrity.
He was a celebrity.
Let's just put it that way.
And the reason I don't want to say anything is because it was a private thing.
I mean, I admire the guy, actually, for doing what he did.
joe rogan
Okay, so tell us what happened.
bryan callen
Well, you know, in life...
joe rogan
This is many, many moons ago.
bryan callen
This is many moons ago.
Many, many moons ago.
At least, I think, six years ago or something.
And I was single.
And I... There are things certain guys want to do.
You know, you want to...
Like, I always say this.
You want to stop a crime.
You want to kill somebody with a sword.
You want to fucking, you know...
And then you want to bang six girls at the same time.
I mean, that's one of my goals.
joe rogan
Six girls.
bryan callen
Well, I'm driving.
brian redban
How much penis do you have?
bryan callen
I do well, and I'll show you after the story.
But I'm driving to Venice.
I get a call from a girl I used to bang, who was a freak.
Wonderful.
I mean, a real Vegas pro.
So she gives me a call, and she goes, What are you doing?
And I go, I'm driving to Venice.
She goes...
Get your ass up to this hotel.
And it was, let's just call it the Sheraton.
She goes, get your ass to the Sheraton right now.
We got six girls and only two cocks.
We need you now.
So I'm like, nah, I got an audition for Sidney Pollack the next day.
brian redban
Fuck Sidney.
bryan callen
Which I did, right.
joe rogan
Is that Jackson Pollack's brother?
bryan callen
Yes, it is.
Yes, the painter.
And I go, I gotta go.
I gotta go to fuck.
I can't do this.
I can't.
I'm going on my way to...
Now, the only thing you can do in that situation is just faint.
Otherwise, just faint.
Faint or die there or pull over and sleep and wake up in the morning.
Because any other movement is going to bring you toward six hot girls.
Because I knew the kind of girls she hung out with.
Now I'm going, you mean there's a fucking...
There's a fucking sweet in the shirt?
joe rogan
Before you tell the story, before you even go any further...
bryan callen
You decided to tell this story recently at the UCB. I told the story at the UCB podcast and it was interesting because they're all a very nice group and very funny and talented group of people, but they probably not live the kind of sexual deviancy that I have gone through.
And so I just feel that.
They just seem like wholesome, good people, you know, that don't have just this deep, dark matter living inside their eyes.
And so I got up and told this story that I'm about to tell you guys about, essentially, my experience in a fucking orgy.
joe rogan
What made you want to tell this?
bryan callen
I just was like, I fucking want to tell the truth about who I really am.
I just felt like going up and going, hey, these are really cute stories, you guys.
Now let me tell you what a fucking deviant I really am.
joe rogan
But you didn't think they were cute stories?
bryan callen
I mean, I didn't really listen.
I didn't listen that hard, but I know the people involved are funny.
I mean, a lot of them, like Moishe, the stand-up comic Moishe is funny as shit.
He's funny.
He's got a great sense of humor.
And the other guys, I haven't seen a lot of their work, but it usually puts out some pretty badass comics.
I mean, it's funny, funny fucking people.
Like Amy Poehler came out of there and, you know, great people.
joe rogan
And so they're telling their stories and for whatever reason you decide to take it down pervert lane and tell a story that you never even told me.
bryan callen
I've never told anybody because, you know, I mean, it's just like, I was like, I want to tell something that's a little outrageous because I don't want any secrets in my fucking life.
I just want to be fucking out there and I don't give a fuck.
I don't care what, really care what other people think.
I care what my friends think, you know, and my friends all know exactly who the fuck I am.
All my friends know who I am.
joe rogan
There's so much freedom in that.
bryan callen
But there's always freedom in that.
I can't, I'm not good at keeping a facade up.
So I tell this story.
So I'm driving and I go, I hang on my first 10 balls, I can't do it, I can't do it.
Now I had listened, there was this thing where, you might have told me, Joe, but we were talking about a woman who was dying of cancer.
And they said, if you could do it all over again, what would you do?
And she said, I wouldn't do anything because it made sense.
And I was thinking about that when I got this phone call.
I was thinking, you know, I want to, I want to do, you know, you got to live your life sometimes and you got to have experiences and you got to fucking do something that kind of shocks and astonishes yourself.
And by the way, you don't know a guy out there who wouldn't want to fuck six girls at the same time.
So I hear that, but I'm driving and I, my first impulse, nah, I got to go get it.
I got to study my audition.
I got an audition tomorrow.
But now I'm thinking, holy fuck, these girls are You know what I'll do?
I'm going to drive.
If I see a 7-Eleven, I'll stop and get condoms.
It doesn't mean I'm going there.
I'm not turning the crime on, but I'm going to stop.
And maybe if I get another call, I'll get some...
Oh, look, a 7-Eleven.
I'm going to pull off, but I'm definitely not going in this shirt.
And there's no way.
I pull off and I go, oh, you guys don't have any condoms?
Buy condoms.
Phone rings again.
Where the fuck are you?
joe rogan
So while this is going on, you're basically like a junkie that someone's saying, come on, let's do some blokes.
bryan callen
I'm not basically like a junkie.
I am a junkie.
Alright?
There's no difference.
joe rogan
It is, but that feeling when you're about to do something really deviant, it's a junkie feeling.
bryan callen
My heart's beating fast, and I can't get it out of my mind.
I keep going back to it.
I keep trying to put it out of my mind, and I'm losing, man.
I'm losing the battle!
I'm getting pulled under.
They're adding more and more weight, and I'm trying to keep up.
I'm like, I can't go underwater.
I keep doing this.
I'm treading water, but they're just adding weights to my legs with the imagery.
I'm thinking about these girls.
Long story short, I go, fuck it.
I find myself at the Sheraton.
I go up to the suite.
I get met at the door by my girl.
She's wearing a mask.
She gives me a porcelain doll mask to put on.
So I go, oh.
And then she gives me a strip of paper with the rules of the game, which is that this is a birthday girl.
And I am fucking...
The only rule is I can't hit or spit.
I'm like, okay.
I wasn't planning on hitting and spitting these girls.
I'm going to fuck them.
joe rogan
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Is this stuff written down?
unidentified
Uh-huh.
joe rogan
Is it not printed?
Is it written?
bryan callen
It's typed on a very neat strip of paper.
unidentified
Wow.
bryan callen
So this is well organized.
joe rogan
So everyone has a sheet?
bryan callen
I walk in, I walk in, and I go, and I see fucking four of the hottest girls I've ever seen.
One girl's getting banged on the bed by some muscular dude, and then there's a dude who's kind of just standing off the side, not doing anything, with like a shaved chest, and I'm like, I don't like that guy.
He's weird.
He fucking looks all blue.
He's just been lifting a lot of weights and never did a sport in his life.
I'm like, whatever, shaved chest, orange.
It was orange.
Orange with a shaved chest.
And some weird mask.
Then I look at myself.
joe rogan
Everyone's naked?
bryan callen
Yeah, and guess what?
She goes, you've got to take your clothes off right now.
No clothes.
So she starts peeling my pants off.
She gets on her knees and starts to work me.
And as I'm getting worked by my old girlfriend, I got this porcelain doll mask on.
I look in the mirror and I look at my fucking doll mask and I go, this is the first thought, literally.
Not that my dick is getting sucked.
I go, That's weird.
My fucking doll mask is as white as my legs.
I gotta start tanning.
That's gross.
I'm like, I'm fucking gross.
And this one girl goes, yeah, you with the white skin and that doll mask and a hard-on, that's not creepy.
I'm like, oh, yeah, whatever.
So this really hot girl, who turns out to be the birthday girl, who happens to be the celebrity's wife, She gets down on her knees, and I get pushed over to her.
And now I'm getting worked by her.
But the thing is, she's really fucking good at it.
And I go, I'm going to go.
I'm not a porn star.
When a girl is hot as mowing me with a mask on, and I'm totally anonymous with a mask on my face, I'm fucking going to come.
Plus, I've got to come because I've got an audition tomorrow, so I want to get in and out.
So I'm like, oh, and I go, I'm going to fucking keep doing it, I'm going to come.
And the guy goes, and I hear, you're going to come?
And I look over, and it's a guy, I'm like, I think I recognize that guy.
I know him from somewhere, but whatever.
He goes, hold on!
And a video camera comes out, and it's right on the girl.
And I'm like, oh, really?
All right, I guess this is what it's like to do porn.
My knees lock up, and which, by the way, I never lock up.
joe rogan
In her mouth, her face, where?
bryan callen
In her mouth, my friend.
Yeah.
joe rogan
And the husband is filming this.
bryan callen
He films that.
And then I hope I don't ever have to do a Disney show because I'm fucked.
I'm fucked.
joe rogan
This is all fiction.
bryan callen
This is all fiction.
But this is part of my fictional story that I'm doing.
joe rogan
Okay.
So it's an onstage, one-man show?
bryan callen
Yes.
joe rogan
Okay.
bryan callen
So now I... By the way, this actually happened to a friend and I'm speaking and I'm telling the story of this one.
joe rogan
We've got enough disclaimers.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
We've got like three of them now.
bryan callen
Yeah, this happened to my friend.
joe rogan
Yeah, okay.
bryan callen
And so now I go, oh shit, I just lost it good.
I can get the fuck out of here because this is a freak show and I don't belong here.
And I got an orange guy in the corner with half a heart on and another dude banging a girl in the bed.
And I got to get the fuck out of here.
But you know what?
I had an experience.
I'm going to go.
And I can go make my Sidney Pollack audition.
So I'm putting on my pants and I'm about to leave.
I'm sneaking out.
And all of a sudden this...
10 with a mask comes up and she goes, you're not gonna fuck me?
And I go, uh, oh, I mean, I was gonna go, I have an idea.
I almost said audition, but I didn't even want her to know I was an actor.
She goes, you're not gonna fuck me?
And she turns around and I go, I mean, I don't want to be rude.
Maybe I should fuck you.
So next thing I know, my pants are coming off.
And, you know, that's it now.
Now I'm in the belly of the beast.
And I'm just seeing fucking red.
And I'm just going fucking crazy.
They're like, this guy's outrageous.
I was appalling.
I was appalling, man.
joe rogan
Noises, grunts?
bryan callen
At this point, I'm like, I'm fucking going.
Now, you know what?
joe rogan
Are the other people grunting or is everyone kind of being silent?
unidentified
They were kind of done, bro.
bryan callen
They were kind of done.
joe rogan
Oh, no.
Everybody's gone and you're going in for second?
bryan callen
I'm going in for seconds.
joe rogan
And everybody else quit?
bryan callen
They kind of quit and the girls are just there.
joe rogan
They're not athletic, bro.
They're not athletic like you.
bryan callen
And not to be a dick, but my dick was a little bigger than me.
These guys weren't doing so well.
So I'm just fucking going crazy.
I'm like, look at this shit.
Really?
Oh yeah, I'll switch off.
Why not?
Hey, free country, whatever.
Fuck you, America.
And I'm going nuts.
And now I fucking get to a point where I'm now, the girl who's the birthday girl goes, I want some of this.
And she says, don't use him up to the girl that I'm going crazy on.
She pushes me down on the bed and she gets on top of me.
So as I'm being taken care of by this beautiful girl, now I'm being worked on my back and trying my hardest not to lose it because she's so beautiful.
And so all of a sudden, at this point, the celebrity, I now recognize because he's drunk and the mask is crooked on his face.
So it's like, I'm like, I see your face.
All right, well, there you are.
How you doing?
And he goes, I want to get, I want to get, let me get, let me get you.
He wants to sandwich her.
He wants to go an inch south.
joe rogan
So while she's on top of you, he wants to stick it in her ass?
bryan callen
Yes.
So she turns to him.
joe rogan
Your ball's gonna touch.
There's no way around that.
unidentified
Game over!
bryan callen
The whole thing's a disaster, right?
So she looks back and she says to him, she goes...
Something like, you know, she does this like silent kind of like language like, no, I don't want to do that right now.
He's like, come on.
And there's a debate going on.
So finally she's like, she hits back to me.
And we, by the way, we're connected.
We're connected.
We're making love at this point, okay?
joe rogan
Yeah, your dick's in her vagina and his dick's in her butthole.
bryan callen
Well, he tries, but he can't get it.
joe rogan
How many times did his dick touch yours?
bryan callen
Never.
unidentified
Balls.
bryan callen
And if it did, it doesn't matter because I wouldn't have felt it anyway.
I don't care.
I'm not squeamish.
There, I said it.
unidentified
Really?
bryan callen
I don't know.
I'm too into this girl.
I'm into this girl.
Okay, so he's got a fungus on his balls.
I don't know.
I wasn't even thinking, dude.
I was just like, this is an experience.
I'm already done.
I'm already fucked.
So...
So he can't get in.
And he goes, what the fuck?
I can't get in.
And she turns around and goes, don't fucking blame me.
I told you I didn't want to do it.
And they start having a fight about not being able to get in her ass as I'm having sex with her.
And they're having a fight.
And I'm thinking to myself, I look back and I'm like, this is the beginning of the end in this relationship.
This is a weird thing to have a fight about.
There's another issue that, you know, you fucking, whatever, but they're swingers.
So he can't get in.
They have this fight.
And then he kind of storms off and she kind of goes back to me and we do our thing.
And so now, I can't believe this is like the most popular podcast.
There goes my reputation, by the way.
And so now, it comes time for me to, she wants me to finish off in a porn fashion, which would be again in her.
unidentified
Mouth.
bryan callen
And so I go, okay.
And so now we're going to do the whole money shot thing.
And I just, it's been a long time and I just lose it, you know, right away again.
And as I'm, you know, coming, uh, I, I see Mr. Celebrity come running around with the camera and he comes around and he goes, Oh, what the, no, no, no, no, no.
Oh, fuck, honey.
Why'd you let him come so fast?
I wanted to film it.
And she goes, what am I supposed to do?
Stick my dick in his fucking...
Stick my finger in his dick?
Don't be an asshole!
I don't have any control of it.
And now they get in an argument about that.
And as they're arguing, I'm like, alright, thank you so much.
I throw out my fucking band.
I run the fuck out of there.
brian redban
God, I need to know who this is.
bryan callen
And by the way, then they got divorced.
joe rogan
Have you ever seen that guy since then?
unidentified
No.
bryan callen
No.
joe rogan
That would be the mindfuck.
brian redban
Am I allowed to guess?
joe rogan
No, no, no.
No, no, no.
bryan callen
Because I've got to save some.
Anyway, I wasn't there.
By the way, that story doesn't belong to me.
That's a friend of mine story.
joe rogan
Ustream has apparently died.
Have you noticed?
brian redban
Yeah.
joe rogan
What happened?
Is it us?
brian redban
No, it's not us.
It's Ustream.
joe rogan
There's still 1,900 people tuned in.
Is it just Ustream crashed?
brian redban
Yeah.
joe rogan
Sorry.
Well, we're still broadcasting.
brian redban
Guess you have to download it from iTunes.
joe rogan
Oh, the end, son.
The end part.
The best part.
So, you've never had a situation like this ever again?
That's like one of those stories that you hear about.
That's like a Hollywood story.
bryan callen
I've had those experiences.
brian redban
Really?
joe rogan
More than one?
unidentified
Yeah.
brian redban
How many times have you been in the same room with another guy with a girl?
How many times?
bryan callen
Ten?
I mean, I don't want to get too detailed, but when I was single in L.A. and with a house and no worries and I was a young guy, I did that kind of stuff.
brian redban
All the time?
bryan callen
I mean, I wasn't a swinger.
I didn't go to orgies.
I didn't organize anything, but I was pretty good at getting...
I think my friends would tell you I was pretty good at getting a group of great...
joe rogan
It's a funny thing to talk about though, isn't it?
It's a funny thing to talk about because when you start saying, you know, I banged all these girls, I banged this girl, you open yourself up to people getting angry at you.
bryan callen
I don't care.
joe rogan
I know you don't.
bryan callen
I know you don't.
Because you didn't do anything wrong.
I didn't do anything wrong and I would do it again and I had a blast.
I had a fucking blast.
joe rogan
And it's true.
bryan callen
And it turned me on.
That turned me on.
You want to turn me on?
You throw a bunch of six really cool girls in a room and they're all like, we want to fuck you?
That turns me on.
Yeah, it turns me on.
Gets me going.
Sorry.
I know it's a crime, but yeah, I'm down.
unidentified
Isn't it?
joe rogan
It's funny though that you think about this, like the way people describe it, like this is a fucked up thing to talk about.
bryan callen
Yeah, but that's what's interesting.
It's taboo because when I was telling the story of the UCB, it was actually kind of an experiment.
I was like, I want to see what happens to this audience when I tell a real story about something that most people would never admit to because it makes you look to a lot of people bad or it makes you look like a pervert.
But I don't believe in that shit.
I don't buy it.
And anybody who knows me knows I'm just not hung up on that stuff.
I'm really not.
And I wouldn't change that experience for the fucking world.
joe rogan
What's that guy's name?
Vincent Gallo?
Is that his name?
Is he the one who did that movie, Brown Bunny, where Chloe...
bryan callen
And she still has a career.
joe rogan
Yeah.
She blew him in the movie.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
Yeah, it was a movie, and in the scene, she actually sucks his dick, and he comes all over.
bryan callen
Do you know what I noticed about, especially women, when, what I noticed about, I told that story, and there were a lot of women in UCB, women were really open.
Women were really, like, I had a couple women say, hi, I found that story really honest and refreshing.
joe rogan
How do you end it?
What do you say?
bryan callen
The theme was a slippery slope.
Like, if somebody calls you about an orgy, if you don't turn around and drive home immediately and throw handcuffs on yourself, Anything else is a slippery slope.
You're going down that slope if you're a guy like me.
That story about getting a call like that is what a lot of us deal with on a day-to-day basis with our addictions, whether it's I'm trying to stop smoking, I'm trying to stop drinking, I'm trying to stop fucking You know, watching porn all day.
Whatever it is, people have these addictions.
I'm trying to stop meth.
I'm trying to stop heroin.
It's the same addiction, man.
It's the same impulse.
And so to suggest that I don't have some of that in me and that I, in the past, haven't acted on that is dishonest.
And by the way, it's suggesting I'm not human.
Fuck you if you've got a judgment on that.
I thought it was awesome.
And, you know, that's how it is.
joe rogan
What do you think makes that impulse?
What is it?
What evolutionary purpose does it serve?
bryan callen
I know exactly what I think it is.
I think that that kind of behavior ultimately does two things, or a couple things.
Historically, it threatens, first of all, it's unsafe activity.
You can actually catch a disease and you can spread it.
So there's that.
I mean, I use condoms and stuff.
But there's this notion that historically, if you had sex with a lot of people, you came down with shit like syphilis.
And we have a historical memory of promiscuous behavior leads to really shitty diseases.
That's the first thing.
But I also think that a society has to have certain norms and certain rules.
Because that was always the way you were able to be more efficient.
I think when you had a credo that people bought into, it was easier to organize things.
It was easier to create a cohesive culture, a cohesive belief system.
And those are very human impulses and developments.
And so when you have somebody who decides, I'm going to follow my appetites, And I'm just going to fuck and be a real slut or a real, you know, a real dirtbag, whatever.
These are the words people use.
I think we all go, all of us rightly in some ways go, well, that's really indulging your appetites.
And nobody can sustain that because actually what leads to that kind of behavior isn't necessarily anything positive.
You're certainly not going to develop a skill.
Right.
joe rogan
It's generally considered unsavory.
unidentified
Right.
bryan callen
It's base behavior.
It's giving in completely to the beast.
joe rogan
Yeah, and the only people that support it are freaks.
bryan callen
That's right.
joe rogan
Other fellow freaks.
bryan callen
But we're all freaks.
joe rogan
Yes.
bryan callen
If we weren't freaks, then YouTube and RedTube and all these things and porn wouldn't be a multi-billion dollar industry.
But we have a culture that's obsessed with purity.
I mean, this Anthony Weiner thing, it's obsessed with it.
The guy had to resign for sending a picture of his thinly clad package to a co-ed.
Wow.
joe rogan
Yeah.
bryan callen
Wow.
joe rogan
It's very strange, but what do you think leads to...
What purpose does that addiction have in human beings?
bryan callen
Why do we have that?
joe rogan
Why does it exist?
Why is there this weird thing that makes us fixate on things?
bryan callen
I think I know that there's a book I read called The Selfish Gene.
I know that a scientist...
I can't remember who wrote it, but I know that a scientist would...
I would suggest that genetic variation has both ends of the spectrum.
The need for sex is very strong in human beings.
I would imagine that you have examples of people who have a very strong sex drive and they're on one side of the spectrum and other people that are asexual.
And it just probably, you can chalk it up to hormones or whatever it might be.
joe rogan
But I don't even necessarily mean sexual.
I just mean, what is this proclivity for addiction that people have, for compulsive behavior, or impulsive behavior, rather?
Or compulsive and impulsive?
bryan callen
Maybe, first of all, they're trying to fill a void.
They're trying to feel something.
I think it comes down to the juice.
joe rogan
Do you think it's because we don't live hunter-gatherer lives, so we don't have these thrills of survival?
bryan callen
I was going to say that I think when you have to track down a deer and kill it, that requires extreme behavior in some ways.
I mean, it requires adrenaline.
It requires endurance.
It requires supreme aggression.
When you kill an animal, like, you know, we came up millennia killing animals with a speck.
You smell that blood.
You have to skin it.
You're involved in that animal's life.
And I would imagine that the activity of hunting on that level is a huge rush.
It's why people get addicted to war.
joe rogan
So you think there's like some sort of a gap and then the average person working a 9 to 5 existence with some sort of staid behavior pattern that they have to follow throughout the day that these people have like a hole that needs to be filled.
There's no question.
And then the porn comes in or drugs come in or gambling come in.
bryan callen
Yeah.
joe rogan
That's what it is.
bryan callen
Because we have a lot of needs.
And I think one is...
And by the way, I'll tell you what need it probably fills.
We have needs...
We have a need for certainty.
We have a need to feel like, I know where my paycheck's coming.
I got a roof over my head.
I think we have a need to connect with people, you know...
But we also have a need, a lot of that behavior when you gamble.
Look at it.
When you show up in a room and six girls you've never met are there to fuck you or you don't even know what they look like and your heart's beating.
You know what you're really responding to?
Adventure.
Uncertainty.
The need to not know what's coming next.
And human beings have a very deep need to put themselves into the unpredictable.
Just as much as they have a need to be in the predictable.
But if you look at somebody who doesn't have anything that's unpredictable in their lives, what happens?
They get fucking bored.
It's why when you make all the money in the world and you've done it all, a lot of people get a sense of loss because there's no longer that feeling like Zoros.
joe rogan
No mountains to climb.
bryan callen
Yeah, well Zoros, the rich, the multi-millionaire, the billionaire guy, He was a, I think, I believe he was a Jewish refugee, and he was 15 or 13 years old in Hungary as a Jew, and he was hiding from the Nazis.
I mean, he had to hide from the Nazis, and otherwise he was going to be killed.
And he said that in many ways, those were the most exciting, as terrifying and as horrible times.
They were also the times he felt the most alive, because he didn't know if he was going to make it till tomorrow.
And human beings, I think, have a very, very deep, deep need to be put in the unpredictable.
And there's a way to do that that's positive, and there's a way to do that that's negative.
And as you get older, like I am, you start to realize that going to orgies and that kind of stuff, gambling, those are not necessarily positive things to do.
Because you pay a price for them in some ways.
If you become a sex addict and you're chasing skirt all the time, you're going to pay a price in connection and intimacy.
I believe.
Yeah.
I've had to confront that in myself, and I've had to deal with that on a personal level.
And so you don't get away with anything in the world.
And the best way to do it is not to be too strict with yourself, to fucking be forgiving of yourself and others, to realize that we are all hanging on by a thread in one way or another.
You know, I've watched really good people try to quit smoking, and they can't fucking do it.
You can tell them they have weak character, but I don't choose to believe that.
I believe that they're just...
Fucking weak, like all of us, in one area.
Weakness, courage, intelligence, these are all compartmentalized skills, compartmentalized virtues.
Nobody is, you know, very few people are sober all the way through.
And if you are sober all the way through and you don't have any vices, you might be fucking too boring for me to hang out with.
joe rogan
I want to know what Dr. Drew's vices are because you know he's got them.
bryan callen
Well, you know, a lot of doctors, though, doctors I've noticed tend to be very sober individuals.
joe rogan
I agree, but I think...
bryan callen
I wouldn't want to go on vacation with Dr. Drew.
How about that?
joe rogan
I would.
I would want to get him high with secondhand smoke, find out what's ticking in his brain.
But when you see a guy who's constantly around people who are fucking up left and right...
But yet he and his life is very together.
Very together family.
bryan callen
But then that's part of what makes him feel good.
That's a positive addiction.
Dr. Drew is always challenged with a new person he's going to try to help.
Dr. Drew spends his life solving problems, doesn't he?
joe rogan
Yeah, not only does he do that, but he's always on the Loveline show as well.
People don't realize he's still got that radio show.
So every day, every day, it's people calling in.
bryan callen
And by the way, he really does help people.
I mean, he really does need advice.
joe rogan
I don't think he's helping those celebrities.
I mean, you can say they are, but those dudes need a paycheck.
I mean, I guess any possible treatment, and maybe the idea of shocking them, putting it into the public eye.
brian redban
Yeah, it's like intervention in the public.
joe rogan
Yeah, maybe putting them in the public eye actually puts more pressure on them and actually makes it more real.
bryan callen
I don't know.
I'm fascinated with this notion of what discipline really means and what self-restriction really comes into.
joe rogan
Yeah, and you know what?
What impulsiveness is worth and how much is dynamic, crazy, unpredictable behavior worth in the dynamic of a machine?
Because the human being, you look at a human being in the context of being a unit and there's qualities that I appreciate.
And one of the qualities, I like impulsive people.
I like wildness.
All my friends are impulsive.
All my friends are crazy.
bryan callen
Me too.
It's more color.
It's more fun to be around.
joe rogan
We've talked about Jimmy Burke.
Joey Diaz is a perfect example.
You're a perfect example.
To other people, I'm an example.
The most fun people I know are all pretty fucking crazy.
I mean, you don't get interesting and funny without those weird sort of...
bryan callen
I agree, and I like to hold on to a lot of my impulses.
I like to hold on to a lot of my whatever you would call the beast and the flesh.
I mean, I do think that there's something beautiful about learning how to be in total control of yourself, of your appetites, and everything else.
I think that is a virtue, and I think that's something people as adults as you get older should strive for.
But I also think...
I don't want to lose all my confidence.
joe rogan
Especially as an artist.
bryan callen
No way.
I need it.
I draw from it.
joe rogan
You need it for the wildest moments on stage.
You're letting people know in those wildest moments, like, I've been to this crazy place.
bryan callen
Yeah, man.
That's why I'm a stand-up comic.
I get up on stage and try to make people laugh.
It's called Look At Me.
There's a hole I'm trying to fill in one way or another, and I don't want to lose that hole.
I really don't.
I mean, you ever see a really good actor?
They're basket cases.
They're fucking basket cases.
joe rogan
The key is to be that basket case, but to be happy.
And as a comic, there's a dance and it is possible.
It is possible to put your balance in the correct way so that you still are energetic and enthusiastic and creative, but yet you still have that.
There's a part of your brain that will flip over to the dark side.
You just got to be able to control it.
bryan callen
Well, and you know, but let me tell you something.
When you start talking in terms of I better learn how to control it, you know, that's not how people control themselves.
The minute you start saying things like, I can't do that, not going to do that, like I was doing with that hotel room, I'm not going to go up there and fuck those six girls because it's wrong.
That doesn't work for me.
That's not going to work for me.
joe rogan
Well, what does work?
bryan callen
Well, I think you either need a different kind of philosophy, but I think more importantly when it comes to dealing with an addiction, I think you've got to substitute.
I think you've got to associate, you've got to figure out a way to associate that behavior with nothing positive, and you've got to be able to associate a different kind of behavior with something that's more pleasurable.
joe rogan
They always say that in any addict counseling, right?
They try to get you to replace your addiction with, you know, start gardening, get obsessed with something.
bryan callen
It's got to be something fun.
It's like when I tell people, I notice people who don't work out, okay?
And I notice that they just can't work out.
And what they get tired the minute you start talking about, you've got to start eating better.
joe rogan
That's Brian, look at him.
He's almost blacked out.
bryan callen
Yeah, because you've got to start eating better and you've got to start working out.
What they think is, oh my God, that means I'm going to have to sweat in a gym and I've got to eat better.
No.
All I want to do is show you very gently and slowly how much better you feel when you are in shape versus when you're not.
And once you feel the difference, you will slowly start to go to that.
And when you go back to your old habits, you'll go, damn, I don't feel as good as I did.
I gotta do something here.
And you'll try to get out of that state.
It's the only way I think people really change.
I really believe that.
I don't think you change with a gun to your head.
I think real change happens when you see and understand the difference.
And that can be taken to, I think, movements like Al-Qaeda's movement, this Muslim fundamentalism.
When you show, they have a really interesting program in Yemen, where they take these young, idealistic Al-Qaeda guys, and they get these Muslim scholars in a room, these really kind of smart guys who've been around, older guys, and they debate them.
They challenge them to a debate, and they go, what are your ideas on Islam?
You're on Islamic fundamentalism.
You love the Quran.
Let's have a talk.
Since I'm an Iman, I've been doing this for 50 years.
What are your ideas?
And they just dismantle their ideas mentally.
And a lot of these guys just go, I didn't know any of that.
I've been fed this kind of thing.
And they're like, well, this is how it is.
And let me show you the examples in the Quran.
All of a sudden they go, and their minds change.
And if you want to change...
joe rogan
So what you're saying is you need to go to the Muslim religion and then you'll stop beating off and fucking whores in a hotel.
bryan callen
Well, religion, whether it's Christianity, Muslim, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, can serve that function and has for many addicts and is a real place for people to kind of live.
joe rogan
With the 12-step program, one of the reasons why it works is that you submit to a higher power.
bryan callen
Exactly.
joe rogan
It sounds ridiculous, but as a tool, as a mental tool, using it as an operating system that you're going to operate...
Your mind under the confines of this Christianity 5.0 system.
bryan callen
The biggest problem we have in some ways and the worst thing an artist can do for themselves is to say, all my genius comes right out of me.
It takes a lot of pressure off you as a creative person or a person in general to say, you know what?
I'm not perfect.
I'm going to let something else guide me.
So if you're an artist, you say, like Flannery O'Connor, that wonderful thing, she goes, I don't sit at my typewriter to write at all.
I just sit at my typewriter and I sit there in case something happens.
And if something starts working its way through me, I'll start typing.
And it takes all the pressure off you.
joe rogan
Cynical people will look at Pressfield's book, The War of Art, and they'll go, this is poppycock, this is nonsense.
bryan callen
That's fine, they can do that.
joe rogan
But it's effective.
bryan callen
It is effective.
joe rogan
That's what people don't understand.
It may be incorrect.
It may be all within the confines of your mind.
But if you operate on the principle that you are enacting the muse, that you are contacting the muse, then it really does work.
bryan callen
Can a cynic explain to me why when I hear a piece of music I start crying because it's so beautiful?
Can you explain mathematically how that goes?
I'm not interested.
All I know is I start crying because it's beautiful.
joe rogan
Yeah, there's a lot of things that cannot be explained.
bryan callen
And you know what it does?
It inspires me.
I hear like a beautiful piece of music.
You know why I got into stand-up?
I remember when I got into stand-up after I heard your album and that Voodoo Panani song and all that stuff.
Seriously, and I went home that day.
See, you don't know this.
I never told you this.
I'm glad I'm talking about this.
Because I listened to your album and I had to leave early.
I got out of there and you couldn't understand.
You got mad at me.
You called me up and you go, you just left without saying bye?
You just took off?
You know why I took off?
I couldn't handle being around you because I was so, not only inspired, but I went, my friend's doing something really special here and I have, I know I have something in me and I'm not living up to it.
And being around him is reminding me of the fact that I'm not living my fucking life.
And I remember you called me and you were mad and I made up some excuse like, I was like, I started telling you like some excuse and then I went, dude, I gotta be honest with you.
You fucked me up a little bit.
I said, that song and your jokes were so awe-inspiring to me.
And I went home and I started writing.
And so that's what happened to me.
That was a huge catalyst for me.
I went home and started writing because after I heard that song and after I heard those fucking jokes, you were coming to those...
Goddamn, this was...
I don't know how many years ago.
99. They were so fucking well-formed.
You were such a tidal wave.
It was like an example for the first time where I went, I saw an artist...
Just peak, come together, and just put out, the power you were putting out was so retarded that it was changing the whole fucking room.
People were like, what the fuck?
This guy's writing songs, he's doing...
And I remember going, I gotta taste some of that.
I gotta have some of that.
I gotta get the fuck out of here.
joe rogan
I get that still.
bryan callen
That's what you need, man.
And if you don't have that in your life, you gotta find it.
Either surround yourself with friends who do it, Go to TED.com.
Do whatever you have to do, man.
Find it.
It's out there.
And the beautiful thing about technology, and this is for young people, is that you can spend your time listening to music and reading about what Lady Gaga wore to the gym, or you can fucking open your mind to a whole world out there that is going to bite you in the ass if you're not ready for it anyway.
So start opening your mind and start reading.
joe rogan
And it's important to not give in a jealousy.
When you see someone doing something that you're not doing and you feel like, fuck, I'm not doing...
There's an instinct to protect yourself by bullshitting yourself and becoming jealous and bitter and talking shit about that person.
And that's where haters come from.
What haters are, 100% of all haters in the world are unrealized potential.
It's 100%.
bryan callen
Exactly.
joe rogan
I'm not a hater.
I'm a pretty nice, easy-going guy.
It's because I'm successful.
Michael Jordan's not a hater.
You know what I'm saying?
You know what I mean?
When you get to a guy at that level, they're not haters.
The real haters are...
bryan callen
There's no time to hate.
joe rogan
They see someone doing well and it bothers them.
To a person like a Michael Jordan or a winner, they see someone doing well and it inspires them.
Take it up another notch.
bryan callen
I've always, always, always tried to look at things like that.
When you see something great, and if it's a friend of yours, you have to use it as inspiration.
It's supposed to inspire you.
And haters and that notion, what that is, is it's a skewed perspective.
I think what happens is a lot of times they say, well, you know what?
There is scarcity in the world.
So there's only a certain size of the pie.
And if you're doing this, you've taken up all the pie and there's no room for me.
Not true, man.
joe rogan
Not at all.
bryan callen
There is no scarcity.
joe rogan
It's a terrible way of thinking too.
bryan callen
If you open yourself up to something beautiful and great and let that work through you and really be affected, be astonished by it, be scared by it, be brought to your knees by it, whatever it takes, you will find way more strength in that surrender to the beautiful than you will you will find way more strength in that surrender to the beautiful than you will And all of us, man, all of us had this notion to go, I'm closing myself off.
Fuck this.
joe rogan
Everybody wants to win the lottery, but the lottery will fucking ruin you.
You have to earn the whole thing.
In order to be a real man or a real woman, you have to earn the whole thing.
And the crazy thing is to be the man, to get to that point, to be the man, You literally have to not ever be possibly the man because you have to get to this zen state where there is no the man.
It's all about the work.
It's all about what genius you're putting out is all about, whether it's music or whether it's writing or whatever the fuck it is.
It's all about finding that real pure place.
So there is never the man.
That's when the muse kicks in.
The idea of this all comes from somewhere else.
It's like, Maybe it is just an attitude that allows you to bypass the ego.
Maybe that's what the muse is.
It's just a scientific or a method of thinking that allows you to bypass the ego.
But it's effective, whatever it is.
bryan callen
It's very effective.
So you're never the man.
joe rogan
You never feel like the man, right?
bryan callen
Well, you're bringing me to the notion of celebrity, for example.
That's a really good point because celebrity actually doesn't exist.
You've had celebrity for a long time, but just with me now, things are starting to...
I go to places and people recognize you and they want to take pictures or whatever.
And you think to yourself, well, I'm doing this TV show and I'm doing...
And I guess in some ways I'm making lots of money and I've kind of arrived a little bit.
I mean, I'm kind of like, you know, I'm a working actor and I... There is zero difference, actually, in what it takes for me to keep myself inspired.
And if anything, that's nice.
It's a nice thing.
But it certainly plays no real part in my overall fulfillment, which is really interesting, you know?
And you know this really well.
I mean, you know, I've been with you in Vegas.
I remember with the height of fear factor when, I mean, you had to literally go to the corner and rub your eyes because everybody wanted a picture.
Everybody wanted to touch you.
Everybody wanted to be around you.
That becomes, I guess in a lot of ways, the exact opposite of what you're going for.
It's a privilege, it's nice, but it's actually a distraction.
It actually doesn't exist.
It doesn't exist in a lot of ways.
joe rogan
But it does.
bryan callen
It does, I just mean it doesn't exist.
joe rogan
It's something you have to deal with.
It exists.
But it is weird.
bryan callen
What I mean is that what you think celebrity is going to be and then what it actually ends up being.
joe rogan
Two totally different things.
bryan callen
Yeah, that's all.
joe rogan
And there is a dance that you have to do in order to not get sucked into the wave, not get sucked into the gravity of the situation.
Don't believe it or buy into it.
Yeah.
Some people never do.
Brian, you've inspired people.
This is a good podcast.
I've talked to so many people, and I've talked to a lot of them this weekend.
We did the Irvine Improv, and it was a lot of fun.
We've talked to a lot of people that are podcast fans.
The number one thing that keeps coming up is these people say that, first of all, a lot of people listen to it at work.
They listen to it when they're doing stupid shit that they don't like doing, and they just love the fact that there's something like this out there.
And two, they say it gives them an opportunity to look at things completely different.
And it's shaping the way people think, man.
There's a difference between what we're doing here than sort of the average radio show and the average podcast.
We're not afraid to talk about weird, deep shit and go.
And because of that, it's allowing other people to consider possibilities and ways of thinking that I don't think they would have.
bryan callen
Well, it's a privilege.
joe rogan
It's a privilege for me too, man.
It's all...
bryan callen
It's great to be on the podcast.
And I have people come up to me all the time now.
It's amazing how many people are listening to this thing.
By the way, I'll be at the San Francisco Punchline.
Have you done that?
joe rogan
Punchline's great.
bryan callen
I'll be there August 10th to the 13th.
joe rogan
That's my birthday, the 11th.
bryan callen
It is?
joe rogan
Yeah, I'm going to call you up.
bryan callen
I've never done that club, but I can't wait to go to San Francisco.
joe rogan
It's amazing.
It's a great, great club.
It's one of the best clubs.
It's a perfect height.
It's one of those places that's got the low ceilings.
unidentified
Oh, I love that.
joe rogan
It's tight.
I think it seats probably 250, 300. Wow.
It's perfect.
bryan callen
I can't wait.
joe rogan
Dude, I was just in San Francisco recently.
A guy gave me Bill Hicks' last live performance at the Punchline.
bryan callen
The last time he was there, he gave it to me on DVD. That's what's so amazing about being a comic is you're performing with such history in rooms like that.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
One of those, The Punchline, that's one of those.
I'm doing The Ice House, not this weekend coming up, but next weekend, which is the 22nd and 23rd, The Ice House in Pasadena.
And that's a small place that's going to sell out quick.
But that place is the same place it's been for like 30 plus years, man.
And there's photos on the wall of people from the old days.
bryan callen
I think it's one of the oldest comedy clubs in the country, right?
unidentified
Yes.
joe rogan
Yeah, it is.
It is.
bryan callen
I've got to start doing the Ice House.
joe rogan
Come on down.
Do you want to do this weekend?
Do you want to do next weekend?
Come down and do a guest set.
I'll definitely do a guest set.
22nd and 23rd.
Come on down, bitch.
bryan callen
I'm down.
joe rogan
Alright, beautiful.
Look, I love you, man.
You're the best.
Brian Callen, B-R-Y-A-N. It's awesome to see.
Thank you.
And that's it, you dirty bitches.
That's the end of the podcast for this week.
I got some shit to do, and I'm not going to be around all week.
So, very busy.
I'm moving and shaking.
I'm in a movie now, and I dance.
bryan callen
Yeah!
brian redban
I'm doing four tomorrow, so if anyone wants their fix, I'll be doing four live ones.
joe rogan
Who are you doing them with?
brian redban
05": Start off with Naughty Show with Sam Tripoli, then Bobby Lee and Ari Shafir at 2 o'clock.
joe rogan
And then...
05": Oh, that's gonna be a good one.
2 o'clock's gonna be a good one.
brian redban
05": And then 4 o'clock, Tom Segura and Christina Bezinski.
And then 6 o'clock, Teeb and the Heeb, and then...
joe rogan
05": Okay, well, try to keep it together for all those times.
And don't make a sad face like, I'm so tired.
I did all these podcasts.
If you're going to commit to doing that many podcasts, you better take some five-hour energy drinks.
bryan callen
Damn right, baby.
joe rogan
Dirty bitch.
brian redban
I'm going to Montana.
Have you been there before, by the way?
joe rogan
Never been to Montana.
unidentified
I have.
joe rogan
I have.
bryan callen
Last Frontier, basically.
Pretty wild.
joe rogan
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