Joe Rogan - I'll Always Be the Fear Factor Guy

You know my favorite story about people being a good guy, I mentioned Mo Fallon earlier, he's been on the show so I feel like I can mention him, assuming that your listeners like have this like amazing capacity for retention. Some of them do. But so Mo Fallon's been on the show and Mo Fallon talks about dude this is like a third, this is like a fifth hand story, but Mo Fallon's body meets the guy that used to be like, who's the dude in the nerds movie who would go like nerds. Oh yeah, who was that guy? Ogre, yeah. Okay, check this out. Wow what a fucking reference. Mo's buddy meets the dude who was Ogre in the nerds. And nerds, not the nerds, nerds, sci-fi old man. And the guy that doesn't want to bring it up but he can't help himself bring it up, he's like, you know, I loved you in nerds. So the guy goes into this big thing like, he's like, do you have any idea what it would be like to have like your whole life defined by some role you did long ago. And I'm a thespian and I do theater now. And you people that bring this up all the time, oh nerds, you know, and he does it. Like he like is cool with it and rolls into it. And the dude's relief that he enabled him to like have that recollection. You know, he was always like, yeah, okay. People are gonna look. And when I hear that now if I see that guy I'm like, that guy must be a cool guy. Right, because he doesn't take himself too seriously. Yeah, because he could roll with it. Yeah, there he is. Nerds. Did he do pro wrestling or something? What's going on there? Revenge of the Nerds. Oh, that's the movie. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, looks like a guy that you would cast in a row or a role where he'd be mean to nerds. Yeah, some people take themselves fucking super seriously. Like that's one of the best things about my career is like, oh, I will forever always be the fear factor guy. Like if I don't think that that's true. Ah, it's definitely true with some folks. Really? Yeah, you can watch it. It's on TV. I mean, you can still find it. No, I understand that, but I don't know that that's really the case with you. I feel like you might have a wrong impression of your legacy. It's in there. It's definitely in there. It's in there, but it's not it. Maybe it's not it, but if anybody wanted to poke fun at me, that's always there and I would welcome it. I don't think that happens. Well, it would prevent me from taking myself and my, you know, I wanted to pretend I'm some sort of moody artist that has always followed the path of creativity and artistic expression. No, no, I hoored myself out for like six years. I think it's in your head, but I don't think it's in people's head. Maybe. Yeah. I don't know. It's in some people's heads. I can remember the first place I ever, you know what, you know, it helps to substantiate what you're telling me. I know where I was sitting the first time I ever heard your name. I know who I was talking to. And unfortunately, I don't like to admit this. This is a long time ago. Unfortunately, the point of contact when I was like, Oh, you're right. Fear factor. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, fucking millions of people saw that goddamn thing. I need to tell you too, that was the first conversation when I ever heard the word podcast. Really? I know where I was sitting. I was talking to Helen Cho, who, you know, oh yeah, I heard the word Joe Rogan and the word podcast and had no idea what either of those things were. That's before you came on. Dude. Yeah. I'm talking a long time ago. 2012. Yeah. Yeah. I'm not like, I'm not, I mean, I have, I don't want to say I have my finger on the pulse, but I'm not like a Luddite. Well, that was when I heard the word. The podcast was only three years old back then when you first came on. Now it's 10 years old. That crazy? I think it was longer than that. It was 2012. Okay. Because that's when we went hunting. Maybe in 2011 and we went hunting in 2012. Yeah. Yeah. So it was probably two years old. And she said, if you're a fact, I'm like, oh.