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Joe Rogan Experience #2150 - Greg Overton
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What's up?
What's up, bro?
What's up, bro?
joe rogan
Good to see you, my friend.
Good to see you.
Pull up to the microphone so other people can hear you.
greg overton
So people can hear me and see me.
joe rogan
Have you ever done a podcast?
Yeah, you have done a podcast.
I've listened to you on podcasts.
greg overton
I've done.
Oh, you did?
joe rogan
Yeah, I listened to you on some podcast.
I was shooting arrows in my backyard, and some podcast came up, and it said Greg Overton.
I'm like, get the fuck out of here.
My man.
greg overton
See, I'm doing all kinds of shit.
unidentified
All kinds of shit.
greg overton
My boy Justin, who's from Pittsburgh.
What's up, Justin?
He does the Curious Jones podcast.
And we also do those Zippos.
He does those.
So, Lit Zips.
Curious Jones podcast.
He's a cool dude.
joe rogan
We got one of those right here.
unidentified
Yeah.
greg overton
The Black Dragon Samurai.
joe rogan
Yeah, this is the samurai that we have outside next to the...
Did you see the actual samurai armor?
greg overton
Yeah, fucking crazy.
And the sword, dude.
joe rogan
And the sword.
The sword is even older than the armor.
The armor is from the 1800s, but the sword is from the 1500s.
greg overton
So that's right before the Sengoku Jidai, the time of the country at war, the 300 years where they're at war.
I'm trying to think, did it begin in the 1500s?
joe rogan
I don't have any knowledge of that.
unidentified
Can you look that up, the Sengoku Jidai?
joe rogan
Pull that microphone up.
Keep it like a fist from your face.
greg overton
There you go.
joe rogan
All right.
So I first found out about...
I don't even remember what year it was, man.
I remember I was with my family.
I was in Salt Lake, and we were walking by this gallery.
And there was this fucking dope painting.
It's a huge painting of this Native American guy with a buffalo skull that had a bullet hole in the head.
And I was like, God...
And I was trying to figure out, where can I put that?
Where can I put that fucking thing?
And I snoozed.
I snoozed and I loosed.
greg overton
And then it got bought.
unidentified
But I didn't lose.
greg overton
Dude, it's an interesting story.
And I'll just tell you, I was shown with this other gallery for a long time that that same painting was in the back room and they weren't really giving me my props, which is what people will do if they just want to keep you at a certain level.
joe rogan
So do they do that to keep your prices down?
greg overton
They do that so you don't leave the gallery so you don't get too big for the gallery.
joe rogan
Oh, so you don't go off on your own like you did.
greg overton
But no, I'm loyal as fuck, dude.
I'm still at the galleries that were cool.
You know what I mean?
If the people hook me up, I'm going to hook them up.
I'm going to stay there.
You know what I mean?
But I just wasn't getting my due at this other gallery, so I decided...
joe rogan
How long had you been painting for at the time?
greg overton
I mean, professionally, I think about 16 years.
joe rogan
Wow.
greg overton
But, you know, I've been doing it since I was a kid, semi-professional.
joe rogan
Just always?
greg overton
Yeah.
joe rogan
Always doing art.
And when did you get, I want to say obsessed, that's the right word, right?
greg overton
When I was born.
joe rogan
With Native American culture.
greg overton
Yeah.
I mean...
joe rogan
From the time you were little.
greg overton
There was books in my grandparents' house.
Like, one of them was called Fighting Indians of the West.
And then there was, like, Russell and Remington books, the painters.
And so I just look at these photos of, like, Sitting Bull and...
I wasn't going to say Crazy Horse, but no photos of Crazy Horse, but, like, Geronimo and shit like that.
And I just saw a look in their eye, like...
A wild person.
Somebody who wasn't trapped by the system.
You know what I mean?
And as a little kid, I just knew that was better.
I knew it was powerful.
I just really loved that culture.
joe rogan
Just connected to it.
greg overton
Yeah.
joe rogan
It is so fascinating that so many Native Americans who got captured and put into the reservation systems and then eventually integrated with Western culture fucking hated it.
But when Western people, either when they were young, if they got kidnapped, or if they integrated with the tribes, like a lot of trappers and a lot of people integrated with the tribes, when they tried to bring them back to Western society, they all wanted to leave.
They're like, get me the fuck out of here.
Like, I don't want to do this.
It's like, we have this idea that cities, and especially back then, I mean, you're talking about cities in the 1800s, That somehow or another it was better.
You know, we always have the idea that progress in terms of like what's going on right now is better than what was going on before.
We always have that in our head that we're doing it.
It doesn't seem to ring true to the human spirit.
There's something about human beings that they absolutely prefer that life.
greg overton
Yeah, I mean, dude, you are more of a human being if you're living that life.
If you're living a life in a city where you have to go do something you don't want to do, and you have to go hang out with people, it's like your tribe is your tribe.
You belong there.
It's a totally...
Just simpler, better, more real way of life.
joe rogan
I think that thing that you just said, too, about your tribe, because too many people today, their tribe is not someone they chose.
Their tribe is just people that they're stuck with because they're working with them.
You know, if you're working, like, if you're a married person, you're a married couple, and you both work, you're both with other people at least eight hours a day.
How long are you together?
You're together for a few hours at night and then you go to sleep.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
You're tired.
greg overton
It's not a quality way of life.
joe rogan
But it's not the people you chose.
It's the people that your occupation chose or the opportunity for employment chose.
And then you got to deal with these fucking schmucks in your office.
I've been very fortunate.
I never had to work in an office my whole life.
I dodged office life.
But I've had a lot of people that I worked with that were fucking annoying, man.
Just got in your way.
They're always there.
They're always fucking imposing their bullshit on you.
And if you're a person that works in an office, especially if you have a bunch of bosses, the boss-employee relationship is so often abused.
It's such an abusive...
Place to be where you have this person that gets to tell you what to do and make you sometimes work on weekends and make you stay overtime and upset at you if you do X, Y, or Z, which forces you to have the same ideological beliefs as them, forces you to have the same political beliefs as them.
greg overton
Crazy.
It reminds me of that movie Office Space.
joe rogan
Yes, exactly.
greg overton
That's what I think our country is almost like right now, is that motherfucker Milton.
You remember him?
They're always kind of pushing him to the side, seeing how much shit he'll put up with.
joe rogan
He's not the stapler guy, right?
That's Steven Root.
Yeah, that's my man.
greg overton
Where he's just like...
How much shit will these motherfuckers put up with?
And that's your life in an office.
And you're taught as a kid, going to high school, if you do a good job here, you get to have an office job.
That's what you're fucking shooting for?
joe rogan
Yeah, and you're working all day at school to try to do that.
It's very complicated, man.
Trying to get through the...
Education aspect of your childhood and the indoctrination aspect, because that's what it is.
It's indoctrinating you into believing that the only way that you can get by in this life is to become a part of this exact same system.
So this is why school is structured like that.
I mean, it's structured like that to teach you, but it's also structured like that where you're sitting down in front of people.
All day long, learning things that you don't want to learn, being forced to be immobile when you're a child and you're literally just a hummingbird of energy.
greg overton
I know, those little desks.
joe rogan
Oh, it's so bad for you.
The inside, fluorescent lights when I was a kid, terrible for you.
The whole thing, bad for you.
Bad feeling.
I couldn't wait to run away from it.
Like, everything, every fiber of my being was opposed to it.
But they had everyone convinced That if you didn't do this this way, you're gonna be a fucking loser.
And that's what I was convinced.
I was convinced I was going to be a loser.
So I was like, I've got to figure out a way to make money outside of regular jobs because I'm a fucking loser.
I can't do a regular job.
greg overton
I've got to do a loser job.
joe rogan
I have to be a loser.
I have to be a construction worker.
I have to do something else.
I have to do something that's outside the norm because I can't fucking do this.
I can't sit down.
I have too much energy.
I'm so bored.
And it's also a terrible way to learn things.
Like, the best way to learn things is things you enjoy.
Things you enjoy.
And then if you learn that you do something that you enjoy and you really get good at it, you go, oh, I can apply that to everything.
I can apply that to all things in life.
But they don't teach you that.
They teach you you gotta fucking sit still.
You gotta pay attention.
You gotta memorize some nonsense.
You gotta do some shit.
Do these fucking calculations that make no sense to you.
Like, you gotta memorize these fucking people, a distorted version of the actual history, you know, which is almost always what they're teaching.
Some weird distortion written by the winners.
And if you don't do that, you're a loser.
We have such a goofy society.
greg overton
Yeah, but dude, we made it.
unidentified
We were born into it.
greg overton
Our ancestors made it.
Maybe they were trying to do the right thing.
Maybe they had good intentions.
Maybe.
We don't know.
But it turns out, it's fucking stupid.
Why do we keep doing it?
joe rogan
I think it's industry tricked everybody.
Industry gave people jobs.
Jobs are easy.
You know, you need to feed people.
You need to eat.
You need to have a roof over your head.
Okay, here's a job.
This way I can get a roof over my head.
Especially these people that came over like my grandparents did.
They came over from Italy.
It's like these fucking...
They didn't know what the hell was going on.
They didn't know what was going on.
They were just like, what am I going to do?
I've got to feed myself.
Get a job.
So everybody gets a job.
You've got to get a job.
Get a job.
unidentified
Get a job.
joe rogan
You've got to eat.
Because the reality of life then, in the 1920s, everybody was fucking starving to death.
People were starving.
Dudes weighed 100 pounds.
No one had food.
It was a real possibility that you could starve to death in America.
People were, like, real poor.
Real poor in, like, the 1920s.
And so they all just did it.
And now we're still doing it.
And everyone's fucking miserable.
And then everyone gets to...
Not everyone, obviously.
You're not miserable.
I'm not miserable.
greg overton
Well, like the people that have to...
joe rogan
We dodged it.
Everyone stuck in that trap is miserable.
They fucking hate their bosses.
They hate the corporation.
Can't wait to get out and talk shit about them.
greg overton
And they're pissed off at people that got out of it.
unidentified
Oh, yeah.
greg overton
You know?
joe rogan
Or people that are free of it.
They don't like people that are free of it.
I was having this conversation with my kids about podcasters and influencers.
They were talking about, this girl, she's making millions of dollars.
Here's how you have to think about that.
It seems ridiculous that she's doing that, but she has a product.
Whatever that product is, she's making videos or TikToks or what have you.
Someone's consuming that product.
She's a business person.
It's just the business is ridiculously easy to get into, and the product is nonsense.
unidentified
But the thing is...
greg overton
But you gotta hand it to her for selling some bullshit.
joe rogan
She got lucky.
She got born in the right time.
I mean, if that lady was born in the 1970s, she'd be fucked.
But she's not, you know?
But then you also have to deal with, like, from a psychologist's perspective.
If you talk to psychologists about growing up in this time, it's one of the most challenging times.
Because people are inundated by other people's lives.
You're inundated by these people driving cars you couldn't imagine driving, living in these crazy homes, flashing money, wearing all these designer clothes.
Everybody's got a filter on so their skin looks perfect.
They look way more beautiful than they do in real life.
And you're like, God damn, what is life?
What do I have to aspire to?
What am I looking for?
What am I going to get out of this?
greg overton
You don't have meaning.
You don't have a sense of belonging that you make a difference.
That's a fucking empty, sad life, dude.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's a suck life.
As opposed to the life that you're living, a life of an artist, like a life that, you know, you labor at these pieces that you make, and then people stand in front of them and go, like, dude, that one that you made for me, the one with the guy's got all the face paint, like...
Like a gray and black face paint on.
Do you know the one I'm talking about?
unidentified
Dreamer, yeah.
joe rogan
Yes, dude.
That one's in my library.
When people walk in there, they go, oh, shit.
I'm going, yeah, right?
Look at that thing.
You can stare at that painting.
You can stare at it for hours like, whoa.
It's huge.
There's so much going on in it.
greg overton
That's what you have to do.
If you're gonna actually say I'm an artist, it has to stop motherfuckers in their tracks and kind of wake them up a little bit and then they can't even stop thinking about it the rest of the day because it's like...
joe rogan
Has anybody ever done that to a Jackson Pollock?
greg overton
I mean, not unless they're on a lot of drugs.
joe rogan
Maybe that's what I'm missing.
Maybe it's like a dead concert.
unidentified
I didn't take enough LSD. You gotta hop on the train.
greg overton
I guarantee you the dead sounds way better if you're frying.
joe rogan
Oh, I bet if you're frying it's amazing.
I bet it's amazing.
Can you find that painting, Jamie?
No, that's one that I have too.
greg overton
I don't know if you're talking about Soul Catcher or Dreamer.
joe rogan
Yeah, Soul Catcher.
I have that one in my house too.
That one's dope too.
That's the one, bro.
greg overton
Fucking Soul Catcher.
joe rogan
And that thing is massive.
That's a massive painting.
It's huge, and it's sitting in my library.
greg overton
You can't really see all the detail on it that good, because it's like a JPEG, and it's kind of, when you blow it up, you can't see as much detail.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's not that high resolution.
greg overton
But you know, when you look at the snake scales, dude.
joe rogan
Oh, the snake scales, but really the thing that gets me is always his face.
Just the close-up of his face with all the paint and the cracked paint.
Fuck, I love that painting.
unidentified
Yeah.
greg overton
You put your soul into it, and it speaks.
It's alive.
joe rogan
Yeah, it speaks.
That one speaks.
That one speaks.
greg overton
That's what art is, though.
It's speaking without words.
It's communicating through this...
I mean, it's the most archaic language that we have, like those cave drawings and stuff.
Probably language wasn't that advanced when they were doing that, but they wanted to say something profound, you know what I mean?
Like, they didn't have...
Like books and poems and all that.
They weren't advanced as far as writing stuff down.
So they'd write it down in like a pictograph.
And that's how they would communicate those deeper truths.
And if you look at those cave drawings, they have the same themes.
You know, have you looked at those?
unidentified
You know what I'm talking about?
joe rogan
I've looked at a lot of them, yeah.
greg overton
They have a hunter, and he's kind of with the animals.
They're going along, and then there's like this big tall motherfucker with a space helmet on or something.
joe rogan
There's a lot of those.
Yeah.
Explain that.
Yeah.
greg overton
Well, I mean, I don't know if I have to.
You have to just look at the fucking thing.
They explained it.
joe rogan
Well, I don't know what that means.
You know, I really don't.
They could have been tripping balls.
Or it could be that when you're tripping balls, you meet those folks and they're real.
unidentified
Yeah.
greg overton
That's what I was going to say.
I was like, the same with Grateful Dead.
Yeah.
joe rogan
I've often thought about that, about UFO experiences, because I think maybe it's like a state of mind.
There's a state of mind that you can achieve and you can see them.
Not if they're not there, clearly, but I think— If they're not here, then they're there.
But even if they're not—I mean, they're not there all the time, right?
The idea is if there's something that's traveling here—but it might also be that they know— If it's interdimensional, though.
Yeah.
That's what a lot of people think.
It's so hard to know because it's like it's such a multifaceted story, right?
Because it's laced with bullshit because people are bullshitters, right?
So everyone bullshits.
They distort something to make it more interesting.
They twist it up in their own mind.
Even your own memory is absolutely terrible.
greg overton
Because you always want to make yourself be the hero.
joe rogan
Yeah, or if you're like self-loathing, make yourself be a piece of shit.
greg overton
You're the villain.
joe rogan
Yeah, you could do that too, but it's also, it's just not reliable, right?
So then you have this shocking thing where you're not exactly sure what happened, and then your body starts filling in, or your mind starts filling in the blanks with like a lot of nonsense, and then you start telling it to people over and over again, and then after a while, your memory is of the memory of you telling it.
And barely even of the UFO experience itself.
It's like you've told it this way for a certain amount of times, so you kind of keep repeating it.
greg overton
Yeah.
And what is the motivation there?
Is it now just a story you tell to get attention?
joe rogan
What makes you better?
You're a special person.
greg overton
Aliens talk to me.
joe rogan
Yeah, we have to always be careful of anything that makes you special.
Anything that makes you a special person.
What makes you special?
Did you really see Bigfoot?
Or are you just a fucking loser?
What's going on here?
Are you fucking just a fucking...
unidentified
Are you even special because you saw Bigfoot or is he just special because he...
I don't know.
joe rogan
I think Bigfoot might be one of them things too.
I think maybe...
I struggled with the idea that everyone's lying.
I really do.
But I also struggle with the idea of this unknown bipedal hominid that's eight feet tall.
Like, where is it shitting?
What does it eat?
Where's its bones?
No one's seen it on a trail camera?
How's that possible?
But why would everybody be lying?
greg overton
But maybe it's smart.
Maybe it fucking digs toilets.
I don't know.
joe rogan
No chance.
No chance it's so smart that it knows what a trail camera is, but it never made its own trail camera?
No chance.
No chance it doesn't get photographed.
greg overton
Bigfoot has Wi-Fi and shit?
joe rogan
No.
Too many people go into the backcountry.
You know, all my friends that really go deep into the backcountry, like my friends like Aaron Snyder, he does these crazy backcountry hunts.
He'll go like 26 miles in with everything on his back.
And they hunt for weeks, weeks at a time.
None of those guys have stories like that.
None of them.
Not one.
Only the people that are nervous in the woods, that don't understand the woods.
You know, I saw a squirrel once and for like a couple of seconds I thought it was a wolf.
unidentified
I thought Carl was a wolf when he was biting my leg.
joe rogan
Carl was a wolf about 14, 15 thousand years ago.
They turned that into Carl.
greg overton
I think you're right.
joe rogan
But you know what I'm saying?
There's bears that stand up on two legs.
They do that all the time.
People see that in between the trees.
You think you saw Bigfoot.
But then I wonder about just the heightened state of mind that you're in when you're in the forest and you're scared.
Because you've been in the woods before.
And for people that haven't, I really recommend it because it's so humbling.
There's something about just the undeniable vulnerability that you have and that you don't really mean that much.
You might think you mean a lot, but you're just a part of this massive system that's going on, this massive system of life.
And if you're in that, and this is a new experience for you, And then you start freaking out.
And then you think you saw something.
And your brain goes into overdrive.
And your mind starts pattern forming.
You start looking for things.
You've heard about Bigfoot.
Now you start seeing Bigfoot, you know?
unidentified
Bigfoot!
joe rogan
Yeah.
I think there's a little bit of that.
greg overton
I'm sure a lot of people do.
If they're getting drunk, maybe they're smoking a little weed or whatever.
I mean, God.
joe rogan
But then again, maybe if you are drunk or smoking a little weed, maybe you can hit that spot.
Maybe there's a frequency that you can hit.
greg overton
Where Bigfoot's really there, dude.
I mean, I think it's cool to believe in.
It's very cool to believe in.
If it was real, it would be really cool.
joe rogan
Some people are all in.
And you can't even talk them out of it.
greg overton
They needed a hobby.
They're like, I gotta sell some fucking t-shirts, man.
joe rogan
There's a lot of that.
Like Finding Bigfoot?
That show?
That show was hilarious.
How did they pull that off for like eight seasons?
greg overton
Three or four, eight fucking seasons.
joe rogan
How many seasons did Finding Bigfoot have?
It might still be going on.
greg overton
They really wanted to find Bigfoot.
joe rogan
You can just keep, there's a certain amount of slack-jawed people, me included, that would just sit in front of that and just like this.
greg overton
Like the river monster show and shit.
joe rogan
Well, the river monster show, that guy's fishing.
Fishing's fun.
He's just fishing.
greg overton
That's just crazy how he just jumps down in the fucking swamp and just brings up this big demon of a fish.
joe rogan
Big tiger fish.
That tiger fish, that crazy fish in Africa with the giant teeth.
greg overton
I hear, like, thinking, would I do that?
unidentified
Would I jump out with the fucking...
jamie vernon
The original show ended and they brought it back as the search continues.
greg overton
We couldn't think of a better fucking title.
unidentified
The bullshit continues.
jamie vernon
And there's also finding Bigfoot further evidence.
joe rogan
Further evidence.
You got none.
unidentified
And that's from 2011. This is fucking way far out there.
joe rogan
I mean, it's basically printing money.
As long as the people that are on the TV show don't get cocky and think they deserve more money.
greg overton
It's Bigfoot.
He's behind it.
joe rogan
You might have to bring in new researchers.
It's like, they're never going to find me, motherfucker.
unidentified
Keep looking.
joe rogan
If anybody gets cocky, you might have to bring in new researchers.
But then the researchers have to be accepted by the research community as a legitimate Bigfoot researcher.
Legitimate Bigfoot?
Yes.
Yes.
We don't tolerate outsiders here, Greg.
greg overton
That's a job title.
No, I'm a legitimate...
Bigfoot researcher.
unidentified
I'm not like those bullshit Bigfoot researchers.
I'm just researching bullshit.
joe rogan
You know what's interesting?
Duncan and I went – we hung out with Bigfoot researchers when I did that TV show for SyFy called Joe Rogan Questions Everything.
We went and hung out with these Bigfoot people.
And at the end, you realize it's just like, oh, you guys just need a community.
This is a community.
greg overton
Just needed some friends.
joe rogan
And it's a fun thing to think about.
And the thing about, like, the Pacific Northwest, it's like the woods up there, if you haven't been, it's like a box of Q-tips.
Like, you can't see shit through that.
You can't see 30 feet, 40 feet.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
You can't see anything.
It's just fucking trees, like, everywhere.
greg overton
And how much does mushrooms have to do with Bigfoot?
unidentified
Like, there's a lot of mushrooms growing up there in the woods, dude.
Probably a lot.
greg overton
You're going to see a whole bunch of shit.
joe rogan
You're going to see elves.
greg overton
Yeah, elves, Bigfoot, like...
joe rogan
Leprechauns.
greg overton
Santa Claus.
joe rogan
Santa Claus.
unidentified
Yeah.
For sure.
greg overton
It's going to be this big party.
Why not?
joe rogan
Yeah, why not?
unidentified
Take some shoes and hang out with Bigfoot and the elves and Santa Claus.
joe rogan
Well, then again, like, what is happening there?
Are you seeing things that aren't there?
Or are you seeing things that are there that you can't see under normal circumstances?
greg overton
Well, dude, I think...
I think it's the latter.
I think it's...
If they weren't there, you wouldn't be able to perceive them and those substances just help you to perceive things because you're too busy over here all the time in that fucking...
Brainwave circuit that you're kind of trapped in right here, this reality tunnel.
This stuff over here, there's blinders.
You can't see it.
The only way, like what happens when you take those substances, your fucking pupils.
joe rogan
Dial it.
They get huge.
greg overton
And then all of a sudden, dude, I remember the first time that I really took a whole bunch of shrooms.
When I was a kid, me and a bunch of my friends, like, we just got a hold of some bunch of money.
I'm not going to get into that, how that happened.
But, you know, long story short, we turned this money into a big bag of mushrooms.
And we all went down to the bowling alley and ate a whole bunch of them.
And we just cruised around, you know, tried to go bowling.
That didn't work out.
And just shroomed out.
And by the end of the night, we're looking at the money that we still had.
And everybody's, you know, we had a bunch of weed.
unidentified
We're passing around bowls and shrooming out.
greg overton
And, uh...
We're looking at the money, and we're looking at the buildings going, the fucking system has us trapped with this money.
Let's tear it up.
joe rogan
Oh no.
I wish I was there with you.
greg overton
Yeah, we started tearing it up.
Everybody, all my friends who are listening to this are going to be like, yeah, dude, we were all there.
Because there was probably like eight of us.
joe rogan
You're just tearing up your money?
greg overton
Tearing up our money.
joe rogan
How much money do you think it was?
greg overton
We had a fuck ton of money because we just...
I was a little shit when I was a kid, so I... We don't need specifics to get the IRS changed.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
greg overton
No, I mean, right.
So anyway...
joe rogan
It was enough money that it was a stupid thing to do.
greg overton
We were little kids.
No, it's...
You know, we paid for it later.
We got busted.
A whole bunch of shit happened after that.
But long story short, we're ripping up $10 bills.
This is the 80s.
Like, oh, fuck, 10 bucks.
unidentified
Yeah.
greg overton
And the next day, you'd put it back in your pocket.
joe rogan
Tape it back together again.
greg overton
We'd be like, what the fuck was I doing?
unidentified
Yeah.
greg overton
But I think I was right.
joe rogan
Could have went to Jimmy John's with this.
unidentified
Yeah, no, I mean, it's like...
greg overton
But I think we tapped into something saying the system is bullshit and if we didn't tap into that...
You wouldn't make it to where you did today.
Like, the fact that I saw that and I started doing all those, you know, drugs and crazy shit when I was young is what led me here.
And I was getting a bunch of shit for it when I was a kid.
And people were saying, what are you doing, art?
Because I wanted to do that since I was a kid.
That's what I was wanting to do for my career, like album covers, comic books, shit like that.
And people were like, no, you're crazy.
You're never going to fucking do anything with art.
But I think just being, you know, like a rebel, an outcast, that helped me.
That made it possible.
joe rogan
Well, it's the only way.
If you're a person that has some crazy corporate job and you get locked into that thing, it's going to be very difficult for you to break out and become an artist.
greg overton
Yeah.
Although I actually did work for the government, for the feds for a while myself.
Which stuff?
I was an artist.
No, I was a graphics guy for OSHA, for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
joe rogan
So what did you do?
greg overton
I designed all the little...
joe rogan
Pamphlets and shit?
greg overton
Like web shit.
joe rogan
Don't put your hand on the machine.
greg overton
Don't carry stuff like this.
Don't do this.
unidentified
Oh.
greg overton
And then they'd have me edit, like, pictures of people that got electrocuted and got their faces blown off.
joe rogan
Oh, no.
greg overton
And say, try to make this a little less bloody.
joe rogan
Oh, goddammit, man.
greg overton
And, yeah, that made me rethink.
joe rogan
Bro, there's so many videos on Instagram of people getting caught in machines.
unidentified
Oof.
greg overton
You want to know the worst one?
The stupidest one that I ever saw was three dudes wanted to get high at work.
They were asphalt layers.
And they're like, let's jump in the asphalt mixer.
They fucking jumped in there to smoke a joint.
All of them died.
joe rogan
Like three dudes.
greg overton
Because asphalt is deadly toxic if you breathe it.
joe rogan
It's terrible for you.
Oh my god.
greg overton
But I mean, I had to kind of get into the system before I started trying to do tattoos.
Because I had young kids and stuff.
And it's hard to get into the art business.
So I had to try to do that.
But then 9-11 came along and we lost our contract.
Because all the money went to military shit.
And so I had to just make another plan.
I tried to tattoo for a while.
That didn't work out.
And then got into fine art from there.
joe rogan
How did you get into tattooing?
How do you even practice that?
Do you practice on pig skin?
greg overton
No, I practice on myself.
A friend of mine, actually, from Big Deluxe Tattoo, best shop in Salt Lake, and also Anthony Bagano.
What's up, Anthony?
What's up?
So I worked at Big Deluxe for a while.
My friend Rich runs that shop and he's like just a total gangster of tattooing and runs just a real tight ship.
I apprenticed there for a while, accidentally kicked my manager in the face and got fired.
How'd you do that?
There's a bar next door that we always would go to after work, and I was over there just drunk as fuck, and there was some dude in there that was trying to fight me or something.
He's like, I'm gonna kick your ass.
And so I was like, alright, go outside.
I'm gonna finish my beer.
I'll be out there in a minute.
And I was training lots of Muay Thai at the time, so I was ready to do whatever.
And so I walk out the door, and my friend's holding the door open, and I'm like, where's this dude that's trying to kick my ass?
And he's like, right here, motherfucker.
He takes a swing at me.
And I barely ducked it, went down the sidewalk.
I was like, all right, let's go.
And I thought, as soon as he gets within range, I'm just going to hit him with that high kick.
And so he gets within range.
I throw up the high kick, and I spin around.
joe rogan
And you miss, and you hit your boss.
greg overton
Because he was going, breaking up!
I didn't even see him.
He was running out of the shop because he saw us going by the sidewalk, the windows right there.
He's like, oh Greg, come on.
And he goes like this, seriously, just hands out.
joe rogan
So you went full rotation on the high kick.
Good job.
It wasn't good for him.
unidentified
It would have been good.
joe rogan
Yeah, I did.
greg overton
Like I said, I got to train some good Muay Thai in Utah.
There was a couple good schools there.
When I was young.
joe rogan
We're a tall dude, too.
You have good long kicks.
greg overton
So that was my thing.
If I can hit you with a kick, say goodnight.
joe rogan
So he fired you for that?
greg overton
Well, I knocked his teeth out and stuff.
joe rogan
Yeah, but you didn't do it on purpose.
greg overton
They wouldn't believe me.
joe rogan
Oh, come on.
They thought you were trying to hit him instead of hitting the other guy?
greg overton
Yeah.
They probably still do.
I didn't fucking do it, Mike.
joe rogan
Well, how hammered were you, though?
greg overton
Shit hammered.
So fucking hammered I couldn't even see.
That's why I was like, I'm just gonna throw out the long kick and take him out, you know?
But then I thought, because the dude's still standing there like Juggernaut, and I thought I hit him with my best kick.
So I'm like, this dude has to go.
joe rogan
Oh, no.
greg overton
And so then I'm like, all right, judo for you.
I fucking hip-tossed him onto the concrete.
And I started to, you know that when you have like a scarf hold and you do the chicken wing with your leg though.
So I was pushing out the hip, getting ready to break his shoulder and his fucking girlfriend kicked me in the face because she was watching the fight.
joe rogan
That's the problem with the ground game in the street, bro.
greg overton
Always, dude.
And so he scurries away and I ran over and grabbed him.
I was like, no you don't.
Put him on a car.
Dropping elbows on him.
And then she wasn't done yet.
This dude's girlfriend was badass.
She fish hooked me.
Fucking ripped up my cheek.
And somehow I got her fucking finger out of my mouth.
And then I was like, I'm just going to kill this motherfucker now.
He's going to be no good to you at all.
unidentified
And then just, you know, hit him with a bunch of knees and two dogs.
joe rogan
Goddamn bar fights are stupid.
greg overton
That was a long, long time ago.
joe rogan
Well, it all worked out.
greg overton
Yeah.
joe rogan
Isn't it funny how those doors close?
Doors close in your life, new door opens.
greg overton
Well, I called up the next day, and I was like, dude, I'm going to be a little late.
And Rich is like, no, you're going to be a little fired, motherfucker.
You kicked Mike in the face.
unidentified
Oh, no, I did not.
I did not, I swear.
joe rogan
Oh, no.
greg overton
But everybody's laughing about it now.
I'm sure those guys will get a kick out of seeing this.
unidentified
And I'll be like, oh, my God.
joe rogan
Street fights are so stupid.
Please, folks, if you're listening, don't do it.
Don't do it.
greg overton
We all could have died.
We all could have died.
unidentified
You definitely could have died.
joe rogan
Even the person who kills you, they wish they didn't do it.
Don't do it.
greg overton
I know people that have accidentally killed people in street fights and stuff.
joe rogan
There's a guy who is a pedophile who just got caught the other day.
There's a bunch of these videos where these guys...
They, like, bait pedophiles.
Like, they bait them on social media.
greg overton
Like the old show.
To Catch a Predator.
joe rogan
Oh, right.
To Catch a Predator.
Yeah, there's a bunch of guys doing that on YouTube, right?
And this one guy got caught.
I only watched the clip of the guy getting punched.
And some guy walks up to him.
I think the dude is wearing a mask.
And he said something like, I got kids, motherfucker.
And he soccer punched this dude in the head.
And the dude, he's an old guy, too.
And he falls.
And you hear that.
Bang!
Of his head bouncing off the sidewalk.
I'm like, oh my god, that guy's fucked.
And I'm pretty sure he's dead.
I'm pretty sure he died, which happens.
I don't know if he died.
jamie vernon
I tried to follow up, too.
I don't know if he died.
joe rogan
Yeah, you heard about it, too, right?
Yeah, so this is it.
jamie vernon
I'm not going to show it on Twitter.
joe rogan
So, show it real quick.
jamie vernon
I don't know if we can.
joe rogan
Oh, is it illegal?
jamie vernon
It's not our content.
joe rogan
Oh, okay.
Well, don't show it on the screen then.
Right there.
Bam.
unidentified
He's dead.
joe rogan
See?
That dude bounces his head off and the other guy runs off.
But the sound of that guy's head hitting the concrete is just horrible.
And that's how people die.
greg overton
People don't realize how strong they are if they fucking hit someone.
You're a full-grown man, you know?
joe rogan
Did you Google it, whether or not he's dead?
jamie vernon
This is the follow-up right here.
joe rogan
That's a video, though.
Did you Google it?
I read a story that said he died in the hospital.
jamie vernon
I'll check, I guess.
joe rogan
How long ago was this?
jamie vernon
Five days ago.
joe rogan
Yeah, I think I read a story much more recently that he died in the hospital.
I don't know if that's true, though.
Because, you know, everything is just for clicks now.
Like, Bill Maher just pointed this up, that there was an article that said there's a 300% rise in measles in the United States.
Do you know how many cases that is?
unidentified
35. 300 from nothing?
joe rogan
Yeah, well, that is 300%.
greg overton
I was like, I don't know anybody with measles.
I don't think I've ever met anyone with measles.
joe rogan
It's very rare these days, you know?
But the fact that they wrote that in an article, a 300% rise in measles, and everybody goes into a hot panic, and then you find out 75 people.
unidentified
See, that's why, like, back in the day...
greg overton
Maybe in the fucking 50s or something.
Wouldn't they have jumped on that shit if it was in the newspaper and we found out about it?
You lying motherfucker.
There's just so many people bullshitting these days and we let them get away with it.
joe rogan
And they've been bullshitting since the beginning.
That's how weed is still illegal.
Weed is still illegal because of William Randolph Hearst, who ran Hearst Publications.
And William Randolph Hearst is the guy who started printing those stories in the paper about marijuana.
Yeah.
Marijuana was a name for wild Mexican tobacco.
It was a slang for wild Mexican tobacco.
Cannabis was, like, well, well-known.
And so they started saying it was a new drug called marijuana, and it was causing Mexicans and black guys to rape white women.
greg overton
Because they would use it after work because they weren't drinking.
joe rogan
No, it wasn't real.
They were calling it that because they were trying to get cannabis.
greg overton
No, but I'm saying they would actually get high, but they weren't doing anything.
joe rogan
They were trying to get marijuana to be illegal because they wanted hemp out of business for paper.
That's what it was.
greg overton
For nylon, right?
joe rogan
Yes, nylon.
DuPont had come up with the patent for nylon.
And then there was also paper mills like William Randolph Hearst owned forests that they would cut down to make trees.
See, he owned paper mills as well.
And hemp paper was a superior paper.
And so when they came out with the decorticator, which is a machine that was much better at processing hemp fiber, and they had it in Popular Mechanics magazine, so they started this campaign against hemp by creating this boogeyman of a drug called marijuana that made people crazy.
greg overton
Just so they could make money?
joe rogan
Yeah.
So that's the newspapers in the 30s, man.
unidentified
Wow.
joe rogan
So they've been doing this shit forever.
They've been doing the same fucking thing forever.
greg overton
I wonder if there was ever a time...
When the media and the information was working for us?
You know what I mean?
joe rogan
I think there's been people that have been working for us.
But there's always been stories that were heavily influenced by the intelligence community and by...
Special interest groups, and that's always been the case, man.
Journalists have always been on the take, a certain percentage of them.
There's a certain percentage of journalists that are just bullshit artists.
They're not real.
greg overton
Because all they are is people.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's it.
And they're people doing a job.
Like, that's their job.
They work at this place that says, hey, I want you to concoct this fucking story.
And they have to do it.
greg overton
It's the same thing as, like, dude, I think the whole fucking problem with...
The government is lobbyists.
When I was a little kid and I was super patriotic, like as a little kid, and I love the Constitution, I think it's just so cool.
The checks and balances and the way the thing is supposed to work is amazing and awesome.
But then I heard about the lobbyists.
And I remember as probably a 10 or 12-year-old kid going, what?
And the teacher would say, yeah, yeah, it's their job to go and try to influence our senators.
And I'm like, that don't seem right.
And what do they do?
They take them to lunch and they buy them shit?
To fucking convince them to make...
Okay.
Get those motherfuckers out of there, and then we're good.
Because then all they got to do is answer to me, and I'm the one paying them.
They're trying to get extra fucking money.
That's the same thing as if I was like...
You know, working for a gallery and then selling art on the side or some shit.
unidentified
You can't do that?
greg overton
I mean, you could.
And you know what happens?
unidentified
What?
greg overton
Like, customers will come up to you and say, I saw your shit at a gallery and I want to buy it directly from you.
And so then it's on you.
joe rogan
Do you have a deal, like, with a gallery where, like, if you have your stuff up in the gallery, do they have to sell your stuff only through that gallery?
Does it vary?
greg overton
Well, yeah, because sometimes you sign an exclusive and then some galleries will front you a bunch of money.
So every deal is different.
But right now I don't sign exclusive deals.
I just say, you show my stuff.
I still sell a ton on my own on my own.
joe rogan
But you do that now because you're established?
greg overton
Yeah.
But if they see it...
In the gallery, and they come to me and they say, we saw it in the gallery, we've only seen it there, then I'll try to get the sale to go through the gallery to actually still cut them in.
joe rogan
Yeah.
greg overton
Because that's not really right.
joe rogan
Right, that's right.
That's the right way to do it, because they saw it in the gallery.
That's the whole benefit of the working relationship of you being in a gallery.
I mean, that's how I found you.
greg overton
Gallery's always a surprise when you do it, but when you bought the painting, you didn't buy it from me, you had to go through the gallery, right?
joe rogan
I had to, yeah.
greg overton
But I could have said, bro...
Fuck the gallery, just buy from me.
joe rogan
Yeah, but that wouldn't be cool.
greg overton
Right, exactly.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
In that sense, I understand what you're saying.
greg overton
Yeah.
joe rogan
But is there a situation with some artists where they have their pieces up in a gallery and they're not even allowed to be commissioned to make a piece outside of the gallery?
greg overton
I think if they have an exclusive contract and they've fronted you money, and if you come to them and say, hey, I haven't sold anything, can you front me some more money?
And they're going to take care of you.
joe rogan
Okay, so it's the fronting the money is the issue.
greg overton
That hardly ever happens.
joe rogan
Okay.
So for the most part, like say if I went into a gallery and I saw some piece and it was really dope and they connected me to the artist and I get her email and I contact her and I said, hey, I really love this.
I'm thinking of something along this theme.
Can I contract you to do something like that?
Can I commission you to do something like that?
And they say yes.
Would she still have to go through the gallery, you think?
greg overton
What do you think the right thing to do is, though, for the artist?
joe rogan
I think the right thing, if you find out about them through the galleries, probably go through the gallery.
That makes sense.
greg overton
And then the gallery knows you're loyal.
joe rogan
Also, galleries are dope.
We want to keep them open.
I fucking love going to galleries.
I love seeing all the different...
I just love different people's expressions.
Whether it's through music, or through painting, or illustration, or sculpture, whatever it is.
I'm just interested in the things people create.
And so if there's a place we can go and it's all just shit that people created, like, I'm all in.
greg overton
Yeah.
joe rogan
You know, I love galleries.
greg overton
We need more of that.
joe rogan
Yes.
We need more of that, and we need more encouraging people to create things.
You know, it's a very valuable commodity that's seen as frivolous until it's not.
It's seen as no big deal until it's worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.
It's a very strange world.
greg overton
It is, but, like, I mean, when you think about it, dude, it's like...
What we were talking about earlier, how the system is so much bullshit and it's so dry and fucking empty and there's just nothing to it, but they have to slot you in and make you fucking toe the line and your life's so fucking boring and shit.
But if you get into art, whatever art it is, whether it's your music, at least you have a solace of some kind that you can come home to.
So what I aspired to do was to provide powerful stuff that people that, like, they're out there doing crazy shit all day, like you, doing stuff that's affecting the world.
Like, they got a bunch of stuff on their mind all the time.
But just for one minute, they look at that painting and they're like...
Now I remember why I'm doing all this.
It's for the spirit.
It's for the essence of life.
It's to try to make life better for all of us.
That's what art is really supposed to do is try to communicate to you that you do matter.
We all matter.
We all matter together and we're not actually separate because if you can relate to this...
And I can relate to this.
Maybe we can forget about all the bullshit that they're trying to make us fight about and just fucking check out a show.
joe rogan
Yeah, absolutely.
We matter to each other.
That's what's really important.
Even if you think you don't matter in the great scheme of things, like when people get real morose and they start thinking about life as being futile and there's no reason, why go on?
Generally, that's people that are disconnected from other people.
They don't have anybody like real close that they can hang out with that they love.
And people need that in life.
You need a tribe.
We're tribal people.
You need a tribe like your family should be your tribe, your friends should be your tribe.
You know, you need groups of people.
And that's a wonderful life.
That's a joy-filled life.
If you can have a life filled with people that you enjoy hanging out with.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
If you can do it right.
greg overton
Yeah.
And those people that think that they don't matter, that they are alone, you know, don't underestimate the potential you have to actually affect people's lives.
joe rogan
Sure, you can turn it around too.
How you feel right now is horrible and as dark as it seems.
That's not how you're gonna feel always.
You just have to trust in this process.
And you gotta do something.
It was a funny little Instagram clip that I put on my stories the other day.
This lady was talking about how she feels down.
And then someone asked her, did you get enough sleep?
Nope.
Have you been exercising?
Nope.
Have you been eating well?
Nope.
Have you gone outside?
Nope.
Have you stayed off your phone?
Nope.
Okay.
greg overton
Why should you feel good?
joe rogan
Exactly!
greg overton
That's like saying, I'm broke.
Did you go to work?
Did you fucking save your money?
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
Do you have people in your life that you love?
Do you have a thing that you do that you love?
If you don't have those things, you're going to have a rough time of it.
You know, that's what we're here for.
We're here for doing things that we love or that are satisfying and being with people that we love.
And if you don't have those things, you're in a tough spot.
You know, the cold hard truth is for a lot of people, you have to be someone worthy of other people's appreciation, too.
Like, what have you done?
Who are you?
What's your character like?
What do you like when you talk to people?
Are you nice?
Are you fun?
Are you good to be around?
Do you complain a lot?
You know?
And you want the world to be better, but you complain all the time?
You're just a fucking Debbie Downer?
Is that what you are?
Because guess what?
Nobody wants to be around you, and you're gonna be depressed now.
You're making people feel like shit.
You gotta get out of that whatever mindset spiral you're in and come up with a better way to interface with humanity.
greg overton
Yeah.
Because it's all about perspective, dude.
I was walking around Austin earlier today.
I've never been here before.
I was just taking a walk.
joe rogan
This is your first trip?
greg overton
Yeah.
I go to art towns for shows.
It's all about business when I travel.
I'm just doing shows and going home and making more paintings.
But just walking around a little bit down here, I was just like, God, this really...
I can look around and just see how fucking cool this place is and how all these people built all this stuff and they're building it and everybody's doing something here and I'm part of it.
And I get to just sit here and chill and like take it all in and go, wow, fuck, I'm in this new city.
They're building, they've got cranes.
On the tops of all the buildings, the restaurants look all vital.
I'd love to see that.
unidentified
And I'm like, dude, all these people have good perspective.
greg overton
Not all of them.
joe rogan
It's a good vibe, right?
I don't know.
An overall good vibe of the city, right?
greg overton
Yeah.
I didn't know what to expect, but I was like impressed.
I was like, this place seems pretty cool.
And I realized that's my perspective.
I'm looking for the good, right?
But somebody else might be in the same exact spot.
And they would only notice the weird homeless dude over there.
They hope that he doesn't come over here and ask for some money or they're stressing out about their bills or whatever it is.
And I'm just sitting here thinking, oh man, fuck.
Perspective, look at how fucking cool life is.
Because it really is, dude.
I think we've all gotten so fucked up by these little cell phones that have kind of captured us that we kind of forget.
Just go outside.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Go outside and experience some things.
It's just hard to do when you're stuck.
If you're at home and you're just staring at your phone, it's hard to put it down and start moving.
It's hard, but you really have to.
It's a trap.
It's trying to get us to get sucked into the machine, kids, and it's coming.
And if you think it's difficult to resist now, just wait.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Just wait.
greg overton
But just don't let your tolerance get all low.
Like, don't just keep fucking with it.
Like, right now, go camping.
joe rogan
Yeah.
greg overton
Right now, go learn to ride a horse.
joe rogan
I don't know about that.
greg overton
You know...
joe rogan
You get hurt riding horses.
greg overton
I got some crazy horse stories.
joe rogan
I know a lot of people that have some crazy horse stories.
greg overton
I went down to the...
joe rogan
I don't think they like to be ridden.
greg overton
No, check this out, dude.
I'll tell you something funny.
I went down on a photo shoot to the Navajo reservation years ago, like probably about five or six, maybe seven years ago.
And the Apaches and the Navajos were kind of doing a peace ceremony.
And I was down there with like this native photographer and just a couple friends who were all hanging out like Navajos and...
And we ran into this Navajo family.
There's this dude that just got back from the military and his little brother and his little sister and we're all just hanging out.
Because I just take pictures to get ideas for paintings and meet people and just go do stuff and go to reservations.
That's what gives me the ideas.
And so everybody's riding horses, and I haven't ridden a horse since I was a little kid in Montana, but I learned how.
I rode horses every day as a little kid, like 10 years old or something.
We'd ride them to town.
And so all these Indians are out there riding their horses, and I want to fit in.
I was like, oh, I want to jump up on one of these horses.
And I jump up on one of the trail horses that's been out on the trail ride all day.
And I have these long-ass legs.
Everyone else is...
Like, shorter than me, so the stirrups aren't long enough for me.
So I jump up on there, and I'm all kind of off balance, and the horse gets weirded out and just fucking takes off at a full run across the desert.
Ran for like a mile, dude, and I'm shitting.
Like, it's bucking me, and it's like I thought about jumping off and everything.
joe rogan
Oh my god.
greg overton
And luckily, I had been training jiu-jitsu at the time, so I had the strong jiu-jitsu grip that you get.
joe rogan
Right, right.
greg overton
And I grabbed the saddle horn.
And just hold on to it.
I'm like, I'm not jumping!
I'm gonna wear this motherfucker out!
And he ran for about a mile.
joe rogan
So you didn't have a hold of the reins?
greg overton
I lost the reins.
joe rogan
Oh my god.
greg overton
He was running, dude.
I wasn't ready for it.
He just took off.
But I didn't fall off.
I didn't jump off.
unidentified
Holy shit, dude.
greg overton
And he finally got tired, and I turned him around and walked him back to where we were all hanging out.
joe rogan
Oh my god.
greg overton
And everyone was like, we thought we were going to be peeling you off the prairie.
And my horse, like, puts his head down and taps the ground.
I said, I made this fucker tap.
I jumped off.
joe rogan
Isn't it interesting that you can break horses?
They get wild horses and they can break them.
They break them and get them to the point where they can ride them.
It's a strange animal.
greg overton
Yeah, I mean, dude, horses are amazing.
And then I got to go down to a ranch in New Mexico and learned to ride a bunch a few years ago.
unidentified
And I got good enough where I was running and controlling the horse.
joe rogan
It's kind of like a version, a real version of Avatar.
When they have to hop on those dragons and they have to merge with them.
greg overton
They are exactly fucking like that.
joe rogan
It is like that, right?
greg overton
Exactly.
joe rogan
Because it's this thing that's way more powerful than you, but for some weird reason, you guys sync up together.
greg overton
And if it likes you, it will stomp out rattlesnakes for you, and if it doesn't like you, it'll go over to the rocks and...
joe rogan
Yeah, chuck you off.
greg overton
Fuck off, bitch.
joe rogan
Yeah, you have to have a good relationship with that animal.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
And it has to be a real relationship.
You can't be out of fear.
That animal has to love you.
greg overton
Yeah.
And you have to love it.
It's like dogs.
joe rogan
Yep.
Exactly.
Exactly.
greg overton
They called them sacred dogs.
The Lakota did.
joe rogan
Yeah, a dog you ride.
Yeah.
Yeah, dogs and humans have very strange relationships.
Very strange.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
You know, there's some sort of a sinking of the minds that's...
It's not as simple as the dog recognizes that it gets food from you.
No, no, no.
There's like this weird love, you know?
greg overton
Well, did you ever see that show that was about how...
Humans and canines, like, evolved together.
joe rogan
Yeah, I have seen it, yeah.
greg overton
Dude.
I mean, I have two dogs, like, they're part Husky, part Akita.
joe rogan
Pull up to that mic.
greg overton
They're like the primal breed, so they kind of, they look like wolves, they kind of act like that.
joe rogan
Yeah.
greg overton
Like, dude, those dogs are my best friends.
We go around the neighborhood, they pull me on my skateboard, and I know that they know that I'm their friend.
Right.
I know if I'm having a bad day or if I'm just stressed out or something, and I do this or something, they'll come right up to you and be like, what's wrong, bro?
joe rogan
I was in the gym today stretching out, and I was doing this crazy back stretch, and it's kind of painful.
So I'm like...
And next thing you know, Marshall's face is like right there, kissing me.
I'm like, it's all good, dude.
I'm just stretching.
greg overton
And then he's like, did that stretch hurt you?
joe rogan
Just wanted to make sure I'm okay.
It was just funny.
It's funny.
They just sync up to you.
There's something about whatever that relationship is.
It's so unique to dogs.
It's so different than any other animal.
greg overton
Yeah.
joe rogan
You know?
They're concerned about you.
Like, other animals I don't think are concerned about you.
Like, your cat's not that concerned about you.
unidentified
I don't know.
greg overton
Eat your fucking face off if you die and shit.
unidentified
Instantly.
joe rogan
If you, like, you break your leg, your cat's gonna go, oh, this guy's fucking loud.
Let me go over there.
greg overton
That fucking snap really...
joe rogan
Yeah.
The other day we were working out in the gym.
With all the comedians, and Marshall was with us, and I start kicking the bag, and he starts barking.
He starts jumping up and down and barking, because he thinks some shit's going down.
Is that bag fucking with you?
Like, what's happening here?
unidentified
I know, I know.
joe rogan
I was like, that's hilarious.
Like, all the other stuff that we did, we did all those kettlebell workouts, we pushed the sled, that was all fine.
But once I started hitting the bag, he's like...
What the fuck is going on?
greg overton
They can tell the difference, dude.
They can tell the difference between, like, actual...
joe rogan
Violence.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah.
They understand what violence is.
It's weird.
greg overton
It is, dude.
joe rogan
It's like, how does he...
Why is that different to him than me lifting a thing?
Or me grunting or pushing a sled?
Like, I don't understand.
greg overton
But that's totally why we kept him around, because they were like, as soon as shit starts to go down, you jump in.
I'm going to get my knife.
joe rogan
Yeah.
greg overton
You hit them low, I'll hit them high.
joe rogan
They know that they're with you.
greg overton
You get to eat this motherfucker.
joe rogan
That happens with people, you know, if they get in some sort of a school, like brothers and sisters, get in fights together.
The dog fucking tries to jump in.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
It happens all the time.
greg overton
Yeah.
joe rogan
You know, if two girls are beating the shit out of each other and a dog jumps in.
greg overton
Just at a party, dude.
How many times have you seen that?
unidentified
Somebody's just pushing and shoving the pitbulls, got your arm, fuck!
joe rogan
Yeah, oh no.
And then you got nerve damage now.
You got bit by a fucking alligator.
Yeah, dude.
greg overton
Those fucking things.
joe rogan
Yeah, they don't understand that either.
Especially dudes.
They get a little too loud when they're playing.
Well, the dog's like, oh, some shit's going down.
greg overton
The dog's like, you think so?
joe rogan
Yeah.
unidentified
Motherfucker.
joe rogan
Motherfucker.
greg overton
This isn't your house.
joe rogan
Yeah.
greg overton
This is my house.
joe rogan
Yeah.
greg overton
And I'm not drunk.
joe rogan
They don't get the rules.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
They don't get the rules of engagement.
That thing in the avatar is so wild when they sync up and they link their tails to their hair thing.
greg overton
Yeah, his, like, pony tail to the...
unidentified
Yeah.
Yeah.
joe rogan
It really is kind of what happens with a horse.
greg overton
Well, everything is kind of, you know, based on something.
You know what I mean?
Like fiction stuff.
You get that idea from somewhere.
joe rogan
Well, haven't people said that Avatar is like Pocahontas in space?
greg overton
I thought they said it's like Dances with Wolves from space and that pissed me off.
Well, because my mentor, a friend of mine, wrote Dances with Wolves.
jamie vernon
Oh, really?
greg overton
He's like one of my best influences that guided me in my career, Michael Blake.
He's a bro, dude.
It wasn't about...
They say...
Oh, the white savior story.
He's coming to save the Indians.
That's some bullshit.
I'm like, did you watch the fucking movie?
Who saved who?
The white guy didn't save the Indians.
They saved him.
He learned from the Indians how to be a good person.
There's nothing wrong with that fucking story.
joe rogan
I barely remember that movie.
I remember it was really good, but I barely remember it.
Well, he told- Pull that microphone up to your face.
greg overton
Oh, sorry, sorry, sorry.
It moves around.
Yeah, he told me that he came up with that idea.
He heard a story where a supply train, a wagon train pulled up to an abandoned army camp.
He heard that story and he thought, what would I do if I was that guy?
Would I just go back?
To the base, to the army base, or would I stay there and try to figure out what happened?
And he said he just came up with the whole thing based on putting himself there in his imagination.
joe rogan
Right.
greg overton
Right?
And he's just such a cool motherfucker, dude.
I remember I was saying, you know, this is years ago.
I said, I want to be the next Howard Turpin, which is like the big Western artist.
He's like, no, dude, don't be the next anything.
Be the first Greg Overton.
Just be you.
joe rogan
Yeah.
greg overton
You know, and hearing that, like the that movie was a big influence on me.
Because when I saw that and got a Howard Turpin book, that's what really got me back into Western art.
Because as a teenager, I was doing all the punk art.
Like I did album covers for a lot of the bands from Salt Lake and was trying to draw comic books and shit like that.
But as soon as I saw that movie and got the Howard Turpin book, that's what really brought me back to the Native American stuff.
And I was like, this is what I'm going to do.
joe rogan
I think what's so interesting about the Native Americans, one of the things that's interesting, I should say, about the Native American stuff is that we didn't really understand what was even happening.
Until the 20th century and now the 21st century.
We didn't really have an understanding of how their cultures worked and how they interacted with each other.
The way it was depicted in mainstream media was always cowboy and Indian movies.
It was like this very crude, kind of simplistic version of what they did.
We didn't really understand much about Native American culture until people started writing these, like Empire of the Summer Moon, some of these amazing books.
Well, you get a real understanding of, like, Black Elk Speaks, like those kind of things.
You actually hear from the people that lived that life.
Like, what was that like?
Because our version of it was all just stupid movies.
John Wayne movies and shit.
And then Clint Eastwood took it to another level.
Like, especially the outlaw Josie Wales.
greg overton
Fuck, yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah, when he meets with that Comanche guy.
greg overton
Ten Bears.
joe rogan
Yeah, and him and Ten Bears have this conversation about what's going to go down.
Your words have iron.
greg overton
These are my words of life.
Your words of death.
joe rogan
Also my words of death.
Yeah, it's a heavy scene.
greg overton
Will Sampson.
That was one of the best movies ever, dude.
joe rogan
That's a great fucking movie.
That's a great fucking movie.
That's a fun movie.
greg overton
But that's like the real Comanche...
Texas Ranger, because he was a Texas Ranger type dude.
You know what I mean?
Those are both just awesome icons of the West.
We should respect both of those.
Because neither one of them were like a hero or a villain purely.
I mean, the Comanche, they were a fucking empire.
They were out for conquest.
They were colonizing the fuck out of the...
They took all the horses and they were like, fuck you, we're taking it.
joe rogan
Yeah, they committed raids on other Native American tribes all the time.
I mean, they were ruthless.
I mean, we've talked about this before with just the name Sue.
That wasn't their name.
That was the name for enemy.
Their name was the Lakota people.
That's what they called themselves, but everybody else called them the enemy.
They were fucking everybody up.
There was no unity amongst Native American tribes.
I mean, it was really no different than the interactions that we have with other countries.
Like, sometimes you're connected to them and you're allies.
And sometimes you're at war.
And sometimes it's the same groups of people that you used to be allies, and now you're at war, or you used to be at war, and now you're allies.
Like the United States and Japan.
Perfect example.
I mean, that's probably one of the best examples in modern times.
greg overton
Yeah.
joe rogan
We literally dropped indiscriminate nuclear bombs on two of their cities.
And now we buy their cars.
unidentified
I know.
greg overton
Imagine if you did one of your friends.
Sorry I nuked your fucking house, bro.
joe rogan
It was almost 80 years ago, dude.
Let it go.
greg overton
I just nuked your fucking house.
Come on.
joe rogan
Let it go.
unidentified
You wouldn't stop fighting, bro.
joe rogan
Apparently they're like, dude, you didn't get our memo.
We were going to stop fighting.
You guys just wanted to try out your fucking bomb.
greg overton
Yeah, you just wanted to flex.
joe rogan
No, no, no.
greg overton
We wouldn't do that.
You just wanted to flex your fucking nuke power and you still wanted to go to vacation in fucking Europe, bitch.
joe rogan
Imagine seeing the first nuke go off and realize that nothing's ever going to be the same again.
When they drop that first nuke in a city, just like, oh my god, what have you done?
What have you done?
And what precedent have you set?
It's kind of really, truly amazing that we haven't done it since then.
greg overton
Yeah.
That's what makes you believe in the aliens and multi-dimensional beings and shit.
joe rogan
Really?
Isn't it just mutually assured destruction as well?
unidentified
No, no.
greg overton
I'm saying like...
When humanity got all the nuclear bombs and shit, that's when you start to see all the sightings and stuff.
So that's why it kind of makes sense that they'd be like, oh, what are you doing?
We can't let you blow up your whole fucking planet before you even evolve to your first level.
Because for all we know, we're still white belts.
joe rogan
Right.
Well, leafcutter ants have no idea that you have a car.
They have no idea.
They have no idea what a Bitcoin is.
They have no idea, you know, what 4G is.
They don't know shit.
greg overton
They don't know about cutting leaves and being ants.
joe rogan
But they're around it all the time.
It's very possible that there's some shit like that in other dimensions that are equally bizarre.
That we are not connected to all the time.
And they might be here all the time.
And if that's the case, then it makes sense that they would start showing up when we were in the middle of dropping nukes on each other.
They'd be like, hey, hey, hey, hey.
greg overton
It'd be like when your parents heard you just beating the shit out of each other in the other room.
They'd come in and be like, all right, fucking settle down.
joe rogan
Settle down, boys.
greg overton
You're going to fuck up the drywall now.
joe rogan
Yeah, you guys are crashing into fucking TVs and shit.
They're like, hey!
greg overton
That's all it is.
We're just their dumb kids in the next room making a bunch of noise.
joe rogan
Because maybe they needed to let us know, like, hey, there's some other folks here.
And they're way more advanced and settle the fuck down.
greg overton
And we're trying to bring you along, just, you know.
joe rogan
The problem is, with all that stuff, is it's so hard to know what's true and what's bullshit.
Just like the Bigfoot thing.
It's so hard to know.
Well, the Bigfoot thing's way easier, right?
But the UFO thing, there's way more evidence.
It's so hard to know what's bullshit.
It's so hard.
It's so hard to know who's telling the truth and who's lying.
It's so hard to know what involvement the government has in terms of, like, how many of these things are drones.
You know, you're hearing now that a lot of these people that believe that these things are flying around, they think that what we're dealing with is some sort of a government drone.
And that a lot of this off-world craft talk is really just misinformation so that they don't have to take accountability for having some crazy thing that China doesn't have or maybe China has that we don't have and they want to lie about it, you know, and try to develop whatever the fuck they have.
greg overton
Yeah.
And when you find out what they're really doing, then it's like, okay, now this makes sense.
Now that makes sense.
Because you're having to fucking do all this to develop that.
joe rogan
Well, you know, there's a whole conspiracy about the invention of the transistor.
Because the transistor came about right after Roswell.
And there's a company called Bell Labs.
And Bell Labs was...
I believe they were the people that invented the transistor.
And there was a military base right outside of Bell Labs.
And they had always said that that military base was to protect New York City.
But it was pretty far from New York City.
Like, if you wanted to protect New York City, you put a base a lot closer.
You wouldn't...
You wouldn't put it so far away where it would take them like 40 minutes to fly there.
Yeah.
But Bell Labs is a wild place.
And that was one of the main focal points of conspiracy theorists when they were talking about back engineering stuff from crashed UFOs.
It was fiber optics and transistors.
And that they all came about very shortly after Roswell.
And people don't exactly know how they figured those out.
greg overton
Those were probably the most basic things that they recovered.
So they were the easiest to figure out.
So that's why we had them first.
It's just like those fucking PlayStations.
They release a better one every few years.
Maybe they had PlayStation 5 in 95, but they're still giving us PlayStation 1. Because they want to sell all five.
joe rogan
Well, they can't just give us a time machine.
They have to give us a spaceship first.
Like, first of all, you've got to figure out travel, you morons.
greg overton
And we won't even need a fucking spaceship once we've got a time machine.
joe rogan
Yeah, then we'll give you the Big Bang machine.
That takes time.
You've got to get to a higher level civilization.
Have you heard of a Dyson Sphere?
Do you know what a Dyson Sphere is?
greg overton
I've heard of it.
What is it?
I don't know.
joe rogan
Well, it's a massive structure that some astronomers believe could indicate highly advanced intelligent life somewhere in the universe.
They've never been discovered, but they've been theorized.
There was this article that I was reading yesterday about it.
See if you can find it.
greg overton
So it can tell you where it would be?
joe rogan
They think they're massive structures that are literally like a structure the size of a solar system.
greg overton
And somebody made that and those fucking things are out there?
joe rogan
Well, this is just theorized, right, when they were talking about the highest potential level of technological ability.
greg overton
That you could get to?
joe rogan
Yeah.
I mean, imagine if you got to a place where you had a self-contained solar system that's completely gone.
Controlled by these intelligent beings, but that's immune to all of the hazards of space.
greg overton
What if we're in that motherfucker?
joe rogan
We might be.
greg overton
That's the simulation.
joe rogan
We might be.
We might be.
And Thanos is like a type two civilization, one that can directly harness, harvest rather, the energy of its star using a Dyson sphere or something similar.
greg overton
So it like is solar powered basically?
joe rogan
Well, I don't know what the fuck it is.
I mean, I think it's totally theoretical.
There's no real versions of them that are out there.
But the idea is that if technological proficiency and innovation continues at the level that it is now for millions of years, what does it get to?
unidentified
Yeah.
greg overton
But you know what?
It's probably going to get weirder than that.
Because it's shit you can imagine.
Like, remember the 80s when you fucking had a Walkman?
joe rogan
Right.
greg overton
Whoa, what are they going to have in a few years?
joe rogan
Right.
greg overton
I'll be able to, you know, you probably thought it was still going to be a cassette tape.
Like, when you watch The Fifth Element or Blade Runner, they're still using fucking telephones.
They didn't even think of cell phones.
unidentified
Right.
greg overton
But that's our most obvious thing that we have right now.
joe rogan
Star Trek, they had a walkie-talkie.
greg overton
Yeah.
joe rogan
Kirk out.
greg overton
Right.
Because you're still like relating it from like 1960 military shit.
joe rogan
That's the Pong of space.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Right?
greg overton
Exactly, dude.
joe rogan
That's not the Unreal 5 engine.
unidentified
That's Pong.
greg overton
So it's going to fucking God of War?
joe rogan
Mm-hmm.
unidentified
Holy shit, dude.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's going to keep going.
That's what I think artificial intelligence is.
I think...
And this is a...
I don't really think this.
This is just a thought.
Maybe the universe is God and maybe the way God is created is through intelligent life.
That intelligent life creates a far superior version of itself in artificial intelligence and that creates a far better version of itself infinitely.
They just keep making better versions of itself as it has more of an understanding and more capacity and it grows and it makes better versions of itself.
It's eventually going to get to God-like powers, the power to create universes, the power to create solar systems, the power to stop time, reverse time, the power to traverse immense distances instantaneously.
It'll just have capabilities that we could only imagine.
We could just imagine if, and it can do that.
If we look at how we're living right now in comparison To how people were living when they were making those cave paintings.
Like, wow.
Insane.
greg overton
Cave paintings to fucking...
joe rogan
It's not going to stop right here.
greg overton
Yeah, but what's the things they can do?
The 3D printing?
3D printing?
That's fucking crazy, dude.
joe rogan
No, it's insane.
greg overton
I mean...
joe rogan
Well, you know, that's what they think the spaceships are made out of now.
greg overton
Yeah.
joe rogan
Like, when Bob Lazar was first examining, if he's telling the truth, when Bob Lazar was first examining the spaceships, the thing that blew him away was there was no seams.
It didn't make any sense.
Like, how could one even make something like this?
Well, now that we know, there's 3D printers, and you could make something like that.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
You could, I mean, I don't think you could make it that scale yet, but if you had enough of a capability, you had machines that could do it.
greg overton
Well, yeah, I mean, if we thought of it...
And we're doing it, and they're fucking 60 million light years ahead of us?
joe rogan
Right.
Like, who's to say they're not?
Who's to say they're not 60,000 years ahead of us, or 600,000, or 6 million?
greg overton
Or, like, think about it.
If you have a fucking time machine, you could go back to check out some shit that already happened, but you could also go forward.
I mean, we just have no comprehension of what you could...
Maybe you could, like...
Start a project in your lab, right?
And then travel.
And you get all these fucking AI robots to work on it.
And then you travel way forward in time and go get it.
And then bring it back.
And then it's the fucking ultimate thing.
You know?
That's what I'd be doing if I had time machines.
I'd be like, alright, I'm going to get all these fucking helpers to build these awesome monuments and then I'm going to go in for it in time and check on it.
You know what I mean?
If you could manipulate time and travel through time like it's an element, have you ever checked out?
joe rogan
You wouldn't be able to experience it.
Because, like, you would always be involved in time being manipulated.
So there'd be no static time.
So even in this static time, something could intervene instantaneously, always, forever.
greg overton
But what if we don't really understand the nature of time to make those definitions?
What if you could get this time machine?
What if you could kind of, like...
Step out of time in a lot of different ways that you don't think, you know what I'm saying?
joe rogan
Right, right, right.
Like you could go into a timeline and you don't even necessarily affect that timeline.
greg overton
If you know how to just observe it.
joe rogan
Right.
greg overton
And not like physically disturb it.
joe rogan
But you do affect it if you go forward in the future.
The idea of a time machine...
The current idea of a time machine is that you can't travel where there are no roads.
So once a time machine is invented, then everything from that time that time machine is invented forward becomes a completely different way of using time.
Because time now is non-linear.
Time now, anyone can go.
So everything happens all at once.
So people from the future will be traveling back to the moment where the first time machine is invented.
So everything will change instantly.
Because if you're gonna invent a time machine and you live a million years in the future, assuming that humans even exist if a time machine gets invented, I mean, we might become obsolete almost instantaneously.
But if you were a live human being a million years after the time machine is invented, you would want to go back to the moment the thing was made.
So the moment they turn that motherfucker on, everything changes forever.
greg overton
Singularity.
joe rogan
Yeah, that might be the real singularity.
That was one of McKennan's theories.
Terence McKenna believed that we were going to come up with a time machine.
He thought that was going to happen around December 21st, 2012. Well, you've checked out his Time Weave Zero and all that stuff.
Yeah.
greg overton
And you know how they came up with that?
Those Taoist priests and shit?
joe rogan
How did they?
greg overton
The fucking I Ching, dude.
unidentified
Right, right, right.
greg overton
They would go into deep meditations and they would take mushrooms too.
And they found out that time can be mapped and predicted.
That's where the fucking I Ching comes from.
People in the 60s got all into the I Ching.
joe rogan
The I Ching is like a game, right?
greg overton
No, it's a book.
It's made up of...
I'm not like an expert on it.
joe rogan
But isn't there a game that's involved with the I Ching that McKenna sort of patented a pattern of Time Wave Zero on?
greg overton
I don't know if he made a game of it, but it's not...
joe rogan
Is the I Ching a game?
greg overton
It's like a fortune-telling system.
joe rogan
Right, that's what it's like.
It's like a form of...
greg overton
Divination.
joe rogan
Divination, right.
Yeah, it is like a fortune-telling thing.
That's what it is.
It's not a game.
greg overton
Yeah.
joe rogan
I was trying to remember how he...
I haven't heard his stuff in a long time.
Try to remember how he described it, but most people that have looked at Time Wave Zero think it's kind of nonsense, including guys like Paul Stamets.
They're like, eh, he was probably tripping real hard when he came up with that.
greg overton
I don't know.
I think it's above their head, dude.
joe rogan
It might be?
It also is a ridiculous thing to subscribe to.
So a lot of people are reluctant to open themselves up to ridicule.
greg overton
But so is everything.
Everything's ridiculous.
Everything's ridiculous.
All these religions and everything that everybody fucking is into, everything's ridiculous.
Nothing is...
Taoism and Time Wave Zero is any more ridiculous than anything else that people are fucking...
Tarot cards.
I think it's really interesting because those...
I really get into ancient Chinese culture.
I was into Kung Fu at a young age, so I've studied a lot of Chinese philosophy, Taoism, all that stuff.
Those people are highly intelligent spiritual people who are doing deep meditations and discovering really profound truths.
I think that we are at a level where we're so intellectual that we're almost too intellectual.
So it's almost like...
We can only think about things in this scale.
Like people see in a certain frequency, they can only see certain lights, but like dogs can hear sounds we can't hear.
So it's just like that.
It's like our fucking intellect is like this.
And we can figure out...
joe rogan
Because we exist within the context of our culture.
greg overton
Because we've fallen in love with this.
joe rogan
Right.
greg overton
But there's also this and your spirit...
That's what figured out the Dao Cha Ching.
That's what figured out how to tame horses and be one with them and domesticate primates.
It wasn't just us thinking cerebrally.
That's kind of limited.
I think our real being is deeper than that.
You know what I mean?
I think you can learn and know things.
Because I don't think about my ideas for art.
I don't try to come up with them intellectually.
I just meditate and I wait for it to find me.
And that's not an intellectual practice.
joe rogan
Right.
greg overton
You know?
joe rogan
But obviously it yields results, right?
So it's the right way to do it.
unidentified
Yep.
joe rogan
Meanwhile, people wouldn't think about that.
They would think, oh, like, what's the straight...
How do you do this?
You add these boards and that's how you make a house.
greg overton
They want a system.
joe rogan
You add these switches and that's how you make a computer.
greg overton
Exactly.
joe rogan
Yeah.
greg overton
That's why, like, Bruce Lee...
Innovated martial arts because he said, like, let's kind of break down all these systems.
Let's not adhere to these.
He called it organized despair.
All the karate forms and just doing your sparring and not really doing live training is a threshold that you don't want to cross.
So you're stuck in this, like, let's go through all these boring, stupid rituals to try to Prop up our bullshit society when it's like, no, I think we've taken intellect as far as it's going to go.
I think if we're going to get to the next level, we have to go deeper this way.
And you know what I mean?
joe rogan
Well, I think it should be both, right?
And I think the problem is that with money...
And with capitalism and our society and what our reward system is based on, it rewards people going towards the things that are going to get you results that you could show other people, you know?
Like houses and cars and stuff like that.
greg overton
Like a quick result?
joe rogan
Well, like a physical, tangible thing that's measured and cherished by society as opposed to spiritual growth.
We don't think of spiritual growth as being...
It's almost like a frivolous pursuit of silly people.
Oh, I'm working on my spiritual growth.
You fucking lazy bitch.
Like, what are you doing?
unidentified
You're not doing shit.
greg overton
What are you actually doing?
You're just sitting around eating fucking cookies all day.
joe rogan
Yeah, you're not doing anything.
Self-love.
Okay.
Settle down.
greg overton
Maybe you love yourself too much.
joe rogan
Yeah, maybe you think about yourself too much.
There's so many other things to think about, you know, and it's just, we have a very complex society that has a gravity to it, and it sucks you in, and it makes you a part of it, and you don't have a whole lot of say.
You get locked in, and you get locked in when you're real young, get indoctrinated in the education system, and then you get outside of it, and you have to make a living and take care of yourself and pay your bills.
You get locked in.
Meanwhile, space.
Meanwhile, space is happening right above you.
And every now and then you're forced to see it.
Like, I don't know if you guys got any of the northern lights from the solar storms.
greg overton
Just like one, yeah.
joe rogan
Did you get it?
greg overton
Yeah.
joe rogan
What was it like?
greg overton
Just, I mean, I didn't see it.
My daughter was just sending me pictures of it.
joe rogan
My buddy lives in Montana and he was sending me photos of what's going on.
And Jamie, you're a buddy in Ohio, right?
jamie vernon
Well, yeah, all my friends in Ohio saw it.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's wild.
greg overton
It's crazy how that just happened all over the place.
joe rogan
Well, we knew about it.
We knew they were coming because there's two different types of radiation that comes from those storms when they have these big coronal mass ejections.
One of them reaches us in seconds.
I think that's gamma waves.
Is that what that is?
That reaches us in seconds?
And then the second one takes days to get us, and that's the one that can take out your cell phone towers and fuck up communications and shut down the grid.
If it gets big enough, we're really doomed.
unidentified
Wow.
joe rogan
Yeah, we have a very, very vulnerable system.
And we're essentially living in a house...
With a glass ceiling, hoping that it doesn't hail.
greg overton
Don't help me sleep good at night.
unidentified
Right?
joe rogan
If you park your car outside, you know, most of the time, your car's fine.
Most of the time, it doesn't hail.
But if it hails, your car's fucked up.
greg overton
And you've got a glass ceiling on that car.
joe rogan
Your car's going to get fucked up.
I'm sure you've seen, like, damage that hail's caused to people's cars.
Fuck, man.
And that is an unpredictable thing that happens way more often than these massive solar ejections.
But if they get big enough...
If they get big enough, we're fucked.
If they get big enough, we are back in the caveman days, kids.
I mean, we still have books, and we'll be reading them by candlelight.
But all refrigeration's gone.
You're going to have biodiesel generators.
You're going to have to rethink about energy.
greg overton
Start making beef jerky again.
unidentified
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
You're going to need beef jerky.
You're going to need water purification tablets.
You're going to need someone who can figure out how to make those water purification tablets without electricity.
greg overton
Someone to test the water on before you drink it.
jamie vernon
Bro.
greg overton
You need a whole bunch of shit.
joe rogan
It could get real squirrely.
When they have a coronal mass ejection, there's two different types of...
jamie vernon
I know.
I'm lost in the science of it.
First, it said all waves travel at the same speed, which I was like, okay, that's not what we're looking for.
Right here, it says they all travel at the speed of light.
joe rogan
The waves do.
Visible or gamma.
Right.
So those reach us in a few seconds.
jamie vernon
But then I'm seeing they end up traveling up to a million miles a second.
unidentified
Whoa.
jamie vernon
So I'm trying to find out which waves are the ones we're talking about then.
joe rogan
So how many million miles away is...
greg overton
Is that faster than light?
A million miles a second?
jamie vernon
In my head, I was about to do that calculation next.
I think it is, but...
Really?
The speed of light is like something meters per second.
greg overton
This is how we figure out time travel.
These motherfuckers.
jamie vernon
It's like 278,000 meters per second or something.
I guess that could be close to a million miles per second.
I don't know.
joe rogan
Either way, that motherfucker is not stable.
unidentified
Dude.
joe rogan
That sun, I mean, it's fairly stable.
But every now and then, it'll blow a gasket, and you get just crazy waves headed towards us.
greg overton
That's like having a really crazy friend that just might fucking freak out.
joe rogan
Yeah, one dude can bring him to a bar.
unidentified
He's got PTSD, he's on LSD. No, he's a good dude, I swear.
joe rogan
What was the worst version of it?
Wasn't there something that happened that took out like Morse code towers in the 1800s?
I think there was one big historical mass ejection that was documented within the last couple hundred years that they say if it happened today we would be really fucked.
jamie vernon
The Carrington event is what it's called.
The most intense geomagnetic storm in recorded history.
joe rogan
When was that one?
September 1st and 2nd of 1859. And so the Carrington event, most intense geomagnetic storm in recorded history, peaking from 1 to 2 September 1859 during solar cycle 10, created strong auroral displays that were reported globally and caused sparking and even fires in multiple telegraph stations.
Yeah, so what the fuck would that do today?
greg overton
So it just blows up everything that has electricity in it?
joe rogan
Yeah, just cooks everything.
greg overton
Dude, what if everybody's car just blew up?
Everybody's fucking house just blew up?
joe rogan
Oh yeah, it probably would.
Probably cook your fucking computer in your car.
September 1st, as Carrington was sketching on sunspots, he was blinded by a sudden flash of light.
Carrington described it as a white light flare, according to a NASA space flight.
The whole event lasted about five minutes.
The flare was a major coronal mass ejection, a burst of magnetized plasma from the Sun's upper atmosphere, the corona.
In 17.6 hours, the coronal mass ejection traversed over 90 million miles between the Sun, okay, that's the distance between the Sun and the Earth, 150 million kilometers, and unleashed its force on our planet.
According to NASA spaceflight, it usually takes CMEs multiple days to reach Earth.
The day after Carrington observed the impressive flare, Earth experienced an unprecedented geomagnetic storm with telegraph systems going haywire and auroral displays normally confined to polar latitudes visible in the tropics, according to NASA science.
Carrington put two and two together and realized that the solar flare he'd seen was almost certainly the cause of this massive geomagnetic disturbance.
This was a connection that had never previously been made according to NASA spaceflight.
The solar storm of 1859 is now known as the Carrington event in his honor.
Wow.
So if that happened today, Google what would happen if the Carrington event happened today.
Let's find out what happened there.
greg overton
Your fucking cell phone just blows up.
joe rogan
Oh, probably.
It probably cooks everything.
But that's what's really scary is that all of our cars are controlled by computers.
Unless you have an old car that has a carburetor, you're fucked.
Unless you have an old-ass, you know, 1988 Toyota truck, you're in a bad spot.
Right there.
What would happen with a Carrington event today?
People ask.
First one.
Click on that.
As such, Hudson suggested that a solar flare on the level of Carrington event might not pose as big a threat to humankind as some fears.
Still, a Carrington event pointed at Earth today would have substantial impacts mainly on human activities in space.
Also, it wouldn't kill our grid?
I think they're just fucking guessing.
greg overton
Yeah, they don't want to freak people out, dude.
unidentified
I don't know.
greg overton
Because if it's never happened, how do you know what would happen?
joe rogan
Also, that one, the Carrington event, we don't really totally know how big it was.
greg overton
Right, because they didn't have the instruments to measure it back then.
joe rogan
And what if there's one that's double that?
If that can happen, something bigger can happen.
I mean, it's not...
I mean, we've only been around a short amount of time.
The fucking sun's been around for billions of years.
Like, how long is it?
Every now and then it shoots off a big wad of jizz and blasts us with some plasma.
greg overton
Just destroys all our technology.
He's just up there.
joe rogan
You know, when they first started observing gamma-ray bursts in the universe, they thought that there was wars going on in space.
Well, yeah, when they first started detecting these gamma-ray bursts, they found that they were happening, like, every couple seconds, all over space.
greg overton
And they were reading too much science fiction.
joe rogan
No, no, they realized—well, they didn't know what it was.
Like, what are these bursts?
And then they realized there's something called hypernovas.
So if our sun goes hypernova, that's a wrap.
That's a wrap for everything.
greg overton
It just blows up?
joe rogan
Yeah, but it cooks the whole solar system.
greg overton
And that's what they're detecting all over the place?
joe rogan
Yeah.
greg overton
So suns are always fucking blown up?
joe rogan
Yeah.
Well, there's so many of them.
Eventually, they reach the end of their life cycle, and if they hypernova, if they're big enough, and they have enough mass, and they hypernova, that's a wrap for the whole solar system.
greg overton
Fuck.
joe rogan
Yeah, I think it's a wrap for other solar systems that are close by, too.
I think it's a wrap for pretty much everything.
greg overton
But maybe you get to that point where...
joe rogan
What is this, Jamie?
Captures a supernova?
Hypernova is actually even bigger than a supernova.
So this is the Hubble telescope captured a supernova.
But there was a – I think it was the Science Channel had this documentary on hypernovas where these people were talking about how when they first started measuring them, they were like, oh, shit.
Because this was like post-World War II. We understand atomic bombs.
Like what do these guys have?
These guys are blowing up whole planets out there.
Like, oh, fuck.
Imagine thinking that the universe is teeming with life and that life is so violent that it's blowing up planets.
Total Star Wars shit.
greg overton
If you were that scientist, you'd just have to be like, holy fuck.
joe rogan
What do I tell people?
greg overton
Yeah.
And you probably wouldn't want to tell them that, but you'd have to tell, like, the generals.
I would think there might be fucking Star Wars going on here.
joe rogan
I'm sure they had meetings.
I'm sure they had meetings.
When they first detected these things, I'm sure they were like, oh, Jesus, guys.
Okay, Mr. Eisenhower, we've got some problems.
greg overton
What are we going to do?
We might not be shit after all.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Well, we're something to us, but in the greater scheme of it all, I mean, the universe doesn't seem to care if it cooks entire solar systems every couple seconds.
greg overton
Well, because, I mean, the universe has to know more than we do, so we're over here thinking we're all badass.
How do we know it's not better if you get zapped and then you fucking appear in a different dimension?
joe rogan
That's probably what happens.
What are hypernovas?
jamie vernon
I was gonna show you this one I was just finding on this video about the largest supernova ever SN 1572 which I guess that's the year so it was said it was visible for 23 days oh my god 362 nights wow so then like I'm watching the video this is non-scientific It could look like a star or a planet that wasn't actually there if they were observing it for so long.
It would have ended up in a book.
What would they have thought was going on?
Would they have known it was a supernova back then?
How much did they know about that?
joe rogan
How big did they say they saw?
Did they talk about it?
jamie vernon
Well, I'm trying to just go off without listening to the video.
I'm just going off pictures and words and stuff.
I'm not quite sure, though.
joe rogan
Can you imagine living back then?
You see some fucking flare in the sky.
jamie vernon
Yeah, that's what they were looking at.
joe rogan
Look at that bullshit telescope.
greg overton
He puts his eye up to it and it just fries his fucking eye out.
jamie vernon
Oh, right.
joe rogan
Imagine.
Yeah, those dummies.
greg overton
He's looking right at the super...
joe rogan
Did you watch the eclipse?
greg overton
The last one?
joe rogan
No.
You didn't see it?
unidentified
No.
joe rogan
No?
Oh my god, it was wild, man.
It was weird.
greg overton
I saw the one before that I was down in Santa Fe.
joe rogan
Oh yeah?
greg overton
And so I was outside, but I can't remember what I was doing, but I was like, oh, there's an eclipse.
That's how out of touch I am, dude.
I don't even hear about it.
joe rogan
Well, this was such a big one that everybody was preparing, and, you know, Roka sent us some sunglasses, so I went out in my backyard and watched it.
It was pretty dope, man.
It's weird to hear all the birds stop chirping.
Like, everything stopped.
All the sounds stopped.
And then you just have this bizarre moment for a couple minutes where it's dark out.
greg overton
Yeah, it's all weird and empty.
joe rogan
And then the eclipse looked amazing.
It's so weird that the sun and the moon are the perfect size.
That they line up that way.
That gets people, like, weirded out.
They go, how is...
What are the odds?
Is there any other planet in our solar system that experiences that?
What are the odds that the one planet that has intelligent life, that it's blocked out perfectly by our moon, And what does that do?
greg overton
I don't know, man.
It may be superstitious or something, but I think those cosmic cycles...
joe rogan
I think it's a reminder.
greg overton
Yeah.
joe rogan
I think it's certainly a reminder of just the vastness and bizarreness of space itself when you realize, like, oh, there's a giant nuclear explosion in the sky that keeps the lights on.
greg overton
Yeah, and then there's this other...
joe rogan
And every now and then it gets blocked.
greg overton
Yeah, the other fucking rock that just blocks it out is perfectly sized and shaped.
joe rogan
And that rock is also perfectly sized to give us a stable gravity.
That we're not wobbling enough so that we don't vary too much in our temperature.
It keeps us stable because it's pretty big.
That moon's pretty fucking big.
greg overton
And the tides and everything.
joe rogan
All that shit.
It's all very weird.
jamie vernon
What the anteclips of one of the moons of Mars looks like.
It's so small.
It doesn't fit perfectly.
joe rogan
Yeah, it doesn't fit perfectly at all.
It just goes across it.
greg overton
So that's the shadow that it casts?
joe rogan
That weird...
I wonder if there's...are there any other planets in the solar system that would experience an eclipse that's similar to ours?
jamie vernon
I was trying to just look at that.
Like, I was thinking Saturn's got multiple moons.
Is there any way...
joe rogan
It kind of would have to be...
jamie vernon
They all line up at one time.
joe rogan
Right.
It would have to be a moon.
Like, one of them would have to line up, and it'd have to be the same size as the Sun, in terms of, like, how it fits in the sky, the distance, so that it's the perfect size to block it out.
Because it's so perfect.
Like, all you see is, like, as it passes over, you just see the outside light.
You see this black circle in the outside light.
greg overton
And there's a weird ring.
joe rogan
It's perfect.
greg overton
Yeah.
joe rogan
It's perfectly established to give us an eclipse.
greg overton
That is weird when you think about it.
joe rogan
It is, but the whole thing's weird.
It's probably one of the least weird things about space.
unidentified
Yeah.
greg overton
I mean, like, I had an astronomy class in high school, and that class would just trip me out.
Hearing about how infinite and like the white dwarves and the pulsars and all the shit that's out there that they can see so far out there is wild.
And then I got really sad when Eddie said space is fake.
joe rogan
I don't think he's an expert.
unidentified
I was like, Eddie, because you beat Hoyler, I'm going to listen to you.
joe rogan
There's some real interesting stuff that's going on now where they're finding galaxies that are so far away and are so far formed, they're so well formed, that they don't think that they should exist, given the timeline of the universe.
They're very confused as to how these things exist where they exist, that they shouldn't have been formed in this way.
greg overton
It's one of those fucking things.
joe rogan
Well, I think what it is is it's probably – the universe is probably older than we think it is.
I think they're just – with the Webb telescope, they're just starting to be able to detect these structures in deep space that they're so far away and they're so old that they shouldn't be able to exist if the Big Bang happened 13.7 billion years ago.
greg overton
Maybe they found a way to stabilize themselves.
Like if you're – because you've got to think.
Like if you're in the right place at the right time, your technology – Your technology advances high enough before you destroy yourself.
Maybe you don't have a planet where everybody likes to kill each other and you have world wars every fucking hundred years.
And you don't nuke whatever and you build your technology in a good way.
Maybe you could stabilize it so a fucking big bang happens and you got some time wave zero shit that...
You know?
joe rogan
That's the least likely.
Most likely is that we have a bad understanding of how old space is.
Galaxies that shouldn't exist keep being discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope.
A bright red speck appears against the backdrop of a space photo, but astronomers say that it shouldn't be there.
But there it is.
Published today in the journal Nature, An international research team led by Carl Gleisenbrook from Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne says that the light reaching Earth from this galaxy named JWST 7329 is 11.5 billion years old and comes from an ancient assembly of stars likely formed 13 billion years ago.
It doesn't make sense because it's been thought until now there wasn't enough dark matter in the early universe to prompt this formation. - Thank you.
Current understandings of what grows a galaxy suggest that dark matter halos, which are fields of invisible material in space, coalesce and collect stars and galaxies within their structure.
It's only because of the James Webb Space Telescope that the team has been able to clarify what the red spec was.
In seven years of long observations using ground-based Keck, the Hawaii Observatory, and the VLT in Chile, all they could see was a faint red smudge.
NASA's James Webb Telescope.
It's been such an incredible thing.
Been waiting for the last 30 years.
Been delivering all those dreams we've had.
Glazenbrook tells Cosmos.
This is something we've been working on over the years.
Deeper and deeper surveys, looking for the oldest and most massive galaxies that formed.
We did the calculations of how old it is, and it's way beyond the bounds of what's reasonable to form in the cold, dark matter-dominated universe.
It's really a huge puzzle.
So I think they have crude instruments, relatively crude instruments, for seeing that far back.
And they keep getting better.
And the James Webb is better than the Hubble, and the more they can see, the more it reveals puzzles.
They're just not exactly sure what the fuck is going on out there.
And it's big!
greg overton
And when they find out, dude, doesn't that make you wonder?
Like, what the fuck?
What's the answer?
joe rogan
Well, they also don't even know if the Big Bang was actually the beginning of the universe.
There's a lot of people, including Sir Roger Penrose, think that the universe existed before the Big Bang.
And that there's also people that believe that there might be this constant cycle of Big Bang expansion and then ultimately compression and then Big Bang again, which is really wild.
greg overton
But that makes sense because it's like...
How is there nothing?
joe rogan
Right.
greg overton
How is there just nothing and then all of a sudden...
joe rogan
A big bang.
greg overton
Yeah, it'd be more likely like everything expands, contracts...
joe rogan
But isn't it a weird thing to think, how is there something?
If there wasn't nothing, why is there something?
Why has there always been something?
That seems even less likely.
Like, what the fuck is that?
greg overton
Right.
I mean, we gotta assume if there's something now, Probably always stuff was something.
joe rogan
But how could it always be something?
How did it start?
greg overton
That's the freak out.
Yeah, that's the question.
Like, if you ever got to meet God, you'd be like, what predated you?
unidentified
Right.
greg overton
What created you?
joe rogan
Right.
greg overton
You know?
unidentified
Right.
greg overton
And your mind blows up.
unidentified
And he'd be like, chat GPT. Yeah.
greg overton
Like, ah!
And then you'd be like, I am a fucking cyborg.
joe rogan
I think we're going to find out some very interesting stuff in the next five years.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
I think in the next five years, things are going to get real fucking squirrely.
greg overton
Yeah.
But, you know, you kind of just – there's no other choice than to look forward to it.
joe rogan
Well, I mean, no one's going to hit the brakes.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
We've got to ride this out.
greg overton
Yeah.
joe rogan
And enjoy it.
greg overton
So you've just got to think, well, we live in interesting times.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
We definitely live in interesting times.
I think the most interesting times.
Because, you know, there was an interview recently where someone was talking about this and he was saying that this is the first time in history that no one has any idea what it's going to look like in 20 years.
greg overton
Or probably even five.
joe rogan
Probably even five, yeah.
greg overton
Because the way everything's expanding exponentially kind of leads you to believe it's going to continue to do that.
And then what are those unpredictable changes going to be?
unidentified
Right.
greg overton
You know, my fucking life is completely different than it was five years ago, bro.
Unpredictable shit happened to me.
Yeah.
But I don't know.
joe rogan
Well, the whole world's different than it was four years ago, right?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
COVID comes along, everything changes.
greg overton
Yeah.
joe rogan
The whole world's different now.
So, like, yeah, what does that look like?
What does it look like five, 20 years from now?
It's going to be weird, man, I'll tell you that.
There's no way it's not going to be weird.
It's weird already, you know?
greg overton
Yeah, it is, but it's almost like, do you live your life fucking worrying about it?
Or do you just say...
I'm alive.
Just fucking check it out.
This is going to be wild, dude.
We don't know.
Because one of those solar flares could take everything out and then we don't even have a show to watch.
joe rogan
True.
greg overton
At least it's something to do.
joe rogan
Well, it's definitely something to do and you definitely can't stop it.
So you definitely should just live your life and enjoy it.
But it doesn't make it any less fascinating.
It is absolutely fascinating.
greg overton
Yeah.
joe rogan
This is the timeline that we're in for whatever reason.
That's what gets real weird.
It's like, why are we in this timeline?
Everyone listening to this right now, everyone watching this right now, why are you in this timeline?
Why is this the time that you exist?
Have you existed before?
Is this your first time in this timeline?
You know, everybody wants to assume it is.
Like, someone said to me once that they wouldn't, like, there's this theory, I'm sure you're aware of this theory, that you live the same life over and over and over again until you get it right.
Enlightenment is possible.
You've got to go at it over and over and over and over and over again until you nail it.
And I was talking with a friend of mine like, oh fuck, I wouldn't want to do that.
I'm like, okay.
If you wouldn't want to do that, Do you like life now?
Because I love life now.
I'm having a great time.
So if someone said to me that I have to do this all over again, why would that be so bad?
Why am I scared of that?
But everybody's scared of that.
Everybody's scared of starting from scratch again, being a baby again.
greg overton
But remember when you were a white belt?
joe rogan
Sure.
greg overton
It was fucking awesome.
joe rogan
Not really.
greg overton
I didn't enjoy it.
But I'm not talking about just getting smashed and choked.
I'm talking about looking forward to learning.
joe rogan
Sure.
greg overton
And maybe I should have said blue belt.
But it's like...
joe rogan
I got smashed a lot as a blue belt, too.
greg overton
I like looking forward to the...
It's a big journey.
You know what I mean?
Like when I first started doing kung fu when I was like 19 or 20, I didn't know it and we didn't have to get choked so it was just fun, you know?
And I was like, oh, I don't know anything about this but I have so much to learn.
It's gonna be so cool.
And then after years and years I'm kind of jaded.
I've done it so fucking long.
I don't think I really even appreciate it anymore.
joe rogan
I know what you're saying.
Yeah, there's a thing that you can get jaded by a thing.
And new things are all very exciting.
That's why it's really important for people.
It's just for the health of your mind to try new things.
Or to try things where you're not that good at.
Try to keep getting better.
Because it's like this thing that you have to do to practice and learn.
It enriches the way you think about everything.
greg overton
Yeah.
It's so...
Valuable to be able to do that and to be able to realize you're doing that and you're capable of learning new things.
And that really is what makes you live is, dude.
And that is why...
People get stagnant because it's like when you were a kid, you were always trying to learn something new.
You weren't like, oh, fuck, I'm jaded.
I just, man, I don't know what I'm going to do.
You were trying to learn.
joe rogan
Constantly.
greg overton
And so if you continue to do that, learn and play and just accept and have fun.
You don't have to get old.
You don't have to get stale.
You don't have to get bored.
You can fucking enjoy this life.
joe rogan
You can.
You certainly can if you find things that are exciting.
That's the saddest thing, I think, is someone who doesn't have a thing.
Someone who doesn't have a thing that excites them.
Someone that doesn't engage with something that stimulates them.
I think you need it as a human organism.
The human organism needs little puzzles and stuff to do.
Makes it exciting for it.
If you don't do that, you're going to feel shitty.
greg overton
Yeah, you do.
You get bored.
I mean, God, the best, most happy times in your life are when you have all these exciting projects.
You don't know if it's even going to work.
But, like, holy shit, I'm going to try.
I'm going to get excited about this and fucking go after it.
joe rogan
Let me ask you this about your work, because I always wanted to ask you this question.
When you're painting Crazy Horse...
Is there any part of you that doesn't want to do that?
Because like Crazy Horse did not want to be photographed.
So you have to paint what you imagine Crazy Horse would be.
It's kind of crazy that that dude got so, you know, no pun intended, got so famous and managed to avoid having his picture taken.
greg overton
I think he knew there were mug shots.
joe rogan
You think that's what it was?
greg overton
I think when I look back at all those photographs, I think they were fucking...
He wasn't...
He was a smart dude.
He didn't want his picture out there so he couldn't be identified because they were trying to kill him.
joe rogan
They're definitely trying to kill him.
greg overton
I think, like, you know, I definitely do a lot of spiritual...
Work.
I do spiritual work.
But no, like spiritual introspection.
And, you know, like I have friends from the Oglala tribe who are like related to him that I talk to and learn stories from the Lakota, the Oglala themselves.
So I try to have a deep insight for it.
Do a lot of research what he really would have looked like.
And also just think...
Is this the right thing to do?
Do I have permission to do this?
And if that kind of comes through and the Lakotas themselves, they don't get a hold of me and I have a problem and I talk to them about it, then it's okay.
But it's like, it's not from an actual photograph.
Of course.
joe rogan
Right, from your mind.
greg overton
Well, not even that.
I try to, like, I think about...
Black Elk's description of them and just try to put together the facial features in my mind.
joe rogan
How did they deal with that sculpture, that giant sculpture of Crazy Horse?
The one that hasn't been finished yet?
greg overton
I don't know, but I don't really...
I like the idea of what they're doing, but it doesn't look that much to me like how I imagine them looking.
joe rogan
It's weird.
You know, how do you do a giant sculpture of a guy and say, it's this guy?
greg overton
Yeah.
joe rogan
You don't even know what that guy looked like.
greg overton
I know.
unidentified
How are you doing that?
greg overton
But I think they're doing that to kind of just pay tribute to him.
joe rogan
Seems like a weird thing to do, though.
greg overton
Yeah.
joe rogan
You know?
greg overton
Well, because I don't think...
I don't know.
I don't want to talk shit on this dude.
joe rogan
It's like one family that's doing this, right?
greg overton
Yeah.
And I don't want to talk shit on this dude's project.
joe rogan
What is that image of him?
Scroll up?
Or above that.
Right there.
Right there.
Click on that.
What is that?
That's a bronze statue or something.
Is that supposed to be Crazy Horse?
jamie vernon
These are just people's random pictures.
joe rogan
Random stuff?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
But didn't he cut pieces off of his body before he went to war, cut like 100 pieces off of his skin?
greg overton
Sitting Bull.
joe rogan
Sitting Bull did that?
Didn't Crazy Horse do that as well?
greg overton
No.
Crazy Horse didn't participate in a lot of the Sundance where you pierce yourself.
unidentified
No, no, no.
joe rogan
He cut pieces of his skin off.
Like, marked his skin.
greg overton
No, that was Sitting Bull.
joe rogan
See if there's a story about Crazy Horse, before we go to battle, cutting pieces of his skin off.
Because I thought they said that Crazy Horse did it as well.
That he had, like, cut little pieces of himself off of his arms.
They had little scars all over his arms.
greg overton
I hadn't heard that, but I heard Sitting Bull before the battle of Little Bighorn.
Before the Battle of Little Bighorn, Sitting Bull cut like a hundred pieces off his shoulders and his back.
joe rogan
Maybe that's what I'm remembering.
greg overton
And all that to get a vision of what the battle was going to be like.
And then he stared into the sun and he saw all these soldiers falling into the camp.
unidentified
Wow.
greg overton
And so that's where...
Because Sitting Bull was kind of like the general.
He was a little older at the time of the battle and he had a bad wound on his leg.
But he was a visionary, really respected...
Medicine man, leader, and Crazy Horse was the actual fighter.
So he'd go and kind of lead the troops and do the actual fighting.
joe rogan
Did you find anything about Crazy Horse cutting pieces of his skin off?
Maybe I'm fucking it up.
But the thing that gets me is that they had these methods.
I mean these are people that are living in a time where you had to be pragmatic.
You couldn't pretend that you could see things if you did a certain thing.
You were trying to achieve a vision.
So they had probably done it before, and they had methods to do it.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
And a lot of their methods involved pain, you know, like the thing where they would pierce their nipples and suspend them.
greg overton
Yeah, Sundance.
joe rogan
Crazy shit, man.
greg overton
Yeah.
joe rogan
They did these things.
In a time where, you know, you're living a subsistence lifestyle, you don't have a lot of time for fucking around for nonsense, and yet they've found value in, like, self-torture.
unidentified
Do you have any paintings in the Sundance?
greg overton
No, I was working on a painting of a sun dancer that has the white sage.
They'd put white sage around their head like this, kind of like a halo, and then wear an eagle bone whistle here.
That's what it looks like.
And they'd paint themselves white with the spots there.
joe rogan
And you're suspended, hanging by your nipples.
greg overton
And you have to not eat for four days, not drink water, and everybody around the village gets to tease you and throw little spear twigs at your legs and shit.
joe rogan
For four days.
greg overton
It's an endurance ritual.
joe rogan
And eventually it rips out of your chest.
greg overton
Yep, once it rips out.
And like, dude, friends of mine from South Dakota, they still have those scars like this.
joe rogan
Bro.
greg overton
Yeah.
joe rogan
Did you ever see Male Called Horse?
greg overton
Fuck yeah.
I own that.
joe rogan
I got that on DVD. That was, what was that gentleman's name?
greg overton
Richard Harris.
joe rogan
That's right.
He goes through that ritual.
greg overton
Yeah.
joe rogan
There's always that story, though, about...
That's why people get angry.
There's a story about the white guy who goes and kicks ass with the Indians.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Everybody's like, shut the fuck up.
greg overton
Yeah, because it doesn't give the Indians enough credit.
unidentified
Right.
greg overton
In a way.
joe rogan
Right.
greg overton
That one, you can see, has a little bit of the white savior thing to it.
joe rogan
Sure.
greg overton
But it's not like they're not giving you something.
That's what I think, is that the Native culture has taught me...
So much.
That's why I paint it.
That's why I got into that as a kid, because it was an alternative to mind prison of the system of the schools.
I could see in the people's eyes that they were free, that they were real, that they were powerful individuals.
And I wanted to follow that.
I didn't want to listen to, like, my second grade teacher, who is, you know, nothing I ever want to be like.
joe rogan
Right.
greg overton
So those books...
And I still have those books, you know?
That's what inspired me to do this and that's what keeps me going and sharing it with the world because I want to say this is a valuable, amazing culture that we blindly destroyed and committed a genocide on.
There are millions of people over here and the whites came over and were just so fucking dumb that they just wasted a lot of good knowledge but there's still pieces of it alive and maybe we could do what we can To pay that back, learn from it.
joe rogan
My fear is that if it wasn't for the ability to use media in the 20th and 21st century, we might have lost the true story forever.
greg overton
Yeah.
joe rogan
You know, imagine if we did, you know, because the world wasn't much different in terms of our technological capabilities from like 1500 to 1700. Right.
Right.
But from 1800 to the year 2000, it's a giant fucking difference.
And that's when people started going, hey, what fucking happened?
We should write books, like real books.
We should fucking really research this.
greg overton
Get some perspective, yeah.
joe rogan
I remember the first time I read Empire of the Summer Moon, which is about this place right here, right where we're at.
I was like, Jesus.
How could we...
How did I not know this?
How is this not taught in school?
What happened?
Because it's a fascinating story.
greg overton
I know.
And you do really, really have to wonder that.
Why is that left out when it's one of our best stories?
I was talking to some of these guys out here earlier about why is...
Quanta's story just not as popular as like Custer and Crazy Horse.
joe rogan
Right, Quanta Parker.
greg overton
Yeah, and I think it's because it's more complex.
It's not as easy as like the one guy from the one culture, the one battle, Custer, Crazy Horse, fight, done.
It's more of like it's all over.
There's Jack Hayes.
There's, you know, Quanah Parker.
There's the formation of the Texas Rangers.
There's the technology of the Colt.
joe rogan
And there's another example of Cynthia Ann Parker.
Another example of someone who was kidnapped at a young age, became a Comanche, and then they rescued her.
And she's like, I don't want to be rescued.
greg overton
Yeah.
I want to go back.
Trying to escape.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Yeah, it's, uh, what a time, man.
greg overton
And it's so sad how she, uh, like how she died thinking that Quanah was dead and he wasn't.
joe rogan
Yeah.
greg overton
And just how much he, like, wanted to honor her memory and how much, you know, he loved his mom and he, like, what a good dude he was.
Like, just such a badass warrior.
And then he was also a diplomat and took care of everyone and built that star house, you know?
unidentified
Mm-hmm.
joe rogan
Also kind of crazy that he killed a shitload of white people and still managed to meet the president, hang out with everybody.
People forgave shit back then.
They're like, yeah, let's let that go.
greg overton
That's the time we live in.
joe rogan
Everybody was murdering everybody back then.
That's what was really wild.
Just human life back then was worth so much less.
People were so much more savage.
greg overton
Dude, the story of just Texas and the fucking Comanches It's so wild and it's so unappreciated.
And I really think that with our country and our culture, we really do have a cool history that's so unique.
You know what I mean?
Nothing like that really ever happened.
And to your point, we had a way to keep records of it.
But there's – dude, there's all these rad stories about native history.
Like there's this dude, William Weatherby.
If you can look up the story of William Weatherby, the Creek warrior, Red Eagle, he led this big rebellion of the Creek Indians and the government hired Andrew Jackson.
Who was later president, I think, to go fight him.
He's this big civil war general and these Creeks would build these big fortifications and try to fight off the army and they'd blow it apart with cannons and just slaughtered like hundreds of Creeks and fought this big protracted war with them like in Alabama.
Nobody even knows about the fucking Creek War or who William Weatherby is, but when you hear his story, dude, he's like William Wallace of America.
You wouldn't believe this motherfucker, okay?
His whole village is getting wiped out, and he's the leader, and they're like, where's William, I was gonna say Wallace, where's William Weatherby?
jamie vernon
Weatherford?
greg overton
Is it Weatherford?
jamie vernon
Well, I couldn't find a Weatherby, but I got a Weatherford.
joe rogan
Weatherby's a rival.
greg overton
Yeah, okay, Weatherford.
So, anyway, he's this creek warrior, and he's like the leader, and he's getting tracked down, and they're trying to find him, and they're like, basically, it's kind of like the Braveheart, how they're like...
joe rogan
Why does he have an American name?
greg overton
I mean, back then they were interacting a lot with the English and it wasn't uncommon for a native to have a white name.
I think it was half white, half Indian too.
But he was such a badass dude.
So they're basically like saying, if you don't, if Red Eagle, that's his Indian name, doesn't come in, we're going to just really devastate these people.
We're going to, you know, all your people are going to be having a bad time.
So they were like basically going to hurt his tribe if he doesn't surrender.
Okay.
And so he's riding in to surrender and he sees a deer, fucking shoots it, picks it up, guts it, throws it over his saddle and keeps riding in to go surrender.
And he gets there to Andrew Jackson and he's like, if I had an army, I'd fight you to the death.
But you've killed all my warriors, and I only have women and children.
And I'm not going to let them suffer.
So you can chase me, so here I am.
Fucking kill me if you want to.
Do whatever.
joe rogan
And what did they do to them?
greg overton
Well, Andrew Jackson actually said, this dude's so brave, let's have a drink.
They went in the tent, drank some whiskey.
And as they're in the tent, everybody's chanting.
All the soldiers are chanting.
See, there he is.
unidentified
Wow.
greg overton
Kill him!
That's the soldiers.
Big chants all around from the army.
Kill him!
Jackson walks out.
Everyone's quiet.
Just let me tell you.
Red Eagle is the bravest motherfucker of all of y'all.
And if anybody touches their hair on his head, you're going to answer to me.
Don't fuck with Red Eagle.
And let's him go.
joe rogan
Imagine being a fly on the wall during that meeting.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
See that guy come in and sit down.
greg overton
Yeah.
But just the bravest...
If you read this story, and he gives this incredible speech, like I didn't really do it justice, but he's just very eloquent, you know, says this shit, and he's like, do what you want with me.
Don't fuck with my people.
joe rogan
The history of Native Americans is so many people don't know what happened.
So many people don't know that Native Americans went to Paris and met with whoever the hell was in charge back then.
greg overton
Crazy shit, dude.
The actual truth is stranger than fiction.
The people writing fucking movies are going to go...
I don't want to try that.
A fucking hard cowboy Indian.
joe rogan
Right.
greg overton
Put it in the can, whatever they say.
joe rogan
I wonder if someone's going to do a realistic movie about the Comanche and the Texas Rangers.
greg overton
Isn't the Yellowstone dude doing the Empire of a Summer Moon?
joe rogan
That's right.
Is he doing that?
Is that official?
Ooh, that's going to be wild.
He'll do it right.
Taylor Sheridan knows what the fuck he's doing.
He'll do it right.
If anybody should be entrusted with that, did you see 1883?
greg overton
Oh yeah.
joe rogan
Amazing, right?
Amazing.
So good.
greg overton
And how the Lakotas, how they put the feces on the arrows to poison them.
joe rogan
Yellowstone, Taylor Sheridan, Land's Empire of the Summer Moon will write and direct epic Comanche leader Quanah and the rise and fall of Old West's fiercest tribe January 18, 2024. Fuck yeah.
He's going to nail it.
greg overton
What's that going to be like?
It's going to be incredible.
I hope that the Westerns come back as a genre because I really think we should take pride in our history more.
You know what I mean?
I think it would bond us more as just like, we're Americans.
Our...
Like, ancestors.
They fucking went across the sea.
They went across the continent.
They fucked with the Comanches.
Like, they were brave.
They were crazy.
That's who our ancestors are.
They should be honored, dude.
We should be thinking about them going, we're Americans.
We're badass.
We won the fucking World War II. Someone said a couple of Lone Stars.
unidentified
Look at you.
God damn it!
joe rogan
We're fucking Americans!
You know what I mean.
We fucking did it, bro.
greg overton
This is the history, dude.
joe rogan
It's a fascinating history.
It's certainly a fascinating history.
And it's riddled with horror stories.
Horror stories and amazing accomplishments and brave people and all of it mixing together.
Crazy stuff.
Listen, brother, no one captures it better.
No one captures the Native American imagery and just the feeling of it better than you.
Your stuff's awesome, man.
It's been dope getting to become friends with you.
greg overton
Yeah, same here, dude.
I can't thank you enough.
Being here is such an honor.
You know, helping me get my art out there to the world.
Just can't thank you enough, bro.
joe rogan
Oh, I'm more than happy.
More than happy that people get to see your shit.
It's awesome.
greg overton
Well, I'm going to keep trying to put good stuff out there.
joe rogan
You will, I'm sure.
I have 100% faith in you.
Everything you do is dope.
I appreciate it a lot.
What's up, Jamie?
Oh, I thought you said something.
Listen, man, thanks for coming.
Appreciate you.
Tell everybody how they can see your stuff.
Find it online.
greg overton
You can just look me up online, Greg Overton Fine Art.
Instagram, Greg Overton Fine Art.
I'll be in Santa Fe during Indian Market.
Mid-August, and I'll be at the fucking Jackson Hole Art Auction.
joe rogan
There it is.
greg overton
One-man show, Jackson Hole Art Auction, in September.
And that's the fucking top of the top, so...
joe rogan
There it is.
Alright, my man.
Appreciate you very much, man.
unidentified
Thanks, Joe.
greg overton
Thank you for coming.
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