Joe Rogan | Michael Yo Was on the 1st Episode of Fear Factor!!

But it's not an ethereal thing like a thought. Mm-hmm. You know I mean? Yeah, like something like here's one Afidio phobia or Arachnophobia fear of snakes or spiders those have you ever seen anybody who has that well you were on fear factor with me Oh my god, that was that was the worst. I should say you were you made it out, bro No, do you remember I was season one episode one I was the pilot episode of your pilot episode That's where I met you for the first six. Can you believe 16 what 2001? Yeah, what is that? Well, it's 18 years ago. We met because that was that was right after 9-11 Yes, yeah right after and they flew us down and the first time I met you it was that saddle ranch And you were like welcome this dude. Oh Okay, this is later. This is later. This is way later when we did the new season of it in like 2011 Yeah, you tried to get me to eat that spider. Yeah, that's bad, bro, dude Dude, that's not a normal thing and you just chomped it like a chance so this whole scene. I'm acting like a little B Oh, you know a little little fearful you gotta eat sheep's eyebrow eyeballs though I'm which had to eat dude now those were disgusting Did you eat eat it because I felt bad for you guys that was before I'd hardened I've been hardened to the world Yeah, guys were episode one season one Yeah, it didn't seem right for me that you guys would have to eat these things and I didn't eat it So I said, all right, if you guys eat it all you two, but they didn't show it Like they wouldn't show it on television that I ate it because they didn't they like they didn't want it to look too easy Yeah, so weird But yeah, oh my god. I remember biting down into it and it kind of like burst Yeah, then that retina that you had to just chomp. Oh, yeah, you had to chew on that red and we had to eat three Yeah, they weren't good. No, they were horrible. But you know, it was surprisingly mild. I ate a roach I'm not not bragging to say it's like much just a roach. No, it doesn't taste like much So why would you eat a roach? Was that part of the show? Yeah, I was um It was a celebrity fear factor and um, there was a young lady who was scared to eat a roach and She was gonna get eliminated from the show. And so I said, listen, I'll make you a deal I'll if you do it, I'll do it and she's like you will I go yeah, I will and she wouldn't do it So she made a deal like like three worms. She decided I'll eat three worm like we can go she got three worms And so then I ate a roach. I I remember when I was on that show the question they would ask you in the survey is what's your fear of dying and I wrote down dying underwater because that would be my biggest fear is dying underwater And so you the our last stunt was when they dumped us on the water and my friends still send me screenshots Of that because that's when I had long hair and I put a bunch of gel in it and they dumped me under the tank And literally it looked like a squid shooting Oh my god, you if you you can google it Google Michael Yo fear fact and it's my friends will just screenshot that and they still play that to this day They still play that episode of your family all of them. They play them on different like true TV or something like that One of those I remember shows. I remember that when we were talking I'll go because you were what show were you on at that time's radio? You were on news radio? Well, that was a couple of years earlier. There you are. Look at that. What happened? Yeah, and okay, so that's a cheap eyeball Michael Yo So at the end at the end I go to Joe and I go hey man I can't do the last stunt look at that. I can't okay. So this is you talking to me Cuz Joe goes Joe goes hey, I go Joe. I'm not gonna be able to make it through this whole stunt I can't hold my breath for that long and you go. I'll just make it look great for the camera So what I get I Was gonna try to talk you into it, but I wasn't good enough at it then I did I had to figure out how to talk people into it because I knew there's some people that were just psyching themselves out Yeah in the smoker one our episode the guy that we thought he was gonna lose oxygen. Yeah, it's fucking system He's having no oxygen And that's when they casted fear factor off of personality and then it just became a hot fest like if you're a Yeah, it was also You know, they kept ramping up the difficulty of stuff like the last season Scared the shit out of me when they were launching a car through a moving train and an explosion happens when the car It was like what you're gonna kill somebody like and when I came up to your I think it was the last season Y'all were doing something with a donkey dong don't you come? Yeah That's a guy that's canceled. Yes. Yes, because I remember showing up in Joseph's come here When I showed up that day They brought the paper into my trailer and they told me what it was gonna be I don't think I knew about that one before some of them I had noon about knew about before but I don't think I knew About that one. Oh, I think when they brought that in I had no idea and I was like you can't do this I'm like, no one's gonna do it. First of all, they're all gonna quit But what was hilarious is I'm sitting there next to you watching them drink this But dude how about an intern had a drink it an intern had a drink and I think they only got like $100 what for What well there was like part of the thing is that they would have to test it when when they would like say here's Fear factor info. So like say if you had to eat like Kidneys. Yeah, right. How many how many kidneys can someone eat in a minute? You know, like how much how much meat can you actually like consume? Dried meat. Can you consume? Mm-hmm? And so what we had was certain interns They would volunteer for it and they would get like an extra hundred and something dollars and I would always give them money to I was giving a couple hundred bucks on top of it, but they would they would eat Whatever the fuck it was and they would determine. All right. Well Mike usually can put it down like Like like no one and if he could only get through three and then some other producers would come in and go fuck this We're being pussies make him eat four For you guys are crazy and this was like the debate the debate on the set would be like how much blood should they drink? One gallon one gallon of blood like they never drank blood, but you know, I'm saying like yeah How many horse dicks they never ate a horse dick, but they did eat like what it was dicks and elk dicks and deer dicks But the donkey cum was the worst. Oh, yeah, and I even remember after shoot you were like, yeah I think it just shows over after this like they didn't air it. I think they didn't air it They're in other countries though. Oh did it really? Yeah, so you could get it like in I think it's like Dutch And so it's like you hear You hear us talk in English, but then they have Dutch subtitles Yeah, that that was yeah, that was such so stupid it's so dumb Are you surprised how stupid people are to go? No, no because I think people are like look it's an experience I'm here for the experience. I'm gonna have some fun. This is crazy But when you get to donkey come you can kind of be rude You know, you got donkey this donkey that but then the donkey come is like an advantage of their need for fame In a weird way. No you are. Yeah, but hey they want to give it That's the game and I remember you showing it to me first and was in this large Glass container and they and it wasn't a little they had to drink. No, no, it was like to drink a lot Yeah, it was like the aforementioned rhinos horn It was a fucking large chunk. Yeah, you know, it's even more offensive Donkeys are they're not fertile. Look at it. There it is. Oh, that's it. Yes. So that come is useless It's not just come but imagine it's like it's it's come that can never even be babies Okay, it's now shit, but I I remember when y'all used to do stuff. This is disgusting I remember y'all used to do stunts. It was actually a delicate like people in other countries actually ate it sometimes Sometimes yeah like Baloo. So that's not that's just being nice just being me. Okay, that's no other country is doing that just for Yeah, they gave up on that whole this in other countries. This is considered Gave up on that a long time ago. Yeah, you had to push the envelope on that now one of the things that made things gross Smell wise was actually really expensive cheese They would go to this expensive was if a formage Are you what do they call them? What do they call one of those cheese places? Yeah, that's like Italian for cheese for my formage a Isn't it French to some like sure yeah Jamie's my that's my translation I'm dumb. I'm dumb. So there you go. But anyway, this cheese that we would use was Disgusting it smelled so bad But apparently it tastes really good if you're into that kind of cheese Like Bourdain was really into stinky cheese Like he would talk to me about it like with passion like that just the the fucking stinkier the better like disgusting smelling cheese And the taste is fantastic. I'd be like wow, I would think that the smell would turn you all taste buds. Absolutely I can't I don't know. It's like one of those things where I guess you catch like the right vibe Like you go in it with the right attitude. There is no attitude if it stinks fuck that dude I mean anything that smells and they would squeegee it off into a blender Not and they blend it up with the other stuff like worms and shit. It would make the worms taste horrific or smell horrific Oh, so you would just mess in with their smell sense so it can make it seem like it was worse It was really making it worse because it smelled worse. So it was making more Smell it but People would just start retching It was it's a ridiculous fucking thing. It's a ridiculous thing like to the show is really silly No, but I love that these people wanted to be famous. Well, you know, and they too bro but I was But I was different Because how it happened I was in Austin, Texas and there was an ad in the paper that goes Hey, have you ever done anything adventurous and I was like, no, let me go in for this cast. I was a radio DJ out there and At this radio station, so I go in and then Mikey They called him the chimp. He was the casting person. Yes and literally two weeks later three weeks later I'm in Hollywood shooting this thing and then I meet you and then I remember going up to you because I was in all It was the first time in Hollywood. Okay, and I knew you from these right now So, yeah, how do you do it? And you go just fucking be yourself? You can be successful and that's what you're doing right now. Just fucking being yourself. You're doing to where we're trying What a ridiculous piece of advice just be yourself Whatever you do don't improve You are right now forever. Good luck. Just be yourself. That's all you need bro. That's it Believe in your dreams make a vision board Joe was just trying to get me out of space. I'll just be you All right, but that is the right advice If especially you want to be an entertainer if you can figure out how to be yourself as long as yourself is actually something interesting And if it's not working yourself, yeah, and then you even said that about acting he's like I remember specifically say acting's not hard It's just you yourself and you play that emotion and I was like, oh that sounds easy In comparison to stand up in some ways But this not like a disrespect like the kind of shit that like Daniel late Daniel Day Lewis and Leonardo DiCaprio Well, yeah When they when they get into a fucking role and you're like goddamn that guy just own that shit like they get into What I'm talking about like sitcom sitcom acting. Yeah sitcom acting they were hiring you to be so easy at that hundred percent Yeah, so it was a slightly dumbed down version of me who is into slightly more conspiracy theories than me when I was on news radio That's all I was Yeah It was basically me like they wrote a lot of that conspiracy shit in after I talked to them about like JFK and fucking You know UFOs and stuff