Best of the Week - May 24, 2020 - Joe Rogan Experience

Is there a struggle to find time? Like to manage the time between work and family relationships? Not after that accident. No. Not after that fucking accident. Accident was the best eye-opening experience ever. You know what I mean? I was married to my career dating my family. Mmm. Right? Yeah. Right. I'm all about this work and all about this hustle. Granted, there's nothing wrong with that. It's a good thing. But after a certain point, you got to prioritize accordingly. When you get to a certain point where the decisions that can be made are a little more controlled and you have the ability to maneuver differently because of the success that you've obtained, make those adjustments. I didn't make those adjustments. I was still hustle, hustle, hustle. Granted, great dad. We're doing stuff. I'm home. I'm getting back home. But my in and outs, three days, I'm out. Two days, three days, I'm out. I got to go film the movie. Y'all come down for the weekends. All right. I see you guys. We'll eat dinner. We'll do stuff. And it's great. Crammed it all in. All right, y'all. I got to go. I'm working. And it's not bad. But now, all right, I'll film a movie. After I'm done filming a movie, well, I need to take 30 days off. I need to take 40 days off. That's just with me and the fam. Now, hey, you go tour. It was just, bow, year and a half. We out. Four days out the fucking week. I'm out, year and a half. I got to get it. Well, now, let's go a month and a half. Let's stop for three weeks. I'm with the fam. So I still have my three days a week that I was here. But then I'm gonna stop for three weeks. This is dedicated to fam time. Don't nobody do anything with me or talk to me. I'm home. Now, my office, I was in that office when we fucking open. I was opening nine. I'm there at eight. You know, there's a chance that I may be in that office till fucking six. Now, yo, no matter what, guys, that day in the office has to end at like three. I got to be home for dinner. I got dinner with the fam. My priorities have changed. But it brings me back to the decisions that you're now able to make based off of life's circumstances. Life's lessons. So because of all of the shit that I went through, because of the things that I now got to see, because of that hospital room and those four walls and me seeing my family and what that love did for me and to me, well, I'd be damned if I fucking look past that. I'd be damned if I not do what I'm supposed to do and give that the same amount of attention in return. When are you going to do your thing with Norm again? You're gonna start soon? We've been planning for a while now. So now we're just going to, we just need to put all the nuts and bolts into place and then get a studio, get a camera and just do it. But you're going to be the first guest. I'm in. All right, good. So just tell me when so I can plan ahead. We're shooting the first one in the fall. So you know, you're going to plan it out. You're going to map it out in advance. Nice. I can't wait. And we're still, yeah, you know, I mean, listen, I love Norm to pieces. He's one of my all time favorite human beings that have ever lived. I have a great story about Norm, me and him on a plane and randomly. This is crazy, but true. Randomly twice. I sat next to him on planes. Just random. Oh, wow. Yeah, totally randomly. Like, what's up, Norm? What's up, Norm? Like crazy. This is happening again. And both times it was a blast. But one time we're flying back and he's like, yeah, I used to smoke and I had to give it up. It's fucking terrible for you. But I sometimes I miss it. But glad I quit. I'm like, how long has it been? He's telling me all these months. He stopped smoking this. Now we're talking as soon as we land. He walks right into the fucking store, buys a carton of cigarettes and he's opening this cigarette. He's a lighting it before he gets out the door and I go, what do you do? He goes, all that talk about smoking. I had to have one. And the flight from from I forget where we were two times both times are just like the best flights like just like having the audience of one next to one of the greatest comics ever and just talk shit. Yeah, he's probably you know, he's probably like in my top three favorite standup comics of all time. And he's a great guy. He's a great guy. The two greatest people in my life in comedy have been Norman Spade. They've just been so good to me and I love them both and they're both equally hilarious in different ways. But Norm, I'll never forget how quick he was and good he was at hosting that podcast. We had Larry King on one time and Larry was like, Norm, I don't think they're going to give you a show like, you know, the way because he was just fucking outlandish saying the most crazy fucking shit to Larry King. And Larry's like, you know what, Norm? He's like 50 years in the radio business. The one thing I learned is I never I rarely talk. I always listen. That's why I always learn from the guest because I'm always listening and nervous. Can I interrupt you there? So I can't wait to I can't wait to come back with this podcast. Norm is the hidden king of the Internet. If he decided to have a podcast, he would be the biggest podcast of all time. If he just did it on a regular basis, I know we just need to get motivated. He's buck wild, dude. Yes. And he's always been always there's whatever the filter. It doesn't even screw in his head. Like this, not there's no filter. There was never a place for it. He's Charles Manson, a comedy. No, he loves Manson. Does he really? We're going to we'll definitely get O'Neill on. No way. He's a Manson fiend. Huge. How much does he know about the case? I think he knows. I'm sure he's read the book. So he's read that book, that chaos book. Okay. Yeah. Good. I need to talk to him about it. Yeah, you have to. The best fighters in the world can always match a good match. But it's the first one that makes a mistake is the one who loses. That's where it and momentum is so important in sports. Momentum is everything. That snowball once it starts to build it's so hard to recover and turn that around in high competition. It's a mental thing. But when you can control things and control and control and then find one mistake and then you build on that mistake, you're like a wave. You slowly get a little bigger and you slowly get a little bigger. Now you start to capitalize because once they make a mistake that pattern is starting to create and then once you've got someone make a mistake after mistake after mistake, that's when you crumble on them. And I feel like that's what he's done really well. Three fights prior to that, he was just to capitalize, able to capitalize on the big mistake. But credit to Tony. Tony is one of the most gangster dudes in this sport. And for him to go through the damage that he did and continue to walk forward is something unique. Incredible. Those things to experience as a coach to sit there and watch his mental not change. Even when he, because I was calling for the ref to stop the fight about halfway through the fifth round. And when he got hit with that last jab and shook his head, I don't think it was a point like I don't want to go on no more. I don't know if it was the orbital because I know he had an orbital issue. But there was something going on where his body is telling him not to do it. But his mental is like, no, don't stop. Keep going. He was still kicking it, punching it, even with the big old gash on his shin from the check. He was still kicking. He never flinched. He never flinched. He was getting cracked. He'd get knocked backwards. And then he would go from backwards or right back to forward. It was super unique to watch. But again, it was great to see someone who can listen and understand that if you stay and control yourself, that's the key to everything in this world. If you listen to anything else on the outside and you start to adapt to other things, you're never going to live the way you want to live. And to be a fighter, you have to be in control yourself all the time. And I always say the best fighters are the best actors, the ones that can trick their self. Fake it till you make it till you get to the championship. And you have to live that way. You have to obsess never being broken. And even if you break, accept it and then on to the next. Don't deal with it. Oh, man, I had such a bad day. My biggest pet peeves that I hate is hearing someone, oh, man, today was a shitty day. And I was like, yeah, there's going to be many more shitty days, but accept it. Yeah. You know, love it. Does you zero good to sit around and talk about shitty days? Totally. And I have fighters say, man, you're always saying just positive shit. You're always just like it. I'm like, hell yeah. You got to love every part of it. What? Where did you store everything? Well, it was initially I didn't to be honest, I didn't expect to see a Wolverine. I never have. And I just wasn't something on my consciousness. And so when I got the moose, I put all the meat up on this shelf I built and thought, man, if a bear comes, it'll be great. I'll have a chance at a bear. You know, I'll wake up at night and kind of be like a bait pile, basically. Plenty of fat there. Yeah. And so I was maybe expecting a bear to come, but I went to sleep the first night. I got the moose and woke up and I came out and there were just tracks everywhere. Somehow I hadn't woken up, but Wolverine's a lot slier animal and he had come and pulled out all the kidney fat. You know, I had like a jug of kidney fat. I was just like, no. He ate all your fat? He hauled off a full gallon jug packed with kidney fat. I had other fat, but that was like, you know, weeks of fat there. Did you find it? No, it was rough. And so then he was pretty excited. I'm sure Wolverine just kept coming back every day. I figured, I don't know if they're like, I figured they were nocturnal, but they sure enough I'd be like out there scraping my moose hide in the middle of the day. They'd come running up and like try to grab some meat and run off. I was like, holy smokes. This thing's bold. Is this a photo of him? Yeah, that's the one. Where is he? That's at my shelter there. There he is sneaking around. Wow. So he stole 35,000 calories, which is gold up there. Oh, so you got some serious gear on. You're wearing Kuiyu. Yeah. Yeah. It's real gear. Yeah, it's not naked and afraid, fortunately. No, well that's serious hunting gear. Yeah. Yeah. And there's your A pillar. Yeah, there's that little. That's pretty dope. Is that when you're pissed off that the moose fat? Yeah. A gallon of moose fat contains roughly 35,000 calories. Wow. Gone. Gone. A little Wolverine. You should have kept that shit in the little tent with you. Yeah. I really should have. I thought I would hear a bear coming, but I didn't think about Wolverine. Anyway, he kept coming every day and I knew it was going to be me or him kind of on that. They're so scary little fucks. I heard, I read maybe Jamie could find it, but that one killed a polar bear in the zoo a while ago. A Wolverine? Yeah, yeah. I'm not shocked. Ferocious little things. I've seen them chase off bears. Yeah. Oh, they will. I've seen videos of them chasing bears off of kills. Wolves, all that. Bears like, what the fuck? This is so ferocious. A little bit. Yeah. And they're so durable. Like they get bit by bears and wolves and they just fucking shake it off. Yeah. Cool animals for real. Oh yeah, man. Such cool animals. It is sad. I mean, we were talking about it earlier that all these businesses are going to go under like the childcare and barbershops and stuff like that. It's like gyms. And they didn't do anything wrong. They didn't. They did everything right. And, you know, yeah. I know maybe in hindsight it's going to turn out that it was the right thing to do and that it stopped the spread of the virus. And even though there was some flare ups here and there, it made people more aware and the virus eventually goes away. Maybe it's possible. But even if it's not the right thing to do, I think people are just, you know, doing it out of caution because we don't know what it is. But it's not the only strategy. There was other strategies that could be employed and they could have made people more cognizant and protecting themselves that would have really greatly slowed the risk of transmission. And I think you could have let people stay working. I mean, tell people they can't work. I don't like that. You know, I don't like that not just because it's unconstitutional. I don't like that because I don't like people telling people what to do. And I don't like that because I don't like one person being in charge of figuring out what's right or wrong. I don't know if it's one person or 100 people. But what's right or wrong for an entire state of 40 million people to do. And to make up the mind for them based on what? Based on just because you got voted into office? That doesn't make any sense to me. You should be dealing with like legitimate problems, not controlling the population through some Orwellian mandate. We just deem it that everyone has to stay home. Then you even offer rewards for people in LA. The mayor was offering rewards for people, turning people in who weren't social distancing. Yeah, that just that opens up a kind of worms. It's crazy. It's all the wrong moves. That's not going to help anyone that you know, when I heard that the whole thing that you can basically snitch on somebody not wearing a mask or not doing what they're doing. Yeah, that's funny. Yeah. Yeah. You're you're setting people up to. Yeah, it's not a good thing. Dude, it's so did you ever see the article where it says normally it snitches get stitches. But in this case, it snitches get reward like they're even calling it a snitch. And it was an official thing that they released. Oh my God, some marketing person was like, yeah, I got the thing. I don't know if it was an official thing or was the article on it. It was in the LA Times. Whatever it was. I was like, what are you saying? This is a terrible idea. We're encouraging people to turn people in for rewards. Do you not understand psychology? Like there's people that have grudges against people. There's people that are they don't like their neighbor. They're just going to turn each other in. Right. You can't keep people that kind of power. Right. Give people the power to just say, Tim, it's him. He's got the scarlet letter. And then then fucking they look up your ass with a microscope. See if you've been social distancing. Hey, Seuss, I got my eye on you. Six feet. Six feet. Mask. I got a sanitizer. Yeah. Stay safe. Stay home. Watch your head. I'm going into a cop car. They don't know what the fuck they're doing, man. They don't know what the fuck they're doing. No one knows what the fuck they're doing for them to tell us what to do. Like definitely you have to do. No, maybe you should do it that way. Maybe you should wear a mask and you should stay home. Don't tell me what to do.