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Joe Rogan Experience #150 - Bryan Callen (Part One)
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Brian Callen's in the house.
You dirty freaks.
We're ready to get shit cracking.
unidentified
We're going to break it down. - Yeah.
joe rogan
It's all gonna make sense today.
Brian Cowden's here.
My brother.
My brother.
unidentified
Happy to be here.
joe rogan
Always good to see you, my friend.
bryan callen
Excited.
joe rogan
Thank you to whoever gave me this this weekend at the Ice House.
Some dude gave me Hunter S. Thompson's The Rum Diary, a nice paperback.
I just wanted to thank that guy.
bryan callen
Did his share of drugs.
joe rogan
Yeah, you think?
bryan callen
His share of psychedelics.
joe rogan
Have you done your share yet?
bryan callen
No.
joe rogan
Not yet.
bryan callen
Just mushrooms.
I took a four hour shower on mushrooms once.
joe rogan
Nice.
bryan callen
And then I was hiking in Big Whiskey Mountain on mushrooms with my buddy.
We decided to take a back route, which you never do.
I was climbing up a landslide.
That's smart.
And I was like to my buddy, I go, dude!
He goes, what?
I go, you got to move with the mountain.
You're not moving with the mountain.
And he's like, okay, he's a real mountain man.
So he's climbing.
I go, still not moving with the mountain.
Okay, I'm going to stay here and talk to this rock.
And I had to have a conversation with the rock.
And then...
As he tells it, we're on top of Whiskey Mountain, which is a very big mountain, okay?
Luckily, it was in the summer.
I was dating Patty back in the day, and they were waiting downstairs.
And he turns back around, and I'm not wearing any clothes.
And I mean no clothes.
And I'm on top of a mountain that takes a really long time to climb up, and I'm naked.
joe rogan
What'd you do with the clothes?
bryan callen
We never found my clothes.
joe rogan
Oh no!
bryan callen
But I did stop and eat a lot of blueberries.
unidentified
Oh no!
Oh yeah!
bryan callen
And by the time we...
I also took a shit squatting and then as I was doing that naked, my buddy moved some branches pretending it was a bear and jumped up and started to run and that caused a problem.
And then I came back down the mountain, all scratched up, no clothes, and I kept stopping to eat blueberries.
My buddy was like, stop eating blueberries!
I had a blue mouth, a shit ass.
joe rogan
You walked barefoot down a mountain.
bryan callen
That's right.
My feet were all cut up.
joe rogan
How long did it take?
bryan callen
I don't know, a day.
joe rogan
Like a full day of walking?
bryan callen
Literally probably four hours or something like that.
joe rogan
Did you sober up at any point during the walk?
unidentified
Yeah.
bryan callen
When I finally got down, I had a blue mouth from eating blueberries, and I was all cut up, and Patty was like, what are you doing?
I was like, I need to dip my ass in the lake.
I have shit ass.
Because I couldn't wipe it.
So yet another one of my shit stories, thank you.
So she was like, wow, that's attractive.
You're my man.
I'll take the skinny guy with the blue mouth and the shit in his ass.
Who's coming down off mushrooms.
So that was my experience with mushrooms.
joe rogan
How much did you take?
bryan callen
Dude, my buddy gave me just a handful, just a big handful.
He goes, eat them.
I was like, okay, I want to have an experience.
You got to eat them in an empty stomach.
I haven't eaten, of course.
That's really good.
And we're climbing, man.
And I just started literally just hallucinating.
joe rogan
You're better off that you didn't eat anything.
If you had eaten at something, you'd probably throw it up really bad.
bryan callen
I took a shower one time.
I wouldn't get out of the shower.
Patty was banging on the door.
I was like, I'll be there.
I'm trying to figure something out.
And then, no, it's hard to explain, but I believe I kept seeing my profile.
And the first thing I was like is I kept saying, oh, fuck, I wish I was barrel-chested.
I'm not barrel-chested.
My grandfather's barrel-chested.
I'm not barrel-chested.
I have a sunken chest.
This is horseshit.
And I was like, that's a terrible profile.
So then I resolved, I resolved while I was in the shower to just spend the entire summer on a bench press.
I was going to hire a coach just to bench, which never happened.
And then I came out of the shower.
And then I had this experience of somebody standing, like, watching me and judging me.
And I felt like it was the devil telling me that I was a phony.
So I was like, I'm a phony!
I'm a skinny phony!
joe rogan
Why did you think it was the devil?
bryan callen
I don't fucking know.
I just felt like that's what it was.
joe rogan
Because it was so mean?
bryan callen
It was just the truth and so mean.
I was so raw.
joe rogan
It was probably really God.
bryan callen
Maybe it was.
Maybe it was.
joe rogan
It just felt like the devil because he didn't want to admit the truth.
bryan callen
Exactly.
joe rogan
That's what the bad trips are.
bryan callen
That is, bro.
I can always tell with people.
You can just see.
It's so interesting to watch how people, like I was thinking about this the other day, how people basically as adults, like I would call it adulthood and what they call maturity is the slow acceptance of what you will never be.
That's kind of what it is.
So what happens is you see little girls dressed like princesses, right?
And that's their ideal.
They grow up with these ideals.
We stick these ideals in children.
Like, you're going to marry a prince, and he's going to be Prince Charming.
And that shit gets whittled away.
You start settling for simulation and simulation.
It's basically your life becomes, I'll take what I can get.
joe rogan
Yeah.
bryan callen
And until finally you're dating some guy with hair in his ears and a pot belly, well, at least he pays the fucking bills, which is what I like to get them, by the way.
I like to get them when they're just going through a divorce, had their heart broken two, three hundred times, they're 40, they work out way too much.
That anger and frustration is combined into this fucking, what creates like a freaky that I can really work with in a hotel room.
unidentified
The 39-year-old crazy ones starving for attention.
joe rogan
Is that what you like?
unidentified
Really?
Yes.
bryan callen
Yes, look at my ass.
I work out all the time.
That's fantastic.
I like them old!
Not even old.
Old.
That's young for me.
joe rogan
So, um, you're coming down the hill.
You're totally naked.
You're high as a kite on mushrooms.
Do you at any point realize, like, are you starting to sober up at any point in time?
Like, what's happening as you're sobering up?
bryan callen
What was happening as I was sobering up, and because I'm such a freak, is I had read a lot about how when you can be on a mountain in the summer, a winter storm can brew up.
Right?
They can whip up.
You can get caught in hailstorms.
You can freeze to death, actually, sometimes.
And so I was like, I gotta get the...
And I'd read about K2. And I don't know if you ever read about climbing K2. It's one thing to climb Mount Everest.
It's quite another thing to climb K2. Really?
I believe there's only one side of K2 one can climb.
And for a while, I believe, and you can check this on Fact Check, one in four people wouldn't make it on K2. People died all the time because storms— One in four people wouldn't make it, like wouldn't survive?
Can you do Fact Check?
Because I believe that was the case for quite a while.
joe rogan
Jesus Christ.
bryan callen
And so what happened was, it was the holy grail of mountains still is, because what happens is storms whip up really fucking fast, like really fast, and you die.
Yeah.
So what happened was I started thinking a storm might whip up and I suck in the cold.
joe rogan
Whoa.
bryan callen
What does it say on Fact Check?
joe rogan
It's just talking about there's been a bunch of disasters up there.
bryan callen
Oh, a lot of people have died on K2. Yeah.
You don't climb K2. Very few people climb.
When you meet a mountain climber and they say, I got to the top of K2, that dude is on the all-star team.
joe rogan
Wow.
bryan callen
That's a very rare dude.
And you have to go through Pakistan, I think, on the Pakistan side.
unidentified
What?
bryan callen
Yeah.
No bodies.
And you pass bodies all the time.
joe rogan
You know what's hilarious?
The United States just got word from Afghanistan that if we go to war with Pakistan, Afghanistan is on Pakistan's side.
bryan callen
What a surprise!
joe rogan
But how hilarious is that?
Out of all the fucking, all the bullshit propaganda pretending that we're helping those people.
Come on, we're on your side!
bryan callen
We're bribing!
joe rogan
Listen, we're extracting minerals, blah, blah, blah, taking heroin, but we're here for you!
bryan callen
We're bribing fucking entire tribes to have loyalty to, like, Kabul.
joe rogan
Well, do you know how they're getting information on these guys?
You know the number one method for these warlords?
bryan callen
No.
joe rogan
Viagra.
bryan callen
Oh, that's right.
I read about that.
joe rogan
That's right.
bryan callen
Hey, hey, hey, I know you have all these loyalties.
You want a hard-on for a long time?
Of course I do.
joe rogan
Yeah, well, these guys, these warlords, they start hitting 50 and 60, and you're fucking herding goats all day.
You're tired, man.
You can't take to those 20 wives that you've accumulated.
You got cocky when you were young.
And when you're young, you're young.
My blood is hot.
You can have 10 fucking wives.
But then when you're a 60-year-old man, you've got to fuck 10 of these bitches.
They start talking shit, too.
bryan callen
The limit is actually four in Islam.
joe rogan
Really?
bryan callen
And you have to treat all of them exactly the same.
joe rogan
So if they had four, though, and one of them was getting all the dick...
That's what happens.
You know, and the other ones start complaining.
bryan callen
It's the craziest thing because I've never met two women, two women, forget like four women.
joe rogan
That could get along like that.
bryan callen
Forget what?
Hey, girls, here's the good news.
I'm marrying you.
Bad news, we're all going to share the same roof.
Good fucking luck.
joe rogan
How are they doing it in the Mormon communities, all these crazy Mormon cults?
bryan callen
They don't.
It's always been very small subsets.
And if you look at who those cult leaders are, they're basically closet perverts, sociopaths, pedophiles, scumbags.
That guy Warren Jefferson was a pedophile.
joe rogan
You're totally right.
And that is sort of part of the case, right?
They always find out that these guys are marrying these girls at like 14 and shit.
bryan callen
Oh my god, man.
joe rogan
They keep finding that out.
bryan callen
Younger, younger.
joe rogan
Really?
bryan callen
Nice guys.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's just weird, man.
A weird offshoot.
It's just so strange that some people vibrate on a frequency that low.
They're bullshit detectors that weak that they get sucked into that kind of a community.
bryan callen
I think it's perspective and context.
I mean, when you get somebody who's young and they've never been told anything different.
You look at children.
We're people.
You are what's put inside you.
That's why I always tell young people, fucking read, but read the right things.
And what you don't know is going to hurt you.
You've got to read.
You've just got to.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Have you seen Zeitgeist moving forward?
bryan callen
No.
joe rogan
I haven't either.
I haven't watched the whole thing, but I watched a chunk of it.
People are just constantly trying to get me to see this thing.
It's one of those things where people email me once a day.
Dude, have you seen Zeitgeist moving forward?
I'm like, "All right." I saw the first Zeitgeist, and although I thought it was very moving, I also thought there was some stuff on 9/11 that I was like, "This is...
You're just...
You know, there was stuff about the Twin Towers.
Like, they couldn't have possibly fallen like that." And I'm like, "Listen, man, this is not real science.
You don't know what the fuck you're talking about.
To say this, to state that for sure that happened, I think is crazy.
Here's the only way to find out.
Build the same fucking thing, have another fucking plane fly into it, let's see if it falls down again.
If it does, ooh, you just fucked up.
bryan callen
If you actually want a really good debunking of that, Popular Mechanics got together a A whole bunch of mechanical engineering science called Debunking the 9-1-1 Myths.
And they talk about, for example, how jet fuel burns at a certain temperature.
And I believe it's 1600 degrees.
Iron melts at 900 degrees, especially that kind of iron.
So it made sense that the iron would start to melt and the building would crumble.
But they had a whole bunch of different...
They actually took each...
And it's a really interesting...
joe rogan
Well, it gets annoying when you read the arguments against it because some of the information that people pull out is just flat out wrong.
Like they're talking about how there's cuts to the beams.
And you want to say, look, folks, they cut the beams when they needed to break everything down because they were clearing out the area.
There's a lot of photographs of that, man.
unidentified
Exactly.
joe rogan
You know, there's no evidence that they cut the beams to bring the fucking building down.
bryan callen
It seems to me a lot easier to believe that a group of young men who are fanatics said, you know what, let's fly planes into a building.
That seems more than some huge and massive government conspiracy.
Think how many people would have to keep their mouth shut to get something like that going.
joe rogan
Not just that, but that that's the only way a building like that can fall.
I really don't think that they have a lot of data on what the fuck happens to skyscrapers and they get hit by giant jet planes.
bryan callen
I was going to say, I didn't know you got your degree in mechanical engineering, my friend.
That's exactly, every time I hear somebody, people are full of medical advice as well.
I love this.
If you read a lot of stuff, for example, what people will tell you, there's a good TED lecture by this epidemiologist who's a scientist and actually does science, does the science on, for example, when they said that a glass of red wine a day can help you prevent breast cancer.
The problem with that statement that you read in the New York Times and everywhere else is that the actual experiment was they had cancer cells in a Petri dish.
They dropped red grape extract onto the cancer cells.
Those cancer cells died.
That's it?
Yeah, you don't infer for that.
joe rogan
Well, it's resveratrol is what it is.
bryan callen
Yeah, well, resveratrol, right.
I take it every day.
But that doesn't mean you infer then that a glass of wine is going to prevent...
joe rogan
Is that really how they came to that conclusion?
bryan callen
And there are different kinds of breast cancer, by the way, and cancer itself is an umbrella term for essentially the irregular division of cells, all different kinds of cancer.
We don't know why some kick on, some happen when you're a child, others when you're an adult.
There are different theories about it.
Some are environmental, some are genetic.
So, you know, and by the way...
When people say you've got to build your immune system and if you drink this, it'll prevent cancer.
In fact, I was reading that some cancers don't actually grow as a result of a stronger immune system because they are aligned with your immune system.
When your immune system is strong for whatever reason and cells start dividing in a healthy way, the unhealthy cells do as well.
So they're depending on the cancer.
joe rogan
Which is why they use chemotherapy.
It poisons your whole body and kills off the cancer cells right before it kills off you.
bryan callen
That's right.
And now remember, some cancers...
joe rogan
Counterintuitive to the holistic approach of super healthy greens and stuff like that.
bryan callen
And you want to be healthy.
I take all that stuff.
I do that.
But yeah, don't forget what Western science has given us.
Look, up until the 1970s, the late 70s, I believe...
Testicular cancer killed many young men.
When you had testicular cancer, you were done.
But because they came up with a chemotherapy that uses platinum… Was it called the scissors?
Yeah, right?
That's what they used to do.
But you had things called… There's a platinum compound in the chemotherapy.
It has made testicular cancer highly curable.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Wow.
bryan callen
Almost always when you get testicular cancer, young men live now.
They take chemo, they're sick for a little bit, and then it just goes away and it's curative.
So, you know, you've got to be careful.
You're right.
People have a lot of information, and if you actually start scratching the surface and asking them questions, it's like, dude, you don't...
Where are you getting your information?
Do you know the genealogy of your idea?
Did you study?
Do you know where this is coming from?
joe rogan
Too many people are just too quick to just grab a hold of a yes or a no or this side or that side.
You've got to look at the whole thing.
The only thing that puzzles me about September 11th is that Tower 7 building.
And there's a lot of debate on that.
That's the one that the architects and engineers from 9-11 Truth have a problem with.
They don't know why that building collapsed like that.
And it looks like a controlled demolition.
It's really weird because I've seen a bunch of them.
It's very interesting because I've never seen a building fall into its base like that, like give out in uniform and come down a straight line.
But it doesn't mean that it can't happen.
You've got to be real careful about that.
It looks like a controlled demolition, and you hear that this Larry Silverstein guy had all this money invested in it, and if the buildings went down, he made billions of dollars.
You hear all this craziness online, but the real reality is, again, we don't know how a building like that performs until something like that happens.
You've got to light it on fire.
You've got to make big holes in it.
unidentified
Yeah.
bryan callen
And the other thing is nobody ever realizes that these are people, right?
So if you look at like – if you read like Bob Woodward's The War Room or you look at how like governments, the CIA, this defense intelligence, the National Security Agency, the White House, if there's a crisis, it's really interesting to see.
And if you look at these memoirs now that are coming out about the Bush era, it's really interesting to see how they do arrive at – At conclusions and decisions to take action.
It's fucking heated in those rooms.
And like human beings, everybody's got a different point of view.
Everybody has their own group of people they control.
And it comes down ultimately, everybody presents their case to the president, biting their lip, having testy arguments.
Not talking to each other, threatening to resign, like Condoleezza Rice did with Donald Rumsfeld, because she just didn't get along with him.
She thought he was condescending, etc.
And the president finally has to be like, guys, guys, can you, hey, let's not, stop fighting.
I'm the one who makes the decision, ultimately, present your ideas.
joe rogan
That, to me, is way scarier.
The idea that we actually let a guy like Bush really be president, to me, is way scarier than the idea that there's some massive conspiracy amongst globalists to control all the world's resources.
The fact that a guy really could be president, but they really don't have it locked down.
Totally tight.
bryan callen
It's true.
joe rogan
No, it's not.
bryan callen
Bush didn't have a lot of wisdom.
joe rogan
He didn't have to.
He was there.
He's a puppet.
They obviously had Dick Cheney, and Dick Cheney was the guy who was the fucking CEO of Halliburton, a company that made untold billions of dollars reconstructing countries after we blow them the fuck up.
It's not a coincidence that this guy would be really fascinated with going to war.
I mean, he owned stock.
The president, President Bush, was a fucking character on a sitcom for us.
He was a guy that spoke for us.
bryan callen
Condoleezza Rice had a huge falling out with Dick Cheney and a huge, huge argument about the fact that the guy believed in essentially extraordinary.
I think it's called extraordinary rendition where we would kidnap people, kidnap people and take them to undisclosed locations.
Usually a country that didn't object to torture and and put them in these detention cells, these CIA prisons.
And she was like, you can't just disappear people.
You can't do that.
You can't take somebody off the streets of Italy and bring them to Turkey.
joe rogan
There's certain people that have an unquestionable character.
There's certain people you hear them talk and you say, that's a man of character.
That's a man of intelligence.
That's a man of experience.
bryan callen
Yeah.
joe rogan
Colin Powell is one of those people.
unidentified
Yes, he was.
joe rogan
I hear that guy talk, and I go, that guy's legit.
That's the real deal.
bryan callen
He was also against the Iraq War.
joe rogan
Yes, he was.
bryan callen
And he was the only guy who did any time in uniform.
joe rogan
Yes, and he was also disenchanted with the entire administration, and it didn't really work out for him.
Everybody was real excited when he joined the Bush administration.
But, you know, there's a guy that really is a real American hero.
He's the real fucking deal.
That's right.
And he's with all these jackasses and war criminals and fucking thieves.
And he has to sit there and watch them pillage.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Just pillage the world.
Those motherfuckers.
bryan callen
Well, um...
joe rogan
You got a little too serious there, folks.
bryan callen
But I think that it's worth being serious about.
It is.
joe rogan
It is, but it isn't, because it's not helping anything.
It's like I have a joke about Occupy Wall Street, and I totally support the movement, but the joke is that those hippies are just going to start living there now.
What's going to happen is you're going to go there, everyone's just going to be shit all over the street, and you're going to have to just drive through that on the way to work.
Hey, man, what you doing's wrong, man!
Nothing ever changes, ever.
bryan callen
Well, that's the thing.
I was talking to Neil Brennan was kind of like giving me a hard time for not...
I disagree with him on a lot of things, but I respect Neil because he works very hard at earning an opinion, developing an opinion.
Yeah, he does.
joe rogan
Very smart guy.
bryan callen
I think we're on different sides of the equation, but Neil was saying you should be down there protesting.
And my problem with the protest movement, the Occupy Wall Street movement, is that...
I don't know that that's the only group to blame.
There are a lot of groups to blame.
The government, Wall Street, regular consumers who are buying houses knowing they couldn't afford them.
Nobody ever talks about that.
And so when you occupy Wall Street, what you're really talking about, Wall Street, of course, just a euphemism or just kind of a name for a very amorphous group of people because what you're talking about when you talk about Wall Street is the investment community.
That's what you're talking about.
Now, do you want to protest the investment community?
If so, let me ask some questions.
What aspect of the investment community?
Because I would remind everybody, they pay a lot in taxes.
They also produce a lot of wealth.
You wouldn't have startup companies without venture capital, for example.
You want to start taxing the capital gains tax?
See what happens to your venture capital.
See what happens to capital that is invested in businesses.
So I don't know the answers.
These are complicated issues.
And you start following that thread and start saying, well, let's occupy Wall Street.
Okay, okay.
There are some unscrupulous assholes on Wall Street.
There's no doubt.
There's no doubt.
But what are we going to do about it?
I believe, personally, That you had an incentive structure in place, an incentive structure, and a system with holes in it where smart people got together and said, hey, you know what?
I got to tell you, there are some very big legal loopholes here and we can make a lot of money.
You know why?
Because three other houses down the way are making a shitload of money.
So what are we doing, guys?
Because we're not going to be able to compete.
Here's another thing.
We may be out of a fucking job if we don't do this.
So when you're in that and you start to realize it, it's really an interesting development where you go, gee, what would I do in that situation as well?
It was so fucking murky.
And it seems to me what you want to fix is the incentive structure.
You want to go back to nuts and bolts.
Nuts and bolts.
What are you producing?
What is the bottom line?
How do you produce wealth?
What has produced wealth in the past?
joe rogan
Too many people are making money off just making money and moving money around.
bryan callen
Passing risk along.
joe rogan
Yeah.
bryan callen
Passing risk along.
joe rogan
Even much bigger than the actual size of the actual economy is the size of the derivatives, right?
bryan callen
Yes.
And there's a very good book that I'm about to read and I had two very big bankers who were in this and had lived through it and saw every bit, every detail.
And they said the book to read is The Big Short by Michael Lewis.
He wrote Liar's Poker.
joe rogan
I would like to read that.
bryan callen
It's called The Big Short.
joe rogan
Let me write that down because I need to really...
bryan callen
For anybody, it'll explain the genesis.
And this guy is not...
joe rogan
The Big Short.
bryan callen
He doesn't have a grind to axe here.
He is a journalist who is an outstanding first-class writer.
I read Liar's Poker.
He's a great writer.
I believe it's Michael Lewis is his name.
I might be wrong with the first name.
But the point is that he wrote The Big Short.
And that is renowned.
That is widely respected as the book and sort of the Bible on how this shit happened and what happened and essentially who's to blame himself.
But you start going into that blame game, it's really interesting.
It's really fucking interesting because there are a lot of people, and they're not just Republicans, they're not just libertarians, a lot of people can make a very strong case for things like the Equal Housing Lending Act, the kinds of laws that came out of government because it was very popular on the Republican and Democratic side to say, hey, I'm going to pass legislation that makes it easy for everyone to own a house.
That's the American way.
That's the American dream.
They did a study.
Listen to this.
It's really interesting.
The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston did a study.
They found that even if you're qualified for a loan, if you're a minority, if you're black or a Latino, and even if you're just as qualified as a white person, you're four times as likely to be turned down, turned down for that loan.
So if you're black or you're Latino, back in, I think this was in 1998, Six or whatever, I don't remember the date.
If you're black or Latino, you have the same credit as a white person, you're still four times as likely to be turned down for a loan.
Countrywide mortgage.
joe rogan
Sounds because of all in the family.
bryan callen
Maybe.
joe rogan
Meathead and everybody convinced.
bryan callen
But Countrywide Mortgage said, fuck this, let's open a bunch of small offices with minority people working in there.
Let's start giving loans to these people.
If they have the same credit rating, let's do that.
It's really interesting when you start really listening to the shit.
You're like, wow, man, this got...
Fucking crazy.
On top of the fact that Europe, the rich countries were buying our mortgage-backed securities.
They were buying the housing debt.
And so we could pass it on.
joe rogan
It's just so weird that people thought that it was normal that you would buy a house and then it would be worth twice as much in two years.
bryan callen
Because that's what happened.
That's what happened to my house.
joe rogan
Dude, everybody was telling me this.
Dude, I bought it for $500.
I sold it for a mil.
And I'm like, what?
You just made a half a million dollars just like that?
How the fuck did you do that?
How does that happen?
How's that real?
bryan callen
My father, who was a banker, said, my father looked at me and he goes, not going to last, because I was going to buy a piece of property, get into real estate.
He goes, you know anything about real estate?
I go, no.
He goes, you know how to make people laugh, right?
I go, yeah.
He goes, stick to making people laugh, because you get into real estate, you'll lose all your money.
All of it.
joe rogan
It's true.
Well, not only that.
He was right.
Don't be cocky and think you can jump into a game like that and not give it 100% of your attention.
Exactly.
Like, you know, people saying they're going to moonlight in MMA. I'm going to have a couple of fights on the side.
Good luck with the rest of your life thinking out of that shitty brain of yours.
unidentified
Oh, my God.
joe rogan
Because someone's going to wrap a fucking shin around your skull, and you're not going to remember things too good after that.
unidentified
Dude, that's the hardest.
bryan callen
You're going to have issues.
I'm sorry, but that is the hardest way to earn a living.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's right up there.
bryan callen
I watch these guys fight, and I was watching baseball the other day.
I'm watching the World Series.
And baseball, they're athletes.
They can hit a ball.
You've got to swing the bat perfectly.
You've got to throw.
You've got to field a ball.
And there's a lot of skill involved in baseball.
But when it comes to fighting and you're out there with gloves that are just tiny and somebody else is trying to knock your fucking head off and you don't know how to kick, punch, and wrestle.
joe rogan
So much more difficult.
So much more is on the line physically.
Your physical health.
You're playing a game for your health.
bryan callen
How about your courage?
Yeah.
joe rogan
Everything.
bryan callen
Your mind.
You've got to stay loose but aggressive.
joe rogan
And you're going to be exposed in front of all these people.
People are going to see you break.
Or not.
bryan callen
You're probably not allowed to even say this because you call the fights.
But if you had to put...
I don't know if it's a fair question.
I was going to ask you about the Son and Anderson Silva fight.
Are they going to fight first of all?
Do we know?
joe rogan
Who knows?
I don't know.
Dano likes the fight.
It's a promotable fight, for sure.
It's a very exciting fight.
bryan callen
Is Anderson kind of hesitant to fight him?
joe rogan
I don't believe so.
I believe his manager has said some things.
But a lot of that is just...
It's a game.
You've got to realize that promotion and managing fighters and stuff, there's a lot of publicity involved.
Just keeping it in the press is a good thing.
Saying that Chael doesn't deserve it is a good thing.
Building up any sort of animosity is a good thing.
And then Chael's people say, Yes, he does deserve it.
Anderson's worried he's going to kick his ass.
Then you've got a thread going, man.
So you can't be a rube.
You've got to look at these things and go, listen, Ed Soares is a smart dude, and Anderson Silva's a goddamn genius, and Chael Sonnen is the greatest marketing mind that combat sports has ever known by a long shot.
unidentified
He's such a man.
bryan callen
He's such a man.
joe rogan
No one's funnier than him.
No one's wittier than him.
He's a beast.
bryan callen
I watch him and I get depressed that I'm not him.
joe rogan
How about what he said to Brian Stan?
He said he is an American hero, and he's going to get a good old-fashioned red, white, and blue ass kicking.
bryan callen
Ass woman.
unidentified
It was so great.
bryan callen
I saw him talking about the Noguera brothers.
joe rogan
He's on another level.
bryan callen
He was talking about the Noguera brothers.
He's like, they thought this bus pulled up.
They thought it was a donkey.
joe rogan
It was me interviewing him, man.
He's saying they're trying to give him a carrot.
I brought it up to him.
He goes, that happened.
He goes, one of them pulled his pelt off.
He's going to take it home.
Come on, little fella.
And you know what, dude?
On top of that, that motherfucker could fight his ass off.
If he was just a shit talker, I would still love him.
Even if he lost every fight.
Like Sean McCorkle has lost a couple times in the UFC. Or at least once in the UFC. Sorry, Sean, if I said one.
But he's a great shit talker.
He's a hilarious shit talker.
I'd like to see the guy back just to hear him talk some more shit.
unidentified
You know?
joe rogan
But Jail Sonnen talks shit better than anybody.
bryan callen
He's funnier than I am, and I'm a comedian.
I'm like, this guy's got to, you know.
joe rogan
He's figured out how to finish, guys.
Instead of just staying on top of guys and punching them in the face, you know, you can win a fight like that, but you know what else you can do?
You can lose a fight like that because the guy survives and catches you in a submission.
the kind of caliber of Chael Sonnen, you're not gonna get up, man.
The only way you're gonna get up is he's gonna make a subtle mistake and probably late in the fight.
You know, maybe he's trying to finish you off and he gets cocky and you get an underhook and you get back up to your feet.
But for the most part, a guy like that can keep you down.
And if he's got good submissions, fuck, why wouldn't he have good submissions?
Look at the elite level grappling he has.
It's ridiculous.
All you have to do is just teach him a few different positions and he'll be elite in those positions as well.
And his triangle that he hit Brian Stan with was a crusher, dude, because Brian Stan was defending the right way.
The way to defend is called like answering the phone.
You put your hand over your ear and it relieves some of the pressure.
But Chael's squeeze is so fucking tight that it didn't matter.
He did everything perfect.
He's positioning, gorilla strong.
Gorilla strong and mentally tough as fuck.
bryan callen
Yeah, he really is.
joe rogan
He's tough as fuck, dude.
unidentified
He really is.
joe rogan
And has cracked in the past and is tougher because of it.
How about that?
Has quit in the past, has done things in the past that he's not happy with, and those things motivate him in a fight.
And much like George St. Pierre, I think losing and cracking under pressure makes him more dangerous.
bryan callen
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
I really do.
When a guy's been humiliated a couple of times, and then he comes back and is a fucking badass, there's a different level of intensity that those guys have.
A guy's been humiliated, like a George St. Pierre, there's an intensity that he brings to the table where this is not going to fucking happen again.
That's also on the menu.
On the menu is, I'm going to kick your ass.
On the menu is, I'm going to force you to fight my fight.
But also on the menu is, that Matt Serra fight is not going to fucking happen again.
Right, I'm not getting caught by Anderson in a triangle.
Paul Ophelio caught him in an arm bar.
But he's a better fighter than back then.
I don't know what's going on.
I don't know if it's consistency, intensity.
bryan callen
I think a lot of his strength resides in his hair.
Thick, Samson-like hair.
joe rogan
He's a fucking most marketable guy ever.
bryan callen
He's a man.
joe rogan
He should have his own right-wing talk radio show.
bryan callen
When you're a man, you're watching the guy.
You're like, he's definitely the silverback and I'm a baboon.
I'll throw fruit from the trees.
joe rogan
And he's entertaining as hell, man.
He's hilarious.
bryan callen
He's great.
joe rogan
I'm a big fan of that guy.
And that's going to be a big fight, the rematch.
But Anderson right now is recovering from a shoulder injury.
bryan callen
Oh, he did?
joe rogan
Yeah, and that's tricky, man.
I mean, they can take a long time.
Like Cain Velasquez, depending on the severity of Anderson's injury, Cain Velasquez has been out for a long time.
I mean, he had to get surgery, and it's a good, solid nine months.
bryan callen
I didn't know that.
joe rogan
It's a very complicated joint.
The shoulder, I mean, look at all the different moves that the shoulder can do, and think about, you know, how loose the tissue has to be inside of there.
And if something goes wrong, if there's tears and soft tissue damage or worse, ligament rips and things that need you to go back in there and stitch everything up and put it together and possibly even have more than one surgery.
There's people that have shoulder injuries and it's nine, ten months.
bryan callen
Wow.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's a long time.
So Kane still hasn't come back yet.
His Junior Dos Santos fight is his first fight back on Fox because he's been out for, Jesus, it's got to be like a year.
He beat Brock Lesnar over a year ago, I believe.
I'm not exactly sure when the fight took place.
bryan callen
How much does he weigh, Kane?
joe rogan
240. He, in my opinion, is just...
He's the perfect size heavyweight, where he's not a giant guy, so he doesn't require all this amazing oxygen, but he's still small so he can move.
bryan callen
There's always that debate about what's the perfect size, because when you're 260, you don't have the kind of explosive speed with your punches, usually.
joe rogan
You've got a lot of weight in those arms, too, when you fill up with blood, man.
You lose the snap into the punches.
He's got great snap to his punches because he's not muscle-bound.
He's got a real athlete's body.
I mean, his body is exactly built that way because of years of combat sports.
So it's built the exact way it needs to be to perform at the level that he wants to perform.
And with him, the big thing with that guy is volume.
He has the most ridiculous pace of any heavyweight.
I've never seen a guy with cardio like this.
His ability, yeah, his cardio is It's insane.
It doesn't make any sense.
He's 240 pounds.
bryan callen
He never gives up.
joe rogan
And he outworks lightweights at the gym at AKA. AKA, American Kickboxing Academy in San Jose, one of the best gyms in the country.
Filled with killers.
You know, filled with John Fitch and Josh Koscheck and Mike Swick and all these fucking animals up there.
And this guy is outlasting them in conditioning drills.
That's unheard of.
You're talking about, like, Josh Thompson, like, those guys, that's like an elite, elite MMA athlete.
You know, like, as good a shape as you can get in, as athletic as you can get in, and to have this fucking freak heavyweight beating them in exercise drills is really kind of crazy, or at least getting close to them.
Heavyweights are traditionally way easier to tire out, and he just puts a pace on these guys so you can see them unjust, can't believe it's real.
They can't believe it's real.
Like, a perfect example, the Brock Lesnar fight was a good example.
That was a good example, but there's been a couple other fights earlier in his career where you just see him hit guys with this pace.
Big Ben Rothwell, that's a perfect fight.
He hit Ben Rothwell with this pace that was just ridiculous.
It was just ferocious.
Everything he did was perfect.
Every takedown was perfect.
Every side positioning was perfect.
Every hammer fist was perfect.
Every punch was perfect.
He just keeps going.
Six feet, six foot one, maybe something like that.
He's not a giant guy.
Like I said, he's only 240. Unbelievable.
He might be six foot one at the most.
I should actually look that up.
bryan callen
What's his nationality?
joe rogan
He's Mexican.
bryan callen
100%.
joe rogan
It has brown pride tattooed on his chest.
That's how you know he's a bad motherfucker.
I write C-A-N-U in Google and it says Cain Velasquez.
That's how you know you're a bad motherfucker.
Not even Canada or California.
unidentified
Or castration.
joe rogan
Or castration.
Or cats.
bryan callen
Or cats.
unidentified
We love cats.
bryan callen
Hey, mine says cats.
You guys, I should just say it now.
I'm a cat freak.
joe rogan
Six foot one.
Yeah.
Six foot one, 244. Perfect size heavyweight.
Not too big, not too small.
And if a guy like Brock Lesnar can't out-muscle you...
bryan callen
I'm so depressed.
unidentified
I'm 5'11", 170. You always say this, but you never do anything about it.
bryan callen
I lift weights, dude!
joe rogan
Do you do heavy weights?
Yeah.
You read Tim Ferriss' book.
Did you see all this shit that he had about gaining weight?
bryan callen
Yeah, but I just...
joe rogan
Do you really want to get bigger?
unidentified
No.
joe rogan
You wouldn't be as funny.
bryan callen
No, I know.
That's the problem.
I don't want to spend that much time working on my body.
It's too embarrassing.
joe rogan
You would be just as funny.
That's ridiculous.
bryan callen
No, but I don't want to spend...
Somehow, I don't want to spend a lot of time trying to get bigger just so I'm 10 pounds more muscular.
joe rogan
You get tired quick.
bryan callen
It's just embarrassing, man.
joe rogan
You get tired quick.
The real problem with the big muscles is that you have to feed those bitches.
You don't realize what a big difference it makes.
You look at the real elite UFC athletes like PJ Penn and Nick Diaz.
They don't look like Adonis.
bryan callen
I was talking to him at the premiere of Warrior.
I was looking at PJ Penn.
I was like, well, you're about as threatening in a button-down shirt as the UPS guy.
You got those ears closed up.
I know what that means, but I'm looking at him going, I'm sorry, I'm taller than you, and frankly, my shoulders are broader.
And that's all I was thinking the whole time.
joe rogan
You're sizing him up.
How many people must do that to BJ on a daily basis?
How many dummies he must have to talk to?
bryan callen
I know, and I just keep looking, and I'm like, I mean, how are you one of the baddest men on the planet?
Yet he is.
joe rogan
Oh, he's an animal.
bryan callen
And then I met Alistair Overeign.
Who is quite the opposite.
joe rogan
Alistair Orem is like someone gave someone a super person pill.
Like if you were a character in a comic book and you found a pill that was in Dr. Doom's laboratory.
bryan callen
He's a male impersonator.
That's what he is.
Yeah, he's gigantic.
As Adam Carolla would say about women who are really hot.
Female, female impersonators.
He's a male, male.
I was like looking at his back.
I was grabbing his arm.
I was basically doing everything but making out with a guy.
I was like, oh.
joe rogan
But here's the thing about Alistair.
Since he's been that big, no one's had to push him in an MMA fight.
You know, his fights that he's had while he's been that big are really kickboxing.
He's done very well.
But I think there's something to that size in kickboxing that's particularly intimidating.
With the skill of an Alistair over him, he's very good at covering up.
He has so much muscle.
And I think that muscle is also sort of like a padding.
It's like armor.
My friend Walter used to say that when we were doing Taekwondo.
He would say that muscles don't help you teach you how to fight.
But what they do do, no doubt about it, is offer protection.
Yeah.
He goes, they protect you against injuries.
And he goes, and it's padding.
You've got to think of if your body's heavily muscled, it's padding.
There's a certain point in time where there's a point of diminishing returns.
But the question remains as to whether Alistair has hit that point of diminishing returns.
Because he's so big.
And in kickboxing, he's a fucking beast.
And he was a bad motherfucker when he fought Alistair, or when he fought Brett Rogers.
But truth be told, Brett Rogers is not at his level.
He's not nearly technical enough standing up to stand with Alistair.
And he's not a world-class wrestler, so he's not going to take him on the ground.
He's basically a brawler who's in there with one of the best precision strikers in the world.
So that wasn't exhausting for Alistair at over.
bryan callen
How is Alistair's wrestling?
joe rogan
He's not that good, but he's got real good jiu-jitsu.
Wrestling is not good.
He doesn't have the best takedown defense, but it's good.
But the bottom line is he's got a nasty guillotine choke.
He choked out Vitor Belfort with it.
Vitor tapped.
Yeah, it caught Vitor.
bryan callen
He's a lot bigger than Vitor, though.
joe rogan
Yeah, well, back then he wasn't.
Back then they were both fighting around the same weight.
bryan callen
Interesting.
joe rogan
Yeah, he might have eat some good foods and got a lot of weight put on his body, my friend.
bryan callen
People put 35-40 pounds on him.
joe rogan
Yeah, well, he does work hard, man.
His workouts are unbelievable.
There's videos of him online, crazy deadlifts and all this strength lifting shit.
But the true test of that, whether or not you can perform with all that muscle on, really is when you get stuck under the bottom of a guy like Brock Lesnar.
That's the true test.
Because that big motherfucker will take you down and he'll be on top of you and you might be fucked, son.
bryan callen
I think Brock's biggest challenge, though, is knowing how to box with a guy like Cain Velasquez because that takes forever to learn.
joe rogan
Well, because Cain can wrestle.
See, Cain is a nightmare because Cain can wrestle.
bryan callen
Yeah, he started as a wrestler.
joe rogan
Yes, an excellent wrestler.
So his technique as a wrestler, too, he's very technical.
Like, even though he's, like, he does, like, a lot of shit, like he chains...
He does it in a way that very few heavyweights do.
It's like the way he moves is like the way a lighter weight guy would wrestle.
And so he brings this really technical wrestling to it too.
So when Brock starts heaving and hoeing just a little, Kane's got underhooks, he's back up to his feet, and boom, and Kane's all of a sudden kickboxing with him, lighting him up.
He's got the worst case scenario for a guy like Brock.
He's got nasty stand-up, knocked out Nogueira in a ridiculous flurry in a way that no one's able to do it.
He's good, man.
His stand-up is good.
And he can take a shot.
He took two solid punches from Czech Congo that dropped him.
Same kind of punches that knocked Pat Berry unconscious.
And he took it right on the chin.
Dropped him and then he completes a takedown.
bryan callen
That's what's so sick and amazing about a guy like Frank Edgar, for example, who is to me right now the most impressive human being.
The fact that that guy can take shots to the face.
joe rogan
There's a correlation between both of them.
Neither one cut weight.
bryan callen
I was going to say, and I was going to ask you about that, because it seems to me if a fight's going to go three rounds, it's one thing to cut weight.
When a fight's going to go five rounds, cutting weight is going to be a liability, usually.
If the other guy has not cut weight, your muscles and all those cells are hydrated, and you're not going to get as tired.
So it's an interesting kind of strategy.
unidentified
Well, you know, they re...
joe rogan
They rehydrate with IVs and it helps.
It's definitely better than the way they used to do it.
Guys, the way they used to do it, you start eating slowly and then they would start slowly sipping water and then try to get up in the middle of the night and drink water and they would drink water and Pedialyte.
But now the smart way to do it is with an IV. But there's been some studies apparently that were done on soldiers.
I need to get a hold of this.
My friend Dustin told me about it.
And they were talking about how long it takes to rehydrate your cerebral spinal fluid and all that stuff.
And that is where it's scary.
Because that shit takes weeks.
bryan callen
And when you get hit and you're dehydrated, it's very bad for your brain.
joe rogan
Very bad for your brain.
You cannot take a shot nearly as well.
And you're more likely to die.
bryan callen
What does Gray Maynard walk around at?
joe rogan
He's a big guy.
bryan callen
Like 190 or something.
joe rogan
Well, I think he can probably get up to 190 if he's eating whenever the fuck he wants and powerlifting and shit, but he's most certainly too big for 155, I think.
I mean, look, he's a beast, man.
Don't get me wrong.
If he catches you with a big shot, he'll put you away.
But I think he's so thick that, you know, for him, it might be better if he lifted less and just got a little bit more cardio into his system.
And I know he's got good cardio, don't get me wrong, but He doesn't have the same cardio that a guy like Edgar does.
And I think one of the reasons for it is a guy like Edgar has less body mass, period.
He has less oxygen that has to push through the muscles.
And I think, again, there's a point of diminishing returns.
Edgar is obviously not as strong as Grey Maynard.
Grey Maynard is way stronger than him.
He's way scarier a puncher, too.
He can hurt you with one of those early punches that he hit Edgar with.
Holy shit, dude.
His uppercut is nasty, dude.
Grey can punch.
But I think that's a mechanical thing, man.
I think he would be able to punch like a motherfucker no matter what.
I think he's just become a much better boxer over the course of the time we've seen him in the UFC. I don't think him losing a little bit of mass would hurt that.
I really don't.
I think he would benefit from just having a little less mass on his body.
But this is just me talking shit.
If he knocked out Frankie Edgar in the first round, I'd be saying, oh, he improved and he came back and he's one of the best of the division now.
bryan callen
The thing about UFC now is these guys become better punchers.
Those little gloves become such a liability for any kind of error.
You make any fucking mistake and you go out.
Look at Eve Edwards.
I mean, Eves was a great fighter.
He was fighting really well, but one shot to the jaw with those, you're done.
joe rogan
The way Eves went down is like a guy who has been knocked out before, though.
And I'm not saying that it wouldn't have happened.
bryan callen
He's been fighting a long time.
joe rogan
Yeah, I'm not saying that it wouldn't have happened anyway because it was an excellent shot.
It could have put him out anyway, but man.
It was disturbing how we went out.
Because I really like Eve Edwards.
He's a smart dude, and he's a cool guy, and he's a very skilled guy, too.
And, you know, he's been around for a long time.
I watched him fight in the hook-and-shoot days, back when he fought Aaron Riley.
bryan callen
We were in Pittsburgh together, and we were doing Warrior, and it was me and Nate Marquardt, and we were in my apartment.
We were all a little drunk, and I start yapping off, and I'm like...
I'm like, you know, and I'm like, well, I don't know why you guys don't just fucking go for a double leg, take him down.
I'm just saying stupid shit to Heath, trying to get his goat.
I'm like, because I know you're a boxer, I know.
But, you know, I was talking with those, so you want no part of my feet, my friend.
I'm doing all this shit.
He's like, he's drunk.
He's like, he's like, really?
And all of a sudden, he grabs me.
And now he's practicing moves on me as I'm trying to fucking stay alive on the rug.
He's letting me choke him out.
He's like, choke me on God.
I'm not going to fucking choke you on God's leave.
He goes, try, just try.
Come on, try.
Next thing I know, I'm like, ah!
I'm getting twisted around.
It's so funny to roll with guys like that.
Just what they can do to you.
It's just fucking ridiculous.
joe rogan
So you just started training again, though?
bryan callen
Yeah.
joe rogan
How many times?
bryan callen
Just once.
joe rogan
Just once?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
How many years off did you have?
bryan callen
Years.
joe rogan
Well, you had a weird situation happen.
Yeah, six years.
Brian scared the shit out of me when he told me this whole story.
It's very disturbing.
You had a real medical problem.
bryan callen
Well, I had a concussion and my hands for like three months felt like I was holding a hot snowball.
And it would come back all the time.
I found that that's one of the effects of a severe concussion because I had a 40-minute fight with this guy named Pasquale, this French guy, and Boom Boom Mancini was watching.
It was at Street Sports and I didn't want to lose.
I was like, I'm not tapping in front of Boom Boom Mancini.
joe rogan
But how did you get a concussion?
bryan callen
When you're wrestling that hard, you don't even realize.
You hit your head on the mat, you've fallen, you're doing all kinds of crazy.
joe rogan
We were going crazy.
I just hit my head on the mat and I drilled real recently.
I was like, whoa, that was a hard one.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
bryan callen
Head injuries are no joke.
I'm back, though.
I miss it.
joe rogan
So when you didn't know what the injury was, you couldn't pinpoint it?
bryan callen
I thought I had a brain tumor, man.
joe rogan
I know, but when it happened, when we were rolling, there's not one moment that...
bryan callen
Nope, I don't remember any of it.
joe rogan
So you didn't even know?
bryan callen
Nope.
I've been knocked out.
I've been kicked in the head.
I've been punched.
I know what being knocked out is.
But for this, I think what happened was at one point, I think I was standing and I came back and hit my head on the mat and we just kept moving.
Who knows?
Who knows?
You don't think about it when you're fighting.
joe rogan
Yeah, so why were you doing this?
As a grown man, why were you having this 40 minute battle?
bryan callen
Because I still haven't let go of the fact that I'm a pussy.
joe rogan
I like how you put it to a song.
bryan callen
That I'm a built like a Samoan.
joe rogan
Built like a Samoan.
bryan callen
I wish I had some Samoan blood.
joe rogan
Like David Tula.
bryan callen
That's all I want, just a little.
Give me a little fucking Samoan blood.
I just want the hair and the dark skin.
No hair on my skin.
It's a fucking good look.
I can wear turquoise and be a badass.
joe rogan
Turquoise.
bryan callen
Yeah.
I can't wear jewelry.
I look like I work in a deli.
joe rogan
There's something about a man who wears turquoise or jade.
bryan callen
Well, Johnny Depp, he gets away with all that shit.
He wears awesome things.
joe rogan
There's something about when guys wear large silver bracelets with big jade ovals inside of them.
You're like, okay, dude, do you believe in channeling?
I always want to ask him right away, what's going on with you, man?
Have you spent some time in Sedona?
unidentified
Exactly.
joe rogan
Do you know any healers?
bryan callen
Exactly.
joe rogan
Well, my ex-wife's a healer.
bryan callen
Or you're in Arizona.
I went to John Varvatos, you know, where it costs like a million dollars for a pair of shoes.
joe rogan
What is that?
bryan callen
It's a really cool clothing company that I actually love their clothes.
I actually look good in their clothes, you know.
It makes them for guys who are built exactly like me.
But it's like really nice cashmere sweater, shit you wear all the time.
Because guys have two criteria when they dress, right?
They don't want to look like a pussy and they want to be comfortable.
That's it.
That's it for me.
I'm not dressing.
I'm not wearing, you know...
So I get in there and the dude, this guy is like just very fey.
He's just like, hi, how are you?
I'm like, good.
And he's like, well, let's start.
I go, I'm doing a one-hour special for Showtime.
I'm bullshit.
And I'm like, you know, I am, by the way.
But I go, I'm doing a special and I go, and I need to wear something on stage.
I don't know what I'm going to wear.
We have some great stuff and he brings me over.
And before I know it, I'm wearing like I got a vest on.
I got a fucking awesome fedora.
He puts this unbelievable chain around my...
I looked in the mirror and I was like, I'm sorry, but right now, not to be a dick, I'm the coolest looking motherfucker on the planet.
I was so impressed with how good I looked.
And I went, I've never worn jewelry.
And he goes, oh, I mean, if you don't wear jewelry, then all you're wearing is cloth.
That's our rule here.
joe rogan
You have to wear jewelry?
bryan callen
Well, it just looked...
I was surprised, but then...
joe rogan
You let this gay man get into your soul.
bryan callen
Right, but then I looked in the mirror, and I was looking at myself, and I went like this, and I said right in front of him, I go, then again, I do punch people for looking like this.
You see guys who are like, they walk into Intelligentsia Coffee, where they charge you $6 for a cup of coffee, and their hair is just must just the right way.
They got a bracelet on, this awesome...
joe rogan
Don't hate the player, bro.
Hate the game, because that shit works.
unidentified
It does work.
joe rogan
You pull up in a late model Maserati.
You have a fine watch on.
bryan callen
Girls like that shit.
joe rogan
Reading perhaps the Wall Street Journal.
I want to keep up on the markets.
Got to get my coffee.
Why me?
Yeah, very successful financially.
Romantically, not so much.
bryan callen
Ever since the family died in the fire.
joe rogan
I just can't find the right one.
Family died in the fire.
You don't introduce any tragedy until at least the first couple.
Two, three dates.
You've got to let her fall in love first.
bryan callen
My biggest problem when I'm not running orphanages, I guess my biggest problem is what to spend all my money on.
joe rogan
You're going to come off like a hippie pussy.
You don't want that.
Don't talk about orphanages.
She can find that out.
bryan callen
Now that you made so much money.
joe rogan
You're making grand plans.
You can't keep banging her for long.
You're on a one-night plan.
bryan callen
You're right.
joe rogan
If you want to keep a girl in the game, you can't just make up orphanages, man.
bryan callen
I do.
I like the Wall Street Journal.
That's good.
joe rogan
Yeah, you got to pretend like you're a serious person.
I'm a man.
She's lost.
She's got to pay her own fucking rent, man.
It's hard.
It's hard out there.
That's it.
She doesn't feel like a woman, but yet she is.
bryan callen
Here she is, 22. Right now, I just manage my investments.
brian redban
I wear one of those book bags that you can keep your dog in the back.
unidentified
Have you seen those things?
joe rogan
A book bag that you can keep your dog in?
unidentified
They're like these little book bags that you carry around your animals in the back.
joe rogan
Wouldn't you want it in the front so your dog knows that you're there?
bryan callen
Little dogs are great chick magnets, man.
Puppies.
brian redban
But what's crazy about these book bags is if you look at the reviews on Amazon or whatever, there's so many psychos that are like, I could fit all three cats.
unidentified
I love going to Target with my cats.
joe rogan
With my cats?
unidentified
Yeah, the reviews are hilarious.
joe rogan
Check it out.
Was it on our podcast where somebody was talking about walking their cat on a leash?
Who was that?
unidentified
Maybe.
There's a guy that walks his cat on a leash by my house.
I had a history.
joe rogan
I had a history.
bryan callen
Go on.
I'm sorry.
joe rogan
Oh, I'm sorry.
Someone on, I believe, I thought it was on our podcast was talking about walking a cat on a leash.
unidentified
I might have said that.
bryan callen
I had a history teacher in college who told me that his buddy's dog, his buddy's lab had like a litter of puppies.
Like, what the fuck do we do with these puppies?
It's like eight weeks, they're weaned and stuff, like nobody wanted puppies.
He's like, fuck, and they're like bored and they're going to the beach.
And I was like, I got to the beach, let me just feed the dogs.
And his buddy goes, hold on, I got an idea.
He's like, what do you mean?
He goes...
Let's bring the puppies to the beach.
And the guy's like, what do you mean bring the fucking puppies?
He goes, don't worry about it.
Next thing you know, they got a box of puppies and they have a sign that says, rent a puppy.
And they're renting puppies.
You can go just take the puppy for an hour, leave a credit card, play with the puppy.
Of course, everybody wanted a fucking puppy.
They're like, how much do I have for the puppy?
But my buddy, the history professor was like, The girls that everybody ended up hooking up with were just unbelievable.
You're just surrounded by girls.
Bring a bunch of puppies to the fucking beach.
Forget your gym.
You're working out for three months, trying to get your chest all right.
Bullshit.
You don't have to work out.
Just show up with a bunch of puppies.
Girls will flock to you.
There you go, ladies and gentlemen.
Thank you.
unidentified
Rent a puppy.
joe rogan
Brian Callen's a genius when it comes to picking up chicks you don't really want to pick up in the first place.
That's the problem.
Everybody is so starving to get laid.
Men are so starving.
The reason why there's so many bitches and pussies in the men department in this world today is because the commodity of pussy is so goddamn powerful.
The percentage of the market devoted to pussy is like, shit, it's got to be like 40 or 50% of the market is based on pussy.
Acquiring it, right?
Impressing it.
bryan callen
When I think of the conversations I've had, the sincere conversations I've had with girls just to get laid, where my brow is knotted and I'm like, really?
That's amazing.
Say more stuff.
So tell me about this dream you had again.
joe rogan
And women get angry at us for this insincerity, but this is what you have to understand, okay?
We're junkies and you're the dealer.
It's really that simple.
The universe is set up fucked up because we have the same bodies that we had back when infant mortality rates were through the fucking roof.
So you had to want to fuck all the time so that you could have a reasonable amount of people so that the human race could survive.
You know, it was really...
It's common back in the day for people who have 10 kids, 11 kids, 12 kids.
Kids were fucking dying, man.
Kids didn't last.
People got crazy diseases and it would wipe out entire villages.
Animals were eating people on a regular basis.
So we have that same body and we want to fuck all the time.
Our body has not reacted, especially if you're athletic.
It's one thing if you're unhealthy and if you...
If you're confined to a cubicle and your body becomes sedentary, you'll lose a certain amount of that drive as you get your 30s or 40s.
But if you're athletic, if you're an athletic person and if you're a person who just...
We are engineered to like the hunt of it.
The same way you can't roll a ball of yarn in front of a kitten.
If a girl walks by, it doesn't even matter if you want to fuck her.
If a girl walks by in high heels and a bikini with a big ass and big floppy real tits and she's hot and she looks at you...
You go, uh-oh.
You just have to find a reason why you had to get out of the room.
bryan callen
But meanwhile, we are becoming increasingly automated and computerized.
joe rogan
Worse than that.
They're changing because of the fact that pussy is so powerful.
Men are doing a lot of shit that women want them to do.
It's not normal.
bryan callen
But I would say that's also because testosterone, muscle, aggression, those things are becoming tools we no longer need to survive.
Think about what it was like just to get by and feed your family.
You had to work the fucking land.
Splitwood, bale, hay, catch your own food, all that shit that took a lot of weight.
And now what happens is you go to the supermarket or you swipe your credit card, okay?
And I was watching two shows in particular.
I watched Whitney and I watched American Horror Story, okay?
I like American Horror Story, by the way.
It's scary.
joe rogan
Why'd you watch Whitney?
bryan callen
He has an affair on...
How bad is it?
joe rogan
How bad is it?
unidentified
Whitney?
bryan callen
I don't mind it.
It's a sitcom.
joe rogan
Shut the fuck up.
Don't ever lie to me like this.
bryan callen
It's actually not that.
joe rogan
It's terrible.
unidentified
I don't like it.
joe rogan
We go way back, bro.
We go over a decade.
This thing's going to be gone.
I like the laugh track the best.
You like the laugh track?
unidentified
Yeah, that's my favorite part.
joe rogan
She's a very pretty girl.
I wish her well.
bryan callen
I personally really like Whitney as a person, and I really like Chris, so I'm biased.
joe rogan
Something about those billboards that made me feel like I was in a Coen Brothers movie.
I was like, I think this is it.
I think this is the last piece of evidence that life is a work of fiction.
It's like, what?
What the fuck is happening?
unidentified
Sitcoms just do not work for me anymore.
I cannot do it at all.
bryan callen
Yeah, but some of them are doing it really well.
joe rogan
You say that, but you locked into a good one.
If another Seinfeld came along.
bryan callen
I mean, Modern Family is funny.
joe rogan
Yeah, I heard that's very funny.
unidentified
Well, I mean the typical sitcom.
joe rogan
Yeah.
unidentified
Like, you know, like with the Laugh Track studio audience and stuff like that.
bryan callen
It's supposed to be pretty good and it's doing really well.
unidentified
Which one?
joe rogan
That's Chelsea's.
bryan callen
Chelsea Hamless.
No, that's actually Whitney's as well.
She created it.
joe rogan
Oh, that's right.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
bryan callen
Whitney's doing really well, man.
unidentified
That's amazing.
bryan callen
Whitney works her ass off, man.
joe rogan
That's crazy that she's got two shows.
bryan callen
I'm happy for her, man.
I love her.
I've known her forever and I knew her back when she was doing open mics, you know, and she worked her ass off, man.
And you know what I love about Whitney?
Whitney's always been fantastic.
Fucking really positive and really supportive.
joe rogan
That's awesome.
bryan callen
And she's the girl where I'd be on stage, she'd be out there laughing her ass off.
joe rogan
Well, you don't get that.
bryan callen
And telling everybody how great I was.
joe rogan
Successful.
You don't get that successful without being positive.
It's impossible.
bryan callen
She's a positive person who worked her ass off.
And guess what?
I read the pilot of Whitney and I was laughing.
And I was like, she wrote it.
She wrote it.
joe rogan
Now you can stop lying.
unidentified
Stop lying.
bryan callen
No, but I'm saying for a sitcom, it might not be a sitcom.
joe rogan
For a sitcom, I'm just saying, I'm saying.
But I'm proud of her.
I think sitcoms are still worth it.
bryan callen
But the point I was making is this, is that Chris's character looks at a girl, and for the whole episode, she's giving him a hard time and he feels guilty.
And he can't admit that he was just looking for a girl.
And I was saying the other day, I was like, look, the truth of the matter is, we're fucking genetically programmed to be that way.
So we have an honest conversation about what that struggle is for a guy, Yeah, but don't even say for a guy, because it's a struggle for a girl, too.
joe rogan
It's a respect issue, and that's why I don't think that people looking at other people while you're in a relationship is cool.
While you're with someone, you know what you're doing.
I've seen girls do it to dudes, and it's very disturbing.
It happens a lot around fighters.
bryan callen
I'm not talking about that.
I'm just talking about when it does happen, instead of pretending it didn't or instead of saying that I don't feel that way, there is a dialogue to be had which is, yeah, you know what, that's the way.
When you get shit out in the open, it takes the edge off.
joe rogan
It does, but it's a disrespect issue in the first place.
You shouldn't be doing it.
You shouldn't be staring at some chick's ass when you're in front of your wife.
You know what the fuck it is.
Right, right.
It's easy to not do.
It's easy to take it in for a second and go, Jesus Christ.
But don't fucking stare blatantly at some chick.
Because you're just doing it to create conflict.
You're doing it to make that girl feel bad.
And we've all seen guys do that.
We've all seen guys do that.
Or they might even actually say something.
bryan callen
I'm so lucky.
unidentified
I get the elbow to being like, hey Brian, look at that.
That girl's ass.
Like, it's backwards for me.
bryan callen
Yeah, but that's girls who want to seem cool in the beginning.
joe rogan
No, this girl does porn.
She does lesbian porn.
unidentified
Oh, she does?
joe rogan
Yeah.
She probably absolutely likes eating bucks.
bryan callen
That's fantastic.
Don't have kids with her, but that's fantastic.
joe rogan
Don't have kids with her!
Why?
You never know, man.
bryan callen
You never know is right.
joe rogan
I'm kidding.
I'm kidding.
They don't, though.
They just take a break, and then when they're 40, they kick you out of the house and move in with their horse trainer.
bryan callen
That's all right.
unidentified
Horse trainer.
joe rogan
That's all right.
That's all right.
I'll take a couple years off.
You'll have kids with them, and then when they're like 20, the kids will be like 20. I know, but I'm beginning to think that everything is fine.
bryan callen
If you do it with your eyes wide open, it might be a risk, but fuck it.
Take it anyway.
If she's got a past and she's all fucked up, but you like her, date her.
You might lose your house, but fuck it.
You'll get another house.
joe rogan
I don't know if he necessarily should be having children right now, but I see your point.
bryan callen
There's no guarantees.
joe rogan
There's no guarantees.
Well, not only that.
People do evolve.
They do change.
You can't judge everyone based on their earliest fuck-up.
We'd all be losers.
bryan callen
Fuck, that'd be a disaster.
joe rogan
Can you imagine me?
It's like there's some sort of a time between your fuck-ups and who you are today that we have to accept.
I don't know what that number is.
bryan callen
If I had a time machine, I'd go back and just meet me when I was 23 and slap my face with an open hand about that.
joe rogan
Why would you do that?
It's perfect.
What you've gotten through is absolutely perfect.
You've gotten through it all with humility.
Everyone's afraid of making those big colossal mistakes because they somehow or another define you.
I say they don't.
I say you're not your past.
I say your accumulation of your experiences and what you've observed and learned and grew from your experiences.
And because of that, or how you've grown from your experiences, because of that, you're better because of all your fuck-ups.
You should embrace them.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
As long as you learn from your fuck-ups, you're better because of them.
I am unquestionably, I would not change a single thing about anything I've ever done ever.
I mean, I definitely feel bad for if I've ever hurting anyone's feelings at any point in time in my life.
That's the number one thing, if anything, I ever regret.
It's like, maybe I shouldn't have been so mean to that dude, or maybe I shouldn't have yelled at this chick, or maybe I shouldn't have, you know, maybe I should have like ate it before I... Or taking a look at where they're coming from, perspective.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Or instead of just saying, shut the fuck up, I don't want to hear you.
bryan callen
My regret isn't on what I chose to do.
My regret is I didn't work hard enough in some things.
joe rogan
Really?
bryan callen
Yeah, a little bit.
joe rogan
Well, you know what?
bryan callen
I don't know, though.
I don't think that should be.
joe rogan
I don't think that should be because you've had a very enjoyable life.
And what you have to realize is there's a certain amount of whimsy to your personality and to what makes you a fun guy.
And part of what makes you a fun guy is that you're never really truly satisfied with your current position in life.
That's true.
bryan callen
That's an interesting point.
I like that.
I've never had anybody use the word whimsy with me.
That's a fucking great word.
joe rogan
You're a man of whimsy.
unidentified
It's a great word.
joe rogan
If I had a barrel chest.
You're like thinking of yourself on top of a fucking boat with a broadsword flying a sail.
bryan callen
My one hour special is coming out in June.
My one hour special on the cover of the DVD is me.
They made my muscles really big.
I'm holding the mic over my hand and two girls are clutching each calf looking up at me and I'm on a mountaintop.
joe rogan
You're fucking right.
bryan callen
That's what I want to be.
And there's a horse rearing up in the distance and a hawk in the air.
I'm like, that's who I want to be.
joe rogan
That's hilarious.
It's true.
bryan callen
I've always wanted to be everything I'm not.
But in that sense, I kind of like who I am at the same time.
Maybe that is who I am.
joe rogan
Yeah, but it is who you are.
It's not true, though.
It's not a real need.
It's a whimsical, fantastical...
unidentified
There it is again.
joe rogan
It is.
But it is.
He's being silly about it all.
If you really, truly wanted it, you would do it.
bryan callen
I've never taken myself that seriously.
joe rogan
I see the devotion that you have as a father.
I see the devotion that you have for your work when you're actually concentrating on something.
When you actually want to do something, you're very focused on doing it.
So it's kind of a fake...
unidentified
It is.
joe rogan
It's almost an admiration for extreme examples of certain individuals.
That's right, that's right.
And how inspiring.
Like, you meet a guy like Alistair Overing, you don't necessarily want to get that big, but goddammit, it's inspiring.
unidentified
It's fucking cool!
joe rogan
You grab his fucking giant anaconda arm.
unidentified
My Dove goes, Dove goes, Dove goes, Dove DeOdoff goes, You were grabbing the guy's fucking arms.
bryan callen
You don't even know the guy.
You're grabbing his shoulders.
I was grabbing him.
And I was like, well, I was asking about Brock.
I was asking about Brock.
I had to touch his body.
I was like, well, look at this guy.
joe rogan
People don't, you know, that's an interesting fight.
I think Alistair's one of the best fighters in the world, but I think Brock is big as fuck and a serious wrestler.
bryan callen
He had a lot of respect for Brock.
He said, you know, he said, I'm ready for the fight, but I have a lot of respect for Brock.
He's a great fighter.
And I was like, He said that without cameras.
joe rogan
The fact that you can just go up to a guy like that and grab him shows you where you're coming from.
Because if you were weird in any way, you wouldn't be able to get that off.
You can get that off because you're charming.
bryan callen
I can't help it every time.
It's the same thing with Mayhem.
I'm always trying to underhook him and he's like...
joe rogan
You're crazy to think that you would ever want to do anything different.
Because whatever you've done has made you you.
You know, I'm sorry for anybody that ever hurt their feelings, but I'm so happy everything turned out the way it turned out.
bryan callen
I guess you're right, man.
I never thought of that, but I really liked that.
As you were talking, I went, I spent a lot of time wishing I was somebody else.
That's why I'm an actor.
That's why I'm a comic.
And by the way, that is who I am, isn't it?
I'm a guy who spends the last time wishing he was somebody else.
That's my identity.
joe rogan
Every guy wants an undefeated record, okay?
But I'm telling you, that shit ain't good for you.
You have to understand what it's like to lose.
bryan callen
Of course you do.
joe rogan
You have to understand failure.
You have to be able to look back in your past at a moment where you fuck something up and feel uncomfortable about it, and that should provide you with a certain amount of humility and understanding.
bryan callen
I think a man is the product of what partially, but largely a product of Of how, of the actions he chose to take as a response to failure.
You know?
joe rogan
Yes.
bryan callen
Yeah, for sure.
I don't know how you learn anything other than the hard way.
I don't.
joe rogan
You don't really.
You don't really.
We're a strange animal that's dealing with infinite variables.
And the only way to truly find a focused way through this path is to have accumulated a massive amount of experiences and forged positive information and game plans from these experiences and be able to move forward.
You cannot know it all right away from the get-go.
That's right.
bryan callen
All you can do is control how you respond to failure, what you choose to do differently, readjusting your approach.
And by the way, The one thing for me is I've learned just to enjoy.
Enjoy that and allow the frustration when you do fail.
joe rogan
Well, how about being able to make fun of yourself when you fuck up?
unidentified
That's so huge.
joe rogan
How few guys can do that?
bryan callen
Dude, that's so huge.
joe rogan
There was a guy.
bryan callen
That's so big.
joe rogan
It's so big.
And you're great at it.
There was a guy recently.
I say recently.
It was within the last couple of years.
It was back when Legends was at the old bomb squad on Santa Monica Boulevard where the jiu-jitsu gym used to be.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Anyway, this guy picked up a hooker.
He came back from Iraq.
Picked up a hooker.
Turns out the hooker was a dude.
The guy had sucked his dick, found out the guy was a guy, shot him, dumped the body in an alleyway.
In an alleyway, like a movie.
So the cops apparently see this guy dump the body.
High speed chase ensues.
They chase him all the way out to the desert.
Gets out of the car with his gun.
Suicide by cop.
They shoot him dead.
And all I'm thinking of is this motherfucker, if he could just make fun of himself, would have the best story ever.
bryan callen
It's so true.
unidentified
Happened to me.
joe rogan
The idea of the stubble on this guy.
Did it really?
bryan callen
Quiet suddenly.
joe rogan
Did it really?
bryan callen
You don't know that story?
joe rogan
Um, no.
bryan callen
Oh, interesting.
Well, if I may, I can't believe I've never told you this story.
joe rogan
I can't believe you haven't either.
You might have.
bryan callen
I'm at Club USA in New York City.
joe rogan
How many years ago was this?
bryan callen
Oh, I don't know.
20?
joe rogan
Whoa.
bryan callen
I don't know.
I'm 63 now.
You know, I just had a lot of work done.
But yeah, I'm at USA. I'm a young man.
And I'm dancing with my buddy.
And I meet this...
I have a weakness for Latina girls, right?
A little petite, curvy.
I see this beautiful Latino girl.
She's got this black ponytail.
She's got that caramel skin, this cute little ass.
joe rogan
My dick is getting hard.
bryan callen
I know.
unidentified
I'll stop touching it.
bryan callen
And she's dancing.
She's dancing.
She's dancing.
I'll start touching it.
joe rogan
He said stop.
bryan callen
I'll stop touching it.
Sorry.
joe rogan
She's dancing.
bryan callen
And she's dancing and she locks eyes with me with the eyes of a fighter.
I mean, just looking at me and I'm like, alright, well, that's my wife.
That's my wife right there.
I start dancing with her, and we're grinding, we're dancing.
She smells like fucking apricots.
I don't remember what she smells like, but for the story, she smells like fucking apricots.
We start making out, and I mean bub-slapping on the dance floor.
And you know sometimes when you're that attracted, everything else melts away?
You just see that one person.
I'm a little drunk, and I'm kissing her, and it's romantic.
I mean, deep.
joe rogan
Oh, God.
bryan callen
So there are these booths.
There were these peep booths at Club USA where you could go in and there was a glass thing where other people could watch you.
So I take this girl into the peep booths and I didn't give a fuck.
Oh, there's a glass thing.
joe rogan
So other people can watch you?
bryan callen
They want to come into the booth, they can watch, but nobody's there.
joe rogan
What the fuck in a freaking club?
bryan callen
I was 23. I didn't give a fuck.
I was like, I'll fucking fuck you right here.
Condom?
unidentified
Shut up.
bryan callen
Right.
I'm literally like, I'm going to fuck this girl right here in this club.
So you cuff me, go fuck yourself.
I was just in love.
I'm going to get her.
This is my girlfriend.
This is my girlfriend forever.
So I'm kissing and I'm making out and I'm feeling her body.
She's got these little tits.
I'm like, these are small, but it doesn't matter.
Her waist is so hard.
The ass was on another level.
Yeah, she had a beautiful ass.
And I reached down.
And I go for, well, I grab a branch.
I grab a fucking branch.
joe rogan
A branch.
bryan callen
That had been tucked under.
And she, he, goes up and pulls my hand away.
And I immediately realize that was a cock.
I've been deep kissing, deep kissing for two hours, so I'm definitely a little gay.
I mean, deep kissing, and I just grabbed a cock.
How did you not know?
You ever felt a cock in tights?
How did I not know, dude?
joe rogan
You can't know.
bryan callen
She was taking hormones, obviously.
Secondly, she already had that skin, Latino or Filipino, whatever she was, where she just didn't have hair on her body.
She was petite.
He.
I keep saying she.
unidentified
You keep saying she.
bryan callen
She was such a girl.
joe rogan
Because he doesn't want to believe.
bryan callen
But here's this.
Ready?
Here's why I'm a good guy.
Here's why I'm a really fucking nice guy.
joe rogan
You let him suck your dick?
bryan callen
Nope.
I looked in her eyes.
She was so hurt.
His eyes.
He was just like, please let this be.
And I'm such a fucking...
I felt so bad that I go...
I go back in to kiss her.
I kiss him for another two seconds, three seconds.
joe rogan
On the lips?
Of course!
bryan callen
I didn't want to be rude, you fuckers!
Now listen, I'm not done.
unidentified
I'm not done.
That's totally gay.
Ready?
bryan callen
I go like this.
I go, oh, fuck.
I have an ulcer.
I have an ulcer.
My stomach is killing me.
She goes, you do?
I go, yeah.
She goes, do you have to go to the bathroom?
I go, no, no, no.
I just have to.
I have a very bad ulcer.
Sometimes it just keeps.
So I want to protect her feelings.
I felt so bad.
unidentified
Him.
bryan callen
His.
She had his.
joe rogan
So that's how you got out of the situation.
bryan callen
That's how I got out, and I left, and I did not come back to that club.
joe rogan
I can't believe you went back in to kiss.
bryan callen
I didn't want to be rude.
What?
joe rogan
Wait a minute, wait a minute.
I would have been the opposite.
Some person pretended to be a girl and tricked you into kissing him and never even told you something that, for a lot of guys, would make them violent.
bryan callen
I know.
I would have gay-bashed.
joe rogan
For a lot of guys.
bryan callen
I know.
I know.
joe rogan
Would you really?
unidentified
I would have been mad if this person tricked me.
joe rogan
A lot of guys, it's an experience that they didn't want to have.
bryan callen
I don't really give a fuck.
joe rogan
Okay, for you, but for a lot of guys, it's an experience that they don't want to have, and someone tricked them into doing it, and they could get violent.
And I don't justify it, but I'm saying a lot of guys, that would be their reaction.
The fact that you felt bad is very strange.
unidentified
And you went back and then wrote her a poem.
joe rogan
Did you kiss him with tongue after that?
bryan callen
I don't believe I kissed with tongue, but if I tell the story again, I'll definitely use that.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Isn't it funny how a memory from that far back is almost bullshit anyway?
Because it's so fragmented and odd.
I can recite the facts of a lot of details of my life, but do I truly recall them?
And if I didn't have a language, they wouldn't even exist in my memory banks.
bryan callen
I'm tempted to tell you another story.
unidentified
Do it, yes, yes.
joe rogan
Please do.
bryan callen
That was hilarious.
Did I tell you the Jimmy Burke story?
joe rogan
Which one?
I know a million Jimmy Burke stories.
bryan callen
The one where we were both together with two girls on a bed?
joe rogan
Yes.
bryan callen
Yes.
Okay.
joe rogan
Yes.
bryan callen
All right.
That's good.
Okay.
So I had my best friend's thumb in my ass.
All right.
But that's a whole different story.
unidentified
Joe?
joe rogan
What?
unidentified
You put your thumb in his ass.
joe rogan
No, not mine.
No, another best friend.
bryan callen
Oh, but did I tell him a podcast?
joe rogan
Don't say my thumb.
unidentified
No, no, no.
Let's be clear about this, because we refer to each other as best friends.
joe rogan
My thumb was never anywhere near your ass.
bryan callen
I gave the punchline away, but there's a very, very good excuse for it.
No wonder why Joe's always sucking his thumb.
joe rogan
Not on the podcast, man.
bryan callen
Oh, well, should I tell him the podcast?
joe rogan
Well, it's a little late, because you already gave away the punchline.
If you can tell the story somehow or another and make it entertaining even though the punchline is already...
bryan callen
I used to have...
I used to date...
I had two girlfriends for a long time that I had sex with 10 years after the fact.
They were just my two girls.
Love them.
Love them.
I had sex with those girls that we dated in college and then I dated them right after college and for the next 10 years, maybe longer, they were always a booty call.
joe rogan
Those kind of relationships are so strange, aren't they?
bryan callen
Oh, they're so weird.
Even through their boyfriends, through girlfriends.
joe rogan
That's the crazy part.
How many girls like that have a guy like that somewhere in their life where they just have some arrangements and they just meet up places?
unidentified
I can always sniff it.
bryan callen
I can sniff it.
joe rogan
Yeah, right?
unidentified
You can.
bryan callen
I sniff it.
I know it.
joe rogan
Dirty.
bryan callen
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
How can you tell?
What do you tell most of all?
bryan callen
Because they talk about him a lot because he's still in their life.
Because he's still really important to them.
unidentified
Oh, yeah.
bryan callen
Because they had a long time.
I can always tell.
joe rogan
Oh, you're saying you can sniff it if a girl's doing it to you.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
bryan callen
You can tell.
I mean, I know, and it's fine.
joe rogan
Does it give you like a nice green light, though?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
You're like, okay.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
You should be friends.
unidentified
You should be friends.
The one girl.
joe rogan
You just automatically can assume that she's doing that just whore rampage.
bryan callen
Yeah, I was that.
unidentified
Give me permission to find a guy tranny.
No, I was that.
I was that with this one girl.
bryan callen
Right.
Sorry about the tranny.
But I was that with this one girl, and she...
joe rogan
Hold on one second, because it's getting hot in here.
I'm going to turn the AC on.
Continue the story.
unidentified
I'm sorry for...
I'll go slower, Joe.
joe rogan
I know the story, so...
bryan callen
So she basically was...
She was the girl.
Both of them were, you know, my girls for a long time.
They are down at a restaurant in New York City called Il Buco, which is a great restaurant, by the way.
And I get a call from one of them, which is essentially like, hey, Brian, it's such and such and such and such, and we're hanging out, and we really wish you were here, and we were talking about you, and we were talking, telling dirty stories, whatever they were saying.
And I couldn't call back fast enough.
I was like, where are you?
Like, where are the El Bucco?
I'm like, I'll be there.
I'll be there now.
I mean, I was literally like 20 minutes away and I got down there in five minutes.
I was at his hand at the cap.
I was like, drive faster!
Drive faster!
I get there.
Long story short, because I'm a team player, I call my best friend Jimmy Burke.
joe rogan
I come in at a good time.
bryan callen
That's it.
I call Jimmy Burke.
I say, get down here.
That, by the way, is always the code for fucking there's something about to go down.
It always involves pussy.
Get down here.
He goes, be right there.
He's there in two seconds.
We're drinking wine.
I'm fucking getting them all plied up, talking about it.
I can see the two of them, the two girls, are all over each other.
And I'm like, oh, you want to use me as a bridge to have an experience with each other.
How interesting.
My two old girlfriends, who subsequently asked me to have children with them, by the way, just to use my sperm, which was very flattering, but I had to say no.
But anyway.
So, okay.
So I'm like that.
Jimmy Burt goes, hey guys, let's go back to my...
I call him the maestro.
He goes, let's go back to my place.
Let's go back to my place.
I'll blow the fire.
Got some weed.
I'll make some fucking chocolate chip cookies.
How's that sound?
Weed?
Fireplace?
Chocolate chip cookies?
They're like...
Yeah, okay, sounds good.
We get to the place.
He goes to the kitchen to start whipping up chocolate chip cookies.
He's bringing out some weed.
He goes to the kitchen, brings out weed, brings out a joint.
By that time, I'm already naked on the bed with the girls.
I'm already naked.
And he's like, what the fuck is this?
This is fucking, fuck the weed!
This is fucking great!
unidentified
And I'm like, okay, I got my guy and one girl's man.
bryan callen
I'm like, working my balls.
I'm like, I'm like, look at him.
I go to Jimmy.
I go, I'd rather be nowhere else in the world right now, bro.
This is the place to be.
This is the greatest experience of my life.
Literally, like I'm living a porn right now.
And I love them.
They're both my girls.
So, Jimmy's like, let me take my clothes off.
He looks like a red bumpy pickle, by the way.
He couldn't He's fucking hairless, got a piece on him, and I'm like, that's just not attractive to me, but whatever.
So he's trying to get this girl's pants down.
He's got a tongue literally that goes, literally he could catch fucking flies with the tongue.
He's like one of those frogs.
joe rogan
People don't know what an entertaining dude this guy is.
He's one of these guys like there's certain people that they go from cradle to the grave and they never become famous and it's a national disaster.
It's a tragedy.
unidentified
It's a national tragedy.
bryan callen
We call him the national treasure.
He's the greatest.
joe rogan
He's hilarious.
bryan callen
Yeah, he's incredible.
joe rogan
He's a Joey Diaz type character.
unidentified
Yeah, that's right.
joe rogan
He's one of those dudes who's just fucking hilarious.
You're so happy you know him because you always laugh when you're around him.
bryan callen
Because he rides around because it's Christmas time.
He goes, come outside.
I go, what?
He's driving down fucking 57th Street with a cowboy hat on, a down vest in the middle of winter with no fucking pants on.
unidentified
And I hear him go, deck the halls with bowls of hollyho.
bryan callen
And this woman goes, ah!
And screams because he's driving, standing up on the pedals, and his cock is going on 57th Street in the middle of the...
I was like, you're the craziest motherfucker.
He was three blocks away from his house.
joe rogan
There was a restaurant that I stopped going to, and I stopped going to this restaurant because the last time I went was with you and Jimmy, and the fucking waiter kept interrupting Jimmy's stories with some new bullshit plate that they're bringing over with...
Some fucking description of where the olives came from and how the cheese is cured.
And Jimmy's telling some crazy fucking post-9-11 horror story about hearing the bodies hit the ground.
And this motherfucker comes over with a plate of cheese.
This cheese is brought to you from South America.
And it's a type of cheese that's with that yak milk.
Get the fuck out of here, man.
Put the stuff down and let's be done with this.
bryan callen
There's nobody who tells better stories than that guy.
joe rogan
Nobody in the fucking world.
Yeah, he's so entertaining.
unidentified
Nobody in the world.
joe rogan
It just bums me out that a guy like that sort of just...
bryan callen
Well, you know what, though?
He always says, he goes, life is my tapestry.
Yeah.
He just has such a blast.
joe rogan
He does.
bryan callen
And he always makes it a good time, no matter where that fucking guy is.
He's taking this girl's pants down.
He's trying to get his frog tongue in there.
She's trying to go down on the other girl.
So she's more into the other girl.
As I'm making out on the other girl, I'm like, oh, is that my cock?
There it is.
You know, I'm just...
I'm sorry to be this graphic, but the point is it was just a fucking fuckfest.
joe rogan
It's craziness.
Okay.
bryan callen
So he's trying to get his stuff.
And she stops.
She goes, wait, hold on.
I don't like this.
You guys need to do something together.
I don't like this.
And I look at Jim and we go, oh, we don't do that.
I don't do that.
See, I don't fuck around with guys because it's not that I'm homophobic.
unidentified
She's making you do that.
bryan callen
I'm just not attracted to guys.
And I definitely have a hard-on right now and so does my buddy.
And there's no fucking way.
That's bad enough.
We're about two feet away from each other.
I'm not doing anything with my buddy.
joe rogan
And this is the girl that Jimmy was trying to eat out, right?
unidentified
Yes.
joe rogan
Of course.
So she's not liking Jimmy eating her out.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
She didn't know him.
bryan callen
She was more into the girl.
She was into, you know.
So she says to Jimmy, and Jimmy can give a fuck.
He doesn't give a shit.
He's down to go.
And if he has to fuck me in the ass to get to this girl, he's like this.
I can see the look in his eyes, and he's fucking like, let's go.
Let's go.
What the fuck do you need me to do?
She goes, I want you guys to make out.
We had done a play.
We wrote a sketch where we make out as a joke.
And I go, no, no, no.
I don't make out with guys.
It's disgusting.
Can't do it.
I can't do it.
I had to do it.
There was a part...
unidentified
You said you wrote a play that you guys could both make out with.
I wrote this play just so we could make out.
joe rogan
Listen, I can't make out with dudes, but I did write this play where I make out with dudes.
And I penned every letter.
And it's unfortunate that it had to be that way.
That I had to make out with a guy.
But, I mean, that's just...
That's what I wrote.
unidentified
Did I hear that?
bryan callen
It's what I wrote.
It's called Kissing a Boy.
joe rogan
But the point is this.
bryan callen
it smells why is my dick hard why am I crying why god okay it's called why am I crying anyway so so so before I can even do anything Jimmy goes I'll fucking kiss him He goes, get over here, you fucking pussy.
I go to the gym.
He goes, you happy?
She goes, yeah.
So now I'm back to my girl.
I'm back to my girl.
And we're locked in and we're making out.
And all of a sudden I feel the other girl's hand around my ass.
She goes, you feel good, Brian?
I'm like, yeah, yeah, it feels fucking good.
All of a sudden I feel like, I'm not an ass play guy to be honest with you, but I feel like a finger going in my mouth.
My mud whistle, if you will.
If I can channel Jimmy Schubert, I'm really going at my mud whistle.
Luckily, I don't got a sewer pickle up there.
You know what I mean?
So, yeah.
So, I'm like, okay.
Oh, what the fuck?
She goes, does that feel good?
I go, I guess so.
You're a girl.
You know, it went in Rome.
I'm like, fuck off.
And I'm just so into this girl.
And then I feel what feels like a greyhound bus in my ass.
You understand?
A greyhound bus in my ass.
To which I go, oh!
Like that.
Exactly.
I went, oh!
Like that.
And I turn around like this.
I'm stuck.
All I can do is go, oh!
I arch my back.
I turn.
I go, oh, like that.
And my buddy's got his thumb in my ass.
And he goes like this.
He goes, you fucking pussy.
unidentified
Oh, no.
bryan callen
You know what happened?
Now, let me explain.
Let me explain.
Let me explain.
Let me explain why and how.
She said to him, I'm not going to do anything more.
I will fuck you, but you have to stick your finger in his ass.
You don't have the balls.
And Jimmy goes, what?
I don't have the fucking...
I was like, hey, guy, I mean, a little something here.
I understand wanting to get laid, but to stick your finger in my fucking ass, I go, here's the problem.
I got to tell all my friends now, otherwise we're gay.
joe rogan
Tell all your friends.
You didn't tell everyone in the world.
You just told a half a million people on the podcast.
bryan callen
Hey, you know what?
There it is.
I told my friends in New York.
We told the story.
They went like this.
My buddy, like Jerry McFadden, they had their hands in their pocket.
They listened.
They just went...
They went here to talk to me.
unidentified
They walked by shaking their head in a bad mood.
joe rogan
Could I fly Jimmy out here and have him on the podcast?
bryan callen
Yes.
joe rogan
Okay.
The next time you do the podcast, let's schedule it in like three or four weeks from now.
Somewhere before Thanksgiving.
I love it.
You come out to do the podcast.
We'll fly Jimmy out from New York if he can do it.
bryan callen
Great idea.
joe rogan
I'll put him up in a hotel, the whole deal.
Stay out here for a few days.
bryan callen
Stay with me.
joe rogan
Okay, beautiful.
Perfect.
brian redban
I remember the first time I met Callan, I was sucking his dick.
bryan callen
Wait a minute.
But you were wearing a blonde wig.
joe rogan
Brian, don't you think this show's been gay enough?
unidentified
You were wearing a wig.
joe rogan
What made you want to take it deeper?
bryan callen
It was these brain alpha brains.
joe rogan
I know.
Shit works, son.
Hey, have you heard about Trey Parker and Matt Stone being investigated by Scientology for the last five years?
Have you heard of this?
unidentified
For what?
No, I haven't heard anything about it.
joe rogan
Yeah, well, you know they've made fun of Scientology and the whole time.
bryan callen
I believe it.
I believe it.
joe rogan
Yeah, Huffington Post has a really big article about it.
You know, in some way, and this is going to sound weird because I'm a huge South Park fan and I'm on their side 100%.
But there's a thing about having a gang like the Scientologists behind you that must be pretty fucking badass.
I mean, you think about it.
Look, I don't...
I don't buy into any ideology.
I don't believe anything that you can't show me.
I will entertain almost any offer except religions made by science fiction authors.
At a certain point in time, I step away and I go, wait, wait, wait, what?
But as a group and as a clan, let's call them a clan of people.
I respect that they fucking stick together like that.
People love being in solidarity with other groups of people, whether it's Occupy Wall Street, whether it's being a Republican.
bryan callen
I respect people who have solidarity.
What I don't respect is when people use lawsuits, use litigious behavior to try to intimidate and scare people.
From taking a look at them.
I agree.
joe rogan
100%.
bryan callen
I don't know if that's what they're doing in Scientology.
joe rogan
Well, you know, look.
Matt Stone and Trey Parker, they're too big.
You know what?
I know Scientology can shut down some shitty writers or some unknown people or some people that haven't been established by the media, but those guys have a voice, man.
You can't silence them.
You're going to make it way worse.
You start picking on those guys, you're going to make it way worse.
Nobody can fuck you up like they do.
unidentified
What are they doing?
brian redban
Are they just pointing magnets towards their house?
bryan callen
I actually know a lot of Scientologists because I took class at the Beverly Hills Playhouse.
For a while there, there were a lot of them.
One of the teachers there said something really cool.
He goes, somebody asked me if I was a Scientologist.
He had been for 23 years.
He had a good answer.
He said...
Have I taken classes there and gotten immense benefit from some of them?
Yes.
Have I taken classes there and gotten nothing out of them?
Yes.
He goes, if that makes me a Scientologist, whatever.
Has L. Ron Hubbard's Dianetics and Different Philosophies helped me a great deal in my life?
In some ways, yeah.
And it was kind of a good answer.
He goes, it's a philosophy that helps me a lot.
joe rogan
Well, what he did in creating his own religion is he used a lot of excellent principles from a bunch of different ideologies.
bryan callen
Take responsibility for yourself.
joe rogan
Yeah, a lot of it is good.
All the positive thinking.
And there's something to be said for his way of thinking about reprogramming your psyche and reprogramming your reward system.
You know, attitude and belief and just moving forward in a positive direction, very strong, very important aspects to life.
bryan callen
I think so, 100%.
I think that, you know, one of the things is just looking at yourself and saying, okay, whatever happens, you can always make an excuse.
Whatever happens, I'm responsible for every condition I'm in.
It's a better way to go through your life.
joe rogan
Well, even if you're not, so what?
bryan callen
It doesn't matter.
Nobody cares.
joe rogan
Yeah, move on from there.
bryan callen
Nobody gives a shit.
What the excuse is, you can have the best excuse in the world.
The problem is the world goes, I know, that's terrible.
Next, next.
joe rogan
Well, some people just need an ideology, and that ideology works.
Yeah.
I had a next-door neighbor who was a Scientologist.
He was a nice fucking guy.
They were a really nice family.
Listen, man, I've known a lot of them.
bryan callen
I've met a lot of them, and I've never had a problem with them.
joe rogan
But I absolutely agree with you when it comes to lawsuits and people critiquing them or criticizing them and them going after people.
You've got to let that shit go, man.
bryan callen
And I also think that's probably...
But they're bullies.
joe rogan
They're powerful.
bryan callen
It's a few people in power who are doing these kinds of things.
It doesn't necessarily mean that everybody...
It's not indictment by a few, right?
Right.
joe rogan
Well, you know, I don't know.
I don't know the real numbers.
unidentified
I don't either.
joe rogan
I don't know the real numbers.
But it is a fascinating thing to me that it is possible to do something like that.
But it also is very Coen Brothers-esque.
You know, it's also very much like another piece of evidence that points me to the idea that the entire world that we live in is a work of fiction.
It's not real.
It's a part of my imagination.
Otherwise, why would this really exist?
Why would actors be so vapid?
I mean, have you ever met actors when you're on the scene, you're working with them, and you go, this isn't even real.
You guys went too far.
This is not believable.
bryan callen
Did I tell you what, Daniel Day-Lewis, there's a great interview where he said, Daniel Day-Lewis said the funniest thing, because I think he's an incredible actor, right?
So I started kind of researching him and stuff.
I just...
joe rogan
Yeah, he's amazing.
We've talked about him on the podcast a thousand times.
bryan callen
And he goes, he goes, he said, you know, you guys want to know about my process?
He said, you know, if I stuck flowers up my jack and did cartwheels, it wouldn't really matter.
The bottom line is this.
I sit around all day wearing somebody else's clothing, having somebody else's thoughts, saying somebody else's words, and trying to believe all of it, basically because I am, at heart, a boring middle-class Englishman.
I think he said because I'm ashamed of being basically a boring middle-class Englishman.
It was a great answer because he looked at the absurdity.
Christian Bale, they were like, why do you lose weight so much?
He goes, because I'm a man and I put makeup on and I make believe for a living and I got to make it feel like real work.
joe rogan
That guy came close to dying when he did The Machinist.
That's ridiculous.
I've never seen a transformation like that.
A lot of people, I remember back in the day when people were first starting to do that, Robert De Niro was one of the first guys to put on weight for a movie for Raging Bull.
And I was like, wow, he really got fat for that movie.
That's crazy.
And I read about his diet.
He was just eating like a regular Italian, just fucking meatballs and pasta all day.
And everybody was like, wow, that's amazing.
But what Christian Bale did was a thousand times harder.
He literally almost starved himself to death.
bryan callen
He's incredible.
That guy is fucking incredible.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's like, you remember that blowout when he was on, they kept playing it on radio stations where he was yelling at some guy on the set?
It's because the guy on the set's a fucking idiot.
He's right.
bryan callen
That's right.
joe rogan
If you're operating on that level of frequency where you need to really believe that you're in this scene and some asshole keeps walking around tweaking things in your line of sight that's not supposed to be there, it's maddening.
unidentified
That's right.
joe rogan
And everybody knows that one pestery motherfucker that you can work with.
bryan callen
Can ruin the whole thing.
joe rogan
Anywhere.
bryan callen
And you know what?
It's his face for the rest of his life on camera.
joe rogan
But it's hilarious that they released that.
They released that.
And look, yeah, he was going crazy, but one of the things what he was saying is you're not fucking professional.
bryan callen
Yeah, he said, he goes, you're a nice guy.
You're a nice guy, but you're not fucking professional, man.
joe rogan
He's right.
You know, you reach a certain level of intensity, emotional intensity when you do a role like that.
Again, I'm just totally talking out of my ass.
I was just in Zookeeper.
bryan callen
It's true.
joe rogan
Okay?
I was in a child's movie.
unidentified
I hear you're very good.
joe rogan
That was my big part.
bryan callen
I hear you're very good.
joe rogan
But there's a certain intensity that you reach when you're putting yourself into a part like that.
You see some guy walking around in the background tweaking the fucking lights right in front of your eyes.
Like, come on, dude.
Really?
Like, what the fuck are you doing, Bob?
Put the lights down!
Get the fuck out of here!
bryan callen
Yeah.
Yeah.
If you're trying to be great, which is what he's trying to do, and somebody is fucking buzzing around, you can understand it.
joe rogan
But we allow them to do like a Batman movie.
You're allowed to do those piece of shit movies in there too.
Make that money, son.
And then come back and do something else crazy.
unidentified
He's amazing.
bryan callen
He's fucking amazing.
joe rogan
But there's only a few of those guys.
There's a few of those Russell Crowes out there that really become a different guy.
Like Russell Crowe on The Insider.
It's one of my favorite movies of his.
bryan callen
Great movie, man.
joe rogan
Scary fucking movie, man.
When you find out how much of it is based on reality, how terrifying it is, how much power the tobacco companies have.
And that's sort of like what's going on.
My thoughts about this whole Occupy Wall Street thing, when you look at banks and hedge fund companies and all this corruption and the financial situation that we have right now, you look at it and you're like, man, these people have been getting away with so much for so long.
It's like telling them that everything has to be fair now.
They're like...
Fuck you!
I didn't get into this to be fair.
I got into this because I met my friend Tim at school and he was two years ahead of me and he brought me out in a limo with coke and hookers and they said, listen bro, we're trading stocks, we're shorting things, we're making millions, we got this fucking town wired.
And you're like, um, I want in and then you all get together in the 80s Gordon Gekko style and start fucking raping the financial system.
That's why they're there in the first place.
They're there to make ass-fuck tons of money through every possible loophole.
Did you read about one of the CEO's wives who got some of the government bailout money to start a new business, like $250 million in loans?
From some fucking guy who's got like billions of dollars!
It's amazing!
His wife, he had his wife do it through some snazzy loophole that they engineered into the system.
bryan callen
You start to feel invincible.
joe rogan
It's amazing.
Well, look, the President of the United States, when you know how much they own shit, when the President of the United States says, ladies and gentlemen, poor suffering people of our country, I am going to take...
Billions of dollars of your tax money and I'm going to give it to these cunts that ruin these banks.
And I'm real sorry about this, but they get bonuses.
And their bonuses are going to be roughly half of what you're going to make in your entire life.
It's going to be half a million dollars is what we're going to put a cap on it.
That's the cap he was trying to put on it.
He was like, we're going to put a half a million dollar cap.
There's no money.
Your bank is done.
You can't give a bonus if there's no money.
You don't have a bank anymore.
The reason why you have a bank is because you took our fucking taxes and you threw it back into your system and now everything's spinning and you want to shit out bonuses.
What kind of contract do you have where you have a bonus when the bank breaks?
bryan callen
It literally breaks!
joe rogan
But what message are they telling us when the president tells all the poor people of this country where the middle class is falling apart, poverty is an all-time level, 47% of all of Detroit's illiterate, I mean literally the infrastructure, everything's falling apart.
And he's like, I'm going to limit it to a half a million dollars.
Like, what?!
bryan callen
First of all, he can't limit anything.
And the other thing is that I think at the end of the day, the...
unidentified
I went to Occupy Los Angeles last night.
joe rogan
What do you mean you can't limit anything?
bryan callen
Well, what banks will say is when you give that money, when you give that TARP money to a bank, and they're going to use it for various things, they're using it to operate their business, to keep their business afloat.
And the biggest problem was that these banks came to someone like Obama.
Well, actually, not to Obama.
Bush at the time.
joe rogan
He's the fucking president.
He goes to them and says, listen, no bonuses, you fucks.
bryan callen
He's not allowed to.
He's not allowed to.
unidentified
Change the rule!
bryan callen
He wouldn't get away with it.
Get away with it with who is the fucking president!
joe rogan
Who's running shit?
That tells you.
bryan callen
The banks.
The banks were too big to fail, and that's the biggest problem.
joe rogan
Oh, that's a philosophy.
That's a philosophical issue.
bryan callen
It may be, but when you have a situation where most economists are saying to the president, look, the central nervous system of this economy is going to collapse if you don't I'm not saying this is good.
joe rogan
I understand the arguments for the bailout.
bryan callen
The biggest problem is that these banks weren't dealing with their own money.
They were taking risks with your money, not with theirs.
That is a huge problem.
joe rogan
It is a huge problem, but that's not my point.
My point is that you have these giant fucking...
bryan callen
We bailed them out and we were still giving them bonuses.
joe rogan
Exactly.
bryan callen
They were still doling out bonuses.
joe rogan
It shows you how blatant it is.
bryan callen
The way they justified it was this.
They said, if we don't give bonuses...
joe rogan
Then those guys will go to other corporations and we'll go under.
Yeah, suck my cock.
bryan callen
I will say that the banks have paid back all that money, though, which is pretty impressive.
joe rogan
That is pretty crazy.
bryan callen
Yeah, they paid it all back.
joe rogan
That just shows you how quick they've been stealing left and right.
bryan callen
Good deal for the government.
Good deal.
The government made a lot of interest on that.
joe rogan
Did they really?
bryan callen
Yes.
joe rogan
So every bank is paid back?
bryan callen
Every bank is paid.
The money's been paid back and they made a lot of interest.
joe rogan
So why is the economy fixed?
bryan callen
The economy's not fixed, I think, primarily because...
joe rogan
It was fake.
bryan callen
No, I think that the U.S. is having to compete with China and India and a lot of other countries, and we are truly becoming a global economy.
And I don't think in a lot of ways the U.S. has gotten ready for that.
joe rogan
But we're not making anything other than Corvettes.
What else do we make that's badass?
unidentified
That's the problem.
joe rogan
We make Corvettes and Cadillacs.
bryan callen
Our economy actually still is run on ideas.
joe rogan
Although I have a Mustang, I have to say it's pretty fucking badass.
bryan callen
Well, the US exports ideas.
The US is an ideal economy, and that's a good thing to be.
Remember, most innovation by a long shot comes out of the United States.
joe rogan
Even the Mustang is an idea.
I have a GT500. On paper, it's a stupid car.
It's got a manual transmission with a cue ball for a shifter.
It's got a 540 horsepower engine.
The tires slide all over the place whenever you hit the gas.
Tires slide in second gear all the time.
It's a ridiculous car, but it's fun as fuck, and it's a truly American car.
Like, you hear it, the engine, the ridiculousness of it.
bryan callen
The excessive nature of it.
joe rogan
All of it, and the fun of it.
It's got a lot of low-end torque.
You know, you hit that low-end torque on a big fucking V8 with a supercharger, you can hear the whine and The U.S. exports a lot of ideas and fun.
bryan callen
Their culture is fun.
Rock and roll.
joe rogan
That's not the only reason why our culture is fucked up.
Or rather, our financial system is fucked up.
It's fucked up because of corruption and greed.
And what you said earlier, which I always say as well, it should be real clear.
One piece of gold equals one donkey.
That's my standard way of bringing it.
When you start getting into derivatives and shorting and gambling, I mean, that is Vegas.
You're going Vegas on here.
You're gambling.
bryan callen
But then there's also, but there is room.
There is room to leverage.
There is room for borrowing.
There is room for credit.
joe rogan
Okay, borrowing and credit, yes.
But why is there room for things like derivatives and shorting?
bryan callen
Well, a lot of those derivatives and stuff, back when it was working, a lot of those derivatives and When I was working.
Well, it allowed people to minimize risk so that banks would lend money because they could minimize risk with derivatives.
And as long as that was self-contained, derivatives put a lot of wealth back in the system.
I think what happened ultimately was a lot of economists and historians are starting to talk about This was also a function of the rise of the East.
It was also a function of the fact that other countries were buying and investing in the US housing market.
Think about it.
If you have big, big central banks who are saying, we want to buy your housing debt, what happens?
That means I can bundle mortgages and sell them at a profit.
Guess what?
It makes it a lot cheaper.
Now when people get a mortgage, it's worth something.
Of course I'm going to lend you a mortgage for no money.
I can make money on the mortgage.
I can sell it to Germany.
And a lot of it was that.
A lot of it was people in this country, a lot of whom you and I know, who said, I'm going to start treating my house like it's a commodity.
Not like it's a place to live, but rather a way to make money.
And that was pretty fucking rampant.
So a lot of this was human overreaction to a new set of rules, to a new world.
joe rogan
And just fucking human nature.
unidentified
Just greed.
bryan callen
Human nature.
joe rogan
When they find holes in the system.
And Brian, you were saying that you went to Occupy Wall Street?
What was that like?
unidentified
Yeah, it was exactly what I thought it was going to be.
brian redban
What was crazy is that I have these combat boots, like those safari combat boots I bought at a surplus store.
joe rogan
So did they think you were a government?
unidentified
Yeah, I decided to wear them because of that reason.
bryan callen
Oh, really?
unidentified
Yeah.
I don't know, just for fun.
joe rogan
So you wore government-issue boots so they would think that you're a bad guy.
unidentified
Yeah, just to see what would happen.
brian redban
Amazingly, I got a parking spot right across the street from it.
joe rogan
Yeah, none of them have cars.
unidentified
No, no, it was like this cop car pulled out right when I got there.
And so, like, all these people were kind of, you know, like, bored, sitting on the lawn, staring at me.
So I come up, and there's, like, people getting their tits painted.
And I'm like, this is awesome.
bryan callen
That's good.
unidentified
Yeah, that's good.
brian redban
And then immediately I pull out my phone, and this guy comes up right up to me and goes, Hey, man, can I have a cigarette?
unidentified
Like, right in my face.
Like, he looked like Charles Manson.
And I was like, oh, shit, this is, yeah, sure, get out of my face, you know?
And then I keep on walking.
I'm looking at my phone.
Now I'm kind of freaking out a little because I'm by myself.
And it is a little...
I mean, I don't know if you've ever been downtown Los Angeles.
It's kind of scary downtown Los Angeles.
joe rogan
Yeah, we film a lot of Fear Factor episodes down there.
unidentified
Yeah.
brian redban
So there was kind of like this element around that area that's like, hey, there's a new apartment complex opening up for the homeless people type thing.
unidentified
Because it was like a village.
They had first aid.
They had libraries.
There's donations coming in.
brian redban
That feed this whole entire block, the state capitol building or whatever.
unidentified
And then this other guy kind of staring at me and he comes up to me and goes, hey man, can you check the score for me?
And I'm like, score for what?
And he goes, Pittsburgh.
brian redban
And I'm like, I have no idea what he's talking about.
joe rogan
So he's asking to check it on your phone?
unidentified
Yeah.
What?
joe rogan
People are asking people to Google shit for him now?
Can I get a cigarette?
It's not good enough now.
Can you Google me the score?
unidentified
And the whole time he's staring my phone down.
brian redban
So I think maybe he saw my government-issued boots and was trying to figure out...
Because I had a shaved head, like a military haircut, and wearing the coat from Taxi Driver or whatever.
joe rogan
Well, obviously, we had Kevin Pereira from Attack of the Show on here the other day, and we were talking about agent provocateurs, government people who are sent in to break up, calm protests, and turn them into violent protests so they can bring them in and fucking arrest everybody.
It's common.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Tactic.
It's smart, really.
They get tired of all these fucking hippies and their banjos.
unidentified
So this guy's kind of freaking me.
joe rogan
So they look out for them now.
bryan callen
I've been impressed with how, when I hear the Occupy Wall Street people, a lot of them are people who are actually educated, who just can't find a job, and are trying to find the answers themselves.
unidentified
That wasn't really the case as much as I thought it would be.
This was mostly...
joe rogan
By the way, we're not in Wall Street.
This is Los Angeles.
unidentified
No, no, no.
There's a lot of weird...
bryan callen
LA doesn't really have a financial...
I mean, it has a small financial district, but it's...
joe rogan
It's not like...
bryan callen
It's not like...
joe rogan
Yeah.
bryan callen
I don't even know where you would occupy downtown Los Angeles.
It's got clothing companies.
joe rogan
They go near government buildings.
unidentified
So this guy's kind of freaking me out.
brian redban
He's checking me up and down and stuff like that, and I'm like, all right, this is kind of sad to take care of.
joe rogan
So you get it for trolling, you fuck.
unidentified
I know.
I know.
brian redban
But then my friend who's running the live stream and all the media coverage of the whole place, he called me over and so kind of rescued me.
unidentified
And so I go through this rap.
joe rogan
Who's this guy?
brian redban
My friend C. Hang.
unidentified
He's C. Hong on Twitter.
brian redban
So, there was a rap battle going on on stage because there's entertainment throughout the day.
unidentified
There's speakers, there's local musicians and comics, you know, like Jeffrey Ross.
joe rogan
Yeah, I saw Jeff do a set.
unidentified
Yeah.
And so, it was cool.
brian redban
I sat there and watched this rap concert for a while where people were handing off the mic and this homeless guy was, like, looking guy was, like, bouncing, like...
unidentified
Pop cans on his head while rapping.
I was like, wow, you don't see this every day, you know?
So it was like the entertainment value is pretty sweet.
Smelled like BO though, like crazy.
brian redban
And then they took me to the media event where they do all the live interviews and all the media stuff and it's all like generators and solar collectors And then there's tons of computers.
And then this girl just out of nowhere comes up to my friend C and was like, hey, I want to donate these laptops.
unidentified
And gave her like three laptops.
And I was like, wow, this is really badass.
I need to start occupying Burbank outside of Best Buy or something, you know, and get some shit.
joe rogan
Oh, Brian.
bryan callen
Brian, you silly goose.
unidentified
But then they took me through the whole thing.
And there was like drum circles.
It seemed pretty cool.
joe rogan
I've never seen a good drum circle.
Never been there where I went, fuck, this is the spot to be right now.
bryan callen
I haven't really played the drums.
brian redban
If anything, it seems like the more I walked around, I did see the people trying to sit down and come up with solutions and ideas.
unidentified
So you did see the good part of what's...
But the majority of it was just like...
It looked like a bunch of...
Deadheads.
joe rogan
I don't think there's anything wrong with that.
I don't think there's anything wrong with that.
I think that's just going to be the case no matter what with any sort of a movement.
But this is a very exciting time, man.
There's never been a time where this many people have got together and had a peaceful demonstration.
Pooping in the shit.
Shitting in the street is not exactly peaceful.
There's a little bit of violence involved in that.
You know, they're shitting all over the fucking street.
unidentified
You go anywhere near Wall Street, New York, and people are shitting everywhere.
joe rogan
It smells like human shit everywhere.
unidentified
I felt like such an ass because I had a tin can, and there was those three different colors of trash cans, like the green, the black, and the blue.
Oh, I'm sitting there going, which one is it?
Green is grass.
Blue.
What's blue?
Wait, no, it's like water bottles, and this is a can.
Is it black?
Do I just throw it?
So I'm trying to figure it out.
joe rogan
It's color-coded?
They didn't say recycling?
unidentified
No.
It was a green trash can?
joe rogan
Oh, that's ridiculous.
unidentified
I think you're supposed to know the colors.
joe rogan
Human shit still bothering you?
unidentified
Yeah!
joe rogan
Yeah, there's shit everywhere, man.
Well, they have to.
There's a lot of people sleeping there, but people have their kids there and everything.
unidentified
They have porta-potties.
joe rogan
This is, yeah, and sometimes we use them.
unidentified
Actually, it was really cleaner.
joe rogan
Okay, but again, we're talking about the Los Angeles one.
The Los Angeles one is a different animal than the New York one.
The New York one, man, the videos of the New York one, they're really shocking.
And here's what's really crazy.
Wall Street has, not only have they donated $4.6 million to the police, but they also started hiring the police.
It's something that most people don't know.
You can hire a police officer for roughly $37 an hour.
So all these Wall Street firms are hiring tons of cops, off-duty cops, to do paid work there, and they work as a police officer with a real badge and a real gun and a real ability to arrest, but they're working for the bank!
So it's a loophole where these are police officers, but they are doing the bidding of the bank.
They're working for the bank.
They're not like the bank says, hey, police officers, can you organize your own police presence around this area and put as many police officers as you see fit and I guess you guys work for the state and maybe we'll throw in a picnic for you and we'll help generate some money to pay for all this extra revenue that's going to cost you.
It's like Blackwater.
unidentified
No, they pay them!
joe rogan
They're paying!
bryan callen
It's like Blackwater.
joe rogan
Blackwater for cops.
They're paying the cops!
So they tell the cops where to go.
unidentified
Wow.
Wow, I didn't know that.
joe rogan
Nine!
It's fucking crazy.
bryan callen
I didn't know that was legal.
joe rogan
Yes!
You think it shouldn't be.
But I think Koch, Mayor Koch came up with that.
I think it was in the 90s that they had that.
bryan callen
I think the biggest...
joe rogan
People have always had that, though.
that bill.
bryan callen
I think the biggest threat facing all of us as far as this whole situation talking about this, I think the real enemy is that we are slowly or maybe very quickly losing our representative government.
And what I mean by that is that this government, and James Madison warned about this.
He said the one thing you have to be careful of in a democracy like this is special interests.
The Constitution says you are allowed to petition your government.
That's a constitutional right.
It should be a constitutional right.
The problem is that our country now is being run by small bands of very energetic, well-financed fanatics.
And when you are a representative in the House of Representatives, if you are a congressman, if you are even a senator, but especially a congressman, you don't do a goddamn thing unless you check with that lobby, unless you check with the people that finance Your campaign.
And the people that have real power in Washington are fundraisers and lobbying groups.
Now, James Madison said what's going to happen is these lobbyists will offset each other with their different, and it'll be competing interests and stuff.
It hasn't happened.
In fact, what seems to be happening is that some of these groups have so much fucking money.
And if you look at Potomac, where they all live, or just Washington area, that is the highest per capita income in the country.
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