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May 10, 2024 - The Joe Rogan Experience
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Joe Rogan Experience #2149 - Sebastian Maniscalco
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sebastian maniscalco
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joe rogan
Hello Sebastian.
sebastian maniscalco
What's up?
It's my first time here at the Austin property.
Yes.
And first of all, most comfortable chair I've ever sat.
joe rogan
They're great, right?
sebastian maniscalco
I feel like when I come here or when I come do this podcast, it's my third time on it, I feel like I'm in the future.
I feel like you got things that aren't even out yet, right?
I just feel like this chair, the general public can't even have access to it yet.
joe rogan
No, but they do.
We've had these for years.
sebastian maniscalco
Whatever they are.
joe rogan
These are great.
sebastian maniscalco
Then, I feel like I've never drank water out of...
joe rogan
Metal cup?
sebastian maniscalco
Yeah.
joe rogan
We're sustainable here.
sebastian maniscalco
I feel like there's a reason for everything that you do.
joe rogan
There's definitely a reason for metal cups.
You really shouldn't be drinking out of plastic.
sebastian maniscalco
Okay.
Again.
joe rogan
I mean, I do.
I drink a plastic water bottle.
Someone gives me one.
But I avoid them whenever I can.
sebastian maniscalco
Yeah, of course.
We all know, oh, the plastics.
I'm drinking out of plastic bottles myself, and I don't know.
I don't see that much of a...
joe rogan
It's going to turn you into a chick.
sebastian maniscalco
Maybe.
unidentified
Maybe.
sebastian maniscalco
Is this even real water?
What kind of water is this?
joe rogan
Yeah, it's water.
It's filtered.
sebastian maniscalco
All right.
Filtered water.
joe rogan
Yeah.
What is it like?
It's a super filter.
Some crazy filter.
jamie vernon
Definitely a special machine that you can't even unplug.
joe rogan
Yeah.
unidentified
Right?
sebastian maniscalco
You can't get this water outside this room.
You can't get the water outside the room.
joe rogan
It's good water, right?
It's very delicious.
sebastian maniscalco
And then you got a whole...
I don't know if anybody's ever talked about your area on your side of the table.
There's just so much shit going on over there.
There's tins.
joe rogan
Mammoth teeth.
I got an arrowhead, a legit arrowhead.
It's probably 500,000 years old.
sebastian maniscalco
You got soil!
On your bookshelf out there?
joe rogan
Yes.
unidentified
Your soil.
sebastian maniscalco
I've never seen anybody jar soil before.
joe rogan
Well, that was from a gentleman who runs White Oaks Pastures.
His name is Will Harris.
And he has this amazing farm.
It's a regenerative farm.
And he gave us two pieces of soil.
Was that Carl Barkin?
He wants a fight.
He didn't get enough biting me this morning.
unidentified
One more.
One more outfit.
joe rogan
Carl's getting hard, dude.
He bit my finger.
That was a real yipe that I... When he bit me this morning, I was like, yo!
Carl goes after you.
sebastian maniscalco
Yeah, he went after me.
joe rogan
But anyway, that soil, one of them is a jar of regenerative soil, which means soil that is how a farm is supposed to be run, where there's manure and chickens and all the animals just ruminate and they live off the land in a natural way.
And it's a deep, rich, dark soil.
And the other soil, which is pale, that's industrial soil.
That's soil that's been used with industrial fertilizers and the top soil's dead and it's just garbage, which is most of what we eat.
sebastian maniscalco
See, the difference between you and I is...
You actually remember what the soil does.
Somebody gave me soil?
Somebody gave me soil?
And you said, you got soil?
Yeah, somebody gave me dirt.
unidentified
And I wouldn't know the difference between the two.
joe rogan
You see, the dark dirt is the good dirt.
That's the real dirt.
That's how dirt's supposed to look out in the wild.
That's what we're supposed to be eating food from.
Mineral-rich soil, so you get healthy vegetables, healthy animals.
sebastian maniscalco
That's beautiful that you have that on display.
And again, coming and taking a tour of this place...
Is inspiring.
You make me want to spend money.
joe rogan
Yeah.
You should spend money.
You definitely should spend money.
Because if you don't spend money, what's the point in having it?
sebastian maniscalco
I know.
I wish I could get there.
Come on, bro.
joe rogan
Look at that watch.
You're balling.
Look at that thing.
What is that?
sebastian maniscalco
My wife gave me this.
joe rogan
That's a beautiful watch.
What is that?
sebastian maniscalco
It's a Cartier watch for our wedding.
joe rogan
That's gorgeous.
unidentified
Thank you.
joe rogan
Let me see that.
Let me look at that quickly.
Ooh, that's a pretty watch.
That is a lovely watch.
sebastian maniscalco
Well, thank you, Joe.
I appreciate it.
Yeah.
Yeah, she gave me this for her wedding gift.
joe rogan
Very nice.
sebastian maniscalco
But yeah.
joe rogan
My wife's got taste.
sebastian maniscalco
Yeah, she does.
Obviously.
She got...
joe rogan
You handsome bastard.
sebastian maniscalco
She got a lot more taste than I do.
I'll tell you that right now.
joe rogan
I know.
Yeah, I let my wife pick out almost everything.
When I have nice sneakers on, it's generally my wife bought them.
sebastian maniscalco
Does your wife comment on your clothing?
joe rogan
She does, but she leaves me alone for the most part.
But she'll dress me occasionally if I have to go out.
But basically, I'm a fucking teenager.
sebastian maniscalco
Yeah, like a t-shirt, like a jujitsu t-shirt guy.
joe rogan
I wear t-shirts.
They're comfortable.
I wear jeans.
They're comfortable.
You know, I don't really give a fuck.
sebastian maniscalco
I don't think I've ever seen you in a suit.
joe rogan
I wear suits.
Yeah, I have some nice suits.
I have David August, maybe a whole...
I have like a whole row in my office.
I'm in my house, my closet, filled with suits.
Yeah, I got a bunch of custom-made suits.
Because I can't wear regular suits.
I don't fit in them, you know?
There's not a lot of 200-pound 5'8 dudes.
Just very odd-shaped.
sebastian maniscalco
They don't make clothing.
joe rogan
Chimp sizes.
Short dudes who are really wide.
Yeah.
But it's a nice fitted suit.
It's a fucking wonderful thing to have because it just fits you perfect.
All the cuffs and everything.
You feel different.
You put it on.
You know?
All the boys, we did a show in Vegas.
We did the MGM, the Grand Garden Arena, and we did me and Brian Simpson, Tony Hinchcliffe, and Hans Kim.
And I got them all suits.
I said, let's all get, like, we're doing Vegas.
Come on, let's do it Rat Pack style.
So we got some of these beautiful David August suits, and Jamie got one too.
It was incredible.
sebastian maniscalco
Nice.
joe rogan
It was so much fun.
sebastian maniscalco
Yeah.
joe rogan
It's nice.
You feel different when you show up with a suit on.
sebastian maniscalco
You do feel different.
However, I... Look at that.
joe rogan
That's us.
sebastian maniscalco
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
Come on, son.
sebastian maniscalco
That's a nice shot.
joe rogan
Sharp.
unidentified
Sharp.
joe rogan
Everybody's looking sharp.
Look at Jamie with the shades.
Come on.
Got the full Pulp Fiction ponytail going on.
Look at you.
sebastian maniscalco
Nice, right?
I feel, though, with a suit, and I've noticed this as I've gained some weight in the midsection, wearing a suit is becoming extremely uncomfortable if you don't have a very kind of...
Tight body.
joe rogan
Right, if you get stuck around here, it binds you.
unidentified
Tuck in the shirt, there's the buttons hanging out.
sebastian maniscalco
So I'm fluctuating in my weight, where the suits I got right now, I gotta work into them.
joe rogan
Yeah, well you and me are both Italian, and Italians just love our pasta.
It's a real problem.
sebastian maniscalco
It's a problem, especially after you hit 50, it just seems to not go away.
joe rogan
It doesn't go away.
The only way to go away is to not eat pasta.
That's the only way.
It's the only way for me.
Not eat pasta and booze.
If I cut way back on the booze and no pasta, my body just goes and shrivels back to normal.
sebastian maniscalco
Yeah, I'm in the process of trying to get back in shape.
joe rogan
It's so hard to avoid that food.
The food is just like, if it's in front of me, I just have a real problem.
sebastian maniscalco
Well, you like to eat meat.
Do you find that the meat is helping your physique?
joe rogan
Yeah, if I just eat meat.
Yeah, definitely.
Yeah, because meat is very satisfying.
Meat has what's called a high satiety rate, which means when you eat it, you get satisfied when your body's had enough.
But I always say this, like, if you gave me a steak, just a steak, 16-ounce steak, I eat it, I'm good.
I don't need anything else.
But if there's a bowl of pasta next to that steak, I'm eating the pasta, too.
If there's some bread and butter, I'm going to eat the bread and butter.
Somebody rolls out dessert, of course I'll have dessert.
Next thing you know, I've consumed, you know, 1,500 extra calories that I didn't even really want or need.
You just get addicted to just stuffing your face.
If I don't leave like this, my stomach literally will distend out.
When I look at myself in the mirror, I'm disgusted.
Like, what have you eaten?
Look at all the mass you've put in your body.
Because if you looked at, like...
We keep your stomach like right here.
This is my normal stomach.
But if you add that much food, which is I'll consume that much food easy, it just goes right here.
sebastian maniscalco
Oh yeah.
unidentified
And you just look at you like, you fat piece of shit.
joe rogan
You lazy, slovenly, greedy fuck.
Like look what you've eaten.
sebastian maniscalco
You sweat at night when you sleep after you have meat?
I'm drenched.
joe rogan
I have a thing called an eight sleep mattress cover.
sebastian maniscalco
I have one.
joe rogan
They're fucking amazing.
sebastian maniscalco
Okay.
joe rogan
It's a game changer.
sebastian maniscalco
Okay, so do you crank that thing up to ten after you eat a meal like that to cool off the body?
joe rogan
No.
Generally, if I'm sweating, it's because I'm having nightmares.
You know, I'll have some nightmares and I'll wake up drenched.
Not in that thing, though.
That thing, generally, I don't think I have woken up sweaty since I got it.
unidentified
Really?
joe rogan
I always used to wake up sweaty.
I would wake up on wet sheets.
sebastian maniscalco
Oh, yeah.
No, I eat a ribeye.
unidentified
Two o'clock in the morning, I get up and I'm like sweating.
sebastian maniscalco
And that never used to happen when I used to eat.
joe rogan
I don't remember what I have the eight sleep thing dialed into, but I got it right there at the sweet spot.
I've tried it a little too cool, a little too warm, but now I got it right there.
I sleep like a baby.
sebastian maniscalco
Do you have it heat up in the morning?
joe rogan
I think it does.
I think it's on some sort of a cycle.
I'm not exactly sure.
I don't remember how I set it up, but there's a bunch of different options that you can do.
And you can even have a different option for you or your wife if she likes it warmer or cooler.
It's nice.
sebastian maniscalco
No, it's been a game changer for my life.
joe rogan
It does make a big difference.
Yeah.
Taking care of your sleep is...
I've really prioritized that.
Especially recently because you know owning the club and being out late and I was doing two shows a night Which is also a lot was too much I was doing six hours of comedy a week Just doing three nights just doing Tuesday Wednesday Thursday two shows a night, but it was just I was too tired I was burnt out and I wasn't getting the proper sleep because I'd get home shows over you know like 1230 or something like that I get home and Hanging out with the guys at the club.
I get home at like 1.30 and then I start writing.
And so I write from 1.30 to like 4. And then I have to get up at 10 to work out.
I'm like, this is too much.
sebastian maniscalco
I'm too tired.
You're writing material in the dead of night?
joe rogan
Yeah, that's what I write.
sebastian maniscalco
Wow.
joe rogan
Yeah.
I almost always find that I'm most productive when everyone in my house is asleep.
So I don't have to like, Dad, I don't have to think about anything.
Did you do this?
Did you put that away?
Where's the thing?
I don't have to deal with anything.
The dog's asleep.
Everybody's cool.
I can just sit in front of that fucking computer and think.
And that's the only time that I have free reign in my house where there's no one awake.
So I get my best.
And also...
I think you're jazzed up when you get off stage, and if you could just hold on to that, like your brain is already kind of in comedy mode, your brain is already thinking.
sebastian maniscalco
Yeah, for me, I do a voice message.
I record the set and I'll listen to it afterwards, but as far as like creating, I mean, I don't know, I feel like after 10 o'clock the whole body shuts down.
And I got two small kids, so maybe that's why, you know, they're up early.
joe rogan
Sure, they're up early, yeah.
sebastian maniscalco
But yeah, I mean, 9.30, 10. And talk about the two shows.
I mean, I used to do two shows with my eyes closed.
And now it's like the second show.
It's like, hey.
joe rogan
Are you taking vitamins?
sebastian maniscalco
I take supplements like multivitamin.
I'm sure I don't have it dialed in.
joe rogan
You should get it dialed in.
It'll make a big difference.
sebastian maniscalco
As much as it should be.
But I just feel exhausted, Joe.
I am tired.
joe rogan
Yeah.
sebastian maniscalco
And I just constantly have to have sips of caffeine throughout the day to stay alive.
That's where I'm at.
unidentified
You look like you wake up.
sebastian maniscalco
Ready to go.
I got this whole vision of what your day must look like.
You must spring out of bed and go, give me it!
Talk about not having a suit on.
I don't think, since I've known you, I've seen you yawn.
I'm a kid, bro.
You constantly look awake.
What is it?
joe rogan
It's health.
sebastian maniscalco
The water?
joe rogan
It's all the above.
Supplements, definitely, that's a big factor.
I take a lot of vitamins.
I take athletic greens, that's one thing I take, but I take a whole suite of different vitamins.
I take a bunch of different things like vitamin D, vitamin K2. I take things for eyesight.
I take just fish oil.
I take creatine.
I take a lot of stuff.
sebastian maniscalco
Okay.
joe rogan
Yeah.
sebastian maniscalco
I took three or four vitamins once.
I swallowed it with some water.
I coughed and a puff of white smoke came out of my mouth.
joe rogan
Vitamin powder.
sebastian maniscalco
I think the body's rejecting the vitamins.
joe rogan
It's got to be a slow process.
You don't want to dive right into the amount of vitamins.
The amount of vitamins I take is like half of this coffee cup.
sebastian maniscalco
Jeez.
joe rogan
Every day.
sebastian maniscalco
All right.
I'm taking a couple, I guess.
joe rogan
I have like a whole cabinet that's filled with supplements, and I pull them out.
sebastian maniscalco
So when you travel, what do you, carry a suitcase of supplements?
joe rogan
I have a bag, and in my bag, most of the time when I travel, there's a company called Pure Encapsulations, and they make these packs, like Athletic Pure Pack.
They're great for travel.
Very easy.
You don't have to think about it.
Just rip open the pack, take those vitamins, and you're good.
So when I'm on the road, generally.
You getting rid of Carl?
Is he too rowdy?
unidentified
I don't know what's going on.
joe rogan
He's rowdy.
He wants to bite me.
sebastian maniscalco
He's teething.
joe rogan
How cute is that dog?
sebastian maniscalco
He's cute.
I just bought a dog.
I just got a dog.
joe rogan
What'd you get?
sebastian maniscalco
Never a dog owner in my life.
This is the first time I've ever had a dog.
It's a Labradoodle.
Oh, those are great dogs.
It's extremely intelligent.
joe rogan
Yeah.
sebastian maniscalco
But I don't think it likes me.
joe rogan
What?
unidentified
I don't know.
sebastian maniscalco
They're looking at me like...
Loves my wife, loves my kids.
joe rogan
Doesn't like you.
sebastian maniscalco
I don't know.
It's not as excited to see me as maybe my wife and kids.
joe rogan
Really?
sebastian maniscalco
I'm just very perceptive on the...
joe rogan
Maybe he wants to be the man.
Is he the man of the house?
sebastian maniscalco
Well, he's becoming the man.
joe rogan
Does he have balls?
sebastian maniscalco
Uh, yeah.
joe rogan
Well, keep his balls.
sebastian maniscalco
Yeah.
joe rogan
Don't, don't.
sebastian maniscalco
No.
That's what, that's what the one of, I think the dog trainer said.
Just keep them.
joe rogan
Yeah.
sebastian maniscalco
Keep his nuts and tight.
joe rogan
The whole idea is you don't want unnecessary puppies.
Right.
I agree.
Don't let your dog breed.
But be with your fucking dog.
Like, but if you take your dog's balls off, now your dog doesn't have any testosterone anymore.
Yeah.
They develop.
Yeah.
Hip problems and joint problems.
They're tired all the time.
Just like a man.
If you take his balls away, they become a eunuch.
That's what you're doing to your dog.
I've seen people do it and they're like, I wish I didn't do it.
Andrew Huberman said that.
He started giving his dog testosterone because he got his dog fixed and then his dog was listless all the time.
And so he's like, he felt terrible.
And they started doing the research on it and looking into it and like, oh, you need hormones.
Dogs do it just like people do.
It's terrible for them.
sebastian maniscalco
Yeah, we'll keep his nuts intact.
joe rogan
I had a vet that told me that.
One vet, a great guy, and he was like, don't do it.
Don't do it.
Everybody says to do it.
You're not taking your dog somewhere and letting your dog breed with a bunch of different dogs and have puppies irresponsibly.
So your dog has a nice yard.
You're a good dog owner.
You're with him all the time.
Like, don't worry about it.
sebastian maniscalco
Yeah.
joe rogan
Don't do it.
sebastian maniscalco
As long as you're paying attention to him.
joe rogan
Yeah, just the whole idea is just to not...
I mean, people are irresponsible.
That's why I can't go to the dog pound.
If I go to the dog pound, I will have 20 dogs.
sebastian maniscalco
Yeah.
joe rogan
My dog, you know, my dog's perfect.
He's awesome.
But I just...
I love dogs.
I would have as many...
Yeah, I always had dogs.
I would have as many dogs as I can.
I love them.
They're just pure love.
And if you have a good relationship with your dogs, if your dogs love you and you love them, it's like every day I wake up and I say to my dog, good morning, sir!
And he goes, woo!
He starts whimpering and whining and wagging his tail 50 miles an hour and he goes around in circles and we hug it out and I kiss him and I rub his belly.
It's like we have a morning ritual.
I love dogs, man.
sebastian maniscalco
Oh, it's nice.
joe rogan
It changes your life.
They make your life filled with love.
You know, cats are cool, but...
They're kind of aloof.
They want to be pet, and then they go away, and they're cool.
They just want to go outside and kill something.
Your dog is like your friend.
He wants to hang out with you.
I take him to work.
He's like, are we going to work?
sebastian maniscalco
This is crazy.
joe rogan
We're going to work.
Every day when I bring out the ball, I think he's going to be bored with the ball.
I bring out the ball.
Today, he's like, enough with the ball.
But nope.
Every day, he's like, the fucking ball!
sebastian maniscalco
He's got the ball!
joe rogan
He's running around in circles, jumping up in the air, trying to steal the ball from me before I throw it.
It's amazing.
sebastian maniscalco
Yeah, that's what I hear a lot of dog owners over the years.
joe rogan
You're not having that experience?
sebastian maniscalco
Well, not yet.
How old is his puppy?
He's like three months old.
joe rogan
Just spend time with him.
sebastian maniscalco
Hang out with him.
joe rogan
Play with him a lot.
sebastian maniscalco
I'm playing.
I'm just saying.
I don't know if it's the cologne I got on but I probably smell horrible to him.
He's like, what the hell is this?
joe rogan
You're probably smelling a chemical factory.
Like, what the fuck is this dude smell like?
unidentified
Woo!
sebastian maniscalco
I feel, I feel, I feel, do you work alone?
I feel like you don't wear cologne.
joe rogan
Do you wear cologne?
Wear cologne?
I thought you said work alone.
No, I don't wear cologne.
No, I barely wear...
I only wear deodorant because I don't want to be offensive.
Because I will get offensive.
I'll smell terrible.
But I wear natural deodorant with no aluminum in it and all that jazz.
sebastian maniscalco
Of course you do.
joe rogan
Yeah.
sebastian maniscalco
I don't smell.
joe rogan
You don't smell at all?
sebastian maniscalco
No.
joe rogan
Are you sure?
Can I smell you?
sebastian maniscalco
Go right ahead.
joe rogan
How could you not smell?
sebastian maniscalco
I don't have whatever it is that gives off any type of body odor.
unidentified
Really?
sebastian maniscalco
I don't have it.
joe rogan
Have you been told this by someone or you just like deduce this on your own?
sebastian maniscalco
I've gotten sweaty many a times and I've asked my wife, do I smell?
She says no.
So I don't emanate any odor while I'm sweating.
joe rogan
Interesting.
Maybe your wife can't smell good.
sebastian maniscalco
No, I'm telling you, Joe.
Believe me, I'm very keen on odors.
So if I smell anything, I make sure that that's taken care of.
joe rogan
Odors are interesting because, you know, your olfactory senses, they detect changes in smell.
They don't detect static smells.
That's why people that live in an area like with a slaughterhouse, they don't freak out.
Like, my family used to live in Pennsylvania, and when I would drive from New York to go visit them, when I would drive through these areas where they have farms and slaughterhouses, fertilizer, it's a fucking terrible smell in the whole town.
Like, how can these people live here?
They don't smell it.
Oh, the no body odor gene.
That's what you have.
People have the ABCC11 non-functioning gene variant, have dry earwax, and little to no body odor.
sebastian maniscalco
Now, I've known this for some time, that I have no body odor, but it's nice to come on the show because there's always a reference put up.
I could have looked that up.
I never looked it up and here you come and you walk away knowing that you don't have the gene that emits odor.
joe rogan
Yeah, some sort of a gene expression.
Interesting.
I wonder what the benefits...
We were talking about this yesterday, like people that didn't shower.
There was people that went their whole life without bathing because bathing was considered a sin.
It was sinful.
You want to discourage people.
What was that about that we're reading?
It was something religious, right?
It was about like royalty and old-timey people.
But St. Agnes, is that who it was that went his whole life without bathing at all?
His whole life, no bathing.
Imagine.
sebastian maniscalco
I couldn't imagine that.
joe rogan
Imagine what that guy smelled like.
Imagine what his asshole smelled like.
What the fuck, dude?
sebastian maniscalco
Have you gone recently in the last 10 years without taking a shower?
Or cleaning yourself, at least?
Did you miss a day?
joe rogan
I've missed a day before.
Yeah.
But generally, no, because I work out.
So if I work out, I always shower.
And I'll cold plunge and sauna.
So that's, you know, you just drench with sweat.
You feel like shit if you don't wash off a little.
sebastian maniscalco
No, I agree.
I'm just, I think I might be showering too much.
joe rogan
How much do you shower?
sebastian maniscalco
Well, I normally get two showers in a day.
unidentified
Really?
sebastian maniscalco
Sometimes three.
I feel like if I'm going to go to dinner, say with my wife, I feel like I can't take the day shower and bleed it into the night.
I feel like it's a reset.
joe rogan
Right.
sebastian maniscalco
I get re-ready for the dinner.
joe rogan
You want to look nice?
You want to feel nice?
Put that watch on?
sebastian maniscalco
Put the watch on and go out and have a nice bowl of pasta.
Sweat to death at 2 o'clock in the morning.
joe rogan
Do you use the Eight Sleep thing?
Does it help you?
sebastian maniscalco
Well, it's...
Again, I got this Eight Sleep.
It's supposed to monitor your sleep.
I got the Oura Ring.
It's supposed to monitor.
You know what I need?
I need accountability.
I need to send the data...
joe rogan
And have someone change your lifestyle.
sebastian maniscalco
And have them analyze it and go, oh, you know what the problem is?
You're waking up at 1 o'clock in the morning and that's disrupting your sleep.
I got all this data.
I got an Apple Watch.
Oh, I burned 390 calories.
Okay.
What does that mean?
I have a lot of data.
I don't have a lot of analysis.
joe rogan
Do you have a trainer?
sebastian maniscalco
I have a trainer, yeah.
joe rogan
Maybe we should get a nutritionist.
You got some bread.
Get a nutritionist.
Get someone you can show the data to and they'll tell you what you're doing wrong.
sebastian maniscalco
I need someone to hand over the data.
joe rogan
They have companies that do stuff like that.
Yeah, you can get that done.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
You should do that.
I bet the late night eating thing is a real problem.
That one makes you feel terrible when you're sleeping.
sebastian maniscalco
What's late night eating?
Okay, like some say, all right, you should have dinner at 5.30, 6 o'clock, and after that you don't eat if you go to bed around 9, 9.30.
I mean, what's a late night meal for you?
joe rogan
At 1 o'clock in the morning last night I was cooking elk steaks.
1 o'clock in the morning.
sebastian maniscalco
Yeah.
Well, then you're up till 4.30.
joe rogan
I was up till 3.00, yeah.
sebastian maniscalco
I mean, as long as you're not going to sleep, I figure two, three hours.
I think two, three hours is a good time to go to bed after a meal.
joe rogan
Yeah, a couple hours.
Yeah, but I've done it like where I eat and then go right to bed.
That's terrible.
sebastian maniscalco
That's terrible.
We have eight o'clock at night.
We're eating.
Next thing you know, 841, we're in bed.
And I'm like, is this healthy?
joe rogan
You should go up for a walk.
Go for a walk around your neighborhood.
sebastian maniscalco
I just saw something online that's walking...
unidentified
I was going to share that.
joe rogan
It was at the Huberman Lab.
Oh, yeah, there it is.
That's from Andrew Huberman again.
Brief post-meal walks and blood sugar regulation.
So they explain the simple yet large positive effect that a brief post-meal walk.
As simple as it may sound, the date is impressive.
And it is impressive stuff.
I forget exactly what the numbers were, but 30-35% change in your blood sugar level.
Just by taking a walk around the block after a meal.
Pretty amazing.
sebastian maniscalco
With all this stuff that's out, right?
All this information of how to live your life.
And you took me to a tour.
You got the tank, the sauna, the thing.
I feel like at this age, at 50, all this stuff that you got to do to prepare for the day, by the time you're done with it, you got to go back to bed again, right?
unidentified
So...
sebastian maniscalco
By the time you work out, do the cold plunge, you're in the sauna, you're in the tank, and then it's time to go to bed.
unidentified
It's time to go to bed with all the shit you gotta do, right?
sebastian maniscalco
It used to be you just work out for an hour, you took a shower, and you went on with your day.
Now I gotta go submerge myself in water, I gotta go sweat, then I gotta go float in a tank.
joe rogan
The tank takes a lot of time, but the other things don't take...
The float tank takes a lot of time, but the other things, like...
Cold plunge adds three minutes to my day.
Sauna adds 20 minutes to my day.
It's 25 extra minutes of my workout.
That's it.
sebastian maniscalco
I wasn't looking for the time breakdown, Joe.
I was just saying.
joe rogan
But it doesn't take the whole day.
sebastian maniscalco
But I'm just saying the amount of shit.
Then you gotta eat the vitamins.
The half a cup.
But this is all said and done.
It's time for dinner.
joe rogan
No.
No.
You get things done, man.
You're exaggerating.
I get you doing that.
It's the way you do humor.
unidentified
I get it.
sebastian maniscalco
I don't have to exaggerate.
joe rogan
It's plenty of time.
It's plenty of time.
You just don't waste your time.
Like today, I wasted an hour just scrolling through Instagram.
It was one of the rare days.
I just felt like indulging myself.
I'm like, let's fucking see what's going on in the world.
Bunch of nonsense.
Some interesting things.
But just a bunch of nonsense for a whole hour, just wasted scrolling.
sebastian maniscalco
Yeah, I mean, there's time, there's mind-numbing things that you do to kind of like, whatever, carry yourself throughout the day.
I'm just saying, 20 years ago, nobody knew about any of this shit, about sweating and what that does.
Now with the internet, you could throw up.
You know, before the internet, if we were talking about walking, Right?
We would just go, oh yeah, no, walk is good for you.
Next thing you know, now we got a whole study up on the screen of how walking is beneficial to you and this, that, and the other thing.
I'm just saying with the amount of information out there, sometimes I feel a little bit overwhelmed going, how much do I got to do to get through the day?
joe rogan
Well, it depends on how you want to feel.
If you want to have a lot of energy, like I do, you have to do a lot of things.
And I firmly believe this is the reason why I'm so productive.
And I think if I didn't do the cold plunge and the sauna and the workouts and the vitamins and the eating healthy, I'd be a completely different human being.
sebastian maniscalco
I know.
joe rogan
I wouldn't have the energy.
sebastian maniscalco
No, I get it.
It's just that there's a lot you gotta do.
joe rogan
Yeah, there's a lot you gotta do.
sebastian maniscalco
Like, I see people on the internet sweating.
So I'm like, okay, do I gotta start sweating?
Is the steam room that I got at home, is that not enough?
Do a couple eucalyptus sprays, breathe in.
Sweat a little bit and then I come out, right?
joe rogan
That's not bad.
sebastian maniscalco
Okay, but now do I need an infrared sauna because now I got to get the sweat that's inside that's not coming out of the steam?
What's happening, Joe?
joe rogan
The infrared sauna is probably very good for you, but there's not a lot of data on it like there is with the traditional dry sauna.
A traditional dry sauna, there's a lot of very beneficial data.
And the thing about the difference between steam and sauna is you can't really get steam hot enough.
Because you'll cook.
Because it's just too crazy.
You can't get a 190 degrees steam shower.
You'd literally go in there and scald your skin.
But you can get a 190 degree dry sauna and you go in there and you really fucking sweat.
And that's when your body develops all those heat shock proteins.
Because your body's reacting to it overheating.
So it has to do something to sort of mitigate that effect.
And that effect of mitigating it is what's so beneficial for your life.
I mean, there's a study out of Finland They did a 20-year study that found that using the sauna four times a week for 20 minutes at a time, and I think it was 175 degrees, lowers your all-cause mortality by 40%.
That means strokes, heart attack, cancer, everything, lowers it by 40%.
And this is a long-term study of many, many people.
sebastian maniscalco
So, the 190 degrees is a lot more beneficial than the steam.
A steam at 120, is that doing anything?
joe rogan
It's doing something.
Yeah, it's all good.
A hot bath is good.
Everything is good.
Getting your body to heat up is good, because it gets your body to react, and it's the same thing.
It develops those heat shock proteins.
A really hot bath is very good for you.
If you can get in a nice hot, especially if you get some Epsom salts in there, you get that magnesium, get a really hot bath, very, very good for you.
sebastian maniscalco
You know what I started doing?
Talking about magnesium.
And I don't know if you've ever done this, but I'm doing...
I got a little spray bottle of magnesium.
I spray it on my feet at night, and I put socks on.
You ever heard of that move?
joe rogan
No.
Why do you do that?
sebastian maniscalco
Saw it online.
Let me try this.
I'm a guy.
I'll tell you right now.
This is what I do.
I don't do research.
joe rogan
None?
sebastian maniscalco
None.
I see that.
I go, oh, this guy's spraying the magnesium on his feet putting socks on.
I'm gonna try that tonight.
joe rogan
That's it?
No Google search?
sebastian maniscalco
No Google search, no nothing.
joe rogan
Okay.
sebastian maniscalco
It could be killing me for all I know.
joe rogan
I don't think it is.
sebastian maniscalco
But I'm doing magnesium feet sock sleeps.
joe rogan
Does it seem to have a change in the way you feel?
sebastian maniscalco
Again, haven't done it consistently enough.
To even find out if this is helping me.
joe rogan
Right.
sebastian maniscalco
So I'm a guy that does, like, things kind of on the whim, and there's really no consistency with it, right?
joe rogan
Let's look into it for you, because the magnesium foot spray, now I'm interested.
Like, what is the deal behind that?
jamie vernon
There's definitely multiple products being sold as magnesium oil for your feet.
I didn't see anything necessarily saying you need to keep socks on, too.
sebastian maniscalco
I throw the socks on just because I don't want magnesium all over the bed.
unidentified
Yeah, that's a good move.
sebastian maniscalco
No, that's what I'm doing.
My wife is even looking at me going, Jesus Christ, this is where we're at now.
I'm at the edge of the bed spraying my feet.
I'm like, what?
She's like, really?
Magnesium on your feet?
Is this where the relationship is?
So I don't know if you could, the internet probably don't even have this information.
I saw it like on a random, I think it was an Instagram video.
joe rogan
Well, I would imagine it get absorbed through your skin just like the float tank does.
The float tank is a great source of magnesium because there's a thousand pounds Of Epsom salts in the water, and your skin absorbs it.
So I would imagine your skin's absorbing that stuff you're spraying on your feet.
jamie vernon
Yeah, it just doesn't absorb it as well as an oral supplement.
joe rogan
Okay.
unidentified
That's about all it says, really.
joe rogan
Yeah, so not good absorption.
But it works a little bit.
sebastian maniscalco
Okay.
joe rogan
A little something.
jamie vernon
It can help with cramps or some sort of nerve functions.
joe rogan
Magnesium helps people sleep, though, right?
It's a good one for sleep.
sebastian maniscalco
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah.
sebastian maniscalco
I notice sometimes when I get those IV and there's magnesium in there, I feel exhausted.
unidentified
Yeah.
Relaxed.
sebastian maniscalco
The IV, again, this is another thing people do.
joe rogan
Right.
sebastian maniscalco
Oh, you gotta get a bag of whatever the hell's in the thing.
joe rogan
Right.
sebastian maniscalco
I don't even ask.
Just give me the bag.
And I get it, right?
Don't feel any different.
joe rogan
No?
You will if you're sick.
Yeah.
I tell everybody, if you are down, if you're feeling shit and you're run down, get an IV vitamin drip.
It's a game changer, especially with a high dose of zinc and vitamin C. You get an IV vitamin bag and you will feel way better.
Bill Burr was sick as a dog when I saw him last.
I was like, how long have you been sick for?
He's like, two weeks.
I can't shake this call.
I go, please listen to me.
I just do this.
Get a vitamin IV. And he texted me the other day.
He's like, Dr. Rogan.
He goes, it fixed me.
It was like, I'm gonna do that from now on.
I'm like, from now on.
Anytime you're sick, you feel like shit, get a high dose vitamin C, zinc, B12, the whole deal, in a bag.
You'll feel much, much better.
Because it gives your body the tools it needs to fight off whatever the fuck is trying to get you.
sebastian maniscalco
Yeah, Joe, listen.
I've done the bag.
joe rogan
Right?
sebastian maniscalco
While ill.
joe rogan
And it hasn't helped?
sebastian maniscalco
Well, it's helped but not like where I came out of it.
Like, this is what I'm thinking.
If I take the bag and I got a cough, after I take the bag...
joe rogan
The cough should go away.
sebastian maniscalco
I don't want the cough anymore.
unidentified
Right.
sebastian maniscalco
And if the cough is still there, I feel like, eh, all right.
joe rogan
Have you ever done NAD? No.
NAD is rough.
How do you say it again?
Nucleotide adenonide...
What is it?
Nicotinonide adenonide dinucleotides?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
sebastian maniscalco
What is it?
joe rogan
So NAD is a supplement that you can take that actually helps your telomeres lengthen, which is a sign of healthy bodies in young people.
Found in all living cells, NAD is called dinucleotide because it consists of two nucleotides joined through their phosphorus groups.
So you take that in an IV bag, and generally most people do it over a long period of time.
You do it over like two hours.
So you just watch a movie.
Because it's very uncomfortable.
sebastian maniscalco
What, to get it?
joe rogan
Yeah, the NAD is very uncomfortable.
It's very uncomfortable for your stomach.
It makes you like cramp up.
If you do it quick, it's an intense feeling that most people don't enjoy.
sebastian maniscalco
What's the benefit?
unidentified
What does it do?
joe rogan
There's a lot of benefits.
There's a benefit for your immune system.
There's a benefit cognitively.
You feel much better.
You come out of it when your body's replenished with that stuff.
You just feel fantastic.
sebastian maniscalco
Okay.
joe rogan
I feel really good.
sebastian maniscalco
That's something else I gotta do.
joe rogan
But that's one that needs some time, unless you can go hardcore and just deal with the uncomfortable feeling.
sebastian maniscalco
No, I don't do anything hardcore.
joe rogan
Nothing?
sebastian maniscalco
Nothing in my life is hardcore.
joe rogan
Interesting.
Interesting.
Do you have an aversion to hardcore things, or is this just how it all panned out?
sebastian maniscalco
It's just how it all panned out.
Hardcore for me is...
Hardcore is comedy.
That's what I do.
joe rogan
Okay.
Yeah, one thing.
sebastian maniscalco
One thing.
joe rogan
One thing we're all in on.
sebastian maniscalco
All in on comedy.
Other than that, outside, I wish I was more interested and dove into things a little bit more deeper than I have.
Everything with me is a little bit on the surface.
joe rogan
Do you really wish that?
Because I feel like if you did wish that, you would just do it.
Right?
sebastian maniscalco
Yeah.
I just wish I had the...
I don't know what it is inside me that would, you know, make me want to learn more about...
Like, I like cooking, right?
But I don't dive so into it where I'm coming up with recipes and doing this and that and the other thing.
joe rogan
Right, right, right.
sebastian maniscalco
Let's look at a YouTube video, make the fish, and then here's the fish.
But...
I don't take it to another level.
I don't go get the beautiful knife or the pots and pans and all the stuff that goes along with cooking.
My interest level is surface.
Rarely does it go underneath the surface.
joe rogan
You know what I really got into out here is cooking over wood.
Like live, like actual hardwood, not just lump charcoal, like getting wood and using an offset smoker and slowly searing the steaks, or slowly like cooking the steaks rather, and then searing them at the end over the coals.
I take the coals and I put the coals from the hardwood underneath the grill and then sear the shit out of it.
sebastian maniscalco
Okay, I hear it.
unidentified
I hear it.
I hear that.
joe rogan
Yeah.
sebastian maniscalco
And my brain is gonna explode.
joe rogan
Too much?
That's true.
Too much.
unidentified
That's true.
joe rogan
But we're all different, Sebastian.
sebastian maniscalco
No, I know we're all different.
But, like, do you know the kind of wood that it's...
Yes.
joe rogan
Live oak.
You want oak, generally.
Live oak.
Or you want, if you want to grill hotter.
A lot of guys like mesquite.
I like mesquite and oak.
Those are my two favorite.
But I'll try cherry.
I'll try some different woods.
Some places you can go to get hardwood just for some...
Because there's so much barbecue out here.
sebastian maniscalco
Yeah.
joe rogan
There's companies that'll just deliver cords of wood to your house.
sebastian maniscalco
Okay, speaking of wood, right?
I got a pizza oven.
My goal is to make pizza.
It's not as easy as people might think to make pizza from scratch.
The dough and the whole thing.
joe rogan
It's very hard.
sebastian maniscalco
So, I've tried multiple times, and, you know, I'm the guy, again, I'm a guy that, I'll try it again and hope for a different result, but I'll do the same thing I did before, right?
Just hoping magically, oh, it's gonna come out!
My pizza don't even look like pizza.
It looks like the shapes are unrecognizable.
I can't even get a circle on the damn thing.
I work it out.
It's not pliable enough.
So when I put it in there, half of the cheese flies off into the stove.
I bring it out.
It's a mess.
joe rogan
Why don't you get pre-made dough?
sebastian maniscalco
I tried the pre-made dough, Joe.
And for whatever the reason, I cannot get a circle.
With the thing.
I try this.
joe rogan
I bet if you went to like a real Italian pizzeria, they would show you how to do it.
sebastian maniscalco
Again.
joe rogan
If you went there?
sebastian maniscalco
Joe, listen.
You teach me something, I come home, I forget half of the shit I learned.
I don't have any retention or comprehension on anything.
joe rogan
Has this always been the case?
sebastian maniscalco
It's always been the case.
joe rogan
But not with comedy.
sebastian maniscalco
Not with comedy.
joe rogan
This is interesting.
The one thing that you're successful at, like super successful at, you've like focused entirely on that.
sebastian maniscalco
I got no more focus.
unidentified
Oh.
sebastian maniscalco
The focus I have is for comedy.
After that, the focus wanes because I feel like I just don't have, you know.
joe rogan
That's probably a good way to live.
Yeah, just be casual most of your life and be intense about one thing.
That sounds like a good balance.
I don't think there's anything wrong with that.
sebastian maniscalco
Well, I would like to learn more things.
Even when you got kids now, you could teach your kids how to do the archery.
You got the whole archery thing.
Hunting.
You know how to hunt, right?
I'm trying to figure out what am I passing on to my kids as far as skill sets is concerned.
Yeah.
joe rogan
Probably talking shit.
sebastian maniscalco
Huh?
joe rogan
Talking shit?
They're probably good at talking shit.
My kids are real good at talking shit.
They say some funny things, man.
It's fun.
We have a fun house.
It's like a lot of fun shit talking.
sebastian maniscalco
Yeah.
That's always good.
joe rogan
And they make fun of me too, which is fun.
Like, there's no, you know, I could never make fun of my parents.
There was none of that growing up.
They would fucking yell at you.
sebastian maniscalco
Oh, we had that relationship with my parents.
joe rogan
Yeah, you can't be.
Italian parents.
sebastian maniscalco
No, no, we did.
joe rogan
Oh, you had a relationship with joking around?
sebastian maniscalco
Yeah, just goofing around.
unidentified
Oh, okay.
joe rogan
My parents were not like that.
sebastian maniscalco
No, they didn't.
joe rogan
There was not a lot of joking around.
No.
So I love joking around.
And so they're making fun of me all the time.
Like, it's hilarious.
sebastian maniscalco
Your daughters?
joe rogan
Yeah, they're funny.
They talk shit.
And they know that I like it.
They know that I laugh.
So everyone's like, we have a good time.
They talk shit to each other.
They talk shit to their friends.
Talking shit is fun.
It's a fun activity.
It's one of my favorite things about a green room at a comedy club is that everybody's talking shit.
You go back there, everybody's busting balls, cracking on people, guys and girls.
Everyone's laughing.
We're all just shitting on each other.
sebastian maniscalco
Yeah.
joe rogan
And it's hilarious.
It's such a beautiful environment.
You know, like a green room of a comedy club where you're around a bunch of good people and everyone's laughing and we're all jazzed up because we're about to do shows.
I wish you were in last night and I wanted to take you to the club.
sebastian maniscalco
Yeah, I wish I would have came to the club.
joe rogan
It's so much fun, man.
It's such a great spot.
sebastian maniscalco
But here's my thing with that.
Here's my take on the green room.
I generally tend to retreat and just listen to everything that's going on when comedians...
Get together.
I'm never the guy like center of attention or contributing to the fun.
I've always been the guy that just kind of comes in quiet and listen.
Because I don't know a lot of the comedians intimately enough to have that like...
Comfortable.
So if I walk into a room, like here, I just did this show with Seinfeld, Nate Bregazzi, and Jim Gaffigan, and we're all backstage.
I tend to be the one who's...
I listen, and I chime in every now and again.
I don't have to be the guy that comes in and kind of like...
Pisses on the room.
joe rogan
That's actually good.
That's a good trait.
And also, when you're around those guys, like, hey, what a great time to sit back and listen.
You got Seinfeld, Nate Bargatze, and Jim Gaffigan in a room together.
Look at that.
sebastian maniscalco
Yeah, so we had a great time, but I'm just...
joe rogan
When did, uh...
unidentified
That's...
joe rogan
That's crazy.
sebastian maniscalco
When did what?
joe rogan
I was gonna say, like, look at you.
You look like an Arab.
Doesn't even look like you.
When did you turn into a guy from Palestine?
sebastian maniscalco
I don't know.
joe rogan
What is that photo?
What did someone do?
Someone put a filter on you.
That does not look like you.
Am I right, Jamie?
unidentified
I just darted.
No, no, no, no.
joe rogan
Dark.
The guy, he came off a yacht.
There's no other way.
Like, screw...
He looks like a guy in the Mediterranean that shows you how to get octopus.
unidentified
What's that?
sebastian maniscalco
I got Mediterranean blood!
joe rogan
I know, but you don't even look like you.
Like, in that photo, you look handsome, don't get me wrong, you look great.
But you don't look like you.
sebastian maniscalco
No, you know what it is.
Everybody else is white.
They got...
Ah, super white.
joe rogan
That's what it is.
sebastian maniscalco
When you're next to Jim Gaffigan, right?
joe rogan
Right, right, right.
sebastian maniscalco
Of course you're gonna look like you're delivering fish.
joe rogan
That's the filter, because he looks...
unidentified
There's a balance there, I guess.
joe rogan
He looks like a normal color in that, which is wrong.
Yeah, look how dark you are.
Well, that at least looks like you.
That other photo did not look like you.
sebastian maniscalco
Alright, maybe it was the lighting, Joe.
But that's me.
I was there.
joe rogan
I believe you.
I 100% believe you.
I'm just saying.
Go to that last photo, Jamie.
I'm not lying.
Go to that last photo.
Get the fuck out of here.
That ain't you.
That's some dude that works for the Saudi Arabian government.
He came over here to make some sort of a deal to try to get comedy to come over to the Middle East.
I know a lot of guys who do comedy in the Middle East and they give you a list of shit you can't talk about.
sebastian maniscalco
I did it in 08. I went with a bunch of comedians.
joe rogan
That scares me.
A list of shit you can't talk about?
Like, what if I slip up?
sebastian maniscalco
Yeah.
joe rogan
What if there's a moment in the crowd where someone yells something out?
And I think it would be funny to say something.
And whoopsies.
sebastian maniscalco
Yeah, there's a lot of editing.
joe rogan
Now you're in jail.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Who had a problem with that?
Who was it?
Someone actually went to one of those Middle East countries and did a gig and almost got arrested.
It was Eddie Ift.
Yeah, the only thing that saved him, I believe the story was, I believe it's Eddie, I think the only thing that saved him is some of the royal family thought he was hilarious.
They didn't have a problem with what he said at all.
I think he called someone sir when you're not supposed to call him sir.
You're supposed to call him your highness or your excellency.
And he was referring to people in the audience and talking to them and calling them sir.
And then they were trying to arrest him afterwards.
unidentified
Jeez.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Yo.
Like, sir's not good enough?
sebastian maniscalco
That's not even, like, I thought it was something.
joe rogan
No, it wasn't even anything.
That's why I'm nervous.
Like, that's not even, I mean, that's not even anything crazy.
That's nothing.
sebastian maniscalco
But your brand of humor, did you take that and did you ever do corporates and that wasn't your style?
unidentified
No, no, no, no.
joe rogan
Everybody that I've ever known that's done a corporate, after they do them, they go, why did I do that?
Ron White just did one.
He goes, this is the worst fucking experience of my life.
But they offered me a shitload of money, and I said yes.
I kept saying no, but they kept coming up with higher numbers.
And eventually I said yes, and it was fucking terrible.
Tony Hanscliffe just did one.
He said it was fucking terrible.
They're always terrible.
You like them?
sebastian maniscalco
Joe, I gotta be honest.
joe rogan
You like them?
sebastian maniscalco
I don't mind the corporate.
unidentified
Really?
sebastian maniscalco
I really don't mind a corporate...
Yeah, you've had those awful corporate gigs where, you know...
joe rogan
What percentage of...
I just ran into Sandler.
He told me he ate dick at a corporate gig.
sebastian maniscalco
Yeah, I mean...
joe rogan
Adam Sandler.
sebastian maniscalco
Yeah, they're not...
joe rogan
They paid to see Adam Sandler.
They knew Adam Sandler was going to be there, and it still sucked.
sebastian maniscalco
It's the environment sometimes.
It's like you're walking into whatever.
They just had their...
unidentified
Breakout meeting, and then they're coming, and then, oh, it's comedy.
sebastian maniscalco
But it's just a different vibe.
joe rogan
They're all scamming about their careers.
They're all networking and fucking making their little backstabbing moves.
sebastian maniscalco
But you call them out on that.
You kind of do material about what they're going through during the three-day sales meeting at the Venetian.
joe rogan
Right.
sebastian maniscalco
You know, so you kind of relate to, I actually, I don't mind them as much as other, you know, comedians are like corporate.
I actually don't mind them.
joe rogan
Jay Leno loves them.
sebastian maniscalco
Yeah.
joe rogan
I mean, that's where he's made the majority of his money.
You know Jay Leno, all those fucking cars he has, never spent a dime of his Tonight Show money.
sebastian maniscalco
I know.
joe rogan
Never spent a dime.
Puts it all in the bank.
sebastian maniscalco
It's amazing.
joe rogan
All that money, all those cars, it's all him doing gigs.
sebastian maniscalco
Well, here, you didn't grow up with money, right?
So, now you're super successful, you got this money.
Was there someone that taught you how to manage money or how to look at money in a way where you're like, okay, I have a good grasp on this.
Yeah, I mean, a money manager, what have you, but I'm just talking about your relationship with money.
Is it like...
Yeah, we're here.
Live it up.
Spend it.
Or is it more like, do you ever think this is not going to be the most popular podcast ever?
Or do you even think that way?
joe rogan
I don't think that way.
I never thought it would be popular in the first place.
When I first started doing it, there was just me and Brian Redband in my fucking living room.
Like, and then comedians.
Joey Diaz come over.
Eddie Bravo comes over.
Ari comes over.
We're just having fun.
Just talking shit.
I never imagined.
I didn't plan for it.
Like, when everybody has those vision boards, like, this is how you become successful.
You have to manifest it.
I didn't manifest this at all.
Zero.
The most successful thing I've ever done by a long shot.
And I've put zero management into it.
All I've done is just keep doing what I enjoy doing, and it turns out other people enjoy it too.
That's it.
It's just talk to people like yourself, talk to funny people, talk to interesting people, talk to people I agree with, talk to people I disagree with.
Have civil conversations with people where you disagree with things.
It's good for you too.
All I do is just do what I enjoy doing.
If I could do this for free, I would still do it.
I enjoy it.
sebastian maniscalco
So you do this podcast.
joe rogan
Yeah.
sebastian maniscalco
You have no aspirations of this being the hugest thing ever, right?
joe rogan
I don't even have any aspirations for growth.
I don't say, you know, by this time next year I'd like to have...
Nope.
sebastian maniscalco
You just focus on...
joe rogan
What I'm doing.
Yeah.
unidentified
Output.
joe rogan
I feel like everything else is a distraction.
Like, as long as you're making enough money...
You know, Brian Count said something he wants, and I never forgot it.
He said...
And we were kids.
We were in our 20s.
He said the only amount of money you need is so that you can go to a restaurant and not care what things cost.
Everything else is bullshit.
If you've got enough money, you can go to a restaurant and you don't worry.
Just order a bottle of wine, order meat, order whatever you want to eat.
You don't have to think about the price.
He goes, that's real freedom.
Because everything else, like all that other shit, that's all just becomes complicated.
You don't need that.
Real freedom is the freedom to not worry about your bills.
I experienced that leap, that jump, when I got a development deal.
So I was like, I guess I was 25, 26 maybe?
25?
I got this development deal from Disney and it was like $150,000 and I couldn't believe it.
I had $150,000.
This is nuts.
And I felt like a physical weight lift over my shoulders.
Because back then I was a...
Road comic, you know, you do a gig on Thursday, it's 200 bucks.
You do a gig here, it's 150. You know, you're scraping together enough money so that you could pay your bills and eat.
And you were always worried about gigs.
Always trying to film my book.
Always trying to call booking agents, drive to Connecticut, drive to Jersey.
Where do I gotta go to make some money?
And it was all just trying to stay alive and trying to make it, right?
Trying to become like I didn't really think I was a legit professional comedian.
It could all go away.
And so I got that development deal and it was the nuttiest feeling in the world.
It was like I felt lighter.
Like, it felt lighter.
And then I was like, oh, that's the key.
Like, get the monkey off your back.
Get the bill monkey off your back.
And that's the real freedom.
The real freedom is not being rich.
You don't feel any different being really rich other than the stuff that you can do.
But the way you feel in the day is the same way you feel if your bills are paid.
That's what you want.
All that other shit is like...
The other thing I noticed...
When I moved to California, it was the first time I had a nice apartment, and I'll never forget this either.
I was sitting in my apartment, and it was a beautiful place in North Hollywood.
I had a loft, I had a pool table in my apartment.
I was like, this is amazing.
How is this real?
How is this mine?
After a while, it just became my house.
And then I realized, like, oh, this is the same feeling I have when I'm home that I had in my shitty apartment in New York.
It's the same feeling.
It's like, oh, this is home.
It's the same feeling.
It's not better.
It's not worth the amount of money that it costs if you're renting a house that's way over your budget and you're doing Uber just to try to pay your bills.
It's not worth that.
What's worth it is if it's comfortable.
If you have a TV and you have a nice bed and you can cook your meals, you're good.
That's what you need.
That's all you need.
Everything else is just like the amount of effort that you have to put in to make the amount of money, to get all these other things, leaves you in this constant state of anxiety.
I think people just get lost in this idea of constantly making more and getting more and chasing more.
I just concentrate on what I do.
That's all I concentrate on.
I concentrate on work.
I concentrate on comedy.
I concentrate on UFC fights.
I concentrate on podcasts.
And I don't think about those other things.
I don't think about the direction of my career at all.
sebastian maniscalco
Well, that's a great way to look at things.
Because the only thing you really have control of is...
joe rogan
What you do.
sebastian maniscalco
What you do.
joe rogan
What you put out.
Yeah.
sebastian maniscalco
So you being a pioneer in the podcast world, right?
You and Mark Maron, I feel like, were kind of...
joe rogan
Adam Curry was the first.
Adam Curry was the original.
The MTV VJ. He's still got a podcast now.
He's excellent.
He's a good friend of mine.
And he's the number one guy.
He's the podfather.
sebastian maniscalco
Okay, he's the podfather.
joe rogan
He named it.
They started it off together.
Yeah, they started doing it years before I ever did it.
And yeah, Mark had his a little bit before mine.
Adam Carolla was the first, because Adam did it off of radio.
So Adam had that radio gig where he took over Howard Stern's slots when Howard Stern went over to Sirius.
Remember that?
So he had this morning show.
And that morning show was doing real well until...
Do you remember they used to have a talk radio station in LA? Before podcast, it was like Tom Likas was on there, and it was a bunch of good shows.
sebastian maniscalco
Yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
And that also made me think about doing podcasts, too.
I mean, I didn't know that a podcast was ever going to be a thing, but I was like, this is a talk radio station now.
Talk radio got so big, mostly because of Howard, I think, but there was a whole station that Where you could listen to the station.
It was all talk radio all day long.
sebastian maniscalco
There was a science guy on there late night.
I forgot what the hell his name was.
But yeah, you're right.
There was like a station that had all these kind of cool talk formats.
And what I'm saying is, for me, I'm not so versed on the history of podcasting.
But for me, I just remember you as being one of the first guys to do this.
joe rogan
Yeah, we were one of the first.
sebastian maniscalco
Okay, so now you're here.
When you look at the landscape of podcasting from when you started to where it is now, do you go, wow, this is amazing that all these people are doing it?
Could anybody do this?
It feels like everybody has a podcast.
I feel like there's a specific skill set to podcasting.
Do you look at what you did early on and what you're doing now and go, wow, look at the growth?
joe rogan
It's definitely a lot better.
Yeah, I'm definitely better at talking to people.
Yeah, it's his skill.
You learn it.
It makes you a better conversationalist in the real world, for sure.
It makes you more considerate.
sebastian maniscalco
It's like comedy, right?
It's like you weren't the podcaster you were.
joe rogan
How long have you been doing this?
Podcasting 15 years?
sebastian maniscalco
15 years.
joe rogan
Somewhere around there?
Closing it on 15 years?
sebastian maniscalco
Yeah, so it took 15 years to get it to...
I mean, obviously you've been successful for longer than...
joe rogan
But yeah, it took a long-ass time.
sebastian maniscalco
It took a long-ass time.
And I think nowadays it's just there's an amount of time you've got to put into something in order for it to be a gem.
joe rogan
Yes.
sebastian maniscalco
But, you know, even just the entertainment landscape as I look at it, has entertainment changed?
Where now we're looking at the phone and we're looking at somebody do something crazy at their house.
There's a guy I've been watching this insane...
His name is...
He's catching eggs in his mouth, right?
Do you see this guy?
Insane...
Insane...
I forget the name of his...
Insane Shane.
joe rogan
Catches eggs from how far away?
sebastian maniscalco
50 yards!
They're throwing eggs in this guy's mouth.
He's got the best mouth on the internet, right?
joe rogan
Does he break the eggs or does he catch them and not have them break?
sebastian maniscalco
No, they're like hardboiled.
Or a meatball.
joe rogan
Oh.
sebastian maniscalco
This guy's chucking meatballs.
joe rogan
And he's catching them in his mouth?
sebastian maniscalco
50 yards!
joe rogan
That's a skill.
sebastian maniscalco
So I'm watching it and I can't...
Yeah, this is...
joe rogan
The marshmallow combine.
unidentified
He's not catching all of them.
sebastian maniscalco
No, he's catching them.
joe rogan
Oh, he's catching them and then spitting them out.
Oh my god, that's insane.
jamie vernon
One of these guys threw at 50. Who throws a marshmallow at 50 yards?
sebastian maniscalco
Yeah, I think they're like ex-football players or the guys that are throwing.
This guy's doing routes, catching marshmallows in his mouth.
joe rogan
This is crazy.
People are trying to block him.
That's crazy.
He's catching the marshmallows.
sebastian maniscalco
That's amazing.
joe rogan
That's a skill.
sebastian maniscalco
So, I'm watching this now.
This is entertainment now.
joe rogan
Okay, he's got a million followers.
InsaneShane1.
unidentified
S-H-A-Y. He's diving off speedboats, catching them in his mouth.
sebastian maniscalco
I mean, look at this guy.
joe rogan
Who would have ever thought that that would be a thing?
Oh, he dives into a ball.
sebastian maniscalco
This is a real football.
So, has entertainment, in your eyes, changed where it's changing, where this is now what people are watching instead of maybe a movie or a TV show?
joe rogan
Well, it's definitely consuming a lot of your time.
I mean, if you look at your screen time, like if you look at my screen time on my phone, on an average day, it'll be more than four hours.
And how much of that is doom-scrolling?
A lot.
A lot.
So that's entertainment.
So would I have been watching television during that time?
No, probably not, because you could take your entertainment with you now, which is even more distracting.
sebastian maniscalco
Yeah, but you're not watching...
You said you did an hour of Instagram.
unidentified
Yeah.
sebastian maniscalco
You're not watching, like, a movie or a documentary.
joe rogan
Sometimes I am.
Yeah.
I spend a lot of time doing that, too.
sebastian maniscalco
But I do that in certain places.
Like, I'll watch a documentary on an airplane, or I'll watch something at home.
joe rogan
Right.
sebastian maniscalco
But I generally don't take my phone, and I'm walking around the house watching documentaries, right?
joe rogan
Right, you'd sit down.
sebastian maniscalco
You'd sit down and enjoy that.
Yeah.
But this is something that I would probably, if I was on my phone from the kitchen to the bedroom, I'm watching a guy catch marshmallows.
My question to you is, if the internet or social media wasn't around, do you think that guy would be around?
joe rogan
No, you wouldn't be doing that.
sebastian maniscalco
But do you think this was existing 30 years ago, where somebody was chucking marshmallows and catching them just for fun, and we didn't see it?
joe rogan
There was probably a guy in the neighborhood that could do it, and everybody would come over and watch Bob catch marshmallows with his face.
Yeah, I'm sure.
But it just never would have been the discipline that it is now, where this guy's got fucking guys blocking them, and he's juking left and right, and catching marshmallows in the air with his mouth.
I mean, it's pretty impressive stuff.
sebastian maniscalco
So do you think that social media and internet spawns this type of stuff?
joe rogan
100%.
sebastian maniscalco
100%.
joe rogan
Yeah, 100%.
And it is a new form.
That's another thing you could say about podcasting, too, because before podcasting, no one thought that the time when you're driving or the time when you're at the gym is time that you could be entertained by something other than music, right?
Most of the time, unless you're listening to talk radio, of course.
But now, the podcast thing is, like, you could pause it at any time, you could start it at any time.
So if it's an interesting podcast and you got a two-hour road trip, now you're occupied.
Now the road trip's easy because now you're driving, but now you're listening to some funny fucking shit and Joey Diaz is telling stories and it's great.
I mean so this like this area of entertainment wasn't available it wasn't being utilized before and So what podcasts are really good for is it allows you to be entertained and occupied while you're doing other shit I don't think most people who consume podcasts just sit there and listen or sit there and watch I think a lot of times like maybe you're cooking and while you're cooking you got your earbuds in you listen to a podcast or while you're driving or Or you're on the fucking treadmill and you're bored.
You get to listen to some interesting shit.
And I get a lot of messages from my friends that will tell me, oh, I was at the gym and I was listening to Shane.
It was hilarious.
You guys were killing me.
Like, that kind of stuff is...
Or, hey, there's this guy with that power plant.
Egyptian pyramid guy.
You believe that?
What do you think about that?
I was in the gym.
It was kind of freaking me out.
So it gives you this opportunity for entertainment that didn't exist before that's not completely useless, right?
Like scrolling for stuff and the guy catching marshmallows in his mouth, I'm not getting anything out of that.
It's fun.
It's interesting.
It's kind of useless.
But podcasts are not.
You do get to sit in on interesting conversations.
You get to consider ideas that maybe you never Do you listen to podcasts?
sebastian maniscalco
Are you going to them for comedy or more informational podcasts?
What's your forte?
joe rogan
I listen to a lot of different podcasts.
I listen to podcasts that are comedy podcasts.
I listen to history podcasts.
I listen to podcasts about science.
I listen to podcasts about pretty much everything.
Hunting podcasts, which are very valuable.
Hunting, it seems easy.
The idea seems easy to people.
It's not.
It's really hard.
And there's a lot of things that people learn along the way in their journey of hunting, and they'll explain it to you.
And so if you encounter that, I'll say, oh, Remy Warren said, when you do this, be careful of that.
Now that's in my head.
So it's a way that you can accumulate information.
sebastian maniscalco
Yeah.
No, I listen to this Huberman.
joe rogan
Yeah, he's great.
sebastian maniscalco
And half of the stuff goes over my head.
joe rogan
He's hard.
He's hard.
Even when I do podcasts with him, I have to make notes.
I make notes, then I ask him afterwards.
But he's very fact-based, and he's a great guy, too.
sebastian maniscalco
I have to ask you this, talking about Huberman, and you've interviewed him.
Do you ever have somebody come on the show where you're nervous to have them?
Like, oh, man, this is...
joe rogan
Oh, yeah, definitely.
sebastian maniscalco
Like, who are you nervous to interview?
joe rogan
Roger Penrose, the Nobel Prize winner.
He's just a brilliant mind, and older, you know?
So I'm like, how is this conversation going to go?
How do I engage him?
I don't want him to feel like he's wasting his time here, so I want to be prepared and have good questions.
I don't know how much of an experience those guys have on podcasts or how much of an experience they have at all with comedians.
I don't want to fuck around too much.
I just want to get the most out of him that I can get.
I just want to try to massage his wheels and ask the right questions and be curious about all the right things and be informed enough to know what the right questions are.
And also, I'm very fascinated by his research.
It's like having an opportunity to talk to such a brilliant person.
He's done a lot of research in the Big Bang.
He's got a very interesting thought about the Big Bang, that he doesn't think the Big Bang was the beginning of the universe.
And that's something that a lot of physicists are considering now.
It's very fascinating stuff.
The idea that the universe is eternal, or much older than we think it is.
sebastian maniscalco
Yeah, that's crazy.
I mean, you've got to be a chameleon.
You've got so many different people coming in here, right?
From comedy to doctors to what have you.
And you've got to adjust.
joe rogan
You do have to adjust, yeah.
sebastian maniscalco
To every different personality.
It's just an art form.
joe rogan
But it makes you more flexible as a person, too.
You can have conversations with all kinds of people.
sebastian maniscalco
Absolutely.
joe rogan
It's better.
I like it.
It's a lot better than the way I used to think before I started the podcast.
In 2009, I was very closed-minded.
I just was doing it just for fun.
I mean, I was open-minded generally, but not like I am now.
I wasn't aware of why I thought what I thought.
What my biases are and why I think of things in certain ways instead of considering them from a broader perspective.
But when you do a podcast, you're kind of forced to do that because there's a lot of times when even if I agree with someone about something, I have to take the position of someone who's skeptical and ask them a question like, but what about this?
So instead of just confirming them and us existing in an echo chamber, I'll try to offer consideration Like, okay, but someone could think of it this way.
Do you think of it this way ever?
Have you ever tried to think of it this way?
And just, like, see, you know, how their brain works.
Everybody's brain is, you know, they're different.
You know, you have children.
And one of the things you find out when you have children is, bro, right out of the box, they're different people.
They are different people.
It's fascinating.
sebastian maniscalco
Yeah.
joe rogan
Because, you know, you meet a kid and he's four.
You're like, look at that smart kid.
What an interesting kid.
But you didn't get to see that kid with his brother and his sister and all of them coming out of the same woman and going, this is all from the same father.
This is nuts.
They're totally different things.
They have different personalities, different likes, different strengths.
It's really interesting.
sebastian maniscalco
Yeah, it's crazy to see.
I mean, my daughter and my son, the differences between them.
And you don't really notice it or don't really pay attention to it until you have kids of your own and you actually see it going, wow, this one's outgoing, this one's shy, this one likes piano, this one likes t-ball.
So it's like...
Even me and my sister.
You have brothers and sisters?
joe rogan
Yeah, sister.
sebastian maniscalco
I mean, my sister and I, although very similar, also very different.
And it's really crazy as a parent to...
And also, you want to...
You want to give them structure.
You want to give them kind of the best things you grew up with from your parents and then put those – give them to your kids as well.
But you also want to see them flourish in their own personality.
So the parenting thing is – I take it extremely serious.
I want to be there for my kids.
I don't want to work so much where even coming to Austin, Texas for podcasts or going to Dallas for a show, it's like...
joe rogan
Yeah, you have to think about that.
sebastian maniscalco
I would be like, book it.
Just get it.
Just book it.
And now it's more like, hey, are we coming to this run?
Are you guys going to come to New York?
joe rogan
That helps a lot.
That helps me a lot.
If I could take my family with me.
You know, I take them with me a lot of times on Vegas UFC trips, too.
It's nice.
sebastian maniscalco
Yeah, it's nice, especially now that the kids are getting older that they could travel more.
joe rogan
Also, Vegas is a fun place to do stuff.
You know, there's other stuff we could do before the fights.
I don't know if you've ever done escape rooms.
You ever do escape rooms?
No?
Escape rooms are fun, man.
unidentified
They're fun.
sebastian maniscalco
I'm claustrophobic.
And this just happened to me recently.
joe rogan
Don't get in that tank, then.
Don't get in that sensory deprivation tank.
sebastian maniscalco
I don't know if I could do that.
It happened to me on an airplane.
joe rogan
Oh, no.
sebastian maniscalco
Sitting at the window seat.
It just overcame me.
I said, I gotta get out of here.
joe rogan
Oh, no.
sebastian maniscalco
And ever since then, I have to have an aisle seat if I go to a theater and watch a show.
I can't be confined...
joe rogan
This came out of nowhere?
sebastian maniscalco
Out of nowhere.
On an airplane.
joe rogan
Wow.
sebastian maniscalco
And I had to go in the back for two hours and hang out with the flight attendants and stand the rest of the time.
Wow.
joe rogan
Did you tell them what was going on?
sebastian maniscalco
Yeah, I said, listen.
joe rogan
I'm freaking out.
sebastian maniscalco
Just so you know.
I'm crawling out of my skin.
I'm sitting next to two people.
I feel like I'm trapped.
I can't get out.
So I'm very anxious now.
If I get on an airplane, and here's one.
Get on an airplane.
I hate to do this, but there's a family, and the father's like, do you mind changing seats so my daughter could sit next to me?
I said, well, where's the seat?
And he's like, it's the window seat.
And I go, hey.
I can't go over there because I'm claustrophobic.
And, of course, he was looking at me like I was making it up because I would've.
joe rogan
Right.
sebastian maniscalco
I mean, if somebody told me that, this fucking asshole won't let me sit with my daughter.
joe rogan
Right.
sebastian maniscalco
But it's so bad where I just can't sit at the window.
joe rogan
Well, he could always ask somebody else.
He could just ask someone else.
sebastian maniscalco
Yeah, but...
joe rogan
But you were by yourself.
sebastian maniscalco
I feel like I let him down.
joe rogan
Yeah, I'm sure you did.
sebastian maniscalco
I'm never that guy.
I'm always very cooperative, whatever we need.
joe rogan
I always move seats.
Yeah, me too.
I'm always worried about other people freaking out.
There was a video that just went viral recently of some guy saying he was going to take the plane down.
This guy stood up in the middle.
You see that guy, Jamie?
unidentified
I've seen a few of them.
joe rogan
There's a few lately.
That's what I always worry about.
I worry about someone freaking out.
I worry about another person that you're going to have to deal with.
sebastian maniscalco
I feel though if somebody's freaking out.
joe rogan
I think he stabbed people.
Didn't he stab someone?
He had like a little knife on him and he stabbed a couple of people.
Yeah, he was saying that he was going to take everybody out.
Oh, God.
sebastian maniscalco
I feel if you're on an airplane and that's happening, you would be one of these guys that would handle it, right?
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah, the problem with handling it is you're probably going to get sued and you might even get arrested.
It depends on how much damage you do.
You could permanently damage someone.
People are very flippant about beating people up, but you could easily permanently damage someone.
sebastian maniscalco
Believe me, I believe you can.
I'm just saying you have that instinct.
What's the problem where I have more of an instinct of, is there a Joe Rogan on the plane?
unidentified
No.
joe rogan
I was on a plane once and a lady asked me if I would help her because these two guys were fighting.
One guy got in first and he put his briefcase above this other guy's seat and then he sat down.
And the guy who was right behind him goes, no, no, no, that's my spot.
That's my seat.
That spot over here.
He goes, no, it's not.
It's first come, first serve.
Put it somewhere else.
It was open.
I put it in there.
And he goes, no, that belongs to my seat.
And then they started getting like...
Belligerent with each other.
It started getting to the point where, oh my god, are these kids going to fight in first class?
And so then this fucking lady, who is the flight attendant, she came in and told them both she was going to have them removed from the plane, sit down, shut up.
And then she came to me and she goes, if anything goes down, you're gonna help me, right?
I was like, what do you want me to do?
Because if I'm gonna help you, it's gonna get real messy.
Are you gonna say that you said it was okay for me to do that to that guy?
Like, you know, I'm not gonna, like, I'm not gonna play nice.
If you're on a plane and you've got to take someone out, you have a very short amount of movement, it's gotta be very violent.
You gotta debilitate them.
You gotta, like, take them apart right there.
You can't, like, hope that you can hold on to them and then they relax.
Then what, you go back to your seat?
They're not gonna...
You gotta put them out.
sebastian maniscalco
Yeah.
joe rogan
You gotta...
You gotta risk.
You gotta risk.
sebastian maniscalco
As you're talking to me, I feel like you're going through a bunch of different moves of what you could possibly do.
joe rogan
It's gotta be violent.
If you got a guy like that with a knife, you're not grabbing that guy.
You're not just grabbing that guy and bringing him to the ground and holding him down.
You're gonna beat his fucking brains in.
You're gonna stop his body from moving.
Because otherwise it's dangerous.
You're in a position where you're being forced to use violence against some irrational, possibly schizophrenic, who knows what the fuck's going on with this guy.
He could kill everybody.
Pastor stabs fellow traveler with weapon of pens and rubber bands on Seattle to Vegas flight.
sebastian maniscalco
Okay, so what's going on?
joe rogan
He fashioned a handmade weapon before launching an unprovoked attack against a man seated across the aisle.
sebastian maniscalco
Yeah.
Flying.
Flying used to be...
joe rogan
Look at his pen.
So he developed, made a weapon out of his pens?
He tied all his pens together and held onto them?
Wow.
He said, I planned on attacking and killing him, the defendant stated.
Jesus Christ.
Defendant felt the mafia had been chasing him the last few months.
Yeah, so you go.
So he's schizophrenic, and you know, they don't have fucking scans for that when they bring him in.
During the interview, the defendant admitted to the FBI agents that he was trying to stab CR in the eye to reach CR's brain to kill him.
Okay.
jamie vernon
And said he was protecting his seven-year-old son, so that's awesome.
joe rogan
The victim's wife was also hurt in the attack because she was shielding the couple's seven-year-old son.
Jesus Christ.
Christ, man.
So this guy just decided that this guy was in the mafia that was coming after him and he snaps and he wants to kill him.
sebastian maniscalco
What's going on on airplanes?
Why is there all this violence now on airplanes?
joe rogan
First of all, there's a lack of respect for authority that came with the whole defund the police thing.
So people are more belligerent towards authority.
So you have that.
And then you have the general heightened level of anxiety of the population post-COVID went up substantially.
COVID fucked a lot of people's lives up.
We got lucky.
We were very fortunate.
We make money.
We were able to make money during the pandemic.
We had enough money to be okay.
A lot of people, that's not the case.
So, so many people lost their businesses.
So many people lost their livelihoods.
So many people have a deep distrust for the government and the world now.
And then there's this thing where people are being coddled for being mentally ill, where you're almost like having a mental illness is something you can talk about.
It makes you interesting.
So I think people encourage mental illness.
They encourage breakdowns, and they do it all the time in the real world, and so they think they could do it on fucking planes.
And then you got genuinely mentally ill people who are just out of their fucking minds who really shouldn't be out there in the world.
And, you know, they think the mafia is after them and they're making a fucking handmade shank while they're sitting in 16A. You know, the whole thing's nuts.
And it's just like, I think people are just much more on edge right now than they've ever been before.
And I think a lot of it is a function of mainstream media.
You're being fed every day the worst shit that's happening in the world.
Gaza, Ukraine, you know, the fucking ocean's boiling.
Oh my god, what is happening?
Putin's doing this and Xi Jinping is in control of that and the fucking borders open.
Ah, fentanyl!
Ah!
You know, it's just like everyone's on edge.
So you get all those people, you stick them in a fucking tube, and then you fly them through the air where there's no one that's really, there's no authority figure on that plane.
There's these women, these poor women, or men, or whoever they are, there's flight attendants, that have to fucking deal with these people.
And most of them are just regular people.
They're not, I mean, they do have those guys that hide undercover that are on planes occasionally.
What do they call those guys?
Yeah, what do they call them?
Air Marshals.
unidentified
I think they stopped doing that.
joe rogan
They stopped doing that?
Oh, great.
sebastian maniscalco
Of course they did.
All the security, right?
To go to the airport.
All the security to get on the plane.
Once you're on the plane, no security.
They got security guys walking around Whole Foods making sure you don't steal an apple.
Yet you're 35,000 feet up and what?
The flight attendant's going to subdue a guy with pens?
joe rogan
Exactly.
And who's going to get hurt along the way?
What if he did stab that guy in the eye?
You know, like Jesus Christ.
You know, even Mike Tyson got in a fucking fight on a plane.
Some guy kept fucking with him.
He turned around and beat the shit out of the guy.
And now Mike's getting sued.
sebastian maniscalco
I saw that.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
That guy should go to...
They should ship that guy somewhere where it's terrible.
You gotta live here now.
sebastian maniscalco
What's your take on this Tyson thing?
joe rogan
I go back and forth.
I don't generally like the idea of 58-year-old men fighting.
It seems crazy risky at this point in your life.
You're definitely going to be slower.
You're definitely going to be...
Your reflex is going to be slower.
You can't take shots as much.
But I don't think that a 50-year-old man today or a 58-year-old man today is the same thing as what we thought of as a 58-year-old man when we were kids because of hormone replacement.
So because of nutrition, hormone replacement, science of recovery, and they've got Mike Tyson doing everything.
He's doing all kinds of things.
He's not a regular 57-year-old guy.
And then you see him hit the paths, and you go, Jesus Christ, man.
I mean, this is a terrifying human being.
I mean, he's still fucking terrifying.
Hitting the bag, hitting the pads.
He still has the ability to deliver those punches.
And if any one of those hits anybody, they're fucked.
You're fucked.
It's not like his punches are 30% of what they used to be.
They're like 80% to 90% of what they used to be.
sebastian maniscalco
Yeah.
joe rogan
Somewhere in that range.
It's probably a little slower than he used to be.
He used to be insanely fast.
There's a video of Tyson hitting the bag as a 19 year old and he's throwing these combinations like and he's 210 pounds 215 pounds throwing combinations like Sugar Ray Leonard like it's it's insane to watch he was so fast and And that was a big factor in his success.
He does not have that kind of speed anymore.
But he's still fast.
He's not slow.
sebastian maniscalco
But, Joe, I mean, we're watching a 58-year-old man.
joe rogan
Crazy!
sebastian maniscalco
Now, 30, 40 years ago, I was watching the We Are the World documentary, and I'm looking at the people.
Kenny Rogers is in that.
And I'm going, I'm probably...
60 years old here, right?
And I look, he's 47. 47 years old in the We Are The World.
So the aging process has, I mean, there's no way 58 years.
joe rogan
Yeah.
This guy's 47. That's crazy.
sebastian maniscalco
Younger than I am.
joe rogan
That's crazy.
He looks...
sebastian maniscalco
He looks like my...
joe rogan
He's 10 years younger than me in that video.
sebastian maniscalco
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah.
sebastian maniscalco
So...
Yeah, the 58-year-old man now.
joe rogan
Look at that young-ass Billy Joel.
Tina Turner.
Willie Nelson looked young.
Damn.
sebastian maniscalco
How old's Willie Nelson there?
joe rogan
He's 100 in this video.
sebastian maniscalco
No.
How old is he?
joe rogan
He's 90 now.
sebastian maniscalco
I know how old he is.
joe rogan
He's in his 90s.
sebastian maniscalco
52 years old in that video.
joe rogan
Is he really?
sebastian maniscalco
Yeah.
It's amazing.
unidentified
Wow.
sebastian maniscalco
So you're right.
58 years old is...
joe rogan
It's very different.
sebastian maniscalco
Different.
What was Foreman when he came back?
joe rogan
45, when he won the title.
45?
I think he was 33 or 36 when he was coming back and everybody was mocking him, and then he beat Michael Moore when he was 45 years old.
He's the oldest man to ever win the heavyweight title.
And that was before hormone replacement.
sebastian maniscalco
Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
I think Tyson is a 45-year-old Foreman, no?
joe rogan
Yeah, it's similar.
I mean, Foreman wasn't as fast even back then as Tyson is now.
Tyson's still faster.
But he's smaller, too.
George is a very big man.
George has enormous—he has hands that are like the size—his fists are like the size of a cigar box.
They're fucking giant fists, which is a big factor in punching power, you know?
This was George at 45 years old.
Michael Moore, who was a sensational light heavyweight, was kind of undersized as a heavyweight.
As a light heavyweight, he was a fucking assassin.
But George caught him with a one-two and put him out at 45 years in a fight he was losing.
Michael Moore was out boxing him.
sebastian maniscalco
But here, even at 45, you don't look at him.
unidentified
Boom!
sebastian maniscalco
He don't look like no Tyson at 58 though, right?
joe rogan
No, no.
He was much slower.
But George was always kind of slow.
He just has thunderous power.
He was never like a real fast guy like Ali or any of those other guys.
He was just thunderous, ridiculous power.
George was just terrifying.
sebastian maniscalco
And I don't know the ins and outs of boxing, but is this Logan Paul, is he a legitimate boxer?
joe rogan
A legitimate boxer, yes.
People mocked me when I was saying that before, but now I think people are coming around.
And the way I look at it, I say, if this kid was not a YouTuber, if he wasn't some guy that you knew from the time he was like 16 years old on YouTube, and you just saw him box, and you saw him knock out former UFC champions, you saw him beat legitimate boxers...
Or beat athletes and beat a bunch of MMA fighters.
You'd go, this kid can fucking fight.
He knows how to fight.
Like, it's not...
Nothing he's doing looks wrong.
He's not, like, sticking his head straight up in the air and winging punches with his eyes closed.
He's fighting well.
He looks good.
And if he was just an up-and-coming boxer...
There was this exciting, highly promotable, really good at selling fights.
He'd be like, this kid's the future.
He's really something special.
And the fact that he's willing to fight Tyson, even if Tyson's 57, just the fact that he's willing to actually take a chance at Mike Tyson not being able to do what he used to do.
Because that's what he's doing.
The gamble is, there's not a fucking chance in hell.
That Jake Paul would survive against the Mike Tyson that beat Marvis Frazier.
You ever watch that fight?
sebastian maniscalco
Yeah.
joe rogan
That's my favorite Mike Tyson fight.
Because that was Mike Tyson before he won the title.
It was ABC Wide World of Sports.
And Joe Frazier had been talking shit about Tyson, that if he was in his prime, he'd beat Tyson.
And so he had his son fight Tyson.
unidentified
And it was an execution.
joe rogan
It was an execution.
sebastian maniscalco
Is that the one in Atlantic City where it lasted one round?
joe rogan
One round.
Let's watch it because it's one of my favorite fights to watch Tyson because it's Tyson in his prime where he was fucking terrifying.
He was so fast and he would do angles and he was bobbing and weaving.
You couldn't hit him and he was just coming at you.
And he was young.
He was 20 years old at the time.
He couldn't be stopped.
No one had the solution.
And I submit that that Mike Tyson, the Mike Tyson that won the title against Trevor Burbick, the Mike Tyson that beat Larry Holmes, I think that Mike Tyson is the best heavyweight of all time.
I don't think anybody fucks with him.
Didn't maintain that form and he wound up losing to Buster Douglas and you know It's I look at fighters when they're in their absolute prime Like what what did you what have you ever seen that was better than this and with Mike Tyson?
I've never seen anybody better I've never seen any fighter even Ali in his prime even Ali when he was Cassius Clay I never saw anybody who looked like Mike Tyson in his prime and I think you can't maintain the kind of focus that was required to be this guy.
I mean, Marvis looks fucking terrified, and he should be.
Because he kind of knows.
I mean, Marvis was a good fighter.
Marvis was a good fighter, but this is just a terrifying mismatch.
If I was a Vegas odds maker, I would put this at a million to one.
I'm like, he has to break his leg.
He has to fall down and twist an ankle.
Otherwise, Tyson was 20 and Frazier was 25. So do you think this is the last we see of a guy like a Tyson?
sebastian maniscalco
Is there another Tyson out there?
joe rogan
They can always emerge.
Combat sports always.
So this is the beginning of the fight.
Look, he's just moving forward.
And Frazier's just trying to bob and weave and find his openings.
But Mike never gives you any time, man.
He never gives you any time.
He's always right in front of you.
And he's just measuring you.
And it's just a matter of time before he catches you.
And here it is.
BING! Look at this.
sebastian maniscalco
Oh wow.
Oh wow.
unidentified
Bro, he just puts him away.
joe rogan
Just puts him away.
It's an execution.
It was just a matter of Mike Tyson closing the distance.
This Mike Tyson, as fast as he was, as hard as he hits, I maintain he's the greatest.
The greatest heavyweight ever.
Like that, Mike Tyson, those fights were, you wanted to see executions.
You didn't think anybody was going to beat him.
Everybody he fought looked like they were about to die when they were in that ring.
sebastian maniscalco
I don't think we see this again, Joe.
joe rogan
You never know.
It can happen.
Jake Paul's favorite.
He's a favorite, yeah.
Well, he's 27 years old, and he's a really good boxer.
He's a very good boxer.
Like, he's a legitimate professional boxer.
He fought Tommy Fury, who's also a legitimate professional boxer.
A real good one.
He's Tyson Fury's younger brother.
And he lost a close decision.
But it was a good fight.
A real good fight against a good fighter.
He can fight.
sebastian maniscalco
Yeah.
joe rogan
But if that Mike Tyson from Marvis Frazier fought Jake Paul, Jake Paul's dead.
He's dead.
He's not going to make it.
So you have to say, how much has Mike Tyson lost from that 20-year-old guy in the 37 years since then?
It'll be 38 by the time they fight.
He'll have turned 58 by the time they actually fight.
sebastian maniscalco
Yeah, but that's the best it gets, right?
joe rogan
The best it gets.
sebastian maniscalco
The best it gets.
For 37 years, you've got to feel like it's, you know, yeah, he's lost some.
joe rogan
He hasn't lost everything.
He hasn't lost everything.
If you see him hit those pads, he has not lost everything.
sebastian maniscalco
But he's lost some, but coming from the best, he's now like maybe just...
Normal, right?
joe rogan
He's still not normal, but he's still like a professional heavyweight boxer.
He's still terrifying.
sebastian maniscalco
No, I'm not saying he's not, but I'm just saying even coming off the best, I still think he wins.
Coming off...
joe rogan
It's hard to say because you never bet against a 27-year-old fighting a 58-year-old.
sebastian maniscalco
No, I get it.
What I have in my brain and I can't get out is that.
You know what I'm saying?
joe rogan
It's also his mind.
Mike Tyson's mind has switched over into war.
He was doing this interview, and someone said to him, he goes, you look like you're in your 20s.
What are you doing?
He goes, I just eat raw meat.
I ain't eating raw meat.
He goes, you're eating raw meat?
He goes, yeah, I'm eating raw meat.
He goes, because that's what I'm gonna eat when I fight.
I'm gonna eat him.
It's raw meat.
I was like, Jesus Christ!
He's in this fucking mode!
He's in that God of War mode.
He's still got that in him, and I'm telling you, if you keep giving that guy hormones, and you keep giving that guy supplements, and he's constantly training, here's this.
Look at this.
unidentified
What are you eating?
Raw meat.
joe rogan
Seriously, Mike.
You're eating raw meat?
unidentified
Are you swallowing it?
joe rogan
Remember?
unidentified
You used to spit that stuff out.
mike tyson
I'm going to have to eat it now because my opponent's going to be raw meat.
unidentified
That's right.
sebastian maniscalco
Now, I saw the beginning of this interview where he had a shirt on, right?
joe rogan
Yeah.
sebastian maniscalco
And he was sweating so much he had to take the shirt off.
joe rogan
He took his shirt off and they just put the microphone on his shoulder.
sebastian maniscalco
Yeah.
joe rogan
Bro, he's in savage mode right now.
He's in savage mode.
If I was Jake Paul right now, I would be shitting my pants.
unidentified
Oh, bro.
sebastian maniscalco
If I'm fighting this guy and he's eating raw meat, I call the fucking thing off.
joe rogan
It's all the experiences that he has had as a conqueror.
You have to take those into consideration.
When a man has smashed men before, just smashed men, like when no one can stand in front of him, that is in his mind still.
That's in there.
There's a dark chamber in his mind that he can open up.
And I think he's got it open.
The question is, can his body move along with it?
But that part of his mind, you're clearly seeing.
He's terrifying when he's in the zone.
I changed the shape of the table because of him.
This table, we had the table that was this size at the old studio, and at the new studio, I was like, maybe we'll make the table smaller, it'll be more intimate, it'll be closer to the guest.
So we had Mike Tyson in when he was 300 pounds.
And he was just eating and having fun and smoking weed.
He goes, I don't even work out.
He goes, if I work out, it'll excite myself.
It'll excite my ego.
And then I don't like that person.
So he just decided that he was just going to be chill Mike Tyson.
And then he got this offer to fight Roy Jones Jr. So he gets in insane shape.
And the next time I see him, the second podcast we do, Mike now weighs 230 pounds and he's got these muscles in his forearms.
So he's sitting there and he's a different human.
He's so intense that I was like, if this table was closer to him, I would be nervous.
Like I wouldn't be able to do my best job As a podcaster, the reason why this table is this width is the second podcast I did with Mike Tyson.
Even Jamie.
When Mike left, Jamie's like, that's a different person.
That's a totally different person, right?
unidentified
I was nervous the whole time.
I was so glad I was close to the door.
joe rogan
Hoping he went for you first.
He was so intense.
He was so intense.
And that was a fight with Roy Jones Jr. Where he just decided, you know, to have one more Legends fight.
And he got, like, look at him.
Dude, he's just...
unidentified
What the hell?
What do you mean?
joe rogan
You're getting excited.
Seriously, Mike.
Oh, you got both things playing at the same time.
Hold on a second.
You had animosity towards...
So when you could finally get your hands on him.
sebastian maniscalco
Hey, um...
unidentified
What does it mean when fighting gets you erect?
sebastian maniscalco
What does that mean?
joe rogan
It's a good question.
sebastian maniscalco
Gee!
joe rogan
Means you're getting excited.
Yeah.
So that's going through your mind right now?
mike tyson
Well, that's how I get when I was a kid.
Sometimes I get the twinkle.
joe rogan
The twinkle?
sebastian maniscalco
Yeah.
joe rogan
Well, that's what I'm saying.
It's like you reached a state as a human being, as a champion, as a ferocious fighter.
You reached a state of ability and of accomplishment that very few humans will...
unidentified
I don't know if you can hear him breathing.
sebastian maniscalco
He's breathing.
It's like a lion.
joe rogan
When you're running, when you're hitting a bag, when that heart's beating again.
Because I'm firing him up right now.
You're Mike motherfucking Tyson.
So when you're doing all this shit again, you're still Mike Tyson.
Those thoughts have got to be burning inside you again.
It's got to be pretty wild.
sebastian maniscalco
I don't know.
It's, um...
mike tyson
It's wild, but I believe it's rightfully so to be that way.
And I just know how to, I don't think I'm massive, but I just know how to deal with it.
I don't let it overwhelm me.
joe rogan
No.
Well, of course not.
It was a strange conversation to have because he was so focused and so intense.
It was almost hard pulling conversation out of him.
sebastian maniscalco
At any time, did you feel afraid?
joe rogan
I'm always afraid when I'm around that guy.
Kevin Hart said it best.
He goes, it's like being in a room with a lion.
jamie vernon
Jamie Foxx's old joke is someone that a pit bull let loose in the room and they don't know whose it is.
joe rogan
And then Jamie's got to play him in a movie, which has got to be terrifying.
Like, don't piss that guy off.
I never talk like that.
Oh, sorry.
Sorry, sir.
I'm curious.
I'm going to watch the fight.
We're all going to watch the fight.
I'm going to watch it.
I mean, it's a brilliant move by Jake.
Because, like, if he was going to fight anybody else, people would watch.
But would the same amount of people watch?
No.
sebastian maniscalco
No.
joe rogan
This is the one.
And this is the one where the old heads are all sitting around like going, ah, wait till he gets a hold of Mike Tyson.
Boy, he's going to regret that.
And all the old guys are like pulling for him like, come on, Mike, come on.
One more.
You got one more in you.
sebastian maniscalco
Well, I think we see a different Mike Tyson than we did when he fought Roy Jones, right?
joe rogan
I think the Roy Jones fight, they made an agreement not to punch in the head.
I'm pretty sure.
Because I watched that fight carefully, many times.
And it never looked like he was targeting Roy's head.
Which makes sense why Roy agreed to do the fight.
You know, I think they probably made an agreement.
It would be like a real boxing match, but just don't knock me out.
Because Roy's a smaller person, much smaller.
Roy was at his very best when he was 168 pounds.
And then when he was weighing 175 pounds, he didn't even have to cut weight.
Roy famously played a basketball game, a full basketball game, the day of his fight.
Played a basketball game!
And then went and boxed the face off of somebody for 12 rounds.
You know, that's how good Roy was in his prime.
But Roy was 168 pounds in his prime.
He wasn't Mike Tyson size.
Mike Tyson's fucking enormous.
He's just a different mass.
He's the width, the density.
It's terrifying.
And if...
They're older guys.
I could imagine them making an agreement.
Because if you watch the highlights, Mike never punches them in the face.
And even if they do punch each other in the face, it seems like it's just jabs and small punches.
Almost like sparring shots.
It's not like anybody's really winding up.
Really throwing everything at it.
sebastian maniscalco
This fight doesn't have that stipulation?
joe rogan
No, I do not believe that's the case.
I think this fight is gonna be a real full-bore, 100% fight.
It's not even an exhibition.
It counts on their professional record, so it's a professional fight.
sebastian maniscalco
Oh, okay.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Is it eight rounds?
jamie vernon
I think it's eight two-minute rounds.
joe rogan
Yeah.
They made it two-minute rounds because Tyson's old.
And they were going to do 16-ounce gloves with it down to 14, I believe.
Is that the case?
I think they're 14-ounce gloves, which is not much bigger than a regular glove.
You know, a regular glove is 10 ounces in the heavyweight division, 6 ounces in lighter divisions.
I think they use 8 in some divisions, too.
But most, like, big guys use 10-ounce gloves.
sebastian maniscalco
Yeah, it's just, it's, again, talk about the change of entertainment, even in the boxing world.
We interviewed Dana White on our podcast, and he's got, I'm sure you're aware of the slapping thing, right?
joe rogan
Yeah.
sebastian maniscalco
Now, is that just, if I slapped you right now, is that different than taking a punch?
joe rogan
Not at all.
No, it's terrible for you.
Yeah, they're basically agreeing to brain damage.
They're agreeing to let each other get slapped in the head.
Because you have to get slapped.
You have to stand there and get slapped.
And the only thing that could save you is if your slap is so good and you win the coin toss or whatever the fuck they do to decide who slaps who first, you slap that guy unconscious and then it's over.
And it happens.
Guys get slapped unconsciously.
I mean, you're literally taking a full-on blow to the face.
Your hand can hit pretty hard.
If you just think of that.
Try doing that with your knuckles.
It's hard to do.
It hurts.
It doesn't hurt at all when you do that.
You can slam.
So you could really fucking slap someone.
You know, guys have knocked guys out slapping them many times.
It's not hard to knock.
You could KO someone.
Bas Rutten was one of the all-time greats in MMA, and he started his fighting in an organization called Pancrase.
And Pancrase in Japan, this is the early days, as the UFC was just emerging.
They started doing fights with no gloves on, but they said instead of punching, you could only slap.
So with Bas Rutten, he's got very flexible wrists, so he would pull his hands way back like this, and he was basically just punching you with the palm of his hands.
So he wasn't throwing them like you would think like a bitch slap.
He was throwing punches with his palms.
He was uppercutting guys and knocking them unconscious with his palms.
unidentified
Jesus.
joe rogan
So that is what you're agreeing to when you're standing in front of a guy and you're letting a guy whop you in the head.
You're agreeing to getting...
You could easily get KO'd.
Easily get your jaw broken.
Easily get your eye socket shattered.
sebastian maniscalco
Are these ex...
joe rogan
This is boss.
See how he dropped that guy with that palm strike?
But the way he throws it, it's like a punch.
Boss was a fucking animal.
He was an animal.
Like, terrifying human being.
Great guy.
But man, in his prime, he was just destroying people.
He was one of the first high-level strikers that made his way into mixed martial arts.
And he eventually became the UFC heavyweight champion.
sebastian maniscalco
What was he?
A jiu-jitsu guy?
Kickboxer.
joe rogan
Kickboxer.
From Holland.
The motherland.
sebastian maniscalco
Of kickboxing?
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
Some of the all-time greats came out of Holland.
Yeah.
For whatever strange reason.
It was a background of Kyokushin and a lot of them got into kickboxing and Muay Thai.
And there was a guy named Ramon Deckers.
He's like, to this day, one of the most legendary Muay Thai fighters of all time.
This dude who came out of Holland and went over to Thailand and just fucked everybody up.
You ever heard of Ramon Deckers?
Show Ramon Deckers highlight reel.
He was like a mini kickboxing Mike Tyson.
Yeah.
He was a monster.
Because a lot of the guys that went over the tie line, they were bigger than the ties.
But Ramon Deckers was the same size as the ties, but he was just fucking ferocious.
Look at this motherfucker.
Bro, he kicked guys so hard that he shattered his ankle so many times that he had to get it fused.
And his doctor was like, you have to stop fighting or, you know, you're going to lose your foot.
And he was like, yeah, yeah, yeah, whatever.
Just fucking bolt this thing down so I can get back at it again.
I mean, his highlight reel is just fucking terrifying.
It's just him mauling people.
sebastian maniscalco
But these kicks, right?
I mean, doesn't it hurt the kicker as much as it does?
joe rogan
No, not as much, but it definitely hurts.
I mean, especially if you hit the instep on like an elbow or something like that.
Yeah.
But shins, shins are pretty good at tolerating pain.
sebastian maniscalco
Joe, come on.
I mean, I hit my shin on my bed frame.
I'm down.
joe rogan
Yeah?
unidentified
Yeah.
sebastian maniscalco
That's just...
joe rogan
Well, you get conditioned.
You know, you get conditioned to the point where you can bang your shit against things.
It doesn't even hurt.
sebastian maniscalco
Don't these guys train on trees?
joe rogan
Yeah, they train on banana trees.
sebastian maniscalco
Come on, man.
joe rogan
In Thailand, they'll do the kick banana trees.
But banana trees are pretty soft.
You can kick a banana tree.
And they give out.
They give a little bit when you hit them.
It's not like a regular tree.
sebastian maniscalco
I've never seen a banana tree.
Have you been around?
joe rogan
I've been around a banana tree in Thailand.
I kicked one just to see what it was like.
Because I've seen a lot of videos of these guys kicking them.
Yeah, it's not the worst thing to kick.
It gives a little bit.
So there it is.
See?
Because it gives.
See how it gives when he's kicking it?
It's flexible.
Like you could actually train on a banana tree.
It's not a bad thing to train on.
sebastian maniscalco
Let's go right in half.
joe rogan
Yeah, see?
It moves.
It's really not that much different than a heavy bag.
It just looks crazy because you're like, oh my god, he's kicking a tree.
sebastian maniscalco
Yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
But there's heavy bags.
Like, we have a heavy bag out there in the gym that's...
My friend Kevin Ross gave it to me, and it's filled with sand.
And that's just to condition your shins.
That one's horrible.
That one you kick, it's like...
sebastian maniscalco
What are they normally?
joe rogan
Usually it's cushioning, like there's foam, and then it depends on what the stuffing is.
Sometimes they stuff it with rags and cloth and stuff like that.
And the whole idea is it's really packed down tight and it's heavy, so it's like 130, 150 pounds.
And it's long and you can do leg kicks on it.
But the sand one is just hard as a rock.
It's just thud, thud.
And you do that just to condition your shins.
That's the one you practice on, just to condition yourself.
sebastian maniscalco
Yeah, I wish I could do some of this stuff with the...
I've always wanted to get into a fighting, just for self-defense, right?
But I have detached my biceps, so I have holes.
Oh, no.
In my arm.
I have no bicep.
Well, I have a bicep, but just the short one is gone.
joe rogan
How did it detach?
sebastian maniscalco
Woke up.
What?
joe rogan
Really?
sebastian maniscalco
Yeah.
joe rogan
Nothing happened?
sebastian maniscalco
There's no trauma that I could pinpoint that this happened.
Now, I have kids.
I was putting them in the car.
joe rogan
And you felt something?
sebastian maniscalco
No, I didn't feel nothing.
unidentified
Really?
sebastian maniscalco
I was looking in the mirror one day, and I brought my wife over and I go, is there a hole in my arm?
It's nuts!
Now, I'll show you.
joe rogan
Let me see.
Oh, wow!
I've seen guys have that before.
My friend Matt Serra has that.
He has like, his bicep, when he makes a bicep, like half of it is missing.
sebastian maniscalco
Okay.
joe rogan
It's like it curled up on one side.
sebastian maniscalco
Matt Serra's a fighter?
joe rogan
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
sebastian maniscalco
I'm a comedian.
And I got a hole in my arm.
joe rogan
That is odd.
But you have most of your bicep.
sebastian maniscalco
Yeah, but that's, and on this side too.
joe rogan
Same side?
That one, did you go to a doctor?
sebastian maniscalco
Yeah, he says there's nothing you can do about it.
joe rogan
But he said it's detached?
sebastian maniscalco
It's gone.
joe rogan
And you don't know why?
sebastian maniscalco
Don't know why.
joe rogan
Weird.
sebastian maniscalco
So then I'm thinking, do I got some weird Mediterranean-type disease where, like...
joe rogan
Shit starts detaching?
sebastian maniscalco
People from...
My dad's got it.
joe rogan
Really?
sebastian maniscalco
But he put a luggage in an overhead compartment, and that's what his...
His bigger bicep is living in his elbow now.
joe rogan
Oh, Jesus.
sebastian maniscalco
And...
joe rogan
You can get that fixed if you do it right away.
sebastian maniscalco
Right away.
I didn't catch it right away.
joe rogan
Well, it seems like with you, there was no trauma, which doesn't even make any sense.
sebastian maniscalco
No sense.
joe rogan
Everybody that I know that's done that, like, it's usually boxing or jujitsu or lifting weights or something like that.
It's painful as fuck instantly.
There's a video of a guy doing curls, and as he's doing curls, his bicep snaps and curls up, and you see, like, ah!
It's horrible.
sebastian maniscalco
It's horrible.
And I've heard the same thing.
It's painful.
But I have no pain, no nothing.
joe rogan
Well, it doesn't seem like it affects your range of motion either.
sebastian maniscalco
So you can do everything.
There's no problem.
But now I'm thinking, can I even work out the bicep?
Because I'm afraid that one's going to snap.
joe rogan
No, you should.
Because if you don't, the bicep is not going to be strong enough to do the extra work that's required missing that other one.
Yeah, definitely.
You're fine.
You're fine.
Yeah, you could do everything.
You just got to get strong.
Let's just strengthen all the surrounding tissue.
You're fine.
sebastian maniscalco
What's the odds of a guy who doesn't really do any strenuous, no tennis, no nothing like that, to lose both of his biceps by 50, and now I got it in my head that everything's going to fall apart.
Everything's going to snap.
joe rogan
Yeah, but you haven't lost your biceps.
Your biceps are there.
It's like whatever that other thing is that attaches, that's not there anymore.
But I don't think you need that.
I think you're fine.
I wouldn't worry about it.
Legitimately, I wouldn't worry about it.
I would just start working out.
I would just get really into strengthening everything around it.
sebastian maniscalco
That's right.
joe rogan
Especially since you can't fix it.
sebastian maniscalco
Can't fix it.
joe rogan
But Matt does everything.
I mean, Matt has a black belt in jujitsu and his biceps way worse than yours.
His is pulled all the way up to the top.
So like at the bottom, like when you make a muscle like this part, he doesn't have this part.
sebastian maniscalco
Yeah.
joe rogan
It's just flat.
sebastian maniscalco
Yeah, it's my dad.
joe rogan
And there's like a little bit up here.
I've seen a bunch of people who have that.
unidentified
Okay.
joe rogan
That's a common thing.
Yeah.
sebastian maniscalco
I'm just shocked that it happened so early in life.
joe rogan
It doesn't make sense that it didn't hurt at all.
That seems weird.
sebastian maniscalco
Strange.
joe rogan
But you seem like you have full range of motion.
sebastian maniscalco
Yeah, no, I'm golfing.
I'm active.
But I used to love biceps.
I'm Italian.
They're still there.
Listen.
Alone in a mirror with the shirt off.
joe rogan
You don't like it?
sebastian maniscalco
No.
unidentified
Looks weird?
sebastian maniscalco
You used to love doing biceps like that.
joe rogan
Oh, you used to love to stare at yourself?
sebastian maniscalco
Yeah, doing biceps?
That was my favorite exercise.
That's funny.
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
I literally never do that.
I never do biceps.
Ever.
sebastian maniscalco
Well, growing up, that's what we always used to do.
unidentified
Right.
sebastian maniscalco
20s, 30s, 40s.
What are you doing today?
Bice!
joe rogan
Right.
Curls for the girls.
sebastian maniscalco
Curls for the girls, man.
joe rogan
Right.
sebastian maniscalco
And now I got holes in my arm.
joe rogan
I don't think it'll affect you.
I bet you can still do bicep curls no problem at all.
I bet your biceps will grow.
I don't think it's a problem.
I don't think it's a problem.
sebastian maniscalco
Okay.
joe rogan
I don't know what happened.
I don't understand it.
It seems weird.
And maybe I feel like it happened when you were way younger.
You just didn't notice it.
Maybe as you got older, your body changed.
sebastian maniscalco
No.
joe rogan
Nothing?
sebastian maniscalco
No, it's such a dramatic...
I mean, aesthetically, you would have...
joe rogan
So you just noticed it one day?
sebastian maniscalco
One day, doing my hair.
joe rogan
Weird.
sebastian maniscalco
Dropped my arms, looked in the mirror...
I thought it was a shadow from the thing.
I go, oh, there must be a shadow.
But no, it's a...
joe rogan
There's a hole.
sebastian maniscalco
It's a hole.
And I didn't catch it in time, and now I'm walking around with no biceps.
joe rogan
That's so strange.
But you do have biceps.
sebastian maniscalco
Well, yeah.
joe rogan
Missing one of those things.
sebastian maniscalco
Missing one of the biceps.
joe rogan
I don't think it's a big deal.
You didn't need it, obviously.
sebastian maniscalco
Obviously.
joe rogan
You weren't using it.
Fell apart.
unidentified
Gave up.
sebastian maniscalco
It's like an appendicitis.
unidentified
Yeah, it's like this guy isn't even fucking interested in this muscle.
joe rogan
It just quit on you.
Do you have a trainer?
sebastian maniscalco
Yeah.
joe rogan
So how often do you work out?
sebastian maniscalco
I do about three or four days with the trainer, and then I do two days Pilates.
joe rogan
Oh, nice.
sebastian maniscalco
Which has helped my sciatica.
So I started three months ago.
I have had sciatica two and a half years, affecting everything, including my comedy.
Because I'm physical, I like to move.
But the pain was relentless.
And I'm like, I didn't want to get the surgery.
joe rogan
Was it a dysectomy that they're trying to get you to do?
sebastian maniscalco
It was spinal.
I don't know what exactly because I don't listen and I don't know anything as far as like the research.
Right.
The guy told me what it was.
I'm like, okay, one ear out the other.
Right.
But stenosis of the spine, that's what was happening and whatnot.
So, and some L3, L4, L4. You know what you need to get that'll help you a lot?
joe rogan
A lot.
There's a thing called the Dex.
It's one of those teeter products where you hook your legs to this thing and you lean your body forward.
You know those ones you hang by your ankles?
Those are good.
Those are really good.
They're great for a lot of reasons, but this one is my favorite for low back decompression.
This thing right here.
We have one out there.
I'll show it to you.
It's called the Dex, D-E-X-2.
It's an inversion and core training system.
But the thing that it does the best is when your legs are supported, you know, you could do like back extensions and stuff on it, but I really don't use it for that.
Mostly what I use it for is just decompressing.
So I get on it and all your weight is now on your thighs and all the weight of your upper body from your hips down is just decompressing.
And you feel it pop, like I'll lie in it and it goes pop, pop, pop, pop.
unidentified
Oh yeah?
joe rogan
Like I'll feel it decompress.
It's amazing.
I love it.
And it also, you can do back extensions when you're on that same incline and it's really good for strengthening those muscles.
And also sometimes that helps me loosen them up even more.
I'll do a set of back extensions on it and then I'll really like deeply relax and let it pop and All right, yeah Decompression of the back and spine is very important.
That's why yoga is so good because you're stretching and decompressing things and if you're tight and then everything tight as you get older like you just keep shrinking You know, that's what happens to old people.
They're fucking the space in between their spine goes away And then they get this hunch and then they're immobile.
Yeah, you don't want to be immobile.
sebastian maniscalco
No, no, and I felt like that this lagree Pilates have definitely changed my life Pilates is amazing.
joe rogan
They're very, very good for that.
Yoga, very, very, very good for that.
Anything where you're using your whole body like that.
And for a lot of people, there's a lot of contributing factors that lead to sciatica.
There's tightness of the hamstrings.
There's tightness of the upper quads that also affects your lower back and compresses everything.
When I have back pain, one of the things that I do is I sit on my heels and I lean all the way back.
So with my legs bent and it really stretches out my upper legs, my thighs, my quads.
And when I do that, I feel it in my lower back.
Like I feel my lower back relaxing.
Like I feel it stretching out.
And then I'll do a bunch of other different exercises like that.
But that's what keeps me from having back pain.
sebastian maniscalco
Yeah, the importance of stretching, I've found, is...
joe rogan
It's huge.
It's huge.
And everybody's lazy.
Nobody wants to stretch.
Even me.
Even when I get done with a workout, I'm like, I could stretch.
I should stretch.
But I want to go eat.
And sometimes I'll just go eat.
But most of the time I stretch.
And when I do, I always feel way better.
Like, before a big show, I always stretch.
Always.
Always.
sebastian maniscalco
In the back?
joe rogan
Yeah.
I just lay down on the floor and start stretching.
And when I do that, everything just feels better.
Because the physical tension that you carry in your body, if you can mitigate some of that, you just feel looser.
You get out there, you feel loose.
sebastian maniscalco
It's just age really crept up on me.
joe rogan
It's a motherfucker.
sebastian maniscalco
Really crept up on me.
joe rogan
It's a motherfucker.
sebastian maniscalco
So I'm doing all I can to kind of combat that.
joe rogan
How old are you now?
50. When you see guys that are 50 that don't take care of themselves though, you see the difference?
That's scary.
That's scary when a guy's never taking care of himself and then he's 50 and you realize you're in a state of total...
I could pull your arm apart.
I could just grab your arm and pull it away from your shoulder socket.
There's nothing keeping that thing in there.
You're made out of Jell-O. Your body doesn't have any need to be strong because it never gets used.
So your body just deteriorates into this sunken lump.
And now you're in pain all the time.
And now you've got problems all the time.
Now you don't even have fucking energy to do things that you want to do.
For me, the whole thing is mitigating mental illness, like mitigating anxiety and stress and anger.
Get that out, clean your mind out, and then make sure you have energy.
The only way you can get things done is if you have fucking energy, especially like writing.
People don't consider writing a physical health thing.
But if you're tired, you're not going to write as good.
You're not going to have the enthusiasm.
You're not going to have the energy.
It's like for everything, you need energy.
And there's only one way to get that.
You have to have a healthy body.
You have to.
It's like a part of the job.
It should be a part of the job.
I try to tell it to fat comedians.
I'm like, I know you're great.
But look, we lost Patrice when he was in his 40s.
If Patrice was alive today, he'd have the number one podcast in the world.
If Patrice was alive today, he'd be selling out arenas.
We lost him because he just didn't take care of himself.
That's it.
That's the only reason why.
sebastian maniscalco
No, it's super important, not only for the comedy, but even looking at my kids now.
I'm an older father, so I want to do those things with my kids, whether it be skiing.
joe rogan
Right, have fun.
sebastian maniscalco
They went skiing, well, we went skiing in December, and my wife loves skiing, and of course, I'm at the fucking bottom of the hill waiting for the...
I'm pitching...
You know what I've become?
Or was becoming?
Say hi to daddy!
You know, like, we go to Disneyland.
They're on the rides.
joe rogan
You don't do the rides?
sebastian maniscalco
Oh, fuck no.
I never do the rides.
I throw up in my lap when I do these rides.
joe rogan
Really?
sebastian maniscalco
Yeah.
joe rogan
All of them?
sebastian maniscalco
Yeah.
joe rogan
No Space Mountain?
sebastian maniscalco
It sounds amazing.
joe rogan
It's so fun.
sebastian maniscalco
I got a weak stomach, Joe.
Barely take the takeoff on a flight, let alone drop in...
joe rogan
Claustrophobia.
sebastian maniscalco
Yeah, I'm a mess, bro.
Claustrophobia, no biceps, and fear of rollercoasters.
joe rogan
Things can be a lot worse.
sebastian maniscalco
No, I'm fine.
I'm fine.
I complain for the sake of comedy.
joe rogan
I know.
sebastian maniscalco
I understand.
But I'm blessed.
joe rogan
Yeah.
You're back out here in August.
What are you doing in August?
sebastian maniscalco
I'm doing the Moody Center.
joe rogan
Nice.
sebastian maniscalco
Moody Center.
joe rogan
That's a great venue.
sebastian maniscalco
I've never been there.
I heard it's brand new.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's amazing.
It's an amazing venue.
This is a great town for comedy right now.
There's a lot of big-time comedy fans here now.
sebastian maniscalco
Yeah, well, I mean, your club, which I'm dying to do, and I'm sorry that I didn't get out here to do it, but I definitely want to do the ship.
I hear great things about it.
joe rogan
Yeah, next time you're in town, come by and hang out with us for a couple of days.
We do shows Tuesday, Wednesdays, and Thursdays are my shows, and there's shows seven nights a week.
sebastian maniscalco
Great.
Yeah, I want to make it more of a meal next time I come out.
unidentified
Yeah.
sebastian maniscalco
This is kind of an in and out thing.
I want to utilize the...
I want to see if I can get in the tank.
joe rogan
Yeah?
sebastian maniscalco
Yeah.
You could do it.
Maybe...
joe rogan
You want to take an edible first?
You want to really do it?
unidentified
No.
sebastian maniscalco
You know what?
unidentified
Baby steps.
sebastian maniscalco
I want to do an edible, but I want to, like, I know some people come in here and go, hey, you got an edible?
joe rogan
Don't do that.
sebastian maniscalco
I can't do anything unless I do a test run.
joe rogan
Right.
sebastian maniscalco
At home.
joe rogan
Right, right, right.
sebastian maniscalco
So, whatever you got here, what is this, Rogi?
What is this?
joe rogan
Oh, these are just nicotine.
sebastian maniscalco
Oh, that's nicotine.
joe rogan
This is nicotine.
sebastian maniscalco
What's the good, I'm looking to get into maybe an edible every now and then.
joe rogan
Well, California's the perfect place to do it because you can get those nice 10 milligram edibles.
sebastian maniscalco
Ten milligram.
You eat the whole thing.
unidentified
Easy.
joe rogan
Try five.
Just try five.
Eat half of it.
sebastian maniscalco
And what is it?
Is this the type of thing where you're like, oh, hey, this is great, or is this the word?
unidentified
Maybe.
joe rogan
Or deep paranoia.
Depends on how much you take.
sebastian maniscalco
I don't need to be paranoid anymore.
You might go down the dark, dark, dark, dark, dark.
I don't do dark.
joe rogan
You might think about these solar flares that are headed our way.
Do you hear about these solar flares?
There's solar flares that are supposed to reach us on the 10th and the 11th.
To some mass coronal ejections that could play havoc with our communication systems, our satellites.
Could you shut down the power grid if one's big enough?
You haven't heard about this?
I barely heard about this.
A friend of mine who's actually a legitimate scientist actually warned me about this.
He said it's really strange that we're not being told about the potential impact of this.
Earth prepares for solar storm impact from three CMEs this weekend.
Solar activity has reached high levels in the past 24 to 36 hours with background flux at or near M10. I don't know what that means.
The most significant developments from the Sun include the growth and merging of regions 3664 and 3668, as well as the production of numerous M-class solar flares and 2X-class solar flares from what CME is, coronal mass ejection, that are expected to arrive at Earth this weekend.
sebastian maniscalco
Joe, keep this up there.
If this was me, and you sent me this article, I said, read this about solar flares, you know, would it turn me off?
Right from, just visually.
Okay.
3664, I see that in a paragraph, I ain't reading it.
Just the numbers alone.
joe rogan
The regions?
sebastian maniscalco
Yeah.
joe rogan
See, I'm the opposite.
sebastian maniscalco
Whatever you read just now, didn't even register in my head, couldn't even comprehend it.
Did you get any of that?
joe rogan
For me, what I got is a deep respect for these people that have not, they're not just watching the sun, but they've made regions of the sun.
So they can refer to these specific regions where this solar activity is taking.
unidentified
Tomorrow.
joe rogan
Yeah.
That's what I was saying.
The 10th and the 11th, that's what my friend was telling me.
sebastian maniscalco
X2.23B flare?
unidentified
I'm out.
joe rogan
He was actually concerned that his wife was going to be out of town while this was happening.
He's like, you should have food and you should be prepared.
Yeah.
Despite this...
Go back up.
The region continued to produce optical flares, radio bursts, and an isolated M-class.
That's one of the craziest things about the sun.
The sun is not static.
It's like...
It's like, fuck, it's all over the place.
It's got these giant ejections that happen that could cook our satellites.
And in the past, before we had the kind of infrastructure that we have today, there was a big mass ejection, I think, that they recorded in the 1800s that took out communications for whatever they had back then.
sebastian maniscalco
You know, I like the sun, Joe.
joe rogan
You like your tan?
Are you a beach guy?
Do you like going on the beach on vacations?
sebastian maniscalco
Love the beach.
joe rogan
A little margarita?
Sit there?
sebastian maniscalco
A little margarita, a little Mexico beach vibe.
Sit down and get my kids build a little sand castle, go in the water.
joe rogan
Mexico makes me nervous.
Did you hear about those surfers that just got killed in Mexico?
sebastian maniscalco
Why do you gotta ruin a job?
joe rogan
They found them in a well.
Shot in the head in a well.
They stole their car and shot them in the head and threw them down a well.
sebastian maniscalco
I'm at the beach with a margarita, and you're in a well with three gun wounds that I had.
Why do you got to ruin the visual for me, Joe?
Come on.
joe rogan
I mean, I don't know what happened to these guys, but shit can go sideways.
sebastian maniscalco
Yeah, it can go sideways.
It can go sideways.
joe rogan
When you're in Mexico.
Mexico served for death.
Man charged.
Confessed to girlfriend.
Oh, wow.
Kill these two dudes over a car.
sebastian maniscalco
Jesus Christ.
joe rogan
Their bodies are found dumped in a cliffside well six days after they disappeared, each with a gunshot to the head.
sebastian maniscalco
That's terrible.
There's shit that could...
joe rogan
Yeah, there was a fourth body that had been there longer, was unconnected to the case.
sebastian maniscalco
All right, there goes the family trip to Mexico.
joe rogan
That's their spot.
Most of the time people go to Mexico, it's no worries at all.
sebastian maniscalco
Yeah, no.
joe rogan
I went down there once and I was worried, and then I saw Halle Berry there.
I'm like, oh, she's here.
Now I'm not worried.
sebastian maniscalco
Yeah.
I feel if you see Halle Berry anywhere, it's like, it's okay.
joe rogan
She's gonna be fine.
Yeah.
sebastian maniscalco
Joe, I don't know.
I don't know.
joe rogan
Mexico worries me though.
It's just like it's controlled by the cartels.
I mean the country is essentially controlled by the illegal drug market.
sebastian maniscalco
So you would not go to Mexico?
joe rogan
I've gone to Mexico.
I love Mexico.
But it is what it is.
sebastian maniscalco
Yeah.
joe rogan
You know?
It's a different kind of sketchy.
And they're generally protective of tourists.
sebastian maniscalco
Generally, yes.
joe rogan
They don't want to fuck up that tour.
And then the government will come down on them if someone kills tourists.
sebastian maniscalco
It could happen on Wilshire Boulevard.
joe rogan
It will happen on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles.
That's why I don't live in Los Angeles.
sebastian maniscalco
I know.
joe rogan
I mean, it could happen anywhere, really.
sebastian maniscalco
Anywhere, no.
joe rogan
But Los Angeles is a higher likelihood of shit going sideways.
unidentified
Yeah.
sebastian maniscalco
No, I agree.
joe rogan
What's it like?
sebastian maniscalco
What's it like?
joe rogan
You enjoying it?
sebastian maniscalco
There's been many conversations over dinner.
What are we doing here?
I'm sure you went through that prior to morning.
joe rogan
Well, I know you looked out here for a little bit.
sebastian maniscalco
I looked out here for a little bit.
joe rogan
Now's a good time to look.
Now there's a lot of great houses that are available.
A lot of money came here.
A lot of people came here.
A lot of building got done here.
I have a great real estate agent if you're still interested.
sebastian maniscalco
The growth is exponential.
joe rogan
Yeah.
sebastian maniscalco
The quality of life is fantastic.
joe rogan
It's much better.
sebastian maniscalco
Okay.
But I got off the airplane.
joe rogan
The heat?
sebastian maniscalco
And I was sweating right out of the gate.
joe rogan
Can't take that?
sebastian maniscalco
I don't know.
I don't like heat.
I don't like heat.
unidentified
You don't like heat?
sebastian maniscalco
I don't like humidity.
So that is a big, big factor.
Of moving anywhere, whether it be Florida, Texas.
joe rogan
Los Angeles gets pretty fucking hot, dude.
sebastian maniscalco
It does get hot.
I'm not saying it doesn't.
I'm just saying this is like a different kind of heat for me.
joe rogan
It's a wet heat.
sebastian maniscalco
It's uncomfortable.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's better for your skin, though.
sebastian maniscalco
Maybe.
unidentified
Yeah.
sebastian maniscalco
And we've often tossed around.
Is Los Angeles the place for us?
With me, I got a family there.
I got my mother there.
My sister's there.
joe rogan
What about San Diego?
sebastian maniscalco
Nah.
joe rogan
No?
sebastian maniscalco
Not a big San Diego guy.
joe rogan
Really?
sebastian maniscalco
No.
joe rogan
I love it down there.
sebastian maniscalco
I love Florida.
joe rogan
Florida's great, too.
Thought about there?
sebastian maniscalco
I have family in Naples, Florida.
joe rogan
Hot as fuck.
sebastian maniscalco
Hot as fuck, though.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Hotter than here.
sebastian maniscalco
Yeah, I feel like if you go to one of these places that have a hot summer...
joe rogan
People are dumber, too.
sebastian maniscalco
They're dumber in Florida?
joe rogan
Yeah, they're dumber.
Generally.
sebastian maniscalco
I'll fit right in.
joe rogan
There's some brilliant people in Florida, don't get me wrong.
But if you had to do a statewide IQ test, it might be disturbing.
sebastian maniscalco
Yeah?
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
A lot of people escaped to go to Florida.
Florida's a place where people ran from their past.
sebastian maniscalco
I just feel like if I go to Florida, I'm running from paying an exorbitant amount of money in taxes.
joe rogan
That's true, too.
sebastian maniscalco
And quality of life might be better.
joe rogan
It would be better.
And that's Texas, too.
Texas doesn't have state taxes, either.
California has 14%, which is insane.
sebastian maniscalco
It's insane.
joe rogan
It's so high.
sebastian maniscalco
This morning, I took a beautiful walk along your, what is this, a river you guys got running through the city?
joe rogan
Lady Bird Lake.
sebastian maniscalco
Lady Bird Lake, right?
Right about the bats.
joe rogan
Yeah.
sebastian maniscalco
And just people, hello.
It's nice.
It's a nice vibe out there.
I'm not gonna lie.
joe rogan
But...
sebastian maniscalco
I'm rooted over there.
joe rogan
Yeah, I was rooted too.
sebastian maniscalco
Yeah, I know.
joe rogan
Yeah, but it's not worth it.
It's not worth it to be rooted in a place that sucks.
sebastian maniscalco
I understand.
joe rogan
The conflict, the feeling, like, why am I still here?
I don't have any of that here.
I had that feeling for a while in L.A., even before the pandemic.
I'm like, do I really need to be here?
But I just didn't know another way to do it.
It was like there was no other way to do everything that I want to do.
Podcast, comedy.
I'm in L.A. This is like, I guess this is where I live.
sebastian maniscalco
From the time you started to think about moving to the time you moved, what was that, years-wise?
joe rogan
I've been thinking about it for a long time.
I lived in Colorado for a little bit in 2009. But I had been thinking about it for a while, but it didn't seem possible.
But then when the pandemic hit, it was like, okay, the whole world is different now.
Now you got to move.
Like, you got to get the fuck out of here, because L.A. was going sideways.
And I'm of the opinion that once things start going bad, it takes a long time, especially in a Democrat-controlled state.
It takes a long time for things to turn around.
unidentified
Mm-hmm.
joe rogan
If they turn around at all, and everybody has this idea of, oh, this is L.A. L.A.'s like that.
I'm like, no, it's not like that anymore.
They're burning cop cars in the middle of the street, looting businesses, they're letting people do it, they're smashing grabs, they're just telling you you can't shop after 6 p.m.
This is madness.
We gotta get the fuck out of here.
That was my take.
My take was like, this is not the same L.A. anymore.
You don't stay in your house while it's on fire, just because like, but it's my house.
No, it's on fire.
You gotta get out.
So that was my take.
sebastian maniscalco
And the family was on board?
joe rogan
Yeah, they loved it.
Well, the kids were young enough.
My youngest were 10 and 12 when we came here.
And we got them to...
My real estate agent, she's brilliant.
She took us to the lake.
And the girls were on a boat.
We're all hanging out we were jumping in the water together and swimming and people listening to the fucking leonard skinner and People were singing and drinking and it was like everybody's having fun and there was no masks whereas in la everyone was like Terrified and locked down and so this was in may of 2020 we were only It was only two months into the pandemic and I was already trying to get out And then by august I was already here.
I was like fuck you guys and And then by October, Dave and I started doing shows.
We started doing shows at Stubbs.
And then November, we started doing indoor shows here.
Like, Jesus Christ.
And then it was crazy.
And then the influx.
Everybody started moving here.
Segura moved here.
Tony Hinchcliffe moved here.
Bryan Simpson moved here.
Derek Poston, Asan Ahmad, they moved here.
William Montgomery moved here.
Ron White was already here.
Duncan Trussell moved here.
Tim Dillon moved here.
It just started getting crazy.
Joe DeRosa just got a spot here.
Joey's coming next week.
It's been amazing.
But all those things had to take place in the exact right order.
It's almost like you had to hit every green light on the road.
All the things had to happen the right way to be able to happen.
To make what actually took place.
It's kind of crazy.
sebastian maniscalco
It is nuts that this place, I mean, I just looked around the city, I mean, the amount of buildings that are going up is crazy.
The only thing I do see, do you think the infrastructure of the city can withstand the amount of people here, like the roads and the traffic and They're doing work on that.
joe rogan
They're expanding things.
There's going to be growing pains for sure.
There's obviously a lot more traffic now than there was 10 years ago.
But it had always been growing.
sebastian maniscalco
Yeah.
joe rogan
Because I remember, you know, my business, Onnit, was out here.
And so we were coming out here for Onnit.
And every time I'd come out, like, over the years, I'd notice, like, traffic was picking up more and more before the pandemic.
Mm.
But then during the pandemic, obviously there was a mass influx of people like, we're getting the fuck out of California.
And that was the biggest factor.
sebastian maniscalco
I'm not arguing with you, Joe.
It's a great move.
joe rogan
I know.
You have to decide.
Because no place is going to be like, oh my god, this is perfect.
Every place is going to come with a thing.
But this thing is also way cheaper.
It's way cheaper to live here.
sebastian maniscalco
Yeah.
joe rogan
You get more for your money if you're trying to buy a house, and your state taxes are non-existent, which is just way better.
That's beautiful.
Because, look, if California was perfect, and I had to pay a lot of money, but they kept the streets clean, and there was no crime, and everybody's having a good time, and there's great schools and great social programs, this feels good.
Yeah, I'm spending a lot of money in taxes, but man, I live in a fucking utopia.
I love it.
This doesn't feel like that at all.
sebastian maniscalco
No.
joe rogan
It feels like you're getting fucked by people who tell you they're gonna fuck you, and they have to fuck you, and if you don't want to get fucked, you're a part of the problem.
sebastian maniscalco
Yeah.
joe rogan
Like, oh.
Okay, I gotta get out of here.
I don't feel like that here, though.
I don't feel like that here.
I don't feel like that when I'm in Nashville.
I don't feel like that when I'm in Florida.
I think there's parts of this country that haven't lost their fucking minds, and people gravitate towards those parts where people realize, like, hey, there's some real need for law and order.
There's some real need for rules.
There's some real need for, you know, you got to have your fucking ducks in a row.
You can't let psychos take over the school systems and teach nonsense.
There's a good mixture.
And I think Austin's the best mixture because it's a liberal city.
It's a very, very progressive city that's surrounded by ranchers.
It's surrounded by fucking people in the small towns that are all, you know...
Driving pickup trucks and shooting signs.
It keeps everything balanced.
sebastian maniscalco
Yeah, it's a nice balance here.
joe rogan
Because even the most liberal people here, they're so much more reasonable than liberal people that I would meet in L.A. Liberal people in L.A. were cult members, and they felt like if you weren't on their team, you were some kind of a Nazi, and you shouldn't be allowed to vote.
You definitely should lose your job.
sebastian maniscalco
It's a tough place to live, Joe.
I'm not going to argue with you.
joe rogan
When you come back in August, I'll take you around.
And it'll be a good time to know if you hate it, because it'll be hot as fuck.
sebastian maniscalco
I'm going to burn my skin off.
joe rogan
August is going to be sweaty and hot, but it's beautiful.
And the food.
Ooh, there's so much good food here, Sebastian.
There's so much good food.
So much good food.
sebastian maniscalco
No, I'll come back.
We'll do a proper Austin run.
joe rogan
All right.
Do it for a few days.
You got anything to tell people about?
sebastian maniscalco
Got a major tour, July 11th, called the It Ain't Right Tour.
A lot of stuff in Los Angeles.
It Ain't Right.
So that starts July 11th in Norfolk, Virginia.
And I'm currently shooting Bookie.
joe rogan
Oh yeah, you're on a show, a Chuck Lorre show.
sebastian maniscalco
Chuck Lorre show on Max, which we're in our second season.
We're shooting that.
joe rogan
Who's in that with you?
sebastian maniscalco
Omar Dorsey's in it, Andrea Anders, Vanessa Ferlito.
joe rogan
I've heard good things about it.
I've heard it's a great show.
sebastian maniscalco
Really fun show.
joe rogan
I want to watch it.
So it's on Max?
sebastian maniscalco
It's on Max.
We've got eight episodes on there right now.
unidentified
Nice.
sebastian maniscalco
And then we're filming...
joe rogan
Boy, that guy, Chuck Lorre, that fucking guy's done it all.
sebastian maniscalco
Hits, bro.
Hits.
joe rogan
Nothing but hits.
My family's addicted to the Big Bang Theory right now.
So my youngest, my wife and I watched The Big Bang Theory.
I've watched like a hundred episodes over the last four months.
sebastian maniscalco
Yeah, it's crazy.
joe rogan
Fucking great.
I underestimated that show tremendously because I had seen clips online.
I'm like, this show sucks.
And then you watch it and go, this is a funny show.
It's a really well-made show.
sebastian maniscalco
Really great writer.
This is my first TV series, so to have this guy.
joe rogan
Really?
sebastian maniscalco
Yeah.
I did a pilot years ago with Tony Danza playing my dad.
Never got off the ground.
joe rogan
How is it like meeting Tony Danza?
sebastian maniscalco
Oh, great.
I grew up with Tony.
Dad's a taxi, and I was the boss, and he played my dad, and he was really, really good.
But that was a network show, and never picked it up.
joe rogan
Are they making four-camera, like, multi-camera sitcoms anymore?
sebastian maniscalco
Yeah.
joe rogan
On networks?
sebastian maniscalco
I don't know about networks, but...
joe rogan
Miss Pat.
Miss Pat's got one?
Yeah, she's got a multi-camera show.
But, I mean, do any network television...
Like, what is on, like, network TV on, like, Thursday night now?
unidentified
Oh.
joe rogan
Is it all like The Bachelor show?
sebastian maniscalco
Yeah, I think we're seeing a lot of reality, maybe dating shows.
joe rogan
Game shows, reality shows.
sebastian maniscalco
Big Brother or what have you.
joe rogan
It used to be all sitcoms.
sebastian maniscalco
It used to be all sitcoms.
I mean, you know, you were part of that world.
joe rogan
Well, that's why I like watching The Big Bang Theory make me say, like, I enjoy sitcoms.
It's a great way to consume entertainment.
You don't see them anymore.
Look at this.
Come on.
unidentified
Come on.
sebastian maniscalco
So it was like talk to camera.
So I would do a little talk to camera, and then I would pop back into the scene.
So the talk to camera for me was like, oh, I could show my comedy a little bit here, and then I'd go back into the scene.
But yeah, man.
joe rogan
I wonder if sitcoms are going to come back.
sebastian maniscalco
Maybe.
joe rogan
I hope they do.
If networks are smart, they'll put together some multicam sitcoms.
Because it's still a fun art form.
It's still a fun way to consume humor.
sebastian maniscalco
Yeah, it is.
And it'll come back.
We'll come back.
Maybe.
unidentified
I don't know.
I don't know either.
sebastian maniscalco
We'll see.
Maybe.
Also, I have a podcast, Pete and Sebastian Show, which we are now...
joe rogan
Say hi to Pete for me.
I haven't talked to Pete forever.
sebastian maniscalco
Pete's a good dude.
joe rogan
I can't believe that you said before I saw you here today that I haven't seen you in four years.
sebastian maniscalco
Five.
Is it really five?
2019, I believe, was the last time I was on your show.
joe rogan
But I've seen you since then.
Seen you, seen you at the store in 2019, I think.
Before the pandemic, I think I saw you.
sebastian maniscalco
Yeah, that was 2019. It was five years ago.
joe rogan
Yeah, almost.
March will be.
sebastian maniscalco
I definitely haven't seen you out here.
This is my first time out here.
But I want to tell you congratulations on all your success, bro.
joe rogan
Thank you.
sebastian maniscalco
Even walking through this place before I came in to know, like, you know, I saw you at the comedy store hanging out in the parking lot, and now you're floating in a tank in your own warehouse.
It's unbelievable.
joe rogan
Like, congratulations to you, too, because I remember when you first started.
I really do.
I remember your first struggles at the store.
sebastian maniscalco
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
And I remember I saw you.
I was in Vegas.
I was working in Vegas, and I was in my hotel room by myself, flipping through the channels, and I saw your special.
And I think it was a Showtime special.
And I remember tweeting it.
Like, it was fucking great.
sebastian maniscalco
It was great.
No, I think you actually reached out to me and said, hey, man, this is really good stuff.
It's funny, Eleanor Kerrigan, I was on a podcast and somebody sent it to me and she's like, oh my god, Sebastian was awful.
Awful when he first started.
Everybody at the Comedy Store knew it.
They're like, how did this guy get passed?
And I'm sitting there listening to this going, fuck, I didn't even, like, I didn't think I was bad.
You know, like...
It's funny, like, what you think you are and what people are saying, I didn't know any of that.
joe rogan
Well, the problem was you started out as an open-miker at the comedy store in Los Angeles, which is crazy.
That's like learning how to play football with the Giants.
Like, it's nuts.
Like, just the idea behind it is nuts.
Like, it's a very, very difficult way to break into comedy.
And so, everybody's terrible in the beginning.
If they'd seen me six months in, they'd go, oh my god, he fucking sucks.
Like, how did he get passed?
sebastian maniscalco
I know, but to hear it, to hear it was like, oh wow, I had no idea.
And not to even know you suck is awful.
Like, I knew I was, like, learning, but I was like, I didn't know people were like, this guy should be pumping gas.
You know what?
I don't know if you've ever had this on your podcast.
What are you guys, north of what, 2,500 episodes here?
joe rogan
Something like that.
unidentified
I drank way too much water, right?
joe rogan
Before the podcast?
sebastian maniscalco
During.
joe rogan
Oh, so you gotta pee right now real bad.
sebastian maniscalco
It's unbelievable.
joe rogan
Yeah, I see your face.
We can wrap this up.
The tour, all that.
Where can the people find the information?
sebastian maniscalco
SebastianLive.com.
Get your tickets to the tour.
joe rogan
Get your tickets.
sebastian maniscalco
It's going to be...
I can't give anything away, but I'm into a lot.
I like production at my shows.
Not only the comedy, but the experience.
joe rogan
Beautiful.
sebastian maniscalco
We got some surprises on the tour.
joe rogan
Nice.
sebastian maniscalco
Coming to Austin, Texas.
When is that?
joe rogan
August 9th.
sebastian maniscalco
August 9th.
joe rogan
If I'm here, I'm there.
sebastian maniscalco
All right.
joe rogan
I would love to see it.
Great to see you again.
And congratulations to all your success, too.
It's been beautiful to watch.
sebastian maniscalco
Thank you.
joe rogan
I'm very, very, very, very, very happy for you.
sebastian maniscalco
I appreciate you having me on your show.
joe rogan
My pleasure, brother.
Anytime.
Next time, let's not wait four years.
sebastian maniscalco
No.
joe rogan
Come back in August.
We'll do it again.
All right.
Appreciate you, brother.
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