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June 21, 2019 - The Joe Rogan Experience
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Swapcast - Podcast On A Plane with John Dudley (Audio Only)
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john dudley
And we're rolling.
Cheers.
Cheers.
That's only part of a cat lady.
I mean, obviously.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's just the one.
Well, it's the critical part.
john dudley
It is.
It is.
joe rogan
Without the red wine, the cat lady is not that ridiculous.
Right?
It's just red wine.
It's like tequila and Red Bull.
john dudley
Yep.
joe rogan
That's normal.
I mean, that's like Red Bull and vodka.
It's not too crazy.
john dudley
Yeah.
joe rogan
You pour the red wine in there, and you're like, what are we doing?
john dudley
Now you're just desperate.
Now you're just like everyone shows up to a party with what they found in their parents' refrigerator.
joe rogan
Yeah.
john dudley
And then the cat lady appears.
joe rogan
Have you ever made one of those since then?
john dudley
Yeah, a lot.
I turn people on to it all the time.
joe rogan
That day was so ridiculous.
john dudley
I've gone into bars where people recognize me, and then the waitress comes over and says, the bartender would like to give you this Cat Lady.
And I'm like, what?
joe rogan
For people who don't know what we're talking about, the Cat Lady was a drink that John invented.
Two years ago in Lanai.
Two years ago?
john dudley
Yeah, I think it was two years ago.
joe rogan
Not last year, the year before that.
Two years ago.
And it was Shane Dorian, Sam Soholt, Ben O'Brien, John.
john dudley
Remy had left.
joe rogan
Yeah, Remy had left.
john dudley
He didn't get to enjoy it.
That was the first.
joe rogan
We did a podcast in my suite and we just went into the minibar and we just grabbed everything.
john dudley
I don't know about this wee stuff, you came with a full bear hug of just, I could hear clanging happening, and you just dropped it in the middle of the table.
joe rogan
Like, this is what we got.
unidentified
Yep, you're like, hey, let's podcast, and that's where it all started.
john dudley
By the end, I just was kind of grabbing, I think I was consuming more than most, so I was just reaching around, trying to take whatever was left, and then you're like, what the hell are you pouring?
joe rogan
So that was our first year doing this trip, and this year was our third.
And man, it is...
First of all, it's an awesome place to get ready for elk.
john dudley
I think to get ready for anything.
joe rogan
Anything.
john dudley
If you can successfully...
Especially if someone's...
Wong and No, like, where they rate.
I remember last year when I elk hunted with Andy, I told Andy when we were in Montana that this time I'm going to be limited on how much I can hunt with you.
Like, we'll both go opposite directions.
And then after, I think, two days, Andy said, okay, I realize now how much of my success before was...
Hinging on you navigating me in these like small moments that I didn't really realize how important they were.
And I think if you can come here and if you can do you, like if your guide can get you close, but then you just say, I'm going to test only myself from here in, like from the 250 yard mark in, if you can get it done on an axis here, you can get anything done.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's black belt bow hunting skills.
Yeah, I think that's black belt skills.
Especially if you're taking a long shot and you manage to crawl into place.
Because a lot of it is crawling.
If you plan on coming out here, folks, bring some knee pads.
Luckily, our Sitka gear pants have built-in knee pads, which are excellent.
But if you use a different kind of camo, first of all, you shouldn't.
Second of all, if you do use a different kind of camo, better get some knee pads.
john dudley
Just the pattern itself looked amazing.
joe rogan
Amazing.
john dudley
Like when we were glassing across, when I would glass and look at you, or when I'd look back, you blend it.
I mean, it worked really well.
joe rogan
It worked great everywhere.
john dudley
The Subalpine is the bomb.
joe rogan
It's the bomb.
I've used a lot of different camo, trying different stuff out.
And, you know, I really love First Light.
They make good stuff.
But Sitka's the best.
They're the best.
They just take everything above and beyond.
Everything is one step better.
john dudley
You know what's funny?
They won't come out and publicly say that subalpine is effective for, like, whitetail or turkeys, because the gore...
The gore methology...
I don't know if I said that right, but...
They have a protocol of having their tests to prove things or be able to make a statement are very vigorous for gore.
So because they've never truly tested subalpine to a turkey's vision, they won't come out publicly say that it's effective for turkeys, even though I can tell you it definitely is.
Early season whitetails.
Midway through the season for whitetails, 100% effective.
But what it was truly tested for was sub-alpine.
It was like tested for hunting big game.
And so they'll say that.
But I can tell you if there's any type of foliage that has a hint of green in it, it is effective.
joe rogan
It just breaks everything up so good.
Like when we were at Utah hunting elk, we just blend right in.
john dudley
I would look back a few times and I couldn't tell where you were.
Even in those poplars where there was some white and black speckle, it looked amazing.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's a perfect breakup pattern.
You don't see the human form.
john dudley
For here, what matters most is movement and, I guess, what the environment...
Ha ha!
Now we have something a little different.
joe rogan
Margarita.
john dudley
Yep, that'll work.
joe rogan
Yeah, the movement is big, but I became an even bigger believer in the hex suit while I was here.
When we had that bird fly by and just land right behind us, I was like, dude, what is wrong with this bird?
He had no idea we were there.
john dudley
Yeah, he was right in our business.
joe rogan
Yeah, we were just sitting there, and this bird just flew by and landed right next to us.
We started tweeting away.
Let us know.
john dudley
I think you said, you go, what's this thing doing?
And I just looked at you, I'm like, that's what things do at the Hex.
Squirrels jump on my shoulders.
Birds, like, try to land on me.
What'll wig you out is when owls...
When I'm in a whitetail stand, and owls will come in and be like cupped, going to land on your shoulder.
If it's a small bird, I'll let them do it.
If it's a squirrel, I'm like, get on there, dude.
I'll do that.
When it's got talons, I'm like, whoa!
Back off, bro.
But I've had several owls just kind of come flying in.
They cup up, and they're just going to land on my shoulder.
And I have to just...
Wimp out.
joe rogan
So the hex suit, for people who don't know, H-E-C-S, the hex suit breaks up, it blocks your electrical signal, right?
The electromagnetic signal that your body gives off.
john dudley
Yep, yep.
joe rogan
And it's been proven to work on fish, and it's been proven to work on what other animals?
john dudley
Fish is tested for sure, birds for sure, because migratory birds have had tons of like, I think, I shouldn't say federal, but like granted tests to track migratory birds and how they see.
And it's proven that birds do see in electronic fields.
So for birds, they say that it's incredibly effective because that's why they've got all that footage, being able to crawl out on geese and people shooting turkeys from just sitting next to nothing, just being able to do it.
For those, it's really important that your hands and your face mask and everything are fully covered with the hex.
Honestly, I'm going with the major muscle groups for my stuff.
I wear the top and the bottom for small game and big game.
I'm a believer, man.
joe rogan
Some people are still skeptical though, right?
unidentified
Yeah.
john dudley
I mean, you know, some people say, hey, you know, it seems like you're selling snake oil.
And I'm like, I get it.
I get it.
You know, I understand what you're saying.
All I can tell you is like, with bears, they're predatory animals.
With bears, my encounters with them has just been weird, you know, how well it works.
But then if my camera guy doesn't have it, it seems like I'm picked off more.
So I definitely feel like when I've been in my one-on-one situations and I'm fully clothed in it, I wear it all the time.
I mean, I guess it'd be easy for me not to, but I always do.
I mean, I'm a believer in it for sure.
joe rogan
Yeah, I became more of a believer this trip.
I felt like there was too many moments, too, where deer were staring at us.
And they just didn't know what the hell we were.
Whereas some of the times in the past, when I wasn't wearing it...
The same sort of situation, the deer would start blowing, and then they would take off.
They'd take off.
They'd make that crazy barking noise, and they took off.
john dudley
When we got up to your deer, and we're kind of his final resting place where we took pictures and stuff, Did you ever look back to the tree that we were, for those of you who want to know, we're actually on our flight back.
This is a flight podcast.
Everyone around us is like, what's going on?
No, we're just podcasting folks.
Did you look back at that tree and see how small that tree really was?
joe rogan
Yeah, pretty small.
john dudley
Imagine me and Joe Rogan tucked up next to kind of a bonsai tree.
joe rogan
And we had to crawl about 80, 90 yards to get to it.
john dudley
80 or 90 yards crawling and we get to this tree.
And I kind of grab the base of the tree, and I'm trying to shimmy up the tree just enough.
And I figured there was going to be a few axis there, and that's the thing with axis.
When they're bedded, you might see one or two that's standing up at the time.
But once I got there, I look back at you, and I'm giving the signal like, dude, don't crawl, but on your belly, scoot.
Just use your fingertips and your nails and pull yourself to me.
Because our cover was probably only two feet tall, and with you with the backpack on, that was about all you could spare, was just laying flat to your stomach and crawl up to me.
And then you got behind me and used me as a blocker to come up.
And how many deer were within 80 yards of us?
joe rogan
It was a lot.
It was a lot.
john dudley
They were everywhere.
joe rogan
When I shot the deer, that's when we really realized how many there were.
john dudley
Oh, geez.
joe rogan
Because a lot of them popped up.
john dudley
Yeah.
Tons.
joe rogan
It was pretty crazy.
john dudley
So let's talk about your shot first.
joe rogan
Yeah.
john dudley
Because that was, honestly, that was the highlight of the whole trip for me, was just hearing that sound.
We had the sun hard at our back.
I couldn't really see.
I was trying to film, so I couldn't really see where your arrow went.
I just could see...
I could see that broadhead right past my shoulder, and I was looking at the tip of your broadhead and seeing how still it was.
I was referencing it on something that was behind it, and you were just stable, and I could see your broadhead coming back, back, back, back on the rest.
So I knew you were just pulling on that silverback just slow and sweet.
And as soon as I heard it go, I just looked right at the axis, and I heard that sound that just...
I knew it had found the honey spot.
joe rogan
Well, I committed 100% to the Silverback last year when I hunted here.
I was using a thumb trigger, which is great, but these deer are so skittish and these moments are so adrenaline filled.
I felt like I made a decision.
I'm like, look, I shoot super accurate with the silverback.
Why won't I hunt with it?
Like, what am I thinking?
Am I thinking that I need to make it go off quick?
Like, what am I thinking?
I'm just going to go to 100% silverback.
And I'm super glad that I did because I shot my elk last year in Utah with a silverback.
I shot that amazing elk at Tejon Ranch, which is like the furthest I've ever shot an animal.
75 yards, perfect shot in the heart.
I practice with a silverback.
I don't practice with anything else.
Sometimes I'll practice with a knock to it but I use a silverback so much I don't even think about punching the trigger.
I don't even think about it.
I just put my thumb there and I pull through it the same way I do with a silverback.
john dudley
That's how it is.
People don't realize that there's this window when you have one thing that you really like and you feel comfortable with and you feel like you have control over, which let's just say it's the knock to it, or an index finger wrist strap release.
And then, yeah, you learn with the silverback and you realize, okay, this is a good training aid.
And you're kind of afraid to lose that last little bit of control that you have.
But there's that window that if you can push through that, you forget about that feeling.
And you just realize, you almost realize there is no other option.
This is just what I shoot with.
This is all I use every day.
joe rogan
Plus, I can make it go off in a second or two seconds.
john dudley
Once you learn it, right?
joe rogan
It's all in the scapula.
It's all in that...
john dudley
Preload.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's all in that muscle in the middle of the back, the rhomboids.
It's all in that.
And I shoot with it so much.
You know, I have that archery range at my studio, and I'm just constantly shooting.
I get there before work, I shoot.
After work, I shoot.
We're just constantly shooting, constantly shooting with that thing.
So my body knows exactly what to do.
That was one of the most satisfying things about this trip.
Like, even the shots that I missed, and I missed a couple shots because these animals are so fast.
And we took some, you know, long shots.
One of them was 80-something yards, and the arrow was perfectly on track for the boiler room.
unidentified
It was.
joe rogan
But that thing saw the arrow or heard the arrow and just like, boink, see ya!
They're so fast.
john dudley
The one thing that's different with Axis is...
I don't think Axis try to locate a sound and then decide whether or not that sound is dangerous or not.
With most animals, what I found is the first reaction is to pinpoint where a foreign sound came from.
And once they're locked onto that, if there's anything following that, then now they kind of react like a fight or flight thing.
So I've had, and I can see this a lot in video footage, like with elk where they'll hear the bow and they'll turn and look to where a bow went off, but if they don't hear something coming, they just stand there and the arrow comes in.
And I really feel like that with the four-fledged setups we have, I feel like the arrows are quieter than what we've shot in the past, personally.
joe rogan
Well, definitely the one I shot last year.
Because last year here, I was trying to use a fixed blade.
And it was a fixed blade with some holes in it.
john dudley
Yeah.
joe rogan
And it was like a whistle of death.
unidentified
It was like...
john dudley
Well, on some of those longer shots, the deer would turn, but you could see them look up, like on the footage.
These, they didn't do that.
They just looked our way.
They never looked up to, like, that sound that they could hear coming in.
So that's why I think the projectile was good.
But these things are just, they're keyed in.
And we talked to our buddies Sloan from Yeti and Cole Kramer.
We're over on the main island hunting Axis II. They're on Maui.
Oh yeah, they're on Maui.
Hunting Axis, and I asked them how they were doing, and they're like, dude, shot a few does, missed a few, lost a few.
These things are just crazy how fast they react and move.
And you say it's just, you think it's from tigers.
joe rogan
Yeah, they evolved to get away from tigers.
john dudley
It's probably what it is.
joe rogan
Yeah, they're from India.
They were given to King Kamehameha, I think in the 1800s, but they're just an insanely fast animal.
They're so much faster.
You think of mule deer as being fast.
Mule deer are drunk and on pills compared to these things.
Really, they're so slow.
john dudley
I think these are as fast as a highly pressured South Texas whitetail that's coming to a feeder that's kind of like twitching the whole time it's there.
And you kind of have to aim.
I got to the point where when I was out with Cam, Cam asked me where I aimed.
I said, dude, my pin was sitting...
In the corner pocket of the leg and the body.
Like, I literally...
Every time I drew back, I put the pin I wanted on the back of its front leg.
I followed that back leg up until it touched the bottom of the body, and I was pulling right there.
I was pulling on my trigger in a place where my pin...
If the arrow hit exactly behind the pin, it would have just shaved hair off its armpit, but that's not where any of the arrows hit.
They were all ducking and turning, and I feel like they're moving at least four inches down, possibly more.
Yeah.
Turning away.
It seems like they duck and spin out, like that's their move.
Pick the feet up and like rotate 180 degrees.
joe rogan
Yeah.
john dudley
You agree?
joe rogan
Yeah, 100%.
john dudley
They're never like darting forward.
joe rogan
That's why I think that this is the perfect place to show how effective a rage is.
The perfect place to show how effective a large cutting surface arrow is or broadhead is.
john dudley
Yep.
The benefits of it.
joe rogan
Giant.
john dudley
Because if you have the variable of...
Not knowing 100% where that arrow could hit, you know you're going to be within an area or a kill zone.
Possibly, depending on how fast it's reacting, it might be a little bit outside of that.
The more damage, the better off you are, as long as you're able to still get some penetration.
And Cam said, too, on the last podcast, he's like, hey man...
I definitely see where there's an application for this.
joe rogan
Yeah, and he's a fixed blade fiend.
john dudley
Do you think you would have got your deer if you would have been shooting a fixed blade head?
joe rogan
It's hard to say.
I mean, it's hard to say.
You know, I think fixed blades, many of them, especially vented ones, they're louder too.
john dudley
Yeah.
joe rogan
That's a factor as well.
john dudley
Yeah, could have.
Nothing really knew what had happened with your shot.
I mean, there was a lot of deer there, and it was like, and then that deer ran off.
And that thing had to have been completely expired within...
Three seconds, would it be fair?
joe rogan
Yeah, it sprinted as far as it could get.
It was like 50 yards, which, when you see how fast an axis runs, 50 yards is not very long, and it was dead.
john dudley
Seconds.
And done.
And everything else was just looking around like, what happened?
What happened?
joe rogan
Yeah, I mean, I had a second shot.
I tried to get a second shot on another deer at 70 yards, and that deer ducked the string.
john dudley
Yeah, because then they were all alert.
They were all like, they knew what was up.
You shot the RX-3.
joe rogan
Love it.
First of all, it's so quiet.
It's so quiet.
john dudley
Definitely quieter than an RX-1.
joe rogan
Yeah, which I loved.
I loved the RX-1, but this is better.
I mean, those Hoyt engineers, man, they know what they're doing.
This thing is super quiet and super accurate.
john dudley
Did Cam shoot an RX or did he shoot a Helix?
unidentified
He shot the Helix.
john dudley
Okay, that's right.
I forgot which one he was shooting.
I shot the Helix too.
I'm going to switch back to an RX3, I think, for elk season.
People ask me all the time why one over the other.
I like to shoot them all because I know people have different price ranges.
I don't think one's more accurate than the other.
I really like the fact that I can change my grips out on my aluminum riser.
If I was honest, I would say I would like it if Hoyt went back to what they used to do on the carbon risers.
joe rogan
Why did they do that?
john dudley
They wanted you to be able to have the ability to shift the new grip left or right, depending on how your natural grip is turning the bow so that you can adjust it to have perfect alignment of the arrow down the center shot of the riser.
For you, because obviously we've been shooting together for years, you don't have natural torque in your front hand, so I didn't have to shift it anyway.
Your arrow and everything is lined up right down the pipe, like right down the stabilizer.
Your pin sits right on the outside edge of your shaft.
You don't have any torque in the riser at all.
You don't even need to move it.
But I think some people have a natural ability to kind of grab the handle.
So they wanted you to be able to remove that screw, lift the grip off, and you can move this aluminum plate left or right underneath the plastic grip to kind of compensate for your natural torque.
Personally, I'd rather just not have the torque.
joe rogan
Yeah, learn how to not shoot that way.
That's probably better.
john dudley
Yeah, it's like a band-aid.
joe rogan
But I did love those knock-on elk plates.
I love those.
I love the way it feels in the hand, too.
It's extra grippy, even when you're sweaty.
It feels like it really sits in your hand well.
john dudley
I've always said less riser in your hand is better.
Less in your hand gives you less ability to torque what you're holding onto.
Is it the same for pool cues?
joe rogan
It depends.
Some people like a thin grip pool cue and that's what they prefer.
I have big hands and I like a fat grip pool cue because there's less movement in my hand.
When I hold a pool cue, when it's sitting in my hand, I want my hand to be, like, just dead.
I don't ever want to, I don't grip the cue.
unidentified
Really?
joe rogan
I don't, like, have a death grip.
john dudley
So your elbow is almost like an upside-down pendulum.
joe rogan
My cue sits on, like, you know when Spider-Man hits his web?
Those two fingers where Spider-Man uses, that's how I hold my cue.
My cue sits on those fingers.
Never noticed.
So the idea is that it's just like you're almost throwing the cue at the ball.
So you're throwing the cue at the cue ball so that you're kind of like letting the weight of the cue and the swing of the arm do the work.
You're not death gripping it and jerking it and punching it.
You don't ever want to punch the cue ball.
john dudley
Yeah, like me.
joe rogan
You want to be relaxed.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
The whole idea is to be relaxed.
When I'm playing at my very best, I'm barely gripping the cue, and I'm letting the natural texture of the wrap sit in my hand.
And that's one of the reasons why a lot of times I like to use a rapless cue, which is just wood with, you know, an enamel or, I mean, some lacquer cover on it.
And then I put beeswax on the lacquer.
And that's my favorite, because it just sits in the hand, it's tacky, and I don't have to grip it at all.
And I just let the cue do all the work.
And it's like the more you can relax, and the more I play, like I play for a few hours, then I get real relaxed.
And then I can really just sort of like gently move my arm and let the cue stick move the cue ball and do all the work.
john dudley
You're the same with archery.
Me, it's like I can come out of the gate and feel really relaxed and feel effortless as I shoot.
And then as I fatigue, I obviously feel like I'm putting more effort in.
When I'm ready to pack up, you're just starting to loosen up.
And it's the same with pool.
You can play pool forever.
I mean, I've had to just be like, hey, dude, I'm done.
You're like, I'm just getting loosened up.
joe rogan
Yeah, I get loosened up about eight hours in.
john dudley
With Poole, the guys that look like they're not putting any effort in, is that when they're...
With archery, when guys look super comfortable, like, you almost feel like the bow isn't real.
You watch them, you look at them at full draw and you realize...
It doesn't even look like they're holding 60 pounds.
Everything is in line.
Everything is efficient.
joe rogan
They look effortless.
john dudley
Is it the same with Poole?
joe rogan
Exactly the same.
When you see someone tighten up from nerves, you see their hand grip the cue different, and you see movement.
You see the cue goes a little bit left, a little bit right.
They put unnecessary and accidental English on the cue ball.
Yeah, it's one of those things where the more you can stay calm, the more you can relax and rely on technique.
That's one of the reasons why archery is so attractive to me because there's so many parallels with pool.
So many.
And martial arts as well.
john dudley
One thing you said the other day that I really, really liked, and I don't know how we got on the subject.
It might have been yesterday, but we were talking about how sometimes in sport, for me, it always seems easy to forget the basics.
All of a sudden, I'll be coaching someone new or something, and I realize they're asking this question, and it's like, Oh man, yeah, I'm taking for granted this basic.
But for you, you said with comedy you never do that, which I think has to make you better at it.
And actually with my school of knock, what I do to myself every year in December...
Every year in December, I'm like, okay, whatever I've done this past year doesn't matter.
I'm going to wipe the slate clean.
I'm going to start with shooting enough arrows to where I can build some stamina practicing.
And then I'm just going to focus on my fundamentals one week at a time to try to back up.
It's not going back as far in the basics as I think what you were talking about.
But it's still a really cool...
Like, training aspect, isn't it?
joe rogan
Yeah.
Well, what we're talking about, what you're saying is, every two years I write a whole new act.
And I start, I'm like a beginner again.
I'm a beginner who knows how to do comedy, but I don't have any new material.
My material is, or I don't have any old material.
My material is all new.
So I have to figure out how to make it work.
And all these people are paying to see me.
So I have to work really hard at it.
So I can't be lazy and I can't take it for granted.
And it's like I become almost like a beginner again every two years.
john dudley
Every year lately because of the Netflix special.
joe rogan
Yeah, well, it's two years in between specials.
Every special, I did one in 2014, 2016, 2018. So I'm on like a two-year schedule, which seems to me to be the right way to do it.
john dudley
Yeah, you can polish everything.
joe rogan
Yeah, but what's most important is when that special comes out, like my last one came out in October of last year, of 2018, and that special's out, that material's dead.
It's gone.
john dudley
You can't say it again.
joe rogan
So then I move to the new material, and then I have to write.
So I have all these people coming to see me, so there's no way you're ever relaxed or too comfortable Or you can't take it for granted.
You have to always be nervous and always be on the ball and always be working hard and always be concentrating on the fundamentals of comedy, like making sure that you're using the economy of words, making sure that You're saying things in a way that makes sense to people, the best way to get it to people, and sneak in the punchlines where they don't see them coming, and have premises that are good, and address those premises in a way that's the most smooth way to do it.
So it requires a lot of thinking about comedy.
A lot.
john dudley
It seems like you're in the perfect place, too, being so close to the store.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
john dudley
For you to be able to go to the comedy store.
I mean, can you think of something that morning and be like, I want to try this?
joe rogan
I think it's on my way to the comedy store.
john dudley
Really?
joe rogan
Yeah, all the time.
john dudley
And you're like, I'm just going to throw this out there.
unidentified
Throw it out there.
joe rogan
Yep, throw it out there.
See, sink or swim.
Sometimes they sink, and you've got to acknowledge it.
You've got to let the people know.
All right, that was a new joke, and that sucked.
We're going to keep going.
And the people get a kick out of it because they know that you're trying things out.
Like, all the people that really know comedy, and that's actually one of the beautiful things about the Comedy Store is how many comedy fans, like, real aficionados go there, people who, you know, they know that they can go there, and any night of the week they can see some of the best headliners on the planet.
john dudley
Yeah.
joe rogan
And they know the process.
They understand.
Particularly one of the beautiful things about podcasts is Is that through podcasts, we talk about it all the time.
We talk about that process.
So the people that listen to my podcast and many other comedians' podcasts, they understand our process now where they didn't before.
Ten years ago, people had no idea how comedians wrote jokes.
Now they know, the people that are really big fans, they know really well.
john dudley
I've seen some of your lineups where it happens to be where those guys go to the store.
And it's not like it's a lineup.
It could be a freaking comedy all-star match.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
john dudley
I mean, I've seen names on that top sign where I'm like, Jesus, if you went there that night, you're like hitting the best of the best.
joe rogan
On the planet.
john dudley
On the planet.
joe rogan
And it's 20 bucks.
$20, and you might see Dave Chappelle, Joey Diaz, Ari Shafir, Tom Segura, Burt Kreischer, me.
I mean, you see Crystal Lee.
You see Tony Hinchcliffe.
john dudley
Ian was there.
joe rogan
Ian Edwards, Owen Smith.
It's just over and over and over.
It's like the lineup is insane.
Guys you've never heard of that are murderers.
Yeah.
It's a beautiful place.
It's one of the main things that keeps me in L.A. Yeah, for sure.
That and the podcast.
john dudley
You have a good routine.
joe rogan
Yeah, man, I was ready to go.
I was ready to get the hell out of California a long time ago.
It's like he sucked me in.
john dudley
Well, what's cool about our relationship, too, is...
There comes this point about November where you fully switch gears to comedy.
And I fully switch gears to product development coming out, really working on my shooting.
And I go in this, I kind of go reclusive as a friend.
There's been, I think at Christmas time, didn't I text you at Christmas and I said, you know, sorry for being a bad friend.
joe rogan
You weren't a bad friend.
We're both doing the same thing.
We're both wrapped up.
john dudley
Yeah, I'm like, you know, I just said, I know you're doing the same, but, like, that's from, I think, as soon as elk season ends.
You go, you start your rewrite, and you wipe the slate clean, and you start polishing.
And when you're in that, when you're doing your comedy, do you have to stay in there to really, really do good at it?
That was what was always hard with me when people asked me to do articles.
Is there's certain times a year where I feel like I can write an article and it's really me.
And a lot of times it's when I'm coaching.
When I'm coaching and I'm seeing new people and I'm thinking about these things or I'm working on people's gear, I feel like I'm a good writer at that point.
But when someone hits me in the middle of a time where I'm like, In the middle of family vacations or if I'm in the middle of a mountain elk hunt, I just feel like I'm kind of forcing it.
Is it the same for you?
Do you get those windows where you're like, this is my window where I hang out with comics.
I just think about this stuff.
This is what I'm thinking about when I'm working out.
joe rogan
Well, I can never get out of shape.
Comedy is very critical to never really get out of shape.
Out of shape is like, this whole week I didn't do comedy.
That's as long as I'll give it.
john dudley
You did to me.
You said some funny shit.
joe rogan
We were just having fun, though.
john dudley
I know.
unidentified
Yeah, but I can tell you're always thinking about it.
john dudley
We bring up subjects I can't even think of.
A subject would come up.
The last night when Cam was there, and me, you, and Cam sat there, and then the girls finally came.
Towards the very end, we got on some subjects.
I was just looking around like, is anyone here?
unidentified
Hopefully we have some privacy because we went down some rat holes, man.
john dudley
But it was funny.
joe rogan
Well, that's the beautiful thing about comedy.
It's like everybody knows there's some subjects that you can't really bring up around a lot of people.
And those are the ones I like the most.
You know, those are the ones that, like, if I can sell those to thousands of people, if I'm in a room and there's 7,000, 10,000 people in the audience, and I can sell this super fucking dangerous idea.
Like, sometimes I say, I'm like, hear me out!
They're like, Jesus Christ, what are you saying?
But if you...
Have a point.
It's well thought out.
It's like they really appreciate that you took that crazy ass chance.
And then they're laughing with you like, I can't believe it.
I did a show last week.
We were in Chicago.
And I did this giant arena.
And Daniel Cormier, who's never seen me do stand-up before, came.
And afterwards, we were working together doing commentary the next day.
He grabbed me.
He's like, I can't believe It's like you gotta know that you have a point.
You gotta really have that, but you can't just say it for shock value.
Like for me, especially at this stage of my career, I'm in this very unusual stratosphere.
There's not that many people that are in this place.
john dudley
I would argue that you are in a stratosphere of your own, dude.
You're at the top of this needle where you get away with shit that no one on this planet can get away with.
joe rogan
I don't know about that.
I think maybe other people would get away with it if they thought about the things that I was thinking about.
But it's this...
I don't think so.
I think about things a lot before I say them.
It's not like I'm just flippantly saying something that might hurt someone's feelings or piss somebody off.
I want to make sure I cover those bases.
john dudley
You almost cover everyone's opinion within that arena.
joe rogan
Yeah, and you've got to start off with the people that are opposing you.
You've got to start off looking at it from the people.
john dudley
You bait them in.
I've been there at times where I'm like...
Okay, he's wanting them to like him just for a minute because he's getting ready to shit on them.
joe rogan
I'm just luring them into a trap of logic.
john dudley
Yesterday we were at the hotel and I'm walking around with my vegan cat shirt.
And I told you a story.
I was in Iowa and someone came up to me and it was a lady and she was legitimately triggered.
unidentified
And she just said, do you kill cats?
john dudley
Because I had this shirt that's one of Joe's shirts that has a cat with two X's on its eyes.
unidentified
And it just says, hashtag, yeah, cartoon doll.
joe rogan
If you remember when cartoon animals would be dead, they would have X's for eyeballs.
john dudley
Yep.
So it was hashtag vegan cat, which is, you know, obviously one of the parts of Joe's Netflix special from last year.
But I just looked at her and I said, no.
I said, I love cats.
And I said, I'm trying to raise awareness for people that are feeding their cats like a vegan and they're causing blindness in felines.
And she goes, what?
And I said, yeah, people quit feeding their cats meat and they become blind.
And I said, I'm trying to raise awareness.
And she's like, oh my God, I had no idea.
Thank you so much.
I'm going to start to raise awareness too.
People are so crazy.
Yesterday, I went to get a drink at the bar, and the girl that came over and served me, she stopped me yesterday, and she goes, do you hate cats?
And I go, why?
And she goes...
What does that shirt mean?
And she goes, I hope it's nice.
And I said, yeah, it's totally nice.
And she goes, great.
I'm a vegan and I love cats.
And I'm like, well, we're friends.
But yeah, that's one of the subjects right there.
That's one of the subjects where you got away with it, dude.
No one else could get away with it.
joe rogan
That one was a lot of work.
That was a lot of work, that one.
I had to, like, circumnavigate that terrain many times to figure out the right way to get that bit across.
Because that was a real thing that did happen.
A lady really did say a bunch of mean stuff to me.
And then I went to her account, and it said, hashtag vegan cat.
And I really did look at my watch and go, shit, should I look at this?
Like, I should go to bed right now.
john dudley
And I know this is true because most of the time when Joe texts me something, it's within 30 minutes of when I wake up in the morning.
Because with the two hour difference, you're going to bed around 3.30 and I'm getting up around like 4, 4.30 and...
joe rogan
I do my best writing, for whatever reason, late at night.
And I think part of it's because my wife and my kids are asleep, and I'm usually coming home from the comedy store.
So I work, I do my sets, and then I come home, and then I write.
john dudley
That's a good time to do it.
joe rogan
Yeah, because everyone's asleep, and my brain's fired up.
So usually I'm just hanging out with the dog and just writing.
And then I write until I'm too sleepy, and then I go to sleep.
But sometimes I get these sparks.
So I'm like a spark farmer.
I'm out there just trying to farm some sparks or a forager for sparks.
I'm looking for sparks.
john dudley
Yeah.
joe rogan
And then I find a spark and I blow on that spark and I try to turn it into a flame.
And then I have to keep that flame alive.
And so then I have to keep working at it on stage and figuring out a way.
And then some people will boo me or they'll get mad at me.
And I go, that's not what I'm saying.
john dudley
Yeah.
joe rogan
And then I have to figure out, okay, how do I stop the boo in its tracks?
Well, I've got to get to their argument before they do.
john dudley
Yeah.
joe rogan
So I have to figure out a way.
john dudley
It's such a good way to approach it, dude.
You're crafty.
joe rogan
It's sneaky.
john dudley
It's obvious you're a black belt and a jiu-jitsu person.
Because you're baiting people.
joe rogan
I'm sneaking them in.
john dudley
You're a baiting son of a bitch is what you are.
joe rogan
One of those things where it's like, I've been doing it now for more than 30 years.
It'll be 31 years this August.
It's crazy.
john dudley
I'm trying to remember.
I remember you doing a show.
I don't know if you did a show at the Riviera, but I was shooting in Vegas, and I know it was late 90s or early 2000s, and you were doing a show there.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Yeah, I used to do shows there.
That was the only place I performed in Vegas.
john dudley
Was it at Riviera?
joe rogan
Yeah.
john dudley
I remember it then.
So that would have been, I'm sure it's 20 years ago, so you'd have been 10 years in.
joe rogan
Yep.
john dudley
And I think, I remember some of my friends going and they were shocked.
Because they said, they're like, he is not filtered in his comedy compared to how he announces the UFC. Because you, like, there's no subjects off limits, is there?
joe rogan
Well, the UFC is a different job.
You know, it's very confusing for people, and I kind of sympathize with them because I have...
Two completely unrelated jobs.
Well, almost three.
john dudley
You have three.
joe rogan
Because podcasting is sometimes funny, but many times not.
Sometimes I'm just talking to scientists.
Yeah.
And then sometimes I'm talking to scholars or educators.
john dudley
The diversity is what has people hooked.
joe rogan
To me, that's how I view the world.
I don't need to be funny.
I don't ever try to be funny when I'm doing the UFC. My obligation when I'm doing the UFC is to give justice or to honor the hard work that these men and women have put into their training camp and to appreciate their effort and to appreciate their art, the martial arts.
john dudley
You're super serious about martial arts.
When people try to make that funny, you don't like it.
joe rogan
No.
Most of the time I don't.
I mean, unless something funny happens.
But it has to be organic.
john dudley
If my balls are hot.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
If something like that, yeah, that's just genuinely funny.
I'll laugh at that.
But for the most part, my job is to make it exciting for people that are listening and to sort of explain what's happening in terms of particularly the ground.
Like, people kind of understand when someone's throwing a kick or a punch.
And it's my job to point things out that I see patterns.
Sometimes I'll see someone moving.
I'm like, this guy is moving at a much higher level.
Sometimes that happens right before a guy gets knocked out.
I'll say, I see a big...
This past weekend, Ricardo Lamas was fighting Calvin Cater, and I said, I see a big difference between...
The striking level of Calvin Cater and Ricardo Lamas.
Calvin is just like, boom!
He lands a knockout blow.
Like, right after I said that.
Like, sometimes crazy.
john dudley
Yeah.
joe rogan
It happens like that.
But that's important for...
For people at home, one of the reasons why some people like me as a commentator is because they know that I genuinely enjoy this.
This is not a job to me.
I don't think, oh, here I am working, I'm getting paid, I'm getting some money.
I don't think of that.
But I think it's like, first of all, I love the sport, and I genuinely appreciate what these guys are doing, what these girls are doing, and I just want to give...
I want to honor what they're doing.
john dudley
I think anything you have interest in, you 100% come across as authentic.
And that's what people say they like about me is because they say, I feel like you are 100% authentic.
about your passion for archery.
- Sure, yeah. - And honestly, I feel like social media helps accelerate that.
- Yeah. - Because people start to not have only this filter that the TV network allows people to see, or that sometimes you or I don't have control on what that filter is.
We might say like, "Hey man, that's not me, can you like..." I would really like if you did it like this.
Or like, no.
We've done some polls and this is really what we want.
Which is why I left my network.
Because I realized if I go on to a live feed, people 100% get exactly how I feel.
And I think the more that they experience that...
Their radars of...
People's natural radars of who's legit and who's not, they're sensitive.
And I think it's the best thing in the world for people like me or you or Cam or any of these people that we know within their fields where they're real.
They're like real people within those fields.
Andy's a great example too.
He's like...
He's almost breaking the mold of what a lot of Navy SEALs are doing.
Is it fair to say that?
Because so many ride their past to try to build something, whereas Andy's almost...
You almost have to drag it out of them.
You know, you almost have to say like, no, dude, you've done some really cool shit.
We need to talk about this.
joe rogan
Yeah.
john dudley
And he's trying to say, well, there's more to me than that.
You know, there's more to me than that.
But I think once people really see that honesty come forward, that's what people are grasping for themselves.
They're like, I really like that person that I'm seeing.
That's what I want more of.
joe rogan
Yeah, you're not produced.
When someone watches a knock-on, when you're doing a live stream or whether you're doing a podcast, you're not produced.
And that's the same with me.
I don't have anyone telling me to do it.
I've been in that situation where I had someone telling me what to do or what to say.
It's not as effective.
It's not as genuine.
It doesn't come across that way.
Yep.
john dudley
I saw today, it's weird how your phone's a spy.
Today I got ads pulled up in my Instagram about travel coolers.
joe rogan
Whoa, because we were talking about coolers?
john dudley
Yeah, last night at dinner.
How we were going to get our meat home.
Isn't that crazy?
Isn't it?
joe rogan
That's so weird.
john dudley
It's crazy, crazy.
joe rogan
So it's listening to us?
john dudley
It's listening, for sure.
Yeah.
joe rogan
Who can tell us what's happening?
I want to know.
I need to get someone on that tells me what the hell your phone is listening to.
Because that does happen to people all the time where all of a sudden their Google feed, their news feed has ads in it.
john dudley
If that happens, will you get really high before they come on just so you can really trip out?
joe rogan
Yeah.
unidentified
Because you'll be like, whoa!
Yeah.
john dudley
You'll be deep into that.
joe rogan
I need to find out.
I need to find out how they're doing it and what they're doing.
Because that's weird.
Like, what if you were, like, planning a murder?
You had your phone on you.
john dudley
Damn.
joe rogan
And the FBI knocks on your door.
And you're like, no, no, no.
I'm writing a book on murder.
And I'm planning it out with a friend to try to pretend that we were planning a murder so I could see how people talk when they're planning a murder.
So me and my friend was an actor.
But if you did do that, imagine if you did do that.
Like if you were like Jack Carr, right?
Our friend George Peterson.
He just gave me his two new books.
john dudley
I brought mine here to read it, but we never had downtime.
We were having fun the whole time.
joe rogan
But say if Jack was writing a book, or George was writing a book, and he was trying to figure out...
Jack is his, we should say, his pseudonym that he uses for writing.
john dudley
Jack Carr is his, yeah, it's his pen name.
joe rogan
His nom de pleur.
But if he was trying to figure out how someone would talk when they were setting up a murder...
And so we got together with an actor or a detective or someone and said, what would you say?
How would you talk about it?
What would you do?
What would be the steps?
And the phone picked that up and all of a sudden the FBI is knocking on its door.
He's like, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
I'm not murdering anybody.
I'm writing books.
Like, what are we doing here, folks?
john dudley
What if you got an ad for, like, latex gloves, bleach, a 1987-18 minivan, gasoline, lighters, you'd be like, hmm, okay.
I mean, I'm sure, honestly, I'm sure there's companies that would pay if they knew this guy is a buyer.
unidentified
Oh, yeah.
john dudley
He's sketchy.
We don't care.
joe rogan
We're just trying to make money.
We don't know nothing.
john dudley
Yeah, we don't know nothing.
joe rogan
I think that, you know, we're talking about, to get away from that, we're talking about when it comes to honesty.
There's never really been shows Where no one was telling anyone what to do.
There's never been, like, you think about how many downloads you get per episode.
What you get for your archery podcast is, like, a successful cable show.
john dudley
Yeah.
joe rogan
Which is really crazy.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Right?
john dudley
Think about how specific.
I get more downloads in two days on my podcast than what Friday night full draw at 8 o'clock on the Sportsman's Channel got when I had that slot.
joe rogan
I would only imagine that they can't compete because it's all watered down.
It doesn't resonate with people the same way.
People know that it's straight from your mouth and there's no one.
They go, oh, this is who John Dudley really is.
One of the things that people tell me when they meet me, they go, oh, you're like how you are on the podcast.
I'm like, yeah, that's me.
I don't have a boss.
But there's never been a thing like that where you don't have a boss and yet every episode reaches millions and millions of people.
If I could see the number of people, if I could be on a stage and look out.
I had Be Real from Cypress Hill on the podcast the other day.
john dudley
That was a good one.
joe rogan
Amazing.
I love that guy.
I love him.
I love Cypress Hill.
But we showed video footage of when they were playing at Woodstock.
And that was a half a million people.
Well, if I have a half a million people listening to a podcast, that podcast sucked.
Like, something must have went wrong.
john dudley
Yeah.
joe rogan
So think about the numbers, like, for a podcast that's like a killer podcast.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
It's unbelievable.
john dudley
Yeah, what were...
I mean, if you think back of, like, a really good band that sold out a stadium, what that number would be, and they're like, this is a legitimate, successful band.
joe rogan
Well, I feel like a really big, giant band could do like a football stadium.
They could do like 50,000 people or 70,000 people, which is, you know, unheard of, right?
john dudley
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
Those are giant, giant numbers.
But that ain't shit for a podcast.
That ain't shit.
unidentified
No.
joe rogan
So think about one of your podcasts is way bigger than a football stadium, which is really nuts, man.
john dudley
Yeah.
joe rogan
It's really nuts.
john dudley
It's cool.
joe rogan
There's never been anything like this.
john dudley
And it's free.
joe rogan
It's free.
There's never been anything like this.
And there's never been anything where there's no filter.
john dudley
You'd have to be using those Sitka knee pads for some other purposes back in the day.
joe rogan
Yeah, you'd need more than the Sitka knee pads.
Yeah.
You'd need more.
You'd need some thick ones.
john dudley
Yeah, these calloused hands wouldn't be favorable.
joe rogan
It's cool though, man.
I mean, we came at the right time for this.
I mean, for you to have left the Sportsman's Channel and enter into this new world.
john dudley
Isn't it awesome, though?
What I think is so cool is, and me and Cam talked about this, about the number of people that we get exposed to that we would have never got to hear their voice.
People that write just a super cool book, that have dedicated their lives to an awesome...
joe rogan
Mm-hmm.
john dudley
Topic.
unidentified
Yeah.
john dudley
And you would have never, like, unless JRE was out there for you to go down some wormhole at 3 o'clock in the morning and be like, you know what, this dude, like, I got to get this guy on.
joe rogan
Yeah.
john dudley
He's tripping me out with some of this information, and then you share it to millions and millions and millions and millions.
joe rogan
Yeah.
john dudley
I mean, it makes, honestly, it makes mainstream, it makes it harder for him to lie.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Don't you think so?
It makes it harder for them to survive because they seem so corny.
You have a mainstream show that covers these subjects.
There's stupid music and dramatic reads.
It's obviously written and they don't get to just talk.
To discuss subjects, you need time.
To find out how someone really feels about a subject, you need time.
What these shows are trying to do is they're trying to create these gotcha moments where they're trying to catch people and misrepresent their position on things.
They're trying to create controversy because that's how they sold things in the past.
But people are getting tired of being bullshitted.
They're getting tired of it.
They want to know.
Like when I had Graham Hancock on the other day, It was a massively successful podcast.
Millions and millions of people downloaded it.
And it's about the origins of civilization on Earth, which is such a crazy subject.
To think that so many people would be fascinated by it, but they are.
But they were never represented before because it was never given to them in a way where you could just listen to the author, who is this incredibly well-researched guy, Incredibly articulate, has been passionate about the subject for decades, and who was also often maligned by mainstream archaeologists and scholars,
and now those mainstream archaeologists and scholars, through new evidence and new discoveries, have been forced to recognize that human beings Have existed in these more advanced civilizations than anyone ever thought before for many, many, many years, thousands of years prior to when we had dated organized civilizations and cultures.
And it wasn't that these subjects weren't interesting before.
john dudley
It's just that you didn't Get a chance to listen to someone talk about it non-stop without an interruption or without a producer saying you know what that part wasn't interesting right now there's gaps to where you leave someone the ability to intervene and say well no that's not accurate because he never mentioned this well actually he had but they edited it out.
joe rogan
Yeah, exactly.
john dudley
You know, that'd be the person that'd be on like a PBS special and you're at the mercy of when they air it, how they break it up into their 22 minutes, and it doesn't give it the justice that, you know, obviously someone that's dedicated that much time where it deserved it.
joe rogan
Yeah.
You know, it's a new world.
And you and I got super lucky that we kind of stumbled into this new world.
You know, and I was listening to your podcast long before I met you.
And I watched your TV show, and then I found out about your podcast.
And then I was listening to your podcast, and I was saying, how crazy.
This guy's talking about, like, X10s and different flexchains and different configurations and helicals and all this shit.
Like, who the fuck is listening to this?
unidentified
Right.
john dudley
How can I write that into 1200 words?
joe rogan
You can't!
You can't!
john dudley
Someone would be like, hey, we need a feature article.
Right.
1250. Cap it out.
joe rogan
But to me, it really resembled Poole in a way.
Because with Poole, there's all this talk about low deflection shafts or 13mm tips versus 12mm, 12.5mm carbon fiber shafts, maple butts versus ebony, which is a stiffer, heavier weight, 19 inch balance points.
john dudley
Yeah, they're using that for shafts.
joe rogan
A lot of the top, top players are using carbon shafts.
And the big name companies like Predator, they're making carbon shafts for cues and a lot of people swear by them.
They don't ding up like regular ones do.
But it's also like if I start talking to people the way, I mean, I've been playing pool for 20...
25 years?
Yeah, about 25 years I've been playing pool.
Like, pretty...
I mean, I never really stopped.
I mean, maybe a little bit when I was really getting heavily into video games.
I deviated a bit.
But...
For 25 years I've been playing pool and experimenting with different tips and layered tips versus buffalo hide tips versus cow hide versus pig tips.
All these different types of kinds of equipment.
john dudley
You saying this right now is probably like when you listened to one of my first podcasts.
I think one of my first podcasts, or the top few, was because I kind of wanted to come out of the gate with, this is how deep I've gone.
And so I got James Park on, which I love James.
He's an awesome dude.
He's from Australia.
But this guy could have a doctorate in the aerodynamics of an aero.
That's probably one of the ones that tripped you out.
joe rogan
Probably.
john dudley
But now you're talking pig tips on a pool cue.
I'm thinking, like, it's making sense where I'm like, well, duh.
Yeah.
Different density leather tips would totally make sense.
But I never even knew it existed.
joe rogan
Yeah.
john dudley
Until right now.
And now I'm thinking, oh, shit.
Yeah.
Now I'm thinking, well, there's 50 different types of plastic.
Like, how many are they playing with Delrin?
joe rogan
Sure.
john dudley
Then putting the pig dick on the top of it?
Are they using foreskin yet?
Like, what do you do?
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah.
And then there's also wrapped cues versus wrapless, the way you hold it, the way you grip it.
Some guys like to grip it with their wrists bent forward so there's less variation.
Some guys like to let the wrists go real loose and they cradle the cue in their hands.
There's all these different techniques and strategies.
It's also like finger punchers, right?
Some guys can punch that trigger and they can do it really accurately.
It's very few people.
That's the same thing with guys who have a death grip on the cue.
Some guys have a death grip on the cue and they can play really well.
Do I? No.
You don't have a death grip, but, you know, it's like anything else.
You would have to learn how to do it correctly, and then you would have to practice.
You know, I practice playing pool by myself mostly.
Most of the times when I play, I play by myself.
john dudley
I wish I could do what Iron Man does where he talks to Jarvis and he expands stuff.
I want to do that on your brain when you're looking at angles on a...
joe rogan
Yeah.
john dudley
Because when I'll break...
If I break, because Joe and I have played together a couple different times...
You look at the table and I can see, like, I know you're thinking, Joe.
When the thinking Joe's there, like, all the cogs are turning and you're doing your Rain Man thing.
I wish I knew how many different angles and shit you were looking at.
joe rogan
Well, I'll tell you if you want.
You know, I'll show it to you.
Like, we were talking about it a little bit the other day.
I was like, well, I have to go with the four.
I have to hit it with right-hand English because I have to wind up on the left-hand side of the five.
Because I want to drift down to the 6. It's so close to the 7. I don't have much room for error.
john dudley
Are you playing your whole layout?
joe rogan
I play four balls ahead.
john dudley
Always?
That's it?
joe rogan
No.
Sometimes I only play three balls ahead if it's a fairly easy rack, but sometimes I like to play four balls ahead.
If there's a cluster, then I know I have to break it out.
I can't fuck around.
I have to make sure that I'm on the high side of this ball because when I collide, when I make the shot, I have to hit that second ball or I won't be able to get out.
I'm trying to get out.
I'm not trying to just...
When I watch someone play...
Because everybody likes to say they know how to play pool, which is hilarious.
People come to my podcast studio, they're like, oh, you play pool?
Let's play some pool.
john dudley
I knew you well enough to just say, I don't know shit about pool.
When you're like, do you play pool?
I'm like, nope.
How do I hold this thing?
joe rogan
But I watch how they make a ball.
If they just try to make a ball, I was like, oh, okay, you can't play pool.
You might be able to pocket some balls, but I'm going to fuck you up in the long run.
You might be able to make all the shots and run out.
And I'll say, congratulations.
That was a disaster.
You got out, but that was terrible.
john dudley
I did that twice.
joe rogan
It can happen.
john dudley
Yeah.
It's actually the perfect...
This is the perfect time to talk about when people try to argue with me why...
When they say, what I'm doing has worked and it's always worked.
And they're like, we know you teach that way.
The way that I teach...
I would say 80% of the people, it maximizes them to the best of their ability.
Are there a fraction of people that are like the exemptions to the rule?
Yeah.
And you can probably go and win a tournament.
You could probably, at some point in your career, if you go to enough major events, you'll win one.
Doing it your way.
But I'm certain that what I'm teaching will get the mass majority of people more production over a long run.
joe rogan
They'll be more effective.
john dudley
Right?
joe rogan
It's the right way to do it.
john dudley
Is it the same?
joe rogan
Yes.
john dudley
It's like, I beat you two games of pool, but to me that's like, you know, if you freaking throw three things out of the window...
You know, one every hundred times is gonna land where you think it might land, but it's just chance.
joe rogan
Well, we're playing on an 8x4, which is a smaller table, and it has buckets for holes.
john dudley
I like those buckets.
joe rogan
All those things factor in.
And, you know, the table that I have in my studio sucks.
It's brutal, man.
That's a brutal table.
That's like one of those metal targets that has the softball-sized hole.
john dudley
That's exactly what it is.
joe rogan
And you shoot at 40 yards.
john dudley
It's an iron buck target every shot.
I'm like, dude, I swear I would have made this shot at my old table at home, and you're like, yeah, these pockets are a little smaller.
I'm like, They're four inches.
joe rogan
They're an inch and a half shorter than a regulation pocket.
john dudley
Yeah.
joe rogan
But that's how I practice.
john dudley
By the way, the last podcast I did with Joe on the JRE, there was a few people that said I might have gone too far on the drink.
Just so everyone knows, Joe was beating my ass for about three hours on the pool table on these small ass pockets.
So I was just like drinking my sorrow away.
And about the time he was all warmed up and had enough of me, he said, let's podcast.
I'm like, I thought we were podcasting tomorrow.
He's like, no, let's just go now.
joe rogan
Yeah, that was a rough one.
You didn't win a single game that time.
That was rough.
That fucking table's rough, man.
That table's rough.
john dudley
It was.
joe rogan
But that's my practice table.
That's like putting that Outdoorsman Atlas pack on and running up hills.
john dudley
That's like me taking you right to the tack and being like, alright, bitch.
joe rogan
Yeah, 120 yards, hit that sheep.
john dudley
Yep, 37 degree angle.
Good luck.
No range finder.
joe rogan
Exactly.
john dudley
I hope you've learned some stuff.
joe rogan
It's, you know, there's levels.
There's levels to everything.
And one of the things that I learned very early on when I became obsessed with martial arts was how important technique is.
john dudley
Yeah.
joe rogan
To generate power.
To generate real power.
And to do things correctly.
john dudley
Can you name one field where that's not important?
I can't.
The principles.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
No, I can't.
Comedy, it's with everything.
Like Joey Diaz, when you see Joey on stage, he's so wild and crazy and his comedy is so out there.
You think maybe there's no technique to it, but he's one of the best technicians He knows exactly what he's doing.
But he's such an amazing technician because he has the best economy of words.
Like here's a Joey Diaz joke that I love.
He goes, I like transvestites.
They cook, they clean.
You can beat on them every once in a while.
The cops come, who they're going to believe?
Me or some dude with a wig and a black eye.
Those jokes, that's a great bit.
And the jokes come at you before you know where he's going.
The cops come, who are they going to believe, me or some dude with a wig and a black eye?
That's a brilliant joke.
But it's that economy of words.
And that's like a skill.
When you see a comic and they have too many words before they get to the punchline, either that's a new joke and they're trying to figure out how to say it, which I do, when I have new jokes.
I'll oftentimes go back and listen to old recordings of a joke that I'm doing like three months later where I've got it down.
I'll go back and listen to how I started doing it three months ago and it's embarrassing.
It's terrible because there's so many extra words in it.
It's so meandering.
So there's technique to everything, man.
Everything.
But in martial arts...
The consequences of having poor technique are the most devastating.
Because you're going to get hit.
Or you're going to get strangled.
Or you're going to get your arms snapped.
The technique in martial arts is super, super critical.
It's everything.
john dudley
Do you think there's people that could just focus on five basic principles of like jujitsu and just merc and that's all they do but they do it so well they can just wait on it perfectly?
joe rogan
There's a guy named John Donaher who has done an amazing job in training these killers just incredible athletes who've been able to beat people with far more experience than them Because John, who was a philosophy major in college, and he's a brilliant man, a true genius, has figured out a way to cut to the chase and figure out what is most important.
What am I trying to achieve?
And what are the barriers to trying to achieve this?
He's figured out a way to apply that to his students.
And it teaches students in this way that cuts the learning curve down radically.
And because of that, he's developed these guys like Gary Tonin or Gordon Ryan or Nicky Ryan.
These guys who have not been doing Jiu Jitsu, relatively haven't been doing Jiu Jitsu near as long as their competitors, but are far more effective.
Yep.
john dudley
I've seen some of his stuff.
joe rogan
Yeah, he's genius, man.
He's genius.
But it's the analysis.
What it is is a superior intellect that applies that superior intellect to something where people may not have been as focused.
And there's also a problem with jiu-jitsu where a lot of people just like to roll.
They just like to spar because it's fun.
You learn a couple techniques and then you try to get each other.
Because it's fun.
It's a fun thing to do.
But the best way to do it is to drill.
And the really best way to do it is to drill with intent and an understanding of each...
Like a very detailed, comprehensive understanding of each position.
And what's the danger of not having inside control...
What's the danger of not having the underhook?
john dudley
See, that's what, for me, that's what I feel like.
Some of the places where I've gone and done jujitsu, they're not explaining, so it's hard for me to absorb.
Because I think just based on my background...
I'm wanting to know the basics and the whys and the drills, and I'm totally comfortable just being in the drills.
just being in the drills to where it's hard for me to want to learn something new because i know that i'm not doing what you told me before good enough for me to say okay i feel like i'm doing that without having to consciously really try hard at it yeah and i i love that about sport where you you're able to just drill and drill and drill until the subconscious absorbs it and it's like at that moment i feel like i've made a step yeah
and now now drop something else in and and i call it selective cycling i cycle things in when i feel like i've absorbed something that i've already worked on It's like that with students.
You know, Andy said it before.
He goes, a year in you tell me something where you just now tell me it and I look at you and I'm like, a year ago I was doing this, right?
And you knew it.
And I'm like, well yeah, of course I knew it.
But it wasn't relevant.
joe rogan
Right.
john dudley
You're ready now to know.
joe rogan
Right.
john dudley
Right now, you're ready to know.
And I almost feel like it's better, at least for some people.
For me, I feel like it would be that way because I would always be thinking back to, well, why was I doing that?
Why?
Or deep down, I know I'm not doing it good enough.
Like, I'm not doing it efficient enough.
Whereas sometimes I've gone with people and they're like, we just roll...
Because eventually you'll just start to realize why it's important.
Honestly, the places where I've stopped going is those places because I'm like, I don't feel like I learned that way.
joe rogan
Well, one of the things that we do at Tenth Planet...
Eddie breaks things down into paths and paths where people escape and then paths where people counter.
Sometimes you'll have a path where you will pass someone's guard, move in the mount, go for the arm bar, they defend the arm bar, then they wind up on top, then they pass, and then they go into an arm triangle or some other submission.
So the person who is initially attacking winds up being the person who gets submitted.
And you'll do this path and drill this path and you basically, it's almost like a choreographed sequence of events that will take place in sparring.
Like where you'll catch yourself in an arm bar, you defend that arm bar and then all of a sudden you find yourself inside control and then you find yourself submitting someone with this very same sequence of events.
And that just builds your understanding of the positions and understanding of like what can take place from those positions.
Like there's certain arm bars that you can catch while someone's going for a twister or while someone's in the truck or someone's in these various positions and until you're there you don't really know it so that to do it in like a very clear path.
So all the warm-ups that we do We'll be these pathways.
john dudley
Yeah.
And I think it's important, too.
You know, there's people that say they listen to me and they just say, you know, I just don't get it.
For whatever reason, I don't like what Dudley's talking about.
I get it.
joe rogan
Yeah.
I think that's stubbornness.
It's an ego thing.
john dudley
I've gone to places, I think sometimes, but I've gone to places where, for whatever reason, I'm hearing the same thing, but it's easier to take it in.
Even though it seems like it's the same information, it seems like there's some teachers that are really good at teaching, and there's some teachers that have been taught how to teach, and it comes across that way, and it's hard to soak it in.
joe rogan
Well, it's also the personality of the people that are teaching you.
Sometimes you don't want to learn from somebody.
You don't like them.
You don't like the way they're talking, or maybe they're arrogant, and maybe that arrogance comes off as...
You want to prove them wrong instead of just listening.
john dudley
Yeah, I get it.
Well, the last thing we should talk about is probably where we started this trip, grilling.
Because you and I are both passionate about cooking food.
joe rogan
Yeah.
john dudley
We eat what we kill, right?
joe rogan
Yeah.
john dudley
And you were...
You were on a different grill path, weren't you?
I mean, I kept telling you like, dude, I don't know a lot about this Traeger, but man, it's like changed my life.
joe rogan
Well, I was doing things very hot, and I had a yoder that has a direct heat element, and the direct heat aspect of it was you'd have these grill grates that you'd put down, and you would turn up the flames very, very, very high, and I would cook on these grill grates, and you'd put these grill marks on the meat.
It was drying out the meat, though.
And until Chad, whiskey-bent barbecue...
john dudley
Yeah, Chad Ward.
joe rogan
Chad Ward on Instagram.
unidentified
Hollow.
joe rogan
Hollow.
Until he explained it to me, the idea of the reverse sear, cooking things low and slow and then searing them at the end, I really didn't get it.
And then once I started cooking like that, I'm like, oh, okay.
I get mad when I go to a restaurant, a good restaurant, and they cook the steak bad.
john dudley
Isn't that a bummer?
unidentified
It's a bummer.
john dudley
We talk about that.
joe rogan
It happens all the time.
john dudley
Dude, what did we cook?
Night one, when Sharon and I flew in, did we cook cowboy steaks?
Rib-eyes?
Bone-in rib-eyes?
joe rogan
We got some rib-eyes, yeah.
john dudley
We ate those at the house.
So you've got the new Ironwood.
Yes.
It's not the highest-end Traeger.
It's the next one in line.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's not that expensive.
john dudley
But for someone that's buying one in a store, dude.
joe rogan
Well, I had an Ironwood before.
john dudley
You had a Timberline.
joe rogan
Excuse me, a Timberline before.
And they wanted to give me the Ironwood because it's the newest version with the D2 motor.
They didn't have the new Timberline out yet.
You know what, man?
If you're on a budget, I mean, it's phenomenal.
I have no complaints.
I have the 650. I had the Timberline 1300 before, but this Ironwood 650 is amazing.
It's so good, and I love the app.
One of the best things for me for Traeger is the app and the fact that I can adjust the temperature of the grill on my phone.
john dudley
Yeah.
joe rogan
And then also I could find recipes.
Like, I cooked lobster tails the other day, and I got the recipe directly from my phone.
And I went to the grocery store, I got the ingredients based on that, and I cooked it on the Traeger with my phone.
john dudley
What did you tell me you cooked at, I think you said you cooked something only at 225 just so you could use a super smoke.
joe rogan
Well, I've been doing that a lot with roasts.
john dudley
Oh, really?
joe rogan
Yeah, I've been doing that a lot.
I really like that Super Smoke, man.
It just, it does something to the, I love that smoky flavor that you get.
I think it's one of the best things about pellet grills.
And I think, I've had a lot of pellet grills.
You know, the Traeger's the best.
It's the best.
It's the best at maintaining temperature.
It gets to temperature better.
It's the easiest to work.
It's so stable, too.
I've had some complicated ones where it cooked good, but you had to read the manual to figure out how to do things.
Traeger's just straightforward.
But pellet grills, without a doubt, are my favorite way to cook food because you're just getting fire and wood.
There's no nonsense.
There's no charcoal, lighter fluid.
There's no briquettes.
It's just wood and fire.
john dudley
It's a pellet that's repetitive.
joe rogan
Yeah, and what they've figured out how to do, first of all, it's so efficient.
The Traeger uses so little pellets.
Like, I fill that hopper once.
I go five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten cooks.
I mean, it's a foot deep of pellets.
And it takes forever to run through that.
john dudley
We were eating those ribeyes that night, and we're like, dude.
joe rogan
It's as good as you're ever going to get.
john dudley
I haven't gone anywhere where I would say, I need to know how this guy's doing this, because it's better than what I'm making at home.
joe rogan
No.
john dudley
They were definitely as good as anything I've ever got.
joe rogan
Ever.
Yeah, and it's so easy to use.
And to do it at 225, and I love the fact that Traeger has that probe, and you can stick the probe in there, and you read it on your phone.
john dudley
With the app?
joe rogan
Yeah.
john dudley
Harry has his first apartment right now.
And actually, it's the summer.
He's in a research project, which is pretty cool.
But I don't think he realized that the school wasn't cooking food because he was in his apartment one night and he sent a text to Sharon that said, campus is closed, we can't get food there, so we've got to do our own.
And he goes, do you think Dad could cook for us some nights?
And so she's like, you need to cook for him.
So I told him, I said, you want me to do, I forgot what I said, we did a brisket.
I said, I'll cook a brisket for your guys.
So I started it at night.
I literally woke up at three in the morning.
Grabbed my phone next to my bed, opened it up, told me that the brisket was at like 159. I got up, went outside, put the brisket in a big foil pan, wrapped it all in there, put in a little bit of juice, sealed it all up, bumped the temp up to 275, put it back in the grill, closed it, and just set the alarm for when the brisket hit 204. Like, set the alarm on my app.
So the next morning at 9am, bing, it goes off.
The briskets at 204, I took it out, set it in a Yeti, and just left it in there until the guys came home after their 10 mile run for that day and just sliced it and it was ready to go.
joe rogan
Amazing.
john dudley
It was perfect.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's the perfect combination of technology.
john dudley
You know how much shit I ruined on a freaking propane Weber?
joe rogan
Oh yeah.
Oh yeah, or charcoal grill.
Yeah, I had a Kamado, you know, one of those ceramic grills, which is great.
It's great until you use a pellet grill.
john dudley
Yeah.
joe rogan
And then, you know, my wife was like, get rid of this stupid thing.
Like, you don't even use it.
I'm like, but it looks cool.
john dudley
Well, it's like people that say you need to learn how to start a fire with, like, two sticks.
joe rogan
No, you don't.
john dudley
Yeah, I can do it, but I also can buy a Bic lighter at the gas station when I'm filling up my car.
unidentified
It's 90 cents!
joe rogan
That's what I really need now.
I mean, look, it's a good survival skill if you really do find yourself.
And I know some guys like to just bring, like, a flint and some...
john dudley
I get it.
joe rogan
Cotton swabs are filled with Vaseline.
john dudley
Hey, Schneider likes to shoot a traditional bow.
joe rogan
I don't get that.
john dudley
More power to him.
joe rogan
I don't get that.
But then other people say, why are you shooting a bow when you can shoot a rifle?
Right?
john dudley
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, we're in that category, damn it.
We're freaking idiots, too.
joe rogan
Well, the argument for that is these damn deer, these axis deer.
I met some hunters this morning, real nice guys, and one of the guys, he got his first big game animal today with a rifle.
So they were there for half an hour and they shot a deer.
john dudley
Yep.
joe rogan
We hunted for five days for me.
john dudley
I struck out five days in a row.
joe rogan
Until finally I connected on the sixth day with that beautiful buck.
john dudley
Well dude, we're flashing on one bar of battery.
joe rogan
Oh, run out of battery?
Do you have a charger?
Well, do you have a thing to plug in?
john dudley
I have a plug-in, but do we have a plug-in?
unidentified
Yeah.
john dudley
Is there a plug-in close by?
unidentified
Yeah, there's gotta be.
joe rogan
There's gotta be some outlet here.
john dudley
Well, if you can figure that part out.
joe rogan
Should we just bail on us?
I don't see any.
john dudley
We're quitters.
joe rogan
Yeah, let's just bail.
unidentified
Damn it.
joe rogan
I don't think there's any power here.
john dudley
Well, dude, this was awesome.
joe rogan
Hey, my brother, listen, it's always a good time hanging with you.
I love hunting with you.
Thanks for teaching me about archery.
john dudley
Hey, the next time we see each other, do you know who we're going to be introducing to archery?
To bow hunting?
unidentified
Who?
john dudley
Jocko.
Oh, that's right!
joe rogan
That's right!
Jocko's first bow hunt is going to be archery elk in Utah.
unidentified
Oh, dude.
joe rogan
That's amazing.
john dudley
We have an awesome camp.
This is going to be legit.
joe rogan
That's going to be legit.
Oh, we'll be doing some podcasts from there, folks.
unidentified
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
Don't you worry.
john dudley
I wonder if he'll still act as tough and cool as he is.
joe rogan
I think he's going to keep it together.
I think he'll probably be pretty stoic and just listen.
john dudley
He's a good learner.
People with that position, they know how to learn.
joe rogan
He's a black belt in jiu-jitsu too.
You don't get to be a black belt unless you're a good learner.
john dudley
Yeah.
You might have to beat it into him, but...
joe rogan
I don't think so.
I don't think so.
I think he's just going to listen.
john dudley
Would it be fun if he missed his first one and the elk just schooled his ass?
Where he thought he could just tough it out?
joe rogan
I would like to see him get a fucking 10 ring.
That's what I want to see.
I want to see an elk drop the way my elk dropped at Tejon.
Where he just stepped four steps and just tipped over.
john dudley
That's what we all do this for.
You say it.
I say it.
Cam says it.
I don't know.
I'm so thankful that that day that you couldn't go, that I asked Cam to go with me, because that was the first time that we've hunted together, and I would say, I mean, we were both at UA for 12 years together, never had hunted together.
And it was pretty cool.
Once you get in a situation, especially a hunting situation, where it's life or death for what you're pursuing.
The movements that you make and the choices you make, they really define, they do define you.
And whether people out there like me or don't like me or like Cam or don't like Cam, all I can say is when we were in the moments that we were in, that's the ultimate litmus test for me.
Like a hunting situation for me is a litmus test for a person.
For you, I think it's someone that actually goes into a real fight, right?
joe rogan
It's a lot of things.
It's comedy.
Oh, yeah.
I've gotten to become friends with someone, and then I watch them on stage, and I'm like, oh, I can't be friends with you anymore.
john dudley
Really?
Yes.
joe rogan
I was like, oh my God, you're terrible.
john dudley
But then are there times where you're like, this guy I don't really know, but then when you see him, you're like, you know what?
Like, 100%.
You got my respect right now.
joe rogan
Oh, 100%.
Yeah.
john dudley
And that's where it was at.
You know, I can...
I'm truly...
I'm truly respectful and I'm honest when I say that.
joe rogan
Yeah.
john dudley
Like, you know, I wouldn't have had Cam on my podcast if I wouldn't have said that it was an eye-opening experience for me.
I had a very, very good time with him.
And I think we both...
Kind of found a different appreciation for each other.
joe rogan
He's an awesome guy.
I love him to death.
So it's so cool for me to see you guys become friends.
john dudley
Yeah.
joe rogan
It really is.
It's amazing.
I think comedy and bowhunting have one thing in common is that it's so difficult to get to that elite level.
Then once you meet someone, it's like, how many are there?
I mean, how many, like, legit elite bowhunters are there?
Are there even 500 on Earth?
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Oh, God.
john dudley
It would be way smaller.
joe rogan
Same with comedy.
john dudley
Way smaller.
joe rogan
Same with comedy.
I think it's probably the same thing.
john dudley
I mean, I know I would offend people where people would be like, what?
I'm not on that list?
But I think...
It's really small.
And I'm talking on, like, not just a good level.
I'm talking on a level where if someone said, listen, dude, you have, like, ten cards to play.
And these cards, every card has to hit.
Who are the people on this card?
joe rogan
Yeah.
john dudley
It's small, man.
joe rogan
Small.
john dudley
It's small.
Is that fair to say?
joe rogan
Yes.
It's 100% fair.
john dudley
Yeah.
joe rogan
I think there's many things in life that are similar.
john dudley
And there's a lot of different personalities within those.
Some people have different personalities.
Some people get to the same place with a different path.
And sometimes it's abrasive.
Sometimes they're the fan favorite.
But in the end, the people that are within that realm...
It's like the Big Brother house.
There's people that people are rooting for, and there's people that people are like, I don't know how that guy got there.
It doesn't matter.
He's there.
joe rogan
Yeah.
john dudley
Right?
joe rogan
It's that old expression, game recognizes game.
john dudley
Yeah.
Yeah.
joe rogan
Let's leave it at that.
My brother.
Love you.
john dudley
Cheers, brother.
All right, everybody.
joe rogan
Bye, everybody.
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