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March 20, 2019 - The Joe Rogan Experience
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Joe Rogan Experience #1269 - Bryan Callen
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unidentified
Five, four, three, two, one.
joe rogan
Yes, and we're live.
unidentified
Brian Callen, we are live on the internet.
bryan callen
In cashmere right now, everybody.
In cashmere.
joe rogan
How come you don't wear watches?
You were just saying...
bryan callen
I don't wear...
I was thinking...
I was saying to Brennan, I go, you could rob my house and there's nothing you'd find of value.
Like, there's not a fucking thing.
joe rogan
Steal your car.
bryan callen
Oh, no.
unidentified
Oh, no.
joe rogan
But you wonder why you make money then?
You have a lot of money, right?
You can probably not work for years.
bryan callen
Yeah, I make money.
But I was thinking about that too.
Genuinely, I did some soul searching about this because I watched how motivated Shab is.
He's so buttoned down about his stuff.
He's just always coming up with ideas.
I don't think I ever gave two fucks for real about Fame or money?
And I still don't.
I have a very precarious relationship with that.
What I love is coming up with new ideas and writing new stand-up.
And, you know, like now, having done the album, now I've got to come up with a whole new bag of tricks.
That's a really fun time.
I'm probably more happy or never as happy as when I'm on the road at some cafe somewhere solving problems, coming up with new ideas and surprising myself.
Everything else, you know.
I like hanging with my boys and laughing.
joe rogan
Do you like having a nice house?
Do you get any pleasure out of having a nice house?
bryan callen
Yeah, but I have lived in rudimentary places and I don't notice.
joe rogan
Yeah, I noticed that when I first started making money.
Everything gets normal.
Like, this is your house.
Wake up.
It's normal.
You know what doesn't change?
What always makes you feel good is views.
bryan callen
I was about to say that.
I can't believe you just said that.
A view is not underrated.
joe rogan
No.
Views are very underrated, I think.
bryan callen
So interesting you say that.
I just said that.
joe rogan
You know who else said that to me?
Ray Kurzweil.
unidentified
Really?
joe rogan
Yeah.
He always lives in a place with a view.
bryan callen
Yeah.
joe rogan
When I interviewed him, he was on a very high floor in an apartment building in San Francisco.
That's where he lives.
And you look out from his apartment and you see the city and you see the bay and it's beautiful.
bryan callen
Yeah, it's expansive.
joe rogan
Yes.
He said views are very important to him.
bryan callen
They are, but I have another weird thing that, like, if you put me in a French cafe, there's a, I don't know if it's still around, but there was a, I'm so French.
Do you speak?
Listen to my accent.
joe rogan
Did you ask for ham?
Did you ask for ham?
bryan callen
I said I speak French fluently.
joe rogan
Did you say ramon?
bryan callen
Ramon.
Un petit peu de jambon.
How well do you speak French?
joe rogan
Do you speak French?
bryan callen
No, I mean, I used to speak it.
I went to French schools in Lebanon.
unidentified
Damn.
bryan callen
Yeah.
You know, I mean, I can...
Give me six months and I'm gonna...
joe rogan
You'd hop right back in there.
bryan callen
I think so.
joe rogan
The dating pool in France?
bryan callen
Oui.
Cherie.
Cherie.
joe rogan
What were you saying?
You were about to say something about you were in a cafe in France?
bryan callen
There's a place called Chez Paul, which is this restaurant where you're crammed in with a bunch of people and the walls and the wood has been there.
You know you go to a comedy store, like a comedy club that's been around since the 70s and you think to yourself- Yeah.
And you think the wood in this, this is a weird thing, but the wood in these walls have absorbed so much laughter and good energy.
unidentified
Dude, I was just saying that the other day about the Ice House.
bryan callen
If they ever demolished that, God forbid, I would buy that wood and put it up on my walls.
joe rogan
Oh, so you do care about stuff.
bryan callen
Yes.
joe rogan
Magical stuff.
bryan callen
Yes.
I like things that last.
I like marble and heavy wood, like old railroad tracks.
joe rogan
Ooh, reclaimed wood.
bryan callen
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah, like this table.
bryan callen
Yeah, good leather.
joe rogan
This table's reclaimed wood.
bryan callen
Yeah.
And a man with a mustache.
joe rogan
Handmade things.
Like these handmade craftsmen shoes.
bryan callen
If I wanted to, I would maybe go and have my shoes made in London.
I'd have bespoke shoes.
joe rogan
Ooh, bespoke.
I love that when they use that.
bryan callen
I know.
I'd have bespoke shoes.
The problem with jewelry, watches, nice shoes and everything is I have to maintain them.
And I'd rather have...
joe rogan
You don't really have to maintain watches.
Just put them on.
bryan callen
That's right.
But I have another weird thing, which I think if I have leather under my feet, I don't feel as secure and I don't feel like I can run or fight.
joe rogan
Oh, like leather soles?
bryan callen
Well, you can't.
I need some rubber, bro.
joe rogan
Well, yeah, you should have some tread.
bryan callen
Yeah.
joe rogan
But they can put some leather tread below the...
I mean, rubber tread, rather, below the leather.
You don't want those scuffed up leather bottom shoes.
unidentified
No, man.
joe rogan
Those bitches are useless.
bryan callen
It's like being on socks!
joe rogan
Right, but it's good for pivoting.
If you want to pivot, like if you want to throw a wheel kick, it's really good.
bryan callen
Yes, it's true.
If you want to bear down.
If I want to, what's called squash the bug when I throw my right, squash the bug with my back foot.
joe rogan
No, because you want to push off.
You want to have something to push off.
You don't need that much pivot.
You really need pivot with a kick.
bryan callen
Yeah.
joe rogan
You know, like a spinning kick.
bryan callen
Yes.
joe rogan
Yeah.
bryan callen
This is the kind of bullshit you and I still talk about at 52. It's so pathetic.
joe rogan
It's never going to end.
bryan callen
Well, the fucked up thing is that, you know, I'm always getting ready for home invasion or a situation.
It might be.
The problem is that there are just too many things to worry about.
I also have to worry about fucking ticks and things that I can't see, like flesh-eating bacteria and MRSA. What I worry about more than anything, honestly?
joe rogan
Asteroidal impacts.
bryan callen
You do?
joe rogan
Yep.
unidentified
Really?
joe rogan
Yeah, because they can come and then wipe out civilization almost instantaneously.
There was something I just retweeted yesterday that Graham Hancock put up.
They found a new impact site at 12,500 years ago that coincides with the end of the Ice Age.
This is one of the things that he and Randall Carlson have been saying ad nauseam.
And now Robert Schock, who's a professor at Boston University.
jamie vernon
Did you hear about the explosion?
The meteor that exploded in December?
Yes.
joe rogan
Yeah, this meteor that exploded in December had something like 50 times the amount of power in the atmosphere.
bryan callen
Oh, okay.
joe rogan
Oh, 10. 10 atomic bombs.
10 times the power of the atomic bomb that exploded in Hiroshima.
Yeah, and it exploded in our atmosphere.
But no, there's this impact that they think happened.
Well, there's two concepts.
Robert Schock thinks that it might have coincided, these impacts might have coincided with, he believes there's a great deal of evidence for a mass coronal ejection, that there was some sort of a solar flare, a massive solar storm that happened, which can periodically happen every few a massive solar storm that happened, which can periodically happen every few thousand, every few hundred years, something And when that does happen, it just wipes out everything.
And he said there was thunderstorms.
Like there's thunderstorms or lightning storms that were like, like the hail that was coming out outside that we filmed today.
bryan callen
Yeah.
joe rogan
But that, but like lightning.
Put that back up, please.
unidentified
Jesus.
joe rogan
So this is the impact crater that they found in Greenland.
15 miles across?
unidentified
Yeah.
Holy shit.
joe rogan
31 kilometers across, which is...
bryan callen
Like 15 miles?
joe rogan
Yeah, somewhere around 15 miles.
unidentified
Ridiculous.
joe rogan
It's fucking insanely huge.
bryan callen
But do you think, as you think about your impending doom, which is going to happen, right...
joe rogan
I just worry about the civilization being...
We're so dependent upon electricity and any small catastrophe.
Oh, this is like an impact video of where it hit.
Wow.
So it's all this hit, like where there's glaciers right now, with this massive impact.
They got hit, man.
The people that lived 12,500 years ago got hit.
There's more than one crater, too, by the way.
This is one of the many craters that they found during the time period of 12,500 BC, or 12,500 years ago, rather, to 10,000 years ago.
In that time period, that 2,000-year time period, they think there was multiple impacts on the Earth.
bryan callen
Why?
I guess it just wasn't our time now.
joe rogan
Well, we're lucky.
We've just been through a really lucky stage.
But what he's saying, essentially, is that this is what wiped out the Egyptian civilization, the first Egyptian civilization.
This is what wiped out the civilization that built Gobekli Tepe.
This is what wiped out the civilization that preceded Sumer and ancient Babylon and Mesopotamia, that all those were a rebuild of a...
I can't wait for him to come back on again.
He's coming back on again.
Graham Hancock is coming back on again, I think April 22nd.
bryan callen
I listened to him debate that other guy that you had on the podcast.
It was great.
joe rogan
Yeah, well, it's Michael Shermer, who's actually a friend of mine who I like.
But he's a skeptic, and there's an issue with skeptics.
The issue is not that it's not good to be skeptical.
It's very good to be skeptical.
The problem is, when you approach things as a skeptic, you're not approaching them as a scientist.
And I'm not saying that Michael does this, but that I think he did in that debate.
I think it was a mistake.
People, they approach these things looking to debunk them rather than objectively assessing all the possible evidence.
And so because of that, you miss out on big things.
Like, this is evidence.
This is not like Bigfoot tracks or some shit like that.
This is fucking real evidence of a crater that they have dated back to 12,500 years ago.
bryan callen
Yeah, but people have a hard time believing in doomsday scenarios because it kind of like, you know, when you talk about taking the entire chessboard and throw it in the air and you have evidence for it, look at global warming and stuff like that.
There is a, I really believe that people have, whether it's Leighton or not, a religious notion that we are ultimately sacred and that God would never do something that terrible to us en masse.
I really believe that.
Like, humanity itself to go away?
No.
Because that would make no sense.
We're moving in a certain direction.
We're making progress.
There's this sort of neural net.
It's becoming easier to understand what it is to be each other.
And that's kind of what virtual reality and being able to download other people's brains will eventually do.
That probably brings us into one...
I guess, universal consciousness.
I mean, you can go on and on.
So the idea that that would be all obliterated before it happens, before the singularity, for example, happens, is too much to bear.
It would make no sense for us because we have this narrative that we all kind of adhere to.
It's very easy to do that.
joe rogan
Well, it's a little psychological sort of – I want to say a trick.
That we play on ourselves.
But it's really a defense mechanism.
It's a little trick that we try to pretend that we're important.
Goddammit, just look up at the sky and although you can't see it, there are stars that are being swallowed up by black holes.
Like, if the universe doesn't give a fuck about something that's a million times bigger than the Earth, why would you think it gives a fuck about you?
It's eating stars.
bryan callen
That's a terrible question.
Most people, that's a terrible, insulting question.
You know, that's kind of what, who was it, Albert Camus, the French existentialist and Sartre and all those guys, they were saying, like Camus said, the fundamental question is, why not just commit suicide?
Because everything is totally absurd and nothing means anything, right?
It's like the rock of Sisyphus that you keep pushing up and it keeps rolling down.
And then he said, but the truth is most people don't want to kill themselves, but they'll commit philosophical suicide.
Meaning, instead of like really starting to ask these questions and really getting into it and realizing that it's all hopeless and despair, you know, you just glom onto a certain philosophy that gives you hope.
Religion.
unidentified
Yeah.
bryan callen
Or whatever it might be, which is what it is.
And maybe the way out of that is just to enjoy every day, taste your food, enjoy your friends, and realize that it could end in any second.
joe rogan
You know another thing that's fucked with me?
The concept of reincarnation.
Not the concept of reincarnation like coming back as a butterfly or something like that.
But the concept of living your life over and over and over again until you get it right.
Now, here's what fucks with me.
I am having a great time.
So why wouldn't I want to do this again?
I'm having a great time.
I have great friends like you and young Jamie over there.
And I love my family.
I love what I do for a living.
I love our circle of friends is amazing.
I mean, we are for sure some of the luckiest men I have ever met in my life.
bryan callen
There's no doubt.
joe rogan
There's no doubt.
We have fun, man.
bryan callen
Dude, I was thinking about all the mistakes I've made, but then I went, wait a minute, but I'm here.
Like, at 52, I'm here.
joe rogan
I've made a fuckload of mistakes.
bryan callen
Yeah, but look where we are.
joe rogan
But we're also risk takers.
I mean, we're professional performers.
We went into a job that has zero job security.
bryan callen
Yeah.
joe rogan
Fucking head first, no safety net, dove right in.
You know, we make mistakes.
We make mistakes with our job.
We make mistakes with our personal life.
We make mistakes with our...
There's just no...
There's no way to avoid it.
bryan callen
Because I don't have a dress rehearsal.
I'm presented with these.
I'm presented with the scenario.
I have to make a choice in real time.
I'm going to make a mistake.
And once I realized that and stopped beating myself up about it and realized that I've always done the best I can, but here's what you can do.
Be brutally honest and assess yourself and see where you're falling short and then just change your approach.
So that's kind of what I did when I saw acting, when I saw what just being an actor was.
And I saw how precarious it was.
And I saw where the business was moving with the new media and stuff.
And I was like, this doesn't make...
Then I watched you doing your podcast and you would say, start a podcast.
So guess what?
I started a podcast.
Didn't go well.
Started another podcast.
Didn't make money.
Then started a third podcast with Brennan Schaub and blah, blah, blah.
But, you know, it's the same thing with stand-up.
You just keep doing it.
You keep following the models that work because I was doing the wrong thing over here.
And next thing you know, you know...
joe rogan
You gotta grind.
That's where a lot of comics fuck up.
They do it once a week, and then they take a few weeks off, and then they come back and do it again.
And they're like, how do you do it all the time?
I'm like, because I know how to grind.
I'm a grinder.
bryan callen
It's not just grind.
For me, the idea is original self-expression.
I'm interested in trying to...
Take the way I think.
So a lot of things scare me, and they make me angry, and I don't know how to react, but instead of fretting about it, I create.
Michelangelo, my favorite quote, criticized by creating.
It's a great fucking quote.
joe rogan
That's beautiful.
bryan callen
Yeah, he said that.
He said, criticized by creating.
I always think about that because...
That's kind of, when I look at my body of work and the progression of my specials, for example, like Man Class, a little too, you know, just about being funny and a silly goose, then never grew up a little more personal about my dad, but then this last one, Complicated Apes, where's my camera?
joe rogan
Is that out right now?
bryan callen
It's out right now.
joe rogan
Oh my god, is this the number one iTunes comedy album right now?
bryan callen
Dude, do we have to rank things?
Apparently it's crushing.
joe rogan
I've heard it's number one in the world.
bryan callen
Dude, where you can rent and buy, I guess, Complicated Apes is doing very well.
If you want to get it and laugh hard and learn...
joe rogan
I feel like we should celebrate.
bryan callen
Listen, this is not about promoting my special.
joe rogan
I feel like we should.
I feel like we should.
I feel like you should promote it a little bit.
bryan callen
Alright, fine.
Get complicated, Apes.
Let's just get that out of the way.
joe rogan
It's out right now, right?
bryan callen
I guess it's out right now.
joe rogan
You can get it on iTunes.
bryan callen
Or anywhere you rent or buy your material.
joe rogan
So if you have Apple TV, you can just watch it on your TV. You can get it on Xbox or PlayStation.
bryan callen
Listen, you can get it on Amazon.
I don't stop.
Any platform.
All the platforms.
joe rogan
You know, Amazon is really getting into the special game.
unidentified
Yes, they are.
joe rogan
They're doing Alonzo Bowden's special.
He's going to be coming on soon.
I love Alonzo.
bryan callen
He's a good man.
joe rogan
Yeah, he's a very smart guy.
Such a good dude.
bryan callen
Yeah.
joe rogan
They're doing Jim Gaffigan's special.
He's fucking hilarious.
And I think they're talking to a bunch of other people about doing specials as well.
They decided to...
bryan callen
I love that all these other people are moving in.
unidentified
I love it!
bryan callen
And we're in the renaissance where stand-ups can make real money.
It used to not be that way.
You had clubs.
Now you've got theaters.
Now you've got a whole network.
Now the internet and everything else.
What's beautiful about the road now is I don't have to do that local press.
joe rogan
That's so good.
bryan callen
Come see me in Kansas City this Friday, Saturday.
joe rogan
What club are you doing?
The improv?
Nice place.
bryan callen
Kansas City.
joe rogan
I love Kansas City.
Kansas City's fun.
bryan callen
I like it a lot.
joe rogan
It's fucking fun.
bryan callen
Oh, hell yeah.
joe rogan
I did an outdoor theater there this summer.
Yeah, it was fucking great.
unidentified
Wow.
joe rogan
Me and Santino.
bryan callen
Really?
joe rogan
Fucking amazing, man.
unidentified
Really?
bryan callen
An outdoor theater?
joe rogan
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Really fun.
bryan callen
That's pretty badass.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Yeah, Kansas City's the shit.
It's one of those places that people forget.
St. Louis, that's also the shit.
bryan callen
Yeah.
joe rogan
That's a fun place.
bryan callen
To me, terrible town.
Now, here's the thing.
joe rogan
Oh, how dare you?
First of all, barbecue.
bryan callen
No, St. Louis I had a little problem with, but Kansas City, fantastic.
joe rogan
What kind of problems did you have?
bryan callen
I just thought it was a very ugly city.
joe rogan
Maybe you generalize it.
bryan callen
Maybe.
Maybe.
joe rogan
Maybe you didn't go to the pretty spots.
Would you go over like Google Earth?
You'd drive all over the whole fucking city?
unidentified
That's exactly right.
bryan callen
I drove around.
joe rogan
How about Cleveland?
This is where we draw the line.
bryan callen
I like Cleveland.
joe rogan
I fucking love Cleveland.
bryan callen
Let me tell you why I like Cleveland.
It's a beautiful city.
I mean, talk about architecture.
It's like Pittsburgh.
joe rogan
Yes.
bryan callen
And some great culinary...
joe rogan
You said like Pittsburgh.
bryan callen
Yes.
joe rogan
That's true.
That's totally true.
bryan callen
It's where the oil...
The iron...
I think Cleveland was where some of the richest people in the world were at one point.
joe rogan
Last time I was in Pittsburgh, well, the first time rather, I said, well, not even the first time.
One of the times I was in Pittsburgh, I was there for a furry convention.
I was there for the UFC, and the UFC was in Pittsburgh at the same time a furry convention was on.
That's when I found out about furries.
I had a nice, long conversation with the dudes who work behind the desk at the hotel.
They were telling me the furries were asking for their food in bowls so they could eat off the ground.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
They were all furries except us.
bryan callen
What the fuck?
What the fuck is going on?
joe rogan
Forget who went with me.
I forget who opened for me.
It might have been Duncan.
But they were asking for a litter box so they could shit and piss in a box.
bryan callen
I want to do that.
joe rogan
No, you don't.
bryan callen
No, I don't, but I would.
Just for a laugh.
joe rogan
How are you going to wipe?
bryan callen
How do you get that fetish?
It's like grown men who want to wear diapers and have somebody spank them and change them.
joe rogan
Well, here's what's interesting.
There's a lot of people that think that...
Look...
I am 100% in support of people being trans.
Don't get me wrong.
I'm in support of you being whatever you want to be.
I'm a person who believes in free will or your ability to freely express yourself, I should say.
But if you work for a corporation, you work for a tech corporation, especially a particularly progressive tech corporation, you run into some real problems.
And I was talking to a guy who was telling me, you don't know the half of it, that we're dealing with a guy who he identifies as an animal and that he believes that he's kin, like he's a fox kin or a dog kin or something like that.
And he wants a litter box in his office.
This guy wants to be able to shat in his fucking office into a box of...
bryan callen
Now, I appreciate that.
Now, I want to say this about him, and I'm not a psychiatrist, and I have no right to really diagnose, but he's fucking crazy.
joe rogan
Yeah, he is crazy.
bryan callen
Right?
joe rogan
But here's the thing.
Like, you're letting people be crazy.
unidentified
Correct.
joe rogan
When you're letting a 6'4 man compete in women's weightlifting because he's decided that he's a woman now… That's bullshit.
And now he's winning and he's wearing makeup and he looks like a gorilla and he's on stage lifting his arms up.
Yay, diversity!
You're stealing from women.
bryan callen
You're stealing.
joe rogan
You're stealing victory.
You're cheating.
You're fucking 100% cheating.
unidentified
That's right.
joe rogan
And anybody says they're not...
You're an asshole.
You're an asshole.
bryan callen
I know, but you know, this is about humanness and when someone's feelings, how they identify in that moment, which of course are so transitory, right?
I mean, my fucking, not to bring it back, but the whole idea of complicated apes is that we are- This is your new special that's out right now?
This is my new special.
joe rogan
And it's available basically everywhere, right?
bryan callen
Amazon.
joe rogan
You can get it on iTunes.
bryan callen
Everywhere you rent.
unidentified
Hulu.
joe rogan
Does Hulu have it?
bryan callen
It does!
joe rogan
Oh my god, that's crazy.
bryan callen
And wherever the fuck, look in your sock drawer.
There's my special.
joe rogan
It's in my sock drawer.
bryan callen
It's in your sock drawer.
joe rogan
That's amazing.
bryan callen
But I do think that, you know, we are complicated.
Like, we're bipolar apes.
Sinners and saints and everything in between.
So your feelings...
How you feel.
Sometimes I feel like an asshole and other times I feel like a saint and everything in between.
It's very difficult to say, you're a noun, which means you're this, as opposed to sort of a verb, which is I'm always changing.
And that to me is the problem with when you identify, when you emotionally identify with something.
Well, for now you do.
For now.
That's what's important to you.
But I can't tailor my life and my entire corporation to This is what the part of the problem is, and this is what you just hit on.
Yeah.
joe rogan
Part of the problem is these people want to be special for no reason at all.
bryan callen
Correct.
joe rogan
And so to be special for no reason at all, one of the best ways is to do what Bruce Jenner did.
You become Caitlyn Jenner, and then he's special.
That guy was a fucking loser, even though he was a gigantic superstar in the Olympics.
bryan callen
40 years ago.
joe rogan
But from then on, they shat on that guy every fucking show.
bryan callen
That's right.
joe rogan
They shit on him.
He was the buffoon of that show.
And then all of a sudden he becomes a woman and everybody's like, you're amazing!
bryan callen
And woman of the year.
Woman of the year.
joe rogan
After being a woman for six months.
bryan callen
Yeah, all the women that do things like Christina Doudna who came up with CRISPR-Cas9 and all those women.
joe rogan
Oh, is this the guy?
Okay, this is hilarious.
This is a dude who's a comic?
Is he a comic or a rapper?
jamie vernon
He's a rapper.
joe rogan
He's a rapper.
And he's fucking jacked.
So he decided to identify as a woman.
bryan callen
Watch me destroy them.
joe rogan
So he destroys the British women's deadlift record without even trying.
unidentified
Wow.
joe rogan
P.S. I identified as a woman whilst lifting weights.
Don't be a bigot.
bryan callen
I love this motherfucker.
joe rogan
And he's so jacked.
Imagine that.
So, the biological men don't have any physical strength advantage over women in 2019. Okay, anybody who says that is a fool.
bryan callen
That's hilarious.
joe rogan
That's foolishness.
bryan callen
Nobody just did.
joe rogan
Yeah, good for him.
What's his name?
bryan callen
Zuby.
jamie vernon
Zuby.
joe rogan
Zuby is his stage name.
Shout out to Zuby.
bryan callen
Oxford graduate.
Doesn't that mean you're a Rhodes Scholar?
joe rogan
Zuby, congratulations to you, sir.
I'm following you right now.
I'm going to go right to my goddamn Twitter.
Free thinker.
Free thinker.
bryan callen
God bless you.
joe rogan
This is silliness, folks.
Of course it is.
And here's the problem with a lot of these progressives is that they're really nice people.
That's what it is.
Zuby follows me, and now I follow him.
Shout out to Zuby!
bryan callen
They're nice people as long as you agree with them.
joe rogan
Yes, exactly.
And if you don't, they try to de-platform you.
I got listed.
Tim Pool sent me this thing next to Richard Spencer as being a far-right influencer.
jamie vernon
An all-right influencer, yeah.
Far-right!
joe rogan
They called me far-right.
bryan callen
That's amazing.
joe rogan
I'm left!
bryan callen
They're liars.
Yeah, I know.
joe rogan
I am fucking left-wing on...
bryan callen
Who did that though, you know?
joe rogan
I'm almost a socialist.
bryan callen
Yeah.
joe rogan
I consider universal basic income a really good idea.
I want free college education.
bryan callen
Take it easy.
joe rogan
I would like to spend more in taxes if they could fix inner city communities and take these poor neighborhoods and throw a fuckload of money.
Spend more, you fucking Republican piece of shit!
bryan callen
The problem is you got white privilege.
joe rogan
That's the problem.
bryan callen
Listen, you son of a bitch.
joe rogan
I feel it coming out of your pores right now.
bryan callen
Listen, you socialist.
Why don't you leave my country?
joe rogan
I'm 1.6% African, so watch your fucking mouth.
bryan callen
Dude, no wonder you're so...
You're so compassionate.
Compassion's everything.
joe rogan
But I think these people are too compassionate.
This is what the problem is.
They're like, oh, you identify as a wood elf?
Oh, cool, you're an elf.
I don't want to, you know, like, whatever your feelings.
And here's the thing, they're terrified of someone coming after them.
So they try to embrace, the more preposterous, the better.
Like, they're having a real hard time now with this woman, the congressman, you know, who said a bunch of anti-Semitic shit.
bryan callen
Or anti-Israeli stuff, right?
joe rogan
Anti-Israeli shit.
Is it anti-Semitic?
Has she said anything bad about Jews in general?
bryan callen
I think she might have said anti-Israeli stuff, which I think you can make a distinction.
joe rogan
Yes, you should be able to.
bryan callen
I think you should be able to make an intelligent argument that there is a difference between being not anti-Israeli, but having problems with their policies and Jews, right?
Because there are a lot of Jews that are critical of Israel as well.
joe rogan
100%.
bryan callen
Yeah, so it's...
But sometimes to silence you and stop the argument.
I'm not familiar with what she said exactly.
joe rogan
I'm not either.
bryan callen
But go on.
What were you saying about the problem?
joe rogan
They don't know what to do with her.
They're stuck in this weird spot.
Here's a perfect example.
Where was it...
So it was somewhere in Europe where this Muslim group was shouting down this LBGT demonstration.
And everybody's like, oh, well, Jesus, what do we do here?
We have two protected classes going to war with each other.
bryan callen
Yeah.
joe rogan
And one of them is shouting down the other one saying that, you know, homosexuality is forbidden by God, but then we're supposed to be protective of LBGT people.
We're supposed to be open-minded and progressive and allowing them, but then you have these people who are saying that it's their religion, that they think that this is wrong, and this is also a protected class.
You don't want to be Islamophobic.
So what does everyone do?
Well, everyone stands back.
And this is one of the weird moments where people are standing back while LBGT people are getting absolutely crucified in the streets, yelled at with bullhorns, told they're sinners and blasphemers.
bryan callen
But that actually is part of free speech, right?
unidentified
Sure.
bryan callen
So it's part of being able to organize and express yourself, organize and petition your government.
That's constitutional as long as you don't incite someone To violence, as long as you don't say, hey, you guys, go kill those gay people over there.
joe rogan
Bro, I'm not talking about constitutionally.
I mean, constitutionally, I agree.
It is free speech.
But what I'm saying is that there's no outrage.
There's no commensurate outrage like there would be if, say, white nationalists were screaming at these people.
bryan callen
So here's my issue with the far left or the left or even, forget the right for a second, I have my own issues with that.
But with the progressive argument, I always notice that the narrative is very binary.
The narrative is always, so for example, racism is the argument, right?
So we need to get rid of racism.
I happen to think we could be as identical as penguins and we'd still find reasons to break into us versus them.
joe rogan
Well, we'd have an ideological...
bryan callen
Of course we do.
Look at the Middle East.
If racism was the ultimate problem, then the Middle East would be fairly...
joe rogan
Or it would be a financial...
bryan callen
Sunnis and Shia, the Igbo and the Yoruba.
I mean, I can keep going.
There'd be all kinds of...
So people are looking...
The Dinka and the Nua of the Sudan, sworn enemies, they look exactly the same.
So human beings don't need to have different colored skin.
joe rogan
I couldn't agree more.
bryan callen
Yeah.
So we are tribal, and it's fun to break into these us versus them.
I think the biggest problem is kind of deciding that, first of all, the internet has made it very possible for you to purify your echo chamber.
That's a big problem.
And then you surround yourself with people who think and see the world exactly like yourself.
And I think we get smarter when we listen to the other side, even if you don't agree with them.
Because your ideas aren't working and their ideas aren't working, but put your ideas together and maybe somebody gets pregnant with a new idea.
joe rogan
Yeah, the idea is that there's some way that you could stop all division between human beings as long as people are allowed to express themselves and they live unique and individual lives.
That's never going to happen.
bryan callen
No.
joe rogan
You're going to have people that come from different parts of the world where different things are more important.
You're going to have people that come from different economic situations.
It's going to be different.
I mean, when I say that I'm almost a socialist, what I mean is like, look, there's certain things we just accept that we need.
Like, here's one.
You need a well-funded fire department, right?
Whose money?
Everybody, we're pulling all our money into that.
Right, right.
We agree with that.
We agree there's well-funded public education.
You have to have that, right?
Well, we barely do that right now, but we do have that.
Teachers are getting fucked left and right.
They're getting minimal pay.
Children are going to school in hazardous conditions, but at least there's some money being put.
Police officers, we agree.
Street fixing the streets, we agree.
We agree on a lot of things, but then it gets to certain things we go, okay, well, that's where we draw the line.
Why do we draw the line there?
Why do we draw the line when it comes to community upheavals, like fixing communities?
I mean, infrastructure.
Why don't we have, like, if we're really a team, or if the United States is really a team, why don't we look at it as a team in terms of equal allocation of resources to solve conflicts and problems, including crime?
We don't.
bryan callen
A lot of times, the problem is isolating the source of the problem.
So people disagree on what the actual problem is.
I can give you examples.
I mean, when we talk about illegal immigration and what to actually do about it, people are all over the board with it.
And they'll challenge your solution in court and there's all kinds of stalemates, which probably is a good thing so things don't get too – they don't swing too far in that direction.
Universal basic income, universal health care, gun control.
These are actually fairly complicated issues.
I don't want spree shooters, but when you get down to it and you hear people who are really educated on the subject of guns, they can get you twisted up in an argument if you start talking about gun control because you realize this is a complicated issue and maybe it's a mental health issue.
maybe it's a thousand things.
joe rogan
It's certainly a mental health issue.
bryan callen
There's a lot of issues with it.
joe rogan
The ability that someone has to do what...
Is it only one guy?
More than one person got arrested in New Zealand, correct?
bryan callen
No, I think it was just one guy.
Yeah.
jamie vernon
Yeah, they got arrested, but only one shooter, as far as I know.
joe rogan
So the other ones are planning it?
jamie vernon
They thought they were, maybe, yeah.
bryan callen
No, I think he was, yeah.
But my thing is that...
joe rogan
But my point is, you have to be ill.
There's no other way.
bryan callen
Of course you do.
joe rogan
You have to be mentally ill in order to do that.
Now, I want you to think about the fact there's more guns than there are people.
unidentified
Mm-hmm.
joe rogan
So, in this country alone, there's 300 plus million people, there's more than 300 million guns.
Relatively speaking, the number of mass shootings is incredibly small in comparison to the amount of guns and the amount of sick people.
I mean, how many people are sick who don't become mass shooters?
It's a big number.
bryan callen
It's very true.
Those are things.
And a lot of the gun violence that the left talks about, a lot of those are suicides.
joe rogan
A lot of it.
bryan callen
Yeah.
joe rogan
A lot of that is suicides.
A lot of it is cops shooting bad guys.
A lot of it is people defending themselves.
And then after that, you have gang violence.
bryan callen
But so the problem is that when people argue, they make these things very simplistic.
joe rogan
Yeah.
bryan callen
And they're not.
You know, even the identity politics.
I mean, you know, so straight white males are essentially the enemy.
So the idea would be if we take straight white males out of the equation, because this is all power, right?
joe rogan
Talking to Amy Schumer or something?
bryan callen
No.
No, I'm not.
But this tyrannical hierarchy and stuff, as if you took white males and took all of them out of the equation, as if there wouldn't be a new hierarchy.
Yeah.
That's just the way shit happens.
When you try to make things really equal in a communist society, the people closest to the government making the decisions, they become the new elite.
So you're not going to fucking avoid that shit.
joe rogan
And also, there's no equality of effort.
The problem with equality of income and equality, like people want success.
They think that if you're more successful that it's because of some sort of a cheat.
You've rigged the system or cheated somehow or another.
But that's not true.
Some people work harder.
Of course they do.
They just do.
bryan callen
Of course they do.
joe rogan
Some people become obsessed with success and some people...
My uncle...
My Uncle Vinny doesn't give a fuck.
You know what my Uncle Vinny does?
He makes art.
unidentified
Really?
joe rogan
He sells it.
Yeah, he's always been that way.
He used to be a photographer, and now he sent me some driftwood that he painted.
unidentified
Wow.
joe rogan
He painted signs for my daughters made out of driftwood.
I love people like that.
He's so eccentric, but he's never given a fuck about it.
It drove his ex-wife crazy.
bryan callen
He just makes beautiful things for...
joe rogan
He's an artist.
He's like a legitimate artist.
bryan callen
Jimmy Burke's that way.
Jimmy Burke is truly not ambitious.
He is only interested in feeding his brain.
He listens to Stephen West's podcast, Philosophize This, which is my favorite.
I love that podcast.
joe rogan
I've been talking to that guy back and forth.
I'm going to get him on.
bryan callen
Yeah, I've got to get him on.
He's 29, and he's got such a command of philosophy, but he makes it so accessible.
Yeah, like Jimmy will start his day with philosophize this just listen get a get a nugget and then he goes and works out and plays tennis and just He's a national treasure because he only lives to educate himself and make the world a better place He just makes people feel good about themselves.
joe rogan
He's trying to enjoy life But do you think you'd want to do it over and over and over again the exact same life?
bryan callen
I do He's the happiest.
He's the closest thing to a monk.
I was just with him.
I flew him down to Florida.
joe rogan
Do you remember the time we had him on the podcast, folks?
You want to watch a disaster podcast?
We got him way too high.
We got him like three or four hits deep and he doesn't smoke weed.
bryan callen
And he hadn't eaten.
joe rogan
He hadn't eaten.
bryan callen
And he was thirsty.
joe rogan
I don't think eating helps when you're smoking it.
I might be wrong.
Does it?
bryan callen
He was already low blood sugar and he hadn't slept.
joe rogan
We barbecued that dude.
We threw him in a Traeger grill and set it at 225 for six hours.
He was forgetting stories.
He was forgetting stories in the middle of the first sentence.
bryan callen
He's amazing.
He's amazing.
joe rogan
Yeah, we fucked him up, which is too bad because he tells some great stories.
Now the world will forever know him as the guy who couldn't keep it together.
bryan callen
Well, I remember when he had tuberculosis.
I called him Jimmy Berculosis.
Yeah.
joe rogan
He had tuberculosis.
bryan callen
He sure did.
They think he got it from his grandfather when he was three years old and it laid dormant.
And they couldn't find it because it was on the outside of his lung.
unidentified
Holy shit.
bryan callen
So, I'm with him in the hospital.
I've never seen anything like this.
I'm with him in the hospital.
And they thought he had two things.
One, the disease that killed Bernie Mac.
joe rogan
What disease killed Bernie Mac?
bryan callen
He had that disease that firemen get from 9-11 where your lungs basically turn to sand.
I mean, you know, it's awful.
unidentified
Oh, God.
bryan callen
So Bernie Mac died of that.
So they said, you have either a fatal disease, which is that lung disease, or you have lung cancer.
Okay?
Now, this was what he was looking at.
And I remember he was just talking to me like this, and joking around, aha!
Oh, dude, yeah!
And I went, Bubba, I go, you've been given, like, they are looking at you either being, you know, you're dead or dead.
I don't understand how you're not even missing a beat.
And he goes, dude, come on.
I've made peace with my death a long time ago.
I live every day as it comes.
And he was getting ready for them to come out and tell him what it was.
And the doctors, you know, you can't help but to love him.
So he was there for three weeks, and the doctors finally found that he had tuberculosis.
Now, at this point, all the doctors fell in love with him, all of them.
They'd come in and listen to his stories.
So the doctor came running in and goes, we found out what you have!
You have tuberculosis!
And Jimmy was like, oh, great.
And he goes, no, we can cure that!
This is fucking great!
We can cure that!
So he went on nine months of antibiotics.
joe rogan
Nine months?
bryan callen
And he went colorblind.
unidentified
From the antibiotics?
bryan callen
Yeah, that's what happened to him.
He's now colorblind.
joe rogan
So he's colorblind now?
Yep, colorblind.
bryan callen
That's what the antibiotics did.
But hey, he's 100%.
But I've never seen anybody face his own death and be that just monk-like about it.
He's a badass.
joe rogan
Does he have a good diet?
bryan callen
Yeah.
Yeah.
joe rogan
Now, when he was on the antibiotics, did they give him probiotics as well?
bryan callen
He does probiotics.
He brought his body right back.
I mean, he is just a beast.
He's never stopped working out.
He's never stopped eating really well.
joe rogan
Do they know what caused his antibiotic reaction that made him colorblind?
bryan callen
That apparently is a side effect when you take nine months of a very strong cocktail of antibiotics.
joe rogan
And that cured it, though.
Nine months later, it cured it.
bryan callen
Yeah, thank God.
joe rogan
There's no way it cures it on its own.
bryan callen
Well, back in the day, you had consumption, and almost you died eventually.
But some people would go up into the mountains, and tuberculosis can go into remission and not come out again.
joe rogan
When you go to the mountains?
bryan callen
The idea was we'll go to the mountains and breathe fresh air and sometimes you could go into remission with tuberculosis.
But tuberculosis was almost always a death sentence.
In Long Day's Journey Into Night, the great play and Nobel Prize winner Eugene O'Neill, his brother had it.
And he knew his brother was going to die.
And he just watched his brother deteriorate.
It was like having AIDS or something.
You would cough.
You'd spit up blood.
I think Chopin, the great piano player, died of it.
This is why when people talk about, you know, when they're anti-vaccine or they're anti-antibiotics or Western medicine, just read.
Forget the science.
Don't worry about Big Pharma.
Just pick up a history book or a piece of literature, anything that's written before 1950, which most people don't, 1968. Any classic book.
And one of the central themes is the fact that people, especially children, died.
Lincoln lost, what, three of his children?
joe rogan
Three!
bryan callen
To fever, quote-unquote.
Usually probably diphtheria or something that came rolling through.
Smallpox was a fucking, it was the biggest killer forever.
joe rogan
How about the Spanish flu of 1918?
bryan callen
People died.
20 million people?
joe rogan
Millions of people.
bryan callen
Yeah.
So, if you just – forget – I mean, just pick up a history book or pick up a piece of literature.
It was unavoidable.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's very – the Spanish flu apparently was a really weird one because it actively attacked people with really good immune systems.
bryan callen
Oh, young people.
Young people died.
joe rogan
Yeah, it killed them better than it killed older people for some strange reason.
bryan callen
And that was a fact of life.
You usually buried your children.
Throughout history, you had to bury your children.
That's an unequivocal fact.
We don't live in that world anymore.
We don't worry about those diseases like tetanus and diphtheria and things that would roll through and just kill everybody.
joe rogan
But people are getting it now.
People are getting tetanus again.
unidentified
That's right.
joe rogan
Some kid got tetanus.
And I saw people arguing that one of the dumbest fucking things I ever saw in my life, someone was saying, there's a simple cure to tetanus, just expose it to open air.
Ha!
bryan callen
Is that a scientist?
Was that a guy who has his degree?
Why is it that these guys never have a degree?
joe rogan
He was a chemtrail believer.
bryan callen
But why is it that all these guys who make the noise don't have degrees?
joe rogan
Because they want to believe that there's some sort of an organized clan of people that are trying to keep your health down or support big pharma.
The real facts of diseases like smallpox and like polio, like all these horrific diseases that people in our grandparents' generation had to deal with, is that they were cured by medicine.
bryan callen
Yeah.
joe rogan
Is modern pharma greedy?
Look no further than the OxyContin crisis.
unidentified
That's right.
joe rogan
The opiate crisis we're facing in this country.
Yeah.
Big Pharma, left unchecked, is like anything else, where it's a corporation that wants to have universal growth.
They want to have constant, never-ending growth, and they want to keep making money, and the way to do that is to prescribe more people poison.
bryan callen
Ben Goldacre, you ever have him on his podcast?
unidentified
No.
bryan callen
He wrote a book called Bad Pharma.
But he's a doctor who takes a very...
He said, there is evil, but you have to know what kind of evil.
Don't just throw the whole...
joe rogan
Exactly.
bryan callen
If you have MRSA, you need big pharma.
Fuck yeah, you do.
If you have staph, just talk to anybody who's ever wrestled or anything.
joe rogan
Dude, Cam Haynes' son had staph, and he called me up.
He's like, how bad is staph?
I'm like, Jesus Christ, because he told me his son got it at the gym.
I'm like, get him to the fucking doctor immediately.
My wife's friend went into a coma.
She started having seizures because of an unchecked staph infection she got at the gym.
Started having seizures.
bryan callen
I'm at sushi with Frank Grillo, our buddy.
And he boxes every day.
And I see his arm.
And he's got a long sleeve shirt.
And his arm's bleeding.
And I go, what's going on with your arm?
And he goes, I got cut.
I was at the gym.
And he's always on that dirty, you know, mat or just whatever.
In a literally seven hours, he had a sack hanging off his elbow.
Doctor goes, he almost lost his arm.
He had to get shots and antibiotics for a whole week.
I mean, that shit moves quick.
joe rogan
Moves very quick.
bryan callen
You would lose your arm or die.
joe rogan
I tell you the Ari Shaffir story.
Me and Ari are playing pool and he's limping.
I'm like, what's going on with your leg?
And he goes, I think I got a spider bite.
I go, let me see your leg.
He pulls his leg.
I go, dude, listen to me.
You're going to the doctor right now.
I unscrew my cue.
He's like, are you serious?
I go, we're quitting right now and I'm taking you to the fucking hospital.
I go, you got to go to the hospital now.
He goes, now.
I go, do you have a staph infection?
And it's bad.
bryan callen
And you could tell.
joe rogan
Fuck yeah!
bryan callen
I didn't know what it looked like.
joe rogan
It looked like a zit.
Like a giant zit on his knee.
I go, that's not a spider bite, bro.
And he was doing jujitsu.
Because of me.
I bought him a year membership for jujitsu.
For Hanukkah.
But yeah, man.
It was fucking nasty.
And he would have just walked around with it.
And then it would have gotten really bad.
And he probably would have got systemic and died.
And that happens to people.
bryan callen
My buddy Ryan, who is a Halff, Gracie Black Belt, they had to cut out, they had to cut an inch off of his shin bone because the screws, so every time he'd be on antibiotics, a year and a half in and out of the hospital, it took him two years to recover with probiotics and everything.
A year and a half because the screws, every time they put the screws back in, they- Screws?
The screws had the virus, the bacteria.
What screws?
So he had to have, when they took out the bone and they had to put a plate there, they would use screws.
So for whatever reason, the screws that were in the metal would somehow, they were infected.
They kept infecting the bone.
And they had to grow, they had somehow graft bone back on it.
It was fucking crazy.
Jesus Christ.
But that was, it's no joke, man.
joe rogan
How happy, once something like that happens though, how happy are you when you're healed?
Yeah, I had a cold recently.
Just a little cold.
Not that bad.
But I was running ragged.
Just too many trips and too busy and getting up early and going to bed late.
And I was just really tired and sick.
And then I couldn't work out for like four or five days.
And I remember thinking to myself, you've got to remember this.
You've got to remember this shitty feeling when you can't even exercise and I'm hawking up green shit and spitting in the sink just to look at it.
bryan callen
I know.
joe rogan
Do you do that?
You blow your nose in the sink?
bryan callen
Of course I do.
joe rogan
I do that.
I go...
Yeah, I want to see it.
I want to see what it looks like.
Just big fucking smurfs.
bryan callen
Yeah, just shit.
joe rogan
Big green gobules all over the fucking sink.
But I just remember thinking, like, you've got to be smarter, stupid.
Just be smarter by your hands.
And most of the time I am.
Most of the time I am.
But sometimes I just go, I've got to hit that gas.
I've got nothing in the tank.
But I've got to fucking keep that accelerator pressed.
bryan callen
That's why I don't fuck around with my sleep anymore.
I read that book, Why We Sleep.
joe rogan
Matthew Walker, he's amazing.
bryan callen
I just, I don't fuck around with my sleep anymore.
joe rogan
You should not.
You should not.
Sleep is critical.
bryan callen
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's, um, you know what is amazing for sleep, man?
You know what you should get in your place?
Get yourself a sauna.
bryan callen
Really?
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
bryan callen
Really?
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
You do 20 minutes in a sauna.
That's for fucking clowns.
You wear a rubber nose when you do it?
unidentified
Yeah.
bryan callen
Hey, man.
joe rogan
I take cold showers after yoga.
bryan callen
You wear a rubber nose?
unidentified
Yeah.
bryan callen
Man, Joe's being mean to me.
joe rogan
He called me a clown.
He's a fucking clown.
bryan callen
Fucking clown.
I'm trying to create shock proteins.
joe rogan
Yeah, you gotta get really cold.
You should have an ice bath if you want to do that.
bryan callen
I'll do an ice bath.
unidentified
I've done that before.
joe rogan
Have you done cryo?
bryan callen
Yeah, I've done cryo.
joe rogan
Have you done the real one when your head goes in?
No, you did the one with the neck below.
On it has the bullshit one.
bryan callen
Really?
joe rogan
Yeah.
The real one's only made by Cryo Healthcare.
They have one in New York or one center in New York.
They have one in LA. They have one here.
They have one in Woodland Hills.
bryan callen
Come sit in an ice bath for 20 minutes and talk to me.
joe rogan
Okay.
bryan callen
You go numb.
joe rogan
It sucks, I'm sure.
unidentified
It's a bitch.
joe rogan
But so does 250 degrees below zero.
bryan callen
Have you not done an ice bath?
joe rogan
For three minutes.
unidentified
Yeah, I have.
Oof.
joe rogan
Come on, bro.
It sucks.
bryan callen
Alright, bro.
joe rogan
I get it.
bryan callen
Did you wear a fucking...
Did you wear a clown nose?
unidentified
Burn.
bryan callen
I just double burned him now.
joe rogan
Sing a song.
I was singing.
Sing.
Yeah, it's not good.
There's probably some real benefits to ice baths.
The benefit of cryo over ice baths is you can work out right afterwards.
Ice baths, they recommend you not work out.
They're like, you just chill out for a while.
But it's great after you're working out.
But for muscle strength and development, it's actually not good to do it right after training.
You actually should wait quite a while, like maybe an hour or two.
bryan callen
So you've had countless conversations with cutting-edge scientists and exercise people.
The five things that you do every day, like that without fail, what are they in terms of for your health?
joe rogan
First of all, I supplement.
bryan callen
You believe in supplements?
joe rogan
I believe absolutely wholeheartedly in supplements.
bryan callen
Like which though?
What kind?
joe rogan
I think Athletic Greens.
It's a sponsor.
It's a great whole food supplement.
I'm doing an ad for them right now.
One scoop has 12 servings of fruits and vegetables in terms of the amount of antioxidants you get.
It's very healthy.
It's good just for a backup plan.
I take these little packs with me on the road.
I take a lot of the Onnit shit.
I take, obviously, Alpha Brain, Shroom Tech.
We have some awesome whole food supplements.
There's a bunch of great stuff.
I take a lot of vitamins.
I take vitamin D. I take vitamin B. I take a lot of fish oil, a lot of essential fatty acids.
I believe in all those things.
I cut way back on my sugar.
I mean, way back.
bryan callen
Yeah.
joe rogan
To where maybe once a week I'll have dessert.
bryan callen
Yeah.
joe rogan
Maybe once a week.
bryan callen
I do that too.
joe rogan
Yeah, I don't fuck around, man.
Yeah.
I... Just...
bryan callen
Do you intermittent fast?
joe rogan
Yes.
bryan callen
Me too.
joe rogan
16 hours a day.
bryan callen
Yeah, I do that too.
joe rogan
Yeah, every day.
bryan callen
That makes me feel...
You know my psoriasis is 100% gone?
joe rogan
That's awesome.
bryan callen
Well, part of it's also...
And I gotta give a shout out to Dan Garner.
DanGarner88 at Gmail if you need his email.
He's a fuck...
So he's the guy who...
joe rogan
What a terrible idea.
bryan callen
No, it's fine.
It's fine.
I want to promote him because he's...
joe rogan
Do you know how many fucking people are going to email that kind of pictures of dicks?
bryan callen
Good.
But a lot of people have psoriasis.
But let me tell you...
So Andy Galpin, who you know...
joe rogan
Yes, very well.
bryan callen
So I talked to Andy Galpin and Afif Ghanoum, who Aubrey put me in touch with, he's the guy who coined the term the gut biome.
You should actually have him on.
He's a really smart guy.
He's a scientist who's a leading scientist in gut biome.
They're working with the Cleveland Institute of Dermatology, I think, with psoriasis.
So how the gut...
Affects psoriasis.
So anyway, long story short, Andy Galpin puts me together with Dan Garner.
He's got like 12 degrees, but he's a strength and nutrition coach.
This motherfucker's such a nerd with everything.
And this guy, I did a gut analysis and all that stuff.
This guy gives me a diet and finds some opportunistic infections in my gut, like bacteria that shouldn't be there.
He's got me doing like oil of oregano and fucking garlic pills and stuff like that.
But there's a whole regimen I do for four months.
Long story short, then there's a probiotic protocol that you do.
I do all that, my psoriasis just goes away.
It's just, it has not come back and it's been gone.
Now, it's something I'll have to manage, but when I say complete, because you saw my back, remember when you saw it?
It's all gone.
And I had that for nine months.
It got bad.
joe rogan
Somebody talked to Kim Kardashian.
She's got that shit all over her face and legs.
bryan callen
So there's overwhelming evidence that a lot of these autoimmune diseases are somehow a gut issue.
joe rogan
You know how Jordan Peterson cleaned his up?
bryan callen
Yeah.
Yeah.
joe rogan
Carnivore diet.
bryan callen
Yeah.
And they think the carnivore diet might be, from what I've heard on your podcast and elsewhere, is that I guess you kind of give your gut bacteria a kind of a reset?
joe rogan
It's an elimination diet.
bryan callen
Yeah.
joe rogan
You take away virtually everything except one thing.
bryan callen
Yeah.
joe rogan
Your body adjusts and your body just somehow or another, it cures itself of a lot of ailments with an elimination diet.
bryan callen
Yeah.
Well, that's why intermittent fasting.
joe rogan
It's very controversial.
Yeah, that is why intermittent fasting in general is so beneficial.
bryan callen
It helps me.
joe rogan
But this carnivore diet is very fascinating because people fucking swear by it, man.
There's people that they look great, their health has improved, they've lost weight and gained muscle.
unidentified
For how long, though?
joe rogan
That's my question.
That is the question.
bryan callen
You need some fiber, I think.
joe rogan
I don't think so.
I don't think you really do.
Most people that are taking it say they don't have any issues.
Some people have issues in the beginning of it, but man, people have been doing it for years.
They've been on the carnivore diet for years.
Dr. Sean Baker, he's been on it for years.
All he eats is fucking ribeyes.
He just eats ribeyes and eggs.
unidentified
Wow.
bryan callen
But aren't the...
There are certain cultures that are 100% carnivore.
Like, I think the Maasai traditionally were.
A lot of the Bantu belt in Africa were...
joe rogan
And the Maasai were great.
bryan callen
Oh, yeah.
I've seen them in person.
I've been to Kenya twice.
joe rogan
I mean, they look like professional athletes.
bryan callen
Beautiful people.
Yeah.
joe rogan
I mean, in terms of the effect on their body, they don't look malnourished, rather.
bryan callen
They're 6'6".
My friend lived with them.
He's a triathlete, and he lived with them for six weeks.
And he goes, dude, I've been an athlete my whole life.
I'm not an athlete.
I tried to run with those guys.
I tried to do stuff with those guys.
And he's like, the way they can track shit, he goes, they could look at a blade of grass.
And the way it was bent, or like a certain area, and go, oh, cuckoo, whatever the fucking kudu ran through here, or whatever the fuck it was.
They could tell what kind of animal came through.
joe rogan
Whoa.
bryan callen
And then they had this throwing contest.
They were throwing shit.
Not just spears, but they were throwing like this...
Whatever it was.
And he said, dude, I could – I was so embarrassed.
He was embarrassed.
He was just such a bitch.
It's like, I have Northern European bullshit genes.
These motherfuckers from Kenya, you know, it was a whole different thing.
joe rogan
For sure.
It's really interesting that the cradle of civilization, which is where all human beings emanated from Africa – It has the best genes.
They have the best athletic genes.
When it comes to, like, physical performance, there's no denying.
bryan callen
The Biafra Coast, I mean, like Nigeria and that area, that's of Senegal.
Bring up Senegal.
Bring up that, what's that wrestling they call...
joe rogan
I know what you're talking about.
bryan callen
Grillo on Fight World, he went to Senegal.
He goes, dude, 6'6".
I mean, they all look like that's what the NFL is made up of.
And that guy who wrote the sports gene, Richard Bernstein, I think, Sports Illustrated writer, said the fastest people in the world come from that part of the world, the Biafra Coast.
That's where Jamaica, that's where the slave trade had gone, and they came from that area.
So you can actually isolate the genes.
There you go.
Lambda, Lambda.
joe rogan
Oh, wow.
Wow, this is interesting.
They're like pawing at each other.
bryan callen
Oh, bro, and they're all giant.
joe rogan
Why are they pawing at each other?
bryan callen
Athletic as fuck.
Huh?
Because they punch and they wrestle and they do high-level Greco shit.
unidentified
Watch this.
joe rogan
This is punching, too?
bryan callen
No, you'll see.
Watch this high-level Greco shit.
They throw.
joe rogan
Senghalese Wrestling in Dakar Championship.
Beautiful.
La Lute is the title of the video.
L-A space L-U-T-T-E. Senghalese Wrestling in Dakar Championship.
bryan callen
Now they're working for position.
And if you see some of these guys, you see what their bodies look like?
It's so ridiculous.
unidentified
They're jacked.
bryan callen
Like, they live on fish and rice.
I mean, Frank went there.
It's so poor.
And he said, you just see dudes where you're like, well, if I had a body like that, I would never wear clothes.
joe rogan
So I don't understand what they're doing here.
bryan callen
They're just getting...
joe rogan
They need coaching.
bryan callen
They're just getting position.
Whoever gets thrown...
These guys are rock stars in Senegal.
joe rogan
Okay.
They need coaching.
bryan callen
No, no, you'll see.
They punch...
joe rogan
Let me tell you something.
Cain Velasquez shoots a power double on these motherfuckers around the back of the sand.
bryan callen
Sir, I'm going to ask you to...
joe rogan
You know that's true.
jamie vernon
Sir?
I skipped ahead five minutes.
bryan callen
Because they're waiting to get position.
It's like sumo, dude.
joe rogan
Exactly.
It's nonsense.
Excuse me.
Oh, they're punching each other.
bryan callen
Dude, this is serious.
joe rogan
Oh, shit.
They're punching from the clinch.
bryan callen
Yeah, bro.
unidentified
Wow.
bryan callen
He's just fighting.
joe rogan
He has to adjust his headband.
bryan callen
Yeah.
You gotta always adjust your headband.
Time!
joe rogan
Time.
What are they doing time?
bryan callen
Time.
joe rogan
That's it?
unidentified
No.
joe rogan
That's the match?
bryan callen
No.
Maybe not.
joe rogan
I'm confused.
bryan callen
Hold.
Keep going.
Well, there's got to be a better one.
You've got to see the heavyweights.
The heavyweights are...
jamie vernon
The championship.
joe rogan
Maybe it just sucks and you're really into it because it's foreign.
bryan callen
Sir?
joe rogan
That's possible, too.
bryan callen
I'm telling you, I've seen some incredible Lambdas.
joe rogan
Those dudes are playing patty cakes, bro.
bryan callen
You will respect Lambdas.
joe rogan
Okay, let me see another one.
Kickboxing world champion.
Oh, go to the far right one.
That one.
Okay.
Here we go.
Now we'll see what's up.
Kickboxing world champion challenges Sanglanese wrestlers.
Who is this kickboxing world champion?
jamie vernon
It's like a documentary.
unidentified
Oh.
bryan callen
That's different.
joe rogan
I don't care.
I want to see who it is.
jamie vernon
It's not like I've got to find the fight.
joe rogan
Oh, is it like an hour long or some shit?
jamie vernon
Yeah, there's like all sorts of stuff going on here.
joe rogan
Who is this kickboxing?
Oh, he's like...
bryan callen
They're Sufi Muslim.
joe rogan
So they're hanging out with them.
bryan callen
Very, very spiritual.
joe rogan
Who is the kickboxing?
Okay.
Say his name, Brian.
Aurelien Duarte?
Aurelien Duarte.
French multiple kickboxing, Muay Thai, and Shotokan karate champion.
bryan callen
Sounds like me.
joe rogan
So it looks like he's learning from these folks.
I don't think he's really challenging them.
Okay, let's see what happens in the...
There we go.
bryan callen
Look at my man right there.
joe rogan
Instead of staying still...
unidentified
What does it say instead of saying still?
joe rogan
Just let it go.
Let's see what happens here.
Are they wrestling?
bryan callen
Yeah.
joe rogan
Oh, so they're wrestling, but it's all basically Greco.
Let me see that dude.
Back up a little.
I want to see that dude, the kickboxing guy, interact with him.
There we go.
bryan callen
You're not doing it.
joe rogan
Okay, let's see.
bryan callen
Throws.
joe rogan
Okay, they're just teaching him how to throw.
Oh, they're teaching him some technique.
That's kind of cool that they do it on the beach, though.
That's smart.
bryan callen
That's a duck under right there.
It took his back.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Standard wrestling.
They know some wrestling technique.
bryan callen
Wrestling is...
You know, you could make the argument that wrestling...
Would you say that wrestling is...
Probably the best thing you could ever do coming up if you want to get into MMA. Like to have that base.
joe rogan
Yes.
I think wrestling is the most important sport.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Because you see guys like Kamaru Usman is a perfect example who was just on the podcast.
He's another example of awesome African genes.
But he's an excellent example of a guy who really didn't start striking at all until like 2009. Yeah.
bryan callen
But he's been watching how your body moves forever.
joe rogan
Yeah, I mean, he's been watching and fucking around, but it doesn't matter.
The way he strikes now, you would think he's been doing it his whole life, and he's been only striking for 10 years.
I think wrestlers are just tougher.
Kamara was saying that his knees were so fucked up before some of his fights that he had to walk on grass because it hurt to walk on concrete.
bryan callen
Oh my God.
unidentified
Really?
joe rogan
Yeah, his daughter makes fun of him because he goes down the stairs backwards.
bryan callen
Oh!
joe rogan
Because he goes down the stairs backwards.
unidentified
No!
joe rogan
Yes.
Yes.
She thinks it's hilarious.
bryan callen
By the way, when I see him, I saw him with Rashad Evans, and he looked as big as Rashad.
joe rogan
He's a big fella.
bryan callen
Yeah.
joe rogan
But here's the thing.
He couldn't be a nicer guy.
bryan callen
He's great.
joe rogan
He couldn't be a nicer guy.
And when you hear him talk on the podcast, he's so almost soft-spoken.
He's easygoing.
It's weird that he's so good, but...
In the way he describes it, when he gets inside the cage, a switch gets flipped, and he just becomes a different person.
bryan callen
I felt like, all due respect to the great Tyron Woodley, but his body looked a little different, and he looked a little bit...
I don't know.
He didn't look the way he normally does.
joe rogan
I heard that too.
I didn't see it.
I didn't see it, and I look for that shit.
His body looks like he's been doing a lot of cardio.
I don't know about that, man.
Go to Tyron Woodley versus Kamaru Usman.
See if you could get the video of the two of them right about the fight.
Why are you shaking your head?
jamie vernon
It's so new.
I don't know if we can.
joe rogan
So new?
jamie vernon
It just happened.
joe rogan
So what?
jamie vernon
It's not online yet.
joe rogan
That shit's online.
Everything's online.
You don't think it's online?
How much do you want to bet?
jamie vernon
This is the line we crossed right there, I guess.
joe rogan
Well, we don't have to show it.
jamie vernon
I'm going to show you guys it.
joe rogan
Yeah, show us.
Just show us.
People will find it.
You're going to have to go to ESPN from now on, folks.
All fights are on ESPN. All pay-per-views ESPN Plus.
You have to get a subscription for ESPN Plus if you want to get a pay-per-view now.
unidentified
Is that true?
joe rogan
Yes.
unidentified
Yes.
bryan callen
Strange.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's a good word.
Strange is a good word.
bryan callen
I love, you know, like I have certain favorite fighters, of course, like Donald Cerrone.
I love Nick Diaz.
Sure, sure.
But Jorge Masvidal.
joe rogan
He's a beast.
bryan callen
I just love, I love, like, just a true fighter.
joe rogan
He's an animal.
bryan callen
And he's so good.
joe rogan
So good.
bryan callen
He's so fucking good.
joe rogan
He's so smart.
bryan callen
Oh, he's so smart, man.
joe rogan
Clever.
bryan callen
Changes it up, does things like you can't see what he's doing.
It's subtle.
joe rogan
He lives for fighting, too.
He really does.
He's a fucking smart man.
bryan callen
Like, there are men, and then there's horse hands.
joe rogan
For sure he's on another level.
For sure he's on another level.
bryan callen
He's...
I think he's such a contender for...
I mean, he just...
joe rogan
Dude, he's 100% of the contender.
When was the last time he lost?
Knocked out Cowboy, and then takes two years out of the octagon.
I don't know what...
He must have had an injury or something.
bryan callen
And takes on Darren Till.
joe rogan
Knocked out Darren Till.
I mean, knocked him the fuck out.
I mean...
He hit him with that left hand a couple times earlier in the fight too.
He was doing some sneaky shit.
He was switching stances.
He was switching stances and throwing that left hand.
He was throwing the right hand, switching stances, throwing the left hand.
bryan callen
And I think he started to read until pulling back like that.
Then he finally threw that right and then boom with that left.
joe rogan
He had caught him with that left hand several times.
Caught him in the first round and then caught him in the second round.
He's a bad motherfucker, man.
bryan callen
He really is.
joe rogan
He's coming on soon too.
I'm going to have him on with Joey Diaz.
Masvidal is going to come on with Joey Diaz and get a little cute.
bryan callen
But also to be able to get knocked down like that by Darren Till, who hits like a, you know, and come back and just regain his composure.
joe rogan
Knocked down with the first punch of the fight.
It was the first punch of the fight.
unidentified
I know.
bryan callen
And smiled and went, yeah, it's alright.
joe rogan
But did you see what he did?
The first move of the fight, he charges towards Till and tries to sidekick him in the thigh and hits him in the dick.
bryan callen
Yeah.
joe rogan
Like right away.
First shot right to the sack.
bryan callen
Yep.
I love that guy.
I love watching him fight.
joe rogan
Well, he's very crafty.
He's a real veteran.
I remember him knocking out Eve Edwards in Bowdog Fight.
Do you remember Bowdog Fight?
bryan callen
No.
joe rogan
Bowdog, you know who Calvin Ayers is?
He's some...
Super Millionaire Playboy character who he came up with this bow dog fight thing and it was back when you used to be able to gamble online right you were able to gamble online now you can again but you used to be able to gamble online a lot of businesses were sort of constructed around the premise that Online gambling was going to be legal.
But through some bullshit finagling, the federal government put the kibosh on online gambling.
They put the stop on this thriving business.
And a lot of these companies, like, there was professional pool organizations, like the IPT that went under because they were counting on online gambling.
But Bodog was counting on it, too.
Because he had, like, this online gambling website.
Well, because of the online gambling shit, he's, like...
I don't want to say this.
I don't want to be incorrect because Dana White was saying that he's a fugitive.
He wasn't even allowed in the country.
But that's not too far removed from the truth.
I don't think he's allowed back in the United States.
I think he has to live in like, you know...
bryan callen
Just for providing a service people wanted to be part of?
joe rogan
Well, for being a part of online gambling when it was illegal.
I think that's the issue.
bryan callen
Oh, no.
joe rogan
It's fucking stupid.
bryan callen
I mean, let people do what they will.
I think it'd be cool if you could bet on fights.
joe rogan
Tyron Woodley versus Kamaru Usman.
bryan callen
The fighters would get more money and everything.
joe rogan
We'll see what Usman looks jacked.
Let's see what Tyron looks like when he gets into the cage.
See, to me, he looked exactly the same.
Let's see what happens when he takes his shirt off.
bryan callen
Hurry up, Tyron.
He's a beast.
joe rogan
Yeah, I just don't think that was it, man.
I mean, you're also dealing with Tyron.
He's 37 now.
He is also in the middle of...
He's in a transitionary stage in terms of his career.
bryan callen
See, he doesn't look quite as jacked.
joe rogan
Yeah, but he's like not...
bryan callen
Look, I mean, he's a beast.
joe rogan
He looks pretty goddamn good to me.
bryan callen
Yeah, he always does.
joe rogan
He's not filled with blood, you know what I'm saying?
He's not like...
bryan callen
That's what I mean.
That's what I mean.
joe rogan
Looks pretty good.
Hard to say.
bryan callen
Great fighter, man.
joe rogan
Yeah, he's 36. I think he's 37 now.
He's also got a rap career now.
He's opening for Wiz Khalifa.
bryan callen
Really?
joe rogan
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
He does a bunch of shit for TMZ now.
He's a busy man on top of the fighting.
bryan callen
Good.
Let him play that shit.
Get out of the fight game.
joe rogan
Yes.
bryan callen
He has nothing to prove.
joe rogan
Well, he's one of those guys that can do that, too.
He's a great talker.
He would be a great commentator if he decided to get into commentary.
bryan callen
100%.
joe rogan
But he wants a rematch.
I don't think he's happy with his performance, and I think he thinks he could have done better.
bryan callen
Let's not just look like a bigger and a different weight class man.
joe rogan
Well, Usman's definitely taller, but I think even more importantly, Usman's gas tank is just fucking...
Well, that's what's crazy.
bryan callen
And I feel like Tyron may have done a lot of cardio for that camp, because he knew he was going to have to deal with that, so he looked a little thinner than he normally does.
joe rogan
Well, Usman just pushes the pace.
He pushes that fucking pace.
bryan callen
That's such a weapon.
Some guys can do that.
That's such a weapon.
joe rogan
Well, he can do it for five rounds, too, man.
He doesn't get off the gas.
He's pretty honest, too.
He's funny, man, when he was talking about the fourth round.
Because in the fourth round, he had Tyron hurt, and he poured the gas on, just poured the gas on, and Tyron managed to survive.
And when Tyron managed to survive, he was thinking to himself, oh, no, what have I done?
But he recovered quick, you know?
bryan callen
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah, he does look a lot bigger, though, huh?
bryan callen
Yeah, he's just...
joe rogan
Nice and long.
bryan callen
Skinny legs, though, in comparison to Tyron.
joe rogan
In comparison.
You know who else has skinny legs?
bryan callen
John Jones, ladies and gentlemen.
joe rogan
Exactly.
bryan callen
John Jones.
joe rogan
John Jones.
You look at John Jones' calves only.
If you only saw his calves...
bryan callen
So weird.
joe rogan
...and someone said to you, all right, is that guy an elite athlete?
You're like, get the fuck out of here.
That guy's an accountant.
bryan callen
Exactly.
joe rogan
There's no way.
bryan callen
There are a lot of guys like that, where you just don't judge a book by its cover.
You'll go to sleep.
joe rogan
Yeah, but Jon Jones is the most...
Well, his upper body, obviously, is pretty strong.
bryan callen
Yeah, he's also 6'5".
I mean, you know, it's a different thing.
joe rogan
Well, he's got a phenomenal frame for combat sports because he's got length, but he also has muscle.
I think that's the best frame.
That's not real.
That's not real.
That's photoshopped, asshole.
That's real.
That's photoshopped.
Trust me.
bryan callen
Those are his calves, dude.
joe rogan
No, they're not that small.
bryan callen
Yes, they are.
joe rogan
Those ankles don't even fit into his shoes.
bryan callen
He's got very skinny.
He has no calves.
joe rogan
He does, but that last one, that's ridiculous.
bryan callen
But he's such a stud.
joe rogan
The one up there is a perfect one.
We're throwing that kick right there.
bryan callen
How do you game plan for that terrible thing?
jamie vernon
That's photoshopped.
They cut off the back of his leg there.
joe rogan
What are you talking about?
bryan callen
I don't know, man.
joe rogan
That's his leg.
unidentified
No!
jamie vernon
Look at that.
joe rogan
That's his leg, bro.
jamie vernon
That's not a real leg.
You don't think so?
That's 100% photoshopped.
You can see the blur on the photoshop line.
joe rogan
Is that blurred?
jamie vernon
Yes.
From a guy that does photoshop every single day.
bryan callen
Yeah, that's photoshopped.
joe rogan
You do photoshop every single day?
What are you doing online?
jamie vernon
I make our logo.
joe rogan
Oh, I thought you were doing weird shit.
bryan callen
Make me more muscular.
jamie vernon
I edit a photo every single day.
bryan callen
Make me stronger.
joe rogan
Give Brian abs.
bryan callen
I need to get on TOT. Let me see.
joe rogan
Well, you know John has skinny calves.
Point being.
unidentified
I'm just saying.
joe rogan
Yeah.
bryan callen
How do you defend against that terrible front kick to the fucking stomach every time?
joe rogan
Well, he likes to throw it to the thigh, too.
He throws that oblique kick to the thigh and the side kick to the knees.
It's interesting when I see people criticizing that kick.
I'm like, you're crazy.
They're kicking people in the face.
You're mad they're kicking them in the knee?
unidentified
Like, what?
joe rogan
Like, oh, you can ruin a career.
Like, oh, you can't ruin a career by head kicking somebody?
Yeah.
Like, Wonderboy was saying that about Darren Till.
He thought Darren Till was trying to ruin his career by sidekicking him in the knee, and he doesn't think that that technique should be legal.
bryan callen
Damn.
joe rogan
Like, hey, man.
bryan callen
I mean, I get it, but...
joe rogan
You're head-kicking people.
bryan callen
Yeah.
joe rogan
He wheel-kicked Jake Ellenberger in the fucking head.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
How good is that for your career?
bryan callen
Not so good.
joe rogan
Come on, man.
bryan callen
That's a brutal sport, man.
joe rogan
Yeah, it is.
It's as brutal as it gets, man.
bryan callen
It really is.
joe rogan
But it's not the worst thing for your body.
I think football's the worst.
bryan callen
Some dudes don't get hit.
Masvidal is another example of that.
I don't think I've seen him.
I don't know when the last time I saw him actually get cracked was.
unidentified
He's so good at boxing.
joe rogan
He got cracked with that opening punch from Darren Till that we were talking about.
unidentified
Yeah, obviously.
bryan callen
Yeah, that's true.
joe rogan
Mighty Mouse is the best example.
Mighty Mouse gets hit less than anybody.
But there's other guys that they're very hard to hit.
bryan callen
You also get hit in practice, though.
joe rogan
Yeah.
bryan callen
I know a lot of guys, though, who don't spar like that anymore.
joe rogan
Yeah, smart ones.
bryan callen
I think Robbie Lawler stopped doing it.
I think Cowboy, I think a lot of these guys stopped.
joe rogan
Well, Robbie stopped sparring completely for years while he was fighting for Strikeforce, but then when he moved to American Top Team, he started sparring again, and he was training really hard.
That's when actually he became the welterweight world champion.
bryan callen
He's so fucking tough.
I want to see that Askin fight again, because I put my money on Robbie Lawler.
He does not care about...
He looked better than I've ever seen him.
He's in crazy shape.
joe rogan
I've gone back and forth about five times on whether or not that was a good stoppage, but Usman convinced me after we watched the footage that was a bad stoppage.
I think Robbie was okay.
bryan callen
He just relaxed.
He was there.
He had, what, I don't know how many more seconds, but that bulldog joke's a nightmare, but not for Robbie Lawler.
joe rogan
I think he was alright, but it's hard to tell.
It's just unfortunate.
And again, Herb Dean is as good a referee as there is on planet Earth.
There is no one better than him.
There's no one better.
Herb Dean is as good as it gets.
He made a mistake, but it's hard to say if it was a mistake, because I wasn't even sure it was a mistake.
We were not sure.
bryan callen
Well, it better to err on the side of caution, because he couldn't hear him.
He couldn't talk.
joe rogan
But here's the thing.
He's only getting choked out.
Like, if it's Ben Askren, he's only getting choked out.
If it's Francis Ngannou and he's fucking punching you in the head and you think you're unconscious, then stop the fight.
But if it's just a choke, like Ben Askren is not known for being in any way, shape, or form a power striker.
bryan callen
No.
joe rogan
And he's not hitting him.
He's only holding on to his neck.
I don't think...
bryan callen
But that shows how tough Ben Askren was because he got his head bounced off that fucking...
I was like, you're getting crushed here.
joe rogan
And he's just like, whatever.
bryan callen
I'm going to stick to my wrestling.
joe rogan
Yeah, he was getting fucking pounded, but he figured it out.
And even though they disengaged, he managed to get a hold of Robbie again and get him on the ground and get that choke on.
bryan callen
Yeah.
joe rogan
Look, it was fun while it lasted, but he doesn't want to fight Robbie again.
I think if I was the UFC, I would be absolutely trying to make that fight again.
bryan callen
Do you think they will?
joe rogan
I think they want to.
That's what Dana White said.
But Ben said, why would I want to do that?
I already won.
Why would I want to do that?
But the thing about Kamara was saying, you don't get a choice.
The UFC is going to tell you who to fight again.
Maybe they just offer Ben a good amount of money.
bryan callen
Robby is, you know, he deserves that privilege and I think he's easily up there and he can always be the champion again.
He looks as good as he ever looked.
joe rogan
Yes, he looked amazing.
He looked amazing physically.
He looked amazing when he was fighting.
Even more importantly, I think that's the fight that makes the most money because people want to see that.
I want to see it.
You want to see it.
All the real fans want to see it.
They don't do enough of that in the UFC. They do sometimes.
But what I was going to say is that he deserves it.
Jesus, no one deserves it more than Stipe Miocic.
Stipe loses to DC and we haven't heard hide nor hair of him.
He's the fucking most successful heavyweight of all time.
He defended the title four times.
No one's ever been able to do that.
He does that...
And he gets nothing after that.
No love, no respect, no nothing.
bryan callen
It's incredible.
joe rogan
No talk about him fighting DC again.
They're just talking about DC Brock Lesnar, and they don't even know if Brock Lesnar's really going to fight.
bryan callen
Isn't DC kind of retired?
joe rogan
No, DC wants to fight Brock.
He's going to fight Brock, and then he's going to retire.
He's just going to get that...
bryan callen
To me, the most impressive fighter to ever step in the octagon is Daniel Cormier.
He's certainly one of them.
joe rogan
How's he more impressive when Jon Jones beat him?
bryan callen
Well, so Jon Jones is, without a doubt, the most talented and best fighter.
To me, with the tools that DC is working with, when you're 5'9", 5'10", and you just...
You're dealing with guys who are so much taller, with so much more reach.
He's undefeated as a heavyweight.
The only man he's ever lost to was Jon Jones and everybody else, all comers.
Steve Amios, just give me a number.
And he's taken every one of them out.
joe rogan
Listen, I'm a giant fan of DC. He's just incredible.
Don't get me wrong.
bryan callen
It just shows you how good Jon Jones is or Jon Jones has his number, whatever the case.
joe rogan
It's both.
bryan callen
Yeah.
I'd like to see DC fight Jon Jones at heavyweight.
joe rogan
Me too.
bryan callen
240?
joe rogan
That might happen.
That might be the big fight.
The big fight might be if DC fights Brock, let's assume he beats Brock, which I think he would, then DC fights Jon Jones.
bryan callen
Yeah.
joe rogan
But he might not beat Brock.
Here's the thing about Brock, and this is so ridiculous to say, he's still a fucking giant Viking human.
bryan callen
Yeah.
joe rogan
He's so extraordinarily big.
He's so powerful that if he clips DC, anything can happen.
bryan callen
Yeah, but he's going to get punched in the face by DC. And I personally believe that if you are not getting punched in the face and working on patterns and really working on your striking, you get into the ring with a guy like Daniel Cormier who does that every day.
joe rogan
True, but we don't know that that's the case.
We also know that he has been wrestling with this Michigan State wrestler that's one of the best wrestlers on the planet Earth.
There's a video of him wrestling with this current phenom, and he's training with real elite world-class fighters.
He knows what he's doing with his striking.
bryan callen
Yeah, but Daniel Cormier's got that down, and he's also...
joe rogan
Brock is also the WWE champ, bro.
unidentified
I don't know if you know.
bryan callen
There is that!
joe rogan
He's throwing people around.
bryan callen
There is that!
joe rogan
Got hit with a chair.
bryan callen
You're right.
joe rogan
I don't know, man.
I'm putting all my money on DC. I would say that DC would be heavily favored.
I would also say that that big gorilla can fucking punch any person on the planet with those lunchbox fists, and you're fucked.
He's so big, man.
When you stand next to Brock, you're just like, oh, you're a totally different thing than me.
bryan callen
He's a blonde silverback.
joe rogan
Yeah.
bryan callen
He's as close to a silverback as I've ever seen him in my life.
joe rogan
He's a Viking, man.
bryan callen
Long arms.
joe rogan
Giant human.
bryan callen
Yeah.
joe rogan
Ridiculous fists.
The real question is, I mean, how much has he really been working on his striking in these years that he's been outside of the cage?
bryan callen
It's much easier to work on your wrestling if you're him than it is striking.
Striking is a whole different animal.
joe rogan
Well, particularly sparring.
Not just like hitting mitts and hitting the pad, but getting good rounds in against people that can crack.
And people that can crack like DC where he clinches you and then hits you in the clinch.
bryan callen
And also learning how to adjust.
Like the great fighters that I notice are guys who they come in with a game plan, that game plan gets shut down, and then they change it up.
joe rogan
Right.
bryan callen
Then they do subtle things.
They just start doing little differences.
And you go, oh, you're doing a whole different thing here.
And that guy can't see it.
Or a lot of people can't see it.
And that's what I think is amazing.
joe rogan
Then there's the other thing.
He's got to get off the sauce.
So he got off the sauce.
So if he gets off the sauce, now he's 40. And he's been on Mexican supplements for the last few years, for sure.
And your whole endocrine system is just like...
unidentified
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
Hey, what's going on?
Hey, where's my roids?
bryan callen
Good luck.
joe rogan
Yeah, yeah.
I mean, who knows?
Who knows?
bryan callen
I'm going to have to get myself on some...
I'm looking forward to getting on a TRT. I don't feel like I need it yet.
Shut up, bitch.
joe rogan
You should be on it right now.
bryan callen
Really?
joe rogan
You should be on it a long time ago.
bryan callen
You think so?
joe rogan
100%.
I've been telling you forever.
bryan callen
I know.
I know.
I want to keep squeezing every little ounce of man energy that I have.
joe rogan
Well, it's real.
I mean, you can do it without it, but you won't be as healthy.
You won't be as strong.
You won't have as much energy.
I have a lot of energy.
You get some energy.
bryan callen
Yeah.
joe rogan
The best thing would be if they could figure out a way to revitalize your body's natural production of testosterone that's similar to the way it is when you're a 30-year-old man.
They could really do that.
Right now they can't.
Right now you can only add it.
You can get your...
But there's a lot of other stuff going on.
Like if you listen to that podcast that I did with...
What's the doctor's name?
Anti-aging doctor.
bryan callen
Oh, David Sinclair.
David Sinclair.
joe rogan
Yeah.
There's a lot of factors.
There's a lot of different things that you can do.
NMN, resveratrol, all these different things that significantly- I want those things.
bryan callen
I want MNM. NMN. What is NMN? It's a talomere- Elongator or something?
joe rogan
Yes, it lengthens your telomeres.
bryan callen
Whatever the fuck telomeres are.
joe rogan
The best sign of telomeres.
Google the actual definition of telomeres.
But it's the best sign of whether or not your body's aging correctly.
bryan callen
Where do I get good resveratrol?
Resveratrol.
Resveratrol.
And resveratrol.
joe rogan
You get it online.
bryan callen
Really?
joe rogan
Yeah.
That little container out there, you can take that if you want.
I got shitloads of it.
bryan callen
Yeah?
joe rogan
Yeah.
bryan callen
Good.
joe rogan
I got a lot of it.
bryan callen
I want to live forever.
joe rogan
Yeah, when he told me about it, I started taking it every day.
I take it every day with my morning vitamins.
I've been eating a lot of meat.
bryan callen
You have?
He says no, right?
joe rogan
I don't want to say no.
He also says to take...
I listen to him when it's convenient to me.
It all depends.
Telomeres, also called telomere terminal transferase, is an enzyme made of protein and RNA subunits that elongates chromosomes by adding TTAGGG sequences to the end of existing...
Chromosomes.
Telomerase is found in fetal tissues, adult germ cells, and also tumor cells, the result of aging cells in an aging body.
So it just slows down aging.
I'll tell you what, man, that NMN stuff makes me feel great.
bryan callen
It does?
joe rogan
100%.
Yeah.
Gives me a lot of energy.
bryan callen
Really?
joe rogan
Yeah.
bryan callen
How about getting O-bry some?
joe rogan
I'll get you some.
bryan callen
Yeah, unless you want me to die faster.
joe rogan
No, I love you.
bryan callen
All right, well, go ahead.
Get me some fucking...
Let's go.
joe rogan
Unless you want me to die faster.
bryan callen
I mean, it's a competition.
joe rogan
I've been trying to get you on TRT for 10 years.
bryan callen
I'll get on TRT too!
joe rogan
I got on it 10 years ago and I was telling you, dude, you should be on this.
I'm like, yeah, I'm good, I'm good, I'm good.
bryan callen
I'm still nervous about it, but I'm going to do some testosterone.
joe rogan
What are you nervous about?
bryan callen
I want to get thick.
I want to go like this.
joe rogan
I want to go like that.
bryan callen
I want to go and jump off a building and glide to the fucking ground.
joe rogan
You want to look at something like that?
bryan callen
Dude, you got a nice body.
Let's go ahead and lose that shirt.
Let's get you moving around in a corner over there.
unidentified
Scared.
joe rogan
Scared.
Yeah, I wish there was a way to do it naturally, and I think there's going to be.
I think they're going to be able to do it through some sort of gene manipulation that will turn on your body.
They're so close to doing this to mice where they're literally reversing the age of a mouse.
bryan callen
So ridiculous.
joe rogan
And Sinclair was talking about this.
And I've had some conversations with some other people that are really deeply entrenched in the world of genetic engineering and And CRISPR and all the new innovations, they're going to be able to do that.
It's a matter of when.
I think when we're 80, there's a high probability that by the time you and I are 80, you're going to be able to be 20 again.
bryan callen
Come on.
joe rogan
I'm not bullshitting.
bryan callen
Come on.
joe rogan
No, I think that's real.
bryan callen
Dude, there's that gene that people can get just five hours of sleep, that wakefulness thing, and it's in 3% of the population.
joe rogan
It's called Adderall.
bryan callen
Yeah, well there's that too.
There is that too.
But there's one gene that is, yeah, where you can, and why we sleep, he was talking about it, but also my friend has that gene, his genome, and the doctor goes, you have that gene, Frank Grillo.
He goes, you have that gene, because I know he doesn't sleep at all.
I'm always like, how do you sleep five hours?
He goes, I just wake up.
And he's fully awake and he works out for fucking two hours.
And I've only met one other dude like that, and that's a gene that's vanishingly rare, and some people can get five to six hours of sleep, five hours and achieve total wakefulness.
joe rogan
They're going to be able to do that.
They're going to be able to manipulate your eyesight with germs.
They're going to be able to inject you with a germ that repairs your eyesight.
What's going on with this bitch?
bryan callen
I can't wait.
joe rogan
UC San Francisco neurology professor Ying-Hue Fu, PhD, discovered the mutation of the gene DEC2 in a family of natural short sleepers.
People who go to bed at normal time, 11 p.m., midnight, but usually wake up naturally at 5 a.m.
I wonder if Jocko has that shit.
bryan callen
Probably.
joe rogan
These are not...
I think he just gets up with pure hate.
bryan callen
Nah, he probably has that gene.
I don't believe that self-control...
What?
Discipline and self-control last only so long.
joe rogan
I wish he was right next to you.
Change your tune and start sucking his dick.
bryan callen
Jocko's kind of tough.
He's terrifying.
joe rogan
He's a 240-pound serial killer.
bryan callen
Oh, is he that thick?
Yes.
I didn't know he was that big.
joe rogan
Oh, my God.
bryan callen
Oh, Jesus.
joe rogan
Jocko's a tank.
bryan callen
Oh, I didn't know that.
joe rogan
Dude, he's an inch taller than me and he weighs 240 pounds.
bryan callen
Come on.
joe rogan
You don't know what Jocko looks like?
bryan callen
What, is he a fucking white Samoan?
joe rogan
Dude, Jocko taps Dean Lister in training.
bryan callen
What?
joe rogan
Yes.
You don't understand what you're talking about.
bryan callen
Oh, he's a freak.
joe rogan
He's a gorilla.
bryan callen
Yeah, he is.
Look at him.
joe rogan
Yeah, he's a...
What is that picture of him with his shirt off?
bryan callen
Some men are just men.
joe rogan
Is that him?
jamie vernon
I don't think that's him, no.
joe rogan
Click on it.
bryan callen
Let's see it.
jamie vernon
It's not him.
joe rogan
No, it's not him.
unidentified
No.
joe rogan
Yeah, he's a gorilla dude.
bryan callen
That's stupid.
joe rogan
He's getting into bow hunting.
You should too.
bryan callen
Yeah, he's a killer.
joe rogan
Don't you want to be like us?
bryan callen
He's a born warrior.
Yeah, I went pheasant hunting with my boy Tarek and his brother.
joe rogan
Fun, right?
bryan callen
We had a blast.
Did you cook them?
Huh?
joe rogan
Did you cook the pheasants?
bryan callen
Yeah, I ate pheasant.
joe rogan
Oh, that's what you told me in Napa, right?
bryan callen
Oh, in Sonoma.
Oh, my God.
Next time you come out, we'll go.
joe rogan
Okay.
bryan callen
My boy Tarek has got it locked down.
We eat, we shoot pheasant, and then you eat the best pheasant and drink the best wine.
There's nothing better.
And smoke cigars and hang out.
Tell me a better time.
Tell me a better time.
joe rogan
This is Jake's buddy?
bryan callen
Yeah, Jake Shields' buddy.
He corners Jake.
Tariq Azim teaches me boxing.
He's got this incredible gym called Empower.
I go there in San Francisco.
I go to San Francisco.
joe rogan
Where is it?
Is this you guys?
bryan callen
That would be me running, getting cardio.
joe rogan
Did you have a dog to fetch the birds?
bryan callen
Sure did.
German shorthair.
And my buddy Tariq Azeem, and shout out to you.
joe rogan
Why are you running with a gun though, dude?
bryan callen
Because I get my cardio.
joe rogan
Isn't that a loaded gun?
Don't do that.
bryan callen
Looks like I have a mustache there.
joe rogan
It does look like you have a mustache right now.
Are you growing one?
bryan callen
Nah, I just got some facial hair, bro.
joe rogan
Seems like you're dancing with it.
bryan callen
Listen, dude, I grow hard.
I grow hard.
If I take a poo and I push hard, I grow a mustache.
joe rogan
Hmm, interesting.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Do you try?
bryan callen
Nah, it just happens.
joe rogan
It just happens?
bryan callen
I like being manly.
I like shooting pheasant.
And by the way, you flush them, and then they fly up and they're about six feet in front of you.
And we're still missing.
Still fucking missing.
It's so annoying.
joe rogan
I went pheasant hunting once with Bourdain.
bryan callen
Oh, you did?
joe rogan
Yeah, I shot one in the feather.
I shot its feather.
I blew a piece of its feather off and it flew away and laughed at me.
Probably took a shit in my general direction.
bryan callen
It's true.
joe rogan
I only cut off one shot.
Look, public land hunting is hard.
Most of the hunting that I do is on private land.
It's public land hunting.
There's a lot of pressure.
A lot of people out there doing it.
Oh, yeah.
bryan callen
Well, animals get smart.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Well, there's two arguments, and I support both of them.
One argument is that public land hunting is harder, and you should really be more proud of success on public land, because it's for everybody.
It's not an elitist thing.
It's very difficult to do.
You've got to really put in the work.
You've got to have discipline.
I get that argument.
But my...
The problem that I have with it is, first of all, I don't have a lot of time, and I like success.
But two, the animals, when they're pressured, they don't act normal.
They don't call as much, like elk, elk in particular, in a high-pressure area.
It's a problem with wolves.
When wolves move into areas, the elk just shut down all the calling.
One of the coolest things about elk hunting is they fucking scream.
The first time I ever went elk hunting with Cam Aynes, he took me elk hunting, I remember this morning, we're out there in this basin, you hear just...
You hear them screaming, and it's still dark out, and we're walking, and I'm like, this is the fucking coolest thing I've ever heard in my life!
Just hearing them scream and yelling at each other, and trying to fight off the other males, and you hear their horns clashing against each other because their antlers are fighting.
bryan callen
Is this on public land, or is this on private land?
joe rogan
This was on private land, yeah.
bryan callen
For me, a lot of the hunting, and we need to do it again, by the way, Yeah.
It's not so much about killing the animal, it's the camaraderie.
unidentified
Yes.
bryan callen
So I'm on this, they stock this field with these pheasant.
I'm not there to kill the pheasant.
I love the meats and stuff, but it's more the experience with my two friends and we're out there with a dog.
joe rogan
I like to say that too, but I like to kill elk.
I like to eat them.
bryan callen
I like the food.
joe rogan
I like the meat.
I live off elk.
If you check my DNA, it's 65% elk.
bryan callen
I need some elk meat.
joe rogan
I'm not bullshitting.
I eat so much of it.
bryan callen
God.
joe rogan
I feel fucking great.
bryan callen
I bet.
joe rogan
I mean, I think there's something to it.
bryan callen
I do, too.
joe rogan
It's game meat.
Dude, I'm eating this dark red protein.
That's good for you.
That's coming from these wild animals that are dodging mountain lions.
bryan callen
That shit's good for you.
joe rogan
Yeah.
bryan callen
You take the life force of the animal into you, man.
There's something about that.
I swear to God.
And even the pheasant, there's just something about looking for an animal that focuses your mind And even in something as lame as when they're roosting on a field, you got the dog and the dog points.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's exciting.
Do you like fishing?
bryan callen
What's that?
joe rogan
Do you like fishing?
bryan callen
I don't.
I'm not a good fisher.
joe rogan
I love fishing.
bryan callen
I'm sure if I learned how to fish, but fishing is technique, which I didn't know.
joe rogan
I grew up fishing.
bryan callen
Oh, you did?
joe rogan
Yeah.
I was in the Bass Angler Sportsman Society when I was like 13 years old.
bryan callen
You were competitive, weren't you?
joe rogan
No, I mean, I just liked to fish.
I mean, competitive with my friends, you always want to catch the biggest fish, but there's something about fishing, man.
There's something about casting a line.
And the best, to me, is like a topwater bait.
Like, you cast a plug, and you see it land on the water, pauses, the ripples sort of spread out, and then you give it a twitch.
Give it another twitch, and you let it pause again, and then a big explosion of water.
It got that motherfucker like, oh shit!
Dude, my little daughter, my youngest, is 100% hooked on fishing.
bryan callen
Really?
joe rogan
She caught a six-pound bass in Florida.
unidentified
Damn!
joe rogan
Yeah, man.
It geeks me out to no end, because she's my little fishing buddy.
Like, we were in Maui, and when we were in Maui, we went hunting, or hunting, we went and caught a yellowtail.
unidentified
Wow.
joe rogan
And she caught a gang of yellowtail.
And this little tiny girl, like a 10-pound yellowtail, is a motherfucker to try to reel in.
bryan callen
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
They're so hard to reel in, and she was reeling them in on her own, man.
I mean, all I had to do was hold the rod because it literally would have yanked the rod out of our hands.
I'm trying to show you a picture.
That's amazing.
I've got a picture in here somewhere.
bryan callen
Let me just take my daughter fishing.
joe rogan
Dude, it's fun, man.
And then, you know, with the bass, we let them go.
Okay, here's...
Here's her with a six-pound bass.
bryan callen
She's so perfect.
joe rogan
With the bass, we let them go.
It was a catch and release deal.
But the yellowtail, we ate that that night.
So the whole family ate something that she caught.
bryan callen
God, that's good.
joe rogan
She loved it.
bryan callen
That's huge.
joe rogan
She was so excited by it.
She got so...
She just...
She beams with pride.
Just a little tiny girl.
bryan callen
Yeah.
joe rogan
You know?
And she's holding on to this ride.
She would not let me reel it in.
She's like, do you want me...
I go, do you want me to reel it in?
She's like, no.
She had two hands on it.
Going like this...
I'm cranking and I'm holding on to it and she made sure she pulled it into the boat too.
She's obsessed.
It's awesome.
bryan callen
I love that.
joe rogan
I think once you've felt what it's like to catch a fish and then cook it and eat it once, and by the way, if you've never had really fresh fish, really fresh fish is so flavorful and delicious and just a little bit of butter and lemon on it and just a little bit of seasoning and...
bryan callen
I've done that plenty of times.
I've gone on organized fishing, you know, deep sea fishing.
joe rogan
You know what we should do?
We should organize a gig in Alaska in July during the Salmon Run.
bryan callen
That's a great idea.
joe rogan
We'll do a gig up there in Anchorage.
unidentified
I got time.
joe rogan
We'll catch some salmon for a few days.
bryan callen
Dude.
joe rogan
Do a gig to pay for the whole trip.
bryan callen
Yeah.
joe rogan
Just have a good time.
Ari and I did that a few years back.
bryan callen
I would love to do that, dude.
joe rogan
Ari and I did that and we caught some giant salmon.
bryan callen
Let's do that.
joe rogan
We caught some king salmon that were like 30 pounds.
bryan callen
Wow.
joe rogan
That was amazing.
unidentified
Wow.
joe rogan
I ate salmon for fucking months.
bryan callen
Jesus.
joe rogan
Yeah.
bryan callen
I love that.
joe rogan
It's so fun.
bryan callen
I'd love to do that.
joe rogan
But you know what's fucked?
The mosquitoes.
It's crazy.
bryan callen
The worst.
joe rogan
You never see anything like it.
It's like an assault.
It's like a gang violence situation.
bryan callen
I saw it in Indonesia when I was tracking orangutans in the rainforest.
I was 21 or whatever, and I thought I wanted to be a naturalist.
joe rogan
Yeah, I love that story about the ants.
bryan callen
Oh, dude.
Fuck.
Forget the ants.
You had to carry a sulfur coil because bug repellent didn't work on those mosquitoes.
You had to carry around a sulfur coil.
joe rogan
Look at that.
That's Ari in the salmon.
bryan callen
Look at Ari, the great outdoorsman.
joe rogan
Look at that fucking salmon, man.
bryan callen
The great Jewish outdoorsman.
joe rogan
That is a big ass salmon.
bryan callen
Yeah, it is.
joe rogan
Is there any more pictures of our fish now?
I think there's one picture.
jamie vernon
There's one other thing, but I didn't check that.
joe rogan
That's a big-ass fish, though.
Look at Ari.
Handsome bastard.
Yeah, it's fun, man.
I love fishing.
I really wish there was a place close to my house where I could fish.
It's very peaceful.
You know, like, fish for your breakfast, catch a trout, and then, you know, cook that motherfucker in a pan right there on the shore.
bryan callen
It's incredible.
You know what they have a lot of, and people want to hunt them?
Like, just in Napa Valley, a shitload of mountain lions.
joe rogan
Yeah, they can't hunt them, no.
bryan callen
No, they're everywhere, though, apparently.
joe rogan
Too many of them.
There's a real dumb thing because they do hunt them, but they hunt them with professional hunters that the state has to hire because they get depredation permits because these things start killing livestock or dogs or...
bryan callen
Well, they grabbed a llama.
One of them grabbed a llama and jumped over the fence with the llama.
joe rogan
In its mouth, yeah.
bryan callen
I mean, that's fucking nuts.
joe rogan
Yeah, you can't do that.
bryan callen
No, no.
It's crazy.
I trained, but...
joe rogan
But even if you train.
You put it on your back.
Let's say if you put a llama in a backpack.
Say you got like a fucking kafaru backpack.
bryan callen
Yeah, good luck.
joe rogan
Stuffed the llama in there.
You had the whole llama.
You zipped it in.
Okay, go over that fence.
You'd be like, what?
bryan callen
My buddy who's a guide in Alaska, my buddy Chad, he said that they were climbing up this mountain.
It was a fucking nightmare.
Like just slogging up this steep mountain.
And they were like looking up.
And they're like, god damn, this is a nightmare.
And You know, you're making like inches.
joe rogan
Yeah.
bryan callen
Just like, oh, oh, and you got a backpack and it's just like, when is this going to be over?
And don't try not to think about it.
Let's take a break.
You know?
joe rogan
Yeah.
bryan callen
And they just hear this.
And they just see this grizzly with an elk in its mouth.
And it just bounds up the mountain.
It just goes shagging, shagging, right by them with an elk in its mouth.
And just goes up over the mountain and over the ridge.
Just no problem.
In 12 seconds.
And they were like, well, that's a grizzly.
That's how strong a fucking grizzly is.
And this is me.
Jesus Christ.
I'm so terrified.
I'm terrified.
I don't want to get fucked up by a chimpanzee.
A chimpanzee will eat my face and my balls, so I don't want that.
And I definitely don't want to get attacked by a grizzly because they'll start eating you when you're still alive.
joe rogan
Yeah.
bryan callen
And that's a problem.
joe rogan
Most of the time when grizzlies eat people, though, or most of the time when grizzlies kill people, they're not killing someone because they want to eat them.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
They're killing someone because you startled them and they're with their females, the females with their cubs.
unidentified
Oh.
joe rogan
That's most of it.
bryan callen
So what happens when, what are you supposed to do when a grizzly just pray?
joe rogan
Well, if it's a female grizzly, you are literally better off letting her fuck you up.
bryan callen
Right.
joe rogan
Just curl up in a ball, you're supposed to put your hand behind your neck, lay in a fetal position, and don't let her get access to your organs.
Because she wants to chew your organs apart.
Jesus!
Yeah, it's one of the reasons why it's really important to have a strong backpack.
If you have a strong backpack, she'll fuck up that backpack while you're on your knees, curled up in a fetal position.
But that's assuming you can survive that.
She's probably going to break your arms.
She's probably going to snap your legs, bite into you in ways that you can't imagine the kind of force and power she can generate.
She's trying to immobilize you.
She wants to immobilize you as a threat to her children.
But a male, if a male's trying to kill you, it's usually because he's starving to death.
They don't recognize people as a food source.
Because they rarely eat people.
So that male probably has never eaten a person.
It's one of the reasons why it's safer to be in a place where they hunt grizzlies.
Because in a place where they hunt grizzlies, a grizzly sees a person and goes, fuck this.
They'll smell you and get the fuck out of there.
But like Yellowstone, They haven't hunt grizzlies there in forever.
So people still get jacked there.
They get jacked there every couple of years.
bryan callen
I would always have a gun with me.
joe rogan
You should, but you might not be able to get to it.
And you also have to be prepared to pull it out and shoot quickly.
You can't think that just because you have a gun, you're going to be okay.
bryan callen
No, because you don't hear them coming up on you.
joe rogan
They come up so fast.
They move so fast.
They run fast as a dog.
And they're huge.
bryan callen
Is that true?
joe rogan
Yes.
They run fast as fuck, man.
unidentified
Fuck.
joe rogan
And they're huge.
I mean, it's a giant animal, man.
bryan callen
What is it, 800 pounds?
unidentified
Sure.
bryan callen
Think about that.
unidentified
Sure.
jamie vernon
I just stumbled across a story about this just happening where the bear spray didn't work, and it was attacking the guide, and the client went to grab the Glock out of the...
Pack.
It didn't fire.
Then the bear came after him.
So he tried to throw the gun to the other guy.
And then it didn't.
That guy just ran it, I guess.
I was trying to follow this story.
joe rogan
And who died?
jamie vernon
It doesn't...
I don't...
I didn't find...
joe rogan
Look, it happens all the time.
The best story is Rinella's story.
Rinella and Remy Warren and Giannis Putelis and our friends, they got attacked while they were in a Fognac Island in Alaska.
bryan callen
Jesus.
unidentified
When?
joe rogan
Recently?
Yes, like two years ago.
And Remy came on here and told the story, and it's fucking terrifying.
bryan callen
God, what happened?
joe rogan
Well, they killed an elk, and they had hung it in a tree, and they had taken some of the meat back, because, you know, you have to hike out.
A Fognac is particularly dense.
It's very, very dense.
Remember when we were on Prince of Wales Island?
Yes.
bryan callen
Dense.
joe rogan
Dense.
Yeah.
Well, it's like that, but even worse.
bryan callen
And grizzlies everywhere.
joe rogan
Yes.
Grizzlies everywhere.
bryan callen
I have a huge problem with that.
joe rogan
When we were on that island, that island had black bears.
bryan callen
Yeah.
joe rogan
Which, weirdly enough, they're not as dangerous, but they are more predatory to its people.
bryan callen
I want a giant spiked helmet and spiked collar, and I want my guns in my hand.
joe rogan
Kevlar clothes.
bryan callen
And I want Kevlar clothes.
joe rogan
I want an Iron Man suit.
bryan callen
That's right.
joe rogan
I want to be able to shoot rockets out of my hands.
unidentified
That's right.
bryan callen
And I want to be able to electrify it when the thing bites me.
joe rogan
Yes.
unidentified
Kill it.
joe rogan
And then immediately cut its head off and put it on a stake so all the other grizzly bears know not to fuck with you.
bryan callen
That's exactly right.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
I like how you think.
bryan callen
There you go.
unidentified
We're on it.
joe rogan
I think like a man.
Yeah, we definitely need to go on a hunt again.
bryan callen
I know, dude.
It's so much fun.
joe rogan
Yeah, even if it's a rifle hunt.
I'll go on a rifle hunt.
bryan callen
You just love bow hunting, huh?
joe rogan
I love it.
bryan callen
You bought me a bow.
I was going to bring it today.
joe rogan
How many times did you shoot it?
unidentified
Zero?
bryan callen
I never shot it.
I want to do it here.
joe rogan
I bought you a bow three years ago.
unidentified
I know.
joe rogan
I'll get you a new one.
bryan callen
No, I want that one.
joe rogan
Hoyt comes out with new models every year.
bryan callen
No, I like that one.
I've never shot it.
joe rogan
It's a great bow.
bryan callen
So let me get used to that one.
I'll become expert.
joe rogan
Well, what I would like you to do, honestly, what I'd like to do, and we should organize this with John.
Oh, John Dudley, because we have access to literally the best archery coach on the planet Earth in John Dudley.
He's the best.
He's so good.
First of all, he was a world-class competitive archer.
He competed on the world stage.
He traveled all throughout the planet.
bryan callen
So what are the principles he teaches?
joe rogan
First of all, it's just like martial arts.
If you have a bad coach, you'll develop bad technique, and it's going to be very difficult for you to learn.
You can still excel.
Some people still excel with bad coaching.
There's people that have just a natural ability to fight, and you teach them just a few things.
They know how to put knuckles to your face.
Some people are just better at that.
And they have a good mentality for it.
But they would be way better if they were with Farah Sahabi.
They would be way better if they were with Duke Rufus.
There's just no doubt about it.
Great coaching is imperative for achieving your full potential.
bryan callen
100%.
joe rogan
That's the same thing with archery.
With archery, a guy like John Dudley will put the fundamentals in the perfect position for you.
He changed my archery so much that I had been doing archery for more than a year or so before I met him, maybe a year and a half.
My ability jumped up 20-30% within the first couple hours of meeting him.
Yeah.
bryan callen
What?
joe rogan
100%.
unidentified
Jesus!
joe rogan
We have video of me and him in my backyard, and I'm laying these nocturnal arrow knocks, they're lit knocks, so they fly through the air, it looks like laser beams, and I'm laying them into my elk target at like 65 yards, thunk, thunk, thunk, all of them going into the vitals.
bryan callen
Well, boxing is like that.
I had Donald Cerrone one time just sit there and explain to me where to place my feet and what I was doing wrong and why more weight should be on my back foot.
But just little things like that, or my buddy Tarek, and Wayne McCulloch, of course, who I train with.
But my boy Tarek, he'll teach me stuff.
He comes from that MMA background.
But just where you're looking, how to judge distance, and there are certain techniques to do it, or just where your back foot should be in relation to that person's foot.
Just how to set things up.
Some people can simplify it and teach you those basic principles where you're like...
unidentified
Damn!
bryan callen
Damn, it makes such a huge difference.
A huge difference.
joe rogan
I mean, there's ways to do things correctly, and people have spent their entire life learning these things and learning how to teach these things, too, which is critical.
We both came from a Taekwondo background, and I got very, very, very fortunate in that the school that I found, that I stumbled into, J. Kim Taekwondo Institute in Boston, was one of the best gyms on earth.
I just got super lucky.
So I learned from the time I was a young kid, I learned the right way to do things.
And the emphasis was always on technique.
It didn't matter how fast you were.
If you were doing it wrong, you were corrected.
bryan callen
The Russians are like that.
There's this tennis woman in Moscow who's responsible for the tennis revolution, Sharapova and all those people.
And she is a coach who, she's like 77. She's got like two courts.
And the kids, when they get there, I don't think they're allowed to really hit a ball for the first six months.
I mean, you're swing.
And your positioning, she ingrains those fundamentals so that you can't do it wrong.
So before you start playing tennis, you are ingraining neural pathways and patterns that are perfectly correct so that when the shit hits the fan, you get emotional, you don't know how to do it wrong.
You don't know how.
Right, right, right.
I think Virgil Hunter and those guys do the same thing when they train.
joe rogan
Virgil Hill?
bryan callen
Virgil Hill, I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
Virgil Hill.
No, but Hunter, who is...
Who's Andre Ward's coach?
Virgil Hill.
joe rogan
Isn't that right?
bryan callen
No, I think it's Virgil Hunter.
Look that up.
joe rogan
Virgil Hill was the light heavyweight champion that Roy Jones Jr. knocked out with a body shot.
bryan callen
Virgil Hunter is, I think, his coach.
joe rogan
I've been talking to Andre Ward on Instagram, too.
I've got to get a hold of him.
He's such a master.
He's not just a master.
He's a brilliant analyst, too.
bryan callen
He's amazing.
He was trained where the discipline of fundamentals and perfecting your technique.
joe rogan
Virgil Hunter?
bryan callen
Yeah, Virgil Hunter.
If you listen to Virgil Hunter, I listen to the way he speaks.
I obsess over that.
I love watching the old school guys.
There's this guy, Coach Anthony, who I watch his videos on YouTube.
I think he's in Kansas City, by the way.
I'd love to get in there and train with him.
He's a guy who, like, breaks shit down in those little details.
And you just realize what a science boxing is.
And you realize, like, it was that awesome Teddy Atlas thing you did where he goes, his boxer, like, you're making mistakes, but then there are mortal.
Like, you're making sins, but you're making mortal sins, like getting hit with shots you don't see.
joe rogan
Yeah.
bryan callen
He can teach you how to avoid that.
And that's a little detail.
And everything in life is that way.
It's like, you want to be really good at something, get great coaching, and it's those small adjustments that make all the difference.
Like, the difference between the number 100 tennis player in the world and the number 2 tennis player in the world is that much, but it's all the difference in the world.
joe rogan
Yeah, learning how to do things correctly in every single discipline is the most important thing.
Learning how to do it correctly.
And then from there, all your creativity and all your ability to improvise all comes from these perfect fundamentals.
bryan callen
That's right.
joe rogan
Did you watch Earl Spence Jr. and Mikey Garcia?
bryan callen
I did not.
I did not, but I want to see Earl Spence.
He just looks so much bigger than Mikey Garcia.
joe rogan
He looks a lot bigger.
Yeah.
A lot bigger.
bryan callen
I want to see Earl Spence and Mr. Crawford go at it.
joe rogan
Ooh, me too.
bryan callen
That's gonna be a fight.
joe rogan
That's gonna be a big fight.
bryan callen
I just felt like Mike Garcia, who I love, I'm gonna watch it, but he just looked so much smaller, and Earl Spence hits too hard.
joe rogan
He won't look bigger, he won't look that much bigger than Terrence.
Terrence Crawford is about as, he's basically the same size.
unidentified
He's a genius.
bryan callen
He's a guy who changes things up, man.
joe rogan
He's a genius.
bryan callen
He's always thinking.
joe rogan
And he'll come out and fight the first five rounds of the southpaw, and you think you got him figured out, and then he'll switch stances and fuck you up.
bryan callen
It's so weird.
joe rogan
Yeah.
bryan callen
That kind of genius, that kind of high fight IQ is crazy.
joe rogan
What's also that ambidextrous ability is so critical.
I mean, that was Marvin Hagler.
Marvin Hagler used to switch back and forth and you couldn't do jack shit about it.
He would fight you as a southpaw just as good as he'd fight you as orthodox and you didn't know what the fuck was coming next.
bryan callen
Well, there was that, Duran could do that.
There was that fighter who said, I can't, he's reading my mind.
He came back and he goes, he's reading my mind.
He goes, what?
He goes, he knows what I'm going to do before I do it.
Well, Duran understood those patterns so well, he could just, he'd just cut you off.
He'd just be like, I know what you're going to do.
I can see already what you're setting up before you do it.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's like jujitsu.
You know, you have a role with someone who's really good.
I watched Henner.
bryan callen
I watched Henner Gracie.
joe rogan
They know what you're doing way before you're going to do it.
bryan callen
I watched Henry Gracie take Brennan Schaub, Leota Machida.
I mean, all these killers.
He was starting on his back, and they were on top of him, and he would choke them out.
I was like, what?
joe rogan
Yeah, he lets them take his back.
bryan callen
But again, he's so far ahead of them.
He knows what you're going to do, so he can cut you off.
It's like every time I try to move around with Wayne McCullough, he'll just...
No matter what I'm doing, I'm doing the winky right thing.
I'm keeping my hands here.
And he just finds your face.
And he's touching you.
joe rogan
It's like everything, right?
You get better at everything.
You know that feeling that you get when you watch someone who's only been doing stand-up like a year?
And you see them going on in front of a crowd.
And you see them choking up and panicking and maybe rushing a joke or being awkward.
bryan callen
I have to run away.
joe rogan
Yeah, man, it's weird.
But then, ladies and gentlemen, here's your next comic, Brian Callan.
You can just go up and just loose and relax.
You've seen it all before.
bryan callen
That's what I do.
joe rogan
But this is what I like.
What I like is that there are all these things that you can do like that, where you just get better.
If you keep doing it, you learn more.
I think learning things and getting better- There's an art to learning.
Yeah, there's an art to learning, but I think it's so critical to enjoying life.
I think that's one of the, like, learning stuff and doing difficult things where you can see incremental improvement that's based on your effort and your concentration.
I think these are really important for happiness.
bryan callen
A hundred percent.
joe rogan
Like, think about all of our friends that are really happy.
We're all pursuing things.
bryan callen
Also, I know where to place my energy and I can see myself getting better, but more importantly, not only do I see myself getting better, but I come to understandings.
When I'm writing stand-up now, when I'm thinking of what my next one hour is going to be, I start kind of like getting to what I think about in essence.
Like, where am I right now?
I've kind of arrived at a place I set these goals for myself, and now what?
Now what?
Now I've got to stand still, maybe.
What the fuck does that look like?
I'm going to write about that.
I'm going to write about my life has been either a fight or I'm ready to run away, right?
I did this joke about not wearing moccasins, and I had this therapist who wore moccasins.
I was like, I don't trust somebody who wears moccasins.
joe rogan
Moccasins are really good for stalking.
bryan callen
Yeah, you're either...
I was going to say, the only time a moccasin is macho is if you're sneaking up on a castle guard to take him out with a knife or you're hunting deer.
That's the only time.
Otherwise, you're a cult leader and you're selling your cock.
I have three pairs of moccasins.
Well, I don't trust you.
Unless you've got a bow in your hand.
If you come out with moccasins and you're smiling, you're trying to fuck me.
joe rogan
I just bought a new pair.
bryan callen
You did?
joe rogan
Yeah.
bryan callen
Alright, well, good.
joe rogan
Just for stalking.
bryan callen
I like that.
Just so you don't break any twigs under your fucking foot.
unidentified
Well, you want to be.
joe rogan
Yes.
Very quietly.
bryan callen
Well, when I was in Indonesia and my Dayak guides, the indigenous people of Indonesia, didn't break a twig under their feet.
unidentified
I'm sure.
bryan callen
Bare feet, sir.
Bare feet in the...
joe rogan
Oh, bare feet are great.
bryan callen
I'd hunt bare feet.
In the rainforest.
No problem.
joe rogan
If I didn't worry about cooties, I'd hunt with bare feet.
bryan callen
You got leeches, you got spiders, they didn't give a shit.
joe rogan
I'm worried about snakes in the good old U.S. of A. As well you should be.
Yeah.
Especially warm months.
unidentified
Oh, man.
joe rogan
The last scene when he hears...
Painful.
Fuck, man.
I've never been bitten, but I've had my dogs bitten three times.
Remember Frank?
Yeah, Frank got bitten three fucking times.
Yeah, Frank and Lucy, they both got bitten.
bryan callen
You have to get him...
joe rogan
Got to bring him to the fucking doctor.
One time I brought him to the doctor.
The doctor looked at him and says, well, I don't see any swelling.
It might not have gotten him because he killed the snake.
I was like, I don't see that.
He's such a psycho.
He's not smart.
He just would charge in and just snap at things.
The idea that this thing didn't bite him.
He goes, well, you know, if he's feeling bad, take him back in again.
I bring him home.
An hour later, his face is growing a basketball off the side of it.
bryan callen
That's what happened to my dog.
joe rogan
I bring him back in.
But it was expensive, too, man, which is a real bummer because it's thousands and thousands of dollars for this anti-venom.
And if you're a poor person, they want that money right now.
unidentified
I know.
bryan callen
I know, man.
I have pet insurance.
My dog got hit by a car.
$14,000, sir.
Thank God for pet insurance.
unidentified
Wow.
bryan callen
I paid like nothing.
It was incredible.
So pet insurance is a necessary thing.
My dog got bit by a rattlesnake.
I didn't see the rattlesnake, but I heard my dog like that.
And I went, what the fuck?
And we're walking back.
I've never seen anything like that.
We're walking back and my dog's tongue is out.
And my dog starts weaving.
And then just kind of falls over.
unidentified
Oh, Jesus.
bryan callen
I pick the dog up.
I bring that dog to the vet.
I thought maybe he got stung by a wasp or something.
I didn't know.
And then I was like, this is she.
I was like, I think she got bit by a rattlesnake.
And she was so swollen.
Her head was so...
By the time I got there, her head literally looked like a giant balloon.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's horrible.
bryan callen
And I said, I think my dog got bit by a rattlesnake.
joe rogan
Do you know what's really crazy?
bryan callen
I don't know if they ever gave her antivenom when I think about it.
joe rogan
You know what's really crazy is the venom is actually digesting tissue.
bryan callen
Yeah.
joe rogan
That's what's fucked up.
What that venom is for, if they bite a snake, like a snake bites a rabbit or some shit like that, it's actually digesting the rabbit.
Because they don't have a stomach like we have.
Their whole body is just like one rot track.
Things just rot inside of it and they absorb it slowly.
bryan callen
That's why you've got to amputate a lot of times if you don't get to it.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Dirty monsters.
Do you ever see that video that I posted that I got from one of those guys that I follow on Instagram?
But they were in the desert, and this big fucking huge fat rattlesnake had a rabbit and was dragging the rabbit away.
bryan callen
No.
joe rogan
And this lifeless rabbit is being dragged away by this thing that's as thick as my forearm.
Oh my God.
bryan callen
Let me see that.
joe rogan
Yeah, see if you can find it.
Good luck finding it.
It's probably four years ago.
unidentified
Jesus Christ.
joe rogan
Three years ago?
bryan callen
Four years ago?
unidentified
Is it?
joe rogan
Found it?
unidentified
Jamie's a wizard.
bryan callen
Jamie, you're amazing, man.
How do you do that?
He's so good.
joe rogan
Watch this.
So this thing, look at this.
It's got the rabbit.
bryan callen
Wow.
joe rogan
Yeah.
And they close in on it.
bryan callen
So cool.
joe rogan
And it just drags it away.
unidentified
Wow.
joe rogan
It's creepy.
bryan callen
Yeah, it is.
joe rogan
This is a different video.
I've had snakes.
The one that I had, it was a bigger snake, and it pulls it away way quicker.
But it's just a gross little animal.
But then again, you need those gross little animals.
That's the argument that people say you don't want coyotes in your neighborhood.
Well, okay, I kind of see what you're saying, but the problem is you don't want rats in your neighborhood either, stupid.
bryan callen
Yeah.
joe rogan
And Coyote's gonna kill the rats.
bryan callen
They do, right?
joe rogan
What is this one?
jamie vernon
The mom rabbit comes and fucks up the snake.
joe rogan
Oh, that's right.
Yeah, that's right.
bryan callen
What?
jamie vernon
Really?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah, the mom rabbit recognizes.
Some shit is going down.
Fucks up that snake.
bryan callen
Get off my baby.
Look at that.
joe rogan
Yeah, rabbits are fucking fierce, man.
bryan callen
They're rodents, man.
Giant rats with no tail.
jamie vernon
A video where a kid stopped a cat, I think it was like a bobcat, a small bobcat, like in a village, was getting attacked by some snakes and was protecting its babies.
And the mom just left the babies to die or whatever because she knew that she couldn't fight it.
The kid just grabbed the snake by the head and walked it away and threw it like in the bush, came back and grabbed the babies and gave them back to the mom.
It was a crazy video.
A little like eight-year-old kid, maybe younger.
It was wild.
bryan callen
Grabbed the snake.
jamie vernon
Grabbed the snake.
It was an eight, seven, six, eight-foot snake, six to eight-foot probably.
bryan callen
That's crazy.
joe rogan
Some kids grow up hard, dude.
jamie vernon
I have no idea what country I was in.
bryan callen
When I was a kid, I would grab snakes.
If I saw a snake, I'm going for it.
unidentified
Yeah.
bryan callen
I was obsessed with snakes.
joe rogan
You're lucky you're alive.
bryan callen
I know.
I'd grab whatever, but I didn't live in a place where there were poison snakes.
joe rogan
Well, when I lived in Florida, I was always worried about running into an alligator.
We'd run into alligators and snapping turtles, a lot of snapping turtles.
Some snakes.
There were some snakes who we'd run into, too.
bryan callen
The problem with Florida is, yeah, once in a while, there's an American crocodile.
They even say in the Everglades they got a couple of Niles out there.
joe rogan
Oh yeah, they do.
bryan callen
A couple of the old Nile crocs.
joe rogan
Yeah, assholes who got them as pets.
bryan callen
In the 70s.
joe rogan
And they just let them loose, and now they have a viable population.
bryan callen
That's correct.
joe rogan
What is this young boy doing?
jamie vernon
This is the kid.
It almost seems fake because they have cameras everywhere.
bryan callen
I think it's fake.
I think that's fake.
jamie vernon
But he does it, regardless of the fact.
bryan callen
It's a pet python.
I would have done that in a heartbeat as a kid.
joe rogan
So he's pulling on it?
Is that a python?
Oh, they set this up, bro.
jamie vernon
That's what I mean.
As I was pulling back up and seeing all the cuts, I was like, okay, that might not be real.
bryan callen
This is a setup.
joe rogan
This is a setup.
Look, look how he grabs it.
That kid's been grabbing snakes his whole life.
bryan callen
Yeah.
joe rogan
He grabbed that thing.
bryan callen
Expertly.
joe rogan
I'd make that thing a cock holster.
unidentified
That's what I would do.
bryan callen
A cock holster.
Cock rings.
Just a bunch of cock rings or a cock holster.
joe rogan
Turn that motherfucker into a belt.
Uh-huh.
Yeah, it's like growing up like that around snakes and all kinds of evil fucking shit like that.
bryan callen
Have you been to South Africa?
joe rogan
No.
bryan callen
Man, Cape Town.
joe rogan
I'm scared.
bryan callen
Cape Town is the most beautiful place I've ever been in my life.
That's a lot.
But I saw a wild Babylon.
joe rogan
That's a lot, but thanks for playing.
bryan callen
It is.
No, it might be the most beautiful place I've ever seen.
Just like...
joe rogan
The way it looks?
bryan callen
Oh, fuck.
It's incredible.
joe rogan
What's so beautiful?
bryan callen
Bring up Cape Town.
It's ridiculous.
joe rogan
Ridiculous?
bryan callen
It's ridiculous.
joe rogan
But I saw...
bryan callen
I saw...
For me, it's ridiculous.
Ridiculous.
It's not that.
I don't do it.
Oh, it's so beautiful.
joe rogan
Not bad looking.
bryan callen
No, no, no.
You don't understand.
joe rogan
Kind of like Australia better.
bryan callen
No!
You have no idea.
Don't ever bring up Australia.
joe rogan
Wait, what about Maui?
bryan callen
It's better!
joe rogan
No, that's not true.
bryan callen
I'm telling you, Cape Town.
joe rogan
Now you're just lying to people.
bryan callen
I've been all over.
Cape Town has got my number one.
joe rogan
I'm sure it's awesome.
bryan callen
In terms of breathtaking.
joe rogan
Really?
bryan callen
Yeah, and food.
joe rogan
Would you have any interest in going to Africa and going hunting?
bryan callen
Well, I've been to Africa now four times.
It's a long flight.
What will we be hunting?
joe rogan
Antelope, shit like that.
Kudu.
bryan callen
I love Kudu.
joe rogan
I've eaten it.
bryan callen
It's delicious.
But at the end of the day, I feel you'd get the same...
In a way, I feel you'd get the same...
Can I tell you what that would be?
You'd go to a game reserve, which is probably an abandoned cattle range.
joe rogan
Yes.
bryan callen
And they stocked the area with those animals.
joe rogan
Yes.
bryan callen
And so, in a way, I think you could get the same exact feeling...
In Texas.
joe rogan
Yeah, in Texas.
Right, in Texas.
bryan callen
And I'm not kidding.
joe rogan
And in Texas, you could go get Tex-Mex.
bryan callen
Correct, sir.
And now great food in Africa.
And no malaria.
There are a lot of those issues.
joe rogan
Yeah.
bryan callen
Right?
So the trip, by the time you get there, you're older.
It's just too fucking long.
unidentified
You're older.
joe rogan
It's a 16-hour fight.
bryan callen
Fucking 16 hours, but then you've got to take a fucking bus and the whole thing, and something goes wrong every time.
joe rogan
What do you got, Jamie?
jamie vernon
That photo I just flashed up at Cape Town just made me think of something I saw yesterday that I don't know if you saw.
joe rogan
What's that?
jamie vernon
So they can create a picture like this.
joe rogan
Oh yeah, I did see that.
If you draw like a little sketch, they could instantly turn that into a photorealistic picture.
You haven't seen that?
jamie vernon
No.
This just came out yesterday, two days ago.
joe rogan
It's fucking bananas.
So look at that sketch on the right.
So through the software rendering, they do something like that on the left, and then they make it on the right, but make it with a lake and a mountain.
Like, watch this.
Bam.
bryan callen
Damn, what?
joe rogan
Yeah, so this is within seconds they can create this.
And what is this software called, Jamie?
jamie vernon
I don't know if the software, from what I saw, is made by NVIDIA, which is the video card maker and all sorts of other things.
bryan callen
So do you think they'll ever be able to replace comics?
joe rogan
No.
No, I don't think they're going to be able to figure out personality.
But I think what they can – they'll never figure out Joey Diaz.
bryan callen
Right.
joe rogan
But I think what they can do is make artificial reality.
They're going to be able to make artificial reality.
It's like how long will it take for that artificial reality – I don't think you can quantify creativity.
I don't think...
I might be wrong, though.
bryan callen
I might be wrong.
I don't think there's an algorithm.
Because part of what creativity is, is surprise and almost destruction.
Like, when you hear somebody say something you've never heard before, or a different take, that kind of destroys the old way of thinking.
That's kind of what a lot of creativity is.
Innovation is a form of destruction.
joe rogan
Yes.
bryan callen
And so...
joe rogan
Destroying ideas.
bryan callen
Yeah, but like when you see a great piece of art, there's a majesty to it.
You're awestruck.
Like the Vatican, the inside of the Sistine Chapel.
joe rogan
Perfect example.
bryan callen
I mean, you're awed that a human being did that for the sake of beauty in itself.
joe rogan
Over the course of hundreds of years, too.
bryan callen
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Generations of artists, right?
They'd work on the same tapestry or something.
Yeah.
That is an act of faith.
And you're doing it for its own sake.
You're not even doing it because you're making money.
It's like you are doing it because you can and because you want to see what you're capable of.
Like creating beauty for its own sake is...
But it's original.
It changes in many ways your perspective.
Like you kind of go...
So Nietzsche and Schopenhauer talked about the idea that there's the will, right?
So as a human being, you're stuck in this fucking, I gotta eat, I gotta fuck, I gotta sleep, and I gotta breed.
And I eat and I sleep and I fuck so I can breed, you know, and I can stay alive and further my gene pool.
And you're stuck in this kind of like will to live.
But there is a respite.
And that respite is when you see a great work of art or you're doing great works of art.
And somehow, when you see something beautiful, when you're laughing really hard at great stand-up, when you're seeing an amazing movie like American Beauty, the state it puts you in is so incredible because it gets you to forget momentarily about your own biology, about your own urges, your own needs, your own wants.
For whatever reason, you rest in this state of majesty, this sort of high relief, your higher self, and you go, man, that might be what God's about.
That might be what it's like to be touching something bigger than myself or bigger than all this other appetite stuff.
It's almost like something, you forget about death and you forget about your fears and everything else.
You know, those feelings of inspiration.
That can happen when you're listening to great music or it can happen when you're making great music.
But that is almost the only time you have, I guess, and of course we can talk about flow when you're climbing a mountain with no ropes or whatever it might be.
I think that puts you in those states of true focus and true flow.
And that's what we stay alive for.
We stay alive for that.
And When you are not that, you know, everything else becomes drudgery, almost because everything becomes...
And I would even equate, like, we stay alive also, not just for accomplishments, but, like, when you're with your friends, like, when we're doing the Fight Companion and we're laughing and being silly geese for no other reason, there's a flow to that.
unidentified
Oh, yeah.
bryan callen
There's a...
You are removed temporarily from...
Yeah, but Nietzsche was a mess.
They're all a mess!
Every fucking philosopher.
I've done my own studies on that.
Every philosopher didn't get laid and they lived alone.
And sometimes they lived with their mothers and they were all a disaster.
But they thought deeply about these subjects.
unidentified
They have concepts.
joe rogan
They have concepts.
And oftentimes they're not really putting these concepts to practice in their own life, which is very strange.
bryan callen
That's right.
That's very true.
joe rogan
Yeah, those moments that we have when we're doing the Fight Companion where we're just fucking howling and laughing, that's why, and those, you can't recreate that.
You know, one of the things that's interesting about Fight Companion is a bunch of people have tried to recreate it.
They've done their own, and they always abandon it.
They just give up.
bryan callen
That's because we're really friends.
joe rogan
We're really friends, and we really go hard.
bryan callen
That's what I say about it.
joe rogan
We're really getting fucked up.
I mean, how many shows are there where people are just getting drunk and saying ridiculous shit live in front of millions of people?
bryan callen
I know.
joe rogan
And then we'll have a show where there's a UFC that may get 100,000 pay-per-view buys.
And we get 5 million views.
bryan callen
Is that how many we get?
joe rogan
Between YouTube and iTunes.
bryan callen
The next time I take my shirt off, I've got to be a little more jacked.
joe rogan
Well, at least you don't have psoriasis anymore.
bryan callen
That's true.
But people are like, you know, Fighter and Kid, I want to start my own podcast.
I go, we're friends.
We're really friends.
That's why it works.
joe rogan
You can't make it like the monkeys where you just fucking organize a fake band.
bryan callen
No fucking way.
We're just friends no matter what.
joe rogan
And Eddie is legitimately crazy, too.
And he's also legitimately a jujitsu genius.
Yeah.
bryan callen
He's an innovative fucking dude.
joe rogan
And he really does think the earth is flat.
Him and I have conversations.
I'm like, Eddie, stop!
Stop!
Once you go flat, you never go back.
I'm like, what does that mean?
bryan callen
He's great.
joe rogan
What does that mean?
bryan callen
He's so great.
joe rogan
I don't understand that thinking, but that's part of the reason why he's fun.
bryan callen
Yeah.
I was talking about him the other day, and they were like, he bugs me.
I go, he's a genuinely good person.
joe rogan
Oh, he's awesome.
He's a genuinely good human being.
unidentified
I love that guy to death.
joe rogan
I love that guy.
He's been one of my best friends for 20 fucking years.
bryan callen
That's why, because he's such a good person.
joe rogan
Yeah, he's a great guy.
He's a great person.
And he's brilliant when it comes to jiu-jitsu.
I mean, really brilliant.
But his unique way of thinking, his creativity, is what allowed him to formulate that system.
That system of jiu-jitsu was a lot of very unorthodox entries and submissions.
He's very, very, very, very clever with his jiu-jitsu.
Very clever.
It's so important.
bryan callen
But you wonder, sometimes his brain, that kind of brain, it cuts all the way across.
It can have liabilities.
Your strengths are the same as your liabilities.
We all have that.
joe rogan
Well, he's super obsessed with conspiracies.
Legitimately super obsessed.
But it wasn't always...
bryan callen
It's a form of identity, though.
It also gives you a tribe, and it gives you people.
All of us have that.
joe rogan
Yeah, well, he does that Tinfoil Hat podcast, too, with Sam Tripoli, and then they do conspiracy stand-up comedy where they go to the performance clubs together, but it's really selling well.
I mean, they're doing great.
It's great for Sam, too.
It's good to see.
Sam's a great guy.
Like I was saying earlier, we're insanely fortunate in our circle of friends.
Insanely fortunate.
And the camaraderie that we all have, we all protect each other and look out for each other and support each other.
bryan callen
But I noticed that too, I feel so lucky that I get to do stand-up because the challenge never goes away.
And then I see a lot of actors, like Sean Penn, like Johnny Depp, like the guys I really looked at, Mickey Rourke.
And something happens to them along the way.
Brad Pitt, not so much.
But the real actors that I really kind of thought were, something goes on.
joe rogan
Brad Pitt had a real struggle in that he married a crazy lady.
bryan callen
Yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
That was his struggle.
bryan callen
I don't know.
joe rogan
He married a chick who was ridiculously hot but crazy as fuck.
bryan callen
Yeah, I think they might get...
I don't know.
Acting doesn't...
When you've done a movie, when you're on set, you're shooting a page a day.
And that mundane, repetitive process.
You're in costume.
You're saying the same fucking lines and doing the same scenes over and over again.
I'm sorry, man.
You're there 16-hour days.
And I don't think that's as satisfying, no matter who you are.
It becomes a very peculiar skill.
It's not like doing a play.
joe rogan
Yeah, but it's different.
bryan callen
Stand-up, though, you're writing and you have to perform, and it's always changing.
joe rogan
I agree.
But I also think that you and I, we're supposed to do stand-up.
Like, a guy who makes clocks, that's his passion.
A guy who fixes cars.
Like, there's certain people, like my friend Steve Stroop, who built my Corvette, and You know, he builds a bunch of muscle cars and shit.
That fucking guy loves cars.
He loves the construction of them and the design of them and he loves putting them together.
bryan callen
No, Daniel Day-Lewis and Christian Bale are supposed to be actors.
joe rogan
Yeah, there's people that are supposed to do that.
They're really good at it.
But then there's other folks that get into it and they become disillusioned along the way because the process is so weird.
And also it's so fake.
That's what always drove me crazy.
Like being around all these people that are like not really there talking to you.
They're not really being vulnerable.
They're not really being present.
They're putting out a little act.
bryan callen
But also the trap is having a persona.
I think like Johnny Depp got caught up in that persona.
joe rogan
Became a pirate.
unidentified
Yeah, man.
joe rogan
Start wearing scarves in real life.
bryan callen
You can't be that vain.
You have to have friends like me and you.
If I showed up, if I showed up with a lace hanky hanging out of my pocket and it came all the way down to my knee, you'd tackle me.
It's like Jimmy Burke when I showed up after Mad TV. I showed up in New York and I decided to start wearing Kangol hats backwards.
They looked good on me and I was hot.
I decided I'm going to be a good looking actor because I saw some actor do it.
And I go there and Jimmy Burke goes, dude, I'm so fucking proud of you.
I'm at the bar with all the guys.
I'm so proud of you, bro.
I'm just going to go out and smoke a dube, celebrate, raise a glass, take the hat off right now.
I'm going to slap the shit out of you.
joe rogan
What about fedoras?
bryan callen
I go, what's wrong with my hat?
He goes, it's too busy.
It's busy.
How about a fedora?
That's the best.
joe rogan
Now, what's the ultimate?
A straw hat.
I'm a member of the press.
Well, a beret.
bryan callen
No, a beret is the best.
If you wear a fucking beret, I'm going to throw you in a flying headlock, even if you're Brock Lesnar.
joe rogan
What about if you have a beret and a cigarette holder, like Hunter S. Thompson?
bryan callen
Well, now I kind of like you.
If you're a dandy, and you have an ear trumpet and a cigarette holder, now I like you.
joe rogan
I have a hard time with dudes who wear vests.
bryan callen
Me too.
I do want to dress like a salsa dancer.
I want to be a Cuban gentleman at the end of the day.
I do kind of want to wear linen suits.
I want to be an older gentleman.
And I want to smoke fine cigars.
Or a pipe.
There is part of me.
And I want to pontificate.
And I want to hang out with Stephen West.
And I want to talk about philosophy.
I like that stuff.
joe rogan
How often do you smoke cigars?
bryan callen
Never.
Ever.
Ever.
joe rogan
So what's stopping you?
bryan callen
I don't know.
joe rogan
It's a store down the street.
bryan callen
I just saw that cigar.
joe rogan
You should get some cigars.
This is a joint, bro.
bryan callen
Oh, Jesus.
A blunt?
Yeah, I like that.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's tobacco on the outside.
bryan callen
Oh.
Really?
joe rogan
This is the shit that crashed Tesla stock.
Brought it down.
bryan callen
That'll hurt my lungs, man.
Is it mostly weed?
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
The inside's weed.
You get a little head rush from the tobacco.
And then you get a little...
unidentified
Little...
Little life.
bryan callen
I'm such a lightweight.
joe rogan
Life inside the brain because of the...
This is the marijuana.
Here we go.
If we only had some wine, it would be perfect.
Should we break out some fine whiskey?
We have some fine whiskey over there.
We don't have any glasses.
Yeah, we'll be alright.
Or we could just drink it out of the glass like gentlemen.
Do we have any more of this?
Yeah, we have cups.
Do you have to get out of here?
bryan callen
No.
I never have to.
joe rogan
Keep talking, man.
People are listening.
bryan callen
Oh, sorry.
I'm here.
unidentified
Did you have a special drop-on?
bryan callen
Oh, I'm glad you mentioned that.
Complicated Apes, guys.
Get my number one selling one hour, and I'll be in Kansas City at the Kansas City Improv this Friday, Saturday, and then I'll be in...
Well, Philly's already sold out, but then I'll be in Calgary on the 4th, 5th, and 6th of April.
joe rogan
This stuff is single malt scotch, and this stuff is made by a boy band?
bryan callen
I like good whiskey.
I don't like this bullshit.
joe rogan
Where does this come from?
bryan callen
I'm not drinking boy bang whiskey.
jamie vernon
I believe it's the Florida Georgia Lions whiskey.
joe rogan
Oh, okay.
They're not a boy band.
They're a bam-bam.
I thought it was like NSYNC or some shit.
At what point in time, does a boy band ever get to a point where they're like, okay, we can't call ourselves a boy band anymore.
jamie vernon
We're 40. Backstreet Boys are still rolling.
bryan callen
It's a man band.
joe rogan
They're still Backstreet Boys.
bryan callen
Call it a man band.
joe rogan
Is your glass empty there?
bryan callen
No.
joe rogan
Finish your coffee, fuckface.
bryan callen
Hold on.
I'll show you what I'm going to do.
joe rogan
Oh, you're going to pour it in there?
Pour your coffee in there.
Good move, good move.
Oh, you're going to put the whiskey in there.
bryan callen
I'll have them gallons, obviously, because I'm a Scotch.
I mean, I believe it's Scotch.
joe rogan
Jesus!
bryan callen
Jesus, man.
joe rogan
Watch what you're doing.
bryan callen
Take it easy.
Don't you, don't you.
joe rogan
Who invented whiskey?
Was it the Irish?
bryan callen
The Scotch.
The Scotch.
joe rogan
Up in the Highlands.
So the Irish stole it from the Scots?
bryan callen
I don't know.
I don't know.
joe rogan
Is that your...
bryan callen
That's my brogue.
joe rogan
My brogue from Scotland.
Who's on his way to Valhalla.
Who?
Billy Connolly.
Famous...
bryan callen
Is he dying?
unidentified
Yeah.
bryan callen
I didn't know that.
unidentified
Yeah.
bryan callen
How old is he?
unidentified
He's...
joe rogan
I want to say he's in the 70s.
bryan callen
What happened?
Did he just...
joe rogan
He's got some terminal illness.
See if you can find it.
76. 76. Great comedian.
bryan callen
Great comedian.
joe rogan
Supposedly, I've never met him, but supposedly a great guy, too.
bryan callen
We're all going, brother.
joe rogan
Yes.
bryan callen
That's the other thing I think about.
I want to make...
I don't want to be too attached to immortality.
I want to make...
joe rogan
That's why you don't have a watch?
bryan callen
I've been doing the...
joe rogan
There he is.
bryan callen
You know what I've been doing is I do Sam Harris's...
joe rogan
Not Dying, Not Dead.
Sir Billy Connolly sends reassuring musical message to fans.
unidentified
Okay.
joe rogan
Oh, okay.
unidentified
So he's still...
joe rogan
He's still going...
He's got some sort of a...
jamie vernon
Cancer and Parkinson's assist.
joe rogan
Double dose.
bryan callen
This fucking machine breaks down.
I've been doing...
I've been reading...
I mean, I'm doing Sam Harris' Waking Up app.
unidentified
Really?
bryan callen
Guided meditation.
I've been doing it now...
joe rogan
You like it?
bryan callen
For three months...
I actually love it because I read his book, Spirituality Without Religion, and I really liked it.
I've always dabbled, I've always thought about meditation, but I, without fail, have done it now for over three months.
And it's only ten minutes a day.
Sometimes I do a little longer, you know?
But it's kind of profound.
I never would have seen the value of it, but it took me a while to see.
He helps...
He's a very good guide because he's been doing it for 30 years.
And he's a very smart guy, obviously.
joe rogan
He's done a lot of those quiet retreats.
bryan callen
Yeah, so did Yuval Harari, who wrote Sapiens.
He goes on three-month retreats.
When I started seeing guys who were that smart and do that, I kind of went...
This is very interesting, especially from Sam, who always takes flack for being an atheist, but he's pretty religious for an atheist.
I mean, in terms of how he speaks about meditation, consciousness, mind versus brain.
joe rogan
You didn't use the term spiritual.
I appreciate that.
People say that.
I'm not religious, but I'm spiritual.
Yeah, I guess he's very concerned with the health of his mind, and he recognizes the power of meditation.
You know, I do a bunch of different things that help me keep my mind clear.
Like, one of them is running.
There's something about running that I never really understood until I started doing it.
bryan callen
It's a form of meditation.
joe rogan
Well, yeah, you're in this sort of weird state of mind where you're just trudging and breathing, and that's all you really can concentrate on.
You don't have much room for other things.
Like, when you're really struggling, When I'm running up a steep hill and I'm running with a dog, he's so much faster than me.
He just fucking takes off.
I have the best dog, man.
He turns around and checks to make sure I'm okay.
He's like, you alright?
I'm like, I'm good, dude.
unidentified
I'm good.
joe rogan
I'm right behind you.
And then he takes off and runs again.
He just loves freedom.
And he's such a good dog.
I never worry about him meeting people.
He would just be kissing them.
The only thing I worry about is cats, like mountain lions and shit.
I do worry about that because we do run in these really remote areas.
And when I do that, when I'm trudging up those hills, all I'm doing is breathing.
Shit, I'm pushing my thighs and I'm fucking trying to get to the top of this hill and it's a rough, steep, fucking long hill.
You don't think about jack shit other than that.
And then when you do come down and your heart rate drops and you're ready to go again, I'll do a long 200-yard hill.
I'll sprint it as much as I can.
And then I get to the top and I have to catch my breath.
I don't want to kill myself.
But then when you catch your breath, it's like during the time where your heart rate is dropping, you start looking at the actual real magnitude of your problems.
Like, what are they really?
One of our biggest problems is the way we interact with each other, right?
If you think about all the problems that people have in the world, obviously there's the big global ones, global conflict and war and financial conflict.
Weird shit that countries do to each other back and forth.
But it's human beings in conflict with other human beings.
And how much of that could be avoided?
bryan callen
Right.
joe rogan
Like, isn't it mostly avoidable?
Like with people, with one-to-one, two reasonable people, you and I. You and I is a perfect example.
We've run into some people.
We run into a person and...
bryan callen
But it's not how wars are, I think.
So sometimes...
unidentified
Right, right, right.
Of course.
joe rogan
It's with groups.
bryan callen
Well, no.
It's also like sometimes it's about resources.
I mean, if you only have access to one waterway and your kids may not be able to drink water, you can get genocidal right quick.
unidentified
Of course.
bryan callen
Of course.
There are certain things where you kind of go, well, we have to fight for our survival.
But again...
People go to war the way you organize men young men is not whether we hate them That doesn't last as much what you do is you you go.
Hey, it's about love It's about defending our country our way of life and you you create symbols and propaganda and things for them to march behind That's always how you motivate large groups how you create an ideology in your You know your fighting force you need that Because they tend to fight for something.
You know, I think at West Point it says a nation defines itself on what it's willing to fight for.
joe rogan
Nobody wants one world government, right?
That's one of the things that everybody's scared of.
Like, one world.
Like, one group that runs all the countries on the whole planet.
Like, that's too crazy.
Right?
That terrifies all of us.
One group having all that fucking power.
bryan callen
Yeah, anytime one group, that's my problem with a big federal government.
joe rogan
Right, but it seems like they're all ridiculous at this point, but if there was laws that we all agreed on, like you can't just, say if you go to Singapore with weed, you go to jail for the rest of your life.
bryan callen
Right.
joe rogan
You get hung.
If you're a dealer there, they will fuck you up.
You can't be traveling over there with cocaine or anything crazy like that.
bryan callen
They hang you.
joe rogan
Yeah, you're in deep shit.
bryan callen
No jury, just a judge.
Lee Kwan, you talked about that.
He goes, yeah, we hang about seven people a year.
It's sad, it's terrible, you know, just judges.
But how many people die from drugs, from your drug issue in the United States?
How many people, how many kids are orphaned?
I was like, oh shit.
joe rogan
Hey, man, they have a perspective.
It's a hard-ass perspective.
But we've got to realize that that perspective exists still on this earth.
It's really interesting when you think of all the different cultures.
I was thinking of stoic cultures and cold northern cultures.
bryan callen
They have to get ready for the winter.
joe rogan
Yeah, man.
bryan callen
Or you starve.
joe rogan
Germans and the Swedes and the Nordic folk.
bryan callen
Yeah, time becomes a real factor.
Time.
With your harvest, when, all that stuff.
joe rogan
Also, no bullshit.
Some fucking insane genes in these people, right?
Like that Game of Thrones guy.
You know Brock Lesnar's folk are from that fucking part of the world.
unidentified
Iceland?
Yeah.
bryan callen
Land of the Giants?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
The craziest, hardiest stock survived.
bryan callen
The real Vikings.
joe rogan
Yeah.
And the real survivors, like, they have to deal with some shit in the winter.
Before there was any kind of cars, those people were living up there riding animals when it was God knows how fucking cold.
bryan callen
You wore those animals.
joe rogan
Covered in skins and shit.
They would open the door and...
Wind would be blowing.
bryan callen
Giant beards.
joe rogan
One fire in the center of this fucking house and everyone's gathered around the fire.
It was all about staying warm, man.
Yeah, man.
bryan callen
And having enough to eat.
joe rogan
And then you had to worry about some other dudes just like you coming into your town and fucking you up while you slept.
bryan callen
And taking you as a slave.
joe rogan
Oh my God, chopping you up in front of your family.
bryan callen
Yeah.
joe rogan
People just chop people up.
bryan callen
That's right.
joe rogan
And that's mostly what happened forever.
bryan callen
That's right.
joe rogan
Mostly what happened.
unidentified
Yeah.
bryan callen
And by the way, we're going to impregnate your wife and kill your kids or enslave them.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
Everybody got killed.
Everybody got raped.
And that was normal.
That was life.
And people made it through that to some form of security where they started thinking about rules and laws and how to enforce them and keep things civil.
bryan callen
Well, yeah, I think the fascinating thing is slavery.
Slavery was the order of the day, and the leading philosophers and moral thinkers of our time, from Jesus to the Buddha to Muhammad to Socrates and Aristotle to all of them, never, ever really spoke much about slavery, about owning other human beings, about selling someone's children.
It just was never really brought up.
unidentified
Sure.
bryan callen
I mean, it just wasn't.
You just see it.
It was just what was done.
And then, you know who really started the abolitionist movement?
Where they, I mean, the beginnings of the abolition of slavery worldwide?
You know who did it?
joe rogan
No.
bryan callen
The British.
In the 1800s.
joe rogan
Really?
bryan callen
And you know who did it in specifically evangelical Christians?
unidentified
Wow.
bryan callen
The abolition movement was started by what you'd call fanatic Christians, but they risked everything and convinced the Crown to enforce a ban on slavery in the high seas.
So if you were a British naval ship, Even if there was a Turkish ship over there and they had slaves, the British spent years and great cost at basically hanging slave traders, freeing slaves, all that stuff on the high seas.
So even though obviously there was a lot of racism that went on, the Brits and their navy were the ones that began the abolition of worldwide slavery.
It didn't allow it on the high seas.
joe rogan
Now, how amazing is it that that didn't take place until what?
bryan callen
18 what?
1865, sir!
Now listen.
joe rogan
Well, that's when it was abolished in America.
Was that abolished all countries?
bryan callen
No, Britain abolished slavery, I believe, way earlier than America did.
So we were 1865. We were 1865. Another thing to remember is the United States has been a country with slavery longer than it's been a country without.
So that gives you an idea of how recent that is.
joe rogan
Stop and think about that.
That number, 1865, seems so recent now.
It used to, when I was a kid, it felt like it was forever ago.
bryan callen
Yeah, I know.
joe rogan
When I was like five years old and I thought about slavery, I thought about it as being like eons and eons in the past.
bryan callen
Do you know a book I just read?
What?
And it is, besides the Bible, arguably one of the most influential books ever written in the 19th century.
joe rogan
What?
bryan callen
Uncle Tom's Cabin.
unidentified
Whoa.
bryan callen
Yeah.
I realized I hadn't read it.
And, well, I mean, I think that it's Harriet Beecher Stowe, and I think the legend is that Lincoln said, so you're the little woman that wrote this book that started this great war.
Because she put this—she had never actually—she was from the North, but she interviewed fugitive slaves and people who, you know, who used to be.
And if you read that book, man, it put such a face on what slavery, the brutality, what it was really about in this country or anywhere where you could take a woman's child, an eight-year-old, and you'd get some money.
And it's the story where the slave trader goes, well, I'll buy the kid.
I could fetch a good price for him down south.
We'll take him when his mom ain't there.
Maybe have her go do a chore so when she comes back, you know.
Otherwise, it's all kinds of hemming and hawing.
And they had slave brokers who would come in and go, look, your plantation is in debt.
You've got to start selling some of your slaves.
Now, I'm not going to take those guys, but that woman, she's got those two healthy-looking boys.
And you would sell them.
And she could do nothing about it.
That was the reality.
And Uncle Tom's Cabin, controversial book because of the way they describe Uncle Tom as a simpleton and a Negro.
But I'll tell you what it did is she made you realize in technicolor with a human face just exactly how horrible it was.
And what happened to the women who would have to see their children sold in front of them and they couldn't do anything.
Blah, blah, blah.
joe rogan
That's not a blah, blah, blah.
bryan callen
It was, for many people, what galvanized the North to say, this is crazy.
Can't have slavery.
joe rogan
How crazy is it that that wasn't 200 years ago?
bryan callen
I know.
I know.
joe rogan
That wasn't even 200 years ago.
bryan callen
I know, man.
That's...
joe rogan
That's like, you know, that joke that I have about the president being, like, we became a nation in 1776. Yeah.
People lived to be 100. That's three people ago.
bryan callen
I know.
joe rogan
That's real.
bryan callen
Isn't that crazy?
It's real.
joe rogan
We are so...
bryan callen
We're infants.
joe rogan
We are infants and something...
We're in the process of this thing where we're figuring out life, what's fair, what's right, how to run shit...
And we're doing it based on this idea that someone had already got it dialed in.
Whether it's through the Constitution, or whether it's through the democratic system, or the educational system, all these different systems that we have.
They're perfect, and they're in place, and they're ready to rock, and they've been rock solid for generation after gen- Wait a minute, how long have they been around?
bryan callen
I know.
joe rogan
And you go, wait a minute, hold on.
That's it?
Oh, wow.
So what did they do before that?
When did they have the ability to print?
Okay, that was like, what, 500 years ago?
What was the fucking, when was the printing press made?
bryan callen
In the 1400s by Gutenberg.
But then it didn't really take it.
joe rogan
Imagine, bro, they were writing.
bryan callen
It didn't really take hold until the 16th century.
joe rogan
So imagine having everything you read, someone has to write with their fucking hand.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
You have no idea if it's correct.
bryan callen
Right.
joe rogan
You have no idea if they're telling the truth.
They're just writing it.
bryan callen
Yeah.
It's nuts.
joe rogan
For years and years and years.
That's probably the main reason why they probably had to establish higher schools of learning.
bryan callen
Well, the scribes...
joe rogan
Who's writing this?
Hold on.
What are you doing?
The stuff that you're writing, how do I know it's true?
What's your method?
bryan callen
Yeah.
joe rogan
Right?
bryan callen
Well, they would write down, and there were people that could write.
It was usually the priests.
And there's a book called How the Irish Saved Civilization.
unidentified
Whoa.
bryan callen
And it's about how the scribes, how the Irish priests wrote down all the knowledge.
They wrote it down in books and they carried it with them.
So it's like this whole story of how the libraries had to be painstakingly imitated.
And then the printing press in the 1400s, 1445 or whatever in Gutenberg, he was a watchmaker and invented this thing called the printing press.
And nobody really used it, but then people could disseminate ideas.
It was like the internet.
You have an idea and all of a sudden, instead of having one book for 50 miles, you could print out paper and make multiple copies and send them out.
unidentified
Damn.
bryan callen
And then all of a sudden a guy named Martin Luther goes, if I have the Bible, what do I need these corrupt priests for?
What do I need to be pledged allegiance to Rome?
joe rogan
I was just going to say that.
Martin Luther used to make those posters and put them up.
bryan callen
Yeah, the proclamations.
Yeah.
In Bitburg, Germany, I think.
But either way, this guy was...
joe rogan
Did you ever listen to the Dan Carlin series on that?
bryan callen
I didn't.
joe rogan
Oh my God, it's amazing.
bryan callen
Dan Carlin's great.
joe rogan
He explained Lutherism, explained the whole movement and how he got away with it because he had a high public standing so they didn't prosecute him or sue him.
They figured out a way to translate the Bible where other people could read it that couldn't speak Latin.
bryan callen
That's right.
joe rogan
They figured out a phonetic translation for it.
bryan callen
So if you have the Word of God, what do I need?
The Protestant...
The Catholic divide was about, essentially, wait a minute, I don't need to pledge allegiance to this giant institution called the Vatican with all the money and the costumes.
What if I just have the Bible and I do what Jesus said, because I can read it right here.
All of a sudden, now you're a Protestant.
joe rogan
That was what everybody was scared about.
I mean, it must have been the most horrific thing about...
The religious power back then.
Like, Rome had armies, right?
bryan callen
Yeah.
joe rogan
This was, like, when Genghis Khan was roaming the earth and running through Russia and Asia and Eurasia, Rome was like, they were thinking about going to battle with these people, the Mongols.
Like, Rome had armies.
The Pope had wives.
This was, like, really, in a lot of ways, was...
Almost, in an ancient way, like a similar position that the United States has now, in terms of the whole world.
bryan callen
I'm so high right now.
joe rogan
Yeah, of course you are.
bryan callen
I'm sorry, but what was that you gave me?
Because I only took one hit.
joe rogan
It's marijuana.
It's a blunt.
bryan callen
Why am I in a tunnel?
joe rogan
It's good.
It's good for you.
There's tobacco on the outside of it and marijuana on the inside.
bryan callen
Why is your head so beautifully shiny?
joe rogan
There's a beauty to it.
I'm going to be honest with you.
I use a moistener.
You do?
Moistener.
bryan callen
I got you a little nervous because you have a nice patina.
It looks like a bespoke shoe.
joe rogan
Like a nice shoe.
bryan callen
See how I bring it back?
Guys, see how I bring it back?
Complicated apes, guys.
unidentified
Seriously.
joe rogan
It's out now.
It's number one.
You can buy it for...
bryan callen
You can buy it everywhere.
joe rogan
Everywhere.
Amazon and shit.
bryan callen
Everywhere.
Wherever you get your content.
joe rogan
Wherever you get your joke jokes.
bryan callen
Wherever you get your funny.
joe rogan
There is a hundred million comedy specials out right now.
bryan callen
What?
No.
Almost.
joe rogan
I don't know what the number is, but I'm going to say it's 100 million.
Still a rare fraternity.
Yeah, it's a rare fraternity, but it's interesting how many of us there are today, as opposed to the days of yore.
bryan callen
My question is, how much material do these people really have?
joe rogan
Some of them.
Dude, you know who's goddamn hilarious right now is Sebastian.
Not that he's not always hilarious, but he's got some new material that he was doing at the Improv last night.
Oh, really?
Oh, my God.
Dude, he's so funny.
He's hilarious.
He's just got his own groove.
We were talking about Theo Vaughn earlier.
He and Theo, in my mind, they're very similar.
Their style's way different, their material's way different, but they have their own thing.
They have 100% their own thing.
Sebastian has his own thing.
bryan callen
It's like a music.
joe rogan
There's a rhythm to it.
And you love him, so you count on him reacting to these things in a certain way.
bryan callen
It's as unique as like, you know, Christopher Walken who's always, you know.
joe rogan
He's in his zone right now, you know.
Sebastian is in his zone.
Sold out four shows at Madison Square Garden.
Four sold-out seats.
bryan callen
That is amazing.
joe rogan
Four.
That's like 18,000 seats a show.
bryan callen
That's nuts.
joe rogan
Nuts, yeah.
bryan callen
It's gotta be some money.
joe rogan
He's a beast.
unidentified
Yeah, he is.
joe rogan
I'm sure there's money in it, but the point is he's in that sweet spot of his career.
bryan callen
Yeah.
joe rogan
That's why I love...
bryan callen
That's in a way why I still have faith in the American system.
He was a waiter for nine years.
joe rogan
Yeah.
bryan callen
Four seasons.
joe rogan
He's just a smart, easy-going dude who's easy to love.
Discipline.
bryan callen
That Italian, old-school Italian discipline, man.
joe rogan
Yeah, he's got a lot of that.
unidentified
Work.
Work.
joe rogan
He's so fun to watch on stage.
I don't want to say what he's talking about.
I don't want to ruin any of it because his stuff isn't even...
On paper, I would never do it justice.
bryan callen
You gotta have him.
joe rogan
You have to see him in front of you.
He's funny, man.
Same thing I say about Theo.
Theo is in this rare place right now.
He's on stage, and you just start smiling when you see him.
His hypnosis game is on point.
bryan callen
Oh, Theo's phenomenal.
I told him today on the podcast he did Better Than Kid.
I was like...
You're an original, man.
joe rogan
Yeah.
bryan callen
Stop beating yourself up.
He beats himself up.
joe rogan
Every comic does, bro.
unidentified
I know.
joe rogan
Every comic does.
I just stopped doing it at 52. With this Sam Harris app?
bryan callen
Nah, I just decided I got tired of...
I realized I've been doing my best and I got myself here.
joe rogan
Yeah.
bryan callen
I mean, you know.
joe rogan
Well, there's like a two thing going on, right?
There's two things simultaneously going on.
There's one that, you know, you want to do your best.
And so you look at everything you do and you go, I think I could have done that better.
God damn it, why did I do it like this?
Like, fuck, what is that about?
Like, what's this about?
Why did I do it like that?
Why don't I rework that?
Redo this?
But then there's the other part that has to be like, look, why are you doing this?
Are you doing this because you enjoy it?
Do you enjoy it?
Okay.
You're gonna feel gross about anything that doesn't work out well.
Everything that you do that doesn't work out well.
Just don't be a bitch about it.
Just get over it.
There's a certain self-indulgence involved in dwelling on your mistakes that it becomes almost like a self-pity thing.
There's a strength and a discipline in learning how to go, okay, I fucked up.
bryan callen
Did you ever read Martha Graham's letter?
The great...
Mother of Modern Dance.
She wrote a letter to Agnes DeMille.
joe rogan
What do you think when you ask me that question?
bryan callen
Well, it's just so timely.
joe rogan
The Mother of Modern Dance.
bryan callen
It's timely, though.
I believe it.
I'm sure.
joe rogan
But it's still funny.
bryan callen
I know.
Because I'm asking you about a fucking modern dance.
How do you know about this?
joe rogan
What is this woman's name again?
bryan callen
I'll show you.
Her name is Martha Graham.
She's the great...
It's like a really short letter, but she wrote this.
She was a great choreographer.
She created modern dance.
She was basically like, there's not just ballet.
How about just moving naturally and doing crazy shit?
Bring up Martha Graham.
She's...
At 80 she was dancing, but she's a giant.
She's an innovator.
She's a giant.
When you think of dance, she might be one of the most famous names ever in dance.
Okay, whatever.
But she wrote this letter, and I think you'll appreciate this.
It's really short.
There's a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time...
This expression is unique.
If you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and be lost.
The world will not have it, and it is not your business to determine how good it is, nor how valuable it is, nor how it compares with other expressions.
It's your business to keep it yours clearly and directly and keep the channel open.
You don't even have to believe in yourself or your work.
You have to keep open and aware directly of the urges that motivate you.
Keep the channel open.
No artist is pleased.
There is no satisfaction whatever at any time.
There is only a queer, divine dissatisfaction.
A blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.
joe rogan
Damn, that's beast shit.
bryan callen
How about that?
joe rogan
That's on the money.
Who is that woman?
bryan callen
That's her.
joe rogan
That's her?
bryan callen
She was doing this.
Nobody understood what this was.
joe rogan
Dude, will you send me that?
bryan callen
Yes.
joe rogan
Because I'm so high, I'm not going to remember it.
I'm not really into what she's doing here, but I appreciate her words.
I feel like you shouldn't have shown me this video.
bryan callen
No, this wasn't a time when they were only doing it.
She was doing the craziest shit.
joe rogan
This is how I dance if I really hurt my back.
And I was like...
unidentified
This is in like 1943, if I'm not mistaken.
joe rogan
Well, you know what, man?
Yeah, 1943. People were probably struggling then for freedom from the orthodoxy.
Struggling to express themselves in different ways.
You know, that's one of the more interesting things about stand-up is that it's indicative or it's...
It's representative of the time in which it's performed in.
Like, there are little windows in time to how people behaved and thought, and there was some shit that people did just 10, 15, 20 years ago that you just can't do now.
It's like, it's not possible.
It's not in the public's menu list anymore.
bryan callen
Right.
joe rogan
You know?
But back then, it was normal.
It's like, you can...
And some stuff just isn't funny anymore.
It's weird.
Like some of the Lenny Bruce stuff, man, he was, for the time, he was groundbreaking, right?
Nobody had seen anything like this before.
A guy who was talking straight and true about real social issues and making them funny on stage.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
Handsome looking Jewish fellow with beautiful hair.
And he just had a look.
bryan callen
He was disturbing.
His comedy shook people up.
joe rogan
Yeah, but there was no way that you and I can put ourselves back into the minds of people that lived in the 1950s when Lenny Bruce was doing this.
There's no way we could put ourselves there.
We're tainted forever by technology and innovation.
Interaction, I think, is the big one, right?
As soon as people start being able to exchange information with each other, whether it's through television and then through radio and television and television shows and then internet, the more they express themselves, the more they sort of figure out patterns of behavior that are acceptable.
bryan callen
Yeah, but I wonder at times whether or not, I think stand-up is having a renaissance, but like music and things, I don't think we're living in a time of genius, are we?
Or do I not know enough about music?
joe rogan
There's some great shit that's being made.
There's just so much that's being made.
Black Keys are always putting out great shit.
Gary Clark Jr. has an amazing new album.
It's amazing.
bryan callen
I love him.
joe rogan
It's so good.
He's got such a signature guitar sound, man.
His fucking guitar sound is like...
I love that style of...
You know, he's got...
He did a...
Him and Honey Honey did a show together one night in downtown LA. Damn.
And I recorded some of it and put it up on my Instagram.
And they were doing...
bryan callen
Oh, I saw that!
joe rogan
The Allman Brothers Midnight Rider.
bryan callen
Yeah.
joe rogan
See if you can find that.
It was...
bryan callen
Phenomenal.
joe rogan
It's crazy, man.
bryan callen
She was reading the lyrics off her phone, I think.
joe rogan
Yeah, she didn't even know the lyrics to the song.
She had to go and get it, and she was singing in real time while she's ringing.
bryan callen
Yeah, I saw that.
joe rogan
While she's reading, rather.
And so he's doing Midnight Rider, but he's doing it Gary Clark Jr. style.
unidentified
Damn.
joe rogan
It's fucking amazing.
One of the coolest things I've ever...
Here it is.
You see, that's like, that's his style, you know what I'm saying?
unidentified
He, Gary Clark, this song!
bryan callen
Ooh, look at that!
unidentified
Damn!
I mean, get the fuck out of here!
joe rogan
Damn it, this talented!
unidentified
Woo!
bryan callen
He's a killer, man.
You ever see Stevie Ray Vaughan do Voodoo Child?
There's a video of it?
joe rogan
I never saw him live, but I almost got to drive him live.
I drove Jeff Beck when I was a limo driver.
I almost got to drive Stevie Ray Vaughan.
I was thinking I was going to get to drive Stevie Ray Vaughan.
unidentified
Wow.
joe rogan
But he won't take limos.
He would only take cabs.
He wanted to talk to the cab drivers.
bryan callen
Really?
unidentified
Yep.
bryan callen
Man, the way he...
There's that video of that Voodoo Child.
joe rogan
All his people.
bryan callen
What he does with a guitar is just...
joe rogan
He was performing with Jeff Beck and all of his people were in the limos, man.
And he went in a fucking cab.
bryan callen
Damn!
Damn!
joe rogan
He was legit as fuck!
bryan callen
Special, man.
joe rogan
But what was crazy to me was that Gary Clark Jr., he Gary Clark Jr. that song while still having it be clearly that song.
bryan callen
So cool.
joe rogan
But it was like, damn!
bryan callen
That was so cool, man.
joe rogan
Dude, to be there live, and it was like 12 o'clock at night on a Tuesday in downtown LA. It was only maybe 100 people in the room.
And Suzanne, Suzanne Santo from Honey Honey, she's so talented, man.
bryan callen
She looks it.
joe rogan
The fact that she could read that, her voice is insane.
She's reading that off of her phone and singing it.
bryan callen
So crazy.
joe rogan
Yeah.
But Stevie Ray Vaughan, we can't put any of his music up.
They'll yank us off the fucking iTunes.
bryan callen
If I told you that you could trade a deep knowledge and practice of music over your knowledge of martial arts, would you take it right now?
joe rogan
Fuck no!
bryan callen
No?
joe rogan
No!
unidentified
Really?
joe rogan
Why would I do that?
That's ridiculous.
bryan callen
You would rather be a great fighter than an amazing guitarist?
joe rogan
Yes!
bryan callen
I don't know how I feel about that.
joe rogan
I love the art.
I don't have to make it.
I can't play at all, and I'll listen to Gary all day.
I made this podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience, because of my obsession with Jimi Hendrix.
That's why I did it.
I stole it from Jimi Hendrix.
I love music, but I don't have any talent.
I got none.
No desire, nothing.
You don't have to fucking make movies, man.
You don't have to be a painter.
Taylor Boss made this Mitzi.
Look at that.
Watch over us in the studio.
I don't have to paint.
bryan callen
You can paint.
I agree.
Find a thing you really like to do.
You can outsource it.
joe rogan
I'm not giving up martial arts for nothing.
bryan callen
No?
joe rogan
No way.
No, it helps me so much.
It's so important for me just to have the ability to get out 100% of aggression Be able to hit a bag and just get into a flow, smoke a joint, and then hit a bag.
You ever do that?
I could never.
bryan callen
I'm so high right now, the last thing I'd want to do is punch somebody.
jamie vernon
You might be interested in day two of the 50th anniversary of the Woodstock.
Did you hear that they're doing it, first of all?
joe rogan
No, what are they doing?
jamie vernon
Well, the lineup just got announced, and day two has got Gary Clark, Sturgill, and the Black Keys.
joe rogan
Holy shit!
jamie vernon
And David Crosby.
joe rogan
And Chance the Rapper.
jamie vernon
Yeah, and Grateful Dead.
joe rogan
Oh my god.
jamie vernon
John Mayer, who knows.
joe rogan
Jesus.
Wow.
That's a fucking lineup right there, son.
Sturgill Simpson and the Black Keys.
That's two of my top ten.
There's so much music.
What's amazing about music, man, is that they're still making it.
It's like everyone's still making music.
So it's not like the database just gets bigger.
It's not like stuff goes away.
You bring back old Donna Summer shit, you know?
Like, dude, I have...
What is that?
unidentified
Sitting here eating my heart out, baby.
bryan callen
Waiting for some weather to come.
joe rogan
What song is that?
bryan callen
I think it's Nowhere to Run.
joe rogan
No, I don't think you're right.
I got some playlists here.
bryan callen
I think it is.
joe rogan
Okay, Allman Brothers or James Brown.
You go back in time when you listen to that.
You listen to a James Brown song, it's not just that you're listening to James Brown.
You're listening to a time capsule from 1963 or whatever it was.
bryan callen
He's so astonishing.
James Brown?
joe rogan
He was amazing.
bryan callen
When I hear Zeppelin and I hear James Brown, I never lose my shock at how good they were, how unique they were.
joe rogan
Yeah, no, Zeppelin was incredible.
The only thing that taints Zeppelin is the allegations of plagiarism, which seem to be totally true.
bryan callen
I know, I've heard the songs.
You can do the side-by-side where you're like, damn, you stole those riffs.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's rough.
It's unfortunate, because the end result is fucking incredible.
bryan callen
You're still so great.
joe rogan
The Immigrant song, one of the best workout songs of all time.
bryan callen
I know.
So crazy.
unidentified
We come from the land of the ice and snow, the midnight sun and the hot springs blow.
bryan callen
Hammer of the gods.
jamie vernon
How much credit should they have?
I'm not trying to disparage it at all, but they should get a lot of credit for how good they made those songs.
bryan callen
Oh, they were still the greatest.
They were the definitive heavy metal bands.
joe rogan
They're so good.
There's no doubt that they're so good.
See, the thing is, every song, I don't know how every band does it.
Every song is probably constructed differently, but in a lot of cases, there's a lot of people contributing to the song.
The drummer has an idea, and the singer has an idea, and the guitar player has these riffs he's trying out, and they're trying to figure out the best way to do the song.
It's a collaborative effort.
It's no doubt that the collaboration was fucking phenomenal.
The question is, was it consensual?
Like, how many of these people were collaborating and didn't know it?
So that's what happens if you're plagiarizing.
It seems like it's okay.
And, you know, maybe they just thought that band's gonna go away and no one's gonna care about them anymore because we're a lead motherfucking Zeppelin.
That's possible, too.
Because before the internet, that kind of would have been the case.
You know, no one...
bryan callen
I do think you still are taking something that doesn't belong to you.
joe rogan
You definitely are.
bryan callen
And so, in my opinion, you have to buy that from the person...
joe rogan
Yes.
bryan callen
Or give them credit.
joe rogan
Yes.
But there's no way you can discount the fact that they were motherfuckers when they were on top.
When Robert Plant would stand on that fucking stage with his shirt open, I mean, it's one of the weirdest things.
Think about that change in history, right?
Go from 1950...
To 1969. Go 19 years and you see, you go from people that look like Hank Williams Sr. To a guy, Robert Plant, who apparently was wearing the blouses or dresses or t-shirts that the girl he had the night before had worn.
bryan callen
Do you know that?
joe rogan
That's what he'd wear on stage?
bryan callen
That's correct, sir.
That's what I hear.
joe rogan
He probably fucked his way through the planet.
bryan callen
Bring up his shirts.
He always wore girl shirts that were too small for him.
joe rogan
Well, and you can always see his hog in his pants.
bryan callen
Yeah.
joe rogan
He always had his hog pressed to the side.
bryan callen
Yeah.
Every heavy metal band in the 80s, Poison, you name it, whatever, Motley Crue, they all had a blonde lead singer with a high voice!
That was because their hero was Mr. Robert Plant.
joe rogan
No, he was a beast, dude.
bryan callen
There he's wearing a girl's shirt.
joe rogan
Oh my god, that's amazing.
bryan callen
Yeah.
joe rogan
That's amazing.
That shirt barely fits him.
bryan callen
Damn right.
So many of those pictures where he was wearing.
joe rogan
What a crazy life that guy led.
bryan callen
Yes, sir.
Look at that one.
joe rogan
That's his shirt, too.
I don't think any one of us will ever be able to understand.
Even if you became like the new Led Zeppelin, you'll never understand what it's like to be Led Zeppelin.
bryan callen
In the 70s?
joe rogan
Yeah, in the 70s.
bryan callen
What?
joe rogan
Like, imagine if you today became the new giganto fucking multi-country rock band.
bryan callen
Doesn't matter.
Too many people watching you.
joe rogan
Well, it's not just that.
Too many people watching you, and there's a lot of you.
You gotta think back when Robert Plant was Robert Plant.
bryan callen
You were the royalty.
You were literally like a king.
joe rogan
Yeah, you had The Who.
You had Rolling Stones.
You had Elton John.
You had people.
You had people.
But maybe you had 30. Yeah.
You might have had 30. Yeah.
30 big name artists.
Maybe.
bryan callen
But it's true.
joe rogan
Maybe a hundred.
Let's get crazy.
Say it's a hundred.
bryan callen
You got Pink Floyd.
You got The Who.
When you think about the Beatles, obviously.
joe rogan
ACDC. Yeah.
Yeah, you got all sorts of shit.
You got a lot going on back then.
Of course, you have Hendrix.
bryan callen
Joplin.
joe rogan
Chance Joplin.
bryan callen
The Doors.
joe rogan
Yeah, man.
You got a lot of shit.
And then you got the weird ones.
The Mamas and the Papas.
bryan callen
Amazing band.
joe rogan
Wasn't there some weird shit that went on with that family?
bryan callen
Well, yeah, but also heroin and cocaine kind of killed all that whole music scene.
joe rogan
Yeah, there's a lot of that.
bryan callen
That's the problem.
joe rogan
It sort of starts it up and then it poisons it.
bryan callen
Well, psychedelics and weed, probably good for your music.
When you get into cocaine and heroin, it's not going to happen.
Your music's going to die.
joe rogan
You know, I get it that it's bad for you.
But I think it can't be a coincidence that so many people that love heroin made amazing music.
bryan callen
Beforehand, though.
joe rogan
Beforehand?
bryan callen
Yeah, look at Lou Reed.
Any of them who got into heroin, their music stopped.
Lou Reed was always...
Even Hendrix and Jim Morrison.
I mean, a lot of the songs that Hendrix was writing, he died at 27. So that was a relatively...
His musical development, I think, was done less with maybe psychedelics, but I don't think heroin played a factor until later on in his life.
joe rogan
It's hard to say.
I mean, I don't know.
I know he was arrested in Toronto with heroin.
I don't know the whole history of his...
I don't...
bryan callen
By that time, he was already so famous.
He had already written those songs that got him there, you know?
joe rogan
Maybe.
I mean, I don't know when he started using heroin or why.
bryan callen
I don't think heroin makes you more artistic or more successful at all.
But I think what happens is you have very talented people that have a substance abuse problem.
That's what Stephen King said.
He said, I'm a great writer, but I don't remember writing Cujo.
Yeah, my alcohol didn't make me a better writer I'm a really imaginative talented writer who happens to have a substance abuse problem and I get rid of it Yes, and no Yes and no.
joe rogan
Because yes, he is unbelievably talented.
Yes, he's an amazing writer.
He's one of my personal favorites.
I mean, I probably read more Stephen King books than any other fiction author.
But the stuff that he wrote when he was doing drugs was hardcore shit.
He wrote The Shining and Cujo and The Tommyknockers.
bryan callen
The Shining was one of the best.
joe rogan
He wrote all sorts of wicked books, man, where there's just evil intentions and ruthless actions and shocking scenes.
And the fact—was it a coincidence he was doing coke?
Just a coincidence he was drunk and doing coke?
bryan callen
No, I don't think that's what wrote the books, though.
joe rogan
I think what happened was— No one's saying that.
Look, vitamin C doesn't make a person.
bryan callen
Right.
joe rogan
These are tools to squeeze the most out of your imagination while suppressing any sort of societal...
Handcuffs you might have put on yourself because of the horrific notions.
He would say things in his book where you would go, whoa.
You would have to take a step back.
What kind of fucking person thinks this up?
I'll tell you what kind of person.
A guy who's drunk as fuck doing coke.
Who's also a great writer.
It's not that he's not capable of writing that stuff and digging it to his...
I'm not saying that.
I think he probably could have achieved the exact same results on The Natch.
Because he's Steven Motherfucker.
bryan callen
He might have focused his mind for...
joe rogan
It's also possible that that stuff is rocket fuel.
It's rocket fuel for your physical energy, your anger, your moods, your inhibitions dissolve, and it might open up the pathway to that forbidden door of demon rape that you didn't want to get to.
And that becomes the best scene in a Stephen King book.
bryan callen
It gives you courage.
Oh, what the hell's that?
joe rogan
Pet Sematary.
jamie vernon
It just came out.
joe rogan
What is it?
jamie vernon
They just brought up, they remade it.
joe rogan
Oh, no way!
jamie vernon
It just came out this weekend, or last week or something.
No way!
It comes out in a week or two, yeah.
joe rogan
Is it a comedy?
jamie vernon
No, definitely not.
I heard it's really good.
joe rogan
Really?
jamie vernon
Yeah.
joe rogan
Oh, John Lithgow's there.
bryan callen
I gotta go, kids.
joe rogan
That guy's always good.
You gotta go?
bryan callen
I gotta go meet my family.
joe rogan
Let's close it down, Brian Gallen.
bryan callen
Joe Rogan, thanks for getting me.
Way too high to move.
joe rogan
Thank you for having the number one comedy special on the planet Earth.
bryan callen
Something like that.
Somebody told me that.
joe rogan
I think I saw it.
bryan callen
All right, good.
joe rogan
I saw it myself.
bryan callen
Complicated Apes.
joe rogan
Yeah.
bryan callen
Come see me this weekend.
joe rogan
Where are you at again?
bryan callen
Kansas City Improv.
joe rogan
Kansas City Improv.
bryan callen
Friday, Saturday.
joe rogan
That's a great club.
bryan callen
Yeah, I hope I'm not still high.
I don't know what you put in this stuff.
joe rogan
You will be.
There it is.
bryan callen
There it is.
Look at that, you guys.
joe rogan
Brian Callan, Complicated Apes.
bryan callen
Because that's what we are.
joe rogan
Indeed.
All right, sir.
Thank you very much.
Love you.
Always good to hang with you.
We should do this more often.
We always say that.
bryan callen
Always a blast.
joe rogan
We're doing it like every couple months now, right?
Yeah.
Jamie, when was the last time?
jamie vernon
Just Brian?
unidentified
Yeah.
jamie vernon
It's been a while for just Brian.
joe rogan
How much?
jamie vernon
I don't know.
Six months?
bryan callen
No.
Two years?
unidentified
Two years.
jamie vernon
Might have been a year or two, yeah.
joe rogan
Dude, time's flying too quickly.
bryan callen
I know.
It's crazy.
joe rogan
Let's do it every few months.
bryan callen
Thank you.
joe rogan
You and me.
Every few months.
bryan callen
Thank you.
I'm down.
unidentified
All right.
bryan callen
Please.
joe rogan
Thank you.
bryan callen
Bye.
joe rogan
Bye, everybody.
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