Joe Rogan on Professional Gamers

I'm in fries and he's got his reading glasses on and I said hey Nick. What's up? Oh, hey Joe? I'm trying to get a computer for my kid About these fucking things that's really good. Hey Joe. It was weird. It's like I'm talking to Nick Nolte Should I get a Mac? I was only like 27 though still confused. I'm still like I can't believe I'm really talking to Nick Nolte I'm standing up right now with no tea. You know is this real? We're at fries Hey Hey, man, Nick needs electronics, too That was during my my quake days when I was addicted to quake and I'd make my own computers You love you did all that shit. Did you have like 15 screens and all that shit like everyone does that? Yeah, I had a room in my house where I had a Like a conference table and it was lined up with computer monitors and computers I used to build computers man, but you play you don't play any games anymore. Well, we're going to we just got the when we set up Origin PCs. Mm-hmm. We got a land room set up local area network room. Oh shit Oh shit, so you can play play people all over the world fired up. Yeah Well, you know what man now that we have the studio. There's so much room here. Yeah, my kids come here and play, too You know There's plenty of stuff to do. Yeah, there's a lot lots Uh, so I'm just gonna fuck it put some games on for them put some games on for me. Yeah, that works I never got I never got into it for some reason video games I like I loved them when I was a kid and then there was this weird cut off and I was growing up No, but but so many people still play. Yeah, the non grown-ups Those those non growing up guys, but I wish I could play like I got Jamie look at him over there He's just like a big sweet kid. Yeah ultimate warrior. Yeah, it's like yeah Warrior shirt is a fully grown man Chicks love ultimate warrior dude. They love guys who play video games to sit inside all day. Fuck It like you want to go somewhere nah, just button out just I want to get pale More pale. I want a paler. I want to be paler Jamie the paler You know, what scares the shit out of me though those multi role player. What is it multi those giant role player? We're gonna call them. Yeah, what is it? What's the name massively multi on massive multi online role playing? Yeah, what is that? What fortnight is no? I sound like a fucking dad don't don't laugh at me shooter It's a third person you third person. That's third, but isn't there but aren't you with a massive community of people? Yeah, people. Yeah, that's fucking there's a hundred people in the game with you. That's a lot, dude Yeah, well, that's a death match a quake death match A lot of times you not really a hundred but it can be a hundred hundred seems like it's absurd How many people are on your squad on your team up to four? Oh Shit plan of 50 on 50 match, which is like a special Is it random assignments of teams or you go in picking your team? You go with your own team or you can you actually can go in random, too It's you can do everything you want God. I can't wait to hear the comments on this video about fuck How does you not know about fortnight dude? I get so mad. They're so I have no I see so many references online to it and I know what it is But I have no idea what it is I remember when people you call you a noob and they'd use to zero two for owes. Yeah noob fucking noob I Still goes on does it noob still goes on shit like today. They're like maybe even right now There's two million dollar tournaments going on. There's one there I think they're both for charity today, but one for fortnight and then another one another game That's just like it called pub G which we've talked about before two million bucks Yeah, how long do they have to play it might be like a two or three hour tournament? That's fucking unreal so much money in video games now parents used to tell their kids to not play video games Like you don't don't be a loser and they still have that shit in their head But it's there's more money in it than like most games. Yeah, you make a full people make careers out of it Yeah, what if there were tennis player? Oh Bobby's a pro tennis player Oh Bobby might blow his fucking ankles out Timmy over there is making a billion dollars playing fortnight and like Hands yeah this all day. I know I know a guy that did I got a friend of my old route my first roommate in LA He was like a professional online gamer, and I thought I was like what that dude fatality reached out to us Yeah, Jonathan Wendell fatality. I'm gonna try to get him on I figure yeah, yeah He was the greatest quick player or one of it's hard to say it's hard to say the greatest There's a few of those guys. Yeah, he was one of them. How old is he now probably in his late 30s? What is he doing? I always know what that I want to know what they do when they quit all that shit Just just breathe just chillin try to figure out how to deal with all the radiation. They've been absorbing He's working at fries sit in front of that computer screen is Hi Joe all your cells are mutated I think I think some of them are smart enough now that they realize the how quick the Rises and how quick the fall might be that they're just sort of banking money and just riding it out to see how long it goes Yeah, but it's kind of like okay kind of like how in golf you only get paid paid if you win Not a lot of those guys can bank all that money, right? They still gonna have something to do after it's done It's got a best of the best bank, but the high majority of guys are just making a little yeah I just said and this the way it's different though. They don't have to pay a coach They don't they're just at home in their part in some cases their parents house still most cases Right might just buy their parents a new house that might be their goal They buy their parents house and kick them the fuck out. Yeah, that's how yeah by the parents house Yeah, you remember when you got Mike playing video games Get the fuck out and take Karen with you pack her shit up to Ryan's kicking us out. Yeah, get the fuck out Should have been so mean to him. Yeah, no the mobs bitch it at him. Yeah, I didn't fucking know he could have bought us this Well tough it in the muppets why he became such a good player twice fucking man when they're fucking assholes Oh, yeah, they take credit for I did that. Hey, I toughened you up and that's why you like this yep, like I