Arie Lange on How Robert Downey Jr's Journey is Inspirational | Joe Rogan

The jere The good thing is is that you know that sort of mature thinking you have about not wanting to fuck up your life I'm starting every each day. I get more and more to thinking that way hmm, so it's improving still yeah, even though you're nine months in It's a constant. It's so that's like to endurance like you're strengthening your endurance your resolve Mentally more than anything. Yeah, well, that's it's almost all mental at this point. It is yeah at this point it is You know you just gotta I mean something spared me and I'm 52 I I would love my legacy to be someone that helped people but you know even when you already have whether you realize it or not And I guarantee you if you keep going you will I hope so you know no it's a hundred percent If you if you keep going with these stories with your your personality and your sense of humor This is a hundred percent gonna help people and not just a few fucking millions of people you know Robert Downey jr. I I when the paperback version of my first book came out. I wrote a Paragraph about him to where you know again about the ruthlessness of show business people say showbiz is very forgiving Well if you're that talented of an actor like Robert Downey jr. They let you come back yeah and through his assistant he contacted me and Was so was so nice like you know and I got at this point. He was Iron Man you know and he You know and I'm this comedian. He's a big stern fan He had read the book and he appreciated that I that I was complimentary to him in the book and again There's an example of the 12 step stuff. He really was like he goes. I'm through he said basically to me I'm here for you if you need me. I'm here for you Joe Walsh me Eagles I met through the stern show same thing hmm. Yeah, that's amazing You know like like these guys are like because it it helps them It helps everybody so so Robert Downey helped me in a way just by knowing that he got better Because you talk about chaos his life was I remember talking about him on a start show when he got found You know the stripper with the Wonder Woman outfit and crystal Stripper dressed like Wonder Woman and crystal Beth in somebody else's house I you know, but I've always wondered like a guy like that. That's so fucking talented He's he's talented in this weird explosive sort of creepy. He's unique He's unique if you watch his movies even though he's in a shit movie. He's great Yeah, like you always look at what he's doing He makes unique choices as an actor But I've always wondered if like the engine behind that is the same engine of addiction Absolutely, we pulse of wild reckless sort of energy and now he just contains it in progress and success Like he's constantly working. I mean, I don't know him personally just just through that contact. I just told you about but It seems like he's like way into the program of AA or anything Yeah, I mean and again, it's also like the premise of going to a meeting And any meeting I try to go to five or six a week now and that's not even you know They want you to go to 90 and 90. There's a lot of comedians in recovery, you know I won't mention who they are, but you know, it's an anonymous thing But there's so many guys were 20 years ago. There was a stigma attached to it. There's not anymore I think people understand now. It's not being weak. Yeah, people used to think it's weak It's like it's these are behavior patterns They're thought patterns and you get stuck in a rut of them and you get there's a smooth carved path That your behavior just slides right in and goes and it's hard to hit those fucking breaks and stop that path Yeah, and you use the behaviors to manipulate like if you have a talent like a sense of humor You know, it's funny. I one of my po's said to me You're gonna tell me you never use your sense of humor to obtain drugs. I go I don't know what drug dealers, you know, but jokes as payment like listen noodles I want that ounce of cocaine. I have no cash but knock knock Well, you're not gonna work you use your sense of humor to get the money to buy What the people at the task evaluators a drug court a lot of these Rehabs do is they link exactly what you just said they link every behavior back to yeah the drug use Yeah, like what why why act in this way? Why be in charming if you can charming so you can't be charming So we'll just rob you. Yeah You