Joe Rogan on Jeff Bezos, Amazon, and Super Rich People

We were talking about Jeff Bezos before the show who's now the richest man in human history It's like, it's inconceivable amount of money He's worth 105 billion dollars, right? Which is just like, what the fuck? He's like the 8th biggest landowner in the United States Do you know that? He just buys It's crazy, and I'm not stunned though Of course not, he has 300,000 acres of Texas Whoa, that's a lot That's a lot, yeah That's a big slab Yeah, I'm pretty sure He's just balling out like a troll I'm pretty sure his DC home was either, I feel like he was either a museum or a hotel before He was like, make that shit my house now It was like a museum They were like, it's your house I wonder what he's like to hang out with Because there's a photo of him, see if you can find this photo of Jamie There's a photo of Jeff Bezos from 1993 And he's got like a vinyl banner above his desk that says Amazon.com And it's just him and this janky little fucking Ikea desk Yeah, like bad clothes Yeah, kind of chubby, typing away And now he's like, got some muscle on him Now he's jacked and tan and probably got a supermodel for a girlfriend, does he? No, he's got a wife, four kids Regular? Normal? Yeah, she's an author How odd I know, odd He doesn't schedule morning meetings so he can hang out with the kids Really? Wow I read all this stuff I wonder why he's going so hard When you hit 105 billion, you would think you'd go, eh, we're good I know, I think you just start really collecting Because you're like, because when he bought the Washington Post You know it's not like he's like, I love journalism He'd be like, be cool to own a newspaper You know what I mean? Like, at that level, you're just like, I like waterfalls Are there any for sale or something? Washington Post is one of the weird ones where you get a link Someone will send you a link and you click on it And it's a Washington Post article and it says, you obviously love great journalism Come sign up, like fuck off They don't even give you the free reads, I feel like New York Times will give you 10 free re- I signed up after I kept clicking those I was like, I better sign up Washington Post, I feel like, click number one They're like, do you want to read this? Do you want to pay or not? Yeah, I'm not paying Yeah, I mean, I support paying for journalism But I feel like they should give us a taste We should get a little taste It's tough to trust journalism these days It's tough to trust, like, how fucking weird Are your articles gonna be? That's true Journalism's tough Watching news has become- Man, I remember when it started to skew to personality and taste Now it's like off the rails It is off the rails That's where the money is I know, but it's like, you're totally just going with who- Like, you're gonna watch- You can select what do I feel like leaning towards And then you watch that Tucker Carlson or, you know Yeah, yeah, Rachel Maddow Yeah, there he is That's- Look at that picture Oh my god Isn't that crazy? Yes, he looks nothing like that now That's what 105 billion will do He's just sitting there with that Amazon.com banner I hope that's still hanging somewhere in his house Yeah, he probably shoots loads on that thing What do you- Oh my god Yeah Crazy that he started out- I remember Amazon being a book thing Yeah I remember being a place to buy books I remember thinking, how weird? Like an online bookstore Why wouldn't you just go to the bookstore store? You could see the book Right Like- And all those bookstores shut Like they closed He killed all of them Yeah, there's only a few left Well, I know a guy who got a deal with Amazon.com to publish a book It was like when Amazon started publishing books And they blackballed him because of this Because he had had traditional outlet deals before And his books would be front and center in Barnes & Noble And all these other different places He's a pretty popular author But as soon as he went to Amazon.com They're like, fuck you And they just shut him out They shut him out of all those stores And I was like, whoa Like there's like a weird book war going on that I didn't know about Well, they're both probably trying- People are trying to keep their business model going and thriving, you know Yeah, but doing it by threats is never the way to go Probably not, no I mean the best way to go is when Amazon publishes a book That people actually want to buy in your store, you dumb fuck Put it in your store You know what I hate about these super rich guys? They'll never- They never in their interviews talk- Have like- The only one who will talk like what it's like to ball at that level And make it sound fun And like the things you want to ask is Mark Cuban I've seen him in interviews be like, ah yeah, I got a lot of shit I got a lot of shit And like knows that like that's a genuine curiosity for people Like how fun is that? You have two, 747s He's like, yeah man, that's pretty cool, right? And he talks about it But I saw this interview with Gates And this guy was asking all those questions He was like, do you have to worry about like when somebody asks you Like when you ask for something that someone's gonna try to ask for more Because of your known wealth He's like, you know my charity really is like just like dodging All those questions Yeah Of like the fun shit that everyone wants to know He just kept going back to his charity And we're like, we know you're a fucking charitable guy Tell us what it's like to own six planes, bro Like what kind of shit do you have? He's like this Xanadu house It's like 70,000 square feet or something Well he's got a house, I think it's on Puget Sound Um, it's somewhere in the Seattle area Yeah, I think it's Medina Medina or Medina Is that what it is? I think that's what it's called But it's so freaky Look at that Looks like you're using an ad blocker What did you pull up? What'd you pull up? 19 crazy facts about this house Oh, okay 123 million dollars Just table your ad blocker so we can read it Oh my god So we were in Seattle and there's this thing that's near a bridge Um, where you go under this bridge And they have this, these clear walls Where you can see the salmon Swimming up the salmon ladders Like they have everything set up with these clear glass walls And you can watch it It's really pretty badass Yeah But the guy who was there Who was the guide of this thing Who's explaining us how this works And which kind of salmon you're looking at and the whole deal He was like, you know, my uncle worked on the Bill Gates house He starts talking about Bill Gates house And where Bill Gates house is and where he lives And I remember thinking, how weird must it be If you're so rich that all everybody wants to do is talk about Hey, my friend worked on your house His house And I was like, well, what's it like? And he just starts describing his skills Well, he has like some sort of a submarine access In case he's getting kidnapped Like someone's trying to jack him They can get in a submarine and shoot out into the river I'm like, what? Yeah Like, I don't know even how much of that is even true Because this guy seemed like Yeah He was missing a little piece of his brain Start really adding stuff to it That's what I was thinking I was like, how much of this is urban myth I know that they were reporting even like I don't know when that house was built 10, 15 or whatever years ago That even back then there was shit in his house Because it was super high tech Of like if you walked in a room music would play And as you left the room music would die down And pick up in the next room So that, you know, it had like Which I think you could probably Regular person could probably do something like that now But like that was unheard of Yeah, I think you wore a pin You put a pin on and that pin As you walked into different rooms Recognized that you were the person So you had specific colors that you liked So there'd be like backlighting that was specific I'd just like to be his kids like He's big on He's the one that started that giving pledge Which is like for billionaires to give The overwhelming majority of their wealth Right To charity So that you don't pass on billions to your children Right So his thing is like I'm gonna leave my kids money But not like crazy money Is that money? Which you're like yeah that's you know I totally get the idea behind that But also like if you grew up with his You know his kid and you're like Oh there's we got lions this year or whatever And then you're like you know you grow up And you're like I'm a whatever a photographer now My dad left me five million dollars But like Five million dollars is great It's great but my thing is like It's such a step down from what they're used to I feel even remotely bad for some fucking kid Who gets five million dollars from his dad I don't feel bad What I'm saying is that that adjustment Has to kick you in the balls I mean the exposure that they've had The lifestyle is like It's not it's unfathomable to us Like we can't even It's beyond They're just like It's like being the prince you know It's like your dad's assaultin' a Brunei And then he's like Well go fucking I mean they're probably well adjusted I don't know why I assume that But I think that like He and his wife seem like such reasonable people That I bet they've you know Prepared them For what's coming