Joe Rogan Hammers Network TV’s Watered Down Nonsense

We did this Fight Companion podcast on Saturday during the day. The fights were from New Zealand, the UFC fights before the Ties of Fury by Deontay Wilder fight. And we were talking about it and my friend Eddie was like, how come they don't do something like this on TV? I'm like, they couldn't. There's no way. We're drinking. We have whiskey, we're smoking weed, we're talking crazy shit. You know, Brendan Schaub, every girl on the list, this bitch's ass and this and that. Everyone's talking crazy. They're talking like guys normally talk, we're sitting around, but we're doing it over the internet. Yeah. But it gets millions of views. So it's one of those things where like, if a network had a show like that, they'd be like, this is a hit. It's a giant hit for a sports show to get way more views than the actual show it's watching. So it's a Fight Companion. We're watching the fights and we're talking about the fights, but that gets more than twice as many views as the actual fights itself. Which is kind of crazy. That's very crazy. But the only way that happens is if no executive, none of those half in, half out people we're talking about before that are really could have worked at the Discovery Channel or the History Channel. They're trying to cute things up, trying to take the edge off. Look guys, we're going to cut that segment when you talk about those girls' asses. It's just kind of disrespectful. And you know, I've got kids of my own and I've got daughters like, get the fuck out of here. Like, you know, if we had a producer in here, they're like some, some network's slow. Oh, is it right there? Oh my God. Oh my gosh. At the end of every show, you couldn't do it. Yeah. When I worked on late night talk shows, the whole narrative of freedom of speech was in the air. And whenever we would write something, it all had to be legally approved. Like that's the first time I saw that. A lawyer would come and he'd be like, you guys can't say, you know, all right, man, sorry. You know, we'd figured out, you know, fun ways. And then you'd go out in the world and people were like, freedom of speech. Man, this shit is all legally approved, man. What you're seeing in this space is, it's not like you said, like, but, but when you guys could just say whatever you want to say. The key is to narrow it down to as few voices as possible to have control like this. This is just you and me and Jamie's hanging out. This is a three man crew that reaches millions and millions of people. That's insane. Like, that's insane. That's never happened before. But that's the only reason why it works. Because you don't have any, like my sensibilities are all fucked up. They're not normal. Like my, what I think is okay in terms of drugs and violence and all the different things that I enjoy. Yes. I mean, I'm a hunter. I bow hunt animals, you know, that's what I eat. I smoke pot all the time. You know, I'm always swearing. Like, I don't believe in any of these things. I, you know, I just think that when you're, when you're putting together a show, there's no way you would ever let a person like me be responsible for the job of promoting something, like being the captain of a show where you got all these executives and their jobs are on the line and you're going to have some loose cannon like me, who's a wild stand up comic. Like my, everything I've done has been wild. Oh, from the beginning, from fighting to getting a stand up from all it's wild. It's wild stuff. That's what I like. I like when it's chaos. That's what I enjoy. But there's no way you could ever have a network approve something like this. There's no way the language saying cunt, saying whatever the fuck you want to say, talking about things in an honest way, talking about what's bullshit about life, about politics, about the state of the way human beings communicate with each other. You got to boil it down to just a couple of people when you boil it down, especially guys like you and me who are comics, who could talk real about stuff, who aren't scared of saying their flaws, aren't scared of saying where they fucked up and how, you know, it's some of my favorite conversations are when you talk about this shit you fucked up when you were young and dumb. It's fun. People hide from that stuff, man. They don't like it. They don't like to feel like they're inadequate or they always like to feel like they were always good. Like that's all nonsense. This kind of thing where you're doing a podcast, this is, I think this is the future of all those talk shows. Those talk shows are dwindling. They are like flowers in the desert, man. They're not getting enough water. There's no one watching. If you look at the numbers like Conan's show, it's horrible. And you know, he's a legend. And all these guys are legends, but no one's watching that shit anymore because you could watch this or any other podcast. There's something like 900,000 of them. And you could watch them or listen to them any time you want. You could stop it when you have to take a shit. You can come back. You don't have to wait for it to come on. None of that nonsense. You could listen in your car. You could watch it on your computer. And people are being real. This is a different world now. With the internet, there's too much real information for you to get spoon-fed nonsense on television. Like when I watch those CBS shows, like those crime shows, I'm like, oh, people are watching this, right? People and people that have chemicals at work and they come home drunk. You know what I mean? There's something in the air. They just want to sit and have something mindless, spoon-fed to them. Those network shows, that's what keeps those things alive. Those things are so watered down and so nonsense. It's not real life. It's not real life.