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April 28, 2021 - The Joe Rogan Experience
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Joe Rogan Experience #1641 - Matty Matheson
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unidentified
The Joe Rogan experience.
Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day.
joe rogan
Good?
Yeah.
unidentified
The first thing I say is a buttered asshole.
joe rogan
For you, for anybody else, it would be a real issue.
For you, it's on brand.
matty matheson
I'm on brand.
joe rogan
Yeah, you're always on brand.
matty matheson
I am a brand.
joe rogan
Dude, speaking of on brand, you fucked this podcast up because you stepped in here with some Franklin's brisket.
My God, sir.
You made everybody, you put everybody into a sedated state.
Franklin's brisket, by the way, may I say, that was my first time eating it, and the fucking hype is real.
matty matheson
The hype is real.
It's a beautiful thing.
Aaron, beautiful person.
Beautiful brisket.
The brisket's real.
You're welcome.
I'm trying to slow you down.
Slow me down.
I'm trying to slow you down a little bit.
Bringing you down to my level.
I'm a slow guy.
I like to move.
I'm like a sea turtle.
joe rogan
You got a lot of energy though, dude.
matty matheson
I got a lot of energy packed up in here.
I watch your show.
I'm like a sugar packet.
joe rogan
I'm a fan of your program.
I enjoy what you do.
unidentified
Cheers.
matty matheson
Hey.
joe rogan
Cheers.
matty matheson
To your health.
joe rogan
To yours.
matty matheson
That's hot!
joe rogan
Little hot.
matty matheson
That's fucking hot!
This is a boiling pot of fucking coffee!
Coffee, boys!
Okay.
joe rogan
So the best brisket I've ever had up until today is Terry Black's.
matty matheson
Yeah.
joe rogan
And Franklin's is just as good.
There you go.
It is not better.
It is not better.
It is amazing.
I don't think there's better.
I think we were talking about this.
matty matheson
Better isn't always best.
joe rogan
There's a level of barbecue that you're just like, holy fucking shit.
matty matheson
Yeah.
joe rogan
And there's quite a few places like that.
matty matheson
There's a lot of holy shits.
There's a lot of holy shits.
joe rogan
Franklin's is holy shit.
matty matheson
Franklin is holy shit.
joe rogan
Holy shit.
matty matheson
Franklin makes you want to shit your pants, rub your feet.
So juicy.
Juicy.
Crispy the barky.
joe rogan
Oh my god, so good.
matty matheson
The rendered fat within the molecules.
joe rogan
And I only had two pieces, but I'm like, brr.
matty matheson
You're sleepy.
We've got to bring you back.
You've got to drink some of your hot fucking coffee piss.
Black Rifle.
unidentified
Black Rifle.
matty matheson
That's a fucking shout out.
joe rogan
Yeah.
matty matheson
That's a shout out.
I just want to ask you a quick question.
This is an easy question.
joe rogan
Okay, Matty.
matty matheson
Have you ever listened to my podcast?
unidentified
No.
matty matheson
I have a podcast called Powerful Truth Angels.
joe rogan
No.
unidentified
Okay?
matty matheson
I have a podcast called Powerful Truth Angels.
joe rogan
The name's amazing.
matty matheson
It's incredible.
joe rogan
Do you have a t-shirt?
matty matheson
I made it.
This is our first one we've ever made.
I sharpied it.
Because I was like, I'm going on like the biggest, this is like the, what is it, the Oprah of podcasts?
joe rogan
Bro-pra.
matty matheson
The bro-pra.
The bro-pra.
So I was just like, I need to wear a shirt because I have a podcast with my co-host Two Tone.
And I just wanted to quickly, I know this is a big podcast.
It's doing well.
joe rogan
It's doing pretty good.
matty matheson
It's doing well.
And so I just wanted to take this chance to just- Shout out your own show.
Shout out my own show because I just thought that this is, you know, I won't talk about it again.
joe rogan
Do I want a picture of you with the angel wings and maybe some sort of a weapon?
matty matheson
Yeah, like a crossbow, bazooka, grenade launcher.
joe rogan
Yeah, grenade launcher.
matty matheson
Flame laser eyes.
joe rogan
And maybe some of them, the old school runner's goggles.
matty matheson
Runner goggles.
joe rogan
You know, what the fuck is that guy's name?
matty matheson
What, Larry?
And Tyson?
joe rogan
The Bosworth.
Brian Bosworth.
Remember, he used to have those goggles from back in the day.
Terminator goggles.
matty matheson
The Terminator?
Oh, like just the little Oakley guys.
joe rogan
Yeah, like...
matty matheson
Windstripes.
Tactical.
Tactical.
joe rogan
Roca Tactical.
matty matheson
Yeah.
joe rogan
If you were shooting guns.
matty matheson
If I was a tactical person shooting guns in the mountain range.
joe rogan
Those are the kind of glasses you...
matty matheson
And I would have those to protect me because anywhere I looked, I would be protected from the sun.
Always a perfect pitch in temperature of color.
joe rogan
Maybe like a yellow tint.
unidentified
Those?
joe rogan
No!
matty matheson
Is he the guy in Cold Steel?
joe rogan
No.
matty matheson
What was his movie?
He was in like a biker movie, wasn't he?
joe rogan
He was a famous football player who blew his shoulder out.
matty matheson
Look at that guy.
joe rogan
And then he became a movie star for like one movie.
matty matheson
The boss!
joe rogan
What a handsome bastard though, huh?
matty matheson
Oh my god, look at that chin.
I wish my dick was as nice as that chin.
joe rogan
Those right there.
Those goggles.
Dice Clay has some of those too.
matty matheson
Yeah, the dice man.
joe rogan
But those kind of goggles.
Like you with those kind of goggles and a grenade launcher.
Look at the flat top.
matty matheson
A flat top's great.
Did you ever have a flat top?
I feel you were a flat top guy.
Maybe.
joe rogan
I had a crew cut.
I had a crew cut.
I never got it flat, though.
matty matheson
No.
Never truly flat.
joe rogan
No.
matty matheson
It takes a lot to go all the way flat.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's a weird look, the flat top.
I feel like black guys can pull it off really well.
Chris Rock had a nice flat top back in the day.
matty matheson
Great guy.
joe rogan
Kid and Play.
Remember, he had the real tall one?
matty matheson
Play had the big one.
That's the biggest one.
That's the one, I feel.
That is the one.
joe rogan
Super high top.
matty matheson
The super high tops.
It's so nice.
I'm glad you acknowledge Powerful Truth Angels.
Are you a graffiti guy?
Are you into graffiti?
joe rogan
I enjoy it if it's consensual.
matty matheson
Yes.
joe rogan
I think there's a problem with graffiti.
It's like, I have amazing art that I'm putting on your fucking building.
Yes!
And you're like, hey, dick.
matty matheson
Don't fucking spray shirt on my house or my building or my alleyway.
joe rogan
It's an asshole move.
matty matheson
It's an asshole move.
joe rogan
But sometimes they're super talented artists.
matty matheson
Yes.
So my partner, Alex, on the podcast, he's an iconic graffiti writer.
Like an OG Venice crew.
Oh, one of those guys.
Yeah, like an OG dude from Venice.
And that's all I want to say.
Graffiti is, you know, problematic because you're destroying property, but it is a beautiful art form.
joe rogan
Yeah, if you have like an abandoned building and someone gives you the green light, fuck yeah.
matty matheson
Go do it.
joe rogan
Yeah, no, I think there's a lot of really dope graffiti artists.
They make amazing stuff.
unidentified
There are.
matty matheson
There are.
joe rogan
Wasn't there an issue where, it wasn't really graffiti, it was more of a mural.
Someone had painted a mural and then someone bought the building.
I think it was in Brooklyn.
Really?
And they just like, fuck this and they painted it over and like, everybody shit their pants.
They're like, what the fuck?
matty matheson
That was art.
joe rogan
Yeah, it was art.
matty matheson
That was art.
You just took down the Picasso of the graffiti.
joe rogan
But that's the question, right?
If you buy a building and the building is covered with beautiful art, are you obligated to keep it looking exactly the same?
Because that doesn't seem very fucking American.
matty matheson
No.
I think you can do whatever you want when you buy a building.
joe rogan
Yeah, just take a picture of it and send it to the guy who made the art.
matty matheson
Yeah, take a picture and NFT it.
joe rogan
Treat it like it's a sand castle.
Good job, but when it rains, that's a wrap.
matty matheson
Me buying the building is when the rain comes.
I like the notepad.
This is such a nice...
I really am excited to be here.
joe rogan
I'm excited to have you here.
matty matheson
And I want to say, when I was a young kid, and at the beginning of the UFC, my family were very into the UFC at the beginning.
And they still are to this day.
But me and my friends it was amazing my parents used to we would watch them at the very beginning like the hoist Gracie and the tanks and the early shit like you'd have like a 500 pound sumo guy fighting a karate person that's 120 pounds and We used to fight my parents used to like our all of our parents friends They would have all the kids and we would have to after the UFC we would all have to fight each other It was like battle royal And me and my two brothers and then all of our friends would always be over there, and we'd have to fight each other after.
We were all ramped up.
My parents would just be all around drinking, having a good time, watching their kids beat the shit out of each other.
joe rogan
That seems very Canadian.
matty matheson
Yeah, it was nice.
You know, a 10-year-old just fighting like a 16-year-old, and you're just like, you know, after watching Hoist Gracie chokehold somebody.
I don't know.
joe rogan
Do you maybe think that some of that early head trauma is responsible for your outrageous behavior?
matty matheson
I think there's just a lot of damage up here.
There's a lot of damage.
There's a lot of shaken up.
I'm like a bag of milk, you know, a Canadian bag.
There's a lot of stuff inside and it wants to get out, but it moves around.
I've never had a black eye in my life.
Really?
Never.
And I've been in a lot of fights and I've been punched in the face a million times.
And for some reason, I've never had a black eye.
joe rogan
That's pretty crazy.
matty matheson
It is.
And I remember one time, a New Year's Eve party, I was hammered before, you know, this is early shit, and I got so drunk, and I was so funny, and I started, I was like, I want a fucking black eye, and I told everyone at the party was allowed to punch me in the face as hard as they could.
Jesus Christ, Maddie.
Line the fuck up, you losers.
And I was like, you fucking losers.
You fucking losers.
You guys don't know how to punch.
You can't punch.
You can't punch me in the face.
And I would like fucking fuck with them.
And then I'd be like, punch me in the face.
And then at the end of the night, I had all these welts all over my face.
But nobody still got me clean in the face where I got the fucking black eye.
joe rogan
Wow.
matty matheson
And I don't know why I'm just going.
I'm just jumping.
Joe, we're jumping.
unidentified
Oh.
joe rogan
I'm fine with jumping.
matty matheson
We're gonna jump around for a little bit.
And I used to give my friends black eyes for their birthdays, unbeknownst to them.
So I would sneak up.
If it was your birthday back in the day, I would sneak up and fucking pop you in the fucking face, and then you get a black eye from me for your birthday.
joe rogan
This is what happens when you grow up in the woods.
People get really bored.
The kids beat the shit out of each other in front of the parents while they're drunk.
You're asking people to punch you.
You punch them when they're not asking for it.
What is this?
No, what's happening?
matty matheson
Yes.
joe rogan
Sparring?
unidentified
Look at that!
matty matheson
Almost did a backhand!
Look at that!
joe rogan
Well, the problem is those fucking headgear, they can't see shit with those headgears.
matty matheson
They can't see anything.
Look at that!
joe rogan
Oh my goodness.
matty matheson
Big overhand, a kick to the groin.
joe rogan
Oh, the kid's just spinning around like a top.
matty matheson
Look at that!
joe rogan
I think he felled out.
Look at that!
matty matheson
The spin kick and the backhand!
joe rogan
These kids can't hurt each other.
They should take the fucking headgear off so they can at least see what they're doing.
matty matheson
They should.
joe rogan
Because they're not hitting hard.
matty matheson
They should take everything off.
There's your bare knuckle.
You can't hit hard enough.
My son is five and I swear he could break my nose.
joe rogan
Well, the thing about hitting, you could poke someone in the eye.
That could be real.
matty matheson
Yes, that's bad.
joe rogan
So I don't think they should take the gloves off, but they definitely should take the headgear off, because those are like fucking 10-ounce gloves.
These kids weigh 20 pounds.
They're not going to hurt each other with those gloves.
matty matheson
I love the running and the kicking.
That's like me fighting it now.
joe rogan
Jesus Christ.
matty matheson
That's how I would fight.
unidentified
That's good.
joe rogan
Look at the guy laughing.
Look at the dude.
The dude who's the traitor is laughing.
Oh my god.
matty matheson
That's it.
joe rogan
These kids are going to war.
unidentified
He's like, get up!
matty matheson
Was he taunting him?
joe rogan
He was taunting him!
matty matheson
Get the fuck up!
unidentified
Look at that!
joe rogan
Get the fuck up again!
matty matheson
One more time.
White Helmet's fucking laying work.
joe rogan
Oh, White Helmet's got some moves.
He's got some moves.
I like that spin that he does.
He's got some talent.
matty matheson
And he's shorter.
Look at that guy.
White Helmet's my guy.
unidentified
What?
matty matheson
Look at it!
That's perfect.
joe rogan
It's a good time to learn because you can't hurt each other.
And so you're accustomed to getting hit.
Because as you get older and bigger and stronger and faster, it's scarier so you're hesitant and you don't learn as well.
matty matheson
No.
You don't take in a lot when you're older.
And you're stuck in your ways.
I'm slower.
I feel like I'm slower, but I have dad strength now.
I feel the dad strength is real with the children.
I have three kids now, and I'm just like...
joe rogan
Well, if your kid's five, it's real.
matty matheson
Yeah.
joe rogan
They're little tiny people.
matty matheson
And you gotta grab them.
And Mac is a thick boy, and I gotta grab him.
I call him a stack of pancakes.
He's got a big butt, too.
And I grab him, and I'm like, what the fuck are you doing?
Because he gets all ramped up, you know?
And I gotta pick him up, shake him like a bag of potatoes or something.
joe rogan
Do you make him fight around drunk people?
matty matheson
No.
unidentified
Not yet?
matty matheson
No, I don't.
We keep every...
No, no.
I hate drunk people now.
It's just like...
joe rogan
You're sober.
matty matheson
I'm Sobs.
Yeah, Sobs.
joe rogan
When did you get sober?
matty matheson
Joe.
unidentified
Joe, Joe, Joe.
matty matheson
When did I get sober?
That's not a great question.
joe rogan
Guys like you who get sober have a wonderful...
Just this year?
matty matheson
No.
No.
2000...
What's like nine years ago?
joe rogan
2002?
unidentified
2002. Nine years ago is 2002!
joe rogan
I knew there was a two.
matty matheson
Big JR with the mathematics!
Let's go!
Excuse me, 12. Yeah, I'm like, nine years ago.
I forget what year it is, bro.
1997. I'm living in the past.
Yeah, no, like nine years ago, I had an intervention to stop the brutality that I was putting onto myself.
joe rogan
What were you doing?
What was your drug of choice?
matty matheson
My drug of choice?
unidentified
Cocaine!
matty matheson
I just wanted...
I wanted everything.
I was a garbage head.
I would do MDMA, I would do shrooms, I would do acid, I would do...
joe rogan
Want it all at once?
matty matheson
I would, yeah.
joe rogan
Everything.
matty matheson
Whiskey, a lot of whiskey.
joe rogan
Make me thirsty.
matty matheson
I could chug a 26er of whiskey in like two pulls.
joe rogan
Really?
matty matheson
Oh yeah.
joe rogan
That's not a smart thing to do though, right?
We can agree.
matty matheson
No, no, no.
The second one isn't smart at like 7 a.m.
But the first one at like midnight when you do like 10 shots, like you would drink...
At the end, my drink of choice.
So my drink of choice was a pint glass.
So a 16-ounce pint full of ice filled with vodka and three limes.
So then I would drink those until I was feeling like swirly.
Real swirly, so I'd drink like six, seven, eight of those.
Then I'd be like, let's have a beer.
Crack a beer.
Then I'd drink like fucking a lot of those, and then I'd get into the whiskey.
But on the second vodka, I'd probably do a couple bumpers, and then I'd just start bumping, and then I'm bumping, and then I'm bagged in, and then I'm deep in the bag.
joe rogan
You're Hunter S. Thompson.
matty matheson
Bro, I would want to feel like my bones were outside of my body, and I was like two people.
I was like my skin and the muscles, and then the bones were over here, and I was like, buddy, let's do a bump.
And then you're talking to your buddy, and it's just your bones.
It's your skeleton.
I would want to do everything.
Because I started early.
The first time I did, I started early.
joe rogan
Twelve?
unidentified
Twelve.
matty matheson
Yeah, like grade 8 was the first time I did acid.
joe rogan
Whoa.
matty matheson
Which is scary.
And my parents, like...
What is that?
joe rogan
13?
matty matheson
Yeah, like 12, 13. 13. So, like, I drank...
The first drink I ever had, the first alcoholic beverage I ever had was Southern Comfort.
unidentified
Jeez.
matty matheson
And me and my friend Kylie got wasted in, like, grade 7 secretly.
And then I started, like, smoking some smokes.
Stealing, you know, from the uncle's drawers.
Steal a pack of carton, a little carton of smokies.
And then, you know...
Yeah, just worked my way up.
joe rogan
Wow.
matty matheson
Yeah, just work your way up.
joe rogan
And every day?
matty matheson
At the end, yeah.
So by the end of it, you know, like high school, party boy.
You know, like super party boy.
High school, like, you know, fun.
My house was the hub.
My house was the hub.
My house was the open door policy in the neighborhood.
Me and my brothers were like two years apart.
So we were like the full crew.
My older brother was a psychopath.
I was a psychopath.
My little brother was a psychopath.
So we were like the Matheson brothers.
And so my house was, and my parents are beautiful, East Coast loving, food on the table kind of family.
You know, not like this, like, demonic, psycho-toxic shit.
joe rogan
So they were happy to have everybody coming over.
matty matheson
Our place was the place.
You know, every Sunday there'd be, you know, football games on and barbecue and cooking, but it would just be like, you know, everyone was there.
joe rogan
Yeah.
matty matheson
And, you know, smoking weed and doing shrooms and acid and all that fun stuff, you know?
It was like the 70s.
Like, Dazed and Confused, you know?
Dark Side of the Moon.
joe rogan
Nine years ago, in 2002...
unidentified
Yeah.
He just decided that's a wrap.
matty matheson
No.
So, you know, the journey.
The journey is so long, you know?
Going to college, getting into, like, chef school, doing all that stuff.
joe rogan
Chefs party hard.
matty matheson
Chefs party hard.
joe rogan
I learned that from partying with Bourdain.
matty matheson
Yeah, I bet.
joe rogan
He would go so hard.
matty matheson
Well, it's just a maintenance thing, and it's like a constant thing, and it's just like, you build it up, and it's just- It's part of the culture, too.
unidentified
Well, the thing about it is Valhalla.
matty matheson
We want to take care of you.
We want you to be in heaven.
We want you to...
Our idea of hospitality is that you are 100% taken care of.
We're feeding you grapes.
We're shoving meat into you.
We're shoving, you know, meat inside of you.
We're doing everything.
Drink.
Drink, grapes, the fellatio, you know, whatever you need.
And I think that's the...
And you get caught up.
You really get caught up because it's every day.
Where most people go out and have a Saturday night on Saturday night.
We have Saturday night every night.
So it is one of those things where...
You can get lost.
You can get stuck into it.
You become kind of the thing, the monster a bit.
And I am so obsessed with everybody having a good time.
But sometimes my idea of what a good time is wasn't really the good time.
And I was so young.
I was 26 when I opened my first restaurant.
And 27 when I opened my second one.
So when we opened up Parts& Labor, it was crazy.
Parts& Labor was a giant old warehouse.
Big 14-person tables, like a hall.
And it was insane.
Food reviewers didn't know what was happening, because we were young, we were cool, we played really loud music, and we served really good food.
And people just didn't know, you know, it's like one of those things where you, and it was in a part of town that wasn't really built up yet, and it was just like, it was chaos.
And my partners were chaos.
And we all loved partying.
And we all were like riding this wave.
And the wave, sometimes you get fucking barreled.
And I think it's just like, but you keep going.
And you know, and it is that pressure of making the best food that you can, having the best experience for those people that are coming into your restaurant.
And at the same time, party...
Excuse me.
joe rogan
What's happening over there?
matty matheson
I'm getting, like, mucus from the coffee.
The coffee's, like, rattled my mucuses.
joe rogan
Was it, like, were you wrapped up in the party because everyone's having a good time and you want to have a good time, too?
Yeah.
matty matheson
I was the last guy at the party kind of thing.
You know, where it was just, like, after about two years at Parts and Labor, it kind of died, the hype died down, and it was, you know, it was just kind of one of those things where it's just, like, every day we partied.
On the days off, all of our staff would party together.
And it was just like one of those things.
So at 29, I'm 39 now.
So at 29, I had a heart attack, right?
So I had a heart attack after about a three-day binge, no sleep, Big fucking work, you know, just like 15 years, my whole life of being a maniac, being a psychopath, being like, I'll do anything on the table.
Whatever's on the table, I'll do it.
No problem.
No questions asked.
No, like, demons even.
I just want to have, like, literally...
I just wanted to fucking get so fucked up.
And I didn't even know why I wanted to get so fucked up.
And then the heart attack happened and it was like a crazy kind of moment.
That was like a crazy thing because it happened like in my sleep and I woke up.
So it was like after I crashed after three days.
So I'm at home and I wake up at like five in the morning and it's after like a Saturday night shift.
And I was like, I'm done.
I haven't slept in three days.
I'm just going to fucking bed.
See ya.
And I go home, and I wake up at like 5, 5.30 in the morning.
And I'm a big dude, so I used to do this thing.
Like, if I was partying, like, really hard, and I get, like, palpitations...
I would do this thing where I'm doing almost like jumping jacks, and I would cough out the palpitations that I would feel, and I thought that was doing well.
I don't know if you do that when you're working out and you feel your heart rate getting to where you feel like your heart's going to explode, but I used to do this jumping jack thing, and I'd be at a party just shoveling cocaine in my face, and all of a sudden I'd be like, and doing this thing, and everyone's like, what's he doing?
And I'm like, I'm at the level now.
Now I'm at the good pace.
Like a fucking goddamn cheetah.
And then I woke up and I was like, I think I'm going to have a heart attack.
joe rogan
What was it feeling like?
matty matheson
It was like an uncompromising vice grip on my heart.
So it was like this thing that was getting tighter and it wouldn't stop.
If I moved or anything and I would stand up and I was like stretching and I was doing all these things, I was just like, this is just, it's just clenching and it's getting tighter.
And it hurts.
And I'm like, third degree burns, cut my tendons off, break my shit.
I'm covered in tattoos.
I understand pain.
I understand levels of pain.
I understand all that kind of shit.
And I was like, this is something I've never felt before.
And this is something that I'm like, I know my palpitations, I know like, you know, coke boy fucking psycho shit, and I'm just like, this is not that.
This is like, and I was like, Trish, take me to the hospital.
And Trish is like, okay, yeah?
It's go time?
And I'm like, it's happening!
It's like we're having a kid.
I was like, you got your drug addict boyfriend, like, overnight hospital bag?
joe rogan
Let's go!
Like, did she anticipate that this was eventually going to take place?
matty matheson
I don't know.
If you asked her, maybe.
I was so in it.
joe rogan
When you said, take me to the hospital.
Like if I said to my wife, take me to the hospital.
She'd be like, why?
I would have to explain.
I think I'm having a heart attack.
She'd be like, what the fuck are you talking about?
matty matheson
Exactly.
I wore my drug use on my sleeves.
joe rogan
So she was like, this is not outside of what's possible.
Let's go.
matty matheson
She's like, you stupid piece of shit.
Let's go.
unidentified
Hospital.
joe rogan
Don't die.
matty matheson
Don't die.
We're like three blocks away from the hospital, though, which is lucky.
Shout out to St. Joe's.
So I go to the hospital, and when they take your blood...
So I walk in, and they're like into the ER. I'm like, I think I'm going to have a heart attack.
And they're like, what?
What's happening?
Okay, do you do this?
Do you do this?
And I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Let's go.
I'm having a heart attack here.
And they fucking...
So they take your blood.
Your enzymes change.
joe rogan
And they find broken glass.
matty matheson
They're like, there's broken glass, there's elastic bands, there's fucking...
Tampons.
There's tampons.
They're like, there's just a million little Ziploc bags inside of me.
You know, I'm like the ocean.
I'm the ocean.
There's that much plastic inside of me.
And they're like, you had a heart attack four hours ago.
And I was like, yeah!
And I was kind of like, sick.
Okay, so I had a heart attack four hours ago and I'm still alive.
So I'm good?
And they're like, no, you're not good.
And I was like, okay, so what do we do?
And they're like, we're going to bring you to the ER and we're going to lay you down in a bed and you're going to calm down.
I was like, okay, can I call my parents?
I think I need to call my parents.
And they're like, okay, call your parents.
And I went outside, had a smoke.
Of course you did.
Yeah, I'm just like, I'm going to have a fucking smoke, go outside in the parking lot.
I'm like, hey, mom, dad, I don't want to stress you guys out, but I think I had a heart attack.
The doctor says I had a heart attack four hours ago.
I'm walking around right now, so I feel pretty cool, but I feel relief.
joe rogan
What exactly is a heart attack?
What happens?
matty matheson
So I had one of my valves just closed up.
It's a matter of literally- Seizes.
Yeah, seized up.
And yeah, just seized up.
joe rogan
You know what I know about heart attacks?
matty matheson
What do you know?
joe rogan
Richard Pryor explaining about his heart attack during one of his specials.
matty matheson
Oh my god.
joe rogan
That's literally about what I know about heart attacks.
matty matheson
That's it.
Pryor.
unidentified
Him going, you weren't thinking about that shit when you ate that pork.
matty matheson
Yeah.
Well, that's the thing.
I don't remember.
No.
I'm old.
I'm young.
I know prior.
Not that bit, though.
It's a good bit.
joe rogan
It's classic.
matty matheson
It's a classic bit.
joe rogan
Yeah, I'd see it.
So what do they do when you go in for a heart attack?
Do they give you liquids in an IV form?
matty matheson
Yeah, all of a sudden I get laced up.
I get laced up.
I get covered.
I get all the patches on me.
I get the IV. I get the thing.
I'm in the hospital bed.
Things start mellowing out.
Things start clicking and really kind of settling.
My adrenaline is going down.
I start, you know, getting sad.
Start thinking about life.
I put on my headphones, put on explosions in the sky.
And I'm just like, it's Friday night lights in my head.
And I'm just like, start crying.
And then, not a big crier.
I'm not a crier.
But in that moment, I didn't cry like when my children were born.
I didn't cry.
I feel like I'm still, there's too many broken people.
joe rogan
Do you have a heart attack song that brings you back to the moment when you had a heart attack?
unidentified
Maybe.
matty matheson
Just like explosions in the sky.
Just like Friday Night Lights.
The beginning of Friday Night Lights.
That's it?
Yeah.
If I watch Friday Night Lights for some reason and it triggers and I'm just like...
It makes me just want to party, really.
joe rogan
It makes me...
Heart attacks make me think of Audioslave for some reason.
Chris Cornell.
I would think like I Am The Highway.
You know that song?
matty matheson
I am the highway.
joe rogan
Not the golden wheel.
matty matheson
I am the highway.
joe rogan
I don't know.
I'm just expressing myself, Jamie.
I don't have any understanding.
I don't know why the fuck I think like this.
matty matheson
Did he have a heart attack?
How did Chris?
joe rogan
No, he's suicide.
matty matheson
Suicide.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's sad.
matty matheson
It is sad.
The ultimate.
joe rogan
Yeah, super sad.
matty matheson
It's sad.
But the, uh...
joe rogan
So...
matty matheson
Heart attack.
We're in the bed.
joe rogan
You're in the bed.
You're all covered in electrodes and shit.
matty matheson
Electrodes and shit.
Then I get up to my room, and they're like, you have to stay in the hospital until your enzymes flip.
Your cells or whatever flip back, your white cells or whatever.
It could take five to ten days.
I'm like, okay, cool, whatever.
Because in Canada, once again, shout out to Canada, the one really cool thing, healthcare.
So it's just like, I'm in the hospital for, end up, like, seven days.
And I get a bill for six dollars because I had a phone in my room.
So I had like a phone, a live whatever, a fucking old-school phone.
So I had to pay for the phone line.
joe rogan
Wow.
matty matheson
Yeah.
They don't cover that.
joe rogan
That's pretty tight.
matty matheson
Yeah.
joe rogan
That's nice.
matty matheson
And so I'm in the hospital.
Hooked up to everything.
They gotta take my blood every two hours, 24 hours a day, and I'm fucking fat, covered in tattoos.
joe rogan
So they have to find a vein.
matty matheson
Yeah, it takes forever.
I'm getting...
It's fucking...
It sucks.
But I get out...
And, you know, I got to think about a lot of things.
You know, I got to think about what I'm going to do.
I got to think about who I am.
I got to think about...
The scariest thing is like...
One of the scariest things is your identity.
My identity was if you came to Toronto...
You were going to come to Parts and Labor and party with me.
If you were a chef, if you were like, you know, a cool celebrity, if you were like a thing, you would come to Parts and Labor and like party, you know, kind of thing.
And I was so fixated on this like persona, this thing that I'm like this party boy.
And it was really scary because I was just like, am I really that?
You know?
Or am I really this genuine...
Like, am I this sweet little boy still?
Like, am I this monster that I've kind of created?
How do I get back to, like, this place of, like, sanity?
How do I get back to this place of...
Just realness.
Like where I can be me.
The fear of people not liking you is pretty heavy with most people.
And all of a sudden, I was just like, no one's going to like me.
It's going to affect my restaurants.
It's going to affect my business.
It's going to affect my contract with fucking Vice.
Because my very first thing I did with Vice was a show called Hangover Cures, where I would take a chef and get them as fucked up as possible.
Then the next day, that chef would have to cook me a hangover cure.
And so it was just like, at the very beginning, I was so afraid that my whole identity was drugs, alcohol.
It was me.
And to separate that and to do the work and to get into fucking all the shit was very scary because I didn't even get sober for two years after that.
joe rogan
Wow.
matty matheson
Or a year after.
joe rogan
How long after the heart attack do you start partying again?
matty matheson
It took about three months for me to spruce my goose up enough to get nuts.
And that is the turning point where I truly believe that I turned into a fucking full-blooded addict.
Because then all of a sudden...
I had an out.
You know, I had a safe out.
You know, I had the story.
I had the love of all my friends.
We're like, Maddie, we're with you.
You know?
So much beautiful support from all of my...
My crew's deep.
And I was just like, so much good love from my friends.
And then all of a sudden, I started hiding.
Going to different places.
Different bars.
Different little drug homes, I like to call them.
You know?
Little...
joe rogan
Trap house.
matty matheson
Yeah, little places.
Little critter little homes.
joe rogan
Is that a trap house?
unidentified
No.
matty matheson
No.
joe rogan
Trap house where you dance?
matty matheson
Trap house.
joe rogan
What happens in the trap house?
Fuck chicks?
What happens in trap houses?
matty matheson
You can say it.
The business happens.
joe rogan
The business happens.
matty matheson
And then you go to the other house to use it, usually.
joe rogan
Oh, because you don't get high at the trap house?
matty matheson
Just business.
No, Joe.
Hey, never get high on your own supply.
Dang, crack me.
Shut the biggie.
The, um, you know, I think that's when I really was getting fucking crazy.
And that's when I started turning Less fun and more of an addict.
Yeah, I got very violent.
joe rogan
Really?
matty matheson
Yeah, like I got I got banned from our own nightclub.
I got banned from like, you know, I got walked in on and I was trying to like rob pretty much this drug dealer I was like I swung on like I would be blackout drunk Trying to fight my friends and like being like you can't stop like because people would try to stop me They would like I would walk into a bar and like because I'm in the hospitality group like, you know, I'm in the crew and So it's just imagine being a comedian and somebody gets almost blacklisted, but we still love you, but you can't show up here.
But we love you.
You can do your comedy by yourself out in your car, but you can't come in here, right?
And I'm just like, well, I want to still go into the bar.
I go to the bar every day.
That's my safe place.
I want to go into the bar.
Let me in.
And everyone's like, you're not dying here.
You're not dying at my fucking bar.
So then I had to start going to these deeper, darker places and push myself.
And before, when I used to do drugs, I never had to say fuck it in your head.
You know when you're about to jump and you gotta be like, fuck it, let's go.
You know?
So those moments when you often have to be like, you have to push yourself.
I was doing that with drugs.
Where I'd be like, I know, now I know that I could die.
Before, my ego was like, you'll never die, Matty.
You're the fucking man.
But now, all of a sudden, my ego is a little bit shook.
But my ego still is like, fuck you.
You're gonna keep doing this.
And so I had to keep doing it, and I had to keep saying, fuck you, to myself.
So every time that I started doing drugs, I would be like, fuck it, let's go.
And then that was the moment when I was just like, that's when shit got dark.
And so there was like a year of that.
And then, by the last time I ever drank, the last time I ever did any, like, fucking anything, was, you know, nine years ago, the weekend of November, whatever, 12th, and my friend was visiting from England, a chef, and we were doing a big dinner, and I got so fucking drunk.
And I walked in Friday service, mid-service.
Didn't even show up for work.
Took the chef out and was just like, you know, didn't tell anybody.
I'm just like bringing my buddy around town, being a host.
And I show up and all the partners were sitting at one of the chef's tables.
So there was like, in the big kitchen at Parts, in this warehouse, there was like three chef tables.
So the VIPs, the homies, all the people got to sit in the chef tables.
And all the partners were sitting there.
And I walked in and they're like...
What's up?
You don't have to show up for work, bro?
You get to do whatever you want to do?
Kind of thing?
Like, what the fuck?
And I was just like, what the fuck do you want?
And I was just like, what do you want?
Your restaurant's packed.
Look at this.
And I walked out into the middle of the dining room and I was like, hey!
Everybody!
Who the fuck is having the best time ever?
And everyone was like, wow!
And I looked at all the partners and I was like, fuck you.
This is my crew.
This is my fucking world.
That didn't go well.
Ego.
I was such a psychopathic young psycho.
joe rogan
Well, those two things, booze and coke.
I mean, they are the accentuators.
unidentified
I got a little pee-pee.
I got a little pee-pee.
matty matheson
I got to make it up somewhere.
It's so hard to fill the void.
And I found that with that.
And then the next day, one of my partners was like, hey...
Let's meet for a coffee.
I want to fire you to your face.
And I was just like, okay, yeah, fire me.
I was just like, what are you going to do with your restaurant, bro?
What are you going to do with all your restaurants?
I'm the face of your company.
I'm the guy.
And I showed up.
And he was like, meet me here.
I'll pick you up.
We're going to go for a coffee.
I was like, okay.
Let's meet up.
And I knew that I could manipulate and talk to him and, you know, be like, we're cool.
You know, I won't do it again.
joe rogan
Attic shit.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Attic shit.
unidentified
Yeah.
matty matheson
Just manipulate, manipulate, manipulate, manipulate.
And fucking...
And he drives me and it's like, oh my God.
He pulls up to like my homie's house, who's like straight edge vegan warrior.
joe rogan
Oh boy.
matty matheson
And I'm just like, oh, perfect.
And then like four of my dudes come out.
And I'm just like, okay.
Let's see what you fucking losers gotta say.
You know?
Let's hear what all my best friends gotta say about me.
How much you love me and how much you care about me.
Let's see what you fucking losers gotta say.
You know, instantly going into hating these people that are trying to help me.
And, you know, the veils that can come...
When you sit down in front of your best friends, your true inner circle, the people you can't lie to, the people that you can't...
There's no facade.
There's no media.
There's no nothing.
It's you and your friends.
And I sat down and I listened for like four hours.
And...
And the next day, one of the guys there goes to meetings, and he's like, we're going to a meeting.
And so the next day, I walked into a meeting, and the miracle happened.
joe rogan
A meeting?
matty matheson
Yeah.
joe rogan
What made you hit the switch?
You go from, is everybody having a good fucking time?
To...
All right, I'm done.
matty matheson
Yeah, because I think the lying, within that four-hour period, that transitional period, that was my out.
I could stop lying, because I was lying.
The lying is what really broke me.
joe rogan
About whether or not you were using...
matty matheson
Where I was going, the people I was hanging out with, lying to Trish.
Another thing, I've been with Trish for like 21 years, you know?
She's...
A fucking saint.
She's a hard-bodied Italian-Irish woman.
She's fucking, you know, three home births.
She doesn't fuck around.
Yikes.
She's fucking real deal.
joe rogan
Home births.
matty matheson
Bruh, I'll birth a child right now.
Jamie, you got a baby in there?
Let's go.
I'll birth you.
So, the fucking...
I was like, why isn't Trisha here?
And she's like, she's out.
It's up to you.
She's got nothing left to say.
She's out.
It's up to you now.
And I was just like, huh.
I don't like that.
And even now, I feel I can trigger that feeling of this is real.
This is it.
This is a time where I can stop.
This is a time where I can...
I can stop.
I accept that I have a chance at not ever having to lie.
I have a chance.
I don't have to do that again.
And then a lot of hard work, a lot of years, a lot of listening, a lot of taking suggestions and doing things that other people say and listening.
A lot of suggestions were crucial.
The way I was living my life was not the way I should live my life.
The insanity, doing things repeatedly, thinking there's going to be a different outcome.
joe rogan
Yeah.
matty matheson
Insanity.
joe rogan
It's just amazing that you went from fuck everybody to one meeting, and you're like, okay.
matty matheson
Yeah.
joe rogan
And that was it.
No more drinking, no more drugs, no relapses, that's it.
matty matheson
That's it.
joe rogan
That's incredible.
So you hit the shift.
matty matheson
I hit the shift.
joe rogan
So you kind of knew you were going to have to get off the ride eventually.
matty matheson
Well, yeah.
The thing is, I'm more good than bad in the ego, you know?
I'm more aware than unaware.
I'm not a fucking idiot.
I have a nice life.
I love my parents.
I love my family.
I love myself.
I have a lot of things to live for.
And, you know, that was the thing where it was just like, am I gonna be, you know, a loser?
joe rogan
Right.
matty matheson
Am I gonna be, am I gonna not have a job?
Am I not gonna, like, I don't come from money.
Am I, I'm not gonna be taken care of, there's no one to take care of me.
joe rogan
Right.
matty matheson
I need to, like, figure my shit out.
That was, that was a good run.
You know?
High school, college, fucking my entire career, everything I wanted to do, perfect.
I got to do everything my way, and it ended up here.
Almost dead.
Friendless.
Jobless.
Fucking, from the most popular cool dude, you know, in my head.
joe rogan
To an almost dead guy.
matty matheson
To an almost dead guy that nobody actually really liked anymore, too.
A lot of people would see me because I wouldn't shower.
I was a psychopath.
I'd wear the same clothes every day.
Just like, ah!
Like, maniac.
So it was just like, nobody wants to be around that guy.
joe rogan
So how did you deal with the shift in your identity?
Because that's an issue for a lot of people.
When they stop doing something, it's a big issue for fighters.
When fighters retire from the sport, their identity is wrapped up in fights.
That's why so many fighters make ill-advised comebacks later in their life.
What did you do about your identity?
Like, how did you release this hold that you had on this idea that you're this party animal?
And that was part of who you are.
matty matheson
Well, I think the thing that helped me truly was shifting from a chef.
It was at that perfect moment.
Shifting from one career to another.
I was a chef.
I was a chef.
I only cared about chefs.
I didn't care about TV. Fuck you.
Fuck anybody on TV. Bourdain's, you know, cool.
But fuck everybody.
You know, I was like the punk chef guy.
Where I was just like, being on TV is for kooks.
Like, oh yeah, you're gonna be on fucking Food Network?
Go fuck yourself.
You fucking losers.
joe rogan
You sellout.
matty matheson
Yeah, fucking, yeah, that whole thing.
And then Vice, at the exact same moment, was doing a lot of food content.
And so was I. And so, all of a sudden, that was that thing where all of a sudden, I could leave that chef persona behind.
All of a sudden, I'm just in front of a camera.
And all of a sudden, the feelings I was getting wasn't from real people.
It was actually from comments and being like, oh, people fuck with me.
I can make content and it makes people happy.
People fuck with what I'm doing.
And all of a sudden, I was just like, that really helped me just be able to be myself.
I took myself out of, I made a lot of different rules even, where I wouldn't be in the restaurant past 10 o'clock.
So I would never even finish service.
So service would finish at 11, but it was triggering for me for the first year.
joe rogan
Because that's when everybody partied?
matty matheson
Well, at clean, like, okay, you know, last hour, big push.
We're going fucking down.
Let's fucking amp it up.
Like, finish fucking strong shit.
And then we scrub down, and as soon as we scrub down, everyone gets a beer.
Saturday night, I would buy whatever, cocaine for everybody, whoever wants it.
Here's cocaine, here's beers, let's go fucking party, boys.
You know?
You know, all of a sudden I didn't have a crew.
joe rogan
So did the other people stop partying as well?
matty matheson
A lot of my cooks did.
At the beginning, there was a lot of solidarity.
Oh, that's cool.
It was an interesting thing because also, I'm kind of the last of this bro chef shit.
Psychopathic dudes.
I was tattooed because I was punk, not because I was a chef.
All of a sudden, there's all these cool chef bros, but I was a hard-bodied, French-trained chef.
And fucking, you know, now everyone's running and jogging.
I don't think people like saying jogging.
But, you know, everyone's being active and eating well and doing meditation and all this stuff.
So I was like...
My crew was like a transitional time too, right?
Within the last 10 years, within the last, you know, seven to five years was a big transition and just the mentality of chefs to be like, instead of like eating chocolate bars and smoking cigarettes and getting drunk and fucked up every day, we're gonna meditate, jog or run and work out and be peaceful and like talk about like different books that help us and check in on each other.
And all of a sudden, there was, like, this big transition with me and our team and all that kind of stuff, too.
Even more so now, it's a full, like, thing across our whole company about all that kind of stuff.
But, you know, there was, like, it was one of those things where we were just, like, it was kind of, like, maybe they were hiding it from me, but there was definitely, like, we wouldn't drink at work anymore.
You know?
Like, nobody would drink online.
Nobody...
joe rogan
Out of respect for you.
matty matheson
Yeah, like, it was like a thing, like, we got you, chef.
joe rogan
That's nice.
matty matheson
Yeah, like, well, it's like that thing where it's just like, you know, maybe they were doing all the drugs and partying to, like, people please me.
You know?
Maybe they didn't want to go as hard as...
I was pushing everyone to be like, let's fucking go.
We cook hard, we fucking show up for work, and we fucking party till 6am, and then we're at work by 11am.
You know?
Like, that's not a sustainable anything.
joe rogan
No.
matty matheson
That's not sustainable.
And I did that every day.
I did that five, six days a week for 15 years.
I went to bed.
My bedtime, when Trish would start blowing my phone up, was like 6.01.
So I had to be home by 6.00.
Because then she'd be like, okay, now you're getting, like, crispy.
You know, from, like, 6 a.m.
to, like, 8 a.m.
is when you're, like, calling the drug dealer for the 15th time.
And you're doing, like, the crispy shit then.
So, like, my bedtime was, like, 6 a.m.
So then I'd go home, sleep from 6 to, like, 10.30, and then go to work.
joe rogan
Four hours?
matty matheson
Yeah, bro.
Just a fucking rhino.
joe rogan
That alone would be a heart attack.
matty matheson
Yeah, I guess so.
Drank a lot of water, though.
joe rogan
Well, that's good.
Fuckin' shoutout to water!
Yeah, shoutout to water.
I like how that cancels things out.
I drink water.
Yay.
matty matheson
But yeah, it is.
joe rogan
I asked him earlier, do you take vitamins?
He's like, no, I drink a lot of water, though.
matty matheson
One booger a day.
One booger a day just to make sure the immune system.
Yeah, the immune system's rockin', so one booger a day.
And then just fuckin' 16 liters of H2O. Well, it's good to drink water.
joe rogan
I agree with that.
We can find common ground.
matty matheson
That's our common ground, drinking water.
joe rogan
Yeah, water's good for you.
matty matheson
I like that, Joe!
joe rogan
I think you need more than four hours sleep, but that's just my personal opinion.
matty matheson
Well, now I go to bed at 9.30 and wake up at like 6. Oh, well, that's great.
Yeah.
unidentified
Oh, that's really good.
matty matheson
I'm like a 9.30, 10 o'clock latest guy.
joe rogan
Wow, so you're getting a solid, you know, 9-ish, 8 and a half?
unidentified
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
matty matheson
Tuck in.
I got my sleep apnea mask.
unidentified
Oh, no.
joe rogan
Do you have the CPAP machine?
matty matheson
Yeah, I got a CPAP machine, but then I don't use it half the time.
It's too gnarly.
I get up to pee like five times a night because I'm such a great water drinker.
So then, you know, putting the machine back on at like 4 a.m.
is not good.
But I sleep good.
I sleep good.
I'm happy.
You know, Joe?
joe rogan
This is a heavy story, man.
unidentified
It's a lot.
joe rogan
But I love the fact that you realized, like, when your friends were all, like, you were like, fuck, what the fuck are you going to say?
And then you're like, oh, I really, that is really it.
matty matheson
Well, it's just like, you take the, you put so many veils on.
You lie.
You lie, you cheat, you fucking do everything that you need to do to get whatever you need.
Because you want it.
I deserve it.
The void filling.
I need it.
I deserve it.
Fuck the world.
Why does he have that?
I want that.
Fuck.
I'm not even going to do anything.
I'm just going to go do coke with somebody I don't know for six hours.
It's just like, what is that?
And then when you're with your real friends...
And they're really being sweet, and they're telling you, like, the real shit, and you just take off the facade.
And you take off the facade, and then eventually you're like, there you are.
There you are, Peter.
You know Hook, the movie, Robin Williams, great film.
And they're like, there you are, Peter.
joe rogan
People are fucking messy, man.
It's messy to be a person.
matty matheson
It is.
joe rogan
And you can get wrapped up in that kind of partying.
Especially if you're involved in something like you were involved with where you are entertaining.
That's part of what you're doing.
You're the beast.
matty matheson
And then I became the jester.
That's the thing.
The party's over and you become the fool.
And it's like that's the thing is like now I just want to have a thing like I just want my life to be normal Yeah, you know, I just want to have my I want to go to work Monday to Friday when I have weekends with my family and That's it, you know, that's great because you got the best of both worlds Like you had the experiences that you could talk about and you have these you have the chaos in your past Ah, but yet you still are having a good time Best time.
Yeah.
The best time.
This is like, and that's the thing is like, my identity is now I am me, you know?
And it's like, I finally get to just be- Be yourself.
Be myself.
And I'm like, I'm a weird, loud mouth kind of fucking spaz.
joe rogan
Yeah.
matty matheson
And it's just like, and I, you know, I got mad ADD and I just want to fucking like grab you and like, I really want to feel your muscles right now.
That's all I'm I want to be like, I want to feel his traps or his biceps.
I want to just grab it and like, but that's my head.
And then I'm like talking about this vulnerable bullshit and I'm just like, I'm going to grab his biceps in like two more hours.
But it's just like, I think, you know, but I get to be me.
I get to get a DM from you being like, hey, come on the show.
And I'm like, what world am I living in?
You know?
And I'm just like, I'm like, still my brain is like, I live on a farm in Ridgeway, Ontario.
You know?
I'm like, I'm out here with my kids, and I'm so disconnected, actually, from...
joe rogan
Should we say how you do it, how you get over here, or should we not say that?
matty matheson
Yeah, yeah.
No, no.
Everything is cool.
No, no, no, no.
unidentified
Everything's cool.
matty matheson
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You can talk about it.
joe rogan
Because Canada's fucked right now.
matty matheson
Canada's juiced.
joe rogan
They're so locked down and I don't understand why they think that's good.
I don't understand why they think that's the solution.
matty matheson
Yeah.
joe rogan
You know, I mean, we're dealing with America in weird spots, right?
Like, America has states and each state has a different approach.
And Florida's got one approach and California has another.
Opposite sides of the country.
Like, literally polar opposite sides of the ideologies.
And Florida's doing fucking way better.
I was just in Florida and it's like nothing's happening.
Like, maybe you'll get sick, maybe you won't.
But we're out here with no masks on, 15,000 people in a fucking arena for the UFC fight.
It was madness.
It was powerful.
It was really good.
But I'm like, hey guys, take your vitamin D, sleep, drink water, let's go.
matty matheson
Let's go.
joe rogan
You can't do Canada.
You can't do what you're doing where you have fucking Gestapo pulling people over for your papers.
Why are you out?
Why are you out of the house?
There's a cold floating around.
Why are you out of the house?
matty matheson
There's a lot of...
joe rogan
Overreaction?
matty matheson
There's a lot of overreaction.
There's a government...
Shout out to Doug Ford.
You're a piece of shit.
joe rogan
He's the brother of the guy that died.
He was my favorite.
matty matheson
Dude, he was my hero.
There's so many people.
Rob.
Rob Ford.
Rest in peace, baby.
I just have a whole bit about him.
That's the guy I wanted to party with.
I was like, I want to party with that guy.
I want to do crack and smoke crack with that guy.
joe rogan
Remember when he was coked up talking about how he was like Mike Tyson and he knocked a motherfucker out?
matty matheson
Remember that?
joe rogan
I was like, that is such coke talk.
matty matheson
He didn't even have big forearms.
He couldn't knock anybody out.
joe rogan
He was just like a big jelly bean.
matty matheson
Or is it shoulders?
What is it?
joe rogan
I think more shoulders.
matty matheson
More shoulder than forearm.
joe rogan
Yeah, Tommy Hearns had big shoulders.
He didn't really have big forearms.
Well, forearms are good.
matty matheson
I'm getting hot, Joe.
joe rogan
Show that shirt, bro.
Powerful Truth Angels.
matty matheson
I made a stencil drawing on pencil.
joe rogan
Well, I guarantee you, someone listening to this show is going to create you some fine art that will represent this podcast.
When did you start the podcast?
matty matheson
You got the ACL? The Big Dog Sweatin'.
Well, this coffee, what's it called?
joe rogan
Black Rifle.
matty matheson
Black Rifle Coffee.
Let me tell you something.
This thing is fucking...
joe rogan
It's legit coffee.
unidentified
Shout out to...
matty matheson
That's making my foreskin fucking wrinkle up.
joe rogan
Evan Hafer and Matt Best.
matty matheson
Hey, God bless.
Legit coffee.
Yeah, we started the podcast, me and Two-Tone, I don't know, like two years ago?
joe rogan
How often are you doing the YouTube shows?
matty matheson
Okay, so the YouTube shows are great.
I have like three different little studios now, and when I get back from this trip, I'm going to start doing a weekly, a new cooking show.
And Just A Dash is like, I've only made like 24 episodes.
That's expensive.
You know, I pay all my dudes like well, and that is expensive to do Just A Dash.
We're trying to figure out some funding.
joe rogan
What's the difference between, I don't know what the names of any of them are.
I just find you, and then I watch your videos.
unidentified
That's good.
matty matheson
That's okay.
joe rogan
I love watching cooking videos, as weird as that sounds.
I don't like cooking television shows, for the most part.
unidentified
No!
joe rogan
Losers.
Other than Bourdain.
I really got into him with Bourdain, and I'm like, okay, no, I don't really like cooking shows.
I like Bourdain.
matty matheson
He was a human person.
He was a human person.
He's like, I don't care where you come from, what your story is, fucking tell me.
joe rogan
He was, uh, yeah.
matty matheson
He was people's people.
joe rogan
He was a very unusual dude.
I really enjoyed hanging out with him.
matty matheson
I can imagine.
I was so afraid of meeting him.
joe rogan
Me too.
matty matheson
I was and I never did and I'm happy that I because I was so I never met him and I even anytime he came to Toronto I would make sure that I didn't go because I don't know I was just I was like I'm gonna fucking ruin it yeah I'm gonna walk up there and be like hey Tony let's do a bag of you know I wouldn't have done the thing that he makes fun of exactly because I was too young and too fucking psycho and too into meeting him yeah where I was just like I can't meet him because I'll fucking kook it Yeah,
joe rogan
I got super starstruck when I met him.
Does that happen often?
Not that often.
matty matheson
You're starstruck right now.
joe rogan
Occasionally, a little bit.
Occasionally, if I meet a rock star, when I met Steven Tyler, I was like, I can't believe that's really him.
David Lee Roth weirded me out.
I was like, this is really Dave Lee Roth?
matty matheson
That's him, his face.
joe rogan
He looks old.
But he's so fucking cool.
He's so easy to hang with.
You know, David Lee Roth doesn't even have a phone.
Incredible.
He has a lady that is his handler, and you have to contact the lady, and the lady will drop Dave off, and she will say, let me know if there's anything wrong.
matty matheson
It's like a baby.
joe rogan
It's crazy.
I don't even know if he had a wallet.
I paid for dinner.
I don't know if he had a wallet.
matty matheson
He just hangs.
That's a good vibe though.
joe rogan
But he's the nicest, most easy going.
He's always laughing.
When I was a kid, my sister's boyfriend had a Van Halen license plate.
It was like V-H-N-H-L-N or something like that.
We were Van Halen fanatics in high school.
So from running with the devil to all of a sudden I'm hanging out with David Lee Roth.
It was too strange.
matty matheson
There's some gods.
joe rogan
It was very strange.
But meeting Bourdain was an odd one.
And then becoming his friend was an odd one.
I'd text him about stuff and ask him questions.
If I was going to a place, I went to Japan.
When I was in Japan, I was like, where are the best sushi places?
He gave me some suggestions.
He would always give me...
I've got detailed suggestions of where to go and this is the spot and go there.
And I ate with him a gang of times because his ex-wife was a UFC fanatic.
And so I met him at the UFC in Vegas.
unidentified
Jiu Jitsu.
matty matheson
She was Jiu Jitsu too, right?
joe rogan
Yeah, Tavia.
She's a beast.
She's really talented.
You know, just really cool, period.
So she was really into the UFC, and then he got really into the UFC, too.
And so he started coming to some of the UFCs, came to some of my comedy shows, we hung out, we became buddies.
I did his television show, and then, you know...
matty matheson
Where'd you do his...
What job?
joe rogan
We went pheasant hunting in Montana.
matty matheson
That's nice.
joe rogan
And that's when I realized how hard he goes.
matty matheson
Yeah.
joe rogan
Because we were out there in the middle of the woods camping, and this motherfucker was just pounding.
I brought a vape pen, we were getting blasted on weed, and he just kept drinking, kept going.
matty matheson
You can drink it forever.
That's the thing.
I could drink forever.
I could drink forever.
Just days.
Not stopping.
I think that's the thing.
You can't stop because that's when the machine breaks down.
joe rogan
Well, that is the thing about alcohol, too, right?
matty matheson
You gotta keep it lubed.
joe rogan
Well, no, the alcohol and benzos and alcohol are the only thing that really, or one of the rare things that really kill you if you jump off them.
That's what they say about Amy Winehouse.
matty matheson
Right, right.
joe rogan
She died from withdrawals.
matty matheson
Yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah, those are benzodiazepines and alcohol, apparently, the most common for people to die from withdrawal.
Heroin, apparently, just makes you really sick.
You feel like shit, but it doesn't kill you.
Or it doesn't always kill you.
matty matheson
Yeah, that's the thing.
It's so scary.
And that's the thing, too.
I think most people, if I do stop, there's repercussions, too.
joe rogan
So what happened when you did stop?
matty matheson
Nothing.
Killed it.
I wasn't doing opiates.
I wasn't doing anything.
Yeah, but alcohol.
joe rogan
But alcohol alone.
matty matheson
I don't know.
joe rogan
Did you get the DTs?
matty matheson
No.
I'm like a fucking giant baby moose.
You know, like I was just like, I'm like, I don't know.
I broke my foot literally in like four places like six weeks ago.
And I'm just, I had a cast on and everything.
I'm walking around like a fucking freak.
And I'm just like, I don't know.
It's like one of those things.
I feel like I heal differently or something.
Like I just, I'm just like.
joe rogan
Maybe if you lost weight, you'd be a real athlete.
matty matheson
Well, if I, let me tell you something, Joe.
joe rogan
Tell me something, please.
matty matheson
Let me tell you something about losing weight.
joe rogan
Yeah.
matty matheson
My big man.
joe rogan
Okay.
matty matheson
One day I'm going to get there.
joe rogan
Why don't you go with Action Bronson?
Go party with that dude.
matty matheson
Bronson is such a...
joe rogan
He impressed the fuck out of me.
matty matheson
He did it.
He did the damn thing.
joe rogan
He lost 130 so far, and he's going to keep going.
Of course.
matty matheson
So he's going to lose another 30. Well, now he's going to tune.
That's the thing.
It's so sweet.
Truly.
He gave me a call.
We've had our differences over the years and stuff like that.
You guys squabbled?
We had small squabbles.
We had some squabs.
But I think it was just like, you know, too many cooks in the kitchen with Vice, and I think it was just like, there was a lot of different little things, you know?
But he gave me a shout, and it was crazy.
He started popping up, and I was just like, he's doing it.
And I was just like, he's fucking doing it.
And I think it's like, you know, I even hit him up when his book came out.
I hit him up and I was just like, hey man, we have the same publisher too.
And I was just like, congratulations on publication day, third book, big one.
And this one's meaningful.
I'm sure your other books are, but I was like, this one's a real one.
And it's just very inspiring.
But I think the thing...
So this is addict brain, ego.
Now...
During the pandemic, I had to figure out how to take care of my family.
So I've been trying to figure out, and these are excuses, how to figure out How to truly take care of my family.
Because when the pandemic hit, I was only playing defense with my work.
I was flying around the world just getting checks, collecting checks.
Maddie Madison, come here to Australia.
Maddie Madison, come here.
Come here, come here, come here.
Pandemic hit.
I had, you know, six months of booked out travel, paid, fucking dialed.
Like, here's my year, half a year.
Gone, instantly.
Then, lost, you know, a lot of stuff.
And then I was just like, wait, I'm a fucking tool.
I'm a gadget.
There's no way that this is fucking going down like this.
So I had to figure out how to make my own money.
And so then that's when I transitioned back into restaurants.
So with Maker Pizza, I was just a consultant.
Now I'm a partner.
But for the last five years, I was just a consultant.
So I was like, I don't even have a fucking restaurant.
I'm this chef traveling around the world being a chef.
I'm not a chef.
A chef isn't a fucking MD. You're not a fucking doctor.
A chef is a person that trains other cooks how to fucking cook.
If you're in front of your team, you're a chef.
If you walk outside, I don't believe it.
Like, you're not a chef, you're just a person.
You know, chefs aren't these fucking monolithic things.
joe rogan
You have to be in action.
matty matheson
Yeah, I strongly believe that.
Like, if you were in a kitchen, you're a chef.
If you are leading a team, teaching them how to cut better, sharpen their knives, cut vegetables, take care of things, build stocks, build dishes, understand the ergonomics of a dish, then you're a chef.
But I was just like, I'm not anything now.
Because I'm only as good as my last paycheck.
So I'm just like, there's no more paychecks.
So I had some restaurant partners, and I was like, we're going to activate.
We're going to build out some things.
We're going to build out some concepts.
We're going to start doing some shit.
And we went into action and we started doing those things.
And it's taken up a lot of time and a lot of mental capacity.
And I believe after this foot breaking that I truly...
I have this gym that I built in my barn.
And it's a great gym.
I got the TRX. I got squat racks.
I got the kettlebells.
I got the fucking balls.
I got the fucking bands.
I got all this shit in my barn.
And, you know, I just got out of my boot, like, two weeks ago, and my main concern, shortly, is going to be that next level.
Because it's just like, right now, I have to figure out...
You know, I'm not the rock.
You know, 5 a.m.
wake up, I got my reg- to build a new routine that I- I've never had a routine.
I've been a fat kind of kid my whole life.
You know, I played sports in high school, fucking lacrosse and shit, but it was like never like a- I was never like an athlete athlete.
You know, I was always like a fatter.
I was like the fat brother.
My brother abs, big dick.
Way to go, Steve.
My younger brother, like, bigger than me.
Fucking massive, strong motherfucker.
20,000 steps a day.
Psycho pack.
Concrete backpack.
Walking around the fucking neighborhood like a psychopath.
My brother's fucking ripped.
Me?
I was always the fat kid.
So I always have that ego too, where I fucking, fuck them, they just, their DNA is better than mine.
So I fought with, you know, being the fat kid, fought with being this, you know, whatever, just being this shape, you know?
And now...
I've built to a level where I feel comfortable with my team that I can start focusing my energy and time more on my physical self, which will help my mental self, which will now help everything else.
So I think I'm trying to build my own Swiss clock of my Maddie world.
And right now, I have to set up a financial foundation of businesses.
Which I have, and now I have my home with my family taken care of, and now I can kind of start tending to Maddie a little bit.
Does that make sense?
joe rogan
Yes.
Long journey of words to get to, you're gonna lose weight.
matty matheson
Yeah, Joe.
joe rogan
I get it.
matty matheson
Look at these pumps.
I got pump-ups.
You want to arm wrestle?
I think I need to...
You know, Joe...
I would like to lose weight.
But I also think it's like, fuck.
I know that my cardiologist, my cardiologist, I don't have high blood pressure.
I don't have high cholesterol.
joe rogan
That's amazing.
matty matheson
It's incredible.
I don't understand it.
And my cardiologist was like, I'm the best cardiologist in the country.
You don't need me.
joe rogan
Yeah, but it's Canada.
matty matheson
Yeah, okay.
joe rogan
What does it even mean?
matty matheson
They're fucking brilliant.
joe rogan
They get paid slave labor.
matty matheson
No, they get paid hundreds of millions.
joe rogan
You get paid loonies.
matty matheson
They get loonies.
Hundreds of millions of loonies.
She definitely has a Range Rover.
She's doing fine.
Dude, it was so funny.
The thing about healthcare in America versus Canada, perfect example.
I break my foot in LA. I break my foot in LA. I break three metatarsals on the top of my foot.
joe rogan
How'd you break it?
matty matheson
Slipped off a curb, and my foot got stuck almost on the curb, and the way that I compressed or fell, it snapped the three metatarsus.
Because in LA, the curbs are high because of the water.
In Canada, our curbs are shorter.
So my my my my my agility my agility we have great drainage sandy soil and My fucking my my my I was like literally it was the stupidest thing I fell down like a baby.
I was like a turtle laying in the middle of fucking Melrose I was like Melrose and Myrtle and I was like at my homie.
joe rogan
You do not want to be hurt on Melrose these days either It's like a Mad Max movie.
matty matheson
Dude, it's crazy out there right now.
joe rogan
Isn't it weird?
matty matheson
Dude, I did a photo shoot.
I'm doing this thing, and I had to do a photo shoot, and they wanted to do it just on Hollywood Boulevard.
joe rogan
Yeah.
matty matheson
And I was just like, yeah, let's go.
Let's do it.
And it was just...
It was like...
joe rogan
You might as well be on Skid Row.
matty matheson
Yeah.
It's there, but it's...
unidentified
Fuck it.
matty matheson
Whatever.
joe rogan
So you broke your foot.
matty matheson
So I broke my foot, Joe.
joe rogan
So all this gym that you have set up, you haven't used it, but you set it up...
matty matheson
It's the beef barn.
You can call it the beef barn.
It's the beef barn.
joe rogan
Are you going to get a trainer?
That's what you should do.
matty matheson
So I have some...
I have so many beautiful people around me.
So many knowledgeable people around me.
And that's the thing.
I'm friends with, like, because of, like, Pat from, like, Ruka.
And, like, I have access to so many amazing athletes now that, like, they're all, like, let us know.
Anytime.
And, you know, I just gotta mentally get to that place.
joe rogan
It's just...
Do it.
Listen, there's all this jabber, jabber, jabber.
matty matheson
Jabber, jabber, jabber.
joe rogan
You're jabbering too much about it.
I know this is the same thing as...
matty matheson
I said it was excuses, Joe.
joe rogan
I know.
I know.
You did say it.
matty matheson
I said it.
I'll excuse you all day.
joe rogan
I know you will.
I think we can help you.
I think we can make this push happen.
matty matheson
Okay, you're going to produce.
I want to do a movie.
joe rogan
No.
matty matheson
Okay.
joe rogan
I'm busy.
matty matheson
I'm busy!
joe rogan
I'm not producing any movies.
matty matheson
Don't produce a movie.
joe rogan
I'm not doing shit.
matty matheson
I'm just going to do work.
joe rogan
Anytime anybody says, let's do this, I go, no.
I'm not doing shit.
matty matheson
Hunt.
joe rogan
Anything more than I'm already doing.
It's a perfect amount of things.
What I'm doing is exactly what I'm doing.
I have three jobs.
I don't need any more things.
matty matheson
Three jobs is a lot.
joe rogan
That's a lot of stuff.
matty matheson
It's a lot of stuff.
joe rogan
One of them is pretty easy.
Yeah.
matty matheson
Which one's the easy one?
joe rogan
UFC. UFC's the easy one?
That's pretty easy.
Because I just have to watch fights.
matty matheson
Is there any kind of, like, prep?
Or, like, you know everybody?
joe rogan
Watching fights.
There's too many fighters now.
I can't know everybody.
So what I do is, leading up to fights now, I'll watch everybody that's on the card.
I'll watch some event they've been in.
unidentified
Right, right.
joe rogan
Something that they're really good at.
matty matheson
So you have something to talk about.
joe rogan
Yeah.
matty matheson
I want to know.
joe rogan
I want to be able to watch.
Maybe they have a tendency.
Maybe they have something that they're really good at.
Some guys, like Alexi Olenek, he's a really good grappler, but not the best striker.
More plotting.
So you see, oh, he's fighting this guy who gets very light on his feet.
It's going to be a problem.
I sort of piece together what I think would be situations that could possibly occur in a fight and what to look for.
matty matheson
That UFC that just happened.
Special UFC, right?
Am I crazy?
joe rogan
Was that just a special UFC? It was special in every way.
It was special in that it had been a year since we had a full crowd.
And so, literally, the first fight, these two girls were getting ready to walk to the octagon.
The lights went down.
And it was probably only like 25% capacity at that time.
They hadn't always showed up yet.
Because it was early.
The first fight was like 6 p.m.
As soon as the lights went down, everybody went fucking madhouse.
I took my headphones off and I looked around and we were like, whoa!
And me and John Anik and Daniel Cormier are looking at each other like, boys, this is crazy!
And we took a photo, there's a photo that's on my Instagram of John Anik, Megan Olivi, me and Daniel Cormier right before the fight started.
We were so happy.
We were like beaming.
It was just like it felt so great because We had been calling fights over the past year, but we had been doing it with no audience at the Apex Center.
We were so happy there.
Look at Megan.
Look at that smile.
We were so happy.
It's just, you know, that's the pay-per-view crew.
And also, we could do this.
We could hug each other.
And when we did the pre-fight stuff, we were talking about the bouts that are coming up.
We're standing next to each other.
Because before, at the Apex Center, we were like separated and I couldn't interview the fighters inside the octagon.
It was all so weird.
So you go from that to Florida.
Florida's like, COVID is a rumor.
COVID's a rumor.
They're like, yeah.
matty matheson
It is what it is.
They'll figure it out.
joe rogan
But I think their approach is healthier than California that acts like it's a demon and you have to be protected by the governor.
This fucking guy who doesn't protect himself, doesn't even follow the rules, the guy who gets busted eating at the French Laundry indoors.
You know, and lies about it.
We were outdoors.
matty matheson
With the Teddy Cruz motherfucker going to Mexico, a little Cancun.
joe rogan
Yeah, but that's not that bad.
matty matheson
Yeah.
joe rogan
That guy was just trying to get away because the fucking state was frozen.
matty matheson
Yeah.
joe rogan
Like, I get it.
Maybe he should suffer with everybody else.
matty matheson
He should have suffered a little bit.
joe rogan
But that's not as bad.
unidentified
Maybe a couple days.
joe rogan
That's not as bad as telling people not to eat indoors and you eat indoors.
Wear a mask in between bites of food.
He was telling people to do that.
So, it's like, California's approach is way worse than Florida's approach, and Florida's approach is way better than Canada's approach, too.
Canada's approach is ridiculous.
They're arresting people for going to church.
They have 200 cops showing up.
matty matheson
That thing was crazy.
joe rogan
That's insane.
matty matheson
It is like, it's so sad, because there's just like, what do we do?
Like, we're...
It's so tough, because we want to take care of our staff at our businesses, and no one goes into our buildings.
We all wear our masks.
We do everything that we can do.
And it's just like, for how long?
And for how long do we have to do this?
If you're our government, then show us the real plan of getting to a place.
joe rogan
That's not what they're there for.
They've never been there for telling you whether or not you can work.
You know why?
Because they don't lose any money.
matty matheson
That money keeps going.
joe rogan
It doesn't have any effect on them whatsoever.
matty matheson
Such losers.
joe rogan
It doesn't have any effect on them whatsoever if everyone's out of work.
If everyone's business crumples, they get the exact same amount in their paycheck.
That's what's happening in California.
matty matheson
Right.
joe rogan
And this is like the difference between, unfortunately, because I'm Liberal.
But there's a difference between the way Republican states handle things versus Democrat states.
Democrat states just lock everyone down.
We have to protect you.
You can't go anywhere.
You can't open up.
You can't do this.
And Florida was the most reasonable, believe it or not.
This is how you know we're living in the upside down, where everybody's like, Florida's great.
matty matheson
I want to move to Florida.
Everyone should just do what Florida's doing then.
Let's rock.
joe rogan
Florida was a joke.
Florida was a joke just two years ago.
Nobody wanted to be in Florida.
matty matheson
You know, I just don't want to...
It's one of those things.
I'm still such a, like, you know...
I do want to just do the nicest thing.
Like, in my mind, I'm like, well, what's the easiest, nicest thing?
And I just want to...
Like, if we're just going to wear masks, then wear masks.
I don't know.
Like, that's the thing.
It's like, I am a little bit just like...
I want to make sure people are safe.
Locking...
I don't think locking down does anything.
joe rogan
It's worse.
It makes things worse.
matty matheson
You know why?
joe rogan
Because people go inside.
matty matheson
They go inside.
joe rogan
They're trapped inside, and that's where it spreads.
matty matheson
Dude, it's not good for people.
joe rogan
That's where it spreads.
matty matheson
And I just don't think it's good for humans.
joe rogan
It's not good for your mental health, and that's not good for your immune system.
And, you know, again, there's no fucking instruction on telling people how to get healthier, because that's what's significant.
matty matheson
The only thing they've done is given us a fucking mask.
So all we've given a mask is...
I'm like...
It's one of those things where it's just like...
If you go out of your house then, the variable is there.
It doesn't matter how many interactions or how many things.
If you've chosen to leave your house and leave a quarantine situation, then that's your decision to fucking rock.
And I just think it's just like...
The thing about it is...
It's still so early and it's so stupid and it's fucked up.
joe rogan
You've got to give people personal freedom.
You can't take that away from them because then you're not what we signed up for.
What we signed up for is elected officials who represent the people.
You're not supposed to run the people and tell the people they can't work.
And if you're saying you're doing it to protect them, and it turns out not only does it not protect them, but it's less effective than letting them be free, and you don't course correct, and you don't adjust, then you're a piece of shit, and we have to take you out of office.
That's what's happening in California.
That's why they're recalling the governor in California.
matty matheson
Are they getting him out of there?
joe rogan
They're recalling him.
There's another election.
matty matheson
He'll probably wind up winning.
joe rogan
Is it California?
matty matheson
People are eating inside again now?
joe rogan
They are now because he's being recalled.
He opened everything up.
matty matheson
He's like, everybody wants it, let's go.
joe rogan
They're not showing the COVID science anymore.
They're not showing the numbers anymore.
Because the numbers wouldn't be enough to indicate that they should open everything back up again.
But when the governor's getting recalled, he's got to turn the fucking economy around.
That's when things change.
I just don't understand them, man.
I don't understand them.
Because it doesn't make sense.
matty matheson
What was the tipping point for you to be like, I'm moving my family.
Like, I'm moving the thing.
joe rogan
I saw where it was going.
matty matheson
Yeah.
joe rogan
I was like, they're telling us, first of all, they told us we're going to lock down for two weeks.
And I'm like, well, that's really reasonable.
Everybody will stay home for two weeks.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
But then after two weeks, it's like, we're going to keep going.
And then it kept going.
It just kept going and nothing ever opened.
And then they were saying you can't go outside without a mask, which didn't make any sense because ultraviolet rays kill COVID. Right.
Like, it doesn't make any sense.
You shouldn't be able to run outside without a mask on.
Like, you're treating it like it's a demon.
You're not treating it like it's a virus.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
And then it's just, I saw how other states were handling it.
I'm like, well, they're much more reasonable.
They believe in personal freedom, and they also take into account the fact that people have businesses.
You can't just let people's business go under because you tell them they can't work.
You've got to give people the option.
People need to decide for themselves.
And then once we got the numbers in, in terms of what the disease was actually doing, unfortunately, Maddie, 78% of the people that are in the hospital from COVID are overweight.
That's the number one thing.
The number one morbidity factor is obesity.
That's number one.
They don't say shit about that because they don't want a fat chance.
unidentified
But everyone's obese.
matty matheson
Isn't everybody obese?
joe rogan
No, not everyone.
matty matheson
Oh.
joe rogan
There's a lot of people that are not obese.
unidentified
Okay.
joe rogan
The other, you know.
matty matheson
30%.
joe rogan
Yeah.
matty matheson
Okay.
Well, 30%.
20%.
joe rogan
28%.
matty matheson
28%.
joe rogan
It's not a lot of people telling people to lose weight and be healthy, but they are telling you to stay home and be scared.
matty matheson
The be home and be scared thing is not good.
The internet's not good.
The fucking doom scrolling's not good.
The mental health is a real...
Like the sadness?
The cloud of sadness?
joe rogan
Oh my god, the suicides.
matty matheson
The cloud of sadness is not great.
And it's not...
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
There's a lot of, and there's a lot of despair.
matty matheson
We're not in unprecedented times.
We're just in unprecedented times.
joe rogan
Yes, we're in unprecedented times.
And there's a bunch of different ways to handle it.
But the thing that drives me crazy and that drove me crazy and got me out of California was I was looking at the way some states were handling it.
And I was like, that makes more sense.
And I was looking at how California was handling it.
matty matheson
They're representing it the way you want to live.
joe rogan
Well, they were doing it in a more effective way because their case numbers were lower, but they had more freedom, and the economies were way better in those states.
So even though people were catching COVID everywhere, every fucking state had COVID, right?
In the states where they were open, the businesses were staying open, and there wasn't a significant difference in terms of, like, these states, the businesses are open, but look, way more people are dying.
That wasn't the case.
In fact, Florida has less deaths.
matty matheson
Let's go Florida!
joe rogan
They have less deaths, they have less COVID, and they have more old people.
It doesn't make any sense.
unidentified
They got lots of old people.
joe rogan
If you look at it statistically, but they have hot weather and they have sun, and so they're outside in the sun, and it's better for you for vitamin D as well.
unidentified
There you go.
matty matheson
Vitamin D is important.
unidentified
It's It's fucking huge.
joe rogan
It's a hormone, man.
matty matheson
I love it.
I suntan.
I like suntanning.
joe rogan
Well, that's guaranteed.
That's good for you.
matty matheson
Do you like suntanning?
Do you suntan?
joe rogan
I go outside.
matty matheson
I don't suntan.
joe rogan
I don't lay around.
matty matheson
Suntanning's like jogging, I feel.
joe rogan
If I lay down, I'm sleeping.
matty matheson
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah.
matty matheson
You only lay down when you sleep.
joe rogan
Yeah.
matty matheson
Incredible.
unidentified
I don't know where to go from there!
matty matheson
I'm just like, that's it.
Oh my god.
joe rogan
The good thing is I can sleep anywhere.
I can sleep on a moving train.
I'll just lie down.
matty matheson
I can fall asleep instantly anywhere, but maybe that's just because of the gravity pulling my soul.
joe rogan
But I'm saying I don't suntan, no.
matty matheson
No.
I like to suntan when I garden.
joe rogan
If I go to the, like, if I'm on vacation, I'm at the beach, I'll have a couple of margaritas.
matty matheson
Where do you vacation?
Where does Joe vacation?
joe rogan
I enjoy Hawaii.
That's my favorite place.
matty matheson
Which island?
joe rogan
I like all of them, but I like Lanai because no one's there, and you can bow hunt at night.
So you know what we do?
matty matheson
Night vision?
joe rogan
No, no, not at night.
In the afternoon.
matty matheson
Okay.
joe rogan
Because it's windier then.
It's easier because you're sneaking up on these axis deer, which are very wily.
matty matheson
So you can hear the leaves?
They ruffle your noise.
joe rogan
Yes.
matty matheson
Yes.
joe rogan
The axis deer are super fucking tuned in because they evolved to get away from tigers.
matty matheson
Yes.
joe rogan
They're the fastest deer I've ever seen in my life.
matty matheson
The axis deers is the ones where you went hunting with the man-eater guy.
Or the meat-eater?
joe rogan
No, no, no, no, no.
That's Steve Rinella.
Yeah, I didn't go hunting for axis deer with him.
matty matheson
No?
joe rogan
No, I've been hunting with him before for white-tailed deer.
unidentified
Okay.
matty matheson
Where was the one when you were in like a mountain range?
Like a little mountain, like a hilly, kind of almost look like desert-y.
joe rogan
Oh, that was Nevada.
Nevada, okay.
matty matheson
But was that axis deer or am I crazy?
joe rogan
No, no, that was mule deer.
matty matheson
Mule deer.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Axis deer are, they're roaming around Texas, the ones that didn't die from the freeze-off.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
Like I know a guy whose friend owns a ranch and he had 2,000 axis deer freeze to death.
unidentified
Wow.
joe rogan
Just stacks of deer.
2,000.
That's like a concert full of deer.
matty matheson
Yeah.
That's a lot of dead deer.
You just put that in a freezer and then you butcher them up?
joe rogan
I don't know how they handled it.
I imagine they did that.
matty matheson
I would hope so.
joe rogan
I would hope so, too, because Axis deer are really delicious.
I bet.
But anyway, lanai's great because we would go and you could stay at the Four Seasons.
And then in the late afternoon, you go and bow hunt.
matty matheson
Bow hunt.
joe rogan
We used to do it in the morning, but the thing about it in the morning is it's so quiet.
matty matheson
They hear you.
joe rogan
Yeah, I've been successful in the morning.
matty matheson
I bet you're stealthy.
joe rogan
Yeah, you have to be.
You take your shoes off.
matty matheson
On your toes.
You take your shoes off.
joe rogan
Yeah, you go barefoot.
matty matheson
First time I went to Oahu, the grass on the feet was so nice.
joe rogan
It is nice.
matty matheson
And I still want to do some wild boar hunting there.
joe rogan
Well, if you want to go wild boar hunting, here's the spot right here, Alson.
Texas.
Right here.
matty matheson
Yeah.
joe rogan
John Hennessey, that dude who was here earlier.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
John Hennessey was telling me that between Houston and I forget what other spot, it's apparently like this insane wild boar area where they mostly hunt them night with night vision goggles and rifles.
matty matheson
Dude, I remember my dad had a fucking VHS tape called Ferocious Tuskers.
And it was a bowie knife, wild boar hunting video.
joe rogan
Oh, so the dogs bite them.
matty matheson
The dogs, and they would climb into their burrows or whatever, their dens or whatever.
And it was so scary.
There's a bunch of little freaks running around, but it was a VHS tape that we used to watch.
It was the wildest thing.
But I think...
Man, cooking that, I cooked a wild boar over some coals for a bunch of surfers, and it was, like, incredible.
Like, cooking right on the, like, pipeline.
joe rogan
We should do something.
We'll film something like that for your show.
matty matheson
I don't do stuff.
I don't do stuff.
I'm busy.
I have six jobs.
I have six jobs.
That's what you just said.
What do you mean?
You just asked me to do something?
joe rogan
For your show.
unidentified
Okay.
joe rogan
I said for your show.
matty matheson
Okay, for my show.
joe rogan
That's what I said.
matty matheson
Okay.
I thought you wanted to...
You were picking me a new show.
I thought you said for our show.
unidentified
No, no, no.
joe rogan
For your show.
matty matheson
Joe and Maddie.
joe rogan
No, you have a cooking show?
matty matheson
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Well, how about we get a wild boar and cook it for your show?
That's all I'm saying.
matty matheson
Okay, that's awesome.
joe rogan
You got so aggro on me.
unidentified
Well, no, because I asked you about the movie and then you came at me, Joe.
joe rogan
I don't even think you asked me about a movie.
I think you talked to me about a movie and I said, I say no to everything.
matty matheson
Well, no, not a movie, like a miniseries, like transitional, me doing different martial arts.
And then I lose weight.
It's like a documentary on me becoming whatever.
Who cares?
joe rogan
Just work in silence.
matty matheson
Just work in silence.
joe rogan
Work in silence.
Get up early, set the alarm.
Write down a list of things that you do.
matty matheson
I hate burpees.
Burpees.
joe rogan
You don't have to do those.
matty matheson
I don't want to do burpees.
joe rogan
You don't have to do those.
matty matheson
I like doing Bulgarian split squats.
Oh, those are good.
I'm a Bulgarian split guy guy.
joe rogan
Okay.
matty matheson
I like doing deadlifts.
I like doing a lot of towel work.
With grip strength.
unidentified
Okay.
matty matheson
I like doing...
I'm like a...
I have a good friend.
Shout out to Ben.
Do so.
He does a lot of like breath work and like resistance training and just like holds and stuff like that.
Like really intense buddy stuff.
joe rogan
You know, if you just do like some cardio with a movie on.
Here's the thing, man.
matty matheson
I got a Peloton.
I bought the Peloton.
joe rogan
Pelotons are great.
matty matheson
Can I get another one?
joe rogan
Those are so good.
They used to be a sponsor back in the day.
matty matheson
They used to be.
joe rogan
We had a Peloton at the old studio.
Wow.
The thing about Pelotons is so great is you're going along with people.
Like you're watching a video and you're going along with actual people.
matty matheson
Yeah, they're just talking about like ex-wives stuff.
unidentified
It's incredible.
joe rogan
Well, they're fucking getting after it and you're getting after it with them and you get carried up in the momentum.
Super effective.
matty matheson
I was eating a pizza watching my roommate do it.
joe rogan
That doesn't help.
But one thing that does help is watch a movie and get on like an elliptical and just put a movie on.
matty matheson
Just put on Predator?
joe rogan
Yeah.
Put a movie on that's enjoyable, crank it up loud so you hear it over the sound of your voice, and just get on an elliptical and watch the movie.
It's a great way.
matty matheson
The elliptical's great, right?
unidentified
Fuck yeah.
matty matheson
I love the elliptical.
joe rogan
It's so low impact.
matty matheson
I love an assault bike.
joe rogan
Yeah.
matty matheson
I love an assault bike.
joe rogan
I love assault bikes.
But assault bikes are not casual.
And they're really loud.
matty matheson
It's hard to watch movies.
I like doing like 30 seconds.
joe rogan
Oh, bursts?
Yeah.
matty matheson
I do bursts.
joe rogan
Yeah, I do Tabatas.
matty matheson
See, I've started and stopped.
I would say truly...
Like four times.
joe rogan
So maybe it's like the attic thing.
Like you just need to just decide.
matty matheson
No, I think I honestly, I'm mentally getting there.
Where I got the, I'm like, there's no other excuses now.
joe rogan
The thing about it is you can talk about it till the end of time and that's what people love to do.
You just have to do it.
matty matheson
The only difference between doing it and not doing it is doing it, Joe.
joe rogan
Holy shit, that should be on a fortune cookie.
matty matheson
It's a good saying.
joe rogan
That's it being a meme.
matty matheson
It's a meme.
joe rogan
On someone's meme page.
matty matheson
Do you have a meme page?
I bet there's a Joe Rogan meme page.
There's all the pages.
How many different pages are there for Joe?
joe rogan
There's a lot of fake ones.
unidentified
I know that.
matty matheson
So many fake losers.
joe rogan
But I'm just saying, just for activity, when you watch a movie with an elliptical machine or something like that, it's like it's not even happening.
matty matheson
No, you're just there.
joe rogan
You're in the movie, and you're doing 40 minutes of exercise.
unidentified
Just walking.
joe rogan
Walking's great.
matty matheson
Walking's great.
Breathing.
joe rogan
Movies get you jazzed up.
Sometimes you get excited about it.
Like if you watch John Wick, that's my favorite.
matty matheson
John Wick, just breaking arms?
He's the new Steven Seagal, right?
joe rogan
He's shooting people more.
matty matheson
He's more shooting people.
joe rogan
Yeah, he does break a few arms.
matty matheson
I love a Steven Seagal arm break.
Like an elbow break.
Like he's always just snapping.
Yeah, like that shit's the best.
joe rogan
Oh, dude, Above the Law?
That's still a great fucking movie.
Go back and watch Above the Law.
Was that the one where Sharon Stone was in it?
Hot as the sun?
Back in the early days of Sharon Stone?
matty matheson
Wasn't she in that?
What was the movie where she moved her legs?
joe rogan
Wasn't Sharon Stone in that?
matty matheson
Sharon Stone's still so hot.
joe rogan
Pam Grier?
matty matheson
Is it Above the Law?
joe rogan
But Sharon Stone was in one of those movies.
She was in one of the early Steven Seagal movies.
And she was hot.
matty matheson
March for Death, perfect film.
Hot as the sun.
Like a hot, sweet, chili heat Cheeto.
joe rogan
Wasn't it, Sharon Stone?
Because she was a small character.
Yeah.
matty matheson
Wow.
joe rogan
Steven Segar was the shit, and she was the- She was a new one.
matty matheson
She was just his- Hot, hot, and in Hollywood.
unidentified
His wife.
matty matheson
New to Hollywood.
joe rogan
There she is.
unidentified
Ooh.
joe rogan
Back in the dizzy, son.
unidentified
Look at that.
joe rogan
He's out there doing Aikido, and she's looking spicy.
Aikido!
She's looking spicy.
matty matheson
Is he real?
joe rogan
He's very good at Aikido.
matty matheson
He's very good at Aikido.
Not a lot of Aikido going on nowadays?
joe rogan
Listen, Aikido is good if no one knows anything.
If the other guy doesn't know shit and you know Aikido, it's good.
But the reality of Aikido is it's designed to disarm someone with a sword.
It was an art for, like when you're a samurai.
matty matheson
Let's see your samurai.
joe rogan
This is Miyamoto Musashi.
He's a famous Japanese samurai from the 1400s and he killed 62 men in one-on-one combat.
Yeah, and he wrote a book called Go Rind No Show, The Book of Five Rings, and it's all about strategy, and I read it when I was a kid.
I was obsessed with this guy when I was a kid, because when I was fighting, I was always looking for something to give me some sort of a psychological edge, and his book was all a book on it.
I was like, who better to teach you about psychology of fighting than a guy who beat 60 men in fucking sword fights?
And wrote about it.
matty matheson
Those were strong swords.
joe rogan
Well, he wrote about it in a really fascinating way.
His approach was that in order to be a great sword fighter, in order to be a great samurai, you have to be balanced.
You have to be an artist.
You have to be great at calligraphy.
You have to be great at poetry.
You have to have all your shit together.
You can't be all ego.
matty matheson
The five ranks.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Thing was, and this is one thing that he said that I always bring up that applies to everything I think in life.
Once you understand the way broadly, you see it in all things.
matty matheson
Right.
joe rogan
And he felt like doing all those things in some way was like cross-training for life.
unidentified
Yes.
joe rogan
Like doing art and swordsmanship and learning.
matty matheson
I love that.
joe rogan
All these different things.
Yeah.
So it wasn't like you would think you just got to be the meanest, fastest, baddest motherfucker.
Right, right.
And that's how you beat all these people.
No.
It was not like that.
matty matheson
You need to know how to trim a tree or grow a flower.
joe rogan
You had to be in control of your ego.
matty matheson
A haiku.
joe rogan
You had to be artistic, and you had to be in control of you in all ways.
Not just in the hard way, but in the soft way.
You had to be able to be outside of yourself.
matty matheson
That's incredible.
joe rogan
Yeah, so that's my dog.
matty matheson
Yeah.
That's a good dog to have.
joe rogan
Well, I've always been obsessed by Japanese culture, period.
But his book was just like a massive influence on me when I was a kid.
How did I bring that up?
What was I talking about before?
matty matheson
Above the law.
joe rogan
Steven Seagal.
matty matheson
From Steven Seagal to somebody who's killed 62 people.
joe rogan
Well, Aikido was designed for, like if a samurai was in a sword fight, and the sword would go flying, and the guy was coming at you with a sword, you had to be able to take his energy and use it against him.
That was the idea of Aikido.
Aikido was not really designed to be the best one-on-one fight style.
Like, that's why the Japanese had karate and judo and jujitsu.
That was what they used all those arts for.
Aikido was pretty much specifically designed...
matty matheson
The art of taking away a weapon.
unidentified
Yes.
joe rogan
It was designed to disarm someone.
But Steven Seagal was a legit Aikido master.
Like, absolutely 100% legit.
In fact, he was the first American to run a dojo in Japan.
unidentified
Wow.
joe rogan
Speaks fluent Japanese.
Incredible.
Yeah, man.
matty matheson
I didn't know that.
joe rogan
I think it's Michael Eisner or one of those guys decided to make him a superstar and to put him into movies and make him a star.
matty matheson
Did he start doing the stunt stuff first?
joe rogan
No, he just did Above the Law.
Above the Law was his first movie.
He came out of nowhere.
Have you ever seen him run?
matty matheson
No.
What do you mean?
The way he runs is the weird- Does he have like a little- He does like a thing?
joe rogan
He's got the weirdest fucking run.
People make fun of his running.
It's a good running.
Well, he's a tall guy.
matty matheson
It's like a Will Ferrell could do a good running.
joe rogan
Oh, Steven's a good running.
Look, look.
matty matheson
It looks like he's running.
unidentified
Oh, fuck.
matty matheson
What's his arms doing?
joe rogan
I don't know exactly what's happening.
matty matheson
Is that good for his arms?
joe rogan
Well, it's not the worst running, but there's something about the shortness of the movement.
But I think it's because he's so used to using his arms for Aikido.
matty matheson
He keeps them tight.
joe rogan
There's just a weirdness to the way he runs.
matty matheson
He looks like he's rowing.
joe rogan
Yeah, he does this.
unidentified
Look, he does that.
joe rogan
He looks like he's doing nunchucks.
matty matheson
But I think he's like revving up the engine.
unidentified
There's a whole YouTube video like a speedwalker.
joe rogan
You're totally right.
unidentified
That's what it is.
matty matheson
He runs like a speedwalker.
joe rogan
Look at him running up the hill.
matty matheson
Dude, hiking?
joe rogan
Yeah.
Well, he's got little baby steps.
For a guy with such long legs, he takes little baby steps.
matty matheson
Little baby steps.
A lot of little fast steps go...
joe rogan
Yeah.
matty matheson
Yeah.
joe rogan
But, as an Aikido master, pull up a video of him doing Aikido in Japan in the 1980s.
matty matheson
Oh my god.
joe rogan
Yeah.
matty matheson
What about like stick fighting and like that bruise, like Jeet Kune Do stuff?
joe rogan
Eskrima.
Eskrima.
Yeah, that's legit.
I mean, it's certainly...
matty matheson
Have you done any like weapon fighting stuff?
joe rogan
I've learned how to do it in classes.
Someone's taught me how to do like some sort of Kali and Eskrima, but not, you know, I'm a white belt of that stuff.
matty matheson
I don't really know much about it.
With jiu-jitsu, you're like full black belt.
joe rogan
I have a black belt in gi jiu-jitsu and I have a black belt in no gi jiu-jitsu.
matty matheson
Right.
joe rogan
I have a black belt from John Jock Machado in the gi and Eddie Bravo with no gi.
matty matheson
Okay, cool.
joe rogan
And I have a black belt in taekwondo.
matty matheson
I took taekwondo.
I took taekwondo when I was a kid.
I gave up.
joe rogan
It's good for kids.
Like the little kids throwing kicks and punches at each other.
matty matheson
I want to get my kid into that.
I bought him like a punch ball, like a punch thing.
Mac loves it.
He puts the boxing gloves on.
joe rogan
Okay, 93. Great.
matty matheson
Here we go.
joe rogan
Perfect.
So this is right before he became famous.
Or it might have been like right around when he was becoming famous.
matty matheson
And this is in Japan.
This is in Japan.
joe rogan
And I'm telling you, dude, if you watch any kind of legitimate Aikido demonstration, he is as good as any you'll ever see.
He's absolutely legit.
matty matheson
I love it.
joe rogan
See, the thing is, like, most of this shit is not gonna work in the real world.
matty matheson
Right.
It looks like these look like those videos of those people just, like, doing the flips.
joe rogan
This isn't the best one.
There's some from his dojo.
This is just a demonstration.
But it's, like, six foot!
matty matheson
These people are, like, five foot versus, like, a 6'5 guy.
joe rogan
Well, it's, you know, traditionally Japanese folks are thought to be, like, of smaller stature.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
Except for a few, there's a few odd guys that are really giant.
Right.
But he's just throwing this dude around, like, clothes lining him and shit.
But I'm telling you, he's a legit Aikido master.
matty matheson
Right, right.
joe rogan
And I mean, he's a silly man in a lot of ways.
matty matheson
Right.
joe rogan
A lot of his stuff is silly, but when it goes to his...
Okay, here he is.
Now, this is him...
matty matheson
And that's his master?
joe rogan
This is him in his dojo in Japan.
See, he's significantly younger here.
matty matheson
This really looks like it was shot in like the 1630s or something.
joe rogan
Well, someone probably fucked with it to try to make it look.
Look at that, like all that shit.
This is all legit stuff.
matty matheson
He's like, come at me, come at me.
unidentified
Yeah, see?
joe rogan
But see, that's much better.
matty matheson
That's a thing.
joe rogan
But see how he just did that?
The guy came at him with a knife and he disarmed him.
That is the whole purpose of Aikido, right there.
That was what Aikido was designed for.
And this is legit.
The way he's doing it, this is legit.
This is about as legit an application of Aikido as you're ever going to see.
Because that is literally exactly what it's designed for.
And he is masterful at it.
matty matheson
What is the oldest martial art?
joe rogan
They don't really know.
Maybe Kung Fu?
They don't really know.
It's so hard to see because there's some ancient drawings of people doing some sort of kicking and punching.
And China is probably the birthplace of most martial arts, because it's probably the oldest culture.
But Japan refined it.
matty matheson
Japan took And Japan with Jiu Jitsu is maybe before Brazilian Jiu Jitsu?
joe rogan
Yes, 100%.
No, no.
matty matheson
Okay, so it did start in Japan.
joe rogan
Count Maeda came to Brazil in the early 1900s and he taught Carlos and Elio Gracie.
They took Jiu Jitsu and turned it into Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.
They refined it and made it much more about leverage and much more about technique and they concentrated more on the ground.
Like, Japanese Jiu-Jitsu has a lot of throws in it.
It's almost like Niwaza from Judo, which is like the ground fighting of Judo.
But the Brazilians took Jiu-Jitsu to a whole new place.
And they completely changed the art form.
But they learned it from Japanese.
From Count Maeda, and there's a guy named Kimura who came to Japan.
Yeah, he came from Japan.
That's where it came from.
That submission came from him using that submission on Elio Gracie and breaking his arm.
Yeah, you can watch the match.
It's a black and white match from the early 1900s.
Where Kimura, who was much bigger than Elio.
See, Elio was a small guy.
He was like 147 pounds.
And he was, you know, going against these guys who were like 200 pounds.
And he had to use, like, leverage and you had to wait till they get tired.
He would wear them out and then eventually catch them in submissions.
That was his thing.
That was his thing.
But it's like martial arts have gone through this crazy evolution.
And then Thailand, they had a totally different evolution.
Like they figured out kicking the legs, and they figured out a much more effective style of kickboxing.
And then they figured out a style where they gambled on it.
So they had all these people in the ring, and then they had everyone around.
They would be like making bets.
matty matheson
Muay Thai is banana town.
joe rogan
It's bananas, man.
It's wild.
matty matheson
Carnage?
Do you know fucking Carnage?
joe rogan
Oh yeah, Corbett.
Yeah, yeah.
So you can just say his nickname and I know him.
matty matheson
I'm just like Carnage.
You know Carnage, Nate?
joe rogan
Yeah.
matty matheson
Psychopath.
unidentified
Psychopath.
joe rogan
Nathan Corbett's a bad motherfucker.
matty matheson
Dude, I met him once again through the Ruka dudes, and it's just like, watching his highlight reel, I'm sitting with this guy.
So once again, I love that I don't really know too much, so that you can meet people on these genuine kind of places, these good starting grounds.
So I'm like...
First time I went to Hawaii, I cooked for everybody for Ruka and surfers and MMA people and all these people are there.
I'm like, I don't know who anybody is.
I don't know who Kelly Slater is.
I don't know who fucking...
joe rogan
Shout out to my boy Kelly.
matty matheson
There you go.
Bring him to the ranch.
Get me on a 14. I need a sup or something.
Bring me to the ranch, okay?
joe rogan
What ranch?
matty matheson
Doesn't he have the surf ranch?
joe rogan
Oh, okay.
matty matheson
Okay, the ranch.
Oh, any ranch.
I'll go to any ranch.
I'll go to any ranch.
joe rogan
I thought we were back to the wild pigs.
Anyway.
matty matheson
I'll bring a wild pig to the store for a ranch.
Anyway, but I'm like sitting across.
Anyway, we're after whatever.
We're just literally just hanging out.
I'm just like, what do you do?
I'm just like, I love going to Australia.
I've been to Australia like seven times.
Got a big, you know, a good crew down there.
And he's just like, oh, man.
He's like, I'm like a Muay Thai kickboxer.
I was like, oh, crazy?
I was like, oh, yeah, your face is kind of, okay.
Got some scars.
Yeah, I was just like, okay.
joe rogan
Nose is a little busted up.
matty matheson
And he was just like, yeah, check out my little highlight reel.
joe rogan
Yeah, he cuts a lot of guys up.
matty matheson
Bruh, his elbows?
joe rogan
Oh, yeah, that was he's famous for.
He fought in glory for a bit, but the thing about glory is they don't allow elbows.
matty matheson
Man, it is so vicious.
joe rogan
Best weapons.
matty matheson
And I'm sitting across the table from this guy, and I watch this thing, and you're just like, oh, you're an 11-time world champion.
unidentified
Yeah.
matty matheson
Sitting across from me talking about bullshit, and I was just like, oh, you're a psychopath.
joe rogan
Well, he's a competitor.
matty matheson
Yeah, he's a champion.
Well, champions are...
joe rogan
Most of them are psychos.
matty matheson
Yeah, right?
In a good way.
I remember at a young age, my dad teaching us how to box a little bit and fight, and I remember he always would say, he's like, punch through the face.
He's like, you want to extend through the face.
He's like, think about punching the back of their head.
Yeah.
Shout out to Big Steve.
joe rogan
That's what Kamaru Usman did to Jorge Masvidal this weekend.
He punched through his face.
It was a perfect example of that.
matty matheson
The chin into the shoulder.
He put him to sleep.
joe rogan
He put him to sleep.
But the way he hit him, he went through him.
Yes.
That's a freight train.
That was probably the best one-punch knockout I've ever seen in my life.
matty matheson
Was that the first strike?
joe rogan
No.
No, no, no.
It was the second round.
matty matheson
It was the second round, okay.
joe rogan
Yeah, I think.
matty matheson
I was in bed.
joe rogan
Pretty sure it was the second round.
matty matheson
I was in bed.
joe rogan
But the thing!
It was a perfect punch.
If you wanted to Google the perfect punch.
matty matheson
That is the perfect punch.
joe rogan
That's the perfect punch.
matty matheson
And then what about Rose?
Rose's kick.
unidentified
It was the perfect punch.
matty matheson
Perfect kick.
joe rogan
Perfect kick.
matty matheson
Yeah, perfect.
joe rogan
Didn't see it coming, landed right in the jaw, put her out, first round, early in the fight.
unidentified
So intense.
joe rogan
And not only that, a woman in that lady, Zhang Weili, who's thought to be the most durable and physically aggressive girl in the sport.
She's a monster.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
You ever watch that lady train?
matty matheson
No.
joe rogan
Oh, my God.
She trains hard.
unidentified
Do you want to feel lazy?
matty matheson
Yes.
joe rogan
Watch Zhang Weili train.
matty matheson
Yes.
joe rogan
It's like, hot, hot!
matty matheson
All day.
All day.
joe rogan
Oh my god.
I mean just the intensity and the physicality like she's so strong and aggressive.
matty matheson
Yeah, she's all sinew.
She's all sinew.
joe rogan
For Rose to kick her in the face like that.
Interviewing Rose after the fight was the first time I ever openly cried while I was interviewing somebody.
Like tears were coming down my face.
I couldn't stop it.
matty matheson
It's real.
Rose is special.
joe rogan
She's special.
matty matheson
Rose is special.
joe rogan
She's a super sweet person too.
matty matheson
She is.
I couldn't believe it.
She's one of those people that, like, she followed me on Instagram, like, years ago, and I DM'd her, and I was just like, why do you, like, sometimes I'm, like, amazed.
I'm just like, why do you follow, like, is this, like, you, or is this, like, a thing?
And she was like, I love your videos.
You make me laugh.
Me and my husband, like, love watching your videos.
I was just like, crazy.
I was just like, this is amazing.
joe rogan
Do you have imposter syndrome sometimes where you don't believe it?
matty matheson
100% every day.
Are you kidding me?
joe rogan
I do, too.
matty matheson
Every day.
Why am I here?
joe rogan
Why are you here?
matty matheson
Why are we all here?
joe rogan
I don't know.
matty matheson
When you DM'd me, I was in a quarantine situation getting back into Canada.
And I'm laying in my bed, and you DM'd me.
It was about midnight my time.
I got back from LA, and I was so stoked.
I did Tiger Belly, I did Whiskey Ginger, and I was just like, man, I'm fucking doing big podcasts.
I'm friends with these dudes now, and I'm so stoked.
Santino's been such a good friend, and Bobby is such a fucking homie.
joe rogan
I love both those guys.
Santino's here tomorrow.
matty matheson
Dude, incredible comic.
Incredible person.
joe rogan
He's a great friend.
matty matheson
He is fucking funny.
unidentified
He's really funny.
matty matheson
He's fucking...
I really like watching him fucking do stand-up.
And when I got that DM, I was like...
And it is one of those things where you're like, huh, crazy.
And then I'm getting pumped up, coming down here.
I'm like, okay.
It's like you're getting ready for a fight.
You're like, I'm going to do this, and I'm going to do that.
And then I'm going to say this joke.
And then I'm going to rub him up.
And then I'm going to grab his nipples.
And then I'm going to get him to fucking talk about my podcast on his podcast.
And then I'm going to do all these things.
And I'm going to talk about how I did jujitsu once.
And we'll get there.
And I got tired out.
The shrimps got me.
Just doing shrimps was tough on the big dog.
joe rogan
Did you shrimp on the ground?
matty matheson
I was doing shrimps on the ground.
I was in Philly with some dudes.
You know Mark Vetri and those guys out in Philly?
Italian chef, great chef.
He just became a black belt with precision out there.
joe rogan
Who's teaching you how to shrimp?
matty matheson
Well, we were doing like a chef conference with like a bunch of, not a chef conference, but like an event.
Alex's lemonade stand.
joe rogan
Oh, okay.
matty matheson
So we were doing like a big cancer for kids thing.
And he was like, hey, open call.
Anybody that wants to come do jujitsu, we do it every morning.
And I was just like, okay, I'll go like 6 a.m.
Like, I want to try this.
And I went and we took, it was so funny.
I was just like, warm up.
I was dusted.
And then...
I got a gi on.
The gi barely fits me, because obviously they don't have any large gis, because they're all in shape.
And then the one guy, it was so funny, there was no belts that fit me, so the one guy had this big purple belt, and he gave me a purple belt.
And so we took a photo after the thing, and my Instagram was like, you're a purple belt?
We knew it, Matty!
And so many people were just like, oh my god!
And then some people are like, there's no way this guy's a purple belt.
And then I was just like, I'm not a purple belt, okay, anybody?
But I did jiu-jitsu there.
But Alex, who do I do, he just became a blue belt.
And he's doing it at the Undefeated Gym in LA. Oh, nice.
And so he just got his blue belt, and we were talking about imposter syndrome.
He was just like, because we always make fun, he always says he's a tough white belt.
And so he's like, but now I'm a shit blue belt.
You know, so it's always like that humbling moment, and there's always like that moment in time where you're like, I don't, why do I deserve that?
He's like, I should have worked hard, I should be a better white belt to get that blue belt, actually.
He's like, I could still work harder at being a white belt to get that blue.
And I think that is the thing where most of the time, my brain is always saying, no, why do you have this?
Why do you have restaurants?
Why do you have this?
Why do you have books?
Why do you have all this bullshit?
You don't deserve this, you're a fucking loser.
And I'm just like, I'm not a loser!
unidentified
Shut up!
matty matheson
I'm not a fucking loser!
I gotta pump my own brakes, man!
Or pump my own tires!
Whatever the fuck I'm pumping!
But it's just like...
joe rogan
Your gas?
matty matheson
I'm all gas, baby.
joe rogan
Pump your gas.
matty matheson
I'm pumping my fucking gas.
I'm gonna rev up.
I'm gonna rev up.
You want to rev up?
Let's get some more fucking black rifle.
joe rogan
I think we are revved up.
matty matheson
We're revved up.
What's going on, Joe?
How are you today?
joe rogan
I'm good.
I think that's the reason why you have that.
Yeah, sure.
Thank you.
I think the reason why you have that feeling, that imposter syndrome, most sane people that become successful do have that.
matty matheson
Right.
joe rogan
You know, because it doesn't make sense, especially like when you're young, you never thought you'd be successful, and then all of a sudden you are, and you're like, is this even real?
matty matheson
I remember...
I wanted to get to a financial point where I didn't want to check my bank app to fill up my gas.
That was a big moment in my life.
joe rogan
Me and Greg Fitzsimmons.
You know Greg Fitzsimmons?
matty matheson
I don't.
joe rogan
Hilarious stand-up comic.
We started out together, and one of the things we always talked about was that one day we would get to a place where we could pay our bills with comedy.
That's all we wanted to do.
We wanted to be professionals.
Imagine you didn't have to have a regular job.
You could just pay your bills with comedy.
unidentified
Oh, I remember thinking that.
matty matheson
Well, comedy you don't even get paid.
Right?
Until you're like, what, a headline?
Like, do you get paid for five minutes?
joe rogan
Yeah, well, you get a little bit, depending on which club it is.
You know, it depends on where you're at.
Like, clubs in New York, they'll have people do shorter sets, and clubs in LA, sometimes you do 15, so you make like 25 bucks at the Comedy Store if you do 15. But if you do, like...
It's incredible.
It's ridiculous, yeah.
matty matheson
Buck a minute.
Buck 25 a minute, right?
joe rogan
You know, there's a different...
matty matheson
To go up there and just die on stage.
joe rogan
It's a different thing, because it's a place where...
Like, the Comedy Store in L.A. was always our gym.
It's a place where we worked out.
So it wasn't really about making money.
We'd make our money on the road.
matty matheson
Right.
joe rogan
But...
When you go on the road, you know, if you're lucky, you'll get a guy who's a headliner who'll take you with him on the road.
So, like, say if you're starting out and you're a host or an opening act, someone will take you with them and then they'll let you, they'll say, hey, just do 10 minutes and then bring up the middle act and then you'll get to watch the middle act and go, someday, someday I'll be the middle act.
And then one day you're the middle act and you watch the headliner and you're like, someday.
And then someday, one day you're the headliner and then one day people are actually coming to see you.
And one day they introduce you and people cheer and you're like, what?
unidentified
What?
joe rogan
Is this real?
matty matheson
The cheering's crazy, right?
unidentified
Bizarre.
matty matheson
Dude, I... What, two years ago?
Two years ago, I guess now, I started doing a spoken word tour.
joe rogan
Oh, boy.
Bourdain did a lot of those.
He loved doing those.
matty matheson
Once again, very afraid to go to those.
You know?
I was like, I'm gonna...
Yeah, fuck.
He's such a beauty.
And...
I was like, I'm gonna go on stage, and I wanted to start doing tours.
And nobody even knew what the fuck they were.
And I started in small bars, and by the end of like, I did about 50 shows in a year.
And It was crazy.
It went from 200 people, which is still amazing.
No openers, no nothing.
People thought I was going to do cooking demos.
And I went on stage and did a spoken word for about an hour and a half.
joe rogan
Wow.
Did you plan it out?
matty matheson
No.
joe rogan
Really?
matty matheson
First night was the first night I spoke on stage.
No planning, no fucking notes.
joe rogan
How many people in the audience?
matty matheson
200. Maybe more.
Probably more.
The whole thing was sold out.
It was just the smaller venues.
We started at small venues to amp up.
joe rogan
What does it feel like?
How did you start?
matty matheson
I was just like, I walked out, I was like, you fucking, like, I just started, like, chirping the crowd a little bit, and, like, working the crowd, and being like, where the fuck are you from?
I'm like, I'm in, my first show was in Boston, in this, like, little dive bar, and it was so incredible.
I was just like, what the fuck is up with Boston?
You guys are fucking all racist, you're fucking losers, you all sound like you're from Southie, I was just like, whatever, making jokes.
And I was just like, and then I was just like, okay, who thought I was gonna cook?
And everyone's like, and I'm like, why would I cook?
You stupid fucks.
Why would I cook?
What am I gonna do?
Come on stage and make an omelette and share it with everybody?
It's like, no, we're here to fucking, I'm here to fucking figure out what the fuck I'm doing here.
And I honestly, like, we built out, by like show three, I had a solid hour and a half.
joe rogan
Really?
matty matheson
And I just started, and then I started doing it, and the biggest, I think I did like a 2,000 cap room, and it was like crazy.
joe rogan
Wow.
matty matheson
And I was just like, this is so wild.
I was like, with no prep, and I was like, this is great.
And I had a three month tour booked.
One of the, part of the six months I had booked was I had a three month world tour booked.
unidentified
Wow!
joe rogan
So you're just going to do this kind of stuff, but do it all over the place?
matty matheson
Yeah!
Well, I did Australia, I did New Zealand, I did, you know...
joe rogan
Now, when you do 2,000 seats, do you have it prepared?
Like, the stories you're going to tell, the things you're going to talk about?
matty matheson
No!
We go on stage and I just start talking.
joe rogan
That's so ridiculous.
matty matheson
I have a baseline that I work on, and I go on and off, and I have tangents that I can run off of, and I've built out this timeline of my life, and I tell these stories throughout my life.
joe rogan
If you just tell the drug stories, I feel like.
matty matheson
Bro, I have this one story that's incredible where we stole $16,000 from my parents.
My dad was an entrepreneur at one point, so we had a lot of money.
So I stole some money.
We gave it to my friend who drove to Vancouver, bought a pound of cocaine, then an uncut brick.
One pound of cocaine.
How much does that cost?
$16,000.
joe rogan
That's it?
matty matheson
At that time.
This is like $2,000.
Give her more.
More?
unidentified
No, I was just saying it sounded like it was about $16,000.
matty matheson
Yeah, it's about $16,000.
Have you done coke?
You've never done cocaine?
That's incredible.
Because I find it very fascinating to meet people that haven't done cocaine.
joe rogan
I haven't done coke.
matty matheson
That's incredible.
unidentified
Have you?
matty matheson
Never.
joe rogan
Nope.
matty matheson
See, I think that it's an interesting thing to me.
For some reason, because I'm just like, weird, you never wanted to fucking crack it.
joe rogan
When I was in high school, one of my best friends had a cousin that had a real problem.
matty matheson
Right.
joe rogan
And I watched him fall apart from coke.
matty matheson
It scares you.
joe rogan
I had a couple other people around me that also had coke problems, and I was back then like super straight edge.
matty matheson
Yeah.
joe rogan
Like I'm gonna be a winner.
I'm gonna get my shit together.
Like my biggest fear, my biggest fear in life was being a loser.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
My number one fear.
It's the only reason why I went to college.
matty matheson
Yeah.
joe rogan
So that people didn't feel like I was a loser.
matty matheson
Stay home.
The stay home guy.
I'm going to stay home for a summer.
joe rogan
I'm going to take a year off.
matty matheson
I did take a year off.
joe rogan
I took a year off and that was a humiliating year.
matty matheson
You were a loser for that year.
joe rogan
That was the only year.
Well, I was a loser after that too because I was broke.
Even though I was like, if I had to explain to people, like, what are you doing?
I travel around the country kicking people in the face.
There was no money in that.
matty matheson
I was broke.
I'm getting paid nothing to go and fight people.
joe rogan
No health insurance and I was kicking people in the face for fun.
That was my number one.
And then I was like, okay, I gotta figure out what to do with my life.
But that fear of not being a loser was why I never did coke.
Because I saw this guy lose his life.
He lost his weight, got real skinny and pale, and him and his girlfriend just...
matty matheson
Probably wasn't doing too much coke.
He was probably doing a little meth and stuff, too.
joe rogan
There was no meth back then.
matty matheson
No?
unidentified
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
It was the 80s.
Nobody had meth from the 80s unless they didn't and weren't telling anybody yet.
matty matheson
I don't know.
They're somewhere around in the 90s.
joe rogan
They definitely had pills.
People had amphetamines for sure, but I don't think they had crystal.
matty matheson
No.
Yeah, drugs are bad, but the...
joe rogan
M'kay.
unidentified
M'kay.
matty matheson
But I had this bit about fucking...
joe rogan
About the pound of coke.
matty matheson
I'm sorry, I interrupted you.
No, no, Joe.
We never interrupt.
joe rogan
Okay.
There's a pound.
matty matheson
We got a pound of cocaine.
joe rogan
What does it look like?
How big is a pound of coke?
matty matheson
It's like, you know, it's like a movie.
It's like a thing.
We had this, like, fucking...
joe rogan
Like a movie scene?
matty matheson
Yeah, it is.
It's like a pack of fucking shit.
So he had to go buy it.
Then he had to drive back.
And it was back when we had fucking flip phones.
So, like, T9 texting and fucking Razor Motorolas and fucking shit.
And so, nobody could...
Still, even with that, communication was very shit.
And so...
We were like, text us every day.
It's a four day drive back from Vancouver.
So text us every fucking day.
joe rogan
Four days with a pound of coke.
matty matheson
In his car door.
In his car door.
So he's like, unscrewed his car door, put the, you know, duct tape it in.
joe rogan
Oh my god.
matty matheson
And it's me and my friends in college, we all got this like, whatever, there's like...
joe rogan
Going the speed limit.
matty matheson
Well, this is the best thing.
So like on the last day, he texts us and he's like, I'm leaving Thunder Bay.
Thunder Bay is about 18 hours from Toronto.
So it's northern, most northern part, right?
It borders like Winnipeg.
And it's like the northern part of fucking Ontario.
18 hour drive home.
And we're like, it's coming home.
And we're all like cheerleaders.
We're like, let's go.
Let's go.
Boys, boys.
We're all just like, let's go!
And the amazing thing was, all of a sudden, we're all getting ramped up.
We're like, tomorrow it's going to be here.
It's going to be here fucking tomorrow.
We're all fucking dropping out of college.
This is going to be the greatest decision of our lives.
We just bought a pound of cocaine.
But the idea was to sell it because we were going to make like $30,000.
We step on it like three times, sell little baggies.
We're going to get rich.
And he texts us, just got pulled over.
And we're just like, what the fuck are you talking about?
And I was just like...
We're gonna have to kill him.
We're gonna...
Like, instantly I'm just like, we're gonna have to kill him.
If he says my name, or if he says...
We're gonna have to kill our friend.
He's gonna rat on us.
He's not strong enough.
He's not mentally strong enough to get the fuzz off his back.
And he's like, I just got pulled over.
Then, we're like...
Okay, nobody text him, because then they'll have our numbers.
And we're like, why did he even text us?
We're like, fuck.
We're all like freaking...
We're like, do we boil our phones?
What do we do here?
joe rogan
Yeah, Jesus Christ.
matty matheson
Then all of a sudden he's like...
He calls our old roommate Dougie and he literally is like, dude, I got pulled over and there was like a snowstorm kind of and my windshield wiper flew off and I was using my arm driving like half the speed limit and I got pulled over because the cop is now going to drive me to a garage so I can fix my windshield wiper.
joe rogan
Good cop.
matty matheson
And I was just like, hey, okay, okay.
Still got the cocaine in the car.
He's like, cocaine's great.
Just following this police officer to a garage to fix my windshield wiper.
And I was like, why don't you just pull over?
The windshield wiper's gone.
You got the pound of cocaine.
Why don't you bring it back to the fucking...
Get off the road!
You know?
It's a snowstorm.
Driving a 94 Camry.
Like, what the fuck is going on?
You know?
Like, it's just like one of those things.
And I was just like...
When he showed up, we had this plan.
We were going to have his name like football painted on our bodies.
And we were going to be standing out because where his parking spot was...
joe rogan
What's his name?
matty matheson
His name was Dustin.
joe rogan
Did you have enough people?
matty matheson
Yeah, we were going to have a welcoming party.
So we were going to have Dustin and we were on the second floor of this building, right out at Islington and Dixon.
Shout out to fucking Rexdale.
And we were all going to line up.
And then he called us about the cops and all this stuff and we were all gonna have Dustin and he showed up and it was the craziest.
We did all the cocaine in about two weeks and we didn't sell any of it and none of us left and And I'm like, if you're in culinary school, everyone's pretty crispy.
At that point, you're just like, and it's pure cocaine, so you can sleep on it.
joe rogan
What is it like to do pure cocaine?
matty matheson
So we broke off this little piece, and I can still remember it.
I remember everybody that was there, I won't say their names, because one of them works at the airport.
I remember man and he broke off a piece and we took it and it was like a rock and he just took it and like hit it on the table and just dust fell and we made like fresh lines out of that and we just did it and we were like it was like it was a movie it was like euphoric it was like this is a drug see this is a drug the shit we're doing with like with like laxatives and fucking stepped on ten times that's not a thing this fresh cocaine that's nice that's what It should be, and it should be legal.
That's what it should be.
Yes!
Pure cocaine.
Legal.
joe rogan
It should be legal.
matty matheson
All drugs should be legal.
unidentified
Who gives a fuck?
joe rogan
All drugs should be legal.
All drugs.
matty matheson
Drugs are perfect.
Humans are the fuck-ups.
joe rogan
But the problem is, when you're getting something, they call it cocaine, and it's really a bunch of other shit like fentanyl.
matty matheson
It's baby laxatives.
Yeah, fentanyl, fucking baby...
Most of the time, I'm just shitting.
If I look at a dollar bill, I'll take a shit.
You know?
It's just like...
Man, I can smell it.
joe rogan
Why do they put laxatives in it?
matty matheson
I don't know, because I think you can snort it and it burns your nose kind of like...
unidentified
I don't know.
matty matheson
It doesn't really burn your nose either.
I don't fucking know, man.
Yeah, there we go!
That's the big...
Yeah, it's just white.
It's the same consistency.
unidentified
They put vitamins sometimes too, right?
joe rogan
Yeah, they're assholes.
matty matheson
They're assholes.
joe rogan
They do anything.
You can't even test it, right?
matty matheson
No, because even if you want to cook it and take it and fucking freebase it or anything, it just turns to glue most of the time.
Or even, you can get chunky, shitty Coke, and sometimes I would take a plate and put it in the microwave and heat it up, and then you pour the Coke on there and it'll dry it out, kind of, and make it more crispier and nicer to sniff.
This is too much information.
A lot of people watch this, eh?
joe rogan
Yeah, there's a few.
unidentified
Gah!
matty matheson
Stop!
My mom's gonna be like, what the fuck are you talking about?
She's like, Maddie!
She would be like, you're so sweet.
You figured it out anyways.
Joni's so sweet.
Shout out to Joni.
Love Joni.
She's the best.
Fucking ace.
joe rogan
A pound of cocaine would land you in jail for a long time.
matty matheson
I feel so, yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah, because they would assume that you're selling it.
matty matheson
They would.
Not just doing it like a bunch of college students.
joe rogan
Not just for personal use.
matty matheson
It's personal use.
joe rogan
But it's good that you didn't step on it.
That's good.
You maintain your integrity.
matty matheson
Well, yeah, that's the thing.
Well, it's just like, because I wasn't a drug dealer, but it was like, I lived with a couple drug dealers, and then it was so good that we were just like, this is crazy.
We have the supply, and we're like, this will last us like a year.
You know?
No, it lasted us literally two weeks.
And then I get a phone call from my fucking, my dean, my head chef, and he calls me, and I was just like, who's this number?
And I answer him, and he was like, Matty?
And I was like, yeah?
And he's like, this is Chef.
And I was like, Chef?
Chef who?
Like, what's Chef?
And he's like, whatever his name was.
And I was just like, oh my god, Chef.
Hey, how are you doing?
And he's like, what's going on?
You haven't been to school in fucking two weeks.
And I was like...
joe rogan
We got a pound of coke.
matty matheson
Yeah.
And I kind of was just like, you know, I'm mentally fragile right now, chef.
And I don't really have anything, no fucking real breakfast in me anymore.
And I, you know, is there any way that I can just come back?
I've had a rough little couple weeks.
And, you know, like, how can I get back in the program?
And he's like, you know, we really like you.
You've done really well up until this point.
He's like, come in and talk to us.
I'm going to have all our chefs here and we're going to assess.
unidentified
Okay.
joe rogan
And you came in like Ray Liotta and Goodfellas looking for the helicopter.
matty matheson
Just like so, yeah.
Imagine me like just fucking thinking I'm looking like real chill and professional.
Just showed up having showered in like two weeks.
joe rogan
Bloodshot eyes, pale skin.
What's going on?
matty matheson
Yeah, just like having been outside.
joe rogan
A sheen of sweat over your whole body.
matty matheson
Oh, mama mia.
Man, I just smell like chemicals.
I smell like bleach.
I smell like cum and bleach.
Fucking so gross.
And I walk in, all my chefs are there.
And I was just like, and they're like, so what?
Explain to us.
And I was like, okay, here's the deal.
We bought a pound of cocaine.
They're like, excuse me?
I was like, me and my roommates bought a pound of cocaine and we've done it all.
It's all gone.
And they're like, excuse me?
And I was just like, chefs.
I need to come back to work.
My parents, you know, I need to finish this program.
And they're like, you are telling us that you, and how many people?
unidentified
And I was like, there's like a core group of four.
matty matheson
And then, you know, sporadically up to maybe seven.
We kept it tight.
And they were like, Maddie?
And I was like, chefs?
And they're like, you're going to be a good chef one day.
I was just like, what?
And they're like, don't lie to us.
And I was just like, I'm not lying!
And I was just like...
joe rogan
They thought you were lying?
matty matheson
Oh, yeah.
They were just like, what are you talking about?
And I was just like, well, okay, well, fuck it.
You know, fuck it.
And I was just like, well, I want to be a chef.
You know, I got the chef whites here, I'm fucking, you know, how good, like, you could see me.
I fucked up for two weeks.
Like, let me back in, I'll rock.
You know?
No questions asked.
I'm, like, because you, they lock the door at quarter to eight a.m.
So you have to be there at seven, you have to be a half hour early to, like, your fucking cooking class, or they lock you out.
And so, they're like, okay, you miss one day, you're out.
And then, literally, I was like, no problem.
And they're like, we're gonna let you back in.
This is unheard of.
And stop laughing.
Like, they were just, like, so sweet.
And I was just like, and I had a good relationship with them.
And I was like, it was like a very interesting cooking, you know, situation.
And I was just like, okay, like, I'm in.
I want to be a chef.
Like, because they were like, do you want to be a chef?
Because if you don't, like, fuck off.
unidentified
Right.
matty matheson
And I was like, I want to be a chef.
I want to go work in French restaurants.
I want to, you know, I want to work on my skills.
There's nothing else for me.
This makes me feel happy.
I am lucky that I have found something that I can do.
I wasn't good at lacrosse.
I wasn't good at skateboarding.
I wasn't good at fucking anything.
Now, I wasn't good at anything in high school.
And now in college, I get fucking, like, 90s because I can fucking de-bone a quail and make a Bordelais.
I can make hollandaise.
I can make a stock.
I'm not an idiot.
I can hold the line.
I don't fall during service.
joe rogan
And you enjoy it.
matty matheson
And I love it.
Cooking is...
I love...
I love it.
You can tell.
joe rogan
That's one of the things about your videos.
It's very infectious.
matty matheson
I love...
joe rogan
When people love what they're doing, it's very infectious.
matty matheson
I'm not an actor.
I don't know how to be anything but this.
I'm just a fucking, I'm this.
And I was just like, I want to be a chef.
I'm going to be a chef.
And they're like, okay.
And it was amazing because literally I get back.
You know, I'm like, I go back to school, you know, take a shower, brush my teeth, you know, get ready and shave my face.
And then like two weeks later, it's almost like the end of the year too, and I fucking, I just drop out to go on tour with like a metal band, with my buddy's like metal band.
And I like drop out and then like my punk, because I was like, you know, when you're, I feel like I got caught.
By doing drugs, but then me being like punk I was like all my friends like death metal band is touring Canada They're like do you want to come with us?
I was like yeah, okay.
That makes sense.
I don't need a piece of paper I don't need my diploma to say that I'm a chef I learned everything what I'm gonna learn in the last two weeks of this course and so I ended up actually dropping out and And I felt like it's one of those things where I was just like, you know, I never talked to those chefs again I never saw it like who sees their college student or you know who sees their teachers from college really and then years down the line It's so incredible.
My chef, Chef Anthony, I'll say his first name, but Chef Anthony fucking hit me up on Facebook.
He's this big Irish fucking red motherfucker.
Big Michelin psychopath.
And he was just like, he like, whatever, he like Facebooked me or messaged me on Facebook when I still had like Facebook.
And he was just like, I'm really proud of you.
He's like, you have multiple restaurants.
You fucking pulled it out.
This is incredible.
He's like, I remember who you were.
And he's like, to see your rise in this city is really incredible.
He's like, there's no other chefs from your graduating class.
Not that you graduated, but he's like, you're the one.
He's like, just think of that.
Like, all of the chefs in that class, in that fucking whatever, that was, you know, whatever you call it, a class or whatever, there's like, you are the one.
And I was just like, that's so crazy.
He's like, there's no other chefs.
He's like, you are the only chef from that program.
joe rogan
So no one else became a chef?
matty matheson
No, they all just go into the thing and they get burnt or they get pushed out.
It's a tough thing.
It's tough.
It's like, I'm a tough white belt.
How long does it take to become a black belt?
I'm more of a business person now.
Technically, I'm not the best chef.
But I'm definitely like, I have that well-roundedness.
I understand most chefs, most great chefs are just great chefs.
They're not great operators.
Or they're not great business people.
And a lot of chefs also aren't really, like, they don't own the business, right?
joe rogan
It's kind of ironic because what made you big was not just your cooking skills, but it was this big personality.
And this big personality which was originally connected to drugs and partying.
And then, you know, that kind of like got you in the door.
matty matheson
Yeah.
Well, there wasn't many doors I couldn't walk through, you know?
There wasn't many doors that I, like, you know, I either kicked them down or I was welcomed with, you know, open arms.
But it's still like...
joe rogan
It is interesting that no one else from the class made it.
matty matheson
Yeah, and I don't even mean that to—because I'm a firm believer of going to school, and I think going to school taught me that I liked school.
I hated high school.
I didn't like math or science or gym or whatever, English or— You didn't like doing things you didn't like to do.
No, I was a very fuck you guy.
joe rogan
That's the problem with a lot of kids is that they don't find a thing.
They think that they're never going to be good at anything because they're not good at school.
Because they're not interested in school.
And then they find something they're interested in and they go, oh, that's not what it is.
I'm not a loser.
I just don't like what I'm doing.
matty matheson
And most people don't use the tools that you learned in high school.
Like, high school's mostly just a social experiment, you know, for, like, building, keeping kids away from their parents and, like, doing stuff and building social fucking, you know, awareness, kind of.
But I think it's just, like, the amount of things that...
I don't know.
I think the thing that clicked with going to cooking school was I realized what self-esteem was.
I never felt self-esteem like that before.
Where all of a sudden, if I showed up with my clean chef whites, and I did what the chef said, and I did my mise en place, and I cooked a dish, and I did everything to fucking the spec of what was put to me...
I get a good grade.
I was a 50 percentile student.
I was always just, what do I have to do to pass?
I was very much like, and I was funny enough in high school that I could work with my teachers on what do I have to do to just get through this shit?
I'm not going to be a mathematician.
I'm not going to be a teacher.
I'm not going to be fucking anything that's going on in this fucking room.
You know?
And I think a lot of teachers even were like, well, you know, I was one of those kids that they're like, okay, good luck with whatever the fuck you're going to be doing, too.
You know?
Because I was a verbal, you know, I was like an asshole.
I wasn't afraid to say fuck you to somebody or be like, yeah, send me to the office.
Okay, cool.
Thank you.
Or like fight with my vice principals and like all that kind of stuff.
Like I was like in the office every day, you know?
joe rogan
Yeah, like a fun person.
matty matheson
Yeah.
I remember when I switched, because I got kicked out of my first high school for fighting, and my older brother was a fighter too, so they're like, we're not dealing with another Matheson.
You've got to get the fuck out of here.
So then I went to a Catholic high school, and I remember the first week, I walked, during morning prayer, I was just like...
And just walked out of the room because I saw my homie walking down the hallway.
And I was like, yo, what's up?
And I just left during prayer.
And the teacher almost chokeslammed me.
And I was just like, what's happening?
And they're like, it's morning prayer.
And I was just like, no, I saw my butt.
And Catholic school was just another whole thing because I was brought up Mormon.
unidentified
Really?
matty matheson
So I was brought Mormon.
joe rogan
Your family's Mormon?
matty matheson
Well, my family's Mormon, but we're all excommunicated.
joe rogan
What happened?
matty matheson
My dad got us all taken out of the thing.
So it was just like, we were like deep.
We were deep, and then when we moved provinces, the church wasn't good here.
In Ontario.
So in Nova Scotia, big, big fellowship, Mormon world, you know?
Then my dad was like a high deacon or whatever the fuck it was.
We always sat next to the Bishop's family, front row shit, because it's all like the families, whoever's up on the stage or whatever, the families sit in the front rows and shit.
And so then when we moved to Ontario...
I fucking, you know, like when we were about 12 or 13, right around like that time when we started all of a sudden doing like drugs and drinking is when we stopped going to the church.
Because that's maybe a part of it too, right?
Where like, we were like, I never had a Coca-Cola.
I never saw a PG rated movie.
We only watched G rated.
joe rogan
Really?
unidentified
Yeah.
matty matheson
I never saw The Simpsons until I was, you know, things like that.
joe rogan
So once you got excommunicated from the church, they just...
matty matheson
Well, we took ourselves...
I don't know if excommunicated is the right word.
joe rogan
Left the church.
matty matheson
When we left the church, but because they have so much information on you and your family tree stuff, it takes a long time to actually get your shit out of there.
What do you mean?
I think they just have a lot of information on you and your families, and they do a lot of ancestral stuff, right?
So I think they do a lot of...
Even I would get $2 a week for my allowance, and I would have to give 10% to the church.
So we would all, being my brothers, we would have to take our nickels or whatever, our dimes, and we'd have to give our 10% to the church.
joe rogan
Really?
matty matheson
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So that was training.
Like, just think, like, that training of, like, giving the church the money from day one.
unidentified
Ugh.
matty matheson
And all that kind of shit.
So it was just like...
And then, you know, my parents are like...
They were young.
And it's crazy.
They were, like, the young couple that got knocked on.
And my dad was like, come on in.
Like, drink a beer?
unidentified
Oh, God.
matty matheson
And all of a sudden, my dad was just like...
It was one of those things where I'm like, why?
When I found that out later on, I was like, you literally just like somebody knocked on the...
You let a missionary in here?
You know, where it's like so funny.
joe rogan
How old were you when you were asking him that question?
matty matheson
Like later, like in my 20s.
joe rogan
Yeah.
matty matheson
Like when I had like some balls to like, you know, dads are so scary.
So I was just like, you know.
joe rogan
Why?
unidentified
Huh?
joe rogan
Yeah, just why.
You're asking him why.
matty matheson
Yeah, just like some, like where I was just like, you know, like he would come visit me in college.
We'd go have like lunch, you know.
My dad would drive up to the city and, you know, having those father-son kind of conversations.
Like, hey, like this was kind of crazy back then.
Or like, why was this?
Or like, you know, like why, why, you know, why were we never allowed to like sleep over at other kids' houses?
Or like.
You know, like, little small things that I don't think are, you know, crazy.
But I think it's definitely, like, one of those things that, like, you know, never having, like, a Coca-Cola, and then all of a sudden I'm, like, doing acid.
You know?
I'm all gas.
You know?
I was like, oh, cool.
We're not Mormons anymore?
Let's do some blotter acid.
joe rogan
Sometimes that's what triggers it, right, is the repression.
There's so much repression, and then all of a sudden they take the reins off you.
matty matheson
Well, and the idea of heaven, just like, at a young age, I strongly felt like there was no heaven.
And I strongly felt, I didn't believe it from a young age, because I also, and there's three levels of heaven in the Mormon, or in the Book of Mormon, right?
There's like the celestial, the fucking whatever, and the whatever.
So I was just like, there's three levels of heaven.
There's like three levels of heaven.
There's tears.
There's tears, right?
So the thing that I was, I was a klepto.
As a kid.
I would walk into a little store and grab a little thing.
I remember I saw a jackknife once from this hardware store.
I would just take things.
A little klepto.
In my head, at a very young age, I was like, I'm never going to be eternal with my parents.
At a very young age.
My parents did the whole thing with the underwear and they're married forever.
joe rogan
Underwear is wild.
matty matheson
I think they had to give it back or they had to get rid of it.
I don't fucking know.
Let's FaceTime Steve and be like, what the fuck?
Did you have to give the underwear back, Dad?
joe rogan
I still don't understand.
They have information on you.
Does that make it hard to leave because they tell you, hey, we know things about you?
matty matheson
No, I don't think it's weird like that kind of stuff.
It's like you're so connected.
Just to get our shit out.
To be stricken of the books.
joe rogan
Right, so you don't have to pay them every week.
matty matheson
Well, you don't have to.
I think it's called Pence.
But I think it's like, once again, there's probably a lot of Mormons watching this that are being like, man, he doesn't know shit.
And I don't know shit, okay?
I don't know shit.
I just lived it.
But I just think it is...
I remember it was just one of those things where...
I remember my dad and my sister, it was crazy, because she had a child out of wedlock.
She's going to love that I say this.
But she had a child out of wedlock.
And so that was like a thing where I think it was like, I don't even know.
I think there was like a thing where she got like a piece of paper saying she had to go in front of like a tribunal.
joe rogan
Oh boy.
matty matheson
And like, you know, explain herself or she was getting, or maybe she was getting excommunicated.
I still forget.
It's kind of fuzzy.
But I think it was like one of those things where I remember when the missionary showed up and it was almost like they served her like papers or some shit.
And I remember my older brother almost like beat the shit out of these missionaries.
Was like, get the fuck out of, you know, one of those kind of things.
Like get off our porch, get the fuck out of here.
joe rogan
Serving you papers.
You violated...
matty matheson
I don't know.
Religion's fucked!
That's the thing.
I don't like a lot of...
joe rogan
Well, that is the wackiest religion.
matty matheson
It's the wackiest, right?
I know.
Of course I'm a part of it.
joe rogan
It's like, other than Scientology...
matty matheson
I was baptized.
joe rogan
It's the wackiest one.
matty matheson
It's the wackiest one, right?
joe rogan
Because they know the guy who made it up, and he was a con man.
matty matheson
We used to go to the hill where he found the Book of Mormon, and they used to redo the event, and we would visit the jail where he was murdered.
joe rogan
How old was he when they killed him?
matty matheson
In his 20s?
joe rogan
That's in that wild.
matty matheson
John Smith, right?
John Smith?
joe rogan
Joseph.
matty matheson
Joseph Smith.
joe rogan
He invented it when he was 14 years old.
matty matheson
Let's go.
That's incredible.
That's like now.
That's like a TikToker.
You know, everyone just follows TikTok.
Same shit.
joe rogan
Well, I just can't imagine a 14-year-old that's not full of shit.
matty matheson
Yeah.
joe rogan
You know, like a 14-year-old that tells you a story like that and everybody's like, wow.
matty matheson
He's like, let's go.
unidentified
Really?
joe rogan
You met angels?
matty matheson
What were they like?
They were beautiful?
joe rogan
You have golden tablets?
matty matheson
I love a golden tablet.
joe rogan
With the last work of Jesus?
Ah, Jesus.
There was a guy that was a Mormon.
He was higher up in the church.
He was a wealthy Mormon guy.
And he decided he was going to do...
This is back before 23andMe, way back in the day.
He was going to sequence the DNA of Native Americans to prove they were the lost tribe of Israel.
matty matheson
Yes.
joe rogan
To prove that the Book of Mormon was correct.
Turns out, no.
matty matheson
No.
False.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Turns out they're from Siberia.
unidentified
Oh.
matty matheson
Really?
joe rogan
Yeah.
matty matheson
Full circle.
When the world was all together.
joe rogan
Well, they always thought that, you know, scientists and archaeologists thought that people came down from the Bering Strait, the Bering landmass.
But there was also people that lived here as well.
See, there's a lot of confusion about that.
They're not really exactly sure.
They think for sure some people came here by boat, but they don't know when.
They don't know how long ago.
matty matheson
The Anglos.
joe rogan
No, not even the Anglos, man.
Before the Anglos.
Pacific Islanders were traveling thousands of years ago.
matty matheson
Right, right.
joe rogan
And they think maybe some of them made it here, and they think that for sure some people came across the Bering Landmass, and they think that some people might have come up from South America, like the Olmecs.
matty matheson
Yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
They don't know.
matty matheson
They don't know.
joe rogan
They don't know how long people have been here.
There's a lot of guessing.
matty matheson
There is.
I appreciate the guessing.
joe rogan
They can prove.
Like, there was a guy...
Was it Kennewick Man?
matty matheson
Kennewick Man.
joe rogan
Is that it?
There was a guy that they found.
They found a body that had a spear tip or an arrowhead in the bones, like fused into the bone.
And so they knew that this guy had been killed there, and they knew that he'd been killed by, I think it was a Clovis Point.
unidentified
Wow.
joe rogan
But I think they carbon dated his body back to like 5,000 plus years ago.
And so they're like trying to figure out like, was this...
Oh, that was the thing about this.
Okay, this is where I heard about this.
This was on the Meat Eater podcast, Steve Rinell's podcast.
matty matheson
Right.
joe rogan
And they had thought that he was an Anglo-Saxon.
They thought that he was a white man based on his bone structure.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
Which is nonsense.
matty matheson
Right, yeah.
joe rogan
It doesn't work like that.
Bones.
You know started to do some examinations on his DNA they found out.
No, he was in fact of Native American ancestry.
But they don't know, they really don't know like when people got here.
There's a lot of guessing.
You know until they find, that's what happens with paleontology.
Like they'll find an old bone and they'll go well here's a human bone now we push it back to 12,600 years.
Okay now we found a new one now we push it back to 14,000 years.
matty matheson
I love that.
joe rogan
Yeah.
matty matheson
It's wild shit.
It is wild shit.
Do you think they're going to know when they come?
What's going on with the aliens?
Let me, fill me in.
unidentified
Okay?
matty matheson
I want to know, because I have a funny story about aliens.
joe rogan
Oh, I'd love to hear it.
matty matheson
Okay.
On my wedding day, my wedding day, it was incredible.
We found this, we had all those like lanterns.
And we had a bunch of people, and we lit them on fire, and we put up the orbs, right?
And they float.
You know, about two weeks after our wedding, there's this viral video in Canada of an alien invasion.
And it's this little group of people.
Maybe they're in trailers, maybe they're not.
joe rogan
Maybe they're on meth.
matty matheson
And they are freaking out of the invasion that's happening right now.
And there's video, and it's like, come on!
There's more!
And it's literally like, you know, 20 miles down the road from where we were.
joe rogan
Right.
So it's your stuff.
matty matheson
Vice wrote an article about it.
Like, all this stuff was happening about this alien invasion and this video.
And I had to be like, I emailed the editor, and I was just like, hey, I honestly think that this is from my wedding.
And it was like this incredible thing where, and they took it down on their Facebook because it went viral.
It was like this huge thing where people were like, what is this?
Like, what are all these orbs?
Like, they're floating over and it was like this incredible thing where we were like, and forever, like, our family is just like, remember the aliens that came to your wedding?
It floated down there because you just put them up.
This is like lighting trash on fire and letting it go.
joe rogan
It's just like a candle inside of it?
matty matheson
Yeah, it's like one of those like little like tea light things.
joe rogan
And the heat from the candle makes them float.
matty matheson
And it's just like this orb.
But they float forever.
And we were on the water.
We were in like Port Dover.
And so it blew it down the bucket.
It just like the wind picked it up.
joe rogan
Now there's no danger of that causing a forest fire?
matty matheson
No.
joe rogan
No?
matty matheson
No.
Never.
joe rogan
But it's a candle that's floating to anywhere.
matty matheson
Yeah.
joe rogan
Like a bundle of pine needles.
matty matheson
No, there's no bundle of pine needles in Canada.
It's all wet.
We're moistered.
We're well moistered.
joe rogan
All the time?
matty matheson
Yeah, all the time.
joe rogan
But you have fires up there.
You do have fires up there.
matty matheson
Some places, like up north, kind of, but not really.
Nothing to really speak of.
It's not a problem.
Yeah, we can, you know, a bunch of white privileged losers setting firebombs up into the sky.
Yeah, no problem.
But the fucking, but aliens, I'm interested.
I'm genuinely, because I'm like, obviously, it's ignorant, right?
To think that there isn't stuff out there?
Am I crazy?
joe rogan
Isn't there something that's happening very soon?
Isn't the Pentagon releasing something?
Didn't they have some sort of a press release scheduled?
Now, there's something that's scheduled very soon that Jeremy Corbell was discussing because they just released...
I got a cough button now.
Watch.
matty matheson
It actually says cough!
joe rogan
Yes, it's real.
Which is great because I used to cough.
I used to clear my throat into the mic and people got super annoyed.
But there's been quite a few sightings that they've confirmed.
That the Pentagon's confirmed, the Navy's confirmed.
They're like, yeah.
This is real footage.
We don't know what the fuck it is.
We have no idea.
Did you see the pyramids?
There's these floating pyramids, floating things.
matty matheson
Yeah, I haven't seen it.
joe rogan
This was a recent one.
There's a cluster of them, but there's three of them that they got on video.
They're floating above this installation.
They have no idea what the fuck they are.
matty matheson
Incredible.
joe rogan
They don't know how they're operating.
They don't know what they are.
matty matheson
So you're thinking like...
If we can't handle COVID, we're going to do really good against the aliens?
joe rogan
Well, that's what we're built for.
We're built for extraterrestrial problems.
No, we're fucked, man.
There's no way we're going to handle it.
matty matheson
We're feeble, right?
Or we're fragile?
We're fragile.
We're bags of milk.
joe rogan
We're not just fragile physically.
More importantly, we're fragile in terms of our ability to overcome adversity.
Our ability to handle things and keep our composure.
A bad cold, which is essentially what coronavirus is.
It's a terrible cold.
matty matheson
Kills a lot of people, but yeah.
joe rogan
It killed people.
It really exposed people's health problems more than anything.
The average person that died from COVID had 2.6 comorbidities.
So that means more than two and a half other problems, whether it's heart disease, cancer, and then COVID, and then COVID killed them.
Right.
It's not that.
It's not that we have a hard time with that.
It's just that we fell apart in terms of the way we communicate with each other.
People went into a panic.
People started attacking people and becoming way more negative online.
And also, their identity and their time was way more wrapped up in having these Twitter battles.
People were Twitter battling with each other.
It's a lot.
Trying to establish some sense of community, getting your life in order, getting your health in order, and using this time.
Some people, like Action Bronson, use this time to lose 130 pounds and become a fitness fanatic.
Some people use this time, like you did, to build your businesses up.
Some people didn't do shit.
Some people just freaked out.
Hit the internet.
matty matheson
Paralyzed.
joe rogan
They got more and more fearful, and more and more paranoid, and more and more angry, and more and more aggressive.
It's just weird.
And I think if something like the aliens came, the only good thing that would come out of it is we'd realize how foolish a lot of the arguments, a lot of the anger that we have are.
matty matheson
Well, it goes away once the big dogs come down.
All of a sudden they roll up.
Is Will Smith here to help us?
joe rogan
I think Will needs his own help.
matty matheson
He needs help.
He's good at content.
I feel he makes a lot of content.
joe rogan
I bet he's making content right now.
But our real problem is that we don't know how to think, and we don't know how to talk, and we don't know how to communicate.
And so many people are just dumb and lazy, and they're hoping that someone else is going to clean up the mess.
They're hoping that someone else is going to come along.
And then there's the reality of just getting hundreds of millions of people fed, and heat, and air conditioning, and infrastructure.
matty matheson
Dude, if it snows, look what happens.
joe rogan
Yeah, well, here, yeah.
matty matheson
You know, like, it is one of those things where we're just not prepared for whatever, like, we're so used to being in our own, you know, world.
joe rogan
We have a narrow window that we can operate in, and anything that goes outside of that narrow window would fall apart.
matty matheson
Do you think, like, laser weaponry would help us?
Or do you think bullets would, like, nothing will help us?
joe rogan
This is going to be like us showing up in tanks and dealing with chimps.
What are chimps going to do?
We roll up in tanks.
They're not going to do shit.
They're not going to do a goddamn thing.
matty matheson
They just go like this.
joe rogan
That's going to be what it's like if they come here.
If they decide...
matty matheson
Do you think they like us?
joe rogan
Pentagon UFO Report.
matty matheson
They acknowledge the reality, whistleblower says.
joe rogan
They acknowledge the reality, whistleblower says.
Luis Elizondo on blockbuster documents on UFOs.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Show the video of the fucking...
What is it?
matty matheson
Is this the pyramids?
joe rogan
Yeah, these are these things that are flying in the sky.
Yeah, they're flying.
You see there's three of them?
They were flying and these guys filmed it.
What was it over...
It was over something.
It was some Navy footage.
But they're using night vision.
They're filming it through a cell phone.
They have no idea what these things are.
And they're just floating and flying around through...
You know, they're obviously controlled.
They have some sort of...
They're piloted.
Or, you know, a drone or something.
unidentified
But even like things like this.
matty matheson
Like this is like...
That should be triggering to some extent of, like, what's going on.
Like, I'm sure they've been, like, preparing some kind of, like...
joe rogan
They don't know what to do.
matty matheson
They don't know what to do.
joe rogan
This is the reality of it.
If you talk to anybody that's actually in the government, they'll tell you.
matty matheson
Yeah.
joe rogan
They don't know what to do.
matty matheson
They're like, we're cooked.
joe rogan
Because these things are moving.
I interviewed this guy as the most compelling story.
His name is Commander David Fravor.
matty matheson
Right.
joe rogan
And he was in 2004, which was 80 years ago, right?
Right.
Is that my math?
No, 76. 2004, it was off the coast of San Diego.
matty matheson
That's four years ago.
joe rogan
It was off the coast of San Diego, and he encountered this thing.
They saw this thing.
It looked like there was a ship underwater.
And so as they closed in on this, they saw this thing that was about the size of this room, like 20 feet, 30 feet long, something like that.
And it was shaped like a tic-tac.
And it was...
Somehow intelligently controlled it faced them and it blocked their radar which is Technically an act of war right and then it moved off at such an insane rate of speed that they couldn't watch it and then it went to their There they had an established destination point that they were eventually going to go to that was 30 miles away This tic-tac thing flew to that spot so they took their information.
matty matheson
Yeah It was like, you're going here, I go there.
joe rogan
It went directly there, but it got there in a second, 30 miles away.
It went from 80,000 feet above sea level to one foot in less than a second.
They have no idea how fast because the radar blips like one second.
In that time, it went from 80,000 feet to one feet above sea level.
They don't know what it is.
matty matheson
There's so many different UFOs.
Yeah.
joe rogan
Well, I think this is a place where they go.
matty matheson
They're like, what's going on down here with these idiots?
joe rogan
I used to do a joke that I think Earth is the Tijuana of outer space.
I think they come here when they're fucked up and they want to see a show.
They're like, what are those crazy pink monkeys with bang sticks up to?
And they come down here and they watch us be stupid.
matty matheson
They love it.
They're like, wait, give them social media.
Give them social media.
joe rogan
I think they're probably aware that we're on the verge of destroying Earth.
We could, at any given moment, with the wrong set of decisions and the wrong set of circumstances, we could blow up the Earth.
matty matheson
Yeah.
We shouldn't blow up the Earth.
The Earth is great.
joe rogan
It's a pretty fucking awesome spot.
matty matheson
It's a great spot.
We gotta stop some things, you know?
We need a lot of people to do small little things.
joe rogan
There's also the wackiest...
The wackiest theory is that we are the product of accelerated evolution.
That's the wackiest theory.
They came down here, whether it's Australopithecus or some of the lower primates, and they intervened and did some genetic experiments and created us.
matty matheson
Right.
joe rogan
Now, one of the reasons why that's so interesting is because scientists recently just came out and admitted that they've made human-monkey hybrid embryos.
matty matheson
Yes.
joe rogan
So these are real things that they've done.
And they said they did it under the guise of harvesting organs, because we need organs, so they're going to make these human- Just organ donors.
Yeah, exactly.
matty matheson
It's like KFC making chickens with, like, five legs.
joe rogan
Yeah, but- If you're gonna have an organ that a grown adult can use, you gotta make a grown adult.
That means you gotta make a grown adult monkey-human hybrid so that you can take its liver out.
And you're like, what?
matty matheson
That seems like a lot for a liver.
joe rogan
I don't know how else to do it.
matty matheson
Doesn't it cost like $100,000 to break your arm in America?
How much is that liver?
How much is the super monkey?
joe rogan
It's quite expensive.
But maybe they can make it cheaper if they have a lot of hybrid monkey people.
But the thing is, what if this thing gets out?
What if it gets out like a lab leak?
What if it gets a gun?
And what if these monkey-human hybrids go straight Planet of the Apes on us?
The idea of us interfering with a lower animal sounds arrogant and crazy.
So when we think about someone doing that to us, like an animal, like some being from another planet coming down here and introducing its DNA into ours, into what we used to be, into lower primates and creating a person, sounds so arrogant and crazy.
But then you think of what we're actually doing with humans and monkeys.
matty matheson
We're doing that.
We're doing that.
Clonage.
joe rogan
That is...
The oldest theory about the missing link with human beings.
matty matheson
It's the oldest theory.
They're just like somebody came down, put a needle in.
joe rogan
Yeah.
In fact, that was one of the big theories that this guy, Zachariah Sitchin, used to write about.
Zachariah Sitchin is a guy who wrote a bunch of books on the Sumerian text.
The Sumerian text is the oldest known cuneiform.
Some of the oldest known written language.
And it's really fascinating shit because they had the double helix of DNA. They drew that in their depictions for medicine.
You ever seen that thing when they have the two snakes that represents medicine?
Yeah, he believed that that was representing the double helix of DNA. And there's images of that in a lot of their ancient stuff.
There's images of these gigantic beings that are holding these weird little monkey people on their lap.
matty matheson
There's a lot of evidence.
joe rogan
Well, it's not evidence.
It's just drawings.
It could have been just someone making a comic book 6,000 years ago, but it could be they were trying to tell a story.
And they also had a detailed depiction of the solar system.
This is 6,000 years ago, when a lot of people thought the world was flat.
They had it, and they do today too, some people.
matty matheson
I enjoy watching people explain that stuff.
joe rogan
That's amazing.
But they had a detailed depiction of the solar system 6,000 years ago with the Sun and all the planets, including Pluto.
And we didn't know about Pluto until 1930, right?
Somewhere around then.
matty matheson
They knew Pluto.
They're like, Pluto's our guy.
joe rogan
They drew it.
They had a depiction of all the planets.
Jupiter, Mars, Saturn, Venus.
We can see it.
See if you find the- The original.
Depictions of...
So what they think, what this guy, Zacharias Hitchin, and his believers think is that they were trying to tell this story of how some beings came from another planet, manipulated human DNA, and look at that.
matty matheson
Ah, look at that.
joe rogan
That's pretty wild.
So this is from, there's the sun and there's all the planets, and that one planet all the way over to the right in between them, they think that is this planet that they all came from.
It's called Nibiru.
And their story, again, this is Zechariah Sitchin's story.
matty matheson
Right, right.
joe rogan
Is that Nibiru was on an elliptical orbit, and every 3,600 years, it would come near Earth.
And they would come around and hop off and see what the fuck we're up to, and then go back out.
unidentified
I like it.
joe rogan
See if you can find the depiction of ancient Sumerians with monkey people.
Monkey-people hybrid.
Because there's these weird clay tablets that show this god-like creature with this little human-type person with a tail.
But the person has a tail.
matty matheson
Which one?
That's an animal.
joe rogan
That's a good question.
matty matheson
There's so many.
joe rogan
They had a lot of wild shit.
matty matheson
They got so many things.
joe rogan
You know, it's hard.
What is that?
unidentified
That's a good one.
matty matheson
See, you need that.
That's something you can have.
joe rogan
I don't think that's from Sumer, but it's fucking cool, whatever it is.
Find out what that is and let's get that for the studio.
matty matheson
Look at that.
There's a better one.
joe rogan
Bro, look at that thing.
matty matheson
Where's that from?
Ancient Aliens.
joe rogan
Wow, that's fucking killer.
matty matheson
That is Anunnaki.
joe rogan
What is that one right there?
That's the one I need for the studio.
What is that?
I don't think it is.
I think it's a sculpture, an actual sculpture.
Here's a better idea.
Get a bookmark of that and take that image and make it a photo on metal and put it in the studio, right?
Come on, son.
Yeah, but the actual thing's probably 7,000 years old.
We'd have to steal it.
matty matheson
We'd have to steal it.
We have the technology.
We have the technology.
joe rogan
We'd have to hire Daniel Craig to sneak in through the ceiling.
matty matheson
Daniel Craig!
Oh my goodness.
I love Daniel Craig.
He's in good shape.
joe rogan
He's in very good shape.
He's the best James Bond of all time.
Agreed?
matty matheson
I believe so.
joe rogan
Come on.
There's no belief.
matty matheson
Well, I think he's the only one that seems...
Well, Connery?
No?
Connery's no good.
unidentified
No.
matty matheson
I think he's the best one where he's the realest.
joe rogan
Connery was great for back then, but it's like when Elvis was doing karate.
matty matheson
It's like, okay.
I think Daniel Craig is the realist.
Who's the new one?
They don't know yet.
Someone said Daniel Ratcliffe.
Harry Potter is.
Oh, that would be horrible.
That's fake news.
joe rogan
Not that he's horrible, but that can't be.
After Daniel Craig.
Daniel Craig looks like a straight-up killer.
You believe that he was an assassin.
matty matheson
But that's the thing.
007 has to be able to kill.
Yes.
joe rogan
Especially in this modern age.
matty matheson
You need things to be believable.
I want to go into a casino and like a magic door, beautiful women.
joe rogan
Talk to me.
matty matheson
You know, like a guy with the tinfoil teeth and the hat weapon.
unidentified
Yeah.
matty matheson
Bladed hat.
joe rogan
That's what's up.
unidentified
Yeah.
matty matheson
Imagine being a secret agent.
Are you a secret agent?
joe rogan
No.
That seems like a lot of work, and it would be really annoying, and you'd hardly sleep.
matty matheson
There's no sleep.
joe rogan
Then you'd have to be on sleep meds, and those aren't really good for you.
matty matheson
Get a body pillow.
Travel with a body pillow just to sleep well.
joe rogan
How about those ones where your arm goes in a tunnel?
matty matheson
Oh, I need an arm tunnel.
No, I need one.
I sleep like that.
joe rogan
Cuddling with someone.
The idea is that it protects your shoulder.
matty matheson
Do you sleep like that?
How do you sleep?
joe rogan
I just sleep.
matty matheson
Do you sleep just on your back?
joe rogan
No, I lay on my side.
matty matheson
Your side sleeper?
joe rogan
I get sleep apnea if I sleep on my back.
I snore.
matty matheson
Have you had your nose broken?
joe rogan
Oh yeah.
But I've had it fixed.
matty matheson
You've had it fixed.
joe rogan
Works great, but not until I was 40. When I was younger, I broke it so many times, it was basically useless.
But then when I got it fixed, it was like the world changed for me.
I tell everybody, if you have a deviated septum, if your nose is fucked up, oh my god, get it fixed.
matty matheson
My nose is good.
joe rogan
All that coke.
Cleaned it out.
matty matheson
And I didn't burn through it somehow.
joe rogan
That's amazing.
matty matheson
Breath work is important, right?
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
matty matheson
You know Brian McKenzie?
Do you know him?
joe rogan
No.
matty matheson
Breath?
Brian McKenzie?
He's a breath guy.
What do you got, Jamie?
joe rogan
Oh.
matty matheson
Jamie.
joe rogan
I thought you said something.
matty matheson
I was trying to find that monkey person thing.
unidentified
I think it's a depiction of the monkey king from No, no, no, no, no, no.
joe rogan
I know that one, too.
It's, um...
Look for...
unidentified
Oh, that's pretty...
matty matheson
Look at that with the moss?
joe rogan
That Monkey King is fucking dope as shit.
But it's not that.
That's a different thing.
matty matheson
The Monkey King's tight.
joe rogan
Fuck, that Monkey King is badass.
What's that one in the lower right-hand corner with the red?
The lower right?
Yeah.
Oh, wow.
matty matheson
There we go.
There we go.
joe rogan
That's a Monkey King mask.
That's pretty tight.
No, that's not.
It is Anunnaki.
Just Google.
unidentified
Oh, okay.
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
No, no, no.
No.
That looks very modern to me.
If you can just Google clay tablet Anunnaki with monkey.
unidentified
So this website took me...
matty matheson
Pinterest?
Does Pinterest search for a little bit?
joe rogan
Just Google clay tablet...
matty matheson
Let's look at how to retile your kitchen on Pinterest.
joe rogan
Sumerian tablet...
Right.
Sumerian tablet Anunnaki...
Oh, yeah?
matty matheson
Let's save it.
joe rogan
Oh, what is this site?
matty matheson
Ancient Astronauts.
Wow, let's go.
joe rogan
This Africa is woke.
Oh, okay.
Anunnaki.
Ancient Mesopotamia.
matty matheson
Mesopotamia?
joe rogan
Yeah.
matty matheson
Mesopotamia seems nice.
joe rogan
If you can go back in time anywhere, any place, and see what it was like to live back then, where would you go?
matty matheson
Joe?
joe rogan
That's a good question.
matty matheson
I would love...
I don't know.
I'm always so fixated on Braveheart and Highlander and Claymore shit.
I just want to be like...
I want to paint my face, wear a kilt, and like chuck a claymore at somebody.
You know?
And just be like, live in the mud.
Freedom!
Yeah, just run around.
And just like run around the highlands.
I think like that kind of stuff would be interesting.
And I'm like, I want to just like get my friends together and we're just like, we're going to fight the British.
We're going to free our country.
Maybe that kind of stuff.
Where it seems simpler.
That kind of war seems simple.
A battle is like every six months.
You've got to walk 1,000 miles.
And you just chill out and relax.
And then you're like, okay, there's 300 of us, 400 or 500 of us.
We're going to fight 1,000 of you.
You guys got more arrows, but we're going to run.
We can run fast.
joe rogan
You've got it planned out.
matty matheson
Yeah.
I've just got to go back to Braveheart.
I'm pretty much...
unidentified
Braveheart days.
matty matheson
I'm just like Braveheart.
joe rogan
Yeah, Braveheart days.
unidentified
I don't know.
matty matheson
I think that would be...
Like, why not?
Like, we have all the technology in the world.
Let's go back to, like, what was the world just before Facebook?
joe rogan
Yeah.
matty matheson
Where would you go?
Where would you?
joe rogan
I think I would go to one or two things.
Either I would go ancient Egypt and see what it was like when they were building the pyramids.
What was civilization like?
Because we lost so much of that.
matty matheson
And the Aztec stuff.
joe rogan
Yeah, well, the Mayans.
I would definitely go, and the Aztecs too.
I would check that out.
But, you know, people were there, and they have some pretty detailed depictions of those people back then, like when Cortes came and the Spaniards came.
I would go to...
I think if I had to choose one, it would be ancient Egypt.
But if I had to choose another one, I think I might want to be...
I might want to see what it was like when the settlers first encountered the Native Americans when they were making their way across North America.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
Like when they first got to Texas and they met the Comanche.
Right, right.
I would love to see what it was like back then.
Yeah.
These people were just riding around on horseback shooting buffalo and then all of a sudden these pale-faced motherfuckers show up.
Like, what was that like?
Dude.
matty matheson
What the fuck?
joe rogan
What was the first encounters like between these settlers?
matty matheson
Did you like Hostiles?
That movie Hostiles?
joe rogan
What was that?
I didn't see it, I don't think.
matty matheson
No?
No, it wasn't that.
Recent?
Yeah, dude, it's about two adversaries, kind of like one chief is going to be brought back to his...
joe rogan
When was this?
What year is this?
matty matheson
2017!
joe rogan
No shit!
Christian Bale?
matty matheson
Oh yeah, dude.
This movie is incredible.
So, you know, Wes Studi here, he's like, you know, some iconic warrior.
And then versus, you know, Christian Bale's character.
He has cancer, so the chief has cancer.
And it's about being like, I'm going to die anyways.
I have no fight left.
I want to just be on my land when I die.
I want to die in my home.
joe rogan
And that woman's in it?
What's her name?
Rosamund Pike?
matty matheson
She's really good, too.
She's from Gone Girl.
She's great in everything.
joe rogan
Yeah, Gone Girl.
matty matheson
Yeah?
joe rogan
Yeah.
She was also in I Care A Lot.
matty matheson
Yeah.
joe rogan
Did you see I Care A Lot?
matty matheson
No.
joe rogan
Fucking crazy movie.
matty matheson
What's the one with the Ben Affleck movie, too?
She's the one who kills him?
joe rogan
Yeah, Gone Girl.
unidentified
Okay.
Okay.
joe rogan
She doesn't kill him, right?
matty matheson
No.
She fucks with him.
joe rogan
Kills a bunch of other people.
matty matheson
Yeah, she's good in that.
She's crazy as fuck.
joe rogan
She's a full-on psycho.
matty matheson
She's like the new Sharon Stone.
joe rogan
Yeah, but more intense.
matty matheson
More intense.
joe rogan
Yeah.
She's in I Care A Lot, and she plays a psycho in that movie, too.
She plays a great psycho.
matty matheson
This movie, she's crushed because her family gets murdered.
They get murdered by some Native Americans, and then that troupe find her when they're bringing back the chief.
They come across her, who's shook, holding her shot baby still.
It's so heavy, but that movie is just slow-rolling.
It's two old warriors.
Coming to terms and like fighting the war at the end, but they have to return, like one warrior has to return this chief to, you know, or a soldier, I shouldn't say, but like a soldier returning a chief to his land that they just had this great war, you know, the horrible fucking war, but it's just like, you know, like, it's a great movie.
joe rogan
Hostiles.
matty matheson
Hostiles.
Because I know that you're really into all that.
joe rogan
Yeah, I'm into Native American stuff.
I'm just into ancient civilizations.
I'm into ancient Egypt, ancient Africa.
matty matheson
Those people would hate us, right?
joe rogan
Yeah, they wouldn't be.
matty matheson
Those ancient, like Egypt would be like, you fucking slobs.
You losers.
joe rogan
Like, what are you idiots doing?
You're shitting all over the place and ruining the earth.
matty matheson
They're not doing good.
joe rogan
Everywhere you go.
matty matheson
Eat vegetables.
joe rogan
Polluting.
matty matheson
Just make gold necklaces and have nice times.
joe rogan
Yeah, I don't know.
I just would have loved to have seen what their culture was like.
Because we just guess about that.
You know, thousands and thousands of years ago, making these insane structures just still hold up today.
matty matheson
Yeah, just hundreds of thousands of people just building these pyramids.
unidentified
Yeah, how?
matty matheson
Pulling the stones.
Stonehenge, where'd it come from?
Where'd they come from?
joe rogan
Stonehenge is crazy, but it's not as crazy.
matty matheson
No.
That's just a couple rocks.
joe rogan
The Great Pyramid of Giza has 2,300,000 stones.
unidentified
Oh.
matty matheson
And they didn't come from there.
joe rogan
Some of them were from hundreds of miles away.
The ones inside the King's Chamber, they're huge.
matty matheson
Have you been to the pyramids?
unidentified
No.
matty matheson
You've never been to the pyramids?
joe rogan
No, the closest I've been to is, I've seen the Mayan temples at Chichen Itza.
That was pretty fucking wild.
That's pretty wild.
Like, you just imagine what it was like just being around these structures when they were filled with people, these people running this...
matty matheson
Navigating that life back then, like in that space.
joe rogan
Yeah, they were living in this society where their buildings were aligned to constellations.
They were so tuned into the stars.
matty matheson
Well, that's all they had.
There was Earth and then the sky, right?
joe rogan
Well, the sky must have been magnificent back then, too.
matty matheson
You could see everything.
There was no light.
joe rogan
Yeah.
matty matheson
You know?
There was no light.
You could see everything.
The canvas was there.
Let me ask you something.
Okay.
The scariest place.
Where did you feel like in the world traveling around?
Where was the place where you were like the most scared?
For a person who can take care of himself, you know, where was a place where you were traveling?
Like, this is sketchy.
This is like a place where I'm like, you know, where was the place where you felt most scared?
joe rogan
Well, the scariest place is always the woods.
matty matheson
Yeah.
joe rogan
Because you're so vulnerable.
Like, you know, if you encounter a bear or a mountain lion or, you know, that's the scariest.
matty matheson
Yeah.
joe rogan
But it's also, in some ways, like the most humbling and peaceful and enchanting.
unidentified
Mm-hmm.
joe rogan
There's something about the purity of nature where nature doesn't give a fuck what your plans are.
No.
Like when you're out there on a mountaintop and you're out looking out, part of what's amazing about it is the humbling of yourself that comes about.
You gain this intense humility because you're around this...
Inescapable beauty.
And also the vast spans of ground and the mountains.
And then you're looking out there and these elk are fighting to the death.
And the mountain lion's waiting to jack them.
And then a bear's waiting to scare the mountain lion off the catch.
matty matheson
It's too much.
It's scary.
joe rogan
You feel so vulnerable.
But it's also...
Ironically, the most beautiful and the most welcoming.
matty matheson
Have you hunted alone?
Have you done the thing where you're like, I'm going to go out there alone and do a weekend?
joe rogan
No, I've never done that.
matty matheson
Is that crazy town?
joe rogan
That's crazy town.
I have a bunch of friends who do it all the time.
My buddy Shane Dorian, he's a big wave surfer.
He loves going on those solo hunts.
matty matheson
He'll just go on, like, pack his shit, go in.
joe rogan
Yeah, he brings a satellite phone in case he breaks his leg.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
And then he'll go out there, and that's something you really have to think about.
matty matheson
He's out there.
joe rogan
You break your leg in the woods, you're fucking dead.
matty matheson
Oh my gosh.
joe rogan
And if they can't find you by the time your phone runs out of battery, you're dead.
matty matheson
You're gone.
joe rogan
You're dead.
matty matheson
You're not getting out.
joe rogan
No, you're dead.
unidentified
You're dead.
joe rogan
And something's going to eat you.
And now they're reintroducing wolves into places like Colorado and Montana.
matty matheson
Get them back in there.
Let's bring them back.
joe rogan
And so then you're dead even quicker.
matty matheson
Yeah, the wolves scare me.
joe rogan
The wolves will get you.
matty matheson
We've got lots of coyotes.
We have big coyotes where I am.
And they're like, it's not like LA coyotes.
These are like big like...
joe rogan
They're eating moose and shit.
matty matheson
They're eating some mooses and some deers.
Like the other day we found like a whole carcass, like a half-eaten carcass of like a whole deer in our front yard.
So we got, you know, whatever, a couple acres.
unidentified
Yeah.
matty matheson
And we got about six acres of like forest on our property, attached to other people's forests and stuff like that.
And there's so many, it was incredible.
Like Mac was just like running around our front yard.
He started screaming, like, wow, wow, check this out!
He was so stoked.
He was like, check this out!
He's like, can I touch it?
I was like, whoa, what's going on?
And then all of a sudden, as I got closer, I was like, no, don't touch this yet.
I was just like, do not touch this.
And it was just like a fucking...
We didn't hear anything or anything.
It was just like...
It was incredible.
They still hadn't eaten one of the legs.
And it was so weird because it was still snowy out, too.
So this is about a month ago when there was still snow.
And it was crazy because I'm looking at the half-eaten deer, and I'm like, there's no blood anywhere.
And then I was just like, where was this taken down?
And then so now I was like, Mac, we've got to find the blood.
He's like, what's the blood?
I was like, well, when animals are eaten or when we cut ourselves or whatever, even when you get a paper cut, the blood that comes out?
He's like, yeah.
I was like, well, when this was eaten by the coyotes, there'd be a lot of blood somewhere.
So there's going to be a lot of blood on the snow.
So let's walk around the property.
And so we were like walking around and it was like my daughter, my wife, and my son, and we're just like cruising around.
And then Trish was the first.
She's like, it's over here!
And then there's just like all the fur, all the blood.
And Mac was so interested.
It's so crazy.
He's five and he's so obsessed with eyes and if people are alive or dead.
Like if he was to meet you, he's like, are you alive?
unidentified
Yeah.
matty matheson
And you're just like, oh, I'm alive.
But he's just like, have you ever died?
And kids are so funny with the shit that they say.
unidentified
And he'll just be like, let me see your eyes.
matty matheson
He's like, you got a lot of blood in your...
Because he's obsessed with these blood vessels.
He'll always be like, take a closer...
You can just keep zooming in on your phone.
He's like, I'll zoom in on his eyes.
And he's like, let me look, let me look.
And he's like, ooh.
And he just loves...
It's so weird what kids love and what they're interested in.
joe rogan
It's so interesting them learning things too, right?
matty matheson
Well, the thing, too, is we're bringing them up.
It's funny, because my wife is Italian-Irish, right?
And so her mother, very religious.
And none of our kids are baptized.
We're not bringing them up with any kind of religion whatsoever.
And it's an interesting thing because he'll watch TV shows and they'll mention things about God.
Or I'll say, like, oh my God, or whatever.
I'll say things like that.
And he's just like, what is all that?
And I was just like, well, some people believe in that there's a higher power and there's a soul and there's all these kind of things.
And I was just like...
You know, it's an interesting thing to talk to, like, young kids about that because they really soak it up, right?
And I'm just, like, learning, like, not to talk too much about stuff, some stuff, but, like, Trisha, she loves talking about everything with them.
It's so interesting to see her, like, really engage and, like, describe, like, what, like, murder is.
Or describe, like, you're watching something and he's like, what is that?
And, like, Trisha will be like, well, that's when, like, somebody, like, kills somebody and they didn't like them and then they killed them and it's not good to kill anybody, though.
And you're just like, what's happening?
joe rogan
What's crazy is he's only been alive for five years.
Just think about yourself five years ago.
You're basically the same guy.
There's not much difference between me five years ago and me today.
No.
But a five-year-old kid...
Five years ago, he didn't know jack shit.
And now he's asking you about eyes and are you dead?
You know, he's like putting it all together.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
It's wild.
unidentified
It is.
matty matheson
Like, I just love like the...
I don't know.
They're so funny kids.
Like, I'm just like, I really enjoy...
Just hanging out.
It's one of those things where I always knew that I wanted kids and wanted this stuff, but I was just like, I don't know how it will fit in with my whole thing, right?
It's such a different thing where you're your own individual, your relationship with your wife and your partner, and then your children, and how does that all work?
joe rogan
Louis C.K. gave me some real good advice once about that.
He said, just let it change you.
Yeah.
Wisdom in a sentence.
Just let it change you.
That's what happens, too.
It just changes you.
matty matheson
It's a wave.
joe rogan
But it's like you were talking about before, where you're trying to hold on to your identity of being a partier.
That was your identity.
There's a lot of people that have this idea of who they are, and then all of a sudden they have children, and then they change.
It changes you.
unidentified
And it has to.
matty matheson
It makes you like so hard and so soft at the same time.
joe rogan
You know what's really sad?
When it doesn't change you.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Because I know guys where it doesn't change them.
And those guys are sad.
And they drift away from their family.
They get divorced.
They don't raise their kids.
And it's just like there's a disconnect for them that is just unimaginable.
Yeah, it's unimaginable.
matty matheson
I can't imagine not loving it.
Yeah.
Not loving the kids.
It is a crazy thing.
The craziest thing, too, now that we're just talking about kids, but it's just like one of the things that makes me crazy, or not crazy, but the growth of the love...
joe rogan
Yeah.
matty matheson
And the connection, because it's like one of the, I said, I mentioned that earlier where it's just like when, and we did very intense home births, beautiful, very lucky to have like, you know, no breaches or no nothing and they were very, you know, Trish did all the work.
joe rogan
What do you do if there is a breach if you're doing a home pregnancy?
Do you just get her to the hospital quick?
matty matheson
Yeah, we have one midwife, and we did a doula for the first one, and then we literally didn't have anybody.
It was just me and the midwife for Rizzo and Ozzy.
So yeah, if something goes down, then you just call the EMS. And then you have a thing set up.
joe rogan
When you're close to the hospital still?
matty matheson
No, well, at the farm, we're like 45 minutes.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
Fuck that.
What if the umbilical cord's wrapped?
unidentified
Fucking...
joe rogan
Unwrap it?
matty matheson
Unwrap it.
joe rogan
Get in there with your fists?
matty matheson
I'll fucking do anything.
I'll take it out.
But the...
Yeah, fucking kids.
But the thing that I was trying to say is that the magic of television and our brains are like, the second it comes out, you have this eternal love.
Where you do have that eternal love, but the love really grows.
Instantly, I felt very connected.
I was like, oh my god, this is a baby.
And it's like one of those things where it was so weird, like you have to teach yourself to, because I grew up, I didn't really have pets.
So I'm like, I had to, I was like, oh my god, I have to like, what's the name of the kid?
Like for the first few days, I was like, what's the name of the kid?
MacArthur?
MacArthur!
I just had to get into this thing of naming a child.
It's such an interesting ongoing thing where you're like, now Mac is such a fucking powerhouse.
joe rogan
It feels surreal too, right?
matty matheson
Oh my god.
joe rogan
It doesn't feel real.
Even to this day, I'll talk to my 12-year-old.
We'll have a little conversation.
I'm like, are you fucking real?
matty matheson
Yeah.
joe rogan
You really come out of some of my DNA? Dude.
How's that possible?
matty matheson
Dude, it's possible.
joe rogan
And here you're all talking and laughing.
And then they exhibit personality traits that are real similar to yours, and you're like, wow, this is nuts.
matty matheson
My son, my parents are like, it is eerie how Mac is like you.
He's a fireball.
And he's so sweet, and he's so, like, it's just like one of those things- Keep him away from Coke.
Yeah, I know.
Well, everyone's on their own path, too.
I've put so many intentions into just being like, I just hope he doesn't have that addict blood.
And I'm like, he's got all my blood.
He's me.
This guy's a psychopath.
I was just like, hopefully, we just give him the tools to be able to make the right decisions, you know?
joe rogan
Yeah.
matty matheson
That's the thing.
I'm not caught up in...
I want my kid to be this, and I want my kid to be that.
I just want my kid to be a good person that can make good decisions.
I think that's the best you can do.
joe rogan
You just want your kids to be happy human beings.
The saddest thing is when someone has expectations for their children that aren't their children's hopes and dreams, and they force them on their kids.
matty matheson
It ruins both.
It poisons the will on both ends.
joe rogan
And it fucks up the relationship that you have.
I've seen it with friends where their dads are upset at them because they're not living the life that the dad wanted for them.
Okay, motherfucker.
You know, like, you're my dad.
You don't own me.
You're not my owner.
matty matheson
I didn't ask him to be here.
joe rogan
Yeah.
matty matheson
I didn't ask you to be here, bro.
joe rogan
You gotta let your kids be who the fuck they are, man.
matty matheson
Yeah.
joe rogan
And you can't help them too much either.
matty matheson
No.
joe rogan
You gotta stay away.
You gotta let them find their own little path.
matty matheson
Well, that's the thing.
joe rogan
Because if you do, you know, you hold their hand too much, not good.
matty matheson
Dude, I even said, I was like, Tresh, I really want you to understand, like, 19?
They're out.
They're out of the house.
joe rogan
Go buy your own Coke.
matty matheson
Yeah.
Go crash your own cars.
Do whatever you want to do, but get out of here.
Because I was just like...
That's my biggest thing.
I want them to live their life.
I want them to make mistakes.
I want them to fall down.
I want them to be able to learn how to pick themselves back up.
I come from...
We make a lot of mistakes.
And there was no one there.
I had a lot of beautiful support mentally.
But there's no financial support from my family or anything like that, really.
joe rogan
Do you think you're going to stay up there in Canada?
What if they lock down harder?
What if they keep going and the rest of the world is free?
matty matheson
I don't know.
Like, fuck, my farm's pretty tight.
I got enough land.
Like, fuck, I grow vegetables.
It's pretty fucking tight.
That is pretty cool.
Dude, I'm, like, self-sufficient.
Yeah, like, I can grow enough vegetables to feed my family.
All year round.
joe rogan
Do you have animals up there too?
matty matheson
Not yet.
joe rogan
You gonna?
matty matheson
I don't know.
It's a lot of responsibility and just with my time.
unidentified
A couple of bison.
matty matheson
Yeah, just like one bison.
I don't have that much property.
A couple of bisons are sick to them.
joe rogan
You have a couple of bison and you can feed those fuckers.
You could eat one of them for two years.
matty matheson
Dude, a bison is so incredible.
I fucking did a show where we went to a bison ranch and we got to ride four-wheelers alongside like a herd.
And it is thunderous.
unidentified
Oh, yeah.
matty matheson
To ride on these four-wheelers with this bison rancher, and it was like the most beautiful thing ever.
And all of a sudden, he was just like, just, you gotta stay, they will come at you.
Because you're a moving target, too.
unidentified
Right.
matty matheson
So, like, there's even a...
joe rogan
Threatening.
matty matheson
Yeah, well, it's just like, you're a machine.
They know that you're not a bison.
But riding along, it was like 250 bison.
joe rogan
Oh, my God.
matty matheson
And he was like, check this out.
He's like, just follow me.
And I was like, okay.
And he's like getting closer and he starts going faster.
And all of a sudden they just start running and start running.
And then all of a sudden he's like, and he fucking has this big noise making thing and he lets it off.
And all of a sudden it's like, and they're going, they can run like 60 miles an hour almost.
joe rogan
Holy shit.
matty matheson
And so it's just like, it's so fast.
Like, I had to, like, reef on the four-wheeler to, like, keep up with these bison, this pack of bison, or herd of bison.
And it was, like, the most intense.
joe rogan
Why do you keep saying bison?
Bison?
matty matheson
Bison.
joe rogan
Bison.
matty matheson
I say bison.
joe rogan
There's no E-Y-E in there.
matty matheson
I'm from Canada.
What do you say?
I say I'm a bagel guy, too.
joe rogan
Oh, boy.
matty matheson
You got problems.
unidentified
Bagel?
matty matheson
I say bagel.
I'm a bagel guy.
joe rogan
It's a fucking bagel, man.
matty matheson
I know, a bagel.
I said it the exact same way.
unidentified
You get a bat, you put a...
matty matheson
I'm a milk.
I'm a milk.
unidentified
I say milk, too.
joe rogan
You put your bagel in a bag.
matty matheson
You buy three of them at a fucking time.
Milk.
joe rogan
Milk?
matty matheson
Milk.
joe rogan
Milk?
Like Malcolm?
matty matheson
I don't know.
I got like a speech impediment.
There's no A's?
joe rogan
No, take off, eh?
matty matheson
Milk.
Fucking A. Get fucking straight.
Fuck.
joe rogan
Well, dude, we're at the three-hour mark, believe it or not.
matty matheson
This is three hours?
joe rogan
Yeah, we did three hours.
matty matheson
I have to piss so bad.
joe rogan
I know you do.
I can tell.
I see you shifting around.
matty matheson
My little fucking pecker is just bursting.
My foreskin's like tied up.
Oh, my God.
joe rogan
This was a lot of fun, man.
matty matheson
Joe Rogan.
I've been experienced.
Is that what they say at the end?
joe rogan
No, but now that you did, I hope nobody else does.
matty matheson
I feel experienced!
joe rogan
Dude, we talked about a lot of shit.
matty matheson
I appreciate it.
joe rogan
I enjoyed it very much.
matty matheson
Hey, thank you.
joe rogan
And I appreciate you, man.
You're a good dude.
You're a fun guy.
matty matheson
Thank you.
joe rogan
And tell everybody how they can listen to powerful Truth Angels and how they can see your YouTube stuff and all your jazz.
matty matheson
Well, you know, you can go to Matty Matheson.
I think just Google Matty Matheson in YouTube.
Subscribe, like, fucking, you know.
joe rogan
Is that on YouTube as well?
Powerful Truth Angels?
matty matheson
Powerful Truth Angels, yeah.
It's on its own page.
We always got 10,000.
No, we just beat.
Yeah, we're over 10,000 subscribers, Joe.
joe rogan
Congratulations.
matty matheson
Yeah, we're going to get a plaque soon, probably.
joe rogan
Woo!
matty matheson
Yeah, I'm doing really well, actually, Joe.
So thank you so much.
Yeah, I don't know how to find me.
Google me.
I don't fucking care.
I'm the worst plugger.
I'm the anti-plugger.
I don't give a fuck.
joe rogan
Well, I'll plug you because I think you're awesome.
I really do enjoy your shows.
I enjoy your cooking.
I enjoy your enthusiasm, your personality.
You're a fun dude, man.
I really enjoy it.
We'll do this again.
matty matheson
We'll do it again.
joe rogan
We'll do it again.
matty matheson
We'll come back soon.
joe rogan
We'll do it again.
matty matheson
We'll come back soon.
unidentified
Fuck it.
joe rogan
We'll do it live.
unidentified
Fuck it.
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