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Nov. 6, 2012 - The Joe Rogan Experience
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Joe Rogan Experience #281 - Bryan Callen
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joe rogan
And we're doing it again.
We're doing it again.
That's my new opening song.
bryan callen
Good voice.
joe rogan
It's nothing.
It doesn't even seem like I'm trying.
It's just coming out.
It's just coming out like that.
bryan callen
You know what it is?
Because you speak the truth.
It's just the truth coming out.
joe rogan
The truth coming out in my angel voice.
bryan callen
I told you, that's what Fiona Havel said once.
I go, how do you sing like that?
You didn't even warm up.
She goes, what are you talking about?
I go, we just ate a big dinner and you just got up and sang.
And she goes, I don't know.
I just tell the truth and everything else takes care of itself.
joe rogan
Yeah, but that bitch is like the Michael Jordan of sultry songs.
unidentified
I know.
joe rogan
She could sing the fucking shit out of some music.
bryan callen
Unreal.
joe rogan
The Joe Rogan Experience Podcast is brought to you by...
Who's today?
Oh, well, first of all, Onnit.com.
That's our main sponsor.
Onnit is the supplement slash lifestyle company.
I don't like calling anything a lifestyle company.
We're going to have to come up with a good name for what it is.
bryan callen
It sounds so not Joe Rogan.
joe rogan
It sounds so gay and fake and forced.
bryan callen
We sell a lifestyle.
joe rogan
We were talking to this guy who produces podcasts for a friend of ours.
And we were at the improv.
And Homeboy battered us with these industry terms.
Weren't you there in that conversation?
brian redban
Yeah.
joe rogan
We were like, you guys done a really good job of projecting your brand.
bryan callen
I know exactly who you're talking about.
joe rogan
Yeah, really good job of projecting your brand.
I was like, what the?
I want to kill you.
I'm going to kill you if you don't get away from me.
bryan callen
I'll kill you if you're talking this way.
joe rogan
I'll fucking joke you.
bryan callen
The point is, I'm not thinking about a brand.
I'm thinking about doing something good.
joe rogan
You're a goddamn vampire, sir.
You don't even know.
brian redban
Let's be honest.
bryan callen
When you say promoting a brand, it takes away the purity of the intention, right?
joe rogan
What are you saying?
brian redban
Let's be honest.
It's the Onnit cult is what you call it.
joe rogan
Well, I don't even want to name it, but you know what it is, folks.
bryan callen
Listen, man.
I'm not susceptible to culty stuff, but everything you sell, I'm like, I want those chimp.
I'm 45. I'm like, oh, sorry.
I can't say it, but I just want those, and then I want the jerky, and I want...
It's all stuff I use.
joe rogan
Well, you know, there's a lack of a celebration of fucking exciting manly shit in this country.
unidentified
Of course.
joe rogan
There's a big suppression of it.
And we at Onnit are against that wholeheartedly.
And we think, you know, take supplements.
If we had stuff that makes your dick hard, we're going to look into that.
If we got some hard dick natural supplements, we'll get you those.
We'll find out if they're any good.
We'll run some tests and we'll get you those.
If they exist...
But the stuff that we have, everything that we have is shit that we use.
We use the best quality ingredients.
We put together the best possible combination of these things, whether it's for alpha brain or new mood.
New mood is a fascinating one because, you know, there's a lot of people in this country that are on stimulants.
Well, there's a lot of people that are on stimulants, but there's a lot of people that are on SSRIs, they're on antidepressants, they're on...
Things that essentially stimulate serotonin in your mind or add it to your brain.
You can add it artificially.
Or 5-HTP and L-Tryptofan are two different ways that it boosts your brain's production of serotonin.
And 5-HTP has been explained to me.
It converts into serotonin and L-tryptophan converts into 5-HTP. So when you put them together, it's like a time-release thing.
It's just science about nutrition and what is effective for what aspect of performance, whether it's mental performance like alpha brain or physical performance like Shroom Tech Sport.
All of it is described on Onnit.
We describe why we're selling it.
This is what it is.
This is how we got involved in it.
These are the people that tell you it's good.
And we're dealing with professional poker players.
A lot of pro athletes love all the different products because we're just trying to find the most effective shit out there.
What's the best shit?
Let's sell it.
We were talking about kale shakes.
I make kale shakes almost every morning.
And I have it all week, though.
Three days in a row.
And I do feel a difference.
I feel like a fat fuck today.
bryan callen
Your skin is positively glowy.
joe rogan
Drinking a lot of water.
So we decided to get Blendtec blenders.
We found out those are the best.
We're selling those.
We sell them $200 less than the manufactured suggested retail price.
Just because we're trying to sell you the best shit possible at the lowest price possible.
That is the number one goal with Onnit.
And everything we sell you is shit we use.
bryan callen
Just don't sell scarves.
joe rogan
Kettlebells.
No scarves.
Yeah, I'm against old dudes with scarves.
Like, I'm a big Randy Couture fan.
bryan callen
The honest scarves!
joe rogan
But he's been wearing a scarf lately, and I just want to talk to him.
bryan callen
Does he really?
unidentified
Yeah.
bryan callen
Randy Couture, you wear a...
joe rogan
He's just such a bad motherfucker.
unidentified
I know, you wear a tutu.
joe rogan
He can wear a dead bird around his neck.
bryan callen
Right.
joe rogan
Who cares?
bryan callen
Like a ballet.
He could be in a leotard and I'd still be like, stay away from that.
joe rogan
Yeah, he could go out to clubs with a legitimate albatross around his neck.
bryan callen
Of course.
joe rogan
And you wouldn't care.
bryan callen
Speaking of which, did you see Matt McConaughey in Magic Mike?
joe rogan
No, I missed that.
bryan callen
I never met anybody who wanted to have sex with themselves more than that guy.
joe rogan
Really?
bryan callen
Oh, God!
I mean, I guarantee he jerks off to his highlight reel.
He basically has just stock footage of him stretching and doing push-ups.
joe rogan
Are you talking about his character or Matt McConaughey, the human?
bryan callen
I'm talking about Matt McConaughey, the human.
joe rogan
How do you know that?
He's an actor.
bryan callen
Watch Magic Mike!
It's like, why did you take that role?
Why did you even take that role?
You took that role so you could wear outfits and go...
That's what he does.
I've never seen him.
joe rogan
Okay, well now I have to go see that.
I wish we weren't talking about the commercials.
Let's talk about that more.
bryan callen
Sorry, sorry, sorry.
joe rogan
Because I need to know about this.
Because I saw the ad for that.
I got a little panicky.
unidentified
Oh, no.
joe rogan
The ads were so gay that I was like, what's going on here?
What is this?
Tatum O'Neill or whatever that guy's name is.
bryan callen
Channing Tatum.
joe rogan
He's awesome.
By the way, he couldn't look better.
Oh, he's the handsomest guy ever.
bryan callen
I hung out with him in Vegas for a weekend.
Women literally start just ovulating in his presence, and he's a great guy.
joe rogan
They must panic.
bryan callen
He was an athlete.
joe rogan
What's going on with the sound, Brian?
bryan callen
That sounded like a poo.
joe rogan
When he's talking, it's getting really loud or crackling.
brian redban
Is he screaming in a microphone?
bryan callen
Yeah, probably.
joe rogan
But it's not.
It's normal.
bryan callen
I'm using my stage voice.
joe rogan
And now mine is down.
bryan callen
When I talk about Channing Tatum.
brian redban
I have to turn it down, so if you scream in a voice, it's not going to pop the mics.
joe rogan
Yeah, but it doesn't sound good like this.
bryan callen
It's very gay that I hear myself.
brian redban
The easiest thing if you...
joe rogan
Well, something's wrong.
I'm not hearing myself.
brian redban
You're not hearing yourself right now?
joe rogan
Not like a like.
There you go.
brian redban
If you scream, just talk to the side of it.
joe rogan
Get your microphone technique together.
bryan callen
I started talking about Channing Tatum and my voice was like this all of a sudden.
joe rogan
But it shouldn't crack that easy, Brian.
There's just like some little crackle when it gets high.
You hear that?
brian redban
Yeah, because you're screaming into a microphone.
It doesn't usually do that.
When you're on stage, it happens.
You just can't hear it because it's a big stage.
But when you're in a recording studio, if you're screaming in a microphone, you're going to blow a microphone.
joe rogan
Don't think so, dude.
I don't think...
This is a new thing.
brian redban
Here's what we could do.
We could turn it down like this.
You could turn your headphones up right now, and it'll be really quiet.
joe rogan
Oh, I could turn the headphones up?
brian redban
Yeah.
You're just not going to pop the mic.
joe rogan
Where's the headphone gauge?
brian redban
Right.
Just try turning one of these knobs right here.
Check, check.
I like tacos.
I like tacos.
Going to be in Columbus, Ohio this week, or in Ohio.
If you want to go to a show, go to deskwad.tv.
Going to be with Tom Segura, Doug Benson.
We got Dayton, Ohio on the 8th, which is Thursday.
Cincinnati on Friday.
And then Saturday we have Columbus, Ohio.
And if you use the coupon code in Cincinnati, REDCROSS, you get two-for-one tickets, and also 10% of the portion of the ticket sales goes to Hurricane Relief for Indiana.
And...
joe rogan
Why do you keep making up states that you didn't get hit by hurricanes, you son of a bitch?
brian redban
Does that sound better?
bryan callen
Yeah, much better.
joe rogan
Yeah, the microphone cord, that's what it was.
The headphone jack was really, really low.
On it, you know, we started carrying things like kettlebells and battle ropes, and we're going to continue to supply the craziest...
Fitness shit, we can get our hands on.
Probably club bells.
We'll move into those next.
Those are pretty badass.
You ever use those?
bryan callen
Yeah, I've seen those.
joe rogan
I just started doing those.
You do that shield cast thing over the shoulders.
Fantastic for the wrists and the forearms and great for functional strength.
So we'll probably get involved in club bells eventually too.
All the stuff we use though is stuff that would improve your strength and your conditioning if you're doing like jiu-jitsu or any kind of athletics.
It's all just about shit for functional strength.
If you use the code name ROGAN, you will save 10% off any and all supplements, including hemp force.
We have hemp force protein powder that's made out of raw hemp, which, by the way, you can't grow in America.
You can buy it.
Colorado made marijuana legal this week.
unidentified
They did?
joe rogan
They might, today.
It's very possible.
The polls show that it was going to pass.
bryan callen
Yeah, but then can't the federal government come in and nullify that?
joe rogan
Yeah, they can.
Yeah, those cunts.
But we sell hemp.
This hemp protein powder does not make you test positive for marijuana.
It's completely non-psychoactive.
It's just related to it, or the male, the plant, or whatever.
And we have to buy it from Canada.
We can't grow it over here.
It's fucking so ridiculous.
I guess because people would just grow weed.
Go, dude, I totally thought I was growing hemp.
I didn't even know.
brian redban
Did you hear?
I heard somebody already told me last night that somebody from Israel found out a way to take out the highness out of marijuana, so you're just getting the...
joe rogan
CBDs.
Yeah.
brian redban
What a jerk that Israeli Jew is.
Yeah.
I want to make weed not as fun.
Instead of doing cancer research, I'm just gonna ruin everybody's fucking life.
joe rogan
Well, the idea, Brian, is that some people just want to be healed from cancer.
They don't want to get high.
So you're like, getting high is more important than your cancer, silly.
brian redban
Right.
joe rogan
But that's not true.
For some people, they don't want to get the paranoia.
They just want to cure their diseases.
bryan callen
Combats nausea.
joe rogan
Lowers interocular pressure if you have glaucoma.
That's why glaucoma patients take it.
bryan callen
Oh, is that right?
joe rogan
Yeah.
Anyway, that hemp shit, we got to get it from Canada.
It's not cheap, but if you buy a Blendtec blender, you get a free one.
Boom!
Codename Rogan saves you 10% off any and all supplements.
This weekend, Balboa Theater, Joey Diaz and me.
That is this Saturday night.
I'm fucking very fired up about that.
I can't wait.
San Diego is the shit.
bryan callen
I will be in helium this weekend.
unidentified
Powerful.
bryan callen
Friday and Saturday.
joe rogan
Portland or Philly?
Which one?
No, Philly.
bryan callen
You can get your tickets at heliumcomedy.com.
joe rogan
Oh, that fucking club crackles.
That's one of the best clubs ever.
bryan callen
So if you're in Philly, come see me.
Helium.
joe rogan
Philly is one of the greatest cities ever because it's the perfect combination of smart people who will fucking punch you.
bryan callen
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
There's always a palpable aggression in the air.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's very Boston-like, but different.
bryan callen
Every athlete I talk to is a football player like Michael Irvin.
I go, what were the worst fans?
Philly.
unidentified
Yeah.
bryan callen
Philly.
He hurt his neck in Philly.
They booed him.
They're like, boo.
Usually they clapped.
They're like, ah, get off.
joe rogan
Do you remember that?
Fucking start the commercial, Brian.
Stop it.
Stop the commercial.
It's over.
Start the podcast.
We're going to just do it.
There's nothing else to talk about.
Deathsquad.tv.
Go get yourself a kitty cat t-shirt.
You fucks.
unidentified
We always do this, dude.
joe rogan
We have these conversations and they go from...
I have just a shitty...
I'm married to this method of doing commercials like that.
brian redban
Yeah.
Well, sometimes it's okay, but other times I'm like, wait, this is 20 minutes of a commercial that we're doing.
joe rogan
But it's not always.
I mean, it's conversations, too.
brian redban
Yeah.
joe rogan
It would be nice if I could figure out how to shorten it.
But the problem is then, you know, it weaves itself into conversations that would make, like, great podcasts sometimes.
brian redban
We should just do commercials in the middle of the podcast.
bryan callen
Yeah.
I think it's great the way you do it.
joe rogan
Does anybody else...
Most guys, they stop and read it in the middle of their podcasts.
How's people doing it now?
bryan callen
I like the way you do it, which is organically get into it.
joe rogan
The problem is sometimes it goes into other conversations.
You don't want it to be a part of the commercial.
bryan callen
I don't know, I like that you believe in every product you endorse.
joe rogan
Well, we're lucky as shit.
bryan callen
It doesn't sound like an advertisement is what I mean.
joe rogan
Yeah, the only things that we're being advertised by right now is all like Ting, which is an awesome mobile company, no contracts.
We went with them because they use Sprint's backbone, so it's really good service.
But you can just cancel.
You can make joint accounts.
Like you and I could share an account.
We share minutes.
If you don't use your minutes, like say if you use like what a lower priced thing would be instead of what you paid for, well then you get discounted on your next bill.
It's like they're like super ethical and super fair.
So that's why we went with them.
Ting.
The podcast is weird enough as it is, so it's like big companies probably wouldn't want to get involved with it.
So it allows you to choose from people that are taking chances, like the Ting people or the Onnit people.
bryan callen
I also think what's really unique about it is the fact that you can pinpoint exactly who your niche audience is.
You're talking to very specific people that are interested in it.
joe rogan
Yeah, well, you know, and it changes that audience a little bit too as they see the excitement of their shit.
I mean, one of the cool things about having cool friends is that you get to find out about cool things that they're into that maybe you didn't know.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
You know, when you talk to somebody, like, Say if you never knew about jiu-jitsu and you were hanging out with Eddie Bravo and you really had no idea and you're talking to this guy and all of a sudden he starts telling you about jiu-jitsu and you'll be like, there's a whole thing I didn't even know about that's awesome!
Holy shit!
It invigorates you and fires you up.
bryan callen
I think that's the biggest thing.
One of the problems with staying in one place your whole life is you limit your exposure.
To everything.
And nowadays, though, the good news is you can be in one place and expose yourself to everything if you know where to look.
That never used to be the case.
joe rogan
The world is so much different now than when we were getting out of high school.
It's like we were living in the dark ages.
bryan callen
That's right.
joe rogan
It really is.
bryan callen
Well, because you're constantly exposed.
A little bit like if you look at how wrestling was in the 80s.
And then when the wall came down, the Eastern Europeans, the Russians, everybody came over and shared all their secrets.
Wrestling, even at a high school level, was so completely different in a lot of ways than it was way back.
I think it does.
joe rogan
Well, I just think it's unavoidable.
It just seems to be that that's the way it just goes with everything.
There's greats from the past in all endeavors, but in stand-up comedy, in fighting, I don't think anybody from the past truly holds up.
bryan callen
I know.
joe rogan
If I look at, like, a Joe Louis, and I imagine what would happen if Joe Louis had to fight Vladimir Klitschko, I'd be like, Jesus.
bryan callen
A whole different thing.
joe rogan
That's not even a...
Klitschko's barely a human.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
I mean, he's a totally new species of human.
unidentified
That's right.
joe rogan
6'7", 250 fucking pounds of shredded muscle, who's got a doctorate, maybe two, you know?
Like, smart as shit.
bryan callen
Overachiever, man.
joe rogan
Just completely boxing your face in, you know?
And doesn't take any stupid chances, just keeps fucking punching you in the face, and you can't punch him.
Good luck, Joe.
Get out there and do it for America.
He's a Nazi, that Klitschko.
Go get him, Joe Lewis!
Joe Lewis would get fucked up, dude.
The only guy I think, there's a few guys, like Ali, of course, would have been great in any era.
But I always said that if you put Mike Tyson against Ali, Mike Tyson would have stormed him.
bryan callen
Well, yeah, but what he said is this.
Ali said, you know, boxing people say, yeah, Tyson would have stormed him maybe the first time because he's so powerful.
And guess what?
When they fought the second time, Ali would have figured him out.
joe rogan
That's the difference.
Maybe.
Maybe not.
unidentified
And by the way, by the way, Ali, remember something.
bryan callen
Ali took, it was 220 pounds.
joe rogan
Right.
bryan callen
Which is a big man without lifting.
A big man.
joe rogan
Yeah.
bryan callen
Oh, and by the way, he also fought, I think, nine rounds against Frazier with a broken jaw.
The dude could take power.
joe rogan
That was Ken Norton.
bryan callen
It was Norton, I'm sorry.
But if you watch what Frazier did in those amazing fights, and the hooks, and just landing in his face, and he just kept fighting.
joe rogan
He took incredible shots.
bryan callen
He took such incredible punishment.
And I think his ability to kind of rope and move with shots was a huge part of it.
joe rogan
For sure.
bryan callen
Smarter than anybody and got into your head.
joe rogan
Yeah.
bryan callen
You know, look what he did to Sonny Liston.
He realized Sonny Liston was just the strongest man in the world.
He said, the one thing Sonny Liston's afraid of is a crazy person.
unidentified
Yeah.
bryan callen
Sonny's afraid of a crazy person.
And when he did that weigh-in, Sonny actually said, keep him away from me.
I think he's going to bite me.
unidentified
Yeah.
bryan callen
He was afraid he was going to get bit.
joe rogan
I just think skill-wise, I think Ali was great, but if you look at the Ali from the Joe Frazier fight on, if you compare that guy to Tyson when he was against, say, Michael Spinks, when he was just the ultimate destroyer.
bryan callen
He was too blindingly fast and a really good boxer.
joe rogan
Unbelievably fast.
That was the thing that people missed in the whole Tyson thing.
They were like, it's power.
Of course he had great power, but it was the way he delivered it.
He delivered it like half as fast.
Like, really, like he was twice as fast as like the Tony Tubbses of the world, the Pinklin Thomas.
bryan callen
I remember he fought Razor Ruddock, and Razor Ruddock is the biggest, strongest looking man on the planet.
unidentified
Big dude, man.
bryan callen
He was hitting him in the forehead with hooks and sending him, like, sitting down in the air, like, whoo!
Now, Rodda got back up, but finally the ref was like, I'm stopping this because somebody's going to lose their brain.
joe rogan
Yeah, there was like a few years where he was just unbelievably good.
But I think that's like the case with basketball.
I think that's the case with baseball.
I think it's the case with all sports.
bryan callen
It absolutely is.
joe rogan
That everything just gets better, and it's really fascinating.
bryan callen
What were training techniques?
It's not just training techniques.
joe rogan
It's steroids.
That's the big one.
bryan callen
Designer drugs.
When they can gene dope, you know you're going to have 400-pound preternaturally fast athletes.
So then it becomes...
joe rogan
Yeah, it's 100%.
It's on the way.
bryan callen
I can't wait.
joe rogan
They're going to keep getting bigger.
Have you ever met a real giant pro football player?
bryan callen
Yes, I have.
joe rogan
I saw a real...
He was really rowdy.
And he was at this club in Phoenix.
And it was like a guy who was around a bunch of kids who were just like, All right, settle down.
bryan callen
Settle down.
joe rogan
Let me through.
bryan callen
That's exactly right.
joe rogan
It was almost like...
bryan callen
Silverback, I'm a baboon.
joe rogan
He was gigantic!
The dude was at least 400 pounds and he wasn't fat.
bryan callen
No, an athletic.
joe rogan
Yeah, I was like, I can't believe that's a fucking man.
bryan callen
Rich Incognito, I met at the Playboy Mansion, 6'4", 305 pounds, just a blonde silverback.
Blonde as it gets.
And literally, it doesn't even look like he lifts.
Everything is proportioned.
His head, his shoulders, his hips.
joe rogan
You know who was one of the scariest guys that didn't get his duke?
He came along at the wrong time.
Do you remember Tom Erickson?
Tom Big Cat Erickson?
bryan callen
Oh, a fighter?
joe rogan
Fucking wrestler who was 300 pounds, natural, gigantic.
bryan callen
What did they call him the polar bear?
joe rogan
No, that was Paul Varlins.
unidentified
What did they call Tom?
joe rogan
I don't remember what they called him, but he was a beast, dude.
bryan callen
This guy, Rich Uncognito, I said, what do you squat?
He goes, I don't know.
I mean, in the eights, I think.
joe rogan
Oh, Big Cat.
That's what it was.
unidentified
Big Cat.
joe rogan
That's his nickname.
Big Cat.
Because he was a big dude.
He moved like a cat.
bryan callen
That's ridiculous.
joe rogan
He was Tom Erickson.
He was just...
bryan callen
Speaking of big dudes that move like a cat, what about the Russian guy, the Wolfman?
joe rogan
Carellin?
bryan callen
No, no, no, forget him.
That guy's legendary.
The last time he lost, he was 16 years old.
And then Rulon Gardner beat him based on one of the mistakes he made.
I saw the match.
joe rogan
Well, that was like a new rule.
When you get a guy to separate their hands, it's one point.
bryan callen
Dude, when he won the Olympic gold against a Persian-American wrestler who had wrestled him 19 times and never beat him...
And as he was winning the gold, he had him and he was whispering in his ear.
He was whispering, essentially English saying, you can never beat me.
It's not possible for you to beat me.
joe rogan
Is that what you're saying to him?
I am your master?
bryan callen
Something like that.
If you see when they are awesome, when he had the silver medal and he didn't beat Karelin, he had a silver medal in the Olympics and he's up there.
Somebody give me his name, and he's crying.
He's crying because he just realizes that no matter what he did, no matter how hard he trains, there is that man named Corellon that he will never beat.
Corellon was born.
He was 15 pounds.
6'4", 305 pounds.
joe rogan
That's how much he weighed?
bryan callen
Yeah.
joe rogan
He trains in the snow in Siberia.
bryan callen
He lives in Siberia.
joe rogan
What the fuck is that?
bryan callen
Well, he was 15 pounds when he was born.
joe rogan
And he has small parents.
His parents are small.
bryan callen
Yeah, I think his grandfather or someone was a bear, you know, some giant guy.
Karelin was also mean and a very, very serious competitor.
Like a mean competitor.
Would not lose.
And would play games with you and talk to you.
And by the way, you know why he got really famous when we started hearing about him?
Is he would suplex people and break their necks.
He'd suplex you and drop you on your neck.
And that's where people were just so afraid of him.
joe rogan
He was too strong.
He would get guys, they would literally completely flatten themselves out on the mat to try to resist being taken down.
They didn't even try to scramble because if you scrambled and he caught you in the scramble He'd have you elevated and you just fucking pile drive you on your head.
It's crazy He would pick them up as they were flattening up and he was these are 300 plus pound men and from Like a lying down 300 pound man to be able to pick him up with a gable grip and hoist him up in the air Most people have no idea how strong you'd have to be so weird You would have a hard time doing that with a small child.
Most people would have a hard time.
bryan callen
He was also very flexible.
He was just a huge mongoose man.
joe rogan
Exactly.
He wasn't like a big stupid power lifter looking dude who couldn't move.
No.
He was like a big giant.
bryan callen
He was all back and traps in relation to his chest.
He wasn't a bodybuilder.
His knees and his hips and his legs.
joe rogan
There's that one famous photo of him hoisting a guy up in the air, and he's just got this look of rage in his eyes, and he's so terrified.
It just like embodied those Cold War Olympics, you know, where everybody was afraid of the Russians.
bryan callen
Just a robot, man.
joe rogan
He was like the real Drago, but better, you know?
bryan callen
That's exactly right.
joe rogan
There's a photo.
I've got to pull up this photo.
bryan callen
I think our boy...
Oh, God.
The great Russian MMA fighter, Fedor.
He has a little of that in him.
joe rogan
Yeah, but he's a little bit more calm.
bryan callen
He's not as big.
joe rogan
It's a different thing.
Brian, pull this up.
Pull up Alexander...
bryan callen
Karelin.
joe rogan
Pull up Karelin, and there's a photo of him with a t-shirt on.
unidentified
It's black and white.
bryan callen
Like that, right?
joe rogan
Oh, dude.
This is the photo.
K-A-R... Look at that photo.
See that photo?
That's the one we're looking for.
bryan callen
Let me see that.
Oh, I haven't actually seen that.
joe rogan
K-A-R-E-L-I-N. Jesus!
bryan callen
Oh my god!
joe rogan
That's so fucking scary.
unidentified
Oh my god!
joe rogan
There's a photo of him about to throw this guy to the air.
unidentified
It is a different species.
bryan callen
If you look at him and me, it's a different species.
joe rogan
He's the Hulk.
I'm 170. That's the real Hulk.
He's like the real Hulk.
He doesn't even have a mouthpiece in.
He's not even wearing a mouthpiece, this fucking animal.
bryan callen
Of course not.
joe rogan
Why?
He's wrestling children.
unidentified
Exactly.
joe rogan
What are they gonna do?
Fatten his lip?
unidentified
No.
bryan callen
He's a fucking monster.
He's wrestling children.
joe rogan
He's wrestling children.
bryan callen
It is weird to be that much better at something than everybody else.
joe rogan
Not just that much bigger.
I mean, that much better, but that much bigger.
Like, that guy was ridiculously big.
bryan callen
Arguably, in some ways, the toughest, strongest man in the world.
joe rogan
Did you get a photo of it, Brian?
bryan callen
There's gotta be somebody out there.
brian redban
Fucking windows.
joe rogan
Oh, it crashed?
Why are we still using that?
brian redban
I don't know.
joe rogan
Yeah.
bryan callen
What a picture.
joe rogan
He was a terrifying dude.
He was so goddamn strong.
bryan callen
Yeah.
You wonder what a guy like that would have done in MMA. I should have binged it.
brian redban
Look at all these Corellin dogs.
bryan callen
Fighting is different, too, though, isn't it?
Yeah, well, whenever you're punching somebody in the face, it neutralizes a lot of stuff.
brian redban
This is not the guy you're looking for.
joe rogan
No, no, no, no, no.
It's spelled K-A-R-E-L-I-N. His name is Alexander.
Alexander Corellin.
brian redban
This is awful.
joe rogan
What, bing it?
bryan callen
He had a dog change.
brian redban
No, I don't want to bing it.
I was just kidding.
I would never do that.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's the dude.
That would go to images.
And the one down with him in the tank top gritting his teeth.
See that?
Click on that shit.
What the fuck, dude?
bryan callen
Look at the arms on him.
Dude, are you kidding me?
joe rogan
That is so scary.
bryan callen
Hold on, let me just look at that.
That's so weird.
joe rogan
That is so scary.
bryan callen
Look at his forearms and his...
joe rogan
Look at the ferocity in his eyes, man.
brian redban
Look at his Joker face.
bryan callen
That's the craziest thing I've ever seen in my life.
joe rogan
That was a real deal.
bryan callen
That is a naked gorilla.
joe rogan
That was the real deal.
There's a full photo of that too where you get to see his full body.
It's even spookier, Brian.
bryan callen
Go back to the...
joe rogan
There's a full photo where you see his fucking legs.
Scroll up.
Scroll upward.
bryan callen
I would always wear...
joe rogan
No, that's not it.
bryan callen
I would always wear a singlet in that position.
joe rogan
Yeah, there's an even better one where it's the whole entire body up there.
Yeah, that's it.
Click on this.
Look at this shit.
This is completely ridiculous.
When you see the actual full image and you get his fucking legs, look at that.
What the fuck, man?
What is that?
bryan callen
Oh my lord.
unidentified
Look at his legs.
Those are insane.
bryan callen
My lord, I'm producing estrogen right now.
joe rogan
Those are insane.
That's insane how big his legs were.
bryan callen
Look at his calves.
brian redban
That guy's butt.
joe rogan
Dude, that poor guy is going to get thrown through the air like a rag doll.
bryan callen
He's mid-poo, that poor guy.
joe rogan
So, okay.
So here's the question.
Is he 100% roids?
Like, there's something going on there, right?
bryan callen
Is it genetic?
I would suggest that it's genetic.
If you're born at 15 pounds, and if you look at how proportioned his body is and the amount of training he does, there are people out there that are genetic freaks that don't need steroids.
joe rogan
Yeah, but you know what I bet it is?
I bet it's both.
Because this was Russia.
Russia was not fucking around back then.
You know, we had Victor Conte on the podcast, and one of the things that he was talking about is that the elephant in the room, when it comes to women's track and field, is that there was a period of time before they were testing where they still can't achieve the results that these, like, Eastern Bloc women got.
bryan callen
Really?
joe rogan
Yeah, like, there's world records, and no one comes close when they win the Olympics every year.
What do you mean?
Well, they just can't achieve what these men-women did.
bryan callen
So is it a matter of record or it's just their times back in Eastern Europe?
joe rogan
The times that they had from 10, 20 years ago, from whenever it was where they weren't testing with these women, the times were stronger than they are today in the Olympics.
That they are behind the gold medal or behind the world records.
bryan callen
I had no idea about that.
joe rogan
Well, he said it's 100% because they were taking steroids.
He was a fascinating guy to have on because he fucking saw the whole thing happen from the ground up.
He saw people experimenting with all these different supplements and he's seen track and field athletes all of a sudden get unbelievably good within a year and everybody gets suspicious.
Yeah, she's a perfect example.
But he's of the opinion that they all do it, especially track and field.
He said all those guys are on something.
bryan callen
Well, you know, it raises a question, too, because they took two of the top fastest guys in the world.
I think it was Justin Gatlin and Maurice Green.
I think those were two.
And what they found was that he was talking about steroid use.
And he said, look, Maurice Green naturally has 800 grams or 600 grams of protein.
Well, not grams.
600...
Whatever that measurement per gram of blood, 800 units.
joe rogan
In testosterone, is that what we're saying?
bryan callen
Yeah, yeah.
Whereas someone like Justin Gatlin has 400. So naturally occurring, some people have just more testosterone, and usually guys who are faster and stuff stronger.
Well then, what does that say about...
So if that's the case, is it a fair competition, or can this other guy take hormone replacement therapy and bring his up to 800?
Right.
There's where you get into these weird questions, the argument for...
Steroids.
You can eat foods that increase your testosterone.
So they do it very marginally, maybe.
So where do we draw the line?
If the technology exists, it's a murky issue, right?
joe rogan
It does get murky if you want to consider a level playing field.
There is no level playing field because we have ectomorphs, endomorphs, and mesomorphs.
Being the body types of ectomorphs are ones that are really skinny and can't gain any weight.
Endomorphs are the really fat ones that have a hard time losing weight.
And mesomorphs are those Wesley Snipes looking dudes.
Just ripped.
The muscular...
You look at Mike Tyson.
Classic mesomorph.
Classically muscular.
Yeah.
There's certain people that just...
bryan callen
Frank Bruno.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Frank Bruno is ridiculous.
bryan callen
Shake Congo.
Yeah, ridiculous.
joe rogan
Two of the extreme mesomorphs.
Yeah, you know, you can't...
Some people can never achieve that physical frame.
They just...
They can't, naturally.
So, what is the...
What if a pill came along and all of a sudden you turn some dude who's got, you know, Ralphie May's genetics and all of a sudden...
bryan callen
The problem then becomes that competition is all about the best chemist.
I can understand the argument against steroids because...
unidentified
Oh, totally.
bryan callen
And not only that, we all know that human beings, if they want to win something, they'll do everything, including sacrifice their own health to get to a point.
joe rogan
But then there's a guy like Corellin.
It doesn't matter what the fuck you do.
It's like there's certain dudes where there's so much of a physical gift.
It's almost impossible for you to overcome it.
There's a level.
The idea is that if a person is super athletic, they can't be smart as well.
That's not true, unfortunately.
Unfortunately, that guy can fuck you up and probably beat you at chess.
Just because someone is big and athletic, that's a terrifying thing for someone.
Someone who can out-intellectually duel them and still kick their ass.
bryan callen
Nate Marquardt told me that GSP is a great chess player, like a phenomenal chess player.
joe rogan
GSP is an unusual human being.
He's a very, very bright guy.
He's very open and honest.
He's one of the rare fighters that talks about being scared and what went through his head.
He's about what makes him insecure.
And apparently he's got this crazy thing about aliens.
bryan callen
Oh no.
joe rogan
Yeah.
He's terrified about aliens finding him in the middle of the night and abducting him.
bryan callen
There are other things to worry about, George.
joe rogan
He has like a path to get out of his house.
In case of the alien, come to my house.
bryan callen
I bet you he's choking.
He's got to be kidding.
joe rogan
No, no.
He really is obsessed with aliens.
bryan callen
Really?
joe rogan
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's so much so that they filmed a lot of shit and they wouldn't even use it in the countdown show.
I don't know who didn't like it.
Dana or someone, you know.
Someone made a decision.
bryan callen
But George is open about it?
joe rogan
Fuck yeah, he's open about it.
He didn't tell you about everything.
I think it's ridiculous to not leave it in because I think it's another little layer in the guy's cake.
Look, he is a bona fide bad motherfucker.
And anybody who thinks he isn't a bad motherfucker because he is scared of aliens.
bryan callen
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
No, that's so silly.
He's George fucking Saupier.
Let him tell a story.
It's probably interesting.
unidentified
Outstanding.
joe rogan
The alien come for me in the middle of the night.
You know, I've had my ACL repaired.
bryan callen
Hey, I hear through the grapevine that Mr. Nick Diaz, who I love, my favorite fighter in a lot of ways, wants to fight Mr. Anderson Silva.
joe rogan
Yeah, he'll fight anybody.
He'll fight anybody.
bryan callen
He'll fight anybody.
joe rogan
Yeah, he doesn't give a fuck.
He's a real fighter.
bryan callen
He'd be an interesting match.
I think that Anderson would kick him in the face and all that, but he's not afraid of his boxing.
I mean, he boxes a lot, and it seems like he would be a guy who could...
Certainly, Stan and trade, as opposed to Damian Maia or Forrest Griffin doing it with Anderson, I think that if anybody could actually, who's a pure boxer, who trains with real boxers and is a pretty good boxer, he might be able to answer some of those.
joe rogan
Nick Diaz, first of all, takes an unbelievable shot.
He could take a hell of a shot.
He's super determined.
No one's got wind like him.
His endurance is preposterous.
His endurance is completely preposterous.
bryan callen
You should say that.
His endurance is preposterous.
joe rogan
It is.
He swims back from Alcatraz for like a goof.
He gets in the ocean and swims from Alcatraz.
His endurance is freakish.
And that's one of his strengths.
And everybody's got to be scared of that shit.
But Anderson's never showed endurance problems.
I mean, he tapped Chael Sonnen in the fifth round of a fight.
He was getting his ass kicked in.
bryan callen
Incredible.
joe rogan
So he's never had endurance problems.
But I think that Nick Diaz, he's a difficult dude to crack.
You look at really good strikers like Paul Daly.
Paul Daly is a dangerous fucking striker.
bryan callen
And he decided to stand and trade with him.
He's a much better wrestler.
He goes, I'm going to stand and trade him.
By the way, you hit me with a left.
Watch this.
He goes down and gets a bang with a left.
joe rogan
Well, not only that.
bryan callen
He's such a true fighter.
joe rogan
You get him on the ground and Nick is so good at wrapping you up.
And you have to look after that armbar, man.
That shit comes quick.
He caught Cyborg in that arm bar.
Cyborg never saw that coming.
Cyborg was blasting him with leg kicks, too.
But it didn't matter.
It was almost like he was just holding off the charge.
He was just holding off the charge.
I'm going to get you.
It's incredible.
And finally, Cyborg, the pressure of Nick constantly coming at him.
bryan callen
And talking to him, by the way.
joe rogan
Cyborg took him down, and Nick had him arm barred in no time.
He's an interesting dude.
Physically, he's smaller than Anderson.
That's for sure.
He's fought at 55. But he's got to walk around.
bryan callen
What is he, about 6'1"?
joe rogan
Yeah, Nick is at least six feet tall, 6'1", too.
bryan callen
And he walks around at what, 190, do you think?
joe rogan
I don't know.
He's pretty healthy, so he's not the type of dude that would...
bryan callen
Gain a lot of weight.
joe rogan
Yeah, he definitely never gets fat.
He's very strict with his diet.
I think he's mostly vegan.
He's drinking kombucha all the time.
bryan callen
Don't tell me that, because now I'm going to start doing the Nick Diaz diet.
joe rogan
Well, listen, man, if you talk to guys like Rich Roll or any of these ultra-endurance guys, there's no better way to keep your body energized than constantly eating fresh vegetables.
bryan callen
Yeah, high carbohydrate, complex carbohydrate.
joe rogan
Yeah, I don't think for ultimate performance, though, especially for explosive performance, I don't think you get the same results.
According to scientists, the people that have actually done studies shows that there really are some benefits to eating animal protein.
bryan callen
To a complete protein like meat.
It's a complete protein.
joe rogan
Yeah.
bryan callen
The thing about being a vegan is you can get your protein, but I think the proteins at the end of the day or whenever they start to cohesion, they sort of can't, they pick up where the other ones left off.
So beans are one, nuts have protein, and when you add enough of that, you'll get a complete protein.
But meat is a very calorie dense, energy dense, complete protein.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's just better.
bryan callen
And most, by the way, most cultures, and you know this from the guy you had on, I'm sure he talked about it with the paleo diet, most hunter-gatherer cultures, the way we came up, we were strictly carnivores.
I mean, if you look at where we went hunting, try planting anything there.
You would have had to live off animal Protein for the most part.
joe rogan
There's a lot of parts.
Yeah, we were in Montana.
We went hunting for this Steve Rinella show.
It's called The Meat Eater.
And Meat Eater is his second show.
He had this other show that was on, I think it was on the Travel Channel.
It's called The Wild Within.
It was a really cool show where you'd go like, he went where Lewis and Clark went and he shot a moose and made a boat out of the moose and fucking shot a moose with a musket.
bryan callen
They made a boat out of the moose?
joe rogan
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Like the way they would have done it.
It's so weird.
It was really interesting.
bryan callen
I'm going to make a boat out of a moose.
joe rogan
So Brian and I went hunting with them.
We went to...
I talked about it with Ari Shafir already.
But we went to Montana to what used to be the Great Inland Western Sea.
The Great Western Inland Sea, which is fascinating.
bryan callen
We went to a part where even Lewis and Clark said, as they went through it, they were like, we think we saw some signs of Native Americans.
I mean, not even the Native Americans lived there.
It was a hunting ground, but you couldn't live there because you could grow nothing.
joe rogan
Crazy.
bryan callen
It's also weird how much ground we covered.
We'd wake up really early in the morning, and then he'd be like, go over that ridge.
I was like, that ridge is a mountain range.
joe rogan
This shit is far.
bryan callen
Right, but you could actually climb it because it was made of clay, and it stuck to your feet.
joe rogan
Well, it was really difficult when you were on the edges because it was just so slippery, and your feet would weigh so much because the bottoms would be caked with this shit.
unidentified
Oh my god.
bryan callen
I remember when I glassed the field, I'd take my binoculars and look out for game.
Glassing the field is hunting terminology.
Don't worry about it.
And I'd be so out of breath, man, because we were high elevation.
joe rogan
It was a lot of hiking.
You've got to be in fucking shape.
I watch a show and I've seen what they do is stalking after the game.
But I never really considered how much actual walk he's involved.
He doesn't get tired, huh?
No, dude.
I was fucking super impressed.
Because me and the camera guys were fucking out of breath.
And Steve Rinell is up there trucking.
You're walking forever.
Yeah, and you're walking up some serious hills.
It's really interesting, though.
We were talking about this.
Anything you do, even hiking.
He's doing this every week, every year.
He does it all year round.
That's how he hunts.
So he's like constantly hiking up hills and shit.
bryan callen
Well, your central nervous system learns how to use your muscles more efficiently.
joe rogan
That's what it is.
Yeah, that's what we're talking about.
Like anything you do, whether it's martial arts or wrestling.
bryan callen
It's why they tell you if you want to bodybuild, you've got to change it up because you confuse your central nervous system so your body doesn't learn to use the same muscles over and over again, right?
So now your body's like confused and it goes, well, we've got to use these muscles now.
And you keep tearing muscles down.
And I just, that's what I want to...
joe rogan
Yeah, don't like the CrossFit people believe in that as well.
That's like their idea is you do something different all the time.
bryan callen
Yeah, and fitness so your body gets a comprehensive strength, you know, sort of an all-around strength.
joe rogan
They're kind of controversial too, though.
The controversy behind the CrossFit people is that some people, like Steve, that you should ever be doing powerlifting exercises with great repetitions like that.
That's not what they're designed for.
They're designed for big explosive movements, moving heavy things with correct form and building up You know, your core and your explosive power.
bryan callen
Most of the people I know who did CrossFit...
joe rogan
They get hurt.
bryan callen
They get hurt.
There's a lot of injuries.
In fact, a lot of pro athletes that I've talked to don't do it as much because, first of all, it's a little bit...
It's so much on your body that a lot of times they weren't having energy for their practices or their games, and it keeps you torn down.
Now, there are some ridiculously fit athletes, and I think it's a great program, and I try to do it as much as possible, but I do think that the athletes I've talked to, the fighters and even the football players, are like, well...
You gotta move at your own pace with that stuff.
joe rogan
Yeah, you do.
You can't try to keep up with those dudes because those extreme CrossFit dudes, they get like deep, deep, deep into the game to the point where they can do just ridiculous sets with 225, they're clean and jerking for 20 reps, and then they're doing 20 chin-ups.
It's crazy.
Yeah, they can do some stupid, silly shit.
bryan callen
But that is their sport.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
bryan callen
It's not like, you know...
joe rogan
It's a fucking test of will, man.
That is a test of will.
bryan callen
CrossFit's humbling every time you do it.
Like, if you do Fran, you know what Fran is?
Fran never gets easy.
Like, if I think about it, my heart starts beating fast.
Where you got 95 pounds, you go into a squat thrust, a thruster, so you go down into the squat position, throw it up over your head, you do that 21 times, go into 21 pull-ups, 15 thrusters, 15 pull-ups, 9 thrusters, 9 pull-ups.
And the idea is if you do a sub, if you do that under 3 minutes, you're in ridiculous shape.
But even doing it, try doing it in under 7 or 8 and you'll be on the ground.
It's just never, it never gets easy.
They have so many of those things that never get easy.
joe rogan
There's so much you can do out there for exercise.
It's amazing.
We see most people at the gym, they're like, you're barely working out.
You might be doing curls or doing some sets.
bryan callen
What do you do though?
How long is your workout if you're lifting?
joe rogan
It depends.
It depends on what I'm doing.
It depends on...
When I hurt my back, I started doing more isolation stuff, like rows and stuff like that, just to really strengthen up my back.
So that day is like an easy day.
The full back day that I do, I do one full back day.
That's only like 30 minutes.
It's a quick workout.
But the whole idea is just to blow it out and make it really hard.
I just want to have...
To be able to build up muscle and to have explosive power.
So your body's got to be conditioned all the time to be doing explosive shit and building up tissue and exploding.
And if you don't do that all the time, it doesn't want to do it.
bryan callen
If you don't do that all the time, you'll have no situation in life in which to explode.
And we all know that we use that every day.
That's what's funny about that shit.
Like, I do all this stuff.
I'm like, when am I ever going to...
I'm doing kettlebells until I can't walk.
Like, when am I going to...
I'm not ringing huge bells, but it doesn't matter.
I like being in shape in case the shit hits the fan.
joe rogan
Well, I wasn't in shape, but when we went on that hunting trip, for sure, I would have been fucked.
bryan callen
Oh my God.
joe rogan
Because, like, that was a serious...
We would hike at least three miles in the morning.
bryan callen
It was so funny, dude.
joe rogan
Yeah.
bryan callen
It was raining the first night, and we were freezing, and the sleeping bags they gave us didn't really work.
And as I'm getting...
I'm shivering and putting, like, seven layers on.
I had two down jackets, literally.
I'm shivering, and I just hear Joe and his tent go, Camping blows.
unidentified
Hi.
bryan callen
I fucking laughed so hard at some of the shit you did, I don't know why.
He just goes, camping blows.
joe rogan
We had a great fucking time.
bryan callen
Dude, how about me pulling fucking quills out of your ass and legs?
I think we had it on tape, right?
joe rogan
Dude, I still have these red marks all over my ass and legs.
I laid down on a cactus, and Brian had to pull them out in front of the campfire with tweezers.
bryan callen
All the guys were like, what are you doing?
I'm like, don't worry, he's my fucking best friend.
I gotta pull out the fucking...
I'll take out your fucking thorns.
joe rogan
When I went to drop down to kill the deer, I sat down right in a cactus.
unidentified
Dude, you don't understand.
joe rogan
My whole left side was covered in cactus.
bryan callen
When you see your first deer, you want to kill that thing so badly.
I literally, I had a buck in my crosshairs that third day when you got yours.
I couldn't, I had, talk about buck fever.
The scope was like jumping all over the place.
I was like, this is my breathing.
joe rogan
Well, I couldn't, the first time, I couldn't get him into focus the first time I went to shoot it because my eye was too close to the scope.
And then I realized what I was doing wrong.
I was like, oh, what am I doing over there, stupid?
Like, what am I doing?
Like, I was panicking.
I just got too close to the scope.
And it was like, it's weird when you're looking at something through a scope.
It's very hard to describe.
But it's like, almost like, you see like black...
Like, half moons over everything.
Like, you can't, like, close in on the actual image.
The outside of it is all black and blurry.
bryan callen
There's a distance you keep your eye from the scope, and you start to be good at that when you...
joe rogan
And I backed up just a hair, and boom!
It was in perfect, clear focus.
I was like, oh, that's it!
I was too close!
And then the fucker went behind a cliff, the deer.
bryan callen
By the way, hunting deer, hunting mule deer in a place where they know they're being hunted is a lot like hunting a mirage.
They'll just show up and then they just disappear.
And you're like, but how did, it didn't go into the mountain.
Where is it?
joe rogan
Well, they're so, they're so well camouflaged.
They look exactly like the mountainside.
bryan callen
Yeah.
joe rogan
You don't see them until you see like a little white tuft where their ass is.
unidentified
Yeah.
bryan callen
I'm chasing four all morning.
I finally, I got them.
I'm going to come over this bridge.
I got them.
And I'm like, now we're this ridiculous.
There's no way they could have disappeared.
Then I see ducks and I'm like, why do those ducks have huge ears?
Oh, those fuckers are swimming across the river.
I spent all morning chasing you assholes, and now you're across the river, and I got no shot.
joe rogan
Yeah, I didn't even know they can swim.
bryan callen
I didn't either!
They swam!
They're literally swimming like covering serious ground.
joe rogan
Where we went was so strange.
It was such a bizarre, bizarre place.
unidentified
Cold.
joe rogan
Cold as fuck, and it was just so unlike anything that you ever do in your normal life as a comedian in LA. Right.
bryan callen
It's so true.
joe rogan
We didn't have cell phones.
We didn't have text messages.
I haven't done that in a long time, man.
And the crazy thing is that we both talk about how you have energy all day.
Like, even though you're not eating the best food, I mean, we had good food.
We had, like, camp food, like apples, and we had, like, beef jerky, and we had freeze-dried meals that we would have for dinner and protein bars and stuff like that.
It wasn't like we were malnourished.
bryan callen
No, but we were talking about how you get there and it's so quiet.
You don't have access to your cell phone, internet, nothing.
And I think you're not spending any time taking in stimulus.
You're spending time listening to your own breathing and responding and connecting with people.
And somehow I had such clarity of focus and energy on that whole time.
joe rogan
Well, I definitely don't think we're designed to live the way we live.
unidentified
Mm-mm.
joe rogan
We're trying to adapt, and I think future generations will probably have some physical capabilities that we don't have.
bryan callen
One theory about autism is the fact that we're now...
You have these hyper-autistic people who are high-functioning.
They can take in a tremendous amount of stimulus, see a room, and count everything in it that fast.
This guy, Juan Enriquez, was saying on TED.com, he's a venture capitalist scientist, and he said...
It may be that our brains, because we're exposed in such a short period of time to 500 times the stimulus that our – we see more in one day than our ancestors saw in a lifetime as far as just the amount of stimulus, the amount of sounds, the thoughts that are crammed into our brains just through visual stimuli and auditory stimuli.
Our brains very well may already be evolving to match and coordinate with this ever-changing, exponentially growing environment.
joe rogan
Well, that's what I'm wondering about, like, with Wi-Fi signals and cellular signals and all the different...
There's like...
I don't understand signals.
You know, I kind of...
I know that they're there.
I know that there's radio.
I know that there's television.
I know that there's stuff that's being sent out and somewhere someone's receiving it.
But I don't understand it.
And so I don't understand, like, what is it doing to biology?
They know that it's having an effect on bees, especially cell phone signals.
They think that it might be like a steady jackhammer sort of thing that's affecting bees, like just an interference.
It's aliens.
brian redban
Remember, aliens is air, so that's what the Wi-Fi signal is, like we talked about yesterday.
bryan callen
I honestly think all this stuff is edging us toward becoming one with the machines, for real, and then ultimately, to that effect, creating this sort of universal connectedness, you know?
We're not going to be biological for very long.
joe rogan
I wonder if we're ever going to evolve some ability to tune in to these signals without adding something to the body, without adding a chip.
How fucked would it be if the human...
bryan callen
I think we are going to add chips way before that question arises.
I think things are moving so quickly.
We're working on synthetically biological computer chips.
joe rogan
Yeah.
brian redban
Google faces.
Where they're just gonna have like a Google face.
You're gonna get a new face.
joe rogan
I bet.
I bet you could probably do that someday.
bryan callen
Well, that's what Ray Kurzweil says.
joe rogan
Yeah.
bryan callen
We're going to mesh with machines.
Why in the world, if you had an eye that could see a mile away in the dark, why wouldn't you get an artificial eye?
Why wouldn't you?
Yeah, of course you wouldn't.
joe rogan
I'm old school.
I don't need my good legs.
unidentified
I'm going to sit here on my porch until everything stops.
joe rogan
Yeah, but maybe the next life is better.
I don't know.
bryan callen
I don't even know if maybe the afterlife is the notion that you live on as a computer program.
joe rogan
Yeah.
I mean, right?
bryan callen
If I can download your brain, everything that goes under your brain, I can download it.
All the content.
joe rogan
Right.
bryan callen
Which computer scientists are talking about a matter of when, not if.
unidentified
Maybe.
joe rogan
Like, not my brain.
Like, maybe your brain.
bryan callen
No, not your brain.
Your brain would require a huge mainframe.
unidentified
Too complex.
bryan callen
Huge mainframe.
joe rogan
Too much going on in subtext.
bryan callen
But then I take that brain and I put all your memories and everything you think about into a computer.
I can put it into a robot, maybe.
What does that say about your mortality?
joe rogan
I don't know.
bryan callen
I don't know the answer.
joe rogan
We only accept it if it's legit, if it's natural.
That's when we accept things, when they're natural.
bryan callen
I know, but you know, if you look at...
We've been, for example, genetically modifying...
Crops like corn and things that you would never recognize what corn was 200-300 years ago.
It's a different, you know, everything that you eat, everything including the animals you eat, have been genetically fucked with to become more productive in their output.
joe rogan
And isn't ultimately, I mean, we're calling it natural, what's natural and not natural, but isn't everything that human beings do natural?
Because we're a part of nature.
bryan callen
Absolutely.
joe rogan
Just as natural as the process of making honey.
bryan callen
But the other question, the other issue is that, yes, the idea of natural and biology is going to change when we realize that this human being that I'm looking at is a machine, like anything else.
In fact, a rather rudimentary machine, maybe 300 years from now, or 200 years from now, or 50 years from now, It may very well be that once we figure out exactly how the machine works with the genome and all these other ideas, well, I guess I can make now even a more complex machine.
So in the end of the day, if that machine is just as biological but more complex than this rusty old machine that breaks down after 90 years or whatever, Well, I don't know.
I don't know what biology means anymore.
joe rogan
What happens to the bacteria that exists in the biological organism?
Because that's like our tenants.
bryan callen
Well, first of all, we're already...
joe rogan
We'd have to boot them out.
bryan callen
But already what we're doing, what science is doing, is trying to learn how to harvest the good bacteria versus the bad bacteria.
And manage the body like an ecosystem, a mini ecosystem.
And more and more scientists are talking that the microbes that make up our body are exactly why we are the way we are.
They control everything from the natural moisture in our skin to the way we smell.
joe rogan
It's your personality.
It might have an effect on intelligence.
Autism may be connected.
Certain types of autism spectrum disorders might be connected to having an imbalanced flora.
It's fascinating, man.
The human body is a host for life.
There's billions and billions of organisms living inside your body.
It's hard for us to really imagine that we're not really an individual.
It's hard for us to imagine that we're a walking ecosystem.
bryan callen
Yeah, and also the idea that it's maybe hard to imagine that we are being nudged in a certain direction.
This is not chaos.
There's a direction we're being moved in.
joe rogan
And it's complexity, always.
From the beginning of human history to the moment they figured out how to roll things on logs, they have made it more and more and more and more complex.
Yeah.
The only thing that's not as complex is our stonework.
Ancient Egyptian stonework.
We had a guy yesterday, Philip Copens, who wrote this great book on Lost Civilization Enigma.
It's all on the ancient constructions of the past.
That's the only thing today that we still go, God damn, these motherfuckers had some crazy technology and some crazy insight.
bryan callen
The Egyptians?
joe rogan
Yeah, the Egyptians.
I mean, even the Romans and a lot of other people who made some incredible pieces of architecture.
It doesn't mean we couldn't do it today.
bryan callen
Well, we are doing it today, but I think on a subatomic level or a nano level, right?
joe rogan
Oh, sure.
bryan callen
Now most of the innovation is going toward creating robotics and tissue regeneration, growing new limbs.
joe rogan
We were talking about it that we think that...
bryan callen
I want to change that light.
joe rogan
Hold on.
Change a light?
What's in your eyes?
This thing back here?
Are you eye sensitive my friend?
They did call you game eye.
You know what a game eye is, folks?
It's when you're in the canoe and you're rowing.
You look up in the hills and if you see game, you got the game eye.
bryan callen
They called me game eye and the cashmere killer because I was wearing three layers of cashmere hunting deer and freezing my fucking tail off still.
joe rogan
It was fun, man.
It was really fun.
I'm so glad you went with me, man.
It made it a hundred times better.
bryan callen
All we did was laugh the whole time.
It was just a fucking laugh.
joe rogan
There was a time, I mean, it's such a disrespectful moment because we're actually butchering the deer.
But as we're butchering this deer, we're cutting into sections and Brian, I don't know what possessed him, but he got into this thing of jerking off into the ravine.
bryan callen
That was the ravine.
joe rogan
My character was the ravine So he starts doing this character where he's angry about stuff with his tongue sticking out of the side of his mouth and he's just jerking off into the ravine.
And it was so preposterous for what was happening.
Here we are like skinning this animal and hawking, chopping sections off of him.
It's really weird.
Skinning an animal and gutting it and skinning it.
bryan callen
I know, but no, the problem is if you put me in a sacred place, I start to freak out and I have to do something.
You should have seen me in church.
I went to church like four times in my life.
I couldn't do it, dude.
I'd start doing the craziest shit in the world.
joe rogan
Well, that's what I told him.
I was like, listen, having this guy with us is going to make the whole thing a hundred times funnier.
Trust me, we're going to have a great time.
Especially you and I together.
You're one of my longest running friends in LA. Yes, we have a language.
Yeah, we know each other so well.
We've been through so much shit.
I sent Brian to fuck my ex-girlfriend once.
unidentified
What?
joe rogan
Because I had a girlfriend at the time and I didn't want to cheat.
She's like, God, I'm so horny.
I'm like, I'll hook you up.
I go, he even looks like me.
Played my brother on news radio.
bryan callen
I remember that.
I remember that.
That was great.
She was fantastic.
Wow, that was a fucking good time.
joe rogan
Dirty, dirty girls.
bryan callen
Is that weird?
joe rogan
I can't handle that.
brian redban
You dated this girl?
joe rogan
Yeah, I dated her for a while.
brian redban
I would never think like, hey, I want my friend to fuck my ass.
bryan callen
If it's your really good friend, you don't really give a shit.
joe rogan
First of all, I knew me and that girl were never getting back together again.
No disrespect to her.
She's a nice person and all that good.
But I knew it was never happening again.
And he's my boy.
I don't care.
I don't give a fuck.
bryan callen
Yeah.
joe rogan
She needed some dick.
brian redban
Did Brian give you gonorrhea in this hunting trip?
joe rogan
She's my friend.
She needed some dick, you know?
What am I supposed to do?
Say, no, I can't help you.
I can help her.
I had the fucking solution.
bryan callen
I remember you calling me up.
You go, hey, I'm setting you up.
What are you doing tomorrow?
unidentified
I go, I don't know.
bryan callen
You're going on a date with my ex-girlfriend.
joe rogan
No, I said, you're going to go fuck my ex-girlfriend.
bryan callen
I was like, all right.
I think we met him for her.
I don't even know if we ate.
joe rogan
He fucked her behind a car and shot a load into her.
And she calls me the next day.
Your fucking friend came inside me.
bryan callen
I was young.
I didn't know.
joe rogan
I was like fucking young.
bryan callen
I was like, what am I supposed to do?
joe rogan
I was laughing so hard.
I was crying.
I was holding my...
Because I know you so well.
You're so fucking crazy.
And I couldn't believe that we did it in the first place.
I set you up to go fuck her.
I'm not even just laughing while she's telling me.
Your fucking friend came inside me.
I'm like...
I go...
I can never...
Very few ex-girlfriends have ever called me up complaining.
bryan callen
She didn't tell me not to.
I was young.
I was like, well, we're having sex.
Aren't I supposed to do that?
I don't know.
joe rogan
That's funny.
bryan callen
That's a whole different thing.
Yeah, you think about how fucking...
What a numbskull I was when I was younger.
I didn't understand girls were different.
I didn't really understand.
I couldn't...
I couldn't understand why they weren't just like me.
And then I'd date a girl who'd be, like, looking back on her, they were all great.
And I'd be like, why is she not behaving like my friends?
She's a fucking girl, you idiot.
joe rogan
Yeah, it takes a while to understand that.
bryan callen
I mean, I was just a fucking idiot.
Those poor girls were like, what is with this caveman?
You know, I'm not going to fuck you, like, in the elevator.
This is, you know, whatever it was, you know.
I'd be like, well, you should be more into...
I broke up with a girl because she fell asleep during Raging Bull.
That's not fair to a girl.
It's a great movie, but it's a fucking movie about a boxer.
The guy's like, girls aren't supposed to...
You know, it's not fair for me to be...
joe rogan
You were mad at her?
bryan callen
I was like, this is my favorite movie of all time, and you fell asleep in it.
I'm afraid I have nothing in common with you.
I didn't say that, but I made that choice in my head.
joe rogan
I was like...
bryan callen
Yes, but I was like, I can never talk to her.
joe rogan
I don't get that.
bryan callen
What the fuck is that all about?
joe rogan
It's raging bull, bro.
One of the things that I pride myself in is I've never tried to make someone that I've dated any different than who they are.
bryan callen
You were always good about that.
joe rogan
I'm not...
bryan callen
I had to learn that.
I was a fucking idiot.
I just know, it's more for me.
joe rogan
You can't bring someone a book and tell them they have to read it.
You can't do that.
bryan callen
I was like, how can you not be interested in this?
It's amazing.
Well, they were fucking at their own thing.
joe rogan
They got their own thing.
bryan callen
And a lot of times they were smarter than I was.
I look back on it.
If I had listened to them, I would have been better off.
joe rogan
Yeah, there's a lot of things that people I like really love and I could not care less if it existed, whether it's sports or certain types of music.
And I could love these people to death and whatever their opinion is.
Eddie Brown was always trying to turn me on to some new electronic band.
Four out of five of them are pretty decent.
But every now and then, he's into some shit that I'm not into.
brian redban
Four out of five?
Are you serious?
joe rogan
Four out of five?
brian redban
Those are pretty high odds.
I bet it's less than that.
joe rogan
Yeah, you're probably right.
It's about three out of five sucks.
bryan callen
He's being nice because he loves Eddie.
joe rogan
I'm being nice because I love Eddie.
But it's not...
Look, it's just taste in music.
He really loves Smashing Pumpkins.
He really loves...
I'm a Leonard Skinner guy.
I'm a Led Zeppelin guy.
I love, like, hearing the fucking guitar scratching on the pick.
You know what I mean?
I want to hear, like, the black keys.
Like, that's my kind of music.
bryan callen
And also, like, musicians a lot of times are listening to something different than we are.
Like, they hear more than we do, or they're just more in tune with something innovative.
joe rogan
Well, just Eddie has a very specific style that he fucking loves.
And, you know, he's very creative, man.
I mean, his own music is like, if you're into that style of music...
Eddie does some really top-notch shit, and now he does it with this dude, Compella.
They have this band called Smoke Serpent, and Compella, who's a really good rapper, raps over it, and Eddie puts his music on in the background.
And his thing has always been that he always loved hip-hop, but he didn't like the kind of music that was in the background of hip-hop.
He didn't like that whole sampling thing.
He's got that sort of electronic, smashing pumpkin sort of vibe of music.
He's really into that.
bryan callen
Everybody's different.
I wonder why that is.
It's different wiring, right?
joe rogan
Yeah, for sure.
I mean, look, there's some people who hate violence.
They hate violent sports.
They just don't like it.
But I can have great conversations with them about other stuff.
bryan callen
Listen, man, I just thought it was so funny.
The minute I saw that deer, I had one shot to get this deer.
Because you go all day looking for deer and you don't see one.
It was so cold.
The minute I saw that buck, my hat came off.
I didn't feel anything.
I was just literally like, I'm going to kill that fucking buck!
I'm not a hunter, and I don't really necessarily want to kill something.
joe rogan
Well, we were on a mission.
We were doing something that was very unusual for two guys that are in their 40s with kids, living in L.A., in the entertainment business, sort of.
I'm sort of still in the entertainment business.
I do comedy shows, I guess.
They're on my own, but I guess it's in it.
bryan callen
Those guys were a great audience, weren't they?
Our guides, Steve Rinella and Ryan, what's his last name?
Ryan Callahan.
joe rogan
Yeah, Ryan Callahan.
bryan callen
He was a great guy.
He was my guide, Ryan Callahan.
joe rogan
And Mo, the director, and Dan Doty.
I can't wait to see the video.
bryan callen
Dude, they were all great guys.
joe rogan
Listen, these guys are solid as fuck, man.
bryan callen
And they were a great audience.
They just laughed at us and we were just fucking around all the time.
joe rogan
Well, I don't think they've probably ever done a show like that.
Brian went, like, from the moment we got there, Brian was full tilt.
From the moment we got there, he was, this is all mining.
See this?
This is all long-term strip mining.
And I go, no.
I go, this is the Missouri River, you fuck.
This cut through this.
It used to be the great Western Inland Sea.
No, no, no.
This is mining.
bryan callen
Yeah, I was like, you don't know anything about it.
Even Steve Rinello who's been there, grew up there, he's like, yeah, this is all natural.
I go, nah, you're wrong about that.
But anyway, we'll move on.
joe rogan
Right away, he gets into his ridiculous character, and then it gets gayer and gayer as the day goes long.
bryan callen
I'm cracking Joe up.
So as long as I'm cracking Joe up, that's all I'm living for at that point.
So I'm like, if I got an audience, I can just see Joe's eyes, they're slits, and he's like, hee-hee-hee-hee.
I'm like, all right, that's fucking it.
joe rogan
That's awesome.
It was seriously no bullshit like going on a five-day comedy show where in between you took breaks to go be a caveman.
bryan callen
We have a lot on camera.
We got to steal it and put it on the fucking website.
joe rogan
Well, there's certain things like the Ravine Comer.
They said that they were going to give it to us because they could never put it on their show.
bryan callen
Yeah, we have to get it.
joe rogan
But he has a lot of control on this show.
I think it's on the Sportsman's channel.
One of those channels.
unidentified
Outdoors.
joe rogan
I think it's an outdoor show.
Which, by the way, I watch now.
I watch all these hunting shows now.
I'm fucking recording them and watching hunting shows.
bryan callen
Man, let you do it.
It's so fascinating.
unidentified
It's so fascinating.
bryan callen
You know what it's like?
I didn't get it before.
You're in the middle of nowhere.
You're never going to see this topography.
And then you see a deer.
You see something that you can actually get.
And I love deer meat, by the way.
But you see it and you're like...
It's like winning the lottery.
It's like all of a sudden you're like...
This whole rush of discovering something new.
joe rogan
Well, you're in their world.
That's the weirdest thing about what it is, is when you do this sort of what they call immersion hunting, we basically went into the wild, like the real, legitimate wild.
It's not a road that's untraveled.
People travel it every year, but it's not that many.
And the people that are traveling are all doing what you're doing.
They're all sneaking up on deers and shooting them.
And while we were there, we were there for five days.
We saw three other canoes.
So that was it.
Two other campsites.
So what it is is like this really inhospitable terrain that occasionally, you know, every couple days or so, a new person will venture into.
And it's that crazy.
It's another world.
This world doesn't have any cell phone signal.
You don't see a building anywhere.
You get on top of the mountain and you climb up for hours.
You get to the top and you look out and it's kind of scary because you don't see shit for anywhere, to the left or to the right.
It's more of these hills and valleys, hills and valleys and no help, no stores, no nothing.
So you got what you brought with you and what you can kill here in Cook.
bryan callen
That's right.
joe rogan
That's exactly right.
And so when you creep up on a deer and wind up shooting that deer and killing it, you entered into a different reality.
You plugged into this different reality of hunting.
bryan callen
And also, I thought the most profound part of it was butchering my own deer.
And I'll tell you why.
We have a real disconnect to the food we eat.
You go to a McDonald's and you're eating a steer that was maybe killed I don't know how many months ago and then skinned by some stranger and then quartered and put together and grinded and processed with other cows and it's a mixture of shit.
Maybe some of the cows came from China.
It's the same thing with chicken and stuff.
There's a real disconnect with the animal protein that we eat.
We don't know how it's lived.
We don't know how it's suffered.
We don't know anything about it.
And that's always bothered me.
And one of the things I thought was, there were two things I found profound about not only killing a deer with that rifle, the force and the feeling of it, but also then butchering the meat.
The intimate process of gutting a deer and harvesting the liver and the heart and then skinning it and cutting into that meat that you're going to eat, the heat, the heat from the inside of its body, because you've got to get in there.
I had blood.
We both had blood past my wrists.
And the intimate process The smell and the feel and the temperature, you really get a sense of the vast discrepancy between life and death and our own biology and how fragile we are.
You see what a scalpel, what a small knife can do to muscle and skin and sinew.
It's frightening.
It's frightening how easy it is to gut a deer, which is a much stronger animal than I am.
You know, it's just frightening to think about.
So it creates in your own sort of viscera a sense of true vulnerability.
And more importantly, like our own biology.
And I then had a very strong understanding and idea of how easy it was for hunter-gatherer or even our very recent ancestors to kill another human being.
Because when you kill an animal and you butcher it and you get that close to its body and its heart and its life force and then you see it go away.
Killing a human being would be exactly the same thing in a lot of ways because it's just another animal.
Now, obviously, we have different motifs on what a human being is.
They have a conscience and all that and blah, blah, blah.
But I'm just saying that I can understand how a hunter would make a very good and ready warrior.
There's a very...
Thin divide.
And most of us, as men in today's world, don't ever experience either one.
We don't experience death that intimately.
We don't experience even fighting that intimately.
Everything has to be simulation.
It has to be either a fucking video game or a jiu-jitsu mat.
joe rogan
Not even that.
How many of you are saying a jiu-jitsu mat?
That's the rarest of the rare.
Usually it's an argument in traffic.
Usually there's virtually no testing of yourself like that.
No connection to life and death like that.
bryan callen
Yeah.
joe rogan
And it actually made me more respectful.
bryan callen
It made me more respectful of deer, of the environment.
Being with a hunter like Ryan or Steve, what you realize actually is that hunters, to be an effective hunter, the irony is you have to have a deep, deep respect, love, and understanding of deer.
The animal, its behavior, and of the environment in which you are now a guest in.
joe rogan
Yeah, listen, it's not easy.
It's not easy.
I mean, people think you're just going out there and shooting defenseless animals.
No, what you're doing is you're going out and getting your own meat.
And it's a difficult fucking process.
It's very difficult.
And the guys who are really good at it, those guys love every aspect of it.
The Ryans and the Steve, Steve Rinell and Ryan Callahan, those guys that took us out there.
They love every aspect of it.
They're conservationists.
bryan callen
Yeah.
They're true conservationists.
joe rogan
They follow the rules to a T. To a T. They know every rule for every area they're hunting.
They pay attention to all of it.
Like where we were at, we couldn't use two-way communication.
So no one could say, like, hey, we saw some deer this morning.
You can't say that over the radio.
It's illegal.
bryan callen
Do you know what happened to me when I was hunting?
It changed my political point of view a little bit.
joe rogan
Really?
bryan callen
Yeah, you know why?
joe rogan
Why?
bryan callen
Well, this is weird because I always talk about being a libertarian and everything else, but then I realized the value and the importance of having strong regulation and rules.
Because if you talk to hunters and people who really know, without really strong anti-poaching laws, for example, or really strong regulation by the Fish and Game Service, you would have Everybody that I've talked to agrees, you'd have major abuses by assholes just machine gunning the whole fucking side of that ridge when they saw rams, and you'd have no game left.
And in fact, American history and history in the Middle East certainly that I know of bears that out, that people always overhunted, they always overfished, and they continue to do that.
joe rogan
People are cunts.
bryan callen
When our ancestors figured out that you could run a woolly mammoth off a cliff, guess what?
Woolly mammoth disappeared.
And they starved.
This is what happens.
So human beings actually can be very short-sighted and can not do what's in their best interest sometimes.
You need some regulation.
joe rogan
Well, you didn't think that that was a good idea before the trip?
bryan callen
I didn't know.
You didn't think about it?
I just always have a visceral reaction to any government organization.
I go, well, are they making it worse or better?
No, there are some very good and important...
joe rogan
They're probably the best.
It's all done by hunters.
It's all done by people who hopefully, I think, you know, there was some dispute about who was going to be in charge of it now.
It's like people who are more animal rights oriented.
bryan callen
No, I don't trust them because Steve Brunella and guys like Ryan are huge believers and huge lovers of animals.
joe rogan
Yeah, and the other thing is, man, people can't deny that it needs to be done because there's only two options.
Either you hunt the animals or you reintroduce predators.
And when you reintroduce predators, you've got a whole new set of problems.
First of all, you've cut down on some free meat.
So, unless you're saying that people should stop eating meat totally, you've cut down on the amount of meat.
You've cut down on the most...
Humane way of ever harvesting an animal.
Letting the animal live its entire life wild and normal and undisturbed until you take it.
So it literally is a free animal and you go and earn it and get that animal.
It's not an animal trapped in a pen that you force into a corralled area and then it gets a piston through the brain.
Right.
It's like...
Living in a feedlot.
So I don't understand why you would want people to stop doing it.
Is it the idea that people are upset at the idea of someone actually taking the life themselves?
I mean, that must be...
bryan callen
That's the only argument I can see, you know.
joe rogan
Maybe it's they recognize that that connection between taking that animal and butchering that animal is very close to the connection of taking a human life.
bryan callen
My issue with hunting is I would not hunt a bear or a lion or something that I'm not going to eat.
I don't believe in that.
joe rogan
Apparently mountain lions taste good.
Steve Rinella said that mountain lion steak is delicious.
bryan callen
Yeah, he talks about it in the book.
He's got tasting notes on mountain lions.
It's pretty funny on the media.
unidentified
That's funny.
bryan callen
It's hit or miss with mountain lions.
Sometimes it's so stringy you literally can't even chew into it.
If you roast it for a long time in a stew, it's kind of a pale meat and it's got an okay taste.
In fact, eating predators that live on animal protein is not such a good idea.
joe rogan
Except fish.
bryan callen
Except for fish.
joe rogan
Fish are all delicious that eat fish.
bryan callen
Yeah, that's a good point.
joe rogan
That's why you catch them with lures.
Stupid fucks.
How dumb are they?
It's like throwing a robot in front of you that you think you could fuck.
You dive on a prong stick in your asshole and you get dragged into another dimension.
It's like it's so rude.
bryan callen
I love what you say.
It's like you eat things with their face and you catch them by the face.
joe rogan
Yeah, well...
bryan callen
I'm so afraid of the ocean.
joe rogan
You should be.
bryan callen
Have you seen the ocean at night, dark when it's dark, pitch black?
unidentified
I have.
joe rogan
I've been on it in a boat before.
It's terrifying.
bryan callen
Me too.
joe rogan
My parents lived on a sailboat for a couple of years.
bryan callen
Oh my God.
joe rogan
Yeah, my parents got a wild hair across their ass and they decided to retire and kick back for a while.
And my dad just stopped working for a few years.
He went back to work afterwards, but he stopped working for a few years and just sailed around.
They lived in the Bahamas for a while.
That's great.
And they get stuck in a hurricane once.
bryan callen
Yeah, but then I always worry about pirates and things like that.
unidentified
Yes, yes.
bryan callen
I mean, if I could have a turret gun and a fucking.50 caliber sniper rifle and a SEAL team following me, it'd be fine.
joe rogan
Until we address the imbalance of the world, Brian Callen, there's always going to be pirates.
bryan callen
I suppose you're right, my friend.
joe rogan
You know, we're always concerned with fattening up our own pockets, but unless we feed those poor people of Somalia, they're going to keep doing what they want to do.
bryan callen
I agree, I agree.
joe rogan
How do you fix that?
The Somalia thing is so fucked up.
bryan callen
It's literally an area the size of Texas or Western Europe.
That area that they talk about is so vast.
And yes, you're going to have very poor people who come in and go, let's hijack that very big boat and take whatever we have.
joe rogan
You know how it started?
Do you know how the Somalia thing started?
They called themselves the Volunteer Coast Guard of Somalia because what happened was the Somalian people were essentially fishermen.
And Europeans started dumping toxic waste off their shores.
bryan callen
And fishing their shores.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Overfishing their shores with nets and shit.
And using a...
Did you hear that?
Or was it just me?
Did you hear that pop?
brian redban
I didn't hear it.
bryan callen
Yeah, I did.
joe rogan
You hear it.
And then polluting it with all sorts of toxic waste and just fucked up their whole ecosystem.
So all of a sudden these people can't fish anymore.
So they started holding these people captive.
They would catch one of these fishing boats or one of these boats dumping shit off their coast.
They would kidnap them.
And they would demand a ransom because you guys have fucked up our fishing.
We want some money.
And then they realized, you know what?
Fuck fishing.
Let's just start jacking, dudes.
All these people are in boats.
Everybody's going to want them back.
And so they just started taking over boats.
bryan callen
It's total chaos.
I always think about that Navy SEAL guy that actually on a boat as it was bobbing up and down.
Shot that dude with a headshot as his boat was bobbing up and down.
That's what you call good marksmanship.
He probably used a Win Mag 300. Apparently the gun I dropped that deer with was what some of the SEAL team snipers used.
joe rogan
That was a sick gun.
That gun was pretty awesome.
It was really accurate.
bryan callen
You shot really well, too.
You dropped your deer at, what, 200 yards or something?
They said it was a great shot.
joe rogan
It's hard to stay calm.
But like I said, I'm so used to doing things when I'm nervous.
I think it helped.
bryan callen
Me too.
joe rogan
Like knowing how to stay calm.
bryan callen
Once I remember to just control my breathing and just focus on my trigger finger, everything stopped.
joe rogan
It's so easy to say, but it's so hard to get a calm...
Relaxing.
Because you're also trying to calm yourself down.
bryan callen
You're out of breath to begin with usually.
joe rogan
It's very cold.
And you have ten seconds.
Because this fucking thing is not going to stay still.
This thing's moving.
So as it's turned inside to you.
bryan callen
You're on your belly.
You've got quills in your fucking leg.
joe rogan
Steve Vanilla blew a little horn.
It sounds like a fawn.
Like a little thing.
And the deer went like this.
And then boom!
That's where I shot him.
It's fucked up, man.
The whole process of it was fascinating.
And then eating it that night.
bryan callen
Well, you had gotten a deer, and I was so worried I wasn't going to get a deer.
And then I was like, we're going for a buck, and then I found out we could actually shoot bucks or does.
And he turns around and he goes, you want to shoot a doe?
I go...
Yeah, I want to shoot a girl.
I'm eating it.
joe rogan
Isn't it funny that that's a big issue for a lot of people?
Like, I don't want to shoot a girl.
bryan callen
Well, you know what else is interesting about where we were hunting is they were talking about the huge winter kills.
Most of those mule dealers don't make it through the winter.
joe rogan
They die of starvation or the cold.
That kills them more than predators.
Although we did find some mountain lion shits.
We found some big, fat, thick shit that were filled with hair.
bryan callen
Really?
joe rogan
Yeah.
He was like, man, that's either one hell of a coyote or a mountain lion.
He goes, most likely a mountain lion.
It's a pretty big piece of shit.
bryan callen
Wow.
joe rogan
He goes, big, fat, mountain lion asshole.
bryan callen
Was it as big as the shit that you took of me?
joe rogan
No, it was different than your shit.
It was more meaty.
They don't have any fucking vegetables or oatmeal in there.
bryan callen
Yeah, that's true.
joe rogan
I took a photo of Brian's shit, and we put a flag.
bryan callen
You made a flag.
He made a tinfoil flag, planted it next to my shit.
I did a lunge and presented it to him, and he took a picture.
Hey, we're 45, everybody.
joe rogan
What I was going to say on Twitter...
That Brian took this shit off the Missouri River and we put a flag next to it.
If you can go find it, I'll give you $1,000.
I was going to have a Twitter contest to find Brian's shit.
But you have to use these waste bags.
You can't just leave your shit laying around on the Missouri River.
It's foul.
You have to dig it up and put it in these waste bags or shit in the bag itself.
The bag has some powdered chemical in it that kills the smell and you zip it up and seal it.
So we had to essentially carry five days worth of shits with us.
bryan callen
It was so weird.
joe rogan
The whole thing was, living like that was really fascinating.
And man, when we got back to that hotel room on the fifth day, we landed our boats, we traveled like 40-something miles by canoe, and every day it was like six miles hiking.
And when we got back...
bryan callen
I stunk.
joe rogan
I stunk terrible.
But when I got in that shower, oh my god, I was so appreciative.
bryan callen
And then we had a great meal with the wine.
joe rogan
Yeah, it was great.
What was the name of that place we went to?
bryan callen
I think, what was it called?
It was really good.
Fuck.
Walters?
No.
joe rogan
Walkers?
Walkers?
Yeah.
Really nice people, too.
bryan callen
Really good food.
joe rogan
Great place.
Billings, Montana is surprisingly diverse.
bryan callen
Yeah, it is.
joe rogan
We saw a black guy there.
bryan callen
A couple of black guys.
We saw several gay gentlemen who were sitting at our table, in fact, at one point.
Some were working as waiters.
I felt at home.
joe rogan
I was like, this looks like LA or New York.
The gay guy was swapping gossip with me.
It was awesome.
Oh, really?
Oh, yes.
He was telling me about this one and that one.
Then there was the guy that we met that had a stroke because he did too much meth.
bryan callen
Yep, I remember him.
Handsome guy, but just had a stroke.
joe rogan
Fucking meth is bad, folks.
bryan callen
Yeah, nobody ever did meth and went, you know what?
Everything worked out after that.
joe rogan
This dude got a stroke from meth.
He was 23 years old.
He had a fucking meth stroke.
Like, whoa.
So he's recovering from that.
But like the kitchen is like, you know, they were all like hipsters working there.
The chef had this big knife tattoo on his forearm.
You know, it's like, it's really interesting.
Like, here you are in this, what used to be thought of as a cow town, like a classic cow town, Billings, Montana.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
But in fact, it's like really kind of a cool town.
A lot of cool and interesting people.
bryan callen
There are a lot of gems, hidden gems like that in this country.
Columbia, Missouri is just an unbelievable little town.
joe rogan
It's a college town.
Yeah, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
bryan callen
What is it called?
joe rogan
Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Yeah, Ann Arbor's another great town.
I think it's called the Comedy Showcase.
No.
bryan callen
I am doing helium this weekend, though.
Friday, Saturday.
joe rogan
Helium in Philly is one of the all-time great clubs.
unidentified
Really?
joe rogan
It really is, yeah.
bryan callen
Come get your tickets, heliumcomedy.com.
joe rogan
Yeah, just go to Brian's Twitter.
You got it up on your Twitter, right?
bryan callen
I'm putting it up.
joe rogan
You don't have it up yet?
And you're there this weekend?
bryan callen
I should have it up, right?
joe rogan
You son of a bitch.
bryan callen
I'm doing it right now.
I'm tweeting right now.
joe rogan
I'll put it up.
We'll put it up after the show.
I'll do it for you.
bryan callen
Have you done Gotham in New York?
I'll be in Gotham.
joe rogan
Yeah, I've done Gotham.
bryan callen
The following weekend.
joe rogan
Yeah, I used to do that all the time.
bryan callen
Chris D'Elia is my boy.
I mean, Chris Mazzilli, who owns it.
You know.
joe rogan
Yeah, Gotham is a great club.
It's another one of the best clubs.
It's like one of the best clubs.
I think it's my favorite place to play in New York.
I used to do Caroline's when I came into town, but Caroline's has that stage that's so small.
bryan callen
Yeah, I'm actually hosting on Thursday, the 15th.
I'm hosting live at Gotham, which they're shooting again.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah?
unidentified
Yeah.
bryan callen
That'll be fun.
Then I have my own.
joe rogan
I did that once.
bryan callen
Then I'm doing two shows Friday on the 16th and two shows Saturday on the 17th of November.
So come by.
Gotham Comedy Club.
joe rogan
That place was fun.
I did that once.
bryan callen
Yeah, you did it.
In fact, I was with you when you...
I wasn't even doing stand-up and you got up and did a set there a long time ago.
unidentified
Really?
bryan callen
Yeah.
We killed it.
It was me and Patty.
We watched you and...
joe rogan
Powerful Patty.
bryan callen
Powerful Patty.
You should get her on that podcast.
She's fucking awesome.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
I would love to have her on.
I love Patty.
bryan callen
We had a talk about the afterlife on my podcast.
unidentified
Yeah.
bryan callen
She was so fucking good.
joe rogan
Patty's a funny...
Patty's Brian's ex-girlfriend who's also a brilliant director.
Just a fascinating chick.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
She's so rare because she's so very dude-like.
When you're having conversations with her, she's very dude-like.
When she was describing to me situations like actress breakdowns and craziness and the kind of stuff that she has to manage, like being a director, sometimes it's like babysitting.
I know.
We always hear, like, Kevin Pollack was on, Opie and Anthony yesterday, and was talking about some instance that he had on a set with Michael Clarke Duncan being a diva, and he told the whole story about it, even after the guy was dead, you know?
But it's like, they all have these fucking stories.
Like, every director, every person who works a set, they all have these nutty stories of something.
bryan callen
Dove Davidoff just told me that he interviewed on his podcast Lorenzo Lamas.
By the way, I just did Dove on my podcast on ManThoughts, which I'm posting today.
He went to a psychiatrist, Dove, and you know what the psychiatrist said after 20 minutes?
He goes, I see what's going on here.
Dove goes, what?
He goes, you actually don't think you have a right to be born.
I mean, you don't think you have a right to exist.
Is that how you feel?
Dove was like, yeah, that's exactly how I feel.
Yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
Really?
bryan callen
Yeah, we talked about it on the fucking podcast.
joe rogan
Wait a minute, Dov Davidoff doesn't feel like he should have the right to have been born?
bryan callen
Yeah, if you know how he grew up, it's his fucking life.
I mean, Renee Zellweger's starring and directing the movie of his life.
joe rogan
She's playing Dov Davidoff?
bryan callen
She's playing the girl that likes him and loves him.
She's playing Dov Davidoff.
joe rogan
She's like, I can do it.
bryan callen
Johnny Knoxville's playing Dov Davidoff.
Wow.
In a story about his life.
joe rogan
That's a fascinating thing.
bryan callen
I'm posting the fucking podcast today.
joe rogan
Did Dove write all the dialogue and everything?
bryan callen
Yeah, yeah.
It was initially his thing.
I put him together with Anthony Tambacis, my buddy who wrote Warrior.
unidentified
Oh, he wrote it?
bryan callen
Anthony's such a badass writer.
Every draft he'd come up with, you'd be like, how the fuck do you write this?
joe rogan
You know, Warrior was a strange movie because it didn't get the attention that I thought it deserved.
I saw that movie and I was like, wow, that's going to be a big hit movie.
The only problem with that movie was the two-day fighting thing.
They fought two days in a row.
I was like, man, I feel like you could have got around that.
You had everything up to that.
I mean, there was some cliched topics and cliched angles, but it was done so fucking well.
Everybody from Nick Nolte...
Down to the two brothers.
I mean, it was really done well.
It was a great fucking movie.
I enjoyed the shit out of it, man.
And my wife enjoyed it.
She doesn't really even like fighting.
bryan callen
It tested higher with women than it did with men.
joe rogan
It's a good fucking movie, dude.
unidentified
Yeah, it really was.
joe rogan
It was a good fucking movie.
But for whatever reason, it just disappeared.
Like, I didn't get it.
I was confused.
There's a lot of times that happens, man, where a movie just will just slip through.
bryan callen
But a movie like that, too, was so epic.
So much was put into it, and it made $6 million or something.
It's only a weekend.
It's just such a heartbreak, you know?
joe rogan
It's too bad.
I don't get it.
I would have thought that movie would have taken off.
Maybe it's just people were just like all...
Whoa.
We got a problem, Brian.
That thing just popped really loud.
brian redban
I think it's just the headphone jack problem.
bryan callen
Yeah, I think it is.
Actually, that's what it felt like.
joe rogan
Really?
bryan callen
Yes.
joe rogan
Brian, how do you know?
You talk shit.
bryan callen
Because I felt it when I moved.
I moved this.
joe rogan
Oh, it's you, you fuck.
You're moving things.
And that's why it's popping.
bryan callen
See?
Ha ha ha ha.
We solved the problem.
joe rogan
Son of a bitch.
This is a new thing, actually, that we got.
I ordered one of those, right?
unidentified
Yeah.
Anyway, where were we?
joe rogan
We're at a loss of words.
bryan callen
We're talking about...
brian redban
How the movie only made six million dollars and it's heartbreaking.
bryan callen
Writing anything in life and, you know, doing a movie or anything that takes a long time, building a business, it's all an act of faith, man.
And guess what?
Sometimes it just doesn't fucking work.
You just hope it does.
joe rogan
The problem is you're dealing with a giant group of people and trying to, everybody's vision, trying to funnel them into, like, one sort of cohesive laser beam.
unidentified
Right.
bryan callen
Listen, man.
It's like I told you I had to sit down with Mr. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
unidentified
Just me, him, and fucking John Leguizamo.
joe rogan
Yeah, you had a good time, huh?
bryan callen
Well, no, the reason I bring it up is he was talking about being governor for eight years and how fucking getting anything done was basically impossible.
So he'd have a really common sense measure, let's say, measuring the groundwater for farmers because we can use more of that water to go, you know, we don't need all this water.
Let's measure the groundwater, see how much you need, and we'll siphon the rest off in L.A. And the farmers look at him and go, oh, nah, it's not going to happen.
He's like, what do you mean?
Common sense?
We'll be right back.
Three hours later, seven Republican senators are up in his office going, Mr. Governor, you're not going to measure the groundwater.
It's not going to happen, but here's what we'll do.
You call for a measuring of the groundwater, and we'll act like, basically, and then the farmers won't let us on the land.
Everybody wins, huh?
You get it?
You get it now?
How's that?
He's literally saying, you're dealing with such powerful special interests.
He said, the only thing I could do as a governor was veto shit.
By the way, talking to him, he's so socially liberal.
I'm right down.
This guy, he's just physically conservative.
He's talking about the insanity.
joe rogan
He's more of the pull yourself up by the seat of your pants.
bryan callen
Yeah, but he's also very socially liberal.
He believes in marriage.
Yeah, and also he believes we should just think about global warming.
He's got regulations.
I'm right with him practically.
As he was speaking, he was just so fair-minded.
But common sense measures, common sense farming policy in this country where you don't subsidize huge factory farms, try doing that sometime.
Try getting elected.
These people spend all day down on Capitol Hill.
When was the last time you were petitioning Capitol Hill?
joe rogan
It's just the system is stupid.
It's just really stupid.
bryan callen
You've got big labor unions that can make or break your election.
joe rogan
Well, Obama's been talking about special interest groups.
He's been talking about getting rid of lobbyists.
bryan callen
It's hard, though, because constitutionally you're allowed to petition your government.
So how do you get around that?
I don't know.
I mean, there is a way.
joe rogan
Yeah, constitutionally, the Bill of Rights used to also have a lot of shit, and it's not there anymore because of Patriot Act, NDAA. You could easily fix that, too.
bryan callen
You could.
joe rogan
It just seems like the idea of a lobbyist, it should be completely illegal.
It should be completely illegal that you can use money.
bryan callen
There's something wrong with the fact that all those counties around Capitol Hill are the wealthiest counties and they don't produce a goddamn thing.
It's just lawyers and lobbyists.
They don't produce anything.
What they do is they go...
They're unbeholden of various companies and they go and say, Hey, Mr. Senator...
You need to vote for this because it'll bring a lot of jobs also to your constituency.
We need a new airplane.
And Boeing happens to have a plan there.
You'll hire 1,100 people.
Just vote for it.
Don't look weak on defense.
joe rogan
They're system gangsters.
They find a system and they exploit the weaknesses in the system.
And that's where we're at.
So we have to deal with all these weaknesses.
And you can't...
You can't just say, well, you know, this is fine.
We just need to add some more laws.
No, no, no, no.
The whole thing should be parsed down to some really simple language, and you need to get all outside influence out of it.
It has to completely be the will of the people.
And if people choose to act like in groups as far as like, you know, religious groups want to boycott things or, you know, certain people, gay and lesbian people want to support things so they support gay marriage, that's fine.
That's all good.
Organize.
Do whatever the fuck you want to do.
But the idea that you can get to the actual politicians themselves with money.
bryan callen
And get special favors.
joe rogan
Yeah.
bryan callen
To make money.
joe rogan
That's crazy.
bryan callen
To make money.
joe rogan
That's crazy.
That doesn't make any sense.
That's ridiculous.
And it should be illegal.
How is that not legal, but yet insider trading is?
That doesn't make any sense.
bryan callen
Well, insider trading is not legal, but...
joe rogan
Not illegal, I meant.
How is that not illegal?
I should have said, how is that legal in insider trading is illegal?
I mean, it's essentially, it's all stealing.
It's all finding all these numbers and pulling them out of the system and sticking them into your account.
It's like you're doing some crazy shit.
You're influencing the way America runs.
bryan callen
You're influencing democracy, man.
joe rogan
Freedom.
You're influencing personal freedom for sure.
How many people are in private prisons right now due to non-violent drug offenses that are a direct result of lobbyists pushing for certain things to remain illegal?
That is clear.
That is money influencing people's freedom.
That is literally shifting in degrees, left or to the right, you know, as far as plus or minus, how many people are incarcerated?
bryan callen
That strikes me, what you're saying strikes me as the most important.
I believe that.
And I think it was James Madison who said that special interest groups have always been the threat to this form of system of government.
However, they'll cancel each other out.
But it's not happening.
It seems like the group that has the strongest...
Look at what organized labor...
I'm part of a union, so I understand unions.
But some of these fucking labor unions are just...
And I was talking to Schwarzenegger about this...
They're literally lobbying and they get it.
They lobby for when they retire after 15, 20 years.
They get 95% of their salary or whatever it is for the rest of their lives.
Now, who says we can't afford that?
They've bankrupt the state.
They have bankrupt the state.
It's all different kinds of organized groups of labor.
Look at what the United Auto Workers Union did to itself.
You could retire with 95% of your pension for the rest of your life and your whole family had benefits for the rest of their lives?
What are you talking about?
No, you couldn't sell enough cars to support your pension plan.
Is that the truth?
joe rogan
Yes.
bryan callen
That's exactly what happened.
joe rogan
95%?
bryan callen
95% of your salary.
So are you going to go out and look for another job?
Of course not.
And this is exactly what happens with these big pension plans.
joe rogan
Still though, in their point of view, they're busting their ass for 20 years, making millions of dollars for Chevrolet.
bryan callen
Not the point.
joe rogan
How about you give me my money forever?
bryan callen
Chevrolet couldn't afford it.
They bankrupt the company.
joe rogan
Sons of bitches should have made some better cars.
bryan callen
It's what I was talking about.
joe rogan
They should have made all Corvettes.
They should have thrown all those other shitboxes out and everybody would have had Corvettes.
Just make more, cheaper.
bryan callen
It wasn't even that their product was so bad and they're making really good products now.
It's that they can't afford their retirement pool.
And by the way, the same thing goes for almost every county in this fucking great state of ours, California.
California, economically, looks a lot like Greece.
And you know who told me that?
Arnold Schwarzenegger.
But you know, I also read that in Michael Lewis' book.
He did an exhaustive study on it.
California...
joe rogan
Do you think Michael Lewis gets any pussy?
Or is he just out there studying numbers?
bryan callen
He's so smart.
joe rogan
Just looking at numbers.
bryan callen
He's kind of a cool, from what I've seen pictures, he's kind of like a regular looking, pretty cool looking dude.
joe rogan
Yeah?
bryan callen
Yeah.
Some people write huge books and get laid all the time.
joe rogan
That's ridiculous.
bryan callen
I hate them.
joe rogan
Those sons of bitches.
bryan callen
At least I'm funnier.
unidentified
I hope.
joe rogan
You hope?
bryan callen
I hope.
joe rogan
You never know.
I'm sure you are.
bryan callen
It's always good to be around people who you're a little in awe of, who just are better at some shit.
joe rogan
It's important.
It's important to be around people that are good at shit too.
bryan callen
Smarter.
joe rogan
You know, I did San Francisco and Seattle this past weekend.
We did it with Brian and Greg Fitzsimmons.
Greg Fitzsimmons is fucking funny, man.
bryan callen
He's funny.
He's always been funny.
unidentified
Oh, dude.
joe rogan
He's always been funny, but he's got this new level of I don't give a fuck that I haven't seen from him before.
He took it to the next level this weekend.
He's great.
This past weekend was awesome.
He was really funny in Seattle, too.
bryan callen
How much time did he do?
joe rogan
Like a half hour.
bryan callen
That's great.
joe rogan
Yeah, it was awesome.
Killer.
It's just like my style of comedy that I enjoy watching.
Just like really ridiculous, rude, honest, hilarious, descriptive.
It was really fun.
There's certain types of music.
If you go to a club to see music, it's never just live music and you take a guess as whether or not it's going to be hip-hop or country-western.
But with stand-up comedy, we don't really have genres.
You could call someone a shock comic, which is derogatory, really, to a lot of folks.
But meanwhile, my favorite comics would be classified in the shock comic category.
Like Dice Clay...
Call him a shock comic.
I think he creates ridiculous scenarios that are disgusting and hilarious.
bryan callen
A lot of us think but don't say.
joe rogan
By the way, it's a fucking work of art.
He's a character.
His name isn't even Andrew Dice Clay.
He's made a character.
He does it on stage.
He's got giant glasses on.
And he says ridiculous shit.
You can't just diminish that by calling it shock comedy.
Because to me, it's not.
It's a style of comedy.
It's a legit style.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
But we don't have labels.
There's certain types of comedy where...
bryan callen
You and I were talking also about what a privilege it is to be a headliner and to be somebody who gets to perform all over the country.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's amazing.
bryan callen
Sometimes I look out, I was in Miami, like Fort Lauderdale, and at one point I just had him going pretty strong.
And I just looked at him and I was like, I felt like the luckiest human being in the fucking world.
That's why when I watch Matt McConaughey...
In fucking Magic Mike.
In his fucking leather chest girdle.
And his fucking...
His hot pants.
And he's coming off stage after dancing.
joe rogan
Hey, y'all.
How y'all doing?
bryan callen
Yeah, I did it!
Hey, hey, Yoker boy.
Come fucking do ten minutes of stand-up, you fucking idiot.
I don't jump off stage like, I just did an hour and a half and crushed him.
Somebody hug me hard so I can kiss your mouth.
joe rogan
What is this animosity?
unidentified
Anger from Matt.
bryan callen
I'm attracted to him, alright?
Expressing me.
I mean, I hate him.
brian redban
Touch you in Malibu?
bryan callen
No, I was just thinking about how, you know, you're an actor and you have five scenes in a movie and you're like, whoa, you were great in that movie.
You collectively are probably doing 10 or 15 minutes of actual activity, whereas when you do stand-up, you're up there for, you know, it's just a different, it's just a different thing.
It feels, it feels...
joe rogan
Well, why would you care, though, that he wants to...
bryan callen
Because I hate him so much.
joe rogan
What does it matter?
What's going on?
bryan callen
No, I just saw the movie and I was just looking at him going, you took this movie just so you could wear those outfits.
brian redban
He gave you the biggest boner, didn't he?
bryan callen
He did.
If I was gay, I would definitely...
He's a very attractive man.
brian redban
Which one would you choose out of the Magic Mike?
bryan callen
Oh, Channing Tatum.
brian redban
Really?
bryan callen
That's my boyfriend.
You kidding?
He's got a full mouth.
joe rogan
He's got the best genetics.
He's got thick lips.
He's got nice skin.
bryan callen
The eyes on him?
The cat eyes?
joe rogan
He seems confident, too.
bryan callen
He's a great guy.
joe rogan
I bet he's got a big cock.
bryan callen
Sense of humor.
Jesus, we're both really suddenly Joe Rogan and Brian Callen, gay as it gets, talking about Channing Tatum's cock.
So did you watch the actual whole movie?
The way you just said that, by the way, that just came out of you.
You just went, I bet he's got a big cock.
joe rogan
Bet he's got a big cock.
Did you watch the actual whole movie?
bryan callen
Yeah, because I wanted to annoy myself more and more.
Although I thought the movie was good and I liked Channing Tatum.
I mean, I had my hands.
joe rogan
That movie looked so gay that I was flipping through the channels.
I was flipping through the channels and I saw it.
It popped up and I went...
Whoa, change it quick.
Like, you know how you're flipping through, like, you have preview and the next preview?
unidentified
I know.
joe rogan
Like, at a hotel.
I was chilling in a hotel.
And I was like, this is so gay.
I gotta get it off.
Like, dudes were, like, gyrating back and forth.
Which, by the way, I don't think women like that.
I think that motion is really just isolated as someone riding dicks.
I don't think that gyrating, like, the way a guy's doing it.
Women like thrusting.
They like to get fucked.
They don't...
They want you, you're a dick rider, you dick riding circle man.
Dick riding sweaty circle man.
bryan callen
And McConaughey's doing, he's got a fucking leather thong and he's doing back bends and shit.
But the character, I was watching, what bothered me was I was watching, I go, you know, as an actor, if I took that role, there's a lot I'd do with that role maybe, but I wouldn't because there's not a lot to do.
Like he played it just one note.
joe rogan
Shut the fuck up, bitch.
You would take that role in a goddamn heartbeat.
bryan callen
Well, I gotta, I gotta.
joe rogan
You and Channing Tatum in your underwear.
bryan callen
Forget it.
joe rogan
That guy would be your boyfriend.
He'd be carried around like he was crossing the wedding nuptial line.
bryan callen
Yeah, but I would look like I have fucking rickets next to that guy, so I don't want to do that.
joe rogan
You would do the movie with him, though, dude.
You would do it.
So shut the fuck up.
You're giving Matthew McConaughey a hard time, and you're doing the movie.
Maybe he just wanted to meet Channing Tatum, too.
bryan callen
You know what?
brian redban
Just tell us about it.
bryan callen
Matthew, I'm sorry, brother.
I don't mean to put you down.
unidentified
You've got a point there.
joe rogan
Seems like a nice enough guy, Matthew McConaughey.
bryan callen
I hear he's a very nice guy.
joe rogan
Yeah, I hear he's a nice guy, too.
bryan callen
Doesn't mean he's not really vain and annoying.
joe rogan
Well, listen, man.
He's playing a part.
If you judged me based on the movie Zookeeper, you'd think I was a total douchebag who can dance.
bryan callen
He does push-ups in front of the fucking pavilions in Malibu.
joe rogan
He does?
bryan callen
Yeah, with his shirt off.
joe rogan
No, he doesn't.
bryan callen
Yeah, he does.
joe rogan
If I see you and you're doing push-ups in front of the pavilion in Malibu, I'm going to take your back.
That's right.
I'm going to take you back and I'm going to get the hooks in, my friend.
bryan callen
Or just kick him in the ribs.
joe rogan
He can scream all you want.
You shouldn't have been doing push-ups with your shirt off.
bryan callen
With a knapsack on?
You're not allowed to do that.
With a knapsack on and a bandana while tourists take pictures of you?
joe rogan
Is that what he was doing?
bryan callen
Yeah.
That annoys me.
joe rogan
He wanted to be really fit for this movie.
Maybe it was something he was working on.
What kind of exhibitionist...
Could he become?
Because he was playing a part in a movie, man.
brian redban
Did you murder Heath Ledger?
joe rogan
Think about that.
Look, think about what's-his-name does when he does Daniel Day-Lewis, when he gets immersed in a role.
bryan callen
Yeah, he's amazing.
joe rogan
I mean, he's unbelievably immersive.
Maybe that's what Matthew McConaughey was doing, was just being a douchebag.
bryan callen
Don't agree.
joe rogan
He's playing a douchebag in a movie, man, and that's douchebag activity.
bryan callen
The role isn't so much of a douchebag.
The role is more of a, just like, he's supposed to be the club owner, but you'll see what I mean.
joe rogan
Would it be okay if he did push-ups in a place where nobody could see?
Like say if there was like some grass in front of his car and nobody could see and he dropped down for a quick 50?
bryan callen
No, here's what bothers me.
joe rogan
Are you okay with that?
bryan callen
Here's what bothers me.
Yes, there I am.
But here's what bothers me.
If you work out just for the sake of vanity and then when I see what you're doing is you're just sculpting for it to be a peacock...
I understand.
I get staying in shape.
There's something about it.
If it's not for something functional, if it's not for something that you're doing, I immediately, I'm just saying, you can do it.
You're not my friend.
That's all I'm saying.
That's all I'm saying.
You're not my fucking friend.
joe rogan
Why is that?
What about a guy who's just doing bench presses and curls, never touches the legs, just wants to look good in a tight shirt?
bryan callen
But if he's doing it, you know why I like that?
Why I got no problem with that?
He's doing it so he can go out and get laid on a Saturday night.
Fucking A. God bless you.
joe rogan
What do you think Matthew McConaughey's doing when he's wearing leather underwear doing back pants?
bryan callen
He's doing it so he can fucking get the dailies and jerk off to himself.
unidentified
Okay?
bryan callen
That's why he's fucking doing it.
And there's a difference.
When I see Matt McConaughey doing a role like that in Magic Mike, all I'm seeing is something masturbatory.
I watch Channing Tatum.
He's trying to do something.
He's actually playing a character who's fucking conflicted about being a 30-year-old stripper, and it's fucking great.
McConaughey, it's a masturbatory performance.
He's watching himself.
He's not trying to do anything.
He's not trying to express anything.
joe rogan
Well, how do you know?
That's what he's trying to play.
I mean, the guy is showing a pretty broad range of acting.
I don't agree.
I don't agree!
I don't agree!
You fuck!
Go marry him!
I don't want to marry him, but he was really good in contact.
brian redban
What the hell is going on here?
bryan callen
He was alright.
joe rogan
He was good in contact.
I enjoyed him.
I thought he was sensitive.
bryan callen
He's not without talent.
joe rogan
I thought he really seemed like the type of guy that would fall in love with Jodie Foster.
bryan callen
That was a long time ago.
joe rogan
Listen.
bryan callen
I can't believe he just brought that in.
joe rogan
He was great.
It's amazing that even after all those years, he still has such a great body.
bryan callen
He looks phenomenal.
He looks phenomenal.
I mean, he's got his hair, his skin is really youthful.
joe rogan
Hair's probably fake.
They just probably glue some hair out.
bryan callen
Maybe there's a lot that's fake.
unidentified
What are you doing?
brian redban
Magic Mike?
bryan callen
Here's Magic Mike.
But this isn't McConaughey.
unidentified
No.
bryan callen
Watch him.
unidentified
Good.
Because I do.
brian redban
There's your boy.
There's your boo-boo.
unidentified
He's awesome.
The businesses that I manage, they deal exclusively in cash.
He's got a great sense of humor, too.
bryan callen
There he is.
brian redban
That's son of a bitch.
unidentified
Mike has fans.
bryan callen
Watch him dance, though.
That's him doing it, too.
brian redban
You are that dreamboat guy that never came along.
unidentified
That's a cool table.
Are you a major?
You should sell these things.
brian redban
That's actually the idea.
unidentified
How do you know my brother?
I'm an entrepreneur.
brian redban
I manage a few businesses.
unidentified
Try to hit on my sister.
Okay, good talk.
Entrepreneur stripper or stripper entrepreneur?
Either one.
I was hoping this was all a joke.
It's pretty funny.
I'm just trying to figure out why stripping.
Women, money, and a good time.
Just try not to forget about the people who exist in the daylight.
The non-vampire.
bryan callen
Are we fighting?
brian redban
Is this our first fight?
joe rogan
Wait a minute.
Is he a stripper with a heart of gold?
He sure is.
I think that's what's going on here.
bryan callen
Man, dude, is that Channing Tatum?
Oh, it's Joe Rogan.
That was so weird.
unidentified
I just can't be around your lifestyle.
joe rogan
Am I Magic Mike right now talking to you?
brian redban
This might be Roadhouse, Joe.
joe rogan
This is the new Roadhouse.
bryan callen
It's actually an okay movie, man.
joe rogan
Brian, you just turned gayer than this whole movie.
You just went gayer than gay marriage.
bryan callen
There's Matt!
There he is.
joe rogan
Oh my god, he does that Kiss Me song?
Really?
That's it?
I want to see more.
unidentified
You don't want to know what I have to do for 20s.
joe rogan
Oh, I get it.
You suck a cock.
You know, that's what really goes on with those guys.
bryan callen
Look at the body of this kid.
joe rogan
Damn, what a handsome bastard.
bryan callen
I know.
He's about 6'1", too.
Look at the back on him.
joe rogan
Strapping beast of a man.
bryan callen
Yeah.
Played college football, I think.
joe rogan
Strapping fucking athlete.
Who the fuck would...
Why did you watch that?
I don't know what happened to you.
You dropped on your head when you went hunting.
bryan callen
Did you slip?
Mrs. Callen wanted to watch it.
joe rogan
Oh, Mrs. Callen wanted to watch it.
bryan callen
I was like, alright.
brian redban
He's Wow.
joe rogan
I might have to get high and watch it, but I'll probably get really scared.
I'll probably have to get my blankie.
bryan callen
You get a little jealous.
brian redban
You better be inside of a pussy when you watch it.
bryan callen
Really?
joe rogan
I can't do that.
I don't have that kind of stamina anymore.
Neither do I. Or desire.
bryan callen
Or chaos.
I was about to say.
Or will.
brian redban
That's why you need these jokes.
joe rogan
I got tricked early on in life, but I figured it out now.
I'm fine just beating off and then going about my business.
unidentified
Oh my.
brian redban
Dude, you gotta take one of these pills.
joe rogan
Yeah, what is this stuff you took?
brian redban
It's Hot Rod 5000. Throw that shit over here.
And I took one last night when I got home.
joe rogan
What's in it?
I can't read this.
unidentified
It's too small.
brian redban
It's something extracted from ants, so I guess...
joe rogan
What?
brian redban
Well, I don't know why.
Something in ants make your...
You have hard-ons, and maybe you just don't know that ants have rock-hard boners the whole time.
joe rogan
Look at this label.
Look at what it is.
I guarantee you, this is probably some fucking prescription drugs that they just repackaged.
brian redban
It's marketed towards the gay community, I heard.
joe rogan
I bet you could get Viagra.
I'm not saying it is.
But what if it was?
Is it possible that you could get Viagra, like bulk Viagra?
Because they have generic, whatever it's called.
Modafinil or whatever the fuck, the actual chemical.
bryan callen
I think it's interesting that the label is so tiny that you can't even read it.
joe rogan
You can't read what the fuck's in there.
brian redban
So you think there's some kind of prescription thing in there?
bryan callen
I just wouldn't trust it.
joe rogan
They definitely found that with athletic supplements.
They definitely found that.
There's been a lot of athletic tainting where you take some shit and it actually has steroids in it.
There was some stuff that they used to sell that's illegal now.
That Andro shit?
Yeah.
Well, there was a thing called Mag-10 that I took, and holy shit, it was unbelievably strong.
And you could get it at GNC. I was fucking so strong when I was taking that stuff.
It was amazing.
bryan callen
Just buy it.
Was it Decanable or something?
joe rogan
I don't know what the fuck it was.
But it was, essentially, it was an oral steroid.
I mean, it had an effect of a steroid.
And you can get it at GNC for a little while.
They used to have GHB at GNC. I know.
bryan callen
I remember seeing that shit.
It was in a refrigerator.
joe rogan
That's hilarious.
brian redban
But it was the biggest, I mean, it just wouldn't go away.
Like, I would masturbate, and then just be another boner, and I'd have to masturbate again.
unidentified
That's amazing.
brian redban
It was just crazy.
joe rogan
That sounds like it's just as good as Viagra.
brian redban
Yeah, it was really good.
bryan callen
Were you watching Magic Mind?
brian redban
No.
bryan callen
It was just a coincidence.
It was odd that I had a boner.
joe rogan
Well, I mean, the only thing that they could be doing is maybe it has some nitric oxide effect.
I mean, that's the idea behind, like, those...
bryan callen
It opens up your...
joe rogan
The NO2 pills?
bryan callen
Your capillaries?
brian redban
Yeah, Brody said that gave him crazy boners.
joe rogan
Yeah, that gives you boners.
Yeah, that has a very Viagra-like effect.
bryan callen
What's that?
joe rogan
Those nitric oxide drinks.
You know those drinks like NO2 explode and shit?
Which might be illegal now.
brian redban
Explode?
joe rogan
Frothy Explosions?
Yeah, maybe that's what I'm talking about.
Frothy Loads.
There was some other stuff called Jack 3D. One of those is off the market now.
One of them they yanked.
brian redban
Yeah.
joe rogan
I think it was Jack 3D. Jack sounds like it should be yanked.
Dude, I used to take that stuff before I lifted and I'd just fucking start sweating immediately.
Your heart's pounding, sweating, like...
bryan callen
I'm waiting for them to...
I want them to block the myostatin in my fucking muscles.
joe rogan
No, you don't want to do that, man.
You look like that artificial you that they used for your ad for your comedy special.
You holding the mic up in the air.
bryan callen
I had to blow my arms in my...
joe rogan
They look like Dean Lister's arms.
bryan callen
I want them to be bigger, because it looked like it would have been just more stupid.
joe rogan
Because they're like, we can't...
Look, it doesn't make any sense.
Look at your head.
bryan callen
Exactly.
joe rogan
You don't have the framework for this.
bryan callen
I have a narrow head.
joe rogan
It's weird when you see people that have big parts of their bodies and then everything else is normal.
bryan callen
Well, Brendan Schaub's a little bit like that.
Brendan's got a small...
He's got a head that fits on me, but he's 6'5", 250. And I was looking at his head and I go, dude, you have a fucking...
His hands and his head are not very big.
joe rogan
What did he say?
bryan callen
Did he say that so?
Yeah.
He was like, yeah, I know.
I got a small fucking head and I got a small...
I got a small head.
I was like...
Because the rest of his body is retarded.
He's so fucking strong.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's weird when people get like, is the worst the biggest head when you have a big head and a little body?
Is that the worst?
bryan callen
Well, a lot of stars have that.
joe rogan
A big head and a little body?
bryan callen
Yeah, like Mick Jagger and shit.
joe rogan
He's got a big head and a little body.
bryan callen
He's got a huge head.
He's got a giant head.
He's 130 pounds.
joe rogan
Well, your head keeps growing.
Your nose keeps growing.
Your ears keep growing.
That's the weirdest thing when you see old people and they have gigantic ears.
bryan callen
I know.
joe rogan
You're like, whoa, what is going on with your ears, man?
bryan callen
It keeps fucking growing.
joe rogan
A large nose, though, for some reason is not as disturbing.
Because some people, from the get-go, they have a large nose.
It's just a nose.
bryan callen
It's a masculine trait, too.
joe rogan
The ears, though, it's like, what is happening to your ears?
Can you stop those with ear guards?
Because that shit is worse than...
bryan callen
Can you bind your ears, sir?
joe rogan
What if you're an old dude with cauliflower ear?
I mean, you look like a fucking elephant.
bryan callen
Well, fucking Gene LaBelle.
You ever seen Gene LaBelle?
Gene LaBelle's ears are so big that the sun never hits his face.
I was like, what the fuck is with those ears?
He's got a giant head.
joe rogan
He's 80. He's 80. Yeah, he's an older gentleman.
I wouldn't want him getting me in a fucking double wrist lock.
bryan callen
At 80, he'll break your fucking wrist.
joe rogan
There was a story about some kids breaking into a car in this neighborhood just fucking 10 years ago or whatever, when he's 70 years old.
And he went out to stop them and they gave him a hard time.
He put one of them to sleep, the other one he flips on his head.
He's no joke, dude.
bryan callen
No.
joe rogan
There's a certain old man you can't fuck with, man.
You couldn't fuck with him when he was young.
bryan callen
He was a stunt guy on Death Valley, the TV show I did.
And I'm in the makeup chair, and I'm pontificating about fighting.
In the makeup chair?
The blue belt in jiu-jitsu, I'm talking about, well, the guy's going to beat him in this UFC fight, and I'm going on and on.
I'm basically Joe Rogan Light in the fucking trailer, but I don't know as much, and I'm being a fucking...
If you'd heard me talk, you'd have been like, was this guy fighting the octagon?
A little knowledge goes a long way.
Fucking Gene LaBelle starts piping in, but he's got zombie makeup on.
And I go, ah, you seem to know fighting a little bit.
And the other stuntman goes, it's Gene LaBelle, bro.
And I go, holy shit, Mr. LaBelle, I'm so sorry.
I've been talking about fighting this whole time.
And I was glued to his side for three days.
joe rogan
Like a little puppy.
bryan callen
Like a puppy dog.
Asked him questions and everything.
joe rogan
He's a sweetheart of a guy, too.
bryan callen
Yeah.
joe rogan
He judges, does a lot of judging.
Oh, does he?
You see him at MMA events, and he's always with Ronda Rousey.
She's a bad, badass chick.
bryan callen
Does she work out with him or something?
joe rogan
Well, I'm sure this year he's done some working out with her.
He's worked with a lot of those Armenian dudes, the go-karts guys.
What a group of fucking animals.
bryan callen
Are they?
Oh yeah, Karo, Manny Gamburian.
You told me you're one of the strongest shit, right?
joe rogan
Karo.
Karo's ridiculously strong.
Karo Parisian?
This was back when I think I was a blue belt or a purple belt.
He just ragdolled me.
bryan callen
Really?
joe rogan
Yeah, yeah.
He throwed me around.
He throwed me around.
He's strong as shit.
Well, you know, Karo beat Sokuju in a fucking judo match when he was a kid.
Sokuju is so much bigger than Karo.
And they had an open weight judo match and Karo beat him.
bryan callen
Some people are weird strong that way.
joe rogan
Kyle was just super talented at judo, too.
He had a real bad injury, though.
When he was training for the Matt Hughes fight, you know, Kyle had a bunch of, he's another dude that had a bunch of prescription pill problems.
And what happened was he tore his leg when he was training for a title shot back when Matt Hughes was champion.
And he tore it bad.
He flexes it.
When he flexes it now, it looks like a shark took a bite out of his leg.
And I'm not exaggerating.
His hamstring just disappeared, exploded, and he never got it surgically repaired.
So he's got this big concave area in his leg, and it took most of the power out of his leg.
And he got him on pain pills.
bryan callen
He didn't have health insurance or something?
joe rogan
Well, I mean, I don't know what it was.
I'm sure he didn't have health insurance.
Or maybe he tried to rehab it.
I'm pretty sure he didn't have insurance.
So now I don't know if there's anything they can do about it.
I think once the muscle slides back and rolls up, I think it's really hard to reattach it.
I think they have to do it right after the injury.
I know that's the case with biceps.
A lot of dudes, they blow their bicep out, and then they have no bicep.
Have you seen that before?
bryan callen
Yes.
joe rogan
A lot of fighters have that, where it curls up, and the top of their bicep is like a little knot, and then below it, there's nothing left.
bryan callen
So weird.
joe rogan
Yeah, and that's what it's like with his legs.
So it kind of fucked his career up.
You know, when you're making your living off your body...
bryan callen
Well, the other thing about training, you know, as you get older, and a lot of guys who have been training a long time, you want to go in and blow yourself to bits in the gym.
Actually, what happens is, by the time you're 40, a lot of times, You're having major problems with your hips or your knees and stuff like that.
So a huge part of exercise is knowing when to stop and doing just enough.
If you look at people's bodies, like athletes and stuff, you realize no matter how strong they are, we are fucking fragile, man.
Bone and cartilage doesn't really do well under duress.
joe rogan
Yeah, well, there's just certain parts of your body that break.
You know, there's nothing you can do about it.
bryan callen
Knees, hips.
joe rogan
Hips, ankles, you know, certain shit that just breaks down, man.
I see a lot of people with hip surgery, man.
That's scary fucking shit.
bryan callen
Dude, hip surgery sucks because when you get a fake hip, it's good for 10 years.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's ridiculous.
bryan callen
And you're not doing sports anymore.
joe rogan
And, by the way...
if they come out with some shit that grows you a better hip joint now you can't do it anymore yeah cuz you've hacked your shit off and put an artificial one in there well they're gonna have artificial bones artificial I mean have any already replaced like femurs and stuff or I don't know if it's a femur but I believe they were they've replaced part maybe it what's the big one is a fib in the tibula well they there are a couple people there are a number of people left I'm who have re built literally the trachea is and bladders
bryan callen
They take the cartilage from a cadaver.
brian redban
Our new sponsor, Cricket.
joe rogan
What is that?
brian redban
It's a cricket.
joe rogan
It's a real cricket?
unidentified
Yeah.
bryan callen
That's funny.
joe rogan
Oh, that's hilarious.
bryan callen
Yeah.
brian redban
You want me to try to find it?
I'll try to find it.
joe rogan
Yeah, try to find it.
bryan callen
You probably won't find it.
joe rogan
Brian will tell you.
Well, I was in the Mugabe Desert.
bryan callen
Well, I was going to say.
joe rogan
As soon as you get up, you stop twitching.
bryan callen
Try some raw hamburger.
Let it go rank.
But, uh, what was I talking about?
Something really important.
joe rogan
What were you talking about?
bryan callen
Now you're looking for it and it's shut up.
joe rogan
That cunty cricket.
unidentified
That cunty cricket.
joe rogan
Injuries, the body, recovering from sports.
bryan callen
Yeah, they took a trachea.
This woman, her trachea had to be removed because of tuberculosis.
And then they took a trachea from a cadaver and they sprayed it with her stem cells.
And she grew a trachea and now she has it in her body.
What happens is I believe that the cartilage then is taken over by the stem cells and they grow their own cartilage.
So she grew her own trachea.
joe rogan
That's incredible.
bryan callen
And they did the same thing with bladders.
joe rogan
Well, you know when you grow, when you have an ACL surgery and you use a cadaver ACL graft, it basically just acts as a scaffolding.
bryan callen
Right.
joe rogan
And then your body develops.
bryan callen
For your cells to build over it?
joe rogan
Yeah, a real ACL over it.
unidentified
Huh.
joe rogan
So as you do your rehab and your exercises, your body is assimilating that tissue and taking it over with its own.
bryan callen
Right.
joe rogan
So in the beginning, it's just like, it's not really scaffolding.
bryan callen
I just want them to grow new limbs and stuff, new fucking legs for people who lose their fucking limbs.
joe rogan
Well, people think that it was replaced.
They think, well, now I got this new ligament.
It's in place, and I just got to strengthen it.
Like, no, no, no, no, no.
It's got to grow there.
bryan callen
Well, that's what George St. Pierre was talking about is ACL. You feel 100%, but the capillaries and stuff… He didn't do it that way.
joe rogan
He did a different thing.
He did a different thing.
He did what's called a patella tendon graft, and that I did on my left leg.
And what that is, you know that tendon in the front of your knee?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
And this is one of the arguments for doing this.
The tendon in front of your knee is really big.
It's really fat.
You don't need all of it.
So they take like a third of it, and they have a piece of bone from your shin where it attaches, and a piece of bone from your kneecap where it attaches there.
And then they open you up like a fish, and then they screw it into the bottom of your leg.
bryan callen
Yeah.
joe rogan
And they screw it into the top.
bryan callen
What do they screw in?
joe rogan
Screw the bone into your...
They drill a hole in your leg and then they screw the bone into place.
I have screws in the bottom of my knee and in the top of my knee on the left side that show up in x-rays.
bryan callen
That's amazing.
joe rogan
Yeah, and then it's just a matter of getting circulation to that tissue and letting that tissue heal up and regenerate.
bryan callen
That's what he was talking about.
He said he had to wait until the circulation of the capillaries kind of formed.
joe rogan
Yes, it's a long process.
And you also have to make sure that during that process you don't re-injure yourself because you still essentially have no ACL on that side.
It's this wobbly piece of flesh.
bryan callen
When was the last time he fought?
joe rogan
George, it's been a while.
He injured his leg at least nine months ago.
And, you know, he's ready for November.
unidentified
When is Nick eligible to come back?
bryan callen
Because I know weed is a performance-enhancing drug.
I know it's an improvement.
joe rogan
He didn't even test positive for weed, man.
He tested positive.
Man.
He didn't listen, man.
unidentified
This fucking popo is on his ass.
joe rogan
He tested positive for a marijuana metabolite, which is non-psychoactive.
So what he had in his system, like say if he only took this marijuana metabolite, like took it in a pill form, it wouldn't do anything.
It literally is non-psychoactive.
You can't get high from it.
So the idea of marijuana as a performing, it's an enhancing drug with this non-psychoactive trace element inside your body is just silly.
Because he wasn't even...
It's one thing if he tested that he was high when he was fighting.
Okay, and by the way, that has happened.
When he fought Gomi, they did a test.
I don't know if he was actually high when he fought Gomi, but he probably got high the day before.
bryan callen
Amazing.
joe rogan
Fucking great.
That was a great fight, too.
He caught Gomi in that gogoblata.
Oh, that was so sweet.
You know, he's so calm, under fire, man.
He sets that shit up and slapped it on Gomi.
That was a big, big victory to him.
bryan callen
He can tap into some anger, but that controlled anger, like, somehow?
joe rogan
That frown?
The thing is about his pace.
Nick Diaz has this crazy pace that he can keep going.
So other dudes, as you're in this wild dogfight with him, they wear out.
And he just keeps going.
bryan callen
Well, that's kind of why I'd like to see Cain Velasquez fight fucking Jon Jones.
joe rogan
Well, Cain's going to fight Junior Dos Santos.
That's the next fight.
bryan callen
He got stopped the first time.
joe rogan
Yes, he did.
They're fighting in July.
bryan callen
Is that because Junior Dos Anz is a better boxer?
joe rogan
Well, I don't know.
I mean, Junior caught him.
I mean, it's just what it is.
I mean, they said that Junior had a knee injury.
Kane definitely had a knee injury.
They fought on Fox, and Kane stood up with him a little bit too long, and Junior just winged a bomb at him and caught him right in the temple and dropped him.
bryan callen
Well, the problem is when you're not wearing gloves, and those guys, when you guys hit that hard, I don't care what your head looks like.
You're going out.
joe rogan
Yeah, well, Junior punches fucking hard.
He punches hard.
And he swung that one.
They're fighting again January, the January 1st weekend.
I think it's December 29th, the big event in Vegas.
It should be fucking crazy.
And that's the rematch.
Because everybody thought before that fight that Junior Dos Santos was going to be, you know...
A top fighter, you know, they definitely thought, you know, that he had a chance of winning that fight.
But Kane was the favorite.
You know, Kane was the guy that everybody felt like.
After he destroyed Brock Lesnar, everybody was like, goddamn, Kane Velasquez might be the best ever.
What a fucking heavyweight.
What a destroyer.
But Junior just changed the whole course of the heavyweight title picture with one punch.
You know, and now...
Everybody's scared of Junior.
He's so hard to take down.
He's so hard to take down.
His hands are so good.
bryan callen
Didn't he?
He took care of Shane Carwin as well, right?
joe rogan
He beat the fuck out of Shane Carwin, man.
Shane Carwin took that fight, too, coming off of injuries.
Shane has had a succession of injuries.
bryan callen
He's also a full-time electrical engineer.
joe rogan
Super nice guy, too.
bryan callen
Smart, great guy.
joe rogan
Super cool, smart, great guy.
bryan callen
He's an ox strong.
Stupid strong.
He picked me up in a bear hug and started squeezing me.
And I was like, because I always fuck with him.
I'm grabbing him.
I'm going, I'll fucking arm drag you and pepper your ribs or whatever.
He's such a giant.
We tried to arm wrestle.
He picks me up.
He starts squeezing me.
And I start immediately tapping.
And he goes, that's 40%, bro.
And I look at Nate Markhorst right there.
And I go, could he do that to you?
And Nate goes, if I let him, yes, he could.
joe rogan
Yeah, he's a spooky dude.
He's got some serious strength.
He had a long, you know, series of injuries that he got from football.
Quite a few.
And he's had some surgeries to sort of clear up some of the issues.
But when that stuff starts fucking with you, man, you know, especially back and nerve issues, he's had a lot of that.
That is very hard to recover from.
Yeah.
Well, I think he's probably smart to keep that full-time job, you know?
I mean, he likes working, too.
He says it separates...
bryan callen
Loves his family, likes working.
joe rogan
He says the work sort of separates him from the gym time and lets him completely relax and get into his work.
It allows him not to dwell on it like some fighters just have the whole day to themselves.
bryan callen
He's got such a good sense of humor.
I did a little guest spot on...
The Ultimate Fighter.
And I came in.
And at one point, when I first met him, I go, fuck.
I go, I don't know what I'd do.
Like, what would I do with you if you were my roommate in prison?
Like, what would I do against you?
And he goes, you'd suck my cock.
You know those eyes?
He just did nothing blinking.
He just looked at me.
You'd suck my cock.
I was like, Jesus Christ, I guess I would.
joe rogan
Maybe you'd just try to talk him out of it.
bryan callen
I'd have to figure out a way to make a 6'1", 285-pound fighter my type.
joe rogan
Just talk him out of it.
Just tell him how bad you are at sucking cock, how bad your breath smells.
bryan callen
Exactly, look.
joe rogan
Yeah, what if you just, okay, and just took a poo in your hand and rubbed it all over your mouth.
You still want some of this?
bryan callen
That's what I would do.
joe rogan
Bitch, you want me to suck your shitty dick?
bryan callen
Would you rather eat your own poo or suck Shane Carlin's dick?
joe rogan
Well, you'd probably be...
bryan callen
He's a celebrity.
joe rogan
You'd probably be healthier to suck his dick.
Think of, like, eating poo is really dangerous for your health.
bryan callen
You get hepatitis from one and just, you know, a shitty self-esteem from the other.
joe rogan
Yo, Brian, we're gonna have to hire someone to kill that fucking cricket.
brian redban
I'll just bring my cat over here.
joe rogan
Your cat's not good enough with that cricket.
That cricket's a gangster.
He's a Pasadena cricket.
Don't make fake noises, too, you fuck.
brian redban
Does it make you feel like you guys are camping again?
joe rogan
No, there was no bugs.
bryan callen
It's too cold for bugs, man.
joe rogan
Yeah, there was no bugs at all.
We were out in the middle of nowhere.
bryan callen
If we go to, I was thinking about this, if we go in August to Alaska and hunt caribou, what about grizzly bears?
joe rogan
Yeah, that's a possibility.
They'd encountered them this last, they went hunting with Tim Ferriss.
Who, by the way, was returning to the podcast, I believe, on the 18th.
Powerful Tim Ferriss.
bryan callen
I want to get him on my podcast.
joe rogan
He's not available.
He's doing mine, though, on the 18th.
unidentified
Damn it.
joe rogan
Sorry.
bryan callen
Damn it.
joe rogan
Sorry.
It's always about Brian.
He's got to bring it back to himself.
bryan callen
Always got to bring it back to me.
joe rogan
He's like, I want to get him on my podcast.
I know.
bryan callen
Piggybacking your family.
joe rogan
They went in August.
They went caribou hunting.
He went with Rinella and they shot a caribou.
But apparently, yeah, they had to chase grizzly bears out of camp.
Seriously?
Yeah, because what was happening was the caribou, you find them when they run in these big herds, okay?
You go out and stalk them and you find them.
Well, there's campgrounds.
And some of the caribou had gone through the places where people were camping.
So the folks that were there before them had shot caribou in that camp.
Campground.
So in the campground, smelled like butchered flesh.
bryan callen
Fuck.
joe rogan
They had gut piles.
They had animals hanging from meat.
So when they got there, that night, the grizzly bears came.
So they had to scare them off.
They had to run at them and shoot at them.
bryan callen
Jesus.
joe rogan
Yes.
bryan callen
I don't like that.
joe rogan
I don't like that.
That was one of the first things that you and I talked about.
bryan callen
That's a big man-eating dog.
Fuck that.
joe rogan
Before, we were so apprehensive about this trip.
Both Brian and I were both like, fucking, what about bears, dude?
You worried about bears?
Yes!
I called him up.
He was, I was just fucking thinking about bears.
Because as it got down to like the last couple weeks, we were like, we're really going to go camping with these crazy animals in the middle of nowhere?
bryan callen
I know.
joe rogan
Yeah.
bryan callen
Are you glad you did it?
Also, you're in a tent and you can't protect yourself.
You can't see it coming.
joe rogan
Especially since the first night was freezing rain.
The first night was 35 degrees outside and we were sleeping in this pouring rain.
bryan callen
Yeah, then it got down to 12 degrees.
Hey, how you doing?
On that boat.
We were fucking on a canoe for four hours.
I was literally wearing a sleeping bag.
I was fucking cold.
joe rogan
It was cold as shit.
But I used it as an exercise.
The rowing part, I just rowed as hard as I could.
I used it as a workout.
And then the hiking, I just thought of, you know, just control my breathing and use the hiking as an exercise.
bryan callen
Yeah, when I was moving, there was no problem.
There was problems when you weren't moving, you know?
joe rogan
I almost did a workout the day before we left.
I was sitting around the house.
I was packing up all my shit.
I was like, maybe I should just go lift to do a crazy kettlebell workout or something.
If I did that, I would have been so fucked.
I had no idea it was going to be so physically demanding.
bryan callen
I didn't either.
joe rogan
Those guys, you have to be in serious shape.
bryan callen
Well, you're canoeing, and then you're hiking, and you've got to pack on your back.
Packing that meat out, packing that 45 pounds of meat or whatever it was, that was not easy.
joe rogan
We only had to walk a mile.
He talked about an elk that they shot, where they got up for four days in a row.
They got up before it was light, and they got back when it was dark out.
And all they did was cut and pack this fucking animal.
bryan callen
Yeah, he said it was so bad that you were looking for an excuse to get out of it, like to hurt yourself or something, you know?
joe rogan
They walked nine miles both ways every day.
So they walked 18 miles and brought back meat every day.
That's a crazy shit in the world.
Over hills and craggy bluffs.
Is that a real thing?
unidentified
Bluffs.
bryan callen
Sounds good.
joe rogan
Craggy bluffs.
bryan callen
Sounds good.
Through the Shrier.
unidentified
With all sorts of animals following them as they went, looking to the left and to the right at the shining eyes.
bryan callen
By the way, you have to listen.
If you get a chance, we're posting it.
I don't know why I'm thinking about this.
joe rogan
Are you advertising one of your podcasts?
I swear to God, I'll shut your fucking mic off.
bryan callen
Well, because you're going like this, you're talking about, for some reason, a character, and you used to do a Mike Tyson.
Yeah.
We do a little interview.
joe rogan
Who's we?
bryan callen
We interview Mike Tyson on the 10-Minute Podcast.
You might want to check it out.
joe rogan
You actually interviewed him?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Where'd you catch him?
bryan callen
Don't worry about it.
Just fucking listen to it.
It's only 10 minutes.
joe rogan
Oh, it's Will Sasso doing a Mike Tyson impression.
bryan callen
I don't know who it is, but it's fucking...
joe rogan
Don't do that to me.
You're fucking lying to me.
I looked in your eyes.
I saw deception.
bryan callen
I don't know what you're talking about.
joe rogan
I'm not a girl, Brian.
bryan callen
I look away.
joe rogan
You can't do this to me.
bryan callen
I look away.
joe rogan
You're trying to advertise your podcast.
unidentified
No.
joe rogan
And this is your figure.
And the way to do it is to pretend...
bryan callen
I would never advertise the 10 on a podcast, even though it's hilarious.
joe rogan
...to pretend that you really had Mike Tyson on, but you didn't.
You son of a bitch.
You got a fucking impressionist.
bryan callen
You used to do a Mike Tyson.
Can you do it?
joe rogan
It's not that good.
bryan callen
It's pretty good.
joe rogan
I'd have to listen to him talk.
If I listened to him talk, I could do it.
I can imitate people when I hear them talk a bunch of times, but I don't practice.
I'm not a real impressionist.
Opie and Anthony had...
What's his face that I was talking about earlier?
Kevin Pollak, who's brilliant.
His fucking impressions are ridiculous.
Have you heard it's Christopher Walken?
bryan callen
Yeah.
joe rogan
That thing just popped and no one even moved.
brian redban
Yeah, I know.
I don't know what's going on.
joe rogan
Yeah, we might have to take this bitch apart.
We've got electrical problems.
It's the government scanning equipment interfering with our fucking microphones.
bryan callen
That's gotta be it.
joe rogan
No sons of bitches.
Write your own dick jokes.
Feds.
Gumshoe.
bryan callen
Strange.
joe rogan
Yeah.
That's funny that we think the government would listen to us when they could just download it on the internet.
That's how stupid we are.
Yeah, man.
They're spying on the show.
As if they can't just listen.
bryan callen
They're getting it a couple minutes before.
joe rogan
It's on Ustream.
bryan callen
That's what's so funny.
joe rogan
There's not enough fucking people.
bryan callen
Those guys have a computer.
brian redban
This election's close.
unidentified
Is it?
brian redban
Are you looking at the fucking tweets and stuff?
joe rogan
No.
brian redban
It's almost half and half, it seems like.
unidentified
Wow.
joe rogan
Of course.
That's what makes the fucking...
That's what makes the plot sound better.
brian redban
Right.
joe rogan
It makes it give it more drama.
Meanwhile, they're both working for the same people.
brian redban
Actually, there's a lot more Romney than I thought.
joe rogan
Well, white people are mad.
When we were in Montana, we actually encountered a douchebag at a restaurant that was berating us about Obama as if he knew we were voting for Obama.
It wasn't just that he wanted us to vote for Romney.
He was going to intimidate us.
bryan callen
He was a wick there.
I was such a fucking yoker.
joe rogan
Yeah, it was really funny when you go...
It was a cool little diner.
It was too bad this guy ruined the experience by being the owner.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Because the waitress was real nice, the food was great, and we're sitting there...
bryan callen
Our guide put him in his place, though.
joe rogan
Yeah, yeah, it was interesting.
We were still dirty from the road, okay?
We hadn't shaved, we hadn't washed, we hadn't bathed in five days.
And we were driving from the river to Billings, which is about two and a half hours, and we stopped and got some food at this diner in the middle of fucking nowhere.
And this dude had like...
bryan callen
He just walks up and goes, you ain't voting for Obama, are you?
joe rogan
He killed two of my boys.
bryan callen
I was like, now I am.
Yeah, two of my boys.
They got two of mine, SEAL team, and he had a...
joe rogan
Marine hat on.
bryan callen
Yeah, but he had a shrine of the Marines.
He never did a day in combat.
You can see those guys.
You're like, oh, you were the guy who fucking faked an injury when all the other guys were going out.
That's what I think.
joe rogan
Well, who knows what he did.
That might have been a smart move, to fake an injury.
I wouldn't give him that much intelligence.
unidentified
Ah, my foot!
bryan callen
My foot!
joe rogan
Yeah, I'll fucking pull a disc.
brian redban
Romney's the projected winner in Georgia.
That's shocking.
joe rogan
Is it really?
brian redban
Yeah, Hotlanta and everything.
joe rogan
There's a lot of white people in Georgia, dude.
Don't kill yourself.
Don't kid yourself.
Georgia's got some money, too.
bryan callen
I'm down there now and there are a lot of black professionals in Atlanta.
It's really interesting.
It's kind of a cool thing to see.
The hotel I'm staying at is mostly professional black people.
I think a lot of middle class, upper class black people went down to Atlanta because the economy was there and stuff for them at the time.
And it's pretty cool, man.
It looks like a town primarily.
You see a lot of black people in positions of authority.
And the movie I'm doing right now is all that.
And it's really refreshing, man.
It's kind of a cool...
I haven't seen it.
joe rogan
You see that more in Atlanta than anywhere.
Yeah, Atlanta is very fascinating in that way.
It's, you know, to be a young black person in this country and look for role models, it's got to be unbelievably hard.
bryan callen
Yeah.
joe rogan
You know, and to see, like, a guy like Obama get into office and have everybody so fucking mad at him and everybody, like, all these white people just, like, so furious.
bryan callen
Having said that, though, the people that did elect him were white people.
unidentified
Sure.
bryan callen
I mean, I voted for him.
joe rogan
Yeah, like, white people read books, but the white people who don't read books, those white people hate him.
It's interesting when they listen to, like, I'm not saying that Obama's a saint, and I'm not saying that I'm a supporter, but Because I certainly was a supporter before he got into office.
But then I think I like him as a human being.
I like when I listen to him talk.
He doesn't sound like a dick.
unidentified
He sounds like a thoughtful guy.
bryan callen
I think I like him because he strikes me as eminently sensible.
I don't think he's a socialist.
The one thing he said, they said, what is the one thing we don't know about you?
And he said, I believe the free enterprise system is the most important, something to the effect of it's the most important thing for a high standard of living.
But with checks and balances.
And so I don't think he is this far left guy.
I actually think he's very much in the middle and a very sensible guy.
And I think the more I read about his policies, I happen to agree with his foreign policy vis-a-vis Iran and other places more than I do with Romney.
I just think he's more reasonable, man.
joe rogan
Yeah, he's a very smart guy, but the issue is that I can't really...
I don't really see him being able to do what anybody...
I don't think there's any one person that has any real say.
bryan callen
Well, there never has been in our government.
You're not supposed to, but I know what you're saying.
joe rogan
But I'm saying it's like all the different things that he wanted to do before he got into office, closed Guantanamo Bay, when he said he would veto the NDAA, all the different things.
It's so blatantly obvious that...
The position is not what we envisioned it was when we were kids.
We thought of being the president.
This is one guy who's going to figure it all out.
Everybody get in line.
We're going to do this the right way.
And he leads us to victory.
This system is fucking complicated.
bryan callen
What you said is that the biggest thing is most people don't feel represented.
You feel like if you vote for Romney or you vote for Obama, it's not going to make that much of a difference because you're kind of voting for the same guy in some ways.
joe rogan
Yeah, the special interests have moved into the position of power that is clearly stronger and more influential than the will of the people.
bryan callen
A president though can have a big, big effect on who gets elected to the Supreme Court.
joe rogan
Yes, and socially they have an impact on...
bryan callen
Well, they set an agenda, right?
And I actually think that Romney and Obama's foreign policy are different enough.
I think that Romney is rattling a sword at Iran.
I don't know.
I just don't agree with...
joe rogan
I don't think anybody who's a governor could ever possibly know what it's like to be a president.
The same way when Obama was running for office, and he said he would do this about Afghanistan, and McCain went, whoa, whoa, whoa.
You can't say...
There's some shit when McCain and Obama were campaigning where it was clearly...
campaigning talk it was clearly like speeches but there was a moment when Obama was talking about Afghanistan and McCain went like you don't even know what you're talking about like you're describing an area that hasn't changed much since the time of Alexander the Great like this idea that you're gonna go in there and just take over the land like you're that's crazy talk like you know and McCain the way did it it was like whoa whoa whoa son was like this was a serious topic All that fucking campaigning bullshit aside,
you're talking about what I did for a living.
You're talking crazy.
You don't know what the fuck's going on over there.
bryan callen
I think that's what happens to presidents.
Certainly, I got that impression from Schwarzenegger.
The impression I got from him, what he's saying is that, You don't have any power.
You can set an agenda and you can veto things, but at the end of the day, you're not doing much without Congress, if anything.
And by the way, you're dealing with a lot of different vested interests.
joe rogan
And the congressional choices coming up this election, they might be more important even than what's going on with the presidency.
That's a good point.
Because there's so much fucking waste and so many dumb people that have gotten into elected offices.
There's so much bullshit there, and slowly but surely it gets exposed, but it's still, the key problem never gets addressed.
The key problem of special interest groups and funny money.
None of that stuff gets addressed.
So it all stays moving along in the same way.
bryan callen
The question also becomes this, though.
If indeed you have special interest and you're always going to have smart people that figure out a way to manipulate the machine, Then is the answer to make the machine less influential?
Meaning, do you make the machine smaller?
That may be the only way to do it.
I think that's kind of the conservative argument.
Right.
joe rogan
But that's the real conservative argument.
bryan callen
That's the real conservative argument.
joe rogan
Like if you're a real conservative.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
But when you say the word conservative, well, I don't want queers getting married.
unidentified
No, no, no.
joe rogan
That's the first thing that people think of.
bryan callen
That's not what I think.
I'm not a...
I am...
When I say I'm a conservative, I just believe...
That the state shouldn't be involved in who I just choose to marry, whether it's Channing Tatum, Matthew McConaughey, or fucking, you know, a girl.
Sorry, I used those.
Sorry.
You know, or the fact that I can't smoke cannabis.
I'm not saying I'm going to get into a car and drive two tons of fast-moving steel if I get caught.
There are laws for that.
But let me make my own choices and my own mistakes.
You know, and then when I say conservative, I just mean, I think I'm just talking about being fiscally conservative.
I think I'm talking about not spending what we don't make.
I live that way myself.
I don't know why the government can't.
I don't know why I always have to get...
The minute I'm at a dinner party in Los Angeles and I start talking about small government or a conservative idea, I get labeled immediately as somebody who is against gay marriage, against abortion.
No!
joe rogan
Well, you're a racist.
bryan callen
Yeah, I reject a lot of the Republican platform in that sense because it's just as controlling as the other side.
joe rogan
What about a woman's right to choose, Brian?
bryan callen
I believe in it.
joe rogan
What if you called it Killing Babies?
This is the Killing Baby Center.
bryan callen
Well, that's fine, but the problem is we put a price on human life all the time.
If you want to save lives, how come you're not out petitioning to make the speed limit on the highway 30 miles an hour?
It'll fucking save lives.
You know why we don't do that?
Because it would be grossly inconvenient, and it would stall the economy and our standard of living.
So guess what?
We do put a price on human life all the time.
And I happen to believe that if a woman's harboring a life, You can biologically make the case that it is murder because it's a life.
It just happens to be on life support.
That's fine.
I still think a woman's choice to do with her body what she chooses is paramount over that.
It's not consistent with the Judeo-Christian ethic, but I don't go to church.
joe rogan
Yeah, but do you have a timeline where you think it's acceptable?
bryan callen
Very good question.
I've kind of tried to avoid this very, very complicated question.
But we do have timelines, first of all, right?
For the most part, after the third trimester, it becomes very dangerous for the woman.
joe rogan
48 days in is when whatever religion thought the soul entered the body.
bryan callen
What is that?
joe rogan
The Hindus?
bryan callen
Well, let's take a couple of ethical arguments about it.
Let's take a severely retarded human being, somebody who can't feed themselves, somebody who can't even breathe on their own.
And if you were to kill that person, if I were to go and smother that person with a pillow, even though they don't have any feeling and parts that they can't communicate, Then what would happen is I'd go to jail for murder.
You take a fetus that is not yet even developed with its hands and head, however it reacts to pain.
We know it is on its way to becoming a human being, and in a lot of aspects it's a human being, just a severely underdeveloped human being.
It's a very similar thing.
To kill that very small creature that is living, that does respond to stimuli, does respond to pain, and continues to do so in more and more of what we would consider independent human fashion, Why is that not murder?
That would be where the argument is.
It's very hard to actually get out of that argument.
It's very hard.
It's why I have a lot of respect for the notion that people say, religiously, I believe it's murder.
I have to be pro-life.
I do respect that because you can make a very strong biological argument that that human being is just as human as you are in a lot of ways.
You just have to be independent, more independent.
You're not relying on a human being to keep you alive.
joe rogan
Well, we're never going to figure out how to fix that until we figure out how to fix the dirty trick of fucking equals making people.
That is a dirty goddamn trick that we need to address.
Because you have this unbelievable desire to fuck, but yet fucking makes people.
And you can fuck when you're like 13. But we don't have to run from jaguars every day.
We're not getting chased down by crocodiles.
We don't need this many fucking people.
bryan callen
Well, not only do you not need this many people, my other argument for being pro-choice is that you're going to take care of that kid?
You're going to take care of that child who just got pregnant by a woman who has no money who doesn't want that baby?
She can't take care of it.
Are you going to?
Or are you going to have another ward of the state or somebody who doesn't get any attention or somebody who doesn't have any resources?
joe rogan
We've got to separate the fact that fucking makes a person.
You're getting crazy.
We've got to get to the heart of this.
bryan callen
You're right.
joe rogan
We've got to figure out a way where you make a person through a very complicated process.
bryan callen
What about birth control?
joe rogan
Well, that could fuck up your body.
You know, for women, they take pills that essentially trick their body into thinking they're pregnant all the time.
That can't be good.
bryan callen
Yeah, condoms also ruin everything.
joe rogan
Gross, gross, disgusting fucking things.
It's such a stupid thing.
Tomorrow, I'm having that Peter Duesberg guy on the podcast.
He's the guy that believes that HIV doesn't cause AIDS and that it's all people that are doing drugs.
He said this, it's really, it's like almost untenable.
bryan callen
I know.
joe rogan
The bulk of science would be like, well, Yeah, well, that's why I'm interested to see how he figures that in.
The problem is that in Africa, they're not doing drugs and they're wasting away of HIV. Yeah, I think the Africa thing, though, apparently they're not even getting tested for HIV. They have AIDS, and that could be a variety of things, including poor nutrition.
I think that's the argument there.
The actual testing...
bryan callen
I think this guy is ignoring a lot of the data on the ground.
joe rogan
We're going to find out.
I don't know.
You want to do it with me?
bryan callen
I'd love to do it.
When?
joe rogan
Really?
Tomorrow.
Tomorrow, 3 o'clock.
bryan callen
Here?
Yeah.
I'd like to come and listen to him.
joe rogan
2 o'clock.
bryan callen
2 o'clock?
joe rogan
Yeah, come and listen.
bryan callen
Please do.
joe rogan
Come and listen and sit in.
Dude, please.
I mean, who knows?
This is just a...
Look, I read about this guy's position a long time ago, and I thought it was fascinating.
I've read a bunch of articles.
bryan callen
What bothers me about a guy like this is very simple, and I'll bring it up to him.
I watched a lot of people die in New York.
I watched them with my own eyes.
joe rogan
Were they on medication?
Yes.
bryan callen
This is before they had medication.
This is when they had AZT and I watched them all die.
joe rogan
Yeah, that was one of the main points.
bryan callen
And I watched them die in a very humiliating and a very terrible way.
joe rogan
Do you know that AZT is a cancer medication that they stopped giving to chemo patients because it was killing them quicker than not having it?
bryan callen
Well, I don't know, but I do know that a lot of these people went the alternative route and everything else.
I know a couple of people that stopped doing it.
And then along came a guy, I believe, by the name of David Ho, who was a scientist, who was Man of the Year, Time Magazine's Man of the Year, who invented a little something called protease inhibitors.
Protease inhibitors make the cell wall, I guess the helper T cell, very slick.
They coat it with a Teflon so that the virus cannot latch onto that cell.
joe rogan
So AIDS is gooey.
bryan callen
It's gooey.
And so what happens is with protease inhibitors, now you have people who are HIV positive and used to be a death sentence.
I can remember it like it was yesterday.
And I watched it happen.
And now you get people who are HIV positive, I know several, who treat it like it's diabetes.
And in fact, now when you get HIV, a lot of doctors will say, hey, good news.
This could be diabetes.
We'll keep you alive for the next 30 years on protease inhibitors.
joe rogan
Now, here's the question.
Do these people that got HIV, do any of them engage in illicit drug use?
bryan callen
Some of them do.
Some of them do.
joe rogan
I believe what Deuceburg's point is that the only reason why the HIV wasn't fought off by their immune system was that their immune system was destroyed by the use of drugs.
Meth, amyl nitrates, a bunch of different things.
bryan callen
I'm going to ask him about why Juan Enriquez talks about the bulk of the science is that the reason that it never became a white European disease, why didn't white men, straight men get it, but a lot of them got it in Africa?
Why was it a heterosexual disease in Africa?
Why was it not a heterosexual disease in Africa?
The Middle East and in Europe and in America.
Why?
Well, they just isolated a gene that if you are of Northern European, Middle Eastern, even North African heritage, you have a gene that saved you from the black plagues that hit Europe and rolled through all the Fertile Crescent.
You have a gene.
I can't remember the name of the gene.
That gene makes you very resistant to the HIV virus, to contracting it through regular sex.
The only straight men, for the most part, if you look at the army statistics and stuff, who got HIV were guys who were intravenous drug users using infected needles and they were putting it directly into their bloodstream.
The gay men that survived the epidemic were men who were doing the fucking not getting fucked.
Those were the men that survived the epidemic.
Because it was a war...
Let me tell you, AIDS in the 80s and in the early 90s devastated the gay community.
Devastated it.
It was a war zone.
I watched those men walk around.
joe rogan
Right, but listen to what you're saying.
You're essentially supporting this guy's theory.
bryan callen
No, I'm not.
joe rogan
Because you're saying that the people that got it were all intravenous drug users.
bryan callen
No, I'm not saying that.
joe rogan
Well, what are you saying?
bryan callen
I'm saying that to get the...
joe rogan
And the people that you said fought it off were the people that were very resilient physically because they had excellent genes that they had gotten from surviving the Black Plague.
So their immune system would be very strong.
bryan callen
Unless you were getting it injected into your body directly through the semen, through your anus, or through...
joe rogan
Did you just laugh after you said anus?
bryan callen
Yes, I did.
joe rogan
Why'd you laugh?
unidentified
Yes, I did.
bryan callen
Because I just think it's funny.
I sound like a scientist.
joe rogan
So why would Duisberg, who is a University of California biologist, a tenured professor, why would he not know this?
bryan callen
Well, I don't know if he knows it, but I'm going to bring it up to him.
And the other thing that I'm going to ask Duisberg is this.
Hey, how come the majority of scientists all over the world and all the money that goes into these protease inhibitors, why do protease inhibitors work?
They seem to work.
And why are people staying alive when I remember them dying?
joe rogan
Well, let's let him answer those.
bryan callen
We're fucking proposing questions down to the great beyond.
And he's the only guy, it seems.
Every time I meet one of these guys, they're the only guy.
Every other scientist must be, you know, I don't know.
joe rogan
Have you ever looked up, like, how many scientists don't believe HIV causes AIDS? Let's Google that right now.
Let's take a guess.
brian redban
Seven.
joe rogan
Okay.
How many scientists...
bryan callen
I just know that the credible, credible journalists and people who really follow this stuff, including people like Clinton and like that.
joe rogan
Clinton?
bryan callen
Yeah.
joe rogan
Did you say like Bill Clinton?
bryan callen
Bill Clinton who did a lot of work for AIDS in Africa.
joe rogan
A great deal of good work.
Yeah, you know why?
He wanted to go over there and fuck up a storm.
bryan callen
Yeah, maybe.
He wanted to be all dirty.
Maybe.
joe rogan
Dirty for Slick Willie.
bryan callen
I'm going to help you.
joe rogan
Well, you go to AIDS, and how many scientists don't believe HIV causes AIDS, and it's Dewsburg on AIDS article in Spin.
That's the first fucking thing that comes up.
unidentified
Yeah, well, I don't really buy into it.
bryan callen
HIV and AIDS. I have a feeling my room would be a lot fuller.
joe rogan
Carrie Mullis.
Hmm.
I think that...
unidentified
Hmm.
bryan callen
Either way, if you get HIV, it's a very serious diagnosis.
joe rogan
Kerry Moss is a Nobel Prize winning scientist.
He's also an LSD user.
He created the invention of PCR tests.
He won the prize for chemistry.
bryan callen
There are a lot of crazy smart people out there.
joe rogan
Yeah, absolutely.
But what he says is everyone in the field knows that there's at least some dissension over whether there's evidence that HIV is the probable cause of AIDS. Is there somewhere in the literature that there's scientific evidence presented that HIV is the probable cause of AIDS? And if there is, where is it?
Who should be attributed with the scientific evidence supporting that statement, HIV is a probable cause of AIDS? Let me tell you something.
bryan callen
This guy, the fact that he just said that, if that's what he indeed said.
joe rogan
Okay, by the way.
Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop.
1994. Oh, okay.
Thank you.
I was like, wait a minute.
bryan callen
I was like, hold on.
joe rogan
We're going to shit all over the guy.
The guy's like, I already figured it.
But meanwhile, he's dead.
He can't even defend himself.
Does HIV really cause AIDS? If you just Google, does HIV really cause AIDS? I think that argument's been put to rest in 2012. Well, yeah, this is 1994. It seems like a lot of people had some questions about it.
bryan callen
Some people make their names.
brian redban
That's when AIDS were in mosquitoes.
Remember?
joe rogan
Yeah, they thought AIDS was in mosquitoes.
brian redban
Yeah, that was about the same time period as that.
bryan callen
Some people make their name by basically being controversial, I think.
joe rogan
Well, I'm curious...
bryan callen
I hate to be cynical, but...
joe rogan
I'm curious if there's anything that he's going to say that's going to rattle that opinion of yours.
Obviously, this guy has...
He's been pushing this for a long, long time.
bryan callen
Yeah, he's the only one, right?
joe rogan
I don't know if he's the only one.
We'll find out from him.
But in 1993, he had an article in Spin Magazine.
That was the first one that I read that addressed the whole AIDS thing.
That was right after my first AIDS test.
bryan callen
Can you get another scientist on the other side on the phone?
joe rogan
No, but you know what?
We'll eventually.
It was hard getting him in here in the first place.
I didn't bring him in here for a debate.
There's a tricky thing.
People say, why don't you go after people when they're on your show and they say something stupid?
First of all, because I don't want to be mean.
And second of all, I want them to express themselves to the fullest extent of their possibilities.
I don't want...
You want to suppress them.
I may disagree with someone on some things, and we may disagree and argue about stuff on the podcast, but...
In order to find out what someone really believes about something, sometimes you have to not question it so much as to sort of probe and let them keep going.
And people are like, why don't you call them out on that?
I'm like, you know that's bullshit.
I'm like, I want to hear what their logic is.
I want to hear what their thought process is.
bryan callen
You know, when I have such strong political, like I'll get heated if you start talking about how, you know, you start giving me left-wing solutions to like economic solutions to things.
I get all heated and bunched up.
joe rogan
But, If we had socialism, everybody just helped everybody.
bryan callen
I went hunting and just going hunting.
I had no idea that hunting would have an effect on me politically.
It was very interesting.
Sometimes I have to check myself and go, how much of this is attitude and how I've been raised to actually really stopping and looking at facts?
You have to always check yourself.
Well, what changed?
joe rogan
What's the hunting thing that changed?
bryan callen
No, I just have a newfound respect for the importance of regulation and strong laws that make it very clear that you can't...
You can't trust hunters to be libertarian about their hunting practices necessarily because you get a lot of people out there in this world.
A lot of hunters are vastly...
The majority of real hunters are very responsible, but you get a lot of jerk-offs who go out there and just want a machine gun ship.
joe rogan
I think that the hunters, I think the anti-hunting people, ultimately the sentiment, the idea behind what they're saying, what offends them about hunting is noble.
Because I think what they're trying to do is protect animals from ruthless people, and I think that they're of the mind that we can get along in harmony with nature.
And that they know that in their own personal experiences they've had beautiful moments.
They've seen wildlife and they didn't have to kill it.
So I think ultimately even the vegans...
unidentified
You also don't want an animal to suffer.
bryan callen
Of course.
Like when you trap an animal and you're making a fur coat and that animal's writhing in a trap.
I wouldn't want to fucking see that.
I went to Portugal and watched a bullfight.
I've never rooted for a fucking human being to die so hard in my life.
They were like spearing this bull.
It was in pain.
They rubbed its eyes with hot peppers so it can't see.
And every time the Picadillos would stick those fucking spears in its back, the thing would jump and writhe in pain.
And I was like, I hope one of these humans fucking dies in this ring.
Then I watched these guys fucking let themselves get gored and they were the toughest motherfuckers on the planet.
joe rogan
They let themselves get gourd?
bryan callen
Not gourd, the bull didn't have sharp horns, and they let these bulls just fucking hit them and throw them over their backs, and they do flips, and they were total badasses.
But either way, I just didn't want to see an animal suffer.
joe rogan
That's a horrible aspect of human nature.
bryan callen
Yeah, I didn't want to see a fucking defenseless animal writhe in pain.
I didn't like that shit.
joe rogan
No, it's disgusting.
But, you know, so we have to, then the argument is like, okay, well then you've got to look at the vegetarian or the vegan argument.
Well, they're trying to be as free of this negative karma of murdering—well, you shouldn't say murdering because I guess murdering is only people killing animals.
bryan callen
Veganism is a form of religion in some ways, right?
joe rogan
Sort of.
I mean, it's a philosophy.
But my point is, how does one manage the animals then?
If we get to that point where no one's eating any animals, what are you going to do?
Are you going to castrate them?
What are you going to do about the deers in the wild?
What are you going to do?
We're going to have a real issue.
And that's something that no one needs to...
I mean, we have to decide...
bryan callen
You probably wouldn't grow as much animal protein, first of all, right?
joe rogan
It doesn't matter.
What are you going to do with the animals that are alive?
unidentified
I don't think you'd feed.
bryan callen
I don't think you'd be able to feed as many people.
joe rogan
So would you just let the cows starve to death and cows go extinct?
Or would you manage a population of them that you never bred or used?
bryan callen
I suppose you'd stop breeding them.
joe rogan
Would you let them go wild?
And if you did, they wouldn't have any natural predators.
bryan callen
The big question that fucking awesome Ray Kurzweil said is, listen, very, very soon we're going to be cloning meat that has no animal suffering.
We're going to be cloning meat with no central nervous system.
joe rogan
It's going to taste like shit.
bryan callen
Well, no, because we can clone the best tasting meat in the world.
In a factory.
I'm just saying that is the future.
It's going to be a meat farm.
joe rogan
You ever see, like, salmon that you buy that hasn't been dyed pink?
Ever see those weak-ass prison-bitch salmon?
bryan callen
Yeah, but what I'm saying is that at the end of the day, I think technology is going to give you the greatest tasting everything without animal suffering, and meat's going to be just like anything else.
You're going to buy a meatball that was grown in some fucking farm.
joe rogan
I wonder if it's possible to get the subtle nuances of a good grass-fed steak.
I wonder if you can get that.
Or I wonder if it's going to be sort of like grape gum, where it's not really grape gum, but you call it grape gum.
What flavor is that grape?
Oh, I love grape.
It doesn't taste anything like grapes.
bryan callen
That's why I like gay meat so much.
You can't compete with that fucking...
joe rogan
Gay meat.
Game.
Not gay meat, Brian.
bryan callen
Gay meat and gay meat.
joe rogan
Like grape soda.
Does grape soda taste anything like a grape?
unidentified
No.
joe rogan
Not at all, right?
brian redban
Tastes like the color.
joe rogan
Maybe Welch's grape juice.
That's real grape juice.
bryan callen
Wine grapes tend to be really, really sweet.
joe rogan
But think about what's the difference between grape, hubba-bubba, bubblegum, and an actual grape.
How do you even know that it's a grape?
You know it's a grape because you've accepted this as the substitute grape flavor, even though it's nothing grape-like about it.
You call it, that's the grape flavor.
That's what steak's going to be like.
We're going to get used to that.
We're going to use this artificial, non-biological meat.
bryan callen
Or they'll be able to figure out a way to put all those nuances in it.
joe rogan
And when they do, the first people that eat it are going to get cancer of the dick immediately.
I wonder, it seems like how long can you keep tricking the system?
bryan callen
Well, the only way we're going to feed as many people as we do as we get into nine, ten billion people in the middle of the century is with genetically modified foods.
You're not going to do it any other way.
joe rogan
Nine or ten billion people.
bryan callen
You have to figure out a way to make rice more nutritious.
That's what the Golden Rice Project is all about.
I guess getting more vitamin A into the rice and making it way more nutritious is all that.
joe rogan
To make sure that more people breed so we have even more people.
bryan callen
Well, that's very important.
joe rogan
Isn't the most important thing to figure out how to make these places less poor?
You know, like, when you look at all the poverty in the world and all these people that are in these incredibly overpopulated areas, like, how does one ever manage the human...
bryan callen
We're already growing far more food per hectare than we ever have with technology and making it more nutrient dense.
So the idea actually is to create staples of crops like rice that is as nutritious as a root vegetable like a sweet potato.
joe rogan
So your thing is to take these people who live in these poor places and make them farmers?
bryan callen
No, actually you'll need less farmers and you'll need less pesticides because what you'll do is you'll genetically modify these foods to, and they're already doing this, to resist the need for artificial pesticides because they have built-in resistance to the pests that are indigenous to that area.
And that's what this is all about.
Genetically modified foods get such a bad rap, but that's the future.
We're not going to feed people without it.
joe rogan
Do you think that the thing with taking these genetically modified foods and copywriting them and making sure that people have, you know, making sure that the seeds can't grow back, suicide seeds?
bryan callen
I don't know the answer to that.
joe rogan
When it starts becoming a commodity, it gets a little weird.
bryan callen
It always has been, though.
It always has been.
I think it's just becoming more complicated.
joe rogan
Trademark life.
bryan callen
It's a really interesting question, though, because, like, you're right, but if you spend a lot of time in a laboratory and you create the most nutritious rice kernel in the world, then people can live on just rice.
Well, then, if that was all your hard work, I guess you should own the rights to the seed, right?
joe rogan
Well, maybe you should just get a cut forever.
bryan callen
Yeah, because otherwise people wouldn't...
The incentive to develop that is not only just a humanitarian one, but it's also a profit motive incentive.
I mean...
That's why you put billions of dollars into the research to recoup it.
joe rogan
But what about cross-pollination and shit like that, like the issues that they deal with farmers living in nearby communities that don't have their crops when they sue them?
bryan callen
Yeah, it's an issue.
I don't know how you fight the inevitable rise of technology, though.
You and I talk about it all the time.
I just don't think that we're going to...
Like I said, I think that...
And crops have continued, farmers from the beginning of time have done everything they can to make their particular crop more nutritious, more calorie rich, more dense, more energy efficient.
joe rogan
And also last longer.
bryan callen
Last longer, need less water, need less pesticides.
joe rogan
Taste less good.
bryan callen
All that.
Well, yeah, I mean, whatever.
joe rogan
It doesn't matter.
They're just trying to engineer in durability.
And who knows, as far as the vitamin content of one of those pale-ass tomatoes.
bryan callen
Yeah, but the marketplace, there are a lot of people in the marketplace that want a tomato that's going to taste good as well, so there's an incentive to create a good-tasting tomato.
joe rogan
Have you ever really had a real tomato though, like a Jersey beef steak tomato?
bryan callen
They're so fucking good.
joe rogan
That's why it's a fruit.
bryan callen
Like in Italy, when you go to Italy and you see the fruits that are grown in manure, the tomatoes, forget it.
That's why I eat organically because I'm such a foodie.
It's still not as good.
joe rogan
Even organically, I mean, the only thing that comes close is like heirloom tomatoes.
unidentified
Yeah.
bryan callen
You know what they say the best lamb is?
You know where it comes from?
joe rogan
Where?
bryan callen
Iraq.
joe rogan
Really?
bryan callen
Yeah, Iraq, they say, is the sweetest tasting lamb because they eat a certain kind of grass...
There.
And it's Mesopotamia.
They've been eating goat and lamb there from the beginning of time.
joe rogan
You know what's supposed to be insanely good?
Yak.
bryan callen
Really?
joe rogan
It's supposed to be delicious.
bryan callen
It's a fatty meat, right?
joe rogan
Better than venison.
bryan callen
I bet.
joe rogan
And apparently what they eat to make it taste so good is some moss that grows way the fuck up there that you can't even grow down here.
So you can't make them in a farm.
You can't make a yak farm and have them eat this shit.
It wouldn't work.
bryan callen
That's a sturdy animal, man.
They got no problem.
They don't need sleeping bags.
joe rogan
It's supposed to be delicious.
bryan callen
Wow.
joe rogan
Yak.
Fucking yak.
bryan callen
I'll eat some fucking yak.
joe rogan
You'll eat the shit out of a yak.
bryan callen
I will.
I'll jerk it, too.
joe rogan
I was watching a Rinella show.
They went hunting for, I think it's called a tarp.
Some fucking crazy looking wookie animal.
bryan callen
Yeah, it's an antwope or something?
joe rogan
Yeah, a horned wookie goat demon thing in New Zealand.
It was nuts.
They were up in the middle of this fucking, like, they have to cross this glacial river where the runoff from the glacier, they shot an animal on the other side, so they had to cross it.
Like, what we did is like a really safe hunt for that guy.
Like, he does some wild shit, man.
bryan callen
Yeah, Rinella?
joe rogan
He's also smart.
They do a lot of stabbing pigs.
He had an episode, the same place in New Zealand, where they hold the pigs down with a dog and then they stab it with a knife to kill it.
bryan callen
Do you want to know what the history on my phone, my Google phone is?
You want to know the history?
This is so fucking ridiculous.
It starts with Ostrich, Chuck Taylors, Rockstar, Big White Dick, Muscular Perfection, Ice Cube, 778 Area Code, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Cool Hats, Atlanta to Fort Lauderdale, 508 Area Code, Toe, Walkers, Billings, Montana, Couches, Slam Walkers, Billings, Montana, Couches, Slam Dunk, Hard Workouts, Andy Cozell, Comedian, I want to know who he was.
unidentified
Yeah.
bryan callen
I heard his name.
Cool t-shirt design.
And best breakfast in Fort Lauderdale.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Now, if you were working as a CEO at an important company and they found that...
bryan callen
Big white dick.
They'd be like, wait a minute.
What the fuck is this?
But I wanted to send a big white dick to a friend of mine.
I was like, hope you're having a great day.
And I'd just send that.
joe rogan
Because I'm 12. You can't have that kind of sense of humor if you work in corporate America.
bryan callen
No, I know you can't.
joe rogan
That's the thing that poisons most people, man.
Suppression.
Daily suppression.
All day, having to fit a mold, working some fucking stupid office somewhere.
That's gotta be life-sapping.
The idea that one of the problems with government is that there's no passion in most levels of government.
They're just jobs.
And the real problem with jobs is people want to get them, and they want that money, and they want to keep them.
And they never say, you know what, this job is just not really necessary.
The way to best serve the American people would be to fucking get rid of this job, but this is what I need.
It becomes a personal issue that sort of gets in the way of the greater good of what you're trying to achieve in the first place.
bryan callen
Well, you're not getting rid of a...
That's the problem with passing a law.
Yeah.
a law, cottage industry grows up around it.
That's why Washington never gets rid of it.
Once they pass a law, like the anti-marijuana laws, you make weed legal and you're going to have a lot of people out of a job.
joe rogan
Yeah, there's a lot of money behind trying to keep marijuana And there was something that I retweeted, I think yesterday, that was listing all the different people that are involved in working hard to keep marijuana illegal.
It's so annoying.
You read that shit, it just makes you nuts.
brian redban
Joe, check this out.
There's already been voter machines going crazy.
Look at this video.
It's switching people's votes from Obama to...
joe rogan
Oh yeah, I've seen that.
Switches it to Romney.
I'm not surprised.
You know, they never fix that shit.
These fucking Republicans own all these voting machines.
They showed in that Hacking Democracy documentary that you could fix them so that they could change the vote.
bryan callen
That's weird.
joe rogan
It's just ridiculous.
It's a fucking scam.
This isn't a real life we're living.
It's all fake.
We're living in a goddamn simulation.
bryan callen
The problem is you've got to kind of care and you've got to be informed, otherwise forces will take your freedom away from you.
joe rogan
If they're already taking it, what difference does it make?
bryan callen
It's a problem.
You've got to figure out a way to fight back, you know?
joe rogan
Have you seen the Chinese practice of eating eggs boiled in the urine of young boys?
bryan callen
Sure haven't.
Sure haven't.
joe rogan
You haven't seen that?
Brian, please Google that.
Chinese people eat eggs boiled in the urine of virgin boys.
No, we didn't look at this.
Yesterday, I found that someone tweeted this to me.
It's in my Twitter timeline.
If you look at my Twitter timeline, they have young boys, they have them pee, and then they boil eggs in this young boy pee, and they eat it all day.
They say it keeps them healthy, and it's great for the skin.
It's like a super common delicacy.
bryan callen
The actual urine?
joe rogan
No, they eat the eggs after it's been boiled in little kid piss.
But it has to be like virgin boys.
I guess once dudes start fucking, it becomes problematic.
bryan callen
Do they hard boil it?
joe rogan
Yeah, they simmer it.
They actually crack the eggshell so that the urine seeps into the egg itself, not just heats it up from the outside, seeps in and simmers for hours and hours in piss.
brian redban
What day did you post this?
joe rogan
22 hours ago.
bryan callen
Humans are dumb.
joe rogan
Hey, do you have a fridge?
You know, I retweeted it.
A dude named Adrian.
There's a fridge right over there.
Go get it.
We're going to wrap this bitch up soon.
Grab me one, too.
brian redban
I don't think there's anything in there.
joe rogan
Dude, there's nothing in your fridge?
brian redban
I think there's a couple of beers and Mountain Dew.
joe rogan
Whatever it is in cans.
We should stop at Costco and just fucking stock this place full.
You want to go to Costco later?
brian redban
I do all the time.
It just goes really fast.
joe rogan
Yeah, but it's because you bring in sluts in here and they get thirsty for sucking cock all the time.
unidentified
That's what it is.
joe rogan
That's what I heard.
Is that true?
brian redban
I'm not finding this.
joe rogan
Because you're retarded.
Come on, dude.
It's in there from...
I told you.
It's a retweet from a dude named Adrian.
Oh, 5th of November.
I guess it was 24 hours ago now.
Adrian.
unidentified
Yeah.
bryan callen
Well, Joe Rogan, what I love about you is that you have used your influence for nothing but good.
joe rogan
I'm sorry, it's Wilford Lee.
That's the guy's name.
Sorry.
Wilford Lee is the guy who tweeted it to me.
brian redban
On November 5th?
joe rogan
No, it was 22 hours ago.
I was looking at something else.
brian redban
Alright, here we go.
joe rogan
Do you see it?
brian redban
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Pull this up.
This is going to be so ridiculous.
So what were you thanking me for?
bryan callen
I love that you have, as your influence has grown, you've done nothing but take care of your friends and people around you and try to make a world a better place.
joe rogan
Well, you know what?
That world a better place thing, I don't know about that.
bryan callen
Well, no, you try.
I'm just saying that you...
Look at that.
unidentified
oh there we go soaked and boiled in urine yes urine of young boys preferably those below the age of 10 hence the name virgin boy eggs it's a popular springtime snack in dong yang what outed for its health benefits We have to be very careful about going to war with these people.
bryan callen
It's just a fucking, it's like somebody came up with a gimmick to sell eggs, and it's just a smart entrepreneur, some guy giggling in the corner.
joe rogan
100,000 years ago.
Listen to this.
unidentified
It takes a full day to prepare the snack, starting off with collecting urine from boys' toilets.
Then the eggs are soaked and boiled in a pot of urine, after which the shells are cracked and the eggs are simmered in the same urine for hours.
Those who snack on the eggs say they help decrease body heat and promote better blood circulation that can make one feel reinvigorated.
Our ancestors were already doing this.
By eating these eggs, we will not have any pain on our waist, legs and joints.
Also, you'll have more energy when you do work.
I don't think so.
I don't like eating these eggs.
Other people like it because they have this tradition in Dongyang that these eggs are nourishment for our health and that it would help prevent things like getting a cold.
I don't believe in this at all.
I don't eat them.
Medical experts have mixed reviews about the health benefits and some warn of sanitary issues in this unique delicacy.
joe rogan
Who's pro in the doctor world?
unidentified
Declaring the virgin boy eggs.
Huh.
brian redban
You know what's so funny?
This is probably a huge troll.
joe rogan
I hope it is.
brian redban
Somebody put that on your message board.
What if it's just the onion for China?
joe rogan
It could be.
They could have just had a picture of simmering eggs and had a picture of the stalls and pretended they pissed.
bryan callen
You could go to Venice, California right now.
And find a group of people that are boiling eggs in fucking young boy piss.
joe rogan
You think so?
bryan callen
Or old man piss.
Because somebody came up with this idea.
joe rogan
Yeah.
bryan callen
I think we've always boiled shit in piss.
And I think...
And the same reason people would eat like...
Like why virgins are so prized, you know?
joe rogan
Well, Chinese people do a lot of freaky shit with eggs.
Like one of the things I'm fearful of is...
unidentified
You bury them?
joe rogan
Yeah, 100-year-old eggs, 1,000-year-old eggs.
bryan callen
What is that?
Explain that to me.
brian redban
Balloot eggs.
joe rogan
Yeah, balloot eggs.
unidentified
There's an unmistakable scent from these hard...
joe rogan
It's an egg that's fermented and black and looks like jelly.
I've eaten one.
Yeah, we used to serve them to people on Fear Factor.
It's disgusting.
But they were like a real delicacy.
bryan callen
When I was 14 years old, back when China was communist, I went to the mainland.
I spent two weeks there with my family.
joe rogan
What was that like?
bryan callen
When you looked out the bus, all you saw, I looked, turned around, all you saw back then was people in blue uniforms on bicycles.
Beijing was just one blue sea.
joe rogan
All commies.
bryan callen
Oh, it was just a communist country.
Everybody wore the exact same blue outfit.
joe rogan
What the fuck?
bryan callen
Everybody rode bicycles.
joe rogan
Was it freaky?
bryan callen
It was the freakiest thing I'd ever seen in my life.
No advertisements.
Think about that.
unidentified
What?
bryan callen
No advertising.
No billboards, no advertisements.
And Russia was the same way.
I went to Russia when it was communist.
There was no advertising.
So you'd go, why is everything so gray?
Well, there's no advertising.
There is no free enterprise.
unidentified
Splashy colors.
bryan callen
So you don't have people saying, buy this, that you weren't allowed to do that.
Everything was run by the state.
Restaurants were these huge communal affairs.
joe rogan
So when you go to a restaurant, do you have to pay anything?
How'd that work?
bryan callen
Very, very little.
Everybody pays the same.
joe rogan
Right, but when you pay, like...
bryan callen
There was one beer.
There was one national beer.
There was one, you know...
Everything was so uniform.
I went to the pagodas.
I went to the, you know...
There were very few Buddhist shrines that really survived the communist revolution.
joe rogan
Have you been back since?
bryan callen
No, no.
I mean, Beijing now is completely different.
But I was in Russia in 1985. They've gone straight capitalism now in China.
China, I think, has more billionaires than anywhere else in the world.
joe rogan
They buy Buicks.
bryan callen
Yeah.
joe rogan
They really like Buicks.
bryan callen
Yet they still have a very, very suppressive government.
But the Chinese have always...
The one thing that really is really unique to China is that a huge area of land speaks one language, Mandarin Chinese.
And there's almost no other example like that in the world.
However, that's because the Yangtze and the Yellow River were able to bring ideas and commerce and language to all different parts of China.
And so China became this uniform powerhouse as a result of that.
joe rogan
What's more fascinating to me is how they all look Chinese.
bryan callen
That's the other thing.
That's the other thing, though.
joe rogan
You want to talk about a really...
bryan callen
A fast area.
joe rogan
...a credible-sized place, and they all share a very similar gene pool.
I mean, at least visually.
bryan callen
Because of the Yangtze and Yellow River, there was so much trade.
You were able to get in.
The food production, domestication of animals created huge city centers, and it concentrated a great deal of people in one area.
joe rogan
I love how when you see northern Russia and Siberia, it gets really Chinese looking.
bryan callen
Well, I was in Kyrgyzstan, and if you talk to people from Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, which are the areas kind of like right where part of Russia used to be, they look very, very high cheekbones, very Asian.
They look more Mongol.
They're tall, usually strong-looking, you know, Broad people with these high cheekbones.
joe rogan
When you see something like that, doesn't it kind of like put you in touch with history?
Like you start thinking about like the Genghis Khan era.
bryan callen
If you want to freak yourself out, if you really want to freak out and you want to see specimens of human beings, go to the fucking Sudan.
Go to Kenya and go take a look at the Maasai Warriors.
Just go take a look.
If you want to know where the fuck guys like Scottie Pippen and Michael Jordan come from, I don't care what anybody says, they are these beautiful, these fucking six foot seven, seven foot people in the Sudan.
They live a nomadic lifestyle.
Seven feet?
No problem.
Athletic is all fucking get out wide and big.
Heads the size of basketballs.
You're like, where the fuck did you come from?
It is a different gene pool.
joe rogan
And how did that one gene pool arise?
bryan callen
How did the pygmies of the Congo arise?
There are a lot of theories on the biology of why people do it, but a lot of it had to do with how isolated that gene pool was.
For example, Polynesian people, very isolated for a long period of time.
In Hawaii and especially Tonga and Samoa, up until I think it was the late 1700s, early 1800s, they'd never been contacted by white people.
joe rogan
Do you know what's interesting about islands is that animals tend to dwarf on islands, but lizards tend to grow towards giant size.
Yeah, that's why the Komodo dragons became like enormous lizards.
They were isolated to the Komodo islands.
But like pygmy elephants and shit like that.
That makes sense though.
There's not enough food, right?
The hobbit people, those Homo florensis, those little tiny human beings that lived alongside people, that's also like an episode of island dwarfism.
bryan callen
I don't know.
Yeah, I wonder, though, why it was a form of a natural selection where tall people liked...
I mean, because Sudan's ridiculous.
joe rogan
They probably had to fight off lions and shit, and the big ones survived.
bryan callen
And the Maasai Mara are fucking tall, athletic.
The Maasai just broke the fucking half-mile record in the Olympics this year, world record.
Ran, like, fucking destroyed everybody.
joe rogan
Well, that guy, you know, comparing this conversation we were having earlier with, like, some fucking fat doughy guy, you know, some Gabriel Iglesias guy, and, you know, like, physically, if they're going to get in an MMA fight, one of them is cheating already.
bryan callen
Dude, I got a shitty...
I got...
I didn't win the fucking genetic lottery, and I'm okay.
But you didn't fail.
I didn't fail either.
I'm alright, but when I look at fucking...
You got like a 70. Yeah, I got a 70. You look at these fucking Samoans with the back of their arms, those big elbows, and their...
joe rogan
Big knees.
Those huge heads.
Mark Hunt looking legs.
bryan callen
Fuck, man.
joe rogan
Yeah, five minutes.
Have you ever seen Relentless Enemies?
bryan callen
No.
joe rogan
There's a documentary on this one area of Africa where a hundred years ago...
bryan callen
Eternal Enemies, right?
joe rogan
No, Relentless Enemies.
And there's the lions, the giant lions.
There's an area where the river changed course a hundred years ago.
And it's stranded all these lions and water buffalo in this one area.
And because the lions don't have any other prey other than water buffalo.
Pull that up, Brian.
Just pull up a video.
We'll end with this.
Blow your fucking socks off.
They become Hulk-sized lions.
The female lions are as large as regular male lions.
They're enormous.
Enormous.
Jesus.
And they're muscular.
Unbelievably muscular because all they eat is water buffalo.
These giant fucking buffaloes that they need like seven or eight of them to take on.
So they jump on their back and one of them goes underneath and they try to drag this thing down.
And then the water buffaloes just search for relentless enemies, lion versus water buffalo.
It's fucking incredible.
And they look like CGI lions.
They look like the Hulk.
They have giant muscles.
I can't believe you don't know about this.
bryan callen
No!
How do I not know about this stuff?
joe rogan
You're going to jack off this night.
This is going to end your night.
bryan callen
Have you seen Eye of the Sparrow?
The bad lip syncing of the presidential debate?
joe rogan
What is that?
bryan callen
Oh my god.
We have to watch that before you take off.
Go to Eye of the Sparrow.
joe rogan
Did you do Relentless Enemies?
Just type in Relentless Enemies.
Did you write weather buffalo?
What the fuck did you...
It's so hard to see.
It's so blurry.
Why is it...
They can't make one of those things that looks like a monitor.
bryan callen
What did you say about...
Water buffalo versus lion.
joe rogan
Relentless enemies.
That's it.
Click on that.
These fucking things.
Wait till you see what they look like.
I think this is the trailer for the movie.
What happened?
Fucking windows.
bryan callen
That's cool, though.
That's good resolution.
Hey, bro, I need to buy a flat-screen TV. Look at this water buffalo.
joe rogan
Jesus Christ.
Imagine having to eat that thing.
That's all you can eat.
Wait till you sweat these fucking lions, dude.
This is over a course of a hundred years, so it's really changing the way they look about how animals adapt.
bryan callen
Dude, look at these things.
That's death.
joe rogan
Look at the muscles on the- wait till you see the muscles on the fucking females, man.
I mean, you've never seen anything like it.
unidentified
Dude, look at those ears!
joe rogan
They're swimming out to get to this water buffalo.
unidentified
They can't- look at- Jeremy Irons.
joe rogan
Look at the size of these fucking lions.
That's a smaller one.
bryan callen
Holy shit.
unidentified
Oh my god!
joe rogan
Did this kiss me?
What are you doing, Brian?
You son of a bitch.
Look at how they have to fight these things.
bryan callen
Holy shit!
joe rogan
There's several different prides on this island, and not all of them are oversized.
It's interesting.
Some of them are regular sized.
bryan callen
Where can I see that?
joe rogan
Relentless Enemies.
Get it on Netflix, I'm sure.
I'm sure it's available on Amazon.
Go to Doug.com and buy it from there, and Brian makes money.
bryan callen
Will you just put in Eye of the Sparrow really quickly so I can show Joe?
unidentified
What is it?
bryan callen
Eyes of the Sparrow?
joe rogan
Podcast is almost over.
We've run out of time.
We turn into a pumpkin in two minutes.
bryan callen
Two seconds.
Come see me at Helium.
joe rogan
Go see him.
Or come see me and Joey Diaz in San Diego at the Balboa Theater.
Boom!
bryan callen
What are you doing?
joe rogan
That's Saturday night.
This Saturday night.
I'm in fucking dead punch, ladies and gentlemen.
bryan callen
If you're on the East Coast, come see me at Helium and I'll tell you all about Joe Rogan.
joe rogan
I got loose in San Francisco.
Knocked their dicks into the dirt in Seattle.
brian redban
Did you say Ice over Sparrow?
bryan callen
Eyes of the Sparrow.
Eye of the Sparrow.
joe rogan
Seattle's so fun, man.
bryan callen
Seattle's great, dude.
joe rogan
You just did Seattle?
I just did the Moore Theater.
bryan callen
Smart people, they get it.
joe rogan
Fucking great.
bryan callen
They love it.
I love it.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's just dreary as fuck up there.
But they enjoy the shit out of a show.
So dreary, though.
bryan callen
So is Canada, but they're the greatest audiences.
joe rogan
Vancouver's not as dreary.
bryan callen
No, I'm doing Vancouver in January.
I can't wait.
What are you doing in Vancouver?
You do theaters.
joe rogan
Yeah, I love Vancouver.
What are you going to do, Comedy Mix?
bryan callen
I'm going to do Comedy Mix.
joe rogan
That place is great.
bryan callen
Yeah, it's great.
joe rogan
Duncan Trussell just sold it out.
We tweeted about it, and he sold it out in one day.
He sold it out the whole weekend.
bryan callen
That's great.
joe rogan
What are we watching here?
Is this it?
bryan callen
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
No, no.
joe rogan
Don't let him Google on his own.
You gotta tell him what the fucking video is or you're gonna see a cat's asshole.
bryan callen
Eye of the Sparrow.
unidentified
Eye of the Sparrow.
bryan callen
A bad lip syncing.
joe rogan
Bad lip syncing.
bryan callen
There, there, there.
Right there.
joe rogan
Second one.
Right there.
bryan callen
Watch this.
Watch this.
This is so fucking funny.
Watch this.
We'll watch in a second.
This is the President's debate and they redub their voices because they watched their mouths and they could be saying something else.
joe rogan
Right.
bryan callen
Watch this.
This is so wild.
unidentified
Watch this.
joe rogan
This better be good, dude.
bryan callen
Yeah.
I hope this is the one.
unidentified
You know, the hot tub is cool now.
But they poisoned it.
I know, right?
I know.
Sing me some harmonies.
It's a small picture in a shop somewhere.
joe rogan
And I know who it is.
unidentified
It's Mormon Judy and cow people.
A little pitchy, but good stuff.
Governor Romney's black.
I mean, I think black can be judged.
How do I do this?
joe rogan
Dude, I don't have a jet ski.
Not the kind you're talking about.
Plus, everyone can see that I'm not black.
You have to see this to enjoy this.
The iTunes people are like, how high are these guys to laugh at this?
unidentified
I mean, I do want you to support me and be my man.
That's beautiful.
I know he's black.
Ahmed, how did you know about whodunit in the lounge?
We didn't?
No.
We didn't.
Oh, they started clapping for the mad cow until someone sold him.
joe rogan
Who is that creepy old dude that's involved in writing debates?
Boy.
That dude's the sickest.
unidentified
We hate him because he had eggs for a bath.
joe rogan
Gonna throw up tonight.
unidentified
But if you throw up, then it's as a jealous woman.
joe rogan
You have to see this.
bryan callen
It's so stupid!
unidentified
I'm thinking Governor Romney won't do that, okay?
joe rogan
Audio is not doing this justice.
unidentified
This has got me thinking.
I see a purple idiot.
Speaks German with a big spunky Irish labradoodle puppy.
Oh, he got me.
And I want you to feel bad because I've got funny radiation coming up on my desk.
joe rogan
Come on, I'm not a robot, okay?
I wish.
unidentified
Then I could go higher and you could rotate my arm and send me whooshin' into space.
You hear me?
All that's shush, because the sofa bears don't know.
Go right off.
Not a few 17 bears, so you're gone.
bryan callen
You gotta see it.
joe rogan
Is it over, folks?
Who the fuck is the president?
This is election day 2012, ladies and gentlemen.
bryan callen
I'm going to vote.
joe rogan
A month before the apocalypse.
Right now...
Whoa.
You ready for this?
What?
Mitt Romney's in the lead.
Right now he has 152 electoral votes, 223 for Obama.
unidentified
Wow.
joe rogan
Obama has 48% and he has 50%.
Wow.
Wow.
If this guy wins, this is going to be really strange.
brian redban
I'm more concerned about the condom law.
joe rogan
Oh, the condom law for porn stars?
bryan callen
Yeah, I know.
joe rogan
Yeah, well, we're just going to have to buy or download our porn from, like, Russia.
brian redban
Yeah, China porn.
joe rogan
That's just what it is, man.
There's no way people are just going to watch people fuck with condoms on.
They tried that for a while.
Remember that?
brian redban
Yeah.
joe rogan
Didn't work.
You ever click on a link and you see, like, a condom?
And you get upset?
You're watching a porn and the guy's wearing a condom?
bryan callen
I can't watch it.
joe rogan
One minute!
bryan callen
It's annoying.
joe rogan
Podcast is over, ladies and gentlemen.
Go fuck yourselves.
Do it kindly and gently.
Go see Brian Callen this weekend at Helium.
Helium in Philadelphia.
Google it, bitch.
bryan callen
I'll be bringing heat.
joe rogan
Go to deskwad.tv.
Buy yourself a kitty cat t-shirt.
brian redban
Ohio this week.
joe rogan
Support the Deskwad crew with Tom Segura in Ohio along with Tony Hinchcliffe and Brian Redman.
bryan callen
Can somebody please tweet me?
Just tweet me at Brian Callen and give me an idea for a Man Thoughts t-shirt, please.
joe rogan
Don't.
We beg for ideas, you son of a bitch.
Hire somebody.
Hire an artist, goddammit.
I will.
bryan callen
I will hire an artist.
joe rogan
Tomorrow night, Ice House, Comedy Club.
You coming down?
You going to be able to make it?
bryan callen
I'm going to do the best I can.
joe rogan
10.30 show.
10 o'clock show.
bryan callen
I got a show to do.
joe rogan
What show you got to do?
bryan callen
Hedwig and the Angry Inch.
joe rogan
Oh, is it good?
bryan callen
It's the best thing I've ever seen.
joe rogan
Okay.
All right.
unidentified
Well, yeah.
joe rogan
If you don't want to do that, ladies and gentlemen, if you want to come down to the Ice House, we'll be getting our freak on, getting our warm-up on, getting fired up for this weekend.
Me and Mad Flavor will be...
I don't know if Duncan is going to be able to make it this weekend, but I know Ari's coming.
Dom Herrera's coming.
Can Ian come?
Has Ian got a gig tomorrow night?
brian redban
Tomorrow?
I'll ask him.
joe rogan
Find him.
Find out.
And Little Esther as well.
Little Esther's coming.
And Brian Redman's coming.
brian redban
Esther can't do it.
joe rogan
She can't do it?
What happened?
She got some more important shit happen?
brian redban
Oh wait, no, she can do it.
Never mind.
joe rogan
What the fuck, man?
You're fucking with people's emotions!
unidentified
Dude!
joe rogan
Alright, this podcast is officially over.
We will see you tomorrow at 2pm with Dr. Peter Dewsburg and Brian Callen and we'll talk about AIDS. The good AIDS. Good night, everybody.
Go to Onnit.com O-N-N-I-T and go fuck yourself.
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